While early team-ups such as Aerosmith and Run DMC on Walk This Way and Anthrax and Public Enemy on Bring The Noise flexed the potential of rock and hip hop when combined, as the 90s progressed, rap ...

Florida is not like other places. Strange elements converge and mingle down there. Nonpoint is a metal band from Fort Lauderdale, just north of Miami. When people talk about rap metal, a genre that ...

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix has an expansive musical vernacular that goes far beyond the black metal leanings of his brainchild Liturgy. He enjoys composer Igor Stravinsky (Hunt-Hendrix went through an ...

Hip-hop is more popular than ever, but if you’re looking to turn your rap friends into metalheads, try introducing them to these 10 bands. Beyond their massive popularity, Slipknot have the rhythmic ...

Last Thursday, skate-prick rap collective Odd Future signed off Tumblr and appeared on national television. Sporting ski masks with inverted crosses scrawled on them, and bouncing across a ...

The days are growing shorter, the leaves are dying, skies are gray. It’s time to get Twiztid. On Friday, the venerable Michigan-based horror rap-metal duo makes a grand return to the Webster Theater ...

Meet Ghostemane. He’s a white kid with dyed-gray hair and the word kybalion, which Google tells me is some kind of ancient hermetic philosophy, tattooed across his forehead. (It’s also the name of one ...

That was the subject line of an e-mail we received this morning from a reader who did not include his name in the body of the e-mail and I will assume therefore does not wish to be identified. I don’t ...

For whatever reason, nu-metal is a pretty polarizing subgenre of heavy music. Though we have a pretty good general idea of which bands fall into the category, the lines are a bit more blurred when it ...

On Sunday night, Machine Gun Kelly headlined his first punk festival. “Punk festival” is probably a reductive thing to call Riot Fest, which started out as, like, Alkaline Trio and the Lawrence Arms ...

As metalcore took over as the most prominent subgenre within metal, the new wave of bands became increasingly younger, and now nü metal is the new nostalgia. Instead of bands looking to the ’80s and ...

Cypress Hill were the first band to take hip-hop to truly colossal, multi-platinum mainstream success. For many people, B-Real’s nasal delivery is the one they associate with the band, but co-MC Sen ...