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July 10, 2026

God Bless America – Best of Thirsty: An Interview With the Band Behind the Tribute

Guy Bailey spent his career writing songs that served the song, not himself. As founder of The Quireboys and the…

July 3, 2026

MOONSPELL Return from Exile on the Deliberate, Atmospheric `Far From God` – Album Review

Five years is a long time to be silent — particularly for a band that spent much of the previous…

June 25, 2026

TODOMAL’s `Graveyards of Joy` Is a Trilogy-Closing Reckoning with Loss, Landscape, and the Stubborn Persistence of Hope – Album Review

There is a painting on the cover of Graveyards of Joy — Ruïnes (1865) by Catalan artist Lluís Rigalt that…

June 24, 2026

Download 2026: Three Days of Chaos, Catharsis, and Crowd Surfing at Donington

Download XXIII Festival (2026) – Review by Howard Keogh Photos by Enda Madden Download Festival is still evolving. This year’s…

June 13, 2026

Bloodstock Open Air 2026 Preview: Twenty-Five Years in the Field

Twenty-five years is a long time to keep anything alive – let alone an independently owned, uncompromising heavy metal festival…

June 12, 2026

“Krew i Pył” (Blood and Dust): The Polish Extreme Metal Underground and the Weight of a Nation

My grandmother came to America after the Second World War with her Catholic faith largely intact and almost nothing else.…

June 11, 2026

Iceland’s Next Voice: FORSMÁN Arrive with `Brenndar Rústir & Fuðrandi Fjörur` – Album Review

Iceland’s black metal scene has earned its reputation not through volume alone but through a genuine conviction that is difficult…

June 8, 2026

The Weight of What Remains: FIRES IN THE DISTANCE Deepen Their Vision on `Circadian Promise` – Album Review

There is a category of album that announces itself not through force but through gravity – records that don’t demand…

June 8, 2026

Two Fires, Different Woods: UADA, Blackbraid, and the Soul of American Black Metal

Black metal has always been a music of place. Its most canonical recordings carry geography in their DNA – the…

June 6, 2026

NUCLEAR TOMB’s `Epoch Inhumane` Is the Sound of Progressive Thrash Fully Metabolized – Album Review

There’s a strain of thrash that has always been more interested in the wrong chord than the right riff, more…

June 4, 2026

From Invocation to Benediction: KHEMMIS Conjures Their Defining Statement – Album Review

There is an argument to be made that choosing to self-title your fifth album is an act of either supreme…

June 3, 2026

Two Testaments, One Truth – An Interview with Chuck Billy

He screamed his way into metal history. Then cancer tried to silence him for good. Chuck Billy — the iconic…

June 1, 2026

AUGUST BURNS RED Strip It Down and Find Themselves Again on `Season of Surrender` – Album Review

There is a particular kind of fan fatigue that accumulates not from dislike but from overexposure — the slow erosion…

May 28, 2026

STORMKEEP Embrace the Darkness Within on The Nocturnes of Iswylm – Album Review

With Tales of Othertime, Stormkeep did something genuinely difficult: they released a debut full-length that felt fully formed, rooted in…

May 26, 2026

Unearthing the Ancient: HECATE ENTHRONED Return With The Corpse of a Titan, A Lament Long Buried – Album Review

Seven years is a long time to go quiet. For a band with Hecate Enthroned‘s lineage — architects of the…

May 23, 2026

MONOLORD’s Neverending — Thirteen Years Deep, Still Digging – Album Review

There is a particular trap waiting for any doom band that achieves institutional status: the slow calcification of a sound…

May 22, 2026

DEFILED’s Altered State Is a Precise, Disorienting Strike from Japan’s Death Metal Underground – Album Review

Defiled have never been easy to classify, and that’s precisely the point. Active since 1992 — death metal’s formative era…

May 18, 2026

Eight Years in the Dark: Dimmu Borgir Return with Grand Serpent Rising – Album Review

Waiting is rarely part of metal’s vocabulary, but Dimmu Borgir have never moved on anyone’s schedule but their own. Eight…

March 29, 2026

Epica, Amaranthe and Charlotte Wessels – THE ARCANE DIMENSIONS TOUR – Concert Review & Photos

Epica, Amaranthe and Charlotte Wessels brought a night full of symphonic melodies and siren vocals during their Arcane Dimensions tour…

March 14, 2026

Lou Gramm on Rediscovery, Legacy, and the Joy of the Stage – Interview

The long-awaited new solo album from legendary vocalist Lou Gramm, best known as the iconic voice of Foreigner, has been released. Arriving…