Metalsucks — All metal fans should be familiar with the work of artist Eliran Kantor by now; Kantor has done incredible work for Testament, Atheist, and Sodom, amongst others, including the stunning cover for Sigh’s 2009 Scenes from Hell. His work is really, we... more info

Metalsucks — Full disclosure: I yearn for the Golden Age of Thrash, when young men in denim battle vests covered in Sodom and Exodus roamed o’er the land. While the 1980s are dead and gone, thrash lives. No one is more keyed into the thriving thrash scene than ... more info

Guardian Music — Linbury Studio, LondonClemency, James MacMillan's new opera for five singers and string orchestra, is about "vengeance and mercy", according to its librettist, Michael Symmons Roberts. A co-production between ROH2 and Scottish Opera, it's a religio... more info

411 Mania — Why didn't anybody tell me about this band before!? more info

Dlisted — Over the weekend, England was filled with more white powder than the inside of Paris Hilton's vagina and so the airport situation was like John Travolta's b-hole after a "pass around patty" sauna orgy: messy and congested. Planes were force... more info

Guardian Music — A spin-off from a YouTube act that's attracted more than two million subscribers, this painfully unfunny comedy features Fred (Lucas Cruikshank), an awkward US high school kid, who spends his time being humiliated and fantasising when not talking str... more info

Metalsucks — Eliran Kantor is on quite a roll this year: The cover art for Sigh’s Scenes from Hell, Atheist’s Jupiter, and now Sodom’s In War and Pieces have all kicked ass so hard that there’s now a spot on my butt that reads “Reserved for Eliran Kant... more info

Metalsucks — Congrats to reader Nick Lynn, who correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band  Rotten Stigmatosis. Nick wins any two CDs and/or DVDs from whatever the hell we have lying around the mansion this week. Nick, please check your e-ma... more info

411 Mania — The year was 1986 and everything changed for heavy metal as some of the most influencial albums were unleashed. We look at Metallica's Master Of Puppets, Slayer's Reign In Blood, Fates Warning's Awaken The Guardian, Kreator's Pleasure To Kill plus m... more info

Metalsucks — Y’know what would be awesome? If the Teutonic Big Three (that would be Kreator, Destruction, and Sodom) all toured together. “Take that, American Big Four!” the line-up would seem to say, followed by spitting and some curses mumbled in German. ... more info