Check out the new track “Soft Palates Rasp” from Seputus, off their pending debut Man Does Not Give.

Ode to the Flame sounds like a typical Nuclear Blast release. A valiant knight astride a white armored horse. The knight’s hand is aloft, in it he’s holding a great flaming sword, for which he’ll use to the slay the malignant flying beast perched behind him on the top of a snow-capped mountain. But Ode to the Flame isn’t a typical Nuclear Blast release. Not by its cover or band the band, Mantar, that created it.

The Veil of Control
Dust never sleeps
dB rating: 8/10

Waldo diversifies his beak, pecking on new releases from SubRosa, Helms Alee and classic Sarcófago reissue.

Our picks for this issue pull from a variety of styles and include the old, the new, the reformed, and the reinvigorated. 

“When someone like Geezer Butler tells you that he loves your music, that’s a pretty big affirmation!”

On this week’s Demo:listen, we’ve got nowhere to run from Varna’s Terravore.

Rick Rozz (ex-Death, ex-Massacre) is back with a new old school death metal band, The End, and a brand new single. 

The Slithering Bog is a suffocating death/doom album that will trip you out as it crushes you.

The Municipal Waste drummer is collaborating with Richard Christy (The Howard Stern Show, Death, Charred Walls of the Damned) and 30 others in Richmond on August 28 on the Shape of Sound.