Dutch Pearce

Grab a torch and come check out “La Sombra en le Ciénaga,” the first track from the debut LP, Guerra Eterna, by Madrid’s premier dungeon-dwelling, first wave black metal pyromancers, Sacrificio.

Dimensions Obscure
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dB rating: 8/10

On this week’s Demo:listen, we gather round the table, join hands, and, repeating the phrases intonated by the milky-eyed crone, make contact with the UK’s Opium Seance.

Chicago’s Cokegoat are not your typical goat band. Hell, this sextext ain’t your typical anything.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we invade your day with an exclusive premiere of the demo, Souls for the Legions, by Portugal’s FlaktiiN.

After sixteen years of silence, the Swedish epic heavy metal duo, Quicksand Dream, return with their sophomore full length, and we’ve got your first peek with an exclusive stream of “The Girl from the Island.”

On this week’s Demo:listen, we call down the raw and vicious power of Montreal’s Profane Order.

No matter how many times you cop this new Homewrecker track, “Prophet Liar,” you still won’t be able to wait for the Ohio-based crossover kings’ new EP, Extinction by Design.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we revel in schadenfreude as we experience South Australia’s Endless Loss.

Get ready for the heaviest death metal record of the year with this exclusive premiere of “Rot in Confinement,” from Scorched‘s debut album, Echoes of Dismemberment. 

On this week’s Demo:listen, we bring the hammer down hard with Boston’s Malleus.

Since the mid 80s, Paul Speckmann has been snarling his sardonic vitriol over pummeling riffs, and over thirty years later he seems less likely to stop than ever. We caught up with the Chicago-born, ex-pat inveterate death-thrasher in an attempt to figure out how, to this day, he remains such a potent force in the international extreme metal scene.

We catch up with Demo:listen alums Tomb Mold to talk their killer new EP, their highly anticipated forthcoming LP, and what it means to shed some skin.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we venture into the surreal, purplish and icy realm of Reykjavik’s Óreiða.

Rather than reinvent the wheel, Altered Dead construct a twelve-spoke rolling thing out of rotting corpses. And they do so with such skill and aplomb that they make crafting exemplary death metal look easy. 

On this week’s Demo:listen, we’re dragged off in the dead of night by Birmingham, Alabama’s Hegemony.

In which we strive to demystify one of the year’s sickest works of death metal with those who dealt it.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we lie down on the cool earth and watch the aeons unfurl with Finland’s Burial Choir.

We’ve got an exclusive stream of the first song from Beasts of Faith, the long-awaited debut album by Zürich’s Deathcult.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we slowly march single file toward the purging flames of Chile’s Verbum.

Get in on this exclusive stream of the first song from Predatory Light’s eponymous debut full length.

In which we debut the new demo by Phoenix-based Demo:listen alumns Ceremented.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we’ve got nowhere to run from Varna’s Terravore.

Wake up and smell the incinerating human remains with this exclusive stream of the debut EP from California’s Crematory Stench.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we bring you a premiere of something completely different from the Deep South’s Hexenkraft. 

Unless you’ve got a sensory deprivation chamber, Voidspawn’s debut EP Pyrrhic is the closest you’ll get to the dark interstices between the dimensions.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we bring you an exclusive premiere of the demo by Vancouver Island’s Graveolence.

Pittsburgh’s Brown Angel don’t want to crush you. They want you to listen as they crush themselves. 

On this week’s Demo:listen, we stumble upon a brood of cosmic provocateurs in Massachusett’s Garroted. 

Strange sounds are coming from Down Under and Brisbane’s Spire are at the vanguard. Check out this exclusive premiere of “Ends,” the opening track from their debut album Entropy, and be sure to let us know what delusions or fears are evoked during the experience.