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.

From “As Above” to “So Below,” Wormwitch deliver a powerful debut album. 

Rising metalhead horror author John Boden peppered his recent haunting, lyrical coming-of-age novella Jedi Summer With The Magnetic Kid with a slew of knowing nods to eighties heavy metal and hard rock. And he’s cited such distorted-yet-diverse bands as Masters of Reality and the Pixies as influences on his delightfully demented post-apocalyptic children’s book Dominoes. So it seemed apropos to hit the eloquent Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based world-builder up for a few recommendations on where those looking to blend their loves of reading n’ riffage.