Currently in the filming/interview stages, The Growl’s intent is to document the ride the genre has taken from its obscure beginnings through roller coaster-ing waves of popularity and obscurity over the years to how the scene has morphed and come full circle in the present.

Misanthropy is all the rage on Paralysis of Reason.

Def Leppard bassist Rick Savage is a Skeletonwitch fan!

Sabbath Assembly unveil a new video for “Ascend and Descend.”

Peavey will backline Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly with their most-extreme amplifiers.

Shotgun Sawyer are back with a new slab of blues-y doom and more than a bit of sympathy for the devil.

Canadian horde The Black Sorcery flex pure black death hostility on their latest album. Check it out now.

Baltimore instigators Musket Hawk reload another batch of diseased sludge/grind anthems on Upside of Sick.

Ultar unleash true Siberian black metal.

Hear the new Akrotheism album in all its tumultuous and devastating glory. Check it out now.