Death Metal MusicMusic and Culture on the Edge

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces its inductees this week. The fifteen nominees cover punk, rap, disco, Latin, R&B, heavy metal and the British Invasion -- sometimes within the same group. WKSU's Kabir Bhatia and music expert John Gorman preview this year's slate of performers.

San Jose, Calif.,&#151With its last several issues of DRUM!, Enter Music Publishing, publishers of high-quality informative magazines on drumming and the world's top drummers, in print and online, has been on a hard-rock/metal roll. It started two issues ago with Anthrax's Charlie Benante, followed by Evanescence's Will Hunt, and now, DRUM! presents a holiday season cover with Mastodon's heavy ...

METALLICA, SLAYER and Anthrax are playing together right now, along with Megadeth, as part of the "Big Four" thrash shows that may be the biggest metal concerts ever. And believe it or not, members of all three bands will be in the South Bay this weekend—but not to play.

Umphrey’s McGee returns with their fifth studio album in their storied decade-plus career. Death by Stereo , which was released on September 13, is a varied collection of tunes spanning multiple genres from garage punk to metal to progressive rock to country to funk to 70s R&B and 80s synth pop.

Emerging from the Christchurch dust and rubble like a black phoenix comes a no nonsense selection of hard rock and metal underground classics. Taste the high energy delights of grunge, hard rock, hardcore, punk, thrash and death metal in a diverse collection ...