Looking back on Torch‘s 1984 album Electrikiss, outrageous cover and all.

Check out the otherworldly video from the otherworldly North Carolina sci-fi obsessed freaks Xael.

Get ready for some 8-bit black metal dimension hopping courtesy Gonemage.

Belgian death-dealers Slithering Decay unleash a verminous flood of buzzsaw riffs on their debut album, Aeons Untold.

Philadelphia’s Heavy Temple — at long last — makes their triumphant full-length debut this year. If their future is anything like their newest single, “A Desert Through the Trees,” the sky isn’t even the limit for what’s to come.

Old-school grind crew Schismopathic have a message for politicians and those who vote for them.

Dallas blasters’ split release with Cryptic Void is a definite grind album of the year candidate.

Death Angel drummer Will Carroll speaks with us about his journey and what he’s learned during the pandemic. Death Angel will stream a concert on May 29 focusing on rarities from their catalog.

Morbid Breath seeks to “revive that malicious, heavy, and raw 80’s thrash-metal sound” on their new EP, In the Hand of the Reaper.”

Blue Ox dole out sludgy, metallic hardcore on “Lesser Gods and the Science of Superstition.”