blackened thrash

Unholy Metal: Empty Throne Unleashes Their Debut Album’s Title Track

November 6, 2024

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.

Full Album Stream: Faster Than the Devil III Compilation

October 23, 2024

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

Full Album Stream: Unpure – “Prophecies Ablaze”

March 29, 2023

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

Video Premiere: Sadistic Ritual – ‘End of All Roads’

February 16, 2022

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

Track Premiere: Maudiir Offers Blackened Thrashing D-Beat with a Proggy Twist

February 11, 2021

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

Album Premiere: Sarcator – Sarcator

October 27, 2020

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

Album Premiere: Evoke – ‘Seeds of Death’

September 9, 2020

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

Track Premiere: Battlemaster – ‘Black Challenge’

June 1, 2020

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

Full Album Stream: Dismemberment – ‘Arc of Ancients’

November 6, 2019

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?

Track Premiere: Black Anvil – ‘Iron Sharpens Iron’

February 18, 2019

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

Review: Daeva – “Pulsing Dark Absorptions”

November 14, 2017

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….

Interview: All Hell at Shadow Woods

October 18, 2017

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

Label Spotlight: Deathrash Armageddon

April 10, 2017

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

Track Premiere: All Hell – ‘I Am The Mist’

March 22, 2017

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

Full Album Stream: Rebel Wizard – ‘Triumph of Gloom’

February 22, 2017

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. 

INTERVIEW: Craven Idol’s S. Vrath on taking the extremely extreme road towards eschaton

December 2, 2013

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…

EXCLUSIVE STREAM: Craven Idol “Towards Eschaton”

September 30, 2013

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…