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Soul of an old machine: Fear Factory’s Dino Cazares and Burton C. Bell

In Perth for the last of the Big Day Out festival dates, Fear Factory's Burton C. Bell and Dino Cazares get comfy on the Metal As Fuck interview couch. Watch the videos here!

It’s 10.50am on an already-hot Sunday morning when Dino Cazares, rubbing his eyes, wanders into the hotel lobby where I’m waiting with MetalBeast, who is on camera oper

Katatonia - Night is the New Day (Peaceville/Stomp)

This is music for gliding through bleak, chilly woods at 3 am. Or staying at home and having a shovel. Either way it's pretty excellent.

As I write this, it’s tipping down with snow outside my window, and looking bleak and frostbitten in a pretty, delicate Dickensian way.

Rob Halford on Winter Songs

The Metal God talks to Metal as Fuck about Winter Songs: what it means to him, why he did it, and which tracks he personally likes best...

When I talked to Rob Halford about his latest release, the Halford Christmas album Winter Songs, one of the first things he said to me was that it must be weird to be talk

Darkest Hour - The Eternal Return (Victory/Stomp)

Being their sixth album, The Eternal Return combines a lot of Darkest Hour's best efforts from their older material with some different, and established, elements.

There are many bands in the worldwide metal scene that take a little bit out of many genres and mash it together, making something that, to the band's ears is unique and fresh, but to many listener

Halford- Winter Songs (Metal God/Stomp)

God rest ye merry hessians, let nothing you dismay, For good Rob Halford is singing songs about Christmas, yay! To save us all from shitty bands and make us all feel gay (happy), With tidings of leather and whips, leather and whips, Wiiiith tiiiidinnnngs of Leaaaather and whiiiiiips.

Christmas is the greatest time of year. It’s the one time when you can get away with being utterly retarded.

OBITUARY Double Pass + Album Pack Giveaway (CLOSED)

To celebrate OBITUARY's 2009 Australian tour, STOMP TOURING and METAL AS FUCK are giving away 1 x Double-Pass + Album Pack to two lucky winners!
Closing Date: 
15 Nov 2009 - 8:30pm

The pass will be valid for any Obituary show around the country.

Enter by leaving your name, email address, contact number, and the Obituary show you can get to.

Obituary’s John Tardy on touring, record sales, and side projects

The frontman manages to tear himself away from his garage studio long enough to answer some questions...

The phone crackles to life and on the other end is John Tardy, frontman of legendary death metallers Obituary, who tells me he’s ‘doing good’ at

Nightrage - Wearing A Martyr's Crown (Lifeforce/Stomp)

Originally somewhat of a Swedish/Greek metal supergroup, featuring current and/or former members of such bands as At The Gates, The Haunted and Firewind, Nightrage have been putting out solid material. Their latest release, Wearing A Martyr's Crown, is no exception.

Quite a few of the cuts on Wearing A Martyr's Crown stand out.

Obituary - Darkest Day (Candelight Records/Stomp)

This album is a series of songs of love, loss and pain. Old masters of metal, Obituary, powerfully convey the violent energy (and sometimes hopelessness) of such feelings with ceaseless percussion, screechingly singing and thumping, doomful guitars, topped with Tardy’s distinctive, deathly vocals. This is classic Obituary – in a polished, well-produced release.

This latest album from death metal veterans, Obituary, is a powerful, solid production.  The team of the Tardy brothers (vocals and percussion) and bass and r

Obituary Australian Tour - November 2009

Upon switching their name from Xecutioner to Obituary, the career of one of the most successful and influential death metal bands began. Following on from a career spanning 20+ years and 7 crushing studio albums, Obituary are back with their newest offering, Darkest Day.

Signature in every way, Darkest Day shows that this band truly gets better with age and these Tampa legends ar