Metal

Cancer has once again reared its ugly head in the metal world, as legendary black metal drummer Anthony “Abaddon” Bray announced earlier this week that he’s been diagnosed with lymphoma and that its spread to other parts of his body. In a recent Facebook post, Bray — who first made his mark behind the skins

A couple weeks ago, legendary thrash band Anthrax announced that they were forced to cancel their upcoming European tour because of high travel costs and logistical issues that the band says were completely out of their control. During a recent interview with Blabbermouth, Anthrax bassist Frank Bello went into further detail as to why their

Are you feeling lost in a sea of death metal that feels like “life metal”?! Leave it to the subgenre’s pioneers to reorient you. Autopsy‘s Morbidity Triumphant will take you on a sick journey filled with guts galore, old-school brutality, and maggots! This kickass album not only delivers everything nasty that could possibly be on your wish

The second single from the upcoming Stormruler album, Sacred Rites & Black Magick, has finally made the light of day with the release of a lyric video for the album opener “Internal Fulmination Of The Grand Deceivers.” After listening to the song, if you like epic black metal tales of victory and war, you’re going

Things have been pretty hard for touring bands lately, with everything from rising tour bus costs to other logistical nightmares putting the kibosh on entire weeks of shows. Yet for German electronicore Electric Callboy, the decision to announce the postponement of its upcoming dates in the U.K. and Europe came just one day before they

It’s been a minute since Queens of the Stone Age have been in the spotlight. Their 2017 album Villains was well received and they’ve honestly been riding a wave of success since their 2013 release …Like Clockwork. So it only makes sense that when they’d announced plans earlier today to reissue three classic QOTSA albums,

We’re just past the middle part of the work week, so why not propel yourself closer to the weekend by absolutely fucking up your good mood with Autopsy‘s new music video, “Knife Slice Axe Chop.” Featured on their upcoming record Morbidity Triumphant, the video for “Knife Slice Axe Chop” is a gruesome romp full of

Two years after they broke online attendance records with their concert film Existential Reckoning: Live at Arcosanti, Puscifer are returning to the vast network of interconnecting tubes we call the internet for a special Halloween weekend event featuring two separate at-home concert experiences. The first concert flick, titled V is for Versatile: A Puscifer Concert

For 36 years, Queens, New York hardcore punk band Sick of It All have been an important stable in their scene, having created 12 studio albums and countless days on the road. On September 13, the band of lifers played at Dante’s in Portland, Oregon, along with Agnostic Front as the tour’s co-headliners. Having two

When it comes to marijuana consumption and heavy metal fandom, the Venn diagram between the two groups has a pretty big overlap. I mean, we’ve got an entire subsection of our genre dedicated to cannabis’ sweet leaf and our enjoyment of that sticky icky. But thanks to that combination, metalheads have unfairly had to endure

It hasn’t been all that long since instrumental metal beasts Russian Circles released Gnosis, their first album in three years. And while everyone who’s spent time listening to that record agrees that’s an absolute killer, that doesn’t mean the Chicago-based band are anywhere near resting on their laurels. While speaking with New Noise Magazine, guitarist

Hopefully you guys would remember something as kick ass as this, but last week saw Behemoth‘s livestream event of songs from their latest album Opvs Contra Natvram that was shot on top of Warsaw’s Palace Of Culture And Science. It was a killer performance and “a middle finger to those pigs,” according to Adam “Nergal”

If you aren’t already familiar with The Holy Ghost Tabernacle Choir, it’s time to get familiar. This Savannah, Georgia band are dropping their debut full-length, Slow Murder, October 14 via Graveface Records. Their sound is as weird and unclassifiable as they city they live in. In even cooler news, they’ve also teamed up with Soul

Whenever we post a story about Ghost or Tobias Forge, you can almost bet your house on the idea that some try hard metal elitists will snobbishly exclaim how the band actually isn’t metal. Or they’ll talk about how bad they think they are, even though they’re wrong. Without fail, I bet someone will do

Just in time for black metal season, when the air gets colder and the days get shorter, Morbikon are a black metal supergroup that sounds more like a fantasy football lineup of extreme metal talent than an actual band. Featuring guitarist and bassist Phil “Land Phil” Hall of Municipal Waste, Cannabis Corpse, and Iron Reagan

There’s a somewhat magical allure of getting to see one of the greatest and most iconic heavy metal bands live that you can’t get from most of today’s acts. Sure, metal these days moves so fast that there’s always some new act from around the globe vying for your attention, but there’s a special sort

Things have been looking up for The Callous Daoboys following the release of their sophomore studio album Celebrity Therapist, which dropped on September 2. They’ve become critical darlings, just finished a killer tour with MNRK Heavy labelmates Rolo Tomassi, and just recently learned they’re ravaging the Billboard charts. So in an effort to ride that

Ever since the genre’s inception, heavy metal and mainstream recognition have gone together like oil and water. The gatekeepers that handle most of the music industry’s accolades regularly shun some of our biggest heroes in favor of propping up acts like fuckin’ Imagine Dragons and U2. Well, that lack of respect has finally gotten to

It’s not very often that an artist or band gets to take a second stab at a project, but that’s exactly what New York psychedelic fuzz rock duo White Hills got to do with their upcoming release The Revenge of Heads on Fire. Set to release tomorrow through their newly launched record label Heads on

There’s really cool vinyl releases with all different kinds of color variants and even cannabis leaves pressed into it, but one band is taking things to the extreme by offering a set of extra thicky bois that you can use as a guitar pedal. Indianapolis-based rock band Brother O Brother may have just released their