Relapse Records have re-launched their label podcast online, now at Relapsepodcast.com. New podcasts will be posted every month, highlighting brand new songs from Relapse artists, exclusive interviews, and classic Relapse tracks.
The first of the relaunched podcasts is available now and includes an interview with TOXIC HOLOCAUST’s Joel Grind as well as exclusive TOXIC HOLOCAUST material [...]

It’s a first time for everything am I right? Well for me this particular line-up was, starring Mutiny Within, Arsis, Exodus, and Sweden’s finest death metallers to date, Arch Enemy.
On February 9, 2010 Hollywood’s House of Blues had welcomed with open arms, Mutiny Within a progressive melodic death metal wannabe whose performance attics weren’t at [...]

We are pleased to announce the five winners of the 2-CD package from Inferna Profundus Records featuring Argharus and Poccolus.
The winners are:
Angela Born (NC) | Favorite Lithuanian band: Argharus
Brad Ewalt (NE) | Favorite Lithuanian band: Katedra
Shawn Brucker (MO) | Favorite Lithuanian band: Conscious Rot
Erik Scott (CA) | Favorite Lithuanian band: [...]

by George Pacheco
Time has seen much in the way of progression for this Bostonian band since their 2005 inception. Though Morne was founded by ex-Grief/Disrupt axeman Jeff Hayward and Filth of Mankind’s Milosz Gassan, the band’s lineup has now expanded to include keyboardist Ian Schultz and famed skinsman Erik Larson, who has spent time within [...]

by Natalie Perez
Arsis is America’s outlook on what technical death metal is all about and this time around it’s taken these Virginia Beach go getters, two years in the making to unleash their fourth installment to date, “Starve for the Devil”. Of which deals with the past battling scenarios that guitarist James Malone has suffered [...]

by Natalie Perez
If The Used’s first album had met My Chemical Romance’s “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge” and both had merged with Panic At The Disco’s first record while on acid – and then you added a Circus twist to it for flavor, you’d wind up with The Venetia Fair. Benny Santoro spoke to me [...]

By Brian Krasman
Somewhere between sleep paralysis and the effects of medicine head lies Wold. The first two swallowed together make a scary combination, and that’s before Obey and Fortress Crookedjaw even enter the picture. Jarred from the midst of REM sleep, though not entirely, unable to move an inch, experiencing visions you never imagined the [...]

by Natalie Perez
When all of the ghosts, goblins, and witches had come out to play back in October there was nothing to be afraid of but now that, that holiday has decreased why must we talk about some ghoulish phantoms? Perhaps there was one more ghoulish demon that was not put to rest. Brandon Thomas [...]

by Isiamon of Immolith

In this second installment of From the Obsidian Throne, I contacted one of the true legends in the black metal scene for the last 11 years Xaphan of the mighty Kult ov Azazel. The time was right for Xaphan as he’s recently returned from Europe where he toured with Malevolent Creation as their [...]

I’m fucking TIRED of the term NEW OLD SCHOOL DEATH METAL.