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Shed the Skin features members of Incantation, Ringworm, FaithXtractor, and beyond. Check out this new track from their forthcoming sophomore album, We of Scorn, now.

Cincinnati death metallers FaithXtractor reveal the first track from their upcoming full length.

Seven Metal Inches documents three decades of extreme metal 7″ records.

Australia death-thrash rippers Vomitor upchuck new album, Pestilent Death. Play it now! Or die!

Stream the final album from underground legend Steve “Tregenda” Childers now.

Stream Hammr’s debut full length now for some Satanic speed metal violence.

Check out the title track from Thy Feeble Saviour’s anticipated debut album now.

A double shot of cult South American violence. We’re streaming both new full lengths from Chile’s Communion.

Watch a new music video from The Evil Dead now!

Midnight‘s Sweet Death and Ecstasy is our Best New Noise.

‘Tis the season for epic symphonic black metal. Check out this exclusive track premiere off the debut album from Finland’s Vargrav.

Midnight’s new album, Sweet Death and Ecstasy, streaming in its entirety. Horns up!

Doom-death heshers Druid Lord request eight minutes of your time to crush you immensely with “Last Drop of Blood,” a brand new song from their sophomore album, Grotesque Offerings.

Happy Halloween, kiddies! Come inside for a stream of the entire new Acid Witch album, Evil Sound Screamers.

Check out some bestial Chilean shred with this full album stream of Hades Archer’s brand new full length, Temple of the Impure.

Fans of true death metal, come revel in this rotten and unadulterated stream of Cadaveric Incubator’s debut full length.

Check out this exclusive full album stream of Bonehunter’s sophomore album, Sexual Panic Human Machine. Lewd blackened speed metal done the Finnish way—plus the cover features a bionic man-bear monster’s erection.

After 20 years later in the grave, Chile’s Death Yell has reformed. Not only to exact revenge on the time away from the molten metal spotlight but to issue the band’s first album, Descent into Hell. Now signed to Hells Headbangers, the Chileans are using their time wisely, focusing on reality instead of fantasy. Hell is real, and Death Yell have returned to remind us.

Interview tips from our resident birdbrains, plus pecking on Cemetery Urn, Tombs and Dying Fetus. 

French death duo Skelethal finally are poised to unleash their full length, Of the Depths . . . Check out “Scaly Smelly Flesh” for a good, noxious whiff of what lies ahead, and below.

The Future State of Wicked
Binge on some tasty riffs
dB rating: 8/10

Today Melbourne’s Cemetery Urn show us what happens when “Weakened Mortals Bleed.” Check out this exclusive track premiere from the Australian barbarians’ third album, the eponymously titled Cemetery Urn.

Their first album since the reunion of Jersey’s morbid thrash cult, Blood Feast, The Future State of Wicked boasts deadly riffs, razor-sharp vocal attacks, and explosive battery. Out this Friday on Hells Headbangers, The Future State of Wicked is here. 

If you like your black metal Finnish, insane, and teeming with crepuscular depravity then Förgjord’s third album Uhripuu is your kind of album. Come on in and check out a few tracks.

Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love
Masterpiece, or ambition as a force of evil
dB rating: 8/10

Apparently it’s difficult to pull off a good metal video. Richmond’s BAT make it look not only easy, but fun as hell, too, with their new black&white, B movie-inspired thriller, “Beware of the Bat.”

True-’til-death metallers October 31 are about to do the unthinkable: a compilation consisting entirely of Metal Massacre covers.

The Curling Flame of Blasphemy
Beats the Hockey Flame of Blasphemy
dB rating: 8/10

The Curling Flame of Blasphemy from Northeast legends Profanatica is our new favorite fist in the face of god.  

Cleveland, you have yet another reason to celebrate this week. Shed the Skin debut LP is out today!