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Metal Monday: Metal Preview 2011

posted: January 3, 2011

While providing some solid albums, 2010 was a fairly lackluster year in metal. Given only the short list of albums slated to come out in the first three months of 2011, it could very well…
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Metal Monday: 1990, A Great Year In Metal

posted: November 29, 2010

Though the metal genre has had many landmark years, no year in it’s musical history matches 1990 in terms of legendary and influential record releases. At a time when metal was starting to explore heavier…
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Metal Monday: Jack Ketch Q&A

posted: November 22, 2010

Neighbors to one of the decade’s biggest and most prominent areas for brutally heavy music (aka: the Bay Area), Sacramento is trying to put itself on the map, and death metal band Jack Ketch is…
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Metal Monday: Metal Essentials – Progressive Metal

posted: April 19, 2010

If a person is to consider themselves a metalhead, they had best know the roots”the basics. Be aware of all subgenres, who dominates them and know the albums that helped shape that subgenre. For the…
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Metal Monday: 5 Bands you might not know, but should

posted: March 8, 2010

As you likely already know, OurStage is a music discovery platform serving all sorts of great musical artists. Sometimes, though, there are bands that people should know about but, for whatever reason, don’t.  Here are…
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METAL MONDAY: SUMMER FESTIVAL OVERVIEW

posted: August 24, 2009

Everyone knows that summertime is festival season, and whenever people think of music festivals, they think of events like SXSW and Bonnaroo. Unless they are metalheads. For hardcore rockers, popular summer festivals include Wacken and…
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