You would think that it might have gotten old by now. You would be wrong. Every week since the pandemic began, the comedian Jordan Olds has gotten together a group of punk and metal all-stars to cover a classic song -- sometimes a metal song, sometimes not -- for the video series Two Minutes To…

During the quarantine era, Jordan Olds Two Minutes To Late Night series has been a consistent delight. Once a satirical, metal-themed talk show based out of the Brooklyn venue Saint Vitus, Two Minutes To Late Night is now a series of all-star covers, with people from the worlds of punk and hardcore and metal coming…

In a few weeks, Year Of The Knife, the young metallic hardcore shit-wreckers from Delaware, will release Internal Incarceration, their first proper album. (They've also got 2019's Ultimate Aggression, but that's a collection of previously released EPs, not an album.) The band recorded Internal Incarceration with Converge's Kurt Ballou producing,...

Jacob Bannon’s underground metal collective Umbra Vitae serve up a bombardment of ideas on new album Shadow Of Life

The members of Converge, the great Boston metallic hardcore institution, are really coming through during this strange and disorienting week. Deathwish, Inc., the label co-founded by vocalist Jacob Bannon, is offering every one of its releases as pay-what-you-want downloads on Bandcamp, giving all the proceeds directly to the bands. Drummer Ben ...