Rust in Peace: Dan McCafferty

Dan McCafferty, singer for the legendary Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, passed away on November 8th, 2022 at the age of 76. He had played with the band for 45 years, and one of the band's live concerts was actually one of the first heavy music concerts I ever saw. Nazareth performed at the Mussel …

Rust in Peace: Trevor Strnad [The Black Dahlia Murder] 1981-2022

The past few years feel like they've been particularly tough on the global metal scene in terms of prominent figures that have been dying way too young. Yet none have quite hit so hard as this. I won't belabor the point because I want to speak to just how much of a treasure Trevor Strnad …

Rust in Peace: Lars Göran Petrov [Entombed] 1972-2021

Swedish musician Lars Göran Petrov was something of a legend in the world of underground extreme metal. His work with Entombed on the band's debut record Left Hand Path is monumental, especially considering the age of OSDM revivalism that we're living in right now. It's hard to say if awesome bands like Gatecreeper, Creeping Death, …

Rust In Peace: Alexi Laiho [Children of Bodom] 1979-2020

2020 was an awful year and I think we were all expecting that 2021 wouldn't be much better, but I don't think any of us were expecting that the year would begin with such tragic news. Alexi Laiho, guitarist, vocalist and primary songwriter for Children of Bodom, and later, Bodom After Midnight, has passed away …

Rust In Peace: Riley Gale [Power Trip] 1985-2020

It's not often when celebrity deaths affect me. There have only been a handful of instances where the passing of icons in the metal world has really struck me hard. The loss of Ronnie James Dio, for example, while sad, was also not entirely unexpected after his years long battle with cancer. The loss of …