Our pals and peers at Revolver have posted a rare live recording of 16's "Pump Fake." The track is from the Japanese pressing of the band's latest album Bridges to Burn and was recorded during the group's first tour on Japan in 1994. Click "more" to listen to the track, read a band interview and stream "Bridges to Burn." Read more...

There are traditional Slayer fans who wear Reign in Blood t-shirts twice a week, there are extremists who do crazy things like carve the band's name in their arms and then there are the closet devotees -- people you'd never peg as fans, but who might actually appreciate the band's music more than anyone. Nadja's frontman Aidan Baker and bassist Leah Buckareff fall into this latter category.

The Toronto-based experimental doom/drone band have expressed their kinship with Slayer not through their appearance, but with a radical revision of "Dead Skin Mask" from Slayer's 1990 legendary album Seasons in the Abyss.

Click "More" to download an MP3 of the creepy cover and read Baker's comments about the song. Read more...

The most improvisational, progressive and musically mindblowing instrumental metal band to surface from the detritus of Philadelphia, Stinking Lizaveta, will release their sixth full album, Sacrifice and Bliss, on March 31 on At a Loss Recordings. Click "more" for an exclusive MP3 of the title track. Read more...

Our metal peers at Revolvermag.com won an exclusive MP3 by drone metal band Sunn O)) in a game of Russian roulette, and they've been kind enough to share it with all of us without challenging us to blow our brains out.

Click more to read about and download "Oraculum." Read more...