Sean Frasier

Track Premiere: Death on Fire – “Slave”

December 8, 2021

Indiana melodic death/thrash grave-burners Death on Fire release their newest single, “Slave.” Their album Burial Hymns looms in 2022.

Video Premiere: QAALM – “Existence Asunder”

December 1, 2021

Los Angeles funeral sludge newcomers QAALM release a video for their crushing first single, Existence Asunder. Debut album coming March 2022.

Album Premiere: Swamp Coffin – ‘Noose Almighty’

November 24, 2021

UK executioners Swamp Coffin pair NOLA sludge noise with doom and hardcore on their debut LP, Noose Almighty.

Khemmis: 5 Albums From Each Member That Inspired “Deceiver”

November 17, 2021

Each Khemmis member shares five albums that personally influenced them while writing and producing their upcoming LP, Deceiver.

EP Premiere: Minenfeld – ‘Night Raid’

November 10, 2021

German death metal battalion Minenfeld launch a two-track riff barrage on their Night Raid EP from Lycanthropic Chants.

Track Premiere: In Loving Memory – “Sun of Ebony”

November 10, 2021

Spanish melodic doom/death quartet In Loving Memory mourn the human race in their apocalyptic eulogy, “Sun of Ebony.”

Album Premiere: Gold Spire – ‘Gold Spire’

November 3, 2021

Gold Spire blends dismal death/doom with sax-heavy progressive jazz in one of the year’s boldest extreme debuts.

Interview: ‘Blood Of Gods’ Publisher Stacy Buchanan

October 27, 2021

Blood Of Gods pairs heavy metal and wine in the pages of a brilliantly illustrated zine. Pour a glass and learn more from publisher Stacy Buchanan.

Album Premiere: Organic – ‘Where Graves Abound’

October 20, 2021

Italian battalion Organic dig burial pits for the decimated on their new LP of old school death crust, Where Graves Abound.

Album Premiere: Lutharo – ‘Hiraeth’

October 13, 2021

Canadian melodeath quintet Lutharo pack power anthems and planet-burning riffs into their debut LP, Hiraeth.

Track by Track: Maimed – “Torrential Gore”

October 6, 2021

Brutal death metal project Maimed share insight into each track on their skull-crushing bloodbath of an EP, Torrential Gore.

Track by Track: Outer Heaven – “In Tribute…”

September 29, 2021

Pennsylvanian death filth Outer Heaven share track by track commentary about their In Tribute… covers EP.

Album Premiere: Tumba de Carne – ‘Decatexis // Perpetuo Altar’

September 22, 2021

Argentinian newcomers Tumba de Carne emerge from the tomb with five meaty and mighty cuts of discordant death madness on Decatexis // Perpetuo Altar.

Video Premiere: Akiavel – “Lady of Death”

September 15, 2021

French death metal thrill-killers Akiavel explore the psyche and legacy of Aileen Wuornos in their murderous music video for “Lady of Death.”

Track Premiere: Demiricous – “Terminal Future”

September 8, 2021

Indianapolis thrashers Demiricous return with a lethal vengeance to debut their first new track in nearly 12 years, “Terminal Future.”

Album Premiere: Turn Cold – ‘Break Your Faith’

September 1, 2021

Dive into a riff-blizzard with Atlanta crossover thrashers Turn Cold as they unleash their three-track EP, Break Your Faith.

Album Premiere: Coffin Rites – “Human Erase”

August 25, 2021

Minnesota black/death gravediggers Coffin Rites unleash a brutal eulogy with their apocalyptic new LP, Human Erase.

Track Premiere: Inferi – “Vile Genesis”

August 19, 2021

Nashville tech-death warbringers Inferi summon intergalactic menace on the title track of their new LP, Vile Genesis.

Track Premiere: Wharflurch – “Stoned Ape Apocalypse”

August 11, 2021

Death metal slimecrawlers Wharflurch chomp on shrooms of doom in their new single “Stoned Ape Apocalypse.”

Track Premiere: Atra Haeresis – “The Sacred Games”

August 4, 2021

Black/death misanthropes Atra Haeresis will rip out your beating heart during the lyric video for their new single, “The Sacred Games.”

Album Premiere: Underdark – ‘Our Bodies Burned Bright on Re-Entry’

July 28, 2021

UK black metal revolutionaries Underdark shine brilliantly on their debut LP, Our Bodies Burned Bright on Re-Entry.

Track Premiere: Planet of the Dead – “Pilgrim”

July 14, 2021

Blast into the deep cosmos with New Zealand stoner doom space travelers Planet of the Dead on their Kurt Vonnegut inspired single, “Pilgrim.”

Album Premiere: Unendlich – ‘Paradox of a Broken World’

July 7, 2021

Unendlich’s scythe-swinging riffs shape misery into majesty on the USBM project’s new LP, Paradox of a Broken World.

Album Premiere: Vampirska and Wampyric Rites – ‘The Drowning Void’

June 30, 2021

Black metal nightbeasts Vampirska and Wampyric Rites join forces to create the sanguinary split LP, The Drowning Void.

Album Review: Withered – ‘Verloren’

June 28, 2021

We welcome back black/death/existential pain machine Withered with their first new album in five years.

Video Premiere: Hatefulmurder – ‘Santificado Seja o Meu Ódio’

June 23, 2021

Brazilian death thrashers Hatefulmurder release the video for their only Portuguese-language single, “Santificado Seja o Meu Ódio.”

Track Premiere: Empress – “Libations”

June 16, 2021

Vancouver post-metal project Empress raise a chalice to lost loved ones on their evocative doom single, “Libations.”

Album Premiere: Void Tripper – ‘Dopefiend’

June 9, 2021

Brazilian stoner sludge degenerates Void Tripper lure doom devotees with promises of Satan and drugs on their debut LP, Dopefiend.