death metal

Italian bruisers Profanal prove Swedeath is the sweetest death on Supreme Fire.

Dimensions Obscure
To elasticity and beyond!
dB rating: 8/10

There’s nothing gimmicky about the new Vorator. Italic Raids doesn’t come out until next week, but it is streaming right here. 

Death metal legends Immolation re-record legendary “Immolation” track for the not-so-legendary-but-still-pretty-cool Decibel Flexi Series. Hear it and snag a copy NOW. 

Get your fill of Belgian black/death with the new number from Emptiness.

There’s death metal. And there’s brutal death metal. While the line, for most laymen, is either blurred or non-existent, things ramp up quickly when Sweden’s Deranged feel like an album’s due. There’s death metal and then there’s Deranged! Five years in the making, following 2011’s barbaric Cut Carve Rip Serve, Deranged’s new album, Struck By A Murderous Siege, finds the Swedes in full-on rage mode. Throughout the group’s untethered ninth album, they bark rabidly and relentlessly, as if there’s no concept of an “off” switch.

Chris McInroy brought a little shred, gurgle, n’ grind to this year’s Fantastic Fest with his relentlessly awesome, gore-drenched love letter to the decimating power of riffage, Death Metal. The short film is now tearing its way through a huge number of subsequent festivals and considering both its Deci-worthy subject matter overlap and the season, we thought we’d reach out to the director to see if he’d be down to summon up a Death Metal playlist.

Belgian black/death cosmonauts Kosmokrator take a giant leap forward on First Step to Supremacy.

Venom Prison‘s debut full length is a pissed off, forceful death metal album.

Embrace the death on the rack the brutal way on wings of inferno as… oh you get where we’re going with this. 

Immolation celebrate the 25th anniversary of Dawn of Possession with a re-recording of “Immolation” for the Decibel Flexi Series!

Escarnium didn’t pull any punches on this one. “Omnis Mortuus Est – Interitus” is straightforward death metal at its finest.

Incantation‘s classic Tribute to the Goat is finally getting a reissue. Hear “Unholy Massacre” now. 

OMG the nu Malignancy track totes rulz. amirite? ttlr

Entombed’s dual 25th anniversary Clandestine concerts could be coming to a small screen near you. 

Very little is funny about Aum and their heady/dirty death offensive, Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum, but get your ears on this if you like dense, ugly destruction that also finds time to paint with a little light.

Temple of Phobos
Cower power
dB rating: 8/10

We catch up with Demo:listen alums Tomb Mold to talk their killer new EP, their highly anticipated forthcoming LP, and what it means to shed some skin.

Cognitive was formed with two ideas in mind: heaviness and intense technicality. On the first taste of their Unique Leader debut, they prove those ideas are still at the forefront of the band. 

Italy’s Hierophant unleash a palpable burst of anger on “Forever Crucified” as they prepare to release Mass Grave. 

There are many reasons why Dying Fetus’ Destroy the Opposition rules, but one in particular stands (severed) head and shoulders above them all: the riffs. Slick, catchy and heavy as fuck, this is death metal that was written to be remembered. 

Gatecreeper‘s latest single is yet another reason to keep the death metal newcomers in mind. Listen to “Stronghold” now. 

Cambridge, MA tattoo shop/art gallery Eridanos hosts Dan Seagrave’s mind-bending swarm of winged creations.

Rather than reinvent the wheel, Altered Dead construct a twelve-spoke rolling thing out of rotting corpses. And they do so with such skill and aplomb that they make crafting exemplary death metal look easy. 

Whether we’re talking his innovative, grotesque artwork for seminal bands like Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Autopsy, and Dying Fetus or the uber-brutal death metal he’s summoned from the grave for decades via outfits such as Excrescent, Unburied, The Soil Bleeds Black, Grave Wax, and Macabra, it’s difficult to imagine a more legit motherfucker in the extreme music underground than Mark Riddick. And anyone who doubts this is going to have their hands full in a couple months attempting to wrestle with Epicedia, the gnarly, epic, forward-thinking-yet-utterly-feral masterpiece from Riddick’s solo project Fetid Zombie. 

Get to know the crusty Spaniards of Cruz. 

The Grey Eminence just might be the best thing frontman Steve Tucker (Morbid Angel) has ever recorded. Hear Warfather‘s sophomore LP in full now. 

In which we strive to demystify one of the year’s sickest works of death metal with those who dealt it.

Was Morbid Angel’s minor change in direction in 1995 just “too extreme” for old-school death metallers to accept? Our Neill Jameson defends Domination’s place in metal history.

French soul-threateners Aum will release their highly destructive (and equally esoteric) force, debut record Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum, this Friday on Iron Bonehead.  We asked the band some questions, and we got some enthusiastic and thoughtful responses.  Read up on Aum’s focus and vision right here.