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For Greece-based Acherontas, it would seem as if black metal, as a genre, is secondary to the devotional aspects of what drives, inspires, and fulfills their physical and incorporeal beings.

Australia’s Norse are dropping their next batch of mind-bending black metal songs next week; we’re giving you an exclusive stream of the whole album today.

One-man progressive metal force Fortis Amor tease their new, self-titled record ahead of its release on May 19. 

The 1990s have come and gone. The greatness of Immortal, Emperor, Dissection, Unanimated, and others is now history. The cruel sands of time are slowly ebbing away at the monuments erected by the gods of old. But as it was so it will be. California’s Highland, formed by three Armenian-Americans, are standing for the ways of the past by thrusting it, via scorching melodic black metal, into the present.

In Flames‘ new stop-motion animation video for “Here Until Forever” is equal parts cute and creepy.

Sweden’s Gravehammer met its maker in 2010. Despite the group only issuing a lone EP, 2010’s Ensnared in Dismal Blasphemies, the Gothenburgers were well on their way to Nordic infamy, their hybridization of death, black, and thrash metal on either end of Decameron, Grotesque, and vintage Kreator. Now, known as Ensnared, the Swedes have taken what they learned on the fiery path with Gravehammer into new depths of darkness, where the horns of Hell blare violently and incessantly, where the air is insufferably hot and smells of brimstone cooking in the vast ovens of the underworld.

Death metal supergroup Hideous are ready to bulldoze you with their old school Florida death metal sound. 

Help make the long-delayed release of the Welcome to Deathfest documentary a reality.

Chip McCabe’s new book listing 666 essential metal albums is out now, and we caught up with him to find out his motivations for doing this outrageous project.

Snares of Sixes is the experimental project of Jason W. Walton (ex-Agalloch). 

Season of Arrows debut the music video for “The Bridge,” off sophomore effort Give It to the Mountain. 

It’s been a long time coming, but Sarcasm are releasing their second album, and we caught up with them to get the scoop.

More than two decades into its career, Paris, France purveyors of smart, adventurous, textured extreme metal Comity is set to unleash what is perhaps the quartet’s greatest, most transportive full-length yet — A Long, Eternal Fall. And we’ve got the exclusive world premiere of the strange and creepy Clement Huot-helmed clip for the track “I” streaming below. 

Exclusive: stream the new split by Broken Cross and Vegas. 

if you’re like me, you’re sympathetic to the idea that the 2000s metalcore sound had some real artistic value to it and deserves to be recreated in a meaningful way by future bands. I think 156/Silence are off to a good start.

The documentary about the origins of the Norwegian black metal scene will receive its second United States screening on April 19 in Philadelphia. 

The latest in the proud tradition of Swedish crust!

Stream the insane new EP from New York hardcore/noise outfit Crushed. 

Obsidian Shrine wage sonic warfare against all religious institutions on Infernal, their blistering black metal demo.

Get a sneak peek at the special features included with award-winning black metal documentary Blackhearts. 

Kvelertak catch up with Anchors to Asphalt to talk touring, band origins and headlining shows.

We spent one hour in the new Interactive Metal Genres Graph and documented our findings.

“Some Sell Their Souls” comes from Beastwars’ 2016 The Death of All Things. 

Witches Brew provide a home for underground death, thrash and heavy metal bands.

A creative and innovative life cut short.

Shane Embury is pulling a very demanding triple duty on the upcoming European Campaign for Musical Destruction tour; we caught up with him to get the lowdown.

Berserker IV‘s 2017 lineup includes GWAR, The Obsessed and Eyehategod. Festival organizer. Child Bite frontman Shawn Knight talks more about the lineup, and clears up any potential band name confusion.

Featuring ex-Ghoul and ex-Strung Up members, Excessive Cruelty deliver killer hardcore.

Darkness and fire are coming in this music video for “Mylder.”

No-nonsense death metal in the classic Swedish style.