Man, it seems like bands all over have been shifting members left and right lately, hasn’t it? The latest shakeup to make waves in the metal community came when Cattle Decapitation‘s bassist Oliver ...

Death metal isn't typically balanced – it's full-throttled, lashing, relentless riffs and screams – yet Cryptopsy challenges that idea on An Insatiable Violence. Through controlled chaos, the record ...

There are no off days for Cryptopsy. The Canadian death-metal band is on a night off just outside of Baltimore when Westword rings, but instead of indulging in the local fare of soft-shell crab and ...

Technical death metal can sound too much like calculus at 250 BPM. Sure, challenge is a part of the metal deal, but if an album is a class, the problem sets need to be broken up with fieldtrips to the ...

They’re still a band very much on top of their game after more than 25 years as a band. They’re still a band very much on top of their game after more than 25 years as a band. I’m going to get this ...

2016 just got a little more brutal! That's because the mighty Cannibal Corpse will be rocking stages in February and March, heading up a killer lineup for death metal fans. The Noise are presenting ...

Long-running technical death metal icons Cryptopsy have revealed plans to issue a series of EPs for the faithful that will be delivered under the collective title of The Book of Suffering. Work on ...

Metallica recently announced they'd be playing their first-ever show in Saudi Arabia at the Soundstorm festival in Riyadh on Dec. 14, which would have made them the first international band to play ...