Earlier today, U.K. death metal outfit Vacuous dropped another single off their forthcoming album In His Blood and damn it, it’s a plodding, seething, riff-fest from start to finish.

Death metal often seems to belong to a bygone time, whether that’s the white-sneakered ’80s that birthed the genre or much, ...

This spring, two long-running, influential heavy-music institutions will head out on tour together. After joining forces for their 2016 Savage Imperial Death March tour, Melvins and Napalm Death are ...