Season of Mist

Withered discuss new music, lineup changes and Shadow Woods Metal Fest.

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Dark hardcore outfit Erdve may be new, but they play like an experienced outfit.

Stream a new track from Impureza now!

In which we consider the top 10 songs about a quintessential heavy metal topic: chains.

Let Cloak take you “Beyond the Veil.”

Icelandic atmospheric black metal horde Auðn have upped both the aggression and melody on their sophomore record. Listen to the first song now.

Stream a new video from secretive blackened death dealers Altarage. 

Stream the new record from River Black, featuring members of Municipal Waste and Revocation.

Stream the first Vulture Industries (ex-Enslaved) song since 2013.

Stream a new track from the German black metal band.

Stream the first new music from rabid grinders Leng Tch’e since their last album in 2010. 

Foscor explore the passage of time in a new music video for “Altars.”

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Casket Huffer, Altar of Betelgeuze and Necrowretch. 

Read a full interview from USBM titans Nightbringer. 

Impure Wilhelmina are streaming the first track from their new album, Radiation. 

Live in Torment is Withered‘s first live recording and the first release on guitarist/vocalist Mike Thompson’s Atlanta Grind Productions. Watch the trailer now! 

A new Carach Angren album is on the way! Listen to first track, “Song for the Dead” now.

“Praying at the Chapel Perilous” is the promising debut song and video from dark metal band Sollertia (In The Woods, ex-Ad Inferna). 

The sludge-heavy stoner rock of Hark takes on myriad new dimensions throughout the Welsh quartet’s exapansive, high-octane sophomore full-length Machinations, out later this week via Season of Mist. Decibel recently interrogated guitarist/vocalist Jimbob Issac about the brutal and harrowing personal roots of the album’s thematic content, finding the unlikely inspirational sweet spot between Azeaila Banks, S.O.D., Unsane and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and the way playing large, prestigious festivals can expand a band’s sense of what is possible.

Benighted unleash a grinding death metal assault against you on their new album, Necrobreed. 

Earth Electric may be newcomers to the scene but they deliver quality hard rock.

Want a chance to partake in a meet and greet with Mayhem? Find out more here. 

Necrowretch deliver the first ripping song off of Satanic Slavery, their newly-announced full-length. 

“Serpent Sun” comes off Nightbringer’s upcoming Terra Damanata.

Drudkh main man gets back to black metal basics with new project Windswept. Hear the first new track here. 

Replacire is a noun to describe when your calculator figures out that songs need memorable riffs and interesting melodies. 

Nidingr say they were going for a simplified, yet equally as intense sound this time around. 

Sleep and Agoraphobic Nosebleed headline the first-annual two-day celebration of extreme metal and craft beer presented by Unibroue

Violently aggressive. Atmospheric. Unsettling. What do those words have in common? They could all be used to describe “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” the first single from The Great Old Ones’ new record, EOD: A Tale Of Dark Legacy.