Metal

Now here’s something we can get behind. Without getting into the nitty gritty (not that I need to, since you can just look around you), a new movement within the music community is prompting artists and labels to remove their catalogs from Spotify and other streaming services as part of No Music for Genocide. Among

I don’t know about my fellow elder millennials, but there are few deaths that me hit as hard in the music scene as that of Chris Cornell. When he died back in 2017 at the far-too-young age of 52, it was a shock. He’d been playing with Soundgarden once again, but he ultimately took his

Leave it up to Ice Nine Kills to make something more boisterous than it already is. I mean that in a good way. Just look at this new bit of visual delight they’ve unleashed unto the world. “The Laugh Track” finds itself just as vibrant and in your face as the source material it’s pulling

Tim Lambesis is kind of like a roach at this point—he just won’t really go away. After attempting to revive As I Lay Dying a few times to no avail, the band has returned YET AGAIN with another lineup and a new single, called “Echoes.” It’s been suggested that this current attempt at relevance is

Here’s something for you Slayer heads, as well as those who love swimming in the murk of technical details. To mark the 35th anniversary of their album Seasons in the Abyss, the band has launched a special track-by-track video feature on Slaytanic Verses, the band’s free online museum, where Kerry King and Tom Araya will

It looks like next year is shaping up to very bountiful when it comes to festivals, particularly the Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival. They’ve just announced another new round of bands added to the lineup, and they’re beefy. The bill now includes Amon Amarth, Body Count, In Flames, Kreator, and Sepultura. The last one

Emotional goodbyes suck, so why not have a whole movie full of them? That’s what filmmaker Morgan Tedd kinda did for metalcore band Misery Signals, capturing all of the best and likely emotional moments of their 2024 farewell tour. A little less than a month after it gets its online release, the doc, titled Love

The fellas in Born Of Osiris have yet to find someone to fill the void in their lineup after the departure of guitaristLee Mickeney, but they’ve got a long-ass tour coming up. What ever are they to do?! Well, according to an Instagram post made this afternoon, they’re going to be temporarily employing the services

Think back to where you were back in 2000. Feels like a lifetime ago, doesn’t it? Hell, most of you reading this are probably too young to even conceive what 25 years ago was like. (Spoilers: It at least felt better than our current hellscape.) For the women of Canadian metal act Kittie, 2000 was

There may not be a whole lot of certainty as to what’s going on within My Dying Bride, what with everything that’s going on with their founding vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe, but one thing’s certain — new music is moving forward unabated. At least that’s according to founding guitarist Andrew Craighan. While speaking with the Everblack

New York-based technical death metal act Artificial Brain will be bringing their brand of sci-fi dripped brutality to our friends across the pond this October and November. And they won’t be doing it alone, as Profound Lore labelmates Suffering Hour will be joining them along for the trek. Set to kick off on October 23

Another year, another soulless Call of Duty game is fast approaching. With the recent announcement of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, I found my nerdy ass watching the trailer because of course I was. And while a lot of what I saw was expected, it was what I heard in the trailer that realy

Not ones to sit around and waste time, New Jersey’s very own thrash metal icons Overkill are back at the studio writing new music for their follow-up to 2023’s Scorched. Earlier this week, the band’s new drummer Jeramie Kling posted to social media to boast about his new Roland electronic drum kit while also sharing

Another band is looking back on a pivotal moment in their career and spending time later this year to commemorate a major release in their discography. The band — Massachusetts deathcore act The Red Chord. The pivotal release being celebrated – their 2005 album Clients. And they’re doing more than just a couple shows and

To our dearest friends out in Europe — we Americans are sorry for what you’re about to endure. It’s not your first experience with the mighty death metal band from Ohio commonly known as Sanguisugabogg, but this time around feels like things are going to be brutal. And that’s not just because of what we’ve

Last month, the world witnessed one of the most monumental concert experiences ever as heavy metal saw both Ozzy OsbourneandBlack Sabbath take their final bows at ‘Back To The Beginning’ on July 5. It was a huge undertaking that not only allowed the world to say goodbye to such phenomenal acts, but it also sought

If you like your heavy metal bands to be more groovy, medieval and sword-swinging excitement than crush-your-skull-in heavy, you might want to check out the fantasy heavy metal outfitCastle Rat. They’ve got a new album coming out this September titled The Bestiary and earlier today they unleashed their latest single, “Serpent”. Now, if you’ve been

There’s something inherently punk rock about being a popular musician or band and filming a super simple DIY music video. It basically says “fuck having corporate backing, we’re doing it our way.” What Fallujah did with their video for “The Obsidian Architect” is both punk rock as hell and the opposite of that entirely —

Say what you will about Ghost, but their latest album Skeletá is a bit of a banger. They’ve been on a roll lately, if we’re being honest, and I think that could all get traced back to the album that most would probably say put them on the map and in the zeitgeist among even

Wow. Holy shit. Great googly moogly. All current and future thrash bands — take some fucking notes. Because if you want to blow minds and get people stoked for your new album, you do what Testament just did. You come out swinging and you hit as hard as you can, which is exactly what they’ve