Make sure you stop by the Decibel Headbanger’s Bier Hall after checking out these extremely extreme sets at Chicago Open Air next weekend!

An all-consuming journey through the swamps and caves of the human psyche.

Stream the challenging new release from Italian black metal group Sangue Nero. 

On this week’s Demo:listen we let ourselves sink into the inescapable darkness of Olympia’s Mortiferum.  

Stream the title track of One Master‘s Lycanthropic Burrowing. 

Slaughter’s Ron Sumners talks about why he formed Slaughtering Slaughter… and what exactly it is.

Check out the new lyric video from metallic hardcore outfit Get the Shot.

March 1982. Maggie Thatcher lords over a dangerously unemployed U.K. with a hatchet face, a controversial economic policy and “a voice like a cat sliding down a blackboard.” The Falklands War debacle is just weeks away.

Stream the new record from River Black, featuring members of Municipal Waste and Revocation.

Let’s lighten the mood a little bit around here, shall we? And let’s do it without easing up on the calamitous and chaotic noise.