Cathedral

Lee talks the new With The Dead album (hear a new track!), his record label Rise Above, and seeing Faith No More on LSD.

Lucifer's a powerful name because it has social, religious and literary connotations. At the same time, it's sort of an anonymous name. It's not hard to conjure that name up out of our collective unconscious...

Decibel Magazine is back with its annual top 40 albums of the year list. Two of the top three (including the #1 spot) are reunion albums from death metal veterans, though many younger bands place highly as well...

Cathedral at MDF 2011 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG) Doom metal titans Cathedral have basically called it quits for good, having played their last show already, and will sail into the sunset with final album The Last Spire due on April 30th via Metal Blade...

Scott Carlson of Repulsion at The Power of The Riff 2010 (more by Adam L Murray) A band pours its heart and soul into its music. Not many people give a shit...

words & There's four days of this? Maryland Deathfest 2011 (May 26-29 at Club Sonar) kicked off at the early hour of 4:45PM Thursday with a set from Witchaven, an LA thrash four piece that is currently on the road with Nocturnal (who play the 2nd outdoor stage today, 5/27)...

DOWNLOAD: Arckanum - "Þursvitnir" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Impetuous Ritual - "Ceremonial Disembowelment" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Amenra - "Wear My Crown" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Fistula - "Bi-Polar Bear" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Fight Amp - "Be Safe" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: KEN Mode - Holiday Sampler (Zipped MP3s) DOWNLOAD: Elder - "Friendly Fire" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Struck By Lightning - "False Hope" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Ludicra - "A Larger Silence" (MP3) Dark Castle @ Union Pool (more by Sam Marble) In recent months, the upswing in metal coverage on BV has rendered the moniker "Week In Metal" unnecessary...

We continue with JJ's report from Roadburn in Tilburg, Holland. If you missed it, you might want to start with Day One. Here is Day Two (Friday April 23, 2009)...