Metalsucks — With oddball bands like Exivious and T.R.A.M. turning heads in the metal scene over the past couple of years, is experimental jazz becoming the new “it” direction for talenthead metal musicians to move? The latest to join the party is Chris Letch... more info

Altsounds — Indianapolis, Indiana's prog-metal prodigies *The Contortionist* have just announced brand new co-headlining tour dates on the Slaughter Survivors Tour with *Conducting From The Grave, Scale The Summit, Rings Of Saturn, Volumes,* and *Structures*. Th... more info

Metalsucks — Ever since Within the Ruins were chosen as the opening band on Summer Slaughter via popular fan vote there’s been speculation that some of the other bands who were up for that final slot would team up for a tour of their own. That tour — dubbed t... more info

Metal Injection — I cannot stop listening to The Human Abstract's new album, Digial Veil. It's perfect in almost every way. The shred is great, the clean vocals are great, the drums are awesome, the songs are epic… it's all just so satisfying to the e... more info

Metalsucks — Vic Vaughn already told you that Scale the Summit’s The Collective finally comes out today, and if you read this site regularly there’s no way you could’ve forgotten, whatwith my constant reminders over the past 2+ months. But records this good... more info

Metalsucks — Scale the Summit makes awesome party music, as I found out this Sunday when I had some folks over to the Vince Division of the Mansion to celebrate my birthday. It’s heavy enough to get the metalheads’ in the room bopping, but it’s not so abras... more info

Metal Injection — Get over the Monday blues by listening to all this new metal that came about today. Valen-what day? I thought so… Amon Amarth have premiered another track on Decibel's blog, which is exciting because Amon Amarth rule, remember? If you have to ... more info

Metal Injection — It's been a while since we've done an audio roundup, which means this is going to be a bit longer than your usual roundup. So I'll stop yapping and let's get to the music:' Cavalera Conspiracy have unleashed the first teaser ... more info

Metalsucks — Boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy am I excited to bring you this, an exclusive premiere of the very first publicly available track from Scale the Summit’s forthcoming album The Collective (which I’ve been raving about for weeks)!! The track is call... more info

Metalsucks — There are two kinds of video studio updates worth watching: funny ones that actually take time and effort to produce, like the three-part series Protest the Hero put together for the album that’s now called Scurrilous, and videos where you actually... more info