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San Francisco deathcore outfit Animosity have split up, according to a statement provided to Lambgoat. In it, frontman Leo Miller thanks fans for their support, and says that "if you haven't gotten enough of Animosity, please rest assured that we have ...

This past week, metal was on the brink of clinching #1 on the charts thanks to an iconic rock band -- until some Hallmark mothers decided to purchase Michael Buble. Nevertheless as reported by our friends over at Metal Insider, the legendary rock act Kiss respectably took the #2 debut with 108,000 albums sold in its first week...

While he isn't a team sports fanatic, Converge's Jake Bannon is certainly a fan of combat sports, like boxing and mixed martial arts. But he's not a big UFC cheerleader, either. "That's like the equivalent of the WWE! It's the WWE of martial arts...

I feel bad for my fiancée. We're a mixed couple: I love metal, she doesn't. And now, we're trying to pick the song for our first dance, because we're getting married this spring. And every one of my suggestions has been, thus far, inappropriate. Natur...

There are countless heavy metal resources on the Internet, but there are only a small handful that sail out from a mothership with a mainstream audience. The Onion definitely qualifies as one of the latter, so when we at NoiseCreep caught on to the affiliated A...

Even if movie sequels get progressively lamer the higher up the numbers go, the accompanying soundtracks sometimes get better and better. We're not sure how good the movie 'Saw VI' is, but the soundtrack is pretty rad, featuring new recordings by Suicide Silence, Lacuna Coil, Mushroomhead, Chimaira, Shadows Fall, Outbreak and Nitzer Ebb, as well as previously released music ranging from hard rock

The Quietus is the sort of pop culture meta-rag that writes about what its staff finds particularly worthwhile, so it's no surprise that they recently interviewed John Baizley of Baroness about his artwork. With their latest release, 'Blue Record,' just out on Relapse Records, singer/guitarist Baizley is in a good place to promote his visually creative side, too...

Cleveland's crushing post-metal outfit Keelhaul have announced two U.S. shows in their hometown to take place before the band embarks on a full European tour supporting Isis this November. The quartet will be playing an off-date with Converge and High on Fire -- who are currently on tour with Mastodon and Dethklok -- and will also be playing a special Halloween show with Dysrhythmia, Stats and Cla

You'd think a guy like Karl Sanders would've visited Egypt by now. After all, the virtuoso guitarist fronts South Carolinian Egyptian-themed death metal act Nile -- and fancies himself something an expert on Egyptology. But alas, Sanders has yet to make it over to see the Great Sphinx...

Every morning, this writer wakes up at 6 AM to start working on this column. The tough thing about working from home, though, that early in the morning: Dealing with my cats. You see, by now, my two cats, Dante and Jezebel, are used to my routine...