Cranial Engorgement have created a monster of a brutal death metal album with Horrific Existence.

Australian experimental death/industrial amalgamation Miserist is primed to unleash calculated and cold destruction with their self-titled debut.

Oozepus (members of Coffins and Linekraft) craft noisy death-doom on “Farmers,” from their upcoming debut EP, Your Limit. 

The paradigm-smashing creative churn in hardcore as the eighties gave way to the nineties was an amazing thing to behold. And few label rosters represented that wondrous, multidimensional, beauty and the beast evolution-through-revolution moment than Nemesis Records — a legendary 1988-1993 run which, along with Nemesis founder Big Frank Harrison, at long last receives a fitting tribute via Reaper Records founder Patrick Kitzel’s scrappy, enlightening, no-holds-barred, lovingly assembled The History of Nemesis Records, featuring release-by-release commentary from Harrison as well as reminiscences courtesy such scene luminaries as Mike Hartsfield (Outspoken), Issac Golub (A Chorus Of Disapproval), Andrew Kline (Strife), Ron Martinez (Final Conflict), Jon Bunch (Sense Field), Dave Franklin (Vision), and others.

Hellkeeper aren’t holding back on their debut album if “Drown” is any indicator.

It doesn’t take long to say a lot. Case in point is the song “Under the Wave Blanket” by the Austinites Drip-Fed, who pack plenty of pain and hope into 2 1/2 minutes. Though it helps that the music itself is the hooky, hulking kind of punk hardcore that makes you listen over and over until you develop welts.

Get to you know your Decibel Metal & Beer Fest breweries. We interview Charlottesville’s own Champion Brewing.

Pestifer‘s debut album, Execration Diatribes, rips, shreds and thrashes in all the right places. 

The Obsessed sound fresh and energetic on “Razorwire” as they prepare to release their first full length album in over 20 years. 

An exclusive premiere of “Channeling Forgotten Energies,” off Banished from Time, the new album by Portugal’s staunchly necro entity, Black Cilice.