It rips/pulverizes/crushes/destroys.

“He did a bitchin’ pentagram on my wrist a few years back,” wrote one local fan. “It’s faded enough now that it just looks like a bruise, but when people ask me about my bruise, I’m like, ‘That’s the Cactus, baby!’”

It sounds like she wants to send him a lettaaaaaah, yeah, yeah.

It’s got that patented Whores groove. It’s gut punch after merciless gut punch, wearing you down one at a time.

Listen to all five billion of this week’s heavy new releases from Alcest, Opeth, Suicidal Tendencies, Holy Serpent, Freya, Asphyx, Deathcult, Negura Bunget, and tonnns more!

The only site built specifically for musicians in the heavy music community is looking for writing and video interns.

Metallica’s impact upon the careers of the Misfits and Diamond Head cannot be understated. Which band did they help more?

Might need more than just a helmet for this one.

MetalGF offers advice on balancing work and life, long-distance relationships, and the joys of Taylor Swift.

Anniversary edition of Antichrist Superstar coming, will apparently contain the scariest video since the one in The Ring.

Judas Priest, AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses and more!

Subbing in electronics to Sumac’s overwhelmingly crushing sound.

The band’s new album will drop in November.

This week’s top stories include Ghost, Metallica, As I Lay Dying, and more.

It’s like an old-school Mithras track.

Listen to all this week’s heavy new releases from Trap Them, Operation: Mindcrime, Sahg, Every Time I Diet, Sisters of Suffocation, Neurosis, Crobot, Giraffe Dong Orchestra, and tons more!!!

Where metal and ’90s industrial meet.

A new variation on an old favorite.