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AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): HELL TREPANNER — “THE CONSECRATION OF ETERNAL IMPURITY”
(written by Islander) “Darkness enthroned through the death of purity.” With that legend, the Peruvian band Hell Trepanner announce the inspiration for their new album, which will be released on...
Read at No Clean Singing →GROWTH – UNDER THE UNDER
(Andy Synn was an early supporter of Growth and their debut album, so it only made sense for him to cover their long-gestating sophomore record, out next week) Good things come, or so they say, to...
Read at No Clean Singing →AN INTERVIEW OF ISLANDER – BY PUGET SOUND METAL BULLETIN
(Puget Sound Metal Bulletin is a print zine created by Old Man Winter, guitarist in the Seattle-based melodic death metal band Veriteras. Last week the fifth issue was published and distributed, and...
Read at No Clean Singing →ENSHINE: “ELEVATION”
(In January of this year the Swedish/French duo Enshine released their first new album in more than a decade. The odds or DGR failing to review it have been slim or none, and at last he has done so.)...
Read at No Clean Singing →AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: ASHEN HORDE — “ENTROPY AND ECSTASY”
(written by Islander) This makes the fourth time in a nine-year period when we’ve had the extreme pleasure of premiering music by Ashen Horde, and this time it’s a song from their forthcoming fifth...
Read at No Clean Singing →IS IT AN ALBUM? IS IT AN EP? NO, IT’S…
…something in between, according to our own Andy Synn anyway! It’s funny isn’t it, that nebulous, ill-defined dividing line that separates an EP from an album? I’ve encountered releases longer than...
Read at No Clean Singing →AN NCS PREMIERE: HROB — “ZOTROČENÝ OHEN”
(written by Islander) The Slovakian death metal band HROB was founded by Michal (guitar, vocals) and Kiko (guitar) in November 2021, and eventually the band settled into a solid lineup completed by...
Read at No Clean Singing →God Save The Cult From Themselves: A Retrospective On Blue Öyster Cult’s “Club Ninja” (1985)
William Pauper offers his retrospective on “the perfect symbol for the cancer that was consuming titanic bands throughout the 1980s.”
Read at Invisible Oranges →BOG MÖNSTER: “DUELLING HORRORS”
(This is DGR’s review of a new EP released earlier this month by the Australian trio Bog Mönster.) When the collection of everything you intend to review consists of a smorgasbord of EPs and albums,...
Read at No Clean Singing →Witness the Macabre Chaos of BLACK CURSE Captured at HORRID DAYS FESTIVAL 2026
WTF do we have here? We have this rad BLACK CURSE full set that was captured at this year’s HORRID DAYS FESTIVAL in Mexico. Respect due to King Bong Entertainment for capturing this intense...
Read at CVLT Nation →Inhale the Dismal Sludge of CULT OF OCCULT’s New Suffocating Track “I Have No Limbs”
Suffocating. Dismal. Isolating. Tormenting. Nothingness. Putrid. These are just some of the words that come to mind as I blast the new CULT OF OCCULT single “I Have No Limbs.” Their new album I Have...
Read at CVLT Nation →Give the Underground Juggernaut HYDRA HEAD RECORDS Their Flowers!
I’m the product of underground music. I remember a time when all you had to do is see a label’s logo on the sleeve to know you were going to like the band. For a label to achieve this kind of...
Read at CVLT Nation →Check Out Gavin Wieszala’s Colorized AMERICAN GANGSTERS
While the US loves to paint other nations like they’re criminals — think Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, and like 54+ other countries — no one is more prolific than America when it comes...
Read at CVLT Nation →AN NCS PREMIERE: ONCHOCERCIASIS ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY — “GUTTED AND CORPSED”
(written by Islander) After the next paragraph we’re going to refer to this band as OxE, not because it’s too difficult to copy/paste their full name but because reading it repeatedly might cause...
Read at No Clean Singing →AN NCS PREMIERE: IGNOBLETH — “PROSELYTE PIG I”
(written by Islander) The Italian black/death marauders Ignobleth admit that their first EP, Voidspawn Sacrifice, could be likened to “Blasphemy and Archgoat worship”. But their sound and style have...
Read at No Clean Singing →Upcoming Metal Releases: 3/15/26 – 3/21/26
Here are the new releases for March 15th to 21st–Spin (or skip) new music from Exodus, Egregor, Iron Firmament, and more.
Read at Invisible Oranges →Preparing the Garrison: Fortress Festival 2026 Preview
Here’s a British black metal battleplan (and playlist) for the upcoming Fortress Festival in Scarborough.
Read at Invisible Oranges →Exclusive: CROCODILES Drop New Video For “Time Is Wasting Me” Ahead Of New Album ‘Greetings From Hell’
With the release of their excellent 2023 LP Upside Down In Heaven, San Diego based rockers CROCODILES truly outdid themselves. Pairing what was arguably their strongest set of punky power-pop songs...
Read at CVLT Nation →Afro-D-Beat-Heavy Psyche-808 Bliss: Watch DEAF KIDS New Visual For “CICATRIZES”
For 15 years, one band that has consistently amazed us beyond anything else on the planet: DEAF KIDS. With the announcement of their new album Cicatrizes Do Futuro that comes May 29th on Neurot...
Read at CVLT Nation →The Filthy and The Crusty: An In-depth Overview of 90’s Metallic Crust Pt.1
This feature via our comrades Terminal Sound Nuisance After the resounding success of Terminal Sound Nuisance’s cavemen crust compilation that focused on brutal and fast gruff crust music produced in...
Read at CVLT Nation →Experience the Brilliance and Fire of Kerala’s THEYYAM Costumes
When you first lay eyes on these THEYYAM costumes for the northern Kerala spiritual dance ritual, what do you see? What I see in these ancient costumes and fire ritual dances is more evidence that...
Read at CVLT Nation →Lynx Traverse the Entire “Island Universe” Through Hard Rock (Track Premiere)
The German hard rock quintent takes you back to the 70s and into outer space with their new single–stream it now.
Read at Invisible Oranges →Fire in the Mountains 2026 Preview: Yaotl Mictan, Savage Oath, Galvanist, and Nocturne
We highlight four acts from Fire in the Mountains’ undercard that you’d be an imbecile to miss.
Read at Invisible Oranges →Join the “Obscene Cult” with Aggressive Perfector (Track Premiere)
The English heavy metal group is beckoning all freaks and fiends on their latest single.
Read at Invisible Oranges →Pilori Make Their Presence Felt on “La Présence des Absents” (Track + Video Premiere)
The French group blackened hardcore group gets sludgey on their new track.
Read at Invisible Oranges →Exhumed Reveal the Bloody Cost of Road Rage on “Red Asphalt” (Album Review)
Dennis Seese reviews the long-running death metal band’s latest affront to common decency and good taste.
Read at Invisible Oranges →Trucido Gives In to the Voices on “Epiphanic Delusions of a Spiritual Warfare” (Album Review)
This past Valentine’s Day, the gore-splattered grind maniacs in Trucido released their sophomore album and sank to even more depraved depths than ever before. That is both a compliment and a...
Read at Invisible Oranges →Album Review: Veilburner – The Three Lightbearers
Artist: Veilburner | Album: The Three Lightbearers | Rating: 5/5
Once again, Pennsylvania has sprouted up yet another spectacular band, called Veilburner. This album was sent to me before its release date in August so I could give it a listen and do an initial album review on it. What seemed like just another album review to me, actually turned into two weeks of constant listening...
Read more →ALL THINGS DEAD NORTH AMERICA TOUR 2014
ORIGIN / KING PARROT / BEYOND CREATION / YOUR CHANCE TO DIE / OMNIHILITY / ONLY ZUUL
View tour dates →BACKYARD MORTUARY / SHADOW OF THE TORTURER / SHROUD OF THE HERETIC / TORTURE RACK
May 16th @ Slabtown, Portland, OR
View flyer →Album Review: Decaysia – From Chaos to Creation
Artist: Decaysia | Album: From Chaos to Creation | Rating: 5/5
Just when you thought Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania had nothing else to offer you besides Dutch Country and the Liberty Bell; from the city of Allentown hails a hidden gem who call themselves Decaysia...
Read more →PORTLAND WAS DESECRATED!! 666
Once again... HEADSPLIT RECORDS COMES MUTHAFUCKING CORRECT!!! What a killer night bands solid the whole time, Pit was fucking off the CHAIN!
Read more →VASTUM / DIOCLETIAN / SHROUD OF THE HERETIC / TORTURE RACK
May 3rd @ Slabtown, Portland, OR
View flyer →Ugly World Tour 2011 – Children Of Bodom, Devin Townsend, Obscura and Septicflesh
Children of Bodom have announced the dates for the North American leg of the band's 2011 world tour, which kicks off on June 24 in Los Angeles...
View tour dates →THOSE WHOM THE GODS DETEST TOUR II [NILE]
W/ Ex Deo, Psycroptic, Keep of Kalessin & Pathology
View tour dates →SUICIDAL TENDENCIES U.S. Tour 2010
Join The Army / Deja Vu Tour
View tour dates →The Decibel Defiance Tour 2010 – Tour Dates Announced!
SUFFOCATION, THE FACELESS, THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD, DECREPIT BIRTH, FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE
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