Manitoba really ought to get more credit in Canada's heavy music pantheon. From the shred-happy metallic punk of Propagandhi to Comeback Kid...

Loose Teeth are more Dillinger Escape Plan than Dilly Dally. The Toronto quartet actually features touring members of Dilly Dally, as well a...

We've all heard the cliché about how musicians use art to exorcise their demons. Self-proclaimed "metal for optimists" band Sarin, however,...

​Emo music wrestles with uncomfortable emotions — often naked and exposed in its candour. Counterparts guitarist Alex Re took this to heart...

In an increasingly overcrowded online livestream market in which bands half-ass performances — or, worse, charge fans to watch previously re...

The Last of Us Part II made waves thanks to its playable in-game acoustic guitar, which allowed gamers to play songs by Soundgarden, Radiohe...

With shows a distant dream, pop punks Calling All Captains are taking us back to the biggest one they ever played: Edmonton's K-Days. The ho...

The moniker Weedeater leaves little to the imagination about the strain of metal the Wilmington, North Carolina, band delivers. However, it...

Not even Matt Groening could have foretold the advent of Okilly Dokilly. The metalcore band — or, as they call it, Nedal — comprises five me...

Witches Hammer are underground legends in the speed metal — something of a cult classic for those in know. Those in the know increased signi...

Vale of Pnath's technical death metal took a dark shift on last year's Accursed EP. We called the release "a vehicle for Vale of Pnath to ex...

How you feel about Cordyceps will come down to your ability to stomach vocals that sound like you're emptying yours out; burping is the name...

Xenobiotic deliver dizzying dissonant death metal from Down Under, and we're talking about Perth, Australia, there — not the underworld conj...

Rain of Salvation have delivered a downpour since putting out their "Call to Arms." Just under a year since dropping debut EP A War Outside...

Metal pirates Alestorm returned to where X marked the spot only to discover the buried treasure was gone: there were no more 8-foot inflatab...

Beyond Creation had their progressive/technical death metal legitimized this year via a Juno nomination for Algorythm, joining Season of Mis...

Billed as "the most extreme tour of the year," "The Summer Slaughter Tour" is set to return to Toronto for the first time in years. The s...

After dropping The Level Above Human, Ingested spent much of 2018 on the road, including a cross-Canada headline tour and further dates in t...

Australian death metal/deathcore titans Thy Art Is Murder have announced that their new album Human Target will drop July 26 via Nuclear Bla...

Burlington, ON's Perfect Limbs haven't released a song in over a year, and even then it was just a single, not a proper follow-up to 2016's...