The votes are in! 🔥
Aethoria have been crowned the fan-voted openers for Stonedead Festival 2026.
They’ll kick off the sold-out event on 29 August 2026 alongside Europe, Accept, Magnum & more. 🤘
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Trivium tore through the Uptown Theater on 12/10/25 with a blistering, era-spanning set.
Jinjer and Heriot delivered the perfect balance of intensity and atmosphere.
🔗 Full review live at Antihero Magazine.
Bloodstock’s first Winter Gathering tore through KK’s Steel Mill with thrash, doom, fire, and festive chaos. Venom Inc. stole the day, Candlemass closed the night, and the crowd brought pure energy. 🔥❄️🤘
Full review out now! #Bloodstock #WinterGathering
Dark Chapel. Bonfire. Zakk Sabbath.
Three bands. One night of atmosphere, electricity, and pure Sabbath-worshipping power at the Sherman Theater.
Full review up now at Antihero Magazine ⚡🤘
🚨 Milwaukee Metal Fest 2026 Update!
To secure some HUGE headliners, the fest shifts to June 5–7 with a pre-party on June 4 at The Rave.
🎟 Super early birds + refund info available now.
Jamey Jasta:
“It's gonna be the best weekend ever!”
🔥 First lineup drop coming soon! #MMF2026
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“Agriculture doesn’t just perform transcendence—they embody it.”
⭐ 9/10 – The Spiritual Sound is black metal reborn as meditation.
@AntiheroMagazine | #AlbumReview #TheFlenser #Agriculture
From Miami to Cozumel, Headbangers Boat 2025 turned the ocean into a mosh pit. 🌊🔥
Full review live now!
#HeadbangersBoat #LambOfGod #HeavyMetal #AntiheroMagazine
“Writing your truth...feels important when lies are being screamed so loudly by such assholes.”
Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum talks to Antihero Magazine about "The Royal We" — his honest, fearless new memoir.
Out Nov 7 via Jawbone Press.
#RoddyBottum #FaithNoMore #TheRoyalWe
Trivium’s Struck Dead EP proves that three songs can still shake the metal world. Brutal, melodic, and masterfully executed.
🔥 “Trivium understood the assignment and excelled.”
#Trivium #StruckDead #Metal #AlbumReview #AntiheroMagazine
“Eurovision destroyed the band in the UK—but we survived it.” 💥
Heavy Pettin’s Stephen “Hamie” Hayman talks with Antihero Magazine about redemption, reinvention, and their new album—their first in 30 years.
🎧 Read the interview.
#HeavyPettin #Hamie #RockInterview #AntiheroMagazine
💀 The Carnival of Death Tour brought pure chaos to Vegas as Vader, Kataklysm, Malevolent Creation & Skeletal Remains proved one thing: death metal never dies—it evolves.
Full review + photos by Rocky Kessenger | @AntiheroMagazine
#DeathMetal #CarnivalOfDeathTour #Vader #Kataklysm
Forged in Fire 🔥
Judas Priest, Alice Cooper, and Corrosion of Conformity turned Shoreline Amphitheatre into a cathedral of metal.
Three generations. One legacy. Eternal power.
Full review → AntiheroMagazine.com
#JudasPriest #AliceCooper #COC #MetalLives #AntiheroMagazine
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Chat Pile exorcised. Fleshwater redeemed.
A night of heaviness, honesty, and transcendence at The Fillmore, San Francisco.
Full review + photos on AntiheroMagazine.com 🎧
#Fleshwater #ChatPile #LiveMusic #ConcertReview
Dream Theater’s Kansas City show was a masterclass in precision and passion — Parasomnia live + A Change of Seasons encore = unforgettable. 🎭 #DreamTheater #ProgMetal #LiveMusic
📸 @antiherophotos
Corrosion of Conformity delivered a masterclass in southern groove and grit at Warehouse on Broadway, KC. Four decades in — still untouchable. 🔥
#COC #CorrosionOfConformity #LiveReview #AntiheroMagazine
Jeff Keith (Tesla) & Miljenko “Milli” Matijevic (Steelheart) team up for a cover of Foghat’s “I Just Wanna Make Love To You” – out Oct 3, 2026
“All we can do is put our best foot forward… give the world what we are the best at… our voices, our talent, and our happiness.”
🔥 W.A.S.P. resurrect their debut album at Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse — a night of pure heavy metal revival. With Armored Saint in support, this was legacy and fire reborn.
Read the full review via @AntiheroMagazine. #WASP #ArmoredSaint #Metal
Kansas City was consumed in chaos as Cannibal Corpse leveled The Truman with support from Municipal Waste, Full of Hell & Fulci.
A night of unrelenting brutality. 🩸
Read the full review 👉
#CannibalCorpse #MunicipalWaste #FullOfHell #Fulci #DeathMetal
Slayer’s one-night-only East Coast return shook Hersheypark Stadium to its core. With Damian Priest hosting and support from Knocked Loose, Suicidal Tendencies, Power Trip, Cavalera Conspiracy, and Exodus, it was a historic night for heavy music.
⚡ Full review now on Antihero 👉
Jerry Cantrell’s I Want Blood tour shook Kansas City’s Uptown Theater — new cuts like “I Want Blood” hit with venom, while “Rooster” closed the night in full communion. Full review + setlist now live at Antihero.
#JerryCantrell #IWantBloodTour #AliceInChains
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Pantera. Amon Amarth. King Parrot.
Three bands. One amphitheatre. Zero survivors.
Read our full live review from St. Louis ⚡
🌑 SIGLOS brought blackened fury to the Sophie Stage at Bloodstock 2025—atmosphere, intensity, and unrelenting power. 📸: Thomas Woroniak / Antihero Magazine. #Siglos #Bloodstock2025 #ExtremeMetal
All For Metal – Bloodstock 2025 | Sophie Lancaster Stage
With their larger-than-life stage presence, anthemic choruses, and boundless energy, All For Metal turned the Sophie Lancaster Stage into a heavy metal battleground at Bloodstock.
📸 Thomas Woroniak for Antihero Magazine
💣 CAGE FIGHT unleashed pure hardcore fury at Bloodstock 2025! 💣
From the first riff to the final roar, CAGE FIGHT brought relentless aggression, razor-sharp riffs, and crowd-slaying energy to the main stage.
📸 Photos by Thomas Woroniak for Antihero Magazine
📌 Bluesky
🔥 AUGUST BURNS RED tore up the Bloodstock 2025 main stage—metalcore precision, pit energy, and pure intensity. 📸: Thomas Woroniak / Antihero Magazine. #AugustBurnsRed #Bloodstock2025 #Metalcore
📌 Bluesky
🌿🔥 EIHWAR brought the spirit of battle to Bloodstock 2025—drums, chants, and unrelenting energy on the Sophie Stage. 📸: Thomas Woroniak / Antihero Magazine. #Eihwar #Bloodstock2025 #PaganMetal
BLOODSTOCK turns 25 in 2026! 🤘🔥
First wave of bands:
LAMB OF GOD | SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL | JUDAS PRIEST
SEPULTURA, MUNICIPAL WASTE, NORTHLANE, BLEED FROM WITHIN, LIFE OF AGONY, OF MICE & MEN, BIOHAZARD & more!
📅 6–9 Aug 2026 | Catton Park
🎸 “Just be yourself. Don’t cover your face.”
Paleface Swiss guitarist Yannick Lehmann talks Cursed, chug tone, and calling out bullies on stage.
🔗 Full interview below!
#PalefaceSwiss #AntiheroMagazine #HeavyMusic #MetalScene #BskyMetal
“Drums will always be my first love—but now I get to be the voice too.”
Jeff Fabb talks going solo, trusting silence, and channeling Alice in Chains & Zakk Wylde into his own sound.
Read the full interview on Antihero Magazine 👉
#JeffFabb #SeeNoEvil #SoloArtist