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ALARM’s 11 Favorite Albums of 2013

At long last, ALARM unveils its 11 favorite albums of 2013 — a list of amazing music that you won't…

ALARM’s 51 Favorite Albums of 2013

Saving the best for last, we've chosen our 51 favorite albums of 2013, pulled from the acclaimed and the unsung…

Videos!: Secret Chiefs 3 does Halloween, Sepultura leaves the Vatican, and more

With too many great videos releasing all at once, we put them all together in one epic post.

Enter the Labyrinth: Fleshgod Apocalypse begins tracking concept album

Italy's Fleshgod Apocalypse, a powerhouse of symphonic death metal, has begun recording its third full-length album, a concept record based…

666 BPM: Hear Arsis’s blistering “Scornstar”

Melodic, technical death-metal band Arsis has a new album, Unwelcome, coming via Nuclear Blast on 4/30. Click here for the…

Meshuggah’s “I Am Colossus” video is a twitchy, soul-removing nightmare

Meshuggah’s new video for "I Am Colossus" is a creeping horror, imbued with a dark, schizophrenic animation style that recalls…

“Pure Nordic metal”: Children of Bodom brings winter to summer with Halo of Blood

Finnish extreme-metal outfit Children of Bodom has announced that album Halo of Blood will hit shelves 6/11 on Nuclear Blast.…

Interview: Nile guitarist Karl Sanders on “a gazillion riffs,” vocal timbres, and endless learning

An openness to feedback — on top of the willing self-critique — has helped technical death-metal outfit Nile achieve creative…

ALARM’s 50 (+5) Favorite Songs of 2012

Last month ALARM presented its 50 favorite albums of 2012, an eclectic, rock-heavy selection of discs that were in steady…

Connectivity and the colossus: Swedish metal mavens Meshuggah on alternate musical pathways

Meshuggah’s constantly shifting approaches to making brutal, esoteric music are instinctively multi-rhythmic and uncompromising. As a result, Koloss -- its…

ALARM’s 50 Favorite Albums of 2012

Another year, another torrential downpour of albums across our desks. As always, we encountered way too much amazing music, from…

Meshuggah on dubstep and making listeners “cry in the shower”

Tomas Haake and Jens Kidman of Meshuggah speak to Scion AV about the metallic qualities of dubstep and the band's…