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Celebrating their 20th year of unholy existence, Finnish black metal institution Horna continues to startle in terms of quantity and quality.

You haven’t heard from Cali’s preeminent psychedelic riff maestros Saviours in a while — four years to be exact.

Where do old mathematicians go when they die? Fucked if I know, but according to brand spanking new British band, InTechnicolour, dudes who once (and in some cases, still do) ply their wares as part of that nation’s math/tech metal scene, will at some point find themselves taking a complete 180 degree creative turn when the fancy strikes.

Crushing New Orleans-by-way-of-Montgomery death metal crew means business.

The veteran melodeath quintet are ready to unleash their first album in nearly 12 years.

A battle for the ages. Who ya got?

Third album, 30 musicians. That’s baller.

Hit the noise-rock trough for some delicious distorted groove.

Denver death metal newbies Bloodstrike are set to drop their debut full-length, In Death We Rot on Redefining Darkness on September 25, and they’re coming out of the gate hard with the “Abomination” video.

The Wisconsin death metallers make their Flexi Series debut with “Speed Freak,” a cover of the 1988 Hallows Eve classic. 

We still have eyes for German death metal mainstays Dew-Scented, and they have I’s for us. And new videos. And new split EPs.

Hard luck Bay Area tech-thrash veterans Insanity are finally back with their first full-length since 1994’s Death After Death. 

True Norwegian Black Metal. Nuff said.

Trafficking in crust-grind and hammering metallic hardcore, once Denver’s Of Feather and Bone are through with you, all that’s left is the carrion implied in their moniker.

Take a walk through nature with Earthless offshoot Golden Void.

Belgian death metal crew remain insane about crushing brains.

Symphonic metal veterans Stratovarius are celebrating their 30th anniversary by dropping new full-length Eternal on earMUSIC.

NWOBHM heroes Satan deliver you some evil.

A ripping new video from the Tampa death metal quintet.

Finnish funeral doom outfit Tyranny haven’t issued a full-length in a decade, but that’s going to change with Aeons in Tectonic Interment.

Wyndorf mother mother.

Longtime staffer Nick Green dubbed 8-Way Santa “the White Album of grunge … easily the most underrated record Sub Pop ever put out.” 

Black Yoga is “vinyasa-style yoga set to drone, noise, stoner metal, ambient, industrial, space doom, and other traditional meditation music.”  Here’s some news on the forthcoming CD/DVD.

Dallas-based seven-piece (!) Dead to a Dying World sure do put their money where their mouths are when it comes to their despondent moniker.

Staying true to this breakneck creative pace, Austin Lunn is mere weeks away from dropping Panopticon’s sixth LP, the enthralling and resonant Autumn Eternal. The album is a thematic companion to his two previous LPs, but musically, it eschews the “blackened bluegrass” approach in favor of emotionally charged, mournfully melodic black metal (think Winterfylleth meets early Katatonia). We talked to Lunn about creating Autumn Eternal, taking inspiration from nature and being a musician in the often-disheartening environment of the digital age.

We like to think you guys just innately understand all the insane sub-subgenres we throw at the wall, but “powerviolent prog ‘n’ roll”  may require actually pressing play.

 Chris Jericho is one of the most decorated professional wrestlers ever: a six-time world champion and the first-ever undisputed WWE champion. He is also one of the most vocal celebrity metal fans on the planet as well as a metal musician who has toured the world repeatedly with his band Fozzy. Jericho’s latest project, however, might be the only one that could earn the extreme moniker.

Ambassador Gun’s third full-length Tomb of Broken Sleep dropped earlier this summer, and here’s the video for “Once Upon the Sauce/Tomb of Broken Sleep.”

Something special is brewing with this Dutch black metal supergroup.

German funeral doom-bringers Ahab are releasing their much-anticipated fourth opus, The Boats of the Glen Carrig, today.