Insightful metal editorial pieces, analysis, and discussions on the past, present, and future of heavy metal.
Cavalera (or Cavalera Conspiracy) are re-living old glories on the re-recordings of classic Sepultura death-thrash platters Bestial Devastation, Morbid Visions, and Schizophrenia. Not only are these revisits from the heart,...
Ya know, the Ramones are the kind of band that really do need to be celebrated outside of whatever Halloween cover band scenario might align at the end of the...
With some festival dates already nailed down for later this year, Converge have opted to fill out their touring calendar a little more with the addition of a handful of...
Roughly four months after Jason Evans left the band, U.K. death metal outfit Ingested have officially announced earlier today that their lineup’s back to 100% capacity, as they’ve formally confirmed...
We are hanging out at my place in San Diego, sometime in 2003. San Diego had this amazing website going back in the day, SDMetal.org, and all the top forumites...
In 1983 vocalist Ronnie James Dio wasn’t long removed from his inaugural stint with Black Sabbath. With Iommi and Co., he helped reinvent a band that was losing steam and...
Metallica has been a cultural commodity for so long that it’s difficult to imagine their lives before global fame. Fortunately, there is a time capsule: the band’s life-altering debut Kill...
Born Again is the strangest album in Black Sabbath’s career and the product of their strangest era. It might be the most bizarre album in heavy metal’s 50-plus-year history. Unsurprisingly,...
Metal fans have used many superlatives to praise Mercyful Fate’s Hall of Fame-certified debut, Melissa. Still, few have discussed how different the album was from everything else at the time....
When I was asked to listen to the reissue of Motörhead’s Another Perfect Day for its 40th anniversary (the album was released in May 1983, and the reissue is out...
