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To kick off 2024, here’s our final piece of year-end coverage for 2023: a ‘best of’ our staff’s ‘best ofs’.

Luke Jackson packs in some excellent black metal recommendations and more in his top picks for 2023.

Colin Williams’s favorites from 2023 venture into the weird realms that black and death metal gave us this year – and beyond.

Our  ‘Cheap Thrills’ author gives us his favorites of the year—Weird, delightful music awaits.

Bleak death metal, brought to you by Vastum.

Here’s all the new metal that’s released and is releasing between October 29th and November 11th—Spin (or skip) new music from Suffocation, Green Lung, Vastum, and more.

The Denver brewery’s 10th anniversary celebration is upon us on Saturday, with Khemmis, Dreadnought, Panopticon, Hulder, and more packing the lineup.

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).

Decrepisy, the latest project of Kyle House (Vastum, Acephalix, and more), has come into existence following House’s move to Portland. Read an interview with House about the band’s debut “Emetic Communion.”

The Vastum mastermind ventures deep into ambient space with a phantasmagoric new solo album which is now streaming in full.