If you are a fan of classic metal, you need to check out these underdogs from Arlington, Texas. Slaves Wage has been honing its craft since 2004 and it really shows on their latest album Heaven or Hell. As a teen, I loved experimenting with the speed on my record player, noticing that my favorite Saint vinyl still sounded great sped up on 45 rpm mode (other than the chipmunk vocals!) In the same way, if you took a Place of Skulls record and sped it up, you would still get all

Doom/ sludge metal band Memorium returns by accident?? It seems that the two members of crust band Blood Will Be Shed had prior musical history in the band Memorium over 25 years ago. When recordings for new Blood Will Be Shed music took a doomy turn, the members fell into their old groove and Memorium was reborn with a new purpose: to honor God through bone crunching metal music. If that's enough to pique your itching metal ears, Memorium would like to premiere their brand n

In the "of interest to some of our readers" department: The Skull, featuring vocalist Eric Wagner and bassist Ron Holzner, formerly of metal legends Trouble, has announced a winter North American headlining tour. The 15-city jaunt, which will see The Skull performing Trouble's classic 1990 Def American Recordings self-titled debut, Trouble, in its entirety, will kick off on January 25th in Chicago, IL. The band, which also features longtime Cathedral drummer Brian Dixon, guit