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Cattle Decaptiation Travis Ryan
"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

By Perran Helyes Published

Cattle Decapitation's Travis Ryan talks bugs, betrayal by Metallica and how it feels playing arenas with Amon Amarth

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Cannibal Corpse onstage in 1994
A death metal recording studio is being recognised as a historical landmark in Florida

By Matt Mills Published

The spot where Death, Cannibal Corpse, Sepultura and more recorded their classic albums is getting a commemorative plaque from Hillsborough County, Florida

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Gatecreeper in 2024
“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

By Matt Mills Published

The US death metal bruisers made their new album with help from members of Dismember and Converge

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Vltimas 2024
"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

By Adam Brennan Published

David Vincent, Rune ‘Blasphemer’ Eriksen and Flo Mounier live up to their reputation as extreme metal's leading lights

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Dying Fetus
"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

By Matt Mills Published

We chat to Dying Fetus growler/guitarist John Gallagher about death metal, South Park and that legendary hashtag

Bands & Artists
Opeth, Children Of Bodom and Fleshgod Apocalypse performing live onstage
The 10 funniest death metal cover songs

By Matt Mills Published

From Bodom tackling Britney to Brujeria doing the Macarena, these death metal covers are ridiculously entertaining

Tracks & Singles
A blonde woman in a black, long-sleeve shirt playing piano
Watch this incredible YouTuber play death metal classics by Cannibal Corpse, At The Gates and In Flames on piano

By Matt Mills Published

Pianist Catherine Fearns is giving some of metal’s most brutal songs the classical treatment, and they sound shockingly elegant

Interviews
A circle pit
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

By Merlin Alderslade Published

Dying Fetus ruled Fya Fest in Tampa, Florida. And why not?

Music Festivals
Dharma in 2022
"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

By Sean Scanlan Published

Meet Dharma: the Taiwanese/Canadian metal band bringing Buddhist energy to the pit

Bands & Artists
Death metal albums
The 10 best death metal albums of 2023

By Rich Hobson Published

From old school veterans Obituary and Cannibal Corpse to newcomers Crypta and Burner, death metal was brilliantly brutal in 2023

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