Swedish avant-garde DM sophisticates Gold Spire dial up the sax and violence on new full-length, Steps Into Shadow.

Tune into MERC‘s all-caps, no-guitars grindcore attack.

Cold Blue Mountain are not exactly thinking small on The Healer. The Chico, California post-metal quintet’s new double album is a 74-minute concept record.

Decibel noise-making faves Still/Form reemerge as Portland noise-sludge trio HISS.

Moon Destroys, featuring Torche co-founder Juan Montoya, and Evan Diprima of Gold Pyramid and Royal Thunder reemerge bearing “Flowers.”

Hail Dracula on a new Dragsholm song.

Watch the new video from Body Stuff, a project from the mind of Curran Reynolds that gives a fresh take on hard rock.

We let Spanish melodic DM vets, Bloodhunter, take us track-by-track through their fourth full-length, Sons of the Abandoned.

Iron Kobra raise heavy metal hell on their new album.

Open your ears (and mind) for this week’s unique lineup of new releases, including the latest from Fires in the Distance, Khemmis and more!