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Sci-Fi or Die Indeed with Droids Attack’s “Mashenomak”

February 4, 2016

Madison stoner trio Droids Attack have been power-riffin’ since 2001, and fourth album Sci-Fi or Die is their most effective strand of heaviosity yet.

Wake Up and Rock Out to a Seven Sisters of Sleep Full Album Stream

February 3, 2016

L.A. sludge quintet Seven Sisters of Sleep are poised to drop their third opus, Ezekiel’s Hags, February 5 on Relapse.

Shots Fired: Gehennah “Too Loud to Live, Too Drunk to Die” Full Album Stream

February 3, 2016

Swedish blackened thrashers Gehennah have given a fuck about one thing and one thing only since 1992: not posing.

Bloodiest On Their Not Very Bloody Influences

February 3, 2016

Sometimes you read one of these playlists by a band and, while their choices may be good, you wonder how in the world people with such varied tastes could make such one-dimensional music. This is clearly not true for Bloodiest (ex and current members of Russian Circles, Yakuza and Corrections House), who are so expansive and unorthodox it only makes sense they would be spinning music this eclectic. 

Exclusive Premiere: Zhrine’s “Spewing Gloom”

February 2, 2016

Zhrine is an Icelandic black/death metal band that melds the disgusting atonality of Deathspell Omega with the oppressively frigid atmosphere of Svartidauði (guitarist Nökkvi Gylfason is a member), complete with a fetid dusting of sludge as a sickening after-dinner mint. Check out the exclusive premiere of their song “Spewing Gloom,” off their upcoming LP, Unortheta.

North’s Triumphant “Earthmind” Will Light the Way

February 1, 2016

Keep your lighters in your pockets; get those candles out!

Tombward Is Heavenward for Thrashers Anger as Art

January 29, 2016

Fearsome Pasadena foursome Anger as Art have been churning out thrash ragers at a steady one-every-three-years clip since 2006.

“Tyrant” Reigns on Coffins’ Side of Killer Split EP With Ilsa

January 27, 2016

Japanese death/doom dealers Coffins make their eight zillionth release count on this split with crusty D.C. counterparts Ilsa. 

Urgehal and Carpathian Forest Frontman Team Up On “Endetid”

January 27, 2016

In honor of bandleader Trondr Nefas (who passed away in 2012), the new Urgehal album, Aeons in Sodom, features guest vocals from an all-star squad of black metal luminaries.

Wolves at the Revelry: Deströyer 666’s Chant a “Hymn to Dionysus”

January 26, 2016

Stream a new track from Deströyer 666’s forthcoming album Wildfire.

Who’s Who in Decibel’s Class of 1991?

January 25, 2016

Waldo is not in here. You can find him in a Van Halen video seven years earlier. But everyone else is pretty cool!

Hey, “Lazy Asses,” Press Play, Get Ground Up by Rotten Sound

January 21, 2016

Finnish grind veterans Rotten Sound have been doing the damn thing for over 20 years, and do it well on new album Abuse to Suffer.

A NSFW Vision of Exalted Lucifer: New Cirith Gorgor Video

January 20, 2016

Prepare for maximum discomfort, courtesy of Dutch BM crew’s “Wille Zur Macht”

EXCLUSIVE: Hollow Earth Cruise Past Hardcore and “Beyond Celestial Limits”

January 20, 2016

Hollow Earth have always sounded like they wanted to be more than a hardcore band. Sure, the midwesterners never lacked the ability to break necks with and start pits, but there was something around the edges that showed a real thirst for something different, with flashes of doom and melody.  

Cirith Gorgor Want Your “Salvator,” Whoa-oh-oh

January 19, 2016

Veteran Dutch devil worshippers Cirith Gorgor are back to wreak blackened havoc.

Habitual Rituals: Rotting Christ Deliver “In Nomine Dei Nostri”

January 11, 2016

Black metal perennials Rotting Christ are set to drop their latest slab of malevolence.

Spinebreaker Does What the Name Advertises on “Ice Grave”

January 7, 2016

Disgustingly old-school death metal, you say? Count us in!

Dye Another Day With the Casualties’ “Chaos Sound”

January 7, 2016

Nobody in their right mind would line up to tell these dudes that punk’s dead

Admit It: Church of Misery’s “Confessions of an Embittered Soul” Kills!

January 7, 2016

Japanese doom vets Church of Misery have been holed up in their safehouse for the last three years, but they’re ready to resume their (serial) criminal career with a super cool new accomplice.

Inverloch’s “Distance Collapsed (in Rubble)” Aims to Disembowel

January 6, 2016

The renowned disEMBOWELMENT offshoot continues to make a name of their own.

Album Premiere: Come On Pretty Venomous Concept, Kick Me Silly

January 5, 2016

Grind, D-beat, hardcore and more converge on supergroup’s must-hear latest.

Classhole Kick 2015 to the Curb With “Time’s Up”

December 31, 2015

3… 2… get obliterated in more ways than 1 this New Year’s Eve!