Spineshank Reshuffles Its Rhythm Section, Thrown Into Exile Recruits Arch Enemy's Michael Amott, and California's Heavy Music Lifers Keep Showing Up

Some weeks the California metal scene hands you one massive headline. This week it handed us a handful of smaller ones that, stitched together, say something bigger: whether you're a nu-metal survivor from the Y2K era or a blackened melodeath upstart dropping singles into a new label banner, the Golden State's metal machine doesn't stop turning. Let's get into it.