Bad news for anyone who was looking forward to seeing doom metal pioneers Pentagram at the Thekla: the show has been cancelled yet again. Ho hum. On a personal note, you may (or may not) be interested ...

Here’s five new rock and metal albums announced this week that you can look forward to. This past week’s leading announcements is for fans of the underground, ranging from deathcore, death-thrash, ...

Crashing beats. Roaring vocals. Rushing melodies. People often group heavy metal music into a mixed heap of fast, thundering music. But if you listen to the five bands playing on Feb. 6 at Silver Moon ...

The Ruination Festival, dedicated to doom metal music, returns on January 31 at The Underground in Bradford.

Old Deer forges fear into sonic fury. Since 2021, the Denver alt-metal band’s oppressive sound, with built-in cryptic ...

Two decades after he’d been sickened enough to quit playing, Holden discovered he was a guitar hero. He picked up the guitar again straight away, but he’ll never return to the industry that burned him ...

Guitar brand releases documentary series on Tony Iommi, now streaming free. The docuseries explores Iommi’s influence on heavy metal and key musicians. “Tony Iommi remains the undisputed godfather of ...

After more than a decade in hibernation, one of Richmond’s most revered underground metal gatherings is clawing its way back to life. Heart Of Winter, the black metal and doom-heavy festival that ...

The busy mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti has made a career out of versatility: “I think generally people should not do only one thing in their lives.” By Roslyn Sulcas Reporting from Paris. The ...

From chart-toppers Ghost and Sleep Token to rising stars Lorna Shore and Spiritbox, 2025 has been a massive year for metal When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The Acacia Strain – You Are Safe From God Here (Rise) For me, the best death metal feels like a location, a literal spatial world made accessible through music. There’s something about Ego Dissolution ...

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...