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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.

Live in Torment is Withered‘s first live recording and the first release on guitarist/vocalist Mike Thompson’s Atlanta Grind Productions. Watch the trailer now! 

We catch up with the author of Damn the Machine, a new book about the history of Noise Records, to get the scoop on why he chose Noise to write about, the rocky relationships between the label and its bands, and much more.

High Strangeness, the third full-length from Texas rockers Mothership, incorporates a variety of sounds and influences for a diverse and fun album.

Hear a new Acrimonious song, “Elder Of The Nashiym!”

Salem’s 1476 have continued to grow their sound and image, reflected in the video for “Winter of Winds.”

Nathaniel Shannon and the Vanishing Twin premiere another unsettling video addition to their collection in support of Trespasses. 

1985’s “We are the World” became the fastest-selling American pop single in history and featured dozens of the world’s biggest musicians. What you may not know is that same year 40 metalheads and hard rockers tried the same thing, with far less successful results. 

Azarath, formed by Inferno in 1998, has released an impressive array of technically proficient, religiously fervent (against Christianity) death metal over the course of 16 years. The group’s newest album, In Extremis, yet again proves why Poland, of all Eastern European countries, is at the forefront of the death metal movement.

Persefone have released a music video for “Living Waves,” featuring Paul Masvidal of Cynic. 

Antihedron is Devouring Star’s excellent follow up to 2015’s Through Lung and Heart. 

Texas brutal death dealers Desecrate the Faith return with their sophomore effort, Unholy Infestation, now streaming in full!

Formed in Krakow, Poland in 2010, Medico Peste aren’t your typical run of the mill black metal offering. Neither Scandinavian, Germanic, French, or British, the Poles have tapped into a sound that’s altogether alien and uninviting. Like the darkest dark.

Get right with GOD in this week’s Demo: Listen. 

There have been a handful of occasions when the beast rises out of the Lonestar State. From Absu and Divine Eve to Rigor Mortis and Devastation, the great state of Texas has produced some of the genre’s most intense acts. That tradition carries on with Laredo-based Venereal Baptism. Certainly, with a name like Venereal Baptism, there are only a few paths on which to tread. Brutal death metal, goregrind (sadly, this is still a thing), and black metal. Well, out of Laredo’s diseased womb Venereal Baptism is delivered to the iniquitous world of black metal.

Remarkable things are afoot over at the YouTube page of Magic Bullet Records — one of the best, most adventurous independent labels currently in existence, led by the incomparable artist/musician/leader Brent Eyestone whose efforts we’ve previously covered here, here, here, and here — where a series of amazing live performances captured on videotape during various revolutionary heavy music moments of the nineties are now being digitized and posted for posterity.

Come hear the new black metal burner from Inferno while it’s hot!

It doesn’t take long to say a lot. Case in point is the song “Under the Wave Blanket” by the Austinites Drip-Fed, who pack plenty of pain and hope into 2 1/2 minutes. Though it helps that the music itself is the hooky, hulking kind of punk hardcore that makes you listen over and over until you develop welts.