Mexican powerviolence purveyors HONG KONG FUCK YOU are coming to the bottom row of a festival flier near you.

Part 1 of an exhaustive look at the improbable crossover appeal of Steve Austin’s legendary Today Is the Day.

Swedish crust band Ett Dödens Maskineri rage against the machine.

Mörk Gryning mastermind Goth Gorgon reveals the Top 5 things he did after he and co-conspirator Draakh Kimera split from their black metal beast in 2004.

El Cuatro is sweet but not cloying, and sour but not bracing—sugar and spice and everything nice in one bottle.

Our cooped up correspondent pecks on a pair of modern and classic doom metal this week.

D-beat supergroup Perdition Sect beckons the apocalypse with the crushing condemnations of “Plague of Incompetence.” Featuring members of Incantation, Ringworm, Shed the Skin and Brain Tentacles.

Costa Rican nightmareweavers Bloodsoaked Necrovoid offer a glimpse at their forthcoming debut full-length album, Expelled into the Unknown Depths of the Unfathomable.

Hear the ever-prolific Andrew Lee (Ripped to Shreds, Skullsmasher) return with the grinding gore of Houkago Grind Time.

Put on a mask because death metal’s most prolific duo, Johansson & Speckmann have unleashed “The Germs of Circumstance.”