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Today an official new video from MUMAKIL has been unleashed just in time to get you fired up for the weekend. The “Death From Below” video matches the immaculately captured yet crushing audio direct from the album to brutal live footage of the band performing the album’s whirlwind opening track, filmed by Schlep at L'Usine located in the band’s hometown of Geneva, Switzerland, with a legion of the town’s finest grindfreaks going berserk in the pit.

Esoteric, experimental artisan’s Locrian have premiered a brand new track from their forthcoming full-length Return To Annihilation. The song "Two Moons" described by Invisible Oranges as a combination of "noise rock, drone, electronics and black metal...that may not be conventionally "heavy" yet maintains the weighty themes of dread and desolation" is available to stream here.

LORD DYING come from Portland, Oregon, a place over abundant with purveyors of the heavy riff. A region where the inhabitants are plagued with nerve and joint damage due to lack of sunlight. In a time where everyone is trying to out-sludge or out-doom each other LORD DYING gives something less than a fuck. They are a metal band with members of Black Elk , Portals, Le Force, and Cremains, who in their short, one year's time as a band have shared the stage with Red Fang, Down, Unsane, Yob, Valient Thorr, Ghost and many others.

With over two decades of gruesome grinding under the belts, you might assume West Coast horror hellions would be ready to slow down. You’d be deathly wrong. A true work of sonic repulsion, EXHUMED’s upcoming Necrocacy full-length is he band’s political manifesto for a new dark day. There is no democracy, no equal rights, no freedom of choice -- bow down to your one true master: THE SAW!

Death Metal powerhouse DYING FETUS have announced a North American headline tour for this fall. The tour, which promises to be THE MOST brutal tour of the year, is presented by Metal Sucks and Converse and kicks off October 4th in Wilmington, DE and runs through November 2nd in Springfield, VA. The tour features support from label mates Exhumed and Devourment, as well as Waking the Cadaver (10/4-10/19), Abiotic and Rivers of Nihil (10/26-11/2). Special VIP packages that include a general admission ticket, an exclusive DYING FETUS herbal grinder, a meet and greet with the band, limited edition 20 Year Anniversary Poster, and VIP Souvenir Laminate will be available for purchase HERE. General admission tickets go on sale this Friday.

Now less than a month from release is the anticipated fourth full-length from Japan’s kings of mid-paced carnage COFFINS, as The Fleshland engulfs the North American masses on July 9th via Relapse. As the stench of The Fleshland festers, growing more apparent as the release date closes in, today another slab of the album’s carrion is dropped onto the public via the pungent “Rotten Disciples,” the mantra now playing at mainstream music portal Pitchfork who states the new single, “is classic Coffins, a guttural prayer dredged up from the bowels of Hell and graced with a murky, tortured doom riff and a colossal mid-song groove.”

INTER ARMA’s seamless coalescing of doom, psychedelic sludge, grind and black metal also further explores elements of noise and programming, along with elements of classic Southern Americana made itself known worldwide on their more than hour-long Sky Burial LP, released via Relapse in March of this year. Now after just a bit of time home from touring following a rigorous Spring itinerary which took them across the country with Mutilation Rites to SXSW 2013 and beyond, and then back out again with Earthling several weeks later and more, Richmond’s expansive quintet INTER ARMA return to the van this week on their next live mission.

Finnish hardcore heroes UNKIND have released a new track "Valtakunta" from their forthcoming album 'Pelon Juuret' via MetalSucks here. MetalSucks muses if Unkind has created yet another new sub genre of extreme music, "blackened d-beat." "It’s like fighting against a strongman whose fists are made of fire, so you not only get pummeled, but also burned to a blackened crisp," they say.

Relapse Records is proud to announce the signing of Denver, Colorado blackened doom-sludge misanthropes PRIMITIVE MAN! Formed in early 2012 and featuring current and former members of Withered, Clinging To The Trees of A Forest Fire, Death of Self and Reproacher, Primitive Man – drummer Isidro "Spy" Soto , vocalist/guitarist Ethan Lee McCarthy, and bassist Jonathan Campos -- released their malicious Scorn debut earlier this year via a collaboration between Throatruiner and Mordgrimm Records. The band also self-released a three-song EP in February titled P/M.

In celebration of their US Tour, Windhand are pleased to announce that they will be releasing their own IPA with South County Brewing. The band embark on their tour tomorrow and make their way along the East Coast and through the Midwest. Fans can expect to hear tracks from their previous releases as well as new material from their recently recorded debut on Relapse Records, out this fall. For more information on the Windhand IPA, read a statement from the brewers and check out tour dates below.