Metal

Infected Rain have released “The Realm of Chaos,” the third single from their forthcoming fifth album, Ecdysis. The track features a guest appearance by Heidi Shepherd from Butcher Babies. Infected Rain frontwoman Lena Scissorhands says about “The Realm of Chaos”: “‘The Realm of Chaos’ was inspired by the massive depression we all lived in 2020, dedicated to

Underoath have released a new single called “Numb.” It is, without question, one of the two best American rock songs to be called “Numb” that I can think of off the top of my head and one of the three best rock songs from anywhere called “Numb” that I can think of off the top

British psych metallers have announced plans to return to the U.S. and Canada in March of 2022. It will be there first time playing those territories since 2019. Support will come from King Buffalo. Says the band in a statement: “WARNING: We’ll be returning to the stages of North America for the first time since

For the latest entry in their ongoing series of “bedroom covers,” Two Minutes to Late Night has rounded up a characteristically-rad line-up of musicians to cover Funkadelic’s 1971 song, “Hit It and Quit It.” Specifically, they enlisted Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Bryan Giles (Red Fang), Bryan Richie (The Sword), Moe Watson (Shai Hulud), and Emily Panic (Ghosts

Death mastermind Chuck Schuldiner died on December 13, 2001. It’s nearly unfathomable that was 20 years ago. Time is a flat circle and nothing matters. This Sunday, December 12, one day shy, Death fans all over the world can join together in a celebration of Schuldiner’s life with a special concert featuring an all-star cast

On a day that already gave us Ben Affleck wearing a Boston straight-edge hardcore shirt, we’ve got yet another celebrity metal fashion sighting to gawk over: Lil Nas X wearing a shirt featuring the scratchy-font logo of Chicago-based deathgrind outfit Hatemonger. The rapper sported the shirt in an interview he conducted to promote his appearance

Knocked Loose have knocked loose some upcoming U.S. tour dates, set for the spring of next year. Those’ll go after the band opens for Every Time I Die at their annual “‘TID the Season” event, and in-between two separate runs in Europe and the U.K. The band’s entire itinerary as it now stands is below.

Hardcore band Comeback Kid have released a new track, “Crossed,” that features a guest vocal spot from Gojira’s Joe Duplantier. Vocalist Andrew Neufeld comments: “’Crossed’ is a no-frills metallic hardcore track. Lyrically it deals with someone in my life that seemed so far gone and I had to watch them dig themselves further and further into a

Death metal up-and-comers Hath will release their sophomore full-length album, All That Was Promised, on March 4 via Willowtip Records, and they’ve now posted its first single, “Kenosis,” along with a music video [via Heavy Blog is Heavy]. The album follows up their critically acclaimed and MetalSucks-approved 2019 debut Of Rot and Ruin. The band comments on their

Venom Prison have released a new single, “Pain of Oizys.” The track will appear on the band’s upcoming album, Erebos. Guitarist Ben Thomas comments: “The second offering by Venom Prison is a cold room with a dusty piano. It’s a softly sung war hymn with finger-picked guitar. It’s a ship in calm seas watching for

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: Red Fang, whose highly-anticipated new album, Arrows, arrived over the Summer, give fans an opportunity to try out their own Katana-skills as seen in the band’s “Arrows” video, with the new, single player “Blade to Waste” video game. Relapse Records and Red Fang will be offering three top scorers a variety of prize packs including

Mere hours ago, Every Time I Die released a statement revealing that frontman Keith Buckley would be missing some of their upcoming shows while he focuses on his mental health. But now Buckley has released a statement of his own, and it would seem not everyone in the band is on the same page about

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s Amorphisssssss… Amorphis have debuted “The Moon,” the first single from their previously-announced-but-yet-to-be-released new album, Halo. It has a kinda folk-metal vibe, but it doesn’t make me wanna punch myself in the dick, which is always nice. Comments lyricist Pekka Kainulainen: “I have done

After initially announcing an early 2022 North American run back in October, death metal bruisers Defeated Sanity have now revealed the support acts for the tour: Skeletal Remains, Vitriol and Splattered. Defeated Sanity commented: “We welcome on board of our upcoming US headliner tour our distinguished guests in Skeletal Remains, Vitriol and Splattered! Don’t miss

Hey did y’all know it’s almost Christmas? I completely forgot. Weird no one has mentioned it yet this year. ANYWAY, to get into the spirit of the season, DJ Cummerbund, one of our most favoritest interwebs mash-up makers, has smushed together Metallica’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s take on “Carol of the

Architects will be performing an exclusive global streaming event from the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London on December 11, exciting news on its own. But this is no ordinary show: the performance will be backed by Parallax Orchestra, made up of some of England’s best and most versatile classical musicians, arranged and written by Simon Dobson, Parallax Orchestra’s conductor and

One of the biggest stories to come out of the metal world this week is that of The Word Alive recently recovering some stolen goods on tour using the Apple AirTag, whiskey, weed, twenty bucks in bribe money, and, presumably, some good ol’ fashioned charm. For those who don’t know, the short version is: the

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: In an effort to sublimate the negative energy surrounding everyone in 2020, legendary Japanese heavy rock band Boris focused all of their energy creatively and turned out the most extreme album of their long and widely celebrated career, NO. The band self-released the album, desiring to get it out as quickly as possible but intentionally

Five Finger Death Punch frontman Ivan Moody has shared a clip from the studio, where the band is currently working on their ninth album. The clip includes seventeen seconds of new FFDP music. That’s one second for each of Moody’s I.Q. points! You can listen below if Five Finger Death Punch is your thing. FFDP’s

Tool are making up for lost time with an extensive North American tour that’ll kick off January 10 and run through the middle of March (European and U.K. dates are scheduled for April and May). Now, you could just go to your local show of choice, assuming there’s one near you, or… … you could