It’s just a small city!” laughs In Flames frontman Anders Fridén as he reflects on the place that birthed his band. “There ...

These are the five most brutal metal albums of the 21st century, hand-picked by Sanguisugabogg vocalist Devin Swank. Swank the Tank is a pretty brutal dude, evidenced by his ceaseless desire to front ...

It's not very often that the worlds of slam death metal and EDM cross over, but that's exactly what happened when big-time DJ Marshmello bombarded a European crowd with downtuned brutality. In a video ...

A classic blueprint for the genre. This style has been mimicked by countless bands since and was gateway into ’90s death metal for our generation. One of the most sorrowful records from the ’90s. From ...

During Carcass’s initial decade together, the Liverpool outfit staked a claim as one of the most influential extreme metal bands of all time. In the late 1980s, their first two albums defined the ...

Right now, on the media and PR side of the metal sphere, death metal is king. Everyone’s talking about death metal bands, everyone’s starting a death metal band, and death metal is once more being ...

The 2026 hard rock and metal release calendar outlines a dense schedule of death metal and technical death metal albums alongside major tours and festivals. Notable highlights include highly rated ...

Here's a fun exercise: Try to keep up with all the non-hardcore music that's popular in the hardcore community at any given time. It's always changing! And it's always pretty weird! Right now, the ...

As someone who is a PhD candidate in religious studies and loves heavy metal, I was surprised to see that I hesitated on a number of my responses. Why does heavy metal use so many biblical references ...

How one band helped craft a new sound that changed the fate of metal forever ...