On the cover: Savannah, GA metal giants Kylesa return with their latest album, Ultraviolet! Inside: in-depth interviews with Cathedral, The Ocean, Nadja’s Aidan Baker, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, And So I Watch You From Afar, Colin Stetson, Hessian, Howl, Anciients, Intronaut, KEN mode, Small Stone! Plus live reviews of Kvelertak, Killing Joke, Deftones, Ghost, [...]

        Palms, the brand new supergroup featuring members of ISIS and Chino Moreno of Deftones, have revealed the album art (below) and track list for their self-titled debut album, due out on June 25th via Ipecac. Palms features six tracks across 47 minutes, with the full track titles as follows: 1. Future [...]

We are absolutely shocked to hear that legendary Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman has passed away. A post on Slayer’s Facebook page reads: “Slayer is devastated to inform that their bandmate and brother, Jeff Hanneman, passed away at about 11AM this morning near his Southern California home. Hanneman was in an area hospital when he suffered [...]

On the cover: Sweden’s post-metal heroes Cult Of Luna return with their latest, possibly greatest, album Vertikal! Inside: Mark Arm talks Mudhoney‘s Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge as the band celebrate their 25th anniversary! Plus in-depth interviews with Mats Gustafsson, Long Distance Calling, Splashgirl, Constellation Records, Pombagira, Farmers Market, Inter Arma, Altaar, Oneirogen. Plus live [...]

Palms, the supergroup featuring former ISIS members Jeff Caxide, Aaron Harris and Bryant Clifford Meyer and Deftones frontman Chino Moreno, have set June 25th as the U.S. release date for their self-titled debut album via Ipecac Recordings. Moreno recently played an audio clip of an early, unmastered mix of their song titled Tropics on his online Mixlr [...]

On the cover: the mighty Tomahawk, featuring Mike Patton (Faith No More/Mr Bungle/etc), Duane Denison (The Jesus Lizard), John Stanier (Battles, ex-Helmet) and Trevor Dunn (Mr Bungle, Fantômas, Melvins) return with their latest album, Oddfellows! Inside: We unveil our Top 50 Albums Of 2012, plus in-depth interviews with Converge, Atriarch, Fontanelle, Seattle supergroup Walking Papers, [...]

Sweden’s post-metal heroes Cult Of Luna return with a brand new studio album this January, entitled Vertikal.   Vertikal marks the first full-length in five years for the band following 2008’s Eternal Kingdom and is said to contain “themes of machinery, repetition and clear, linear structures honed to the visual imagery of Fritz Lang’s classic [...]

On the cover: post-metal titans Neurosis return with their crushing new opus Honor Found In Decay. Inside: Led Zeppelin legend John Paul Jones talks to us about his tour with Norwegian avant-garde powerhouse Supersilent! Plus in-depth interviews with Pig Destroyer, Amenra, Sabbath Assembly, Anaal Nathrakh, Baltic Fleet, Bison B.C., Downfall Of Gaia, Lento, Menace Ruine, [...]