Sean Frasier

Take a haunting woodland walk with Forever Autumn and My Dying Bride’s Aaron Stainthorpe in “The Forest and the Nyght.”

Ontario melodeath thrashers Raider sow discord with the gavel-smashing title track from their upcoming album Trial By Chaos.

Doom metal bards Lord Mountain rattle the highest peaks with the crushing and catchy title-track from their debut LP, The Oath.

New Jersey progressive death metal duo Dystopia A.D. summon the end of days with their vicious new full-length, Doomsday Psalm.

Canadian fuzz rockers AAWKS go beyond the sun and behind the music to discuss ((((Heavy on the Cosmic))))) track by track.

Sink into “Sands of Fate,” the killer new single from Buffalo melodeath tyrants The Last Reign. New compilation album out February 24th.

Dutch doom trio Gavran unveil their psychedelic new video for “Pesak.” Sophomore album Indistinct Beacon out December 2nd.

Funeral doom project The Howling Void returns after four years with their new gloomcasting track, “Into Darkness Ever More Profound.”

Portland (OR) blackened doom project Forlesen explore heavier realms on their new album, Black Terrain. Features members of Botanist, Lotus Thief, and Kayo Dot.

Watch the world burn with Sacramento doom/sludge trio Chrome Ghost while listening to their stunning new record, House of Falling Ash.

Melodeath trio Phantom Horde conjure riffs from Gothenburg’s golden age on their apocalyptic EP, The Umbra.

Los Angeles doom quartet Faetooth conjure spellbinding riffs in their new single “La Sorcière.” New album out October 28th from Dune Altar.

Confront the darkness with Raleigh black metal cult Mo’ynoq in their new music for “Throes of Ardent Disposition.”

Justin Hagberg (3 Inches of Blood) and Ash Pearson (Revocation) return with their genre-demolishing side project Ritual Dictates.

Portland death crust abominations Autophagy emerge from the dawn of an endless plague with their viciously good debut LP, Bacteriophage.

Italian doom/sludge trio S.I.D. declare war on warfare with the music video for their EP’s title track, “City of Chemistry.”

Indiana’s Assimilator create a Hell of their own design on the band’s self-titled debut of thrashing melodeath.

German deathspawn Cryptic Brood are back to test your intestinal fortitude with their new track, “Caustic Fetid Vomit.”

Death metal fiends Heads for the Dead unveil their third crushing ode to horror on III: The Great Conjuration.

Occult rockers Devil’s Witches cast a fresh spell with a dreamy new track from their upcoming LP, In All Her Forms.

Keijo Niinimaa (Rotten Sound) returns with a merciless new album from Finnish funeral sludge project Morbid Evils.

Mexican melodeath reapers Death Scythe share the video for their freshly reanimated single “Hollow Darkness.” New album out August 26th.

Irish death/grind demons Abaddon Incarnate summon a new album of crushing blood hymns on The Wretched Sermon.

Swedish sludge rockers Signo Rojo unveil the video for “Enough Rope,” the first single from their upcoming Majestic Mountain Records release.

Maltese metalheads Align the Tide uppercut your day with a bruising new single and video, “Unbreakable.” New album Hollow out August 26th.

Southern Gothic post-punks Wailin Storms bring the thunder on their upcoming album, The Silver Snake Unfolds.

Scottish black metal project Ashenspire demolish power structures on their new LP, Hostile Architecture.

New York heavy ambient project Witnesses are seduced by gothic doom on their vampiric new single, “Cloistered in Purfleet.”

London sludge trio Existence Dysphoria unveil their crushing debut album Minus Negative. Out July 1st through Sludgelord Records.

Los Angeles symphonic melodeath eulogists Our Dying World write a vicious obituary with their new album, Hymns of Blinding Darkness.