The Adult Swim Festival, featuring Mastodon and High on Fire, is coming up soon as well.

Also: Testament, Tryptikon, The Black Dahlia Murder, Pig Destroyer, Yob and more!

With the current generation of metal headliners retiring, who will step up to take their place?

“I’ve been devastated, saddened, and shaken, almost beyond words, about the passing of my longtime brother in Pantera, Vincent Paul Abbott.”w

Photos from the annual festival in Florida.

Morbid Angel, Dying Fetus, Kamelot, Rivers of Nihil and soooo many more.

Featuring Ozzy Osbourne, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Clutch, Avenged Sevenfold, Andrew WK, Killswitch Engage, Power Trip, Red Fang and more.

Also: Stone Temple Pilots, Stone Sour, Babymetal, Trivium, Body Count, Quicksand, Baroness, Greta Van Fleet, Andrew W.K., Code Orange, Power Trip and more.

A retrospective essay on a prog metal masterpiece by one of its chief architects.

From their in-progress European tour.

Maximus Frank shares some thoughts on the Houston “Day for Night” festival, featuring Aphex Twin, Kamasi Washington, John Carpenter and more.

Current and former members of Megadeth, Life of Agony, Between the Buried and Me, Animals as Leaders, Tombs, and more share some of their most-favorite, least-metal pastimes.

Are we approaching an era of pure punishment, in which the only fun allowed is sanctioned by media giants, where safe art trumps radical art, and where the audience itself is confused over what “radical” and “interesting” actually means?

Hooks, hooks, and more hooks.

Everything all in one place!

Kicks off at the end of April! Dates in here!

The new album, Apsu, will be the third and final installment in the band’s trilogy.

Mutoid Man, Refused, Straight Line Stitch, Wilson, Thy Art Is Murder, Dew-Scented, Author & Punisher, and tons more for your long wknd!

Everything you need to know about metal at SXSW 2015, all in once place.