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Newly formed Swedish/Canadian death metallers AngelBlast stream new EP “Throne of Ashes”. Death is just the beginning…

View the results of Harassor drummer Sandor G. Finta’s unlikely union with famed ’80s/’90s metal video director Eric Zimmerman for Finta’s Andorkappen project.

Brazilian death dealers Escarnium reveal their first new music in 6 years.

Anacrusis frontman Kenn Nardi lets his progressive thrash roots show on the epic new solo track “Masquerade.”

Hear new death metal duo, Kontusion, get primitive, ugly and violent on their raw new self-released EP.

We have “Minds of Dust” after hearing this new song from USDM trio Dischordia.

Spain-based modern metal quintet Inerth lay down ultra-heavy grooves on new track, “Resilience In.” FFO: Godflesh, Napalm Death, Neurosis.

Abhoria share the video for “Sunless,” the closing track from their eponymous debut album.

Check out the NES-style 8-bit animation of Night Cobra‘s music video “The Neuromacers Curse.”

Smash Your Enemies deliver a metallic hardcore state of the world address with the video for “War For War.”

Hear NJ noiseniks Atom Driver, featuring Deadguy’s Crispy Corvino, channel their late-’90s post-hardcore rage into a paean to bad behavior.

Watch Chicago-based thrash trio and recent MNRK Heavy signees MISFIRE take the shot on new track “Fractured”.

Watch Brazil’s premiere grindcore unit Test expand to Test Big Band for an 11-minute grind opera.

Watch recently resurrected symphonic USBM powerhouse Ceremonial Castings (ft. members of Uada) honor their 25th anniversary with a re-recorded classic.

Hear Quebec sextet, Apes, offer up nightmare-inducing, black metal-flecked grindcore lullabies on their new four-song EP.

The Oakland post-post-hardcore powerhouse Strangelight return with another stellar offering,The World Needs Laughter.

Death metal fiends Fossilization unearth a single from their split with Ritual Necromancy, “Exalted in the Altar of Insignificance.”

Hear Indianapolis post-hardcore quartet Sundown tear through a sludgy, jittery anthem from their upcoming Wise Blood debut.

Vile Ritual blend subterranean blackened death metal with dark psychedelia on “Tongues of the Examinate.”

Arizona-based death-doom troupe Thorn unveil “Hellmouth” off new album, Yawning Depths.

Shane Embury’s electronic ambient Dark Sky Burial has one last holiday present for you before we close the book on 2021.

Hear L.A. trio Mayan Bull — featuring members of Trappist, Despise You and Kevarra — take an instrumental departure.

Enslaved‘s The Otherworldly Big Band Experience delivered an epic live stream this week. If you missed it, check out their performance of “Bounded By Allegiance.” You can also watch the full livestream through December 24.

Boston death thrashers Soul Remnants bring the visual violence on the new clip for “Cult Destroyer.”

Finnish trio Tormentor Tyrant share their vicious self-titled track as a declaration of death metal violence.

Hear Seattle’s Dark Meditation invoke the spirits of black metal’s past with their gothic trad metal.

Tennessean death/grind trio Torsion are here to deliver a world of gut-twisting pain on this week’s Demo:listen..

Chilean black/death cult Chaos Perversion are “Petrified Against the Emanation.”

Hear New Jersey blasters Bayt Lahm debut a new single addressing political unrest in Colombia.

Sleep/High on Fire visionary Matt Pike comes out of the pandemic with a solo debut like no other. We premiere the wild first track/video.