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Trhä- mã Hèshiva õn dahh Khata trhândlha vand ëfd datnen Aghen Ecíës drhãtdlhan savd

The morose guitar riffs, the extravagant transitions, and shrieking vocal performances prove that black metal doesn’t always need to adhere to traditional standards.

Swamp Fiend – Smoke Weed, Hail Satan

At its core, bluesy stoner riffs carry along both clean and harsh vocals, and are anchored by an incredibly heavy bottom end.

Summer Haze ’99 – Inevitable

How do you capture perfection in an album review? I probably can’t, but Leleth can and does on this album.

Women of Michigan Metal: Interview with Keshia from Glass God

we asked Keshia some in-depth questions hoping to gain insights to her inner most musical life and influences. She gave us very brief, quite poignant answers, that ultimately leave us with further questions, like “does Kirk Hammett’s hair make him a femme influencer?”

G.N.L.S. (Geometric Nictation of Lament’s Space) – Conspiracy of Thoughts

Conspiracy of Thoughts…pulls the listener bodily into the darkest recesses of their own mind, through the contemplation of the horrors of humanity.

Women of MI Metal: Interview with Shanda from Inaudible Darling

We asked Shanda some moderately intrusive questions about her influences, inspiration and the burning question on everyone’s mind when they watch her belt out every Inaudible Darling song… what’s her favorite sea creature?

Women of MI Metal: Interview with Natalie from Realm of Sheol

We asked Natalie some hard-hitting questions about the inspiration behind the mic, advice for fellow female metal musicians, and favorite dinosaur (spoiler alert – it screams… very loudly).

Torture Rack- Primeval Onslaught

All in all this is the band’s best offering thus far. There’s no shelter. There’s no safety.

Dødsferd – Asphyxiating Late Night Sessions: Collaboration with Sarvok

Wrath and m.Sarvok have birthed a masterpiece into the world in Asphyxiating Late Night Sessions. Don’t let it slip past you.

EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREMIERE: Perfumed Saturnine Angels – Bow Down to Your Black Hole

Skronky riffs ride the bass like a cowboy on a bull, except it’s the cowboy (guitars) that is wild.

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE: Citizen Rage – Walls

The video itself feels vintage, like it could have come from MTV in the 80s.

DRUM PLAYTHROUGH: Instigate – Embrace the End

Relentless power roars forward throughout Unheeded Warnings of Decay, like a tsunami headed toward shore, with equal measures of imminent destruction.

Derhead – The Gray Zone Phobia

Be prepared to have your hackles raised, to look often over your shoulder at illusory suggestions of danger, to walk in a mounting sense of unease.

A Heavy Trip Down Memory Lane with Static-X

Grand Rapids showed up for their stop on the Rise Of The Machine Tour! Cultus Black, Dope, Fear Factory, and with Xero replacing the late Wayne Static as frontman, Static-X played to a sold out main room at The Intersection. A standing room show on a Tuesday night...

Project: Roenwolfe – Project: Roenwolfe

The album has incredible staying power, both in terms of earworm riffs that stay with me throughout the day, and the urge to listen repeatedly, even back to back.

Fogweaver – Magelight

Magelight is an embrace of gentle magic.

EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Atemporal – The Great Warding

Not only are the riffs sharp and interesting, but they are often incredibly strange, coming out of left field, but fitting incredibly well in the fabric of the album.

EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREMIERE

The track is both grief stricken and rage filled at the horrors of humankind. It’s an absolute gut punch, full of the darkness of the decay of modern society.

Prognan – Naši životi više ne postoje

Prognan’s “Naši životi više ne postoje” delivers a fantastic mixture of harrowing wartorn black metal with cinematic folky grandeur.

EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Ignominy – Visceral

Their patient building of terrifying atmosphere set them apart from contemporaries and make them well worth thirty-five minutes of your time.

Allfather – A Violent Truth

These six tracks hit much like the sledgehammer in the hands of the Punisher in season 2 of that show – violently and repeatedly, with devastating effect.