We’ve been big, big Arsis fans here at MetalSucks for some time now, but the band’s new album, Unwelcome (out April 30 on Nuclear Blast — stream the single “Scornstar” here and pre-order album here!) ...

Let me begin by saying that this should be treated as hearsay until further notice. There’s been no official statement by the band, so we’re really just going on a reader e-mail here. And while we ...

Killer Lyrics: Forced to rock / Rebellion rebellion / In the name of the Devil Starve / To take down this life with a feast of famine / In the name of Satan we are forced to rock Nuclear Blast's Arsis ...

James Malone, the leader of the metal band Arsis, is once again living and rocking on the Peninsula. That doesn’t mean he’s staying put. His band is getting ready to launch yet another national tour.

2008 should have been a banner year for tech-death greats Arsis. Last April the band released 'We Are the Nightmare,' a dizzying, forward-thinking death metal album that garnered praise from fans and ...

Arsis, in classical music parlance, most commonly refers to the up-beat, or unstressed parts of a measure. The term seems an odd choice of name for a technical death metal outfit whose lyrics focus on ...

Power metal is less typically aligned with wintertime than, say, the grimmest and most frostbitten of black metal, which tends to dwell on permafrost and inhospitable landscapes translated through ...