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Featuring current and former members of Cetus, Cleric, Wolvhammer, Sovereign, Philadelphia’s Fragile Body offer a concise approach to post-metal.

Colorado Springs quartet Clarion Void sling some gnarly post-metal sludge in surreal new video for “The Top.”

Raleigh melodeath trio Into the Deep bring the nautical nastiness with their new album Blackfin. Shark week is here early.

Check out God is Violence, the new album from Los Angeles gutter phenomenon Cancer Christ.

Shane Embury’s electronic ambient Dark Sky Burial has one final holiday present for you before we close the book on 2023.

If you’ve got one minute and 18 seconds, you’ve got the time for noisemongers Dry Socket to clean out your earholes.

Blackened symphonic solo project Exiled Hope share their next chapter of dark fantasy opera with the new single “Over For You.”

Hear new jack death metal quintet Iron Front offer up some old-school slam on new track, “Slam of ’87.”

Hear Helsinki quartet Soul Incursion shake off the winter blues with some deathtastic thrash on their new Eternal Darkness EP.

Denver noise crew Quits deliver a less than bucolic rendering of their hometown.

Atmospheric black metal project Spectral Lore reveal new 20-minute epic from forthcoming full length IV.

Proggy black metalers Amiensus unveil out a new song and video, “Reverie” from their forthcoming album, Reclamation, out this coming spring via M-Theory Audio.

Listen to a new song from Toronto tech-death quintet Apogean.

Get down to this groovy instrumental from Fermentor.

Cypriot heavy metal warlords Solitary Sabred charge into battle with an early premiere of Temple of the Serpent.

Watch Germany’s Praise the Plague perform an entrancing blend of doom metal and black metal via their latest video for “Devourer,” from the band’s upcoming Suffocating In the Current of Time.

Hear two former Dødheimsgard guitarists keep it Norweird with Void.

Dig into a lethal helping of food-themed melodeath with At the Plates and their pun-slinging, scale-smashing single “Punish My Waistline.”

Delve into the supernatural with “Psychometry,” the new single from Austin prog-metal crew Transit Method.

Get brutal with Embrace Your Punishment.

South Jersey funeral doom duo Oldest Sea stream their new album.

Mourn the Light, Ice Howl, High Priest and Archdruid join forces on a split gleaming with heavy metal sorcery.

Noise rock royalty Gaswar (Hammerhead, Cows, Melvins) finally unveils a track from their “lost” 1999 album, Girl Vanishes On Way To Jive Bar.

Hear newcomers Aldrig bring the post-black metal pain with their debut LP Yağmur.

Mexico’s stoner doom crew Weedsnake reign in bud on new album, Grimorium Cannabinaru.

Hear Norway’s The Last Eon mix of musical ambition and psychedelic inebriation by way of industrial black metal.

Hear live Mizmor and Hell musician Andrew Black emerge from the darkness via Litha‘s self-titled debut, streaming here ahead of its Friday release.

Members of Megadeth, Obituary and Sepultura join forces on the new Savage Lands track, “The Last Howl,” in support of Costa Rica’s threatened howler monkey.

Hear Danish post-metal noise mongors Kollapse consider the benefits of a healthy diet in new track, “Autofagia.”

Hail (Florida-style) death with the new album from Alchemy of Flesh.