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Track Premiere: The Munsens – “Sacred Ivory”

January 11, 2023

Hold on to your bongs, because Denver-based doom icons The Munsens are back with a new single, “Sacred Ivory.” It’s their first new music since 2019, and it’s the most death metal-inspired material yet.

EP Premiere: Astral Tomb – Degradation of Human Consciousness

January 29, 2021

Hear the latest EP Degradation of Human Consciousness from Denver necronauts Astral Tomb in its brain-liquifying entirety right now.

Track Premiere: Scepter of Eligos – “Inverted Illusion”

January 26, 2021

Denver’s Scepter of Eligos turn death metal on its head with their debut album Inverted Illusions. Hear the almost-title track right now.

Track Premiere: Black Curse – “Enraptured by Decay”

March 11, 2020

The first taste of total black death annihilation to come. Featuring members of Spectral Voice, Primitive Man, Khemmis, and Blood Incantation, this is Black Curse.

Khemmis’ Ben Hutcherson Talks the Rise of Mile High Metal

July 25, 2018

There’s a dark and dazzling heavy metal boom on in Denver right now. Ben Hutcherson of Khemmis gives us the inside scoop.

Metal & Beer: BROKEN HOPS IPA Debuts at Denver Black Sky

December 13, 2017

Chicago death metal stalwarts Broken Hope launched a new collaboration brew with Black Sky Brewing, BROKEN HOPS IPA, at Denver Black Sky last weekend.

Track Premiere: Abrams – ’18 Weeks’

May 11, 2017

Denver rockers Abrams recall old romance on “18 Weeks.”

Doomsters Khemmis Unveil ‘Three Gates’ & Inch Closer to Greatness

September 8, 2016

Stop what you’re doing and listen to the latest song from from Khemmis‘ forthcoming album Hunted. You can thank us later. 

BREWTAL TRUTH: TRVE Brewing on The Beer Diaries

November 10, 2014

Ever since TRVE Brewing opened in Denver in 2012, we’ve been fans. It’s hard not to like a drinking establishment dedicated to both craft beer and metal worship and TRVE has been all about both since day one. We’ve featured TRVE and owner Nick Nunns in our “Brewtal Truth” column in the past and we…

BREWTAL TRUTH: Beer-Soaked Doom at the GABF

October 18, 2013

Great American Beer Festival, Denver, ColoradoOct. 10-12, 2013 It would be an overstatement to say that this was the Year of Metal at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, but the handful of extreme music diehards—from TRVE, Surly, Real Ale and Three Floyds pictured above—among the 600-plus breweries present at the festival, definitely made…

Fear and Loathing at the Great American Beer Festival

October 16, 2012

For the majority of the nearly 50,000 people who bought their tickets to one or more of the Great American Beer Festival sessions (which took place in Denver last weekend) when they went on sale last summer, the opportunity to attend this massive beer tasting event is probably the pinnacle of their craft beer-drinking year….