This week’s deadly dose of Decibel-approved metal includes the latest from Ashen, Crypt Crawler, Perilaxe Occlusion and more!

“Wake Up” with a new video from US heavy metal kings Spirit Adrift.

American post-punk/post-black metal duo Gorsedd FM cut a disarmingly good debut full-length with The Promise of Rot.

Shane Embury’s solo venture of dark ambient soundscapes and unsettling industrial noise textures, Dark Sky Burial, returns with its third full-length release since March 2020. 

Don’t sleep on technical death fiends Nightmarer .

Crunching the numbers on Morbid Angel‘s ill-fated Illud Divinum Insanus and defending 54.55 percent of it.

Welcome to Hell. Dark death metal trio Qrixkuor will be your guide.

Self-described “extreme musick-devoted freak” Robert Williams has a song in his heart — a throat full of broken glass.

For the tech-death maniacs in the crowd, the UK’s Cognizance has all the riffs, sweeps, grooves and growls you could ask for!

Black/death misanthropes Atra Haeresis will rip out your beating heart during the lyric video for their new single, “The Sacred Games.”