Esoteric, experimental artisan’s Locrian are currently streaming their entire forthcoming full-length Return To Annihilation via Spin.com at this location. Spin describes the album as a "an eclectic float down murky, noxious, sludgy waters" and compares the group to everyone from Boards of Canada to Sunn0))) to Neurosis. More...

Savannah, GA's BLACK TUSK will release their new EP Tend No Wounds on July 23rd via Relapse Records. The EP was recorded with producer Phillip Cope (Kylesa, Baroness) at the Jam Room in Columbia, SC. The artwork was created by Brian Mercer (Eyehategod, Lamb of God, Zoroaster). More...

REVOCATION's self-titled new album will be released in Europe on August 2nd, The UK August 5th and August 6th in North America via Relapse Records. This is their 4th full-length release and the first featuring new bassist Brett Bamberger. The artwork was created by Orion Landau (Dying Fetus, Obscura, Nile). More...

True Widow, the Dallas trio who create highly textural, melodic and bone-chilling shoegaze, is streaming “Four Teeth,” a new song from the upcoming album Circumambulation via NPR (http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2013/06/19/193082953/vikings-choice-true-widow-wants-to-make-your-summer-a-bummer). More...

In conjunction with the release of Reflection Of The Negative -- their split album with local doom outfit Windhand, released by Relapse in April -- Richmond, Virginia-based sludge crew COUGH took to Europe on a three-week tour with included performances at Copenhagen, Denmark’s Heavy Days in Doomtown festival, as well as the massive annual Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Holland. For a limited time, audio evidence of band’s entire fifty-minute set is streaming at massive Dutch portal Vpro 3voor12 as well as the official Roadburn website. More...

Now just days from release, MUMAKIL’s jackhammering third LP Flies Will Starve will hit the streets first thing next week via Relapse, out on June 25th in North America, preceded by release June 21st in Germany/Benelux/Finland and June 24th in the UK and abroad. In an ongoing torrent of brutalizing propaganda, today the Swiss foursome shove another dose of ripping blastbeat treatment down your throats with the album’s third anthem “War Therapist” through the providers of pummel at Cvlt Nation. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...