Because there's the rub: Motorhead united the tribes, inspired extreme metal (there's a reason we chose Overkill as their ...

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2025 was an awesome year for us. We released our third studio album, Te Rā, and got to tour not only in our home country ...

Death metal continues to thrive in 2025. With subgenres ranging from melodeath and technical death metal to deathcore, ...

Kataklysm vocalist Maurizio Iacono reflects on the band’s divisive 1998 nü-metal era and the backlash to Victims Of This ...

We weren’t scared of grunge. We would see Dave Grohl wearing Sepultura t-shirts”: It was built on death metal – until three ...

We look at a study on how death metal singers produce their otherworldly vocals, and therapeutic applications that researchers are investigating.

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

This might be recency bias (or maybe mass hysteria meeting peak consumerism), but I knew all year that my top movie of 2025 would be Wicked: For Good. The first installment basically became a ...

The River City is nothing if not consistent. The world could be on fire, and that cool hip-hop collective you’ve heard of would still release four albums in a single year. Half the city could be ...

Billy Steele, Deputy Editor, Reviews I didn’t discover Bandsplain in 2025, but I definitely listened to it more than any ...