Guns N’ Roses have made their entire new album, Chinese Democracy, available for streaming until November 23. The record is the band’s first studio offering since 1991’s Use Your Illusion 1 and 2 and can only be bought at BestBuy starting November 23.

Click “more” to stream the album and watch every Guns N’ Roses video in our database. (more…)

Richard Hoak, who has played drums for Brutal Truth on every record since their second disc, 1994’s Need to Control, has contributed music for a new short film called “A Short But Interesting Message From God” — and it’s the last thing Brutal Truth fans would expect. There’s are no buzzsaw guitars or throat-slashed vocals. Hell, there’s not even a beat.

Instead, Hoak, who goes by the name Peacemaker, has assembled an ambient collage of reverberating tones, somewhat reminiscent of the disturbing soundcapes in David Lynch’s “Eraserhead,” and layered these “transformational noises” atop footage by Ed Ballinger of Punkmonkey Pictures. In addition to working with Peacemaker, Ballinger’s Punkmonkey has shot videos for Hoak’s other band Total F–king Destruction, Withered, Mouth of the Architect and others.

Click “more” to watch “A Short But Interesting Message From God” and other Punkmonkey/Peacemaker collaborations. (more…)

Nine days ago, Poland death/black metal band, Behemoth, released the EP Ezkaton, which contains the ripping new studio track “Quadosh,” covers of The Ramones’ “I’m Not Jesus” and Master Hammer’s “Jama Pekel,” and three live songs. Check it out for sure, but first check out frontman Nergal’s guest blog about music videos, Behemoth’s victory at a Polish video festival and the force that kept them from winning the grand prize:

Yesterday, I was asked by some local journalist if there’s any sense in producing music videos nowadays. I said yes. I truly think there still is a massive demand within the metal genre, and especially within the extreme metal genre where theatricals play such a huge role in the whole concept. (more…)

On Halloween, Tampa death metal veterans Six Feet Under weren’t wearing black ski masks and smashing windows of all the old folks in their neighborhood. They were onstage tearing through old favorites and treating fans to some songs from their new album Death Rituals. During the show, they shot a new video for the song “Seed of Filth.”

“This is one of our favorite songs from the album, one we’ are just really stoked on,” says frontman Chris Barnes. “Once again, we worked with director Mario D. Framingheddu, who has directed our videos for ‘Ghosts of the Undead’ and ‘Doomsday.’ We’re really proud of this video and how it came out.”

Click “more” to watch “Seed of Filth.” And come back tomorrow to check out our podcast interview with Barnes. (more…)

The unholy German triumvirate of Kreator, Destruction and Sodom helped bridge thrash metal between the U.S. and the rest of the world in the mid ’80s and also injected the music with a new level of savagery. Obviously Slayer, Exodus and (early) Metallica were extremely heavy, but their German counterparts were even more raw and unhinged — less musically accomplished, but decidedly more evil sounding.

While all three bands have been through various lineup shifts since their inception, they continue to tour and record. In fact, Destruction released a new album, D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N. on August 22 and Kreator’s new disc, Hordes of Chaos, drops on January 13. But where’s Sodom? (more…)