Metal as Fvck

Kataklysm will embark on a European headliner run in January - with support coming from labelmates BELPHEGOR and SUICIDAL ANGELS. Please note that some new dates in Scandinavia have been added.

Swedish Heavy Metal masters of Hammerfall will start their North-American Tour in spring 2010. This will be the band's first tour of U.S./Canada in almost five years.

With a special blend of grind, death, thrash, rock & humour, Cuntscrape unload shot after shot of pure molten fury, like a custard catapault to the pretty, petite palette of your little princess.

Halloween will rain down on Australia this February, with the arrival of shock-rocker and one-time Murderdoll vocalist Wednesday 13 and his band. Get your ghoulish make-up out in preparation for a string of gore-filled, dirty, sleazy live shows that will leave you begging for more.

Helmuth, founding guitarist of blackened death metal act Belphegor, is a man who knows what he wants. Hot from the release of Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwehn, he chats to Metal as Fuck about the intense production, and his upcoming plans.

Crystalic is the first band in Europe to win a Metal as Fuck spotlight feature, having scooped the pool by a long way. Of course, these guys didn't dare to think that they would win; or that they ...

The countdown for entries to Australia's only Truly Independent music awards, Musicoz 2010, is now on. Entries close 30th November 2009. While the focus is on the independent music scene as a whole, there is a category for metal acts.

Talking on a range of topics including the new album, the impact of downloading, the fun of touring and drinking, and even Kylie Minogue, I sat down with LORD's frontman Lord Tim for an enjoyable chat.

As far as this being the 'debut' album for Hysterica, you wouldn't know it by listening to them. I think that is partially to how well the band sounds together and partially to the man who mixed this album. ...

Xerath are four lads from the UK that claim to have one purpose - "To remain on the cutting edge of symphonic metal." I always have something of an issue when a band makes some outlandish proclamation like that. ...

Guitar work that will make you drawl, riffs that will make your head bang, songs that will make you punch the air – UK band Savage Messiah have put together a near-flawless thrash metal classic!