Our cooped up correspondent pecks on classic metal, progressive black and brutal death this week.

California powerviolence purveyors ACxDC deliver first new album in six years. Get a mouthful of new single “Copsucker.”

Looking back on Venom’s underrated 2006 album Metal Black.

Enterprise Earth just celebrated one trip around the sun for third LP Luciferous this week. The Spokane, WA deathcore band marked the occasion with a new live music video for “Scars of the Past.”

Listen to the debut from Montreal’s Akurion, featuring present and ex members of Cryptopsy, Neuraxis and Cattle Decapitation

Decibel Exclusive: The legendary Jonny Z Talks Metallica, Anthrax, Megaforce Records and his new book, as metalhead comedian Brian Posehn interrogates!

Hail the Flesh, Black Pestilence’s sixth full-length of blackened old-school thrash and punk, is set for release on May 1.

Stream the new album from British black metal crushers Calligram and read an interview with vocalist Matteo Rizzardo about the record, Ralph Waldo Emerson and coronavirus.

Dark maestro Chris Alexander is back with a sexy, nightmarish new record that definitely defies quarantine.

Resurrected Swedish black thrashers Curse tear from out of the shadows of obscurity with an absolute ripper. Hear their new EP in its entirety right now.