the acacia strain

Shinedown, Marilyn Manson and Kid Rock all revealed new tours for 2025, while InkCarceration Festival and Rock Fest dropped their full lineups.

King Diamond, Stryper and High on Fire lead the tour announcements of the past week. Who will you be seeing?

There's no slowing down for these bands, who have been putting in the work on new music since the 21st Century began.

Will you pick up tickets for Megadeth, head to Canada for the Evanescence / Halestorm bill or catch Till Lindemann's solo dates?

Some impressive numbers!

Find out where his varied influences come from.

'Wormwood' and 'It Comes in Waves' will both get full representations.

See where they're playing and who is joining them.

My name is Brandon K (you know this), and I love metal in all forms (you know this too), and many of you have read my posts about the brutal bands I love (and many of you don't). And I give NUN F*CKS. So I've featured many of my favorite bands in those blogs, but I haven't talked as much about many of my favorite frontmen for some my favorite bands...

I like a variety of music. I go from alternative to Witch House. But I especially love brutal metal music. The kind of punishing, growling music that grinds and chugs with riffs and blast beats and angry vocals that kick in your rib cage like Jean-Claude Van Damme did to all those Kumite clowns in Bloodsport...