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Check out this exclusive full album stream of Bonehunter’s sophomore album, Sexual Panic Human Machine. Lewd blackened speed metal done the Finnish way—plus the cover features a bionic man-bear monster’s erection.

We chat with ex-Kill The Client/current BLK OPS vocalist/aural assassin, Champ Morgan, about neck surgery, the fall of civilization as we know it, the future of grindcore, and everything in-between.

The new Gravesite doesn’t drop for another week, but today we bring you an exclusive stream of these Italian death-slingers’ brand new sophomore album, Neverending Trail of Skulls.

On this week’s Demo:listen we howl through the night with Sarejevo’s Dogman.

On this week’s Demo:listen we gaze into the curling flames of Sweden’s Khem.

We’ve got an exclusive premiere of a new Desecresy song off their massively anticipated fifth full length, The Mortal Horizon. The hell are you waiting for?

On this week’s Demo:listen we let ourselves sink into the inescapable darkness of Olympia’s Mortiferum.  

Check out this exclusive premiere of “Bestial Offensor” from Tainted Impurity, the second tape of blackened death warfare from Portugal’s gasmasked terror squad Barbaric Horde.

On this week’s Demo:listen we fall victim to Finland’s Sickness.

We know you need obscure and far-out death metal, so get ready to lose your shit over Paraguay’s Verthebral. We’ve got the exclusive premiere of their new track “Without Any God” from their upcoming debut album, Regeneration.  

Hypnotic flames crackle and beckon on Ordem Satanica’s Monte de Lua. Check out the Portuguese cult’s debut in full with this exclusive premiere.

We’ve still got a solid month and then some to get through before Temple Of Void’s gargantuan sophomore album Lords of Death is unleashed upon a fully suspecting, but nevertheless unprepared world. Lucky for you, we’ve procured an exclusive premiere of “The Gift.” Trust us: You won’t want to be taken unawares by Lords of Death.

On this week’s Demo:listen we give vent to our rage with Rhode Island’s Ruin It!

Check out this exclusive premiere of “Prey to Death,” from Land of Weeping Souls, the new album from Sweden’s Paganizer.

On this week’s Demo:listen we celebrate the death and darkness conjured by Athens’ Gravewards. 

French death duo Skelethal finally are poised to unleash their full length, Of the Depths . . . Check out “Scaly Smelly Flesh” for a good, noxious whiff of what lies ahead, and below.

On this week’s Demo:listen we find ourselves hurtling down an inescapable road led by Providence, Rhode Island’s Hell Bent.

Pollute your day with “Forlorn & Desolate,” an exclusive peak at the debut album, Final Man, from Melbourne’s radioactive harbingers of death, Contaminated.

On this week’s Demo:listen we unleash upon our readers California’s Draghkar.

Check out this candid interview with Belgium’s cult weirdos, Perverted Ceremony—and stream their debut full length, Sabbat of Behezaël, out now on Nuclear War Now! Productions.

On this week’s Demo:listen we lose our heads over Vancouver’s Ceremonial Bloodbath.

Check out this exclusive premiere of “Sacrificio Infanticida” from Keziah Lilith Medea (Chapter X), the brand new album from Chile’s mystikal death cult, Unaussprechlichen Kulten.

Minsk’s unutterable Ljosazabojstwa return with a new EP of unique, intense black/death metal. We were the first to hip you to this Belarusian menace last year, and now we’re here to bring you an exclusive stream of “Piekła” from Sychodžańnie, Ljosazabojstwa’s soon-to-be-released EP.

The Future State of Wicked
Binge on some tasty riffs
dB rating: 8/10

On this week’s Demo:listen we find ourselves on the wrong side of existence with Huntington Beach’s Encoffinized.

It’s been seven years since Occvlta released their demo, We Command the Wolves, and finally Berlin’s black metal brothers have returned with an album worth the wait and then some. Night Without End will restore your faith in true black metal . . . while simultaneously ensuring your condemnation.

On this week’s Demo:listen we praise the unholy birth of Belgium’s Moenen Of Xezbeth.

Today Melbourne’s Cemetery Urn show us what happens when “Weakened Mortals Bleed.” Check out this exclusive track premiere from the Australian barbarians’ third album, the eponymously titled Cemetery Urn.

Unlock all seven seals with “Obsidian Keys,” the latest track from Pushkin’s Khashm, off their forthcoming LP + bonus 7”, Asmodeus Rising. If you like your black metal esoteric and obscure, but not your production, you’d do well to check out these Russians.

On this week’s Demo:listen we’re lured off the beaten path and led deep into the dark woods by Norway’s Hedenvandret.