Metal Matters

“Industrial Music” started out back in the 70’s as a mixture of harsh electronics, confrontation and punk transgression. As time went on, Industrial Music became a “style” instead of a “statement.”Eve...

8 Jan 201937min

For 30 years and counting, Dwid Hellion has been fronting the ever evolving metallic hardcore entityknown as Integrity. Aside from intense metal riffing, guitar solos and lacerating vocals, Integrity ...

2 Jan 201922min

How many times does a debut record smash you across the face like “Streetcleaner” by Godflesh?Earache Records delivered this monument to anguish, desolation and bleakness on November 13, 1989.At the t...

26 Des 201845min

Steve Brodsky of Cave In and Mutoid Man joins us. Steve goes into detail regarding the long journey that Cave In has been on from the band’s D.I.Y. roots to the major label years and beyond. We also d...

18 Des 20181h 6min

2018 is almost over. A lot of great records came out this past year and everyone is busily putting together their Top 10 lists. Here at Metal Matters, we do things a little different. Instead of a Top...

13 Des 201851min

Neurosis is a band that transcends classification; their influence can be felt across most genres ofextreme music. Formed in 1985 by Scott Kelly, Dave Edwardson and Jason Roeder, their early soundwas ...

11 Des 201848min

Metal Lifer and living legend Dan Lilker joins us this week. He’s been making music since 1981,first as a co-founding member and Anthrax and then as a member of Nuclear Assault. The list of bands that...

4 Des 201834min

These days we take for granted how easily artists blend different genres. It’s a generally acceptedfact that metal kids listen to hardcore punk and hardcore punk kids listen to metal, but it wasn’talw...

27 Nov 20181h 12min