Streaming

The wait is finally over! Now’s your chance to listen to the first new Venenum song in six years! We’ve got the exclusive premiere of “Cold Threat,” a brand new song from from the Bavarian death metallers’ long overdue debut full length, Trance of Death.

Deathwish continue to “Unleash Hell” with a new music video that precedes an album, also called Unleash Hell. 

Curse of Denial brings original blackened death. 

Xibalba issues an angry, mournful goodbye on the third and final song on their new EP, Diablo, Con Amor… Adios. 

German one-man black metal assault Front Beast goes full Profanatica with “Rape the Corpse of Christ,” from their third full length, Third Scourge from Darkness.

“We’re making sludge through a death metal lens,” Moros drummer Jason Dost tells Decibel. “I can’t say we are a death metal band but the horror and savageness of that early death metal sound influences what we do for sure.” 

Happily, that proves to be a pretty goddamn spot-on self-assessment as one jams this seriously intense, head-turning Moros split with Black Urn  — a straight-up enigmatic-yet-primal nightmare translated into assaultive sound waves.

Bleak, noisy doom is what to expect from Unearthly Trance‘s latest single, “Scythe.”

Californian spacelords Lecherous Gaze blast their cosmic punk ‘n’ roll from 365,000,000 miles away on “Thing Within.”

In which we expose you to an exclusive premiere of “Gottes Acker,” from the debut full length, Tôtbringære, by Zurich-based black metal warlocks Ungfell.

There’s something for everyone on the new Dying Whale album, Last Moments of Misery. 

Frowning perform mournful, crushing funeral doom. “Nocturnal Void” feels like the soundtrack to a funeral procession. 

“The crooked progressions, slimy vibes and otherworldly melodies will explain why this song had to be bestowed with a name as blunt and primitive as ‘Black Miasma.'”

Joy‘s new video from their 2016 EP underscores the raw anger and chaos in “Cut to the Nerve.”

Hellenic occultists Disharmony return after a nearly twenty year hiatus to unleash Goddamn the Sun upon our unsuspecting asses, and we’ve got an exclusive sneak peek with grand leveler “The Gates of Elthon.”

“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.