Redefining Darkness
Track Premiere: Wretched Fate – ‘Only Death to Abide’
February 18, 2019 Emily Bellino
Only (Swedish) death is real in Wretched Fate‘s world.
Demo:listen: Caustic Vomit
January 4, 2019 Dutch Pearce
This week’s Demo:listen welters in the putrid death doom of Russia’s Caustic Vomit.
Full Album Stream: In Shadows and Dust – “Enlightened by Darkness”
December 20, 2018 Emily Bellino
Hear the new album from one-man blackened death metal killer In Shadows and Dust.
Video Premiere: Create a Kill – ‘Flesh, Blood & Stone’ (Feat. Matt Harvey)
December 7, 2018 Emily Bellino
Ex-Malevolent Creation members and Matt Harvey (Exhumed) pay tribute to fallen Malevolent Creation vocalist Brett Hoffman with new Create a Kill video.
Full Album Stream: Inoculated Life – “Exist to Decay”
November 29, 2018 Emily Bellino
Listen to the HM2-powered fury of Inoculated Life‘s new album.
Full Album Stream: 1914 – “The Blind Leading the Blind”
November 9, 2018 Emily Bellino
1914 tackle events from World War I as the themes on their new album, The Blind Leading the Blind.
Full EP Stream: Khandra – “There is No Division Outside Existence”
October 10, 2018 Sean Frasier
Belarusian black metal duo Khandra challenge the boundaries of consciousness and reality on their new EP.
Full Album Stream: Mutilated by Zombies – ‘Scripts of Anguish’
October 4, 2018 Emily Bellino
Here come the zombies!
Demo:listen: Domnitor
September 28, 2018 Dutch Pearce
This week Demo:listen gets a brutal lesson in Romanian history from Cleveland-based martial black death horde Domnitor.
Video Premiere: Subtype Zero – ‘Inhumane’
September 24, 2018 Emily Bellino
Watch the new video for Subtype Zero‘s “Inhumane.”
Track Premiere: Descent – ‘Foundations of Sand’
August 20, 2018 Emily Bellino
Stream a gloomy new slab of death from Australia’s Descent.
Full Album Stream: Wesenwille – I : Wesenwille
April 25, 2018 Sean Frasier
Dutch black metal philosophers Wesenwille match dystopian warnings with fiery discord on their I : Wesenwille debut.
Full EP Stream: Sentient Horror – ‘The Crypts Below’
March 28, 2018 Sean Frasier
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.
Full Stream: Crypt Rot / Cringe – “Nocturnal Deterioration | Memento Mori”
February 8, 2018 Emily Bellino
Death metal meets thrash metal in a bulldozing, violent split between Crypt Rot and Cringe.
Full EP Stream: Mendacium – “Decimating Titans”
February 6, 2018 Emily Bellino
Stream the new EP from Mendacium now.
Track Premiere: Supreme Carnage – ‘The Fire Prevails’
January 3, 2018 Emily Bellino
OSDM revivalists Supreme Carnage rip you to shreds with new song “The Fire Prevails.”
Indulge in Väki’s Satisfyingly Dark Black Metal
December 1, 2017 J. Andrew
You can rely on Finland to consistently deliver on a few things: pine trees, winning gold medals at the winter Olympics and producing excellent metal.
Track Premiere: Bloodstrike – ‘Hell’s Wasteland’
September 28, 2017 Emily Bellino
Listen to a new Bloodstrike song now.
Full Album Stream: Nailblack – “Envied”
September 28, 2017 Emily Bellino
Stream the first new music from Nailblack in sixteen years!
Full Album Stream: From the Hellmouth / Mutilatred – ‘Split’
August 2, 2017 Emily Bellino
Stream the entirety of the brutalizing split between From the Hellmouth and Mutilatred now.
Demo:listen: Grave Plague
January 13, 2017 Dutch Pearce
On this week’s Demo:listen, we spike the drinking water with Cleveland’s Grave Plague.
Track Premiere: Escarnium – ‘Omnis Mortuus Est – Interitus’
September 29, 2016 Emily Bellino
Escarnium didn’t pull any punches on this one. “Omnis Mortuus Est – Interitus” is straightforward death metal at its finest.