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The latest heavy music news

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HMTV 17 Feb 17 Thirteen Minutes

HM PREMIERE: Thirteen Minutes gets down with new music video for ‘This Life’

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HMTV 16 Feb 17 Death Therapy

HM PREMIERE: Death Therapy releases new single, ‘Self Mind Dead,’ featuring the first-ever guest vocal from Project 86’s Andrew Schwab

News 15 Feb 17 Switchfoot

Switchfoot stops by CURE to help raise money, is giving away trip to Philippines to a donor

HM Album Reviews

Final Surrender

Nothing but Void

It’s been nearly four years since progressive metalcore trio Final Surrender released their debut album, Empty Graves. Again releasing through Rottweiler Records, they’ve marked their return with an EP...

News 28 Jan 17 Scare Don't Fear

Scare Don’t Fear offer track-by-track explanation of new EP, ‘Trillogy’

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HMTV 20 Jan 17 Becoming Saints

HM PREMIERE: Becoming Saints releases new lyric video for ‘Vox Mortem’

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HMTV 20 Jan 17 Meadows

HM PREMIERE: Watch ‘Likewise,’ the first music video and title track from Meadows’ upcoming album

HM Album Reviews

Becoming Saints

Oh, the Suffering

Hard riffs, harsh vocals, carefully placed melody, and contentious (but inspiring) lyrics are factors expected from the metalcore formula. They are all accounted for on Becoming Saints’ freshman LP,...

News 17 Jan 17 Strengthen What Remains

LISTEN: Strengthen What Remains drops new track, ‘Liberation of the Spirit’

News 4 Jan 17 rock on the range

Rock on the Range adds Live, Of Mice and Men to lineup, sells out in record time

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HMTV 3 Jan 17 Final Surrender

HM PREMIERE: Final Surrender releases new lyric video for ‘Nothing But Void’

HM Album Reviews

Holy Gold

Feral Children

Some albums just leave you speechless, and Holy Gold’s debut EP, Feral Children, will do exactly that. This powerful collective (with history, weight and pedigree behind all the band’s...

HM Album Reviews

Those Who Fear

State of Mind

The mind is powerful. It’s the genesis of actions and words, governing character and impacting daily life, bridging our thoughts and decisions, creating a world of good and evil....

HM Book Reviews

Mike Hranica

Three Dots and the Guilt Machine

Have you ever wondered how people would respond if they could actually read your mind? If you’re like me, the silence of internal quandary feels safe and is generally...

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HMTV 25 Dec 16 rapture

HM PREMIERE: Rapture drops new music video for single ‘Convictions’

HMTV 25 Dec 16 Ecclesiast

Ecclesiast unleashes new music video for ‘Naysayers’

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HMTV 13 Dec 16 Thirteen Minutes

HM PREMIERE: Thirteen Minutes debuts Christmas-themed lyric video for ‘Mary, Did You Know?’ from free-to-download compilation

News 30 Nov 16 rock on the range

Rock on the Range 2017 lineup announced, to feature headlining sets from Korn, Soundgarden

HM Album Reviews

Zao

The Well-Intentioned Virus

Zao has returned after what felt like an eternal absence. Seven years have passed since the West Virginia metal pioneers released the well-received Awake; it’s easily been the longest...

HM Album Reviews

Memphis May Fire

This Light I hold

It’s rare to see a band hold true to their identity throughout five studio albums. Especially so after multiple member changes. After a year of writing and recording new...

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News 18 Nov 16 Softspoken

HM PREMIERE: Softspoken drops new song, ‘Wanderer,’ from upcoming EP, ‘Pathways’

HM Album Reviews

Wolves at the Gate

Types and Shadows

When a band’s sophomore album drops, the fans can comfortably approach the music with a certain sense of expectation. By the third LP, the band’s sound is typically established,...

HM Album Reviews

Wovenwar

Honor is Dead

The band's sound and message is best served hot, firing on all cylinders and blasting with their unique combination of aggressively catchy metal. Capitalizing on their surprisingly melodic 2014...

HMTV 31 Oct 16 Fallstar

WATCH: Fallstar releases new crowdfunded music video for ‘Radio (NW Hesh)’

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HMTV 28 Oct 16 Hand of Fire

HM PREMIERE: Hand of Fire drops new lyric video for ‘Let the Killings Begin’

HM Album Reviews

Poured Out

To the Point of Death

The newest member of the Facedown Records family, Poured Out, have released a killer full-length debut. The band, evoking ’90s-era hardcore, brings raw to a new level on To...

HM Album Reviews

Fit for a King

Deathgrip

Are you ready to die? Is anyone, really? The 89 rock music fans mercilessly slaughtered by ISIL terrorists on November 13, 2015 at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris, France,...

HM Album Reviews

Dire

Volume I

While Volume I successfully gives listeners an idea of what to expect from Dire in the future, the best is surely yet to come with this band. A strong...

HMTV 18 Oct 16 Earth Groans

Earth Groans unleashes new music video for ‘Driving Out’

News 14 Oct 16 Zao

Zao to release ‘The Well-Intentioned Virus’ this winter, premiere ‘Observed/Observer’

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