Time hasn’t really been too kind to Staind. The taste of the big time they encountered in 2001 with “Break The Cycle” must seem like forever away. They changed and “improved” their sound from the harsh, dirty nu-metal of their first two albums, found success with the single “Outside” courtesy of Fred Durst, and then just got plain fucking boring for three albums. So what happens when they release their seventh album?

Fresh from Partnering with Rammstein in the UK leg of their European tour Combichrist are soon to release a new single themselves in early March. The disc is to feature a new single mix of the track Scarred, which is lifted from the album Today, We are all Demons. The batch of arena gigs from [...]

In the past fortnight there have been a few significant releases of non headliner bands in this years Download festival line up, with many being quite big names and others being curious surprises. Returning to the festival are bands like Down and Killswitch Engage, Killswitch having played Download a number of times before with Down [...]