Jason Roche

This Portland quintet uses ingredients from the psychedelic-doom cookbook and applies small doses of quirky indie-rock sensibility to concoct a hypnotic music b...

Hermosa Beach record label RidingEasy Records has established itself as a haven for loud stoner-metal riffs since its 2013 formation. This line-up at Permanent ...

While Soulfly never attained the influential heights that band leader Max Cavalera reached with his prior work in Sepultura during that band’s glory days, there...

This year was another reminder that the metal gods of yesteryear are indeed mortal. Slayer said goodbye to the touring grind. Megadeth leader Dave Mustaine is i...

Heavy metal and beer is a marriage that has blended together hand-in-hand throughout the life of the genre, from Metallica in their early days having alcohol-fu...

Doom metal is a genre that is adept at achieving a strong balance between musical beauty and musical brutality. The annual Midnite Communion shows — now in thei...

Classic heavy metal was very much out of vogue when Hammerfall guitarist Oscar Dronjak founded the band after his 1993 departure from Swedish death metal outfit...

Two generations of high-end death metal powerhouses join forces for an evening of bludgeoning. New Yorkers Immolation just celebrated 30 years of death metal an...

This Boston act is part of the new wave of bands flying the flag high for epic doom-laden heavy metal that is obsessed with the timeless inspirations of fantasy...

The city of Las Vegas perpetually exists within a distorted perception of reality. The usual cavalcade of degenerate gamblers, bachelor/bachelorette parties, su...