It was a shorter week in the US with July 4 but we still got plenty of great new heavy music, like the killer new Blackbraid album. We also got new singles from Cryptopsy, Ringworm, Outer Heaven, ...

What do you mean it’s August already?! Wasn’t it just New Year’s Day last week?! Sadly, the passage of time seems to only go faster and faster as the year continues, but the good news is that means ...

Here are the 10 best death metal songs over 10 minutes long. Death metal in its purest form might be more riff driven, maybe with a horror or Satanic aesthetic. But it has other elements and can often ...

Every catchy pop track hides possibilities. And once a metal band picks it up, the song shifts character—sometimes darker, sometimes heavier—always in an unexpected way. That’s the joy of reinvention ...

Two long-time Jersey head-bangers have written a new book that makes the case for the Garden State as one of the fertile mosh pits for cultivating heavy metal music over the last half-century. “Jersey ...