Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scott Burns remembers the first time he saw Deicide play live. The exact date has been lost to time but it was sometime the late ...

For metal, 1983 was the year shit really got dark. Thrash was born, Metallica and Slayer’s debut albums setting new standards of intensity that a slew of ravening hopefuls instantly sought to outdo.

Death metal, the hellish genre that emerged in the mid ’80s as a mutation of the West Coast thrash of Metallica and Slayer, is currently enjoying a prolonged renaissance. Bands whose members weren’t ...