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...

Starting with Black Sabbath, England has produced some of the greatest doom bands in metal history. Hailing from Plymouth, Warcrab mix death...

When rapper Ice-T formed Body Count around 1990, it was from his love of heavy metal — specifically Black Sabbath, Suicidal Tendencies and S...

Pittsburgh's Dream Death are one of America's oldest doom bands. Their 1987 debut, the primitive Journey Into Mystery, was a shining star on...

Some people have all the luck. Consider D.C.-based death-doomers Ilsa, who've scored both a deal with Relapse for a forthcoming full-length...

Following their exceptional 2015 full-length Into the Abyss, Greek death troupe Abyssus return with a noteworthy odds 'n' sods collection, O...