Tim Mudd

Canadian sludge merchants Destroy My Brains premiere the video for “Downgrade” before new LP Wilt arrives on August 14.

Canadian extreme metal crew Eaten By Sharks go deep on The Undertow of Hate, a crushing, composition-focused plunge into nautical horror, psychological collapse and total oceanic ruin.

Durham Southern gothic rockers Wailin Storms return July 10 with The Arsonist. But because waiting until Friday is for people with better impulse control than us,Decibel is streaming the full album two days early.

Florida sludge miscreants Crud emerge from the swap with “Demiurge Blues,” the first single from their forthcoming sophomore album Human Decency.

Bacht’n de Vulle Moane exists somewhere between black metal violence, electronic pulse, scabbed-over despair and the kind of sarcasm that only really works when everything else has failed.

Cold Blue Mountain are not exactly thinking small on The Healer. The Chico, California post-metal quintet’s new double album is a 74-minute concept record.

Decibel noise-making faves Still/Form reemerge as Portland noise-sludge trio HISS.

Moon Destroys, featuring Torche co-founder Juan Montoya, and Evan Diprima of Gold Pyramid and Royal Thunder reemerge bearing “Flowers.”

Baltimore weirdos Nuclear Tomb have never been interested in coloring inside the lines. On new full-length Epoch Inhumane, the Maryland thrash unit continue to mutate their sound into something sharper, stranger and more hostile

India’s Godless have spent more than a decade sharpening their death metal into something ruthless, precise, and increasingly severe. Their new single, “Architect of Torment,” drops today.

Hear Arkansas deathcore deviants Gorepig bring all the squeals.

The Phoenix, Arizona death metal outfit Lago returns with Vigil, a dense, suffocating, and surgically cold new full-length that pushes their bleak atmosphere into sharper, more punishing territory.

Hear New Jersey deathcore unit 9 Dead let it rip on their latest single, “Parasite.”

Hear Toward Dead Temples, the forthcoming split release from Baltimore black metallers Nixil, and Portland black/death metal quartet Drouth

Progressive death metal still carries a certain baggage—either a promise of something transcendent or an excuse to disappear into excess. On Blind In Abyssal Realms, Ordh don’t bother arguing with either side.

Taken from the upcoming Ten Billion Years, Kilter’s “Weather Cycle” forms a crucial moment in the album’s sweeping conceptual arc, which traces the birth and death of our solar system through the journey of a single water droplet.

lauks, the new album from Polish black metallers Varmia, is out March 27 via M-Theory Audio. You can pre-order it now, and hear the full stream with us.

Panopticon‘s new single “The White Cedars” feels especially evocative; a piece that races across mist-shrouded melancholy and rises to spiritual suspension. Hear it now.

Toronto thrashers Korrosive don’t do subtlety. On “Khaos Unbound,” taken from their latest album Katastrophic Creation, the band delivers a full-speed assault.

Perth’s Vanta don’t treat melodic death metal like a nostalgia exercise. On their debut full-length Perpetual Selection, the band lean into precision, atmosphere, and sheer velocity—but they’re just as concerned with meaning as they are with impact.

There are death metal bands who chased trends. And then there are bands like Deteriorot—who stayed in the shadows long enough to become part of them. Watch them emerge in the video for “Fallen Misery.”

Hear the first single from Blind In Abyssal Realms, the debut from progressive death metallers Ordh, whose Pulverised debut drops April 17.

On debut release Revenge From Beyond, Hating Life meet your HM-2 expectations—while still leaving room for something personal to emerge from the decay.

Graufar return with the third single from their upcoming full-length, Via Necropolis, steeped in blackened death metal ferocity with a slow-burning sense of dread.

Utah doom crushers Hibernaut return with a harrowing new video for “Mark of Shame.” The track appears on the band’s upcoming split LP with Arizona extreme outfit Face Pulp, due March 6 via What’s Left Records.

Emerging from the abyssal depths of the underground, Fossilization return with Advent of Wounds, a suffocating descent into death metal extremity that sharpens every weapon the Brazilian duo has wielded so far.

Seattle’s Beltfed Weapon new single, “Digital Genesis,” hits like a chrome-plated thrash hammer to the skull.

Swedish black/death metal veterans In Aeternum are closing the chapter on their long-awaited return with “The Vile God of Slime,” the second and final single to be revealed from their upcoming album …Of Death and Fire, due February 6.

Ontario/Quebec black metal duo COGADH unleash their debut full-length, Kingmaker, on March 6. But today we premiere the video for single “Cromwell’s Curse”

Amsterdam hardcore thrash lifers Vitamin X return with the video for “Chop Chop Chop,” the first single from their upcoming full-length, Ride the Apocalypse, due March 13 via Svart Records.