death metal

Melodic thrash metal crew Dead Asylum premiere “Defiance” from new album Death Always Wins. 

In a rave review, Jonathan Horsley describes the sophomore full-length from Artificial Brain, Infrared Horizon, as an album which “envisions an extinct humanity, our place in the universe taken by robots and cyborgs, synthetics who believe they have naturally evolved from mankind, as though the species of Aristotle, Einstein, da Vinci was only ever primordial goo,” adding that vocalist Will Smith’s lyrics “read like Mr. Spock took a word cloud of Skynet’s internet search history and made beat poetry of it.” Combined with the decidedly sci-fi imagery the Long Island quintet employs for both album artwork and tour posters, it seemed apropos to reach out the the band for a list of their literary influences.

The 1990s have come and gone. The greatness of Immortal, Emperor, Dissection, Unanimated, and others is now history. The cruel sands of time are slowly ebbing away at the monuments erected by the gods of old. But as it was so it will be. California’s Highland, formed by three Armenian-Americans, are standing for the ways of the past by thrusting it, via scorching melodic black metal, into the present.

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Loss, The Holy Circle, Danzig and Full of Hell. 

Stream Angelplague, the latest full length from New Jersey death crew Kalopsia. 

Prepare to be “Mutilated and Assimilated” by Chicago death metal outfit Broken Hope. 

Stream the full sixth album from Dutch powerhouse The Monolith Deathcult. 

Sweden’s Gravehammer met its maker in 2010. Despite the group only issuing a lone EP, 2010’s Ensnared in Dismal Blasphemies, the Gothenburgers were well on their way to Nordic infamy, their hybridization of death, black, and thrash metal on either end of Decameron, Grotesque, and vintage Kreator. Now, known as Ensnared, the Swedes have taken what they learned on the fiery path with Gravehammer into new depths of darkness, where the horns of Hell blare violently and incessantly, where the air is insufferably hot and smells of brimstone cooking in the vast ovens of the underworld.

Death metal supergroup Hideous are ready to bulldoze you with their old school Florida death metal sound. 

Help make the long-delayed release of the Welcome to Deathfest documentary a reality.

Necrot unleash sickening, aggressive death metal from they prepare to give Blood Offerings. 

Dråp unleash four minutes blistering, crusty death metal.

Lowell, MA tech-death outfit The Summoned unveil the video for “Fractal Patterns.”

Dream Bloody Gore compiles twisted nightmares shared by members of Horrendous, Ides of Gemini, and Craven Idol.

Get to know underground record label Ultimate Massacre Productions.

Vomit Remnants stream Hyper Groove Brutality, with more than enough groove and brutality for anyone. 

It takes a pretty goddamn nasty mix of sludge, crust, and top shelf death metal to live up to a name like Casket Huffer(!), but this Wyoming quartet pulls it off on its fantastic, ridiculously under the radar full-length sneak attack debut Gospels of Scum. 

The vile underground is alive and in good hands with Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. 

Infrared Horizon
Aye, robot
dB rating: 8/10

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Casket Huffer, Altar of Betelgeuze and Necrowretch. 

On this week’s Demo:listen we recoil and blanch in the presence of Seattle’s Fetid.

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

A year is just a year. But oh what a year it was: Death, Napalm Death, Mayhem, Bathory, Sodom, Anthrax and more!

Hideous Divinity reflect on the power of music on “Sub Specie Aeternitatis.”

Black Lion Records have released a number of impressive death, black and doom metal albums recently. Check out some of the best.

Severed Monolith
On the chopping block
dB rating: 8/10

New Wave of Old-School Death Metal crew Deathrite return to rattle your bones with a new single and video.

Swedish death dealers Sarcasm are streaming a new song!

By 1993, Cannibal Corpse was an interesting conundrum: When you have hammer-smashed every boundary of decency and good taste on your third album, where exactly do you go?

Witches Brew provide a home for underground death, thrash and heavy metal bands.