A sweeping self-awareness and expansive creativity are at the heart of CROWN THE EMPIRE, the modern post-metalcore anthem makers who embrace their dirty rock roots and stadium-ready melodies with bold courage. What began as high-school pals posting clips on YouTube has grown to over 60 million views on the
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Artist Spotlight: DIRTY HONEY
The sound of Los Angeles-based Dirty Honey’s straight-up-no-apologies-no-explanations-needed music has been called “new-fashioned Rock ’n Roll.” As vocalist Marc LaBelle puts it, “We don’t want to bring anything back, we just want to make music that’s sexy, hard and rocking all at the same time.” The band – LaBelle, John
2019 Artist Spotlight: KITTEN
Power pop rock band KITTEN, fronted by powerhouse punk goddess Chloe Chaidez, are gearing up to release their new EP Goodbye Honeymoon Phase on October 18th. If you‘ve kept an eye on underground pop for the last half-decade, you‘ve probably come across the name KITTEN; but it‘s only recently that
2019 Artist Spotlight: Bring Me the Horizon
Electro-grime. Glitch-pop. Divorce. Dani Filth. Alan Partridge. Indian religious cults. Betrayal. “Tacky Nineties Euro-sounding club stuff.” A beatboxer. A whole lotta rock, and a whole lotta ambition. Love. amo. When Bring Me The Horizon decided they were going to tear things down and change things up for their sixth album,
Artist Spotlight 2019: 3TEETH
American quartet 3Teeth emerged from the shadows of the Los Angeles underground to inject some industrial grit back into the local music scene. With their outspoken socio-political stances, leather-bound aesthetic, and unflinching message, they were able to capture an audience both on a small scale and up the metal food
Artist Spotlight: Ho99o9
Known for their abrasive and confrontational performance style akin to that of Death Grips combined with the punk-infused raucousness of outfits such as Black Flag, Ho99o9 are an alternative hip-hop group based in Los Angeles, California. Hailing from Newark, New Jersey, the project was started by the group’s frontrunners, theOGM
Artist Spotlight: RAMMSTEIN
XXVIII.III.MMXIX Rowing longboats up fjords. Building large and important monuments. Opening major ceremonial occasions… then closing them – with a bang. Rammstein’s music is the perfect soundtrack for all or any of these. Not surprising then that, 23 years down the line, with the original line-up still intact, the six
Welcome to Rockville Artist Spotlight: cleopatrick
fuck whatever you think rock is. its different now. cleopatrick is a heavy alt-rock duo from the tiny town of Cobourg, Ontario – yup, the ‘c’ is lowercase. Best friends since kindergarten, frontman Luke Gruntz and drummer Ian Fraser have an enviable connection that translates into a powerfully unified expression
Artist Spotlight: Motionless In White
While their hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania is mostly known in popular culture for being perfectly mundane, gothic metalcore band Motionless in White make music that’s anything but tame. Blending the raw fury of metalcore with the dramatic atmospherics of goth-metal and industrial, the band has cultivated a dark and moody
Artist Spotlight: Annisokay
Nobody. Anybody. Somebody. Who are you? Annisokay (pronounced Ann is okay) is a German post-hardcore band from Halle, Saxony-Anhalt. The band consists of screamer Dave Grunewald, guitarist/vocalist Christoph Wieczorek and guitarist Norbert Rose, as well as bassist Philipp Kretzschmar and drummer Daniel Herrmann. ANNISOKAY have laid their musical foundation with