Opening with a brief harpsichord spotlight, the breakneck speed of the Italian orchestral death metal outfit takes over as symphonic elements collide head-first with the the sheer brutality the band ...

IZZA faces down fears of loneliness through her songwriting. As evidenced with a slyly end-of-days chant “Apocalypse,” she burrows through deep emotional earth as a way to come to grips with the world ...

In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs our families made us listen to repeatedly. For my entire childhood, and during visits to my parents’ ...

Fleshgod Apocalypse have unveiled a new single called “No” with an accompanying video. Because releasing new music on the Friday before the holiday break begins, when everyone and their mothers, ...

Godsmack's Shannon Larkin and Tony Rombola have rebooted their psychedelic rock group The Apocalypse Blues Revue under the new moniker The Apocalypse Blues Revival. The band has just announced their ...

Watching American Horror Story season after season is a little bit like piecing together a giant jigsaw puzzle. The anthology uses Easter eggs and callbacks to hearken back to chilling older seasons, ...

If there is such a thing as seasonal music for New Year’s Eve, it is apocalypse pop. Apocalypse pop is a subgenre of radio dance pop that I made up, whose lyrics and musicality invoke the end of the ...

With Russian troops in Ukraine and subsequent East/West saber-rattling, it’s been an uncomfortably Cold War kind of week — also, “The Americans” is back! As such, it seemed like a good time to revisit ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Well, it would seem that the new X-Men: Apocalypse trailer lives up to it's name, with lots of thunder, chaos and falling bridges. Chances are you're totally stoked for this latest installment, or ...

Warning: this article includes plot spoilers for the film Anna and the Apocalypse. Among the many great cinematic achievements released last year was Anna and the Apocalypse, a slightly overlooked ...