Our resident birdbrain returns to ruffle feathers with a pair of new releases from mainstream “metal” sensations and legendary old-schollers.

If you like death metal that’s willing to explore its own boundaries while still remaining brutal and raw as hell, then Denver’s Astral Tomb is the band for you.

Hear Swedish D-beat crusters Industrial Puke disgorge some rotten sounds on their Suicide Records debut.

It’s been nine long years, but black/death titans Inferion are back with their diverse and crushing new album Inequity, streaming here ahead of its May 19 release.

Hear the new EP from L.A. based four-piece Iress in advance of it’s Friday release.

Hear Finnish/American duo Veriluola capture the lawless, ruleless extreme metal approach of the early ’90s on Cascades of Crimson Cruor, their slippery debut LP

Naturvidrig could very well be your new favorite black metal band. Hear the Swedes’ new self-titled LP before its release this Friday.

Thunderflix app founder and director Samuel Douek list of 10 essential concert films and documentaries currently streaming on his metal-driven streaming app!

Gurgling Gore preserves death metal history with cassette reissues of old school classics from Floridian dusk-dwellers EQUINOX.

Stream the latest deathly blasphemy, Immunidissime Spiritus, from Brazilian black metal scorchers Grave Desecrator