Spring — 1976. Ronnie was a 14-year-old bad boy — the heartthrob of the neighborhood bad girls. He had shaggy long blond hair, smoked cigarettes, rode...
Despite being set to return for 2021, Download Festival has again been forced to cancel plans for this year. Read the announcement here.
Located in the Old Testament, Proverbs 16:27 offers a bold revelation — “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.” And when a gaggle of bored wives of...
The image and aesthetic of black metal has always been an integral element of the notorious genre and its resultant culture. The album sleeves, intricate logos,...
They were young, rail-thin long-hairs donning tie-dyes and denim — modern-day ministers on a common mission to spread their own “Good News” Gospel. With reckless abandon,...
Be sure, KISS did not invent the concept. But they did perfect it — elevating the live album format to an all-new, highly bankable art form....
Ace Frehley’s latest offering, Origins Vol. 2, is a jewel of an album chock-full of cover songs that gracefully landed in my den of iniquity after...
Returning in 2021, Download Festival organisers have confirmed Kiss, Biffy Clyro and System Of A Down will headline the rock weekender. Read more here:
V13 chatted to Bryan from Texan rockers The Sword about the last seventeen years, their favourites stories and picking up some famous fans.
Rock icons KISS have announced the rescheduled dates for the European leg of their 2021 'End of the Road' World Tour. Find out the new dates...
The Sword celebrate their career with two multi-decade spanning collection albums. Read all about both albums and check out their Kiss cover of 'She' here.
If you’re bored and locked inside of your own hell-opinion prison cell, let’s dig through some LPs and see what we can find. My discombobulation is...
What is a Paltrocast? – In July 2018, New York-based writer and editor Darren Paltrowitz launched the Paltrocast in partnership with PureGrainAudio (now V13 Media). This bi-weekly podcast features exclusive interviews with...
The coronavirus pandemic, which shows no signs of relenting, has forced two more UK festivals to shelve their plans for their 2020 events due to be...
We sat down with the #dungeonsynth master, Håvard Ellefsen, also known as Mortiis, about all things Mortiis, including the new Omniprescence Productions/Dead Seed Productions album Spirit...