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Californian supergroup Seized Up deck you with an uppercut of hardcore punk in the upcoming EP’s title track, “Marching Down the Spiral.”

Get fully amped on Canadian powerviolence bashers MAXXPOWER

Because we’re not even a full month into 2021 and there is still music to discover. And because you can’t get enough goddamn lists, here are 35 more from 2020 to chew on.

Bleach Everything breaks on through to the other side on the avant punk hardcore masterpiece Bound/Cured.

The Ruins of Beverast emerge from the fog of a new year with their sixth LP of cerebral blackened doom, The Thule Grimoires.

Los Angeles grinders Guilt Dispenser are our blasting band of the week.

Our cooped up correspondent pecks on a pair underground death and black metal underground faves in his latest new release preview.

Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly has been officially rescheduled for September 25-26, 2021 at Fillmore Philly. Tickets for the original 2020 festival dates will automatically be valid for the new dates.

Ex-Terror/Culture lifer Rich Thurston talks Lowest, Treason, and lessons from fighting MMA and playing in Blood Has Been Shed.

Can you take a punch from Portuguese crossover killers Bas Rotten?

Wake vocalist Kyle Ball and friends reimagine A.D: Earth from a blackened punk aesthetic.

Allagash Brewing Company’s Coolship Red lambic is a nectar made by mortals, fit for the gods.

Check out the new video by BC death thrashers Without Mercy.

A green superhero sees red on Louisville crossover thrash sluggers Belushi Speed Ball‘s latest high-octane jam.

Japanese death crust hellbringers Coffins release a savage two-hour compilation of rancid rarities on Defilement.

Former Agalloch bassist Jason Walton is raising classic underground metal T-shirts and hoodies from the dead.

Amid all the now-legendary albums of 1988, one ridiculously awesome effort stands out from the rest. That album is King Diamond’s third solo LP, “Them”. Welcome back (home) to the Hall of Fame, Grandma.

Connecticut crew Squashed Beef are low on drama, high on blasts and burger puns.

Watch the new video by DIY hardcore ragers Moxiebeat!

The Mexican American horror author V Castro brings heavy metal fire to the Latinx Screams anthology.

Venture into the darkness to watch the music video from metalcore throne-smashers Left to Vanish. Stream their new single “Pity” now.

2020 is (almost) fucking dead! Long live the best blasting bits of 2020!

Knut‘s noisy metallic hardcore “leftovers” are tastier than most extreme music main courses.

Sink your fangs into the morbid majesty of Of Sleep and Death, the furious new LP from Austrian black metal nightbringers Transilvania.

Incantation takes you on a track-by-track tour of their death metal juggernaut Sect of Vile Divinities

Four years after the original installment, Neill Jameson returns and sounds off on the Christmas season and gives you the gift of holiday playlists.

German black metallers Grabunhold launch new track, “In Tiefen Verliesen,” off new album Heldentod. Only at Decibel!

Tucson, Arizona’s Exsul have arrived on the scene with a masterful witch’s brew of doom, death and black metal darkness.

Decibel mourns the loss of Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author of a pair of modern classics for Bazillion Points, Heavy Metal Movies and Teen Movie Hell.

Ontario based two-piece Acid Womb grapple with the impact of PTSD on their new Grief EP.