Ex-Grave Pleasures/The Oath guitarist goes punk with new Maggot Heart video.

Bleakheart grapple with loss and grief on “The Visitor.”

Finnish black metallers Havukruunu list the Top 5 Bathory albums that changed their lives. Blood, fire, death!

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Part II of III of an exhaustive look at the improbable crossover appeal of Steve Austin’s legendary noise/rock/metal institution Today Is the Day.

Hear this crucial split between obscure American black mist Valac and Australia’s insanely prolific Kommodus.

The scathing winds of Quebecois black metal return with a vengeance on De Misère & D’Engelures, the first full-length from Montréal’s Moulin Banal.

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It’s a live-record showdown between Judas Priest and Iron Maiden in the latest Fight Fire With Fire.

Dropdead covers get a physical release.