Italy has something darkly captivating in store for you with NAGA‘s new blackened doom record, Void Cult Rising. It creates an all-encompassing chill that starts at the base of your neck and travels down your spine until you find yourself buried in melancholic bleakness. The new album comes out via

If there was a soundtrack to suffocation, this would be it. I can almost feel the oxygen leaving my brain as I listen to the new single from Ekpyrosis called “The Abysmal Chapter.” The drums feel like they’re matching my panicked heartbeat and the vocals sound like the Grim Reaper

MOURNED have created a two-song tape called Devoured Humanity that’s the fucking BOMB! The riffs are extra thick and everything about this recording is SUFFOCATING! What really gets me going about this band is their use of morbid grooves that are hard to forget. MOURNED’s music makes me want to

DISROTTED Bootlegged – Live at Asakusa Deathfest 2019 is HEAVY af and I fucking love it! This band creates the kind slow-moving sludge that makes me happy to be alive. All I can say is that DISROTTED is the bomb and their latest album out now on Feast of Tentacles

A trio of dark vocal-oriented projects, Amigo the Devil, King Dude, and Twin Temple performed at San Francisco’s Slim’s concert venue this past October 31st, 2019. TWIN TEMPLE Satanic doo-wop from Los Angeles. Led by the duo of Alexandra James and Zachary James, with a full live band. Chants of

Will Butler, the man behind To Live A Lie Records, has a special ear. TLAL’s release history is populated with essential hardcore, fastcore, grindcore, and powerviolence releases. Butler’s seal-of-approval is not to be ignored. These three debut LPs by some of the hardest working bands around are no exceptions. Joy

I have no shame in my game, I love to fucking dance and Vancouver’s SIGSALY never lets me down! This Techno, Minimal-wave, and Industrial duo create the kind of dance anthems that would make a 1000 year old corpse jump out of the grave to rattle their bones. Their new

SPECTRES make post punk for the working class. Their newest release, the Provincial Wake 7″, is firmly rooted in punk, but it still weaves dreamy melodies into the angst and frustration underlying it all. These two new tracks, “Provincial Wake” and “Northern Towns” will whet the appetite of post-punk fans