We’re out here posting atmospheric, Lovecraftian Black Metal, because sometimes I worry we’re not really doing enough to service maladjusted Norwegian teenagers, with ideological grievances against a religion introduced to their country a thousand years ago. Also, grimm riffage and blast beats, are always good.

The Great Old Ones hail from France and make a hybridized black metal that blends the usual sounds of ice, paganism, and snow; with spacily atmospheric breaks. Their new album Al Azif, doesn’t sound like it was recorded through the wall of a practice space, and dudes don’t wear corpse paint. Most black metal fans will hate it on principal alone. Their songs exhibit a strong understanding of dynamics, with the atmospheric parts really bolstering the full on worshipping of Cthulhu. I dare to call the whole thing “mature”. If dudes had a cool story about living in the forrest, only consuming dead animals, Pitchfork would shit themselves.

This fifteen minute set from Code Orange Kids appearance at Heartfest is the perfect way to start your day, assuming you like to begin your mornings with grind and doom influenced hardcore. Some of y’all might think it’s too early in the day for all the blast beats, mosh parts, and screaming. Maybe you’re the type that likes to ease into the day with a lil java, a delicious cruller, and the aggressive banality of morning shows like Today. Hey that’s cool too, get in where you fit in. Blast beats or Al Roker, whatever it takes to get you going.

Over here at Mishka we like to get a nice morning mosh going, to get the brain cells and body, fired up for the day. It’s like Japanese businessmen doing company wide calisthenics, but occasionally we punch each other in the face accidentally.

Start your mental slide into the weekend with some meditative black metal from Skagos. Usually when we think of blak metal we think of church burning, corpse paint, murder, and killing dudes. That’s what we should think of, because that’s what black metal is about. After you listen to enough of it, it can become real calming though. The blast beats can smooth out your mood and help you focus your minds eye on important mental tasks like studying, doing your taxes, or planning the murder of your bandmate.

Skagos maximize the soothing nature of black metal by throwing in some shoegaze-y, space rock/prog-ish elements that wouldn’t be out of place on an old Mars Volta, Cave-In, or Isis record. Archaic is really the type of record you could que up on your iTunes and quickly lose a good hour of time while you stared blankly at a Microsoft Word document. In that hour, astral project yourself into that party your planning on going to on Saturday. Visualize getting amazingly wasted but not pissing your pants or throwing up on a girl with a pair of space pants. Sieze the day.

If you’ve been involved in hardcore at all in the last decade or so, you know who TERROR  is. Hell, if you’ve paid attention to heavy music at all and don’t know who Terror is, you must be under that giant metaphorical rock with the rest of the world’s lames.

Terror have been arguably the hardest working, busiest, most consistent band in hardcore since they started back in 2002. Most bands drop a record or two then either get real bad real fast, or die off.

These dudes have somehow managed to constantly drop hard bangers on every record and a number of sick videos, all while constantly touring with any band from most any genre. Throughout their whole career, one message they’ve shouted out time and time again is their undying love for hardcore and in 2013, nothing has changed.

Hardcore bands generally only do so many things in music videos, if they release any. Terror has done it all from having their crew walking the streets , wild live shots , to a bloody, silly horror movie style video involving the band taking revenge on shitty high school kids.

2013 is blessing us with a new Terror record “Live by the Code”  and a new Terror record means a new video. This new one is special though. I said above Terror loves hardcore, and the new video for “The Most High” is a three minute love letter to the road, stage dives, friendship, and everything great about hardcore.

Throughout the insane live footage are displays of classic core records, band tattoos, friends and fans of the band, and the guys themselves living their lives where they tend to be most of the time, on the road.

If you’ve ever toured, played hardcore shows, stage dove, or just been stoked on hardcore in general, this video will have you all sorts of stoked. The song is pretty damn tight as well. Check out the video, then hit the pit when Terror comes your way on any of their upcoming tours .

Heirophant is a hardcore from Italy. They make blackened, crusty hardcore, with some d-beat influences. Using words like “blackened” and “crusty” is really en vogue these days, to describe hardcore bands. It’s really en vogue to describe fucking salmon at fancy Italian restaurants with nice tableloths and those lil brushes to sweep up your crumbs. But, that’s not really relevant to this band, save for the fact that dudes are from Italy. That sentence might be lowkey racist.

“Son Of The Tongue’s Poison” is appropriately grimm, these dudes sound like they’re eternally filthy, which is a terrible characteristic for lovers ad friends, but a great characteristic for crusty, blackened, hardcore bands. I have no clue what the fuck “Son Of The Tongue’s Poison” is supposed to mean as a sentence, crew, or label. But, I’m fucking with it; musically.

Heirophant’s debut album Great Mother: Holy Monster is out on Bridge 9 Records. It sounds like hell, but I imagine that’s pretty much what they were going for.

Spanish death metal band Wormed just dropped their new video for “Tautochrone” and it’s pretty fucking hard. A tautochrone is a mathematical term for a curve that roughly looks like a half circle, or maybe an inverted hard shell taco. What tautochrones have to do with death metal, can’t say. Maybe a lil TI-82 graphing calculator action helped dudes write this whilrinwd of riffs and time signatures, they call song. Strange things happen when you mix math and death metal. Calculating infinity sounds surprisingly harsh.

“Tautochrone” is off of Wormed’s new release Exodromos, which is streaming in its entirety below. Joint sounds like early Cryptopsy mixed with some Dying Fetus set aboard a spaceship. Very futuristic, but brutal vibes from an album that has song titles like “The Nonlocality Trilemma” and “Xenoverse Discharger”. Just tried to look up what a Xenoverse was; ran into a lot of sentences like “unknown alien elements that are beyond and part of the metaverse and multiverse structure.” While I won’t feign knowing exactly what that means—pretty sure it has something to do with Sliders—I will tell you that I had “Xenoverse Discharger” playing while I read about that shit and it felt very appropriate.

Stream Exodromos, while you too, consider bleeding edge theoretical physics and the subtle interplay between the omni, meta, and multiverse. This will soundtrack your astral projections through the bleed perfectly.

Nails are streaming the entirety of their new release Abandon All Life because they thought the internet had “gone soft”. As you’d expect from the grind/hardcore/powerviolence unit, the album really captures the sound of a dude fighting a swarm of bees inside a telephone booth, during a panzer attack. Couple of songs pull back from the double bass and blast beat assault to get doomily pensive. That’s probably the parts of the album where dude is dying from anaphylactic shock, and thinking about the choices in his life that led him to be fighting bees during The Second Great War. I’m not 100% sure on that one though, I don’t have a copy of the lyrics.

Grab this album if you’re a fan of Trap Them, Converge, Entombed, Napalm Death, or generally pissed off music. If you’re a fan of those bands you’re more than likely familiar with this band. If you’re an old metal dude with a sleeve of shitty tattoos (from before that sorta thing was cool) you might wanna check this shit out, even though you probably consider most current bands “pussies”.

Pig Destroyer have unleashed an unreleased EP called Mass & Volume in tribute to their late friend Pat Egen. Mass & Volume was recorded during the Phantom Limb sessions and features a particularly moody Pig Destroyer going through 25 minutes of monster vocals, feedback, and the occasional gargantuan riff. You know typical Pig Destroyer shit.

All proceeds from this “lost” EP go to help the family of Pat Egen. So when you download the record you’ll not only be completing your Pig Destroyer collection, but you’ll be helping a good cause. Beyond the altruism you can also scare the shit out of your parents as you blast the sounds of vivisection from your bedroom.

Suffocation – “As Grace Descends”

Foals – “Late Night” (NSFW)

Wavves – “Demon To Lean On”

One minute and forty four seconds of frothing-at-the-mouth anger from Call Of The Void make up “Bottom Feeder”. It’s a brutal assemblage of blast beats and growls that sound like a pitched down recording of a dog fight. Shoutout to Caninus.

This is for fans of current Nails, old Napalm Death, and Premonitions of War (RIP). Grindy with a just enough melody to make you remember you’re listening to music and not underground fight club recordings. If you ever get in a knife fight with three dudes in an alley—and I assume that’s a reality for our readers because a lot of you are interested in vigilante street justice—this song would be the perfect song for a car to be blasting as you tried to fillet a street punk. Academy award winning Worldstar clip in the making.