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Check out the latest album by Finnish “asylum metal” outfit, Agarwaen.

With “Above the Mountain,” one-man doom slayer Svjetlost offers a “peak” at his sludgy debut, The Forever Silent.

Bacht’n de Vulle Moane exists somewhere between black metal violence, electronic pulse, scabbed-over despair and the kind of sarcasm that only really works when everything else has failed.

Noisy North Carolina trio Irata show their “Goodside” on this tension-filled, fuzzed-out new single.

Swedish avant-garde DM sophisticates Gold Spire dial up the sax and violence on new full-length, Steps Into Shadow.

Cold Blue Mountain are not exactly thinking small on The Healer. The Chico, California post-metal quintet’s new double album is a 74-minute concept record.

Decibel noise-making faves Still/Form reemerge as Portland noise-sludge trio HISS.

Moon Destroys, featuring Torche co-founder Juan Montoya, and Evan Diprima of Gold Pyramid and Royal Thunder reemerge bearing “Flowers.”

We let Spanish melodic DM vets, Bloodhunter, take us track-by-track through their fourth full-length, Sons of the Abandoned.

Check out the latest video/single from Canadian voyagers, Without Mercy!

Italian stoner doom trio King Potenaz go for a second round of heavy desert riffs on new full-length, Arcane Desert Rituals Vol. 2.

Baltimore weirdos Nuclear Tomb have never been interested in coloring inside the lines. On new full-length Epoch Inhumane, the Maryland thrash unit continue to mutate their sound into something sharper, stranger and more hostile

Comparing Converge‘s two 2026 full-length releases.

Texas psych-noise terrorists Kallohonka perform “Psychic Surgery” in art-damaged new video.

Not your parents’ PBS. Milwaukee noise rock trio Primitive Broadcast Service do noise rock damage on third full-length, Monsters.

Neill Jameson (Krieg) on his family’s struggles in the past year, which are darker and more challenging than anything hinted at on a black metal recording, and the support from the heavy metal community they inspired.

Grungy Spanish stoner rock trio, Green Desert Water, are flying the flannel on new track “Woodcutter.”

Previewing the third edition of Great Lakes Dungeon Siege, set for October 24 and 25 near Detroit, MI.

Tom Gabriel Fischer unpacks Celtic Frost‘s comeback album, Monotheist, released 20 years ago this week.

An interview with Firekeeper Alliance founder/director, Charlie Speicher.

Aussie J. Angus’s cinematic etxreme metal solo project, Callous Faulter, is a monolithic display of heaviness in two movements.

New York retro occult rockers Mama Doom have a bloody good time in new NSFW “Woven Linen” video.

Experimental French black metal collective Non Serviam collab with Sigh vocalist Mirai Kawashima on noise-laden new track, “Victory to Kali.”

India’s Godless have spent more than a decade sharpening their death metal into something ruthless, precise, and increasingly severe. Their new single, “Architect of Torment,” drops today.

New Swedish melodic DM crew Abandon Agony start their ascent with full-length debut Endbringer.

Hear former and current members of Decrepit Birth, Animosity, Akurion, Neuraxis, Augury, Emasculator and more gather as The Conflux Collective.

Resurrected Seattle splattercore legends, The Accüsed, are slicing and dicing on violent new single, “Interfectrix.”

Hear Arkansas deathcore deviants Gorepig bring all the squeals.

New Belgian blackgaze outfit, Achryma, take us in the studio for the morose title track to their new Hollowlight EP.

Where there’s smoke, there’s black metal, and Italian ragers laCasta are engulfed in the acrid fumes of their new full length Olibanvm.