Bloody Roots Celebrates Halloween 2016 on Sirius XM

Honor the night when all become metal fiends with seasonal incantations by King Diamond, Blind Guardian, Cradle of Filth, the Misfits, Type O Negative, Necrophagia, the Black Dahlia Murder, Acid Witch, Halloween, and others.

Bloody Roots Prelude to Terror: Horror Film-Inspired Metal Songs on Sirius...

As the spirit of the Halloween season thickens, join host Ian Christe for an hourlong heavy metal homage to great horror films including Evil Dead, Maniac, Friday the 13th, Asphyx, The Slayer, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, City of the Living Dead, Blood Feast, Black Sabbath, and others.

Fri 11/11, Zurich: Tom Gabriel Fischer Talk / Triptykon Live /...

The concert will take place at the Kino Roland, a unique and somewhat notorious cinema venue that will be converted into a small club for Triptykon's performance.

NYHC: Tony Rettman’s Gotta Fight for Breakdown Vinyl Reissues

The always-on-point tag-team of Painkiller Records and 540 Records rescued this classic bit of rage from the digital-only wasteland, remastered it from the original tapes and placed it on a nice, thick slice of proper vinyl.

SHERIFF McCOY: Hanoi Rocks Get “Strange” in Retrospective Six-LP Hanoi Box

Strange Boys, a remastered collection of the first five albums by Finnish glam-trash punk-metal legends Hanoi Rocks, will strut with style into stores on...

Bazillion Points Revives Albert Mudrian’s CHOOSING DEATH; Death Metal & Grindcore...

Publishers Weekly: "Mudrian, editor-in-chief of Decibel magazine, condenses painstaking and lengthy interviews to create this informative history of death metal."

Bloody Roots of Death Metal and Grindcore in 2016 on SiriusXM

New tracks by Asphyx, Rotten Sound, Obituary, and Anaal Nathrakh, plus innovative and lethal death and grind by Asphalt Graves, Blood Incantation, Usurpress, Nails, Gruesome, Hannes Grossmann, and more.

Bloody Roots of Grunge and Metal on Sirius XM

The lasting impact of mostly Sub Pop Records grunge acts like Tad, Nirvana, Earth, Mudhoney, and Soundgarden merits a look at the thick sound of distortion and flannel.

HEAVY METAL MOVIES: TCM Salutes Christopher Lee—The Most Metal Movie Star...

Though Sir Christopher Lee crossed over to the realms beyond in 2015 at age 93, his on-camera legacy lives forever—just like Dracula, his most...

A Lifeless Object, Alive: Slayer’s REIGN IN BLOOD Turns Thirty Today

Get to work! Twenty-eight minutes and fifty-eight seconds of metallic perfection awaits to rip yourself apart. Congratulations to Tom Araya, Kerry King, Dave Lombardo,...

EXPERIENCING NIRVANA: Tad Doyle’s Brothers of the Sonic Cloth Rises Again

Slaying season has come once more to Seattle. Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, the Emerald City doom circle fronted by "heavier-than-God" Sub Pop-era grunge legend...

HELLBENT FOR COOKING: Annick Giroux’s Cauchemar Hits the European Road

Canadian heavy/doom metal riff masters Cauchemar—the band fronted by Annick Giroux, author of Hellbent for Cooking: The Heavy Metal Cookbook—announces its upcoming European tour. Encompassing...

Bloody Roots Salutes 30 Years of Slayer’s Reign in Blood on...

We slice cut by cut through Reign in Blood in all its violent glory.

MISERY OBSCURA: Glenn Danzig Tells New York Times Misfits Reunion Is...

Fans swarmed the reunion gigs in Denver and Chicago with maniacal passion and, by all accounts, the band seemed bolstered by the love and delivered the ghoulish goods.

SWEDISH DEATH METAL: Entombed Announce Clandestine Orchestral Gig This November in...

As Nicke Andersson points out: “It’s about damn time!”

MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW: We Lost Cliff Burton 30...

Thirty years have now passed, and so many questions continue to gnaw about what could have been.

HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Farewell Herschell Gordon Lewis, the Godfather of Gore

Herschell Gordon Lewis, the "inventor of the color red"—and the filmmaker who invented the modern gore movie in 1963 with the landmark drive-in chunk-blower Blood Feast—has died at 87.

SUB POP USA: As Nirvana’s Nevermind Turns 25, Props to the...

We have published two books by Sub Pop Records founder Bruce Pavitt that offer over six hundred pages of lavish insight into how Nevermind happened.

Bloody Roots of Ozzfest Year One—1996 on SiriusXM

Though the success launched a legend, the outcome was never guaranteed.

HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Blu-Ray Brutality for Sept 2016 w/DePalma, Chopping Mall,...

This month’s best metal, punk, and other hard-rock-related movies, with gratuitous guidance from Mike “McBeardo” McPadden of HEAVY METAL MOVIES