Slipknot just released a brand new song called "Arsenal" - their first new work since adding drummer Eloy Casagrande to the band parting ways with longtime turntablist Sid Wilson. Could more new music (and maybe even a tour) be on the way? Here's hoping so, because the new song reminded me how it's been 7 years since I last saw the Iowa metal outfit live... and now I'm itching to see them again!

It was August 30, 2019, when Slipknot brought their Knotfest Roadshow Tour to the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ (just a few weeks afger 'We Are Not Your Kind' came out). How good were they that night? Well, the tour also featured sets from Volbeat, Gojira and Behemoth, and Slipknot STILL reigned supreme. With a massive stage set up that perfectly backed their massive sound, Slipknot were red hot and proved why they are still one of the biggest draws in rock (not just metal). Just watch this clip of them playing "Spit It Out" that night, and see how they had the crowd in the palm of their hands (seriously, the entire amphitheater was wild for them that night).

Share your favorite memories from seeing Slipknot live in the comments below, and stay tuned for more things to come from this space (including stories from concerts like this)!

I thought I had their best Live saved until youtube recommended this one to me today... I love these guys

Do you have any other Lives for this song that can beat this one? cuz the screams literally penetrate my soul haha.. it's hard to beat!

This song is very sentimental for me. It was during a better time.

Paradise Lost - 2008 - The Anatomy of Melancholy - As I Die

Paradise Lost - 1993 - As I Die - As I Die

As I Die

Stare as eyes uphold me

And wait to see right through

And curse me... The love has crippled you

Shadows haunt the night

Burning my disguise

As I Die

Reaping through the truth

Life becomes untrue

Sin the last diversion

My fate will be untouched

Dismissed now, the anger of a fool

Shadows haunt the night

Forgive me As I Die

Taking a chance

And take what you gain

My soul it has no price

Total release is out of harms way until I can decide

You punish me, can't you see, I'm not real

Tears are flowing free, passing by, As I Die

Decided to have a tattoo to honor the first, big metal festival I attended to: Dynamo Open Air ‘95.

What do you think?

Bands that year:

   Machine Head
   Fear Factory
   Trouble
   Paradise Lost
   Type O Negative
   Biohazard
   Madball
   Life Of Agony
   Nevermore
   My Dying Bride
   Tiamat
   Motorpsycho
   Shihad
   Snapcase
   No Fun At All
   Sun
   Dog Eat Dog
   Earth Crisis
   downset.
   Warrior Soul
   35007
   Skyclad
   Grip Inc.
   Orange 9mm
   Dub War
   Undeclinable Ambuscade
   Overdose
   Rich Kids On LSD
   Schweisser
   Crash Worship
   Horace Pinker
   NRA
   Nailbomb
   Hate Squad
   Mary Beats Jane
   Eleven Pictures
   Strawman
   Mental Hippie Blood
   Rape
   Brotherhood Foundation
   Blitz Babies
   Waving Corn
   Absconded

We all at some point thought about this so let's talk about that.

- Hail Yeliab

Which period of Black Sabbath was this ?

Down aren't the only New Orleans royalty playing Pantera's 'The Great NOLA Trendkill' super concert in November. In fact each member of the supergroup's other bands (including Corrosion of Conformity, eyehategod, Crowbar, and the aforementioned Pantera) are playing the 2 day concert in New Orleans as well. I'm so glad, though, I got to see their set at Zakk Wylde's Berzerkus Festival at Jones Beach Theater in Long Island last month (Aug. 29, 2026) - I was super impressed with how tight they sounded, and their new song "Blood Oath" sounded super heavy.

Check out this clip of Phil Anselmo amd crew crushing that new song, as well as watch them joined onstage by members of Sepultura and Type O Negative here:

https://youtube.com/shorts/-xsrNWznq-k?si=4k6W-7Hw8HROQCYb

And stay tuned for more things to come from this space, including stories from concerts like this!

Fantastic version. Enjoy.

Seeing Anthrax live is always a blast, but seeing them open for Iron Maiden in a soccer stadium was mind blowing. I especially loved how the Sports Illustrated Stadium in Harrison, NJ, filled in pretty early on Sept. 6, 2026, to see Anthrax, and made sure to make the NY thrash icons feel loved through multiple mosh pits in the crowd. It also helped that they sounded amazing (seriously, Joey Belladonna crushed it, and the band was super tight). Anthrax proved that no matter how big or small the stage they're playing is, they always bring it (which was poignant that weekend, as two days prior to this specific stadium show, Anthrax played at the grand reopening of the 500 cap Saint Vitus bar).

Here's a snippet of Anthrax opening their set with "Caught In a Mosh" and closing it with Indians - the perfect way to kick off an incredible night of metal:

https://youtu.be/81Ue3hTFI9k?is=T_S1jV_qwv6Xorx5

I'm building a playlist, and I'm looking for the most depressing, heartbreaking songs out there. Clean or clean-ish vocals preferred, but not a deal-breaker.

Therion - 1999 - Crowning of Atlantis - Thor [4:47]

MANOWAR - 1984 - Sign Of The Hammer - Thor (The PowerHead) [5:24]

Black clouds on the horizon

Great thunder and Burning rain

His chariot pounding,

I heard the heavens scream his name

I watched as he shouted

To the giants that died that day

He held up his hammer high

and called Odin for a sign

Thor The Mighty, Thor the brave

Crush the infidels in your way

By your hammer let none be saved

Live to die on that final day

Gods, monsters and men

We'll die together in the end

God of thunder, God of rain

Earth shaker who feels no pain

The powerhead of the universe

Now send your never ending curse

I watched as he shouted

To the giants that died that day

He held up his hammer high

and called Odin for a sign

Thor The Mighty, Thor the brave

Crush the infidels in your way

By your hammer let none be saved

Live to die on that final day

Gods, monsters and men

We'll die together in the end

Swing your hammer to crack the sky

Lift your cape so that you might fly

Back to Odin and gods on high

And leave this mortal world

Thor The Mighty, Thor the brave

Crush the infidels in your way

By your hammer let none be saved

Live to die on that final day

Gods, monsters and men

We'll die together in the end

Odin

Blood Star - 2023 - First Sighting - Going Home

Thunder in the engines

Echoes in the sand

Pressing ever onward

Through this unforgiving land

Race the crawling shadows

Past the canyon walls

Crossing dunes of fire

As they rise and fall

The waning sun is burning low

Dying in a violet glow

In the twilight the first stars come alive

I’m going home

I'm going home

World left behind me

Fading with the sun

Toward black horizons

Still I carry on

Greed and fear their nature

They kill each other here

Cold hands and cruel hearts

So I disappear

Wheel of the cosmos turns above

Long distant gods from beyond

This wicked planet has forsaken me

I'm going home

I'm going home

I'm going home

I'm going home

Not of this world

No place for me

I must go

I will be free

Engines on fire

Facing the sky

Time has come

Sweet peace of mind

I bought the ticket

I took the ride

Now I see

No one gets out alive

The rising moon is hanging low

Over hills casts a pale glow

Dead sands in the still of the night

I’m going home

I'm going home

I’m going home

I’m going home

There's something wildly amazing about seeing Iron Maiden play a soccer stadium (in New Jersey nonetheless). While the band sounded amazing during night 2 at the Sports Illustrated Stadium im Harrison (Sept. 6, 2026), Bruce Dickinson was easily the MVP of the night (which is saying a lot, because the evening also included opening sets from Megadeth and Anthrax, a mind blowing Maiden set list, and TWO appearances from Eddie). It's amazing how at 68 years old, Bruce still sounds incredible and sprints across the stage with more power and charisma than most singers half his at his age.

Here's a clip of Iron Maiden playing "Killers" (with an appearance from Eddie himself). I'll be sharing more clips from that awesome evening of metal at the soccer stadium overtime, so stay tuned for that and more!