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Video Premiere: Microwaves – “Regular Magic”
May 2, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Pittsburgh noise/math maniacs Microwaves do that voodoo that they do in their new video for “Regular Magic.”
Video Premiere: Daisy Chain – “Roll the Dice”
April 27, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear super-charged SoCal punks Daisy Chain (ft. Graf Orlock members) kick out the jams at Mountune motorsports.
EXCLUSIVE Excerpt #4 from Brian Slagel’s ‘Swing of the Blade’: Metallica’s Enduring Friendship
April 25, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Our latest exclusive excerpt from Brian Slagel’s upcoming book, Swing of the Blade offers up some Metallica intrigue.
Full Album Stream: As Above, So Below with Atavistia’s Cosmic Warfare
April 20, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the orchestral density of Atavistia‘s new album, Cosmic Warfare!
Full Album Stream: Faerie Ring – ‘Weary Traveler’
April 13, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Indiana doom druids Faerie Ring are riffologists not mycologists.
Full Album Stream: Dimentianon – ‘Chapter VI: Burning Rebirth’
April 11, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the blistering and beguiling fifth full-length, ‘Chapter VI: Burning Rebirth,’ from Long Island black-death-doom lifers Dimentianon
Full Album Stream: Mast Year – ‘Knife’
April 6, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the ear-scraping new debut, ‘Knife,’ from Charm City post-hardcore noiseniks Mast Year.
Full EP Stream: Maudiir’s Musical Soliloque
April 6, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out Maudiir‘s musical soliloquy of prominent prog rock melodies, blackened NWOBHM chord voicings and mid-period Mustaine riffing …Soliloque
EXCLUSIVE Excerpt from Brian Slagel’s new book, ‘Swing of the Blade: More Stories From Metal Blade Records’
April 4, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Read an exclusive excerpt, featuring Armored Saint, from Metal Blade founder Brian Slagel’s upcoming book, Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records.
Video Premiere: Finality – “Revelation” (ft Battlecross members)
March 30, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Not the last you’ll hear from Michigan power thrash sextet Finality.
Video Premiere: Squid Pisser – “My Tadpole Legion”
March 28, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Don’t feel bad, we have no idea what’s going on in the new video from Deaf Club/Starcrawler collab, Squid Pisser, either.
Video Premiere: Bagorah – “Secret Society”
March 23, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Watch heavy prog quartet Bagorah’s ghostly paean to Old Scratch.
Full Album Stream: Forcefed Horsehead are Seeing Things with Monoceros
March 23, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Indulge in a stream of Forcefed Horsehead‘s animal mutant-friendly new album, Monoceros
Full Album Stream: Firmament – ‘We Don’t Rise, We Just Fall’
March 21, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear German newcomers Firmament continue the New Wave of British Heavy Metal’s seemingly eternal legacy on We Don’t Rise, We Just Fall.
Full Album Stream: Ardent Nova – ‘Ardent Nova’
March 16, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Viking metal-inspired thrashers Ardent Nova go scorched earth on their long-in-the-making debut.
Track Premiere: Mammon’s Throne – “Beyond”
March 14, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear new single, “Beyond,” from Mammon’s Throne, gilded with crusty riffs and authentic Aussie spite.
Track Premiere: DieHumane – “Epitaph”
March 10, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
If alt-doom isn’t a thing, Texas collective DieHumane may well have invented it on their new single, “Epitaph.”
Video Premiere: Voidscape – “Grief Eclipse”
March 9, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
The view from the new Voidscape video is dull and bleak, but the melodic death metal is smokin’.
Video Premiere: Exploring Misopedia via Tech-Death with Angelic Desolation’s “Shake the Baby”
March 9, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out “Shake the Baby,” Angelic Desolation‘s video response to the abortion controversy!
Video Premiere: Night Goat – “Wendigo”
March 7, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
The manic, unhinged fury of Ohio’s Night Goat is unleashed in the band’s psychedelic new video for “Wendigo.”
Video Premiere: Treedeon – “Viking Meditation Song”
March 2, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Treedeon deliver a severely drop-tuned rumbler that hits somewhere between Bleach-era Nirvana and Sleep’s Holy Mountain
Video Premiere: Kill Me – “Bloodsluts”
February 28, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Watch the new video from Seattle noise/sludge duo Kill Me, because it’s called “Bloodsluts.”
Video Premiere: Radian – “They Look Like Good Strong Hands”
February 23, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Ohio sludge busters Radian light it up in new video for “They Look Like Strong Hands.”
Full Album Stream: Getting Morose n’ Miserable with They Grieve’s To Which I Bore Witness
February 23, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Listen to the debut full-length by Ottawa-based post-metal/drone doom duo, They Grieve!
Full Album Stream: Megaton Sword – ‘Might & Power’
February 21, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Switzerland’s epic metal purveyors Megaton Sword slash and burn on their second album, ‘Might & Power.’
Full Album Stream: Last Legion – ‘Metall, Blod & Aska’
February 16, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the blackened death thrash of Sweden’s Last Legion as it was meant to be heard—in Swedish.
Track Premiere: Nuclear Holocaust – “The End Is Imminent”
February 14, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Polish grinders Nuclear Holocaust befoul your Valentine’s Day with their aural radiation sickness.
Track Premiere: Lamp of Murmuur – “Seal of the Dominator”
February 13, 2023 Jon Rosenthal
Hear the latest single from USBM phenom Lamp of Murmuur ahead of the march release of new LP Saturnian Bloodstorm.
Track Premiere: Simple Forms – “Unprecedented Uncertainty”
February 9, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Members of Norska and Yob make old-school grunge in Simple Forms.
Video Premiere: Unaligned Open Up About Their “Occhiolism”
February 9, 2023 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the latest single from Floridian tech-death whippersnappers Unaligned!
