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Extreme sounds for extreme expressions. Stream this blackened death-sludge meets blackened crust split here before it releases next month.

The Chicago band blends post-metal with shoegaze, rock, and more to create a downcast, yet vivid, sound. Stream a new track from their just-announced new EP “A Soft Decay” here.

Hailing from Madrid, the avant-garde metal group returns after almost ten years with a new album. Stream a new track from “The Laniakea Architecture – Volume II” here.

Experimentally minded though rooted in heavy metal in all its forms, Old Spirit’s second album charts a dark, weird path. Watch the video for the title track “Burning in Heaven” here.

The Swedish death metal group returns with a sophomore album full of terror, misery, and–most importantly–riffs. Check out a track here.

The festival’s fourth iteration comes this weekend to Beat Kitchen, and the pre-party at Live Wire Lounge set the tone: loudness in all its forms.

The South Dakota malefactors return with more Swedish-inspired death metal that spreads its claws across the broader spectrum of extreme metal on new album “The Profound Recreant.” Stream a new track here featuring Baest vocalist Simon Olsen.

The Swedish stoner rock group unveils a curious video for the latest single from their upcoming album “The Lord Knows.”

The Norwegian group finds themselves rooted in death metal on their upcoming album “Monoceros,” but vile tendrils of hardcore and grindcore take root as well. Check out the album’s lead single here.

The seasoned heavy metal/hard rock crew released their second album in April, a decade after their first, and it brings road-ready grooves and whiskey-fueled madness. Watch a 1960s PSA-styled video for “Doomsay Devices” here.