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TRENCHER , uncompromising Speed Metal from Oakland, California, will be releasing their first vinyl through Hectic Records / Bleeding...

Bay Area thrash titans Nefarious  have dropped their explosive third single and title track, “ADDICTED TO POWER,” along with a blistering...

Our YouTube playlist of videos from Bay Area heavy metal bands, released in 2025. See a video we are missing? Let us know! HAUNT Soaring...

Welcome to Hectic’s Turntable Top 6, where I review recent releases that have been getting more than their fair share of plays on the...

Impaled  was one of the Bay Area’s early death metal / gore metal bands, forming in the late 1990s in Oakland, California. They came out...

Doomsday, a Crossover Thrash band from Oakland, CA, is releasing their newest album, “Never Know Peace” March 28, 2025 on...

San Francisco metal band Slough Feg  (also known as The Lord Weird Slough Feg , but that’s a mouthful) are set to release their new album...

I’m a big NITE  fan, after first seeing them live in 2019 opening a local show at Thee Parkside here in San Francisco. I bought their...

Frolic is one of those metal bands that you become a fan of the first time you see them live, even if you weren’t familiar with them...

Heathen's new album ‘Bleed The World: Live’ is out on March 14, 2025! Heathen is an American thrash metal band originating from San...

Goresoaked Death Grind band Cartilage from San Francisco, CA have announced their upcoming EP, "Tales from the Entrails: A Necrology"...

Bleeding Edge is a music project conceived in 2023 by Carl Fulli bringing together classic elements of Thrash Metal and Death Metal...

Blackened Thrash Metal veterans Hellhunter from San Francisco have released their new Hellbanger EP. Featuring Will Carroll of Death...

San Francisco Blackened Thrash metal outfit Hellhunter has just dropped their third release, a 5 song EP called Hellbanger. PRE-ORDER:...