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Track Premiere: Soulskinner unfold “A Spectral Vision”

April 25, 2017

Catch a hair-raising glimpse of the new album, Descent to Abaddon, from Greece’s Soulskinner with this exclusive premiere of “A Spectral Vision.”

Demo:listen: Wearg

April 21, 2017

On this week’s Demo:listen we risk getting our faces clawed off to promote the rabid extremism of San Diego’s Wearg.

Unleashed to feast at Onion Maiden, a heavy metal-themed vegan restaurant

April 19, 2017

In which we thoroughly, perhaps even gluttonously check out Onion Maiden, Pittsburgh’s only “punk-fueled,” heavy metal-inspired vegan restaurant.

Drop Everything and Listen to Loss’ “The Joy of All Who Sorrow”

April 18, 2017

Lie down on the floor, close your eyes, and come to know the “The Joy of All Who Sorrow.” Today we bring you an exclusive premiere of the opening track from Horizonless, the highly anticipated sophomore album from Nashville-based doom-death titans, Loss.

Demo:listen: Fetid

April 14, 2017

On this week’s Demo:listen we recoil and blanch in the presence of Seattle’s Fetid.

Full Album Stream: Blood Feast welcome you to “The Future State of Wicked”

April 11, 2017

Their first album since the reunion of Jersey’s morbid thrash cult, Blood Feast, The Future State of Wicked boasts deadly riffs, razor-sharp vocal attacks, and explosive battery. Out this Friday on Hells Headbangers, The Future State of Wicked is here. 

Demo:listen: Ultra Silvam

April 7, 2017

On this week’s Demo:listen we usher in the end of it all with Mälmo’s Ultra Silvam.

Track Premiere: Let Horrid take you across “Cursed Dunes”

April 4, 2017

Check out this exclusive premiere of “Cursed Dunes” from Beyond the Dark Border, the new album from Italy’s longest-running death metal powerhouse, Horrid

Demo:listen: Felled

March 31, 2017

On this week’s Demo:listen, we circumvent your expectations to present Oregon’s Felled.

Full Album Stream: Cripta Oculta reëmerge with compilation of heretofore lost & unreleased material

March 28, 2017

Get lost in the underworldly mysticism of deep Portuguese black metal with Cripta Oculta’s self-titled compilation of rarities—their first “new” material in over five years, and we’ve got the exclusive stream.

Full EP Premiere: Horns & Hooves got a “Morbid Lust”

March 27, 2017

Get sprung on the nastiest, most blasphemous stateside black metal band since Profanatica. Horns & Hooves take no prisoners on their follow up to last year’s Consecrate the Marrow demo. You won’t hear black metal this sick anywhere else until you’re jamming your own copy of Morbid Lust.  

Track Premiere: Ruin deliver “Rancid Death”

March 21, 2017

Get in on this exclusive track premiere of “Rancid Death” off Drown in Blood, the debut full length from west coast mondo psychos Ruin.

Demo:listen: Disincarnation

March 17, 2017

On this week’s Demo:listen, we sing the praises of the Slime God in vain hope that doing so might preserve us against that awful deity invoked by San Jose’s Disincarnation.

Devotion unto Death: Streaming Harvest Gulgatha’s ‘Altars of Devotion’

March 14, 2017

Squander not this exclusive stream of the debut full length, Altars of Devotion, from Arizonan upheavalists Harvest Gulgaltha.

Demo:listen: Virulent Specter

March 10, 2017

On this week’s Demo:listen, we expose the  world to Virulent Specter.

Track Premiere: Raise High a “Chalice of Pus” for Extremity

March 7, 2017

Coming straight out the Bay Area, meet 2017’s insurmountable death metal triumphator: Extremity. We’ve secured an exclusive premiere of “Chalice of Pus,” arguably the best track on Extremity’s debut album, Extremely Fucking Dead. So get dead with this exclusive premiere, plus an interview with Extremity’s guitarist/vocalist Marissa Martinez-Hoadley and bassist Erika Osterhout.

Tomb Mold

March 6, 2017

Primordial Malignity
Vehement morbidity
dB rating: 8/10

Demo:listen: Infernal Body

March 3, 2017

On this week’s Demo:listen, we get twisted and badly bent out of shape with Leeds’ Infernal Body.

Track Premiere: Resist Possession “In Vain”

February 28, 2017

Do not miss out on “In Vain,” the latest sneak peak from the debut full length, Exorkizein, by Belgium’s foremost practitioners of arcane wrath and medieval clamor, Possession.

Grave Disclosure: Funeral Chant interview & stream

February 23, 2017

In which we make contact with the Bay Area’s latest morbid abomination, Funeral Chant.

Streaming: Förgjord’s “Uhripuu” & “Vahvempi kuin koskaan”

February 21, 2017

If you like your black metal Finnish, insane, and teeming with crepuscular depravity then Förgjord’s third album Uhripuu is your kind of album. Come on in and check out a few tracks.

Demo:listen: Morbid Rites

February 17, 2017

On this week’s Demo:listen, we burn it all down and rout the incipient resistance in the name of Missouri’s Morbid Rites.

Track Premiere: Apostate Viaticum praise “Moloch the Sanguinary”

February 14, 2017

You may not realize your life is missing triumphant Irish death metal until you hear Apostate Viaticum, the latest band to join the inimitable Invictus Productions roster. Hail this exclusive premiere of “Moloch the Sanguinary,” from their debut album Before the Gates of Gomorrah.

Cultes Des Ghoules

February 13, 2017

Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love
Masterpiece, or ambition as a force of evil
dB rating: 8/10

Demo:listen: Praecognitvm

February 10, 2017

On this week’s Demo:listen, we explore the remote and radiant dreamrealm evoked by Chile’s Praecognitvm.

Death in the Machine: Miserist full album stream

February 8, 2017

Australian experimental death/industrial amalgamation Miserist is primed to unleash calculated and cold destruction with their self-titled debut.

Track Premiere: Black Cilice commences “Channeling Forgotten Energies”

February 7, 2017

An exclusive premiere of “Channeling Forgotten Energies,” off Banished from Time, the new album by Portugal’s staunchly necro entity, Black Cilice.

Track Premiere: Venenum issue “Cold Threat”

February 6, 2017

The wait is finally over! Now’s your chance to listen to the first new Venenum song in six years! We’ve got the exclusive premiere of “Cold Threat,” a brand new song from from the Bavarian death metallers’ long overdue debut full length, Trance of Death.

Demo:listen: Naddred

February 3, 2017

On this week’s Demo:listen, we introduce the unsuspecting underground to the abominable prowess of Ireland’s Naddred.

Track Premiere: Front Beast present “Rape the Corpse of Christ”

February 1, 2017

German one-man black metal assault Front Beast goes full Profanatica with “Rape the Corpse of Christ,” from their third full length, Third Scourge from Darkness.