If something smelled like “Sweet Beef” in Philly, it was “Drive Thru Metal” concept band Mac Sabbath.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we’re dragged off in the dead of night by Birmingham, Alabama’s Hegemony.

The Dread Crew of Oddwood plays an acoustic pirate metal ode to drinking in this video. 

Stop what you’re doing and listen to the latest song from from Khemmis‘ forthcoming album Hunted. You can thank us later. 

To celebrate the upcoming release of Testament‘s eleventh studio album, we look back on their first ten and rank them from least-amazing to most-amazing.

And now for something from the farthest reaches of left field, if not outer space.

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.