Though we are only five years into the 2020s, death metal is proving itself to be one of the defining genres of the decade. Looking back on the 2010s, death metal went through extraordinary growth ...

Scott Burns remembers the first time he saw Deicide play live. The exact date has been lost to time but it was sometime the late 80s, and Scott was the engineer at Morrisound Studios in Tampa, Florida ...

Here are the 11 best death metal albums of the 2020s so far. In the years following the genre's inception, artists have continuously pushed the envelope when it comes to what death metal is capable of ...

Ah, death metal, the sonic equivalent of an obese corpse discovered in a putrid canal. Since its birth in the mid-to-late ’80s, death metal has risen to fame for its extremity, to the point where this ...

Misogyny in death metal has been done to death. For decades, death metal bands have focused on the classic horror-movie theme of cutting up girls as the sole subject matter of their shock value-driven ...

In 1998, the same year that the pioneering death-metal band Death released their final album, The Sound of Perseverance, Madonna released her ethereal trip-hop pop single, “Frozen.” At some point ...

One of music’s greatest cosmic ironies is how ground zero for the expressionist rage known as death metal is located in easy driving distance from the Most Magical Place on Earth. When a shaggy-haired ...

Metal wouldn't be metal without its over-the-top tendencies, and it's this ferocious desire to push the boundaries that's seen it evolve from a hard-edged offshoot of '60s rock into scores of ...

With cameras down their throats, metal singers show how they produce growls, screams, and squeals without damaging their vocal tissues. Vocalist Mark Garrett (center) with fellow members of the ...

Being able to belt out a tune like Adele or Pavarotti is not just about raw talent. The best singers in the world have to work on their technique—like how to control their breath and develop the ...

Chile officially has the most metal beauty queen on Earth. Ignacia Fernández, the 27-year-old model who stunned viewers by unleashing a death metal performance during the Miss World Chile semifinals, ...