MP3 Premiere: Murmur’s “Zeta II Reticuli”
Chicago experimental-metal quartet Murmur’s “Zeta II Reticuli” comprises fuzzy, black-metal menace and obvious punk-rock energy, but toward the end of…
10 years ago
Season of Mist
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…
10 years ago
MP3 Premiere: Opera, heavy-metal drums, and dubstep bass drops in Chaostar’s “Truth Will Prevail”
With the scope of opera and the composing power of Septicflesh’s Christos Antoniou, Chaostar returns May 28 with Anomima. Check…
11 years ago
KEN Mode cover artist Ben Bonner discusses his crazy, massive “cloud ghoul” sculpture
A massive, freakish sculpture that took eight months to complete, Ben Bonner's Cloudghoultrillghost was chosen by Canadian hardcore band KEN…
11 years ago
Fresh sludge: Kylesa announces new album, debuts haunting track “Unspoken”
Three years after the critically acclaimed Spiral Shadow, sludge-metal group Kylesa has announced its new album, Ultraviolet. Out 5/28 on Season…
11 years ago
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…
11 years ago
MP3 Premiere: Vera Cruz’s “Black Walls”
French metalcore quartet Vera Cruz makes its mosh-inducing US debut next week, and with it comes "Black Walls," the album's…
11 years ago
Metal, choirs, and panpipes: Rotting Christ brings “the whole of the law”
Rotting Christ’s new album, Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy, or "Do What Thou Wilt," is out 3/1/13 on Season of Mist.…
11 years ago
Review: The Casualties’ Resistance
Twenty years since its first EP, iconic NYC punk quartet The Casualties makes another incensed return with Resistance, its ninth…
12 years ago
Morbid Angel to headline Halifax’s Spread the Metal Festival
Morbid Angel will headline the Spread the Metal Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, taking place this week (7/5 and 7/6).…
12 years ago
Misery Index working on material for 2013 release, announces North American dates
Grindcore outfit Misery Index is working on new material to be recorded in the fall, slated for a 2013 release…
12 years ago
Video: The Dillinger Escape Plan’s “Parasitic Twins”
Jersey-based mathcore outfit The Dillinger Escape Plan just released its video for "Parasitic Twins," a pop-driven track (including a bona-fide…
12 years ago