Brad Sanders

Video Premiere: Phantom Fire – “Mara”

Review: Fucked Up, 'One Day'

Band To Watch: Sanguisugabogg

Death Metal Pioneers Dismember Are Back on the Warpath

How Houston became home to America’s biggest metal party

The Best Metal Albums of 2022

Review: Hammers of Misfortune, 'Overtaker'

Review: Lykotonon, 'Promethean Pathology'

The Best Metal on Bandcamp: November 2022

Retracing Epic Steps: 20 Years of Symphony X's 'The Odyssey' (Interview with Michael Romeo)

Review: Darkthrone, 'Astral Fortress'

October’s Best Metal on Bandcamp includes bone-crunching death metal, a longed-for doom resurrection, a haunted house full of campy black metal delights, and much more. Happy Halloween! There isn’t a band name in the world that works better as a…

Mortician

The 10 Best Ghost Songs

David John Morris writes love songs, though they seldom deal directly with romance. The Red River Dialect frontman and solo artist has sung of his love for his friends, his family, the Buddhist tradition he follows, myriad geographical locations,…

Battalions of Fear

What does Dungeons & Dragons sound like? That’s the fundamental question at the heart of SPELLJAMS, a new compilation album curated and produced by Chris Funk. The Decemberists guitarist wasn’t tasked with soundtracking just any old D&D campaign:…

Track Premiere: Persekutor – “Brain Freeze”

Stockholm is one of death metal’s storied ancestral homes. Entombed, Grave, Unleashed, and Dismember all called the Swedish capital home during their legendary early ’90s runs, and Tomas Skogsberg’s Sunlight Studio helped give the city its signature…

Band To Watch: Ripped To Shreds