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OG U.S. doom merchants Cirith Ungol feature prominently in our latest exclusive excerpt from Brian Slagel’s upcoming book, Swing of the Blade.

Hear Pittsburgh noise/math maniacs Microwaves do that voodoo that they do in their new video for “Regular Magic.”

Hear super-charged SoCal punks Daisy Chain (ft. Graf Orlock members) kick out the jams at Mountune motorsports.

Our latest exclusive excerpt from Brian Slagel’s upcoming book, Swing of the Blade offers up some Metallica intrigue.

Our latest exclusive excerpt from Metal Blade founder Brian Slagel’s upcoming book, Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records features Amon Amarth.

Indiana doom druids Faerie Ring are riffologists not mycologists.

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

Hear the blistering and beguiling fifth full-length, ‘Chapter VI: Burning Rebirth,’ from Long Island black-death-doom lifers Dimentianon

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

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.

Not the last you’ll hear from Michigan power thrash sextet Finality.

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

Watch heavy prog quartet Bagorah’s ghostly paean to Old Scratch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hear Polish grinders Nuclear Holocaust befoul your Valentine’s Day with their aural radiation sickness.

Members of Norska and Yob make old-school grunge in Simple Forms.

Belgian death thrash combo Schizophrenia pay homage to thrash’s roots on new GBH cover.

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

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.”

Mexican NWOTHM quartet Freeroad feel the noize on their old-school debut, ‘Do What You Feel!’