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The hyper-prolific guitarist for the Red Chord, Umbra Vitae, Wear Your Wounds and many more is a true gaming champion. Literally.

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

France-based blackened doom industrialists Wolok punish all in their wake with new album, The Bilious Hues Of Gloom. Streaming now!

Mysterious black metal collective Bad Manor reemerges from the shadows with a spooky time cover of punk faves The Damned.

Check out a stream of the debut by Toronto’s Nihilist Death Cult!

If wrestling-themed grindcore is your bag (I mean, how could it NOT be?), check out the new full-length from Shining Wizard, Tournament of Death, out December 2 via Horror Pain Gore Death.

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

American death metallers Appalling crush the cenotaph on new album, Sacrilege, via Personal Records. Streaming at Decibel now!

Torture Squad unveil a live record, Tortura en La Iglesia En Vivo, as well as a bonus track, the sci-fi epic “The Fallen Ones.” Check out the video for the bonus track right here with us.

Blame Kandinsky, hailing from Greece and performing a wicked, mathy brand of hardcore, are dropping their new record, Electric Ruiner, December 2 VenerElate Industries. Get a taste of it with the video for “Ruined.”

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

Check out the latest and greatest from ex-Nile frontman Dallas Toler Wade’s Narcotic Wasteland, the new video for “Victims of the Algorithm.”

Check out the new video by Swiss slashers Sxokondo!

The Undeath guitarist has put so many hours into a certain game it will make you say, “WoW!”

Italian new wave heavy metallers Witchunter stream new album Metal Dream (Dying Victims) via Decibel. Power and the Glory!

Freya — the hardcore act fronted by longtime Earth Crisis vocalist Karl Buechner — return with “Thousand Yard Stare,” the first track off their 2023 Upstate Records debut, Fight As One.

Salt Late City’s Sacrilegion creates death metal velvet on new track “Transfixed in Spiral Ambiguity,” off From Which Nightmares Crawl out via Chaos Records.

Check out Gorgatron‘s new EP, video and their Sepultura cover!

Hear all of Andrew Lee’s (Ripped to Shreds) second LP from his blasting Houkago Grind Time project.

From the depths of the most fowl recesses of the earth comes the latest from Impugner in the form new track “Morass.”

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.

Check out the video for “Luxifur” from proto-metal powerhouse Jesters of Destiny!

Florida death metallers Hibernus Mortis savage tongues and smash brains on new streaming track “Enshrined In Spiritual Atrophy.”

Check out the new serial killer themed video from tech-death up ‘n’ comers Carrion Vael!

If you don’t have time to binge the new Rings of Power trilogy, get lost in the fantasy for just a few minutes with Spell‘s latest track and video, “Fever Dream.”

We speak with King Diamond about how Mercyful Fate reunited, his two bouts with COVID, tour bassist Becky Baldwin and more. The tour begins next week and tickets are still available although dwindling.

Newjack Swedish heavy metallers Witch Blade stream new album, Månsken, at Decibel. Out worldwide October 21st on Dying Victims Productions.

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

Middle Eastern black metallers Melechesh release instrumental edition of The Epigenesis. Mainman Ashmedi lets Decibel into the magic circle.