Metal By Numbers 5/8: What’s With HIM?

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. As you start to look at the charts this week, you’ll notice two things: 1) There were a shit ton of albums that debuted this week, and 2) HIM is our top debut....

New & Noteworthy, April 30th: In The Arms Of Rain

As promised, this week is full of melodic death metal albums, and the list is being led off by a gothic metal giant from Finland. While HIM may not necessarily be a metal band in the strictest sense, they’re still one of the most popular rock acts in the world,...

Win A Copy Of Howl’s Bloodlines!

On Tuesday, sludgy stoner doom band Howl unleash their sophomore album, Bloodlines on Relapse Records. We’ve had a chance to digest it, and it’s growing on us with pretty much every listen. They’ve stepped it up, with stellar production from Chris...

Best Metal Performances At SXSW

6. Howl MetalSucks presents South By South Death at the Dirty Dog Prior to this performance I was only casually acquainted with the band’s fifth full length Full of Hell, which is quite solid. Since then, Vincent Hausman dropped the guitar to focus fully on vocals...