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Joey Hockin talks about how the ingredients of planning, having faith and never stopping went into Hyperspace Metal Fest 2022.

Bringing you the first track from the long-awaited full-length from Alabama gravefillers Writhing Shadows.

Italian death/doom cosmonauts Assumption release their upcoming LP’s stellar first single, “Submerged by Hadean Tides.”

Baltimore dissonant black metal trio Vermörd invite you through the “Gates” to choose your own grim adventure.

An exclusive early full album stream of the ambitious sophomore album from Stockholm’s rising black metal ‘stormlander’ Cirkeln.

Danish black metallers Heltekvad trumped dark Medieval times on new album Morgenrødens Helvedesherre. Streaming now!

Check out the fast-flowing new track from Denver’s “blackened dad rock” quintet NightWraith.

We’re halfway through the week, and to get us the rest of the way there, Abhorrent Expanse are blessing (or damning) us with their latest video, “Frost Suffocation.”

Lithuanian black metalers Sisyphean offer up a poisonous dose of mercury from their upcoming full-length.

Decibel invites Belgium-based extreme heavy metallers Evil Invaders to reveal what went into new album Shattering Reflection.

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.