Chicago Tribune — Opeth: The Swedish band has evolved from its growly, grinding death-metal origins into an increasingly progressive and even experimental outfit, as chronicled on their recently released 10th studio album, “Heritage” (Roadrunner), 7:30 p.m. Frida... more info

Altsounds — Sweden's *PAIN OF SALVATION* once again they prove their unmatched reputation as true, modern rock artists by delivering *“Road Salt Two”*, the twin-companion *”Road Salt One”* (2010). Part two is as opulent in cre... more info

Metalsucks — Katatonia are not on Spotify because their label, Century Media, doesn’t want them there. This is unfortunate. After I saw the band play a phenomenal opening set for Opeth a couple of weeks back I wanted nothing more the next morning than to dive i... more info

Metalsucks — No. I am not kidding. Nor am I upset. If you don’t liked this song, I take issue with you. -AR [via SkullsNBones] more info

Metalsucks — Opeth’s new album Heritage is as controversial a metal album as has been released in all of 2011 (save for Morbid Angel’s new one… but that wasn’t exactly controversial seeing as no one liked it). That is if you can even call it “metal” �... more info

Metal Injection — Our photo gallery is constantly being updated with sexy snapshots of shows happing all across the world. Here are just some of the shows we recently added: Opeth, Katatonia in NYC Sept. 2011 ProgPower 2011 (Sanctuary, Forbidden, Therion, Ihsahn, etc)... more info

Metalsucks — The “Top Hard Music” Chart I’ve been using for this column for the past couple of years is a mixed bag; on one hand, a lot of the “Top Hard Music” albums are really old albums that continue to sell (Metallica’s Black Album, various greate... more info

Metal Injection — It's the beginning of the week, and since there is so much more of this week left to go, here is some music to get you through it… Local Philly act The Bailey Hounds posted this video of an intriguing acoustic cover of Pantera's "The Grea... more info

Metal Injection — Last year we told you about a project that would see a collaboration between Opeth frontman Mikael Akerfeldt and Porcupine Tree frontman Steve Wilson. A new post on Opeth's official site suggest the project is finally being completed. Here is th... more info

Metalsucks — We missed a whole lotta new videos while we were out on Friday, so I’m gonna post ‘em — and my snarky and not-so-snarky commentary, of course — now. Please excuse my lack of a traditional introduction about little effort I am going to put int... more info