Get distracted from everything going on by the latest heavy releases from Crowbar, Jesus Wept, Haunted Shores and more!

Sometimes a name perfectly encapsulates what a band sounds like. And Portland’s Dry Socket found the exact right moniker to describe their painful, impossible-to-ignore approach to hardcore punk.

Check out the new video from SYK, Italian practitioners of avant-garde extreme metal, a blend of clean vocals and deathy grooves.

Former Pitchshifter bassist, Mark Clayden, delivers some serious groove to his new project, Hellblind’s, hardcore-inspired EP.

The “Metal & Beer” ticket for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly on June 10-11 isn’t gonna be available much longer. Don’t screw this up.

Catching up with M. of Pestilength to find out what five heavy albums changed the mystery man’s life.

Listen to Canadian miserablists Idol of Fear do Canadian metal!

Gorged Afterbirth bring the slams and the samples on their new album, Got Gore?

It’s been a long goddamn while since a hardcore band blasted out of the gate with a sound as feral and kinetic – yet savvily refined in construction – as Guardrails. Hear them now.

U.K. death metal antagonists As the World Dies premiere their new single, “Desolate.” Album out on March 25.