Cormorant stream new song “Preserved in Ash.” 

We know you need obscure and far-out death metal, so get ready to lose your shit over Paraguay’s Verthebral. We’ve got the exclusive premiere of their new track “Without Any God” from their upcoming debut album, Regeneration.  

1995’s Destroy Erase Improve was Meshuggah’s first complete statement.  It ushered in a new kind of technicality, one that is still being celebrated two decades later (not always in the most listenable ways).   Today, let’s breakdown the band’s breakthrough by counting down the songs on this Hall of Fame entry.

New York City-based label WYLN is reissuing lost, classic heavy metal records including albums from Cyanide, Leather Nunn, Valhalla and Death Squad. 

Stream the title track from crossover thrashers Paralysis’ first full-length record, Life Sentence.

Mutilated and Assimilated
Too fast, too furious
dB rating: 8/10

Sacred cows have been slain before. They’ll be slain again. Today, we’re not butchering yet another divine bovine (not in total, we’d be nuts and in poor taste), but rather turning the tables on last week’s Bathory post, where we unsheath our Bathory collection (from 1984’s Bathory to 1988’s Blood Fire Death) listening for Quorthon’s sonic hell-born warts.

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Xantrix, Broken Hope and Goatwhore, plus a not-as-new album from Succumb. 

nordiQC will feature apperances from Enslaved, Bardspec and more, plus film screenings, Q&A panels and more. 

The official craft breweries for the Decibel Headbangers Bier Hall at Chicago Open Air are revealed.