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Shape of Despair has released the first offering from Alone in the Mist, a collection of demos from the early days of the band. 

Lord! Anagnorisis certainly doesn’t pull any sonic or emotional punches on its majestic, seriously affecting gut-punch sophomore full-length Peripeteia — a powerful blend of forward-thinking, nuanced black metal and excerpts from circa ’82-87 family recordings he found on two cassette tapes after his father’s death. 

Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard combine ethereal psychedelic and crushing doom on their latest, Y Proffwyd Dwyll. Stream it now before it hits stores. 

OMG the nu Malignancy track totes rulz. amirite? ttlr

Get ready for the heaviest death metal record of the year with this exclusive premiere of “Rot in Confinement,” from Scorched‘s debut album, Echoes of Dismemberment. 

Albez Duz is back and serving up ten minutes of occult doom on “Sacred Flame.”

The newest song from Départe is vast and crushing.

Evil Invaders‘ “Raising Hell” is a speed-drenched, retro tune. 

“I Have Seen Hell And It’s White” is an instrumental rollercoaster, capturing excited and calm, collected energy throughout the song. 

Very little is funny about Aum and their heady/dirty death offensive, Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum, but get your ears on this if you like dense, ugly destruction that also finds time to paint with a little light.

Experience pure sonic violence with Trap Them‘s Crown Feral, then recover from your beatdown with a macabre arts & (darker hand)crafts lesson from vocalist Ryan McKenney. 

Lotus Thief‘s Gramarye is a beautiful album that draws from some of history’s most renowned texts to create an atmospheric journey through time. Listen to it in full now. 

Bolt Thrower may be forever fallen, but the battle rages on with Memoriam. Hear a brand new song from the Decibel Flexi Series right here! 

Cognitive was formed with two ideas in mind: heaviness and intense technicality. On the first taste of their Unique Leader debut, they prove those ideas are still at the forefront of the band. 

Italy’s Hierophant unleash a palpable burst of anger on “Forever Crucified” as they prepare to release Mass Grave. 

Swedish experimental instrumentalists pg.lost have put out yet another captivating album. Stream it in full before its official release date. 

Gatecreeper‘s latest single is yet another reason to keep the death metal newcomers in mind. Listen to “Stronghold” now. 

Doom of the highest caliber, in the live, in its entirety. Before the release date! 

Rather than reinvent the wheel, Altered Dead construct a twelve-spoke rolling thing out of rotting corpses. And they do so with such skill and aplomb that they make crafting exemplary death metal look easy. 

Freya, featuring Earth Crisis’ Karl Buechner, has one of their best albums on their hands with Grim. Listen to “Gnawing From the Inside” now. 

The fuzzapocalypse is here, courtesy of Fuzz Evil. 

Stop what you’re doing and listen to the latest song from from Khemmis‘ forthcoming album Hunted. You can thank us later. 

Serpent Crown‘s new album is a no frills thrash effort. Stream it here before it drops on Friday. 

Crippled Black Phoenix has a new single available for streaming right here. 

Dwell wrote a hardcore record partially inspired by C.S. Lewis. Listen to the album in full here. 

Whether we’re talking his innovative, grotesque artwork for seminal bands like Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Autopsy, and Dying Fetus or the uber-brutal death metal he’s summoned from the grave for decades via outfits such as Excrescent, Unburied, The Soil Bleeds Black, Grave Wax, and Macabra, it’s difficult to imagine a more legit motherfucker in the extreme music underground than Mark Riddick. And anyone who doubts this is going to have their hands full in a couple months attempting to wrestle with Epicedia, the gnarly, epic, forward-thinking-yet-utterly-feral masterpiece from Riddick’s solo project Fetid Zombie. 

Get to know the crusty Spaniards of Cruz. 

The Grey Eminence just might be the best thing frontman Steve Tucker (Morbid Angel) has ever recorded. Hear Warfather‘s sophomore LP in full now. 

End recorded their black metal take on the Amebix classic for their upcoming split with Torrid Husk. 

Ayahuasca set a dark tone for their upcoming album on “Mountain of Snakes.”