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Melodic black metal band the Funeral Pyre will follow up 2008's acerbic 'Wounds' with the more musically diverse 'Vultures at Dawn,' which is scheduled for release on June 8. "On this record, we stepped out of our comfort zone and tried to create better songs, never focusing on what style of metal it actually is...

In an era where fans are downloading music off the Internet without paying for it, Nuclear Blast Records and Amazon are teaming up to make downloaders feel less like the criminals they're portrayed to be by the RIAA. The companies have assembled the 'Sinister Spring Sampler,' a collection of 11 songs by Nuclear Blast artists, and they've put it online...

A lot of great metal songs came out in 2009, which is why it has taken us so long to put together a definitive list of the top 10. In the end, there had to be some omissions, and some may seem to be glaring. For instance, there's nothing from Megadeth's killer new album 'Endgame,' Nile's ferocious 'Those Whom the Gods Detest,' Blut Aus Nord's experimental 'Memoria Vetusta II -- Dialogue with the S

It's been over two years since the tragic tour-bus accident that lead to the death of Decapitated drummer Vitek, and the hospitalization of vocalist Covan. The band eventually pressed on with guitarist Vogg and new members, and they've since established U...

Over the past decade, as internet technology got more advanced and album leaks more common, music journalists typically shook their heads in dismay at the wave of records hitting the Web weeks -- even months -- before their release date. Conventional wisdom in the writing community held that it was radio station personnel, studio interns and CD pressing plants that were responsible for all the unl

Apple's front-running digital music store iTunes has quietly unveiled their much rumored and long-anticipated metal section last night. The soft-launched home page of heavy showcases the oft-ignored genre's biggest recent releases front and center, with the placement of Slayer, Nile, Baroness, Rob Halford, Skeletonwitch and more indicating a giant step in the right direction for the digital power

While many in heavy metal circles have maligned games like 'Guitar Hero' and 'Rock Band' as potential impediments to rock and roll's evolution, Nile's Karl Sanders, who was once named the fourth greatest guitarist of all time by Decibel magazine, has no problem with 'Guitar Hero...

In this age, where speed often trumps talent and melody, metal musicians are feeling pressure to noodle faster. And even for a virtuoso like Nile guitarist and frontman Karl Sanders, the burden to go balls-to-the-wall was there during the writing and recording of the Egyptian-themed technical death metallers seventh LP, 'Those Whom the Gods Detest,' which hits stores Nov...

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...

Reigning kings of Egyptian-themed technical death metal Nile have debuted the new track 'Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld' on their MySpace page earlier this week. The song comes from their upcoming release, 'Those Whom the Gods Detest,' scheduled for a Nov...