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.

Suffocation, Incantation, Broken Hope, Bolt Thrower/Memoriam, Immolation, Obituary, Origin, Expulsion/Repulsion, Dying Fetus and Decrepit Birth keep death alive in 2017.

When Denver’s TRVE Brewing celebrates its anniversary every June, you can bet that owner Nick Nunns does it up right, putting on a weekend filled with metal bands and special one-off beers.

Progressive sludge/noise rock with comparisons to Neurosis, Old Man Gloom and Amenra? I’m sold!

Sunlight’s Bane reveal an unsettling video for “Begrudging Soul.” 

White Halo — the seven-years-in-the-making third full-length from Tokyo quintet Heaven in Her Arms — is a fierce and lush amalgamation of post-metal atmospherics, classic screamo, black metal, prog rock, and trad metal sure to trigger metalgaze haters even as it subverts and expands the boundaries of that sub-subgenre. 

“Born to Lose IPA is a boldly aggressive West Coast-style IPA, befitting of the band’s loud, aggressive style.”

Stream the awesome new Father Befouled record in full!

Broken Hope founder Jeremy Wagner dishes the dirt on Mutilated and Assimilated, the best horror film of all-time, and the current state of death metal.

Stream a new track from the German black metal band.