Sean Frasier

Boston doomgaze project SEA match funereal heaviness with elemental poetry on their stunning and heart-rending debut LP Impermanence.

Don’t sleep on former Decibel demo faves Snorlax. Hear their new song “Encapsulated Apocalypse”

Philadelphia label/distro Horror Pain Gore Death Productions release a free 42 song sampler to summarize their 2019 releases. It’s the soundtrack for the world’s end, just in time for the year’s end.

Black metal duo Haxandraok beckon Beezlebub in their entrancing new single “Ba’al Zel Bul at the Gates of NOX.”

Spanish doom-death gloomcasters Evadne unveil “Colossal” from the band’s titanic upcoming Dethroned of our Souls compilation.

Diabolic Night infuse NWOBHM and speed metal with pitch-black infernal power on the new single from their Beyond the Realm LP, “In Retribution.”

Louisville leather-fiends Savage Master unmask their newest offering of devilish ragers on their Myth, Magic & Steel LP.

Swedish hell machines Screamer take a leather-clad trad metal joyride on their newest triumphant record, Highway of Heroes.

Explore death metal’s darkest caverns with Iranian riff-cult Nex Carnis on their new two-track EP Black Eternity.

Boston doom quintet Glacier bring their heavy post-metal freeze to a sweltering temple in their video for album opener “O World! I Remain No Longer Here.”

Swedish psychedelic spellcasters Vokonis worship at the riff-adorned throne of the “AntlerQueen.”

Canadian hardcore collective Kennedy bring the sweat and screams in the video for their new single, “Blood & Soil.”

Decibel found shelter from storm clouds in a Baroness concert on the Indianapolis stop of their Gold & Grey tour.

The wait for Tomb Mold’s next death metal masterpiece is over before it began

Finnish solo funeral doom project Shades of Deep Water crosses Death’s Threshold on their new LP.

Connecticut-based southern doom rockers Pinto Graham chisel riffs from stone formations on their “Old Man of the Mountain” single.

Teenage blackened thrashers Vectis keep the riffs sharper than a guillotine blade on their The Executioner demo.

Venture back to deep space with doom explorers Slomatics on their 6th LP Canyons.

The ever-prolific Trevor William Church returns with the strongest collection of Haunt anthems to date.

Louisiana crust fiends Pale Misery offer “No Choice” but to listen to their newest blackened ripper.

Canadian songwriter and recording veteran Ian Blurton shares another burner from his volcanic solo album Signals Through the Flame with trad metal delight “Seven Bells..”

Indiana sludge rockers The Mound Builders celebrate ten loud years with their eponymous LP.

Portland doom voyagers Troll welcome you aboard their riff-engined Dragonship on their Legend Master LP.

Inter Arma take a bleaker approach to new album Sulphur English.

Baltimore instigators Musket Hawk reload another batch of diseased sludge/grind anthems on Upside of Sick.

Golden State maniacs P.O.O.R. (Point Of Our Resistance) return after 6 years with a four-song glimpse into their new LP.

Death crust duo LIGÆDER bludgeon humanity on their debut LP, Den Tomme Menneskehed.

Philly freaks Devil Master can headline your next black mass or haunted house keg party.

Conan mastermind Jon Davis explores a blackened industrial wasteland in his Ungraven debut’s new single “Aggro Master.”

Baltimore black metal project Unendlich forces you to face your fears on Thanatophobia.