blackened thrash

Prepare for darkness incarnate—Empty Throne is about to descend with a powerful new video for “Unholy,” the title track of their upcoming debut full-length album, set for release on November 27.

Indianapolis indie underground metal label, Wise Blood, offers up its latest Faster Than the Devil comp, featuring Bloodletter, Ninth Realm, Acid Mass and Grozov.

Black metal outfits Wormwitch and Sadistic Ritual combine forces on a new split.

Hear Swedish black metal vets Unpure return with Prophecies Ablaze, the first new studio album in nearly 20 years.

New Zealand-based black thrash outfit Exordium Mors challenge cowards on explosive new track “Flesh of the Heathen.”

Hear the new single from Atlanta psych-thrashers Sadistic Ritual, taken from their new album, The Enigma, Boundless.

What year is it? Swedes Eternal Evil worship first wave black metal and Teutonic thrash on their debut album.

Get to know, Maudiir, the one-man project helmed by Montréaller Frédéric “F.” Bergeron.

Precocious Swedish scorchers Sarcator blast off and leave Earth far behind on their merciless debut self-titled full-length.

Bullet-belted deathrashers Evoke race the devil on their debut LP, Seeds of Death. Out September 18 on Pulverized Records.

Take the “Black Challenge” with long-running Richmond blackened thrashers Battlemaster.

Blackened death/thrash bruisers Dismemberment will release Arc of Ancients, the second album from the Ohio extreme metal quartet, through Creator-Destructor Records this Friday, but why wait to hear it?

Atomic Cretins are suffering from “Spiritual Cancer.”

Black Anvil pay tribute to late The Devil’s Blood vocalist/guitarist Selim Lemouchi.

Bang your head with black-thrashers Aempyrean.

Get thrashed with a new offering from Blackrat.

No mysteries here, just a brand new song from Sathanas.

Dead Medua are taking you on a one-way trip to “Riff City!”

Sodom in the U.S.A. Label: 20 Buck Spin Daeva is most definitely a Steve Jansson affair. If you’re reading this magazine then you know who Jansson is even if you don’t realize you do. Jansson’s a Philly ’head, plays guitar in Crypt Sermon, screams and shreds in Trenchrot, Infiltrator, as well as killer grinders Unrest….

All Hell performed at Shadow Woods, so we caught up with them to discuss their new album, The Grave Alchemist.

Goatwhore frontman Ben Falgoust on new album Vengeful Ascension. 

Stream new track “The Observer” from blackened thrash force Wilderness Dream. 

Deathrash Armageddon is a Japanese label that releases a number of raw thrash and black metal bands. 

Blackened thrash trio All Hell deliver a new song from their forthcoming The Grave Alchemist. 

Rebel Wizard‘s unique sound, self-described as “negative metal,” is an unholy marriage of black, thrash and power metal with a healthy dose of NWoBHM thrown in. Stream their album Triumph of Gloom in full now. 

A few months ago we had the pleasure of hosting the online premiere of Craven Idol’s awesome debut LP, Towards Eschaton. And it really was a pleasure, ‘cos this slab of apocalyptica is a total 100 per cent doozy. Released through Dark Descent in October, Towards Eschaton is a record that marks the Londoners’ evolution…

Ladies and germs, pray silence please for Craven Idol’s Towards Eschaton. Pull up the easy chair, pull on the headphones; you’ll no doubt find the north Londoners’ debut long-player an extreme metal album of rare power. This here’s a bona fide contender for album of the year, a soundtrack for those evenings when your ouija…