The heavy metal circus of Slipknot will return to action on this summer’s Rockstar Energy Mayhem festival following a lengthy hiatus, and percussionist Clown recently told MTVnews.com that the band is ready to hang, draw and quarter anyone who gets in their way — and that includes the other bands on the bill. Mayhem may [...]

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Congratulations to Nick Scott, who nailed this week’s Indecipherable logo by commenting, “That is Discomformity, from Japan I believe.”
Yes, indeed. Inspired by Suffocation, Immolation and Pyrexia, Disconformity play crushing, unrelenting death metal with ferocity and skill.

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Any band that has been together for 16 years is bound to develop compatibility issues. So, when we heard that Korn frontman Jonathan Davis was playing his own shows and working on a solo album, and guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer was in the new band Fear and the Nervous System (with ex-Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes [...]

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Since we posted the video for Machine Head’s “Halo,” various readers have written in complaining about the edit, which cuts the song down from nine minutes in length to just about five. In response, Robb Flynn has written a lengthy explanation of the band’s decision. He also explains what the band and director Mike Sloat [...]

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This one ain’t really fair, but whoever comes out the winner, the legendary Max Cavalera will emerge triumphant, so we can live with that. The former frontman of Sepultura has formed two bands since his departure from that legendary thrash outfit. The first, Soulfly, has blended nu-metal, tribal sounds and thrash into a hateful and [...]

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