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Texas black metal crew Skeleton will get your bones shaking.

Ramona, CA’s Voidceremony‘s long-awaited first full length album, Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel may be the death metal debut of the year.

Chicago crushers Like Rats don’t look back on Death Monolith.

Detroit Death/doom dealers Temple of the Void rise to greatness on album No. 3.

On with the Twitter follower count, and the new Body Count album, Carnivore.

Godthrymm deliver the doom debut of the year with Reflections.

The Hatebeak frontbird pecks up steam with some hardcore, doom and black metal release action.

Sepultura‘s latest, Quadra, is Decibel‘s album of the week.

The dark dungeon music progenitor returns to his “Era 1” form with this reimagining of 1995 classic Ånden som Gjorde Opprør.

Midnight take their sacrilegious heavy metal earworms overground and to the next level.

Our favorite review-writing bird, covers his beak in corpsepaint and gets his feathers ruffled by some true-ish black metal.

San Antonio quartet continue their evolution from crust punks to underground metal force.

The first new Sacred Reich LP since 1996 might actually be their best album yet.

Emotive hardcore heroes Knocked Loose move the next youthful crew forward.

Northwest death metallers deliver a twisted reeking mass of repulsive decay — and we LOVE it.

The wait for Tomb Mold’s next death metal masterpiece is over before it began

Goodnight Wintermoon – the former Immortal frontman emerges from the cold with album #2.

Former Bolt Thrower and current Benediction members return with their third LP in as many years.

There are no other colors in the extreme music rainbow quite like Pinkish Black.

Instru-metal heroes return with their first full-length LP in six years.

The controversial ex-Gorgoroth frontman returns with what may be his best work to date.

The ever-prolific Trevor William Church returns with the strongest collection of Haunt anthems to date.

The “Experience” run of dates will have wrapped up two days before the time you read this, but if you come across Industrial Accident, it’s very worthy of your viewing time.

Hollywood re-spins the black circle and Decibel takes in an early screening of the much-hyped “Lords of Chaos” film.

A narwhal, an elk and a goat walk into a bar. They order a round of 3-Way IPA pints, a collaboration from Holy Mountain, Fort George and Modern Times Brewing.