Breakdowns are the heart of a great many metal genres. Why? Because they’re always barbaric as all hell when they hit. Few things sonically strike like a moment of quiet followed by every instrument ...

The restless spirit of Chuck Schuldiner resides in Horrendous. The pioneering guitarist helped invent modern death metal that influenced the band’s 2012 debut The Chills, but the attraction of being ...

If you’re a follower of modern death metal and don’t know about Crypta, you’re doing it wrong. Co-founded by former Nervosa singer/bassist Fernanda Lira in 2019, the Brazilian quartet have quickly ...

Right now, as a music journalist, all I hear about is death metal. What was once seen as extreme metal’s ultimate meat-and-potatoes genre has now become its most fertile, with a new wave of young, ...

Somewhere south of heaven and east of hell, a band called SpiritWorld is dispelling what it means to be a metal band in 2022. Wrapped up in Western imagery, from pearl snap shirts to cowboy hats, the ...

These are the five most brutal metal albums of the 21st century, hand-picked by Sanguisugabogg vocalist Devin Swank. Swank the Tank is a pretty brutal dude, evidenced by his ceaseless desire to front ...

The first-ever Austin Death Fest will take place between April 27 and 28 at the Mohawk in (you guessed it) Austin, TX. The first four bands to be announced are Tomb Mold, Mortiferum, Outer Heaven, and ...

Death metal, the hellish genre that emerged in the mid ’80s as a mutation of the West Coast thrash of Metallica and Slayer, is currently enjoying a prolonged renaissance. Bands whose members weren’t ...

Vocalist Chris Barnes (Six Feet Under, ex-Cannibal Corpse) recently made headlines for saying that modern death metal vocals made him "physically ill" and that he "despises what this genre has become.

We’re big fans of Muse. They’ve got that epic arena rock thing going on, and while they’ve always erred on the side of heavy and groovy, they’ve never felt the need to fully push into the metal sphere ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...