Beatdown has become more popular in recent years, so bands like Kruelty have more wiggle room to rep their unique niche in the genre. In line with No Zodiac and Xibalba, this Japanese band owes a lot ...

Here are the 10 best death metal songs over 10 minutes long. Death metal in its purest form might be more riff driven, maybe with a horror or Satanic aesthetic. But it has other elements and can often ...

When you hear the word metal, many people think of fast guitars and rapid-fire drumming. I was the same way at first. However, there is a genre in the world of metal that has evolved in the exact ...

Wielding a mix of ‘art rock’ and crushingly heavy doom metal, Pallbearer are pushing for one of the most ambitious metal albums of 2024 with Mind Burns Alive. Over the last decade the Little Rock, ...

A debut album 35 years in the making is finally seeing the light of day—just as the band behind it prepares to fade into the shadows. Sweden's cult death-doom outfit Eternal Darkness just released ...

May is a month of long-awaited returns. In the month’s best metal, stalwarts of the old-school death metal ethos, Funebrarum, return after 17 years, still radiating the same cryptic and decadent ...

The Acacia Strain – You Are Safe From God Here (Rise) For me, the best death metal feels like a location, a literal spatial world made accessible through music. There’s something about Ego Dissolution ...

Here are the 11 best debut albums in doom metal history. Doom is a particular genre and despite the perception of it being a bit of a narrow style with strict parameters, there's a lot of diversity ...

So, 2026. Let’s see if we get through this one as well! Regardless, there are already many excellent records to go through. The multiple interpretations of death metal still take centre stage, with ...