🚨 Milwaukee Metal Fest 2026 Update! To secure some HUGE headliners, the fest shifts to June 5–7 with a pre-party on June 4 at The Rave. 🎟 Super early birds + refund info available now. Jamey Jasta: “It's gonna be the best weekend ever!” 🔥 First lineup drop coming soon! #MMF2026 buff.ly/cQmRue1

“Agriculture doesn’t just perform transcendence—they embody it.” ⭐ 9/10 – The Spiritual Sound is black metal reborn as meditation. @AntiheroMagazine | #AlbumReview #TheFlenser #Agriculture

From Miami to Cozumel, Headbangers Boat 2025 turned the ocean into a mosh pit. 🌊🔥 Full review live now! #HeadbangersBoat #LambOfGod #HeavyMetal #AntiheroMagazine

“Writing your truth...feels important when lies are being screamed so loudly by such assholes.” Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum talks to Antihero Magazine about "The Royal We" — his honest, fearless new memoir. Out Nov 7 via Jawbone Press. #RoddyBottum #FaithNoMore #TheRoyalWe

Trivium’s Struck Dead EP proves that three songs can still shake the metal world. Brutal, melodic, and masterfully executed. 🔥 “Trivium understood the assignment and excelled.” #Trivium #StruckDead #Metal #AlbumReview #AntiheroMagazine

“Eurovision destroyed the band in the UK—but we survived it.” 💥 Heavy Pettin’s Stephen “Hamie” Hayman talks with Antihero Magazine about redemption, reinvention, and their new album—their first in 30 years. 🎧 Read the interview. #HeavyPettin #Hamie #RockInterview #AntiheroMagazine

💀 The Carnival of Death Tour brought pure chaos to Vegas as Vader, Kataklysm, Malevolent Creation & Skeletal Remains proved one thing: death metal never dies—it evolves. Full review + photos by Rocky Kessenger | @AntiheroMagazine #DeathMetal #CarnivalOfDeathTour #Vader #Kataklysm

Forged in Fire 🔥 Judas Priest, Alice Cooper, and Corrosion of Conformity turned Shoreline Amphitheatre into a cathedral of metal. Three generations. One legacy. Eternal power. Full review → AntiheroMagazine.com #JudasPriest #AliceCooper #COC #MetalLives #AntiheroMagazine buff.ly/8rvqH5G

Chat Pile exorcised. Fleshwater redeemed. A night of heaviness, honesty, and transcendence at The Fillmore, San Francisco. Full review + photos on AntiheroMagazine.com 🎧 #Fleshwater #ChatPile #LiveMusic #ConcertReview

Dream Theater’s Kansas City show was a masterclass in precision and passion — Parasomnia live + A Change of Seasons encore = unforgettable. 🎭 #DreamTheater #ProgMetal #LiveMusic 📸 @antiherophotos

Corrosion of Conformity delivered a masterclass in southern groove and grit at Warehouse on Broadway, KC. Four decades in — still untouchable. 🔥 #COC #CorrosionOfConformity #LiveReview #AntiheroMagazine

Jeff Keith (Tesla) & Miljenko “Milli” Matijevic (Steelheart) team up for a cover of Foghat’s “I Just Wanna Make Love To You” – out Oct 3, 2026 “All we can do is put our best foot forward… give the world what we are the best at… our voices, our talent, and our happiness.”

🔥 W.A.S.P. resurrect their debut album at Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse — a night of pure heavy metal revival. With Armored Saint in support, this was legacy and fire reborn. Read the full review via @AntiheroMagazine. #WASP #ArmoredSaint #Metal

Kansas City was consumed in chaos as Cannibal Corpse leveled The Truman with support from Municipal Waste, Full of Hell & Fulci. A night of unrelenting brutality. 🩸 Read the full review 👉 #CannibalCorpse #MunicipalWaste #FullOfHell #Fulci #DeathMetal

Slayer’s one-night-only East Coast return shook Hersheypark Stadium to its core. With Damian Priest hosting and support from Knocked Loose, Suicidal Tendencies, Power Trip, Cavalera Conspiracy, and Exodus, it was a historic night for heavy music. ⚡ Full review now on Antihero 👉

Jerry Cantrell’s I Want Blood tour shook Kansas City’s Uptown Theater — new cuts like “I Want Blood” hit with venom, while “Rooster” closed the night in full communion. Full review + setlist now live at Antihero. #JerryCantrell #IWantBloodTour #AliceInChains buff.ly/yCpbSRP

Pantera. Amon Amarth. King Parrot. Three bands. One amphitheatre. Zero survivors. Read our full live review from St. Louis ⚡

🌑 SIGLOS brought blackened fury to the Sophie Stage at Bloodstock 2025—atmosphere, intensity, and unrelenting power. 📸: Thomas Woroniak / Antihero Magazine. #Siglos #Bloodstock2025 #ExtremeMetal

All For Metal – Bloodstock 2025 | Sophie Lancaster Stage With their larger-than-life stage presence, anthemic choruses, and boundless energy, All For Metal turned the Sophie Lancaster Stage into a heavy metal battleground at Bloodstock. 📸 Thomas Woroniak for Antihero Magazine

💣 CAGE FIGHT unleashed pure hardcore fury at Bloodstock 2025! 💣 From the first riff to the final roar, CAGE FIGHT brought relentless aggression, razor-sharp riffs, and crowd-slaying energy to the main stage. 📸 Photos by Thomas Woroniak for Antihero Magazine

📌 Bluesky 🔥 AUGUST BURNS RED tore up the Bloodstock 2025 main stage—metalcore precision, pit energy, and pure intensity. 📸: Thomas Woroniak / Antihero Magazine. #AugustBurnsRed #Bloodstock2025 #Metalcore

📌 Bluesky 🌿🔥 EIHWAR brought the spirit of battle to Bloodstock 2025—drums, chants, and unrelenting energy on the Sophie Stage. 📸: Thomas Woroniak / Antihero Magazine. #Eihwar #Bloodstock2025 #PaganMetal

BLOODSTOCK turns 25 in 2026! 🤘🔥 First wave of bands: LAMB OF GOD | SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL | JUDAS PRIEST SEPULTURA, MUNICIPAL WASTE, NORTHLANE, BLEED FROM WITHIN, LIFE OF AGONY, OF MICE & MEN, BIOHAZARD & more! 📅 6–9 Aug 2026 | Catton Park

🎸 “Just be yourself. Don’t cover your face.” Paleface Swiss guitarist Yannick Lehmann talks Cursed, chug tone, and calling out bullies on stage. 🔗 Full interview below! #PalefaceSwiss #AntiheroMagazine #HeavyMusic #MetalScene #BskyMetal

“Drums will always be my first love—but now I get to be the voice too.” Jeff Fabb talks going solo, trusting silence, and channeling Alice in Chains & Zakk Wylde into his own sound. Read the full interview on Antihero Magazine 👉 #JeffFabb #SeeNoEvil #SoloArtist

Sam Jones breaks down his must-see bands for #Bloodstock2025 — from the ferocity of Nailbomb to the Sophie tent slaughter with Obituary and 3 Inches Of Blood. This is going to be one for the books. 🩸 Read at Antihero! #metal #Gojira #Emperor #MachineHead #AntiheroMagazine

🎧 Album Review: Grizzly by Slaughter to Prevail Russia’s brutal export unleashes their most feral release to date—13 tracks of guttural fury, searing riffs, and surprise features from BABYMETAL and Ronnie Radke. “By the time the album ends, you might want to wrestle a bear.”

FAUN didn’t just play San Francisco—they invoked it. Two hours of ritual and resonance at the Great American Music Hall, where myth met memory in a sonic ceremony of light, shadow, and ecstatic release. 🌀 #FAUN #PaganFolk #AntiheroReview #LiveMusic #SanFrancisco #MythicVibes

June 14 — Oakland, CA 16 cracked the earth. High on Fire left a crater. Acid Bath lit the ghostlight. A resurrection witnessed by old guards & TikTok converts alike. “This was not a concert. It was a rite.” #AcidBath #HighOnFire #16band #SludgeMetal #OaklandShows #AntiheroMagazine

Volbeat’s Gods of Angels Trust is a dark, twangy, and unpredictable journey. 🤘 “This might be their most well-crafted musical story to date.” Read the full review on Antihero Magazine. #Volbeat #GodsOfAngelsTrust #AlbumReview #Metal #HardRock

Paleface Swiss just dropped Cursed – The Complete Edition, and it goes even harder. New tracks. Rare singles. A stripped-back “River of Sorrows” that hits deep. Full review now on Antihero Magazine #PalefaceSwiss #Metal #Deathcore #NewMusic #AntiheroMagazine

Blacklist Union drops a raw new ripper: Mississippi Moonhound. Swampy rock ’n’ roll meets soul-searching howls from the Amazon. 🐍🌕 New album Slay the Dragon coming Sept 2025. #BlacklistUnion #MississippiMoonhound #SlayTheDragon #RockNRoll

🚨 New drop: Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets release their live version of Pink Floyd’s “Echoes” – recorded in Frankfurt 2024 + mixed in ATMOS by Steven Wilson. Originally a vinyl RSD exclusive – now on streaming! 🌌

🗡️ LIVE REVIEW: Ice Nine Kills brought Welcome to Horrorwood to bloody, theatrical life in Kansas City on Night Two of the #SilverScreamAThon tour. A full horror-metal opera with support from Hail the Sun, TX2, and Dark Divine. 🩸 “INK have mastered the art of cinematic slaughter.”

Volgograd got annihilated! 📸 New photo gallery: General Fibrosis, Decomposition of Entrails, and Breakdown Machine live at Ferrum Rock'n'Roll Club. ⚰️ Brutal. Unrelenting. Loud. #DeathMetal #Volgograd #LiveMetal

Unto Others and Tribulation brought gothic glory to KC last night. Baritone swagger, blackened riffs, and one hell of a “Pet Sematary” cover. 🦇 Read the full review at Antihero Magazine. #UntoOthers #Tribulation #LiveMusic #recordBarKC #NeverNeverlandTour

🔥 Two titans return. Two albums forged in fire. NIGHTFALL – Children of Eve HATE – Bellum Regiis From Athens to Warsaw, blackened fury reigns supreme. 🖤 Full reviews now @AntiheroMagazine. #Nightfall #HATE #MelodicBlackMetal #BlackenedDeath #SeasonOfMist #MetalCommunity

NIGHTFALL rises from the shadows with Children of Eve—a towering, gothic journey through pain, belief, and blackened fury. “More vital than ever.” 🖤 Read our full review @AntiheroMagazine. #Nightfall #ChildrenOfEve #MelodicBlackMetal #MetalCommunity

Bellum Regiis is Hate’s most human record—equal parts ritual and rage. Full review now live. #HATE #MetalReview #BellumRegiis

Just caught up with Gabriel Ryan of Clockwork Echo 🖤 From astral projections to vintage vacuum samples, his interview is a wild ride! 🎶 Check out his thoughts on "Hallowed Be Thy Pain", the chaos of touring, and what's next for CWE. #ClockworkEcho #AntiHeroMagazine

Wednesday 13 embraces the monster within on Mid Death Crisis—a gory, riff-heavy ride into temptation and chaos. 💀🔥 🗣️ “Only Wednesday could have a song to dance to about someone losing their head.” #Wednesday13 #MidDeathCrisis #MetalReview #AntiheroMagazine

Machine Head isn’t just still in the game—they’re redefining it. UNATØNED is a lean, 41-minute assault that feels like a rebirth. 🎧 Read the full review at Antihero Magazine. ⚡ #MachineHead #UNATØNED #MetalReview #RobbFlynn #GrooveMetal

Black Stone Cherry drops an RSD-exclusive album loaded with unreleased songs, killer collabs, and high-energy live tracks. 🔥 “It’s hard not to love it.” Full review 👉 #RSD2025 #BlackStoneCherry #NewMusic #AlbumReview

🔥 NEW INTERVIEW! 🔥 We caught up with the legendary Yngwie Malmsteen to talk 40 years of shredding, the power of live performance, and his blistering new release Tokyo Live. From improvisation and inspiration to advice for the next generation of guitar gods.

🖤 New review: Those Damn Crows return with God Shaped Hole — a powerful, riff-packed album that wears its heart on its sleeve. It's raw, real, and unforgettable. 🔥 🎧 Highlights: “Let’s Go Psycho,” “Glass Heart,” “Still” 💬 “Every song is a piece of them…” 📖 Read the full review now!

🔥 SLAYER headlines a ONE-NIGHT-ONLY East Coast show at Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, PA, on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025! 🤘 This event is their ONLY East Coast performance this year with a fierce lineup: ⚔️ SLAYER 💥 Knocked Loose 🤯 Suicidal Tendencies ⚡ Power Trip 🔥 Cavalera 🔪 Exodus

🔥 INTERVIEW ALERT! 🔥 We spoke with Kaonashi about their latest evolution, the emotional depth of their music, and what's next for this unique heavy music voice. 🎭🎶 From concept-driven storytelling to raw intensity, Kaonashi continues to push boundaries.

⚡💀 Thrash fans, brace for impact! 💀⚡ WARFIELD’s With The Old Breed is a relentless onslaught of speed, aggression, and precision—firing on all cylinders with Teutonic thrash fury! 🤘🔥 Dive into the carnage as we break down their latest Napalm Records release in our full review! 🩸⚔️

🔥 INTERVIEW ALERT! 🔥 We spoke with Matt James of Blacktop Mojo before their UK tour with Shaman’s Harvest! 🇬🇧🎸 Matt shares their journey from quitting jobs for music to the emotional moment of hearing London fans sing their lyrics, influences, and future plans.

🔥 Killswitch Engage at The Midland – A Night to Remember! 🔥 Sunday night in Kansas City was a metalcore masterpiece as Killswitch Engage stormed The Midland! With Kublai Khan TX, Fit For A King, and Frozen Soul energizing the crowd, the venue buzzed nonstop.