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Full Album Stream: Karmanjaka – “Gates of Muspel”

February 10, 2022

Hear the folk-inspired third album, inspired by the Poetic Edda, from progressive Swedish black metal quintet Karmanjaka.

Video Premiere: Entering the Final, Final Frontier With Red Fiction’s “Clone 13”

February 10, 2022

Brass-heavy metallers Red Fiction ask the age-old question: “What happens if the last human to escape the Earth he just destroyed was judged by soul-sucking Aliens?”

Video Premiere: Ritual Earth – “Free From My Vessel”

February 8, 2022

Hear Philly psych doom quartet Ritual Earth channel some serious early ’90s Seattle and Kyuss vibes on this drop-tuned grinder.

Heavy Metal Horror: ‘We Summon the Darkness’

February 7, 2022

We Summon the Darkness is a fun, Satanic Panic-inspired horror film.

NITE’s Top 5 Sci-fi Films

February 7, 2022

San Francisco-based blackened heavy metal outfit NITE list their Top 5 movies. New album, Voices of the Kronian Moon, out March 25th on Season of Mist.

Exclusive Track Premiere: Dawnrider – “The Final Call”

February 3, 2022

Hear Portuguese vets Dawnrider channel a classic doom vibe on this bleak new track from their fourth album.

Exclusive Track Premiere: Sepulchral – “Sepulchral Fumes”

February 1, 2022

Hear Spain’s crusty old-school death metallers, Sepulchral, stink up the joint with the stench from their new single.

Justin Bartlett’s VBERKVLT Instagram Challenge Is Back

January 27, 2022

Make Instagram more metal and win some killer prizes doing Justin Bartlett’s ABCs of Extreme Metal Music Challenge in February

Track Premiere: Getting Heshy with Tantivy’s “Worthy Foe”

January 27, 2022

The new single from rockin’ thrashers Tantivy is certainly worthy of your attention!

Video Premiere: Sarin – “When You Melt” (live)

January 25, 2022

Watch the sunshine-soaked new live video from Toronto post-metal punishers Sarin.

Track Premiere: Sataray – “Hexennacht”

January 20, 2022

Hear ambient dark wave solo artist Sataray’s ritualistic soundscape celebrating “witches night.”

Track Premiere: Kontusion – “Rotting With Sickness”

January 18, 2022

Hear new death metal duo, Kontusion, get primitive, ugly and violent on their raw new self-released EP.

Track Premiere: Inerth -“Resilience In”

January 17, 2022

Spain-based modern metal quintet Inerth lay down ultra-heavy grooves on new track, “Resilience In.” FFO: Godflesh, Napalm Death, Neurosis.

Track Premiere: Preamp Disaster – “Above the Bloodline”

January 13, 2022

Hear the hypnotic power of Swiss post-metal quartet Preamp Disaster‘s psychedelic doom on “Above the Bloodline.”

Video Premiere: Atom Driver – “I’ve Become a Monster”

January 11, 2022

Hear NJ noiseniks Atom Driver, featuring Deadguy’s Crispy Corvino, channel their late-’90s post-hardcore rage into a paean to bad behavior.

Video Premiere: Gauntlet Rule “Dying for My Dreams” feat. Blaze Bayley

January 10, 2022

Swedish heavy metal upstarts Gauntlet Rule, featuring members of Paganizer, Assassin’s Blade and Loch Vostok, stream new track “Dying for My Dreams,” featuring Blaze Bayley. Up the old-school irons!

Full EP Premiere: Apes – “Lullabies For Eternal Sleep”

January 6, 2022

Hear Quebec sextet, Apes, offer up nightmare-inducing, black metal-flecked grindcore lullabies on their new four-song EP.

Track Premiere: Sundown – “Not My Jam”

January 4, 2022

Hear Indianapolis post-hardcore quartet Sundown tear through a sludgy, jittery anthem from their upcoming Wise Blood debut.

Track Premiere: Thorn “Hellmouth”

January 3, 2022

Arizona-based death-doom troupe Thorn unveil “Hellmouth” off new album, Yawning Depths.

Track Premiere: Dust Prophet – “Hourglass”

December 30, 2021

Hear Dust Prophet marry classic metal with literary classics on “Hourglass.”

Video Premiere: Dark Meditation – “Haunt of Fear”

December 21, 2021

Hear Seattle’s Dark Meditation invoke the spirits of black metal’s past with their gothic trad metal.

Christian Münzner (Eternity’s End) Unlocks The Magic of Riffing

December 20, 2021

Eternity’s End guitarist/chief songwriter Christian Münzner deep dives into the riff writing process for new song “Call of the Valkyries.”

Track Premiere: Bye Bye Tsunami – “Holdin’ Banana Spiders Through The Folds Of Time/Space”

December 16, 2021

Hear Copenhagen-based experi-metal/post-mental trio Bye Bye Tsunami squall their way through a noisy, banana-triggered psychotic episode.

Track Premiere: Nullification “I, the Nullifier”

December 13, 2021

Philippines-based death metal act Nullification bust out of 1992 streaming new track “I, the Nullifier.” Only the past is real!