Track Premiere

Track Premiere: Pagan Altar – ‘Dance of the Vampires’

July 27, 2017

Listen to a new song from NWOBHM group Pagan Altar, their last with late vocalist Terry Jones.

Video Premiere: Overoth – ‘The Keeper’

July 27, 2017

Irish death dealers Overoth reveal information (and new video!) about their first record since their 2010 debut.

Track Premiere: End Christian – ‘Delivered In Shame’

July 26, 2017

Stream a new track from End Christian, featuring members of Brutal Truth, Hex Inverter and more.

Track Premiere: OLDBONES – ‘Followed With a Swarm’

July 25, 2017

Ex-A Life Once Lost frontman Bob Meadows has been busy as of late. When he’s not laying down groove metal with Mind Power, he’s unleashing furious, grinding metal with OLDBONES. Their latest offering, “Followed With A Swarm” is a fast, angry song. “The song ‘Followed With A Swarm’ touches on a relationship that no longer exists,” Meadows says. “Lyrically, the…

Track Premiere: Laces Out – ‘Fortunes’

July 21, 2017

Stream “Fortunes” from New York grungy noise rockers Laces Out now. 

Track Stream/Premiere: Sweden’s Grande Royale Rock With Mellow Class

July 20, 2017

Today we’re going to give you a break from sonic extremity, but still keep things hard and rocking, with a Swedish band rocking out like they’re showcasing their wares at a Fourth of July picnic and playing under a row of now-considered-politically incorrect confederate flags.

TRACK PREMIERE: DREADNOUGHT CALLS YOU “WITHIN CHANTING WATERS”

July 19, 2017

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.  

EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT & TRACK STREAM: CHAD STROUP’S “SECRETS OF THE WEIRD”

July 12, 2017

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.  

EXCLUSIVE: Hear A New Arch Enemy Recording!

July 12, 2017

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

Track Premiere: Desecresy unleash “Percussive Necromancy”

July 11, 2017

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?

TRACK PREMIERE: HEAR MRTVI CHANNEL THE ABYSS ON “NEGATIVE ATONAL DISSONANCE”

July 5, 2017

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.  

Track Premiere: Barbaric Horde unleash “Bestial Offensor”

July 5, 2017

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.