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To celebrate the upcoming release of Testament‘s eleventh studio album, we look back on their first ten and rank them from least-amazing to most-amazing.

Napalm Death frontman Barney Greenway talks about his hopes for peace and dignity in the world in  FreqsTV’s latest episode of Anchors to Asphalt.

Thinking-man alt-metal tarnished by a horrid band name: Mind Funk’s 1991 debut is way better than any of us want to admit.

Every so often, we take a little time on Mondays to pay tribute to the Muthas! That is, reprinting the adorable metal/maternal Q&As that run in the magazine. Today, enjoy Justin Norton’s chat with Wendy Phillips, mutha of Sebastian and Harley Phillips of Noisem.

No matter how good or bad your traditional metal video may have been, one thing it never needed to depend on for success was the lyrics. But then everything changed with the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea of lyric videos.

Our picks for this issue pull from a variety of styles and include the old, the new, the reformed, and the reinvigorated. 

The Slithering Bog is a suffocating death/doom album that will trip you out as it crushes you.

Autopsy madman Chris Reifert’s Violation Wound project has our vote. 

It’s time to get that neighbour with the yappy dog to move, finally. Our friends at f.y.e. are offering (on their site and in stores) the latest albums you need for that last big push to get the Smiths to move to the next county over. And never consider move back to your neighbourhood. 

Derkéta‘s Metal Mary has all the tips and tricks necessary to keep your vehicle running all the way through festival season in this edition of Space Truckin’.

Remember in 1998 when Entombed went noise rock? About that…

Metal videos are not known for their innovation. So when a band does try to do something new and different, they should almost always be congratulated for it. Megadeth‘s latest is an exception. 

Check out a song stream from Oakland garage punkers Musk. 

This full-EP premiere involves an immortal man of legend, a mask used to channel him, a laundry list of musical styles, and a debut that will introduce some refreshing (and quality) variety into today’s listening. 

We inducted Converge‘s massive You Fail Me into our Hall of Fame a while back; it’s time to dig deep into the album and rank the songs from least-mind-melting to most-mind-melting.

If we could all stop worrying about World Downfall for a goddamn minute, we’d realize Terrorizer‘s output after it was really pretty awesome.

On July 15 New York City band Psalm Zero will release their second full-length Stranger to Violence on Profound Lore Records. If you’re not familiar already, we’re great admirers of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Charlie Looker’s project, which beautifully blends the martial, industrial tones of Godflesh, the post-punk melancholy of Depeche Mode, and the rainy-day doom ‘n’ gloom of Katatonia.

Dark Descent Records is one of the best underground metal labels of 2016. But who is the man behind the label?

Metal is often a much too serious affair. Just because you’re in front of a camera doesn’t mean you need to be scowling and carving pentagrams into the nearest virgin. But there’s a fine line between being lighthearted and being downright fucking goofy…

Promoter M A Spiro is looking to offer a better festival experience for the discerning fan metal with the curated Shadow Woods Metal Fest. She talked to us about what campers can expect. 

The kings of soaring, guitar-driven alt-rock (that doesn’t suck) are about to drop album number three, and we’ve got an exclusive song premiere for you.

Every so often, we take a little time on Mondays to pay tribute to the Muthas! That is, reprinting the adorable metal/maternal Q&As that run in the magazine. Today, enjoy Justin Norton’s chat with Becky Myers, mutha of Sabbath Assembly vocalist Jamie Myers.

Since 1990, Sweden’s Centinex, despite a brief breakup, have ruled underground death metal with an iron fist. With stints on labels like Underground Records, Emanzipation Productions, Repulse Records, Candlelight Records, and now Agonia Records, the merchants of death have kept their profile six feet under while continuing to wave the maggot-infested flag of true death metal.

f.y.e. is happy to assist in your hearing lost, and we’re happy to help. 

Five ideas to make a metal Dad happy this Father’s Day directly from Decibel‘s online store. 

Hatchet unleashed its dark thrash smorgasbord Fear Beyond Lunacy on the day before Halloween last year, but these San Fran shredders aren’t done bringing the scary and fucking with your psyche quite yet as our exclusive premiere below of the band’s disquieting video for “Tearing Into Hell” makes abundantly clear. 

Beloved noise-grind three-piece will only be playing a handful of days for their “Make America Dead Again” tour. 

Friday is for flying rodents. Or NWOBHM supergroups featuring members of Municipal Waste, Volture, and D.R.I. — your choice. 

Say you love Satan. We love Babylon Whores. And Sleep of Monsters have won our dark hearts. 

Here are the songs on Mastodon‘s Hall of Fame nominated album Leviathan ranked from least-rad to fully-rad.