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Full Album Stream: As Above, So Below with Atavistia’s Cosmic Warfare

April 20, 2023

Check out the orchestral density of Atavistia‘s new album, Cosmic Warfare!

Full Album Stream: Mast Year – ‘Knife’

April 6, 2023

Hear the ear-scraping new debut, ‘Knife,’ from Charm City post-hardcore noiseniks Mast Year.

Full EP Stream: Maudiir’s Musical Soliloque

April 6, 2023

Check out Maudiir‘s musical soliloquy of prominent prog rock melodies, blackened NWOBHM chord voicings and mid-period Mustaine riffing …Soliloque

EXCLUSIVE Excerpt from Brian Slagel’s new book, ‘Swing of the Blade: More Stories From Metal Blade Records’

April 4, 2023

Read an exclusive excerpt, featuring Armored Saint, from Metal Blade founder Brian Slagel’s upcoming book, Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records.

Video Premiere: Squid Pisser – “My Tadpole Legion”

March 28, 2023

Don’t feel bad, we have no idea what’s going on in the new video from Deaf Club/Starcrawler collab, Squid Pisser, either.

Full Album Stream: Forcefed Horsehead are Seeing Things with Monoceros

March 23, 2023

Indulge in a stream of Forcefed Horsehead‘s animal mutant-friendly new album, Monoceros

Full Album Stream: Firmament – ‘We Don’t Rise, We Just Fall’

March 21, 2023

Hear German newcomers Firmament continue the New Wave of British Heavy Metal’s seemingly eternal legacy on We Don’t Rise, We Just Fall.

Full Album Stream: Ardent Nova – ‘Ardent Nova’

March 16, 2023

Hear Viking metal-inspired thrashers Ardent Nova go scorched earth on their long-in-the-making debut.

Track Premiere: Mammon’s Throne – “Beyond”

March 14, 2023

Hear new single, “Beyond,” from Mammon’s Throne, gilded with crusty riffs and authentic Aussie spite.

Track Premiere: DieHumane – “Epitaph”

March 10, 2023

If alt-doom isn’t a thing, Texas collective DieHumane may well have invented it on their new single, “Epitaph.”

Video Premiere: Voidscape – “Grief Eclipse”

March 9, 2023

The view from the new Voidscape video is dull and bleak, but the melodic death metal is smokin’.

Video Premiere: Night Goat – “Wendigo”

March 7, 2023

The manic, unhinged fury of Ohio’s Night Goat is unleashed in the band’s psychedelic new video for “Wendigo.”

Video Premiere: Treedeon – “Viking Meditation Song”

March 2, 2023

Hear Treedeon deliver a severely drop-tuned rumbler that hits somewhere between Bleach-era Nirvana and Sleep’s Holy Mountain

Video Premiere: Kill Me – “Bloodsluts”

February 28, 2023

Watch the new video from Seattle noise/sludge duo Kill Me, because it’s called “Bloodsluts.”

Video Premiere: Radian – “They Look Like Good Strong Hands”

February 23, 2023

Ohio sludge busters Radian light it up in new video for “They Look Like Strong Hands.”

Full Album Stream: Megaton Sword – ‘Might & Power’

February 21, 2023

Hear Switzerland’s epic metal purveyors Megaton Sword slash and burn on their second album, ‘Might & Power.’

Full Album Stream: Last Legion – ‘Metall, Blod & Aska’

February 16, 2023

Hear the blackened death thrash of Sweden’s Last Legion as it was meant to be heard—in Swedish.

Track Premiere: Lamp of Murmuur – “Seal of the Dominator”

February 13, 2023

Hear the latest single from USBM phenom Lamp of Murmuur ahead of the march release of new LP Saturnian Bloodstorm.

Video Premiere: Unaligned Open Up About Their “Occhiolism”

February 9, 2023

Check out the latest single from Floridian tech-death whippersnappers Unaligned!

Track Premiere: Negative Blast – “Egghead”

February 2, 2023

Hear San Diego punk noiseniks Negative Blast shake it but don’t break it on new single “Egghead.”

Video Premiere: Damien Done – “Pray For Me”

January 31, 2023

Hardcore lifer Damien Moyal (ex Morning Again, Shai Hulud, Culture, As Friends Rust) gets his sad on in the new Damien Done video, “Pray For Me.”