Zeal and Ardor

The virtual metal fest also added members of Megadeth, Samhain, Repulsion, Vio-lence, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Hatebreed, Municipal Waste, Testament, and much more.

Metal/heavy rock livestream fest Slay At Home will raise money for COVID-19 relief and also features Tesseract, Astronoid, A.A. Williams, and members of Type O Negative, Gorguts, Revocation, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and much more...

La Dispute's entire discography is also up for pay-what-you-want downloads for Christmas, with proceeds going to charity.

Slipknot's North American tour with Behemoth (and Gojira and Volbeat) hits the NYC-area this week, and the two bands will also trek across Europe and the UK together in 2020.

”I have friends and people that I meet send me things, I read about music, and I also check out the algorithm recommendations—some things are very indie, others are very much corporate pop.”

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Deafheaven are also going on a co-headlining tour with Baroness, and playing shows with Gojira around Bonnaroo.

Two of the biggest and best modern crossover metal bands have announced a co-headlining tour for 2019.

The new North Carolina festival replaces Carolina Rebellion and the lineup includes Tool, Judas Priest, Foo Fighters, Korn, Rob Zombie, Mark Lanegan, Mastodon, High On Fire, Vein, and more.

The first major list of the year's best metal albums is here.