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Metal & Beer Fest: Denver 2026 Is Only 3 MONTHS AWAY! Make Your Plans NOW!
September 3, 2026
If you haven’t already, book your plane ticket, line up a hotel room (or the least dirty floor) and make sure the babysitter knows where your kids are, because Metal & Beer Fest Denver is approaching.
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Full Album Stream: Cartilage — Operating Altar
September 9, 2026
Hear San Francisco deathgrinders Cartilage make their particular pathology even more elaborate on third full-length Operating Altar, due September 11 through Everlasting Spew.
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An Endless Wave of American Darkness: USBM’s Hidden Underground
December 26, 2025
Neill Jameson digs deep into the best that underground U.S. black metal had to offer in 2025.
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Chat Pile
October 2026 [#264]
It’s Always Sunny in Oklahoma! Also: the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Agalloch’s Ashes Against the Grain, Godflesh, Fire in the Mountains 2026 Reviewed, Anthrax, Mastodon, Russian Circles and more. Each issue includes an exclusive limited edition Sulaco flexi disc!
Track Premiere: Voracious Contempt – “Splitting the Cerebrum”
September 9, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
San Antonio slam enthusiasts Voracious Contempt spill brains on new single “Splitting the Cerebrum.”
Track Premiere: Massteron – ‘Achronon’
September 8, 2026 Emily Bellino
Stream a new single from Polish black/death metal group Massteron.
Blast Worship: Magnicide/Punished Earth
September 8, 2026 Gene Meyer
Hear blast vets Magnicide and Punished Earth team up on the imaginatively titled Split LP.
Track Premiere: 30,000 Monkies – “Unsound Hero”
September 7, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Noisy Belgian primates 30,000 Monkies hail the “Unsound Hero” on sludgy new single.
Video Premiere: Stinking Lizaveta – ‘Champion of My Mind’
September 7, 2026 Emily Bellino
Philadelphia’s Stinking Lizaveta rock out in a new music video filmed at the Mahoning Drive-In Theater.
Five For Friday: September 4, 2026
September 4, 2026 J. Andrew
This week’s new releases feature the latest in heavy, unrelenting ferocity from Devil Master, Sigh, Chat Pile and more!
Agalloch – Ashes Against the Grain
September 3, 2026 Daniel Lake
Celebrating 20 years of Agalloch‘s Ashes Against the Grain with this new Hall of Fame induction.
Track Premiere: God Mother – “False Self”
September 3, 2026 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Stockholm’s God Mother drop their third full-length album, Köttvärld, on September 25. Check out the LP track “False Self” now.
Track Premiere: Grant the Sun Besmirch Musical Tedium with “Tedium”
September 3, 2026 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the new single from the forthcoming second album by prog metallers, Grant the Sun!
Track Premiere: Stellar Rot – “Through The Eternity Stairs”
September 2, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Charm City blackgazers Stellar Rot rampage “Through the Eternity Stairs,” a frigid new track with melodic atmospherics.
