Slayer performs during Aftershock Festival at Discovery Park in Sacramento, Calif. on Oct. 10, 2024. Photos courtesy Aftershock. SACRAMENTO — Aftershock Festival returned to Discovery Park bigger than ever on Thursday, the first of four days. The addition of a fifth stage for the first time created a Warped-Tour-esque environment…

Rammstein, “Zeit.” At this point, fans of Berlin hard rock heroes Rammstein know to expect the unexpected. The band typically takes years to record and release new material. Case in point, a decade passed between the sixth album Liebe its für alle da and the band’s seventh, untitled, record. The natural assumption…

Megadeth performs at the Glen Helen Amphitheater in San Bernardino on Sept. 6, 2006. Derek Tobias/STAFF. I know it’s Labor Day in a couple days and I usually do a column of union songs, but after the last couple weeks I’m so very, very tired. I suspect many of…

Rammstein, untitled. Since breaking out of the German techno-metal Neue Deutsche Härte scene in the mid ‘90s, Rammstein remains one of the last real shock rockers. The moral panic this band caused with over-the-top stage antics and spreading music videos on adult entertainment websites seems rather silly this far…