On this week’s Demo:listen we let ourselves sink into the inescapable darkness of Olympia’s Mortiferum.  

Stream the title track of One Master‘s Lycanthropic Burrowing. 

Slaughter’s Ron Sumners talks about why he formed Slaughtering Slaughter… and what exactly it is.

Check out the new lyric video from metallic hardcore outfit Get the Shot.

March 1982. Maggie Thatcher lords over a dangerously unemployed U.K. with a hatchet face, a controversial economic policy and “a voice like a cat sliding down a blackboard.” The Falklands War debacle is just weeks away.

Stream the new record from River Black, featuring members of Municipal Waste and Revocation.

Let’s lighten the mood a little bit around here, shall we? And let’s do it without easing up on the calamitous and chaotic noise.

Stream the video for “Perpetrator Emasculation” from ferocious death metal machine Venom Prison.

Prepare to suit up and Enter the Arena with Texas thrash heavyweights Warbeast. 

The UK/Serbian MRTVI describes itself as a “one-man black metal project concerned with exploring the negative dissonance and atonality of the aural and emotional spectrum,” secured the Facebook URL “/sustainedthroughdeath,” and has whittled its about section to a single Tolstoy quote: “I could not even wish to know the truth, for I guess of what it consisted. The truth was that life is meaningless” — which is a pretty steep goddamn self-created mountain of malcontent to scale. And yet “Negative Atonal Dissonance” — the long, dark sonic journey streamed exclusively below from the album of the same name out July 30 via Transcending Obscurity — manages to accomplish just that.