World-building and worship: Inside the cult of SLEEP TOKEN
WEBDecember 1, 2023. This story was originally published in Revolver's Summer 2023 Issue, and has been edited and updated. The atmosphere before a metal show doesn't usually feel like this. Inside the main room of the Portsmouth Guildhall, on the south coast of England, soft, ambient music floats from the speakers. The stage is decorated with plants.
How $UICIDEBOY$ transcended their darkness to become unlikely …
WEBAug 31, 2023 · All of their accolades — launching their own successful label G*59 Records and inking a lucrative distribution deal with The Orchard; dropping three acclaimed studio albums (the most recent of which is 2022’s Sing Me a Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation) and scores of EPs and mixtapes (including 2019’s Live Fast, Die Whenever, which featured blink-182’s Travis Barker and Korn’s James ...
Ghost: The True Story of Death, Religion and Rock & Roll Behind …
WEBMay 29, 2018 · The characters appeared onstage in skull makeup and three-cornered papal mitre, singing odes to Lucifer and songs about zombie queens, about imaginary schoolgirls with psychic powers, and about very real Hungarian countesses who bathed in the blood of virgins. But Papa never gave interviews.
50 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time - Revolver Magazine
WEBMay 24, 2018 · (EMI, 1978) Bands like X helped widen the palette of what could be called punk in the early days, and X Ray Spex widened that palette even more. Fronted by the great Poly Styrene, the band’s excellent Germfree Adolescents LP is a rigorous exercise in what many would call post-punk or new wave today, incorporating keyboards and saxophone in addition to melodic vocals to create a wholly new ...
Corey Taylor's Slipknot Masks Ranked: From Worst to Best
WEBSep 8, 2021 · Slipknot’s 2008 album, All Hope Is Gone, marked a bold new era for the band as they attempted to follow up three show-stopping records as bona fide metal superstars.The visuals for this time period were spectacular — particularly Joey Jordison’s iconic crown of thorns and Clown’s gimp mask — but Taylor’s hairless, dead-eyed mug was somewhat underwhelming compared to his previous ...
Ghost: 10 Things We Learned From Our Revealing Interview With …
WEBJun 1, 2018 · 4. Forge's older brother Sebastian, who was a huge influence on him, died the same day Tobias posted the first Ghost songs online, and the musician has come to think of the coincidence as an example of energy transference Forge's brother Sebastian introduced him to transgressive rock music like Kiss and Mötley Crüe, as well as horror movies, all of which would play a big role in shaping Ghost.
20 greatest SLEEP TOKEN songs - Revolver Magazine
WEBDec 15, 2023 · In that sense, “Nazareth” epitomizes the dichotomy at the center of Sleep Token’s M.O. — creating a sense of beauty entangled with horror. 19. "Dark Signs". Sundowning, 2019. Though Sleep Token are always keen to toy with mainstream sounds, “Dark Signs” leans further into those sensibilities than most of Sundowning ’s other songs.
Deftones' 'Around the Fur': The Story Behind the Cover Art
WEBDec 1, 2013 · Around the Fur, the Deftones' 1997 sophomore album, has so far sold nearly a million copies, yet what stays with one even more than the singles "My Own Summer (Shove It)" and "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)" is the fish-eye close-up of the bikini-clad girl on the record's cover. Maybe it's the flower tattooed around her navel. Maybe it's the pasty man-feet to her left.
10 Bands Leading the New Wave of Nu-Metal - Revolver Magazine
WEBJul 18, 2022 · Plus, they’ve recently toured with Korn and Slipknot, and tapped Loathe and Vended (see below) to join their most recent headliner. They’re creating a pipeline between the hardcore underground and the nu-metal mainstream, which makes them crucial ambassadors to the style’s new wave. Loathe. Fans will debate whether Deftones are a …
"I Was Internally Dying": Poppy Speaks Up and Breaks Free
WEBDec 23, 2022 · As a child, Poppy’s greatest fear was her own voice. “I think I was so afraid of my voice because I was afraid of people looking at me; I didn’t think that what I had to say was important.”. Scared to take up space, Poppy took up an observer role instead. She didn’t have many people who understood her.