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Had your fill of hip-hop, electronic music and indie-rock? Try deathcore band, Winds of Plague, who are headlining this year’s Thrash and Burn Tour. What’s deathcore, you ask? It’s a blend of death metal and hardcore punk defined by its excessive use of blast beats and breakdowns.

Trigger the Bloodshed has released great music since their beginning in 2008. Their 2010 release Degenerate was eight songs (nine if you got the bonus edition) of masterful death metal. It was both heavy and technical, and the vocal delivery was perfect. Lead guitarist Dave Purnell mixed it wonderfully, and it seemed that the band would release a fourth full-length CD in the near future after ...

share: digg facebook twitter Death Metal Symphony in Deep C. Now if you think that's weird, just pop it in and give it a few listens; what you'll find is the most random and somehow coherent mixture of different musical styles that will ever be graced upon your ears. The funny thing is, you'd think it would be horrible, but it's actually really fun (mostly because you can't believe it's actually ...

Opeth guitarist Fredrik Akesson on the metal band's rich musical influences and what their future holds.

KABUL, Oct 4 — Live rock returned to Afghanistan after three long decades on Saturday as young men and women cheered and leapt into the air to the sound of heavy bass beats and punk rock. Bands from Australia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Afghanistan served up a six-hour musical feast of blues, indie, electronica and death metal to hundreds of fans, ...