Features

Co-Editor-in-Chief Jon Rosenthal weighs in on his favorites from 2023, including a selection of favorite demos.

Our  ‘Cheap Thrills’ author gives us his favorites of the year—Weird, delightful music awaits.

Tom Campagna tells us about his favorite albums from the year – make sure to check out all the interviews he did with these stellar picks, too.

Here’s all the new metal that’s dropped between December 2nd and last Saturday—Spin (or skip) new music from Void, Sulfuric Hatred, Jarhead Fertilizer, and more, and we’ll be back with UMR (spanning the 17th through the new year) in January.

Cheryl Carter’s picks for 2023 are heavy on black metal, but there’s some eclectic outliers here that will both energize and traumatize.

We start 2023’s listmania with Tom Morgan’s best-of list, which packs in a luxurious cross-section of heavy music’s range this year.

It’s not hard to love Autopsy more with every passing year. Even outside of a classic run that competes with ease with the rest of the genre and some of the finest live performances in death metal, Autopsy have something that very few other classic bands do: a catalog of modern albums actually worth buying...

Get ready for the holidays with these high-intensity standouts from the back half of this year’s grind scene — as always, we dig into the furthest reaches of the genre.

Wonderful? More like terrible, at least if you collect vintage Andy Williams records.

After twelve years, Vemod returns with their second full-length album. Read an interview with Jan Even Åsli and listen to “Inn i lysande natt” ahead of “The Deepening'”s release.