Japanese experimental black metal band announces new album, complete with some very unexpected special guests.

Burzum only-man loves Aryan women, Papyrus font.

I cannot believe that is a real headline I just had to type.

Mastodon comes down the wall to save us all.

The Portugese band reaches a new level of bombast — and that’s not a good thing.

Skin tattoos only, prostate tattoos need not apply.

Here comes success (here comes success!) over my hill (over my hill!).

The founding fathers of heavy metal and hardcore do not like one another.

This week’s logo looks like one of the ghosts from Pac-Man. BUT WHAT DOES IT SAY?!?!

Heylmun hilarity.

Some of these really work! Some of these really do not.

DDDDDEEEAAAATTTTTHHHH METALLLLLL!!!

But who? And what about a drummer???

Take your contract and shove it up your ass.

Eddie examines the Bill DeMott controversy.

Including new and classic releases by Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Slayer, Slipknot, Lamb of God, Behemoth, Arch Enemy, and more.

As though you needed any details beyond it being an At the Gates/Voivod split in order to know you’d buy a copy.

The Diminutive Representatives of United Northern Kildare call for a boycott of the Atlanta band.

Given 60 heavy new releases, you could blindly select at least four gems. Will it be Kjeld, Enslaved, Santa Cruz, and The Haunting Presence? Or Sacral Rage, Urfaust, Psycroptic, and Harm’s Way?? Or Garden Of Worm, Mnemic, Cancer Bats, and Europe??

Although I imagine they’d be happy with even just a partial-body tremor.