Despite vocalist Shawn Gallagher’s vocal worship of James Hetfield, BTE manage to combine just the right amount of assaultive riffage and neck-breaking tempos to overcome any easy comparisons.

With a one-of-a-kind museum specimen, researchers recreated the chirp of ancient cricket relatives that droned alongside the dinosaurs. By Jack Tamisiea Whether it’s a cicada’s earsplitting drone, a ...

Liane Hansen reads letters from listeners, including comments on last week's feature on the Songs of Insects, touring the Axis of Evil, and a note from Zeno Wicks III telling us that his father has ...