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 ...

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 ...

Police shot and killed a death metal pioneer in San Francisco this week after an argument with a neighbor over tree clippings turned violent. Brian Montana, 60, guitarist for the band Possessed, died ...

Steve Sylvester is a reluctant trailblazer. As frontman with cult Italian horror-metal band Death SS, he was plundering graveyards for stage props and embracing the occult well before the likes of ...

Their music is now recognized as “proto-punk,” though it was years before that term was widely used. They released one 45 rpm single in 1975: “Politicians In My Eyes” backed with “Keep on Knocking,” ...

The enormously underrated Detroit-based band Death might have never gotten their flowers if not for a groundbreaking documentary from 2012.

"Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s" house band is going by a new moniker. The group, originally named "Cleto and the Cletones," revealed their new name during the late-night show’s Nov. 17 episode, which comes ...