Power Metal

Germany’s power metal stalwarts Primal Fear discuss their best album in years, Apocalypse.

Stream a new song from Halcyon Way.

Stream the new album from Greek epic metal unit Battleroar.

Waldo returns to peck on new titles from Judas Priest, Pestilence and Nightwish.

Witherfall discuss Nocturnes & Requiems, the passing of late drummer Adam Sagan and the next step for the band.

Watch a new Iron Angel music video now.

LA prog/power metal heroes release a new video from the opening track off Nocturnes and Requiems.

Washington, D.C.-based A Sound of Thunder have found fans far from home, in Catalonia.

Power metal collective Moonlight Prophecy have returned with their new debut album mere months after the release of their last EP.

New music from Jag Panzer!

This coming Friday, a new film adaptation of Stephen King’s iconic and massive horror novel ‘IT’ will be released in American cinemas. Will it be good? King does not have the best history with cinema. The beloved miniseries based upon the novel, starring Tim Curry as the shapeshifting clown monster Pennywise, does not hold up,…

Read an exclusive interview with Epica guitarist Isaac Delahaye on the band’s upcoming US tour and his extreme metal background.

Go behind the scenes with prolific Russian label Satanath Records.

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Exit Eden, Warbeast and Damn Freaks.

Stream a new track from progressive metallers Prospekt. 

Stream a new song from The Uprising, the collaboration between guitarist Marzi Montazeri and legendary vocalist Tim “Ripper” Owens.

Maybe it’s a growing-up-stateside thing, but I can’t honestly say I’ve ever met a single headbanger who got into metal through Helloween.

Damnations Day play to their strengths (big choruses, guitar solos, soaring vocals) on their latest single. 

In which our resident birdbrain pecks on new releases Avulsed, Grave Digger and the Drip.

Swedish power metal powerhouse HammerFall are still energized after nearly two decades of making music. 

Dead Revolution
Full of life
dB rating: 9/10

You probably didn’t hear traditional metal powerhouse Damien Black in 1992, so, here’s a second chance.

Metal is often a much too serious affair. Just because you’re in front of a camera doesn’t mean you need to be scowling and carving pentagrams into the nearest virgin. But there’s a fine line between being lighthearted and being downright fucking goofy…

Before checking out for the long weekend, enter for a chance to win three new CDs of doom, occult, heaviness, kings, hammers, and more kings, courtesy of Cruz Del Sur.