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The agonizingly fierce death metal outfit is set to follow up their debut record with “Nerve Butcherer”—get a taste of the delightful pain in store with this track premiere and interview.

Ghastly’s third full-length “Mercurial Passages”, released earlier this year, is weirder and more inventive than ever. We spoke with multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Ian J D’Waters.

The long-running Finnish funeral doom group returns with a new album next month; watch the music video (the first scripted one that the band has ever done) now.

This classic Finnish death metal record was released thirty years ago in July 1991 and holds up still. While it wasn’t the most progressive of offerings, it hits hard on a level that little else has managed to top.

The Finnish death/doom band’s upcoming sixth album features heightened heavy metal influence and a particularly lethal rendition of their iconic sound—read an interview with founding member Lasse Pyykkö.

In this week’s installment, Ted and Jon adventure into the worlds of Italian psychedelic doom metal and nostalgic Finnish dark metal, respectively.

The Finnish doom/heavy duo’s upcoming self-titled album melds heavy metal aggression with doom metal melancholy: stream a new single from it now.

Taking folk metal back to campfire singalong times, before the guitar even made it to Finland.

In this new installment of “Records of the Week With Jon and Ted,” our intrepid editors look back to the mid-to-late 2000s for some decade-and-a-half-old death metal nostalgia.

Co-editors-in-chief Jon Rosenthal and Ted Nubel each select a record to discuss.