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The New York-based avant-garde metal trio aims to tell the story of their home city, taking aesthetic inspiration from its near-mythical past. This edition of Piercing the Veil explores the band's musical and conceptual ties to the Big Apple.

Focusing on albums from the month before that may not have gotten their just dues, the first edition of this column looks at a blackened progressive metal band who released a new EP a week ago-- plus, we premiere the wonderfully fractal music video for "And We Are Already At Sea."

And you thought death metal couldn't possibly get any better -- here's a new single from Undeath's noggin-loppin' debut album "Lesions of a Different Kind" + an interview with vocalist Alex Jones.

We've got an early full stream of the latest Behold the Arctopus album (feat. Colin Marston, Mike Lerner, Jason Bauers) -- prepare your neurons for the best kind of overload.

Witnesses bleeds with doom's essence on their upcoming full-length (premiering here in full) -- the project creates abstract art from massive arrangements with plenty of ambiance.

We dive into Afterbirth's latest full-length "Four Dimensional Flesh" to discover its proggy, technical underpinnings that enhance its fiendishly brutal structure.

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 rece…

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).

This New York-based duo (featuring Dan Presland of Ne Obliviscaris) emerges from left field with a densely packed album of progressive melodic death metal goodness. Stream "The Body Cosmic" here now before tomorrow's official release.

In an incredible sweep, the New York quartet releases yet another killer black metal album; this time with even more power and style.