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Video Premiere: Get the Shot – ‘Hellbringer’

July 6, 2017

Check out the new lyric video from metallic hardcore outfit Get the Shot.

Video Premiere: Venom Prison – ‘Perpetrator Emasculation’

July 6, 2017

Stream the video for “Perpetrator Emasculation” from ferocious death metal machine Venom Prison.

Join Incantation in the “Rites of the Locust”

June 23, 2017

Spin into the whispering darkness with a new track from the masters of death-doom brutality.

Exhumed’s Matt Harvey talks new trad metal project Pounder

June 22, 2017

We caught up with Pounder’s Matt Harvey to talk about how his new trad metal project is really more similar to his extreme metal bands than you might think.

Reach the Mortal Horizon With Desecrecy

June 9, 2017

Delve into a cavernous atmosphere of riffs and growls on the latest installment of Desecresy’s forward-looking approach to death metal.

CONTEST: Ibanez Guitars is Giving Away a Pair of Tix to Each Night of the Megadeth/Meshuggah Tour!

June 5, 2017

Extremely extreme contest alert: Win tickets to see Megadeth and Meshuggah this June and July.

VIDEO PREMIERE: Khaos-Dei “Sous La Bannière Noire”

June 5, 2017

“I do not know if we can talk about concept because it really reflects our life concretely,” says Khaos-Dei vocalist Nacht. “Catechism is the natural evolution of our first album.

Watch: Municipal Waste At Decibel Metal And Beer Fest

June 2, 2017

Watch Municipal Waste perform “Slime and Punishment” live at Decibel Metal and Beer Fest.

The Ecstatic Joy of “Metal Without Context”

June 2, 2017

Your new favorite, and totally absurd, Twitter feed about metal!

Journalist Martin Popoff talks new Rush, Motörhead, thrash metal books

June 1, 2017

Journalist Martin Popoff just released a trio of new metal books, and we picked his brain about them.

VBERKVLT Instagram challenge wants metalheads to post their vinyl for prizes

June 1, 2017

VBERKVLT have a new Instagram contest happening that involves metal, vinyl, you, and prizes. We caught up with the man behind it all to find out the details.

STREAMING: Kafirun “Lord of Blessed Murder”

June 1, 2017

Look up the word ‘kafirun’. In Arabic, it translates to ‘unbeliever’ or ‘atheist’, but Canada’s most violent black metallers Kafirun aren’t addressing Islam or its treatment of Al-Kafirun on debut album, Eschaton.

Eyehategod’s Mike Williams on liver transplant, recovery, and addiction: “I will never regret anything”

May 26, 2017

The Eyehategod frontman opens up about post-liver-transplant life, getting sober, and more in this new interview.

Phobia talk reunited lineup and how politics influenced Lifeless God

May 25, 2017

California grind lifers Phobia are back with a new album, and we caught up with them to talk shop.

Watch: Immolation Perform At Decibel Metal & Beer Fest 2017

May 24, 2017

Watch Immolation‘s entire set from Decibel Metal & Beer Fest, plus an introduction from Dave Mustaine.

STREAMING: Acherontas “Amarta (Formulas of Reptilian Unification Part II)”

May 22, 2017

For Greece-based Acherontas, it would seem as if black metal, as a genre, is secondary to the devotional aspects of what drives, inspires, and fulfills their physical and incorporeal beings.

Album premiere: Norse’s “The Divine Light of a New Sun”

May 18, 2017

Australia’s Norse are dropping their next batch of mind-bending black metal songs next week; we’re giving you an exclusive stream of the whole album today.

Progressive Metal Outfit Fortis Amor Release Self-Titled Album Teaser

May 18, 2017

One-man progressive metal force Fortis Amor tease their new, self-titled record ahead of its release on May 19. 

STREAMING: Highland “Loyal to the Nightsky”

May 15, 2017

The 1990s have come and gone. The greatness of Immortal, Emperor, Dissection, Unanimated, and others is now history. The cruel sands of time are slowly ebbing away at the monuments erected by the gods of old. But as it was so it will be. California’s Highland, formed by three Armenian-Americans, are standing for the ways of the past by thrusting it, via scorching melodic black metal, into the present.