Death metal continues to thrive in 2025. With subgenres ranging from melodeath and technical death metal to deathcore, ...

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 ...

While there's been debate about which act should be credited with the start of death metal, for Volbeat frontman Michael Poulsen, there's just one act that he feels "completed" the genre. That would ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In Sweden they never forgot. Indeed, during the 20 years since that distinctly dirty, punishing ...

Brian Montana, the original guitarist for the classic death metal band Possessed, was killed in a police shootout in San Francisco earlier this week. According to The Daily Journal, Montana was ...

Born April 7, 1943 in Luton, England, Abrahams was the original guitarist for Jethro Tull. He appeared on the band’s 1968 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to such rock standards as “Up on ...

Their music is now recognized as “proto-punk,” though it was years before that term was widely used. They released one 45 rpm single in 1975: “Politicians In My Eyes” backed with “Keep on Knocking,” ...

December 13, 2001. The day dawns grey – and it’s about to turn black. The news breaks that Chuck Schuldiner, one of the most crucial musicians ever to inhabit the swamps of death metal, has died from ...

A series of “bad decisions” by KISS guitarist Ace Frehley contributed to his death, band frontman Gene Simmons told The Post. Simmons condemned the substance abuse he suggested contributed to ...