Metal

Slayer is so monolithic in the heavy metal world that it’s nearly impossible for contemporary audiences to imagine them in their infancy, as a bunch of guys learning to play music and deciding who they want to be. In the 40 years since their debut, Show No Mercy (released on December 3, 1983), they became
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Huge news for the metal world: Power Trip just reunited on stage for the first time since the death of their vocalist, Riley Gale, on August 24, 2020. The reunion came about at a show that Fugitive, the band featuring Power Trip guitarist Blake Ibanez, was headlining at the Mohawk in Austin, TX alongside Dresscode
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Spite, Bodynatcher, Boundaries, and Mouth For War have announced their Dedication to Flesh tour, which will absolutely decimate the U.K./EU area. Some crowdkilling will definitely ensue. Hailing from Southern California, Spite are eager to pedal their modern, abrasive brand of deathcore with other modern-day deathcore heroes in tow. In September, “Spite” dropped a new song,
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Within Destruction surprised the internet last week with a new EP, Rebirth. The record features six songs, and the deathcore band got some guest spots, including David Simonich of Signs Of The Swarm and Alan Grjnja of Distant. Drummer Luka Vezzosi says about the EP: “We had free time to do sort of a pet
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Doom dealers Conan are no longer to be joined by their former bassist, Chris Fielding. But it doesn’t seem there are any hard feelings—Fielding is leaving to focus more on other areas of his life, and will still be the band’s producer. The English band haven’t announced a new bassist yet, but claim they will
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Polaris just announced an EU/UK run that will spread their gospel across the region alongside Silent Planet, Thornhill, and Paledusk. The tour will be peak metalcore goodness, and will be in support of Polaris’ Fatalism release, which dropped last September. The tour is in support of the band’s latest record, Fatalism, released last September.  The
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Germany’s Praise the Plague plays an entrancing blend of doom metal and black metal. This allows them to cover a lot of territory — from the haunted and desolate shores of doom, to the raging torrents and blazing fires of black metal. And this sprawling sonic heritage is all well-represented on the band’s latest video
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A couple months after the release of their latest album A Sign Of Things To Come, Sylosis released a new live video featuring their performance of “Pariahs.” Filmed during their most recent show in London on the ‘Malicious Intent Tour’ with Malevolence, the video highlights all of the intensity behind the band’s live show. Speaking
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Though Dødheimsgard dazzled many with Black Medium Current, so much so that it made its way onto our critical Top 40 of 2023, it’s important to look to their contemporaries for further forays into the strange and bewildering in black metal. Featuring two former Dødheimsgard guitarists among their ranks, Void shows two students of Vicotnik’s
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