<![CDATA[ Latest from Louder in Death-metal ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/tag/death-metal Sun, 23 Feb 2025 06:00:50 +0000 en <![CDATA[ “Once you heard death metal, there was no turning back. Thrash was out of the window. It seemed silly, music for wimps”: The chaotic story of Nihilist, Unleashed, Entombed and the bloody birth of Swedish death metal ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/swedish-death-metal-history-nihilist-entombed d4cp9NfvT4VVsHpXi4UHd Sun, 23 Feb 2025 06:00:50 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:15 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Cannibal Corpse have made it to a level where they’re playing to thousands." Gatecreeper want to make death metal as big as possible ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/gatecreeper-dark-superstition-interview SshoeH6Yafx4rZiw7B9gPS Fri, 10 Jan 2025 11:08:37 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:12 +0000 <![CDATA[ The 10 best death metal albums of 2024 ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-10-best-death-metal-albums-of-2024 Zo9qkeJLxcQLqKfoqhQ3Mm Mon, 23 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:15 +0000 <![CDATA[ Iggy Pop has played one of the heaviest death metal bands in the world on his BBC radio show. Seriously. ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/iggy-pop-plays-brutal-death-metal-bbc-radio-6-2024 86hKBKtnjSQ7vniYcaH4zB Wed, 27 Nov 2024 11:12:11 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:19 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I only asked for the spoken-word part, then an email comes in – ‘Do you need some flute?’ I wasn’t going to say no!” How Opeth’s The Last Will And Testament wound up featuring Ian Anderson, Joey Tempest and growled vocals ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/opeth-last-will-testament Y8w3PrP56Hz8LQeroAtg7k Fri, 22 Nov 2024 07:13:10 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:15 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I'm talking about people doing some despicable stuff...I’m also talking about my first ex-wife." Nile leader Karl Sanders on the fun of the 80s, being a black belt badass and how to stay authentic while writing death metal about ancient Egypt ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/karl-sanders-life-lessons 8waKX3MWwr8enbukr448hB Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:02:30 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:14 +0000 <![CDATA[ Death metal up-and-comers Neckbreakker (formerly Nakkeknaekker) announce debut album Within The Viscera ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/neckbreakker-announce-within-the-viscera-album-2024 uZZfZojEnSYNvAaoqx3Hh3 Wed, 09 Oct 2024 15:17:40 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:20 +0000 <![CDATA[ "The intensity and that whole, 'playing a bit faster than we are able to' type of approach, makes this such a gem." Dark Tranqullity/Halo Effect vocalist Mikael Stanne picks the greatest death metal album of all time ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/mikael-stanne-gives-a-guide-to-death-metal oq4NMKR9HX2bzFds7a7sWD Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:39:57 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:14 +0000 <![CDATA[ "He's the king of death metal." Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt and Fredrik Akesson name the greatest death metal band of all time, and discuss their own journey through the genre ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/opeth-name-the-greatest-death-metal-band-of-all-time Y6v3Tr64RuNGxK4AWQR67N Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:32:51 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:15 +0000 <![CDATA[ Want to torment someone you hate in the afterlife? Death metal pioneers Deicide have launched their own ouija board ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/deicide-ouija-board YPyBJgVjJan5mm6zgBw2qD Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:55:02 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:17 +0000 <![CDATA[ “My doctors wanted to cut my arm off”: How Fleshgod Apocalypse turned a near-fatal accident into symphonic death metal magnum opus Opera ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/fleshgod-apocalypse-opera-interview-2024 mz5v8yxeD3QWCFavjpod8o Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:41:13 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:14 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch this The Voice Australia contestant cover Britney Spears’ Toxic – with death metal growls! ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/the-voice-australia-britney-spears-toxic-cover-2024 XxKTXJN7H8kzXnkr8GLsDN Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:01:10 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:22 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I got fed up with writing about crap monsters. What’s horrific about that? The real evil in this world goes on in society”: The stellar rise and tragic demise of Death, the band who pushed metal to new extremes ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/death-band-chuck-schuldiner-history 6pCueeypwGcpLNVAAaEsaS Sat, 17 Aug 2024 21:00:00 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:12 +0000 <![CDATA[ “We just wanted to findauthentic, heavier, evil-sounding music”: Mikael Åkerfeldt explains how Opeth rediscovered death metal on new single §1 ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/opeth-mikael-akerfeldt-explains-death-metal-comeback-2024 PF9zgjQHJtPbchzzUiEQe7 Sat, 03 Aug 2024 09:02:00 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:21 +0000 <![CDATA[ "In a country with a nearly 80% Christian population, you can see the genuine social rebellion of metal in full force." Botswana death metallers Overthrust unleash another solid slab of noise with Slaves Of Myth ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/overthrust-infected-by-myth ZdtY2NcBFZW5YpvPjcPekg Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:03:19 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:11 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I was 22 when I burned an inverted cross into my forehead." Death metal icon Glen Benton talks blasphemy, fatherhood and the night a Deicide gig got bombed ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/glen-benton-talks-blasphemy-fatherhood-and-the-night-a-deicide-gig-got-bombed s3t4HGcELbU6VyYbLvbTjH Sat, 22 Jun 2024 10:08:37 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:12 +0000 <![CDATA[ Gojira drummer Mario Duplantier will bring the death metal thunder to Late Night With Seth Meyers next week ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/gojira-mario-duplantier-to-drum-on-late-night-with-seth-meyers tbcHwGfts5YYx2DwYnKDWe Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:24:24 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:18 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Quite possibly one of 2024’s finest death metal albums." Jacob Bannon's extreme metal supergroup Umbra Vitae have stuck gnarled gold with Light Of Death ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/umbra-vitae-light-of-death vgGVjhrqM5odU6BNg9Kemh Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:54:11 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:12 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch rising death metal stars Orbit Culture play tooth-rattling single While We Serve on their 2024 tour ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/orbit-culture-release-2024-while-we-serve-live-video Hp7TCKy8KcVaEv6QkVcRZE Fri, 24 May 2024 13:27:02 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:22 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Dark Superstition is the moment where Gatecreeper become a more well-rounded and versatile heavy metal band." Gatecreeper confirm their status as one of the most exciting bands in death metal with album three ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/gatecreeper-dark-superstition 3rHhBGrABUKaCGb79mqVrb Thu, 16 May 2024 10:29:23 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:22 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Dad was the guy that would get us Christmas presents and then steal them back to pawn them." Tragedy hasn't stopped Texans Frozen Soul from finding warmth in old school death metal ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/dad-was-the-guy-that-would-get-us-christmas-presents-and-then-steal-them-back-to-pawn-them-tragedy-hasnt-stopped-texans-frozen-soul-from-finding-warmth-in-old-school-death-metal SuNzFzf5fAEJxCDWf7TFRU Wed, 01 May 2024 11:41:32 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:12 +0000 <![CDATA[ "People aren’t used to hearing vocal melody over a wall of ‘blackened progressive deathgrind’ or whatever the hell you call it." Cattle Decapitation might be playing arenas, but they're still one of metal's most extreme bands ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/cattle-decapitation-talk-arenas-with-amon-amarth-metallica-betrayal-terrasite d42qWH9Afn58ByuyFJpNx9 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:09:02 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:11 +0000 <![CDATA[ A death metal recording studio is being recognised as a historical landmark in Florida ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/morrisound-recording-historical-marker-2024 Zzjy5P9v5st6qdL3Xu5HjW Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:47:57 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:19 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The songs incorporate supernatural ideas with my own experiences.” Gatecreeper have teamed with death metal and hardcore royalty for new album Dark Superstition – judging by lead single The Black Curtain, we’re in for something truly special ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/gatecreeper-announce-dark-superstition-album-release-the-black-curtain-single 5r2rv3evUFEMrh3T8m3rCH Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:11:05 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:17 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Epic lives up to its title, treading the line between imperious grandeur and ridiculous pomposity": new VLTIMAS album lives up to its member's legendary death metal pedigree ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/vltimas-epic-review Lbw6Q5JKVi2PpQ96DaUqK5 Wed, 13 Mar 2024 09:44:33 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:12 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Topics like necrophilia are just kind of ‘whatever’ at this point." Gore-loving death metal veterans Dying Fetus are bored of trying to shock people ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/topics-like-necrophilia-are-just-kind-of-whatever-at-this-point-gore-loving-death-metal-veterans-dying-fetus-are-bored-of-trying-to-shock-people QE8GQrASvkTaxa8wyn4VNX Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:09:22 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:17 +0000 <![CDATA[ The 10 funniest death metal cover songs ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/hilarious-death-metal-cover-songs uCGtcAxvph8yWWLz8fVbHe Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:01:04 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:13 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch this incredible YouTuber play death metal classics by Cannibal Corpse, At The Gates and In Flames on piano ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/youtube-death-metal-covers-piano-2024 6PCdzhkTvBBgW7iV2xYrm3 Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:29:53 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:22 +0000 <![CDATA[ Death metal veterans Dying Fetus just stole the show at a US hardcore festival, and videos of the mosh pits from their set are going viral ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/dying-fetus-hardcore-festival-mosh-pits JQBCSDWsT7Ci29jNpd8aKn Mon, 08 Jan 2024 16:27:52 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:17 +0000 <![CDATA[ "People were crowdsurfing in the lotus position." Dharma are a Taiwan-based Buddhist collective that play death metal and have a nun in their ranks. Chances are, you've never met another band like them ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/dharma-feature-buddhist-death-metal RFt6kEmaF88qPftyc4NpqV Sun, 24 Dec 2023 17:17:00 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:12 +0000 <![CDATA[ The 10 best death metal albums of 2023 ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-10-best-death-metal-albums-of-2023 jGibWUadwx2TPPgJijAAo4 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 12:38:23 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:15 +0000 <![CDATA[ "You’ll probably go through a lot of red." Death metal legends Cannibal Corpse are releasing an official colouring book - and it's so graphic it's already been banned in Germany ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/cannibal-corpse-colouring-book 5nxkTfJzXg492dkjSqYt33 Thu, 02 Nov 2023 11:06:50 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:17 +0000 <![CDATA[ A death metal band got their fans to play fantasy card game Magic: The Gathering in the moshpit ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/magic-the-gathering-death-metal-moshpit eJ4aMYo8wet4D6fkeVV99c Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:29:49 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:19 +0000 <![CDATA[ Brutal 90s death metal band Mortician have been blowing up on TikTok ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/morticians-rabid-has-been-blowing-up-on-tiktok p44LBuXmCjJJeUKVaG9WWc Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:06:57 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:19 +0000 <![CDATA[ The 10 hardest death metal songs to play ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/10-hardest-death-metal-songs ZvBuBwma4ETyBAdcyAJLqT Mon, 16 Oct 2023 08:25:04 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:11 +0000 <![CDATA[ 10 up-and-coming death metal bands every self-respecting metalhead should know ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/best-new-death-metal-bands 6CA9mjNVYZmLWDLCZ8zSMS Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:11:31 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:11 +0000 <![CDATA[ Cryptopsy's first album in 11 years was worth the wait: As Gomorrah Burns is a dizzying maelstrom of technical death metal excellence ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/cryptopsy-as-gomorrah-burns-review hRv7nnokrvdFjtWWLdnufe Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:13:22 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:22 +0000 <![CDATA[ "It broke my heart. I wanted us to be signed to Roadrunner and support Slayer." Ghost's Tobias Forge on why it just wasn't a good idea to try and make a career from death metal in the late 90s ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/tobias-forge-death-metal-success ge94CQEhQ6spT2EavZEtyW Sat, 02 Sep 2023 13:48:18 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:22 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Die! Death! Rot! You’re in a never-ending hooooooole!” Watch Conan O’Brien’s hilariously disastrous attempt at death metal vocals ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/conan-obrien-death-metal-vocals FpzVthEDg7nS72BjcWVLq8 Fri, 01 Sep 2023 15:55:54 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:12 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Fans haven’t seen something like this since the late ’80s”: Meet the new bands making Glasgow the UK’s death metal capital ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/new-scottish-death-metal-brainbath-coffin-mulch-penny-coffin qvDNHNs9wEoCf2ypGTZege Wed, 26 Jul 2023 08:28:09 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:14 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch a death metal audience hold its breath as this metalhead proposes marriage to his girlfriend in the middle of a mosh pit ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/watch-a-death-metal-audience-hold-its-breath-as-this-metalhead-proposes-marriage-to-his-girlfriend-in-the-middle-of-a-mosh-pit Jf2UoSWjmrxGrg6i6HS3yf Thu, 22 Jun 2023 19:30:34 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:22 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch a death metal band start a circle pit outside a GameStop store while people queue for the new Zelda game ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/legend-of-zelda-tear-kingdom-death-metal RpHGexy2opKqnJkWCYVWGJ Mon, 15 May 2023 09:59:39 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:21 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch Keanu Reeves troll an angry death metal festival crowd with his grunge band: "We got killed" ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/keanu-reeves-trolls-death-metal-festival ArxhCbh6sqbLzJdaCyJUe5 Tue, 02 May 2023 11:33:10 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:01 +0000 <![CDATA[ A beginner's guide to melodic death metal in five essential albums ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/a-beginners-guide-to-melodic-death-metal-in-five-essential-albums fd7Khry6Tsy37hK3LBUrWk Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:49:42 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:11 +0000 <![CDATA[ Wholesome death metal news: Obituary drummer Donald Tardy runs a cat rescue charity ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/so-obituary-drummer-donald-tardy-runs-a-cat-rescue-charity WkAWgSgBmgWJERLBbCA6qf Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:25:16 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:14 +0000 <![CDATA[ Dream Evil's The Book Of Heavy Metal: how a death metal producer made trad metal cool again ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-story-behind-the-book-of-heavy-metal-by-dream-evil kXroPB3LAp9aYxA8irotwG Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:40:31 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:17 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch grannies rip through some gnarly death metal and shoot fireworks from their backsides in this hilarious advert for Liquid Death iced tea ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/watch-grannies-rip-through-some-gnarly-death-metal-and-shoot-fireworks-from-their-backsides-in-this-hilarious-advert-for-liquid-death-iced-tea AqtGAVWKSWApWipmAPhneE Fri, 03 Mar 2023 11:20:55 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:22 +0000 <![CDATA[ The 10 greatest old school death metal vocalists ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-10-greatest-old-school-death-metal-vocalists RTzJyHYCS5LkF5SuYtNXo7 Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:50:42 +0000 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:15 +0000 <![CDATA[ 10 essential cult death metal albums ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-top-10-most-underrated-death-metal-albums MRFRWHWPUH6yoqub6ziAyc Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:51:11 +0000 Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:36:29 +0000 <![CDATA[ How death metal has changed since the late '80s ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-death-metal-has-changed-since-the-late-80s 7TiLBodbmVw3hHHzqNZ9gK Sun, 19 May 2019 14:31:38 +0000 Tue, 09 Jul 2019 17:56:14 +0000