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Andrew Lee tells us about his 2022 faves, including Artificial Brain, Autopsy, Chat Pile, Cloud Rat, Sumerlands, and more...

Mike's picks include Undeath, Flume, Beach House, Charli XCX, and more...

New York via DC grindcore monsters are prepping their new LP II, which is out February 12 on Relapse. We already posted the new song "Sacrificial Hire," and now we've got the premiere of another track from that album, "Black Banner...

As always, there's a bunch of great metal and hardcore happening in NYC, so here are some shows to tide you over while you mourn the fact that you can't make it to the Czech Republic for the Insect Warfare reunion...

Maryland Deathfest is less than a month away (May 21-24), and the lineup was already stacked with Neurosis, Napalm Death, Yob, Triptykon, Primordial, Inter Arma, Tombs, D...

Australian death metallers Portal are coming over to the US for Maryland Deathfest in May, and not long after that they'll play an MDF-presented NYC show on May 27 at Saint Vitus with MDF-mates and related band Impetuous Ritual, plus Negative...

Tombs at Saint Vitus in July (more by Greg Cristman) Maryland Deathfest is getting a little more New Yawk with the late addition of NY old-school death metal band Suffocation and Skinless and Brooklyn's own post-metal greats Tombs...

The final round of bands for Maryland Deathfest 2015 was announced and a stacked lineup was stacked even higher. The highlights are numerous, including Agoraphobic Nosebleed's first live set, Amorphis playing their classic Tales from the Thousand Lakes in its entirety, Inverloch jamming out tunes from their former incarnation diSEMBOWELMENT, super-deathers Bloodbath playing an exclusive US show, and ripping speed-metallers (and suddenly influential) Razor making their first appearance in the States in over two decades...

Misery Index at Europa (more by Samantha Marble) Due to a series of unfortunate events, we're not doing any shows on any shockwave/Fear Factory/Voivod etc...