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2011 was a killer year for heavy metal and hard rock. New albums from the likes of Mastodon, Krallice, and Craft, among many other acts, floored us and proved that the artists we cover here are among the most stylistically diverse in music today...

12 is the magic number for Cannibal Corpse. The long-running death metal band is now recording its 12th album at Sonic Ranch studios in Texas with producer (and fellow death metallion) Erik Rutan. While the band has recorded at Sonic Ranch in the past, album 12 marks the first time that Rutan, who fronts Hate Eternal and was formerly a member of Morbid Angel and Ripping Corpse, is at the helm in

Cannibal Corpse guitarist Pat O'Brien has been tapped to fill in for Exodus' Gary Holt when Holt leaves Slayer's European tour to play with his own band at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago, Chile. Holt has been filling in for Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman since the tour kicked off on February 26th in Australia...

Metal Blade label head Brian Slagel and NHL.com's Shawn Roarke have teamed up to co-host 'Metal Misconduct,' an NHL-themed radio show. The show is available at HardRadio.com and via iTunes as a podcast. Slagel and Roarke co-host the program, which will include interviews with musicians and athletes, as well as music selected by Slagel himself...

When the average person on the street thinks about broken heart songs, Jimmy Ruffin's 'What Becomes of the Broken Hearted' may come to mind, or perhaps something like light like Toni Braxton's 'Unbreak My Heart.' One thing's for sure -- a Deicide song probably isn't at the top of the list...

At a Skeletonwitch show -- it now being the band's seventh year bringing their blackened thrash attack across America and beyond -- don't be surprised to see guitarist Scott Hedrick hanging out in front of the club with fans and friends alike before thrashing whatever audience that is in whatever city it is on whatever night tonight shortly thereafter...

San Diego quintet Burning the Masses will follow up 'Mind Control' with 'Offspring of Time,' due out July 20 via Mediaskare Records. The deathcore band has been compared to an amalgam of Between the Buried and Me, Cannibal Corpse and Necrophagist, so that pretty much sounds like something we'd like to damage our hearing with...

Lava-spewing volcanoes look pretty damn cool on album covers, but the past week has taught us that volcanoes and metal don't always mix so well. As anyone who doesn't live in a torch-lit cave knows by now, an Icelandic volcano erupted April 15, spreading clouds of ash across much of Europe and grounding hundreds of planes...

Cannibal Corpse bassist Alex Webster once called Santa Cruz, California death metal band Brain Drill "one of the most musically over-the-top bands I have ever heard. They are truly raising the bar for technicality, velocity and overall extremity in death metal...

Florida-based death metal pioneers, Cannibal Corpse have announced their first headline shows since they played the Hot Topic stage on 2009's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. The tour will launch April 20 in Orlando, Fla. and run through May 16 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla...