Emily Bellino

Interview: Tech-Thrashers Cryptosis Discuss the Intersection of Technology and Extreme Metal

March 24, 2025

Futuristic Dutch thrashers Cryptosis talk Black Mirror, technicality versus melody and their new album, Celestial Death.

Full Album Stream: Throne – “That Who Sat Upon Him, Was Death”

March 20, 2025

Midwest blackened death metal outfit Throne take a more brutal approach on their sophomore album.

Video Premiere: Final Dose – ‘Dark Paradise’

March 18, 2025

Black metal/punk hybrid Final Dose take you to their “Dark Paradise.”

Full EP Stream: CrusHuman – “Besides”

March 11, 2025

CrusHuman serve up groovy, aggressive death metal on their latest effort.

Track Premiere: Xiao – ‘Control’

March 4, 2025

Swedish powerviolence purveyors Xiao debut the explosive title track from their new album.

Full Album Stream: Maud the Moth – “The Distaff”

March 3, 2025

Maud the Moth explore a soft/heavy dynamic on new album The Distaff.

Video Premiere: Conan – “Desolation Hexx”

February 26, 2025

Liverpool doom kings celebrate violence and video games with their new video for “Desolation Hexx.”

Track Premiere: Ahamkara – ‘Our Scars Shall Abide in the Thaw’

February 25, 2025

Ahamkara return with their first album in 10 years, featuring new drummer Austin Lunn (Panopticon).

Full Album Stream: Muskeg Charnel – “Decomposition Part 4: Livor Mortis”

February 24, 2025

Solo black metal project Muskeg Charnel returns with the fourth in their seven-part series about death and decomposition.

Track Premiere: Ritual Ascension – ‘Womb Exegesis’

February 17, 2025

Ritual Ascension take a twisted approach to death/doom with new single “Womb Exegesis.”

Full Album Stream: Kosuke Hashida – “Outrage”

February 11, 2025

Kosuke Hashida reps ’90s death metal and grindcore on his second solo outing.

Video Premiere: Pyres – ‘Some, Not All, Came Back’

February 10, 2025

Pyres overcome grief on new song “Some, Not All, Came Back.”

Video Premiere: Season to Risk – ‘Echo Chamber’

February 6, 2025

Noise rock former heavyweights Season to Risk return with their first new music in nearly 25 years.

Track Premiere: Marrowomb – ‘Phantasia Katalepteke’

February 3, 2025

Listen to a new song from Chicago blackened death metal outfit Marrowomb.

Full Album Stream: Weed Demon – “The Doom Scroll”

January 28, 2025

Stop doom scrolling and listen to The Doom Scroll, the new album from stoner-doom outfit Weed Demon.

Listen: Sunrot Release New EP, “Passages”

January 27, 2025

Listen to the new EP from New Jersey sludge mainstays Sunrot.

Track Premiere: Sarkom – ‘Exceed in2 Chaos’

January 20, 2025

Listen to “Exceed in2 Chaos,” the title track from the new album from long-running Norwegian black metal outfit Sarkom.

Video Premiere: Embrium – ‘Eclipse’

January 14, 2025

Watch San Francisco’s Embrium go dark via post-black metal in their video for “Eclipse”

Interview: Bumblefoot Discusses New Solo Album, Bumblefoot… Returns!

January 13, 2025

Guitarist Bumblefoot (ex-Guns N’ Roses) discusses his new solo album and 30-year career, plus the funeral doom album he’s currently producing.

Listen: Horror Pain Gore Death Streams Year in Review Comp

January 6, 2025

Philly label Horror Pain Gore Death rounds up its 2024 releases.

Full Album Stream: Fatal Embrace – “Hail Down Deep

December 17, 2024

Stream the newly-released album from Swedish black metal band Fatal Embrace, originally recorded in 1998.

ICYMI: Godflesh Release Remix Album, A World Lit Only By Dub

December 16, 2024

Examining Godflesh‘s newest release, a reimagined version of 2014’s A World Lit Only by Fires.

Track Premiere: Tombs of Disgust – ‘Shadow of War’

December 10, 2024

Canadian brutal death metallers Tombs of Disgust release their latest single, “Shadow of War.”

Full Album Stream: Ghoulhouse – “Fresh Out of Flesh”

December 3, 2024

Ultra-prolific death metal mainstay Rogga Johansson returns with the latest Ghoulhouse album.