South Carolina blackened death metal veterans Lecherous Nocturne return today with “Metempsychosis,” their first new music since 2018’s Occultaclysmic. Formed in Greenville in 1997, the band have spent nearly three decades operating at the particularly hostile intersection of technical death metal, black metal and outright… Read More »Track Premiere: Lecherous Nocturne – ‘Metempsychosis’
San Francisco deathgrinders Cartilage have never exactly been known for practicing restraint, but on third full-length Operating Altar, the Bay Area gore merchants have found a way to make their particular pathology even more elaborate. Rather than assembling another collection of individual incisions, the band… Read More »Full Album Stream: Cartilage — Operating Altar
Central American cohort Morbid Stench, comprised of musicians spread across El Salvador and Costa Rica, will soon continue the spread of their brand of underground death/doom with the release of third album Doom Metástasis. Featuring the same lineup as when the band started in 2014, Morbid Stench… Read More »Track Premiere: Morbid Stench – ‘Narcissistic God’
– September 1st, 2026 – “Death Mask Messiah” Full-Length Out Now On Metal Blade Records Photo by Morgenrot Visions Watch/stream EXUMER’s “Blinding Skies” HERE German thrash titans EXUMER are pleased to drop their new video for “Blinding Skies.” The track appears on their pulverizing new… Read More »Exumer: German Thrash Titans Drop “Blinding Skies” Video
There are a number of acts who have debuted in the past few decades and have dozens of song ratings on this blog. I thought it would be fun to lay these ratings out in chronological order, line-graph style, and take a macro view of… Read More »CRAYON POP: A Career In Song Ratings