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The 15th album by the German thrash icons is on the way.

Did your favorites make the cut?

Beats anything the rest of us did as teenagers.

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The 17th album from the German thrash legends.

German thrash icons Destruction will return to North America with support from Warbringer and Jungle Rot on all dates and additional support from two more acts.

Is a live album really ever live? Most are manipulated in some way, either in the mixing stage or the overdubbing of guitar leads or vocal passages. The greatest of them all, KISS seminal Alive!, comes with legendarily conflicting reports of how much it was doctored. But who cares? It rocks harder than any other album in existence, KISS or otherwise.

Matt Fox might not be a household name, but his influence on modern metal is irrefutable. Shai Hulud, the group he formed in 1995, was one of the first acts to successfully merge metal and hardcore, inspiring not only bands to form, but entire scenes...

German thrash icons Destruction will lay waste to North America in April to support their latest studio album, 'Day of Reckoning,' which hits stores March 8. Destroyer 666 will ride sidecar with the Teutonic metal warriors on this deafening decibel tour...

Mere moments after Noisecreep found out about Northwestern destroyers Shadow of the Torturer, hungrily devoured the music on their Web site and gotten mega-stoked on their monolithic cacophonies, we were confronted by rumors that the band had already broken up...