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Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.

Roadburn, held every year in Tilburg, Netherlands, is the metal festival of your dreams, brought to reality. For one, it’s in the Netherlands, a paradise whether you’re a libertine or a sober naturalist. It celebrates metal’s creative spectrum, not focusing on one particular genre. What other festival would have Pentagram, Diamanda Galas, and Repulsion in a single day, much less a whole weekend? Roadburn commissions full-album sets from some of the more notable acts the play the fest, including Yob, Neurosis, and Wolves in the Throne Room.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column that considers the best releases in black, death, power, Swedish black, speed, and every other metal genre you can name.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column. These are the 10 best metal albums of 2018.

We’re releasing a limited-edition version of the new album from Baton Rouge metal killers Thou, and you can grab that over here.

Below, you can read an interview Andy O’Connor — Vinyl Me, Please’s metal columnist — did with the band’s frontman, Bryan Funck, where they touch upon trying to challenge the standards of metal. You can stream Magus at NPR right now.

Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, the new album from Deafheaven.

Every month, our Deaf Forever column rounds up the best releases in metal, ranging from Swedish post-black and d-beat to Tunisian metalcore and post-power metal. Deaf Forever is also now a playlist: a collection of the month’s best metal, plus whatever our metal columnist, Andy O’Connor, feels like putting in here. It’s the most punishing, unrelenting Spotify playlist you’ll listen to every month. Turn up the volume and raise your second and fifth digits, this is Deaf Forever.

Every month, our Deaf Forever column rounds up the best releases in metal, ranging from Swedish post-black and d-beat to Tunisian metalcore and post-power metal. Deaf Forever is also now a playlist: a collection of the month’s best metal, plus whatever our metal columnist, Andy O’Connor, feels like putting in here. It’s the most punishing, unrelenting Spotify playlist you’ll listen to every month. Turn up the volume and raise your second and fifth digits, this is Deaf Forever.

Every month, our Deaf Forever column rounds up the best releases in metal, ranging from Swedish post-black and d-beat to Tunisian metalcore and post-power metal. Deaf Forever is also now a playlist: a collection of the month’s best metal, plus whatever our metal columnist, Andy O’Connor, feels like putting in here. It’s the most punishing, unrelenting Spotify playlist you’ll listen to every month. Turn up the volume and raise your second and fifth digits, this is Deaf Forever.

Every month, our Deaf Forever column rounds up the best releases in metal, ranging from Swedish post-black and d-beat to Tunisian metalcore and post-power metal. Deaf Forever is also now a playlist: a collection of the month’s best metal, plus whatever our metal columnist, Andy O’Connor, feels like putting in here. It’s the most punishing, unrelenting Spotify playlist you’ll listen to every month. Turn up the volume and raise your second and fifth digits, this is Deaf Forever. R.I.P. Vinnie Paul from Pantera.

Every month, our Deaf Forever column rounds up the best releases in metal, ranging from Swedish post-black and d-beat to Tunisian metalcore and post-power metal. Deaf Forever is also now a playlist: a collection of the month's best metal, plus whatever our metal columnist, Andy O'Connor, feels like putting in here. It's the most punishing, unrelenting Spotify playlist you'll listen to every month. Turn up the volume and raise your second and fifth digits, this is Deaf Forever.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column. These are the 20 best metal albums of 2017.

Usually, Deaf Forever highlights the best metal (and metalish) records every month. For October’s edition, we’ll dive deep into a record so massive, it needs its whole column: Bell Witch’s Mirror Reaper, which came out last month on Profound Lore.

Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is The Dusk In Us, the ninth album from Converge.

We’re releasing a special, limited to 300 swamp green vinyl edition of High on Fire’s Blessed Black Wings. Here, our metal columnist Andy O’Connor writes a Liner Notes essay about the album.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column that considers the best releases in black, death, power, Swedish black, speed, and every other metal genre you can name.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column that considers the best releases in black, death, power, Swedish black, speed, and every other metal genre you can name.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column that considers the best releases in black, death, power, Swedish black, speed, and every other metal genre you can name.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column that considers the best releases in black, death, power, Swedish black, speed, and every other metal genre you can name.

Every month, Andy O'Connor breaks down the best in thrash, death, black, Norwegian black, speed, and every other kind of metal that exists on the internet, on tapes, or in your nightmares. We call it DEAF FOREVER.

Our metal columnist Andy O'Connor and our electronic columnist Gary Suarez pick titles for our store (which opens today!) and tell you why.

Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column.

Deaf Forever and Digital/Divide are metal and electronic music columns by Andy O’Connor and Gary Suarez. We’re having Andy and Gary pick a new album for the store each month—here are this month's picks: