Bradley Zorgdrager

Track Premiere: Dearth – “Death Sown in Polluted Soil”

May 14, 2020

Dearth‘s black/death metal is the opposite of sleek and presentable, approximating an alternate universe apocalypse lyrically — and even musically.

Track Premiere: Protosequence – “A Blunt Description of Something Obscene

May 7, 2020

Canadian progressive tech death metal band Protosequence speed up single “A Blunt Description of Something Obscene” for upcoming EP.

Track Premiere: The Hallowed Catharsis – “Killowner”

April 30, 2020

The Hallowed Catharsis keep technical death metal progressive by keeping it unpredictable on the skronky yet chunky “Killowner.”

Video Premiere: Angerot – “Coalesced With Wickedness”

April 23, 2020

One-time Mercyful Fate and King Diamond drummer Snowy Shaw contributes guest vocals to a new track from U.S. death dealers Angerot.

Track Premiere: ACxDC – “Copsucker”

April 9, 2020

California powerviolence purveyors ACxDC deliver first new album in six years. Get a mouthful of new single “Copsucker.”

Video Premiere: Enterprise Earth – “Scars of the Past”

April 9, 2020

Enterprise Earth just celebrated one trip around the sun for third LP Luciferous this week. The Spokane, WA deathcore band marked the occasion with a new live music video for “Scars of the Past.”

Video Premiere: FOES – “American Violence”

April 2, 2020

The sound of FOES is distinctly the sound of “American Violence.” Watch the video for their latest here.

Track Premiere: Xibalba – “En La Obscuridad”

March 26, 2020

SoCal deathcrushers Xibalba are ready to leave this forsaken world in the dark with the first track from their long-awaited new LP.

Video Premiere: Sicarius – “God of Dead Roots”

March 12, 2020

Sicarius don’t sound like they come from California, nor does God of Dead Roots sound like it’s from 2020.

Full EP Stream: Sutrah – ‘Aletheia’

March 9, 2020

Progressive yet technical death metallers Sutrah don’t deny their Quebec metal lineage but still forge their own path on Aletheia

Video Premiere: Plague Years – “Play the Victim”

March 5, 2020

Plague Years deliver a dose of deadly crossover thrash on “Play the Victim” and upcoming sophomore LP, Circle of Darkness.

Video Premiere: Orphan Donor – “Salvia Is a Bitch”

February 27, 2020

Check out the bonkers new video from the screamo solo project of Secret Cutter drummer Jared Stimpfl.

Full Album Stream: Icon of Phobos/Katheksis – ‘Primal Death Rites’

February 20, 2020

Hear Icon of Phobos and Katheksis deliver two different looks at the underbelly of black metal on this new split.

Track Premiere: Hallucinator – ‘Hiss in the Skull’

January 30, 2020

You’re not just hearing things – this new track from Oakland blackened death thrashers Hallucinator totally rules.

Video Premiere: Total Annihilation – ‘Reborn In Flesh’

January 23, 2020

Total Annihilation picked an aptly-titled track for their visual return. “Reborn In Flesh” comes from the Swiss band’s first album in eight years, …On Chains of Doom.

Video Premiere: Raphael Weinroth-Browne – ‘Tumult’

January 16, 2020

Canadian cellist and composer Raphael Weinroth-Browne explores his cellistic voice even further on Worlds Within.

Video Premiere: Black Passage – ‘The Veil’

January 2, 2020

Black Passage pull back “The Veil” on their boundaryless post-everything metal with a video for a song of the same name.

Song Premiere: Karg – ‘Alaska’

December 12, 2019

Karg‘s latest 11-minute journey of weeping melodies and black metal bleakness in now available for your listening “pleasure.”

Video Premiere: Salvation – ‘Year of the Fly’

December 5, 2019

Chicago trio Salvation double down on the love of threes on third LP Year of the Fly.

Full Album Stream: BEDTIMEMAGIC – “Pillow Talk”

November 7, 2019

BEDTIMEMAGIC aren’t all-caps aren’t yelling at you. In fact, they’re just whispering sweet nothings via Pillow Talk.

Track Premiere: Sun of the Dying – ‘When the Morning Came’

October 31, 2019

Sun of the Dying take the dichotomies inherent to death/doom and wallow in them on “When the Morning Came.”

Track Premiere: Chthonic Deity – ‘Echoes of Death’

October 24, 2019

Chthonic Deity feature members of Blood Incantation, Ascended Dead and Scolex, though none of those prepares you for their sound.

Video Premiere: Denner’s Inferno – ‘Sometimes’

October 17, 2019

Mercyful Fate and King Diamond axe hero Michael Denner burns bright again with new track from Denner’s Inferno.