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This week’s edition comes loaded with lots of black metal, a thrash titan, and some deathy grind to push you into the weekend.

“Empires Fall” but the glory of heavy metal is forever.

Getting thick and groovy with the new EP by these Torontonians

An exclusive stream of the debut full length from Häxanu, the latest endeavor from American black metal master Alex Poole (Chaos Moon, Krieg, Gardsghastr).

Check out the punishing debut from crusty and doomed Seattle death trio Noroth.

Pyrrhon return with their fourth album, Abscess Time. Hear the first single, “Another Day in Paradise,” now.

Canadian heavy metal/hard rock quartet Freeways twin leads their way into our hearts with new album, True Bearings. Streaming now in full at Decibel.

Welcome to our first installment of Five for Friday! In these posts, you’ll find five new releases help to navigate each week’s output of extreme music.

You know the “Angel of Death.” Now meet the “Angel of Assassination.”

SoCal deathcrushers Xibalba are ready to leave this forsaken world in the dark with the first track from their long-awaited new LP.

Live Burial bring old-school death/doom filth.

Throwback metallers Midas unleash Demo Tapes from their Midwest home of Detroit. New album Demo Tapes streaming now at Decibel.

Castle Freak (featuring member of Exhumed, Noisem and No/Más) drop their debut album after nearly ten years.

Hear the new EP from international black metal historians Departure Chandelier.

Naglfar remains consistent in the best possible way: they just keep on making great blackened death metal packed with riff after riff.

Bandcamp is waiving their cut of all purchases made on Friday, March 20 to support creatives affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Decibel staff provides a few suggestions for your purchasing pleasure.

You can’t go outside to see a show, so watch Morbid Cross tear it up from the comfort of your home.

Myth of I rip through a technically-stunning new song.

Cognitive take on a heavy subject with their new video for “Fragmented Perception.”

Natur‘s “Afternoon Nightmare is a a rip-roaring good time for fans of glorious no-nonsense heavy metal: riffs, solos, the whole 666 yards.

Scottish quartet King Witch summon the oldest heavy metal gods on new song “Of Rock And Stone,” off their rocking new album, Body of Light.

Misanthropic Aggression are “Alcoholic Polyneuropathic Freaks in Hell.”

Michigan-based death metallers Temple of Void unveil new video “Self-Schism,” off new album The World that Was. Where? Only Decibel Magazine.

ITUS’s new EP provides doom with a soaring, melodic edge.

Get your life-birth-death metal liberation on with this fiery Prometheus-themed track courtesy Thane, India’s Eternal Returns.

Stream a new thrashtastic new track from American quartet Subtype Zero.

Progressive yet technical death metallers Sutrah don’t deny their Quebec metal lineage but still forge their own path on Aletheia

Learn about the chihuahua who killed God with a brand-new song from Philly doom crew Moons.

Norwegian singer Kari Rueslåtten (ex-Third And The Mortal, ex-Storm) is readying her new album, Sørgekåpe, with a stunning blue tune “Sørgekåpe”.

“Bloem” is a gorgeous bouquet of riffs, howls and experimental treats, and yet still fits comfortably within the framework of black metal.