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Hear the blistering new crossover EP from former Cryptic Slaughter guitarist Les Evans’ new band Subversion Trigger.

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.

Hear North Carolina melodic death metal outfit Blackwater Drowning reveal “The Sixth Omen,” the new single from their upcoming Obscure Sorrows full-length.

Just a year after their debut release, Idyll, Denver post-metal band Sungrave return with a collaborative new EP with Creaturess. Stream Cold Flesh and No One now.

Check out this doc and learn what happens when you put on a metal fest in the heart of the Bible Belt.

Puget Sound doom pushers Mother Crone show us the “Unseen Way” on their twisty, progressive new single.

Music’s most accessible man wears his love of gaming on his, uh, chest.

Instru-metal doom stalwarts Clouds Taste Satanic get live’r than you’ll ever be on new track, “Beast From the Sea” recorded live in the studio in Berlin in 2023.

Filthy German blackened punk duo, Karloff, offer a beastly new track, “Regicide,” from upcoming Revered by Death full-length.

Just in time for Christmas, GI Joe-themed metal band Cold Slither are back with their holiday jingle “Cobra Claws Are Coming To Town.”

Check out the debut album from Feel Worse (ft. members of Sulaco, Sully and Burn Everything)!

After 15 years of carving a singular, emotionally lacerating path through underground metal, Sidian returns with new music—and, as it turns out, a definitive farewell.

Denver’s NightWraith are back with a new single, “The Candlelight,” a slice of black ‘n’ roll goodness just in time for the holidays. Hear it here.

No Kenny G for extreme metal weirdos Nuclear Dudes, as they are strictly “Antisax” in their latest video.

The guitarist shares how gaming and music are deeply intertwined throughout his journey to the Cradle.

Relapse invites you to the apply the wild catalog of Japanese noisemongers Lip Cream via a new set of stunning reissues.

Bay Area old school thrash supergroup Nefarious introduce vocalist, Sean Rivera, with a new video for “Day After.”

Forcefed Horsehead unleash a raw, hardcore-driven D-beat fest that strangles, maims, gnashes and generally causes mayhem and destruction. Hear it now.

Now is your chance to win this one-of-a-kind relic along with two LPs from the Oklahoma cinephiles!

Progressive metal duo Humanness Test unveil their latest single, “Prima Facie,” along with new video. You can hear it with us first.

Read and listen as prog-metallers the Reticent take an extensive, and personal, look at mental health and illness with their new album.

Fanatisme‘s roughly recorded (and played) new seven-song record takes a raw black metal aesthetic and vocal approach and marries it to early ’80s post punk and goth gloom.

Blackened death thrash conjurors Morbikon return with the third chapter of their animated medieval-fantasy saga taken from their new full-length Lost Within the Astral Crypts, out now on Tankcrimes.

Hear Horror-obsessed death metal lunatics House by the Cemetary deliver 30 filthy minutes of sharpened bone saws, sewer-stench groove, and classic Fulci-drenched death.

Watch Columbian melodeath monsters Eshtadur perform “Fire Above Mountain Below” alongside a symphony orchestra.

Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada-based band Discovery Through Torment are dropping their new EP, Telesynthetic Rebirth. Check it out now ahead of its official December 5 release date.

UK’s proggy death thrashers Unburier dig up some serious foulness on new single “Survive the Vermin.”

Melodic metallers It Haunts arrive with the kind of debut EP that doesn’t feel like a beginning so much as an overdue emergence.

Hear Scottish metallic hardcore outfit Kakihara cudgel with impunity on vicious new EP Love Songs Part 2.

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