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Blast Worship: Smearing

January 13, 2026

Hear Seattle crushers Smearing deliver D-beats and death blasts in equal measure on the freshly released Acts of Service.

EP Premiere: Salt Divination – The Boiled Sorceress

January 12, 2026

Hear the debut EP from blackened hardcore whirlwind Salt Divination, featuring Converge’s Ben Koller on session drums.

Split Album Premiere: Creaturess and Sungrave – ‘Sepulchral Echoes’

January 8, 2026

Just a year after their debut release, Idyll, Denver post-metal band Sungrave return with a collaborative new EP with Creaturess. Stream Cold Flesh and No One now.

Video Premiere: Ramtha – ‘Infinite Energy’

January 6, 2026

Unlock the cheat code for “Infinite Energy” when you watch this new vid from Florida party-thrashers Ramtha.

Blast Worship: Lay Waste

January 6, 2026

Hear Virginia grinders Lay Waste do just that on their self-titled LP.

Blast Worship’s Top 10 Grindcore/Powerviolence Albums of 2025

January 5, 2026

2025 might finally be over, but that doesn’t mean you don’t want one final mirco list in your life, right? So here are the Top 10 Grindcore/Powervioelnce Albums of the last 12 months.

Blast Worship: Sulfuric Cautery

December 23, 2025

Ring in the holidays with the latest from Los Angeles goregrinders Sulfuric Cautery.

Video Premiere: Sidian – “Pendular | Amidst the Hysterics of Gloom”

December 23, 2025

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.

Blast Worship: Rotten Sound

December 18, 2025

BREAKING: The new Rotten Sound EP Mass Extinction sounds like Rotten Sound.

Track Premiere: NightWraith – “The Candlelight”

December 18, 2025

Denver’s NightWraith are back with a new single, “The Candlelight,” a slice of black ‘n’ roll goodness just in time for the holidays. Hear it here.

Catalog Reissue Alert: Lip Cream

December 17, 2025

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

Track Premiere: Anthrodynia – ‘A Rotten Sun’

December 16, 2025

Canadian death/doom purveyors Anthrodynia predict a dystopian future in their new video.

Prog Metallers The Reticent Have a Lot to Say About Mental Health/Illness

December 11, 2025

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

Full Album Stream: House by the Cemetary – Disturbing the Cenotaph

December 10, 2025

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.

Blast Worship: Carthage Must Be Destroyed

December 9, 2025

London grinders Carthage Must Be Destroyed will blast you back to the stone age.

EP Premiere: Discovery Through Torment – “Telesynthetic Rebirth”

December 4, 2025

Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada-based band Discovery Through Torment are dropping their new EP, Telesynthetic Rebirth. Check it out now ahead of its official December 5 release date.

Full Stream: It Haunts – No Light to Save Me

December 3, 2025

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

Blast Worship: HWA

December 2, 2025

In Seoul, they spell grindcore HWA. Hear the band’s ripping Demo 2025 now.

Track Premiere: Oraculum – “Mendacious Heroism”

November 28, 2025

Rejoice, ye devotees of sheer, unrelenting destruction and death — for Chile’s Oraculum has arrived on the battlefield armed with an arsenal of riffs, growls and pounding drums.