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I don't think nu-metal should be considered metal. I'm on the fence about "post-metal."

Carter Williams Music for Viola d'Amore and Live Electronics New music for this fascinating baroque string instrument combined with computer generated sounds and visuals, featuring works by Attilo Ariosti, Johannes Fritsch and Carter Williams (who has flown in from Cologne, Germany, where he...

"Until the Light Takes Us is a documentary of the early 1990s black metal scene in Norway. Featuring interviews with Varg Vikernes, Fenriz of Darkthrone and other foundational members of the early black metal community, it is a documentary meant to appreciate black metal the way it should always...

Blaspherian comes from Houston, Texas, and makes old school death metal with its own voice. Their music does not sound like any known band but is clearly influenced by the old school of booming, primitive, dark, introspective and alienated metal. Formed in 2004, Blaspherian arose from the...

Five years ago today, we lost a metal legend who called himself Quorthon. The mastermind of black metal band Bathory, he influenced everything to come after and should be remembered for the depth he gave to these genres. Remembering a metal legend It's a good time to haul out those old Bathory...

Celebrate the International Day of Slayer, a holiday for all metalheads and those who like Slayer! Every other culture gets its time in the spotlight so it's time for metalheads to get the same. This June 6, starting at 6 AM (get it, 6/6:6?), do no work but listen to Slayer instead. Originally...

For those who like intelligent guitar work... this Canadian technical death metal band is worth pursuing!

The most metal books ever: * Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Celine * The Possibility of an Island, Michel Houellebecq * The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway * Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs * White Noise, Don Delillo * Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad * American Psycho...

http://www.nationaldayofslayer.org/ Never forget... the Slayer. Who's celebrating? Come on over. We're going to blast Slayer at our neighbors until they die.

Interview with a highly intelligent metal musician...

Thanks to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, today's listening is: Cesar Franck - Symphony in D Minor I find this piece interesting because it combines the playfulness of the Scandinavians, the somber but powerful sense of the Faustian sublime of the Germans, and the itinerant wanderlust and...

Probably my favorite of the year. I really recommend this to anyone who likes deep atmospheric doom metal, or anyone who just likes good music but doesn't mind it being ssssssssllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwww.

Along with Carnage, who later became Dismember, Nihilist were stalwarts of the Swedish death metal scene, going on to become Entombed and launching a bassist to Unleashed.

I always felt this music was very metal, but then I heard about how they influenced Tom G. Warrior of Celtic Frost.

I really enjoy this thoughtful heavy progressive rock band. Lots of excellent guitar work.

Cro-Mags - The Age of Quarrel Archetypal hardcore punk, the Cro-Mags thrust aside social contrivance to speak a plain truth and tell everyone else to back off, in the process helping develop the techniques and realistic, neo-Machiavellian worldview later adopted by underground bands. "The Age...

Lord Wind - Atlantean Monument Probably the best work from Eastclan group since 1998, this release culminates the pagan dreamlike melodies that have been appearing in Graveland and Lord Wind releases. Over an hour long, it represents the best music currently available for those who long for...

Suffocation interview No one has or will create death metal like Suffocation. Taking the muffled hard-stop strumming of speed metal, mixing it in with the structural cryptograms of death metal, and amplifying the intensity, Suffocation innovative the percussive death metal that spawned the...

Justin Broadrick demonstrated through his early works a desire for that moment of unitivity when the conscious mind and emotions synchronized. Through Godflesh, and later Techno Animal and Final, he showed a passion for bringing colossal structures to bear on moments of quiet contemplation. With...

If "metal" could be used as a descriptive term, meaning something that finds beauty in the terrifying and violent, then this is the most metal music I've heard lately. It's not frilly and it's not frivolous. It is playful, witty, and musically adept, but even more than that, it's warlike. It...