if you’re like me, you’re sympathetic to the idea that the 2000s metalcore sound had some real artistic value to it and deserves to be recreated in a meaningful way by future bands. I think 156/Silence are off to a good start.

Decibel Metal and Beer Fest begins TOMORROW!Last chance to get tickets for the weekend including Sleep, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Municipal Waste, Pig Destroyer and more plus appearance from seventeen craft breweries.

Witchbanger, Duel‘s second LP, recalls a different time but is more than welcome today.

On this week’s Demo:listen we risk getting our faces clawed off to promote the rabid extremism of San Diego’s Wearg.

Vokonis premiere the first single from their second album, both titled The Sunken Djinn. 

In honor of its recent induction to our Hall of Fame, we rank the songs on Cannibal Corpse’s 1994 coming-of-age album The Bleeding from worst to best.

Vomit Remnants stream Hyper Groove Brutality, with more than enough groove and brutality for anyone. 

For their next trick, The Wizards show you their new music video.

It takes a pretty goddamn nasty mix of sludge, crust, and top shelf death metal to live up to a name like Casket Huffer(!), but this Wyoming quartet pulls it off on its fantastic, ridiculously under the radar full-length sneak attack debut Gospels of Scum. 

In which we thoroughly, perhaps even gluttonously check out Onion Maiden, Pittsburgh’s only “punk-fueled,” heavy metal-inspired vegan restaurant.