By Lane Dent Music Journalist I have a unique addiction to rock movies - biopics, comedies, fictional dramas. There exists a combined love for these films, how they mesh together a rare collection of my favorite topics: heavy music and cinema. After about a year of religiously devouring every rock and metal movie I came across, I have found a stellar handful of origin-telling, guitar-shredding and chaos-creating rock movies. […]
By Lane Dent Music Journalist Invent Animate: Heavener Mysterious and magical, dark and daring, out of this same Texan soil came the band Invent Animate who have released their fourth studio album: Heavener. On March 17, this Earth, the one that Heavener seems to explore beyond, received a masterpiece of gritty creativity and raw emotional expression. Four tracks stood out to me like support pillars, a perfectly balanced square of […]
By Lane Dent Music Journalist The words heavy metal usually conjure up mental images of burly, violent men shouting into microphones with brute strength, releasing growls and screams that sound like a possessed wild animal. But what about the women?! The lack of female representation in the metal community is absurd, considering the number of women who are talented vocalists. To broaden the average metalhead's playlist, the compilation below […]
By Lane Dent Music Journalist Taylor Momsen. You might recognize her as Cindy Lou Who from How the Grinch Stole Christmas or Jenny Humphrey from Gossip Girl, but at 15 years old, Momsen left Hollywood in an attempt to pursue her life’s dream – becoming a rock star. In 2009, 16-year-old Momsen and producer Kato Khandwala formed the rock band now known as The Pretty Reckless. Since 2010, the band […]
By Lane Dent Music Journalist Metal has been declining in popularity since the mid-2000s, but nu-metal has recently seen a spike in interest due to TikTok’s peak during the COVID pandemic. Seeing the fame that some ancient nu-metal acts have garnered, modern metal bands are starting to incorporate mainstream aspects from pop, rap and EDM genres, hoping it brings them the same success, and their fame has already started to […]
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