Crashing beats. Roaring vocals. Rushing melodies. People often group heavy metal music into a mixed heap of fast, thundering music. But if you listen to the five bands playing on Feb. 6 at Silver Moon ...

The complete Maryland Deathfest 2026 roster is here, and it’s massive.

Napalm Death just locked in a spot.

Of all of metal’s various subgenres, grindcore might well be the most extreme - and it’s arguable whether or not it is actually part of the metal family tree at all. Taking sonic and ideological ...

Who says Scandinavia is nothing but pasty white dudes in black metal bands traipsing around the woods in corpse paint? Certainly not me and absolutely not the maniacal motherfuckers in Hatchend. And ...

Welcome to “Humor of the Beast,” a recurring series where we interview the funniest people about their favorite band, as well as the impact heavy music has had on their lives and in comedy. In this ...

It’s Monday and Mondays suck, so let’s grind it out with A Grindcore Christmas Volume 1. It’s Monday and Mondays suck, so let’s grind it out with A Grindcore Christmas Volume 1. What better way to get ...

If there is one band that comes to mind when the words grindcore and Canada were put in the same sentence, it would most likely be Fuck the Facts. Created in the late ‘90s by Topon Das, the band was ...

According to a Google search I did about a minute ago, Finland's primary exports include timber, paper products, and meteorological equipment. Assuming that there's some validity to that list, the ...

A stagediver jumps into the crowd as Napalm Death perform on stage at the ICA, London, United Kingdom, 1990. (Photo by Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images) The grindcore story dates back to the summer of ...

Most metal heads will tell you from personal experience that extreme metal isn’t family friendly music. Whether it’s black metal, death metal, thrash or grindcore, this music will not be enjoyed or ...