While Tacoma isn’t as well-known as Seattle, it offers a similar mix of cultural landmarks and access to the outdoors at a ...

Heavy metal is more than a genre of music. It’s a vast, vast world full of its own countless subgenres, thriving regions all around the world, and more bands than any individual person can keep ...

Kevin Diers was the voice of Seattle. Whether he was turning listeners on to new, exhilarating bands as host of 99.9 KISW’s Loud & Local and Metal Shop shows or excitedly announcing DEFY ...

An inflatable shark bounces atop a sea of sweaty headbangers who are all screaming along to the legendary New York death metal band Suffocation. Neumos is jam-packed and limbs are flying past my ...

Seattle rock icons Heart have added another string of dates to their 2025 touring schedule. The new dates begin on November ...

The 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise is a full-throttle rager featuring 60 bands and thousands of fans sailing from Miami to Jamaica.

Nirvana burst onto the mainstream music scene in 1991 with “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” symbolizing the demise of hair metal bands that dominated the 1980s. Along with fellow Seattle bands ...

As the sun set over Maury Island, just south of Seattle, Ben Goertzel and his jazz-fusion band had one of those moments that all bands hope for — keyboard, guitar, saxophone and lead singer ...

(Starform Image) Seattle-based video game developer Starform raised $6 million in a new funding round to continue work on its air combat game Metalstorm.

As Soundgarden broke out of the Seattle scene, Chris Cornell stood apart from his peers: a rock god among grunge’s iconoclasts ...

The metal of Undulation’s undertaking is black and death metal, atmospheric and technical, elegant and morbid. As previously stated, for some bands, these contrasts may be polar extremes.