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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.

Check out the new haunting, atmospheric and introspective video from Germany’s newest black metal export, Dæmonesq.

Members of Contrarian, Witherfall/Sanctuary, and Flotsam and Jetsam deliver as masterclass in this cover of Death’s “The Philosopher.”

No sun shines on San Diego death/doom duo Mordom on their latest indictment of global corruption.

The new NSFW video from Take Life, featuring current and former members of One King Down, Most Precious Blood and Insvrgence, has more than a little blood on its hands.

Death metal vets celebrate blood and guts in Gore Brigade.

California-based progressive death metallers Hemotoxin

Psyched out Swedish death metallers Reveal! stream the manic brilliance of new album Doppelherz (Sepulchral Voice Records).

Clifford Meyer (ex-ISIS the band) teams up with veteran game wizard Nathan Purkeypile to soundtrack the new soon-to-be-smash video game The Axis Unseen.

East Coast meets West Coast when Brick by Brick and Cutthroat join forces for a split seven inch.

Swedish power trio Nekromant unveil a rambunctious third album with nods to the trad metal greats—from Thin Lizzy to Maiden to Priest.

Hear a track from Eight Bells‘ album Legacy of Ruin (due on February 25 and available now for preorder), the band’s first record in roughly five years.