Serpent Crown‘s new album is a no frills thrash effort. Stream it here before it drops on Friday. 

Crippled Black Phoenix has a new single available for streaming right here. 

Dwell wrote a hardcore record partially inspired by C.S. Lewis. Listen to the album in full here. 

Whether we’re talking his innovative, grotesque artwork for seminal bands like Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Autopsy, and Dying Fetus or the uber-brutal death metal he’s summoned from the grave for decades via outfits such as Excrescent, Unburied, The Soil Bleeds Black, Grave Wax, and Macabra, it’s difficult to imagine a more legit motherfucker in the extreme music underground than Mark Riddick. And anyone who doubts this is going to have their hands full in a couple months attempting to wrestle with Epicedia, the gnarly, epic, forward-thinking-yet-utterly-feral masterpiece from Riddick’s solo project Fetid Zombie. 

Tengger Cavalry brought their nomadic folk metal across the United States earlier this year. Fortunately for us, they recorded their travels for this tour documentary. 

Get to know the crusty Spaniards of Cruz. 

The Grey Eminence just might be the best thing frontman Steve Tucker (Morbid Angel) has ever recorded. Hear Warfather‘s sophomore LP in full now. 

In which we strive to demystify one of the year’s sickest works of death metal with those who dealt it.

Was Morbid Angel’s minor change in direction in 1995 just “too extreme” for old-school death metallers to accept? Our Neill Jameson defends Domination’s place in metal history.

French soul-threateners Aum will release their highly destructive (and equally esoteric) force, debut record Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum, this Friday on Iron Bonehead.  We asked the band some questions, and we got some enthusiastic and thoughtful responses.  Read up on Aum’s focus and vision right here.