There’s playing old-school death/thrash, and then there’s apparently deciding that heavy metal history effectively reached its ideal evolutionary state sometime between 1988 and 1992. Raleigh, North Carolina trio Deceptor proudly fall into the latter camp. Their debut full-length, Reign of Terror, arrives August 21 through Dying Victims Productions, but you can hear the whole thing…

Maine prog-tech DM trio Shabti reveal complex and compelling new music on third full-length, Haze, Cacophony, and White Light.

Anything less than the “tasteful pornogrind” of Jig-Ai would be uncivilized.

NYC noise rockers EXP (ex-Cop Shoot Cop) kick up an art-damaged squall on new single, “Speed of Light.”

Chicago sludge trio Shrineburner share the latest from their debut album, Hymns of Despair.

Read our interview about The Kave, Kathy Findlay, and the metal and hardcore scene in Maine with Downeast Hardcore: Stories From The Kave filmmaker Ricky Leighton.

We catch up with Denver-based atmospheric metal four-piece Fainting Dreams to talk about their latest record, You Can Be Anything, out now.

New one-man black metal kult Encasement mete out a biblical beating on debut single, “Exodus.”

Coward Kill Coward get exceptionally noisy and heavy on their new song.

Hear Philly’s own Malform drop what maybe the grind EP of the year in I.