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Quebec symphonic, melodic heroes Trollwar drop their next EP, Tales from the Frozen Wastes, on November 15. Ahead of the release, you can stream the full record right here. 

Swedish symphonic metallers Tungsten are back with their fourth record, The Grand Inferno, out tomorrow via Reigning Phoenix Music. Stream it while they explain here what each track means to them.

Italian horrorist Selvans unveils “ll Mio Maleficio V’incalzerà!,” the second single off Saturnalia, his new album due for release in 2025 via Avantgarde Music

Jazzy, technical, thrash crossover monsters Athena XIX are releasing Everflow Part I: Frames of Humanity on December 6 via Reigning Phoenix Music. Stream a few of the songs here and check out their breakdown of the upcoming tracks.

Hear self-described “beer-induced headache” Quiet Earth drop their first full-length, Lifetime in Regression, on Ancient Temple Recordings October 18.

We catch up with Progressive deathcore heroes Within the Ruins to talk about the long-gestating sequel to Phenomena

We think you’ll dig this new crusher from Phoenix bruisers Buried.

We catch up with longtime Decibel photographer Hannah Verbeuren and discuss her new book, Midnight: A Thousand Nights in Sodom out now via Bazillion Points.

Watch New York bruisers Concrete drop a new video, “Cyber Vermin,” ahead of their full-length Mortualis, out January 10 via Upstate Records.

Sister Thieves return with a new single, “Human,” from their forthcoming album CRAWL, out October 25.

Khshathra’s debut offering, “War Drums,” is weird and historical, the perfect soundtrack to an internet rabbit hole about the Battle of Carrhae. Nothing like a little history to get your Thursday going. We have it first.

Denver melodic death dealers NightWraith release their new album, Divergence, tomorrow via What’s Left Records, and you can hear the whole thing with us first.

Swedish death metallers Toxaemia debut their new video for “Blood Red” ahead of their November 15 album Rejected Souls of Kerberu.

California metalcore crushers Matriarchs process grief in new lyric video for “The Day You Slipped Away.”

Watch Wisconsin’s heavy hardcore hitters Spread Thin‘s new video, “Gaslit,” from their July album World of Snakes. 

Boston post-metal band Glacier drop the heavy-as-hell new record, A Distant, Violent Shudder tomorrow but you can hear it right NOW!

Renown metal guitarist and composer Manuel Barbará returns with new single, “A Different Horizon.” The song features Jake Howsam Lowe of Plini and The Helix Nebula and is from the forthcoming EP Whisper in a Storm, out September 13. 

Quebec death metallers Insurrection just dropped a video for “The Gathering,” the first banger from their upcoming album Obsolescence, out September 13. Hear it here!

Nightborn are back with a video for “Aphelion Dusk,” a song from their upcoming Hammer of the Heretic EP, out this September.

If you dig the idea of grindcore and powerviolence and poking fun at black metal, Rat Lord are gonna be your new favorite band.

Check out the latest video from Among These Ashes, “Faceless War Machines.”

The techy, deathcore-infused Annelida release their debut album, Garage Honey & the Bar Fly Mutiny, this Friday on Manic Kat Records, but you can hear it now!

Prepare to view an “Empire In Ashes” from Milwaukee death metal crushers Ancient Entities.

Hear Fourth Dominion‘s unique amalgam of NWOBHM, goth rock and post punk via their sophomore album, Diana’s Day, before it’s release tomorrow.

Denver modern metal crushers Mind Incision prove they’re a cut above the competition with their latest single and video, “Final Warning.”

Hamilton, Ontario’s death/doom outfit Absorb on death, doom and promise of new material so soon after the release of their crushing new EP, Smog.

The Fallen Lament features artwork by The Popuko, whose personal illustration perfectly encapsulates the EP’s cosmic horror theme. Get a head start on spinning it now, and until it officially drops. 

Romero-inspired death metallers Mausoleum preview their new LP, Defiling the Decay out this Friday with the video for “Curse of the Tomb.”

Diuretic deliver some ferocious Philly goregrind with their new 7-inch, the appropriately titled Zero Days Without Incident. It releases tomorrow via Strange Mono, and you can stream it with us first. 

Vocalist, guitarist, producer Sebastian “Seeb” Levermann of power metalers Orden Ogan provides a rundown of their new record, The Order of Fear, out on July 5 via Reigning Phoenix Music.

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