metal

spirit adrift ghost at the gallows review

Spirit Adrift : Ghost at the Gallows

The Arizona band’s latest finds enthralling ground in heavy metal’s deep roots

The Keening Rebecca Vernon

The Keening (ex-SubRosa) announces debut album Little Bird

Hear the title track

Agriculture best metal debut albums of 2023

6 of the Best Metal Debut Albums of 2023 So Far

I’m always finding a new metal band I love, only to discover that they’ve been…

Metallica Ride the Lightning

Treble 100: No. 43, Metallica – Ride the Lightning

The greatest calcification of what Metallica had to offer

Pelican Gasoline

Hear Pelican cover Karate’s “Gasoline”

Featuring Chris Hansen from Pinebender on vocals

Gridlink Coronet Jupiter review

Hear “Silk Ash Cascade” from grindcore heroes Gridlink

‘Coronet Juniper’ out September 15

Oxbow Love's Holiday

Oxbow : Love’s Holiday

The noise rock vets lean heavier on mood, at the expense of power

best post-black metal albums Deafheaven

Deafheaven announce Sunbather 10th anniversary tour and reissue

The band hits the road with Touche Amore later this year.

Mutoid Man Mutants review

Mutoid Man – Mutants

The trio resumes shredding with a newfound sense of emotional resonance

Agriculture s/t review

Agriculture : Agriculture

The L.A. black metal band’s debut album surpasses the promise of their 2022 first EP

Black Sabbath Paranoid

Treble 100, No. 49: Black Sabbath – Paranoid

The origin point of metal as well as the mainstream’s misinterpretation of it

Loma Prieta last review

Loma Prieta : Last

An experience best delivered in the visceral moment of the live performance

Code Orange band

Code Orange announce new album The Above

Hear “Take Shape,” featuring Billy Corgan

The Armed

The Armed share new song “Everything’s Glitter”

‘Perfect Saviors’ out August 25

Converge 2017

Converge announce fall tour dates

Including dates with Botch and Cave In

Soul Glo Zulu tour

Soul Glo and Zulu announce co-headlining tour

Playytime opening all dates

Will Haven VII

Will Haven : VII

More than 25 years after their debut, the Sacramento metal group still harness a potent darkness

Pupil Slicer

6 New Metal Albums That Make Feeling Bad Feel Good

The best metal albums of June/July, for a particularly mopey summer.

Body Count Cop Killer

Body Count courted controversy with 1992’s “Cop Killer”

A provocative and short-lived song that left an impact long after its commercial release

King Gizzard Petrodragonic Apocalypse review

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard : Petrodragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation

The prolific psych group doubles down on heavy metal