Welcome to our first installment of Five for Friday! In these posts, you’ll find five new releases help to navigate each week’s output of extreme music.

This week Demo:listen encounters unprecedented hostility from a French black metal duo calling themselves Kriegsgraben.

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, March 30 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from heavy cinema grind heroes Graf Orlock.

Watch a live video collaboration between instrumental post-metallers Town Portal and stateside heavies Kowloon Walled City. Filmed last summer, it is released today to raise money for Small Pond Recording.

You know the “Angel of Death.” Now meet the “Angel of Assassination.”

Minneapolis noise rock weirdos, New Primals premiere their new video at Decibel!

SoCal deathcrushers Xibalba are ready to leave this forsaken world in the dark with the first track from their long-awaited new LP.

Ten years after his untimely death, the late era Ronnie James Dio albums are finally getting a bit of respect — and the deluxe reissue treatment. Here’s your roadmap.

Death metal faction Angerot ascend from Swedeath homage to the outer limits of imagination on their striking new LP, The Divine Apostate.

A lengthly interview with Boston’s Wilderun, arguably the finest, most professional-sounding unsigned metal band on the damn planet.