Tons of metal (and metal-adjacent) musicians spoke to us about their favorite albums of the year, also including members of Amenra, Spirit Adrift, Genocide Pact, Nadja, Frail Body, Chat Pile, and much more...
While 2020 didn't allow for Chicago's local-focused Forever Deaf Fest to celebrate its third year, it got that chance this past weekend. Check out photos + a recap of the night.
2020's end-of-year listmania yielded a set of records (including a tie for tenth place) that we deem indisputable champions. Well, unless you want to dispute these on Twitter, anyway.
Our second podcast episode discusses COVID-19's effect on the metal community and industry, as well as talk on our favorite releases so far this year despite it all.
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.
All the new metal releasing between March 8th and March 14th, 2020 -- spin (or skip) new music from Rotting Kingdom, Code Orange, Smoulder, Satan, and more.
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.