Altsounds — **BLACK TUSK** will re-issue their debut album** Passage Through Purgatory** this spring via Relapse Records. **Passage Through Purgatory** has been re-mastered, re-packaged with expanded John Dyer Baizley artwork, and includes two bonus tracks. Ther... more info

Topix — Top 10 lists are slave to consumption - what you did and didn't ingest. Disclaimer dispatched, my 2010 live metal honors notch 20 thrashings: Kreator , Emo's Pentagram , Black Tusk , Mala Suerte , Emo's Watain , Goatwhore , Averse Sefira , HOD , Emo'... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Samantha Marble, words by BBG Kirk Windstein of Crowbar (insert trite "heavy" joke here) I'm no expert on non-alcoholic beer. So when I see Kirk Windstein of Crowbar (who recently left alcohol rehab) hit the stage with a... more info

Altsounds — **BLACK TUSK** and **HOWL** will team up for a co-headlining European tour starting in early February. This will be the first time either band has toured Europe and will be doing so in support of their Relapse debuts. The month-long tour will kick-of... more info

Metalsucks — Even as someone who generally thinks that hip-hop has been in a pretty steady decline for, I dunno, at least fifteen years, I have a lot of respect for RZA, and Wu-Tang Clan in general; hell, I even chuckled at RZA’s not-especially-funny cameo in t... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG Kirk on stage with Down at Nokia Theater (more by Nathaniel Shannon) Metalsucks: I guess first thing's first, man: how are you? I know you've been to rehab recently. Is that something that you're still involved in? It's... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG Kirk Fisher (aka K. Lloyd) of Buzzov*en (more by Samantha Marble) Kirk Fisher and the rest of Buzzov*en destroyed Public Assembly with Black Tusk and Ramming Speed at their first show in NYC in 12 years last month.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Samantha Marble, words by BBG Threats of hurricane, cancellations (the boat, not to mention Javelina bowed out due to illness), and a dozen years away from NYC could not stop the return of Buzzov*en to NYC, who played... more info

Stereogum — I’ve already gone on about Kylesa’s forthcoming Spiral Shadow, a sure contender for metal album of the year, so I’ll cut to the chase: Adult Swim and Scion A/V have released Metal Swim, a free compilation that features Spiral Shadow’s “Fors... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG Buzzoven live in the 90s Buzzov-en was a sludge metal band from North Carolina, formed in 1989 by the remaining members of Sewer Puppet. The band was known for being one of the founders of the sludge genre... more info