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Metal has come a long way across the past two decades. From breaking away from the ’90s nü-metal boom into the new wave of American heavy metal and the shift to metalcore, deathcore and hardcore taking over once that scene started to fizzle out, there have been a ton of developments from bands both old […]

[Photo credit: @st_math] While performing at Bloodshed Fest in Eindhoven on Oct. 16, Trap Them vocalist Ryan McKenney took a leap into the crowd and probably suffered a worst-case scenario. Just 10 minutes into their 45-minute set, he took off from a speaker cab and fell around 15 feet, leaving him with two broken heels and […]

This year has already been a whirlwind of great metal releases but the second half of 2016 looks like it’s going to pack just as much of a punch as the first. Here are a few albums you should be looking forward to throughout the coming months. 16 — Lifespan Of A Moth July 15 […]

“Wait, AP. Halloween month? Isn’t Halloween just a day?” Psh! No! Halloween and punk rock go together like bloo-… milk and cookies, so we’re making a month of it with our SEVEN CIRCLES OF SCARE series, where we’ll be bringing you seven new frightful stories in the weeks leading up to October 31. First up, […]

Massachusetts hardcore label Deathwish Inc. (home to the likes of Touché Amoré and Modern Life Is War) will be holding their first Deathwish Fest this summer. The festival will be held on July 22 and July 23 at the Sinclair in Cambridge, Massachusetts (all ages). The lineup for the fest has not been announced yet, […]

Trap Them have announced they'll be returning to New England this fall to record once again with producer/engineer Kurt Ballou (Converge). They last released Darker Handcraft in 2011 through their current label, Prosthetic Records. An early 2014 release date is expected for the forthcoming fourth studio album.