Vastum

Can you guess their #1 pick? Hint: it comes out next week.

The ever-busy Leila Abdul-Rauf (Vastum, Hammers of Misfortune, Amber Asylum, Cardinal Wrym, and more) just released a new album with Vastum, and now is gearing up to release the debut by Fyrhtu, her new duo with her Cardinal Wrym bandmate Nathan A. Verrill…

Here’s all the metal we posted on BV this week, including Black Sabbath’s Bill Ward, Esoteric, Cattle Decapitation, Isis/Sumac’s Aaron Turner, Opeth, Sunn O))), Vastum, Rosetta, and more.

Listen to new songs by Bill Ward, Floating Points, CHVRCHES, Dry Cleaning, Remo Drive, Pendant, Thyla, Great Grandpa, Bodega and more.

Here’s all the metal we posted on BV this week, including Angel Witch, Municipal Waste, Mayhem, Have A Nice Life, Sunn O))), White Ward, Vastum, SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Dysrhythmia, Firebreather, and more.

Listen to new songs by Mark Lanegan, Guerilla Toss, Counterparts, Future/Young Thug, Miranda Lambert/Maren Morris, Vastum, and more.

Shadow Woods Metal Fest will be happening for its third year at Camp Hidden Valley in White Hall, Maryland from September 14 – 17. The full lineup of the 39 bands have been announced, and they range in genre from dark folk to black metal to hardcore and everything in between…

The lineup for the second annual California Deathfest (same people as MDF) has been announced, and it’s stacked. Going down on October 14-16 in Oakland, CA at the Metro, performers include Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Black Breath, Razor, Demilich, Exhumed, Hooded Menace, The Ruins of Beverast, Revenge…

San Francisco’s Vastum traffic in slow, down-tuned death metal about sex. If the first single from their upcoming album Hole Below, out November 6 on 20 Buck Spin, is any indication, this isn’t changing any time soon…

Melt-Banana at Saint Vitus (more postponed their NYC date later this month until March, while Church of Misery canceled theirs altogether (for now)…