Metal has increasingly become about how extreme a band can be – how fast they play, how intense their songs are, how unsettling their mythos is – or so they’d lead the listener to believe.

TesseracT are really sticking with this “we’re only releasing two minutes of music at a time” thing, whatwith their forthcoming album Altered State consisting of one continuous 51-minute piece of ...

Or in the case of depressive black metal, a good saxophone section can add a languorous and trippy quality while running our blues. Some examples that didn’t make our list include the respected Håkon ...

Repvblika is a black metal project based out of Mexico holding a lineup of Ikannuna Bg (vocals), I.O. (guitar), E. Chaos (guitar), AK (bass), and Konspirator (drums). Last year, they released ...

Rivers Of Nihil's new album Where Owls Know My Name was a pretty big hit in 2018. The record was a great blend of progressive death metal and jazzier, saxophone-heavy sections that caught the ear ...

The 10 greatest metal songs with a saxophone. From Black Sabbath to Rivers Of Nihil, metal bands have been harnessing the power of the saxophone for decades. As these brasskickers prove!