French dark electronic artist Perturbator, spearheaded by lone visionary James Kent, may not make metal music, but there's quite a lot of common ground between his gloomy swaths of synths on his ...

Every catchy pop track hides possibilities. And once a metal band picks it up, the song shifts character—sometimes darker, sometimes heavier—always in an unexpected way. That’s the joy of reinvention ...

Party rock extraordinaire Andrew W.K. is now inviting you to step into an entirely new world, one that's considerably darker than you're used to, with a music video for the new song "Babalon." Anyone ...

The legendary Xasthur is back with a new album that’s set to drop next Friday, June 23 titled Inevitably Dark. The brainchild of Scott Conner, Xasthur was formed as a black metal band in 1995 in ...

Australian, Eurovision-smashing prog metallers Voyager know a thing or two about keyboards. So, ahead of the band's new album Fearless In Love arriving on July 14 via Season Of Mist, we got frontman ...

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Let me preface this review with a big, fat, grain of salt: I'm in love with Swedish Melodic Death metal – and I have been since the late 90's. So when the opportunity came up to review the newest from ...

“Orion and the Dark” director Sean Charmatz knew he had found the right creatives to lead the music for his animated film for DreamWorks Animation after auditioning Robert Lydecker and Kevin Lax. In ...

Five years have passed since indie sensation MGMT released its last album, creatively titled MGMT, but the band returned on Feb. 9 with a journey through space in a synth-pop rocket ship on Little ...

Robyn, the Swedish singer whose dark yet danceable synth-pop has won her an avid fan base, returned Wednesday with a song off her first album in eight years. “Missing U” is driven by a quick-paced and ...