Track Premiere

Face the rabid anger of the new Speckmann Project single, “Fiends of Emptiness.” Featuring Paul Speckmann of Master and Abomination.

Hear NJ noiseniks Atom Driver, featuring Deadguy’s Crispy Corvino, channel their late-’90s post-hardcore rage into a paean to bad behavior.

Watch Chicago-based thrash trio and recent MNRK Heavy signees MISFIRE take the shot on new track “Fractured”.

Watch Brazil’s premiere grindcore unit Test expand to Test Big Band for an 11-minute grind opera.

Swedish heavy metal upstarts Gauntlet Rule, featuring members of Paganizer, Assassin’s Blade and Loch Vostok, stream new track “Dying for My Dreams,” featuring Blaze Bayley. Up the old-school irons!

Watch recently resurrected symphonic USBM powerhouse Ceremonial Castings (ft. members of Uada) honor their 25th anniversary with a re-recorded classic.

Las Vegas/Brazilian deathrashers Claustrofobia recruit Marc Rizzo (ex-Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy) for their new single “Corrupted Self.”

Death metal fiends Fossilization unearth a single from their split with Ritual Necromancy, “Exalted in the Altar of Insignificance.”

Hear Indianapolis post-hardcore quartet Sundown tear through a sludgy, jittery anthem from their upcoming Wise Blood debut.

Vile Ritual blend subterranean blackened death metal with dark psychedelia on “Tongues of the Examinate.”

Shane Embury’s electronic ambient Dark Sky Burial has one last holiday present for you before we close the book on 2021.

Hear Dust Prophet marry classic metal with literary classics on “Hourglass.”

Hear L.A. trio Mayan Bull — featuring members of Trappist, Despise You and Kevarra — take an instrumental departure.

Boston death thrashers Soul Remnants bring the visual violence on the new clip for “Cult Destroyer.”

Finnish trio Tormentor Tyrant share their vicious self-titled track as a declaration of death metal violence.

Chilean black/death cult Chaos Perversion are “Petrified Against the Emanation.”

Hear Copenhagen-based experi-metal/post-mental trio Bye Bye Tsunami squall their way through a noisy, banana-triggered psychotic episode.

Watch the new video from spazzy grind project, Deaf Club!

Hear New Jersey blasters Bayt Lahm debut a new single addressing political unrest in Colombia.

Australian death metal hellbringers Descent unshroud their newest single, “Fester.” Their album Order of Chaos is due out January 14th.

Feel the frustration and anger in Beyond the Styx‘s hardcore ode to lockdown rage.

Sleep/High on Fire visionary Matt Pike comes out of the pandemic with a solo debut like no other. We premiere the wild first track/video.

Check out the new haunting, atmospheric and introspective video from Germany’s newest black metal export, Dæmonesq.

Philippines-based death metal act Nullification bust out of 1992 streaming new track “I, the Nullifier.” Only the past is real!

Members of Contrarian, Witherfall/Sanctuary, and Flotsam and Jetsam deliver as masterclass in this cover of Death’s “The Philosopher.”

The new NSFW video from Take Life, featuring current and former members of One King Down, Most Precious Blood and Insvrgence, has more than a little blood on its hands.

California-based progressive death metallers Hemotoxin

Indiana melodic death/thrash grave-burners Death on Fire release their newest single, “Slave.” Their album Burial Hymns looms in 2022.

Los Angeles funeral sludge newcomers QAALM release a video for their crushing first single, Existence Asunder. Debut album coming March 2022.

Bang a gong, get it on with an epic track from Chicago’s doomy, atmospheric post-punk collective, Anatomy of Habit.