Egyptian-American artist Nader Sadek first scorched the scene in 2011 with his death-metal debut, In the Flesh. Despite the pandemic, Sadek...

In the early '90s, death metal cover art was basically a buying guide: the more brutal the art, the more excited I'd be to purchase and rush...

There are at least ten metal bands named Homicide, and half of them took that moniker in the late '80s/early '90s. Montreal's Homicide disti...

While the world was put on pause by the coronavirus lockdown, East Vancouver native Mike Redston used his time to record the debut album for...

Following another one of their typical three- to four-year lapses between records, SoCal sludge metal pioneers -(16)- return like clockwork...

It seems like a generation ago that Kansas City's Shiner last graced our unworthy ears with what would be their final album, 2001's The Egg....

Without a doubt, UK death dealers Live Burial play the death metal style that spawned millions of metalheads in the early '90s. Drawing on m...

Blending their love of doom, stoner rock and its attendant psychedelia, Ontario trio Itus have created a colossal debut in Primordial. Inten...

There is old-school death metal, then there is ancient-school death metal. Portugal's Innards inhabit the latter: late '80s death with the r...

From the outside, North Carolina's Krvsade looks like a Christian-themed metal band: superior, misspelled-on-purpose band moniker; excellent...

Any band that name themselves after a Melvins song immediately deserve extra credit, but that it's after one of the Melvins' greatest songs...

In the mid-'90s, Swedish industrial band Misery Loves Co. signed to the formidable Earache Records and quickly became a shining star among t...

Death/doom denizens Warcrab extricate themselves from their UK-based fens to shell out another slab of bottom-heavy metal with Damned in End...

When Bolt Thrower gave up the ghost back a few years ago, no single band stepped up to fill the void left by the long-running UK death metal...

When grindcore godfathers Napalm Death started using their original logo again in 2000, it marked a shift of musical style back to their gen...

A band truly before their time, Tampa death dwellers Nocturnus were one of the first death metal bands to use keyboards to propel their scie...

Death/doom-bringers Chalice of Suffering have been crafting rime-encrusted funeral doom in the Minneapolis tundra since their primitive 2016...

Merzbow is one of the world's premier noise artists and, with over 400 releases, the most prolific musician you don't know. This one-man out...

Pioneers of Vedic metal, Singapore's Rudra melded Hindu lyrical themes with black metal and Indian classical music. Frontman Kathir and guit...

For nearly four decades, thrash-metal forefathers Flotsam and Jetsam have established a vicious strain of Bay Area thrash, though they call...