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Guitarists/vocalist Todd Jones is amped. Always. 

Unlike when Mike from Cleveland reunites his death metal band that released an EP in 1998 (that no one cared about even then), this is a reunion and band that deserve your attention.

Decibel’s 2015 Album of the Year winners are back with a brand new track via our vaunted Flexi Series. 

Swedish degenerates Gehennah are your new life coaches. 

Come check out another installment of Through a Speaker Rumbly! This month we pit your brain and tongue against your ears in the battle to support three killer bands whose names are nearly impossible to say/remember.

The ‘Witch is back! Jam the new Skeletonwitch track right now. 

Entombed, Morbid Angel, Suffocation artist Dan Seagrave’s Choosing Death cover art gets the cotton treatment. 

This week on Demo:listen we savor some Massive Retaliation and then get Ceremented hard . . .

Oh, and happy 30th anniversary to Metallica’s second or third best album today. 

Hear the Atlanta black/death/doom demons’ return after an extended recording hiatus. 

And if you worry you are late to the Phobia party, the ludicrously huge Decades of Blastphemy will bring you up to speed. 

Get to know Mörk Grinning with this quick essentials list.

Missing out on this is sort of like missing out on last call at the bar. If they gave you extra beers at the same price, that is. 

We teamed up with FreqsTV, the all-original rock and metal documentary channel on YouTube, for some pavement-crushing tour videography. 

Normally, this is the spot where time would be taken to give an introduction to the band, but guitarist Jeremy Perkins took the baton and ran with it like a motherfucker when we sent Montreal’s Éohum a few questions about having a full time French horn player augmenting their doomy black metal.

There will be shred. 

Are you an axe wielding, headbanging, record collecting design enthusiast who has a passion for print?

Formulated to serve as a brutal antithesis to what the band views as the pervasive conformity and repressive theology of its Mormon-majority home state, the upcoming debut full-length from Salt Lake City atheistic agitators Making Fuck A Harrowing End brings on the dark via an unusually expansive, roiling maelstrom of doom and sludge metal accented and emboldened by guest spots courtesy SubRosa violinist Kim Pack. 

Up the (digital) decibels for free!

Take a journey into the outer limits on ex-Overcast/Shadows Falls’ members Transient spaceship on today’s Demo:listen…

“German – Greek friendship at its finest! A grindcore/crust/death/black metal sonic attack is provided with this split release! 

A side-splitting interview with the insane owner of Headsplit Records, a (mostly) tape label specializing in obscenely putrid death metal and uncomfortably inappropriate grind. You’ve been warned.

Stream a new EP from the Canadian duo Unbowed.

Get a taste of the newest full-length from these Canadian grindsons.  

One game to go, one prediction to rule all the other morons making predictions.

Hope you like Seinfeld. You like Seinfeld, right?

If the name Divinity is an unfamilar one, you’d be forgiven for your ignorance. Have you tried to familiarize yourself with every band out there? It’s a bit of a tough task, even when the band in question has spent time on both the rosters of Nuclear Blast and Candlelight. 

Finnish melodic death metal mainstays Omnium Gatherum are mere weeks away from dropping their seventh LP, Grey Heavens, and their timing is impeccable: it’s cold as balls out there. To celebrate, the boys have dropped a new video for the album’s second single, “Frontiers,” and we have the exclusive U.S. premiere.

Stream the title track from the upcoming doom opus from Japan’s Funeral Moth. 

One more round of ol’ (alleged) HGH Neck vs. Dreamboat. And another game you don’t care as much about.