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KILL SCREEN 033: Zachary Ezrin of IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT Won’t Shun a Challenge

March 20, 2024

The vocalist and guitarist of the NYC trio goes mask off about the influence of FromSoft’s gaming masterpieces.

Premiere

Track Premiere: Wretched Blessing – ‘Spurious Ovation’

March 27, 2024

Hear Kayhan Vaziri (Yautja) and Rae Amitay (of Immortal Bird) roll out a new earth shaker as Wretched Blessing.

Editorial

Slayer’s Debut “Show No Mercy” Turns 40

December 4, 2023

There was once a metal world without Slayer, as hard as that is to imagine. That world changed forever with this album. Show No Mercy is a giant’s first loud footstep.

Latest Issue

Necrot

May 2024 [#235]

Includes exclusive limited edition Houkago Grind Time flexi disc

Born to Die! Also: Melvins, My Dying Bride, Full of Hell, VLTIMAS, the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Brujeria’s Matando Güeros, Inter Arma, Apparition, Imperial Triumphant and more

Full Album Stream: Suffer – “Grand Canvas of the Aesthete”

March 27, 2024

“We wanted to have one last chance to make a Suffer album that sounded the way every Suffer recording should have sounded.”

Full Album Stream: Mutilation Barbecue – “Amalgamations of Gore”

March 26, 2024

Hope you brought you appetite: it’s time for the debut album from Ohio death metal butchers Mutilation Barbecue.

Blast Worship: Shock Withdrawal

March 26, 2024

Hear grind vet Mitchell Luna return with the debut LP, The Dismal Advance, from his new group, Shock Withdrawal.

Full Album Stream: Verwoed – “The Mother”

March 25, 2024

According to Dutch black-metallers Verwoed, the band’s new album is “truly is a prayer of blood and fire.”

Full Album Stream: MGR – “Glacier’s Wake”

March 25, 2024

Former Isis guitarist Mike Gallagher explores post-rock and more on the new MGR album.

Five For Friday: March 22, 2024

March 22, 2024

This week’s load of new arrivals comes in heavy with the latest from Necrophobic, Khold, Mastiff and more!

Full Album Stream: Mastiff – “Deprecipice”

March 21, 2024

Stream Deprecipice, the new album from UK sludge/metallic hardcore band Mastiff and read a lengthy interview with guitarist and vocalist James Lee Ross.

Album Premiere: Mudshow – Destiny

March 21, 2024

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions present Destiny, the wrestling themed debut album from Memphis, Tennessee’s ultraviolent sludge metal sadists Mudshow.