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Hear L.A. trio Mayan Bull — featuring members of Trappist, Despise You and Kevarra — take an instrumental departure.

Chilean thrashers Mental Devastation premiere new ripping album The Delusional Mystery of the Self (Part I) (Blood Harvest).

Enslaved‘s The Otherworldly Big Band Experience delivered an epic live stream this week. If you missed it, check out their performance of “Bounded By Allegiance.” You can also watch the full livestream through December 24.

Hear Seattle’s Dark Meditation invoke the spirits of black metal’s past with their gothic trad metal.

Tennessean death/grind trio Torsion are here to deliver a world of gut-twisting pain on this week’s Demo:listen..

Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury completes the first quadrilogy of his instrumental/ambient/electronic solo venture Dark Sky Burial. Hear it now.

Chilean black/death cult Chaos Perversion are “Petrified Against the Emanation.”

Eternity’s End guitarist/chief songwriter Christian Münzner deep dives into the riff writing process for new song “Call of the Valkyries.”

Hear Copenhagen-based experi-metal/post-mental trio Bye Bye Tsunami squall their way through a noisy, banana-triggered psychotic episode.

Hear New Jersey blasters Bayt Lahm debut a new single addressing political unrest in Colombia.

Feel the frustration and anger in Beyond the Styx‘s hardcore ode to lockdown rage.

Check out the new haunting, atmospheric and introspective video from Germany’s newest black metal export, Dæmonesq.

Horror! Pain! Gore! Death! What’s next? A 2021 sampler featuring every artist the underground metal label put out in 2021.

Philippines-based death metal act Nullification bust out of 1992 streaming new track “I, the Nullifier.” Only the past is real!

Members of Contrarian, Witherfall/Sanctuary, and Flotsam and Jetsam deliver as masterclass in this cover of Death’s “The Philosopher.”

No sun shines on San Diego death/doom duo Mordom on their latest indictment of global corruption.

Death metal vets celebrate blood and guts in Gore Brigade.

California-based progressive death metallers Hemotoxin

Mexico City marijuaneros Satanico Pandemonium take us on a dark trip into the spirit world on their latest release.

Hear Lithuanian grind duo Will Cope, bring an east coast hardcore vibe to eastern Europe on An Attempt.

Clifford Meyer (ex-ISIS the band) teams up with veteran game wizard Nathan Purkeypile to soundtrack the new soon-to-be-smash video game The Axis Unseen.

East Coast meets West Coast when Brick by Brick and Cutthroat join forces for a split seven inch.

Swedish power trio Nekromant unveil a rambunctious third album with nods to the trad metal greats—from Thin Lizzy to Maiden to Priest.

Check out the new Killer Hill EP, featuring current and ex members of Helmet, Guzzard, Afterbirth and Burning Brides!

Hear and acquire this Portrayal of Guilt flexi disc single, featuring an exclusive brand new track, available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!

Bang a gong, get it on with an epic track from Chicago’s doomy, atmospheric post-punk collective, Anatomy of Habit.

The French grind scene contributes to the growing — am I reading this correctly — mirco genre of grindcore bands inspired by the 1997 film Gummo?

Hear a track from Eight Bells‘ album Legacy of Ruin (due on February 25 and available now for preorder), the band’s first record in roughly five years.

Watch Sin City’s SpiritWorld bring their self-described “death western” to the small screen on “Unholy Passages.”

What year is it? Swedes Eternal Evil worship first wave black metal and Teutonic thrash on their debut album.