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Mexican powerviolence purveyors HONG KONG FUCK YOU are coming to the bottom row of a festival flier near you.

Part 1 of an exhaustive look at the improbable crossover appeal of Steve Austin’s legendary Today Is the Day.

D-beat supergroup Perdition Sect beckons the apocalypse with the crushing condemnations of “Plague of Incompetence.” Featuring members of Incantation, Ringworm, Shed the Skin and Brain Tentacles.

Hear the return of NYHC legend Sam Siegler (Judge, Youth of Today, Civ) with Terror vocalist Scott Vogel in World Be Free.

Take a stroll down death thrash memory lane with this sick Sepultura covers EP courtesy Sun in Shadows and Soul Remnants.

Swedish melodeath firestarters Furnace beckon Lovecraftian menace with the dark melodies of their Dark Vistas concept album.

Yaotl Mictlan‘s latest effort is a mystical example of pre-Christian belief expressed through the black metal vehicle.

Nasum: Blasting Shit to Bits captures the final live performance of the Swedish grindcore heroes on a new DVD.

Can the digital hell of the new Petbrick single courtesy two heavy metal legends help strike a blow against cancer? It’s up to you.

Decibel investigates the ongoing fight over album art between legendary artist Dan Seagrave and extreme metal progenitors Earache Records.

Trading riffs for ‘graphs, Exhumed/Gruesome slayer Matt Harvey deftly summons alternate reality nightmares with “The Vessel.”

Vancouver post-metal project Empress achieves sonic catharsis on their debut LP, Premonition. Listen to the exclusive stream now.

Canadian blasters Soil of Ignorance are firmly embedded in grindcore’s fertile roots.

Let the sublimely chaotic, enlivening 1981 set captured on “Live at CBGBs” help you regain The Faith.

The True Mayhem shredder Teloch also crafts scintillating synthwave as Bergeton. Watch the borderline-NSFW video for “Miami Murder” now.

Wanna hear a sick new brutal slamming death metal demo? Well, move this one to the top of the Corpse Pile.

Don’t be left out in the cold — stream the first new music in fourteen years from NYHC legends Subzero right now!

Australian black metal quartet Vyrion merge abominable power and unstoppable force on “Avalanche,” from their impending new album, Nil.

Finally, Mexico City deathbangers Infesticide unleash their sophomore full-length. Vintage Morrisound death metal bloodshed awaits on Envenoming Wounds.

Scottish post-hardcore sludgians Bosphorus slowly and carefully lower their massive, ground-shaking debut album Slow Burn.

The ever-prolific Andrew Lee returns with some new “emotional grindcore” from his Skullsmasher project.

Bristol, U.K. trio Svalbard didn’t merely make a better record than 2018’s solid It’s Hard to Have Hope, but delivered the first truly great album of their career.

California-based Transcendence LA thrash ’til (melodic) death on new album, Towards Obscurities Beyond. Streaming only at Decibel!

Trust the crust of Napalm Death live guitarist John Cooke’s Corrupt Moral Altar.

Members of Transistor Transistor and Kowloon Walled City unite in killer post-hardcore outfit Strangelight.

Swedish grindcore trio GRID continue Umeå, Sweden’s proud tradition of fantastic outsider art.

Mastodon‘s Bill Kelliher talks, Bill & Ted 3, Brent Hinds’ “Wild Stallyns Bill and Ted Forever” tattoo and the band’s new comp.

Swedish doom trio Laser Dracul lure fans of scuzz and fuzz into the haunted forests of their debut LP, Hagridden.

The latest sonic haymaker from rising metallic hardcore revitalizer Chamber is an eye-opening “Vision of Hostility.”

Heavy metal short film Landgraves conjures suspense from snowstorms and blackened doom. Watch this festival standout now.