Doom co-creator John Romero has paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, citing the metal genre's influence on the game. If there was ever a game that felt like a distillation of heavy metal (aside from Brutal ...

Modern digital avenues for music discovery can make it hard to remember what “underground” used to mean. Before the Internet, underground music was hard to find and often hard to even know about—and ...

You could easily argue that doom and stoner are the two oldest subgenres in metal, given that they trace their roots all the way back to heavy music’s foundational text, Black Sabbath’s debut album.

When Doom (2016) came around and rebooted the series for the second time, players were treated to one hell of a good time. It was a game with gore, driven by a heavy as hell metal soundtrack, and a ...

Sometimes, you want metal to rip you apart and blast you into the stratosphere with insanely fast, technical precision and apocalyptically demonic vocals, It’s only natural. But what about those times ...

If you love modern doom, you owe a debt of gratitude to Candlemass. Formed in Stockholm in 1984, the group were among a handful of early purveyors of the slow, down-tuned, and monumentally forlorn ...

As doom purists threaten to take the place of black metal elitists as the most annoying people in metal, Pallbearer is no stranger to braving the backlash to branch out from low, slow, and dreary to ...

It's early on a recent Friday morning and I'm at home listening to "Mind Burns Alive," the new album out today from Little Rock doom metal quartet Pallbearer. Outside a steady rain falls and thunder ...

Doom-metal pioneers Pentagram played San Antonio’s Paper Tiger Tuesday night, demonstrating why the group continues to have such staying power even though it formed in 1971 and contains only one ...

Today The Outsiders revealed their upcoming game Metal: Hellsinger, and it's a game about blasting demons to shotguns. Just as in its (rather clear) inspiration Doom, heavy metal music plays a big ...