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Blackened folk metal rogues Finntroll are back from studio hibernation. Welcome them back by watching the hallucinatory video for “Mask.”

Killer Denver, Colorado horror metal outfit Axeslasher reemerges from the shadows with a wild and nasty new live album.

Canadian death metal executioners Sadistic Embodiment unleash unseen terror with their new single “Phantom Tormentor.”

Peruvians blasters Audiotrauma ride the crushing wave of South American grindcore dominance

We pay tribute to Power Trip’s Riley Gale with our cover story to the sold-out February 2019 issue of Decibel.

Austin-based melodic death/doom dawnbringers Hinayana seek enlightenment in a brutalist hellscape on their Death of the Cosmic EP.

Blood on Black Wax authors Aaron Lupton and Jeff Szpirglas are back with another tome on vinyl soundtrack mayhem, Planet Wax — and we’ve got your heavy metal pairings for it.

Japanese reapers Frostvore flood your lungs with Swedeath gore on their debut LP Drowned by Blood.

Sactown duo Human Obliteration are an ode to early ’90s skate-punk, a la Suicidal Tendencies, except with, you know, blast beats.

Through the Brambles – the inaugural release from SweetWater’s the Woodlands Project—is a stunning blackberry sour aged in oak barrels for 12 years.

Philip H. Anselmo’s crestfallen Southern Gothic collective En Minor unveil the video for haunting album opener “Mausoleums.”

Amongst many other things, former One King Down and Most Precious Blood frontman Rob Fusco discusses his new project, Take Life

Philadelphia riff-slinger extraordinaire Jeff Riddle and writer/director Matthew John Lawrence talk their extremely extreme rock n’ roll gore-fest Uncle Peckerhead.

Eagerly anticipated death metal collective Darkened drag you through a perilous nightmare in their new single “1000 Years.”

Nova Scotia trio Snarler deliver a bit of the ol’ ultra grindviolence.

Glory, Glory! The Vile Creature interactive live stream adventure/performance goes TONIGHT!

Draugr, the multi-instrumentalist of the U.S. black metal bands Galdr, Ancalagon and Obscurum, pens an op-ed on his anti-racist political awakening in underground black metal.

Rising Portland, Oregon death metallers Vulnere mine some of the greatest extremely extreme ore of yore for killer track “And They Fall.”

Black metal plaguewielders The Infernal Sea continue their unholy crusade with the ripping new single “Befallen Order.”

Find out why D.C. grind duo Ixias are the first double-dip in Blast Worship history.

When it’s time crossover death/thrash, Florida’s Intoxicated will crossover death/thrash hard.

’90s fans, Narrow Head are here so you no longer need to pretend that any of the Helmet, Quicksand or Smashing Pumpkins reunion material is actually good.

Do you develop apps/type code with one hand while putting up the horns with the other? Get in touch right away!

The new podcast hosted by members of Rosetta and Constants hears from members of Oxbow, Intronaut and several others about wonderful, horrible, mundane life of a touring musician.

Members of Earth Crisis, Catharsis, and Die Young bare both Tooth and Claw on this exclusive premiere.

New Zealand black metal duo Vassafor conjure demons and new plagues on their new uncompromising masterpiece To the Death.

Mathgrind/noise trio Fawn Limbs unveil the first track from their forthcoming LP, Sleeper Vessels. Hold on to your faces!

Independent venues need our help. Tell your legislator to #SaveOurStages.

Ripped to Shreds main man Andrew Lee gets his blast on with Houkago Grind Time

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