Jason Roche

In the two years since post-metal giants Isis broke up, multiple pretenders have made their play for the genre's throne. Los Angeles quintet Ancestors stand out from the pack due to their incorporation of Pink Floyd-influenced psychedelics and occasional flourishes of European-influenced melodic doom that harken back to mid-'90s Paradise......

Despite the fact that there are some excellent female-fronted extreme metal bands these days, the genre is still often thought of as a macho, testosterone-fueled aggression pit. The comment sections of popular metal websites like Blabbermouth are full of locker-room talk (or worse) whenever they run an article about a......

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See also: Top Ten Best Replacement Singers in Rock and Metal At the beginning of the year, Boston metalcore giants Killswitch Engage announced that they had parted ways with vocalist Howard Jones, and two weeks ago they announced they were bringing their first vocalist, Jesse Leach, back into the fold......

Grindcore band Terrorizer formed here, and their 1989 debut World Downfall was extremely influential. After 2006's reunion album Darker Days Ahead guitarist Jesse Pintado passed away, but the rest of Terrorizer has a new album, Hordes Of Zombies, out February 28th. Now weirdly, and out of nowhere, an unknown Canadian......

Los Angeles power trio Behold! The Monolith's sophomore effort Defender, Redeemist mixes stoner rock, sludge, doom, classic thrash, and black metal into a massive cauldron. Since forming in 2008, vocalist/bassist Kevin McDade and guitarist Matt Price have been pushing the band forward. But during our interview over hearty plates of......

There are hundreds of metal bands that have made strong careers out of being dudes in black t-shirts. Having a killer look, though, can help a band build a legend before a single lyric is heard. Luckily, the performers below not only have the most awesome face paint in metal,......

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