Adem Tepedelen
Video Premiere: Sarin – “When You Melt” (live)
January 25, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Watch the sunshine-soaked new live video from Toronto post-metal punishers Sarin.
Track Premiere: Sataray – “Hexennacht”
January 20, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Hear ambient dark wave solo artist Sataray’s ritualistic soundscape celebrating “witches night.”
Track Premiere: Kontusion – “Rotting With Sickness”
January 18, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Hear new death metal duo, Kontusion, get primitive, ugly and violent on their raw new self-released EP.
Track Premiere: Preamp Disaster – “Above the Bloodline”
January 13, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the hypnotic power of Swiss post-metal quartet Preamp Disaster‘s psychedelic doom on “Above the Bloodline.”
Video Premiere: Atom Driver – “I’ve Become a Monster”
January 11, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Hear NJ noiseniks Atom Driver, featuring Deadguy’s Crispy Corvino, channel their late-’90s post-hardcore rage into a paean to bad behavior.
Full EP Premiere: Apes – “Lullabies For Eternal Sleep”
January 6, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Quebec sextet, Apes, offer up nightmare-inducing, black metal-flecked grindcore lullabies on their new four-song EP.
Track Premiere: Sundown – “Not My Jam”
January 4, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Indianapolis post-hardcore quartet Sundown tear through a sludgy, jittery anthem from their upcoming Wise Blood debut.
Video Premiere: Dark Meditation – “Haunt of Fear”
December 21, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Seattle’s Dark Meditation invoke the spirits of black metal’s past with their gothic trad metal.
Track Premiere: Bye Bye Tsunami – “Holdin’ Banana Spiders Through The Folds Of Time/Space”
December 16, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Copenhagen-based experi-metal/post-mental trio Bye Bye Tsunami squall their way through a noisy, banana-triggered psychotic episode.
Video Premiere: Beyond the Styx – “Overload”
December 14, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
Feel the frustration and anger in Beyond the Styx‘s hardcore ode to lockdown rage.
Full Album Stream: Mordom – ‘Cry Of The Dying World’
December 9, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
No sun shines on San Diego death/doom duo Mordom on their latest indictment of global corruption.
Full Album Stream: Satanico Pandemonium – “Espectrofilia”
December 7, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
Mexico City marijuaneros Satanico Pandemonium take us on a dark trip into the spirit world on their latest release.
Full Album Stream: Nekromant – “Temple of Haal”
December 2, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
Swedish power trio Nekromant unveil a rambunctious third album with nods to the trad metal greats—from Thin Lizzy to Maiden to Priest.
Track Premiere: Anatomy of Habit – “Your Pure Breath”
November 30, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
Bang a gong, get it on with an epic track from Chicago’s doomy, atmospheric post-punk collective, Anatomy of Habit.
Track Premiere: Rebreather – “It Comes in Threes”
November 23, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
Inhale the post metal sludge of Youngstown, Ohio trio Rebreather‘s new track, “It Comes in Threes.”
Interview: Sodom’s Tom Angelripper on the “M-16” 20-Year Anniversary Box Set
November 18, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
We shoot some questions at Tom Angelripper about Sodom‘s 20-year anniversary box set of the their Vietnam War-themed album, M-16.
Track Premiere: Jack Endino – “Shadow World”
November 16, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
The Godfather of Grunge, Jack Endino, offers up a new track from his Seattle-centric solo album.
Full EP Premiere: Takafumi Matsubara – “Poison”
November 11, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
Listen to ex-Gridlink destroyer Takafumi Matsubara‘s new EP of unreleased Mortalized tracks featuring grindcore allies from around the globe.
Track Premiere: BLK OPS – “Host”
November 9, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
Feast upon the new track, “Host,” from Texas noise grinders BLK OPS.
Interview: Blaine Cook (The Accüsed AD/Toe Tag) Serves Up a New Cocktail Book
November 4, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
We’re drinkin’ and thrashin’ with Accüsed AD vocalist Blaine Cook, who’s put together a new book, Cocktails and Mixed Drinks From the Wicker Bar.
Interview: Rob Halford Discusses the New Judas Priest 50th Anniversary Box Set
November 2, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
The Metal God, Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford, talks about putting together the band’s exhaustive new box set and what it means to be making metal for 50 years.
Video Premiere: Cave Bastard – “Anti-Vaxxtermination”
October 28, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
San Diego’s progressive extreme metal destroyers, Cave Bastard, take a club to vaccine skeptics in their new “Anti-Vaxxtermination” video.
Track Premiere: Genocide Pact – “Purged Flesh”
October 26, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
D.C. death dealers, Genocide Pact, churn out hateful psychedelia-infused sludge in “Purged Flesh” from their upcoming self-titled release.
Single Premiere: Unto Others – “I Believe In Halloween”
October 21, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
Portland goth metal quartet Unto Others set the Halloween mood with a surprise new single.
Album Premiere: Worm – “Foreverglade”
October 19, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
Doomed death dealers Worm emerge from Florida mire with rot-infested third album, Foreverglade, on 20 Buck Spin.
Track Premiere: Domkraft – “Night Prowler”
October 14, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
Sweden’s Domkraft don’t beat around the bush with their slow-grinding version of AC/DC’s “Night Prowler.”
Warlock – Triumph and Agony
August 25, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
Warlock‘s 1987 session-musician rich swan song gets its Hall of Fame induction
Black Sabbath – Mob Rules
March 30, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
We bend (but don’t break) our Hall of Fame rules to induct the landmark Mob Rules LP from the Dio-fronted Black Sabbath.
Judas Priest – Painkiller
December 2, 2020 Adem Tepedelen
We celebrate the 30th anniversary of Judas Priest‘s Painkiller with the legendary Brits’ second Hall of Fame induction.
Book Review: ‘Rusted Metal: A Guide To Heavy Metal and Hard Rock Music In the Pacific Northwest (1970 – 1995)’
November 19, 2020 Adem Tepedelen
Everything you need to know about the history of Pacific Northwest Metal in one tidy 900-page book.