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Full Album Stream: Stress Spells –Hearts Never Tire
February 4, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the manic, twitchy mathcore of New Jersey quartet Stress Spells on their new album, Hearts Never Tire.
Video Premiere: Beltfed Weapon – “Digital Genesis”
February 4, 2026 Tim Mudd
Seattle’s Beltfed Weapon new single, “Digital Genesis,” hits like a chrome-plated thrash hammer to the skull.
Full Album Stream: Phendrana –Cathexis
February 2, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the dynamic post-black metal orchestrations of Mexico-based solo project Phendrana.
Full EP Stream: Feral Nature –Cradle of Twigs & Bone
January 28, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Oslo metallic hardcore quartet Feral Nature’s new noise on self-released EP Cradle of Twigs & Bone.
Video Premiere: Gutslit – “I, Berzerker”
January 26, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Mumbai DM brutalists, Gutslit, lose their shit on new single “I, Berzerker.”
Album Stream: Thrashing it Up with Hellmaze’s Dead Flesh Rising
January 22, 2026 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out a stream of the debut full-length album by Danish thrashers, Hellmaze!
Track & Video Premiere: In Aeternum – “The Vile God of Slime”
January 22, 2026 Tim Mudd
Swedish black/death metal veterans In Aeternum are closing the chapter on their long-awaited return with “The Vile God of Slime,” the second and final single to be revealed from their upcoming album …Of Death and Fire, due February 6.
Video Premiere: Belonging – “The Dog”
January 21, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Portland post-metal sludge trio Belonging ‘s bark is worse than its bite on new track “The Dog.”
Video Premiere: COGADH – ‘Cromwell’s Curse’
January 21, 2026 Tim Mudd
Ontario/Quebec black metal duo COGADH unleash their debut full-length, Kingmaker, on March 6. But today we premiere the video for single “Cromwell’s Curse”
Full Album Stream: New Mexican Doom Cult –Ziggurat
January 19, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Swedish desert rock worshippers New Mexican Doom Cult offer up their second psyched-out full-length, Ziggurat.
Q&A: Ex-Cryptic Slaughter Guitarist Les Evans Discusses His New Band, Subversion Trigger
January 14, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the blistering new crossover EP from former Cryptic Slaughter guitarist Les Evans’ new band Subversion Trigger.
VITAMIN X Return With New Single and Video “Chop Chop Chop”
January 14, 2026 Tim Mudd
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.
Track Premiere: Blackwater Drowning – “The Sixth Omen”
January 12, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Hear North Carolina melodic death metal outfit Blackwater Drowning reveal “The Sixth Omen,” the new single from their upcoming Obscure Sorrows full-length.
Film Review: Death Reigns Shows That You Can’t Stop Rock and Roll, Even in the Bible Belt
January 8, 2026 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out this doc and learn what happens when you put on a metal fest in the heart of the Bible Belt.
Track Premiere: Mother Crone – “Unseen Way”
January 7, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Puget Sound doom pushers Mother Crone show us the “Unseen Way” on their twisty, progressive new single.
Track Premiere: Clouds Taste Satanic – “Beast From the Sea”
January 5, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
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.
Track Premiere: Karloff – “Regicide”
December 29, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Filthy German blackened punk duo, Karloff, offer a beastly new track, “Regicide,” from upcoming Revered by Death full-length.
Full Album Stream: Noise Rockers Feel Worse Get Brusque and Bitter With This Will Weigh Heavily On Your Annual Performance Appraisal
December 25, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the debut album from Feel Worse (ft. members of Sulaco, Sully and Burn Everything)!
Video Premiere: Sidian – “Pendular | Amidst the Hysterics of Gloom”
December 23, 2025 Tim Mudd
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.
N.Y.C.: Ex-Warlock Guitarist Nods to NY Roots in Pulverizing New Power Trio
December 22, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Thundering power trio N.Y.C., led by ex-Warlock guitarist Tommy Bolan, wrecks necks on new album, Built to Destroy.
Video Premiere: Nuclear Dudes – “Antisax”
December 17, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
No Kenny G for extreme metal weirdos Nuclear Dudes, as they are strictly “Antisax” in their latest video.
Catalog Reissue Alert: Lip Cream
December 17, 2025 Tim Mudd
Relapse invites you to the apply the wild catalog of Japanese noisemongers Lip Cream via a new set of stunning reissues.
Video Premiere: Nefarious – “Day After” (featuring new vocalist Sean Rivera)
December 15, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Bay Area old school thrash supergroup Nefarious introduce vocalist, Sean Rivera, with a new video for “Day After.”
Track Premiere: Forcefed Horsehead – “The Will of the Many”
December 15, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Forcefed Horsehead unleash a raw, hardcore-driven D-beat fest that strangles, maims, gnashes and generally causes mayhem and destruction. Hear it now.
Prog Metallers The Reticent Have a Lot to Say About Mental Health/Illness
December 11, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Read and listen as prog-metallers the Reticent take an extensive, and personal, look at mental health and illness with their new album.
Full Album Stream: Fanatisme –Tro, håp og kjærlighet
December 10, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
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.
Video Premiere: Morbikon – ‘Flames That Blind and Shadows Cast’
December 10, 2025 Tim Mudd
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.
Full Album Stream: House by the Cemetary – Disturbing the Cenotaph
December 10, 2025 Tim Mudd
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.
Video Premiere: Eshtadur – “Fire Above Mountain Below” (live)
December 8, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Watch Columbian melodeath monsters Eshtadur perform “Fire Above Mountain Below” alongside a symphony orchestra.
1914 Break Down Their New Album, Viribus Unitis
December 8, 2025 Emily Bellino
Learn the story of a Ukrainian solider in World War I via a breakdown of the new 1914 album.
