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  • I’m just going to come out and be completely honest about this: One Of Us Is The Killer is definitely my favorite album of 2013 so far. Even though they’ve already released their incredibly disturbing music video for “When I Lost My Bet” and a lyric video for

  • 2013

    VILAGVEGE by RORCAL Swiss metal outfit RORCAL combines elements black metal, doom metal, and more into eight arduous listens on their latest album, VILAGVEGE. It’s a noisy, heavy intense listen. Without question, the band was rightful in putting the phrase “end of the world” in the search tags for

  • Atmospheric black metal outfit Deafheaven returns with the first single from their sophomore release, Sunbather. WATCH THE REVIEW

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    Blood Becomes Fire by BEASTWARS Hailing from New Zealand, Beastwars is a four-piece metal band specializing in the sludge variety and incorporating doom and stoner influences as well. Their sophomore LP is titled Blood Becomes Fire, and the first half of it is available to stream above via their Bandcamp,

  • 2013

    Setting Fire To The Western Hemisphere by Confine UK grindcore outfit Confine, which features Oblivionized member Zac Broughton, has a new EP out, and you can stream it via the widget above. It’s fast, brutal, grimy, hard-hitting, and doesn’t let up for a single moment. Enjoy!

  • 2013

    The Dillinger Escape plan drops yet another track from their forthcoming album, One of Us Is the Killer, which will be dropping in May on Sumerian Records, and they’ve attached some visuals to it as well. All gore, partial nudity, and disembodied limbs aside, what the band has done

  • 2013

    Metal experimentalists Wreck And Reference have a new 7″ on the way titled No Content, and the project has seen fit to drop one of the tracks from it via music video. “Absurdities And Echoes” doesn’t have the strong black metal vibes that came through on last year’s

  • Sweden’s Ghost returns with a new full-length that’s loaded with glitzy production, more details, and longer tracks. It’s the tunes that end up getting lost in translation much of the time. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • 2013

    Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix seems to be embarking upon a more solo-oriented musical journey as Liturgy’s next album is yet to be released. While that’s a bit of a personal disappointment, this new project, Survival, might sit a little better with those who were turned off by Liturgy’s fast,

  • 2013

    Stream: Cough – “Athame” This is just filthy, absolutely dirty, 18 minutes of rolling around in sludge and now I need a shower, desperately. As you can imagine the song builds at an incredibly slow pace, but when the guitars start swirling and the vocals repeating about black altars and sacrifice