Metal

Photo by Shane K. Gardner Psychedelic black metal band Nixil are sharing a full stream of their forthcoming album From the Wound Spilled Forth the Fire. The record is out August 25 via Prosthetic Records. The chaotic, heavy and challenging new album is both psychedelic and crushing, weaving a hypnotic web that mirrors the art on the

New Jersey based progressive/angular metal duo Equivocator drop their eponymous EP this September through Nefarious Industries. Until then, Decibel proudly shares their powerful, layered new single “Axiomatic”, a sonic wallop from the pair Matthew Lupo (East of the Wall, Stronds, Opul, The Postman Syndrome) and East of the Wall bandmate Chris Alfano (ex-NY In 64,

Polynesian metal force Shepherds Reign hail from South Auckland, New Zealand. United by an ironclad sense of ancestral pride, Shepherds Reign is an ode to fortitude, family, and survival. Alongside frontman and keytarist Filiva’a James, the band includes fellow warriors Gideon Voon (guitar), Oliver Leupolu (guitar/production), Shaymen Rameka (drums) and Joseph Oti-George (bass). Shepherds Reign

And now, for some extreme metal hailing from the Middle East, we’ve got Israeli thrash metal outfit Sinnery. Hailing from Tel Aviv, the four-piece have a new EP coming out on September 29 titled Below the Summit. To mark the occasion, the band released the EP’s second single and its accompanying music video, “Somber.” Right

Photo: Mark Diehl Philly noise rock/punk crew Rid of Me made a few waves with their debut album, Traveling, in December 2021 and they’re back this winter with Access to the Lonely, their sophomore album. Taking a solid mixture of melodic punk and blown-out noise rock and mixing it with bassist/singer Itarya Rosenberg’s “PJ-Harvey-but-snarling-and-yelling” vocals, Rid of Me have

We have the global pandemic for gifting us yet another brilliant Swedish death metal band. Grand Cadaver is the result of five longtime friends and vets of the extreme metal scene—guitarist Stefan Lagergren (The Grifted/ex-Treblinka/Expulsion), guitarist Alex Stjernfeldt  (Novarupta/Let Them Hang/Child), drummer Daniel Liljekvist (Vordor/Disrupted/ex-Katatonia), vocalist Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity, The Halo Effect), bassist Christian Jansson (Pagandom,

Where they from?France. At long last, NFL season is seeing its way creep back into the picture. Autumn is a magical time for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that we get to watch grown men in tights chase each other for three hours on Sunday and briefly feel like we

Two years after they released their 2021 album Violence Unimagined, the pioneering death metal outfit Cannibal Corpse prepares to unleash their sixteenth studio album, Chaos Horrific on September 22. And with a slate of new tracks that will leave you feeling like the victim of the worst acts of psychopathy, Cannibal Corpse proves that they

In yet another instance of metal artists falling down far right conspiracy rabbit holes and disappointing everyone in the process, Thy Art Is Murder frontman CJ McMahon deleted his Instagram account after receiving backlash for sharing anti-trans content and openly wishing death on someone. According to third-party accounts (since his initial post was reported and

Photo: Katt Wilkins Philly sludge purveyors Caged will release their monstrous debut album, From Roving About the Earth, on September 29 via Translation Loss. Though sludge is the core of what Caged do, From Roving About the Earth also features notes of death metal, punk, noise and hardcore, all of which you can hear featured prominently on new

An enigma and personality as much as he is a black metal musician, Scott “Malefic” Conner of Xasthur, returned this summer with a new record Inevitably Dark. Part reluctant love letter to a genre he can’t seem to escape despite all the baggage that goes with it, and part self-exploration of an inevitably aging metalhead,

In another example of Kid Rock being a fictional character played by a rich white boy named Robert James Ritchie, the Ted Nugent understudy was seen clutching a Bud Light during last night’s Colt Ford show in Nashville. You may recall he followed the right wing herd back in April when they all got mad

George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher just donated a bunch of stuffed animals to a Johns Hopkins All Children’s hospital in Florida. Corpsegrinder probably got the toys from playing claw games, something he is known for doing while on tour with Cannibal Corpse: “Last week @stacy.alourdasfisher @mayflow_r and myself brought 7 bags of plushies to @allchildrens hospital in

Satyricon have announced that they are working on a studio album once again. Theis will be the band’s first studio album since Deep Calleth Upon Deep in 2017. Then last year, they released Satyricon & Munch, an instrumental piece for a Munch Museum exhibit in Norway. Now, they’re going to unveil another black metal album

Fans of the now-defunct (but still epic) SubRosa, get stoked on vocalist Rebecca Vernon’s new project The Keening. The music has some definite similarities to SubRosa, but also a distinctly more folk-influenced feel. Their debut album comes out October 6 via Relapse Records, and last week they dropped the title track, “Little Bird,” with an

Ringworm dropped their new record, Seeing Through Fire, yesterday alongside a video for “House of Flies.” The album is out via Nuclear Blast Records, and the video has a fun, old-school horror feel playing on early fall nostalgia. Vocalist Human Furnace says about the record: “We’re pretty pumped on Seeing Through Fire. It’s a total

This week’s playlist update is a sort of bloated one, where we couldn’t just keep things down to 20 tracks. Rather than deprive you of some of this week’s killer tracks — or eliminate songs that still deserve your attention — we’re boosting the playlist up to 25 songs this week. That means more tunes

Brutal and revolutionary band Brujeria just dropped a new video from their upcoming album, “Bruja Encabronada.” Their forthcoming album, Esto Es Brujeria, is out September 15 via Nuclear Blast Records, and this is the second single to be released from that album. The video contains live footage taken by Roel Verscheure and Emerik Siimessalmi. Watch

Revered co-creator of Metalocalypse Brendon Small admits that Metallica, namely the Some Kind of Monster documentary, majorly inspired the show. The movie, which came out in 2004, shows all the turmoil the band were famously going through right before they recorded St. Anger. Ironically, that controversial album probably caused even more backlash for the band,