One of the best things about heavy metal is the sense of community it fosters: we’re all in this together because no one else fucking cares. So when an unexpected metalhead pops up in daily life, it’s always a cool feeling. Sometimes it’s that weird guy at work who never says a word to anyone but comes in one Friday wearing a Stargazer shirt…and sometimes it’s an MLB All-Star relief pitcher with more than 200 career strikeouts and a beard with its own zip code.

Sabbath Assembly are prepared to administer more “sonic spells of misery and woe” via their self-titled fifth album, due out via Svart on September 11.

Misery loves company, so October’s Decibel lays out the welcome mat for some big name first-time cover stars: legendary U.K. death/doom powerhouse My Dying Bride.

All the bands ripped and insisted that we do the same. We’re not the type of band to deny the whims of our hosts.

There had never been a band like Unbroken before. How they sounded, how they looked and what they said all came from a place that baffled a lot of hardcore kids back in the 90s.

But Justin Pearson got it.

Cleveland’s Gorepunch features ex-members of System Divide, as well as Mike Heller of Malignancy/Fear Factory. 

Two weeks ago, you had a chance to listen to Lychgate’s new album, An Antidote for the Glass Pill.  Now hear from the music’s creator about how philosophy and dystopian literature contributed to the organ-saturated black/doom album.

Tampa metallic hardcore brutalists Blistered follow up last year’s debut EP, Soul Erosion, with full-length The Poison of Self-Confinement.

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Here you are kids: the full, slightly abridged, version of the Publicist UK interview that appears in the Upfront section of the latest issue.