“The Path Unseen” Leads to Vessel of Iniquity’s Inhuman Black/Death Metal (Early Track Stream)
The UK band's fifth full-length mixes black/death metal with hair-raising noise textures -- stream the title track here.
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Word of the Day: “Aischrolatreia,” Brought to You by Diabolic Oath’s Depraved Black/Death (Early EP Stream)
The Portland black/death metal group returns with an mLP fit for only the darkest and dirtiest days -- or, late summer weather. Your choice!
Anticreation’s Purifying Horror Materializes on “Kathagiasis” (Video Premiere)
The Greek black/death metal group (members of Burial Hordes, Enshadowed, Merciless Crucifixion) releases their debut album next month, unleashing a swarming mass of antipathy upon us. Witness just a tiny sample with our video premiere.
Scene Dive #2: Bay Area Death Metal’s Perennial Resurrection
Despite undergoing constant change and no shortage of difficulties, the Bay Area (San Francisco, Oakland, etc.) remains a significant stronghold for American heavy metal—and especially death metal. This in-depth feature includes perspectives from key bands (Ripped to Shreds, Vastum) and labels (Sentient Ruin Laboratories, Carbonized Records).
“III” Is a Fragment of Somnolent’s Hellish Dream (Early Track Stream)
Stream a portion of the Philadelphia black/death/industrial duo's new album here: utterly chaotic extreme metal melded with lurking ambient horrorscapes.
In A Valley of Harsh Gloom, Abstracter Gazes at the “Abyss Above” (Early Track Stream)
Listen to a ten-minute black/doom odyssey from Californian outfit Abstracter, ahead of the release of their fourth full-length "Abominion."
Vessel of Iniquity Stands in “The Doorway” to Despair (Full Album Stream)
Vessel of Iniquity multi-instrumentalist A. White gets in touch with his doomed past and brings it to a chaotic future on this project's newest album.
Coffin Lurker Leaves Music “Foul and Defiled” (Full Album Stream) (mems. Cryptae, Gnaw Their Tongues)
Two pillars of the Dutch heavy underground dissect death/doom metal to its primal elements.
The Twisted Black Metal Works of Labored Breath “Belie” Mortal Limitations (Early Track Stream)
Stream an intense track from the Oakland, CA solo black metal project's upcoming album "Dyspnea" now.
Spire Guards the “Temple of Khronos” (Album Review)
Time brings nothing but death, but, in Spire's case, time brings change. Read a review of the New Zealand act's sophomore album "Temple of Khronos."