MutantSupremacy

The indie death squad known as Mutant Supremacy hail from the decidedly unmetal and thoroughly hipster location of Brooklyn. But guess what? That doesn't stop them from remaining as brutal as possible, a sonic artillery barrage on the senses, with riffs and blast beats bombarding the listener into insensibility with their concussive force...

While a good majority of the metal world was celebrating loud and heavy music at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival on April 23, a very small minority of Brooklyn, N.Y. was celebrating old-school death metal with Mutant Supremacy...

New York City and Brooklyn in particular have rapidly developed into a metal mecca of a certain kind -- 'hipster metal' dominates, while the underground is left to its own diabolical devices. The N.Y.C. black metal scene is full of bands that embrace technicality, progression and more often than not, pretension...

ABC No Rio is home to activists, artists and the straight-edge crust kids of New York City. Yet on the afternoon of Oct. 3, the white-walled room filled with fog and weed lyrics. Cannabis Corpse was in town. After asking the all-ages crowd if anyone had a prior conviction, frontman Weedgrinder said, "If you have a prior and it's weed related, this one's about you...

Atakke played a park in August. And they opened for Amebix in February. Yet, the Brooklyn band, which formed in 2006, still remains under the radar of underground extremers you need to watch. "We're Atakke, and we're from here. Yeah, we live in the club," vocalist Chloe Puke said, after the band was several songs deep into their set...