Roy Westad talks about his new project ILLT, the upcoming debut album “Urhat” and his thoughts on modern extreme music.
From fashion to classic albums to favourite scenes, Evile vocalist Ol Drake gets metal thrashin’ mad as we talk all things thrash.
Extreme metal visionaries Shane Embury and Jacob Bannon team up for the stamina-testing industrial concept album ‘DSM-5.’
Download organisers have announced the addition of Megadeth, Descendents and 15 more in their Halloween announcement.
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…
For this edition of the Paltrocast, Darren Paltrowitz spoke with Megadeth’s David Ellefson, 3/4 of the band The Mavericks, and the Tom Keifer Band’s Tom Keifer. Topics of discussion included writing memoirs, Thom Hazaert, David Lee Roth, vocal maintenance, and much more.
Megadeth celebrate their 35th Anniversary with the release of Warheads On Foreheads, a 35-track, career retrospective on 22nd March 2019. The anthology spans their entire studio recording career and you can find out more plus check out our favourite five moments here.
Dave Ellefson of Megadeth and Frank Bello of Anthrax just released the album Get It Out under the moniker Altitudes & Attitude. We spoke with Ellefson at length about working with Bello and the new music.
Did someone order some thrash? Italian shredder and singer Loris Castiglia, of the Candlelight/Spinefarm Records-signed act Ultra-Violence, counts down his top ten thrash metal album covers.
In this totally just-for-fun list – non-partisan, completely neutral, and in no way reflective of PureGrainAudio’s political alignments – list, in no particular order, 10 heavy tunes ideal for your next “Fuck (or Pro?) Trump!” rally.
It’s been a busy week around the rock world so here’s a quick round up of some of the news stories that you might have missed…
Dark Hound have released live footage from the band’s performance at the Dawning Album Release Show from January 19 at The Basement in Nashville where they performed Megadeth’s “Trust.”
Inside Metal is a well-researched documentary, as it goes straight to the source to get the overall story of L.A. thrash.