In San Francisco, Brian Montana, guitarist for the death metal band Possessed, was fatally shot by police after a violent confrontation with a neighbor over a tree dispute. Montana allegedly ...

The founding guitarist of an influential Bay Area death metal band was shot and killed by police in South San Francisco this week following a tense standoff. Brian Montana, of the band Possessed ...

Death metal vocalists also train their voices to hit that unique guttural register. And those iconic screams are not as easy to master as they might seem. Vocal scientists at the University of Utah ...

Here are the 11 best death metal albums of the 2020s so far. In the years following the genre's inception, artists have continuously pushed the envelope when it comes to what death metal is ...

When Opeth began as a death metal band ... 1990 as the Stockholm death metal scene hit its stride, the band could easily have become just another bunch of growling extremists to stand alongside the ...

headlined by Bay Area thrash legends Exodus and Swedish death metal vets Dismember. The first night will be headlined by Dismember, performing their vaunted debut album Like an Ever Flowing Stream ...

Since, he's been a real underground champion ... reigns supreme and death metal is relegated to the wayside. Their early material is more straightforward Dismember plus Suffocation worship ...

Schuldiner’s former band, Death, were pioneers of the death metal scene, and linchpins of metal’s underground. But even after he steered the band away from their twisted, provocative ...

This style has been mimicked by countless bands since and was gateway into ’90s death metal for our generation ... especially from the Dismember school of riffing. Has its own touch that ...

Let’s just get this out of the way up top: No, metal isn’t dead. If you look around the underground today, there are plenty of thriving pockets: death metal, black metal, doom, thrash ...

After reuniting their original lineup in 2019, Swedish death metal OGs Dismember were set to visit the U.S.A. to co-headline Maryland Deathfest in 2022, but they dropped for Covid-related reasons.