Pirate Metal Band Alestorm Explain Why They're Touring Canada with Giant Inflatable Ducks

Published Nov 01, 2019

Metal pirates Alestorm returned to where X marked the spot only to discover the buried treasure was gone: there were no more 8-foot inflatab...

Watch Beyond Creation Shred Through "The Afterlife" at Their 'Algorythm' Montreal Release Show

Published Jun 12, 2019

Beyond Creation had their progressive/technical death metal legitimized this year via a Juno nomination for Algorythm, joining Season of Mis...

"The Summer Slaughter Tour" Is Returning to Toronto

Published May 31, 2019

Billed as "the most extreme tour of the year," "The Summer Slaughter Tour" is set to return to Toronto for the first time in years. The s...

​Ingested Announce 'Call of the Void' EP, Premiere "Mouth of the Abyss"

Published Apr 30, 2019

After dropping The Level Above Human, Ingested spent much of 2018 on the road, including a cross-Canada headline tour and further dates in t...

Thy Art Is Murder Announce 'Human Target' Album, Unveil Video for Title Track

Published Apr 26, 2019

Australian death metal/deathcore titans Thy Art Is Murder have announced that their new album Human Target will drop July 26 via Nuclear Bla...

Watch Perfect Limbs' New Video for Melodic Hardcore Track "Seeking"

Published Apr 24, 2019

Burlington, ON's Perfect Limbs haven't released a song in over a year, and even then it was just a single, not a proper follow-up to 2016's...

Watch Rhythm of Fear Thrash Through "Vortex of Torment"

Published Apr 17, 2019

Despite naming their latest EP Ritual Dementia, Rhythm of Fear pretty much guarantee you won't forget them with lead single "Vortex of Torme...

Hear Numenorean Meld the Cure and Gojira into Post-Black Metal on 'Adore'

Published Apr 11, 2019

On debut LP Home, Calgary post-black metallers Numenorean shocked with provocative cover art, though on follow-up Adore they let the music d...

Hear Dorian Gray Soar and Stomp on New Song "Save Me"

Published Apr 04, 2019

The namesake of St. Catharines band Dorian Gray is obvious, and their dual influences match Oscar Wilde's theme of living a dual life. The g...

Watch Smoulder's Fantastical Video for Re-Recorded "The Sword Woman"

Published Mar 29, 2019

Epic doomsters Smoulder are set to release first LP Times of Obscene Evil and Wild Daring on April 26 via Cruz Del Sur Music, just under a y...

Watch Stand Atlantic Play Acoustic Versions of "Skinny Dipping" and "Toothpick" on No Future

Published Mar 25, 2019

Stand Atlantic are going to be pop punk's next breakout success, riding the colossal wave of last year's debut LP Skinny Dipping around the...

The Used, Thrice, Circa Survive, Sum 41 to Play Inaugural Disrupt Festival

Published Mar 25, 2019

Poised to fill the void left by the drastically shortened Vans Warped Tour, organizers behind Rockstar Energy Drink's Disrupt Festival have...

Hear Bury Your Dead's First New Song in Eight Years

Published Mar 22, 2019

Massachusetts metalcore band Bury Your Dead have returned with their first new material since 2011's Mosh n' Roll. They have released the ne...

Watch Now, Now Play Acoustic Versions of "SGL" and "Set It Free" on Exclaim! TV's No Future

Published Mar 21, 2019

There's an immediacy in Now, Now's name that belies the time it takes the duo to release new material, leaving fans eagerly anticipating eve...

Hear Metallic Hardcore Band Rain of Salvation's Straight Edge "Call to Arms"

Published Mar 11, 2019

With members hailing from Long Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Delaware, Rain of Salvation are surrounded by some of the best metalli...

Hear Mourn's Sludgy Metallic Hardcore on "Meet My Fate"

Published Mar 06, 2019

Mourn started in 2015 when Uplift guitarist Sam Checchia got together with some friends, including Exalt drummer Tim Waugh, and used the fad...

Watch Aussie Death Thrashers Truth Corroded's New Video for "Victims Left Lepers"

Published Mar 01, 2019

The whole toilets flushing backwards in Australia ain't true, but Adelaide's Truth Corroded are taking renowned brutal/tech death label Uniq...

Mötley Crüe and Machine Gun Kelly Join Forces for "The Dirt (Est. 1981)"

Published Feb 22, 2019

Though Machine Gun Kelly is portraying Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee in the upcoming Netflix movie The Dirt, the rapper has stepped out from...

Wretched Fate Fleshletting

Published Feb 21, 2019

Sweden's Wretched Fate were inspired to contribute to their country's storied (death) metal tradition after reading tomes on the topic and,...

Watch Movements Play "Colorblind" and "Third Degree" Acoustic at Toronto Warped Tour

Published Feb 14, 2019

Movements have been making quite the commotion since forming in 2015, getting a Warped slot in 2017 with just an EP before jumping up to mai...