Delve into a cavernous atmosphere of riffs and growls on the latest installment of Desecresy’s forward-looking approach to death metal.

Stream a new song from Danish death dealers Undergang.

On this week’s Demo:listen we celebrate the death and darkness conjured by Athens’ Gravewards. 

Watch the new video for “Viral” from The Father of Serpents.

Re-examining Leaf Hound’s 1971 proto-stoner album Growers of Mushroom.

By 1998, New Orleans metal heavyweights Crowbar had already released four fantastic sludge albums. But when it came time to start writing their fifth, the band knew they were on to something different

The vast expanse of south central British Columbia in a town almost ironically/appropriately called Lone Butte isn’t the first place one thinks of for a female-centric metal fest. But it is.

Loyal Until Death are a whirlwind of hardcore punk riffs and pummeling breakdowns.

Maybe it’s a growing-up-stateside thing, but I can’t honestly say I’ve ever met a single headbanger who got into metal through Helloween.

Read about the making of Crowbar‘s Odd Fellows Rest in the latest issue of Decibel.