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Horror movies abound in this new video from Tutti I Colori Del Buio.

Trolls and demons battle it out with mere mortals in this new video from Nordjevel.

Texas’ finest have been blowing our minds for years: here are the five times they blew our minds the hardest.

Meshuggah, played at loud volumes, awake better than any cute cellphone alarms. Fact. And profuse headbanging maintains wakefulness better than the strongest coffee. Also fact.

Write about metal long enough and it becomes increasingly difficult to find new, interesting ways to describe loud guitars and screaming. So having a little extra color to add to a review or a profile is always helpful. And when there is a woman in the band, that’s often the first place you turn to for a slightly fresher angle… right?

There’s death metal. And there’s brutal death metal. While the line, for most laymen, is either blurred or non-existent, things ramp up quickly when Sweden’s Deranged feel like an album’s due. There’s death metal and then there’s Deranged! Five years in the making, following 2011’s barbaric Cut Carve Rip Serve, Deranged’s new album, Struck By A Murderous Siege, finds the Swedes in full-on rage mode. Throughout the group’s untethered ninth album, they bark rabidly and relentlessly, as if there’s no concept of an “off” switch.

Yeah, the Cubbies look pretty good, right?

Emperor’s Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk is one of black metal’s finest moments; join us as we revisit the songs in detail and attempt to rank them in order from worst to best.

“A shifting vortex of horrific black metal, at first relentless in its force and momentum yet giving way to a metamorphosis that is utterly bleak and haunting. A chilling vocal performance by Hekte Zaren that combines scathing black metal vocals with dismal funeral operatics, sets this gem far apart from the redundant and the mundane.”

Get creepy with Take Over and Destroy and some creature features in this new video.

Our second installment of Primitive Origins, where we examine early or obscure proto-metal and other interesting metallic relics, looks at the crashing, bashing proto-doom of Scotland’s Iron Claw.

Counterparts combines emotional lyrics with aggressive hardcore in their new music video for “Stranger.” 

Rising took the stage at Roskilde Festival to play for the biggest crowd of their career. They recorded it for a music video for “Death of a Giant.” 

If Sarcofago, Watain, and Beherit got into a winner-takes-all fist fight, it might end up sounding like Kyy. If chaos, disorder, fervent calls to the Nameless One are our future, then Kyy might be the soundtrack to it all.

MONO‘s video for “Requiem for Hell” is an emotional and visually beautiful companion to the song. Also included: Exclusive Q&A with MONO’s Takaakira “Taka” Goto.

MoRkObOt unleash wordless doom weirdness in this new video for “Ogrog.”

Every so often, we take a little time on Mondays to pay tribute to the Muthas! That is, reprinting the adorable metal/maternal Q&As that run in the magazine. Today, enjoy Justin Norton’s chat with Bernice Rakes, mother of Richard Hoak (Brutal Truth/Total Fucking Destruction).

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Philly’s singular reality-obliterating, perception-expanding transcendental metal duo Sadgiqacea ended a two year hiatus via a glorious return to the stage at Shadow Woods Metal Fest and the great music photog/Decibel contributor Gene Smirnov was on hand to capture the beautifully reworked version of “The Spoils of Harvest” below. 

I feel that reviewing this video is unfair. It’s like if a food critic walked into a restaurant and was only allowed to taste the ketchup. Darke Complex is such a multifaceted band when it comes to being terrible that this brief clip is a mere toe dip into the abyss of their artistic failings. But, you were promised a shitty video review, so let’s wheel this thing out.

MONO have spent the past almost-two decades crafting vibrant soundscapes and instrumental rock albums. The upcoming Requiem for Hell, MONO’s ninth studio album, treads similar territory.  In a video for the title track, the Japanese instrumentalists tell, visually and audibly, an exhilarating yet terrifying story. The entirely black and white video features a man running…

Dust Bolt have released a music video for “SickxBrain,” giving plenty of screen time to their moshing fans.

Neurosis, Neurosis, Neurosis, Neurosis. This month’s Decibel Meter has Neurosis records aplenty, in addition to some of the best noise that you need to hear.  

THE 666th BEST FOOTBALL COLUMN IN AMERICA. 

Where were you in ’69 when the dam began to burst? Our first installment of Primitive Origins looks at Wicked Lady‘s The Axeman Cometh album.

Who needs pop stars when you have Popestar?

Every so often, we take a little time on Mondays to pay tribute to the Muthas! That is, reprinting the adorable metal/maternal Q&As that run in the magazine. Today, enjoy Justin Norton’s chat with Amanda Schall, mother of Elizabeth Schall (Dreaming Dead/Cretin) in August 2013.

The Dread Crew of Oddwood plays an acoustic pirate metal ode to drinking in this video. 

To celebrate the upcoming release of Testament‘s eleventh studio album, we look back on their first ten and rank them from least-amazing to most-amazing.

Napalm Death frontman Barney Greenway talks about his hopes for peace and dignity in the world in  FreqsTV’s latest episode of Anchors to Asphalt.