According to widely-accepted pop culture lore, metal was slain by grunge at the turn of the ’90s, only to (sort of) rise from the dead in the form of bands like Pantera and Korn. But this only ...

A classic blueprint for the genre. This style has been mimicked by countless bands since and was gateway into ’90s death metal for our generation. One of the most sorrowful records from the ’90s. From ...

Last month, The Mountain Goats announced their third record in a year, Dark In Here. It follows Getting Into Knives and the John Darnielle-only boombox record Songs For Pierre Chuvin, and it was ...

Remember when Choosing Death was released? Buying a Christmas gift for that special death metal someone was easy that year. But not every year can see a definitive death metal tome see the light of ...

Congrats to readers Sam Anderson and Emlyn Jones! They were the ONLY two readers to correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Gurgling Diarrhea. For being so much better than ...

When Brujeria’s debut album Matando Güeros was released in 1993, the discordant genre of death metal was engaged in a game of “Can you top this?” with their notoriously gory album covers, searching ...

With a crash of thunder, the ringing of ominous church bells and one of the loudest guitar sounds in history, a heavy new music genre was born in earnest on a Friday the 13th early in 1970. Its roots ...

You guys disappointed me yet AGAIN by completely failing to identify last week’s logo. As a consequence, I still have last week’s prizes to give away: two CDs from Relapse Records that are both ...