Closed Casket Activities

Five Heavy Albums that Changed My Life with Ian Shelton of Regional Justice Center

March 25, 2021

To celebrate the release of Regional Justice Center‘s new album, Crime and Punishment, we caught up with drummer/vocalist Ian Shelton to find out what five heavy albums changed his life.

Blast Worship: Regional Justice Center

March 9, 2021

Regional Justice Center’s sophomore full-length Crime and Punishment is our grinding face-peeler of the week.

Blast Worship: Jarhead Fertilizer

March 2, 2021

Maryland grinders Jarhead Fertilizer emerge from six years of recording silence with Product of My Environment.

Track Premiere: Xibalba Say ‘Adios’ On New Song

February 2, 2017

Xibalba issues an angry, mournful goodbye on the third and final song on their new EP, Diablo, Con Amor… Adios. 

Full Stream: Nails/Full of Hell Split 7″

November 8, 2016

This three song tour de force is what happens when Full of Hell and Nails join forces for a split 7-inch.

Eternal Sleep’s “Straw Man” the Real Deal for Metalcore

May 13, 2016

I Love the Mid-’90s. If you have a similar soft spot for “metallic hardcore” don’t sleep on Eternal Sleep.  

Real Time War: Exclusive Twitching Tongues Premiere!

July 14, 2014

Not a huge fan of live records? Me either. But Twitching Tongues actually kill it on World War LIVE, a venture into the format that serves the band’s roiling, infectious Integrity-meets-old-school-Life-of-Agony sound shockingly well. Here’s the cutesy official explanation… Recorded live in the Van Nuys stadium called THE PIT in front of twenty screaming fans,…