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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 ...

Here is the best metal song of each year of the 1980s, including one runner-up for all 10 years!

In Metal, longevity has always been part of mythology. Only a rare few bands who grind it out across multiple albums, tours, and (I'll just say it), years of failure, before finally breaking through.

There’s nothing quite like good melodic death metal, which is why Necropanther keep making it. The Denver-based death/thrash outfit recently released their fourth album, Betrayal, and it’s a ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...