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Track Premiere: Panopticon – “White Cedars”
March 25, 2026 Tim Mudd
Panopticon‘s new single “The White Cedars” feels especially evocative; a piece that races across mist-shrouded melancholy and rises to spiritual suspension. Hear it now.
Track Premiere: Boneripper – “Damnation”
March 24, 2026 Emily Bellino
“Peace sells, but who’s buying?” ask Boneripper on their new tune.
Full Album Stream: Zerre – “Rotting on a Golden Throne”
March 23, 2026 J. Andrew
Zerre delivers all the essentials for thrash metal maniacs: solid and scorching vocals, muscular riffs, and relentless bass and drums.
Album Stream: Everyone Loves Metal Covers of ’80s Hits, Especially Iron Savior!
March 19, 2026 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Listen to Iron Savior take on the ’80s via their new covers album Awesome Anthems of the Galaxy.
Video Premiere: Korrosive – “Khaos Unbound”
March 18, 2026 Tim Mudd
Toronto thrashers Korrosive don’t do subtlety. On “Khaos Unbound,” taken from their latest album Katastrophic Creation, the band delivers a full-speed assault.
Video Premiere: Antihælix – ‘Snorting the Ashes of Dead Planets’
March 17, 2026 Emily Bellino
Get high on the remains of dead planets with black metal duo Antihælix.
Full Album Stream: Backfire! – “The Last Confession”
March 16, 2026 Emily Bellino
’90s Dutch hardcore heroes Backfire! stream their final release before hanging their boots up later this year.
Track Premiere: Side Over – “Sorry”
March 12, 2026 Albert Mudrian
Reunited Wilkes-Barre, PA melodic hardcore heroes Side Over re-emerge and re-imagine some of their best early ’90s material.
Father Befouled Premiere Exclusive Recording, “Rotting Godless Throne,” via the Decibel Flexi Series!
March 11, 2026 Decibel Magazine
Hear and acquire this exclusive new flexi disc single from Hotlanta death dealers Father Befouled before the issue containing discs are sold out for good!
Full Album Stream: Gore Machine – Congealed and Foaming
March 10, 2026 Emily Bellino
Hear the new album from [checks notes] brutal death metal band Gore Machine a few days early.
Track Premiere: Mordeo – “Coward”
March 9, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Chico, CA crusty malcontents Mordeo call out a “Coward” on new single.
Track Premiere: Sura’sura – ‘Atomic Phalanx’
March 9, 2026 Emily Bellino
Assemble in the “Atomic Phalanx” led by Sri Lankan war metal force Sura’sura.
Video Premiere: Conan – ‘Anger Mask’
March 6, 2026 Emily Bellino
Conan show off their love of Warhammer in this new video from their 10-inch single series.
Track Premiere: Crippled Black Phoenix – “Colder and Colder”
March 5, 2026 J. Andrew
Crippled Black Phoenix‘s new track is catchy and immediate, but also endlessly mournful and gloomy, it’s the soundtrack to your next rainy day. Tune in to “Colder and Colder” now.
Full Album Stream: Fire Magic – Memories of Fire
March 5, 2026 J. Andrew
Fire Magic‘s Memories of Fire provides an expert-level execution of melody and a relentless wave of aggression in equal measure.
Video Premiere: Deteriorot – “Fallen Misery”
March 4, 2026 Tim Mudd
There are death metal bands who chased trends. And then there are bands like Deteriorot—who stayed in the shadows long enough to become part of them. Watch them emerge in the video for “Fallen Misery.”
Full Album Stream: CrusHuman – “Imperial”
March 3, 2026 Emily Bellino
Get into Imperial, the new album from death metal trio CrusHuman.
Track Premiere: Void of Light – “Mirrorings”
March 2, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Scottish post-metal purveyors Void of Light take full advantage of their three-guitar lineup in epic new single, “Mirrorings.”
Full Album Stream: Crossfire – “I Drew a Heart Around the Name of Your City”
March 2, 2026 Emily Bellino
Like Hatebreed, All Out War and Deadguy? Don’t be a dummy and listen to Crossfire.
Video Premiere: Transilvania – “Tuberculosis Reigns”
February 27, 2026 J. Andrew
The new track from Transilvania is “a relentless surge of sound where suffocating riffs mirror the contagion of fear.”
Track Premiere: Family Medicine – “You Can Keep Your Edible Arrangements”
February 26, 2026 Addison Herron-Wheeler
St. Louis post-hardcore band Family Medicine drop “You Can Keep Your Edible Arrangements” in advance of their Very Nice and Good album out March 13.
Track Premiere: Harboured – “Dead Ringer”
February 25, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the new single, “Dead Ringer,” from Denver post-black metal trio Harboured, featuring members of Allegaeon and Oak, Ash & Thorn.
Mini-Album Premiere: Hating Life – Revenge From Beyond
February 25, 2026 Tim Mudd
On debut release Revenge From Beyond, Hating Life meet your HM-2 expectations—while still leaving room for something personal to emerge from the decay.
Track Premiere: Total Maniac – “Early Grave”
February 24, 2026 Emily Bellino
Stream a new song from Baltimore street metal thrashers Total Maniac.
Track Premiere: Zanjeer – ‘F*ck Berlin, Free Falasteen’
February 24, 2026 Emily Bellino
Berlin-based hardcore punks Zanjeer debut a new song from their upcoming debut album.
Track Premiere: Malauriu – ‘Satanic Witch’
February 23, 2026 Emily Bellino
Malauriu take black metal back to raw, punky roots.
Album Premiere: Unmother – State Dependent Memory
February 19, 2026 Addison Herron-Wheeler
London-based black metal quartet Unmother return with their new full-length album, State Dependent Memory. Hear in it before its February 20 release via Fiadh Productions.
Video/Track Premiere: Screaming At All the Walls With Baltimore Punks PEARL
February 19, 2026 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the new video/single from Baltimore punks, Pearl!
Video Premiere: My Wife’s An Angel – ‘American Dream’
February 18, 2026 Emily Bellino
Philly noise rockers My Wife’s An Angel release the first song from their new album.
Single & Video Premiere: Graufar – “Foltertrog”
February 18, 2026 Tim Mudd
Graufar return with the third single from their upcoming full-length, Via Necropolis, steeped in blackened death metal ferocity with a slow-burning sense of dread.