Venom Prison‘s debut full length is a pissed off, forceful death metal album.

“A shifting vortex of horrific black metal, at first relentless in its force and momentum yet giving way to a metamorphosis that is utterly bleak and haunting. A chilling vocal performance by Hekte Zaren that combines scathing black metal vocals with dismal funeral operatics, sets this gem far apart from the redundant and the mundane.”

Pocho Aztlan
Larga vida a Juan Brujo
dB rating: 8/10

Get creepy with Take Over and Destroy and some creature features in this new video.

Anything pop can do grind can do better.

Who is the cover of the December-streeting Decibel? You’re not fucked or shit outta luck if you have a Decibel subscription. 

On this week’s Demo:listen, we call down the raw and vicious power of Montreal’s Profane Order.

Saxon have enjoyed a prolific career, with a multitude of live albums. Inspired by their upcoming vinyl box set, The Vinyl Hoard, Season of Mist’s Greg Karlowitsch ranks Saxon’s already released live albums from worst to best.

Our second installment of Primitive Origins, where we examine early or obscure proto-metal and other interesting metallic relics, looks at the crashing, bashing proto-doom of Scotland’s Iron Claw.

Another addition to the growing number of festivals exploding out of the Western Canadian woodwork as of late is Edmonton’s Black Mourning Light, set to be held at the Rendezvous Pub in the town that Wayne Gretzky built on October 21-22.