“This is something you can’t really control, you must draw, draw and draw again.”

You can’t purchase the new Municipal Waste album, Slime and Punishment, until June 23, but you can now drink the band’s collaboration, Divine Blasphemer Smoked Porter, with metal-friendly Tampa brewery Cigar City.

On this week’s Demo:listen we find ourselves on the wrong side of existence with Huntington Beach’s Encoffinized.

Go Beyond the Realm of Light and embrace the Summoner album you’ll find there.

Timeworn are aggressive as they are atmospheric on new song “Night of Owls.”

Stream the full sixth album from Dutch powerhouse The Monolith Deathcult. 

In which we go back and examine Greece proto-metal band Socrates Drank the Conium’s self-titled debut from 1972.

Denver rockers Abrams recall old romance on “18 Weeks.”

In Flames‘ new stop-motion animation video for “Here Until Forever” is equal parts cute and creepy.

Arkansas’ rich extreme music history isn’t exactly the richest. These days, Decibel cover stars Pallbearer are leading the charge and the past is sparsely littered with the likes of The Handshake Murders, Rwake (and various associated side projects) and Living Sacrifice. Debate amongst yourselves the merits and inclusion of Evanescence and Mutha’s Day Out.