Tag: metal

The Year of the Rooster is the year of New Death Metal. Phrenelith, Spectral Voice, and Replacire are blowing brains and lists, while elder statesmen like Suffocation, Immolation, and Dying…

Swedish melodic death metal legends At the Gates have announced a new, currently untitled, album, their sixth and the follow-up to 2014’s At War With Reality.  The announcement also comes with the…

Gnaw—the New York City noise metal/experimental group featuring current and ex-members of Khanate, OLD, Insect Ark and others—have announced their latest record, Cutting Pieces, for an October 27 release through Translation…

Thirty years ago yesterday, Chicago noise rock pioneers Big Black released their final record, Songs About Fucking. Nearly every piece of the album cemented it as an instant classic. Pitchfork…

Lovers of shred and guitar solos, meet Double Ferrari. The Georgia-based quartet weave melodies and impressive leads throughout their self-titled album, as you can hear on the eponymously-titled “Double Ferrari,” streaming exclusively…

Hailing from Portland, noise rockers Maximum Mad are the opposite of the doom bands the city has become known for. Driven by speed and noise, the quartet play tongue-in-cheek songs that remain…

For fans of black metal, the name Maniac is immediately recognizable. As one of the voices behind Mayhem’s early work on much of Deathcrush (and later on the band’s 2000…

Listening to “Of Maggots and Disease,” the latest, gore-soaked single from brutal death dealers Devangelic is like having a brick dropped on you. Driven by chunky guitars, bombastic percussion and putrid vocal…

Where can you find riffs reminiscent of the legendary New York sound while also retaining a modern hardcore sound? Texas hardcore quintet Shadow of Doubt are a good place to start. Combining…