Years before King Diamond, drummer Matt Thompson played in Truncator, a short-lived death metal band with surprisingly ...

Florida Memorial University announced the passing of Dr. Beckford on Dec. 26, though the date of his death remains ...

Though we are only five years into the 2020s, death metal is proving itself to be one of the defining genres of the decade. Looking back on the 2010s, death metal went through extraordinary growth ...

Born April 7, 1943 in Luton, England, Abrahams was the original guitarist for Jethro Tull. He appeared on the band’s 1968 debut album, “This Was,” before leaving the group over musical differences, ...

Brian Montana, the original guitarist for the classic death metal band Possessed, was killed in a police shootout in San Francisco earlier this week. According to The Daily Journal, Montana was ...

While there's been debate about which act should be credited with the start of death metal, for Volbeat frontman Michael Poulsen, there's just one act that he feels "completed" the genre. That would ...

The story is irresistible: in the early 70s, three black brothers from Detroit form a brilliantly original protopunk band, walk away from a major-label record contract on principle, and ultimately ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In Sweden they never forgot. Indeed, during the 20 years since that distinctly dirty, punishing ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to such rock standards as “Up on ...

December 13, 2001. The day dawns grey – and it’s about to turn black. The news breaks that Chuck Schuldiner, one of the most crucial musicians ever to inhabit the swamps of death metal, has died from ...

After student dies in a suspected hazing incident, longtime band director fired. Nov. 24, 2011— -- The embattled director of bands at Florida A&M University has been fired after a drummer in the ...