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Get Well‘s Burning the Village to Feel its Warmth lurches menacingly through three new songs, channeling equal parts Botch on an ether binge and Unsane at their most esoteric. Weird music for weird people.

Michael Freiburger, pillar of the Seattle metal community and leader of Satanik Royalty Records, talks to Decibel about his story and what’s next for the family business.

Japanese death metal pioneers Transgressor share thoughts and tragic news regarding their first new album in 30 years.

Seattle noise rock/post-hardcore trio Great Falls stream new album Objects Without Pain.

Pre-order the massive 480-page oral history of the celebrated Morrisound recording career of iconic extreme metal producer/engineer Scott Burns, and read an excerpt now!

Epically inclined post-black metallers Trounce, um, defeat your expectation their new video for the song “The Crippled Saint.”

Irish doom mainstays Slomatics build their 8th LP from crushing riffs, cosmic psych and space dust. Strontium Fields comes out September 8th from Black Bow Records.

Hear Glasgow grinders Gendo Ikari get their skronk on via self-released new LP, Rokubungi.

Blast No.1 – Blastbeat Tribute To Type O Negative features 19 fast and filthy versions of Type O classics. Get bloody kissed by a fist.

Check out a new track to shred your faces, “A Statement of Malicious Intent” from Torn The F*ck Apart‘s forthcoming album, Kill.Bury.Repeat. out October 6 via Gore House Productions.

Raid the day with Swedish melodeath merauders Raven Banner and listen to their Viking-themed debut two days early.

Hear Florida grind battalion Cave Moth administer a healthy dose of “Adderall grind” on Paralytic Love.

Hear Indianapolis black/speed metal merchants Graveripper rip this and all hell on their debut LP, Seasons Dreaming Death, in advance of its August 25 release.

Polynesian metal quartet Shepherds Reign share the intense themes behind their upcoming record in this exclusive track by track exploration.

Hear French blasters Chiens deliver a bit of the ol’ grindviolence.

On the eve of its L.A. screening, legendary music documentarian Penelope Spheeris discusses her “lost” Ozzfest ’99 documentary, We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘n Roll.

Spend two minutes with Bay Area quartet Strangelight, featuring members of Kowloon Walled City and Transistor Transistor, and then spend way more recovering from the aural beating.

Indonesian moshers Celestial emerge from the night sky with their debut album of emotive and progressive death metal.

Midwestern doom crew Blessed Black spread their wings with the powerful ballad “Unable.” Bang your head before the EP comes out September 1st.

German blasters Moral Bombing combine the most emotive elements of screamo, hardcore and grind, while still finding a way to retain originality.

Watch doom-fueled Nashville duo Friendship Commanders present a new video for “Vampire” from their upcoming album Mass, out September 29.

Czech out grinding punk blasters Lycanthrophy.

Philadelphia sludge eulogists Quiet Man smash silence with a track-by-track guide to their dark new record, The Starving Lesson.

Opeth reveal how their groundbreaking fourth LP, Still Life, was nearly their last in this month’s Decibel Hall of Fame induction.

Eclectic duo Scottish Gabber Punx rails against “Tory Scum” on teaser for new EP.

Watch Middle-Eastern-come-U.K. trio Trivax face the scythe wielder with an all-out black metal attack.

Heavy desert rockers Mondo Generator unveil a new track, “Death March,” from their forthcoming album We Stand Against You, out October 13 via Heavy Psych Sounds.

Death grind blasphemers by night. Canadian artisanal tea purveyors by day. Listen to the sacrilegious new Satanic Tea Co single today.

Napalm Death’s Shane Embury’s solo venture of electric music and deep textures, Dark Sky Burial, returns with its seventh full-length in just three years. And it rules.

Summon thousands of petals from the cracked sky and jam the new full-length LP from South Carolina power trio Auralayer now.