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...

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...