There may be (at least) two Portlands, but there is only one grindcore band called Fake Dust.

In which we present the second part of Sculptured, ex-Agalloch guitarist Don Anderson and Decibel‘s Forrest Pitts lengthy discussion on creative musical impact.

Bitter Branches discuss their new album, Your Neighbors Are Failures.

USBM stalwarts Nechochwen unveil the closing track to their first new album in seven years.

Decibel invites Belgium-based extreme heavy metallers Evil Invaders to reveal what went into new album Shattering Reflection.

So drink to forget / And drown all your sorrow / Bury your dreams / And choose catharsis!

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.