Metal Injection — Five albums and three singers into their career, Darkane are still slipping melodies into their thrash-infested death metal. Demonic Art doesn't try anything new, but it captures Darkane filling their Swedish death metal niche as soundly as anyone co... more info

Metalsucks — I loathe having to pare down every album I’ve listened to over the course of the year into a list of the “best 10.” I find it exceedingly difficult because there’s just no way to prevent great albums from being squeezed out. And while my list... more info

Culture Bully — 2/1 Anaheim, CA House of Blues 2/2 San Diego, CA House of Blues 2/3 Hollywood, CA House of Blues 2/4 San Francisco, CA Slim’s 2/6 Seattle, WA El Corazón 2/7 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre 2/8 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom 2/9 Spokane, WA... more info

Metalsucks — Before Meshuggah was Meshuggah-ing and mind-fucking the feeble confines of what was rhythmically acceptable to our once feeble metal minds, Dream Theater was pushing the boundaries of mind-fuckery with their crushing masterpiece “The Mirror” on t... more info

Guardian Music — News that heavy metal is to receive serious scholarly attention in Salzburg has raised some eyebrows elsewhere in these pages. So is it heretical that the city of Mozart should be putting Metallica and Slayer centre stage? Not a bit of it. Heavy meta... more info

Metalsucks — So a lot of you have been emailing us lately about this band Hacride, a really solid French progressive metal band very much in the Meshuggah / Textures / Benea Reach school. I think they’re pretty F’n cool, even if not entirely original (see als... more info