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one of the strangest things that’s come about from the Deftones camp in recent years was the revelation that guitarist Stephen Carpenter refuses to play any of the band’s international shows. He just doesn’t travel abroad and no one really seems to know why, though there are some reports that suggest what’s going on there…

Six years after officially calling it quits, Dutch death/thrash metal band Izegrim will once again hit the stage as a unit, only this time that stage will be floating on the Caribbean during this year’s 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise. Founded in 1996, the band recorded five albums and toured all over the world with

(CW: Suicide) Following a long battle with his mental health, Swedish blackened death metal outfit Sacramentum announced that one of their founding members Nisse Karlén committed suicide at the age of 50. News of his passing was made public through a post on the band’s official social media pages, in which the surviving members revealed

Next year marks the 30th anniversary of Cryptopsy‘s iconic album None So Vile and they’re jumping on the nostalgia act pretty early. This coming January, the Canuck technical death titans will be heading out to Europe and the United Kingdom for a tour and they recently announced they’ll play select songs from that record each

Stoner/doom metal outfit Stoned Jesus have a new album coming out in a couple weeks and they’ve dropped another single on our collective heads. And while the band admits it deals with “some heavy topics,” they opted to release a music video that showed the fun atmosphere that went into recording Songs to Sun. The

Ready for some skull crushing brutality? Because the latest single “Autisimus Prime” from PeelingFlesh‘s upcoming release PF Radio 2 has a little extra somethin’ added onto it thanks to the inclusion of Kiriakos Destounis of Embryectomy. Set for release on September 26, PF Radio 2 features 10 new brutal tracks from the slam/brutal deathcore for

In the world of professional wrestling, there’s this concept called “cheap heat.” It’s when a wrestler, usually the bad guy or “heel”, talks shit about the town the promotion’s performing in that night. Usually they’ll make fun of something like their terrible sports team, the allegation that everyone in the arena is too dumb/broke/ugly to

With their eyes firmly set on the end of 2025, the dudes in Better Loversare have added almost one last month of shows to precede their annual holiday event. And this time around, they’re bringing a badass list of supporting acts along for the ride. Kicking off on November 13 in Greensboro, North Carolina and

British mathcore outfitPupil Slicer are back. With a new album titled Fleshwork set to come out on November 7, they’ve dropped the title track as its lead single for your listening pleasure today. The band described their follow up to as a sort of “experimentation into more industrial and groove-oriented writing that we found really

Industrial juggernaut Author & Punisherhas an album coming out in a week titled Nocturnal Birding. Everything we’ve heard of it thus far is heavy, oppressive, and atmospheric and the album’s final pre-release single “Thrush” falls right in line with that description. With this being the solo act’s first new release since 2022’s Krüller, it’s an

Looks like the second half of the married couple within Cradle of Filth is also walking away from Dani Filth and company at the end of the band’s current tour, as guitarist Marek “Ashok” Šmerda announced his impending departure earlier today. Unlike his wife and ex-Cradle of Filth keyboardist/vocalist Zoe Marie Federoff, who quit the

This is gonna be a pretty short post, since there’s not a whole lot of information to go off of at the moment, but it’s looking like three major female voices in hard rock and metal are joining forces for something. Earlier today, Evanescence‘s Amy Lee, Spiritbox‘s Courtney LaPlante, and Poppy each posted the same

Ongoing drama within the Cradle of Filth camp has reached a fever pitch just moments ago, as frontman Dani Filth took to social media to announce the immediate firing of guitarist Marek “Ashok” Smerda. The news comes hours after the now ousted musician announced his intent to leave the band following their current Latin American

Chilean indigenous metal act Mawiza has reached out and grabbed one of the more recognizable manes min modern metal to participate in the band’s newest single, “Ti Inan Paw-Paw” — which roughly translates to “The Last Harp Call” in English. The band is comprised of members of the Mapuche Nation, a group of indigenous people

As the weather gets colder later this year, fans of Finnish power metal Sonata Arctica will be able to catch the band live during their upcoming ‘Clear Cold Beyond North America’ tour. Set to run from September 29 in Toronto, Ontario and coming to a close on October 4 in Baltimore, this small run of

After returning as an active band nearly a decade ago, the southern stoner metal outfit from New England known as Scissorfight is once again planning to hang it up after a couple final shows. And this time it could be for good (though hopefully it isn’t). According to the band, they’d planned on playing one

As previously reported, Canadian metalcore outfit Spiritbox performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and if past performances by other modern metal acts are any indicator, some moms in American flyover states were none too thrilled. Playing the show in support of Tsunami Sea, the band ripped through their popular single “Soft Spine”. Shot entirely in black

Fresh off their performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Canadian metalcore act Spiritbox have announced a new bout of North American headlining shows in support of Tsunami Sea. And they’re bringing along some interesting supporting acts along the way. Set to kick off on November 12 in Ontario, Canada and coming to a close on December

Just about every band feels the pressure to deliver the goods and validate themselves with each new album. Yet, Born of Osiris arguably had double the usual burden with Through Shadows since it not only follows 2021’s well received Angel or Alien but also marks their first studio LP since losing longtime keyboardist Joe Buras

Fans that crave a little death metal brutality at the shows they attend may want to pay attention to this announcement, as Carcass promises to hit the road across North America for a number of dates later this year. Not only that, but they’re bringing some potent heavy hitters to bolster the nights’ ferocity. Set