Tim Mudd

Perth’s Vanta don’t treat melodic death metal like a nostalgia exercise. On their debut full-length Perpetual Selection, the band lean into precision, atmosphere, and sheer velocity—but they’re just as concerned with meaning as they are with impact.

There are death metal bands who chased trends. And then there are bands like Deteriorot—who stayed in the shadows long enough to become part of them. Watch them emerge in the video for “Fallen Misery.”

Hear the first single from Blind In Abyssal Realms, the debut from progressive death metallers Ordh, whose Pulverised debut drops April 17.

On debut release Revenge From Beyond, Hating Life meet your HM-2 expectations—while still leaving room for something personal to emerge from the decay.

Graufar return with the third single from their upcoming full-length, Via Necropolis, steeped in blackened death metal ferocity with a slow-burning sense of dread.

Utah doom crushers Hibernaut return with a harrowing new video for “Mark of Shame.” The track appears on the band’s upcoming split LP with Arizona extreme outfit Face Pulp, due March 6 via What’s Left Records.

Emerging from the abyssal depths of the underground, Fossilization return with Advent of Wounds, a suffocating descent into death metal extremity that sharpens every weapon the Brazilian duo has wielded so far.

Seattle’s Beltfed Weapon new single, “Digital Genesis,” hits like a chrome-plated thrash hammer to the skull.

Swedish black/death metal veterans In Aeternum are closing the chapter on their long-awaited return with “The Vile God of Slime,” the second and final single to be revealed from their upcoming album …Of Death and Fire, due February 6.

Ontario/Quebec black metal duo COGADH unleash their debut full-length, Kingmaker, on March 6. But today we premiere the video for single “Cromwell’s Curse”

Amsterdam hardcore thrash lifers Vitamin X return with the video for “Chop Chop Chop,” the first single from their upcoming full-length, Ride the Apocalypse, due March 13 via Svart Records.

After 15 years of carving a singular, emotionally lacerating path through underground metal, Sidian returns with new music—and, as it turns out, a definitive farewell.

Relapse invites you to the apply the wild catalog of Japanese noisemongers Lip Cream via a new set of stunning reissues.

Blackened death thrash conjurors Morbikon return with the third chapter of their animated medieval-fantasy saga taken from their new full-length Lost Within the Astral Crypts, out now on Tankcrimes.

Hear Horror-obsessed death metal lunatics House by the Cemetary deliver 30 filthy minutes of sharpened bone saws, sewer-stench groove, and classic Fulci-drenched death.

Melodic metallers It Haunts arrive with the kind of debut EP that doesn’t feel like a beginning so much as an overdue emergence.

Sometimes a solo project lands sounding exactly like the person who made it. Sire Languish, the new project from avant-metal lifer Garett Bussanick, is one of those cases.

Chicago’s Withering Soul return with their fifth full-length, Passage of the Arcane — a blackened melodic death metal odyssey steeped in cursed lore, burning melodies, and an atmosphere as chilling as grave-silt air

Legendary Cro-Mags frontman Harley Flanagan talks Wired for Chaos, the new documentary about his incomparable life and career, available November 11.

Knoxville’s Primal Scourge rise from the mire with ‘Necromantic Plague,’ the second single from their apocalyptic debut full-length, End of Eden, out November 14 via Iron Fortress Records.

Hear Chicago’s Burned in Effigy return with a full-length inferno that marries neoclassical precision to melodic death metal mayhem.

German black metallers Thron thrive on transformation. Join them on the path via Vurias before it arrives October 31 on Listenable Records!

Hear New Jersey stalwarts Tombs return from the catacombs with Feral Darkness, a record that feels less like a “comeback” and more like a blood-moon ascension.

Hear a selection from Something Is Waiting‘s forthcoming live LP, Livelick, out October 24 on Learning Curve Records.

Hear the title track from the forthcoming full-length LP from USBM phenoms Cemetery Moon.

Gainesville’s extreme metal alchemist Myk Colby (Wharflurch, Plasmodulated, Hot Graves) has returned from the void with a brand-new death doom vessel: Liminal Erosion.

San Francisco post-black metal luminaries Ludicra unveil “In Stable” from their upcoming live digital album, a document of their triumphant hometown return at the Great American Music Hall.

Elijah Howe, the son of late Metal Church vocalist Mike Howe, discusses his new art/photography book MIKE, which captures Howe as a frontman and father.

Brutality meets craftsmanship in The Final Void, the crushing new full-length from Wisconsin death dealers YOTUMA—and we’re streaming the entire record exclusively here.

Watch Calgary’s Prisoner, crank the amps and swing for the fences with their new video for “Double Vision.”