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We live on the layers of deep time and history, strata of times past; life literally depends on centuries of decay. Now, progressive extreme metal visionaries CENTURIES OF DECAY build on the metal that has come before to create the metal of the [...]

  All too often, it seems, we find ourselves here. This purgatorial and powerless state in which we mourn lives lost far too early, one more light lost under the most tragic of circumstances. On Thursday, July 20th, the world was struck with yet [...]

  Band pranks and prolonged album release leads to impatient Tool fans recalling what makes them love the band. There was a time when rock and metal were two genres of music I could never relate to. It seemed violent and at times, disgraceful. At a [...]

  2017 has seen some great releases in Black Metal, especially in the underground! Let’s count down the Top 5 Black Metal releases worldwide, so far! Bestia Arcana – ‘Holókauston’ ‘Holókauston’ is the perfect sonic depiction of the armageddon. [...]

  Brisbane’s Flynn Effect are today rolling out their second single from their upcoming OBSIDIAN album tour. Obsidian is their second album and will be available for purchase on August 4. The album can be pre-ordered now at Bandcamp. The [...]

  Since its initial beginnings from the middle of the 1980s and beyond, the musical style of death metal has become one of the most extreme forms of music not just in the world of metal but in the industry generally. Having started as a natural [...]

  We’re halfway through 2017, and there have been some fantastic Melodic Death Metal releases. Here are the Top 5 so far! Noumena – ‘Myrrys’ While more widely known as that Finnish band from the park ranger meme, Noumena actually produces [...]

  The damning realization of gloom and doom is among us: we are already half way through the year 2017, and in appropriate fashion it is time for a list! You’ll see plenty of these feature pieces pop up on Metal Wani over the coming days and weeks, [...]