Immortal Bird vocalist Rae Amitay talked to us about Eminem albums, music school and the difference between keeping the rhythm and fronting a band.

Up-and-coming Costa Rican technical death metal quartet Inhuman keeps the Death/Pestilence vibe alive on second full-length Conquerors of the New World.

Monotony Fields
Killing-it Fields
dB Rating: 9/10

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 Jeanne Fury’s chat with Michelle Innis, mother of Derek Boyer (Suffocation/Decrepit Birth).

The young death metal trio is well on their way to infiltrating this year’s Top 40 with third album Anareta.

For over 25 years now Brazil’s Krisiun has waged war on death metal for death metal by death metal. To mistake the trio as anything but death metal–and their dedication to the craft–deserves the severest of punishments. Now stronger than ever, the Brothers in Death have a new album out called, Forged in Furty. Still fast as fucking lightning with a cattle prod up its ass yet memorable as a gruesome car crash, Forged in Fury sets alight pretenders and posers with great intensity. Read on as we question Hell’s most notable percussionist, Max Kolesne.

Storm clouds are brewing in the evocative video for the title track on death/metalcore crew Fit for an Autopsy’s new album Absolute Hope Absolute Hell. 

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After two appetite-whetting EPS, Utah four-piece Cult Leader resurfaces with their first full-length, Lightless Walk, set to blow October 16 on Deathwish, Inc. It’s an excellent expansion of the palette displayed on June’s Useless Animal EP, in which two manic mathed-out nailbombs buffered against a forlorn, clean-vocal cover of Mark Kozelek and Desertshore’s “You Are Not My Blood.” 

An exclusive stream of the heretofore extinct album Hope Finally Died… plus an interview with bassist/vocalist Harry Armstrong.