Close out this week with your palms skyward via new trad metal from Canada’s Spell.

Audioslave: Part Deux? Not so fast.

On this week’s Demo:listen, our jaws drop and our eyes widen in utter disbelief of the anachronistic death-thrashings of Seattle’s Hexenslaught.

Death/doom from Finland inspired by 19th century tyrants? Vainaja and Decibel have got you covered.

Get the scoop the new Blekkmetal film and Enslaved‘s Ivar Bjørnson’s BardSpec project.

Vancouver’s Without Mercy is a prime example of how putting in a little bit of elbow grease can result in advantageous outcomes.

Mos Generator are a well-dressed band. 

Worried that you might not find fitting way to mark the twentieth anniversary of Cannibal Corpse’s Vile that doesn’t require being, say, devoured by vermin, mummified in barbed wire, or eaten from the inside? Were you hoping to celebrate George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher’s debut via a more metaphorical than naturalistic orgasm through torture?

Black metal duo Inquisition deliver first new song in nearly three years, and Decibel‘s got it.

War master Andy Whale re-enters the realm of chaos for death/grind victory with Memoriam.