Tag: metal

UK label Third I Rex has a taste for experimental metal as shown by their previous releases and their latest, Italian black metal group Seventh Genocide. Their latest album, Toward Akina, is an…

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Welcome to Demo:listen, your weekly peek into the future of underground extreme metal. Whether it’s death, black, doom, sludge, grind, thrash, -core, heavy, speed, progressive, stoner, retro, post-, punk/, etc….

Grind supergroup Expulsion — including members of Repulsion, Exhumed, Phobia, Intronaut, Gruesome and others — released their debut album, Nightmare Future, last month. If the 14 minutes on Nightmare Future weren’t enough for you, Decibel has…

After completing a three year run as the bassist of Dark Funeral in 2014, multi-instrumentalist Zorn (ex-Devian) began the process of assembling a new band, called Zornheym. Still rooted in black metal,…

It’s easy, with the passage of time and so much metal, to see the names of three death metal legends—in this case, Pestilence, Bolt Thrower, and Autopsy—buttressed next to each…

Empyrean Throne are one of US black metal’s most exciting up-and-coming bands, playing a biting fusion of black and death metal. On their debut record, Chaosborne, they combine the vocal stylings of death…

God Mother, the Swedish powerhouse signed to Party Smasher Inc., escape easy classification. Their blend of sludge, hardcore, punk and grindcore is blistering. Further rounding out their sound is a…

Over the last five or so years, there seems to have been a strange merging of genres between black metal and hardcore punk. While something like the crust and black…