Metal

When I was asked to listen to the reissue of Motörhead’s Another Perfect Day for its 40th anniversary (the album was released in May 1983, and the reissue is out tomorrow), my initial response was: why? Most Motörhead album rankings have it at the middle or the bottom of the pile. With the exception of

The “tipos” of Mexi-merican brutal death/grind veterans Rottenness don’t know how to sit still. Infamous for giving the world these charming album covers from back in the day and formerly being powered by the spoils of Latin pop singer Ricky Martin’s labour,  the band continues to fire on all cylinders by adding more activity to

Photo courtesy of Sentient Ruin Abyssal Rift have just unveiled a track from their forthcoming album Exptirpartion Dirge, out December 1 via Sentient Ruin. The debut album from this heavy, dismal, unrelenting Ohio project is gonna be a great way to end the year. Some of the best death metal is experimental but still straightforward, striking

Regulars trained by years of scrutinizing tiny bits of pixels may have noticed something slightly different in today’s post. Oh yes, for all you life-long junkies of button mashing that just cannot get enough of the digital world, your ultra-nerd frenemies at Kill Screen are happy to introduce Side Quest, occasional editorial DLC that will

photo by Ellie Alonzo It’s often been said that tough times inspire great music, especially great protest music, and Yatsu are a great example to help corroborate this. The world is on fire, and these guys don’t mince any words when talking about it. Or rather, furiously screaming about it on their explosive new album

Back in 2019, a shadowy figure named Våndarr released a self-titled three-track demo under the project name Cirkeln. After that demo, Cirkeln released an EP and two full-length records nodding to Bathory’s genre-spawning influences. In barely four years since, Våndarr has slashed his mark on the crowded battlefield of solo black metal. Like an arcane

When discussing game-changing late-’00s grindcore platters, conversation usually gets a bit awkward, people quickly trying to piece together Pig Destroyer’s discography in their head, wondering what year that band’s thrash started being more noteworthy than their grind. Sure, on a smaller, regional scale, bands were still blasting with as much passion as ever, but the

Blind Guardian’s journey to their fifth album, Imaginations From the Other Side, wasn’t all that different from most bands of their era. Formed as Lucifer’s Heritage in 1984, the quartet—featuring bassist/vocalist Hansi Kürsch, guitarists André Olbrich and Marcus Siepen, and drummer Thomen Stauch—bent the tenets of speed metal to their Teutonic will on two demos,

Photo by Elena Solotroff We’re gonna go ahead and ease you into the Halloween insanity (fireworks are part of the celebrations up here in Canada) with some dark ambient noise courtesy of Bloodyminded/Anatomy Of Habit founder Mark Solotroff. Solotroff is also the founder/owner of the BloodLust! label, purveyors of industrial electronic noise since 1995, and today

You might have gotten the impression that we like the work of one Tom G. Warrior at Decibel Magazine and you would be absolutely correct. From his pioneering work in Celtic Frost to genre-boundary obliteration in Triptykon to his early days with Hellhammer, Warrior’s music has been featured frequently on the site, which is why we’re stoked

Lace up those white high-tops and battle vests: it’s time for some old-school style thrash courtesy of Midwest wrecking crew Degrave in the form of their new album, Volume. Their third album since debut Full Tilt in 2017, Volume rips like it was performed by a well-oiled machine who knows exactly what they like: Slayer, D.R.I. and Megadeth with a dash of

Tom Gabriel Fischer helped build the foundations of extreme metal in the early ’80s and has never stopped creating or innovating. Fischer’s canonical metal works are well-known: the Hall of Fame-certified Celtic Frost masterpieces Morbid Tales and To Mega Therion and Hellhammer’s Apocalyptic Raids (Frost’s Into the Pandemonium would also be there were it not

You got five minutes? What about four and a half? That’s all you need to enjoy Bleach Everything‘s All Alone in Dirt, the new EP from Richmond, Virginia’s favored sludgy hardcore punk(-ish) band. Like we said, the EP is four-and-half minutes long and contains four songs; within those limitations, Bleach Everything manage to cover a pretty damn

Metal fans have used many superlatives to praise Mercyful Fate’s Hall of Fame-certified debut, Melissa. Still, few have discussed how different the album was from everything else at the time. In the early ’80s, shorter, faster, and louder was the rule. Venom’s Welcome To Hell was a caustic punk album about Satan. Hellhammer embraced barbaric

This past week saw some crazy news and killer new releases hit the intertubes. From Dream Theater regaining a founding member to The Obsessed dropping a cool new single, a buncha shit went down. As such, we’re taking the time this week to update our Top Tracks of the Week playlist with some of the

Your weekend just got brutal. Death metal masterminds Maul just shared a new song, “The Sacred And The Profane,” which you can stream below. The track is from the band’s 20 Buck Spin debut EP, Desecration And Enchantment, out November 17. This is their debut single from the release, and it is skin-peelingly heavy. If

Tool have been hinting at new music lately, but don’t ask Maynard James Keenan about it. He’s not in the mood to talk. The band haven’t put out music since Fear Inoculum in 2019, so folks have been asking what’s next. In a recent interview with Loudwire, Keenan was asked about the rumors that they would

None of us should be any stranger to how aggressive things can get at a hardcore show. But what happens when security gets too aggressive back? Apparently that very issue happened at a We Came As Romans show during Bodysnatcher‘s set. The show took place on October 22 at Fête Music Hall in Providence, RI.

While they likely haven’t played a show on the floor with no stage show and pit crew in quite some time, Blink-182 attempted to have an ironic, down to earth connection with fans at a Denny’s in Long Beach. The show happened on October 26. Of course, it was undisclosed, but it was very vaguely

Though Hollywood’s done its best to make it seem like the “Wild West” was all gold prospectors and bandits, cowboys and Injuns, and the rolling plains, the spirit of the American frontier was darker and deeper than that. It’s the lives men lost laying the very tracks that connected the coasts. It’s the indigenous people