Read an excerpt from the new book, 'Born Human,' about Chuck Schuldiner, who played in the bands Death, Control Denied, Mantas, and Voodoocult.

Amy Taylor kept the details of how Robert Gleason Jr. died from their son for as long as she could. But at age 10, Eian Taylor searched for his father's name online at school and saw the headlines.

The internet has a lot of questions about death metal so, here, we answer the most frequently asked ones, touching on some crucial history while doing our best to try to reason why someone could ever ...

Where did the term "death metal" come from? One of the best and most fun aspects of heavy metal is that it is shrouded in lore and debate. There are some things that keep metalheads engaging in the ...

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