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“Without big money bullshit (the quartet’s 100% independent) Striker have struck an ideal balance between nostalgic hooks and blue collar work ethic.”

Primal Rite just keeps cranking music out. “Sensory Link Through Pain” is part of a 7″ that will be released through Revelation Records. 

Lock Up has a new vocalist but haven’t slowed down with “Desolation Architect.” 

I AM filmed the title trick to their debut album, Life Through Torment, in the basement of a pizza shop. 

Politics aside, Oblivion looms close, and when the world burns, Hellmouth will say “We told you so.”

Egonaut has a new singer and new tunes. 

Warbringer ponder what happened to the souls of those destroyed by the atomic blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Are their souls trapped in their shadows forever? 

Necrowretch deliver the first ripping song off of Satanic Slavery, their newly-announced full-length. 

For a brief time in the early 90’s Cyclone Temple was one of the best heavy metal bands on the planet…

So argues No Echo proprietor/Deny the Cross vocalist Carlos Ramirez in the liner notes to the reverential, enlivening reissue of 1991’s I Hate Therefore I Am — available as an import courtesy Divebomb Records International alongside a fascinating collections of demos, early and live tracks, and of the Greed, Home of the Depraved — and we’re streaming the Chicago thrashers’ seriously underrated, boundary-defying full-length debut below as evidence that our man is not engaged in any sort of idle smoke blowing: This superior sonic marriage of Spreading the Disease-era Anthrax and circa-Age of Quarrel Cro-Mags, further empowered and set apart by Brian Troch’s ferocious Dio-meets-street vocals, remains far ahead of its time in many, many ways. Indeed, I Hate Therefore I Am, in this humble scribe’s opinion, is the real, vulnerable, defiant shit the retro kids actually should be jamming into the metal-future.

Phil Anselmo and horror icon Bill Moseley join forces as Bill & Phil. Hear the full stream. 

Swedish doom trio Laser Dracul are the children of the night, and the music they make is LOUD.

No words are used (and none are needed) to tell a story on “…The Idyllic Realm.” 

Check out this exclusive premiere of the song, “Time of the Moon,” by Denmark’s Vomit Angel  from their debut mini-album, Sadomatic Evil. But you’ll never guess who it is they’re covering . . .

These days, dozens of online tastemakers can each have their own Top 10 list without overlapping any other list.  It’s a testament to the affordability of recording technology, to the direct connections artists forge with their fans, and to ever more insulated channels of musical taste.  Here are a few albums you might have missed but should probably check out before you lose yourself to all the glorious promises of 2017.

Patria have unveiled a beautiful lyric video to go with their song “Axis.” 

“Living to Try” appeared on Weltesser‘s 2015 demo, but the album version is brimming with even more sludgy, chunky riffs. 

Transcontinental duo Montfaucon tempers death-doom with elements of progressive, black and symphonic metal, creating an amalgamation of heaviness and melody. 

Brutal Unrest unveil Trinitas, their pummeling third full-length. 

Catch this exclusive premiere of Silenced by Death, the debut 7” from Sweden’s brand new deathdealers, Plague, featuring members of Entrails, Eviscerated, Nominon, and more.

“Serpent Sun” comes off Nightbringer’s upcoming Terra Damanata.

Western Addiction has returned with the first single off of Tremulous, their second album that follows their 2005 debut full-length. 

Check out this exclusive track premiere from Primordial Malignity, the debut full length by Tomb Mold, and hear for yourself why this Toronto-based death metal two piece is one of the most talked about bands in the underground.

Hear a brand new Panopticon track recorded especially for the Decibel Flexi Series. 

Drudkh main man gets back to black metal basics with new project Windswept. Hear the first new track here. 

Hailing from Kentucky, Pissed On’s forthcoming The Hanged Man EP promises to be one of grindcore’s most jam-packed releases in 2017.

Celebrate the death of 2016 with Philly-based label/distro Horror Pain Gore Death Productions.

Check out this exclusive premiere of the track, “Slaughterers of the Flocks,” from Seattle’s cruelest bunch of blasphemers, Crurifragium, off their debut album Beasts of the Temple of Satan.

The newly-expanded quartet rips into sludgy hard rock on “Disintegrate.” 

Check out this exclusive track premiere of “Triumph Continuum” off the debut mini-album Quantum Noose of Usurpation from U.S. warlords Ululatum Tollunt.

You want the truth about “Lies,” the track we’re exclusively premiering this morning from upcoming extreme metal opus Soul Demise courtesy  Italian quartet Maze of Sothoth? It’s dark, nasty, gloriously old school death metal that will gutpunch fans of early Morbid Angel, Vader, and Nile right in their deviant feels.