What are some of the tastiest lead guitar lines ever recorded to tape? What makes a good lead player?

Eat your heart out, Tori Amos.

Rock the vote.

Beware the Black Death of Iceland.

When Kayo Dot reunited for a one-time-only performance of its […]

Skies may be gray in NYC today, but sure seems blue to me…

An engaging and somewhat challenging listen.

60 heavy new releases in here, incl. Ghost, Disturbed, Hate Eternal, Oceans Of Slumber, Act Of Defiance, Rivers Of Nihil, Butcher Boobies, classic Rainbow, no big whoop.

Voyager will head out on a North American tour with Evergrey, Oceans of Slumber and Borealis later this month.

Mutoid Man, Refused, Straight Line Stitch, Wilson, Thy Art Is Murder, Dew-Scented, Author & Punisher, and tons more for your long wknd!

Failure! Gruesome! Melechesh!

Ah, the rare opportunity to make a Djibouti joke.

Say, that’s just a few weeks from now!

This is not yet another lame “Earth Day” playlist.

Band announces first new album since 2006.

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??

Everything you need to know about metal at SXSW 2015, all in once place.

March comes in like a lion via Negura Bunget, The Scorpions, Kjeld, Leviathan, Monsterworks, Caveat, and forty more.

We got 70 heavy new releases — wanna listen to any of ’em? All That Remains, Benighted, Ensiferum, Griever, Carach Angren, Rob Zombie, Torche, Pelican, Nasty, and more.

Translation: Butler has joined the band Lost Origins, featuring former members of I Declare War.