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California crossover assbeaters Dead Heat are getting set to release new EP Endless Torment exactly a month from today, so we’ve got a new track to whet your appetite. “Eyes of the Real” is the third song on the new EP and is pretty much built for pit action: side-to-side riffs alongside driving bass, dive bombs, fist-pumping vocal sections

Photo: Armand Nour Death metal and grindcore phenomenon Leon del Muerte might be known for his splattery approach to music, but this Portland-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter has an Ace up his sleeve. Helming a new project, Lightbreaker, del Muerte looks to mid-’90s black-and-avant-garde metal (especially Oxiplegatz) to tell the story of extraterrestrial visitors known as

This is no pale ale folklore! Decibel—North America’s only monthly metal magazine—is, in fact, returning the western edition of the world’s loudest, heaviest, most extreme craft beer festival to Denver, CO; once again tapping the Summit to host Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver on Friday and Saturday, December 1-2, 2023. Freshly reunited atmospheric metal kings Agalloch

Boston’s own goth-tinged metal group Final Gasp have achieved a major career move, as they’ve recently signed with Relapse Records, have their debut album Mourning Moon set for release on September 22, and have a U.S. tour all lined up and ready to go starting next week. The announcement came earlier today, with Relapse announcing

Where they from?Anchorage, Alaska. I regret to inform you that I am a fan of the New York Mets (LOL–ed) and, good lord, have they sucked just complete ass so far this season. Yesterday they blew a four-run lead against the Phillies by hitting two batters (also walking three, but who’s counting–ed? and a Matt

Demons My Friends is an unlikely collaboration between members of Mexican alt-metal band QBO and Washington, DC desert rockers Fellowcraft. The stoner/doom metal trio—Lu Salinas (bass/vocals), Tarro Martinez (drums), Pablo Anton (guitar/vocals)—embarked on their creative endeavor via an impromptu recording session at the SXSW music festival in Austin, TX in 2022 and have consummated the relationship

I am such a mark for ’90s and early aughts alternative rock. Like, seriously. Stone Temple Pilots, Hum, Failure, Third Eye Blind, Local H… the list goes on, and it’s in near constant rotation ’round these parts (when I’m not listening to black metal). Gilead Media signees Big Garden are part of a great new

Photo by Ryan Tamm Progenitor decimate us via a new black metal attack with the title track from their forthcoming EP, Eldritch Supremcy, a self-released record out July 14. “The inspiration for the song ‘Eldritch Supremacy’ came from the story The Shadow over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft,” the band say about the track. “I have read

Anvil landed on the metal scene in the early ’80s with a resounding impact. There was a metal zeitgeist moment happening around the world—in Japan, Europe, the U.K., North America—and they inserted themselves into it with authority. The Canadian quartet, originally called Lips, released a debut effort, Hard ‘n’ Heavy, under their original moniker before

Photo courtesy of Medicine Horse If you’re a fan of sludgy, dirty, groovy metal in the vein of Weedeater and supporting indigenous metal, you won’t want to sleep on Medicine Horse. They’re premiering the debut track from their self-titled album, “Turning Tide,” with us today. Vocalist Nico Williams says about the song: “‘Turning Tide’ is

Photo: Farrah Skeiky The hardcore scene has cranked out a lot of killer records this year, with many young bands finding ways to put fresh and exciting coats of paint on the established genre. Chicago outfit Buggin joined the ranks of those bands this year with the release of their debut album, Concrete Cowboys, a 12-songs-in-19-minutes banger that

It seems almost trite to write something about what this pivotal record from Death means to death metal at large, given how much has already been said about the band’s importance. But with yesterday marking the 30th anniversary of Individual Thought Patterns‘ release, we figured it’s worth taking another look back at one of the

This week, it was announced that Josh “Baby J” Miller will no longer be in the band Spite. Instead, he will focus on his new project Darko, a band he is in with Tom Barber of Chelsea Grin. Miller took to social media to give a statement about his time in the band and to

Seattle death metal band Cerebral Rot are embarking on a summer tour across North America. The Drowned In Excretion Tour treks across U.S. and Canada this August, destroying all in its wake. The tour celebrates the band’s 2021 Excretion Of Mortality record, released June 2021 via 20 Buck Spin. CEREBRAL ROT Drowned In Excretion Tour

German band Knife just announced their first album for Napalm Records, Heaven Into Dust, out August 25. The band initially formed in 2019 and dropped their first record, which was self-titled, in 2021. You can hear the first song from the band’s second album, the title track, right here. If this song is any indication,

Allegedly, Tony Iommi was offered the chance to join Black Sabbath on the upcoming Power Trip festival, but he turned it down. Iommi revealed this fact in an interview with Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk that he turned it down because Ozzy Osbourne was having health issues, even though Ozzy is planning on being the

Filth is Eternal announced specifics this week about their upcoming record, Find Out, and shared the first single from the album, “Crawlspace.” The Seattle band are dropping the forthcoming record on September 29 via MNRK Heavy. “It’s about that small window of time when everything feels like it’s working—the band, relationships, work, mental health, the

Man, death metal showed up this past week, didn’t it? From the 30th anniversaries of both Morbid Angel’s Covenant and Death’s Individual Thought Patterns to the unexpected announcements and singles from Cannibal Corpse and Deathklok, you have enough tunes to thoroughly piss off your neighbors. Other than those things, though, we didn’t get a whole

A trifecta of a black metal tour was just announced in the form of Cloak, Uada, and Ghost Bath. The 30-plus-date tour kicks off at the end of August in Denver and crosses the U.S. and Canada. Check out the dates here: 08/30 Denver, CO @ Roxy Theater [TICKETS]08/31 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge [TICKETS]09/01

You’d think this had already gone down, but nu-metal outfit Korn have apparently entered into an agreement with apparel company Adidas to put out a line of branded shoes and apparel. The news comes after Complex received internal documents highlighting the new line featuring the band’s logo coming this October. According to the documents, the