This week on Demo:listen we enter the dark night of music with Kentucky’s Verboten.

Listen to the new album from the Boston trio.

Take some time to let your mind drift across dark fields and abandoned castles with our stream of Paths of the Eternal’s self-titled demo

There were a lot of bad covers back in thrash’s heyday. Here are five of the worst offenders.

There are no other colors in the extreme music rainbow quite like Pinkish Black.

Don’t let the name of ex-Overkill axeman Bobby Gustafson’s solo thrash project, um, taint your expectations.

We’re cuckoo for Burial‘s Cocoa Bolo Coconut Brown Ale.

When he’s not crushing skulls as Skeletonwitch‘s guitarist, Scott Hedrick is crushing personal bests in long-distance running.

Vault Dweller unleash grindcore chaos.

NZ black death force Heresiarch find themselves in dread company on a forthcoming 4-way split bound to obliterate all in its path. We’ve got the details, quotes from the bands involved, plus an exclusive premiere of the Heresiarch track. Check it out now!