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We’ve done our fair share of coverage on (and headbanging to) this record, but don’t miss this interview with these relentless Californian death metallers.

Californian death metallers Succumb follow up on their self-titled debut with a potent mix of obliteration and surreal insanity. Read our review.

Listen to a ten-minute black/doom odyssey from Californian outfit Abstracter, ahead of the release of their fourth full-length “Abominion.”

Stream a new single from these vicious, yet cunning, Californian death metal marauders, set to release their third full-length “Spread Plague Death” in a few weeks.

California death metal quartet Skeletal Remains will be releasing their fourth full-length “The Entombment of Chaos” next month — watch the music video for the latest single now.

We’re streaming The Pulsing Wet EP by Oakland industrial/post-metal architects Lament Cityscape, a conceptual journey rendered in abrasion — hear it now before the Saturday release.

We’re streaming the hard-hitting opening song from blackened death metal act Dearth’s upcoming full-length “To Crown all Befoulment” — this one seems especially appropriate.

We’re streaming the new full-length from the California doom/post-metal sextet — “Bloodletting” takes hold and just doesn’t let go.

We conducted an extensive full-band interview with Cirith Ungol whose first full-length in 29 years (yes, you read that right) hits shelves tomorrow. It’s called “Forever Black,” and heavy metal doesn’t get much more ultimate than this.

The definitive book on the formative years of Bay Area thrash is now a documentary — as director Adam Dubin describes, “[this is] not a Metallica movie, it’s a movie with Metallica in it.” Screening dates and our extensive interview are inside.