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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`

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…

March 13, 2026

Nothing to Prove, Everything to Burn: Lamb of God Return with Their Sharpest Record in Years – Album Review

Twenty-five years deep, five Grammy nods, two million albums sold — Lamb of God have nothing left to prove, and…

January 9, 2026

Alter Bridge Reaffirm Their Legacy With a Powerful, Self-Defining Statement – Album Review

Alter Bridge is a name that needs no introduction. Forming in 2004, Myles, Mark, Flip, and Brian have been traveling…

December 12, 2025

Trivium, Jinjer, and Heriot Unleash a Relentless Night of Modern Metal – Concert Review & Photos

Uptown Theater — Kansas City, MO | Wednesday, December 10, 2025 Words and photos by Thomas Woroniak Kansas City has…

December 9, 2025

Bloodstock’s First Winter Gathering Turns KK’s Steel Mill into a Midwinter Metal Haven – Festival Review & Photos

Words by Sam Jones || Photos by John Inglis “Christmas may be around the corner, but metal is eternal.” This…