Alisha Turull

After the news was received stateside that bassist Mike Alexander of Evile had passed away in Sweden back in early October, the metal community united on one front to express their deepest condolences. Now the U.K. thrash outfit have announced news of two final shows taking place in December as a memorial to both former bandmate and dear friend as stated in a press release yesterday...

In a time of recession, the Ireland thrash outfit Gama Bomb wanted to make the follow-up to their 2008 release 'Citizen Bomb' so available to their fans that they're giving it away -- for free! In a partnership with Rapidshare, the world's leading online file hosting company, their new album, 'Tales From the Grave in Space,' is a free download starting yesterday...

Carrying to the tradition of classic heavy metal in the U.K., the London-based band Savage Messiah make their way stateside with their debut release on Candlelight Records this week. Resonant with classic thrash sounds and precision in their technical musicianship, this is a band to keep on the radar in the coming months...

Since their inception in 1983, one of the founding fathers of thrash, Slayer, have attracted metal audiences since day one. With lightning fast riffs and aggressive lyrics album after album, it's no surprise that on the day of their 11th studio release they would continue in the same fashion...

Available in stores this week, the fourth studio album from Revere, Massachusetts' the Red Chord is out to the masses and just in time for the Halloween weekend this album is creepy down to the title -- or is it? Recently stated online, the album title was derived from the Discovery Channel show 'How It's Made...

October brought in a heap of new rock releases, but in November we can expect new albums from the titans in Slayer, and skullets will be in full effect thanks to the likes of the Devin Townsend Project. Plus full-length debuts will drop from Throwdown and their new home at E1 Entertainment, as well as resissues of King Diamond coming in from Metal Blade Records...

With the fifth studio release from the North Carolina progessive death metal act Between the Buried and Me, vocalist Tommy Rogers says that the new album is, "some of the best material they ever created," and we agree. The band keeps to their palette of style changing based on the vocals provided; but despite the complexity, it carries depth with meaning...

Crafting and perfecting the instrumental music genre and ambience that audiences recognize them for, Chicago's Pelican are both out on the road and out with a new album this week, thanks to new label home Southern Lord Records. Unable to be pigeonholed by the variety of their musical influences as well as the lack of a vocalist, the new album keeps a heavy focus on its sound and taking a light hea

As the album title suggests, the Nashville, Tenn. based hard rock band Creed have rolled out this week with their first new album since their hiatus in 2004. Working with Grammy-nominated producer Howard Benson (Blindside, Daughtry, Dead By Sunrise), the album takes a heavier path this time around...

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...