Sleigher, featuring members of Dream Theater, Haken, Protest The Hero prog up another Slayer song for Christmas

Pantera bassist Rex Brown recalls band's Reinventing the Steel tour and how daunting it was to have to play after Slayer

Sunset Rubdown are back. Wolf Parade’s Spencer Krug started Sunset Rubdown as a solo project in 2005, and it quickly expanded into a full four-piece band. Within a few years, the group released four albums. The most recent of them was 2009’s Dragonslayer. The same year that Dragonslayer came out, Sunset Rubdown broke up; they...

We’d actually pay good money to hear Chad Kroeger sing Raining Blood or Bleed

From gothic reflections of smalltown America to world-conquering deathcore, these are the five new bands you need to know this month