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Italian post-metal ensemble Postvorta unleash a bellicose track from their upcoming-full length “Porrima” — stream it here now.

Here’s a special select handful of the many Chicago metal bands charging forth into the national scene; from blackened grindy goodness to post-metal transcendence, The Windy City achieves it all.

Death metal may have taken the cake last year, but doom was the tedious labor that went into baking it. Here are three monster doom albums you may have missed during a frenzied year of releases.