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. 

Read on as we interrogate Convulse leader Rami Jämsä.

Memento Collider
Infectious grooves, alternate realities
dB rating: 9/10

Cleveland, you have yet another reason to celebrate this week. Shed the Skin debut LP is out today!

Arctic’s insane psychedelics put a chill into summer. Full album is here for streaming.

Publicist UK vocalist Zachary Lipez provides a rebuttal to Jeffrey S Podoshen’s recent guest editorial on “Social Justice Warriors” the metal scene.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we roll up our sleeves and get right down to it with Athens’ Pile Of Excrements.

Calli crossover crew Mizery delivers the adrenaline rush you need to make it to the weekend.

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.

In honor of Black Sabbath‘s final trek around the globe, we are running our 2014 print feature on the story behind the cover art of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, which was illustrated four decades ago by a rising Los Angeles artist named Drew Struzan.