Collin Simula

Collin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife Ciara and his three small children. During the day he does design for a branding agency. In his free time he makes very heavy music as Maranatha.

Collin Simula

Collin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife Ciara and his three small children. During the day he does design for a branding agency. In his free time he makes very heavy music as Maranatha.

Life in a 'Coma'

Featuring Between the Buried and Me

On a sprawling and engaging new concept album, Between the Buried and Me wants to put you to sleep. HM talks with vocalist Tommy Rogers about the writing process behind ‘Coma Ecliptic’ and why he took his characters on a search through past lives, all while asleep

Clarified by Fire

Featuring Dustin Kensrue

Dustin Kensrue’s authentic foundation for songwriting, on display with latest release, 'Carry the Fire,' extends his legacy

Hitting the Restart Button

Featuring Torche

Torche has one sole purpose: Pursue happiness. It’s what keeps their band together and it is public advice they don’t mind sharing. Here’s another bit: Stop destroying what we have left. No one really wants to restart.

A Minute with Bayside

Featuring Bayside

HM's Managing Editor Collin Simula talks to Bayside vocalist Anthony Raneiri, on tour celebrating the band's 15th anniversary -- and they're sick of a few things

HM Album Reviews

Papa Roach

F.E.A.R.

Confession time: I never kept up with Lost. I remember seeing the first episode, feeling somewhat underwhelmed by the premise and never really thinking about it again — until...

HM Album Reviews

Aaron Gillespie

Grace Through the Wandering

I have a love-hate relationship with worship music. On one hand, the idea of a group of people in the same room, a multitude of different voices, cultures, backgrounds...

News 14 Jan 15

Born with worth, but arguing over lives

Tear Out the Heart's Triumph Over Death

Featuring Tear Out the Heart

Tear Out the Heart's Tyler Konersman writes the record of his suffering before it befalls him. Read his stunning interview with Managing Editor Collin Simula about the lead singer's walk alongside a deathly sentence

Under the Influence

Featuring Circa Survive

Anthony Green, the frontman and staff member of Circa Survive, Saosin, et. al., takes his new life sober on the road.

HM Album Reviews

Brother Wolf

The Birthright

About ten years ago, I remember a new sound entering the metal- and hardcore scene. The down-tuned, first-five-frets-of-the-lowest-string previously only heard on nu-metal records. (Or in Meshuggah songs, but...

News 1 Dec 14 The Heavy Heart

The Side-Effects of Atheism

HM Album Reviews

Silent Planet

The Night God Slept

Another metalcore record. Another album full of clicky-kick drum sounds, staccato breakdowns, guitar amps with the “mid” knob turned to 11 and throaty, syncopated vocals. This is what I...

HM Album Reviews

Gideon

Calloused

“We break the mold.” That’s the last line of the title track from Calloused, Gideon’s latest effort from Facedown Records. Unfortunately — when it comes to this album —...

Kingdom at Hand

Featuring Code Orange

Code Orange drops the ‘kids’ and begins their aesthetic ascent with ‘I Am King'

HM Album Reviews

Unteachers

A Human Comedy

Nearly 15 years ago, Lancaster, Pennsylvania’s Tantrum of the Muse were making waves in the Christian music industry with their albums The Heart is a Two-Headed Sperm and Modernmu$ick(2000)!...

HM Album Reviews

Sleepwave

Broken Compass

Starting a new band is always tough. Specifically, starting a new band in the ashes of your former band. Especially if that former band was Underoath. Spencer Chamberlain, one...

Our War

Featuring Wovenwar

Nick Hipa and the rest of Wovenwar have risen from the ashes of As I Lay Dying. He has new life, a new perspective and the old scars to prove it.

HM Album Reviews

Mouth of the South

Struggle Well

When I put on Struggle Well, the new album from Mouth of the South, I thought it was going to be more of the same. Based on the one...

Death is in their Blood

Featuring THOSE WHO FEAR

It doesn’t get much heavier than the beatdowns Those who Fear unleash every night at their shows. With an incredibly strong latest release, ‘Death Sentence,’ they’re stepping the hardcore game up a little, proving their inventive new breakdowns may actually give life to their mission

News 10 Jul 14

Struggling with the bigger mystery of death

News 8 Jun 14

Everything you hear about me is true

News 7 May 14

All of my heroes are ex-Christians

The Future Return of Haste the Day

Featuring Haste The Day

They weathered a number of storms to last for as long as they could, but, as they say, all good things must come to an end. Or do they?

HM Album Reviews

The Overseer

Rest and Let Go

There’s something about wearing your influences on your sleeve. I was in a band once. I remember writing songs and saying things like, “We’ll have a Meshuggah riff here,...

HM Album Reviews

Demon Hunter

Extremist

Being a Christian on a stage, you will, at some point, face the same quandary: just because you have a louder voice, you become a figurehead, whether you like...

News 5 Apr 14

It’s all in your head

HM Album Reviews

Pantokrator

Incarnate

The words “Christian” and “death metal” have never really worked in the same sentence for me. I’m not saying death metal as a genre is one that Christians shouldn’t...

News 8 Mar 14

Be less spiritual

HM Album Reviews

Merge

Elysion

Over the last 15 years, metalcore bands have always been a dime a dozen. Originally, metalcore was exactly what you’d think: metal brought down to earth with the sensibility...

True to their Name

Featuring Comeback Kid

How Comeback Kid managed to write one of the best records of the year

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