As we recently explored at length, the current state of mainstream heavy metal is bleak, partially because so many of the biggest bands are more like pop acts with the occasional metalcore breakdown. Not many of the leading metal bands are really rocking the classic heavy metal look, either, which apparently drives Deicide’s Glen Bento...

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System Of A Down headlined Sick New World, the nu-metal festival that took place yesterday on the Las Vegas Festival Grounds. They trotted out some songs they hadn’t performed in a while, doing “Bubbles” and “CUBErt” for the first time since 2015, “Kill Rock ‘n Roll”...

(Yes, it’s a Taylor Swift column. The reason is simple: This is a pop column, and every artist in the industry knows better than to release a pop album the same week as Taylor Swift. What else is there to write about? Pearl Jam? UB40? Raffi?)