Among the many intertwined branches of the heavy metal family tree, crossover thrash is often considered the offspring of hardcore punk...

----- Author's note: this review is dedicated to the memory of Fred Livingston Jr., to our fellow metalheads and their families...

Despite a week of increasingly warm days, a lone Wednesday stood out as the chosen window for winter to make one last stand before bowing...

As the dividing line between the hip and artistic Greenwich Village and the styling shops of SoHo and Nolita, Houston Street is a New...

One of the most radical branches in the world of extreme music, few sub-genres push the limits quite like funeral doom metal. Often times...

There is something pure about anonymous art and music, an intimacy of sorts where listeners can focus on the material rather than the...

Between nightfall and storm clouds covering the island of Manhattan, the black clad concert goers seemed to melt into one long stream of...

Though far from any frozen fjords or deep forests, Las Vegas, Nevada, is not without its ample sphere of influence in the world of...

"Look at you guys, all dressed up," he said, his voice rich in a Brooklyn accent, "ain't this a metal show?" The couple in line smiled,...

For many years, bands such as Meshuggah, Tool, and Opeth have been affectionately referred to as 'thinking (hu)man's metal'. From...

The year is 1524 and fleet of canoes maneuver softly across the bay towards a mighty ship off the coast of an island called Manahatta. On...

For many years, the Newtown Creek, located on the far side of Williamsburg just north of Flushing Avenue, was traversed by countless...

As the old adage goes, with age comes wisdom and with experience comes new possibilities. Few bands have demonstrated this quite like...

Deathcore: an extreme subgenre of hardcore and death metal that carried a nearly two decade long history of adoring fans and resentful...

Since its inception, black metal has long been a style meant to take the listener to a different plain of existence. Sometimes it's to...

With temperatures dropping below freezing in the northeastern United States but the full force of Mother North still to come, the season...

While easily recognizable on any given day, Halloween weekend is a time when even the most outrageously dressed metalhead can fly under...

Founded 15 years ago, influenced by the likes of Death and Decrepit Birth, and coming to prominence along side bands such as The Faceless...

Whether it is fashion, technology, or, in this case, music, Japan has always been a leader of thinking beyond established rules; experts...

At a time in the world when real life events are plenty intense and brutal, one might wish for something to bring a little bit of order...