Cult Canadian industrial thrashers Malhavoc return with epic Poe-inspired concept album, The Masquerade’s Death.

Hear early Megadeth members Gar Samuelson and Chris Poland’s ’70s jazz fusion band, The New Yorkers, on recently unearthed recording.

Somewhere in Southern California, a group of young musicians has apparently swallowed an entire medical dictionary, developed a pathological aversion to conventional song structures and decided that brutal death metal simply wasn’t brutal enough. Meet Virologist.

Architect of Seth gaze into the void and return with their first album in 13 years, Solitude Solaire.

Our beloved country of Philadelphia delivers some ripped entrails from (virgins) Shunt.

Youngstown, Ohio’s Rebreather have seen decades of moving and shifting in the world of metal. We talked to them about their new music and surviving the landscape for decades.

My War On Wilshire: Black Flag vs. the Wilshire Federal Building…and the Vex photographer Michael Pearson talks about shooting Black Flag and his new Bazillion Points book.

Hear the raging violence of the feisty new Hirax track “Vigilante.”

Stream a new single from long-running Bangladeshi black-thrash trio Eternal Armageddon‘s final album.

Population II is a meditative exploration of form and process, presaging elements of the heavy music that followed. But, as the kids like to say, it’s also a mood.