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Swallow the Sun’s new album ‘When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light’ came out on Century Media earlier this year.

Traditional heavy metal struggled in America in the 1990s, but it didn’t entirely disappear. The first edition of this series covers genre champions The Lord Weird Slough Feg, Twisted Tower Dire, and more.

Kings of Mercia, featuring members of Fates Warning, Toto, Mercyful Fate, and more, lets Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos tap into his love of hard rock and early heavy metal. We spoke to Matheos about the band’s self-titled debut.

We sat down with Kirill Orlov, Chris Kang, and Marc Stranger-Najjar of Huntsmen to talk shop about their upcoming release “Mandala of Fear” (via Prosthetic Records) — this monster of an album oozes Americana through some down-home Midwestern steel.

Jonathan Carbon sits down with Murk Rider and flips through their shelves of fantasy comics with their new “The Murk Rider” EP. Stream it early here.

We talked to the Canadian power metal band about their new album, which conceptually explores the rise of technology with a slightly darker edge than their previous albums.

The lunatic Californian extreme metal band hit the road with Municipal Waste, Necrot, and Dead Heat earlier this year. Read drummer Digestor’s account of the happenings.

A father of two’s first tour in nine years takes him to two fests and every main metal hamlet on the West Coast