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Sometimes a name perfectly encapsulates what a band sounds like. And Portland’s Dry Socket found the exact right moniker to describe their painful, impossible-to-ignore approach to hardcore punk.

Former Pitchshifter bassist, Mark Clayden, delivers some serious groove to his new project, Hellblind’s, hardcore-inspired EP.

Listen to Canadian miserablists Idol of Fear do Canadian metal!

U.K. death metal antagonists As the World Dies premiere their new single, “Desolate.” Album out on March 25.

Motor City quartet Jesus Wept tune in, turn on and drop some serious Carcass-inspired death ’n’ roll on their new EP.

Hear doom heavyweights Come to Grief unleash the first single form their debut full-length album, When the World Dies, out May 20, via Translation Loss.

In Aphelion guitarist Sebastian Ramstedt pays tribute to fallen death metal icon L.G. Petrov on new song “Requiem.”

Featuring members of Strife, World Be Free, and Internal Affairs, Berthold City brings the straight edge hardcore fire to lead us “Out of Darkness.”

Claim your own hot or cold spot in hell and blast the debut album from death metal demons Hellfrost and Fire. Stream it now before the album’s March 18th release.

Check out the deathly grindcore on new trio Shock Withdrawal’s Arthur Rizk-mastered six-song EP.

Multi-instrumentalist Jason Hartman (Vanishing Kids, Night Eyez, Jex Thoth) weirds out heavily in Old Spirit. Streaming “Snow Leopard” now!

Hear An Evening Redness conjure up a desert-dwelling American soundscape that fuses the best elements of drone into a soaring masterpiece.

Take a gander at a two-part video from Toronto grinders Depleted Uranium!

Eddie Sutton of metallic hardcore crossover underground royalty Leeway continues to battle an aggressive cancer. Here’s the latest update and how you can help.

Tech death duo Hellbore banish us to the underworld in their sinister new track, “All Men are Created Evil.”

California’s Helsott are here to grace your unholy President’s Day off are with their new official video for “I’ll Make Ya Famous.”

Austrian heavy metallers Venator stream new steel-studded album Echoes From the Gutter out soon on Dying Victims Productions.

American power metal stalwarts Twisted Tower Dire dig up old bones on ‘Reflecting Pool’ from Crest of the Martyrs Demos (Nameless Grave).

Indonesian deathcrust cult Masakre light the globe on fire with their Morbid Extinction EP. Out from Pulverized Records on February 18th.

GGT Records brings the non-denominational hardcore punk fire with its opening salvo of releases.

Producer legend Dan Swanö tells the story of Steel, the obscure heavy metal supergroup he formed with Opeth members during the recording of their Morningrise LP.

Hear Rancid bassist, Matt Freeman, lead his speed metal trio Charger through a rampaging track from their upcoming debut LP.

Hear Spanish doom collective PYLAR drop a droning 16-minute masterpiece from full-length Abymos

Author Patrick O’Neil worked at Alternative Tentacles at the time of the Dead Kennedys’ Frankenchrist raid. The following is an excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Anarchy At The Circle K, about his years as a punk roadie in the early to mid-’80s.

Hear the folk-inspired third album, inspired by the Poetic Edda, from progressive Swedish black metal quintet Karmanjaka.

Brass-heavy metallers Red Fiction ask the age-old question: “What happens if the last human to escape the Earth he just destroyed was judged by soul-sucking Aliens?”

Chicago symphonic metal guardians Shield of Wings uncage their soaring first LP, Unfinished. Out February 11th.

We’ve got 300 copies of the Decibel exclusive “Translucent Emerald Green” color vinyl of the new Arch Enemy album Deceivers available NOW for pre-order!

Hear Portuguese vets Dawnrider channel a classic doom vibe on this bleak new track from their fourth album.

Double your (dis)pleasure: The legendary Immigrant Sun Records returns and resurrects stellar 90s noisecore act Hourglass for a “Complete Discography.”