We catch up with Fleshcrawl for a track-by track breakdown of their new album in the old-school death metal crew’s own words.

Dissonant black metal band Agonanist wields microtonal guitars as a weapon on new single.

Swedish avant-garde DM sophisticates Gold Spire dial up the sax and violence on new full-length, Steps Into Shadow.

Tune into MERC‘s all-caps, no-guitars grindcore attack.

Cold Blue Mountain are not exactly thinking small on The Healer. The Chico, California post-metal quintet’s new double album is a 74-minute concept record.

Decibel noise-making faves Still/Form reemerge as Portland noise-sludge trio HISS.

Moon Destroys, featuring Torche co-founder Juan Montoya, and Evan Diprima of Gold Pyramid and Royal Thunder reemerge bearing “Flowers.”

Hail Dracula on a new Dragsholm song.

Watch the new video from Body Stuff, a project from the mind of Curran Reynolds that gives a fresh take on hard rock.

We let Spanish melodic DM vets, Bloodhunter, take us track-by-track through their fourth full-length, Sons of the Abandoned.