Brian O'Neill

The Philly doomsters tried to throw a record release party. Cops shut it down. But the musicians and crowd hauled ass and moved elsewhere. Try to stop metal? Hah!

We premiere the bonus EP that is unlike anything the Michigan grinders have ever done before — it comes alongside “Pollinator,” the band’s fourth full-length, and we chat with the trio about how it all came to be.

The definitive book on the formative years of Bay Area thrash is now a documentary — as director Adam Dubin describes, “[this is] not a Metallica movie, it’s a movie with Metallica in it.” Screening dates and our extensive interview are inside.

“New Wave of Dutch Heavy Jazz” and the Skeletonwitch guitarist collide in an avant-garde collaboration.

We unveil a new track from the blackened Philly quartet Polemicist’s upcoming full-length “Zarathustrian Impressions” and talk shop with guitarist Lydia Giordano and vocalist/guitarist Josiah Domico.

Last Friday ripped us to shreds: the big riffs of Sonja, the sawing rawness of Dumal, and the outright savagery of False whose latest album made waves.

AC/DC’s breakthrough album turns 40 years old today — here’s our retrospective on a record so goddamn rock-‘n’-roll that it hardened into musical permanence.

We chilled with Vella and Power in the air-conditioned comfort of a Chevy Sonic outside their release-day set in Philadelphia last Friday. Here are the words we exchanged.

The Tusk in Philly was alive last Friday with a slew of emotive, proggy goodness before one-man black metal act Eneferens took the stage — photos and album streams inside.