Videos

At The Gates return with “The Nightmare Of Being”, a respectable new chapter brimming with the signature hooks of the Gothenburg variant of death metal they helped characterize.

The Irish sludge/doom metal band teams up with Oxbow vocalist Eugene Robinson for an exercise in atmospheric heaviness and riff worship.

This edition of our metal studies-focused column from musicologist Ross Hagen discusses how metal studies and postcolonial studies (the study of the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism) intersect.

Watch a tight-quarters performance of the Australian blackened post-metal duo’s song “Drowning,” off their upcoming album “Falling Forever.”

Though sometimes overshadowed by later releases (and much harder to find), the American heavy metal band’s self-titled debut is a blazing opening chapter in the band’s ferocious style. Read an interview with Mike Scalzi, discussing the album’s eventful creation and his thoughts on it today.

In a new biweekly series, we dive into the rich history of progressive death metal legends Cynic—starting with their early demo work.

Watch a new video from this occult Italian act, whose self-styled “necrodoom” resurrects the weird and shadowed past of Italian extreme metal.

Watch the murderous music video for the title track from this blackened thrash band’s latest album.

Watch a new video for “Tooth & Nail,” off the New York progressive sludge three-piece’s upcoming album “Nefarious Wave,” showing off the mean and fast side of their diverse sound.

Chicago scene stalwarts set a new bar for the city’s deathgrind scene. Watch a video for their new single “Perpetual War.”