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It’s not much, but it’s something!

All the new metal releasing between April 19th and April 25th, 2020 — spin (or skip) new music from Ulcerate, Elder, Cirith Ungol, Barishi, and more.

Bathory’s legendary foray into the new sounds of viking metal made waves which still ripple nearly a third of a century later. Here’s some history and personal reflection on what “Hammerheart” would come to be, and mean.

We review the Finnish black-metal-turned-prog-psych band’s latest full-length, an hour-plus monster of a headtrip, and a goddamn fine one at that. Bonus: live photos from Oranssi Pazuzu’s Chicago stop last year.

All the new metal releasing between April 12th and April 18th, 2020 — spin (or skip) new music from The Black Dahlia Murder, Oranssi Pazuzu, Khemmis, Ripped to Shreds, and more.

We exchanged with Eric Peterson, Testament’s guitarist and primary songwriter, about the band’s incredible 13th milestone “Titans of Creation” (out now).

IO staffers and editors came together to assemble eight gnarly and heavy releases that hit shelves last month — March 2020 brought us some of the most challenging and exciting heavy music to date, and here are our top favorites.

We dive into Afterbirth’s latest full-length “Four Dimensional Flesh” to discover its proggy, technical underpinnings that enhance its fiendishly brutal structure.

On heavy metal elitism, the pain of trauma, and mind-bending death metal from 1993, Langdon brings us his 12th installment of this sprawling series.

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages and self-quarantine efforts are well underway, so too grows our collective cabin fever — relax (and occupy) your stay-at-home mind with these metal documentaries streaming now.