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...

Hail to these seminal, nihilistic bands that formed in the '80s and are still recording today.   Santa Cruz's Bl'ast! continue to play ska...

Crossover thrash, hardcore punk, groove metal, industrial and the once-dreaded "alternative metal": name a subgenre, and Prong have probably...

Taking giant steps from 2009's phenomenal Providence, Finland's Callisto approach even loftier heights with their fifth full-length. Each of...

Mixing hardcore and doom has been a peripheral desire for many bands — Integrity, Coalesce, Botch, Deadguy, Himsa, etc. — whether they admit...

The most headbanging (and head-turning) French death metal band since Loudblast, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur's Affliction Gate blaze out of t...

Is there a badder-ass band than Killing Joke that's been actively touring since 1978? Is there a more influential band playing such vital mu...

Amongst extreme metalheads, SoCal's Ugly Kid Joe was the band easiest to hate, thanks to their insipid single "Everything About You" from 19...

Is it possible that sludge-metal specialists and Grief worshippers Grime smartly named themselves so they'd be filed directly behind the Bos...

Often described as "futuristic," Liverpool's Grunt take the next step in grindcore evolution by adding electronic breakbeats, seemingly from...

Like many hackneyed superlatives in our vernacular, the word "epic" is quickly becoming overused to describe anything that is simply —...

The greatest album review I've ever read was for Metallica's Load, in a forgotten Florida zine. It was one-and-a-half simple words: "'Nuff s...

Today's metal cyber-scene is so supersaturated with extreme acts from every corner of the globe that it's very easy for a truly great band t...

Turning 20 in metal years is a true milestone, and Machine Head have persevered on their own terms without losing their brutal, albeit mains...

Other than a brief flirtation with industrial rhythms on 1994's World Demise, Florida death-metal mainstays Obituary have stayed the course...