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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.

Hear North Carolina melodic death metal outfit Blackwater Drowning reveal “The Sixth Omen,” the new single from their upcoming Obscure Sorrows full-length.

Check out this doc and learn what happens when you put on a metal fest in the heart of the Bible Belt.

Puget Sound doom pushers Mother Crone show us the “Unseen Way” on their twisty, progressive new single.

Instru-metal doom stalwarts Clouds Taste Satanic get live’r than you’ll ever be on new track, “Beast From the Sea” recorded live in the studio in Berlin in 2023.

Filthy German blackened punk duo, Karloff, offer a beastly new track, “Regicide,” from upcoming Revered by Death full-length.

Check out the debut album from Feel Worse (ft. members of Sulaco, Sully and Burn Everything)!

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.

Thundering power trio N.Y.C., led by ex-Warlock guitarist Tommy Bolan, wrecks necks on new album, Built to Destroy.

No Kenny G for extreme metal weirdos Nuclear Dudes, as they are strictly “Antisax” in their latest video.

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

Bay Area old school thrash supergroup Nefarious introduce vocalist, Sean Rivera, with a new video for “Day After.”

Forcefed Horsehead unleash a raw, hardcore-driven D-beat fest that strangles, maims, gnashes and generally causes mayhem and destruction. Hear it now.

Read and listen as prog-metallers the Reticent take an extensive, and personal, look at mental health and illness with their new album.

Fanatisme‘s roughly recorded (and played) new seven-song record takes a raw black metal aesthetic and vocal approach and marries it to early ’80s post punk and goth gloom.

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.

Watch Columbian melodeath monsters Eshtadur perform “Fire Above Mountain Below” alongside a symphony orchestra.

Learn the story of a Ukrainian solider in World War I via a breakdown of the new 1914 album.

UK’s proggy death thrashers Unburier dig up some serious foulness on new single “Survive the Vermin.”

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

Hear Scottish metallic hardcore outfit Kakihara cudgel with impunity on vicious new EP Love Songs Part 2.

Tech metal and Animusic nerds! Check out Canadian tech metal phenoms, Phaeton.

Hear Swedish trio Hexjakt rumble through a dank, depressive doomscape on their new full-length, Blessing of the Damned.

Hear Swedish DM duo Carnal Savagery go deep into the Crypt of Decay on their gnashing seventh full-length.

Decibel’s intrepid journalist Justin M. Norton went behind the scenes at a GWAR show in San Francisco for the new documentary GWAR: Behind the Gore.

Hear the Detroit thunder of these Motown heavy rock vets’ Covid-era-formed outfit, Winds of Neptune on their self-titled debut.

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.

Cold, grim and shot in Finland? Must be black metal. Nope, it’s the latest video, “Nothing,” from atmospheric, ambient artist Kariti.

Check out the new album by rippin’ ‘n’ tearin’ San Diego hardcore punkers Negative Blast!