Redefining Darkness

This week’s installment of new heavy music comes full of death metal, death metal, death metal and, well, more death metal!

Death metal faction Angerot ascend from Swedeath homage to the outer limits of imagination on their striking new LP, The Divine Apostate.

Stream a new thrashtastic new track from American quartet Subtype Zero.

Never mind potential, Sarcator have power from hell. Check out the debut from these precocious Swedish melodeath thrashers in its entirety right now.

On their new EP Haunted Graves Floridian sonic extremists Hot Graves hit so hard it’s probably illegal in certain states. Hear what we mean on the exclusive premiere of this amalgamated grinder “Ruination Supremacy.”

For fans of classic, 80s-style “cassette death metal” in the vein of old Death and Autopsy, San Jose’s Aseptic is your new capital ship.

Black metal mystics Helleborus return with a new album.

Hear NWOSDM crushers Sentient Horror stomp their HM-2s into oblivion on latest full-length Morbid Realms.

The Scourge serve a Warrant for Execution.

Get to know Mother’s Tomb, and their first four tracks of ripping death/thrash via of Absent Not Dead.

Stream two new album from some of Estonia’s most-promising death metal bands.

Gravefields keep it fresh while staying death.

Hear the evil new album from Appalling.

Ruminate on the “Melancholy of Being” and spin a new Schattenfall tune.

Venezuelan death dealers Nocturnal Hollow premiere a choice cut from their new album.

Only (Swedish) death is real in Wretched Fate‘s world.

This week’s Demo:listen welters in the putrid death doom of Russia’s Caustic Vomit.

Hear the new album from one-man blackened death metal killer In Shadows and Dust.

Ex-Malevolent Creation members and Matt Harvey (Exhumed) pay tribute to fallen Malevolent Creation vocalist Brett Hoffman with new Create a Kill video.

Listen to the HM2-powered fury of Inoculated Life‘s new album.

1914 tackle events from World War I as the themes on their new album, The Blind Leading the Blind.

Belarusian black metal duo Khandra challenge the boundaries of consciousness and reality on their new EP.

Here come the zombies!

This week Demo:listen gets a brutal lesson in Romanian history from Cleveland-based martial black death horde Domnitor.

Watch the new video for Subtype Zero‘s “Inhumane.”

Stream a gloomy new slab of death from Australia’s Descent.

Dutch black metal philosophers Wesenwille match dystopian warnings with fiery discord on their I : Wesenwille debut.

Sentient Horror once again lead old-school Swedeath fans through a Lovecraftian pathway between New Jersey and Stockholm on their new EP, The Crypts Below.

Death metal meets thrash metal in a bulldozing, violent split between Crypt Rot and Cringe.

Stream the new EP from Mendacium now.