In which we pit Death‘s Scream Bloody Gore vs. Possessed‘s Seven Churches in the battle for old-school death metal supremacy.

Check out Ascendant Blasphemy, the debut from Canuck black metallers, Plague Weaver

Dan “Chewy” Mongrain, Dave Witte, Shane Embury, Bruce Lamont, Christian Doble and a host of other metal and punk luminaries pay tribute to the Cardiacs‘ “Tarred and Feathered” with an assist from bassist Jim Smith!

My Dying Bride‘s 1995 gothic doom landmark The Angel and the Dark River gets its Hall of Fame induction some 15 years after we gave Turn Loose the Swans the nod.

EYES debut a three-song live session at the legendary Royal Danish Academy of Music.

Rising Brazilian melodic death metallers Venomous aren’t about to stay in their subgenre lane for this diverse, killer new EP.

Old school death metal innovators Moral Collapse unleash the lyric video for their darkness-summoning single “Denier of Light.”

This cat has claws! Stream “Benthic Storms,” the latest from Colorado’s Necropanther.

Leathery and vintage heavy metal Canadians Sandstorm grant an early stream of their forthcoming far-out rocker, Desert Warrior.

San Jose trio Socioclast unleash an early contender for grindcore album of the year on Carbonized.