NYC

Queens, NY death metal horde Hypoxia return to the fray with a dissonant new crusher, “Pathway to Charon.”

Hear/watch the bleak, twisted and pummeling new track from one-man NYC grind outfit Manipulator.

Unsane guitarist/vocalist Chris Spencer takes us track by track through the noise trio’s newly remastered 1991 debut

The Sally Gates-led (ex-Orbweaver, ex-Gigan) Titan to Tachyons add a bassist, indulge in more free-form freak-outs on upcoming second album, Vonals.

NYC’s Bog Body emerge well-preserved from the sludgy black metal morass.

A new entity grown to staggering proportions in the New York City underground, Morbid Sphere emerges bearing their second demo of warped and crushing black death hostility.

“Our objective is to bring all the darker elements we enjoy in a multitude of extreme metal genres together for a terrifying soundscape.”

New York City death thrashers Stress Angel take this week’s Demo:listen by storm.

New York’s Ordeals specializes in a certain kind of darkness. The band’s sound is an entrancing and at times terrifying blend of black metal and death metal.

Soon NYC’s filthiest black death blasphemers Impure will unleash their debut full length on the world. Stream Satan’s Eclipse in its entirety now!

Ulver have their sights set on the United States in 2019.

Get sprung on the nastiest, most blasphemous stateside black metal band since Profanatica. Horns & Hooves take no prisoners on their follow up to last year’s Consecrate the Marrow demo. You won’t hear black metal this sick anywhere else until you’re jamming your own copy of Morbid Lust.  

Two of our most memorable live concert experiences ever happened at Unsane shows in Seattle. This NYC trio originated from the same scene that spawned Helmet, Pussy Galore, Boss Hog and a bunch of other earhole-scraping noise mongers in the early 1990s. Between their Am Rep/Sub Pop label connections and the general loud/heavy/distorted aesthetic, they…