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Nine years in the making, we have only 100 copies of Thantifaxath‘s long-awaited second album, Hive Mind Narcosis, on exclusive gold vinyl!

New Jersey instrumental prog duo, Gematria, turn their new track, “The Elusive One” into a musical game piece.

Watch bodies take out slabs of drywall in Dumb Waiter‘s new video!

Check out the new video from SYK, Italian practitioners of avant-garde extreme metal, a blend of clean vocals and deathy grooves.

NYC black metal outfit Krallice blaze a new path on Demonic Wealth.

On the new song, “Loss,” Azure Emote is quite simply experimental tech-death at its best: the ol’ razzle dazzle with a brain-scrambling twist!

Dark Tranquillity guitarist Niklas Sundin reinvents himself in electronic project Mitochondrial Sun. Decibel premieres new song “Celestial Animal” off Sundin’s Argonauta Records debut.

Brain Tentacles stay weird.

Underground Philadelphia progressive metal kings Dysrhythmia are launching a new mind-bending blitz and we’ve got the exclusive first salvo streaming now.

Former Bethlehem vocalist Rainer Landfermann on his legendary Dictius te Necare vocals and his incendiary performance on his new solo LP, Mein Wort in Deiner Dunkelheit

Underground heavy metal heroes return with their first new LP in five years. Hear the title track now.

Sleep tight with a new track from avant-garde within black metal’s infinite realm.

The members of Blut Aus Nord convene as Yerûśelem to give the world The Sublime.

Norwegian prog nuts discuss their most consistent album ever.

Prophecy Productions announce Alcest, Xasthur, Kayo Dot, Crowhurst and more for inaugural Prophecy Fest on November 2 and 3.

Members of Kayo Dot and Time of Orchids make bizarre “pop” in Stern.

Revisiting Master’s Hammer‘s much-maligned Slagry.

Nightmarer’s Simon Hawemann speaks to Decibel about new album, Cacophony of Terror.

Stream an unreleased song from Imperial Triumphant.

Bow down for the return of Cleric.

Listen to a new song from Horizon Ablaze (ex-Nidingr, ex-1349) now.

Watch a new video from The Soundbyte, featuring former The Third and the Mortal guitarist Trond Engum.

Experience catharsis with sludge experimentalists God Root.

Get in on the investigation with Virus‘ new song and video.

Avant-garde black metal outfit Fjoergyn have unveiled a video for the title track off their upcoming record, Lucifer Es. 

Eternal Deformity fuse genres for a unique and challenging listen on No Way Out. 

Virus doesn’t have any circus music or kazoos, just brooding, skin-crawling metal/rock from ex-members of Ved Buens Ende and other similarly weird entities. 

Triangle by the numbers: 100+ minutes, third album, three parts, two visual artists, one video premiere. 

Italian doom trio Ufomammut have released a video teaser for forthcoming album Opus Alter, out 18 September through Neurot. Opus Alter is the second half of Ufomammut’s ORO series. Its predecessor, Opus Primum, dropped in April, and was a lush dizzying headtrip of psychedelic guitars, space rock ambience all darkened by the unspoken threat of…

Aelter is a solo project of Blake Green, guitarist/vocalist for Idaho drone/doom duo Wolvserpent. When joined by partner-in-crime, drummer/violinist Brittany McConnell, Green’s work with Wolvserpent (formerly known as PussyGutt) marks its territory across the dividing range that separates riff-orientated doom rock/metal with its abstract spiritual kin, drone. Anyone who has been lucky enough to catch…