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The full Prepare the Ground festival lineup is here! Ticket links for the full fest and single days are available.

Yob and Cave In’s Chicago stop on Wednesday also included an opening set by avant-garde mystics Yakuza. Editors Jon and Ted were in attendance – read more and check out photos here.

With a remaster of their 2011 album “Atma” out this week, we spoke to Mike Scheidt about the remaster and the band’s mighty body of work, plus upcoming plans.

Our resident death metal connoisseur details his top heavy albums of 2010s (beyond just death metal, of course). Here, Langdon features Enslaved, Ghost, YOB, and more.

Here are Chris Butler’s picks for best of the 2010s, featuring Pallbearer, Gorguts, Between the Buried and Me, and more.

Jenna’s favorite albums of this year, featuring Wayfarer, Chrch, Lil Peep, and more.

Brian O’Neill’s top picks of the year, including Spiders, Satan, Uncle Acid, and more.

Chris Rowella’s favorite albums of 2018, featuring Corrosion of Conformity, Hooded Menace, Wrong, and more.

Andrew Sacher’s top 15 metal albums of 2018, featuring Pig Destroyer, Horrendous, Chapel of Disease, and more.

The NYC show is with Tombs, Mirrors for Psychic Warfare (Sanford Parker + Neurosis’ Scott Kelly), and the newly-added Body Stuff.