Watch Toronto melodic DM hooligans, The Curse Within, get their Kill Screen thrills on in their new video for “Through Inferno.”

Phoenix’s Necrambulant drop their second full-length, Upheaval of Malignant Necrambulance, via Gore House Productions in March. Check out their shattering second single from the release, “Sentenced to a Gluttonous Pit.”

Brooklyn sludge titans Pants Exploder return with a bone-crushing new track and video, “Last Thing He Did Was Lose.”

Tickets are on sale Friday, January 17 at 10am ET for Decibel‘s Metal & Beer PRE-FEST at the Foundry in Philly on April 3!

Watch San Francisco’s Embrium go dark via post-black metal in their video for “Eclipse”

French grinders Civilian Thrower find their inner excellent via a break-neck release schedule.

Hear German power thrashers Axetasy find that Motörhead-meets-Helloween sweet spot on new Dying Victims full-length, Withering Tides.

Guitarist Bumblefoot (ex-Guns N’ Roses) discusses his new solo album and 30-year career, plus the funeral doom album he’s currently producing.

The new year is off to a heavy start with the latest from Faithxtractor, The Halo Effect, Haunted Horses and more!

Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity, Grand Cadaver) on “the instinct and the 30 years of experience” that goes into the new LP from The Hallo Effect.