On this week’s Demo:listen we recoil and blanch in the presence of Seattle’s Fetid.

Endon unleash a primal, punishing noise/metal combination on “Born in Limbo.”

You know the cover, now find out more about Dust’s 1971 debut in our most recent Primitive Origins.

Suffering Hour was destined to nab my attention. Today, we’re premiering some of the blackened death metal featured on their forthcoming album, In Passing Ascension.

Stream the insane new EP from New York hardcore/noise outfit Crushed. 

Read a full interview from USBM titans Nightbringer. 

Coming at its beguiling brand of blackened death metal with what feels like as much reverence for Emperor and Paradise Lost as Morbid Angel, long-running Modena, Italy quartet Valgrind hit a new high-water mark on Seal of Phobos, a diverse, assured slab of extreme metal full of deftly executed heavy riffage, pitch-black atmospherics, and hairpin turns.

Get yourself something to remember Decibel Metal and Beer Fest after it’s over.

Craven Idol lead a blackened assault on greed and mindless worship on The Shackles of Mammon.

Stream Russian funeral doom outfit Funeral Tears‘ third album.