By: Lord Randall
Lord Randall: Just after Animatronic (The Kovenant), you knocked out 2 Troll albums in as many years. Do you see yourself as a sort of Gemini creature, where The Kovenant is the more cerebral, contemplative side, and Troll is the more primal, heathen…visceral?
Nagash: [Laughter] That’s an accurate way to describe me [...]

You don’t hear too much about metal bands contributing to the well being of society. Here we have Wrench in the Works who have released a new song from their upcoming album “Decrease/Increase.” The song, called “Project AK-47″ is about child soldiers and was inspired by the organization of the same name. [...]

MY KINGDOM MUSIC have just issued the first official video clip to the track “The End Starts Here” from Dutch Melodic Death masters FUELBLOODED! Check it out or be gay…

by Natalie Perez
With “The Dark Awakening”, striking a chord with fellow hardcore-metal heads, Sleep Serapis Sleep has achieved amongst themselves a new identify all their own. One of which was spent over the four month span of writing, and recording this considerable follow-up release to 2007’s “Dead Man Walking”.
Sleep Serapis Sleep’s style is upbeat and [...]

Metal Maniacs contributing editor, Patrick Musumeche had the opportunity to speak with Ohio’s TENAFLY VIPER…an up and coming band purveying Southern Rock sentiments. Check it out…

by Ray Henry (www.mouthforwar.net)
Like the wretched, bastard offspring of Metallica, Discharge and Bathory bashed over the head with sludge and doom, Seattle’s Black Breath debut EP Razor to Oblivion will leave you battered, bruised, bloody and grinning beneath the stomping boots of an overly enthusiastic mosh pit. Combining hardcore punk, thrash, speed metal and a [...]

We have received near-record amounts of snow in the Washington DC area this season. Here’s a pic taken from the Metal Maniacs compound this afternoon (Saturday, Feb. 6th)…
Anyone need a black metal cover photo?

by Natalie Perez
“No Rain, No Rainbow”, by Phoenix, Arizona’s Greeley Estates is indeed a follow-up to 2008’s “Go West Young Man, Let the Evil Go East”, the band can easily fall back on. Greeley Estate’s newest addition brings back what was issued upon their previous release except this time around; the band has improved their [...]

by Natalie Perez
“Humanity”, is the fresh start for melodic deathcore go getters, Bleed from Within, who’s currently spending their off time writing and working on the follow-up to this release. “Humanity”, brings out all the growls and in-depth screaming attics you could possibly expect from your average deathcore act, for example Suicide Silence. But when [...]

by Jason Healey
I have two passions in life… Black Metal and collecting records. Though I am cursed by a number of factors – living in Australia (everything costs a fortune to get mailed here) and never having enough money to buy all the records I wish to possess, I pursue this hunt as often as [...]