After successfully kick-starting the MCU’s arrival on Netflix last year, Daredevil is back with another season less than a year later. The Punisher and Elektra join the Devil in Hell’s Kitchen as New York is faced with a new threat that pushes the series further onto the dark, violent streets of the city. Any doubts to be had are quickly swept away as the series sets a new standard for itself and all other comic book properties.  

The Melvins, who have a history of imaginative line-up changes, feature not one, but six different bass players on their appropriately titled new album, Basses Loaded (June 3, Ipecac Recordings).  

Subsequent to the very recent release of CONNY OCHS‘ third solo LP, Future Fables, an official video for the iconic German artist’s superb single “Killer” has been issued this week.  

L.A. Thrashers ANGER AS ART are streaming new album Ad Mortem Festinamus in its entirety.  

AUTHOR & PUNISHER, led by one-man industrial doom enigma, Tristan Shone, will haul its steel through the motorways of North America this Spring as direct support for Weedeater. Shone’s latest excursion commences with the previously announced dates which run from March 14th and through April 3rdand include a performance at this year’s edition of SXSW in Austin.  

Prog metal outfit THIRD ION, featuring former members of THE DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND and INTO ETERNITY, have launched a Crowdfunding Campaign in support of upcoming Glasstone Records album, Biolith.  

Sirens is the forthcoming new full-length from long-running Stockholm hardcore crust troopers, VICTIMS. Set for official detonation on April 15th via Tankcrimes Records, the band’s first full-length since 2011’s acclaimed A Dissident LP was tracked at Studio Gutterview by Fred Estby (Dismember, At The Gates, Refused), mastered at Audiosiege by Brad Boatright (Iron Reagan, Nails, Integrity), and features the expected white-knuckled surges of angst as well as some more expansive elements throughout the album, all enshrouded in a barbed-wire vocal delivery, packed with unstoppable gang-chants and inescapable hooks.  

Brutal Death Metal quartet MURDER MADE GOD have premiered a new track from upcoming Comatose Music release, Enslaved.  

Detroit-based progressive rock outfit, TILES, has released the first single from their ambitious, Laser’s Edge-bound Pretending 2 Run 2xCD through an exclusive premiere. Featuring Canadian icon Kim Mitchell on lead guitar, “Shelter in Place” is the first full song released from Pretending 2 Run; a vivid and richly crafted song cycle that spins the tale of a man blindsided and disillusioned by betrayal.  

In an age when the underground is dug up and paraded, commoditized, cheapened and discarded seemingly on a weekly basis, guitarist Gary Arce remains a genuinely under-appreciated craftsman in heavy rock and roll. As the six-stringer for Yawning Man going back three decades, he’s one of the principal architects of the sound born in California’s sands and known commonly as desert rock. His contributions have been pivotal in the creation of a style no less American than Delta Blues and no less imitated worldwide, and with ZUN’s Burial Sunrise, set for release via Small Stone Recordings March 25th, he not only reaffirms the breadth and vitality that has made his work so essential, but builds on it in... 

Madison, WI Death Metallers CASKET ROBBERY have partnered for the exclusive premiere of new song “Final Chapter“. The song is taken from upcoming debut album Evolution of Evil. Stream it at the link below the break!  

Selfmadegod Records is proud to announce the signing of Poland’s UNBORN SUFFER, and is preparing for the release of the band’s new full-length, Nihilist, this week unloading a track from the album.