When he's teamed up with his bandmates in technical death metal band Nile, Karl Sanders relies on spine-snapping speed and unconventional death metal arrangements to create maximum devastation. Oh, and there are also a bunch of lyrics about ancient Egyptian mythology and Lovecraftian imagery to provide a theme.

Sonically, Sanders' solo work is worlds apart from Nile, but conceptually and spiritually he draws from the same ancient well. Click "more" for a free exclusive download of "Rapture of the Empty Spaces" from his second solo album, Saurian Exorcisms, which comes out April 14 on The End Records. Read more...

Overkill's ex-guitarist Bobby Gustafson

Something we wrote in yesterday's Dragonforce post got us thinking. While free-associating about the title of the band's new record, we mentioned Overkill's former guitarist Bobby Gustafson, who we feel was one of the band's greatest strengths between 1984 and 1989, when he left the band. Read more...