Creatively, the allure of traditional metal was a powerful beacon. Schuldiner’s idea was to infuse old-school metal with the concussive force of death metal and the melodic possibilities of prog. That ...

Focus was one of the best prog metal debut albums ever and one of the best prog metal albums of the ‘90s. So, it inevitably ...

In 1999, Control Denied released The Fragile Art Of Existence. The band consisted of guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner (Death), guitarist Shannon Hamm (ex-Death), bassist Steve DiGiorgio ...

One of music’s greatest cosmic ironies is how ground zero for the expressionist rage known as death metal is located in easy driving distance from the Most Magical Place on Earth. When a shaggy-haired ...

In 1998, the same year that the pioneering death-metal band Death released their final album, The Sound of Perseverance, Madonna released her ethereal trip-hop pop single, “Frozen.” At some point ...

Years before King Diamond, drummer Matt Thompson played in Truncator, a short-lived death metal band with surprisingly ...

Death metal, the hellish genre that emerged in the mid ’80s as a mutation of the West Coast thrash of Metallica and Slayer, is currently enjoying a prolonged renaissance. Bands whose members weren’t ...