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Over the last few years, metal of all sub-genres has been doing something that I really love: rediscovering the joy of heavy metal. Now, this is a separate phenomenon than the heavy metal/traditional metal revival. This is not bands making heavy metal per se, but rather making death, black, thrash, progressive and more styles of metal that use heavy metal as their pa...

Last Friday, Nottingham's Beyond Grace released the third and final installment in their Welcome to the New Dark Ages series, an EP trilogy set to hit the shelves physically as a full-length album later this year. Andrew Walmsley, Ed Gorrod, Tim Yearsley, and Chris Morely have been working on this technical death metal saga since November 2023, relea...

A "groovy, mid-tempo style known for its exaggerated bouncy rhythm and common pornographic themes” is RateYourMusic’s general description for pornogrind. An offshoot of goregrind, pornogrind is not much more than what you just read. As a microgenre, it takes the already off-putting genre of goregrind (death metal-meets-grindcore-meets-preversion), and further integrates inten...

It's slim pickings this week, so I'm going to use this space to highlight the somewhat unsung heavy metal heroes in Sinner. While I mostly know them from their

Welcome once again, Hellions one and all, to the Death's Door mid-year report. Pop a squat and listen to our objectively correct opinions on 2026's current output. We are the overlords, and our word is law.

JK (kind of). We sure as hell listen to a lot of death metal around here, and 2026 has thus far been an interesting beast in this particular branch of the extreme mu...