Black Market Blood Bank,” one of the most brutal yet accomplished tracks of Identity Pusher’s debut CD, It Was Already on Fire When I Got There, kicks off with a second-long South Park sample. It’s ...

Earlier this year, Gatecreeper told us about their 10 favorite melodic death metal albums as they got ready to release their own great new album, Dark Superstition, and now Fit For An Autopsy have ...

This coming spring, the Swedish melodic death metal outfit Dark Tranquillity and prog metal band Soen will be joining forces ...

Congratulations (I think)! You've decided to cross over into the heavier realm of metal, where abstract lyrics and violent imagery are discussed as readily as the weather and there are more sub-genres ...

The debut of Mike Semesky's (Raunchy, ex-Haarp Machine, ex-Intervals) new band Rest Among Ruins is everything you could ask for in a melodic progressive metal band. Fugue wastes no time grabbing you ...

Formed in 2003, progressive heavy metal band Ne Obliviscaris (Latin term for ‘Forget Not’) creates music that is at times chaotic, but also melodic, progressive and forward thinking. And they are ...

Sticking to compositions of around four minutes, the musicianship and production remain exemplary. But it’s too often ...

Progressive metal, unlike other sub-genres of heavy metal, borrows heavily from hard rock, classical rock and early heavy metal influences. Although several of the bands on this list might not ...

Metal has so many subgenres and classifications it can be impossible to keep up with them all. It’s so complicated at times that some bands don’t even know what kind of music they play, and some ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...