Thrash Veterans, TikTok Breakouts, and New York's Black Metal Underground: This Week's Metal Dispatch

Some weeks the metal news cycle feels like a tug-of-war between the genre's deep past and whatever algorithm is currently deciding what teenagers hear next. This is one of those weeks. Thrash lifers are teasing comebacks, a post-hardcore offshoot is somehow outperforming pop stars on TikTok, and down in the basements and DIY spaces of New York, the black metal underground keeps doing what it's always done — grinding away, unbothered by any of it. Let's get into it.