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Opening the Crypts: Death

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:00:00 GMT

Florida's prolific metallers Death are widely revered as one of the most influential groups in all of death metal. The band emerged boasting a groundbreaking sound hearkened as the blueprints of what was to come in extreme metal, along with one of the most legendary frontmen in the genre in Chuck Schuldiner. And while their career started in 1983, it wasn't until 1995 that a union between Death and Roadrunner ensued in the form of Symbolic.

One of the most brutal and pleasantly extreme death metal albums to come out of the 90s, Symbolic, the band's sixth album, has since been remastered to suit your listening pleasure. Check out "Crystal Mountain" from the remaster below and check back every Friday to see what we pull out of our deep crypts next.

Trivium Frontman Gives Metal Hammer His Top Ten Essential Albums

Wed, 19 May 2010 13:19:00 GMT

Trivium's Matt Heafy recently spoke to Metal Hammer about his Top Ten Essential Albums of all time, citing his favorite prog, death, Swedish and metalcore bands alike.

Starting with Martyr's Warp Zone, of which he says, "This has been a hugely influential album on me, and they’re a band that I feel are way underrated," Heafy runs through his stellar list namechecking labelmates Opeth (Blackwater Park), Killswitch Engage (Alive or Just Breathing), Machine Head (Through the Ashes of Empire) and Death (The Sound of Perseverance) just to name a few.

Among the ten album's chosen, Heafy says of one of them, "There’s a whole slew of bands that I never really mention that were a big influence on me for the Ascendency style... In interviews we would talk about our ‘metal’ influences, but lately I’ve been wanting to shed some light on the other end."

Find out which one that was and see the whole ten here, along with Heafy's reasoning for choosing each album.

Trivium have just released a three-part video series on the making of their God of War-inspired song "Shattering the Skies Above." Watch them right here and for more on the band as they work on their next album in the studio, check trivium.org.

NEW SITE CHANGES!

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

You may have noticed that over the past few months quiet changes have been made to the site. First we gave you new artist pages. Check out your favorite and you'll find widgets, videos, music, and much more. Plus they look great.

A few weeks back we also updated our Artists page. You'll see highlighted artists up top in blue. These change as artists are updated with news, video, and music. This is a great page to make your first port-of-call after the news section!

Today we've relaunched three other pages. Music and Video are all new. You can now embed all of our music and video posted to the site in your blog, web site, or MySpace/Facebook profiles. At the right of these pages you'll see charts driven by what YOU do on our site. You can also leave comments at all songs and videos, rate them, and favorite them in our new profile system (more on that in a sec).

The Releases page has gotten a huge makeover. Every album now has its own home page where you can see the available tracks, rate it, leave a review, or comment on others' reviews. Snazzy huh?

Finally, we just launched our new profile pages. If you're a subscriber to our email newsletters, you can log in, add your own picture, keep track of the latest updates on our site (and partner sites), follow your favorite videos and music, and tell us what bands you want to hear about.

Of course, many of these new features require that you be a member of the site to use them, so please join today!

We are, of course, in a beta phase and need your help to make the site work the best for YOU. If you see any problems or want to suggest changes to the new features, please send an email to webmaster@roadrunnerrecords.com with "NEW SITE REPORT" in the subject line. If you receive an error, please be as detailed as possible, including what page you were on, what browser you are using, and copy any error message you receive into the body of the email.

Please feel free to leave comments here below!

Cheers!

Jeremy Rosen

DEATH - SYMBOLIC REMASTER

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Death's career-defining album, Symbolic, has been remastered and re-released as part of Roadrunner's Remaster Series. The new version comes packaged in an O-card featuring the original album art. The CD contains the original, remastered album plus 5 previously unreleased bonus tracks. Pick it up at your local FYE store or fye.com today!