OK, ICS Vortex had a cameo on "My Domain". He’s now returned as a full-time co-vocalist. What’s the story there? I gather a lot of old-time Borknagar fans now feel it’s time for Garm to step back into the fold. Universes colliding and all that. Øystein Brun: Well, wish I could reveal an enigmatic story here, but everything evolved in a really mundane manner to be quite frank. Since the ...

Sure, other "music-related" sites bring you premieres of new tracks every other day. Even NPR has been known to throw a metal album on the interweb for your consumption. But you know where to go for the really good shit, right? That's right, some to the killingest, trooest labels in all of metaldom entrust us to tantalize the metal world with these pre-release sneak peeks, so when their album ...

Back at the tail end of May, we gave you an exclusive stream of the Municipal Waste/Toxic Holocaust split, Toxic Waste. Now the wonderful degenerates at Tankcrimes are going one step further and giving away downloads of this bad boy for FREE. Here's where you score. If digital isn't your thing, the second pressing is also available in three new crazy color options (200 striped, 350 "Toxic ...

Courtesy Arte Live Web, here is some awesome pro-shot footage of the entire recent Napalm Death set at Hellfest: The boys still got it! Also check out sets by Sacred Reich, Nasum, Sodom, Orphaned Land, and...Sebastian Bach amongst many others. ...

Black metal fans have never been slow in exhibiting extreme behaviors to broadcast their devotion to the genre’s unholy cause. Usually this is restricted to the safety of Internet elitism and misadventures with corpsepaint for weaponized cosplay. We’ve all seen photographic evidence of the latter and been subjected to the former. But at Ptahil’s hometown show in Fort Wayne, Indiana some ...

"'Indulgence of Abhorrent Prophecies' is the lead-off track of the album, and we are extremely proud of it and the album as a whole. We feel it is much stronger musically than its predecessor, which itself was a step into a more mature era of the band. We took everything we did on Morbid Destitution of Covenant and made it darker and heavier. We delved deeper into the suffocating atmosphere we ...

Not much to be said here, so let's just get into it, shall we? Relapse come at us with MANTAS Death by Metal, the demo from the pre-Death band. If you’re looking for good sound quality, look elsewhere, but this thing is pretty beaking cool. You can hear every instrument clearly and it is pretty mean-sounding. Basically, there are six songs packaged through the two demos and a rehearsal tape. ...

It's a bit unnerving how many descriptions can refer equally to dB-approved beer and music without requiring any rephrasing at all.  Local heroes excite us by infusing familiar styles with their own astonishing personalities.  Indie labels tend to raise the product's allure.  Unearthed demo versions from the early nineties are always welcome. Mr. Adem Tepedelen, aside from hoarding the e's ...

A couple weeks ago, I was sweating it out in Texas; in Austin, to be exact, at the Chaos in Tejas Fest. Late on Sunday afternoon, when most people were winding down their weekends and preparing for the sobering bitch-slap of reality that is Monday morning, myself and a few other hearty souls were taking in Chaos' last day and getting our faces ripped off and shoved into our urethra's by Baton ...

To celebrate this week's release of the 19th Rush album, we asked a host of musicians to help us build a "best of" playlist that spans the Canadian trio's storied career. Last week's entries took us from 1976's double live album All The World's A Stage to 1980's Permanent Waves. Now, we present the second half of their selections, which run from 1981's Moving Pictures (obviously) to 1991's Roll ...