Andrew Rothmund

It’s been less than a year since Cosmic Putrefaction’s debut full-length — there’s a follow-up coming soon, and we’ve got the first single now called “The Glooming Murk of His Telluric Shrieks.” It blasts.

We’ve got the new Lychgate EP streaming in full now before its release later this week; dive into this dizzying four-song masterpiece of organ-infused avant-garde black metal and doom.

We’ve got a new song from the Swedish project’s upcoming full-length “Budet” — stream “Vita arkiv” now, the album’s penultimate song, and be wooshed away to lands beyond.

We unleash the cosmic third album from Azure Emote, their first in seven years, which blends just about every metal subgenre imaginable with oodles of sax, trumpet, maracas, and much more.

We exchanged with the enigmatic Liturgy mastermind who’s also found artistic release through opera — “Origin of the Alimonies” began a new creative cycle for Hunt-Hendrix, and today he released a new music video “Pasaqalia II” that connects that opera to Liturgy’s recent fourth full-length “H.A.Q.Q.”

We’re here with a mesmerizing new music video for the penultimate song from Barishi’s upcoming second full-length “Old Smoke” — prepare for brain-bendy post-metal that isn’t afraid of its own progginess.

We caught Lamb of God’s super-special Valentine’s Day show at Chicago’s House of Vans, a small skatepark warehouse dwarfed by the stadiums the band has been accustomed to. We also had the pleasure of speaking with frontman Randy Blythe before the set.

Short and sweet, here’s a one-and-a-half minute slicer from New York blackened grindcore outfit Vomit Fist in video form. Face paint included (and encouraged).

Invisible Oranges contributor and all-around kickass dude J.J. Anselmi’s new book “Doomed to Fail” is essential reading for purveyors and connoisseurs alike in the realms of doom, sludge, and post-metal; here’s our chat with the author about how it all came together.