James Lewis

Thanatos celebrate 35 YEARS with a big anniversary show, new label, new album in the works, and the Thanatology: Terror from the Vault 2 CD demo/rarities compilation.

In this week’s Metal Muthas, get the early years story on Jared Klein of Rivers of Nihil.

Bazillion Points, the heavy metal publishing house founded by Sound of the Beast author Ian Christe, turns 10 this year. Well, last year, so we’re a little late here, but we’ve got one more entry that’s worth the wait.

A solemn remembrance for the death of a unique leader.

Recently released Blasphemy rehearsal is extra-filthy, and recorded (possibly) next to clean laundry

Politics aside, Oblivion looms close, and when the world burns, Hellmouth will say “We told you so.”

Embrace the death on the rack the brutal way on wings of inferno as… oh you get where we’re going with this. 

Doom of the highest caliber, in the live, in its entirety. Before the release date! 

Who needs pop stars when you have Popestar?

One email for a chance to make your collection 10 (ripping, crushing, raging, etc. etc., you get the point) entries heavier. 

This full-EP premiere involves an immortal man of legend, a mask used to channel him, a laundry list of musical styles, and a debut that will introduce some refreshing (and quality) variety into today’s listening. 

But it’s a good punch to the throat though, like sort of you-need-to-listen-to-this-now, and you-will-be-angry-immediately-in-a-good-way, sort of thing. 

“The thing people hate most about living their lives is the understanding it’s going to end.” How could you not stream the full album after such an uplifting quote?

Not quite our typical news associated with death metal….

Friday is for flying rodents. Or NWOBHM supergroups featuring members of Municipal Waste, Volture, and D.R.I. — your choice. 

Guitarist/vocalist Jason Mendonça is excited and filled with positivity. And you should be, too. 

Maiden/Priest + Chris Barnes?
Yes. 

Exclusive. Gorguts. Full-EP premiere. We don’t need to say anything more, really. 

Yes, that’s a music video of the title track of an album with the same name as a full-length film rendition of a novel. And Hideous Divinity‘s is no less complex in practice, so go ahead and press play for some brain food (/and bludgeoning).

A Gojira-like sledgehammer for your skull. That’s what Fridays call for, right?

Finnish black metallers True Black Dawn have preached the good and blasphemous word since 1992. Check out the premiere for the title track on Come the Colorless Dawn, the band’s second full-length, and first album in 15 years.

Oceans Into Their Graves, sludge riffs into your ears, trad catchiness into your brain. 

Win big (and blasphemous) with this Incantation prizepack giveway for the independently-released LP XXV.

Equal parts bluesy sludge and trudging grind, Musket Hawk bring the slow despondency necessary on the most hungover of afternoons. 

Tune in. Fuzz out. Rock out. Free yourself from the tedium (of boring music). 

Head to the tombs to get, uh, this premiere streaming. 

30 years of epicus doomicus metallicus means new EP(icus). 

A sneak peek heads-up for the upcoming full-length of hypnotic, unhinging blackened doom from Head of the Demon. 

Virus doesn’t have any circus music or kazoos, just brooding, skin-crawling metal/rock from ex-members of Ved Buens Ende and other similarly weird entities. 

Winner announced after the jump — was it you?!