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Ah, Metallica… Is there any metal band that’s more polarizing? Or any other that commands a fan base remotely as large while attracting a seemingly equal amount of haters? Metallica were my first favorite metal band, which makes me one of a legion of similar converts. I was just entering adolescence when the Black Album … Blast Rites: The Optimist’s Take on Metallica, and More of April’s Best New Metal Read More » The post Blast Rites: The Optimist’s Take on Metallica, and More of April’s Best N

Welcome back to Difficult Fun! Each month, SPIN will spotlight the best punk on the planet and discuss it here, with the ambition of challenging preconceived notions of what the four-letter word actually means and, ideally, entertaining readers in the process. Purists, piss off! Everyone else, enjoy. Difficult Fun has risen from the dead! Ya … February 2023’s Best Punk: Difficult Fun Will Never Die, But You Will Read More » The post February 2023’s Best Punk: Difficult Fun Will Never Die, But Yo

It’s shaping up to be a huge year for live metal. The amount of stacked festivals and unmissable tours is growing by the week. Baltimore’s venerable Maryland Deathfest may be taking a year off — a breather before the event comes roaring back in 2024 — but in its place, the battle-vest-clad faithful can choose … Blast Rites: Memoriam’s Karl Willetts Returns to the Battlefield, and More of February’s Best New Metal Read More » The post Blast Rites: Memoriam’s Karl Willetts Returns to the Battlefie

In 1995, French black metal group Blut Aus Nord released their debut Ultima Thulée, which bandleader Vindsval composed in his mid-teens. While it resembles much of mid-’90s black metal with its bitterly cold sound and budget symphonic keyboards, it hinted at the expansive vision Vindsval would eventually wield as black metal’s dominating iconoclast. He is not a nostalgist, and even his more conventional works are made with an omnidirectional glare, never dwelling on when he was a budding prodigy. Vindsval’s debut as Forhist is his most straight-ahead black metal album since Thulée; ...

Smile and the World Smiles With You (Self-released) Gatecreeper isn’t the only Arizona band to unleash nastiness recently: on New Years’ Day, Phoenix trio Fluids dropped Smile and the World Smiles With You, a three-track EP that cements them as the goregrind band to beat. While Mortician is an influence du jour in the underground now, their early efforts carried a “man discovers fire” energy, stumbling upon primitive brilliance that can’t be replicated by average dudes consciously dumbing themselves down. Fluids carry on what made Mortician enthralling – brickwalled, bass-heavy b...