Boston

Hear Boston powerviolence/grindcore attack Horrible Earth accelerate the end times on their new record, Weakened By Civilization.

Feel Malleus’ heat, takin’ you higher on their thrashy black metal debut LP, ‘The Fires of Heaven.’

Boston’s Soul Remnants brings the sickest of death metal rot on brand new jam, “Malignant Lunacy.”

New England trio The Watcher cast irrefutable doom on their debut Your Turn to Die.

Boston comrades Greylock and BEDTIMEMAGIC join forces for a split album of sludgy bedlam from Tor Johnson Records.

Vaulted are beating down “Death’s Door.”

Boston bruisers Vaulted bring their latest beatdown in the form of “Chaos Reigns.”

Boston doom quintet Glacier bring their heavy post-metal freeze to a sweltering temple in their video for album opener “O World! I Remain No Longer Here.”

Listen to the new album from the Boston trio.

Boston hardcore legends Slapshot are back with a brand new full-length — and we’ve got the whole damn thing right here.

Rozamov‘s first full-length album is a progressive yet incredibly heavy slab of doom metal.

Replacire is a noun to describe when your calculator figures out that songs need memorable riffs and interesting melodies. 

On this week’s Demo:listen, we bring the hammer down hard with Boston’s Malleus.

Back in the day there were shiny things called songs. Albums were filled with good songs rather than two or three wankfests. Now, in the hands of the right band long songs can be potent (see: Sleep and YOB). But heavy songs that are infectious with less real estate are also a very good thing….

Because every day another band records another song.  Because 83% of those songs are unlistenable and you can’t be bothered to sift through the dreck.  Because metal is about not giving a shit and waking your own personal storm.  Because music is universal, expression is boundless, and even indie labels (whatever that means these days)…