Detroit-based art-metal mutants Child Bite have teamed up with their label owner, Housecore’s Phil Anselmo, to tackle Celtic Frost’s 1985 classic “The Usurper” for a killer compilation,

Candy Striper Death Orgy frontman and Nuclear Assault superfan looks back as Dan Lilker & Co. hit the road on their “Final Assault.”

Have you read Choosing Death? If so, you know how important Extreme Noise Terror are to the improbable history of… grindcore!

Just in time for us to put our special Finnish Metal Issue to bed, an elaborate art-doom video from Turku’s haunting Mansion.

Veteran Norwegian quartet Vreid are back on the attack with their seventh full-length, Solverv.

Considering that almost every story on the Pope’s visit was a fluffy feel good feature (with the exception of his visit with gay-hating Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis) we decided to go through extreme music’s vaults and find the most significant songs — or mentions — about the Pope. 

Every so often, we take a little time on Mondays to pay tribute to the Muthas! That is, reprinting the adorable metal/maternal Q&As that run in the magazine. Today, enjoy Justin Norton’s chat with Patricia Strehl Adler, mother of Chris and Willie Adler (Lamb of God).

Tapered Limbs of a Human Star
Yup, I think we found the Queen…
dB Rating: 8/10

Effortlessly mixing and matching melodeath, black metal and doom for the last 20+ years, Swedish powerhouse Draconian has a new weapon in their melodic arsenal in the form of vocalist Heike Langhans.

Tech death with a conceptual edge unearths that which lies hidden.