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DevilDriver Teams Up With Superjoint For "The Broken Bones Tour"

Support To Come From King Parrot, Cane Hill and Child Bite.

"Vortices: A Forward" the new album by VISITORS comes out tomorrow

The band fuses together modern progrock, spacey experimental alternative and progressive melodic hardcore.

THEN COMES SILENCE Discuss New Album In Video Trailer!

Alex Svenson talks about the evolution of the band's sound over the course of the previous albums up until the upcoming Blood.

ASPHYX Announce Second Date Added For Sold-Out Anniversary Show

30 Year Anniversary Special Edition Release of Iconic Debut Album,"The Rack" due November 17, 2017

ACCEPT's Wolf Hoffmann talks about the lyrical content in third NEW ALBUM trailer

Wolf states: "The more you look at the news nowadays, the more the album title fits because times get pretty chaotic these days..."

Very Sad News for Linkin Park and Fans

Chester Bennington Rest In Peace

SLAYER to perform this evening on The Tonight Show!

Slayer will make its 11:35PM late-night television debut on Thursday, July 27 when the band performs its iconic "Raining Blood" on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon." The show airs at 11:35PM ET/PT and 10:35PM CT on NBC.

Decapitated "Anticult" Lands Big On The Charts

The band will embark on a North American tour next month. Dates are below.

Colorado Black Metal inspired by HP Lovecraft CRAFTEON - Cosmic Reawakening - Out August 25th

The eight tracks on the release are based on classic H.P. Lovecraft tales such as ‘The Outsider’, ‘Dagon’ and ‘From Beyond’.

BYZANTINE's masterpiece, "The Cicada Tree", will be out July 28th!

Muscular yet lithe riffs and fluid leads play against gripping, dynamic and at times unpredictable rhythms, while rich melodies and lyrics that are both involved and intelligent wind their way through every track.

ANCIIENTS announce headlining Canadian tour

The full cross-country tour begins on Aug. 4 in Vancouver, and a list of confirmed tour dates can be found here.

MINISTRY Announce Their 2017 U.S. Co Headlining Tour With DEATH GRIPS

The tour kicks off at The Palladium in Worcester, MA on October 13 and will hit Pittsburgh, Seattle, and San Francisco before concluding on November 11th at Gas Monkey Live in Dallas,TX.

EYEHATEGOD Announces Left To Starve Summer Tour

Negative Approach, Cro-Mags, And More On Select Dates. "Take As Needed For Pain" Full-Length Appears On Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time List.