Our cooped up correspondent pecks on goth metal legends, death metal upstarts and, um, something with “goblin vocals.”

Rogue’s Yellow Snow puts the “p” in pilsner.

“Our objective is to bring all the darker elements we enjoy in a multitude of extreme metal genres together for a terrifying soundscape.”

Introducing new twisted riffing Seattle death metal duo, Degraved, and their four-song demo, Exhumed Remnants.

Watch death/doom crushers Age of Woe deliver a crusty vision of humanity’s impending future in the new video for “Patriarch.”

The Las Vegas collective Purity offer anything but in their hybrid of late ’90s sounds.

Ranking the songs on Judas Priest’s recently Hall of Fame-inducted Painkiller from least awesome to most awesome.

Decibel will donate 100 percent of the profits of individual sales of this issue to displaced independent music industry gig workers in our hometown of Philadelphia.

Prepare to enter the mind-melting, hypnotic world of Domkraft via their new video for “Dawn of Man.”

Thirty years after summoning modern hardcore into existence with the Cro-Mags’ debut, Parris Mayhew is back with some new face-blasting alchemy.