Today mega music portal Loudwire offers up an exclusive premiere of “Your Hell Begins” from Providence sound terrorists HOWL! The latest track of metallic deviance comes courtesy of the band’s forthcoming new full-length, Bloodlines. Fittingly crowned “deliciously vicious” by MetalSucks, the followup to the band’s critically lauded Full Of Hell debut was recorded at the infamous Planet Z Studio in Hadley, Massachusetts with Chris “Zeuss” Harris (Soulfly, Crowbar, Municipal Waste, 3 Inches Of Blood et al) and delivers 40 ravaging minutes of riff-soaked, auditory antagonism recommended for fans of Mastodon, Lamb Of God, Kingdom Of Sorrow, Baroness, Kylesa and the like. More...

Massachusetts metallers REVOCATION have completed work on the follow up to their critically acclaimed 2011 Relapse Records release Chaos of Forms. This is the first full length album with bass player Brett Bamberger who joined the band in 2012 and was featured on the band's last EPTeratogenesis which was released by Scion AV. More...

Craveonline.com today offers up the official video premiere of “Napalm Lungs” from CALL OF THE VOID. The tune comes by way of the band’s blistering Dragged Down A Dead End Path full-length. Shot in Boulder, Colorado by Erica Griffiths in guitarist’s Patrick Alberts’ basement, the video finds the band in their most punishing mode: performing live. 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 Unsane, Yob, Valient Thorr, Black Cobra and many others. More...

Relapse Records is extremely excited to announce the signing of Brooklyn, NY blackened sludge trio Mortals! Formed in 2010, Mortals (Elizabeth Cline, guitar & vocals; Lesley Wolf, bass & vocals; Caryn Havlik, drums) have quickly built a reputation for their harrowing concoction of black metal, stoner-swamp-sludge and doom metal, being described by MSN’s Headbang blog as an “engrossing and devastating version of modern metal.” and by Meat Mead Metal as “massive and crushing.” More...

Royal Thunder and Pitchfork are giving fans a free download of the Atlanta band’s stirring acoustic rendition of “Black Water Vision” (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15230-black-water-vision-acoustic/).

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ASG have released a lyric video for “Avalanche” (http://youtu.be/oafRJH1F4Cs), a song from the band’s forthcoming Relapse Records’ debut, Blood Drive (May 28). More...

In honor of its release today, Revolver Magazine is hosting a stream of TOXIC HOLOCAUST’s From The Ashes Of Nuclear Destruction in its entirety! The monolithic 22-track anthology compiles over a decade’s worth of TOXIC HOLOCAUST rarities into one maniacal compilation of hostile bliss. Amassing the band’s many contributions to various comps and vinyl-only splits with the likes of Municipal Waste, Midnight and others, alongside demo versions of timeless TOXIC classics, From The Ashes Of Nuclear Destruction is a historic romp through the history of one of today’s most revered punk metal deviants. More...

Baroness's first North American tour supporting their critically-acclaimed album, Yellow & Green, kicks off May 24 with a performance at Union Transfer in John Baizley's adopted hometown of Philadelphia. More...