Demo Premiere: Morbid Sphere – Demo II
April 2, 2021 Dutch Pearce
A new entity grown to staggering proportions in the New York City underground, Morbid Sphere emerges bearing their second demo of warped and crushing black death hostility.
Album Stream: Impure – ‘The Carrion Feast’
April 2, 2021 Sean Frasier
Blackened death duo Impure summon hellfire with their sinister 7″ release of “The Carrion Feast” and “Into Cataclysm.”
Full Album Stream: Bones of the Earth – “II. Eternal Meditations of a Deathless Crown”
April 1, 2021 J. Andrew
“We’re just three dudes with a deep love for heavy metal and sci fi/medieval fantasy and Bones of the Earth is our way of combining the two.”
Writing Ways to Misery: Authors Markus Makkonen and Kim Strömsholm Discuss Finnish Death Metal Book
April 1, 2021 Greg Pratt
Talking Finnish death metal with Markus Makkonen and Kim Strömsholm, authors of Decibel Books’ Rotting Ways to Misery.
Track Premiere: Dead Witches – “D.I.E. (Dragged Into Emptiness)”
April 1, 2021 Cody Davis
Dead Witches — the brainchild of former Electric Wizard drummer Mark Greening — brings towering, fuzzed riffs and glacially-paced occult doom.
Track by Track: Feculent – ‘The Grotesque Arena’
March 31, 2021 Sean Frasier
Australian death metal newcomers Feculent share a track by track breakdown of their filthy debut EP, The Grotesque Arena.
Black Sabbath – Mob Rules
March 30, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
We bend (but don’t break) our Hall of Fame rules to induct the landmark Mob Rules LP from the Dio-fronted Black Sabbath.
Video Premiere: There Were Wires – ‘His Talk, Her Teeth’
March 30, 2021 Emily Bellino
Underappreciated early-aughts metalcore unit There Were Wires rear their heads with a remastered version of 2003 banger “His Talk, Her Teeth.”
Track Premiere: The Absence – “Choirs of Sickness”
March 30, 2021 J. Andrew
Rip into pure melodic darkness with The Absence‘s latest track, “Choirs of Sickness,” off their upcoming album Coffinized.
Track Premiere: Gosudar – “Awakening of the Realm”
March 30, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Moscow’s apex death metallers Gosudar offer a terrifying glimpse of their forthcoming debut full-length, Morbid Despotic Ritual, out this May on Rotted Life Records.