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Amarok are well on their way to becoming masters of sprawling, droning doom if the first single from Devoured is any indication.

Philly metalcore legends Starkweather and Portugese mindfuckers Concealment invite you to hail the new new flesh on epic split CD.

Stream a new song from cavernous death cult Our Place of Worship is Silence now.

Stream a new song from Canadian grind outfit WAKE now!

A beautifully directed video that uses ideas of light, motion and dance, “Hunting Room” shines in its ability to match the epic scope of YLVA’s music.

Wormwood are our best new noise.

The Gnaw frontman discusses the creative process, the addition of lap steel guitarist Dana Schecter and making “the perfect Gnaw album.”

Stream a new Coma Cluster Void (ex-Cryptopsy) song now!

YLVA bring the thunder from down under.

Stream the first song from disturbed noise metal/experimental outfit Gnaw‘s new record, Cutting Pieces now!

Stream the debut from Squalus (feat. members of Giant Squid) now!

Unhinged blackened hardcore trio Moral Void have an explosive debut record with Deprive. Delve further into the madness.

Stream a new track from End Christian, featuring members of Brutal Truth, Hex Inverter and more.

White Halo — the seven-years-in-the-making third full-length from Tokyo quintet Heaven in Her Arms — is a fierce and lush amalgamation of post-metal atmospherics, classic screamo, black metal, prog rock, and trad metal sure to trigger metalgaze haters even as it subverts and expands the boundaries of that sub-subgenre. 

Don’t Deprive yourself of hearing the new Moral Void any longer! 

Fight Amp’s Birth Control is the sort of super-cool genre non-specific releases that sounds like it was written in a week tops and thrashed out and tracked in a day. It sounds 100 per cent jam room live, heaping catchy riffs on top of awkward and dissonant hardcore punk and noise-rock. If it sounds unruly,…

Odds are that pretty much anything we cover would be the last thing anybody waking up from a long night of debauchery would want to hear. Just because your head feels like it might explode, however, doesn’t mean that comfort cannot be found via some quality tuneage. Just ask bassist/vocalist Jon DeHart of West Deptford,…

What’s the difference between American Heritage (MySpace link) and American “Fucking” Heritage?Scott Shellhamer: One has more fucking than the other. Adamn Norden: Regular American Heritage will act like it wants to get to know you first. Your primary influences—if we’re using food ingredient methodology to determine most to least—are “masturbatory fantasies of middle-aged bureaucrats”. Can…