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Photo Courtesy of Torn The Fuck Apart Today we have a new track to shred your faces, “A Statement of Malicious Intent” from Torn the Fuck Apart’s forthcoming album, Kill.Bury.Repeat. out October 6 via Gore House Productions. The Kansas City-based band are known for a full-on, brutal approach, and  this new track is no exception.

It’s time to pillage the day with Swedish melodeath merauders Raven Banner. Emerging from plumes of battlefield smoke, this trio strikes with an exceptional Viking-themed melodic death metal record. Today we share their debut record Rise Up Clan a couple days before the album takes flight like Odin’s raven on September 1st. The album was

We all grow attached to the music we loved growing up, but there’s always a time in music when a particular genre really pops off. Some examples include the explosion of thrash in the early to mid 80s and nu metal having its thing in the 90s/early 2000s, but what about death metal? Sure it’s

Ever since June when they dropped “Dreams Always Die With The Sun,” supergroup Eye Am has been one of the more highly anticipated acts on my radar — and frankly they should be on yours too. Featuring Type O Negative guitarist Kenny Hickey and drummer Johnny Kelly, along with Crowbar’s frontman Kirk Windstein and ex-Crowbar

We’re reaching across the globe for this track premiere from avant-garde speed/black metal outfit Solipnosis. Solipnosis is a one-man project from Chile manned by El Centauro, and his new EP, Silent Synthesis, is being released by Sri Lankan extreme metal label විරෑපී (Virupi Records). The track we’re trotting out, “Separación del Qué y el Quién”

Where they from? Florida, USA. We have officially under two weeks until NFL kickoff but fall is already in the air as I just procured my first pumpkin spice flavored cup of coffee from the 7-11 down the street because deep down I am just a basic white woman. I know this is true because

Last night in London, the largest wrestling event ever took place in London at Wembley Stadium, as scrappy upstart turned massive promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) hosted their ‘All In’ pay-per-view. As is wont to happen during this kind of thing, some wrestlers get special entrances that more align with their personal interests or that

This year has seen a lot of releases that push the boundaries of hardcore forward (Zulu) or celebrate the elements that make the genre rule (Buggin) but it’s lacked a standout, straight-up metallic hardcore release. Enter Witness Chamber, a quartet hailing from Boise, Idaho. Starting off in 2021 with an EP called Paradise Awaits, they recently followed

In an interview with PopMatters published a few days before Sunbather’s release, vocalist George Clarke remarked, “I think it’s all-encompassing; it’s both our darkest and our lightest work.” Subsequent Deafheaven albums have pushed into even further extremes of gloominess and ebullience, but Sunbather is where the band’s vision for tension and release truly began to

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Erech Leleth’s universe is vast. From projects like Ancient Mastery’s power metal-inflected black metal resistance songs to Summer Haze ’99’s shoegazing blast and Carathis’ guitar heroism, this Austrian musician’s vision encompasses all his projects to tell the story of a fantasy world. In Bergfried Erech Leleth, here known as Erech III. von

Days after saying he was going to quit social media after people called him out over some gross anti-trans comments he posted online, Thy Art Is Murder vocalist CJ McMahon returned to make a weak-ass attempt at an apology. The move comes roughly two days after his bandmates offered an equally milquetoast statement in a

Royal Thunder will be joining Alice in Chains on their West Coast tour this late September and October. “We are beyond stoked to announce that we’ll be joining the legendary Alice In Chains on their headlining shows next month on the west coast!” writes Royal Thunder of their coming tour dates. “All dates listed below and ticket links in

Nü-core band Tallah are not longer collaborating with turntabalist, sampler, and keyboardist Alizé “Mewzen” Rodriguez due to grooming allegations. These claims, which were initially reported by New Fury Media, reveal that Mewzen, who joined the band in 2020, will now no longer be involved with the project. The band’s statement says: “We have just been

CJ McCreery, formerly of Lorna Shore and Signs Of The Swarm, has released new music with his band Immortal Disfigurement. You can watch the video for “King” below. The band is also made up of Josh Freeman from A Wake In Providence, Leo McClain on drums, and bassist Shane Slade from Winds of Plague. The

Even if you’re living under a rock, you’re surely familiar with the current debate about AI and how it will impact art and life. Recently, Alex Skolnick of Testament chimed in with his two cents on the matter. In an interview with Ultimate Guitar, he claims that AI is a danger to pop music, a genre

We’re keeping the bloated playlist alive this week, so you’ve still got an additional five songs to play with for another seven days. To make use of that extra playlist space, we crammed the shit out of it with new songs from Knife, The Word Alive, and The Devil Wears Prada. All good stuff that’s

Bernie Marsden, the original guitarist of Whitesnake, has died at the age of 72 and will be missed. This was confirmed via social media posts at the end of last week. “On behalf of his family, it is with deep sadness we announce the death of Bernie Marsden,” reads the statement. “Bernie died peacefully on Thursday evening

In Flames have a new bassist, Liam Wilson, formerly of The Dillinger Escape Plan. In a recent interview, vocalist Anders Fridén joked that they found him on Tinder after former bassist Bryce Paul left the band. Fridén tells EMP, “[Bryce] wanted to focus on family. And we’re still good friends, so there’s no bad blood

Attention all those St. Anger fans that have been in hiding since 2003 — now is your time in the sun. Slipknot vocalist and heavy metal arbiter of everything Corey Taylor has deigned it reasonable to at least accept the album for what it is, if not enjoy it wholesale. Or something like that. The

Though today’s thrash metal scene is full of killer bands and absolute bangers being produced on the regular, for many people the peak moment of the genre came in the early 80s. For German thrash stalwarts Sodom, who’ve been around since the early days, they’re looking to take it back with a new EP aptly