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Experimental death metallers Abyssal Rift unveil a track from their debut album Exptirpartion Dirge, out December 1 via Sentient Ruin.

The manic, unhinged fury of Ohio’s Night Goat is unleashed in the band’s psychedelic new video for “Wendigo.”

Ohio sludge busters Radian light it up in new video for “They Look Like Strong Hands.”

This week Demo:listen comes hurling up from the Gore Vortex with Cincinnati-based pulverizers Nogothula.

This week’s Demo:listen is perverted by Cincinnati-based death metal sickos Scab Hag.

Morbid Midwest wrecking crew Hanging Fortress make their presence known, painfully loud and frighteningly clear, with their debut full-length Darkness Devours. Out Friday, stream it in its entirety right now.

Stream the new split from Pillärs and Wallcreeper.

Stream the entirety of the brutalizing split between From the Hellmouth and Mutilatred now.

Nunslaughter has been recording mandatory underground metal since 1987, a time when extreme metal was largely in retreat and teased hair was the norm. The band has been led for close to three decades by the inimitable Don Of The Dead (Donald Crotsley) a walking metal encyclopedia content to release the bulk of his band’s…

A little more than a year ago, we got in touch with a Kent, Ohio quartet called Foul Spirits who delivered some slimy sludge-death with an EP called Live in Fear.  Now the boys have finished recording their full-length album, called Volatile Versatile, and if you’re interested in the kind of redlined destruction offered by bands like Gaza…

Midnight is actually one man. Jamie Walters — a.k.a. Athenar — handles all instruments and vocals. Although the band has been around for more than a decade their profile has risen exponentially since the release of Satanic Royalty. Midnight will likely be lurking around some best of lists for the 2014 follow-up No Mercy For…

Because every day another band records another song.  Because 83% of those songs are unlistenable and you can’t be bothered to sift through the dreck.  Because metal is about not giving a shit and waking your own personal storm.  Because music is universal, expression is boundless, and even indie labels (whatever that means these days)…