In honor of IMMORTAL’s upcoming Blashyrkh In North America tour dates, Nuclear Blast USA and Vans Shoes have teamed up to bring you a contest that slays!
HOW TO WIN:
Instead of photoshopping the band into shitty pictures, tell us in 50 words or less, why IMMORTAL slays despite its often humorous reputation. The good folks [...]

My twin bro, Mark Riddick, has teamed up with Atlanta’s Danger Press to do a limited edition over-sized print of this sick ass illustration! The theme here is the four horseman of the Apocalypse. Danger Press were responsible for printing the award-winning DETHKLOK tour poster Mark illustrated a few years ago. This poster will be [...]

by Natalie Perez
If you’re still a little hung over from the giddiness that was St. Patrick’s Day then you probably didn’t miss much on the first night of The Royal Family Clothing Tour, held March 17, 2010 at the famous Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood, California.
Opening up the night was none other than Sleeping [...]

by Mike Riddick
Thomas Hand Chaste’s WITCHFIELD brings back an almost purist style of doom metal laden with subtle Italian influenced progressive elements reminiscent of 60’s and 70’s dark rock. “Sleepless” opens with an eerie intro followed by a mildly distorted doom introduction and mid-to-slow paced drudgery with clean Sabbath-inspired vocals complimented by pristine and [...]

by Ray Henry (www.mouthforwar.net)
With only a single remaining original member, Through The Eyes of The Dead have taken their recent turnover to not only get acquainted with one another, but to also refocus their sound and energies. While I really liked the band’s debut full length, Bloodlust, I couldn’t get into their sophomore effort, Malice. [...]

Cramming 1000 riffs and time changes into a song does not get me to bang my head, and those crazy “different” time signatures and beats so you don’t write in “rock formula” or typical “metal formula”, WOW! HOW IMPRESSIVE!

by Natalie Perez
Australia’s Truth Corroded have set up 11-tracks of pride, anger, and frustration on their new album, “Upon the Warlords Crawl.” These solid tracks are not just built-up of modern day styles, but are also inclusive of some old-school rhythms as well. Imagine Slayer meets Chimaria and you get a hard hitting [...]

by Lord Randall
I’ll admit to have stepped away from the Rotting Christ fold since just after A Dead Poem, returning after 5 years for their back-to-the-roots Genesis. Of course the melodies and goth/industrial moments were there still, but the quintet had found a mixture that suited them without taking direct influence from any of their [...]

by Natalie Perez
Death metal has never gotten more technical than, Son of Aurelius. The Santa Cruz, Californian’s who shall unleash their debut album, “The Farthest Reaches”, on April 13, have several tricks up their sleeves. First being that this debut is being released through Good Fight Music, and the other being that it was produced [...]

DEVILSTONE Open Air, Lithuanian metal music festival, apparently the biggest and the most rapidly growing throughout the Baltic States, will take place for the second time in Dainuva valley of Anyksciai, on July 16-18 of this year. Highly acclaimed for the prominent debut last summer, DEVILSTONE Open Air is looking to unleash a real storm [...]