Dethklok performs at The Masonic in San Francisco on April 24, 2024. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. Wednesday night, for the first time since 2018, I paid money for a concert ticket and didn’t write about the show afterward. I’m spoiled. As a writer for RIFF, I can get press tickets to…

The 60 best metal albums of 2020 include (clockwise from top left): The Black Dahlia Murder, Elder, Sumac, Botanist, Vile Creature, Today is the Day, Cult of Fire, Mare Cognitum & Spectral Lore, End and Reverorum ib Malacht. Welcome to the second beatdown in a six-part beatdown series counting…

There’s a reason you’ll find The Black Dahlia Murder shirts at Spite and At The Gates concerts. The Michigan export’s consistent output of quality melodic death metal simultaneously taps into contemporary and orthodox developments within the extreme metal umbrella. Time and time again, Black Dahlia freshens up its sound…