Focus was one of the best prog metal debut albums ever and one of the best prog metal albums of the ‘90s. So, it inevitably ...

Scott Burns remembers the first time he saw Deicide play live. The exact date has been lost to time but it was sometime the late 80s, and Scott was the engineer at Morrisound Studios in Tampa, Florida ...

In Metal, longevity has always been part of mythology. Only a rare few bands who grind it out across multiple albums, tours, and (I'll just say it), years of failure, before finally breaking through.

Though we are only five years into the 2020s, death metal is proving itself to be one of the defining genres of the decade. Looking back on the 2010s, death metal went through extraordinary growth ...

In 1999, Control Denied released The Fragile Art Of Existence. The band consisted of guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner (Death), guitarist Shannon Hamm (ex-Death), bassist Steve DiGiorgio ...

Florida death metal legends Obituary have announced a 35th anniversary tour for their 1990 sophomore album Cause of Death, and they’re taking along an amazing lineup of support bands: Nails, Terror, ...

It’s been almost 24 years since the world lost death metal pioneer Chuck Schuldiner following his battle with brain cancer. Since then, death metal has become a powerhouse force in the metal world and ...

Years before King Diamond, drummer Matt Thompson played in Truncator, a short-lived death metal band with surprisingly ...

Being able to belt out a tune like Adele or Pavarotti is not just about raw talent. The best singers in the world have to work on their technique—like how to control their breath and develop the ...

In 1998, the same year that the pioneering death-metal band Death released their final album, The Sound of Perseverance, Madonna released her ethereal trip-hop pop single, “Frozen.” At some point ...

One of music’s greatest cosmic ironies is how ground zero for the expressionist rage known as death metal is located in easy driving distance from the Most Magical Place on Earth. When a shaggy-haired ...