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.

Russia’s Hellweed premiere new song “Guts Out.”

Spin into the whispering darkness with a new track from the masters of death-doom brutality.

Goatwhore frontman Ben Falgoust on new album Vengeful Ascension. 

Hypnotic flames crackle and beckon on Ordem Satanica’s Monte de Lua. Check out the Portuguese cult’s debut in full with this exclusive premiere.

Watch the new video from Australian black metal band Somnium Nox.

We caught up with Pounder’s Matt Harvey to talk about how his new trad metal project is really more similar to his extreme metal bands than you might think.