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Get to know one of the most unique bands in modern black metal with this full album stream of À Contre Vent, the new full-length from Montreal’s Allelic.

Danish artist Myrkur will release a new EP next month.

Vouna discusses working with Wolves in the Throne Room to release her first LP and streams the opening track, “A Place to Rest.”

Death metal legend Erik Rutan joins The Mountain Goats for a rendition of their songs “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton” and “Autoclave” in Tampa.

Salem’s 1476 have continued to grow their sound and image, reflected in the video for “Winter of Winds.”

Decibel Metal & Beer Fest performers Falls of Rauros debut new track from forthcoming LP Vigilance Perennial.

Drudkh main man gets back to black metal basics with new project Windswept. Hear the first new track here. 

Watch Nathanael Larochette perform a playthrough of “Invocation,” a song inspired by writing with Agalloch.

End your week with some Irish/Native American/psychedelic/Krautrock folk metal. Come on, if Friday isn’t for flutes, what day is?

If you don’t live along the east coast of the United States, then maybe you’re having a chest-beating trad metal day, or a beat-on-your-desk black/thrash day, or even a middle-finger-hoisting death metal day.  But if you were in the path of the snow storm that dumped a few lead-heavy white blankets up and down the Eastern Seaboard, then you probably…