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Alcest : Spiritual Instinct
The French blackgaze artist's latest is a strong fusion of past and present.
Album of the Week: Cloak – The Burning Dawn
The Atlanta band brings the spirit of rock 'n' roll back to the darkness of black metal.
Ecstatic Vision take a long, strange trip in their “Shut Up and Drive” video
The Pennsylvania band gets weird in the van.
Stream Cloak’s new album, The Burning Dawn, ahead of its release
Hear the album in full before it's out.
10 Essential Sci-Fi Metal Albums
In space, no one can hear you scream. Unless you're Bruce Dickinson.
Converge, Pig Destroyer, Napalm Death to play Decibel Metal & Beer Fest 2020
Plus Mayhem, Satan, Haunt and more.
Opeth : In cauda venenum
The Swedish prog metal icons' latest is their darkest, and best, in over a decade.
Blood Incantation share new track, “Inner Paths (To Outer Space)”
Hear the first new music from the death metal outfit's upcoming album.
Gatecreeper : Deserted
As pure a distillation of old school death metal as one's likely to hear in 2019.
Cult of Luna : A Dawn to Fear
A post-metal album that gains its power from patience and subliminally affecting craft.
Cult of Luna touring with Emma Ruth Rundle
The Swedish post-metal band comes to North America next spring.
Monolord : No Comfort
A more rock 'n' roll than doom outing from the Swedish stoner outfit.
Lavisher unleash a heavy rock anthem with “Cynical”
Hear the new single from the Chicago heavy rock outfit.
White Ward : Love Exchange Failure
A black metal album that gains its power from human empathy and darkjazz rather than cartoonish demon imagery.
Shadow of the Horns: Metal album covers have come a long way
How metal survived a long period of really terrible graphic design.