metal Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/metal/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:18:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png metal Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/metal/ 32 32 Charlotte Sands stirs up an alt-pop storm with ‘one eye open’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/04/charlotte-sands-stirs-up-an-alt-pop-storm-with-one-eye-open/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:17:29 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042738 Charlotte Sands‘ brand of empower-pop has gotten more brash and bold with each new release. The alt-pop firestorm and Hopkinton native has sharpened her sound through a string of emphatic singles over the past several months, all leading to the release of new album Satellite in March. Now, Sands delivers “one eye open”, a searing new banger that further blurs the lines between pop and metal while providing a compass towards personal preservation — something we all need as we […]

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]]> Throw up the horns at the ‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’ trailer https://vanyaland.com/2025/07/25/throw-up-the-horns-at-the-spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues-trailer/ Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:57:13 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042082 Who doesn’t love some Spinal Tap? They’re hard to come by, though Aside from a few cameos on The Simpsons (easy enough to do given that most of the cast already does voice work for that show) and a number of “reunion” shows, it’s been forty-one years since Rob Reiner’s This is Spinal Tap introduced us to the most glaring omission from Penelope Spheeris’ The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years. Well, if they actually existed, that is. […]

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]]> Slow Crush smother with an abrasive escapism on ‘Thirst’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/05/14/slow-crush-smother-with-an-abrasive-escapism-on-thirst/ Wed, 14 May 2025 08:52:30 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041374 Sometimes a song isn’t so much a song as it is a confrontation, and within that confrontation is a chance to escape, if only for a moment, the blackened malaise of life. Providing the type of portal we need the most right now is Slow Crush, the Belgian shoegaze and noise-pop dynamo who this week (May 13) unleashes a strategic fit of calculated chaos called “Thirst.” It’s the unrelenting title track to the foursome’s new album out August 29 via Pure Noise […]

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]]> ManRay goes Monday with new punk, metal, and death rock parties https://vanyaland.com/2023/09/07/manray-goes-monday-with-new-punk-metal-and-death-rock-parties/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:51:00 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10035921 Move over, “Sunday scaries” — ManRay has the Monday scaries, and these are likely to be way more fun. The iconic Cambridge underground nightclub, which continues to expand its programming since its resurrection back in January, has done something it hasn’t done in a very long time (if ever): Filled out a weekly Monday night calendar. And they’ve enlisted a dark collective called The Orphanage to supply the mood and the sound. The new slate of Monday programming fills the […]

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]]> Baragon take aim at gun violence in America with the sludgy ‘Fish’ https://vanyaland.com/2023/07/12/baragon-take-aim-at-gun-violence-in-america-with-the-sludgy-fish/ Wed, 12 Jul 2023 10:30:11 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10035389 We last caught up with Salem sludge slingers Baragon back in the pre-pandemic days of January 2020, which at this point feels entirely like a previous lifetime. But the heavy quartet returned with another furious crusher yesterday (July 11), and it throws a reference point back even deeper down yesterday’s timeline, to the mass shooting at the 2017 Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas. One person in the band had a family member at the festival, and thankfully, that […]

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]]> Oceanlord unveil a slow and steady dirge of doom treachery in ‘2340’ https://vanyaland.com/2023/02/28/oceanlord-unveil-a-slow-and-steady-dirge-of-doom-treachery-in-2340/ Tue, 28 Feb 2023 12:45:54 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10033555 A blanket of snow and ice has covered most of Massachusetts this morning (February 28), so our moods have lined up quite nicely with Oceanlord and the Australian psych-doom trio’s slow and steady crusher “2340.” The first tracked rinsed and risen from the band’s forthcoming album Kingdom Cold, out May 26 via Magnetic Eye Records, the crushing “2340” knows a thing or two about a confrontation with unforgiving ice. “The song ‘2340’ is our dirge of treachery named for the hour […]

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]]> MORNE sign to Metal Blade Records for fall album release https://vanyaland.com/2023/02/20/morne-sign-to-metal-blade-records-for-fall-album-release/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 16:31:28 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10033470 A little more than a month after signing Death Ray Vision, Metal Blade Records has dipped back into Massachusetts’ murkier waters. The legendary label has announced the signing of Boston’s MORNE, and will release the heavy atmospheric band’s new album later this fall. MORNE are currently in the studio with Kurt Ballou at GodCity Studio in Salem, working on the follow-up to 2018 studio album To the Night Unknown and the 2019 re-release of Rust. “[This] will be our fifth studio […]

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]]> Jesus Piece display a ferocious kind of ‘Tunnel Vision’ https://vanyaland.com/2023/02/14/jesus-piece-display-a-ferocious-kind-of-tunnel-vision/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:19:55 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10033409 When Show Me The Body roll up to Boston next month for a March 21 twirl at The Paradise Rock Club, we strongly suggest hitting Commonwealth Avenue fairly early to catch Jesus Piece. And the rising Philadelphia metal and hardcore band has offered an enticing pitch by way of relentless new single “Tunnel Vision,” a ferocious beast that drummer Luis Aponte says “is as close to a Jesus Piece experience as you’re going to get without standing in front of us.” It’s […]

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]]> This Show Is Tonight: Boston & NYC hardcore punk converge in Cambridge https://vanyaland.com/2023/01/06/this-show-is-tonight-boston-nyc-hardcore-punk-converge-in-cambridge/ Fri, 06 Jan 2023 13:58:56 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10032951 The hardcore punk scene has always been supportive of one another, with a loyalty spanning even the distance between cities. That ethos will be on full display tonight as a crew of Boston and New York City hardcore punk and metal bands will be throwing down together at The Middle East Upstairs in Cambridge. Crossover acts Leeway and Subzero, hardcore/crust outfit Ache and metal squad Damn Your Eyes will be representing NYC, while Neighborhood Shit (pictured above) and Sick Minds […]

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]]> Band in the USA: Revocation unveil North American tour with Morbid Angel https://vanyaland.com/2022/11/02/band-in-the-usa-revocation-unveil-north-american-tour-with-morbid-angel/ Wed, 02 Nov 2022 16:45:22 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10032423 Revocation continue to be absolute masters of their metal craft, and next year the Boston trio will be headed out across North America as direct support for Morbid Angel’s 40th anniversary tour, affectionately dubbed the United States Tour of Terror, joining the Florida death metal legends for 28 coast-to-coast dates. Included in the run is an April 15 show at the Worcester Palladium in Worcester, and tickets to all shows go on sale Friday (November 4). Dave Davidson and crew […]

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