Track Premiere

On its brilliant boundary-annihilating upcoming third full-length A Wake in Sacred Waves — out vial Sailor Records in October — Denver quartet Dreadnought delivers a deftly executed, completely entrancing sonic amalgamation that calls to mind everything from Bergtatt-era Ulver, Wolves in the Throne Room, and Kate Bush to Slint, June of ’44, Sabbath at its psychedelic doom-iest. This particular Rocky Mountain High has got the raining-fire-in-the-sky blast beats, guttural vocals, and fuzzed out nasty riffs, but also serious grooves and softer-than-a-lullabye ethereal croons, mandolin, flute, and saxophone.  

Stream a new video from secretive blackened death dealers Altarage. 

Stream a new track from Afterbirth featuring Artificial Brain vocalist Will Smith.

Stream a new track from Pelican/5ive offshoot, INTRCPTR. 

Stream a new track from progressive metallers Prospekt. 

In his exhilarating, consciousness-mutating debut novel Secrets of the Weird, Chad Stroup fuses a kaleidoscopic embrace of the surreal and fantastical with a punk hardcore velocity and sensibility — think Twin Peaks meets Damaged or David Cronenberg adapting I Against I. Which is why it is not all that surprising when a Minor Threat-esque band dubbed Civilized Cannibals materializes amongst the tome’s motley crew of willful outcasts, reluctant protagonists, and apocalyptic cultists.  

Hear the first new Arch Enemy recording in nearly three years right now. 

We’ve got an exclusive premiere of a new Desecresy song off their massively anticipated fifth full length, The Mortal Horizon. The hell are you waiting for?

Stream a new song from old-school thrashers Toxik. 

Stream the new track from brutal death metal outfit Beneath. 

Stream the title track of One Master‘s Lycanthropic Burrowing. 

Prepare to suit up and Enter the Arena with Texas thrash heavyweights Warbeast. 

The UK/Serbian MRTVI describes itself as a “one-man black metal project concerned with exploring the negative dissonance and atonality of the aural and emotional spectrum,” secured the Facebook URL “/sustainedthroughdeath,” and has whittled its about section to a single Tolstoy quote: “I could not even wish to know the truth, for I guess of what it consisted. The truth was that life is meaningless” — which is a pretty steep goddamn self-created mountain of malcontent to scale. And yet “Negative Atonal Dissonance” — the long, dark sonic journey streamed exclusively below from the album of the same name out July 30 via Transcending Obscurity — manages to accomplish just that.  

Stream a new track from progressive death metal group Neck of the Woods now.

Check out this exclusive premiere of “Bestial Offensor” from Tainted Impurity, the second tape of blackened death warfare from Portugal’s gasmasked terror squad Barbaric Horde.

Stream a new song from Mindkult‘s Transcending Obscurity debut.

Stream a new track from Las Vegas’ The Fat Dukes of F***. 

Stream a brutal new track from Colombian death dealers Mouldered. 

Stream a new track from Indian sludge outfit Shepherd. 

Stream the first Vulture Industries (ex-Enslaved) song since 2013.

Three years after unleashing a self-titled debut that turned many a (metal)head — including a spot on Decibel‘s Best Bandcamp Finds of 2014 list — Toronto doom rockers Olde are set to return August 11 with the STB Records release Temple, on which the quintet’s already solid fantastically heavy, catchy-as-hell take on the ol’ crush n’ fuzz continues to evolve and deepen. 

Cormorant stream new song “Preserved in Ash.” 

We know you need obscure and far-out death metal, so get ready to lose your shit over Paraguay’s Verthebral. We’ve got the exclusive premiere of their new track “Without Any God” from their upcoming debut album, Regeneration.  

Stream the title track from crossover thrashers Paralysis’ first full-length record, Life Sentence.

Russia’s Hellweed premiere new song “Guts Out.”

Progressive sludge/noise rock with comparisons to Neurosis, Old Man Gloom and Amenra? I’m sold!

Stream a new track from the German black metal band.

We’ve still got a solid month and then some to get through before Temple Of Void’s gargantuan sophomore album Lords of Death is unleashed upon a fully suspecting, but nevertheless unprepared world. Lucky for you, we’ve procured an exclusive premiere of “The Gift.” Trust us: You won’t want to be taken unawares by Lords of Death.

Watch a new video from The Soundbyte, featuring former The Third and the Mortal guitarist Trond Engum.

Stream “Renewal,” the closing track on Wildspeaker‘s second album, Spreading Adder.