NEWS 8.2.2026
No Masks Left Standing: SCREAMS OF TRANQUILITY Deliver a Cold Reckoning from the Austrian Alp .
For fans of : Death, Obituary, and Morbid Angel, A Borrowed Name delivers a cold, unforgiving reckoning, a reminder that some masks don’t fall… they rot.
Forged in the cold isolation of the Austrian Alps, Screams Of Tranquility return with “A BORROWED NAME,” a merciless melodic death metal strike that refuses abstraction, comfort, or emotional escape routes. This is not a song built on metaphor or melancholy, it is a confrontation, sharp-edged and deliberate, aimed straight at betrayal, self-deception, and the quiet cowardice of avoiding truth.
Driven by razor-cut melodic death metal riffs, crushing rhythmic weight, and icy atmospheric layers, A Borrowed Name balances brutality with surgical precision. The guitars tear through the mix with controlled violence, while the vocals arrive like a verdict, accusatory, unflinching, and stripped of sentimentality. There is no release here, no false sense of healing, only clarity.
Lyrically,
the track dismantles hollow identities and borrowed masks. It targets those who
chase validation, dodge accountability, and replace honesty with beautifully
wrapped lies. The recurring line “Never been more than a borrowed name” becomes
both accusation and epitaph, the collapse of a persona built entirely on
denial.
Where previous material like Crimson Hallows leaned into symbolism and deeper lore, A Borrowed Name stands as Screams Of Tranquility’s most direct and human statement to date. Raw, personal, and intentionally uncomfortable, the song exposes what happens when silence is chosen over truth and comfort is valued over consequence.
This is melodic death metal without romanticism or safe distance.
No mercy for self-deception.
No refuge in silence.
Biography
"Screams Of Tranquility" stands as the dynamic brainchild led by the gifted Marc P. Prohaska, a 29-year-old musician based in the idyllic foothills of the Austrian Alps in Upper Austria. This captivating project delves deep into the narratives of a society marred by excess, laying bare its hypocrisies, collective folly, and the gradual erosion of humanity.
Marc's musical palette is a vibrant fusion of influences, melding Scandinavian melodic death, American thrash, and hints of black metal. With deft craftsmanship, he intertwines pulsating rhythms and intricate orchestrations, weaving a spellbinding tapestry of sound.
From his beginnings as a musician at the age of 18, Marc has explored diverse musical avenues, ranging from pop-punk to rock and metal cover bands. However, it was through the emergence of Screams Of Tranquility that his artistic vision truly blossomed. In 2019, Marc graduated as a recording, mixing, and mastering engineer from HOFA College, now operating his own successful mixing and mastering business as a freelancer.
While Screams Of Tranquility is a solo endeavor, questions about the absence of additional band members only underscore Marc's proficiency and the effectiveness of his approach to "running SOT as if it were a fully occupied band." His unwavering dedication and skill shine through in every aspect of his work.
For those in search of authentic, meticulously crafted music that transcends the confines of mainstream melodic death metal, replete with searing leads, impassioned vocals, and profound thematic depth, Screams Of Tranquility stands as a beacon of artistic excellence worthy of exploration.
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Egypt’s
death metal legends return with ritualistic riffs, cinematic orchestration, and
crushing aggression.
Brutal Records unleashes Transmutation of Fate, the new EP from Egypt’s legendary death metal force SCARAB. With this release, the band enters a new chapter under its global alliance with the iconic American label. As a result, SCARAB launches a devastating new era. Brutal Records now drives the band’s ancient sonic incantations through its international network.
The Rise of SCARAB in Egyptian Death Metal
SCARAB formed in 2006 and quickly earned a reputation for ferocity, atmosphere, and spiritual intensity. Over the years, the band refined a sound that stands apart. Moreover, SCARAB fuses uncompromising death metal with Middle Eastern and Egyptian mysticism. Because of this approach, the music creates a ritualistic experience that transcends borders, cultures, and belief systems. Crushing riffs collide with cinematic orchestrations. Meanwhile, relentless aggression channels ancient mythology into modern extreme metal.
Lineup and Sonic Identity
Sammy Sayed leads the band on vocals and orchestrations. Alongside him, Tarek Amr and Omar Abou Doma command the guitars. Mohamed El Sherbieny anchors the sound on bass. At the same time, Amir El-Saidi drives the music forward with punishing drums. Sherif Elias expands the sonic landscape on keyboards and synths. Together, SCARAB pushes its mythology further with a sound that remains both brutal and transcendent.
A Ritualistic EP with Global Impact
Each track functions as a ceremonial invocation. In particular, the band blends fearless precision with deep atmospheric layers. Therefore, the EP reinforces SCARAB’s role as pioneers of Egyptian extreme metal on a global scale.
Statement from SCARAB
“We are very happy to join forces with Brutal Records. This marks a new era for SCARAB, and we are looking forward to what we are going to be putting out to the world through Brutal Records. Let the magick begin!”
Upcoming Releases via Brutal Records SCARAB and Brutal Records are already preparing devastating new material for release:
Transmutation of Fate (EP – May 8th, 2026) A metaphysical journey through destiny, transformation, and awakening, delivered through dark, atmospheric, and ritual-driven death metal.
Blinding the Masses [Reincarnated] (LP – July 31th, 2026) A brutal reimagining of SCARAB’s debut album—heavier, sharper, and reborn for a new generation of extreme metal devotees.
The Ritual Begins This signing represents more than a business agreement—it is an awakening. With Brutal Records’ global reach and SCARAB’s uncompromising vision, the coming releases will expand the band’s
https://brutalrecords.com/release/scarab-transmutation-of-fate/
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Label: Abstract Emotions
Release date: april 24th 2026
Genre: Melodic Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Candlemass | Novembers Doom | Paradise Lost | My Dying Bride
Held in the arms of comfort and love, surrounded by joy and affirmation, I had no expectation, nor understanding of failure and loss. I had no sense of my own true measure, or of the darknesses that lay so far below me, watching me with hungry eyes and endless patience. I flew higher, heedless and carefree, gathering happiness like an endless crop, a constant golden yield. And as the flames began to flicker along my wings I took them to be just another well-deserved adornment, another gift from a universe that loved me best. And when the fall came, it came fast. I spiralled into shadow, crashing into night…my heart, my mind, my spirit shattering on the rocks of reality. Toxicity and spite, rejection and grief, jealousy and hunger lapped at my feet like a bitter sea, as I lay on the cold, cruel shores of realisation…the scales rebalanced.
Following in the wake of their towering Spreading The Wings Of Hope album, Spain’s Golgotha have returned with the altogether darker hues and harsher, more rugged textures of Hubris. This is an album forged in the pitiless furnace of life; eight songs steeped in the struggle, turmoil and challenges that shape us, that make us human. Reflecting on their latest creation the band have emphatically stated, “these are not fictional stories, but fragments of real life turned into music”.
The album begins with first single, ‘A Simple Life’, opening with a brave, exposed vocal from María J. Lladó that focusses the attention, drawing the listener in before the full tide of Golgotha’s overwhelming sound crashes over them. The poignancy of emotion in this track, with its hypnotic refrain, flows like blood through every chord, every note. Elsewhere, the gargantuan, crawling riffs and huge, monstrous vocals of ‘Broken Toy’ open out into a reflective, melancholy melody – harsh vocals switching to Maria’s clear, emotive tones – as contrasts blend and entwine. Throughout Hubris these two sides of Golgotha, the forceful, bleak and blackened and the doomed, delicate beauty dance with each other in a deftly harmonious, disparate duality. ‘Too Late’ is deep, dark, slow motion death metal until a melodious chorus arrives, allowing a pale, gentle light into the black and a vibrant solo is a burst of flame in the cold murk. From ‘Blind’, in all its tarnished, faded majesty, like a funeral of kings, to the concluding ‘Intolerance’ – a musical conflict between the nobility of sorrow and the raw pain of grief – this is an album that lays bare its heart and shows all its scars. It will hollow you out, caressing your hidden anguish and drawing your wounds into the light.
“I became just an echo…”- Blind
To capture the real and vivid darkness of Hubris, Golgotha turned to producer Davide Billia (Antropofagus, Beheaded, Posthuman Abomination etc) and the band have described his contribution as “essential in shaping the power and character we wanted for this album”. Hubris will be released by Abstract Emotions on April 24th – another incredible chapter in the unfolding story of Golgotha.
Line-up:
Vicente J. Paya – Guitar/Keyboards/Vocals
Andrew Spinoza – Bass/Harsh Vocals
Rafel Garcies – Drums
María J. Lladó – Clean Vocals
Dan Garcia – Guitars
https://abstractemotions.com/en/
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TARDIGRADE INFERNO continue their streak of rolling out new music head of the release of the band's third studio album, HUSH. The official music video from these charming dark cabaret metal adepts, "Deadly Fairytales" is out now.
Watch "Deadly Fairytales" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tiq0aj0J94
Hush is a compelling result of TARDIGRADE INFERNO’s evolving signature style and the sheer power of their live performance. What truly defines the band is the experience the listener gets at their live shows, the thoughtful songwriting, the ironic lyricism, and the striking, highly aesthetic visuals. In June 2025, TARDIGRADE INFERNO released an atmospheric and emotional live album Made In Hell that captures their ferocious performance and their connection with the audience. Hush blends all of these strengths with an authentic sound delivered with studio precision.
Hush is due out March 5 on CD, digital and four exclusive vinyl editions. Pre-order the album at https://tr.ee/TiHush
Tracklist:
1. The Final Show
2. Hide 'n' Seek
3. Deadly Fairytales
4. All In your Head
5. Dead Fish Smile
6. Subatomic Heist
7. I.C.D.
8. Goor
9. Hush
10. Hypograph
11. I Am Eternal
Hush naturally picks up where 2023's Burn the Circus left off. At the beginning you hear the crackling of a circus burning down. A surviving radio plays a mournful melody that opens a grand show amid the ashes. Like a massive blazing phoenix, TARDIGRADE INFERNO opens its wings with elemental force. It sweeps away what remains and reclaiming its place at the center of attention.
The gorgeous Darya Rorria uses her flexible contralto to tell stories that are anything but cheerful. Her expressive vocals pulse with the music. They tease sharply, flow lyrically, spread in a soft velvet hush, and fade into a tragic whisper. They soar through tense passages and then glide back down into a low, intimate tone. The lyrics are charged to the point of electric crackling, just as one expects from the TARDIGRADE INFERNO.
Their trademark keyboards sound even more retro-futuristic, paying tribute to the classic horror movies of the past. The guitar acts like the wildest creature in the prairie with it's fury clothed in the polished frock coat of a respectable gentleman. The bass has the “AWESOME” knob turned to 100%. The drums are emotional, dynamic, and alive. Altogether it creates a familiar yet more sincere and revealing sound. The music becomes almost visible, almost tangible.
TARDIGRADE INFERNO have always paid special attention to the visual side of their art - from stage costumes and characters to their album covers. The cover for Hush was created by artist Milena Kress in a dark-aesthetic style. This is the band's first experience with analog painting - the piece is oil on canvas. It conveys the anxiety and emotional intensity that mirror the album’s lyrics. It’s also the first time the band’s mascot, the Tardigrade, is absent from the cover. It symbolizes a kind of coming-of-age. The toys have been left behind in the nursery.
Mixing, mastering, and production were handled by Vladimir Lehtinen, who has been working with the band continuously since the release of The Worst of Me EP. Vladimir helped the band capture their live energy without losing the studio polish of their recordings.
TARDIGRADE INFERNO is:
Darya Rorria - vocals
Alexander Pavlovich - guitars, keys
Maxim Belekhov - bass
Andrew Drew - drums
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SERMON TO THE LAMBS – “SERMON TO THE LAMBS”
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: march 6th 2026
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Brodequin | Deeds Of Flesh | Enmity | Liturgy
Rising through the countless layers of the inferno, through an eternity of screams and tears, pleas and regret, he brings his message from the unfathomable depths of darkness and flame. Such is his form, his dark abyssal presence, that sanity crumbles beneath the gaze of his multitudinous eyes…and his words of desolation turn flesh to liquid. The abject creatures that have gathered to receive his malediction cower in awe, before falling from madness to destruction. Worshippers become sacrifices as the forgotten king delivers his sermon to the lambs…
A new entity from the depths of the death metal underground has emerged, a baleful presence stepping forth from the shadows to deliver judgement without mercy. Hailing from Chile, Sermon To The Lambs are set to unleash the soul-shaking savagery of their debut, self titled album. Opening with ‘Crowned King Of Worms’, guitars rise around you like a cloud of venomous winged insects while a voice of undead malevolence roars from the heart of the swarm. Masterfully entwining slow, hypnotic passages that dance with a sinuous, serpentine wickedness and explosions of rabid speed and fury, Sermon To The Lambs begin to disassemble your reality. The eponymous title track follows with imperious power and subjugating force - it hits hard with an iron fist, threatening to separate skin from flesh and flesh from bone - and that tangible sense of unquestionable domination permeates the whole of this formidably impressive first album. From ‘Maximum Apostasy’, which beguiles with an atmosphere of dust and sacrilege before bringing forth absolute annihilation that sets the blood on fire, to ‘Flagrum Taxillatum’, a spiralling descent into the depths of perdition, this album just gets stronger and stronger as it progresses; more vivid, inventive and excruciating in its torments. The final two tracks – ‘God Spat And The Man Was Done’ and ‘Clergy’s Malevolence’, both colossal outpourings of death, appear as twin-headed devils, reprised as bonus tracks featuring guest vocals from Jeff Page of Manifestations. Sermon To The Lambs is magnificently unforgiving, an eruption of crawling horrors from a tortured, broken earth.
Sermon To The Lambs’ first offering of blasphemic brutality will be brought into the light on March 6th by the masters of malignancy and pain, Comatose Music. Given teeth and claws by the skilled mixing and mastering of the band’s own Victor Araneda, who has also worked with the likes of In Asymmetry, First Degree Murder and Supreme Banishment, Sermon To The Lambs sounds vicious and uncontrollable. Adorned in the stunning artwork of Par Olofsson (Winds Of Plague, Unleashed, Thy Art Is Murder) this album is set to leave its indelible mark, a suppurating wound, on the global death metal scene.
Line-up:
Richard Aguayo - Vocals
Mauro M. - Guitar/Bass
Victor Araneda – Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
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MUERTO - “ECLIPSED REALMS”
For
fans of
- Amenra, Emptiness, (early) Opera IX, Deathspell Omega
Genre - Black metal with doom metal elements
There is something about the rawness of emotions expressed in their pure, undiluted form and that's probably what's most appealing about this release. Against the backdrop of harrowing, plaintive music are the hollow echoes of an aggrieved, possessed-sounding woman, adding more malice to the music than anything possibly contrived. Over here is something dark, unseemly, insidious if only by being so naturally real and relatable. The intriguing doom-laden black metal music throbs and twists with a firm grip of the atmosphere pressing down on the listener like a hand to the throat. Muerto's disarmingly direct delivery, masterful juggling of various emotions in an aura of suffocating darkness, and their refreshing rawness in a time of overly processed music make them a band worthy of your attention.
Line up
Penelope Matamoros - Vocals & Bass
Juan Mondragon (Necronos, ex-Castleumbra) - Guitars
Eddel Jared - Drums
Artwork by Ricardo González
Track listing
1. Serpentine Echoes
2. Veil of Desolation
3. Burning Shadows
4. Wilderness
5. Decay
6. Radiance
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Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
"Dreaming Song to You" is the emotional core of Horizon Line, a track described as a journey through the spirit of exploration. Driven by solid song structures, showcased by unflinching guitar virtuosity, and anchored by a truly standout vocal performance, this ballad is your ticket aboard a metaphorical motorcycle ride deep into your own emotions.
Previous video:
https://youtu.be/MNJ8yRlY6PQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POIgeyGhvY8
THE SOUND: REAL VINTAGE, MODERN CRUSH
Thunder Rising delivers a sound intimate to those who live and die by the sacred riff, having perfectly distilled the rich essence of the late '70s and '80s. This isn't theoretical appreciation; it's deep-cut knowledge, forged by the band's history, which includes production work with Italian heavyweights like Firehouse and prog titans Arachnes during that very era. Their signature style, self-dubbed "Real Vintage," is an expertly crafted fusion of heavy rock power and melodic sophistication that draws equally from the crushing, organ-drenched riffage reminiscent of prime Deep Purple and Rainbow, and the soaring, arena-ready vocal hooks and melodic sensibilities that dominated the era, channeling the spirit of bands like Journey and Boston. Crucially, this authenticity isn't achieved through cheap digital imitation. Thunder Rising deploys a devastating arsenal of TRUE VINTAGE GEAR—including Hammond organs, classic Fender guitars, and genuine Marshall stacks—all paired with modern, cutting-edge recording techniques. The result is a sound that is both POWERFULLY VINTAGE and CRYSTAL CLEAR, showcasing the band's deep experience delivered with uncompromising modern clarity.
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1. Endless Buildings
2. Solitude
3. The Dark Machine
4. Desolate Place
5. Fragments
6. In Sorrow's Requiem
7. Pulvere Sacro
8. Love Damned Of Dead
9. Shelter Me
10. End Begun
The album will be released in CD, LP (black and marble gold vinyl) & digital and it's available for PRE-ORDER at https://t.ly/AyAM7
It's been almost 10 years since their last album "Deathrising" and MOTUS TENEBRAE return to make their voice heard in the most powerful, dark and full of pathos way possible with a new album that treasures the legacy of that work, enriching it with new nuances and atmospheres, creating their most mature, most emotional and most decadent work in their 25 years of career.
With "In Sorrow's Requiem", MOTUS TENEBRAE rise again, stronger, darker and deeper than ever with a music which does not leave indifferent those who live for sounds dear to Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Sentenced, Katatonia.!
Three visions... one sound. Embrace the unknown!
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Originally released in 2021 through Northern Silence Productions, “Elegieën”
established itself as a landmark in the post-black evolution, defined by its
blunt, ferocious, and euphoric attitude paired with consistently inspired
songwriting. Now, five years after its initial arrival, the album is finally
being presented on the format for which it was originally intended.
The limited-edition reissue is pressed on transparent green vinyl and includes a printed insert. Mastered for the format by Dennis Blomberg with design and layout by tryfar, the records are expected to ship in mid-to-late February.
Pre-order “Noctambulist I: Elegieën”: https://thesehandsmelt.shop/products/noctambulist-i-elegieen-lp
The band commented:
"Conceived at the dawn of a global pandemic, shelved for a year, born into a locked-down world; Noctambulist I: Elegieën has been marred by delay time and again. Now, upon its fifth anniversary, Noctambulist are proud and relieved to finally offer our debut record on vinyl through the efforts and grace of These Hands Melt. Finally pressed on the medium for which it was destined, we hope you can fully experience the fruits of our labour anew. Even five years down the road, the songs in this collection still ring true. At least to us, they do".
Noctambulist are an atmospheric post-black metal outfit from Tilburg, the Netherlands. Formed in 2015 between housemates J.D. Kaye, Sam C.A. and Mitchell Scheerder, they set out to create a hard-hitting, melancholic style of black metal that draws inspiration from other genres such as post-rock, shoegaze, new wave and post-punk. Noctambulist stand for contrasts. Serotonin summits and strung-out canyons. The empty and the grandiose. The beautiful and the appalling.
After defining their sound and completing the lineup with guitarists Tristan Tabbers and Stef Heesakkers, they released their full-length debut “Noctambulist I: Elegieën” via Northern Silence Productions. Their second album, “Noctambulist II: De Droom”, was released through These Hands Melt in February 2025, and saw the band dive deeper into post-punk and shoegaze influences while retaining the fierceness of their debut record Elegiëen
Noctambulist are
J.D. Kaye – Vocals & Guitar
Stef Heesakkers – Guitar
Tristan Tabbers – Guitar
Sam C.A. – Bass
Mitchell Scheerder - Drums
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HELA – “A REIGN TO CONQUER”
Label: Ardua Music
Release date: february 27th 2026
Genre: Melodic Doom Metal
For fans of: The Gathering | The 3rd And The Mortal | Inborn Suffering | Katatonia
Taking their name from the Norse goddess of death, Spanish voyagers through realms of shadow and sorrow, Hela, formed in Elche, Spain in 2012. They quickly made their mark on the doom metal scene with their well-received debut album, Broken Cross, which was picked up for a vinyl release by the respected Svart Records. Their star continued to rise with their second and third albums – Death May Die and Vegvísir – their sound developing in a natural and organic way. Trends and fashions have always been meaningless to Hela, with their reputation being based on honesty of expression and a palpable passion for the music they create. The global pandemic ushered in a period of silence from Hela, with the personal changes of circumstance that life tends to bring following in its wake…but the time for their reawakening has come. With new vocalist Raquel Navarro adding her sublime, dreaming tones to the band’s most emotive music to date, Hela are poised to present A Reign To Conquer.
Opening track, ‘Vessel To Nowhere’, begins in forbidding fashion, with dark, cold and powerful chords before engaging melodies and warmly human vocals open up that daunting exterior. Portentous narrative passages lend weight, while the lead guitar takes hold of your heart in an ascending spiral of emotion. ‘The Infinite Tower’ introduces a lightness, an ethereal feel as superb guitar lines flit like ghosts between the dreaming passages and storm-tossed, turbulent passions. A captivating piece, from the pinnacle of this tower you can gaze out across a landscape painted in the muted colours of dusk…and with each track we fall a little deeper into Hela’s embrace. ‘Crystal Bridge’ speaks in a universal language, connecting with the listener at a fundamental level beyond words as its wistful melancholy and bittersweet reflections build to an overwhelmingly powerful chorus. There is a sense of journeying through this album, of onward movement, as we walk, drift, float, stumble and soar through the cascading guitars of ‘Emerald Mirror’, the waltz through emptiness and memories of ‘Architect Of Disorder’ to arrive at the towering conclusion of ‘Nomad’…only to find that the journey continues – the restless nomad wandering the dusty paths of the world for eternity, with only the ghosts of lost loves for company. Hela have continued to grow, to subtly transform, to follow where their hearts and their music lead them…and A Reign To Conquer is a work of beauty that could only have been achieved through that open authenticity and untarnished integrity.
Recorded at the Red Records studio in Alicante, with Jose Franciso Rojo and mixed by the band’s own Julian Velasco, A Reign To Conquer was then mastered by Dan Swano whose touch has dusted albums by so many acclaimed artists with magic; from Barren Earth to Hypocrisy, Novembers Doom to Novembre…the list is practically endless. The result is an album of rare vitality and potency, an all-encompassing presence that holds the attention effortlessly. Adorned, as always, in the evocative imagery of Deadsign, A Reign To Conquer will be released by the highly regarded Ardua Music on CD digipak and digital formats and by Tormo Records on limited edition vinyl on February 27th. If you have yet to discover the fragility and power of Hela then now is the time. If you are a seasoned traveller, then welcome back to the road that never ends…
Line-up:
Raquel Navarro · Vocals
Julián Velasco · Guitars, fx
Tano Giménez · Bass
Miguel Fernández · Drums
https://www.arduamusic.com/
https://www.tormorecords.com/en/
https://www.helaband.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Helaband/
Belgian
extreme black metal act YHWH presents their latest lyric video
for the track “MURDERER OF ILLUSIONS”, a relentless outpouring of
nihilistic fury rooted in hatred for mankind and the mental suffering born from
human stupidity. The song confronts the collapse of ego, hope, and human
certainty, unfolding as a journey through despair, misanthropy, and the destruction
of every illusion, delivered through a harsh and uncompromising soundscape that
mirrors its lyrical intensity.
With “Murderer of Illusions”, YHWH solidifies their place at the forefront of extreme black metal, merging philosophical depth with uncompromising aggression.
“Murderer of Illusions” is a track taken from the band's EP Khatha, out now via Wormholedeath
Stream Khatha: https://orcd.co/khathaep
Previous video Hell on Earth (The Root of All Evil): https://youtu.be/FjTY5SyNqvg
Formed in 2024, YHWH is a Belgian/Thai black metal band. All music is composed by Schem HaMephorash and her sister C. Bones, with S.M. Goat Ritual joining in June. Following their debut EP Tetragrammaton (April 2025, Wormholedeath), the band now unleashes the second chapter: Khatha. Prepare for the doom.
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“Horisontit” is a strong cross-section of Karelian Warcry’s music. At the heart of the track is a forward-rolling armoured train, and a mid-section rising to majestic heights observes the horizon from a bird’s-eye perspective. The lyrics are a cathartic journey to a liminal point where everything falls apart in your hands, yet there is nothing to do but keep moving forward. Vocal tracks originally intended as demo vocals remained on the final recording, dictated by death.
Listen to the single on music services : https://push.fm/fl/karelianwarcry-horisontit
The work of Veripellot album took shape over the years 2010–2024, nearly coming to a halt following the death of the band’s founding member, vocalist-guitarist M.I. Mikkonen. Veripellot became a composite, uniting Karelian Warcry’s two different line-ups and the pandemonium of the entire timespan.
Veripellot is a study of war, grief, and the dark sides of humanity. The themes rise from the band members’ personal experiences, collective traumas, and a shared interest in the events of their home region and its war history. The album is, on one hand, a memorial writing for fallen friends, and on the other, a glimpse into the horrors of the Finnish Civil War. On Veripellot, the rough thunder of war resounds — and at times an oppressive stillness.
Veripellot consists of nine distinct tracks. Musically, the album is a step forward for the band — groovier, yet straightforwardly uncompromising. Progressive elements have also been brought into the mix.
Discography:
Demo '04 (2004)
Kylmä rautainen (Album, 2005)
Verinen taival, päättymätön tie (Album, 2010)
Minun aikani (Single, 2020)
Line-up:
A. O. Heiskanen - Drums
J. H. Järvinen - Vocals
J. T. Kousa - Guitars
S. P. Ukkonen - Bass
https://linktr.ee/Karelian_Warcry
Style: Death/doom metal
Type: CD standard jewel box + 16 page booklet
Release date: 30.1. 2026
Here is my second release this year. It is very close to my heart. This re-release is being released as a gift for the 50th birthday of flutist Valda from DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY, a very good friend of mine.
DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY was a Czech doom metal band that existed between 1993 and 2013. It is one of the world's most respected Czech doom metal bands. When René "Fusaty" Krystyn, frontman and founder of DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY, died of cardiac arrest in September 2013 at the age of only 39, his band also physically died.
After Fusaty's death, Petr Herdron, owner of Pařát Productions, decided to spread the musical legacy of his good friend's band around the world. As a result, over the past 10+ years, almost all of the band's recordings have been reissued not only on CD with new graphic booklets, but also on LP´s and MC´s.
"Štvanice" is the last studio album by DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY from 2008. Following its release on vinyl (2014) and audio cassette (2021), it is now time for the first CD re-release, which, unlike the original, is being released in a larger print run with the ambition of reaching collectors around the world. Since the original CD version was released as a digipak, re-release is presented in a standard jewel box with the original sound.
Bonus material on this re-release includes part of Fusaty's music archive – a song that was never completed.
"Štvanice" will be released FIRST TIME ON CD STANDARD JEWEL BOX 30.1. by Pařát Productions. You can order them at https://paratshop.cz/produkt/dissolving-of-prodigy-stvanice-re-release-2026/
You can listen to full recording on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSVdupnusrI
In the five years since the release of 2021's Transmigrator, GRAVEBORN has been meticulously crafting their newest magnum opus - an 11-track concept album about continuity in the face of collapse.
Throughout the course of Metempsychosis, GRAVEBORN challenges themselves and the listener to stare into an internal and external abyss. Moving from inner psychological fracture to societal and species-wide decline, the album rejects narratives of tragedy or triumph, treating destruction as a necessary mechanism of transmission. Metempsychosis asks one question and refuses to soften the answer- what remains when everything else is gone?
Hear part of this journey with the album's new single and final track, "Orthologs." Watch the lyric video now at
Vocalist John Leblanc describes the track as the album's closing statement - a reflection on consciousness as continuity, and the nature of self-evolution.
"'Orthologs' is about what survives after annihilation, not as hope, but as function. It’s evolution under pressure. Forced transformation. The essential self persists, but the form changes radically. I don’t return to who I was. I don’t heal into the old shape. I become something else because survival requires it. Like orthologous genes, the structure diverges, but the core purpose remains intact. This isn’t triumphant. It’s real. It’s not a victory lap. It’s the moment after the maw, when something still stands. Not because it’s unbroken, but because it adapted.
This song means: continuity is not comfort. Continuity is persistence. I am changed. I am not whole. But something essential still functions, still moves forward, still exists.
Not healed.
Not restored.
Still here.
And that is enough."
Metempsychosis is due out April 3. Pre-order the album at https://gravebornma.bandcamp.com/album/metempsychosis
Tracklist:
1) Embers of Existence
2) The Archaea Paradox
3) Temporal Sands
4) Idols of Bone
5) Paralogs
6) Metempsychosis
7) River of the Eternal Mind
8) Epistatic Drift
9) Legacy of Light
10) The Maw of Recursion
11) Orthologs
Line-Up:
Reggie Lewis - Bass
Jesse Blanchette - Guitars
Chris Ramusiewicz - Guitars
John LeBlanc - Vocals
Marc Brennan - Drums
Bio:
Formed in 2013 in Boston, MA, Graveborn serves up an ethereally heavy strain of progressive death metal. Over the last decade, they have released 4 albums (Samsara (2014), Seeds Of Life (2016), The Athenaeum (2018) and Transmigrator (2021)) and performed throughout the Northeast US with the likes of Fallujah, Rivers of Nihil, Cognitive, Ghost Bath, Ov Sulfur, and others. Graveborn weaves the themes of self-evolution and introspection through their lyrics, and embodies this ethos in their collaborations.
After over 5 years since their last album, Transmigrator, Graveborn returns with their 5th full length album, Metempsychosis, set to release on April 3, 2026. Combining the odd-time aggression and dissonant ferocity of bands like Car Bomb, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, and Ion Dissonance with the ethereal melodicism and riff worship of bands like Fallujah, Rivers of Nihil, and Kardashev, Graveborn stand apart from the crowd.
www.facebook.com/gravebornma
Extreme
metal veterans STALWART unveil the lyric video
for “SACRIFICE", a track taken from their 7th
album, "TEMPVS EDAX RERVM", out now via
Wormholedeath.
“Sacrifice” blends the existential dread with Stalwart’s trademark intensity. The track digs into the fear of being forgotten, following a lone figure wandering through a city that no longer sees him. Stalwart pushes the track into darker territory with lyrics that confront memory, guilt, and the weight of a past scorched by loss. It’s a raw look at a man fighting the silence that threatens to erase him, carried by the band’s signature mix of death, thrash, groove, and prog brutality.
The video premiered on Headbangers Australia: https://www.headbangersaustralia.com/
About Tempvs Edax Rervm
Stalwart's Tempvs Edax Rervm delves into the inexorable power of time, exploring themes of fading identity and inevitable decay as "heaven and earth have switched places." The album distills the band's essence—groove-driven riffs, intricate rhythms, and atmospheric layers—into a heavier, darker, and more focused continuation of their intense, precise metal sound.
Stream the album: https://orcd.co/teralbum
Previous video:
https://youtu.be/biyuFljFGTQ
https://youtu.be/No_nn9kzzVg
About Stalwart
Formed in 1999 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Stalwart has built a reputation in the extreme metal scene with a distinctive blend of death, thrash, groove, and progressive metal — combining crushing riffs, intricate rhythms, and atmospheric layers. Over their career, they’ve released six full-length albums through labels including Fono, Soyuz/MetalAgen, CD-Maximum, Metallism, and PRC Music, with four albums produced by the renowned Wiesławski brothers (Vader, Decapitated, Behemoth) at Hertz Studio, Poland. Stalwart has shared stages with Behemoth, Kataklysm, Vader, Amon Amarth, Primal Fear, Finntroll, and Carnifex, performing across Russia, Ukraine, Finland, Estonia, and Germany.
After a hiatus starting in 2019, the band returns with their seventh album, Tempvs Edax Rervm, out early 2026 via WormHoleDeath Records, promising crushing grooves, complex rhythms, relentless blast beats, and immersive atmospheres — a new chapter in Stalwart’s evolution.
www.youtube.com/@stalwart.metalband
www.facebook.com/stalwartmetal
CRÈME FLESH – “FOR YOUR ASS ONLY”
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: april 3rd 2026
Genre: Slam/Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Devourment | Kraanium | Vulvectomy | Korpse
With the world teetering on the brink of absolute destruction, what we need is a hero – or even better, four of them – and with serendipitous good fortune, out of the great white north come Canadian secret agents of slam, Crème Flesh! Returning after the successful 2023 operation: Casablumpkin, they are licensed to blast, brutalize and wield pornographic puns like deadly weapons! All too often in the world of extreme music an offensive song title or a humorous soundbite is used to disguise a spectacular lack of musical ability…but not with Crème Flesh. With these maniacs you can laugh, be offended and get blown to bits by some of the most severely savage brutal death metal you will ever hear, executed with clinical precision. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to survive the ten tracks of bowel-rupturing, cranium crushing brutality that is…For Your Ass Only!
Beginning with the crisp, accomplished assault of ‘Field Of Creams’, For Your Ass Only quickly demonstrates just how deadly serious the music behind its over the top song titles really is. The riffs are impeccable, the vocals beyond monstrous, the drumming superbly skilled and the tempo shifts from a mid-paced, bone splintering grind to insane, frenzied velocities navigated with a slick, deceptive nonchalance. ‘Lake Flaccid’ begins with a carefully selected quote from the film Lake Placid before unleashing a landslide of punishing heaviness, while ‘Sleepless On Cialis’ is the kind of groove heavy pit anthem, grotesquely adorned in spurts of wanton aggression, that is designed for live violence. From the crawling beast that is ‘The Gapes Of Wrath’ to the twisted insanity of ‘Jagged Little Penis’, For Your Ass Only is utterly relentless - reaching a cataclysmic climax with ‘Whores Of Perception’, where thick, pustulant riffs collide with a rhythm that’s as infected as it is infectious. It’s one hell of a conclusion to an album that’s a masterclass in slamming, brutal death metal. Come for the jokes but stay for Crème Flesh’s unquestionable massive killing capacity.
Complete with a sound that combines intimidating muscle and shocking clarity, thanks to producer Geoff Hodsman (Human Compost, Apegod etc) and brilliantly realised artwork courtesy of Krag (Paroxsihzem, Nuclearhammer etc), For Your Ass Only will begin its assignment of subversion and devastation on April 3rd, under the command of Comatose Music. This press release will self-destruct in five seconds…
Line-up:
Matt Hilden - Vocals
Rory Kennedy - Bass
Sophokles Theodoru - Guitar
Allen L. - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
MORS VERUM – “CANVAS”
For
fans of - Gorguts, Morbid
Angel, Norse, Ulcerate, Saevus Finis
Forward-thinking Canadian band Mors Verum are giving their own interpretation to the death metal style, creating music that is simultaneously dissonant, progressive, and atmospheric. They've removed the shackles of the otherwise linear and niche style and have allowed their music to explore different realms whilst retaining the death metal sound along with its sharp dissonant edge. The result is absolutely riveting, with the music constantly alternating between throbbing discordant blasts and soothing passages, traversing worlds hitherto unexplored. The experience feels at once liberating and cathartic, as though having achieved epiphany after constant, dogged exploration. The lengthier song lengths never feel tedious either as the band embarks on their newfound path with relative ease and confidence. On "Canvas", they have adopted a fascinating approach to the style, one that is beautifully tempered yet adventurous enough to excite.
Tracklisting
1. Bloodied Teeth 04:19
2. Your Apocalypse 07:10
3. Serenade 05:30
4. Canvas 07:00
5. Mortal 06:37
Official release date - February 6th, 2026
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/morsverumband
Cheers! Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity
Format: Digital CD /
Physical CD
Label: Independent Release
Style : Epic / Symphonic / Metal
For fans of : Epica, Kamelot, Nightwish, Delain, After Forever, Within Temptation, Serenity, Xandria, Rhapsody of Fire, Two Steps From Hell, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Symphony X and such….
This new album is the second full-length album from this Dutch band that offers us an excellent form of symphonic metal. The release date is February 6, 2026, and thealbum will be released as an Independent Release.
Tracklist:
01. The Moon, the Sun and the Stars
02. The Force of Nature
03. Lessons in Life(Are for Free)
04. Come into My World
05. Your Ultimate Joy
06. I Thought You Were on My Side
07. Don’t Wake Up the Dead
08. Monsters in My Head
09. Two Hearts
10. Run with the Wolves
11. What Goes Up Must Come Down
12. Eyes Will Glow
Much can be said about Dutch epic symphonic metalers Epinikion, but their story certainly is unique.
Hailing from the Netherlands, former athletes Renate de Boer and Robert Tangerman initially started an ambitious project to write a rockopera album.
With no musical background to speak of, but with incredible talent, inspiration, and sheer will, the critically acclaimed debut Inquisition came to life.
Epinikion is a ‘hymne for the winner’. In Ancient Greece the heroic stories of athletes were sung in an epinikion after their victories at major events. A fitting band name for musicians rising from the ashes of their former sports careers, as reflected by the phoenix in the band’s logo.
From the very beginning Epinikion combined heavy guitar riffs with subtle progressive and heavy metal influences, complimented with harmonic and bombastic orchestral lines. With their new music, the band takes it a step further, blending each bandmember’s musical influences and creativity into a unique and refreshing sound.
Epinikion is ready to unleash their upcoming new album The Force of Nature upon the world.
Mixed and mastered by Jacob Hansen, and featuring artwork from Giannis Nakos, the album reflects the band’s conscious decision to commit and go big, and it promises to be a blast of a successor to their debut…
Line-Up:
Robert Tangerman: guitar
Renate de Boer: keyboards
Rutger Klijn: bassguitar
Maarten Jungschläger: guitar
Kimberley Jongen: vocals
Michal Gis: drums
https://www.facebook.com/epinikion
Label: Throne Of Lies Records
Release date: january 10th 2026
Genre: Blackened Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: 1914 | Woods Of Ypres | Katatonia | Fear Of God
I lie in a sea of dreams, the substance of my life flowing around me in tattered stories – the triumphs and tragedies, such as they were, my great loves, lies, betrayals and sins, they all swim before my empty, unblinking eyes. Were they really all as inconsequential as they seem now to my still heart? Did it all mean so pitifully little? Perspective changes when the clamour of your breathing has ceased. None of it mattered then, none of it matters now in this cold bed of worms – with the earth above and a grave beneath…
The Earth Above, A Grave Beneath is the fourth full length album from Louisville, Kentucky sextet The Promise Of Plague – a band that draw inspiration from across the metal spectrum, fusing diverse elements into a dark and powerfully distinct sound. Nearly a decade on from their first EP, Sleepwalking Into Armageddon, the band’s experience and accomplished musicianship can be heard in every note of the bravely creative The Earth Above, A Grave Beneath. Opening in savage fashion with ‘Vomit Running Through My Veins’, The Promise Of Plague slam you back in your seat before the song uncoils itself, shifting between moods and tempos, adding melodic guitar lines and rich atmosphere, driven forward by a visceral vocal presence. This opening sets the tone for what is to follow…expect the unexpected, be prepared for every song to possess its own individual character, but with an emotional weight and depth that anchors the band’s sound as they explore. From the emotive darkness and haunted landscapes of ‘Dead Mistake’, via the varied vocal interplay of ‘One Line Poem’, to the album’s title track, with its guitar motifs with deep, deep roots that speak in a universal voice; there are a myriad of treasures to uncover in The Promise Of Plague’s musical darkness. The venomous black metal heart of ‘My World Is Better, Darker’ beats slower as it reaches its end and slips into the epic ‘Of Sorrow’ – resounding chords, wearied marches across windswept hills, jagged riffs, frantic velocities, raw, impassioned screams – they are all here, all part of the great tapestry of this momentous song. And then? Then we celebrate our passage through the night with a brutal reworking of Quiet Riot’s headbanging classic, ‘Metal Health’! Twisted into The Promise Of Plague’s form, it provides a triumphant conclusion to this harrowing but rewarding album.
Recorded and mixed by Chris Leffler (Stonecutters etc) and mastered by Overload drummer Todd Hawkins, The Earth Above, A Grave Beneath has the strength, dexterity and clarity of sound to bring the best out of The Promise Of Plague’s diverse and adventurous creativity. Completed by the evocative cover artwork of the band’s own Jerry Barksdale (who also supplied the visual elements for many albums by death metal veterans Abominant) The Earth Above, A Grave Beneath will be released by Throne Of Lies Records on March 10th…prepare for a voyage into the stygian depths of the soul.
Line-up:
JD Hall – Vocals
Joanie Michele – Vocals
Jerry Barksdale – Guitars
Sam Pedneau – Guitars
Phil Garrett – Bass
Jim Huggins – Drums
*additional guest guitars by Chris Leffler
https://throneofliesrecords.bigcartel.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thepromiseofplague
Release
date:
23.01.2026
Location: Nepal
FFO: Misery Index, Death, Brutal Truth
Lineup:
Darshan Angdembe Limbu - Guitars/Vocals
Season Bajracharya - Bass/Vocals
Suraj Nakarmi - Drums
Bio:
Nepali death metal band ANIMALITY was formed in 2017 and released their first EP, Animality Inherent, in 2018 with an earlier lineup, marking the initial phase of the band's sound and identity. The band draws influence from a wide range of extreme music, spanning death metal, grindcore, and thrash, but rather than being driven by specific bands, Animality's music comes from day-to-day lived realities—experiences that cannot always be expressed openly while leading an ordinary life. Extreme music became the band's art of expression, a way to translate unspoken experiences into sound.
https://www.youtube.com/@animalitynepal7119
https://www.facebook.com/Animality.band
The song is about people in great desperation, maybe hit by catastrophes or struck by fate, so they are praying for help from a higher power or a god - but the prayers remain unanswered. That's the invocator's doom.
The video was once again designed by Andrea Matelli, who did the job perfectly for "Drown in Blood", too.
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK8iJDYIiCU
The band was founded in 1993 in Helmstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany. After one lineup change in 1994, they have been active in the same formation for over 30 years now. On guitar and vocals there is Peter Geißler, bass guitar and vocals by Mirco Brandes, lead guitar by Chrille and drums by Alex.
SERVATOR started as a death metal band but due to their diverse taste in metal music, they included some other influences, mainly thrash metal.
Over the years they found their place right between thrash and death metal, with some groove punch included.
SERVATOR draw inspiration from anything that has a solid metal edge.
In January 2026, their new all-out attack titled “The Dark Triad” was released.
Like “incite the unCreation”, it was recorded and produced at Splash’n’Dash Studio by Reimund Junker in Helmstedt.
The lyrics deal with conflicts, wars, personal tragedies, and crises - basically everything that’s going wrong in the world.
It is available as a digipak with a 12-page booklet and, after the release, on all major streaming platforms. A vinyl is planned, too.
In December 2025, alongside an Instagram account, their YouTube channel went online with the first lyric video for “Drown in Blood,” to be followed soon by another video for “The Invocator.”
On January 17, 2026, the CD release party took place at JFBZ Helmstedt.
They were able to secure Instructor (thrash metal) from Rostock and the death metal steamroller New World Depression from Emsdetten as support acts (New World Depression headlining, to be more precise).
SERVATOR never stepped back from doing what they call “Servator Metal”, that’s the way they love metal and they would be grateful, if there are some follewers outside to support the underground.
https://www.youtube.com/@Servator-Metal
https://www.facebook.com/Servator.Metal/
ARCHVILE KING - "AUX HEURES DÉSESPÉRÉES"
Release date : January 23, 2025
Genre : Black Metal
For fans of: Dissection, MGLA, Dark Funeral, etc...
Origin: France
Duration: 46min43
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Tracklist:
1. Riposte
2. Le Chant Des Braves
3. L’Excusé
4. Le Carneval Du Roi Des Vers
5. Sépulture
6. Aux Heures Désespérées
7. À Ces Batailles Abandonnées
8… Et Aux Hommes Misérables
Emerging at the end of 2019, ARCHVILE KING is the solo project of french multi-instrumentalist Baurus. Drawing from the sharp, biting sounds of retro Thrash and Black Metal, his music fully reflects his inspirations, offering intoxicating melodies over riffs as sharp as rusted steel.
After a unashamedly Thrash Metal solo EP, followed by a darker full-length album, ARCHVILE KING now pulls us deeper into its world with a new concept album plunging further into the swamps of the King of Worms. With "Aux Heures Désespérées", we are drawn into Black Metal infused with shades of Heavy Metal, Thrash, and grandiloquent tones, pulling us down into the depths.
"Aux Heures Désespérées" is ARCHVILE KING’s second album. From the portrait fiercely drawn by "VILE" to the festering marshes of "À La Ruine", this time Baurus recounts the final great battle of humankind against the vile Worm King. This new concept album offers several points of view, opening the door to multiple interpretations. From a wounded general who forces his son to leave him behind, to the Worm King himself mocking the troops in disarray, to the bitter reflections of a soldier on the verge of death, a bleak depiction of a futile battle is painted across eight relentless tracks.
The futility of war, the sins of the soldier, false convictions—through "Aux Heures Désespérées", Baurus gives himself over to a pacifist meditation and a scathing critique of conflict through the lens of a blood-soaked tale.
Orders : https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/bands/archvile-king
NEWS 31.1.2026
ORPHAN
PLAYGROUND SNIPER - "CHRONICLES II: SLAMPEDE OF THE HAMMERED"
2023 begann Orphan Playground Sniper mit neuen Studioaufnahmen – diesmal mit dem klaren Ziel, nichts dem Zufall zu überlassen. Tsuntsun Production formte die rohe Brutalität der Band in etwas zu verwandeln, das man guten Gewissens veröffentlichen kann. Die Aufnahmen wurden Mitte 2025 abgeschlossen.
Am 05.12.2025 erschien das zweite Album „Chronicles II: Slampede of the hammered“ über
Rising Nemesis Records.
Das Album ist eine bewusste Hommage an die Death-Metal- und Slam-Helden der Band (u.
a. Devourment, Suffocation, Dehumanized, Dying Fetus, Defeated Sanity, Hatebreed, Deicide, Vital Remains), offen verarbeitet im Artwork und direkt in den Songs. Gleichzeitig bleibt es eine Einladung an alle Metalheads zur OPS-typischen Vodka-flavored Party: sich einen ordentlichen Refill der OPS-typischen Vodka-flavored Party einzuschenken.
https://youtu.be/Dsfbq3DQIfM?si=EaCaIrp30oJirQTq
https://youtu.be/G4sv1PX0uTg?si=g9oSWbedyu0bfnrH
https://orphanplaygroundsniper.bandcamp.com/album/chronicles-ii-slampede-of-the-hammered
The video begins with the atmospheric intro “Una Tarra Ci Hé”, centred on a delicate, stirring cello performance by the band's own Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan, setting a sombre tone before transitioning into the expansive power of “Talamh Lom”.
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/lzQMDZMLtVE?si=tgVKWJLqOxts4TwV
The band said:
“Una Tarra Ci Hé and Talamh Lom are the opening tracks of our new album, they develop the concept of our first EP Nimue, but from the point of view of a human being. One who feels close to nature and yet contemplates the damages created by his own species. It is a meditation on death as return rather than ending. Rooted in forest, soil, and ancestral memory, the song follows a final offering of body and spirit back to the land: where decay becomes rebirth and the self dissolves into ocean, mountain, and earth. It mourns a world stripped of soul and freedom, while quietly affirming an infinite connection that survives beyond flesh and time.”
“In Perfect Stillness” will be available in the following formats:
CD Digipack (Limited to 300 copies): 3-panels, including a 12-page booklet.
LP Dark Green Vinyl (Limited to 200 copies): Includes a 12-page 30x30cm booklet.
Digital
“In Perfect Stillness” features guests Sarah Fielding (Darkest Era) on “My Tomb Beneath The Tide”, along with John Wilson (Piano) and Raul Andueza (Cello) on the track “Footsteps II”. Domhain and Chris Fielding produced the album. Engineered and mixed by Chris Fielding at Foel Studio, and mastered by Mike Lamb.
Pre-order now via These Hands Melt: https://ffm.bio/domhain
The band will showcase the new album live at their album launch show on Saturday, March 7th, at The Voodoo in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Hailing from Northern Ireland and consisting of four experienced musicians from the Irish metal scene, Domhain is a quartet that blends an emotional mix of post-black metal, blackgaze, and atmospheric black metal, featuring distinctive vocal harmonies and cello. Their debut EP, the three-song EP “Nimue” (October 2023), showcased their long-form songs filled with myths and remembrances, featured guest cello by Jo Quail and was recorded at Foel Studio with Chris Fielding (Conan, Primordial).
Following their debut, they released the split EP, “Of Pine and Oak” (May 2025), with labelmates Ephemeral, which the band described as "an ode to nature".
Domhain's powerful live show has garnered significant attention, notably at Fortress Festival 2024, where Kerrang! praised their set as “something bracingly original about their specific black metal blend: a sound that you can drift off into even in a live setting” and that “they already have the material to become giants of the genre”.
Tracklist:
1. Una Tarra Ci Hé
2. Talamh Lom
3. Footsteps II
4. In Perfect Stillness
5. My Tomb Beneath the Tide
Domhain are:
Andy Ennis - Vocals & bass guitar
Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan - Drums, vocals & cello
Nathan Irvine - Guitars
Ashley Irwin - Guitars & backing vocals
https://www.facebook.com/these.hands.melt
https://www.facebook.com/Domhain.band/
KINGS OF DARK DESIRES were founded in late 2022 in Oldenburg, Germany, as the project of two musicians deeply rooted in rock and metal culture for more than three decades. For around 25 years, both members have been active in various underground bands and projects, shaping a musical identity forged through experience rather than trend. Beyond their own work, they are also involved in the local metal scene, including activities connected to Hellpower Oldenburg e.V.
With KINGS OF DARK DESIRES, the duo set out to rekindle one of their earliest passions: the raw and uncompromising Black Metal of the early 1990s. Drawing inspiration from bands such as Darkthrone, Immortal, and Marduk, as well as Dark Metal acts like Type O Negative, and Moonspell, the band blends harshness with atmosphere, maturity, and emotional depth. The result is a dark and intense fusion of Black Metal and Dark Metal, shaped by life experience and a strong sense of mood rather than nostalgia.
The new album CURSE OF THE THRONE will be released digitally on February 13, 2025. Compared to its predecessor, the album is darker, more focused, and atmospherically denser, unfolding a sonic landscape steeped in decay, power, inner abysses, and dark magic as a narrative and aesthetic element. CURSE OF THE THRONE is conceived as a cohesive work, drawing the listener into a bleak, immersive world with a distinctly ritualistic intensity—without relying on dogma or ideology.
A vinyl edition is scheduled for release in March/April 2025, underlining the band’s strong connection to physical formats and classic album culture.
The debut album Battles Below, released on March 8, 2024, laid the foundation for this path. Recorded and produced entirely independently, its nine tracks marked the starting point for the artistic development that now reaches a new level with CURSE OF THE THRONE.
KINGS OF DARK DESIRES appear under the pseudonyms “King Orcus” and “King Victor”, which are part of a broader thematic framework connected to the fictional universe of THE BOOK OF ODDITY. While this background is not required to engage with the music, it offers additional layers for those who wish to explore further.
As a two-member project, live performances are not planned at present, though they remain a possibility in the more distant future with additional musicians. Instead, the band released a music video for the song “Mistress of the Dark”, produced entirely in-house as a homage to classic horror cinema.
CURSE OF THE THRONE will be available on all major streaming platforms, with Bandcamp serving as a central hub for listeners and press alike.
https://www.youtube.com/@bookofoddity
https://kingsofdarkdesires.com
https://www.facebook.com/bookofoddity
Listen to Lost in Translation on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/krateros-ep
“Lost in Translation” is the debut release that has been a long time in the making and will finally see the light of day through Inverse Records. Self-produced by the band, the EP showcases the variety of the band’s expression — from the all-out aggressive thrash of “Uticensis” to the introspective and progressive “Comatose Waltz.” Even while drawing influence from all types of music, “Lost in Translation” manages to make a cohesive statement, held together by an undying love for strong riffs and creative arrangements. The band is unbothered by current trends and will continue to write music the only way they know how — intuitively and for themselves!
Biography:
Krateros is an emerging metal band from Helsinki, Finland, founded in 2023 and led by vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter Saku Rekonen. The band’s music combines influences from old-school thrash metal bands such as Annihilator, Exodus, and Megadeth with more contemporary acts like Trivium, Machine Head, and Stam1na — all the while being filtered through a progressive lens.
The band’s first EP, “Lost in Translation,” released through Inverse Records, is a response to a perceived lack of riffs that seems to plague the metal scene of the 2020s.
Track
list:
1. Tomb Service
2. Linguicide
3. The Performer
4. Uticensis
5. Comatose Waltz
Cover art by All4band Design
Line-up:
Saku Rekonen - Vocals & Guitar
Roni Helminen - Bass & Backing vocals
Touko Kaihola - Drums
Jódís Rannveigardóttir - Backing vocals on Uticensis
https://www.facebook.com/kraterosband
Label: Independent Release
Release date: february 27th 2026
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
For fans of: Insomnium | Amon Amarth | Omnium Gatherum | Wolfheart
Conflict is a constant, resurfacing long after the moment has passed - moving through history and war, and settling within oneself. Struggle appears in many forms, from external confrontation to internal collapse, blurring the line between memory, myth, and lived experience. Battles are fought not only on the battlefield, but in thought, instinct, and endurance, leaving marks that shape identity over time… until resilience - the ability to persist, to adapt, and to continue forward while carrying the weight of what came before - becomes the measure of what we endure.
The first nascent ideas that would grow into the formidable entity that is Mývalyĭr appeared during the pandemic, with isolated musicians exchanging fledgling musical concepts, before finally finding its identity and solidifying its purpose in 2023. Mývalyĭr are steeped in the forms and aesthetics of melodic death metal, but they also draw on folk traditions and orchestral stylings, incorporating violin, cello and traditional instruments like the nyckelharpa to bring additional depth and layers to their sound, sending roots deeper into musical history, long past the apocryphal birth of metal. After releasing two singles – ‘Reign’ and ‘Recollection’ – in late 2025, Mývalyĭr are now ready to present their debut full length album. A concept album that explores the idea of the eternal conflict, both within and without, that shapes us and runs through every aspect of our history and culture. The Past Tales is a staggering beginning to the story of Mývalyĭr…
Opening track, ‘Requiem’, is a gateway to the world of Mývalyĭr, a rite of passage through which the listener is transported and transformed, before being plunged into the dark waters of ‘Recollection’. Dense, layered and fierce, with cataclysmic drums, keyboards dancing between the steel-clad guitars and vocals with real bestial menace, ‘Recollection’ is comprised of a multitude of musical chapters. The sense of drama is immense, the melody lines superb…and we have only just begun to make our way through this expansive narrative. The measured and powerful ‘Reign’ is next, imbued with an air of tragedy that twists between the riffs like a cold mist, the harsh vocals a revelation – demonstrating just how evocative and effective this style of delivery can be. Enthroned at the heart of the album, the epic ‘The Past Tales Part 1’ is magnificent from the first note – with haunting melody lines, bloodied riffs and a cinematic feel, as if a curtain is being drawn back to reveal something vast and breathtaking. Beautiful female vocals add a weight of melancholy as “the battle rages on” and a superbly atmospheric conclusion flows directly into ‘The Past Tales Part 2’; an epilogue to Part 1, but tumultuous and emotionally overwhelming in its own right, with superb touches of violin. ‘The Mighty Never Fall’ then grabs you in an iron fist of death metal, immediate, engaging and irresistible, before ‘Renascence’ provides a majestic conclusion, a march from the war-torn kingdom of The Past Tales, back into the light of reality…the vivid, visceral landscape of Mývalyĭr’s creation slowly fading from perception, leaving you with an ache - a need to return.
Adorned in the striking artwork of Felipe Machado Franco (Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, Rhapsody Of Fire etc) and mixed and mastered by Janne Lunnas (Boreal Grave, Shade Of Sorrow etc) The Past Tales is the complete package – a thrilling, immersive listening experience that will never let you go. Your voyage begins on February 27th…
Line-up:
Dale Pountney – Bass
Kai Boyce – Lead Guitar
Stephen Wilkinson – Drums
Joe Clayton – Guitar/Backing Vocals
Natalie Fluess – Keyboards/Violin/Cello/Nyckelharpa/Backing Vocals
Kain - Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/myvalyir
Genre : Atmospheric Black Metal
Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : February 27th 2025
MEK NA VER is the parallel dimension, the invisible and astral realm where only the deepest sensations dwell, the feelings words cannot describe, the unseen. It is the place where pain, regret, and abandonment arise and exist in pure form, without the need for definitions.
With a line-up featuring members of the legendary Symphonic Black Metal band OPERA IX and ex-ABORYM, this second album titled "Noctivaga" is a must-listen for every hard-core fans of the genre. More specifically, Atmospheric music in the vein of Saor and the Northern Silence releases, with a strong backbone of second wave Black Metal.
This album is a descending journey into witch-related mournings, an ontological widowhood, the radical rejection of linear time and light. Through witchy archetypes, it explores the stages of the disintegration of the veil.
The artwork, painted by Dipsas Dianaria (vocalist) herself, depicts a wintery landscape inhabitated by an owl; a perfect depiction of the album's atmospheres and symphonies: cold, sheer and magical.
Steeped in an esoteric folklore of decadence, "Noctivaga" is an invitation to lose yourself in the call of the dark.
Sales Point:
For fans of Saor and the Northern Silence catalog;
Strong second wave Black Metal backbone;
With members of OPERA IX and ex-ABORYM;
Symphonic sound; cold, sheer and magical;
Witchy, esoteric folklore themed.
Tracklist:
1. Silenzio d'Incanto e Fiele
2. Strix - Elegia Lunae
3. Strige - Altar of Unspoken Vows
4. Strigae - Canticum Nihilitatis (il Canto del Nulla)
5. Strigoi - In Nihilum
6. Ascensio Astrae (tra le Stelle) [Feat. Federico Sanna on vocals]
7. Sabbat - Vespera Ultima
Line-up:
Dipsas Dianara (Opera IX) – Vocals, Bass, Songwriting
Thomas A. (ex-Aborym) – Guitars
Andrea S. – Drums
Emanuele T. (Opera IX) – Synths & Keyboards
https://maskeddeadrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MekNaVer
Born from the grips of the pandemic, SHINE are the newest brainchild of Hazael’s Tomasz Dobrzeniecki, and their first album Wrathcult leaves no doubt that a new force in Polish extreme metal has awakened.
Inspired by the likes of Emperor, Bathory, Morbid Angel, Entombed and Dismember, Dobrzeniecki’s new outfit channels that lineage into something raw, relentless, and unmistakably its own.
“‘SHINE’ for me is a sheen of a sword's blade, the last thing that your foes see in their lives. You can also relate it to the Promethean light given to people that enlightens or sometimes blinds us. It can also be a glare of rage stemming from the resistance towards the unnatural rules forced upon us,” explains Dobrzeniecki when asked about his new unit’s name. “Our music is full of references to ancient rules and rituals and times when people lived in accordance with nature and cosmos using the primeval knowledge.”
Dark Descent Records will handle the release, having previously collaborated with Dobrzeniecki on the reissue of Hazael’s classic opus. Wrathcult continues in similar thematic territory, invoking forgotten ancestral knowledge and tapping into primal forces, and mythic echoes of a pre-Christian world.
“Lyrics for the album are mainly inspired by the pre-Christian spirituality and mythology of our forefathers and based on such books as Bestiariusz Słowiański, Mitologia Słowiańska by J. Bobrowski and M. Wrona, and Słowiańska Czarownica (Slavic Bestiary, Slavic Mythology, Slavic Witch). The lyrics pay homage to nature and higher powers in order to upkeep the memories of the beliefs that once shaped our heritage. We live on the borderline of three cultures that blend together in some way – Germanic, Norse and Slavic mythology have quite a lot in common.”
The album was recorded at Heinrich House Studio in Legionowo, Poland - a small city on the outskirts of Warsaw that holds an important place in metal history, being the hometown of Daray (Dimmu Borgir, Vesania), Orion (Behemoth, Vesania) and Heinrich (Vesania, Decapitated). “Me and producer Heinrich (Filip Hałucha) have known each other for about 20 years. If you want to record a metal album that 100% meets your expectations, I think he's the only person that I trust.”
An uncompromising slab of ancient fury awaits! “See you in Valhalla! I’ve heard the parties there are worth dying for,” exclaims Dobrzeniecki.
Tracklist:
1. Ancient Chaos
2. The Lamb Against the Wolf
3. Kneel Before the Serpent
4. Oddajcie co moje
5. The Cult of Oak
6. The Horror of the Night
7. Witch's Prophecies
8. Wrath of the Hammer
9. The Necklace With Runes
10. Ancient Spirit
SHINE is:
Marek Krajcer-vocals
Tomasz Dobrzeniecki -guitars
Mateusz Waśkiewicz- guitars
Wojciech Gąsiorowski-bass
Paweł Duda- drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/shine.wrathcult/
Portland,
Me – Rising progressive Latin metal force MANUEL has
released the official music video for their latest single, "NATIVE
TEMPLE," featuring a powerful guest performance by
vocalist Ryan Reeves. The track is the second glimpse into the band’s
highly anticipated EP, PARASITE, set to arrive on
February 27, 2026, via Wormholedeath Records.
"Native Temple" is a visceral exploration of emotional entropy, masterfully bridging the gap between celestial beauty and the grit of human decay. Featuring a haunting performance by Ryan Reeves, the track serves as a sonic meditation on the "Frostfire", the paralyzing intersection of burning passion and the cold stasis of a dying connection.
The song gets deep into the pain of drifting apart, using words like "sutures" and "creases" to describe a relationship breaking at the seams. It’s a powerful look at isolation and how being away from someone can change your whole world, leaving you caught between the warmth of the past and the cold truth of the present.
The Evolution of Parasite
While "Native Temple" explores internal landscapes, the upcoming EP Parasite is a fierce outward confrontation of systemic rot. The record boldly challenges the oppressive grip of the wealthy elite, exposing the manipulative tactics used to divide society for corporate and political gain.
"Parasite is more than just a title; it’s a reflection of the parasitic forces at work in our society," says project founder Manuel Urgiles. "We reject the idea of rulers or masters. This EP serves as a rallying cry to unite against the corrupt systems that exploit us. It’s a call to dismantle their control and build a future rooted in genuine change."
Fans can experience the fearless evolution of progressive Latin metal by pre-saving the EP now.
Pre-save "Parasite" here: https://orcd.co/parasiteep
Previous Release “Ladrón” featuring Patrice Elizabeth Vigeant: https://youtu.be/1712gTH71DE
MANUEL is:
Manuel Urgiles – Lead/Rhythm Guitar
Jason Ingalls – Drums
Thomas Hiscock – Bass Guitar
Ryan Cummings – Rhythm Guitar
DJKTF – Keys/Percussion
www.facebook.com/manuelguitarist
The first single 'MAAN NIELEMÄ' is unleashed today, accompanied by a music video available here: https://youtu.be/L4ygntH5stk
The first single from the new Hautajaisyö album, Surun Paino (Weight of Sorrow), comes with brutality. 'Maan Nielemä' (Swallowed by Dirt) showcases the band at their best. It features heavy riffs, violent drums and low-growl vocals. The song is inspired by the year 536, the "Year of Darkness", when the world was shrouded in darkness and nearly all of humanity perished. Amidst the chaos, a lone gravedigger toils endlessly. The song has a DIY music video which was filmed in one take at the band's practice venue. This fits well, as the album was recorded by the band themselves using their own equipment.
'Maan Nielemä' is one of my favourite songs from the new album. It hits like a hammer on hot metal, and you can feel the darkness of the song. Making the video was damn fun. We had a rough idea of what we wanted to do, and we tried to keep the costs down. Then we just 'hit our heads against the wall' until we had the finished video." says vocalist Janne Partanen
Listen to the single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/hautajaisyo-maan-nielema
Track list:
01. Surun Paino
02. Maan Nielemä
03. Kuusi Kantajaa
04. Kasvoton Kuljettaja
05. Hetki Viimeinen
06. Lyhyt Matka Hautaan
07. Eloton
08. Haaskalinnut Minut Muistaa
Composed by Janne Partanen, Sami Lustig, Simo Pesonen & Teemu Roth
Lyrics by Janne Partanen
Production, recording & mixing: Sami Lustig
Mastering: Janne Tuikkala
Cover art by Minttu Koskinen
Line-up:
Janne Partanen: vocals
Sami Lustig: guitars
Simo Pesonen: bass
Teemu Roth: drums
https://linktr.ee/hautajaisyo
SCARAB – Death Metal Forged in
Ancient Ritual . SCARAB Signs with BRUTAL RECORDS (USA) Brutal
Records is proud to officially announce the signing of SCARAB, Egypt’s
pioneering death metal force, to its global roster. This partnership marks a
major milestone for both parties, uniting SCARAB’s ritualistic death metal
vision with one of the most respected underground metal labels in the
world—Brutal Records (USA), active since 1986.
This new alliance signals a devastating new era for SCARAB, as their ancient sonic incantations are prepared for worldwide release under the Brutal Records banner.
SCARAB: Ancient Power, Global Impact Formed in 2006, SCARAB has become synonymous with ferocity, atmosphere, and spiritual intensity. Their sound fuses uncompromising death metal with Middle Eastern and Egyptian mysticism, creating a ritualistic experience that transcends borders and cultures.
Led by Sammy Sayed (vocals, orchestrations), alongside Tarek Amr (guitars), Omar Abou Doma (guitars), Mohamed El Sherbieny (bass), Amir El-Saidi (drums), and Sherif Elias (keyboards/synth), SCARAB channels ancient mythology through crushing riffs, cinematic arrangements, and relentless aggression.
The band holds a historic place in metal history as the first Egyptian extreme metal band to perform internationally, appearing at major festivals such as Dubai Desert Rock Festival (UAE), With Full Force Festival (Germany), and Bloodstock Open Air (UK).
A Proven Legacy of Extreme MetalSCARAB’s discography includes critically acclaimed releases such as:
Blinding the Masses (2010)
Serpents of the Nile (2015)
Martyrs of the Storm (2020)
Their work has featured collaborations with renowned metal figures Karl Sanders (Nile) and Joe Haley (Psycroptic), further cementing SCARAB’s status as a dominant force in the global death metal underground.
Statement from SCARAB
“We are very happy to join forces with Brutal Records. This marks a new era for SCARAB, and we are looking forward to what we are going to be putting out to the world through Brutal Records. Let the magick begin!”
Upcoming Releases via Brutal Records SCARAB and Brutal Records are already preparing devastating new material for release:
Transmutation of Fate (EP – May 8th, 2026) A metaphysical journey through destiny, transformation, and awakening, delivered through dark, atmospheric, and ritual-driven death metal.
Blinding the Masses [Reincarnated] (LP – July 31th, 2026) A brutal reimagining of SCARAB’s debut album—heavier, sharper, and reborn for a new generation of extreme metal devotees.
The Ritual Begins This signing represents more than a business agreement—it is an awakening. With Brutal Records’ global reach and SCARAB’s uncompromising vision, the coming releases will expand the band’s mythology and deliver apocalyptic death metal where the sacred and the savage collide.
Stay tuned for release dates, preorders, and exclusive content.
https://brutalrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BrutalRecords.USA/
Belorusian
Death Metal Pack, EXIMPERITUS, have partnered
with Metal Injection for the pre-release stream of forthcoming
album, MERITORIOUSNESS OF EQUANIMITY. The premiere
coincides with the unveiling of the album's line-up, which includes
vocalist/lyricist Pawel Nalecki (ex-Ominous Scriptures) and
composer/multi-instrumentalist Siarhei Liakh (Relics Of
Humanity, ex-Ominous Scriptures), as well as session drummer Davide
“Brutal Dave” Billia (Beheaded, Antropofagus).
Stream the album now at:
Willowtip Records will unleash Meritoriousness of Equanimity January 30 on vinyl, cassette, CD, and digital formats.
Eximperitus' forthcoming third album, Meritoriousness of Equanimity, contains nine independent compositions united by the idea of searching for inner support in an era of turbulence. Exposure and scourging of social dogmas and morbid tendencies on the ruins of the old world...
"In times when despair overflows human hearts… when the chasm of strife between civilizations widens… when loyalty to ideologies tears blood ties apart… when the world stands still, poised for the final leap of prolonged self-destruction… We can draw strength solely from internal sources, which are filled only by the multifaceted power of Death Metal..."- Eximperitus
Pre-order:
https://eximperitus.bandcamp.com/album/meritoriousness-of-equanimity
https://www.willowtip.com/bands/details/eximperitus.aspx
Track Listing:
I. One Step Long Infinity.
II. Contemplation of the Plastic Fibers of Perfection at the Second Level of Reality.
III. Twelve Centuries of Triumph of the Third Kingdom…
IV. Finding Consistency in the Fourth Quadrant of Eternity.
V. The Untimely Fruit of the Unsaid.
VI. Golden Chains for the Construction of Individual Greatness.
VII. Molecular Disintegration of an Unattainable Solitary Will in a Vessel of Wisdom...
VIII. Chalkionic Wandering Among the Wreckage of the Future.
IX. Standing at the Skirt of the Ruins of Human Nature (...on the Other Side of Man and Time).
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/eximperitus.official
2002
formed Finnish industrial metal band RUOSKA, will release
their sixth studio album "KADE" February
27th. Now they have released the final single IKIROUTA from
the upcoming album.
When the mood darkens and despair rears its head, Ikirouta hits you in the face with memories, biting into your bones and core like a freezing winter wind.
Based on audience reactions at recent gigs, Ikirouta proved that there is demand among Ruoska fans for heavy, slow-tempo tracks. The feedback on the song surprised the band members themselves, even though Ikirouta breaks the traditional boundaries of Ruoska.
For the first time, Ruoska combines powerful distorted guitars with stunning orchestral arrangements in a way that reveals new nuances with each listen. Ikirouta keeps its listeners in its strong grip, creating a chilling and gloomy mental landscape that only a Finn can understand.
Listen to the single on music services : https://push.fm/fl/ruoska-ikirouta
The band, which hails from Juva, Eastern Finland, and has already racked up nearly 25 million plays on Spotify alone, will also be heading out on an album release tour, which will be starting right after album release.
Ruoska is:
Patrik Mennander (Vocals)
Samuli Rimmi (Guitar, Backing vocals)
Miika Kokkola (Bass, Backing vocals)
Teemu Karppinen (Drums)
https://www.facebook.com/ruoskaband
Guten
Tag, here's the first LYCANTHROPIC CHANTS NEWSLETTER of
2026! The year has already gotten off to a busy start, with REPULSIVE
FEAST touring with ROTTEN SOUND at the beginning of the year,
and today we will officially (re-)release three different records, accompanied
by https://lycanthropic.de/product-category/merch drop.
PULMONARY FIBROSIS / REPULSIVE FEAST - "FETISH OF GORE" SPLIT-7" green variant out now!
The first run of this gory collaboration on wax has been sold out from us within a few days. To have them available again, we pressed 200 green copies.
This is the fetid feast you’ve been waiting for: a putrid split 7” featuring long-running French goregrind maniacs PULMONARY FIBROSIS and German deathgrinding sickos REPULSIVE FEAST.
All songs from both bands are about the serial killer Adolfo Constanzo.
Tracklist:
Side A – PULMONARY FIBROSIS
1. Human Slaughterhouse
2. Spines & Brains*
Side B – REPULSIVE FEAST
1. Twisted Infamous Terror
2. Narcosatanists
*featuring David Mikkelsen (Extremely Rotten Productions, UNDERGANG, SEQUESTRUM, etc.)
Artwork by Doodles Of Death. Layout by Steffen Brandes and FINAdesigns.
Second pressing:
200x green vinyl + logos on cover, fold out cover made of 300gsm recycling paper. Poly-lined black inner-sleeves plus bandcamp download code.
TWO CRYPTIC BROOD ALBUMS AVAILABLE ON TAPE AGAIN!
Some might have seem them on the "Creeping Cryptic Contagion" tour through Western Europe already, officially released today and available from our shop now:
CRYPTIC BROOD – “Necrotic Flesh Bacteria” MC
100 clear shell tapes with silver glitter and black on-body print. Hand-numbered, withth J-card, separate lyric sheet and includes a free bandcamp download.
CRYPTIC BROOD - "Outcome Of Obnoxious Science" MC
100 copies on clear shell tapes with green glitter and black on-body print. Hand-numbered, 5 panel J-card, separate lyric sheet and a bandcamp download.
NEW REPULSIVE FEAST MERCHANDISE AVAILABLE
New longsleeves, t-shirts, caps and patches are available from our shop now.
"Fetish Of Gore" longsleeve
"Meat Hook Mutilation" longsleeve"
Fetish Of Gore" t-shirt
"Death Grind Gore" baseball cap
Logo trucker caps (black, green, magenta)
"Death Grind Gore" woven patch
Logo punk patches (white or green logo)
All merch from CRYPTIC BROOD and REPULSIVE FEAST available can be found via https://lycanthropic.de/product-category/merch
UPCOMING LOCAL SHOWS IN WOLFSBURG (GERMANY)
...and this time including one show presented by Lycanthropic Chants in Braunschweig (Germany):
Am Freitag, den 20. Februar 2026 im „B58“ in Braunschweig:
NO SHELTER. (Death Metal/Hardcore / GER, Emsdetten)
REPULSIVE FEAST (Death Metal/Grindcore / GER, Wolfsburg)
MUDHEAD (Thrash Metal/Crossover / GER, Rotenburg an der Wümme)
Am Montag, den 27. April 2026 im s.v. Jugendhaus Ost in Wolfsburg:
VASTUM (Death Metal / USA, San Francisco)
MORBIFIC (Death Metal / FIN, Kitee)
https://lycanthropic.de/
https://www.facebook.com/lycanthropic.de
Montreal (QC) / Stockholm (SE) - International Progressive Metal band, VOIDCHASER, have announced the April 9th release of their second full-length album, titled INTERSTELLAR I.
FFO: Devin Townsend, Haken, Dream Theater, Scar Symmetry, Ayreon, Pagan's Mind
Depicting themes of technological overreach, mass corruption and personal struggles related to identity, love and survival, the narrative unfolds within a vast, lore infused deep space universe. Interstellar I balances a dense and layered wall of sound with high-energy choruses and memorable melodies, where every moment serves the storytelling. Musically, the album brings to mind the style of Devin Townsend’s Ziltoid the Omniscient and Dream Theater’s Systematic Chaos, while reinterpreting those influences through Voidchaser’s own modern and distinctive sound, also drawing from classic foundations found in Deep Purple’s Machine Head and Black Sabbath’s Paranoid. With this release, Voidchaser returns with a level of maturity that defines their most ambitious and fully realized work to date.
Voidchaser will release the album's first single, "Welcome to the Terror Corp," on February 13.
On April 10th at Piranha Bar in Montreal, QC, Canada, Voidchaser will launch their new album, Interstellar I, performing it in its entirety in an exclusive live set, along with additional material. Omnivide and Jovian Storms will perform as special guests.
Track
Listing:
1. The Grand Design
2. Welcome to Terra Corp
3. Initiation Day
4. Hyperconverter
5. Anything for Love
6. Rain / Solar Winds
7. Ivory Tower
8. Renew
Credits:
Lyrics and Songwriting by Chad Bernatchez.
Production and Arrangements by Jici Lord-Gauthier.
Management and Booking by Jici Lord-Gauthier (Chaotic Good Music).
Mixed and Mastered by Jason Poulin.
Drums Recorded by David Lizotte.
Session keyboards by Mathieu Fiset.
Artwork by Sam Harwood.
Photography by Josh Kirschner (Kirschner Studios).
Line-Up:
Chad Bernatchez - Vocals, Guitar
Jici Lord-Gauthier - Guitar, Bass
Colin MacAndrew - Drums
Bio:
Based in Montreal and Stockholm, Voidchaser is a progressive metal band that quickly established itself as a band worth watching on both local and international stages. Formed in 2023, the band rapidly gained momentum through a steady stream of releases, earning attention from niche outlets such as The ProgSpace, Prog Magazine and Prog Sphere, alongside coverage from major metal media, including Metal Injection and Decibel Magazine.
In 2024, Voidchaser released their debut EP, Odyssey, followed by two standalone singles and their debut full-length album, Solace. Written as a single continuous 30-minute composition, Solace is a concept album set in an orbital dystopia, exploring themes of power, uncertainty and love. The release charted among the top metal albums on Apple Music and iTunes in Canada, Sweden, Norway and several other countries.
The band continued its momentum in 2025 with the release of Trust, an EP featuring guest appearances from Jim Grey of Caligula’s Horse and members of The Anchoret. That same year, the band embarked on its first international tour, performing 12 dates across Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden, and sharing the stage with acts such as Vulkan, Threshold, Kingcrow, Nospūn, Omnivide and Ok Goodnight. Highlights included appearances at ProgPower Europe in the Netherlands and the inaugural ProgStorm Festival in Montréal, Canada.
In 2026, Voidchaser announced the upcoming release of Interstellar I, their second full-length record.
https://www.facebook.com/VoidchaserOfficial
Another
step for NIGHTSHADE towards the release of "IN
ESSENCE DIVIDED", available from February 20, 2026, on My Kingdom
Music.
Today, we present a new song, "OV SEAS & SEEDS", which opens the door to another facet of the Swiss band's world.
The official video, directed by DHRood, is available at https://youtu.be/nYh8YdSjF00
The single is available on digital platforms, together to a different version mixed and mastered at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios in London, giving the song an even warmer, more classic sound and tone. You can find both versions on Spotify, Apple Music, and more.
"Ov Seas & Seed" is an intense and engaging track, embracing the roots of early '70s Progressive Metal, the avant-garde Black Metal of the last decade, and the Melodic Metal of the '90s. It explores melancholic dynamics and atmospheres ranging from dark and psychedelic to heavy, galloping riffs by Thomas Wacinski, with the emotional David Genillard's vocals.
And it's just another taste of what's to come on "In Essence Divided", an album that was mixed and mastered by Swiss engineer Raphaël Bovey, known for his work with Monkey3, Nostromo, Gojira, Samael, and his extensive discography.
This album will delight fans of Progressive Metal à la OPETH, as well as those who appreciate a haunting mix of styles and influences, from PINK FLOYD to BLOOD INCANTATION, from SAMAEL to GOJIRA!
Pre-order digipakCD at https://t.ly/JNH6t
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/NightshadeMetal
Finnish
heavy psych metal trio MOUNT PALATINE‘S upcoming album WORMHOLY
WORLD is released on February 6th
2026 through Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records on CD and
digital formats.
Wormholy World
Wormholy World by Mount Palatine is an ultimate trip through destruction and recreation, that is, the chaos of life and universe itself. Musically, the album builds on the psychedelic heavy jams of a trio that consists of Jean the Baron (Guitars), Count Boogie (Bass), and Lord of the Groove (Drums). Through years of ensemble playing, the trio has developed their signature style of heavy psych metal, which combined elements of doom, stoner, sludge, psychedelic rock, and progressive metal. As a result, these chaotic trips form into a cosmic dance, where brittle melodies break under crushing riffs, just to be reformed again into triumphant harmony. Likewise, the vocals vary from ethereal choirs to heavy growls.
In the vein of their debut album “Cockroach Crusade” (self-released under the name The Paladin), Wormholy World was born from intense jam sessions, shaping a sound that is both cohesive and expansive. All songs have been created and arranged through continuous jams and iterations, and caught on tape in a similar fashion; via live-recordings of the band playing together in their own rehearsal place and home studio at Saarni Music. On top of these jam-like base tracks, layers and layers of additional guitars, synths, sound effects, and vocals have been stacked, until the songs have reached their final cosmic level envisioned by the collective mind of the band. The final, magic touch on the audio track was added by Mactus the Magemaster from Saarni Music, breathing life into it, making it sparkle with cosmic glister.
While the debut explored a wide array of influences, this album moves ever more clearly toward the band’s chosen path and artistic vision, bringing a stronger sense of cohesion to their evolving style. Mount Palatine’s Wormholy World is something that might resonate with fans of bands like Elder, Stoned Jesus, Mastodon, and Down without sounding directly like any of them, yet perhaps a little like all of them combined. With the album, the band continues to carve their own distinctive niche in the landscape of modern heavy psychedelic metal.
Band biography
Mount Palatine is a heavy psych metal trio founded in Helsinki, Finland. Built on years of playing together, the band thrives on long-form jamming, through which raw improvisational pieces are transformed into towering compositions. What began as a reunion of old bandmates for casual jamming in the year 2020, soon developed into a collective musical entity with relentless creative force.
The lineup consists of Jean the Baron (guitar & vocals), Count Boogie (bass), and Lord of the Groove (drums). Together they channel their unique chemistry into sprawling songs that range from crushing sludge-laden riffs to hypnotic psychedelic textures, from screamed vocals that tear through the void to ethereal clean melodies that linger like echoes from another realm. The result is an immersive soundscape that is as punishing as it is transcendental — heavy but never static, spiritual yet grounded in groove. Drawing inspiration from across genres, Mount Palatine weave elements of doom, stoner, progressive metal, psychedelic rock, and beyond into a sound unmistakably their own.
Originally performing under the name The Paladin, the trio released their debut album Cockroach Crusade (2024), which laid the foundations of their evolving sound. As their style matured, the decision came to adopt a new name that would better reflect their unique identity. Thus, Mount Palatine was born — a symbol of rebirth, expansion, and the next stage of their journey. The band continues to operate from Helsinki.
Lyrically and thematically, Mount Palatine delves into cosmic and spiritual realms, examining existence, life, death, and the mysteries of reality and the universe, often flirting with religious and philosophical concepts. The result is music that resonates on both visceral and contemplative levels — an invitation to lose oneself in sound while reflecting on the infinite.
Mount Palatine is something that might resonate with fans of bands like Elder, Stoned Jesus, Mastodon, and Down without sounding directly like any of them, yet perhaps a little like all of them combined.
The band is now preparing to broaden its horizons internationally with their upcoming second album, Wormholy World that is released via the renowned doom label Argonauta Records. With crushing heaviness, visionary songwriting, and uncompromising energy on stage, Mount Palatine are carving their place in the evolving landscape of modern heavy psychedelic music.
Young old guys playing good old music.
https://www.mountpalatine.com/
Genre : Melodic Black Metal
Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : February 27th 2025
IMBOLC third album "Sette Cornici di Purificazione" displays a sound and stuye that ranges from classic up-tempo Melodic Black Metal to passages featuring classical-acoustic guitars, very often supported by synths inspired by '70s and '90s horror films, with a surprising result of various influences in a pretty much old school formula.
The riffing is still a powerful backbone of the IMBOLC sound, supported by a notable melancholy and, musically speaking, a mixture of second-wave Melodic Black Metal and Post-Black Metal in the vein of Agalloch and first-era Satyricon. The themes are once again centered on inner suffering, the discomfort of everyday life and the worthlessness of human beings, once again with references to old school horror cinema.
IMBOLC line-up features members of the notable Occult Black Metal band Darkend, along with relevant italian Death Metal bands such as Demiurgon and Unbirth.
Sales point:
The artwork is inspired by the film "The Masque of the Red Death" (1964, Roger Corman). Drawn by Maira Pedroni (http://www.mairapedroni.art/)
Old-school Melodic Black Metal style, primarly second-wave;
Reminiscent of first-era Satyricon and Agalloch, but not strictly;
Influenced by 70's-90's horror movies;
With members of Darkend, Demiurgon and Unbirth
https://maskeddeadrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Imbolcoriginal
Listen to The Wounds on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/deadvoidinc-wounds
"Musically, the track charges forward at full speed, sending chills down the listener’s spine from start to finish. In fact, it serves as an excellent cross-section of the band as a whole, as it features nuances drawn from several different genres. Lyrically, the song delves into the inner landscapes of vocalist Jonne “Monni” Saarinen, with the words rooted in the tragedies and turning points of his own childhood", says Tuomas Torikka (composer/guitarist)
Biography:
Deadvoid Inc. is a Finnish melodic death metal band that blends elements ranging from classical music to extreme metal, creating an energetic, technically skilled, and
completely distinctive musical entity.
D-inc was formed in early 2025 when longtime acquaintances Jonne Saarinen (vocals) and Tuomas Torikka (composition & guitar) decided to build something new in the midst of everything old. The album was completed in its entirety, and prior to its release, guitarist Jami Honkala and bassist Ville Heino—both heavily involved in the making
of the record—joined the band.
This lineup of seasoned professionals in their field brings a fresh new subgenre to the airwaves, unlike anything you’ve heard before. Energetic songs, catchy grand melodies, furious riffs, and heart-wrenching slow sections are here to show everyone what Deadvoid Inc. is all about.
The band will release their debut album in March 2026.
Composed by Tuomas Torikka
Lyrics by Jonne Saarinen & Tuomas Torikka
Cover art by Kai Kolima
Line-up:
Vocals: Jonne Saarinen
Guitars: Tuomas Torikka
Bass: Ville Mikkola
Drums: Tino Jäntti
https://www.facebook.com/deadvoidinc
Label: Black Metal Archives
Release date: february 27th 2026
Genre: Thrash Metal/Horror Punk
For fans of: Venom | Mercyful Fate | Celtic Frost | Plasmatics
The engine roars, adding its primal, petrol-fuelled fury to the cacophony of the midnight streets. With menace in its very construction the car seems to prowl the pools of neon light, the sound of the devil’s music blasting from it like a heartbeat. Hymns to lust, violence and rebellion rise up through the darkness, clawing their way through the watching windows, becoming a soundtrack to the sordid stories being played out behind the glass. The Necrosexual smiles, tasting every warm, wet drop of passion, pain, desperation and cruelty as he passes. Hands on the wheel he rides through the hopeless, despairing dreams of the shadow people, trapped on a road to rubble and ruin…
Road To Rubble is the new album from Philadelphia’s Necrosexual, a band that revel in the dark excesses of the metal mindset and ideology, bringing together overdriven guitars and irreverent belligerence, extremes of velocity with the blackest humour and resolute defiance. Lead by charismatic frontman, The Necrosexual, these creatures of the night have been rampaging through the metal underground with their intoxicating elixir of heavy metal, thrash metal and horror punk since 2011, releasing their debut album, GRIM-1, in 2018 - and they’ve never sounded better than they do right now…
Opening with the primal riffs and bestial vocalisations of ‘High Times In Hell’, a song built from old bones but with fresh flesh upon them, Road To Rubble walks a weaving, drunken line between carnage and celebration. ‘The Brimstone Brothel’ combines a punk punch with blast beat madness in a tale of cannibalism behind the walls of an old west bordello and ‘Kiss The Knife’ is a burlesque carnival of horror and erotica with snarling riffs, driving rhythms and scything, melodic lead work. Each song is a step along the road to damnation, another mile into a hell curated by The Necrosexual; from the tattered majesty and epic tales of wasteland warriors that is ‘All Roads Lead To Rubble’ to ‘Nocturnal Ignition’ that shifts from moonlight and dust to muscular riffs, gothic drama and dirty punk sleaze. When the bloodthirsty dominatrix of ‘Hard Leather Woman’ has finished with you – a strident, ironclad, climactic conclusion – you’ll be left scarred and bloodstained, with illusions shattered and eyes open to all that walks on the other side of the night.
Mixed by Steve Roche (Blemish, Pariiah, Serpent Throne etc) and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Blood Incantation, Cavelera Conspiracy), Road To Rubble has an ‘80s metal darkness and bite, but with a scalpel sharp clarity and modern vivacity. It’s a heady, hypnotic combination that will keep you crawling back for more. Adorned in the garish, gaudy, acid nightmare of Scott R. Johnston’s vibrant cover artwork, Road To Rubble will be available on vinyl, CD, cassette and digital formats from the Necrosexual webstore in the US and on CD and cassette from Black Metal Archives in the UK. The Necrosexual party begins on February 27th – and no-one’s going home…
Continue your voyage into The Necrosexual’s world of metal and madness in the official Necrosexual comic books! #2: Necrosexual Encounters, the long awaited follow up to #1: The Insatiable Necrosexual.
Line-up:
The Necrosexual - lead bass, guitar, screams, keyboards, whip strikes
Anthony ‘Vigo’ Gabriele - lead guitar, conspiracy and conjuration
Nick Roskow - lead guitar, divebombs
Miles Ziskind - drums, smoke
https://blackmetalarchiveslabel.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/Grimmestofalltime
Toilet ov Hell premiered a new song with a pretty interesting twist that can be found at https://toiletovhell.com/exclusive-track-premiere-phasmas-iii/
Excerpt - "Phasma’s new era is twinned and twined, staging the great cosmic tug between black metal and death metal in the depths of darkness"
PHASMA - “PURGATORY”
For
fans of - Mgla, Dying
Fetus, Crypts of Despair, Kriegsmaschine, Psycroptic
Greek band Phasma are attempting to meld influences ranging from black metal to brutal death metal and everything in between. The music effortlessly oscillates from sharp black metal riffs to pummelling death metal blasts with matching vocal styles, and even toss in a breakdown or two in the middle. It’s something that doesn’t seem to work on paper and yet they manage to make it sound cohesive and convincing enough, with songwriting that's elaborate and well thought out to warrant songs lasting beyond mere novelty quick-listen length. Every song seems like an extension if not an improvisation over the previous one, as the band unfurls dimensions within the sound that they have concocted. Bands playing a mix of styles isn't uncommon but to intermingle influences of such disparate, almost contrasting styles is fascinating and remarkable especially when they have high replay value and lasting appeal. Like it or not, Phasma are here to stay.
Lineup
Jason Athanasiadis (Kawir) - Guitars and songwriting
Luis Ferre (Gravecarver) - Vocals and lyrics
Bill Nanos (Dead Conregation) - Drums
George Markantonis - Bass
Album cover by George Angelis
Merch design by CVSPE
Track listing
1. I
2. II
3. III
4. IV
5. V
6. VI
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/PhasmaProject
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity
On April 24th, 2026, Post-Punk ensemble 30 DENARI will release their debut album "KINDLY PLOTTING FOR RIOT". We unveil the cover artwork painted by Crez Adrenalink Dojo, band's singer and talented tattoo artist, who perfectly transformed into art the band's intents.
They will present 10 tracks. Here is the complete tracklist:
1. Modern Era Working Class
2. Judgment Day
3. The Horizon (ft. Rikarda Parasol)
4. Colpiscimi
5. Traitor (ft. Federica Lee Querizia Garenna)
6. Il Maleficio
7. Get Used To It (ft. Numa Echos)
8. Caro Nemico
9. Mirame A La Cara
10. Mestre Bahnhof Central
Pre-order CD and LP at: https://t.ly/Ylu3d
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Artesonika Studio by Ivan Moni Bidin (Elvenking, Vivaldi Metal Project, Serenity, Visions Of Atlantis among his collaboration), "Kindly Plotting For Riot", is a sonorous manifesto forged in darkness, to dismantle stylistic boundaries.
The project and its music find their roots in the Post-Punk and New Wave scene (Joy Division, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Coil, Gary Numan) and into more contemporary visions such as Nine Inch Nails, Editors, and Chelsea Wolfe, but also paying homage to the Italian Punk and Post-Punk scene represented by Negazione, Kina, Franti, Diaframma, Disciplinatha and Limbo / Pankow.
Expect a visceral journey, almost a hypnotic and sharp ritual, capable of combining mechanical impulses and emotional tension.
Release date: "Kindly Plotting For Riot" out on April 24th on CD/LP/digital
Musicians: Crez - voice; Zuzu - guitars / keyboards; Agostino - bass; Lorenzo - drums (members of Ensoph, Awake The Sun, Ishvara, Raptus, Aliensurfers, Cani Sciolti, Permanent)
Style: Post-Punk with Electro-Industrial, Dark Wave and Middle Eastern Ethnic nuances.
Digital distribution: Sodeh Records
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/30denariband
For fans of : Entombed, early Fear Factory, Napalm Death, Obituary, Slayer, Terrorizer and Voivod.
CrusHuman return to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions with the new album Imperial! Washington DC's CrusHuman return with an extreme concoction of Grindcore, Death Metal, Hardcore and Punk. Imperial unleashes 14 tracks that take you down another dark twisted chaotic journey into the control matrix we live in. Featuring cover artwork by Walter Figueroa, and guest vocals from Frank Rini, Richard Johnson, Dave Kaye, amiiithiiist and Juan Ramon Lopez.
Guest vocals on Bell Ringer by Frank Rini, Richard Johnson and Dave Kaye
Guest vocals on 5 Dollar Lobotomy by amiiithiiist
Guest vocals on Synthetic Religion by amiiithiiist
Guest vocals on Die Young by Dave Kaye
Guest vocals on OTTO by Juan Ramon Lopez
Listen to the single "Synthetic Religion" at https://youtu.be/C-kpsLLCdd8
Pre-order the CD for only $10 at https://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com/products/crushuman-imperial-cd
Pre-order the Digital Download for only $6.66 at https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/album/imperial
Tracklisting:
1. Bell Ringer
2. Lab Rat
3. 5 Dollar Lobotomy
4. Synthetic Religion
5. Hive Mind
6. Die Young
7. Order Of The Dragon
8. Discord
9. The List
10. Trinity
11. Wet Works
12. Artificial Salvation
13. Last Drop
14. OTTO
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
www.horrorpaingoredeath.com
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
Label: Meuse Music Records
Release date: february 27th 2026
Genre: Funeral Doom / Death Metal
For fans of: Shape Of Despair | Indescinence | Hellight | Skepticism
I saw the hand of doom reach into my sky and enfold my sun, drawing it down beyond the distant horizon. The colours of my world bled away, through differing shades of grey to the darkness of unending night and there, in the black, wracked by pain beyond all previous imagining, I found I could see with a clarity I had never known before. As love and dreams fled into the shadows, my vision of the path ahead was suddenly unobstructed and I could see my final place of rest awaiting me. The tomb held no terrors for me now and I began my steady, deliberate journey through the vale of tears with quiet acceptance – slowly fading as each step brought me closer to that cold, ungentle bed.
Born in Tbilisi in Georgia, on the banks of the Kura River, Ennui have built a formidable reputation on the foundations of four full length studio albums, each one a towering edifice of funeral doom/death metal. From the 2012 debut, Mze Ukunisa, inspired by the poetic works of Terentio Graneli, to 2018s End Of The Circle, described by Mystification Zine as “a stunning dance of extremes”, Ennui have followed their own path of vast, measured heaviness and unflinching explorations of life changing emotions and the fundamental questions of existence. Now, it is time for the fifth chapter in their grand tale to be written as Ennui walk ever deeper into the darkness...with Qroba.
Qroba, meaning vanishment, the process of disappearance, begins with the revelatory ‘Antinatalism’, its staggering chords and drum beats like distant thunder conjuring a sense of immeasurable scale entwined with a piercing, poignant intimacy of thought and experience. A voice rises through the music, climbing up from the deepest chambers of the heart and the melancholy, grief and summoned solitude are all encompassing. Portentous melodies lead us on through a windswept wilderness and shuddering riffs draw down the dark and bleach the sun’s warmth from the world. This is deeper, darker, colder than ever before…and we have only just begun. The weight of the first full chords of ‘Becoming Void’ drive the breath from your body and the illusions of life’s comforts are crushed, ground into the frozen soil, before achingly beautiful guitar leads of sublime sorrow climb from the bleak vista. Ennui’s ability to weave remarkable subtlety and emotion into music of such staggering weight is exemplified in ‘Decima’, where delicate notes and avalanches of sound evoke the moment of heartbreak and draw it out through eternity, with a traditional three stringed lute, the panduri, adding the melancholy atmosphere of the Georgian mountains. And still Qroba carries us onwards, through the soul-shaking, overwhelming majesty of ‘Down To The Stars’ to our final unmaking with ‘Mokvda Mze’; where opening notes of rich resonance are gradually consumed by the tremendous power of Ennui in full flight – those earthshaking vocals, those inexorable chords and lamenting melodies – and we are cast upon the eternal, fathomless seas of grief, until, at last, we slip into nothingness.
Mixed and mastered by Esoteric’s Greg Chandler, whose knowledgeable touch has given such heft and presence to works by Officium Triste, My Silent Wake, Pantheist and many more, Qroba possesses an agonised nobility of sound, a layered, textured depth that infuses the songs with a remarkable unswerving honesty. Surely the pinnacle in Ennui’s outstanding canon of work to date, Qroba will be released by Meuse Music Records on February 27th, bedecked in the stunning artwork of Ben J ‘Winterkeep’ (Ofnus), with additional design from Vladimir 'Smerdulak' Chebakov (1914, Lake Of Tears etc) – and the scope and power of funeral doom will be redefined once more.
Line-up:
David Unsaved – Guitars, bass, vocals
Serge Shengelia – Guitars
Alexander Gongliashvili – Drums
Andrey Azatyan – Guitars
Kakhi Kiknadzr – Guitars
https://www.meusemusicrecords.eu/
https://linktr.ee/ennuitheband
Style : Death Metal
Format : CD / LP
Release date : 20.3. 2026
Label : MusikÖ_Eye
Line up
Eflam : guitars & vocals
Melaine : bass & vocals
Morgann : drums
Tracklist :
01 – Gwad An Diaoul
02 – Enteuzet Get Trenk
03 – Diskar
04 – Distrujour Hor Bed
05 - Argad
06- An Ankou Ar E Varc’h
07 – Sklaved An Doueed
08 – Slave New World (Sepultura cover)
Recorded & mixed in July 2025
All music by Tanork / Lyrics by Eflam & Melaine
Mixing & mastering : Estebane Coudray
Artwork & layout : Hugo Zrd
https://www.musiko-eye.fr/boutique/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088855216403
The most essential thing in the third millennium is to stay human.
Distorted Reflection was formed in August 2022 by Kostas Sal (ex-Sorrows Path) to pursue a heavier vision of the doom metal genre. The band maintains a low-profile approach, yet their first full length album (Doom Rules Eternally-2024) received significant radio airplay, positive reviews and decent sales.
"Doom Zone" will be released on February 27 via German Iron Shield Records.
Tracklist
:
1) 3000 A.D.
2) My Second Father
3) Gates Of Paranoia
4) Love On Earth
5) Asphyxiating
6) Certain Death
7) Diminished
8) Tower Of Dreams
9) Forecourt To Death
10) The Final Attempt
11) Morbid Reality
Album pre-order:
Line up
Jack Starr: Guitar Solo on “3000 A.D.”
Kostas Sal: Guitar, Vocals
Vangelis Yal: Bass, Synth, Backing Vocals
Thomas Zen: Drums
Cover Artwork, CD Artwork and Logo Artwork by Tomas Arfert
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Vangelis Yal at Fragile Studio
https://www.youtube.com/@distortedreflectiondoom
https://distortedreflectiondoom.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/distortedreflectiondoom
Pre-Order starts NOW!
Hello Folks! On 13 March 2026, we will release the new VOR DIE HUNDE album entitled ‘WELTMARKTFÜHRER BEFIEHL – WIR ENTFOLGEN!’ A treat for all Grindcore and Crust fans among you! The band from Passau delivers 15 powerful songs as if there were no tomorrow! Thematically, it's about a wild journey through our capitalist consumer world. Here we present the truly brilliant album cover and a live recording from 2025, which includes two songs from the new album!
Available for pre-order in our shop: https://defyingdanger.de/shop/VOR-DIE-HUNDE-Weltmarktfuehrer-Befiehl-Wir-EntFolgen-CD
Hello to All.We are more than happy to present to you the new, official video clip for ACID DEATH`S
latest album, "EVOLUTION". The video clip is called "Coded Dominion":
"Coded Dominion" is the 3rd official video that comes from band's latest album, following the two lyric videos, "The Gateway To Knowledge (feat. Kelly R Shaefer and James Murphy)" (https://youtu.be/kCIse8yEFNs?si=WzzI194X5ZSouFHa) and "Rise Of Salvation" (https://youtu.be/l1KK25WjMJc?si=hH7w2E41Yt7CPaVg)
"Coded Dominion" was filmed at the Athenian theater "Roes" in December/2025. Cameras by band's guitarist, Dennis Kostopoulos and Elena Vasilaki. Directed and edited by Dennis Kostopoulos.
Band's latest album, "Evolution" was released on November 21st, 2025 by the German label, 7hard/7us Media Group GmbH.
Thank you for your time and support. All the best ACID DEATH .
www.7hard.de
www.sevenus.de
www.aciddeath.net
Originally released in 2009, as well as on tape through Dying Victims in 2011, this album has not lost any of its juvenile enthusiasm for raw and evil thrash metal. While the band developed a more complex style of blackened heavy thrash throughout the years, this debut album is pure and straightforward black thrashing madness. Clocking in at just over half an hour, the album perfectly represents the Teutonic (black) thrash revival of the mid-2000s.
Line-up 2009:
Marco Justinger - Bass
Sascha Bastian - Guitars
Jan Hirtz - Vocals, Guitars
Simon Wender - Drums
From Saarland, Germany
Release date:
27th March
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on red vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
Tracklist
01 Rise of the Desecrated
02 Eternal War
03 Burn the Witch
04 Pedophiliac
05 Underworld Alliance
06 Blood in the Alley
07 Vlad the Impaler
08 Cold Grave
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
NEWS 24.1.2026
TÜRBÖWITCH – “UNDER HAUNTED SKIES”
VÖ: 20.03.2026
Label: Time To Kill Records
Die ungarischen Speed-/Thrash-Metal-Maniacs TÜRBÖWITCH haben soeben ihr drittes Album "Under Haunted Skies" angekündigt, das am 20. März 2026 über Time To Kill Records erscheinen wird.
Das neue Album markiert einen entscheidenden Schritt nach vorne für die Band aus Budapest, die damit ihre kompromisslose Haltung und ihre unerbittliche Live-Energie, die ihnen einen sehr guten Ruf in der europäischen Underground-Szene eingebracht haben, weiter verfeinert. Mit "Under Haunted Skies" liefern TÜRBÖWITCH ihr bisher fokussiertestes und wildestes Material: eine geballte Ladung massiver Riffs, halsbrecherischer Tempi und instinktiver Dringlichkeit.
Das Album hat seine Wurzeln im Blackened Speed-Thrash und schöpft aus der rohen Wildheit und punkigen Aggression von Bands wie Midnight, der messerscharfen Thrash-Präzision von The Crown und dem dunklen melodischen Drive von Hellripper, wobei es sich dennoch eine klar erkennbare Persönlichkeit bewahrt. Melodische Akzente durchbrechen das gezielte Chaos und verleihen dem Album Tiefe und Charakter, ohne jemals die viszerale Wirkung der Band zu schmälern.
Getreu ihrem kompromisslosen Ethos kanalisieren TÜRBÖWITCH den Geist des Extreme Metal der 80er-Jahre durch ein modernes Gefühl der Unmittelbarkeit und liefern Songs, die schnell, dreckig und auf maximale Wirkung ausgelegt sind. Mit Time To Kill Records als Partner für die Veröffentlichung von "Under Haunted Skies" ist die Band bereit, ihren unheiligen Speed-Angriff einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich zu machen, während sie gleichzeitig fest in der rücksichtslosen Intensität verwurzelt bleibt, die sie seit ihren Anfängen auszeichnet.
Über TÜRBÖWITCH
TÜRBÖWITCH wurde 2016 in Budapest gegründet, ins Leben gerufen von Sänger Zslöd und Gitarrist Kommandante Klit als rohe, schnörkellose Hommage an die klangliche Wucht und den visuellen Wahnsinn des Extreme Metal der 80er-Jahre. Was als lustiges Nebenprojekt langjähriger Freunde begann, entwickelte sich schnell zu einer weitaus fokussierteren und engagierteren Band, die jedoch nie ihre ungefilterte Energie und Liebe zum Chaos verlor. Im Laufe der Zeit wuchs TÜRBÖWITCH zu einer vollwertigen fünfköpfigen Live-Band heran. Ihre Diskografie begann 2016 mit einer Demo, gefolgt vom Debütalbum "Napalm to Posers" (2017), der EP "Beyond the Last Call" (2018) und ihrem zweiten Album "Fullmoon Liquorthropy", das Ende 2022 veröffentlicht wurde. Musikalisch liefern TÜRBÖWITCH eine explosive Mischung aus der Aggressivität des frühen Thrash Metal, der Geschwindigkeit des Speed Metal und einer gehörigen Portion Punk-Attitüde: schnell, laut und vollkommen erbarmungslos. Auf der Bühne hat die Band das Chaos bereits mit Kultbands aus aller Welt geteilt, darunter Abigail (JP), Mystifier (BR), Nuclear (CL), Blackevil (DE), Adversor (IT), Sexmag (PL), Necro Ritual (UK), Siberian Meat Grinder (RU), Deströyer 666 (AU) und Nunslaughter (US) und dabei stets alkoholgetriebene Energie sowie unerbittliche Lautstärke in den Pit gebracht. Ihr Momentum erreichte im Juni 2024 einen neuen Höhepunkt, als sie das Finale des WACKEN METAL BATTLE Hungary gewannen und sich damit einen begehrten Platz beim legendären WACKEN OPEN AIR im August 2024 sicherten, wo sie auf der Bühne des größten Metal-Festivals der Welt ihren akustischen Angriff starteten. Im März 2025 begaben sich TÜRBÖWITCH gemeinsam mit den schwedischen Heavy-Metal-Titanen Enforcer auf Tournee und brachten ihre explosive Live-Energie einem noch größeren europäischen Publikum näher. Hoffnungslos süchtig nach schnellen Riffs, unheiligen Klängen und lauten Partys, gedeihen TÜRBÖWITCH weiterhin im Schmutz und der Wut der Underground-Metal-Szene.
Line-up:
Botond "Khäosz Bringer" Kasper – Schlagzeug, Vocals (Backing)
Péter "Mr. Fireball" Tóth – Gitarren (Rhythm), Vocals (Backing)
Valdemár "Välde" Volcsánszky – Bass
Zsolt "Kommandante Klit" Harsányi – Gitarren (Lead), Vocals (Backing)
Zsolt "Zslöd" Lédeczi – Vocals (Lead)
https://www.facebook.com/turbowitch666
Mit ihrer neuen EP „DEATH THROES OF A DROWNING
GOD" öffnen GUYOD am 23.01.2026 ein weiteres
finsteres Portal zwischen Doom, Death und Black Metal - ein Werk, das ebenso
schwer und erdrückend wie atmosphärisch aufgeladen ist. Die Veröffentlichung
markiert nicht nur das nächste Kapitel ihrer künstlerischen Entwicklung,
sondern setzt zugleich ein kraftvolles Statement innerhalb der extremen
Musikszene: kompromisslos, intensiv und voller klanglicher Abgründe …
Die EP stellt eine vierteilige Reise zum Abgrund des Ozeans dar, vier Songs werden jeweils von einem Drone-Track ein- bzw. ausgeleitet. Am Weg nach unten starren den Hörenden „A thousand invisible eyes“ direkt in die Seele, man entdeckt verborgene Reiche „Behind walls of ice“, rast durch den „Vortex of infinite despair“ und betrachtet mit Abscheu den erschreckenden Anblick von „Hestia drowning“.
Man durchdringt düstere Klanglandschaften, in denen verzerrte Gitarrenwände, tiefe Growls und eisige Screams auf wuchtige, monolithische Riffs treffen. Dabei bleibt die Band ihrem Anspruch, die erdrückende Schwere des Doom mit der brutalen Direktheit des Death Metal und der kalten, rituellen Atmosphäre des Black Metal zu verbinden, weiterhin treu. Der Level an Direktheit und hasserfüllter, verzweifelter Aggression ist jedoch deutlich gestiegen.
Mit dieser Veröffentlichung beweist die Band, dass Extreme Metal auch 2026 noch neue Wege beschreiten kann. Sie verschmelzen Genregrenzen, ohne ihre Wurzeln zu verleugnen, und schaffen damit ein Werk, das sowohl alte Fans als auch neue Hörer*innen fesseln wird. Die EP ist ein kompromissloses Manifest der Finsternis - eine Klangreise, die lange nachhallt und ihre Hörer*innen tief unter die Oberfläche zieht.
Ab dem 23. Januar 2026 ist „Death throes of a drowning god" auf allen gängigen digitalen Plattformen, sowie in einer limitierten physischen Edition auf CD und Tape erhältlich. Eine Veröffentlichung, die sich Liebhaber atmosphärisch dichter, extrem metal-lastiger Klangkunst nicht entgehen lassen sollten!
https://youtu.be/9C2KO5mWW3E?si=vEcaz2UsGVgST5Cl
https://www.guyod.net
Am
27.03.2026 erscheint „Say Hello To Tragedy“ von Caliban als exklusives
Vinyl-Rerelease in drei verschiedenen edlen und hochwertigen Versionen über
Noisy Plastics Records / Red Flame Distribution.
Mit „Say Hello to Tragedy“ eröffnete Caliban 2009 ein neues Kapitel ihrer Bandgeschichte – kompromisslos, kraftvoll und emotional aufgeladen. Das Album zeigt die deutsche Metalcore-Instanz so fokussiert und kreativ wie selten zuvor. Mit einer Mischung aus brachialer Energie, eingängigen Melodien und atmosphärischer Tiefe gelingt es Caliban, ihren charakteristischen Sound weiterzuentwickeln, ohne ihre Wurzeln aus den Augen zu verlieren.
„Say Hello“ ist ein Statement: ein Gruß an die Dämonen der Vergangenheit, an persönliche Abgründe und gesellschaftliche Spannungen – aber auch ein mutiger Blick nach vorn. In jedem Track bündeln sich rohe Intensität, technische Raffinesse und eine emotionale Offenheit, die das Album bis dato zu einem der eindringlichsten Werke ihrer Karriere macht. Von wuchtigen Breakdowns über cineastische Synth-Flächen bis hin zu hymnischen Refrains präsentiert sich Caliban vielseitig und zugleich unverkennbar.
Thematisch schlägt das Album einen Bogen zwischen Konfrontation, Veränderung und Aufbruch. „Say Hello to Tragedy“ ist sowohl Einladung als auch Herausforderung – ein musikalischer Brückenschlag zwischen lichtdurchfluteter Hoffnung und tiefschwarzer Härte. Caliban beweisen damit einmal mehr, warum sie seit Jahrzehnten zu den prägendsten Kräften des modernen Metalcore zählen.
Folgende Versionen sind ab sofort vorbestellbar:
Liquid filled Vinyl (lim. 50 Stück)
Glitter Sand filled Vinyl (lim. 50 Stück)
Black/green color in color effect vinyl (lim. 111 Stück)
https://noisyplastics.com
Die Version „Black/green color in color effect vinyl (lim. 111 Stück)“ gibt es auch bei Supreme Chaos Records:
https://supremechaos.com/caliban-say-hello-to-tragedy-black-green-lp.html
Label: Ardua Music
Release date: february 27th 2026
Genre: Melodic Doom Metal
For fans of: The Gathering | The 3rd And The Mortal | Inborn Suffering | Katatonia
Taking their name from the Norse goddess of death, Spanish voyagers through realms of shadow and sorrow, Hela, formed in Elche, Spain in 2012. They quickly made their mark on the doom metal scene with their well-received debut album, Broken Cross, which was picked up for a vinyl release by the respected Svart Records. Their star continued to rise with their second and third albums – Death May Die and Vegvísir – their sound developing in a natural and organic way. Trends and fashions have always been meaningless to Hela, with their reputation being based on honesty of expression and a palpable passion for the music they create. The global pandemic ushered in a period of silence from Hela, with the personal changes of circumstance that life tends to bring following in its wake…but the time for their reawakening has come. With new vocalist Raquel Navarro adding her sublime, dreaming tones to the band’s most emotive music to date, Hela are poised to present A Reign To Conquer.
Opening track, ‘Vessel To Nowhere’, begins in forbidding fashion, with dark, cold and powerful chords before engaging melodies and warmly human vocals open up that daunting exterior. Portentous narrative passages lend weight, while the lead guitar takes hold of your heart in an ascending spiral of emotion. ‘The Infinite Tower’ introduces a lightness, an ethereal feel as superb guitar lines flit like ghosts between the dreaming passages and storm-tossed, turbulent passions. A captivating piece, from the pinnacle of this tower you can gaze out across a landscape painted in the muted colours of dusk…and with each track we fall a little deeper into Hela’s embrace. ‘Crystal Bridge’ speaks in a universal language, connecting with the listener at a fundamental level beyond words as its wistful melancholy and bittersweet reflections build to an overwhelmingly powerful chorus. There is a sense of journeying through this album, of onward movement, as we walk, drift, float, stumble and soar through the cascading guitars of ‘Emerald Mirror’, the waltz through emptiness and memories of ‘Architect Of Disorder’ to arrive at the towering conclusion of ‘Nomad’…only to find that the journey continues – the restless nomad wandering the dusty paths of the world for eternity, with only the ghosts of lost loves for company. Hela have continued to grow, to subtly transform, to follow where their hearts and their music lead them…and A Reign To Conquer is a work of beauty that could only have been achieved through that open authenticity and untarnished integrity.
Recorded at the Red Records studio in Alicante, with Jose Franciso Rojo and mixed by the band’s own Julian Velasco, A Reign To Conquer was then mastered by Dan Swano whose touch has dusted albums by so many acclaimed artists with magic; from Barren Earth to Hypocrisy, Novembers Doom to Novembre…the list is practically endless. The result is an album of rare vitality and potency, an all-encompassing presence that holds the attention effortlessly. Adorned, as always, in the evocative imagery of Deadsign, A Reign To Conquer will be released by the highly regarded Ardua Music on CD digipak and digital formats and by Tormo Records on limited edition vinyl on February 27th. If you have yet to discover the fragility and power of Hela then now is the time. If you are a seasoned traveller, then welcome back to the road that never ends…
Line-up:
Raquel Navarro · Vocals
Julián Velasco · Guitars, fx
Tano Giménez · Bass
Miguel Fernández · Drums
https://www.arduamusic.com/
https://www.tormorecords.com/en/
https://www.helaband.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Helaband/
MERCULISTARYA – “ÁRADÓ FÁJDALOM A TŰNŐDÉS MEDRÉBEN”
Full-length, CD / Digital, February 2026, Pest Records & Metal Or Die Records
Black Metal from Hungary
MERCULISTARYA is the one-man project of Árpád Szenti, best known for his drumming work with bands such as Thy Catafalque, Ahriman, Athame, and Damnation. Áradó fájdalom a tűnődés medrében is the project’s debut full-length album, a deeply personal statement that has been taking shape for over two decades, reflecting a long and introspective creative journey.
VAMPIRIC OATH – “DOCTRINES OF WITHERING NATURE”
Full-length, CD / Digital, January 2026, Vampiric Militant Legions
Black Metal from Romania
Debut full-length album from this mysterious one-man-band. Doctrines of Withering Nature exposes human hatred as instinct, a doctrine of decay driven by mankind's will toward self-destruction
CADAVRUL
– “NECROTIC SAVAGERY “
Full-length, CD / Digital, January 2026, Loud Rage Music
Death Metal from Romania
The band's second full-length album, 13 years from the previous opus, "Enter the Morgue".
ANGERSEED – “RAPTURE IS MINE… GLORY IS OURS”
Full-length, CD / Digital, January 2026, Pest Records / Metal Or Die Records
Old-School Death Metal from Hungary
Hungary's Old-School Technical Death Metal force ANGERSEED returns with their long-awaited second full-length album, "Rapture is Mine… Glory is Ours", marking nine years since the band's debut, "The Proclamation". The new record sees the band reconnecting with its early roots while boldly reshaping its sound into a more modern, dynamic, and expressive form. The lyrical themes delve deeper than before, enhancing the band's characteristic social-critical perspective with profound inner and spiritual reflections.
ARGUS MEGERE – “CERBUREA APUSULUI”
Full-length, CD / Digital, December 2025, Loud Rage Music
Symphonic Gothic Doom Metal from Romania
Doom/Gothic/Symphonic metal project, founded by two resilient metal veterans from Romania. Originally conceived by guitarist Dragoș Grigorescu (Abigail, Hovercraft, Serenity), the project truly began to take shape when his lifelong friends, bassist Cătălin “Flamă” Scânteie (Abigail, Rising Shadow, Hatemode) and vocalist Georgiana Bogdana Stoian (Vârf Carpatin) joined the lineup, bringing their full passion, dedication and creativity into the mix.
UMBRÍO – “QUINTAESENCIA NOCTURNA”
Full-length, CD / Digital, November 2025, Vampiric Militant Legions
Atmospheric Black Metal from Chile
From the funeral mists of Valdivia, Chile, UMBRÍO returns with its second full-length offering:
"Quintaesencia Nocturna", a black flame burning beyond time, invoking the absolute essence of the nocturnal void.
SPIRITUAL RAVISHMENT – “EXIT HUMANITY”
Full-length, CD / Digital, October 2025, Loud Rage Music
Grindcore (with Sludge, Stoner, Death influences) from Romania
Second full-length album by veteran Romanian Grinders SPIRITUAL
www.loudragemusic.com
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
PSYCHO
SYMPHONY: “SILENT FALL”
FFO: Psychotic Waltz, Mekong Delta, Sieges Even…
More than 25 years after its original 1997 release, Romanian cult Prog Thrash band PSYCHO SYMPHONY brings back Silent Fall. Remastered and reimagined, the album is now available again—and for the first time pressed on CD via Loud Rage Music. Recorded in Romania during a burst of creative intensity and progressive spirit, it continues to resonate with fans worldwide.
Band members share their enthusiasm about the reissue: “For us, ‘Silent Fall’ was never just a debut—it was a statement. An experiment in pushing boundaries, blending aggression with atmosphere, and searching for something honest and uniquely our own within the noise. Though born in a time and place where resources were limited, the vision was always clear.
This re-release is more than nostalgia. It’s a way to bring the music to new ears, to give it the sound it always deserved, and to honor the path we started. With a careful remastering and artwork based on the haunting paintings of Étienne Sándorfi, this edition breathes new life into the dust-covered soul of the original.
Thank you to everyone who believed in this album—then and now.”
Rude Awakening Records proudly takes care of digital distribution for “Silent Fall”, which will be available on February 6th on all the main providers, while physical copies can already be ordered through Loud Rage Music and Rude Awakening Records as well.
A visualizer for “Shadowed with Life” is now available: https://youtu.be/z4fKkI_ABHg
Tracklist:
1. The King
2. Temptations
3. The Temple of Delight
4. Over the Walls
5. Shadowed with Life
6. Bloodthirsty Desires
7. Reality Falls Asleep I & II
https://linktr.ee/rudeawakeningrecords
In Memoriam is not just a look back but a clear statement of renewal. It includes re-recorded classics and two new, previously unreleased tracks — “The Death of the Red Dragon” and “Soleright” — offering a focused and definitive experience for both long-time listeners and new fans of atmospheric black metal.
"Thanks to the contribution of session musicians, SUPERIOR RAGE's music has become more vibrant and pulsatile compared to their previous, colder and more minimal productions," says the project’s founder, Superior Rage (vocals and synths).
About SUPERIOR RAGE
SUPERIOR RAGE began in 2006, delivering raw black metal with atmospheric, dark, and symphonic tones. The core lineup features Superior Rage (vocals, synths), Pagan Fury (guitars, synths), and Hyemens Kaiser Tszar (bass).
The first demo (2008) earned strong national reviews, followed by Through Infinity (2010), a mix of unreleased tracks and new material. Between 2010 and 2011, the project released several live recordings with temporary session musicians.
In 2011, SUPERIOR RAGE shifted toward symphonic black metal with III. Two Fire Eternal EPs followed, covering classic black metal songs—first in their original style, then in an ambient approach.
In 2012 the lineup expanded, producing new online recordings, additional covers, and a remake of “The Night of Rains.” The project paused in 2014, briefly resurfacing in 2017 with a new version of “Indecent Condition.”
SUPERIOR RAGE returned in 2022 with the single Boobs Explosions. This led to Anthology, a 2024 collection of re-recorded key tracks, including a new prog-influenced take on “Cuore Sincero.”
In 2025, the promo Back to the Crypt introduced two re-recorded tracks and a new song, “Soleright,” with four session members. The EP In Memoriam followed, adding a new version of “Asmodeus Bacchic” and the unreleased “Death of the Red Dragon.”
The current line-up features the core vision of Superior Rage (music, lyrics, synth & bass) alongside a powerful contingent of session musicians:
Baelithiel (vocals & lyrics)
Maikon (drums)
Nemorion (guitars on “Indecent Condition” and “Soleright”)
Hrafnagud (guitars on “The Night of Rains”, “Asmodeus Bacchic”, “The Death of the Red Dragon”)
In Memoriam is a must-listen for anyone seeking symphonic black metal that is both rich in atmosphere and aggressive in execution.
www.youtube.com/@SuperiorRageRawchannel
www.facebook.com/rawsuperiorrage
Former Stortregn vocalist/guitarist has started his own new band called Apolaustic in which he seems to have poured his heart out. He's put his years of experience in writing elaborate songs enriched with poignant melodies. Two songs from the debut album are streaming now, one in the form of a lyric video that was released recently.
APOLAUSTIC – “NO PLENITUDE WITHOUT SUFFERING”
Genre - Melodic
black/death metal
For fans of - Dissection, Naglfar, Sacramentum, Unanimated, Thulcandra, Stortregn, Dyssebeia
Apolaustic was formed by the former Stortregn vocalist/guitarist Romain Negro as an outlet for him to express his personal vision. At once scathing and stirring, the sharp, insistent riffs go hand in hand with elegant melodies that never outstay their welcome. The aggression and poignancy is beautifully managed with plenty of variations provided to highlight those emotions at the right times. After experiencing the turmoil of life, the aching pain in the melodies is all too palpable. "No Plenitude Without Suffering" is a heartfelt, meticulously put together, pristine-sounding debut from a veteran musician that is bound to stand the test of time if only on the basis of the sheer quality of melodies contained within.
Line up
Romain Negro (ex-Stortregn) - Vocals, Songwriting
Merlin Bogado (Dyssebeia) - Session Guitars & Bass
Nicolas Muller (Akiavel) - Session Drums
Cover artwork by Romain Negro
Track listing
1. Devouring the Past
2. Fragments from a Misty Journey
3. Testimony of an Obsolescent World
4. Shining Amidst the Lights
5. Smells Like Dead Autumn Fire
6. Black Flame Reviver
7. De Feu et de Cendre
8. Peregrination Towards Childhood Memories
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/ApolausticBand
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Label: Apocalyptic Witchcraft
Release date: april 24th 2026
Genre: Black/Folk Metal
For fans of: Primordial | Winterfylleth | Saor | Forefather
“Let warlocks grim an' wither'd hags
Tell how wi' you on ragweed nags
They skim the muirs an' dizzy crags
Wi' wicked speed;
And in kirk-yards renew their leagues,
Owre howket dead.”
- Robert Burns – Address To The Devil
Eight years on from their last album, The Forty Five, Scotland’s Cnoc An Tursa have returned with an evocative tribute to the history, the folklore, the unique magic of their homeland. With their characteristic blend of fierce black metal and traditional melodies they have conjured up a set of songs that bring together mourning and defiance, mystery and fear, pride and passion. It is rare for a band to return from years of silence with an album that represents a new creative peak in their story, but with A Cry For The Slain that is exactly what Cnoc An Tursa have achieved. Speaking about their aims with this album, the band have said,
"With this new album we feel like we are going back to our roots with a more guitar driven style and bringing back some of the folk elements musically and lyrically which was the original inspiration for the band."
And by looking back they have found the way forward, reigniting their fire and forging an album that will resonate through the years to come.
‘Na Fir Ghorma’ with its haunting guitar notes and sense of dignity and sorrow opens the door to A Cry For The Slain, ushering you into the furious opening blast of ‘The Caoineag’. Steeped in bardic tradition and storytelling this majestic track introduces the listener to a highland banshee who foretells death and tragedy and sings her laments beside the deep lochs and chill waterfalls. With the Caoineag’s song atmosphere rises like mountain mists, enshrouding and transporting while the captivating melodies conjured by Cnoc An Tursa lead us into a different world. ‘Cailleach And The Guardians Of The Seven Stones’ is a magnificent, sweeping tribute to the goddess of winter who shapes the landscape with her hammer, the ghost of Thin Lizzy’s ‘Emerald’ dancing in its Gaelic reels. A stunning guitar solo adorns the multifaceted track that captures the power, allure, mystery and terror of the blood thirsty ‘Baobhan Sith’, while the thundering energy of ‘Am Fear Liath Mòr’ takes you to the mountain passes of the Cairngorms, haunted by a giant presence…“I can hear the footsteps behind me, I can see the Big Grey Man”… And nestled amongst all the stories and ‘Address To The Devil’s epic dark poetry, we find first single, ‘Alba In My Heart’ – a pledge of allegiance, a song of devotion to Cnoc An Tursa’s beloved Scotland. There’s a raised fist and a strength of spirit in the blood stirring melodies and the rolling rhythms, in the riffs tumbling down like mountain streams. The authenticity of emotion in this song is undeniable. By the time ‘The Nine Maidens Of Dundee’ leads us down from the peaks once more, with a head full of dreams and a belief that magic may still exist in the less travelled glens of the northlands, the sheer power of Cnoc An Tursa’s return has become abundantly clear. A Cry For The Slain is a breathtaking album, a beacon burning in the night of mundane modernity, calling to those of us who want more than we’ve been sold.
With the intuitive mastering of Jaime Gomez Arellano (Paradise Lost, Primordial, Hexvessel etc) bringing depth and vigour to every note, A Cry For The Slain smoulders with sonic intensity and all the emotion and secrets of its narrative are captured in the evocative artwork of Olga Kann (Winteria, Withered Land, Ruadh etc) that adorns its cover. Apocalyptic Witchcraft will release this monumental album on April 24th and the defiant cry of Cnoc An Tursa will echo through the landscape once more.
“When thowes dissolve the snawy hoord,
An' float the jinglin icy-boord,
Then water-kelpies haunt the foord
By your direction,
An' nighted trav'lers are allur'd
To their destruction.”
- Robert Burns – Address To The Devil
Line-up:
Alan Buchan - Vocals
Rene McDonald Hill - Guitars, Keyboards
Bryan Hamilton - Drums
https://apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/apocalypticwitchcraftrecordings
https://www.facebook.com/cnocantursa/
Poland's
SHINE is now streaming a new track off their forthcoming debut
album, WRATHCULT. "KNEEL BEFORE THE SERPENT"
marks the second taste of the fury to come later this month with the album's
impending release.
Stream "Kneel Before the Serpent" now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_JCjauzBtU
Wrathcult is due out January 30 on Dark Descent Records.
Pre-order Wrathcult on digital, CD and vinyl formats at:
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
https://ddmsuo.eu/
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/
Born from the grips of the pandemic, SHINE are the newest brainchild of Hazael’s Tomasz Dobrzeniecki, and their first album Wrathcult leaves no doubt that a new force in Polish extreme metal has awakened.
Inspired by the likes of Emperor, Bathory, Morbid Angel, Entombed and Dismember, Dobrzeniecki’s new outfit channels that lineage into something raw, relentless, and unmistakably its own.
‘SHINE’ for me is a sheen of a sword's blade, the last thing that your foes see in their lives. You can also relate it to the Promethean light given to people that enlightens or sometimes blinds us. It can also be a glare of rage stemming from the resistance towards the unnatural rules forced upon us,” explains Dobrzeniecki when asked about his new unit’s name. “Our music is full of references to ancient rules and rituals and times when people lived in accordance with nature and cosmos using the primeval knowledge.”
Dark Descent Records will handle the release, having previously collaborated with Dobrzeniecki on the reissue of Hazael’s classic opus. Wrathcult continues in similar thematic territory, invoking forgotten ancestral knowledge and tapping into primal forces, and mythic echoes of a pre-Christian world.
“Lyrics for the album are mainly inspired by the pre-Christian spirituality and mythology of our forefathers and based on such books as Bestiariusz Słowiański, Mitologia Słowiańska by J. Bobrowski and M. Wrona, and Słowiańska Czarownica (Slavic Bestiary, Slavic Mythology, Slavic Witch). The lyrics pay homage to nature and higher powers in order to upkeep the memories of the beliefs that once shaped our heritage. We live on the borderline of three cultures that blend together in some way – Germanic, Norse and Slavic mythology have quite a lot in common.”
The album was recorded at Heinrich House Studio in Legionowo, Poland - a small city on the outskirts of Warsaw that holds an important place in metal history, being the hometown of Daray (Dimmu Borgir, Vesania), Orion (Behemoth, Vesania) and Heinrich (Vesania, Decapitated). “Me and producer Heinrich (Filip Hałucha) have known each other for about 20 years. If you want to record a metal album that 100% meets your expectations, I think he's the only person that I trust.”
An uncompromising slab of ancient fury awaits! “See you in Valhalla! I’ve heard the parties there are worth dying for,” exclaims Dobrzeniecki.
Tracklist:
1. Ancient Chaos
2. The Lamb Against the Wolf
3. Kneel Before the Serpent
4. Oddajcie co moje
5. The Cult of Oak
6. The Horror of the Night
7. Witch's Prophecies
8. Wrath of the Hammer
9. The Necklace With Runes
10. Ancient Spirit
SHINE is:
Marek Krajcer-vocals
Tomasz Dobrzeniecki -guitars
Mateusz Waśkiewicz- guitars
Wojciech Gąsiorowski-bass
Paweł Duda- drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/shine.wrathcult/
Musically, the track combines black and death metal in Saasta’s characteristic way, with death metal’s brute force ensuring that the black metal message reaches the listener’s deepest core.
The single’s cover art and the music video were created with a raw DIY spirit by Saasta.
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/pAuWejidUuw
Listen to the single on music services : https://push.fm/fl/saasta-theleeches
Saasta is an extreme metal band from Kotka, Finland. Formed in 2020 the band combines the mercilessness of black and death metal, with the more subtle nuances of doom. The combination is dark and groovy metal with its own distinctive sound, where strong lyrical expression meets raw energy. Saasta is known for their intense stage presence and uncompromising effort.
Line up
Vocals – Leevi Kärsämä
Guitar – Topias Jokipii
Bass Guitar – Janne Hietanen
Drums – Jimi Lahtinen
https://www.saastaofficial.com/
https://www.facebook.com/saastaofficial
CATTLE HAMMER – “DARK THOUGHTS WITH LIGHTS OUT”
Label: Road To Masochist
Release date: february 6th 2026
Genre: Blackened Sludge/Drone
For fans of: Moss | Burning Witch | Old Year| Khanate
With foundations of loss and desperation, bricks of countless small rejections and a mortar of indifference…adorned in carefully sculpted cruelties, with a watchfire of self hatred blazing out into the night; so is my tower of pain and isolation built, my black edifice, my fortress and my prison. And even in the utter solitude behind these cold stone walls I am not master of myself. Even here I am a slave to the voices, speaking from the past, making their whispered incisions in my tattered, wastrel soul.
“…that’s what you’re entitled to…pain, suffering, misery…”- CATTLE HAMMER, ‘Rotting’
Formed in the spring of 2023 by Duncan Wilkins (Fukpig/Mistress/ex-Anaal Nathrakh), Cattle Hammer is a caustic, unforgiving blend of sludge, drone, impenetrable blackness and deep rooted negative emotion. Their first outpourings of choking, bleak despair included the 71 minute, uninterrupted track ‘Methlehem’ – a declaration of just how far into the darkness they were prepared to venture. Now Cattle Hammer are primed to unleash their formidable debut full length album, an amalgamation of four of their most harrowing songs, Dark Thoughts With Lights Out…
The descent begins with ‘Gloomsower’, vocals like tortured spirits howling behind thick walls of sludge. It’s a slow, painful march, like wading through quicksand with each agonising step dragging you down a little deeper, the certainty of suffocating death a constant presence. The raw, organic sound brings a reality to the emotions expressed, creating a tangible link between the misery within and the sound without. There’s no gilded artifice, just a soporific dirge that vibrates through every cell…
There is no relief…
‘Rotting’ rises up through words of bitter judgement, carefully enunciated, before riffs like towering, quivering monoliths drag your heart down through your stomach. While clearly a distinct entity from ‘Gloomsower’, ‘Rotting’ further intensifies that doomed aura, continuing the process of entombment in misery. A deep lethargy eats away at time and you can almost see your skin wither as days bleed into weeks, months, years, empty decades between chords…
There is no mercy…
‘Watchmen, Alone’ jabs at your torpid consciousness with disorientating, disjointed bursts of sound before the black hammer descends in inescapable slow motion and a chasm of abyssal grief opens beneath you. It’s vicious, lumbering, brutish, vile and painful…
There is no hope but death…
The final disassembling of reality comes with ‘Body Puzzle’. The sheer scale of the riffs is terrifying, like being caught between colliding planets, while a voice of damnation injects fear and panic into the claustrophobic onslaught.
Dark Thoughts With Lights Out will be released by Road To Masochist on CD and vinyl on February 6th. It will leave you a weeping wreck, with your sense of self worth bleeding from your ears. It will take you beyond the point of no return. Is it cruel or cathartic? Harmful or healing? All of the above? Whatever it turns out to be for you…approach it with care.
Line-up:
Wilkins, D – Vocals/Guitar
Cartwright, I - Drums
Wyles, J - Guitar
Von Donovan, D - Bass
https://www.facebook.com/cattlehammer
DISSOLVING
OF PRODIGY was
a Czech doom metal band that existed between 1993 and 2013. It is one of the
world's most respected Czech doom metal bands. When René "Fusaty"
Krystyn, frontman and founder of DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY,died of cardiac
arrest in September 2013 at the age of only 39, his band also physically died.
Since Fusaty was one of my friends, after 2013 I decided to re-releases DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY's recordings and release them on vinyl for the first time.
When I sent out the “ZLODĚJSKÁ SVĚTÉLKA” CD for manufacturing in April 2025, it was clear that the final original song by DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY would also be released on vinyl at some point. I just didn’t know when. It was only this summer that Valda, the flautist, advised me that another milestone in his life was slowly approaching. He’s turning 50 and thus the LP is released on 30 January 2026, to be seen as a birthday present for his half-century on earth. On the same day as the CD re-release of the album “Štvanice”.
Let’s admit that the release of a CD offering a single song of 14 minutes was already an unusual feat. And the LP release is no different. It is not traditionally divided into sides A and B. It is a one song story.
"Zlodějská světélka" will be released FIRTST TIME ON VINYL 30.1. by Pařát Productions. You can order them at https://paratshop.cz/produkt/dissolving-of-prodigy-zlodejska-svetelka-3/
You can listen to full recording on the Pařát Productions YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hosqSzSFsaA
DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY – “ZLODĚJSKÁ SVĚTÉLKA” (LIGHTS OF THIEVES)
Label: Pařát Productions
Style: Death/doom metal
Type: Limited 250 copies black LP 12" (140g) with full-color labels, printed inner bag, original foil
Release date: 30.1. 2025
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With
just a couple of weeks to go until the release of EVOKED ECLIPSE'S
debut album, today you can finally enter the world of this Italian atmospheric
Death Black Metal band. We're proud to present the project's first single, the
title track "THE CRIES OF EVIL", from the album
out on February 6th via Club Inferno Ent.
The song can be heard on all digital platforms and on YouTube at https://youtu.be/nkR1ZMw_S5Y
Led by Max Havler (ex-OPHIDIAN – ex-SHRIVEL), mastered by Jens Bogren at the world-famous Fascination Street Studios (Opeth, Katatonia, Dimmu Borgir, Arch Enemy, Sepultura, Kreator etc. etc.), with the album cover realized by the talented artist Gogo Melone, "THE CRIES OF EVIL" present a dark sound, very close to the Scandinavian Black Metal and Death Metal scene, primarily Swedish, with references to Dissection, Naglfar, but also the melodic Death Metal of Dark Tranquillity and Opeth and the melancholic Doom Gothic elements of early Katatonia!
The album in its CD format is already available for pre-order at https://t.ly/7Lvki
Just be ready to a new vision of Extreme Music
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DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present MIDYRASI’S KULT’S highly anticipated debut album, ITALIAN DARK SOUND, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
MIDRYASI'S KULT are revolutionary and uncompromised. Featuring veterans from such Italian doom stalwarts as Doomsword, Midryasi, Agarthi, and Fiurach, their unique blend of elements from the NWOBHM, doom metal, and early black metal – all fused in their distinctive national dark-sound tradition, which includes such cult legends as Black Hole and Death SS – results in an obscure, hypnotic, and exciting formula.
In March 2025, after just one week on Bandcamp, MIDYRASI’S KULT were intercepted by Caligari Records, who released on cassette their debut demo, Mountain Devil. Featuring three songs in a concise 15 minutes, this demo reaped international acclaim for its originality and attitude.
But that was but a foretaste of darker delights to come. Witness the first full-length of MIDRYASI’S KULT, Italian Dark Sound. Truly titled, Italian Dark Sound is an intoxicating spelunk into catacombs both idiosyncratic and indefinable. Totaling 32 time-/mind-expanding minutes, the eight primary tracks here – the outro is titled “The Lost Son of Sylvester Anfang,” which should offer an obvious clue to the black-metal-minded out there – each offer something different from the next, and yet all add up into a shadowy experience that’s both rocking and atmospheric. In fact, if one were to single out an aspect between the demo and album, it’s that MIDYRASI’S KULT exude more energy on this full-length without sacrificing any of their occult aura. But, just like that demo, Italian Dark Sound features supremely pro production – gritty, earthy, and yet kaleidoscopic in texture – under the guidance of Gabry "The Way" Strada, head of RDF Studio and who’s now collaborating on the upcoming Doomsword new album. In the vein of an open artistic project, all the artwork is made by vocalist / bassist Geilt himself, and up to 11 musicians have been involved in these recordings.
Love Pentagram, Danzig, Celtic Frost, Mercyful Fate, Bathory, AND Jacula? Then you absolutely must hear MIDYRASI’S KULT’s Italian Dark Sound ASAP!
Line-up:
Avenir - Rhytm and solo Guitar
Geilt - Vocals, Music
DulltheDog - Bass
WrathLord - Drums
Gabry”The Way”Strada - fx, arrangiaments
From Italy
Release date:
27th March
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Colored edition on dark purple vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on tricolor spinner marbled vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
Tracklist
01 Italian Dark Sound
02 MIM Mayhem
03 Into the Cellar
04 Mountain Devil
05 Taste for Damnation
06 The Slow-ther of Genius-Lunacy
07 Hypnopriest
08 The Lost Son of Silvester Anfang
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
DEATH
DIES'
new album "MALEDICTI IN AETERNVM" will be
released on April 3rd via My Kingdom Music and will be a journey into the
blackest depths of Black Metal where light and hope end.
Today we unveil the cover artwork of the album realized by Maira Pedroni and the tracklist that is:
1. Il Bosco Siamo Noi
2. Asmodevs
3. Trivia Soteira
4. Mater Meretrix
5. La Casa Del Diaol
6. La Malcontenta
7. Patavinorvm Tyrannvs
8. Carmina Trivmphalia
9. Caron Dimonio
10. Destroyer
Recorded at Thorazine Music Studio and at Unhealty Recording studio, mixed and mastered at Deadferro Audio Project Studio by Daniele Ferretto, "Maledicti In Aeternvm" is the result of two years worth of blood and sweat. It is uncompromising extreme music and elite Dark Art in the name of the most ferocious, extremist and evil Black Metal.
The band takes the legacy of Primordial Black Metal and enriches it with devastating elements of Hard-core and Thrash Death Metal. All this leads to a fast, powerful, violent album... in short, "Maledicti In Aeternvm" is a creature that will sink into your flesh like a blade able of piercing your quiet existence.
This is DEATH DIES... the purest essence of Black Metal.
"Maledicti In Aeternvm", out on April 3rd, is now available to pre-order in LP, digipak CD and Deluxe Edition from the following: https://t.ly/O-Q7U
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The video was premiered today via The Devil's Mouth: https://thedevilsmouth.substack.com/p/video-premiere-ols-bes-nas
"bez nas" is a dreamlike tale of drifting away, from love, from a former self, and from the sacred myths of childhood. The track explores a world where memories take on the texture of a dream, shifting and entangling until the past becomes a fable. It reflects on the indifference of the cosmos; while a personal "apocalypse" may occur, nature continues its cycles, oblivious to our loss.
Musically, the song highlights the evolution of the Ols sound. It begins with a dreamy, swaying verse centred on a melancholic piano, creating a sense of suspended animation. This stillness is eventually shattered by a heavy, guitar-driven chorus that draws inspiration from the crushing atmospheres of bands like Cult of Luna.
As the closing track on Poświaty, "bez nas" functions as a connective thread for the entire record. It weaves in musical quotations from earlier tracks and nods to the artists who shaped the imagination of Anna (the creative force behind Ols), leaving the listener in a space of quiet pain and lingering nostalgia.
Anna of Ols commented: “The world that once felt ‘ours’ no longer belongs to us, and someone we once loved becomes distant and unfamiliar. 'bez nas' works like an echo: it recalls and amplifies earlier themes without offering resolution. Instead of closure, it leaves space for melancholy and quiet pain, allowing the afterglow of this story to linger just above the surface.”
The album "Poświaty" is available in a jewelcase CD format with a 20-page booklet that includes lyrics and translations. Thematically, the album “Poświaty” delves into the formative period between childhood and adulthood, exploring themes of personal mythology, the transformative power of love and the inevitable pain of loss.
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FROSTMORNER - "ORBITAL KAOS“
“Orbital Kaos” marks the first full-length chapter of Frostmorner and showcases the project’s foundation: a blend of blackened intensity, atmospheric layers, and death metal grit. The album pulls inspiration from Nile, Hypocrisy, Belphegor, and Death, while weaving in modern influences from Lorna Shore and Rings of Saturn. Its thematic core draws from a lifelong fascination with Lovecraft, mythology, space, and horror. The album’s title captures its essence. Each track stands on its own, shaped by its own narrative and energy, yet all orbit around the central concept of Kaos. The result is a record built on fragmentation, unpredictability, and tension: an audio universe where no two moments land in the same place.
The digital album's release date is 06 February 2026 .
Tracklist
1 -Pillars of Creation
2 -Necromorph
3 -Kronvs
4 -Demiurge
5- Arra Agga Bandar
6- Gorgone
7 -Claymore
8 -Eclipse
9 -Orbital Kaos
Founded by Mario and rooted in Sicily, Frostmorner began its journey in 2019. What started with the support of other musicians soon evolved into a fully solo project, allowing Mario to build a sound that reflects his vision without compromise. Over the years, Frostmorner has caught the attention of magazines, fanzines, and radio stations, opening the door to collaborations and conversations with artists across the extreme metal world.
www.youtube.com/@frostmorner
www.facebook.com/FrostmornerMusicOfficial
Released in 2019 via DYING VICTIMS, AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR’s Havoc at the Midnight Hour debut album introduced this British power-trio with no small amount of sleazy, Satanic fanfare. While their background may jointly lie in black metal, the three un-gentlemen of AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR held high heavy metal done the ancient way: classic Tank, early Raven, Warfare, and of course the almighty Venom as well as modern torchbearers like Midnight, Whipstriker, and Power From Hell. Unsurprisingly, the album garnered international acclaim.
Eclipsing that feat is the band’s second album, Come Creeping Fiends. Truly titled once again, Come Creeping Fiends comprises nine tracks of heavy metal for the insane, forged in the Manchester morgue. Raging like a ravenous beast, summoning ancient ones, and agonizing with morbid doom, AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR cover a lot of ground here, but like the rotting undead that inspired it, this second album somehow holds together. The same black magic that made Havoc at the Midnight Hour a highlight six(-six-six) years ago is here again, only this time with a higher kill count and hit rate. Cleaner and crisper in execution but somehow darker and dirtier in its content, Come Creeping Fiends offers highlights at every crooked turn; tunes like “Strange Companion,” “Fiend in You,” and lead track “Dead Undead” will have all the witches dancing. Needless to say, fans of maniacal, EVIL heavy metal music and horror movies will find a lot to love.
The wait for AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR’s second album might have been long, but Come Creeping Fiends will prove to be worth it…find the “Fiend in You”!
Line-up:
Mr. 666 - Bass,
Intimidator - Drums
Dan Chainshaw - Vocals, Guitars
From Manchester, UK
Release date:
27th March
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Colored edition on red vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on pink & violet/purple cloudy vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
Tracklist
1 Dead Undead
2 Strange Companion
3 Fiend in You
4 Like a Beast
5 Obscene Cult
6 Denied by the Reaper
7 Harlot’s Spell
8 Return of the Axe
9 Gallows Eve
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
The second single 'The Black Star' is unleashed today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/inthraced-black-star
The band comments:
“The Black Star” is the fastest and most chaotic track on the album. Relentless blasting from start to finish. More is more. The drummer’s absolute favorite."
Biography:
Inthraced is a Finnish metal band founded in 2011, blending melodic intensity with cosmic darkness to forge a distinct and powerful soundscape. Their early releases, “The New Awakening” (2012) and “The Rising Chaos” (2014), set the foundation for their rise, further amplified by the 2019 single “Interstellar.”
In 2022, the band was reborn with a new guitarist and bassist, igniting the creative fire behind their debut album “Constellation Zero” — an epic and ambitious journey that carries the listener to the very edges of the universe.
Listen
to the first single 'Neon Frontiers': https://push.fm/fl/inthraced-neon-frontiers
Track list:
01. The Revenant
02. Neon Frontiers
03. The Black Star
04. Darkest Chest
05. Constellation Zero
06. The Way Of The Voice
07. Lost Divinity
Mixed by Janne Korpela JK mixing studios Finland
Mastered by Mika Jussila @ Finnvox studios Finland
Cover art by Robert H, Holo Dreamz
Line-up:
Tommi Takkunen - Guitar & Vocals
Mirko Byman - Guitar
Eetu Kovapohja - Bass
Antti Ikonen - Drums
https://inthraced.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/Inthraced
Click below! https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2026/01/19/video-premiere-viogression-light-harvester/
Thaumaturgic Veil is a metaphysical sonic construct, weaving intricate threads of human consciousness, vibrational frequency, and esoteric intent into a tapestry that transcends the boundaries of death metal. This work explores the interplay of awareness, magic, and the latent potential encoded within humanity’s neurocognitive framework.
Thaumaturgic Veil explores the interplay of consciousness, subconsciousness, and materiality, viewing existence as a binary system shaped by vibrational frequencies—the core medium molded by individual intent. These measurable waves connect the chaos of infinite potential to the order of the observable universe, reflecting ancient alchemy’s transformation of matter and awareness, akin to esoteric traditions and Thelema’s Great Work, uniting boundless Nuit and focused Hadit. Meditation and altered mental states enhance this, using frequencies to push perception and align with higher realities, as Crowley’s magick—change through intent—shapes the album’s structure.
The opening track ("Enûma Elish Ilū") introduces infinity as a recurring theme, its modal tones evoking Nuit’s expanse and microtonal shifts hinting at Hadit’s precision, tying into the album’s finite-eternal tension. Building on 2022’s 3rd Stage of Decay, this work intensifies with complex compositions: a primordial voice, heavy, growling guitars and bass conjure raw potential; relentless drums blast and propel it forward, while melodic leads and overtones pierce the dissonance, balancing distortion and clarity. Guttural yet ethereal, its sound design engages the auditory cortex, heightening awareness to match the album’s vision.
For enthusiasts of old-school death metal, Viogression delivers a raw, unrelenting sound steeped in the genre’s early ‘90s roots. Reviewers frequently liken their sludgy, thuggish heaviness to Obituary, noting a shared penchant for trudging, dissonant riffs, though Viogression infuses a Midwestern grit distinct from Florida’s swampy polish. Their technical ferocity and morbid atmospheres draw parallels to Death’s foundational aggression and Pestilence’s chaotic edge, as seen in comments praising their thrash-leaning debut Expound & Exhort. Fans of Morbid Saint’s cult intensity and Autopsy’s doom-drenched decay will find kinship in Viogression’s ability to meld intricate brutality with a haunting, unrefined vibe. Echoes of Possessed’s primal fury and Morbid Angel’s raw power further cement their appeal, making them a hidden gem for devotees of death metal’s formative, unpolished era.
Diego Gedoz de Souza is responsible for the artwork.
Track
Listing:
2. Jinx
3. Akhara Aakasa
4. Renumeration
5. Samsara Ananta
6. Travesty ov darkness
7. Heqet Saeculum
8. Pummeled
9. Amaranthine Kairos
10. Superposition
11. Buki’s dream*
12. Vulnus sclopetarium
13. Ouroboros Noesis
14. Eaten by flies
15. Aeternitas Aevum
16. As the light fades
17. Adrothia Akaru
18. Summon
19. Light harvester
Credits:
Produced by Viogression.
Engineered and mixed by Chris Djuricic.
Mastered by Dave Otero.
Vocals and guitar solos: Recorded at Belle City Sound by Chris Djuricic.
Drums and rhythm guitars: Recorded at Level3Studios, Mount Horeb, Wisconsin; produced by Erik Schultek.
Bass: Recorded at Cavern Entertainment by Nino Nienas.
Album cover artist: Diego Gedoz de Souza.
CD artist: Yan Sek.
Design: DGX Studio.
Band photography: Alyssa Otter.
*Buki’s Dream: Written by Bryan Jaeger (RIP)/Brian DeNeffe. Originally recorded at Smart Studios, Madison, WI, 1994. Embellished by Lief Larson at Belle City Sound Studios, 2025.
Guest vocals: Steve Wilson.
Guest guitar solo on "Vulnus Sclopetarium:" Chris Monroy.
Line-up:
Brian DeNeffe - Vocals
Lief Larson - Guitar
Johnathon Iberra - Guitar
Jason Hellman - Bass
Erik Schultek - Drums
Bio:
Formed in 1988, Viogression swiftly forged a formidable presence in the metal underground with three searing demos, paving the way for their critically lauded debut, Expound & Exhort (1990). This landmark release launched them onto a world tour, igniting stages alongside Death and Pestilence. Their second album, Passage (1994), released incomplete, led to a nine-year hiatus. Reborn in 2003, Viogression unleashed fresh material, culminating in the 2014 EP, A Pure Formality, which sparked the band’s comeback with electrifying festival performances. Defying 2020’s global turmoil, they delivered 3rd Stage of Decay, released worldwide in 2022 through Satanath Records and Moribund Records. Now, Viogression stands on the brink of their fourth album, Thaumaturgic Veil, set for Summer 2025, poised to unleash a cataclysmic new chapter in their storied legacy.
https://viogression.info/
https://viogressionr.bandcamp.com/album/expound-and-exhort
From the cellars of Würzburg, Germany, ZERRE have been keeping the torch of old-school thrash metal burning while carving their own vicious path. Their sound draws on the razor-sharp aggression of classic Metallica and Exodus and the stomping groove of early Faith No More: no frills, no mercy. Their third full-length, 2024’s Scorched Souls, tore through the scene and earned critical acclaim for its searing riffs and unflinching energy.
Now, ZERRE take a decisive step forward with Rotting on a Golden Throne. Darker, more overtly political, and more aggressive than its predecessor, this fourth full-length dives headfirst into the rot of power, corruption, and human decay – a brutal soundtrack for a world teetering on the edge. Onstage, ZERRE embody the chaos of their music: riff-driven assaults, breakneck tempos, and a raw intensity that leaves no room to breathe. On record, while those influences still remain, but the DNA has been splintered into something more unique and definitely more powerful: thrashing, yes, but within a crossover framework that feels titanic. The production is razor-sharp, but with ominous atmosphere to spare; the execution is even sharper, as the drumming especially pulses like a dread locomotive; and vocals spit forth venom, raging against a machine fatted by suffering.
As the throne collapses, ZERRE deliver the anthem of its fall. Keep on Rotting on a Golden Throne!
Line-up:
Tim Müller - Bass
Basti Spahn - Drums
Dominik Bertelt - Guitars
Rocco Lepore - Guitars
Nico Ziska - Vocals
From Würzburg, Germany
Release date:
27th March
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Colored edition on transparent red vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on green/black marbled vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi
Tracklist
1 Intro
2 Pigs will be Pigs
3 Deception of the Weak
4 Mental Vacation
5 Concrete Hell
6 Rotting on a Golden Throne
7 Tin God
8 Killing Taste
9 No Alibi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Label: Apocalyptic Witchcraft
Release date: february 13th 2026
Genre: Depressive Rock / Atmospheric Black Metal
For fans of: Lifelover | Katatonia | Apati | Joyless
City dwellers have all sensed the life, the power, the autonomous identity of their home. They understand, on some deeply buried level, that it is more than a collection of buildings and intersecting streets…it is an entity beyond its elements, a tarnished, hungry god with a character that changes with the setting of the sun and the flickering into life of the street lights and neon signs. They know there is another world, a darkly different reality that lies behind a thin veil of perception; held in check only by a silently agreed refusal to believe in its existence. But a glimpse from the corner of the eye, a movement in the shadows not rejected and quickly forgotten and the door to that other city begins to stand ajar. And with Askdrömmar, Frozen Ocean are holding that door open and beckoning you inside…
For more than twenty years Frozen Ocean has brought us a staggering array of musical gifts; journeys that have taken us from the depths of space to the worlds of Tove Jansson’s literary creations, from Norse mythology to complex internal landscapes – riding on the wings of cold black metal and textured ambience – dramatic and visionary works. Now Vaarwel, the creative spirit behind the Frozen Ocean name, has returned with another sonic dream to ignite our imaginations and transport us to new dimensions. A work that draws inspiration from the writing of John Ajvide Lindqvist and the music of Lifelover, with lyrics written entirely in Swedish that communicate on a level beyond language. Askdrömmar leads us through a gallery of images, of haunting vignettes, to a destination unique to each soul that listens.
We enter the world of Askdrömmar along the moon road, ‘Mångata’ – both frightening and fascinating in equal measure. Vaarwel’s grim voice rasps over the dark, richly melodic music, a superlative demonstration of the power of black metal vocals at their most emotive. Already the light behind you is but a pinprick in the distance as the city begins to swallow you. The melodic, gothic doom inflections of ‘Bortkastade dödsrunor’ draw you deeper still and it becomes clear that these songs are creating an environment as well as a narrative and atmosphere – listening to Askdrömmar is to explore the secret streets of this dark urban domain. As you reach ‘Jag sover’ you are haunted by the city, surrounded by it, consumed by it, lost in its labyrinthine heart. The melancholy melodies twist through the night time world and the chosen language of presentation with its harsh poetry invokes imagery while avoiding definite definition. The liquid keys of ‘I lyktornas sken’ move between the pools of light that punctuate the blackness, creating unfathomable depths and innumerable layers, possessing the power to hypnotise and enthral. From the sinuous lament of ‘Köttkvarn’ with its bewitching despair, through the frantic fear of ‘Långt lopp genom mörkret’ to the beautiful, humbling conclusion of ‘Brunkebergstunneln’, Vaarwel has created nothing less than magic. Askdrömmar is the most powerful and affecting Frozen Ocean work to date – and that is some achievement.
Adorned in the superbly atmospheric artwork of Mosaeye Art (The Hearth Of Discordia, Shiningstar, Pyre etc), Askdrömmar will be unveiled by Apocalyptic Witchcraft on February 13th on CD digipak, cassette and digital formats, as well as an exclusive, extremely limited boxed set. Prepare to pass through the veil and wander through your darkest dreams…
Line-up:
Vaarwel – Vocals, guitars, bass, e-bow, keys, lyrics and music
https://apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/frozenoceanrus
Watch the "All in Your Head" now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1AH1_gPS3Q&t=1s
Hush is a compelling result of TARDIGRADE INFERNO’s evolving signature style and the sheer power of their live performance. What truly defines the band is the experience the listener gets at their live shows, the thoughtful songwriting, the ironic lyricism, and the striking, highly aesthetic visuals. In June 2025, TARDIGRADE INFERNO released an atmospheric and emotional live album Made In Hell that captures their ferocious performance and their connection with the audience. Hush blends all of these strengths with an authentic sound delivered with studio precision.
Watch the video for the album's first single, "Hide 'n' Seek" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fscAHuASUoo
Hush is due out March 5 on CD, digital and four exclusive vinyl editions. Pre-order the album at https://tr.ee/TiHush
Tracklist:
1. The Final Show
2. Hide 'n' Seek
3. Deadly Fairytales
4. All In your Head
5. Dead Fish Smile
6. Subatomic Heist
7. I.C.D.
8. Goor
9. Hush
10. Hypograph
11. I Am Eternal
Hush naturally picks up where 2023's Burn the Circus left off. At the beginning you hear the crackling of a circus burning down. A surviving radio plays a mournful melody that opens a grand show amid the ashes. Like a massive blazing phoenix, TARDIGRADE INFERNO opens its wings with elemental force. It sweeps away what remains and reclaiming its place at the center of attention.
The gorgeous Darya Rorria uses her flexible contralto to tell stories that are anything but cheerful. Her expressive vocals pulse with the music. They tease sharply, flow lyrically, spread in a soft velvet hush, and fade into a tragic whisper. They soar through tense passages and then glide back down into a low, intimate tone. The lyrics are charged to the point of electric crackling, just as one expects from the TARDIGRADE INFERNO.
Their trademark keyboards sound even more retro-futuristic, paying tribute to the classic horror movies of the past. The guitar acts like the wildest creature in the prairie with it's fury clothed in the polished frock coat of a respectable gentleman. The bass has the “AWESOME” knob turned to 100%. The drums are emotional, dynamic, and alive. Altogether it creates a familiar yet more sincere and revealing sound. The music becomes almost visible, almost tangible.
TARDIGRADE INFERNO have always paid special attention to the visual side of their art - from stage costumes and characters to their album covers. The cover for Hush was created by artist Milena Kress in a dark-aesthetic style. This is the band's first experience with analog painting - the piece is oil on canvas. It conveys the anxiety and emotional intensity that mirror the album’s lyrics. It’s also the first time the band’s mascot, the Tardigrade, is absent from the cover. It symbolizes a kind of coming-of-age. The toys have been left behind in the nursery.
Mixing, mastering, and production were handled by Vladimir Lehtinen, who has been working with the band continuously since the release of The Worst of Me EP. Vladimir helped the band capture their live energy without losing the studio polish of their recordings.
TARDIGRADE INFERNO is:
Darya Rorria - vocals
Alexander Pavlovich - guitars, keys
Maxim Belekhov - bass
Andrew Drew - drums
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To celebrate the announcement, the band has released a music video for the title track, “Sylfaera”, which can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oQasXY_R5w
Stream the song here: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/Sylfaera
The band provided a glimpse into the mystical narrative governing the new track: “In the Emerald Forest on the sharp mountains of Vetolian, six ancient souls, children of the same root and bearers of the symbol of 'Inner Sight' on the palms of their hands, gather to celebrate a ritual agreed aeons ago. Each of them comes from a different realm of water, wind, rock, and flame. The musical rite they will create together will reshape reality, collapsing their forthcoming artistic and epic endeavours into matter.
“Two of these souls, Loona and Muirreann, have met since the beginning of worlds, from lifetime to lifetime, sometimes for a moment, sometimes for a whole lifetime, to honour their mystical union. Each time they greet each other with these words: "Do you wish to know me? Lie down upon the fire! Sing your Song, and I will rise in Love, and from Love to Wisdom, dancing again and again ascending.”
“Sylfaera the Fair” follows 2024’s “Centaurea” and 2022’s “Pomegranate (The Chant of the Elementals)”. “Sylfaera the Fair” tells the story of a quest undertaken by five free spirits, artists, and warriors, culminating on a full moon night on a mountain where silvery waterfalls and milky-white stone slabs create an otherworldly dimension. In this symbolic place, the souls of the five manage to cross a dimensional portal, raising their energies and entering a new dimension, bringing into being the law of the octave. From matter to energy, from energy to spirit.
Musically, the album sees Ataraxia venturing into evocative new territories, weaving a tapestry of nordic, dark and ritual folk. This shift is anchored by the deep, resonant tones of the uilleann pipes and bodhran, creating a primordial atmosphere that feels both ancient and futuristic.
The album features the band's core lineup: Francesca Nicoli (vocals, bells, chimes), Vittorio Vandelli (bouzouki, drums, programming, electric and classical guitars, backing vocals), Giovanni Pagliari (keyboards, horn, backing vocals, programming), as well as guests Gregorio Bellodi (uilleann pipes, bodhran, low and high whistles, backing vocals) and Alessia Baraldi (backing vocals). Notably, the vocal performances on this work utilise glossolalia, an invented, non-linear language that bypasses traditional lyrics to evoke pure emotional and spiritual energy.
The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Vittorio Vandelli between April 2025 and December 2025. The accompanying cinematic video was shot and edited by Giovanni Pagliari, featuring a guest appearance by Damiano útburðr Rosati.
The album will be available in three different physical editions through The Circle Music. It will be available on Digi CD and in a marbled transparent turquoise & black LP, with the latter limited to 400 copies. The label is offering a Deluxe Black Box embossed in silver, limited to only 100 copies worldwide. This exclusive box set includes a unique silver vinyl pressing with a printed insert, the Digi CD, and a numbered certificate of authenticity. The box also contains a ritual “Travelling Stone”, an exclusive 16-page booklet and a “hand-written oracle by Ataraxia”.
The band has created 100 hand-drawn stones (“The Travelling Stone”) depicting the eye, representing the subtle vision linked to this concept, and paired them with 100 different oracles, each inspired by a Greek deity or mythological figure. Each person will receive their own unique and original talisman that they can wear around their neck or place in their hidden sanctuary.
Pre-Order: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/distributed-stuff/?filter_artist-name=ataraxia&products-per-page=all
Digital Pre-Save: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/SylfaeraTheFair
Tracklist
1. Alabaster
2. Breanwinn
3. Alqua
4. Sylfaera
5. Silvertine
6. Loona
7. Llawarra
8. Muirreann (CD Bonus Track)
9. Ojos Sagrados
10. Crowea
https://linktr.ee/thecirclemusic
https://www.youtube.com/@atarassxia
http://www.ataraxia.net/
https://www.facebook.com/AtaraxiaFB
The Evolution of Shadow
Formed in 2022 by Mikel Telletxea (vocals, guitar, programming), Aschen originally began as a collaboration with bassist Igor Valle. Following the underground success of their self-titled 2023 demo, the lineup evolved with the addition of Atauzz (Korkut, Kurkuma, 2Sonte) on bass.
This partnership solidified the band’s vision, leading them to Atala Studios in Spain (Infest, Willis Drummond) in August 2025 to record their debut full-length. To ensure a world-class sonic assault, the album was mastered by the legendary Toni Lindgren at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden—the sonic architect behind heavyweights like Dimmu Borgir, Katatonia, and Kreator.
A Sound Beyond Tradition
Musically, Aschen offers a harrowing exploration of dynamic tension. While the DNA of black metal remains clear, the band naturally weaves through diverse styles, characterized by constant rhythmic shifts, moving seamlessly from suffocating doom-laden passages to relentless blast beats, devastating riffage, harmonizing raw aggression with haunting, melodic textures and emotional depth, evoking a spectrum of intensity that transcends the typical "grim" tropes of the genre.
Ancestral Roots & Inner Conflicts
Lyrically, Aschen carves its own path. While the band utilizes English, they also pay homage to their heritage by singing in Basque, their ancestral mother tongue.
Breaking away from traditional satanic or pagan themes, the band’s narrative explores the human psyche’s inability to confront its own internal fractures. Their poetry reflects how this individual downfall resonates through a decaying society and a suffering natural world.
The Labyrinth of the Self
The album artwork, created by Mikel Telletxea, visually reflects this concept. An endless labyrinth shaped like overlapping fingerprints floats between the macrocosm and the microcosm. It represents a search without a clear exit: inward, outward, and always unresolved.
Tracklist
01-Sasi Santuaren Amiltzea
02-From the Depths of Decay
03-Azken Arbolak
04-Buried Name
05-Black Hounds of Justice
06-The Never Ending Search
07-The Forsaken Redeemer
08-The Last Glow
09-Amal
www.youtube.com/@aschenband
www.facebook.com/people/Aschen/61556623060502
FFO: Kreator, Iced Earth, Into Eternity, Mutiny Within, Control Denied
A lyric video for the album's first single, "IF THE JUDGES BECAME THE JUDGED," is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6dai0LN_mQ
Stream the single on your platform of choice at: https://ditto.fm/if-the-judges-became-the-judged
Multi-instrumental, composer, and founder, Frank D'Erasmo had this to say about the forthcoming album:
"This new album is a continuation of the path we took on our last EP, Prison Realm. For fans of that EP, this new album is in that style again, but on steroids! Things sound heavier, more epic, and more massive on this album. All of the same guys from the last release have returned, including vocalist Chris Clancy (As I Lay Dying, Invictus, Mutiny Within) and lead guitarist Tony Barhoum (Chaos Sanctuary, Condition Critical), but the big addition this time around was mix engineer, Mike Low. Things have never sounded this BIG on a Legionary release!"
Track Listing:
1. Sentenced to a Life of Chronic Guilt
2. If the Judges Became the Judged
3. Never-Ending Quest for Purpose
4. Controllers of Perception
5. Story Without Closure
Pre-order: https://legionary.bandcamp.com/album/never-ending-quest-for-purpose
Line
up:
Frank D’Erasmo: Rhythm Guitars, Drums, Bass
Tony Barhoum: Lead Guitars
Chris Clancy: Vocals
Guest Violin Solo on "Story Without Closure": Ben Karas
Engineer: Ben Karas
Mixed/Mastered by: Mike Low
All Music & Lyrics written by Frank D'Erasmo
Album art: Mark Cooper
Bio:
Legionary is a melodic death/thrash metal band, that originated in NYC, but now mostly operates out of New Jersey. Legionary once played live regularly, but is currently a one man band headed by mastermind Frank D'Erasmo (Drums/Rhythm Guitar). Frank uses the services of the best metal musicians he can find, and is currently dedicated to just doing studio projects at the moment. Legionary has several releases, mostly EPs, but now has two albums under its belt with this latest release!
https://www.youtube.com/user/thelegionary07
https://www.facebook.com/Legionaryband/
BEYOND THE PALE – “MONUMENT IN TIME”
Label: Black Metal Archives
Release date: january 30th 2026
Genre: Thrash Metal/Melodic Death Metal
For fans of: Izegrim | Occult | Dew Scented | Arch Enemy
Forged in the confusion and anxiety of the global pandemic in 2020 and then tempered in the flames of tragedy and the cold ice of loss when their friend and founding member, Jeroen van Donselaar, collapsed on stage in 2022, struck down by a fatal cardiac arrest – Utrecht’s Beyond The Pale emerged from adversity unbowed and unbroken. With a renewed sense of purpose, they recruited former Martyr guitarist Geoffrey Maas and set about honouring the memory of their fallen comrade. The Monument In Time EP was released independently in The Netherlands in 2024, featuring an array of Jeroen’s accomplished guitar riffs, but this release deserved more. Now, with the backing of new British label, Black Metal Archives, Monument In Time – with two bonus tracks that have never been released on any physical format before – will find its way to a global metal audience. This tribute to friendship and the power of metal, this searing attack of thrash and melodic death metal, will carve the name of Beyond The Pale into the annals of extreme music forever.
Monument In Time explodes into life with the precision riffing of ‘Liberation For The Damned’ – a finely honed thrash/death weapon with every element fiercely focussed; from the interlocked twin guitars to the prominent bass lines that subtly weave their way through the axe attack, the powerhouse drumming to the stunning, ferocious vocal presence of Janneke de Rooy (ex-Altar). The essence of Beyond The Pale is summed up in this opening fusillade, but each song that follows possesses an individual character that adds immeasurably to Monument In Time’s vehement and venomous delivery. Be it the atmospheric intro and irresistible refrain of ‘Walk The Plank’, the power, hook-filled and instantly addictive ‘Facts And Figures’ or the viciously intense thrashing fervour of ‘Payback Is A Bitch’, with its touches of melodic lead adding an extra dimension, Beyond The Pale crush with every song, every note, every venomously articulated word of imperious rage.
The two bonus tracks that have been added to the track list of Monument In Time are the original 2021 recording of the band’s first single, ‘Storm en Drift’ – a song that appears in a re-recorded form elsewhere on the EP – and a reimagining of the thundering ‘Facts And Figures’, remixed by Japanese artist Frost (Gods Of Decay, Godfrost). Frost has added gleaming circuitry and bionic enhancements to the monstrous original and ‘Facts And Figures’ is a track with the strength to emerge from this invasive surgery still bristling with malicious intent, but with a new horror-tinged atmosphere infused into its bones.
Engineered and mixed by the team at Mass Audio Studios in Utrecht and mastered by the renowned Tony Lindgren (Amorphis, Arch Enemy, Insomnium, Kreator etc) at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden, the sound that has been captured on Monument In Time is exceptional – with clarity, a cutting edge and formidable force all accorded equal importance. A fitting tribute to the much-missed Jeroen van Donselaar and a titanic barrage of expertly blended thrash and melodic death metal, Monument In Time is about to receive the release it deserves through Black Metal Archives on January 30th.
Line-up:
Janneke de Rooy - Vocals
Johnny Derechos - Drums
Frank van Boven - Bass
Boudewijn de Kraaij - Guitars
Geoffrey Maas - Guitars
https://blackmetalarchiveslabel.bandcamp.com
https://beyondthepale.nl/
NEWS 17.1.2026
STREAMS OF BLOOD – “VERMALEDEIT”
Genre: Black Metal
Label: The Hidden Art
Release: 18.12.2025
Nach Jahren persönlicher und kreativer Umbrüche legt Streams Of Blood mit „Vermaledeit“ am 18. Dezember ihr neues Album vor – ein Werk, das die Erfahrungen und Brüche seiner Entstehungszeit spürbar in sich trägt.
Fünf Jahre voller Veränderungen, Verluste und innerer Kämpfe haben ihre Spuren hinterlassen. „Vermaledeit“ ist das Ergebnis dieser Phase – intensiv, direkt und emotional aufgeladen.
Die Songs bewegen sich zwischen Melancholie und Nihilismus, zwischen Selbstzweifel und Befreiung. Roh und ungeschliffen aufgenommen, zeigt das Album den unverstellten Charakter seines Entstehungsprozesses – ehrlich, kompromisslos und ohne Rücksicht.
Das begleitende Artwork entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit Void Revelations und ergänzt die Musik um eine visuelle Dimension, die die Atmosphäre von „Vermaledeit“ treffend einfängt.
Ein Album, das aus persönlicher Dunkelheit hervorgegangen ist – und den Weg von Streams Of Blood konsequent weiterführt.
https://www.facebook.com/StreamsOfficial
BERLIN DESECRATION FEST 28.5-30.5 BERLIN „ORWO
HAUS“
Seid gegrüßt Freunde der brutalen Unterhaltung,wir laden euch ein zu 3 Tagen Brutal Death Metal, Slam und Goregrind. Im Geiste des Berlin Death Fests liefern wir euch 26 internationale Bands, Grill und Getränke. Wir freuen uns auf ein abgefahrenes Wochenende euer Berlin Desecration Fest Team.
Despondency (Germany)
Guttural Slug (Denmark)
Korpse (Netherlands)
Imperial Execration (UK)
Unbirth (Italy)
Slob (UK)
Inverecund (Italy)
Chainsaw Castration (United Kingdom)
Terrible Sickness (Germany)
Desecrated Extinction (UK)
Putridity (Italy)
Carnivore Diprosopus (EU-Colombia)
Traumatomy (Russia)
Brutal Sphincer (Belgium)
Esophagus (Chile)
.357 Homicide (United Kingdom)
Pusboil (Switzerland)
Coprocephalic Mutation (United Kingdom)
Cerebral Enema (Germany)
Hacked Up (UK)
Clitcommander (Germany)
Einlass 30./31.05.25 : 13 Uhr
Beginn 30./31.05.25: 14 Uhr
Abendkasse: Donnerstag 35 €
Abendkasse: Freitag 55 €
Abendkasse: Samstag 55€
Abendkasse: Wochenendticket 100 €
Ihr könnt Tickets für Freitag und Samstag im VVK holen. Für alle 3 Tage gibt es aber ab Donnerstag auch genug Tickets an der AK.
info@berlindesecrationfest.de https://www.facebook.com/share/1Cnayt37hy/
Der bayrische Groove/Thrash Metal-Maschinerie DEATH
RECEIPT aus Wallersdorf meldet sich mit der brandneuen Single „FREQUENCY
OF DEATH“ zurück (VÖ: 14.01.2026). Mit dem Song hat sich das Trio
darauf konzentriert einen knallharten und thrashigen Kettenhund von der Leine
zu lassen.
„Frequency of death“ ist ein klares Statement: Der Song ist durch und durch mitreißend und fängt die pure Live-Spielfreude und Energie der Band perfekt ein. Nachdem der Song auf der Bühne getestet wurde, erkannte die Band schnell: „Wir haben da was Einzigartiges zusammengebraut.“
Der Track ist ein waschechtes DIY-Projekt. Er wurde im eigenen Proberaum aufgenommen, gemixt und gemastert. Die bewusste Herausforderung bestand darin, neue Techniken zu erlernen und anzuwenden, um den eigenen Sound zu kreieren und weiterzuentwickeln. Der Songtitel folgt einer aufgeregten Spur der Herzfrequenz, die eine Inspiration für das Albumcover und die facettenreichen Riffparts waren.
Hört genau hin, dann nehmt ihr den Puls wahr, der diesen Song antreibt. Doch passt auf, sonst kommt ihr der Frequenz des Todes zu nahe!
https://www.instagram.com/death_receipt
HERMIT DREAMS –“ DESPERATE ANOMIES”
Release date: 05.12.2025
Location: Norway
FFO: Weeping Sores,My Dying Bride, Diskord
Bio:
HERMIT DREAMS is a new experimental death/doom metal band from Norway, featuring experienced musicians from a wide array of metal bands from the national scene, current and past. The band explores topics revolving around loneliness, anxiety, fear, transience, wonder and confusion in the context of death metal with elements of doom and progressive outbursts.
Lineup:
Eirik Waadeland (CELESTIAL SCOURGE, RUUN) – Vocals
Martin Storm-Olsen (VINGULMORK, DEFECT DESIGNER) – Banjo, guitar, clean vocals
Eyvind W. Axelsen (DISKORD) – Cello, upright bass, bass guitar, theremin
Bjørn Tore Erlandsen (BOLVERK, ASPHERIUM) – Drums
Musically, the band takes death/doom into strange and uncharted places fusing traditional heaviness with banjo, cello, upright bass, and theremin, alongside harsh vocals and pummeling drums. The result is an unsettling yet mesmerizing soundscape, pushing the boundaries of extreme metal while remaining steeped in darkness.
https://chaos-records.bandcamp.com/album/desperate-anomies
https://facebook.com/hermitdreams
Listen To Your Funeral album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/funeral-home-your-funeral
Biography:
Founded in 2009, Funeral Home is a death metal band from Kuopio, Finland. Their musical influences range from death 'n' roll and old-school styles to with gloomy melodies of death metal . The band writes its songs with the music first, keeping the song structures simple and the arrangements flowing.
Track
list:
1. You Failed My Trust
2. Wall
3. My Kingdom Is Hell
4. Rotten To The Core
5. Depths
6. Sacrificial Goat
7. Your Funeral
8. Graveyard Blues
9. Blood & Sacrifice
Album cover by Henna Pulkkinen
Line-up:
Ossi Maalampi - vocals
Henri Ojala - lead guitar
Henri Thitz - rhythm guitar
Juha Korhonen - bass
Jouko Poussu – drums
https://linktr.ee/Funeral.Home
XENOVICE
– “FRAGMENTS FOR THE END OF US”
Release date: 15.01.2026
Location: Germany/France
FFO: Combichrist, Youth Code,
Xenovice is a dark electronic side project by members of Lycantrophilia, moving between hellektro/EBM, dark trap, and metallic aggression, addressing personal psychological abysses. The debut EP, Fragments For The End Of Us, distills experiences of violence, addiction, and strain into tracks that deal with living alongside one's own demons. Its experimental sound deliberately sets Xenovice apart from Lycantrophilia's established identity. While musically distinct, the EP is released through Lycantrophilia's existing channels—under a different name.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvIWX80GX
https://lycantrophilia.bandcamp.com/album/fragments-for-the-end-of-us
Ave
populus !!!! Extreme metal warriors DEOS return with
the official music video for “CAESAR DIVI FILIUS,” a
standout track taken from their latest album AUGUSTUS OMNIPOTENS,
out now via Wormholedeath.
Conceived alongside the song itself, the video is the result of a long-term vision that began taking shape in late 2024. Directed by David (Dax Studio), it brings DEOS’ sonic universe into a striking historical frame, where ritual, discipline, and power collide. The result is direct, intense, and rooted in symbolism.
To achieve this level of authenticity, DEOS once again joined forces with Lorica Romana (LEGIO X), one of France’s leading Roman reenactment groups. The video was filmed in the monumental Arena of Nîmes, a site closely tied to the legacy of Augustus. The setting is not a backdrop—it’s part of the story. Stone, steel, and bodies in motion echo the themes of authority, lineage, and destiny that define the track.
“Caesar Divi Filius” reflects a key chapter in the narrative arc of Augustus Omnipotens. The album is a full conceptual work tracing the rise of Octavian, from the aftermath of Julius Caesar’s assassination to the establishment of imperial rule and the Pax Romana. Each song captures a decisive moment, driven by DEOS’ visceral blend of blackened death metal, where precision and brutality serve the story.
Augustus Omnipotens is available on all digital platforms worldwide: https://orcd.co/augustusomnipotens
CD format: www.auralwebstore.com/deos-augustus-omnipotens
Previos video "Dura Lex Sed Lex": https://youtu.be/JPh8dLggqgQ
About DEOS:
Formed in 2014 by Fabio Battistella, Jack Graved, and Loïc Depauwe, DEOS have built a reputation for combining the ferocity of extreme metal with a passion for Ancient Rome that extends through their lyrics, artwork, and stagecraft. Their debut Ghosts of the Empire arrived in 2015, followed by In Nomine Romae in 2017 and extensive touring across France, Switzerland, and beyond. In 2021 they began work on their third record Furor Belli, mastered by J.-F. Dagenais (Kataklysm, Ex Deo) and released in 2022 via Wormholedeath, which led to the North Imperial Tour MMXXII. Over the past years they have continued to spread their vision of Roman metal across Europe, including London’s legendary Cart & Horses.
Now, with Augustus Omnipotens, DEOS take their concept further than ever before. Recorded between autumn 2024 and spring 2025 and once again mastered by Dagenais, the album is both a celebration of Rome’s past and a declaration of the band’s future.
DEOS are:
Jack “Janus” Graved (bass, vocals)
Fabio Battistella (guitar, backing vocals)
Cédric “Cedd” Boehm (guitar, backing vocals)
Loïc Depauwe (drums)
www.facebook.com/deos.legio
EPINIKION
embraces
nature by dancing with wolves in their third single “RUN WITH THE WOLVES” . Epinikion creates powerful melodic metal with the tight and strong lineup of
this symphonic metal band. The album’s third single “Run with the Wolves” is
a beautiful ode to nature and the connection between humans and animals. Heavy
guitars combine with a powerful rhythmic orchestra and the clear voice of Kimberley
Jongen, who takes everyone on a rollercoaster ride of nature scenes and a wolf
as a friend. Not just any wolf, but behind the scenes, Robert and Renate’s white
shepherd Nala, who, from the very beginning of the songwriting, had an
uncontrollable urge to sing along.
Therefore, Nala has become the ultimate backing vocalist on this song and the star alongside Kimberley in the accompanying video. Purity, movement, and connection with the earth are beautifully captured by Jay Dee Video. “Run with the Wolves” will be released on 15 January 2026, a third step towards the release of the album “THE FORCE OF NATURE” in February 2026.
“Run with the Wolves” races between tall trees, dances in the moonlight, and soars across crystal-clear waters in the unique company of a white wolf. The deep connection between human and animal, surrounded by powerful natural forces, is a rhythmic statement from Epinikion that harks back to our human essence: a swirling wind, captivating, powerful, and full of natural beauty.
The album’s production was in the capable hands of Jacob Hansen, who, with his signature mixing and mastering, created a fantastically clear yet beautifully heavy sound. For the artwork, Giannis Nakos created almost magical images that couldn't have better captured the essence of the album and its songs.
Pre-orders for “The Force of Nature” have now officially started and can be placed via www.epinikion.org
The release of “The Force of Nature” will be celebrated with a fantastic release show on 6 February at pop venue Sound Dog in Breda - the same venue where the first single “The Force of Nature” was filmed. Epinikion is thus entering a completely new phase with an impressive list of 12 new songs that will appeal to both metal fans and mainstream listeners.
Biography
Epinikion is known for its energetic shows and strong connection with the audience. Kimberley Jongen impresses with her classically trained, bright voice. Maarten Jungschläger is known for his heavier metal projects, yet also excels as a symphonic metal lead guitarist. Rutger Klijn is a seasoned bassist whose distinctive and technical bass lines firmly establish Epinikion on the metal map. Robert Tangerman not only composes together with keyboardist and partner Renate de Boer, but as rhythm guitarist and arranger, he plays a major role in fine-tuning Renate’s creativity. Michal Gis is the young, talented drummer who brings rhythmically unique contributions and delivers them with precision.
Experts see great potential for Epinikion to grow into a band performing at a highly professional level, gaining more visibility along the way. The joy that drives them only makes the future of Epinikion all the brighter.
https://www.facebook.com/epinikion
NOIRNOISE are proud to
reveal their first official video for the single "MORPHINE".
It was realized by Damiano Mussetti and you can view it here: https://youtu.be/__gDQlmd22s
The single released on all the digital platforms will present the exclusive and unreleased song "Shit Of Poor".
"Morphine" is taken from band's debut full-length album "PLANT RESILIENCE" out on January 30th via Club Inferno and shows the essence of the band based on harsh guitars, dynamic tempo changes, dreamy melodies, heavy musical dynamics and rough vocals.
Mastered at the great Lost Soul Studio by Giuseppe "Buzz" Nicolò and with a great cover which photo was realized by Flavio Porrati (Nequam / THE MAGIK WAY), "Plant Resilience" will present something original, expression of the dark feeling of their influences ranging from Alternative Rock to Post-Punk, from Grunge to Dark Wave with important points of references such as Sonic Youth, Pixies, Soundgarden, Melvins, Killing Joke, Mudhoney.
You can pre-order the CD at https://t.ly/RSZKb
The time machine has been turned on... get on board!
http://www.facebook.com/clubinfernoent
https://www.facebook.com/noirnoise
Stream/Purchase:
The concept of Cybergenesis fits seamlessly with the fiery heavy metal therein. A daring expedition into a space-time rift ends in disaster, awakening the Choir, an ancient alien hive mind from an alternate dimension, and plunging humanity into a desperate war for survival. On an Earth enslaved by the Choir's army of cyborgs, a former commander is reborn as the Rhizome Rider, leading a rebellion from within and sacrificing himself to free humanity.
Rooted in classic sci-fi, from Star Trek to Ghost in the Shell, Cybergenesis tells a story of resistance and sacrifice, where the human spirit defies impossible odds.
The album’s striking cover artwork was hand-painted on canvas by English artist Ryan T. Hancock, renowned for his work with bands such as Seven Sisters, Blood Star, and Stormborn. HyperioN chose a handcrafted, non-AI artwork to give Cybergenesis a tangible and authentic visual identity.
Track
Listing:
1. Deafening
2. Rewire, Rebuild
3. Yet We Still Fight
4. The Shackles of Chronitus
5. Blood Over Chrome
6. Grain of Sand
7. Rhizome Rider
8. The Whole of Time
Credits:
All lyrics written by Davide Cotti. All music written by Davide Cotti except track #02 (written by Davide Cotti and Francesco Madonna) and track #07 (written by Francis Dipasquale and Davide Cotti).
Production, recording, mixing and mastering by Davide Cotti.
Vocals recorded by Antonio Inserillo.
Line-up:
Davide Cotti - Guitars
Francesco Madonna - Drums
Max Morelli - Vocals
Simone “Nega” Cauli - Bass
Francis Dipasquale - Guitars
Bio:
HyperioN were formed in 2015 by drummer Jason Beghelli and guitarist Davide Cotti to play traditional heavy metal, drawing inspiration from bands such as Metal Church, early Queensrÿche, and Judas Priest, while adding their own personal touch.
The band quickly gained attention with their debut album Dangerous Days (2017), released via Spanish label Fighter Records. The album was warmly welcomed by critics and gave HyperioN the chance to share thestage with established Italian acts such as Tarchon Fist, Black Phantom, and Rain.
After the recording of the second album, founding drummer Jason Beghelli stepped down for personal reasons and was replaced by Francesco Madonna. In 2020, the band released Into The Maelstrom, again on Fighter Records. The album received excellent reviews worldwide, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of all live promotion plans. Despite the circumstances, HyperioN significantly expanded their fanbase across the United States, Canada,
Mexico, and Europe through platforms like Bandcamp, finally returning to the stage in 2021.
This first era of the band came to a turning point in 2021, when several lineup changes reshaped HyperioN’s identity. Long-time bassist Antonio Scalia left the band, and after a long search Simone Cauli joined in September 2022. Just a week earlier, guitarist Luke Fortini had
departed, but the vacant role was swiftly filled by Francis Dipasquale (from thrashers Dypron). With the lineup restored, work began on new material, only to face another setback in spring 2023 when vocalist Michelangelo Carano decided to leave.
After months of auditions, HyperioN found the missing piece in singer Max Morelli, known for his work with Signum Draconis and Ladykiller. With this new and revitalized lineup, Hyperion completed the writing and production of their third album Cybergenesis, a record that represents both continuity and rebirth. Although only guitarist Davide Cotti remains from the original formation, he has always been the main composer and driving force behind the band, making sure HyperioN's sound stays true to its roots: driving riffs that ignite into bursts of speed, soaring yet gritty vocals, and melodic hooks that make every chorus memorable.
https://www.fighter-records.com/
https://linktr.ee/hyperionband
Athens,
Greece; 15 January 2026: THE MAGUS, the Luciferian
project helmed by Necromantia co-founder and ex-Rotting Christ musician, has
unleashed the second single and lyric video from the upcoming sophomore album, “DAEMONOSOPHIA”.
Titled “MAGIA OBSCURA”, the track delves into the esoteric heart
of the project, exploring the profound depths of spiritual and physical
evolution.
Following the aggressive stance of the first single “Pseudoprophetae”, “Magia Obscura” arrives further expanding the diverse and uneasy atmosphere promised for the new record.
Listen to “Magia Obscura”: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/MagiaObscura
Watch the lyric video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyFCuVOJJ8I
The Magus provided the following insight into the track’s theme:
"Magia Obscura is about transformation and evolution. Both in physical and the metaphysical plane. Through transformation comes enlightenment. Through the Serpent self you communicate with the Draconian core. A rite of passage for the sorcerer. A step closer to Daemonhood....."
“Daemonosophia”, the follow-up to “ΒΥΣΣΟΔΟΜΩΝΤΑΣ”, is set to be released on 20 February 2026 via The Circle Music and is available to pre-order in CD and vinyl formats, along with a limited luxurious box set and merch bundles: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=the-magus
Pre-save the album on digital platforms: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/Daemonosophia
The Magus previously revealed that the new album promises a more aggressive and dynamic sound than the first album, “ΒΥΣΣΟΔΟΜΩΝΤΑΣ”, while keeping the devouring dark atmosphere the project’s music is known for. The album's sound has some unexpected and diabolically diverse moments that will make listeners feel uneasy.
For the album cover art, The Magus collaborated with Mexican artist Nestor Avalos, known for his work with numerous bands, including Exodus, Deicide and Rotting Christ. The artwork is an Infernal Triptych that portrays six infernal entities: Lucifer/Samael, Leviathan/Tiamat, and Belial/Satan. Nestor created a majestic painting of infernal wisdom and occult meanings, giving prominence to the Luciferian tradition and the music of the album.
Tracklist:
0. Pater Noster
1. Pseudoprophetae
2. Daemonosophia
3. The six in three is all One
4. The Era of Lucifer Rising- A Luciferian interpretation of the THOU ART LORD classic
5. Magia Obscura
6. Amelia
7. The Chapel of Iniquities
8. The Pact
9. La Llorona Negra
The Magus was formed in 2022, following the dissolution of the legendary Greek black metal band Necromantia, which The Magus co-founded. He decided to end Necromantia after the death of his bandmate Baron Blood in 2019, releasing a final album, “To the Depths We Descend”, in 2021 as a tribute. A seminal figure in the extreme scene, The Magus’s storied history includes playing a pivotal role in the early days of Rotting Christ and co-founding the cult project Thou Art Lord alongside Sakis Tolis. For this new project, The Magus continues his legacy of uncompromising Luciferian Black Metal, bringing in long-time collaborators El on guitars and Maelstrom on drums to push the boundaries of the Hellenic sound.
https://linktr.ee/thecirclemusic
https://www.facebook.com/themagus666
Symphonic
metal band MEMOIRA has released a new video for their
latest single DOLLMAKER. The epic new video is
loosely based on the world of the well-known Italian fairy tale, Pinocchio, and
the song is now being heard in its entirety for the first time. The video was
produced and shot by SOFT NEON AUDIOVISUAL, while the band members were
heavily involved in the production of the video. The band's bassist Niko
Laaksonen is responsible for the lighting and lighting design of the
video, and keyboardist Lassi Nuolivaara is responsible for the
scriptwriting and directing the actors.
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/wDGG9dnvbfI
“The story of the video is seen from the perspective of a dollmaker, who desperately hopes for a son of his own, with whom he can share the joys and sorrows of life. He decides to build a doll out of wood and hopes that it will come to life. It’s also great to finally have the full version of the song out in video form and see the audience’s reaction.” - Lassi Nuolivaara / Keyboards
A single edit version of the song Dollmaker was released earlier this fall and is available on all streaming services.
Memoira is a symphonic metal band from Finland formed in 2007. Known for it's big atmospheric and epic sound, Memoira combines dynamic melodic metal and symphonic ethereal orchestrations into one, consistent flow of storytelling.
On it's 15- year journey before the latest line-up changes, the band has released three albums and seven singles worldwide.
With the current lineup, which has been active since 2023, and Krista Astrid Schröter as their vocalist, the band has already released three singles (Cryonic Heart 2024, Emerald Eyes 2024 and Dollmaker 2025), each of which has brought the band more listeners and streams. The renewed lineup has also brought a whole new energy to the band's stage performance and image, which has already been noticed among fans.
MEMOIRA Line-Up
Krista Astrid Schröter – Vocals
Lassi Nuolivaara – Keyboards & Piano
Serdar Ilter – Guitars
Niko Laaksonen – Bass
Kimmo Puhakka – Drums
https://www.youtube.com/@MemoiraOfficial
https://www.memoiraofficial.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MemoiraOfficial
Melodic
death-metal act SELIAS has unveiled the official video
for “CAUTIONARY TALE”, a track taken from their latest album
KILLKARMA, released via Wormholedeath Records.
Bringing medieval war into a modern metal vision, “Cautionary Tale” delivers a story of clashing steel, betrayal, and the brutal lessons history refuses to let us forget. The track reflects the cyclical nature of conflict a raven’s call that has echoed across centuries, now given voice through SELIAS’ signature blend of ferocity and melody.
Stream the single: https://orcd.co/ctale
Get your copy of Killkarma: https://orcd.co/killkarma
Previous Releases:
https://orcd.co/bulletssingle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ5NXahLmaI
https://orcd.co/btssingle
https://youtu.be/_BsoUpNj6bs
About
Formed in 2020 by guitarist Steve Elias, SELIAS fuses aggression with atmosphere, precision, and emotion. Rounded out by Guilliaume Pascal (vocals/keys), Daniel Bouwman (drums), and Jeff Hyde (bass), the band delivers a cinematic metal experience that bridges classic death metal ferocity with modern melodic edge.
www.youtube.com/@seliasmetal
www.facebook.com/seliasmetal
Finnish melodic death metal band CROWEN released a new single and music video 'THE UNWRITTEN END'. The track is taken from the forthcoming 'THROUGH THE DYING MIST' EP which is set to be released on February 20th 2026 via Inverse Records.
Listen to The Unwritten End on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/crowen-unwritten-end
Crowen’s new single The Unwritten End tells a story where every step is both a beginning and an ending. The song portrays the dreamworld as a place that is dark yet beautiful. Its protagonist walks toward the unknown, carrying with him both uncertainty and the inevitability of fate, striving to escape a world with no way out.
The melody is sorrowful yet beautiful. The clean vocals in the choruses inspired the song’s entire melodic landscape. In the verses, melodic passages and heavy rhythms alternate. The opening contrasts Crowen’s traditional death metal assault with acoustic guitar and a calm, atmospheric mood. “Guitarist Sami Sandberg managed to fit the melodic line perfectly into the song’s atmosphere. Listening to Sami’s playing gives me a hypnotic feeling,” says vocalist-songwriter Esa Uusimaa.
Crowen is a Finnish melodic death metal band consisting of Esa Uusimaa and guitarist Sami Sandberg. On this track, the bass is played by Tuomas Saukkonen.
Watch 'Ember Wraith' music video of first single: https://youtu.be/0N_QWg
Track
list:
01. Ember Wraith
02. Line of Silence
03. I Am The Sorrow
04. The Unwritten End
Composed, lyrics, recorded, mixed & produced by Esa Uusimaa.
Mastered by Ville Hautaluoma
EP cover by Jussi Virtanen
EP Line-up:
Esa Uusimaa – vocals, guitars, keyboards
Sami Sandberg – guitars, lead guitar
Tuomas Saukkonen – bass
http://crowenofficial.net
https://www.facebook.com/CrowenOfficial
Progressive
metal band DUST ORCHARD from Helsinki, Finland, has
released their new single "HOURS IN THE VOID".
For fans of: Amorphis, Evergrey, Soilwork (and Swedish melodic death metal), modern progressive metal.
The band is known for weaving violin-led melodies into a dense, riff-driven foundation of modern heavy music. After a 2022 EP and a major rebuild of the lineup, Dust Orchard is now moving into a new phase with renewed focus and fresh material in the works. New single introduces this current chapter: ambitious, dark, and deliberately dynamic.
With thunderous guitars, soaring violins and a blend of growls and clean vocal harmonies, “Hours in the Void” tells the story of a desperate struggle for survival in an apocalyptic future. The track balances progressive structure and heavy riff weight with melodic, atmospheric sections—showcasing the band’s range without losing cohesion.
Listen to the single on music services : https://push.fm/fl/dustorchard-hoursinthevoid
Violinist Vegard Lillevoll describes the song as a statement of intent:
“I think ‘Hours in the Void’ lights the way forward for the new metamorphosis of Dust Orchard. It’s lofty, catchy and heavy in all the right places.”
Founder and guitarist Petri Siikander highlights the song’s scene-setting approach and the way the arrangement pivots between extremes:
“I try to paint a picture with every song. Usually I’ll have a specific scenery and feeling in mind when writing… The upcoming single has a heavy intro, trashy metal growls, an epic chorus and some Rush stuff in the middle. What’s not to love?”
Founded in 2018, Dust Orchard emerged from the underground corners of Helsinki with a clear aim: write progressive metal that resists predictability while still landing with emotional weight. The band’s identity is rooted in its instrumentation — especially the use of violin as a lead voice inside a heavy, guitar-driven framework — allowing songs to move from crushing intensity to melodic introspection without warning.
Following the release of an EP in 2022, Dust Orchard went through a significant lineup transition and spent time rebuilding the band from the inside out. Re-emerging with a sharpened intent and new material taking shape, the current lineup is focused on releasing new music and preparing more songs for a forthcoming longer-form release.
Line up:
Tommy Olenius - vocals
Petri Siikander - guitar
Marko Hanski - guitar
Vegard Lillevoll - violin
Niko Salo – bass
https://www.youtube.com/@dustorchard9222
https://www.facebook.com/dustorchard
Label: Xtreem Music
Release date: february 5th 2026
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Entombed | Ribspreader | Grave | Vomitory
What is man but a short-lived parasite, a brief flickering of light in the long, long aeons of darkness…for those who dwell in the deep places of the Earth, all mankind’s endeavours – his childlike learning, his shining towers and imbecilic weapons, his self applauded works of art – are unworthy of note or notice. They slumbered; dreaming their epoch spanning dreams in their temples of silence, whispering their strange sorceries, long before man dragged himself from the primeval swamps. And they will dream on in the times to come, while the stars grow cold and as mankind rots.
The Scandinavian Warmachine rolls on! After twenty seven years, thirteen full length studio albums and an ever growing brood of EPs, split releases, live albums and compilations Paganizer still sound adrenalized, bloodstained and glorious! It seems that Rogga Johansson still wakes every morning with a new batch of rotten riffs hatched inside his head, clawing to get out into the world…and album number fourteen is ready to lay waste to all that stands in its path. It’s time for As Mankind Rots!
Paganizer make two kinds of records – good ones and great ones – and from the explosive beginning of title track and first single, ‘As Mankind Rots’, it’s obvious that with this album they are hitting greatness. There’s no intro, no samples, it’s just headfirst into riffs and mayhem; pure Swedish death metal magnificence! From that opening salvo on there is not a moment which is anything less than definitive death metal. You could explain real, unadulterated death metal to the uninitiated by simply handing them this album to listen to. Every vocal punctuation, every roar, every drumbeat every goddamn riff is exactly what you want it to be. From the supremely catchy ‘Put On Your Gasmask’, with its wailing air raid siren to ‘Hollow’s crawl through lightless tunnels; ‘Afterworld’s searing guitar solo and atmosphere to revel in, drown in, to the rampaging, breathless fury of ‘The Rotting End’ - As Mankind Rots is headbanging classic after headbanging classic. Rogga’s voice is as powerful as his riffs and Paganizer have never sounded better. A nice surprise to finish the album is a new recording of ‘Vanans Makt’, which appeared on the Compiled Ammunition compilation back in 2020, with guest vocals from Bulten of Swedish punk band Lastkaj 14.
Mixed and mastered by long term collaborator Ronnie Björnström, who has also applied his magic touch to other Rogga Johansson projects like Ribspreader, Those Who Bring The Torture and Revolting, As Mankind Rots simply could not sound any better. The package is completed by the haunting artwork of Ivan Bragin (The Gathering, October Tide, Woods Of Ypres etc) and will be released by Xtreem Music on CD, 12"LP Cassette & Digital formats on February 5th. For all fans of real death metal – this is unmissable!
Line-up:
Rogga Johansson - Guitars, Vocals
Matte Fiebig - Drums
Dennis Blomberg - Lead Guitars
Martin Klasén - Bass
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/paganizersweden
Belgium’s
metal underground has a new force rising from the Turnhout region, and its name
is STUNG — a razor‑edged fusion of thrash, hardcore and crossover
delivered by four seasoned musicians who previously left their mark in Leave
Scars, Meantime and Soultaker. Their collective history includes stages such as
Graspop, Wacken, Metaldays, and support slots for icons like Master and Exhumer,
and that pedigree fuels every riff and every roar of their sound.
STUNG’s explosive hybrid has already earned them stages alongside Channel Zero, Kill The Logo, Bark and Temptation For The Weak, proving their ability to stand tall among the country’s heavyweights. In their first year alone, they hit Kid’s Antwerp, Hell Diest and The Club Mechelen, and stormed festivals including Frietrock Metal Fest, PeironFest and AsgardFest — a rapid rise that speaks volumes.
After releasing their debut video “Follow” in late 2023, STUNG returned with the crushing single “C.O.C”, mixed and mastered by Joey Zampella (Life Of Agony) — who immediately became a supporter of the band’s raw intensity. Both clips, along with live footage, are available on their YouTube channel. Their debut EP ‘Reflection on Normality’ (February 21, 2024) captures STUNG at full power: sharp, aggressive, unfiltered, and rooted in the legacy of thrash and hardcore while pushing the sound forward.
STUNG is now actively seeking album and single reviews, radio airplay, and playlist support. The band is also fully available for interviews — written, audio, or video — and happy to provide additional press materials upon request.
A new sound with a nod to the past. A band ready to break through.
https://www.facebook.com/StunGBookings
The album was meticulously crafted for approximately two years, evolving from a mere idea to a finished product. The central theme of the album is to unveil the inherent ‘evil’ embedded in organized religions, particularly those led by fanatical leaders. Musically, it presents a fusion of traditional Norwegian and Swedish black metal, heavily influenced by the American death metal scene. The creation of the music is a collaborative effort, with all three members working in unison from inception to completion."
The album is available on all digital platforms: https://orcd.co/spiritualsyphilis
Tracklist
01 Curse of Jehovah
02 The Con Man
03 The Chosen People
04 Spiritual Syphilis
05 Deceiver
06 Lenkene er brutt
07 Svik
08 Glossolalia
09 Til evig tid
Odio Deus was started in 2020 in Oslo, Norway by Telal. After many years of several different black metal bands, Telal decided to start his own band, where he’s in control of the musical vision and lyrical concepts. The band’s goal is to make black metal with a strong death metal influence, using lyrical concepts that deal with the hypocrisy within organized religion and other relevant subject matters.
Odio Deus is:
Telal - Drums, Lyrics, Bass
Braatebrann - Guitars, vocals, bass
Winterheart - Guitars
Join the ranks of the damned and follow ODIO DEUS on their journey through the shadows:
www.youtube.com/@OdioDeusband
www.facebook.com/Odio-Deus-Official
For fans of: Ghoul, Witchery, The Haunted, Gwar, Converge, The Crown, Midnight
The band comments on their newest 4-song dose of debauchery, "Before ROTGUT was formed, we still wrote music in our concrete, lightless hell. Raw, dogged, but not yet Rotgut. Four tracks that kick-started the oeuvre. We’re bringing them out of the dark so they can rot in the light of day."
Stream the EP's first single, "SLASH AND BURN" now on Apple Music and Spotify.
Watch the lyric video at https://youtu.be/1Xh8GB_duis
8 oz. Cantrip is out on Friday, January 16.
Stream the band's debut, 24 oz CANTRIP on Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp. The EP is also available as a limited-edition VHS style cassette.
Born fully formed, screaming, and covered in goo out of the dumpster behind DaVinci's pizza on Merrick Road, a horned figure scrambled blindly through piles of empty paint cans, ceramic vases, and angry cats in order to move undetected. He found refuge in a musty old cellar. After pulling his foot loose from the bucket he had stepped in, he closed the heavy steel doors
behind him.
Wiping
the thick blanket of dust off a 30-rack of Genesee Specialty Cream Ale, he
schemed. He was cursed with the knowledge of an incantation: a spell that would
bring Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, into this world. He wrestled with the
thought while crushing and tossing another empty can. The ritual required great
rigor and perfect focus, but he was exacting.
He chanted. He chanted and chanted. The ceiling groaned and cracked. Polyvinyl dust plumed and swirled before vanishing into imperceptible motes. He drew sorcerous glyphs in the air with two fingers outstretched. The walls trembled with a sickening low rumble. Bracing his hands firm against his ersatz altar — a Playskool Mighty My Size Table and Chair Set — he ignored the throbbing in his head and steadied himself.
A spiraling portal ripped into reality. Out spilled two bumbling homunculi, fully formed, screaming, and covered in goo. This wasn't right! The pair stumbled and scratched their way through the cellar, bleating, squawking, and tearing through nearby cases of Natty Daddy like vultures to carrion. He pondered for what seemed like hours over the pyramid of discarded beer cans and the now-empty bottle of Old Grand Dad he had chanced upon halfway through. What could have gone wrong?
The cellar burst open. Darkening the door was a group of hulking, hazmat-suited figures. At once, the three slickened homunculi grappled one another in a long and futile struggle to get on their feet. They shouted in a panic if they were "being detained" until they were eventually tased into unconsciousness.
Bio:
Assembled against their will by a faceless shadow organization in the Winter of 2024, Rotgut was bound by a great purpose: to form an extreme metal band, inspired by crust punk, rock ’n’ roll, and classic schlock to shred wanton across the greater US and parts beyond.
ROTGUT is:
FD - Guitar and Vocals
C19 - Guitar and Vocals
AX - Bass and Vocals
El CC - Drums
https://rotgutofficial.bandcamp.com/
GUYOD
- "VORTEX OF INFINITE DESPAIR"
Genre : Extreme Metal, Dark Metal
Release date : 8th of January, 2026
Der Weg in die ewige Finsternis des Ozeans führt durch den „Vortex of infinite despair“.
Mit diesem brandneuen Song belegt die Black/Doom/Death Metal Combo GUYOÐ, dass sie nach ihrem 2023 Debütalbum eine Band sind, die gekommen ist, um zu bleiben. Voller Verzweiflung, Aggression und Spielfreude prügeln sich die vier Grazer durch den Song, welcher auch wieder mit einem äußerst stimmungsvollen Video von Revvidy aufwartet.
Thematisiert wird der Untergang der menschlichen Zivilisation, Ängste, Furcht und Verzweiflung – eine Stimmung, die der Song, ebenso wie das Video, gekonnt in Szene setzen. Flirrende Gitarren, treibende Bässe, ein verspielt druckvolles Schlagzeug, sowie die stimmliche Vielfalt des Sängers machen GUYOÐ insgesamt und diesen Song im Speziellen aus und führen zu einem Hörerlebnis der besonderen Art.
https://youtu.be/9C2KO5mWW3E?si=87HUjmIkmj98Lgod
https://www.guyod.net/
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the new album from Maryland's dark, depressive Black/Death Metal demons MOONCHAPEL . "THREE FACED TRINITY FOR A TWO-FACED WORLD" is up now for pre-order and will be released February 13th on CD and Digital formats along with merch.
For fans of :Beherit, Bolt Thrower, Demoncy, Goreaphobia, Incantation, Infester, Mystifier, Nyogthaeblisz, Profanatica, Sadistic Intent and Seance
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcome Moonchapel to the roster with the new album Three Faced Trinity For A Two-Faced World! Since its birth and inception in 2023 in Westminster Maryland, Moonchapel perform Black/Death Metal that explores our deepest anxieties and our darkest depressions. Three Faced Trinity For A Two-Faced Existence is influenced by the parallels between religious delirium and psychotic symptomatology, diving into the motives of consciousness, the drives of the subconscious and the existential loneliness of perceiving our own mortality.
Listen to the single "Dispersed And Stone Still" at https://youtu.be/MrYxgETmSVc
Tracklisting:
1. Ominous And Omniscient
2. Beyond Death Is A Parched Paradise
3. Burden Of Shadows, This Harrowing
4. Dispersed And Stone Still
5. Demonic Froth Behind The Frontal Lobe
6. Union Of Opposites
7. Eskhatos
8. Three Faced Trinity For A Two-Faced Existence
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
www.horrorpaingoredeath.com
https://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com
The song arrives with a psychedelic live video, featuring footage captured at Club Flex in Arad, Romania. The visuals highlight the track’s uneasy, atmospheric feel, giving a vivid look at Brusaschetto’s experimental edge in a live setting.
About Daniele Brusaschetto
Since 1994, Daniele Brusaschetto has been on a continuous journey through his own world of sonic soot.
Performing as a power trio, he follows the imaginative path paved by Voivod, Godflesh, and early Mastodon—a mix of granite-heavy riffs, metal grit, no wave dissonance, and an emotional machinery waiting to be discovered beyond the wall of guitars.
In 2016, his passion for the six-string and extreme rock was reignited. “Flying Stag” (2019) marked his return to a metal–math–groove–stoner sound. In 2023, he released “Bruise A Shadow” via WormHoleDeath Records.
Now, Daniele is preparing to unveil his new full-length album, Dichotomous, which captures the natural evolution of his distinctive and uncompromising sound.
Pre-save "Dichotomous": https://orcd.co/dctms
Previous video: https://youtu.be/7gnBYbCQk9I
The Lineup Driving the Sound:
Daniele Brusaschetto: voce/chitarra
Daniele Pagliero: basso
Alberto "Mono" Marietta: batteria
www.youtube.com/user/boscorec
www.danielebrusaschetto.net
www.facebook.com/danielebrusaschetto
Montreal (QC) - Canadian bruisers, DEADWOOD, have released new EP, RITUALS OF A DYING LIGHT, via Innerstrength Records. The EP is available at the following locations:
https://innerstrengthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deadwood-rituals-of-a-dying-light
https://hypeddit.com/deadwood/ritualsofadyinglight-1
Deadwood uniquely blends death metal and hardcore to create a modern deathcore sound. Known for their heavy music and dark lyrics, their motto is "Make Deathcore Angry Again." The band aims to evoke terror and fear through their music, ensuring their performances are unforgettable.
Most importantly, the music of Deadwood caters to enthusiastic metalheads who crave pure brutality and violence.
Track Listing
1. Tales of Massacre
2. Heretic
3. Thirst for Blood
4. Whispers of Death
5. Echoes of the Fallen
Music and lyrics by Deadwood.
Recorded at EMNT studio January 2025.
Produced by Fred Element.
Mix and mastering by Fred Element.
Formed in the shadow of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Deadwood quickly carved out a place in the heavy scene with their dark, unrelenting sound. The lineup unites seasoned veterans: guitarist Fred (ex-The Plasmarifle, ex-Ion Dissonance), guitarist Stéphane (ex-Nova Spei, Iron Maiden tribute), drummer Charles (ex-Dismayd, Discovrey Through Tourment), and vocalist Derek, reuniting with Fred after a decade since their days in Malaga.
Drawing from the ferocity of Meshuggah, the brutality of Whitechapel, and the groove-driven power of Pantera, Deadwood delivers crushing riffs and haunting atmospheres steeped in true dark histories—from the Salem witch trials to the reign of Jack the Ripper.
Their catalog includes the EP Nemesis (2022), EP Inhuman (2023), and standout singles “Straightblade” (June 2023), “Djinn Pitts” (March 2024), and “Heretic” (April 2025). Known for their commanding live presence, Deadwood has toured Japan with Humanity's Last Breath and DVRK, stormed U.S. stages in 2025, opened twice for Born of Osiris in Montréal, and shook the grounds of Inkcarceration Festival 2025.
Currently on tour across Québec, Ontario, and New Brunswick, Deadwood is gearing up for their first European run in 2026 — bringing their brand of dark, murky heaviness to stages worldwide.
Line-up:
Fred Element - Guitars
Stephane Filion - Lead Guitars
Charles Etienne Lafrance - Drums
Derek Heynekemp - Vocals*
*Note: Vocals on the EP by Martin Demontigny.
https://innerstrengthrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://deadwoodmetal.com/
DIATRIBES
– “DEGENERATE”
DIATRIBES – Dominating the Extreme Metal Apocalypse
Genre: Extreme Metal / Modern Death Metal
Emerging from the extreme metal Brazilian underground, DIATRIBES is a ruthless and uncompromising force driven by sheer aggression, sonic violence, and modern extreme heaviness. The band has forged a brutal identity defined by crushing guitar work, relentless rhythmic assaults, and ferocious vocal intensity, positioning DIATRIBES as a commanding presence in today’s extreme metal scene.
Founded by guitarist Gladyson Rivero, DIATRIBES transformed a focused creative vision into a fully weaponized lineup built for impact. The band features Danilo Luna on vocals, delivering savage, commanding performances that cut through with raw hostility; Gladyson Rivero and Marcelo Souza on guitars, constructing dense walls of riffs and razor-sharp leads; Niko Teixeira on drums and production, unleashing precision-driven brutality shaped by extensive national and international experience; and Sergio Roma on bass, anchoring the sound with a punishing and oppressive low end.
DIATRIBES has completed the recording of its debut full-length album. The release delivers 13 devastating tracks of modern extreme metal, pushing intensity, darkness, and sonic weight to their limits. Every song reflects the band’s obsessive commitment to power, clarity, and professional-level production.
Designed for fans of extreme metal, death metal, modern death metal, and aggressive heavy music, DIATRIBES is entering an active album promotion campaign, positioning this release for maximum visibility within the international metal underground and beyond.
DIATRIBES is ready to unleash a release built for impact, confrontation, and lasting domination in the global metal scene.
https://www.facebook.com/BrutalRecords.USA
Hungary's Old-School Technical Death Metal force ANGERSEED returns with their long-awaited second full-length album, "Rapture is Mine… Glory is Ours", marking nine years since the band's debut, "The Proclamation". The new record sees the band reconnecting with its early roots while boldly reshaping its sound into a more modern, dynamic, and expressive form. The lyrical themes delve deeper than before, enhancing the band's characteristic social-critical perspective with profound inner and spiritual reflections.
The album spans 45 minutes across eight new compositions, followed by a special Hungarian-language bonus track, "Epilógus / Számvetés 33", a poetic, introspective summation of frontman Peter D. Maniak's 33-year musical journey.
The album title reflects the culmination of a long and demanding creative era. This time, Peter D. Maniak assumed full artistic control over the songwriting, defining both the sonic identity and the future direction of ANGERSEED.
"Rapture is Mine… Glory is Ours" is out now on jewel-case CD edition, a collaboration between Pest Records and Metal Ör Die Records, and is available to play / order here:
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/angerseed-rapture-is-mine-glory-is-ours
Tracklist:
1. Nothingness is Calling Me
2. Conquering the Nemesis
3. When Life Turns to Grey
4. Barathrum of Consciousness
5. The Emptiness Within
6. Self-Expulsion from Paradise
7. Redefine My Universe
8. With Rapture for the Glory
9. Epilogue / Accounting 33 (Bonus Track)
Line-up:
Peter D. Maniak – vocals, vocals
Zoltán Bilcsik – bass guitar
Péter Losonczi – guitars (studio session)
Jozsef Gáva – Drums (live & studio session)
Recorded by: Losonczi Péter (Saron Records, Debrecen, 2024–2025)
Mix/master: István Simon (No Silence Studios)
Producers: Angerseed and István Simon
Cover and booklet: Bertalan Pór (Krowze)
Short biography:
Formed in 2008 by vocalist Peter D. Maniak, ANGERSEED has performed more than 200 shows in Hungary and abroad, appearing at festivals such as Gothoom, Rockmaraton, Death By Metal, MetalGate Czech Death Fest, and Rockstadt Extreme Fest. The band is also closely connected to the Full Of Anger Underground Metal Festival, currently preparing for its 28th edition.
https://www.facebook.com/metalordierec
https://www.facebook.com/pestrecords
https://www.facebook.com/Angerseed
MERCULISTARYA, One-Man Band by Árpád Szenti (Thy Catafalque, Ahriman, Athame, Damnation), Announces Debut Album
Hungarian Black Metal one-man band MERCULISTARYA announce its debut full-length album to be released on Pest Records and Metal Ör Die Records this February 20th. Titled "ÁRADÓ FÁJDALOM A TŰNŐDÉS MEDRÉBEN", this is the deeply personal and emotional work of Árpád Szenti, known from his work in bands like Thy Catafalque, Ahriman, Athame or Damnation.
As a taste of things to come, here's the first single for the track "Rémálomköd" which features the guest appearance of vocalist Ivett Dudás also of Thy Catafalque fame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Re4Z4GUsg
"Áradó fájdalom a tűnődés medrében" is available for pre-order here: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/
"Áradó fájdalom a tűnődés medrében is a concept album, each song connected, each meaning intertwined, forming a single immersive narrative. It follows a thorn‑ridden path of struggle, fear, disappointment, madness, resignation, and death, contrasted against the vastness of nature, its elemental force, its mysticism, and the unseen dimensions that pulse beneath reality.
This album is a fragment of my soul. Through MERCULISTARYA, I unearthed emotions and energies that could not have surfaced through any other form of expression.
MERCULISTARYA is a long‑standing personal vision, a vessel through which my inner world takes musical form. Rooted in the darker currents of old‑school Black Metal, it draws from the place where the genre first spoke to me. The earliest foundations were laid in 2002, when the songs began to take shape, guided by dreams, shadows, and the subconscious landscapes that inspired both the music and the lyrics.
Despite years of obstacles, the album was first recorded in 2009 but remained unreleased as my focus shifted toward the bands in which I served as drummer (Athame, Ahriman, Sentio Ergo Sum, Damnation, Fagyhamu, Voidshrine, and Thy Catafalque). MERCULISTARYA was set aside, waiting for its moment.
In 2024, with renewed experience and a stronger technical foundation, I chose to resurrect the material and re‑record the entire work. This final version is the true realization of what the project was always meant to be." Árpád Szenti
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https://www.facebook.com/pestrecords
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BEYOND
THE PALE – “MONUMENT IN TIME”
Label: Black Metal Archives
Release date: january 30th 2026
Genre: Thrash Metal/Melodic Death Metal
For fans of: Izegrim | Occult | Dew Scented | Arch Enemy
Forged in the confusion and anxiety of the global pandemic in 2020 and then tempered in the flames of tragedy and the cold ice of loss when their friend and founding member, Jeroen van Donselaar, collapsed on stage in 2022, struck down by a fatal cardiac arrest – Utrecht’s Beyond The Pale emerged from adversity unbowed and unbroken. With a renewed sense of purpose, they recruited former Martyr guitarist Geoffrey Maas and set about honouring the memory of their fallen comrade. The Monument In Time EP was released independently in The Netherlands in 2024, featuring an array of Jeroen’s accomplished guitar riffs, but this release deserved more. Now, with the backing of new British label, Black Metal Archives, Monument In Time – with two bonus tracks that have never been released on any physical format before – will find its way to a global metal audience. This tribute to friendship and the power of metal, this searing attack of thrash and melodic death metal, will carve the name of Beyond The Pale into the annals of extreme music forever.
Monument In Time explodes into life with the precision riffing of ‘Liberation For The Damned’ – a finely honed thrash/death weapon with every element fiercely focussed; from the interlocked twin guitars to the prominent bass lines that subtly weave their way through the axe attack, the powerhouse drumming to the stunning, ferocious vocal presence of Janneke de Rooy (ex-Altar). The essence of Beyond The Pale is summed up in this opening fusillade, but each song that follows possesses an individual character that adds immeasurably to Monument In Time’s vehement and venomous delivery. Be it the atmospheric intro and irresistible refrain of ‘Walk The Plank’, the power, hook-filled and instantly addictive ‘Facts And Figures’ or the viciously intense thrashing fervour of ‘Payback Is A Bitch’, with its touches of melodic lead adding an extra dimension, Beyond The Pale crush with every song, every note, every venomously articulated word of imperious rage.
The two bonus tracks that have been added to the track list of Monument In Time are the original 2021 recording of the band’s first single, ‘Storm en Drift’ – a song that appears in a re-recorded form elsewhere on the EP – and a reimagining of the thundering ‘Facts And Figures’, remixed by Japanese artist Frost (Gods Of Decay, Godfrost). Frost has added gleaming circuitry and bionic enhancements to the monstrous original and ‘Facts And Figures’ is a track with the strength to emerge from this invasive surgery still bristling with malicious intent, but with a new horror-tinged atmosphere infused into its bones.
Engineered and mixed by the team at Mass Audio Studios in Utrecht and mastered by the renowned Tony Lindgren (Amorphis, Arch Enemy, Insomnium, Kreator etc) at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden, the sound that has been captured on Monument In Time is exceptional – with clarity, a cutting edge and formidable force all accorded equal importance. A fitting tribute to the much-missed Jeroen van Donselaar and a titanic barrage of expertly blended thrash and melodic death metal, Monument In Time is about to receive the release it deserves through Black Metal Archives on January 30th.
Line-up:
Janneke de Rooy - Vocals
Johnny Derechos - Drums
Frank van Boven - Bass
Boudewijn de Kraaij - Guitars
Geoffrey Maas – Guitars
https://blackmetalarchiveslabel.bandcamp.com
https://beyondthepale.nl/
Wormholedeath Records is proud to announce the signing of the most galvanizing force in modern progressive metal: MANUEL. Led by the visionary guitarist Manuel Urgiles, who fuses virtuosic technicality, infectious Latin rhythms, and an uncompromising socio-political edge, creating a sound that is both raw and utterly essential. Their EP "PARASITE" will drop on 27 February 2026, via Wormholedeath.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Manuel Urgiles has forged a reputation as one of the most innovative voices in contemporary progressive metal. His band MANUEL merges intricate, virtuosic guitar work with authentic cultural influences, creating a sound that is both visceral and intellectually charged. Grammy Award winner Stacy Parrish calls MANUEL "a true musical revelation, pushing boundaries with genre-defying fusion and emotionally charged, virtuoso guitar performances."
"Parasite" boldly confronts the oppressive grip of the wealthy elite who manipulate and divide us for their own gain. It exposes how those in power intentionally pit us against one another while continuing to grow richer and more dominant.
"We reject the idea of rulers or masters. Instead, this EP serves as a rallying cry to unite against the true enemies—the corrupt systems and individuals who exploit us. It’s a call to shift our focus toward dismantling their control and building a future rooted in genuine change," states Manuel. "Parasite" is more than just a title; it’s a reflection of the parasitic forces at work in our society. I’m eager to hear your thoughts—what do you think of this message and direction?"
Featuring collaborations with guest vocalists, "PARASITE" showcases MANUEL's ability to seamlessly blend crushing progressive metal with Latin percussion, socially conscious lyricism, and genre-defying experimentation. The EP explores themes of immigrant resilience and cultural pride while delivering unrelenting sonic intensity.
MANUEL has already established themselves as a formidable live force, performing at major New England festivals including All Roads and VICES Fest, with a relentless touring schedule across the Northeast. Their high-energy performances have captivated audiences across metal, punk, and alternative scenes alike, proving that authentic artistry transcends genre boundaries.
MANUEL is:
Manuel Urgiles – Lead/Rhythm Guitar
Jason Ingalls – Drums
Thomas Hiscock – Bass Guitar
Ryan Cummings – Rhythm Guitar
DJKTF – Keys/Percussion
Pre-save Parasite: https://orcd.co/parasiteep
www.youtube.com/@MANUELGUITARIST
www.facebook.com/manuelguitarist
On
March 13, 2026, VOR DIE HUNDE will expand their successful product
portfolio with the launch of a brand-new full-length Album via DEFYING DANGER
RECORDS! This premium-segment release is designed to dominate the global
Grindcore market and further solidify their position as industry leaders in
extreme music monetization!
VOR DIE HUNDE are four businessmen from the future, armed with the knowledge of how to turn noise into revenue. They have returned to the present to launch their hyper-lucrative fusion of Grindcore, Death Metal, and Punk against us. Their business model is simple and straightforward: blastbeats in, money out. With unprecedented brutality, they extract listeners’ hard-earned cash — all while delivering maximum customer satisfaction!
VOR DIE HUNDE proudly embrace their role as the world’s first profit-driven Grindcore band. Fueled by pseudo-intellectual world-improvement lyrics and a sound scientifically engineered by leading experts to trigger consumer desire, they target a premium audience eager to invest in exclusive, limited-edition merchandise at luxury price points. The scientific foundation of their success: advanced AI models trained on the output of world market leaders like ROTTEN SOUND, NASUM, NAPALM DEATH, CARCASS, and others — ensuring exponential audience growth with minimal effort!
https://www.youtube.com/c/vordiehunde
https://www.facebook.com/4dieHunde/
NEWS 11.1.2026
NEWS 28.12.2025
Loud
Rage Music proudly presents the upcoming album from the mysterious
Bucharest, Romania-based Symphonic Gothic Doom Metal ensemble GREEN
EYES OF DARKNESS. Comprising 13 extensive tracks and running for nearly
80 minutes, "FIRE WAVES" is the result of several
decades of creation, featuring compositions that trace their origins back to
the '90s. This makes it a deeply personal and highly significant release for
the Romanian Metal scene.
"Fire Waves" is out on December 22nd in collaboration with Loud Rage Music.
Available here:
https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/green-eyes-of-darkness-fire-waves
https://loudragemusic.limitedrun.com/products/871983-green-eyes-of-darkness-fire-waves
About GREEN EYES OF DARKNESS:
Doom Gothic Symphonic metal project, founded by two resilient metal veterans from Romania. Originally conceived by guitarist Dragoș Grigorescu (Abigail, Hovercraft, Serenity), the project truly began to take shape when his lifelong friends, bassist Cătălin "Flamă" Scânteie (Abigail, Rising Shadow, Hatemode) and vocalist Georgiana Bogdana Stoian (Vârf Carpatin) joined the lineup, bringing their full passion, dedication and creativity into the mix.
Today, Green Eyes of Darkness stands an open lineup project, that thrives on collaboration with talented artists from diverse backgrounds. Among those who have contributed to its evolving sound are: Alex Igor (vocals), Claudia Deleanu (vocals), Ștefania Ionescu (flute, vocals), Alina Rotaru (church organ), Alex Gomez (drums), Nunu Răcriș (drums) and others.
Their first release, Fire Waves, is the culmination of nearly five years of persistence and transformation and it gathers the most defining compositions created by Dragoș and Cătălin across distinct creative periods and recorded in different settings. Some of these songs had never been heard before, remaining as unfinished sketches, waiting for their time to come to life. Others were played live a few times in the late '90s, but never recorded, while some early recordings were bound to the technical limitations of their time.
At its core, the symbolism of Fire Waves reflects the eternal conflict between creation and destruction. Waves rise and fall, collide and dissolve, but the sea beneath always remains calm and intact, untouched by the surface unrest. Same for the fire, it can kill, or ignite life, it can destroy or purify, but its deeper essence always transcends the momentary material transformation. The same philosophy defines the Green Eyes of Darkness project, their music defies patterns, refuses to follow formulas and fleeting trends. It is not crafted to be pleasant or easily understandable, but it is meant to endure, to transform and to leave a lasting impression on those who truly listen to unveil its inner truth, hard to perceive in a superficial approach.
Watch the fire. Hear the Waves. Embrace the darkness…
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
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The album is a compelling result of TARDIGRADE INFERNO’s evolving signature style and the sheer power of their live performance. What truly defines the band is the experience the listener gets at their live shows, the thoughtful songwriting, the ironic lyricism, and the striking, highly aesthetic visuals. In June 2025, TARDIGRADE INFERNO released an atmospheric and emotional live album Made In Hell that captures their ferocious performance and their connection with the audience. Hush blends all of these strengths with an authentic sound delivered with studio precision.
Experience your first taste of Hush with the official music video for the album's first single, "Hide 'n' Seek." Watch now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fscAHuASUoo
Hush is due out March 5 on CD, digital and four exclusive vinyl editions.
Pre-order the album at https://tr.ee/TiHush
Tracklist:
1. The Final Show
2. Hide 'n' Seek
3. Deadly Fairytales
4. All In your Head
5. Dead Fish Smile
6. Subatomic Heist
7. I.C.D.
8. Goor
9. Hush
10. Hypograph
11. I Am Eternal
Hush naturally picks up where 2023's Burn the Circus left off. At the beginning you hear the crackling of a circus burning down. A surviving radio plays a mournful melody that opens a grand show amid the ashes. Like a massive blazing phoenix, TARDIGRADE INFERNO opens its wings with elemental force. It sweeps away what remains and reclaiming its place at the center of attention.
The gorgeous Darya Rorria uses her flexible contralto to tell stories that are anything but cheerful. Her expressive vocals pulse with the music. They tease sharply, flow lyrically, spread in a soft velvet hush, and fade into a tragic whisper. They soar through tense passages and then glide back down into a low, intimate tone. The lyrics are charged to the point of electric crackling, just as one expects from the TARDIGRADE INFERNO.
Their trademark keyboards sound even more retro-futuristic, paying tribute to the classic horror movies of the past. The guitar acts like the wildest creature in the prairie with it's fury clothed in the polished frock coat of a respectable gentleman. The bass has the “AWESOME” knob turned to 100%. The drums are emotional, dynamic, and alive. Altogether it creates a familiar yet more sincere and revealing sound. The music becomes almost visible, almost tangible.
TARDIGRADE INFERNO have always paid special attention to the visual side of their art - from stage costumes and characters to their album covers. The cover for Hush was created by artist Milena Kress in a dark-aesthetic style. This is the band's first experience with analog painting - the piece is oil on canvas. It conveys the anxiety and emotional intensity that mirror the album’s lyrics. It’s also the first time the band’s mascot, the Tardigrade, is absent from the cover. It symbolizes a kind of coming-of-age. The toys have been left behind in the nursery.
Mixing, mastering, and production were handled by Vladimir Lehtinen, who has been working with the band continuously since the release of The Worst of Me EP. Vladimir helped the band capture their live energy without losing the studio polish of their recordings.
TARDIGRADE INFERNO is:
Darya Rorria - vocals
Alexander Pavlovich - guitars, keys
Maxim Belekhov - bass
Andrew Drew - drums
https://www.facebook.com/tardigradeinfernomusic/
Label: Fighter Records
Release date: march 12th 2026
Genre: Heavy Metal
For fans of: Iron Maiden | Cloven Hoof | Greyhawk | Visigoth
We came in search of legends, following in the footsteps of fallen heroes. We have crossed nameless, storm-tossed oceans and seas of sand beneath a merciless sun. Through snow shrouded mountain passes and forests that seemed to swallow the world we have marched undaunted. And now, with steel in hand we take the final step, through the shadowgate into the realm of the Obsidian King. The darkness enfolds us and as our spirits tremble the only sound is the beating of titanic wings…
With a searing riff and a lung-bursting scream the listener is catapulted into the world of the Obsidian King, the debut full length album from Canadian heavy metal force Ravenspell! Opening track ‘God The Watcher’ is a breathless introduction to this revelatory band; steeped in classic metal atmosphere, adorned in beautifully fluid guitar leads and masterfully combining metallic power and sumptuous melodies. ‘Onwards We March’ follows with its driving riffs and rhythms and already there can be no doubt that this is a band, an album, that will speak to every true metal heart. As it progresses Obsidian King just seems to get stronger and stronger, drawing us ever deeper into its magnificent twilight world. At the album’s heart we find tracks like ‘Obsidian Wing’ with its superlative, unforgettable melodic chorus rising out of pure, thunderous metal; the thrilling charge of the adrenalized ‘Hellstorm’ and the metal masterpiece that is ‘Raise Hell’ – featuring some fantastic interplay between roared vocals and gleaming shards of lead work. Then at the Obsidian King’s conclusion we find the grandeur of ‘Atilla’, a truly epic song that moves through superb classical guitar parts, doom-touched riffs, cascading drums, stunning solos and instrumental sections that seem to open up vast vistas of the imagination…it’s a glorious metal creation and a fitting finish to an album of breathtaking quality.
Mixed and mastered by David Lizotte (Ültra Raptör, Saccage etc), Obsidian King benefits from a textured, organic sound that captures the blood, sweat, passion and belief of the musicians who have crafted it. In this age of fakery, imitation and flexible truths this album stands tall as something real and vital, a work of substance. Completed by the haunting artwork of renowned Canadian artist Carl Lavoie, Obsidian King will be released by Fighter Records on March 12th, on CD, 12” LP, Cassette and digital formats and the speed and melody, character and fire of Ravenspell will be felt around the metal world. Join the Black Feather Legion and be there at the start of a legend.
Line-up:
Alisander The Seer - Lead Vocals
Ravok Blackwing - Guitars/Backing Vocals
Corvax Crowhammer - Bass
Volpale The Ravenous - Drums
https://www.fighter-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ravenspellofficial
Italian
Thrash/Death Metallers CRISALIDE are proud to announce they
have signed with My Kingdom Music for the release of their new album, scheduled
for release in early 2027.
In a statement from the band, CRISALIDE expresses their enthusiasm about this partnership:
"We are delighted to be part of My Kingdom Music because we already know the excellent work they do for Italian bands, and it's important for us to have them by our side during this period when we will be extremely busy with concerts, already scheduled festivals, and especially the recording of the new album, which we've been working so hard on. It's going to be a long journey, and we're incredibly excited to be part of their family and to share our music with the whole world very soon!"
CRISALIDE have over 30 years of career, and they played on the important stages, such as the legendary Whiskey A-Go-Go in Hollywood on the legendary Sunset Boulevard, and with bands like Pestilence, Vomitory, M-Pire of Evil, Nightrage and more. Now confirmed for the 2026 Luppolo in Rock Festival, they'll share the stage with Overkill, Marduk, Rotting Chris, and more.
After their latest album, "Dark Inside" released in 2019, the band has finally achieved the balance of a well-oiled and close-knit line-up, led by founder and longtime frontman Giuliano Zippo, and capable of providing a successor to that work, so acclaimed both in Italy and internationally.
Fans of bands like Sepultura, Fear Factory, and Gojira as well as the more classic sound of Kreator and Testament, can now put a smile on their faces because another band proudly flying the Thrash/Death Metal flag is ready to rock their lives and enter their most disturbing nightmares.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/crisalide.official
Label: Road To Masochist
Release date: february 6th 2026
Genre: Blackened Sludge/Drone
For fans of: Moss | Burning Witch | Old Year| Khanate
With foundations of loss and desperation, bricks of countless small rejections and a mortar of indifference…adorned in carefully sculpted cruelties, with a watchfire of self hatred blazing out into the night; so is my tower of pain and isolation built, my black edifice, my fortress and my prison. And even in the utter solitude behind these cold stone walls I am not master of myself. Even here I am a slave to the voices, speaking from the past, making their whispered incisions in my tattered, wastrel soul.
“…that’s what you’re entitled to…pain, suffering, misery…”- CATTLE HAMMER, ‘Rotting’
Formed in the spring of 2023 by Duncan Wilkins (Fukpig/Mistress/ex-Anaal Nathrakh), Cattle Hammer is a caustic, unforgiving blend of sludge, drone, impenetrable blackness and deep rooted negative emotion. Their first outpourings of choking, bleak despair included the 71 minute, uninterrupted track ‘Methlehem’ – a declaration of just how far into the darkness they were prepared to venture. Now Cattle Hammer are primed to unleash their formidable debut full length album, an amalgamation of four of their most harrowing songs, Dark Thoughts With Lights Out…
The descent begins with ‘Gloomsower’, vocals like tortured spirits howling behind thick walls of sludge. It’s a slow, painful march, like wading through quicksand with each agonising step dragging you down a little deeper, the certainty of suffocating death a constant presence. The raw, organic sound brings a reality to the emotions expressed, creating a tangible link between the misery within and the sound without. There’s no gilded artifice, just a soporific dirge that vibrates through every cell…
There is no relief…
‘Rotting’ rises up through words of bitter judgement, carefully enunciated, before riffs like towering, quivering monoliths drag your heart down through your stomach. While clearly a distinct entity from ‘Gloomsower’, ‘Rotting’ further intensifies that doomed aura, continuing the process of entombment in misery. A deep lethargy eats away at time and you can almost see your skin wither as days bleed into weeks, months, years, empty decades between chords…
There is no mercy…
‘Watchmen, Alone’ jabs at your torpid consciousness with disorientating, disjointed bursts of sound before the black hammer descends in inescapable slow motion and a chasm of abyssal grief opens beneath you. It’s vicious, lumbering, brutish, vile and painful…
There is no hope but death…
The final disassembling of reality comes with ‘Body Puzzle’. The sheer scale of the riffs is terrifying, like being caught between colliding planets, while a voice of damnation injects fear and panic into the claustrophobic onslaught.
Dark Thoughts With Lights Out will be released by Road To Masochist on CD and vinyl on February 6th. It will leave you a weeping wreck, with your sense of self worth bleeding from your ears. It will take you beyond the point of no return. Is it cruel or cathartic? Harmful or healing? All of the above? Whatever it turns out to be for you…approach it with care.
Line-up:
Wilkins, D – Vocals/Guitar
Cartwright, I - Drums
Wyles, J - Guitar
Von Donovan, D - Bass
https://roadtomasochist.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/roadtomascochist/
https://www.facebook.com/cattlehammer/
Driven by a visceral blend of blackened death metal, the music amplifies the narrative’s intensity: ferocious riffs embody the chaos of war, thunderous drums echo the march of legions, and sinister growls summon the weight of fate and bloodshed. In Augustus Omnipotens, music and lyrics merge into a monumental opus, where history is not only told but felt.
Augustus Omnipotens is available on all digital platforms worldwide: https://orcd.co/augustusomnipotens
CD format: www.auralwebstore.com/deos-augustus-omnipotens
Tracklist
01 – In Aeternam
02 – Octavianus
03 – Caesar Divi Filius
04 – Gladium Stringere
05 – Triuvirat
06 – Dura Lex Sed Lex
07 – Mortem Proditorum
08 – Mylae Invicta
09 – Dedecus Magni Lepidi
10 – Ultimum Bellum
11 – Pax Romana
About DEOS:
Formed in 2014 by Fabio Battistella, Jack Graved, and Loïc Depauwe, DEOS have built a reputation for combining the ferocity of extreme metal with a passion for Ancient Rome that extends through their lyrics, artwork, and stagecraft. Their debut Ghosts of the Empire arrived in 2015, followed by In Nomine Romae in 2017 and extensive touring across France, Switzerland, and beyond. In 2021 they began work on their third record Furor Belli, mastered by J.-F. Dagenais (Kataklysm, Ex Deo) and released in 2022 via Wormholedeath, which led to the North Imperial Tour MMXXII. Over the past years they have continued to spread their vision of Roman metal across Europe, including London’s legendary Cart & Horses.
Now, with Augustus Omnipotens, DEOS take their concept further than ever before. Recorded between autumn 2024 and spring 2025 and once again mastered by Dagenais, the album is both a celebration of Rome’s past and a declaration of the band’s future.
DEOS are:
Jack “Janus” Graved (bass, vocals)
Fabio Battistella (guitar, backing vocals)
Cédric “Cedd” Boehm (guitar, backing vocals)
Loïc Depauwe (drums)
www.youtube.com/@deos-official9793/
www.facebook.com/deos.legio
Ich
bin ganz ehrlich. Jetzt habe ich mir schon mal ne halbe Pulle Rum eingeholfen und ziehe mir volle Pulle
BOLT THROWERR rein ,
um so ganz langsam mal runterzukommen. Denn genau so wie das Jahr, gehen bei
uns nun die vorhandenen Kraftreserven auch langsam dem Ende zu und man ist an
einem Punkt angelangt, wo bald gar nichts mehr geht. Aber um bei Euch aber in den
paar verbleibenden freien Tagen noch für nen bissel metallische Unterhaltung zu
sorgen, präsentieren wir euch heute noch die letzten paar Neuigkeiten aus der Szene,
bevor wir dann noch einmal die letzten Kraftreserven aus uns rausholen, um euch
mit unserer aktuellen Nr . 60 vielleicht erfreuen zu können. Zwei, drei Tage
müsst ihr euch aber noch gedulden, dann könnt ihr euch mal wieder auf eine
längere Sitzung auf dem Klo vorbereiten. Bis dahin könnt ihr ja aber erst mal noch
euer Interesse an dem folgenden Material bekunden.
BOTTLED - “FRANKFURT”
NUCLEAR WINTER ZINE # 6 (A5 /englisch)
Zehn Jahre nach der Entstehung des ersten Songs von „LORD OF MOUNTAINS“ hat die Berliner Epic Death Metal Band MYTHERINE am 14. November 2025 endlich das komplette Album veröffentlicht.
Es war ein langer, beschwerlicher Weg mit vielen Höhen und Tiefen - ähnlich der Reise, die Vuldar, der Protagonist von „Lord of mountains“, durchstehen musste. Dabei geht es um einen jungen Jäger, der sich weigert, sein Schicksal zu akzeptieren, welches von den Göttern bestimmt wurde und von Einsamkeit geprägt ist. "Lord of mountains" ist eine Geschichte über die Grausamkeit des Unabwendbaren und dem Umgang mit ihm - über Angst und Einsamkeit, Freundschaft und Loyalität.
"Lord of mountains" ist unter Garantie nicht die letzte Veröffentlichung, die ihr von MYTHERINE hören werdet - seit gespannt auf mehr epischen Death Metal aus Berlin!
OPPRESSION – “NO SAFE PLACE”
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 12.12.2025
»Hope… Believe… There is no safe place for you!«
Große Dinge kündigen sich an mit dem Debüt der Franzosen OPPRESSION und so vehementem, wie facettenreichen und in der Tiefe wirkenden Black Metal der Sonderklasse!
Als alte Freunde, die Konzerthallen und Bars durchstreiften, beschlossen G.S.V (Gesang) und Tom L (Gitarre), gemeinsam eine Band zu gründen, um die Komposition und Ausrichtung von Anfang bis Ende selbst bestimmen zu können. Gegenüber einer wachsenden Anzahl von Veröffentlichungen mit Ambient-Ausrichtung, wollten sie mit einem sehr geradlinigen Projekt den Ton angeben.
Geschwindigkeit, Kraft und ein Hauch von Melodie (addiert mit etwas gesundem Hass) – so legten sie den Grundstein für OPPRESSION, zu denen sich schnell Predark (Gitarre) gesellte.
Als die Komposition des ersten Albums bereits weit fortgeschritten war, holten sie sich für die Positionen am Schlagzeug und am Bass zwei bekannte Musiker aus der Bordeaux-Szene dazu, die Brüder John (Otargos, Lifestream) und Désert (Lifestream). Gemeinsam stellten sie ihr Debüt »No Safe Place« fertig – bereit, euch ohne Zurückhaltung zu treffen!
Die Texte handeln hauptsächlich von Religion und ein wenig von Feststellungen zur gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung, nur im letzten Song geht es um Sex, Drogen und Rock’n’Roll (um nicht die wirklich wichtigen Dinge aus den Augen zu verlieren). Sowohl bei der Musik als auch bei den Texten ist es nicht OPPRESSIONs Intention, etwas Pompöses oder Bombastisches zu schaffen, sondern etwas Ehrliches, Direktes und Wirkungsvolles. – Hail the Oppression!
Tracklist:
01 - No Safe Place (1:51)
02 - Attrition (4:25)
03 - Homeland's Fury (5:32)
04 - Psalm for the Fallen (4:38)
05 - Maria Rosenthal (6:42)
06 - Journey Beyond Consciousness (2:49)
07 - End Humanism (5:31)
08 - The Call of the Night (6:05)
09 - Nice Death Matters (3:44)
Total: 41:21
Line-up
G.S.V – vocals and lyrics
Tom L – guitar and composition
Predark – guitar
Desert – bass
John A – drums
Gesang aufgenommen von G.S.V im Mistic Studio, Warschau, Polen. Gitarren und Bass aufgenommen im Vangul Heim Studio, Angoulême, Frankreich. Schlagzeug aufgenommen im Bud Studio, Bordeaux, Frankreich. Gemixt im Vangul Heim Studio, gemastert im Bud Studio.
https://www.facebook.com/FolterRecordsGermany
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MAGNACULT veröffentlichen ihr neues
Video FINAL DECISION zeitgleich mit ihrem Album LUCIS.
Dieser Track markiert einen Wendepunkt in der Geschichte des Albums und taucht
tief in die psychologischen und spirituellen Turbulenzen ein, die das Album
prägen. Er fängt den Moment ein, in dem Zweifel, Angst und Schuld
aufeinanderprallen - und eine Entscheidung getroffen werden muss.
Final Decision schildert einen intensiven inneren Konflikt: den Kampf zwischen Glaube und Ablehnung, Scham und Erlösung. Im Verlauf des Songs weicht die Lähmung der Klarheit. Innere Dämonen werden konfrontiert und ausgetrieben, Schmerz wird losgelassen und Entschlossenheit ergreift die Oberhand. Was mit Angst beginnt, endet in Führung - eine Reise zu höherer Wahrheit und spiritueller Befreiung.
Visuell verstärkt das Video die Erzählung des Songs durch düstere Symbolik und rituelle Intensität und spiegelt so das übergreifende Thema des Albums wider: Licht, das aus der Dunkelheit hervortritt. Als Teil von Lucis - lateinisch für „Licht“ oder „Erleuchtung“ - repräsentiert der Song den Wendepunkt, an dem Erleuchtung unausweichlich wird.
MagnaCult, bekannt für ihren mitreißenden Groove-Death-Sound und ihre beeindruckenden Live-Auftritte, erweitern mit Lucis weiterhin ihre künstlerischen Grenzen. Angesichts einer bevorstehenden ausgedehnten Tournee lädt die Band ihre Zuhörer ein, sich ihren eigenen inneren Kämpfen zu stellen und gestärkt daraus hervorzugehen.
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Label: H-Music
Release date: january 23rd 2026
Genre: Symphonic Metal
For fans of: Epica | Leaves’ Eyes | After Forever | Sirenia
We have passed through so many doors upon this journey it seems I am a different creature to the one who first set out in silence upon this road. The shadows seem deeper now and I no longer understand the ones I once held dear. Bonds I once cherished seem meaningless and the gulf between myself and others, impossible to bridge. I thought I was at an end to this odyssey but as I reach the once distant hilltop I find not rest and reflection, but flames that illuminate the night, desperate, dissonant cries that shatter the silence like my broken mind. It seems that this was all just a beginning…
“…I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep…”- Robert Frost
Back in the summer months of 2025 Hungary’s purveyors of innovative, emotive symphonic metal, Meteora, released the first in what would be a trilogy of EPs, In this Silence. As the leaves took on the colours of autumn In this Silence was followed by the second EP, Broken Mind – and now, in the heart of winter, Meteora are ready to unveil the final part in this story, Dissonance…
Dissonance begins with the lilting melodies and waltz-like rhythms of ‘Darkest Light’, a song rich in the drama and narrative style that typifies Meteora’s music. The band’s triple vocal blend is used to tremendous effect, with each voice – male, female and beast – bringing unique character to this outpouring of grand gothic darkness. An additional touch of finesse and sophistication is added by a guest guitar solo from Nils Courbaron of Sirenia and Bloodorn.The band explore themes of disassociation and alienation on the next song, ‘Shadows Of Ignorance’, which features a beautiful vocal performance from Noémi Holló. ‘Shadows Of Ignorance’ marks a hugely successful collaborative writing debut for guitarist Dániel Baranya and keyboard player/vocalist Atilla Király, suggesting that another fertile creative pathway has opened up for the band. Dissonance concludes with two of the heaviest songs that Meteora have yet recorded – ‘Dissonance – My Reality Pt IV’ – a dark, powerful piece of symphonic metal, driven by some immense harsh vocals and riding on a jagged, muscular guitar riff and then ‘Witch Hunt – Tragedy Of Delusion’, a spectacular piece of Wagnerian drama with touches of black metal that explores the whole, vast vista of Meteora’s sound, demonstrating the practically limitless potential that this band possess. Conjuring visions of flame and shadow this is a breathtaking creation, a wonderfully climactic way to conclude this outstanding trilogy of EPs.
As with In this Silence and Broken Mind, Meteora have worked with recording engineer Balázs Pálfi (Türböwitch etc) and the mixing and mastering team of Nino Helfrich (Thrash Cult, Traces Of A Life etc), Dmitry Kim (Khors, Arhat etc) and Joel Wanasek (Machine Head, Carnation, Dååth etc) to give Dissonance the perfect layered and powerful sound. Again, as with the previous EPs, the Dissonance cover art was created by Dronicon Films (Swallow The Sun, Katatonia, October Tide etc). Dissonance will be released via H-Music on January 23rd…and it will not be alone. On the same day Meteora will release the full length album Darkest Light, which brings together all the music from the trilogy of EPs into one incredible package. This may be the end of a remarkable chapter for Meteora, but you have the sense that this project has unleashed a creative force that will not soon be stilled. Without a doubt this special band have many, many miles to go before they sleep...
Line-up:
Noémi Holló – vocals
Máté Fülöp – bass, growls
Gábor Kása – drums
Dániel Baranya – guitars
Dániel Schreiber – guitars
Atilla Király – keys, vocals
Backing vocals from the Meteora choir – assembled and conducted by Ádám Attila Kurucz
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CULTUS
SANGUINE will
enter Moonhouse Studio in Milan in late December 2025 to create their fourth
album, "TEARS PAINTED SKY" the follow-up to 2023's
"Dust Once Alive", which will be released on My Kingdom Music.
Joe, the band's longtime frontman, describes it as a descent, a slow and inexorable journey into the depths of the soul, where the light is only a memory, the darkness intensifies, and pain takes shape.
"Tears Painted Sky" is scheduled for release in late May 2026, and the band is already planning a series of concerts to spread their darkness to every corner of the world.
With "Tears Painted Sky", CULTUS SANGUINE pushes the already fragile boundaries of their poetics, exploring painful territories and completely abandoning themselves to the aesthetic of the end.
It's a work that doesn't console, but accompanies those who know how to listen into the darkest heart of their own solitude.
There is no hope, no catharsis, only the decadent elegance of the inner twilight.
The cult is alive!
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DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Finland’s CHALICE, DIVINE SPEAR, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Formed in 2016, the Helsinki-based CHALICE have quickly become a beacon of esoteric heavy metal. Featuring current or former members of such bands as Ranger, Satan’s Fall, and Vincent Revenge, CHALICE released an opening demo and then subsequent EP in 2017 and ’19, respectively, before their decisive debut album, Trembling Crown, in 2020. Reaping widespread acclaim, CHALICE’s first full-length weaved high drama and dynamic metal into a tapestry of wonder and weightiness.
Now, CHALICE return with a record that eclipses that feat: Divine Spear. Presciently titled, Divine Spear is a carefully crafted, razor-sharp package that nevertheless reveals a bounty of sonic and psychic treasures. Forged in the freezing winds of the Finnish winter, here do CHALICE further refine their deceptively elegant sound, combining the pure spirit of classic European metal in a unique blend with cinematic progressive influences and the dark aura of their northernmost melancholy. Sometimes slow-burning in its doling out of details but duly benefiting patient listeners, Divine Spear paints a picturesque landscape of both light and dark, offering deliverance to those seeking beyond the boundaries of the so-called “new wave of traditional metal” movement. Of especial note are the poignant shifts into cleaner, quieter territory, truly heightening the drama that so earmarked their debut album; CHALICE are nothing if not master craftsmen in this regard, utilizing their prodigious chops in the service of literally awe-inspiring songwriting and beckoning listeners to lose themselves in their narrative flow.
Completed by wholly suiting production – clean and crisp, and yet somehow warm and natural – Divine Spear dives into deeper depths than what meets the eye…raise this CHALICE!
Line-up:
Verneri Pouttu - Vocals, Lead electric guitars & acoustic guitars
Mikael Haavisto - Lead electric and acoustic guitars, Keyboards
Joni Petander - Bass and backing vocals
Olli Törrönen - Drums and Percussions
From Helsinki, Finland
Release date:
27th February
Tracklist
01 Mare Imbrium
02 Dwell of a Stellar Trance
03 Hollow Curtain
04 The Pact
05 Age Ethereal
06 Divine Spear
07 Empyrean Liturgy
08 In from the Cold
09 Alioth
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Color edition on neon violet vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on blue/white/grey marbled vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
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Swedish
gothic rock band SCHEITAN has released a new video to, "A
KISS OF DEATH", the opening track of the band's new album, “WINE
FOR A TORMENTED SOUL”, which is out now via The Circle Music.
Watch "A Kiss of Death"video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlpF0vxz03c
Scheitan's Pierre Tornkvist said: "A Kiss of Death is the opening track of the album so it felt suitable to do a video for it. The song itself is as most of Scheitan's songs these days, a dark story of love, death and all things between."
The video and album release also coincides with the band's live slot on Swedish state-controlled radio P4. The song is played on P4 throughout the week of December 15–19, with the band performing it live at the radio studio later today on December 19th.
More details: https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/scheitan-besjunger-doden-slapper-gotisk-rock-pa-svenska
Pierre shared the inspiration behind the album, "I am very much looking forward to presenting the new Scheitan album to the audience. The title 'Wine For a Tormented Soul' comes from what music can mean to people that run into hardship in life. Music is my therapy, it is my best friend in dark times. The last 10 years have been a bumpy road with one of my best friends passing away too early as well as my father leaving us from one day to another. Some of the songs have been presented to people as singles, with the upcoming album you can hear them in the context of an album, and also listen to them in a non-digital format such as vinyl which I think is the best way to do it. We will try to come out and play these new songs for you as much as we can."
Order "Wine For a Tormented Soul" via The Circle Music: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=scheitan
Tracklisting:
1. A Kiss of Death
2. Heaven Tonight
3. Döden är helt underbar
4. Love n Death
5. Every Little Thing
6. Out of Here
7. Carry Me Home
8. Dream Away
"Wine For a Tormented Soul" follows Scheitan's 2024 album "Songs for the Gothic People" (The Circle Music) and their return after a 24-year hiatus. Having formed in 1996 by Pierre Törnkvist, Scheitan began with black metal roots but evolved to define their current gothic rock sound and continue to build on their sound. Their previous albums, including 1999's "Nemesis" (Century Media) have garnered a reputation as hidden gems within the genre.
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Four years after the self-titled, the band has finally returned with a six-track atmospheric black metal experience titled What Remains When Hope Has Failed. The album is now available on CD, vinyl and digital formats.
Order What Remains When Hope Has Failed at https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/
and https://bindrunerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/what-remains-when-hope-has-failed
Stream
album track "Quiescence" now at https://youtu.be/ct8FHWs6By4?si=pkp_teYku5k3lD_O
Tracklist:
1) The Wyrm at World's End
2) This Rotten Bough
3) Sky Avalanche
4) Quiescence
5) Bereft Part 2
6) What Remains When Hope Has Failed
Formed from the ashes of Wodensthrone, NEMOROUS carry the torch of atmospheric English black influenced metal proudly, but it’s not the main driving force behind them. The vision is far more expansive and eclectic. With their debut self-titled EP, they have proven that the twisting melodies and fog-like aura they create with their sound indeed harkens back to their past musical conquests, yet progression is a core tenet as it walks hand in hand with rich melodies and a fierce sense of aggressive tradition.
What Remains When Hope Has Failed is four years in the making and finds the band emerging victorious from a line-up change, where Chris Walsh (Vocals/Guitars) was replaced by Nick Craggs (Vocals - Vacivus/Neolithic) and Rob Hindmarsh on second guitar. Now as sextet, the band dove into the music for their first full-length reinvigorated, and it shows in the album’s composition.
What Remains When Hope Has Failed is a dynamic and emotional journey where quiet musical passages draw the listener in with vulnerability and beautiful, clean guitar arrangements that feel like Fields of the Nephilim at their most post-apocalyptic, only to build with reflective, melancholic mids, before exploding with blasting ferocity. From subtle, yet expansive synth textures, complex drum work that never loses grasp on a powerful feel/swing, it all strengthens the overall impact of this album with colorful dynamics and a songwriting characteristic which can certainly be traced back to the early days of Wodensthrone.
NEMOROUS is:
Phil Heckles - Bass
Ian Finley - Drums
Michael Blenkarn - Guitars
Alexandra Durning - Keyboards
Rob Hindmarsh - Guitars
Nick Craggs - Vocals
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The duo is currently recording their debut EP, The Dark Places on the Earth, at the Czech recording studio DiGaZ. The material is produced by Tom “Digaz” Pletnický, and the release is scheduled for January 2026.
All information about WEAK AND MORTAL can be found on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Weak-and-Mortal/61582720475493/?sk=grid
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Featuring songs mostly written between 1977 and 1983, Mythical & Magical is Pagan Altar’s third release. This grandiose, ancient-sounding album is a mixture of heavy Doom Rock and mournful English folk—and is without a doubt the pinnacle of their career. Based on the beautiful editions on now defunct Temple of Mystery Records, Dying Victims continues making Pagan Altar’s back catalogue available again.
Line-up:
Trevor Portch - Bass
Mark Elliot - Drums
Terry Jones (RIP 2015) - Vocals
Alan Jones - Guitars
From London, UK
Release date:
27th February
Tracklist
01 Samhein
02 The Cry of the Banshee
03 The Crowman
04 Daemoni Na Noiche
05 The Sorcerer
06 The Flight of the Witch Queen
07 Dance of the Druids
08 The Erl King
09 The Witches Pathway
10 Sharnie
11 The Rising of the dark Lord
Release info:
Regular 3 sided + etching double LP edition on black vinyl, with poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Colored 3 sided + etching double LP edition on beige vinyl, with poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special 3 sided + etching double LP edition on ultra-clear, brown marbled vinyl, with poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
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Realese date: 23 Janvier
2025
Genre : Black Metal
Origin: France
Duration: 46min43
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Credits: Baurus – Composition, Lyrics, Mix, Mastering
Tracklist:
1. Riposte
2. Le Chant Des Braves
3. L’Excusé
4. Le Carneval Du Roi Des Vers
5. Sépulture
6. Aux Heures Désespérées
7. À Ces Batailles Abandonnées
8… Et Aux Hommes Misérables
Emerging at the end of 2019, ARCHVILE KING is the solo project of french multi-instrumentalist Baurus. Drawing from the sharp, biting sounds of retro Thrash and Black Metal, his music fully reflects his inspirations, offering intoxicating melodies over riffs as sharp as rusted steel.
After a unashamedly Thrash Metal solo EP, followed by a darker full-length album, ARCHVILE KING now pulls us deeper into its world with a new concept album plunging further into the swamps of the King of Worms. With "AUX HEURES DÉSESPÉRÉES", we are drawn into Black Metal infused with shades of Heavy Metal, Thrash, and grandiloquent tones, pulling us down into the depths.
"Aux Heures Désespérées" is ARCHVILE KING’s second album. From the portrait fiercely drawn by "VILE" to the festering marshes of "À La Ruine", this time Baurus recounts the final great battle of humankind against the vile Worm King. This new concept album offers several points of view, opening the door to multiple interpretations. From a wounded general who forces his son to leave him behind, to the Worm King himself mocking the troops in disarray, to the bitter reflections of a soldier on the verge of death, a bleak depiction of a futile battle is painted across eight relentless tracks.
The futility of war, the sins of the soldier, false convictions—through "Aux Heures Désespérées", Baurus gives himself over to a pacifist meditation and a scathing critique of conflict through the lens of a blood-soaked tale.
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Label: Independent Release
Release date: january 9th 2026
Genre: Dark Primal Gothic Doom
For fans of: Celtic Frost | Tiamat | A Pale Horse Named Death | Darkthrone
As the ferry reaches the furthest shore, the stony bank emerging from the mist, Kharon points towards the land, silently urging you to disembark. The darkness within his cowl brooks no argument and invites no discussion or fond farewells. No sooner have you stepped ashore than he thrusts his pole against the riverbed and vanishes back into the fog that rides upon the silent current. Alone in the land of the dead you take your first faltering steps into the unknown and from the vast cavern ahead you hear a sound…music…music of other spheres and other spaces…music made of dreams and darkness…music of the night…
“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”Dracula – Bram Stoker
On June 20th 2025 The Medea Project took to the stage of Dingwalls 2 in London to celebrate the release of their new album – Kharon. They have always provided a powerful, engaging and entertaining live spectacle, but on that night they seemed to blossom into the dark flower they have always aspired to be; a thing of raw, rare and deadly beauty. They wove a spell that captured the attention of the gathered audience completely and transported them from a stiflingly hot summer night in Camden Town to the cold shadows that cloak the banks of the Styx. Tracks taken from Kharon’s haunted grooves like ‘Dance Of The Void’ and ‘Upon Your Bones (Stygian Surf)’ came to vivid, venomous life while older set stalwarts like ‘Babylon’, ‘F.E.A.R.’ and ‘The Desert Song’ seemed to grow in stature and exude a deeper darkness than ever before. The vocals, bestial roars and desperate howls entwined, echoed around the rafters while vast, staggering riffs rode upon the elemental rhythms, the glorious cacophony giving birth to a unique, enthralling atmosphere. The chaos magic of that night was captured, the black flame preserved forever and is presented in all its bloody honesty, just as it unfolded, on Live At Dingwalls; a worthy companion piece to the majesty of Kharon.
Live At Dingwalls will be released on January 9th and made available exclusively from The Medea Project’s Bandcamp Page. A memory revisited for those in attendance, a conjured vision of blood and flame for others…and another chapter in the unfolding tale of The Medea Project.
Line-up:
Brett Minnie - Guitars/Vocals
Pauline Silver - Drums & Percussion
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Hailing from Sweden, VENTHIAX are a speed / thrash metal band that was formed in March 2021 with the goal of becoming the loudest and most ruthless metal band in the region of Huskvarna / Jönköping. The band consists of bass-player Wendy Juneström, who also creates and distributes the old-school thrash metal fanzine Black Pages since 2019; guitarist Viggo Heinonen, who also played in the black metal band Pyrrha; and drummer Emil Borg, who is recognized as the roaring percussionist, embracing the true old-school spirit when whipping the toms. Thus armed, VENTHIAX let free a flurry of releases, including a first demo, EP, and not one, but two live albums.
Keeping that iron burning hot, VENTHIAX strike with their meanest and most assured recording yet: the mini-album Rites of Ra. While those prior short-lengths indeed laid their noble foundation – old Slayer, Sodom, Nifelheim, Celtic Frost, Death, Agent Steel, Törr, and Blessed Death – on Rites of Ra is where VENTHIAX blaze beyond the gates with maximum efficiency…and maximum overdrive! Said influences might mostly reside in the ‘80s, and there’s certainly no disputing the power-trio’s authenticity, but VENTHIAX exude the sort of charisma and songwriting acumen that elevates Rites of Ra above another retro-retread exercise. Dungeonic in its atmosphere but fighting tooth & nail to emerge from those dungeons with righteous plunder aplenty, this six-song / 21-minute record rips forth with a memorability that commands repeat plays – and repeat possession. Not for nothing is one of the mini’s most emblematic songs titled “Speed Metal Mayhem”!
Line-up:
Wendy Juneström - Bass
Emil Borg - Drums, Vocals
Viggo Heinonen - Guitars
From Huskvarna, Sweden
Release
date:
27th February
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Color edition on white vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on transparent orange black splatter vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
Tracklist
01 Warfare
02 Rites of Ra
03 Infernal Demise
04 Speed Metal Mayhem
05 Dawn of Terror
06 The Omen's Arrival
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Finnish
black/dark metal royalty MIRZADEH has released a black
metal version and music video of the 80s classic YOU'RE MY HEART,
YOU'RE MY SOUL. After experiencing several lineup changes, the
25-year-old Mirzadeh is also working on new material with new keyboardist Descrato (Star
Insight, Arina) and session guitarist Asagor (Boneset).
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/BvhlTrRbD74
Listen to the single on music streaming platforms : https://push.fm/fl/mirzadeh-ymhyms
Founded in 2000, the Finnish band Mirzadeh has created a dark sound inspired by Finnish mythology. The band's lyrics are in both English and Finnish. Over more than two decades, the band has released three full-length albums as well as several singles, EPs, and demos.
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Born from tragedy, BURNING PATH is the continuation of Chile’s beloved heavy metal heroes LUCIFER’S HAMMER. In late December 2024, founding member Andre Adasme, AKA Hades, was murdered by a stranger. His brother Rodrigo, AKA Titan, had a difficult task ahead of him. But eventually, Titan decided to keep Andre’s legacy alive along with longtime guitarist Hypnos, and BURNING PATH was (re)born. Titan decided to retire the LUCIFER’S HAMMER moniker “because there is no other who can replace my brother’s leading role and character, who will forever be the signature of LUCIFER’S HAMMER music.”
However, those whose hearts keep it true will be thrilled to hear the direction of BURNING PATH – “the same traditional heavy metal essence that has been our call for the last 13 years playing with LUCIFER’S HAMMER,” Titan humbly states. Witness the band’s “debut” full-length, Burning Path. With absolutely accurate artwork gloriously adoring its cover, BURNING PATH’s self-titled debut picks right up where 2024’s Be and Exist left off: like an iron fist lined with velvet, a deceptively silky surge that drives deepest into the heart of mid ‘80s metal. With Titan taking up the vocal duties as well as drums and guitar – and Hypnos, in kind, handling guitar, bass, and keyboards – the duo create a pistons-pumping juggernaut of melodic-yet-moody METAL, conveying electricity and energy no matter the tempo. In fact, much of Burning Path hovers near a strutting mid-tempo, and is all the better for it: BURNING PATH are equally powerful when illustrating heroism or heartache. As such, Be and Exist’s trace elements of prime Dokken, Heavy Pettin’, Diamond Head, Europe, Witch Cross, Virgin Steele, and even ‘80s KISS at their most metal are resurgent here, once again rearranged and reformed into anthems entirely their own.
Hades may be much missed, but he’d be honored by the BURNING PATH his former bandmates are on!
Line-up:
TITAN – Vocals, Drums and Guitars
HYPNOS – Guitars, Bass and Keyboards
From Santiago, Chile
Release
date:
27th February
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Color edition on golden vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on orange triple spinner vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
Tracklist
01 The Imminent Passage Of Time
02 Chasing the Future
03 Another Day
04 Take me High
05 The God who dwells in the Sword
06 A Step far Beyond
07 When Darkness falls
08 The Darkness that will last
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Genre : Black/Death Metal
For fans of : Mgla, Dying Fetus, Crypts of Despair, Kriegsmaschine, Psycroptic
Greek band Phasma are attempting to meld influences ranging from black metal to brutal death metal and everything in between. The music effortlessly oscillates from sharp black metal riffs to pummelling death metal blasts with matching vocal styles, and even toss in a breakdown or two in the middle. It’s something that doesn’t seem to work on paper and yet they manage to make it sound cohesive and convincing enough, with songwriting that's elaborate and well thought out to warrant songs lasting beyond mere novelty quick-listen length. Every song seems like an extension if not an improvisation over the previous one, as the band unfurls dimensions within the sound that they have concocted. Bands playing a mix of styles isn't uncommon but to intermingle influences of such disparate, almost contrasting styles is fascinating and remarkable especially when they have high replay value and lasting appeal. Like it or not, Phasma are here to stay.
Line
up:
Songwriting & guitars: Jason Athanasiadis
Lyrics & vocals: Luis Ferre
Bass: George Markantonis
Drums: Bill Nanos
Album cover by George Angelis
Merch design by CVSPE
Track listing
1. I
2. II
3. III
4. IV
5. V
6. VI
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity
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HyperioN return with new LP, Cybergenesis, a dark sci-fi concept album for fans of traditional Heavy Metal. Fighter Records will release the album on January 15, 2026. Album pre-orders are available now at:
Cybergenesis, HyperioN’s third full-length album, is eight tracks of powerful, dynamic Heavy Metal!
The concept of Cybergenesis fits seamlessly with the fiery heavy metal therein. A daring expedition into a space-time rift ends in disaster, awakening the Choir, an ancient alien hive mind from an alternate dimension, and plunging humanity into a desperate war for survival. On an Earth enslaved by the Choir's army of cyborgs, a former commander is reborn as the Rhizome Rider, leading a rebellion from within and sacrificing himself to free humanity.
Rooted in classic sci-fi, from Star Trek to Ghost in the Shell, Cybergenesis tells a story of resistance and sacrifice, where the human spirit defies impossible odds.
The album’s striking cover artwork was hand-painted on canvas by English artist Ryan T. Hancock, renowned for his work with bands such as Seven Sisters, Blood Star, and Stormborn. HyperioN chose a handcrafted, non-AI artwork to give Cybergenesis a tangible and authentic visual identity.
Track
Listing:
1. Deafening
2. Rewire, Rebuild
3. Yet We Still Fight
4. The Shackles of Chronitus
5. Blood Over Chrome
6. Grain of Sand
7. Rhizome Rider
8. The Whole of Time
Credits:
All lyrics written by Davide Cotti. All music written by Davide Cotti except track #02 (written by Davide Cotti and Francesco Madonna) and track #07 (written by Francis Dipasquale and Davide Cotti).
Production, recording, mixing and mastering by Davide Cotti.
Vocals recorded by Antonio Inserillo.
Line-up:
Davide Cotti - Guitars
Francesco Madonna - Drums
Max Morelli - Vocals
Simone “Nega” Cauli - Bass
Francis Dipasquale - Guitars
Bio:
HyperioN were formed in 2015 by drummer Jason Beghelli and guitarist Davide Cotti to play traditional heavy metal, drawing inspiration from bands such as Metal Church, early Queensrÿche, and Judas Priest, while adding their own personal touch.
The band quickly gained attention with their debut album Dangerous Days (2017), released via Spanish label Fighter Records. The album was warmly welcomed by critics and gave HyperioN the chance to share thestage with established Italian acts such as Tarchon Fist, Black Phantom, and Rain.
After the recording of the second album, founding drummer Jason Beghelli stepped down for personal reasons and was replaced by Francesco Madonna. In 2020, the band released Into The Maelstrom, again on Fighter Records. The album received excellent reviews worldwide, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of all live promotion plans. Despite the circumstances, HyperioN significantly expanded their fanbase across the United States, Canada,
Mexico, and Europe through platforms like Bandcamp, finally returning to the stage in 2021.
This first era of the band came to a turning point in 2021, when several lineup changes reshaped HyperioN’s identity. Long-time bassist Antonio Scalia left the band, and after a long search Simone Cauli joined in September 2022. Just a week earlier, guitarist Luke Fortini had
departed, but the vacant role was swiftly filled by Francis Dipasquale (from thrashers Dypron). With the lineup restored, work began on new material, only to face another setback in spring 2023 when vocalist Michelangelo Carano decided to leave.
After months of auditions, HyperioN found the missing piece in singer Max Morelli, known for his work with Signum Draconis and Ladykiller. With this new and revitalized lineup, Hyperion completed the writing and production of their third album Cybergenesis, a record that represents both continuity and rebirth. Although only guitarist Davide Cotti remains from the original formation, he has always been the main composer and driving force behind the band, making sure HyperioN's sound stays true to its roots: driving riffs that ignite into bursts of speed, soaring yet gritty vocals, and melodic hooks that make every chorus memorable.
https://www.fighter-records.com/
https://linktr.ee/hyperionband
The man behind Nobody, Tuomas Kauppinen comments the EP:
"Jesus ain't cumming is an anti-christmas EP against all the bullshit that the mad prophet has induced upon our beautiful world. It mixes fingerstyle guitar, anger, full warm upright bass, simple drum grooves and various genres I have studied over the years with various bands. But it's not pure hate but also love and appreciation of life and the possibilities it offers. Just remember, nobody's gonna save your ass but yourself."
Listen to EP: https://push.fm/fl/nobody-jesus
Track
list:
01. North star
02. Pompeii
03. Crowspeak
04. The Gutter Screams
05. Truth Seeker
Music & Lyrics by Tuomas Kauppinen
Cover art by Don Artvaara
Producer: Jimi (Stellar Sounds Studios)
Line-up:
Tuomas Kauppinen - vocals, guitars, bass & drums
https://nobodymetal.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/nobodymetal
A
journey into the blackest depths where light and hope end. This is DEATH
DIES... 30 years of uncompromising extreme music and elite black Art in
the name of the most ferocious, extremist and evil Black Metal and today we can
announce the beginning of their collaboration with My Kingdom Music. It will
lead them to the release next spring of "MALEDICTI IN
AETERNVM", the album of the definitive consecration, a creature
that will sink into your flesh like a blade able of piercing your quiet
existence.
"Maledicti In Aeternvm" takes the legacy of Primordial Black Metal, enriching it with devastating elements of Hard-core and Thrash Death Metal. The result is a fast, powerful, violent and uncompromising album... in short, the purest essence of Black Metal.
"I am really proud to represent with My Kingdom Music the home where my friends Samael Von Martin, Demian De Saba, Krom and Der Todesking wants to paint their own demons and their apocalyptic soundtracks". This is the thought that Francesco Palumbo, owner of the Italian label, expresses.
This is what Samael Von Martin confided to us: "In the long journey through shadows, visions, and sound, every band recognizes the moment when its roots meet a land able of nourishing them. For us, DEATH DIES, joining My Kingdom Music isn't just a simple recording step, but a natural convergence of intent and vision. Francesco's label has proven over time that it knows how to preserve what is authentic, extreme and untamable. In this space, we feel our voice can breathe, grow and strike with the force it deserves, without compromise. The new album is born from a period of silence, ferment and awareness. It doesn't pretend to impose itself with clamor, but it wants to leave a mark. We face this new chapter with pride, respect for the path of those who walk alongside and against us, with the certainty that what is about to be released doesn't ask for permission.
Time will do the rest!
We have lit the fire!"
"Maledicti In Aeternvm" will be released on April 2026 in CD, LP & digital.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/DeathDiesLegione
Listen to the single on music services : https://push.fm/fl/depressure-blockedraysofsun
Heavy moods and aching emotions. From melancholic yearning to modern heavy rock, it drills into your brain like a Makita 666. Born in Joensuu, Finland, 2006. Two demos, a few shows, then a decade of silence. In early 2018, Depressure was dragged out of the grave, and the first album was composed and recorded by Antti Heikura. “September” came out on February 19th, 2020.
A new lineup took shape in Antti’s new home country, Poland. Gigs in Gdańsk, more sweat, more drilling. In autumn ‘24, recording of the next album began. “Worst is Yet to Come” is set to release in January 2026 and the band is ready to freeze audiences with their northern rock
Depressure:
Antti Heikura – Vocals & Guitar
Paweł Kempa – Guitar
Tomasz Kacmajor – Drums
Konrad Piątkowski – Bass
https://www.facebook.com/Depressurekills
Label : Darkwoods
Format : CD
Release Date: 09/02/2026
Genre : Atmospheric Post Black Metal from Sweden
För evigt is the debut full-length album by Swedish atmospheric post-black metal project Motljus, created by A. Lundén and shaped by long winters, urban solitude and restrained emotional intensity.
The album presents an introspective, urban approach to atmospheric black metal, rooted in everyday experience rather than mythology or folklore, offering a distinctly modern perspective on contemporary Scandinavian black metal.
Across five tracks, För evigt develops a carefully balanced sound where cold, melodic guitar work, mid-paced rhythms and subtle post-black textures coexist with a strong sense of atmosphere and control. The songwriting favors gradual evolution over dramatic peaks, while the production remains clear and spacious, emphasizing depth without sacrificing intensity. Elements of blackgaze appear at times, not as a dominant feature, but as a textural layer enhancing the album’s melancholic and reflective mood.
För evigt will resonate with listeners drawn to the introspective side of contemporary black metal, particularly fans of Yellow Eyes, Gris, ColdWorld, Alcest or Ellende, while maintaining a distinct identity rooted in its Scandinavian origin and urban perspective.
www.youtube.com/withinthedarkwoods
www.darkwoods.eu
HOT APOLLO – “AGAINST THE ODDS BECAUSE WE’RE GODS”
Label: Selfmaderecords
Release date: december 26th 2025
Genre: Punk Rock
For fans of: Electric Six | Iggy Pop | Toyah | Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction
"We’re the sound of a sun made of lightning on fire..."
Exploding out of the great white north, in a dazzling burst of stardust and exuberance, rebellion and radiance, come Toronto’s punk rock riders of the astral plane, Hot Apollo. After lighting up the Toronto club scene for over a decade with songs that transport audiences to realms of euphoria, the city’s self proclaimed ‘shiniest band’ are about to deliver their cerebral shock to the world. New album Against The Odds Because We’re Gods is coming and it’s time to join the Hot Apollo revolution!
“Exploding stars join our choir...”
The album opens in a burst of electrifying guitar, boldly heading straight into the band’s ‘superhero cartoon theme song’, the anthemic and irresistible ‘We’re Hot Apollo’ where a languid vocal rides on crisp drumming and punk vibes and a searing solo tears across the sky. From that blazing beginning Hot Apollo take you on a tour of driving grooves, flamboyant guitar embellishments, enfolding atmospheres and choruses that feel like you’ve known them all your life. From the slinky, sliding riffs of ‘Priorities’, a song that walks the margins between playful and defiant, to the dream state dance of ‘Slayance’; from ‘Beltane’, made to make you move with its cool lead guitar wandering through a patchwork of neon glow and shadow, to the metal edge and galloping rhythms of ‘Gjallarbu’. Every song on Against The Odds Because We’re Gods occupies its own unique space, but they are all united by the irrepressible, irresistible spirit of Hot Apollo. The final two songs on the album – ‘Stop Drop Rock ‘n’ Roll’ and ‘Never Stay Down’ – rock hard and joyously, leaving you energised, renewed and alive, before this band of maverick marauders head back to the stars from whence they came.
“Louder than thunder! We’re a sparkle storm…”
The vibrant sound of Against The Odds… was captured by renowned Canadian producer Scotty Komer of the band Boys Night Out, who has worked with the likes of Protest The Hero and Silverstein. Every voice in the Hot Apollo choir gets to speak and bathe in the spotlight – from the full figured bass to the snapping drums, the fizzing guitars to the sonorous vocals – and the result is effervescent. The album will be released by SelfMadeRecords on December 26th on CD, LP and Digital formats – the perfect party to end the year…and everyone’s invited!
“We’re Hot Apollo! We’re all Hot Apollo!”
Line-up:
Jaymes - Vocals
Tobi - Bass
Monet - Lead Guitar
Diego - Drums
https://selfmaderecordsllc-business.com/home
https://www.facebook.com/HotApollo/
HARROWED are a maggot-ridden death metal band from the Stockholm sewers. Rising from the hallowed ashes of Swedish death metal outliers Morbus Chron, the band comes as the creation of vocalist / drummer Adam Lindmark, who has teamed up with guitarist Tobias Alpadie (VAK, ghost department of Tribulation). A demo and subsequent split arrived in 2021 and ’22, respectively, setting forth HARROWED’s harrowing foundation: classic Autopsy, Entombed, Obituary, and Death Strike “funneled through a garbage disposal,” accurately stated Adolf Vondkra of Tones of Decay festival.
The time has now come for HARROWED to make their full-length debut with The Eternal Hunger. Sharper but not without their signature stench, The Eternal Hunger sees the duo offering a more nuanced listening experience – but don’t think for a second they’ve gone soft! Surely, HARROWED have gestated into a twisted mass of putrid filth, incorporating elements of old-school American and Scandinavian death metal, a lethal dose of punk riffage, and mind-bending weirdness (and even some shattered shards of skewed melody, if we’re counting). The songwriting on The Eternal Hunger thusly exhibits more variety both in the micro and macro, with each of these eight tracks possessing the potential to rupture ear drums, crack skulls, and have you plunge head-first while maniacally screaming into the darkened abyss of crushing riffs, doomsday drumming, and nightmarish horrors…. The production on the album is stellar, as HARROWED teamed up with Robert Pehrsson (Death Breath, ex-Runemagick) in his Studio Humbucker during the summer of 2025 and created an authentically physical sound that’s clear and concise whilst keeping a vintage raw edge. As such, The Eternal Hunger stays true to the original spirit of death metal without being yet another washed-out-copy of the HM2-sound. The album also features musical guest appearances from Nicke Andersson (Entombed, Death Breath) and Scott Carlson (Repulsion, Death Breath), among others, so you can bet this stuff is the real deal.
With the addition of a live lineup consisting of fellow creeps Dag Landin (ex-Morbus Chron, Tøronto) on bass and Estefan Carrillo (Hazemaze, Morbid Breath) on guitar, the HARROWED lineup is fully armed and diseased — ready to drag their decomposing death metal across stages and into your nightmares. Are you ready to submit to The Eternal Hunger?
Line-up:
Tobias Alpadie - Guitars, Bass
Adam Lindmark - Vocals, Drums
From Stockholm, Sweden
Release date:
27th February
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Colored edition on golden vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on red/gold galaxy vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
Tracklist
01 Bayonet
02 The Cold Of A Thousand Snows
03 Ultra Terrene Phantasmagoria
04 The Haunter
05 Blood Covenant
06 The Reins
07 Formaldehyde Dreaming (16bit44,1kHz)
08 The Eternal Hunger
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
The Finnish progressive thrash metal band KRATEROS is set to release their debut EP 'LOST IN TRANSLATION' on January 30th 2026 via Inverse Records.
The second single 'UTICENSIS' is unleashed today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/krateros-uticensis
The band comments:
" “As the second single from our upcoming EP “Lost in Translation,” “Uticensis” showcases the band’s more aggressive output with fast, precise riffing and all-out screaming, without compromising on musicality or finesse. As is often the case, the music was written long before the lyrics came to be. This time, inspiration was found in an unexpected place, as the song got its subject from a book of collected and translated philosophical texts by Seneca the Younger that our songwriter Saku received as a birthday gift from a friend. Some of these writings were about the trials and tribulations of Cato the Younger (also known by the epithet “Uticensis”), which sparked an immediate idea for the lyrics. This song is also a favorite of the whole band."
Biography:
Krateros is an emerging metal band from Helsinki, Finland, founded in 2023 and led by vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter Saku Rekonen. The band’s music combines influences from old-school thrash metal bands such as Annihilator, Exodus, and Megadeth with more contemporary acts like Trivium, Machine Head, and Stam1na — all the while being filtered through a progressive lens.
The band’s first EP, “Lost in Translation,” released through Inverse Records, is a response to a perceived lack of riffs that seems to plague the metal scene of the 2020s.
Track
list:
1. Tomb Service
2. Linguicide
3. The Performer
4. Uticensis
5. Comatose Waltz
Cover art by All4band Design
Line-up:
Saku Rekonen - Vocals & Guitar
Roni Helminen - Bass & Backing vocals
Touko Kaihola - Drums
Jódís Rannveigardóttir - Backing vocals on Uticensis
https://www.facebook.com/kraterosband
Death/Thrash/Groove/Prog Metal powerhouse STALWART presents the visualizer video for their devastating track, "THROUGH THE DEAD EYES," a monumental commentary on modern spiritual decay. Stripping away all platitudes, the song plunges listeners into a world of profound disillusionment, where existence is a "way through desert," and hope has decayed. Driven by crushing riffs and a complex rhythmic core, the track explores the futility of human endeavor, echoing the pain of suppressed anguish and the numbing effect of routine.
About TEMPVS EDAX RERVM
Stalwart's Tempvs Edax Rervm delves into the inexorable power of time, exploring themes of fading identity and inevitable decay as "heaven and earth have switched places." The album distills the band's essence—groove-driven riffs, intricate rhythms, and atmospheric layers—into a heavier, darker, and more focused continuation of their intense, precise metal sound.
Pre-save the album: https://orcd.co/teralbum
Previous video: https://youtu.be/biyuFljFGTQ
About Stalwart
Formed in 1999 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Stalwart has built a reputation in the extreme metal scene with a distinctive blend of death, thrash, groove, and progressive metal — combining crushing riffs, intricate rhythms, and atmospheric layers. Over their career, they’ve released six full-length albums through labels including Fono, Soyuz/MetalAgen, CD-Maximum, Metallism, and PRC Music, with four albums produced by the renowned Wiesławski brothers (Vader, Decapitated, Behemoth) at Hertz Studio, Poland. Stalwart has shared stages with Behemoth, Kataklysm, Vader, Amon Amarth, Primal Fear, Finntroll, and Carnifex, performing across Russia, Ukraine, Finland, Estonia, and Germany.
After a hiatus starting in 2019, the band returns with their seventh album, Tempvs Edax Rervm, out early 2026 via WormHoleDeath Records, promising crushing grooves, complex rhythms, relentless blast beats, and immersive atmospheres — a new chapter in Stalwart’s evolution.
www.youtube.com/@stalwart.metalband
www.facebook.com/stalwartmetal
Italian
Doomsters DVM SPIRO premiere "DISSENTIMENTO",
the first single from "MMXXVI - GRAVE", with a
monumental official video lasting over 11 minutes, a sort of pictorial graphic
short film created by Noxifer (aka Gianfranco Logiudice) and
available at the following address: https://youtu.be/AP9HR-A-byE
The song is a long suite where feelings of desperation and loneliness blend with the natural funereal atmospheres of their Doom Metal. Heavy riffs, female vocals and deep growls, ancient atmospheres, and classical music enrich a unique sound that will surely be a must-listen for fans of My Dying Bride, Funeral, early Paradise Lost, and Shape of Despair!
The art of DVM SPIRO is an indistinct death, where madness shines in the dark, without peeling frames and funereal paintings of intangible prisons.
DVM SPIRO are back, and the magic of their sad art is ready to drag you into the deepest abyss.
"MMXXVI - Grave" will be released on January 16, 2026.
You can pre-order the CD here: https://t.ly/2cDTv
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/dvmspiro
FFO: Swallow the Sun, Anathema, Woods of Ypres, Novembers Doom, Draconian
Stop, look, and listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzHTKDxnvpk
Orchid Throne is set to release Buried in Black on January 9, 2026! The project consists solely of Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) who performs the music, as well as producing, mixing and mastering the album.
After nearly 17 years of playing supporting roles in various bands, Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) is proud to make his debut as a solo artist as the man behind Orchid Throne. Bonsanto not only wrote and performed all of the music for Buried in Black, but also produced, mixed, and mastered the album.
While not a concept album, Buried in Black weaves themes of anxiety, depression, fear of death, and the search for life’s meaning throughout its lyrics. The title describes both the music itself and the feelings that Bonsanto has kept buried within for years. It may sound bleak, but what is buried in black will be set free and brought to light on January 9.
“This album is a long time coming for me,” said Bonsanto. “For more than a decade, I collected little recordings of ideas in the hope that one day they’d be useful. I could not be more proud of myself for how the album came out and for all of the things I have learned along the way.”
Bonsanto's Musical Journey to Buried in Black:
“As a musician performing in bands since I was 16, people who know me have seen me play a supportive role, and hear my musical contributions to my bands. But not everyone knows that I have always dreamed of releasing a record of my own. I am passionate about all kinds of music, and while I love playing in my current bands, doom metal is a big love that I long felt like I had no outlet for.
“While I’ve honed my songwriting abilities over the years, I began this project with zero knowledge of how to produce a record on my own. I introduced Orchid Throne to the world one year ago on my birthday with only one song done. Over the past year, I have finished writing, recording, and producing my entire debut record. I have finally achieved this goal and it's even better than I ever imagined it could be. It means so much to me to get this out there, to truly reflect who I am as an artist, and I’m already excited to create more.”
Pre-order Buried in Black: https://orchidthrone.bandcamp.com/album/buried-in-black
Track
Listing:
1. Dreamworld
2. Ephemerality
3. What Defines us
4. Moonlight Revelry
5. Guilt
6. Breath of Autumn
7. With Promise
Credits:
Album artwork painted by Ryan Gassaway.
Music and Lyrics written by Nick Bonsanto.
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Nick Bonsanto.
All instruments performed by Nick Bonsanto.
Flute on “Breath of Autumn” and “With Promise” performed by Mary Beck
Orchid Throne is:
Nicholas Bonsanto - All instruments.
Bio:
Orchid Throne is a Melodic Doom Metal one-man band created by Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Orchid Throne is set to release its debut full-length album on January 9, 2026, titled Buried in Black. The album features a spellbinding variety of dark, heavy, and emotional material that beckons you to fall into the endless black. Drawing influence from a range of sounds such as melodic death metal, black metal, progressive rock, and folk, Orchid Throne is music from the heart for fellow souls who need
it most.
https://linktr.ee/orchidthrone
Italian
blackened atmospheric death metal project FROSTMORNER is
proud to announce its official signing with Wormholedeath. The collaboration
will see the worldwide release of Frostmorner's debut album, ORBITAL
KAOS, scheduled to drop on February 13, 2026.
Founded by Mario and rooted in Sicily, Frostmorner began its journey in 2019. What started with the support of other musicians soon evolved into a fully solo project, allowing Mario to build a sound that reflects his vision without compromise. Over the years, Frostmorner has caught the attention of magazines, fanzines, and radio stations, opening the door to collaborations and conversations with artists across the extreme metal world.
“Orbital Kaos” marks the first full-length chapter of Frostmorner and showcases the project’s foundation: a blend of blackened intensity, atmospheric layers, and death metal grit. The album pulls inspiration from Nile, Hypocrisy, Belphegor, and Death, while weaving in modern influences from Lorna Shore and
Rings of Saturn. Its thematic core draws from a lifelong fascination with Lovecraft, mythology, space, and horror.
The album’s title captures its essence. Each track stands on its own, shaped by its own narrative and energy, yet all orbit around the central concept of Kaos. The result is a record built on fragmentation, unpredictability, and tension: an audio universe where no two moments land in the same place.
Tracklist
1 -Pillars of Creation
2 -Necromorph
3 -Kronvs
4 -Demiurge
5- Arra Agga Bandar
6- Gorgone
7 -Claymore
8 -Eclipse
9 -Orbital Kaos
www.youtube.com/@frostmorner
www.facebook.com/FrostmornerMusicOfficial
NECROSEXUAL – “ROAD TO RUBBLE”
Label: Black Metal Archives
Release date: february 27th 2026
Genre: Thrash Metal/Horror Punk
For fans of: Venom | Mercyful Fate | Celtic Frost | Plasmatics
The engine roars, adding its primal, petrol-fuelled fury to the cacophony of the midnight streets. With menace in its very construction the car seems to prowl the pools of neon light, the sound of the devil’s music blasting from it like a heartbeat. Hymns to lust, violence and rebellion rise up through the darkness, clawing their way through the watching windows, becoming a soundtrack to the sordid stories being played out behind the glass. The Necrosexual smiles, tasting every warm, wet drop of passion, pain, desperation and cruelty as he passes. Hands on the wheel he rides through the hopeless, despairing dreams of the shadow people, trapped on a road to rubble and ruin…
Road To Rubble is the new album from Philadelphia’s Necrosexual, a band that revel in the dark excesses of the metal mindset and ideology, bringing together overdriven guitars and irreverent belligerence, extremes of velocity with the blackest humour and resolute defiance. Lead by charismatic frontman, The Necrosexual, these creatures of the night have been rampaging through the metal underground with their intoxicating elixir of heavy metal, thrash metal and horror punk since 2011, releasing their debut album, GRIM-1, in 2018 - and they’ve never sounded better than they do right now…
Opening with the primal riffs and bestial vocalisations of ‘High Times In Hell’, a song built from old bones but with fresh flesh upon them, Road To Rubble walks a weaving, drunken line between carnage and celebration. ‘The Brimstone Brothel’ combines a punk punch with blast beat madness in a tale of cannibalism behind the walls of an old west bordello and ‘Kiss The Knife’ is a burlesque carnival of horror and erotica with snarling riffs, driving rhythms and scything, melodic lead work. Each song is a step along the road to damnation, another mile into a hell curated by The Necrosexual; from the tattered majesty and epic tales of wasteland warriors that is ‘All Roads Lead To Rubble’ to ‘Nocturnal Ignition’ that shifts from moonlight and dust to muscular riffs, gothic drama and dirty punk sleaze. When the bloodthirsty dominatrix of ‘Hard Leather Woman’ has finished with you – a strident, ironclad, climactic conclusion – you’ll be left scarred and bloodstained, with illusions shattered and eyes open to all that walks on the other side of the night.
Mixed by Steve Roche (Blemish, Pariiah, Serpent Throne etc) and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Blood Incantation, Cavelera Conspiracy), Road To Rubble has an ‘80s metal darkness and bite, but with a scalpel sharp clarity and modern vivacity. It’s a heady, hypnotic combination that will keep you crawling back for more. Adorned in the garish, gaudy, acid nightmare of Scott R. Johnston’s vibrant cover artwork, Road To Rubble will be available on vinyl, CD, cassette and digital formats from the Necrosexual webstore in the US and on CD and cassette from Black Metal Archives in the UK. The Necrosexual party begins on February 27th – and no-one’s going home…
Continue your voyage into The Necrosexual’s world of metal and madness in the official Necrosexual comic books! #2: Necrosexual Encounters, the long awaited follow up to #1: The Insatiable Necrosexual, is available now as a physical version at the Necrosexual bandcamp page https://necrosexual.bandcamp.com/merch/necrosexual-encounters-graphic-novel-free-usa-shipping
The Necrosexual - lead bass, guitar, screams, keyboards, whip strikes
Anthony ‘Vigo’ Gabriele - lead guitar, conspiracy and conjuration
Nick Roskow - lead guitar, divebombs
Miles Ziskind - drums, smoke
https://blackmetalarchiveslabel.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/Grimmestofalltime
NEWS 14.12.2025
Damit
ihr nicht nur eure Gehörgänge mit metallischem Unterhaltungsmaterial traktiert
und „belastet“ , sondern auch mal wieder was Handfestes zum Lesen in den Händen
halten könnt, gibts heute bei uns mal nen bissel mehr an gedruckten Lesestoff
zu entdecken.
Die Fertigstellung unserer aktuellen Nr.60 geht auch so langsam auch in die Endphase. Seid jetzt schon mal drauf gespannt was euch HEREZA, FALSE MUTATION , das SCHATTENLEGION MAGAZIN , DEPRESSION, ASHTAR , ARCHAIC THORN und noch einige mehr zum aktuellen Geschehen in der Szene zu berichten haben .
Neben jeder Menge an diversem Tonträgermaterial und nem fetten Batzen an neuem Lesestoff, gib es dieses Mal auch so einiges an Liveberichten für euch zu entdecken. Natürlich werden auch die Rubriken „Metallisch verborgenes aus den tiefsten Abgründen des Internets“, „Best of the ground“ und „Metallisches aus ostdeutschen Jugendzeiten Part 4 „von uns in der neuesten Ausgabe weitergeführt. Zur Einstimmung und sozusagen als kleinen Vorgeschmack präsentieren wir euch hier dann auch schon mal gleich das aktuelle Cover .
„30 JAHRE S.U.F.F.- MIT DER SPASSGUERILLA DURCH OSTDEUTSCHLAND"
SCHATTENLEGION MAGAZIN - JAHRGANG 2024 (A5 / deutsch)
REALM OF SHADES # 10 (A5 englisch)
CASKET – “IN THE LONG RUN WE ARE ALL DEAD”
Wir vom HELLBOLLWERK E.V., dem
gemeinnützigen Kulturverein aus Ilsenburg am Fuße des Brockens – freuen uns
sehr, euch heute eine weitere bedeutende Neuigkeit mitzuteilen.
Der Hellbollwerk e.V. freut sich, eine positive Entwicklung im Vorverkauf des BLASTING THE MOUNTAINS FEST | Pt. 1 bekanntzugeben:
Aufgrund der überwältigenden Resonanz aus der Szene wird das Early Bird Ticket bis zum 31. Dezember 2025 verlängert.
Seit dem offiziellen Vorverkaufsstart der Hardtickets am 14. November 2025 wurden innerhalb von nur vier Wochen bereits rund 90 % der ursprünglich geplanten Early Bird Tickets verkauft. Dieses starke Zeichen der Unterstützung hat den Veranstalter dazu bewogen, die ursprünglich limitierte Stückzahl aufzuheben. Das Early Bird Ticket ist ab sofort bis Jahresende ohne Stückzahllimit zum Preis von 39,90 Euro erhältlich. Ab dem 01.01.2026 erfolgt die Umstellung auf das Nabu Bird Ticket zum Preis von 44,90 Euro. Das finale Dead Bird Ticket wird anschließend für 49,90 Euro angeboten.
Zehn Bands für 39,90 Euro – ein Preis, der die Leidenschaft für die extreme Musikszene widerspiegelt und bewusst fair gehalten ist.
Ticketinformationen (Vorverkauf):
Early Bird – 39,90 € (bis 31.12.2025)
Nabu Bird – 44,90 € (limitiert)
Dead Bird – 49,90 €
Die Ticketbestellung erfolgt direkt über den Veranstalter:
So funktioniert die Ticketbestellung . Die Bestellung erfolgt einfach und direkt über das Team des Hellbollwerk e.V. – ohne Zwischenhändler - szenenah und fair.
Kontaktmöglichkeiten:
via Instagram-DM (@hellbollwerk_ev)
per E-Mail hellbollwerk@gmx.de
Line-up:
Einsachtzich
Pure Massacre
Torturized
Drill Star Autopsy
Casket | Extinct
DER ROTE MILAN
Aeon of Disease
MNHG
Obscenity
Der Hellbollwerk e.V. bedankt sich ausdrücklich bei allen Unterstützerinnen und Unterstützern für das entgegengebrachte Vertrauen und die enorme Resonanz.
Gemeinsam wird 2026 die Harzlandhalle in Ilsenburg zum Beben gebracht.
Wir bitten um Veröffentlichung dieser Pressemitteilung.
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Vielen Dank für eure Unterstützung und euren Einsatz für regionale Kultur!
TEUTONIC SLAUGHTER – “CHEAP FOOD”
Stil: Thrash Metal
Format : CD/LP
Label : Iron Shield Records
VÖ Datum: 30.01.2026
TEUTONIC SLAUGHTER sind ein oldschool Thrash Metal Quartett, welches 2012 von Fabian Kellermann und Philip Krisch, aus einem ursprünglichen Schülerprojekt, gegründet wurde. Wer Bock auf NEO --, Alien --, Black oder Technical Thrash Metal hat, ist
hier definitiv an der falschen Adresse. TEUTONIC SLAUGHTER liefern kompromisslosen teutonic Thrash Metal der alten Schule „ straight in Your Face“ und ohne Schnörkel. Das Quartett orientiert sich in Ihrer musikalischen Identität unverkennbar an Ruhrpott Thrash Metal Legenden, wie Violent Force, Kreator, Sodom und Darkness , ohne dabei
selber an Authentizität einzubüßen. Durch den einzigartigen Gesang und die ständig treibende, offen gespielte Gitarre, schafft die Band Ihren einzigartigen Sound und knüpfen gleichzeitig dort an, wo viele
deutschen Thrash Metal Acts in den 80er Jahren aufgehört haben. In der Besetzung Jan Heinen (Gitarre), Christian Vollmer (Backing Vocals), Fabian Kellermann (Bass/ Backing Vocals) und Philip Krisch (Vocals/Gitarre) wurden von 2012 bis 2022 sechs Tonträger veröffentlicht (2013 Teutonic Slaughter Live at UnBaCo/ 2024 United in Hate Demo/ 2015 Witches Rock’n’Roll Album/ 2018 Split Single mit
Darkness / 2018 Puppeteer of Death Album/ 2022 Decade of Terror Compilation). In dieser Zeit spielte die Band unzählige Auftritte im In und Ausland und konnte sich als „Live Abrissbirne“ in der Szene
etablieren. Schon seit Mitte 2019 gab es konkrete Pläne und Material für die Veröffentlichung eines dritten, von den Fans heiß ersehnten, Full Lenght Albums von TEUTONIC SLAUGHTER. Diese konnten, aufgrund des Wegzugs von Jan und Christian, sowie der anschließenden Corona
Pandemie nicht mehr umgesetzt werden. Nach der
Eigenveröffentlichung der Compilation Decade of Terror Ende 2022 verließen die beiden die Band, um TEUTONIC SLAUGHTER die Möglichkeit zu geben, in anderem Line Up , wieder aktiver auftreten zu
können. 2023 stiegen mit Nico Iserloh (ex. Resistor , Spirit Detective ) an den Drums und Ivan Almeida (ex. Goytaca , ex. Thy Great Empire) an der Lead Gitarre zwei langjährige Freunde der Band in das Line Up mit ein.
In dieser Besetzung konzentrierte man sich in 2023 und 2024 auf gewählte Live Auftritte und besonders darauf, das Material für Album Nummer drei zu überarbeiten und zusätzlich neues Material zu
erstellen. Da die ersten beiden Alben auf Vinyl (jeweils 300er Auflage) mittlerweile ausverkauft waren, stieg der Bedarf an neuem Material. So wurden die Aufnahmen zum dritten Studioalbum "Cheap Food“ Ende 2024 in dem Studio von MK Records in Essen abgeschlossen. Für die Backing Vocals auf der Scheibe liehen u.a. Marius Wegener (SMORRAH), Robert Gornella (ex. Assassin Raging Rob) und Jörg Juraschek (WARRANT) ihre Stimmen. Die Aufnahmen stellen das generische Bindeglied zwischen der alten und neuen Besetzung der Band dar und zeigen, dass TEUTONIC SLAUGHTER in den vergangenen Jahren nicht stehengeblieben ist. Die Band klingt erwachsener, brutaler, kraftvoller und gleichzeitig unverkennbar wie früher…nach Oldschool
Teutonic Thrash Metal!
HAIL TO THE WITCHES ROCK’N’ROLL!!!
Tracklist
01 Intro
02 Hostage
03 Cheap Food
04 Redistribution
05 Witches Rock‘n‘Roll
06 Eviscerating Surgery
07 Fight the Reaper 08 Give em Hell
Line up :
Philip Krisch – Vocals/Guitar
Ivan Almeida - Lead Guitar
Fabian Kellermann – Bass
Nico Iserloh – Drums
www.facebook.com/teutonicslaughter
https://ironshieldrecords.de/
GRAND
DEVOURER und ZOMBIE
RIOT: Vorverkauf für die Split "NIGHTHAUNTER" gestartet
:
Die Hannoveraner Death-Metal-Acts Grand Devourer und Zombie Riot tun sich zusammen und veröffentlichen am 19.12.2025 ihre Split Nighthaunter. Für Grand Devourer ist es nach der Debüt-EP bereits das zweite Lebenszeichen innerhalb eines Jahres, während die lokalen Szene-Urgesteine Zombie Riot mit ihrem mittlerweile vierten Release nachlegen.
Acht Tracks – je vier pro Band – ballern hier kompromisslos in den Death-Metal-Underground. Das Bremer Studio Silence Sucks Productions liefert den gewohnt druckvollen, heftigen Sound, der die Wucht der beiden Formationen passgenau einfängt. Für das Artwork zeichnet die Hannoveraner Tattoo-Künstlerin Maya Goldfinch verantwortlich, die die düstere Ästhetik von Nighthaunter visuell auf den Punkt bringt.
Erscheint am 19.12.2025 via Neckbreaker Records. Vorbestellung können hier getätigt werden!
Außerdem gibt es ein exklusives Shirt Design von Grand Devourer im Warhammer 40K Stil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdJEWpodemc&t=10s
https://neckbreakerrecords.bigcartel.com
STREAMS OF BLOOD – “VERMALEDEIT”
Genre: Black Metal
Label: The Hidden Art
Release: 18.12.2025
Nach Jahren persönlicher und kreativer Umbrüche legt Streams Of Blood mit „Vermaledeit“ am 18. Dezember ihr neues Album vor – ein Werk, das die Erfahrungen und Brüche seiner Entstehungszeit spürbar in sich trägt.
Fünf Jahre voller Veränderungen, Verluste und innerer Kämpfe haben ihre Spuren hinterlassen. „Vermaledeit“ ist das Ergebnis dieser Phase – intensiv, direkt und emotional aufgeladen.
Die Songs bewegen sich zwischen Melancholie und Nihilismus, zwischen Selbstzweifel und Befreiung. Roh und ungeschliffen aufgenommen, zeigt das Album den unverstellten Charakter seines Entstehungsprozesses – ehrlich, kompromisslos und ohne Rücksicht.
Das begleitende Artwork entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit Void Revelations und ergänzt die Musik um eine visuelle Dimension, die die Atmosphäre von „Vermaledeit“ treffend einfängt.
Ein Album, das aus persönlicher Dunkelheit hervorgegangen ist – und den Weg von Streams Of Blood konsequent weiterführt.
https://www.facebook.com/StreamsOfficial
The Death Crust Commando strikes back – louder, fiercer, heavier.“Time And Tide” is here to crush everything in its path!
Seit ihrer Gründung 2016 sind PHANTOM CORPORATION eine unaufhaltsame Macht im Underground. Gegründet von Szene-Veteranen aus Bremen und Dortmund – mit Wurzeln in Bands wie Dew-Scented, Eroded, BK 49 und Weak Aside – verschmilzt die Band gnadenlosen D-Beat Crust mit Death Metal und rohem Old-School Thrash/Punk zu einem kompromisslosen Crossover-Sound.
Nach der Debüt-Mini „First Commandment“ (2016), den furiosen EPs „Cause and Effect“ (2017) und „Belligerent Powers“ (2018) sowie der Split „Banner Of Hatred“ (2022, mit den Schweden Harrowed) und dem ersten vollen Album „Fallout“ (2023), präsentiert die Band nun ihr tödlichstes Geschoss: Das neue Album „Time And Tide“, das heute über Supreme Chaos Records erscheint.
Hier geht’s zum brandneuen Video zu „Frantic Disruption“ : https://youtu.be/BnuZnvPj_xc
Produziert von Jörg Uken in den Soundlodge Studios (u. a. God Dethroned, Temple Of Dread), hebt
„Time And Tide“ die Band auf ein völlig neues Level. Über 11 Tracks hinweg liefern PHANTOM CORPORATION ein unerbittliches Feuerwerk – vielseitiger, brutaler und kompromissloser als je zuvor. Rasende Thrash-Riffs, Crust- Attacken und Death Metal vereinen sich zu einem apokalyptischen Schlagabtausch ohne Atempause.
Tracklist:
1. Frantic Disruption (4:16)
2. Dead Of Night (4:30)
3. Crushed (3:59)
4. Krokodil (1:31)
5. Pound Of Flesh (2:42)
6. To The Hilt (4:14)
7. Time And Tide (4:17)
8. Sorcerer (3:57)
9. For All The Wrong Reasons (4:42)
10. Crisis (2:21)
11. Western Apocalypse (5:35)
„Time And Tide” ist in den folgenden Formaten erhältlich:
Black LP
Orange Marbled LP (Limitiert auf 150 Kopien)
Clear Rusty Marbled LP (Limitiert auf 100 Kopien / Band-Exklusiv)
Splatter Clear Orange Black LP (Limitiert auf 100 Kopien)
Digipak CD (Limitiert auf 500 Kopien / Handnummeriert)
Jewelcase CD
Black Tape (Limitiert auf 150 Kopien)
Purple Tape (Limitiert to 50 Kopien / SCR-Exklusiv)
Digital Album
„Time And Tide” ist hier erhältlich: https://linktr.ee/phantomcorporation
Oder direkt über Supreme Chaos Records: https://supremechaos.com/scr-artists/phantom-corporation/
PHANTOM CORPORATIONs Debütalbum „Fallout” und dessen limitierte „Fire Splatter” und „Orange/Black marbled” Vinyl-Varianten sind nach wie vor hier erhältlich: https://supremechaos.com/link/phantomcorporation/
PHANTOM CORPORATION 2025:
Ulf – Bass
Arne – Guitars
Philipp – Guitars
Marc – Drums
Leif – Vocals
Live
24.01.2026 Krefeld – Kulturrampe
07.02.2026 Osnabrück – JZ Westwerk 141 / Waking The Ghouls II
18.-20.06.2026 Protzen – Protzen Open Air
17.10.2026 Nordhorn – Alte Weberei / Nordhorn Deathfest
https://www.facebook.com/phantomcorporation
Mit ihrer neuen EP „DEATH THROES OF A
DROWNING GOOD" öffnen GUYOD am 23.01.2026 ein
weiteres finsteres Portal zwischen Doom, Death und Black Metal - ein Werk, das
ebenso schwer und erdrückend wie atmosphärisch aufgeladen ist. Die
Veröffentlichung markiert nicht nur das nächste Kapitel ihrer künstlerischen
Entwicklung, sondern setzt zugleich ein kraftvolles Statement innerhalb der
extremen Musikszene: kompromisslos, intensiv und voller klanglicher Abgründe …
Die EP stellt eine vierteilige Reise zum Abgrund des Ozeans dar, vier Songs werden jeweils von einem Drone-Track ein- bzw. ausgeleitet. Am Weg nach unten starren den Hörenden „A thousand invisible eyes“ direkt in die Seele, man entdeckt verborgene Reiche „Behind walls of ice“, rast durch den „Vortex of infinite despair“ und betrachtet mit Abscheu den erschreckenden Anblick von „Hestia drowning“.
Man durchdringt düstere Klanglandschaften, in denen verzerrte Gitarrenwände, tiefe Growls und eisige Screams auf wuchtige, monolithische Riffs treffen. Dabei bleibt die Band ihrem Anspruch, die erdrückende Schwere des Doom mit der brutalen Direktheit des Death Metal und der kalten, rituellen Atmosphäre des Black Metal zu verbinden, weiterhin treu. Der Level an Direktheit und hasserfüllter, verzweifelter Aggression ist jedoch deutlich gestiegen.
Mit dieser Veröffentlichung beweist die Band, dass Extreme Metal auch 2026 noch neue Wege beschreiten kann. Sie verschmelzen Genregrenzen, ohne ihre Wurzeln zu verleugnen, und schaffen damit ein Werk, das sowohl alte Fans als auch neue Hörer*innen fesseln wird. Die EP ist ein kompromissloses Manifest der Finsternis - eine Klangreise, die lange nachhallt und ihre Hörer*innen tief unter die Oberfläche zieht.
Ab dem 23. Januar 2026 ist „Death throes of a drowning good" auf allen gängigen digitalen Plattformen, sowie in einer limitierten physischen Edition auf CD und Tape erhältlich. Eine Veröffentlichung, die sich Liebhaber atmosphärisch dichter, extrem metal-lastiger Klangkunst nicht entgehen lassen sollten!
https://www.guyod.net/
jewelcase cd with 8-page booklet+2-side inlay+plastic wrapped.
7 tracks of norweigan black-metal, with an oldschool feeling!
Norsk svartmetall, Innlandet, Hamar, Norway.
ILLVILJE: [fra norrønt, illvili] et sadistisk ønske om å påføre andre mennesker smerte og lidelse | hatets egen vilje.
Steven - Guitar & bass
Are - Drums
Jolm - Vocals & guitar
https://downfallrecords.bandcamp.com/album/la-meg-sj-alt-omkring-meg-falle
Genre
: Atmospheric
Black Metal
Formate : CD & LP
Release date : 25/01/2026
For fans of: Woods of Desolation, Austere, Panopticon, Mesarthim
Brought forth by the Sweden-based multi-instrumentalist Matthew Bell (Autumn's Dawn, Austere live & many more), TJAKTJADÁLVVE is an Atmospheric Black Metal project now at its third full-lenght release.
"Encompassing Nothingness" perfectly blends the sorrow of depression-tinged black metal with the coldness, thrill and melancholy of its atmospheric kind, guiding the listener through his low-paced and synth-driven scenarios. With a neat production and dreadful vocals, the musical journey that this album encloses can't reward the listener more than so.
Tracklist:
1. The Solitude of Abject Darkness
2. Norrsken
3. Longing
4. Encompassing Nothingness
Total length: 32:22 minutes
https://flowingdownward.com/
https://tjaktjadalvve.bandcamp.com/
FROZEN OCEAN – “ASKDRӦMMAR”
Label: Apocalyptic Witchcraft
Release date: february 13th 2026
Genre: Depressive Rock / Atmospheric Black Metal
For fans of: Lifelover | Katatonia | Apati | Joyless
City dwellers have all sensed the life, the power, the autonomous identity of their home. They understand, on some deeply buried level, that it is more than a collection of buildings and intersecting streets…it is an entity beyond its elements, a tarnished, hungry god with a character that changes with the setting of the sun and the flickering into life of the street lights and neon signs. They know there is another world, a darkly different reality that lies behind a thin veil of perception; held in check only by a silently agreed refusal to believe in its existence. But a glimpse from the corner of the eye, a movement in the shadows not rejected and quickly forgotten and the door to that other city begins to stand ajar. And with Askdrömmar, Frozen Ocean are holding that door open and beckoning you inside…
For more than twenty years Frozen Ocean has brought us a staggering array of musical gifts; journeys that have taken us from the depths of space to the worlds of Tove Jansson’s literary creations, from Norse mythology to complex internal landscapes – riding on the wings of cold black metal and textured ambience – dramatic and visionary works. Now Vaarwel, the creative spirit behind the Frozen Ocean name, has returned with another sonic dream to ignite our imaginations and transport us to new dimensions. A work that draws inspiration from the writing of John Ajvide Lindqvist and the music of Lifelover, with lyrics written entirely in Swedish that communicate on a level beyond language. Askdrömmar leads us through a gallery of images, of haunting vignettes, to a destination unique to each soul that listens.
We enter the world of Askdrömmar along the moon road, ‘Mångata’ – both frightening and fascinating in equal measure. Vaarwel’s grim voice rasps over the dark, richly melodic music, a superlative demonstration of the power of black metal vocals at their most emotive. Already the light behind you is but a pinprick in the distance as the city begins to swallow you. The melodic, gothic doom inflections of ‘Bortkastade dödsrunor’ draw you deeper still and it becomes clear that these songs are creating an environment as well as a narrative and atmosphere – listening to Askdrömmar is to explore the secret streets of this dark urban domain. As you reach ‘Jag sover’ you are haunted by the city, surrounded by it, consumed by it, lost in its labyrinthine heart. The melancholy melodies twist through the night time world and the chosen language of presentation with its harsh poetry invokes imagery while avoiding definite definition. The liquid keys of ‘I lyktornas sken’ move between the pools of light that punctuate the blackness, creating unfathomable depths and innumerable layers, possessing the power to hypnotise and enthral. From the sinuous lament of ‘Köttkvarn’ with its bewitching despair, through the frantic fear of ‘Långt lopp genom mörkret’ to the beautiful, humbling conclusion of ‘Brunkebergstunneln’, Vaarwel has created nothing less than magic. Askdrömmar is the most powerful and affecting Frozen Ocean work to date – and that is some achievement.
Adorned in the superbly atmospheric artwork of Mosaeye Art (The Hearth Of Discordia, Shiningstar, Pyre etc), Askdrömmar will be unveiled by Apocalyptic Witchcraft on February 13th on CD digipak, cassette and digital formats, as well as an exclusive, extremely limited boxed set. Prepare to pass through the veil and wander through your darkest dreams…
Line-up:
Vaarwel – Vocals, guitars, bass, e-bow, keys, lyrics and music
https://apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/frozenoceanrus
New single "AUTUMN NOSTALGIA" from TÅKEVANDRER! Sagas summon all wanderers of the dark forests. Rising from the misty Austrian mountains in the autumn of ’25, their lyrics dive into the profane, the
occult, and the mystic paths of lunar existence.
https://www.youtube.com/@Takevandrer.Official
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61584122578056
YHWH
Release
New EP KHATHA . Five Tracks of Unrelenting Extreme Metal Fury Now
Available .
Stream Now: https://orcd.co/khathaep
Extreme metal powerhouse YHWH have unleashed their latest sonic assault with Khatha, a short but devastatingly punishing five-track EP that showcases the band at their most raw and uncompromising.
Khatha breathes life into previously unrecorded compositions, each track a brutal confrontation with human cruelty, societal injustice, and the darker corners of myth and the mind. With unrelenting intensity, YHWH deliver a statement that refuses to compromise, reinforcing their place as one of modern extreme metal's most intense and thought-provoking forces.
Khatha strips away all pretense, delivering five tracks of pure extreme metal that challenge listeners to confront uncomfortable truths. From the opening salvo to the final crushing note, YHWH demonstrate why they've become essential listening for fans of uncompromising heavy music.
The previously unrecorded material showcases the band's evolution while maintaining the ferocity that has defined their sound. Each composition serves as a mirror to humanity's darkest impulses, forcing listeners to gaze unflinchingly into the abyss.
Khatha represents YHWH's commitment to extreme metal at its most vital and unforgiving. In an era of overproduced mediocrity, the band delivers an honest statement that reminds us why extreme music matters. This is metal that doesn't just entertain, it challenges, provokes, and leaves permanent scars.
For fans of uncompromising extreme metal who demand substance with their savagery, Khatha is essential listening.
Formed in 2024, YHWH is a Belgian/Thai black metal band. All music is composed by Schem HaMephorash and her sister C. Bones, with S.M. Goat Ritual joining in June. Following their debut EP Tetragrammaton (April 2025, Wormholedeath), the band now unleashes the second chapter: Khatha. Prepare for the doom.
"Tetragrammaton": https://orcd.co/tetragrammaton
https://thetrueyhwh.bandcamp.com
Finnish melodic death/doom metal band THE HARBINGER released a new EP 'GATES OF HELL' via Inverse Records. Also a brand new music video 'BLEAK SALVATION' is unleashed today and it's available here: https://youtu.be/r7KIQF_zFGg
Listen to 'Gates of Hell' EP on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/the-harbinger-ep
Watch Hollow music video: https://youtu.be/1VvGF_7o7B0
Watch Sleepless music video: https://youtu.be/0ruWLSsza5I
Biography:
From the cracks of concrete hell, Kouvola, Finland, rises a new band with beautiful yearning doom metal melodies and crushing death metal riffs.
The band was formed in the cold winter of 2016. After some line up changes and finding their sound, the band released their first EP ”Shadows Dance” in three singles between 2020-2021. ”Dead Ends” EP was released in 2023 and it felt like the band had sharpened their sound and style.
A New EP "Gates of Hell" was released in December 2025 via Inverse Records.
Track
list:
01. Sleepless
02. Fading Lines
03. Bleak Salvation
04. Hollow
05. Glass Walls
EP cover by Aku Rundberg
Recorded and mixed by Arto Kujala
Mastered by Saku Moilanen, Deep Noise Studios
Line-up:
Aku Rundberg - Drums
Arto Kujala - Guitar & backing vocals
Lauri Korhonen - Bass & backing vocals
Pasi Kanerva - Vocals
Sami Karhu - Guitar
https://www.facebook.com/theharbingermetal
Romanian Atmospheric Black Metal entity ARGUS MEGERE return with their first new album in six years. Titled "CERBUREA APUSULUI", the band's fifth full-length record is out now through Loud Rage Music.
The album was recorded primarily at Consonance Studio by Andrei Jumuga and Sol Faur (Dordeduh), with guitar sessions completed at Ras Alhage Studio by Fulmineos. Mixing and mastering duties were handled at Consonance Studio by Andrei Jumuga. Artwork and design by Alexandru Daș.
A new single, "Soma", taken off "Cerburea apusului", is now streaming here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_ZGcMaoZxo
The band comments:
"Today is the big day: we release "Cerburea Apusului" into the unknown. Over the past years, this moment felt like a Fata Morgana, layered with growing uncertainty. Yet here we are, and "Soma" reflects this state of mind perfectly.
The song tells of ancient hunters depicted on cave walls in a remote area of the Apuseni Mountains, exploring the connection between the human condition and the deities of the wild, and ultimately the idea of achieving immortality through art. From its midpoint to the end, "Soma" becomes fully instrumental, shaped as a meditation on meaning, on the question of purpose, and on the long and unlikely journey of Argus Megere, nearly thirty years of existence and an improbable destiny. In a way, it feels like a farewell, a thought about stepping back into the shadows, at least regarding the release of any new album in the near future.
But not all is lost. We still have plans for a celebration next year; it all depends on our motivation and the means to make it happen. And then... perhaps we blow out the candles and eventually rise from the darkness again. Who knows?
Enjoy this offering. It was created with sincere dedication and blood."
Order "Cerburea apusului" here:
https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/argus-megere-cerburea-apusului
https://loudragemusic.limitedrun.com/products/870708-argus-megere-cerburea-apusului
ARGUS MEGERE is:
Ageru Pământului – Vocals
Fulmineos – Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards
Urmuz – Bass
Putrid – Drums
Guests:
Bogdan Luparu (Bucovina) – Vocals
Andrei Oltean (E-An-Na) – Vocals, Traditional Folk Instruments
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/argusmegere/
At the turn of the millennium, THALARION were one of the fundamental bands of the Slovak metal underground. Not only because of the contract abroad, but mainly because of the quality of their music. As a fan of THEATRE OF TRAGEDY, THE GATHERING, DREAMS OF SANITY or even the Slovak GALADRIEL, I couldn’t miss also THALARION. Their music enchanted me. “Tales Of The Woods... Thus Was Written” (1998) already sounded amazing, but the third album “FOUR ELEMENTS MYSTERIUM” is my favourite of all THALARION recordings. Plenty of catchy riffs blending doom metal with melodic death metal, charming vocals, and especially the “beauty and the beast” approach, popular at that time, offering atmospheric heaviness, gloom... this is just a part of what the original nine-track album has been offering for listening for a quarter of a century.
This anniversary prompted me to re-edition “Four Elements Mysterium” on my label Pařát Productions, while not killing two birds with one stone. That explains why the digipak edition was released in August, while the LP version didn’t come out until December.
Style: Death/doom metal
Type: Limited 250 copies black LP 12" (140g) with full-color labels, printed inner bag, original foil
Release date: 18.12. 2025
A gift for the album's 25th birthday!
- first time on LP
- restored frontcover
- new graphics
"Four Elements Mysterium" will be released FIRTST TIME ON VINYL 18.12. by Pařát Productions. You can order them at Pařátshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/thalarion-four-elements-mysterium/
You can listen to full recording on the Pařát Productions YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhkc7vE9hlc&t=16s
www.paratshop.cz
www.facebook.com/ParatMagazine
Melodic
Death Metal legion EVOCATUS has unleashed the official
music video for their monolithic title track, "DEVOTED TO
INEVITABLE DEATH." This aggressive, animated single arrives
as a new visual chapter from their uncompromising album, INEVITABLE
DEATH, out via WormHoleDeath.
"Devoted To Inevitable Death" is a thunderous ode to fate, warfare, and the inescapable end that comes for us all…
Vaughan explains: "I wrote the main riff for this song just after recording finished for our last album, Path to Tartarus, not quite making it in time for that release. I was listening to a lot of Beyond Creation at the time, and this main riff was inspired by the chunky intro on Omnipresent Perception. I aimed to combine this with the soaring highs and churning lows of the choruses to really give it a contrasting 'triumph through tribulation' feeling. This song also has my favourite solo on the album, very happy with how it turned out."
The new music video is illustrated, animated, and edited by @VKI-ILL, bringing the track’s intensity and emotion into a visual world of war-torn myth and looming finality.
Music by Douchkov, lyrics by Jones.
Produced, mixed, and mastered by Ryan Huthnance (Emissary Studios).
Logo by Carlo Santos.
Stream & buy INEVITABLE DEATH:
https://orcd.co/inevitabledeath
www.auralwebstore.com/inevitable-death
About:
Evocatus are a 5-piece Battle metal / Melodeath from NSW, Australia.
Hailing from the desolate craterfields of Australia’s Hunter Valley, Evocatus are a 5-piece melodic death metal band, crafting epic tales with crushing riffs, blistering solos, and haunting melodies. A potent blend of thrash, death, folk, and symphonic elements, Evocatus has been leaving a trail of sonic destruction across the Australian metalscape.
EVOCATUS are:
Nich Shields – Vocals
Vaughan Jones – Guitars
Callan Douchkov – Guitars
Brad Delforce – Bass
Adam Watts – Drums
https://www.youtube.com/@evocatusbandofficial
https://www.facebook.com/EvocatusBand
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: january 16th 2026
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse | Skinless | Devourment | Disentomb
Within the long, dark corridors of my mind there are numberless doors, all locked tight, concealing the prisoner’s of my heart’s creation. In these rooms I vent my passions, bathe in the screams, dissect and desecrate, peel and penetrate, lose myself in a fantasy of blood and power. And for as long as I can remember this has been enough for me; my internal dungeon paradise. But now I realise it has all just been a preparation, a gentle tuition, the beginning of my manifest destiny. The time has come to step outside and share my dreams with others…
It’s been more than five years since Houston’s Architectural Genocide released their cataclysmic debut album, the raging brutality of Cordyceptic Anthropomorph, but time has not mellowed them or soothed the temperament of their inner beast. If anything, their long awaited second album is an even more dangerous, vicious creation that adds an unnerving, skin crawling terror to their trademark elixir of darkness and depravity. Prepare yourself for the fearsome assault of Malignant Cognition!
Opening with ‘Precursor To Bloodshed’, a litany of horrors over a nerve-grinding riff, there is a sense of suppressed violence, silently screaming to be unleashed…and that unleashing comes with ‘Coercion Into Carnality’, an irresistible weight that drags you down into a mire of torture and sickness, shifting from the methodical to the frenzied with the unpredictability of a broken mind. And from here the remorseless attack continues unabated – from the slow motion compression of the internal organs blended with lacerating savagery of ‘Trophies For My Murders’, to the surging, stabbing ‘Zed Requiem’ – tormenting with a pitiless curiosity, devoid of empathy – on to the shocking climax of ‘Stuffed Under Floorboards’. This is perhaps the most potent combination of chilling atmosphere and punishing riffing that Architectural Genocide have yet invoked, a true monster of a song, meticulous in its dismembering delivery.
Encased in the superb artwork of Rudi Yanto (Devastrosity, E-Force, Perveration etc) and Den Yudi (Decrepitation, Realm Of Chaos, Rotting Demise etc), the perfect visual depiction of the soul-eating madness within, Malignant Cognition will be let loose by Comatose Music on January 16th. Mixed and mastered at Southwing Audio (Oceans Of Slumber, Stabbing etc) for maximum impact, Malignant Cognition serves up a banquet of Architectural Genocide’s inimitable brutality. The New Year will begin with a brutal death metal holocaust!
Line-up:
Daniel Brockway - Vocals
Matt Day - Bass
Tom Savage - Guitar
Nat Conner - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/architecturalgenocide/
Genre
: Epic
Symphonic Black Metal
Format : CD
Release date : 08/01/2026
For fans of: Summoning, Caladan Brood, Sojourner, Pure Wrath, Emyn Muil.
Sickle of Dust is the best Epic Symphonic Black Metal you probably haven't heard yet. Solemn, epic, astonishing: with "Across the Vultures Trail", the 5th album to date, the eastern european project finally reaches maturity.
Fully composed by Ash (also founder of the 90's neofolk cult project Neutral), "Across the Vultures Trail" displays a very harmonic and detailed symphonic tone, sweeping in scope and majestic in sound, constantly evolving in enchanting and epic ways throughout the whole record length. The pathos created by such multi-layered arrangements is the heart of Sickle Of Dust's music, wired by mid-tempo rhythms, emotional riffs, acoustic sections and almost narrative scream vocals.
Tracklist:
1. Brothers of the Storm (08:36)
2. On the Battlefield (07:54)
3. Across the Vultures Trail (07:36)
4. Wizards Don't Dance (08:04)
5. The Black Stones Inn (08:16)
Total length: 40:26 minutes
https://flowingdownward.com/
https://www.facebook.com/SickleofDust/
The
darkness of a new era has descended. Finnish melodic death metal band RE-ARMED returns
from the shadows with their new single “OMINOUS PENUMBRA”,
serving as a foreboding introduction to the band’s upcoming full-length album.
Listen to the song on music services: https://push.fm/fl/rearmed-ominouspenumbra
The song’s oppressive atmosphere and symbolism – “A dark mass with wispy tendrils, floats across the sky...” – intertwine with the concept of a shadow that is not born solely from individual darkness, but surrounds us all. “We ourselves are the greatest enemies of all living things,” the band reflects on the song’s message.
“Ominous Penumbra” continues Re-Armed’s journey toward the spring 2026 album, exploring the delicate balance between light and darkness in ever deeper ways. The album is loosely themed around opposing forces and the ongoing struggle between them – both in the world and within the human mind.
The single is now available on all streaming platforms – a reminder that shadows are never far, and each of us carries our own.
https://www.re-armed.net
Finnish
Kuopio-based death metal band LICUATION unveils an
exceptionally intense double single, with the tracks 213 and STIGMATIZED
showcasing the band’s most brutal and ambitious side to date. 213 is a
relentless and straightforward death metal strike, blending rapid-fire riffing,
pounding double-kick patterns, and sewer-rat-like guttural
vocals. Lyrically, the track plunges into the horrifying world of serial
killer Jeffrey Dahmer and his infamous “death room,” from which no
one ever returned. The song’s physical, aggressive energy mirrors the
human darkness at the core of Dahmer’s story.
Stigmatized, on the other hand, delivers a longer and more epic composition that fuses direct riffing with groove elements and layered rhythmic variations. The track features a bass solo, tight guitar tapping, and deliberate rhythmic intricacies that highlight the band’s technical skill and compositional ambition. Lyrically, Stigmatized explores dangerous cults and the twisted internal logic that pulls people into their orbit. The song constructs a closed, oppressive world where personal freedom is consumed by the deranged rules of the collective.
Together, the two tracks demonstrate Licuation’s ability to combine raw aggression, technical proficiency, and storytelling in a way that stands out within the Finnish metal landscape. 213 represents the band at its most explosive and direct, while Stigmatized expands their sound into longer and heavier territories. Through these two songs, Licuation proves capable of both crushing intensity and nuanced atmosphere-building.
The result is dark, menacing, and musically tight — exactly what modern death metal demands. This double single stands as a strong testament to Licuation’s readiness to ascend to the next level. Both 213 and Stigmatized reflect the band’s evolution toward an even bolder and heavier sonic identity.
Listen to Stigmatized on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/licuation-stigmatized
The band comments tracks:
"213" is a straightforward and merciless track that blends rapid-fire riffing, pounding double-kick patterns, and sewer-rat-like guttural vocals. Lyrically, it delves into the twisted world of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Plunging straight into his infamous “death room,” from which there is no return.
"Stigmatized" is a long, epic death metal track that blends straightforward riffing with heavy groove elements. The song features intricate rhythmic twists, a bass solo, and tight guitar tapping. Lyrically, it explores dangerous cults that pull people into their orbit — closed worlds ruled by their own disturbed internal logic."
Biography:
Licuation is a death metal band from Kuopio, Finland, known for playing fast, heavy and uncompromisingly hard. Their music fuses relentless blast beats, growling bass lines, ice-cold guitar tones and melodic solos. Tying it all together is a raw, ferocious vocal delivery that channels themes of pain and death. The group has released several acclaimed records and music videos. Their latest EP, Morbidly Curious, garnered wide attention and strong support from metal fans around the world. Now the band is hungrier than ever — ready to show what they’re truly capable of. Licuation has earned a reputation on major festivals and club stages across Finland: performing in front of a 5,000-strong crowd at Raahe Kölifest, five consecutive shows at Kuopiorock, and an intense set at Turku Metallivuori are just a few highlights. Licuation has shared the stage with acts such as Stam1na and Marco Hietala. This regiment won’t slow down until it rests in the grave.
Composed & lyrics by Esa Laukkanen, Veeti Heiskanen, Teemu Tick, Jani Nevasalmi ja Samu Reijonen
Single cover by Tata Kumislizer
Line-up:
Esa Laukkanen - Bass
Veeti Heiskanen - Vocals
Teemu Tick - Guitars
Jani Nevasalmi - Guitars
Samu Reijonen - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/Licuation
Welcome
to the alienating, passionate and mystic universe of Swiss duo NIGHTSHADE who
present the first track from their upcoming album "IN ESSENCE
DIVIDED" due out on February 20, 2026, via My Kingdom Music.
The doors open in front of the song "DISSONANT VOID" featuring Skevent, a Swiss electronic band exploring the border between joy and melancholy.
The official video realized by DHRood is available at https://youtu.be/PeSf96z9ZFA
Infusing moods ranging from dark and psychedelic, to heavy and galloping riffs, with Noemie Torche's emotional voice, "Dissonant Void" is an intense and captivating song inspired by the roots of Progressive Metal from the early 70's, by Avantgarde Black Metal of the last decade, by the melodic Metal of the 90's.
"In Essence Divided" was mixed and mastered by Raphaël Bovey from Switzerland, known for his work with Monkey3, Nostromo, Gojira, Samael among his extensive discography, and will delight fans of Progressive Metal à la OPETH, but also those enjoying an uncanny mix of styles and influences from PINK FLOYD to BLOOD INCANTATION, from SAMAEL to GOJIRA!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/NightshadeMetal
The footage was captured live at the London Metal Coalition event at The Signature Brew in London, UK, showcasing the band’s visceral, sharp-edged sound in its purest form. "Warm Up" is a concrete statement of the band’s uncompromising energy and technical prowess, serving as a powerful reminder of why Slave Steel is one of the most exciting forces in the UK metal underground.
New Album and London Show Announced
The quartet is not slowing down. Following the success of their critically acclaimed full-length album, In Fieri (out via Wormholedeath), Slave Steel confirms they are now deep in the production phase of their highly anticipated new album. More news coming soon!
Fans can catch the band live in London on December 12th. This pivotal show offers Slave Steel the opportunity to secure a prestigious slot at the Sun & Thunder Fest 2026. This is a must-see event for those looking to witness the band's raw power in person and support their ascent to the next stage.
"Warm Up" is a track taken from the band's album "In Fieri", available on all digital platforms and in CD format https://www.auralwebstore.com/shop/cd/1288-temtris-khaos-divine.html
Previous videos to explore:
https://youtu.be/C7khQyIEFQs
https://youtu.be/HE_5J_LSbKw
https://youtu.be/00m0l6iXmtU
https://youtu.be/NnBco89fqoQ
https://youtu.be/zL_5m27aDq4
About Slave Steel:
Founded in Rome and based in London since 2014, Slave Steel delivers an impetuous, dark, and sharp blend of Thrash and Death Metal. Their music relentlessly explores the contradictions of human nature—the capacity for both wonder and destruction—set against a reality defined by conflict. Their lyrics weave ongoing analogies between science and abstraction, creating a primordial chant of resilience and change.
Having released their Dream of Decadence EP in 2021, the band quickly garnered attention, earning an invitation to perform at Bloodstock Open Air. In 2023, they signed with Wormholedeath Records, announced the In Fieri album, and commanded the stage at the WTF Rock Festival, opening for legends Sepultura.
Slave Steel is:
Vocals: Pil Nazar
Guitars: Daniele Manganaro
Bass: Marco Agosta
Drums: Riccardo Prior
www.slavesteelmusic.com
www.facebook.com/slavesteelofficial
FOREVER AUTUMN – “THE LAMENTATIONS”
Label: Independent Release
Release date: january 3rd 2026
For fans of: Hagalaz’ Runedance | Myrkur | Wardruna | Stille Volk | Jo Quail
Beneath the fallen leaves and in the dance of the naked flame, in the shifting shapes of clouds and in the birdsong and the silence that surrounds it, there lies the pathway back to the essence of all we have been. On the edge of shadows and below the stars, in the stories that are spoken, now and forever, in the dreams that the devices and distractions of a sterile life blow away from our waking minds with nervous breath, there is truth that cannot be twisted and remade. There is substance and value; there is meaning and matter if we choose not to be led away - if we choose to see the passage of the sun, to hear the celebrations of the spring and the lamentations of the winter night.
From the mountains, lakes and forests of the Berkshires region in Massachusetts comes Forever Autumn, the unique musical entity created by Autumn Ni Dubhghaill. Autumn’s music has been called avant-garde, pagan folk, acoustic doom…and it is all of these things and more. The emotional weight of doom and the cold mystery of black metal certainly add their shadowed hues to the Forever Autumn palette of sound, but the essence of these songs is far older…it resounds in the heart of us all and its roots are those that bind us to the earth. For nearly quarter of a century Autumn has been spinning her tales, invoking magic with albums like Patience Of ðm Fire-Keeper and Howls In The Forest At Dusk, working with artists like cellist Jon McGrath and vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe of My Dying Bride; but for her latest creation Autumn walked a solitary path – writing, performing, recording and producing alone. The results are breathtaking in their stark power and overwhelming atmosphere. They are The Lamentations.
The Lamentations begins with ‘Beltaine’, hypnotising in the simplicity of its melody, deeply moving in its undercurrent of loss. Within moments it has transported us to a place of darkness and firelight with the beautiful immediacy of the sound. It’s as if Autumn Ni Dubhghaill sits on the other side of the flames, the quiet fervour of her voice painting pictures in the ever moving shadows. From here The Lamentations unfolds with a rare intimacy and sense of secrets shared. We stand in the quiet companionship of mutual sorrows and watch the seasons change through the smoke shrouded blues of ‘Self Portrait In Blue, Black And Grey’, we enter the unnerving presence of the withered, wise and powerful in the ancient reel of ‘Hexes And Wards’, lost in the dreams of witches, while ‘Fylgia And The Fetch’ is a revelation in its intensity. With an elemental and haunting vocal performance this acoustic rendering of black metal is stunning. The album continues through realms of lost thoughts and whispers, of openings and giving, warnings and warmth before ‘The Salt Of Mortality’ leads us on a walk through the dying of the year; chill reflections and future ponderings, the long shadows and short days of November. And then our time here is passed and we step once more from the deep truth of dreams into the harsh noise of a world that has moved on. But Autumn Ni Dubhghaill will always be waiting by the fire for our return.
Mixed by Robby Baier and mastered by Jack Control (Darkthrone, Inculter, Ice War etc) – the same team that added the final touches of sonic sorcery to Forever Autumn’s last release, the Crowned In Skulls EP – The Lamentations reverberates with life and possesses a sound rich in texture and deep, deep depths. Adorned in artwork painted by Autumn Ni Dubhghaill, from her Self-Portrait In Winter collection, The Lamentations will be released on January 3rd, the night of the January full moon, the Wolf Moon. Walk in its light to the sanctuary of Forever Autumn…
Line-up:
Autumn Ni Dubhghaill – All music and vocals
Genre: Acoustic Doom / Pagan Folk
https://www.facebook.com/HailWoodlandSorcery/
https://autumnnidubhghaill.com/
The band comments:
"My Kingdom Is Hell" is dedicated to rock legend and Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister. The song is a furiously fast-paced death 'n roll blast from start to finish...a tribute to the man who changed rock 'n' roll forever with his absoluteness and determination. "49% motherfucker 51% son of a bitch" "
Biography:
Founded in 2009, Funeral Home is a death metal band from Kuopio, Finland. Their musical influences range from death 'n' roll and old-school styles to with gloomy melodies of death metal . The band writes its songs with the music first, keeping the song structures simple and the arrangements flowing.
Listen to the first single 'You Failed My Trust': https://push.fm/fl/funeral-home-trust
Track
list:
1. You Failed My Trust
2. Wall
3. My Kingdom Is Hell
4. Rotten To The Core
5. Depths
6. Sacrificial Goat
7. Your Funeral
8. Graveyard Blues
9. Blood & Sacrifice
Album cover by Henna Pulkkinen
Line-up:
Ossi Maalampi - vocals
Henri Ojala - lead guitar
Henri Thitz - rhythm guitar
Juha Korhonen - bass
Jouko Poussu - drums
https://linktr.ee/Funeral.Home
MEZZROW were formed during the autumn of 1987. They released three demos and a full-length album before calling it quits in 1993, a dark era for thrash indeed.
During 2021 MEZZROW rose from the ashes, when bass player Conny Welén and singer Uffe Pettersson decided to make a new mark in the thrash metal world of today and have together with new guitarists Magnus Söderman (ex-Nightrage) and Ronnie Björnström (ex-Defiatory, ex-Aeon) written new killer songs, which have pure thrash metal top-class written all over them.
”Of course we have a bit of a new and updated sound, more mature and dark, but it’s still old school thrash metal in the famous Bay Area style that lays the foundation. We refuse to downtune the guitars and you can definitely hear what Uffe sings! Some of the songs are actually a bit melodic, but in a thrashy kind of way. So don’t worry, we don’t do any ballads”, comments Conny Welén.
The line-up was completed by excellent drummer Alvaro Svanerö
“Embrace The Awakening”, their second album since the return, was released on ROAR/Rock Of Angels Records on November 14, 2025.
http://www.mezzrow.black/
https://www.facebook.com/mezzrowsweden
"IN SORROW'S REQUIEM",
this is the title of the new album by Italian Gothic-Doomsters MOTUS
TENEBRAE, due out on May 8th 2026 on My Kingdom Music which renewed
them trust and loyalty.
It's been almost 10 years since their last album "Deathrising" and MOTUS TENEBRAE return to make their voice heard in the most powerful, dark and full of pathos way possible with a new album that treasures the legacy of that work, enriching it with new nuances and atmospheres, creating their most mature, most emotional and most decadent work in their 25 years of career.
Andrea, bassist and longtime founding member of the band, tells us: "It's been a really long time since our last release, and we're so happy that My Kingdom Music believed in us and gave us the chance to make a strong return to the world scene. "In Sorrow's Requiem" is for us a sad and melancholic chant woven from despair, longing, and the fading light of hope. It's a journey into pain, into a kind of twilight, the decline of the human essence. We really care about this work, and I can't wait for you to listen to it and tell us what you think!"
With "In Sorrow's Requiem", MOTUS TENEBRAE rise again, stronger, darker and deeper than ever!
Three visions... One sound. Embrace the unknown!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/MotusTenebraeOfficial
For fans of : Anatomia, Asphyx, Autopsy, Bolt Thrower, Cancer, Carcass, Coffins, Exhumed, Haemorrhage, Hooded Menace, Impetigo, Machetazo, Undergang and Unleashed.
Stranguliatorius return to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions to unleash their fourth album Flies Don't Lie! The Lithuanian savages Stranguliatorius are back with a vengeance, and deliver a brutal dose of raw Death Metal, infected by unhygienic guitars and a relentless grinding hangover. Flies Don't Lie delivers twelves tracks of sarcastic sadism, grotesque gory and relentless riffs that hit like a sledgehammer! Mastered by Jack Control (Aura Noir, Darkthrone, Cianide, Frozen Soul, etc.) at Enormous Door Mastering.
Listen to the single "Stinks" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwr7JffpMxQ
Tracklisting:
1. Funebraclav
2. Doctor Syringe
3. Acetone Dream
4. They Who Don't Sleep Will Not Wake Up
5. Cremator Operator
6. C9H13N
7. The Notes Of The Deceased
8. When I Lift The Coffin Lid
9. Flies Don't Lie
10. AC/Necro/DC
11. Stinks
12. Flashback
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
www.horrorpaingoredeath.com
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
HEXBANE, a new sinister force
born out of nostalgia and admiration for the primal days of black metal, has
announced its formation.
Fuelled by the spirit of the genre's pioneers, HEXBANE is a return to the foundational days of extreme music. The band’s ethos is simple: to create pure, unadulterated proto-black metal that honours the nostalgia and aggression of the era that started it all.
The band comprises a monumental lineup of extreme metal veterans:
The Magus on vocals (ex-Necromantia, ex-Rotting Christ, The Magus, Thou Art Lord)
George Emmanuel on guitars (Lucifer’s Child, ex-Rotting Christ)
Tas Danazoglou on bass (Friends of Hell, ex-Electric Wizard, Mirror, Satan’s Wrath)
Faust on drums (Djevel, ex-Emperor, Blood Fire Death)
The band said:
“HEXBANE is a band born out of nostalgia and admiration of the primal black metal days, where pioneer bands created and established the genre. So expect nothing more and nothing less than pure proto- black metal in music and spirit.”
HEXBANE is currently preparing to enter the studio early next year to record its debut release, which will be available via The Circle Music and Hell’s Fire Records.
https://www.hellsfire-records.com/
https://linktr.ee/thecirclemusic
EPISTULUM – “CANTIGA PSYCHOTICA”
Format: Digital CD / Physical CD
Label: Independent Release
For fans of : Amon Amarth, Hypocrisy, Children of Bodom, At The Gates and such…..
Founded in 2017 by keyboardist and vocalist Thijs Ronteltap as a solo project, Epistulum slowly grew to a full-fledged band featuring Jeroen Nels on lead-guitar, Ramón Roest on drums, Justus Ebel on bass and Billy ter Horst on rhythm guitar, later replaced by Jeremy De Boer.
The band went on to produce and release their first full-length album on August 26th, 2022. The album, FROM THE DEAD MASSES, is a collection of musical portraits on the primordial aggressions within the human grounds of being, through explosive, synth-driven death metal.
So far the band has been playing multiple shows in their native country, the Netherlands, but has also played its first show abroad in Ahrensburg, Germany in March in 2024.
The band finished a new album earlier this year, titled ‘CANTIGA PSYCHOTICA’, which was released in October 2025.This release paints different schizophrenic pictures of various human practices, be it religion or the psychology of the inner world, to establish a sense of paranoid dread throughout its runtime.
From darkened archetypes guiding the listener to abolish all hopes of clinging to any sense of personality to desolate pictures of a great she-demon who allows the souls of her followers on earth to feast upon her flesh in sexual ecstasy, CANTIGA PSYCHOTICA is a boundary-expanding experiment meant to inflict a fear-instilled but harmonic exercise of great aggression into the listener, mainly to liberate oneself from destructive convention, be it social, political or religious conditioning of any kind.
Tracklist:
01. Prologue (Hel)
02. Behold The Carcass Messiah
03. Black Lotus Cannibal
04. Unearth The Dark Mother
05. Omen
06. Voidwalker
07. Vedic Detrimentum
08. Eye Of Dukkha
09. Invocation Of Insanity
10. Jungian Armageddon
11. The Pathless Wrath
12. Initiation Complete
Line-Up:
Thijs Ronteltap: keyboards/vocals
Jeroen Nels: lead guitar
Ramón Roest: drums
Justus Ebel: bassguitar
Jeremy de Boer: rhythm guitar
https://www.facebook.com/Epistulumband/
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Die italienisch-schweizerischen Heavy Rocker TARCHON FIST haben zu ihrem Song "3 DAYS IN HELL" von ihrem Jubiläums-Album "XX YEARS OF ROCK AND HEAVY METAL" - Release: 28.11.2025 über das Label Underground Symphony - ein Musikvideo veröffentlicht.
Den Song und das zugehörige Video kann man über folgenden Link auf dem Youtube-Channel der 2005 gegründeten Band genießen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aA2OIumsRY
In dem professionell und mit großer Detailvielfalt gefertigten Animations-Video wirken die aktuellen TARCHON FIST-Bandmitglieder, die in der neuen Aufnahme von "3 Days in Hell" zu hören sind - Gitarrist LVCIO (Luciano Tattini), Sänger RAMON (Mirco Ramondo), Bassist WALLACE (Marco Pazzini), Gitarrist RIX (Sergio Rizzo) und Drummer MATT (Mattia Vescovi) - als Animations-Charaktere mit.
Zu dem Youtube-Link erklären TARCHON FIST, dass die Originalfassung des Songs "3 Days in Hell" - somit auch die Lyrics - im Jahr 2008 geschrieben wurden.
Das Thema greift die damalige Auslegung einer Maya-Prophezeiung auf, die das Ende der Welt für den 21. Dezember 2012 voraussagte. Wie es danach weitergeht, erfahrt Ihr in dem Video.
Insgesamt beinhaltet die CD "XX YEARS OF ROCK AND HEAVY METAL" 11 Tracks, darunter neu aufgenommene Stücke aus den ersten beiden Alben und bisher unveröffentlichte Werke.
Die Tracklist lautet wie folgt:
01. Bad Situation
02. 3 Days in Hell
03. Carved with Fire
04. Hammersquad
05. It doesn't Matter
06. Flower in the Sand
07. Football Aces
08. Earth Song
09. Bad Man Mania
10. Falling Down
11. Crazy Times (XX Years Of Rock And Heavy Metal)
Die Gestaltung des epischen Cover-Artworks zu "XX YEARS OF ROCK AND HEAVY METAL" erfolgte durch den Künstler Stan W. Decker.
Gemäß der Ankündigung durch das Label Underground Symphony ( https://usstore.it ) soll das Album als elegantes CD Digipack und auf allen größeren digitalen Plattformen verfügbar sein.
Diskografie:
"Tarchon Fist" (2008, Label My Graveyard Productions)
"Fighters" (2009, Label My Graveyard Productions)
"Heavy Metal Black Force" (2013, Label My Graveyard Productions)
"Celebration" (2015, Label Il Male Production / Pure Steel Promotion (Jubiläums-Compilation)
"Apocalypse" (2019, Label Pride & Joy Music / Soulfood)
"The Flame Still Burns" ( 2023, Label Underground Symphony)
"XX Years Of Rock And Heavy Metal" (28.11.2025, Label Underground Symphony (Jubiläums-Compilation)
https://usstore.it
https://www.youtube.com/@tarchonfistofficial
http://www.tarchonfist.com/
https://www.facebook.com/tarchon.fist0
ASARU - "V.O.I.D."
Bereits 1995 gründete Frank Nordmann ASARU – eine der
ersten Black-Metal-Bands Südhessens und damit eine der langlebigsten
Formationen des Genres in Deutschland. Seit jeher steht der Name ASARU für
kompromisslosen Black Metal, der tief in den norwegischen Wurzeln verwurzelt
ist, dabei jedoch stets eine eigene, charakterstarke Handschrift bewahrt hat.
Von Anfang an verfolgten ASARU das Ziel, ihre ganz persönliche Vision des Black Metal zu verwirklichen – fernab von gängigen Szenekonventionen und ohne den Drang, Erwartungen zu erfüllen, außer den eigenen. Das Ergebnis ist ein vielschichtiges, durchweg eigenständiges Werk, das seit Jahrzehnten den deutschen Black Metal mitprägt: mal episch, mal thrashig, immer ideenreich, aber nie verspielt – und vor allem eines: absolut authentisch.
In ihrer fast 30-jährigen Geschichte erlebte die Band zahlreiche Besetzungswechsel. Die konstante treibende Kraft blieb jedoch Frank Nordmann, der ASARU mit unerschütterlicher Leidenschaft durch die Jahre führte und dem eisigen Geist des Black Metal stets treu blieb.
Nach zwei Demos, einer Mini-CD und dem gefeierten zweiten Longplayer From the Chasm of Oblivion (2012) meldet sich ASARU nun nach über einem Jahrzehnt eindrucksvoll zurück – mit neuem Songmaterial und einem klaren künstlerischen Konzept.
Der erste Vorbote des kommenden Albums V.O.I.D. war die Single „Raise the Flame“ – ein wuchtiger Track über das Element Feuer, das sowohl Leben spendet als auch zerstört. Im dazugehörigen Videoclip entfaltet sich bereits die thematische Tiefe des Albums, das sich mit den vier Elementen ebenso auseinandersetzt wie mit den ewigen Gegenspielern: Menschlichkeit, Religion, Krieg und Untergang.
Das neue Album V.O.I.D. erscheint am 23.01.2026 über Schwarzdorn Production – digital, als edle Digi-CD sowie in einer streng limitierten Vinyl-Auflage.
ASARU sind zurück – stärker, düsterer und intensiver denn je.
Line-Up:
Frank Nordmann: Vocals/Guitars
Petter Myrvold: Bass/Vocals
Seb Wilkins: Drums/Vocals
https://youtu.be/6XLF_aLv0g8?si=Sw1ZvApq4XvP_zee
http://www.schwarzdorn.de
https://www.facebook.com/schwarzdornproduction/
OPPRESSION – “NO SAFE PLACE”
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 12.12.2025
»Hope… Believe… There is no safe place for you!«
Große Dinge kündigen sich an mit dem Debüt der Franzosen OPPRESSION und so vehementem, wie facettenreichen und in der Tiefe wirkenden Black Metal der Sonderklasse!
Als alte Freunde, die Konzerthallen und Bars durchstreiften, beschlossen G.S.V (Gesang) und Tom L (Gitarre), gemeinsam eine Band zu gründen, um die Komposition und Ausrichtung von Anfang bis Ende selbst bestimmen zu können. Gegenüber einer wachsenden Anzahl von Veröffentlichungen mit Ambient-Ausrichtung, wollten sie mit einem sehr geradlinigen Projekt den Ton angeben.
Geschwindigkeit, Kraft und ein Hauch von Melodie (addiert mit etwas gesundem Hass) – so legten sie den Grundstein für OPPRESSION, zu denen sich schnell Predark (Gitarre) gesellte.
Als die Komposition des ersten Albums bereits weit fortgeschritten war, holten sie sich für die Positionen am Schlagzeug und am Bass zwei bekannte Musiker aus der Bordeaux-Szene dazu, die Brüder John (Otargos, Lifestream) und Désert (Lifestream). Gemeinsam stellten sie ihr Debüt »No Safe Place« fertig – bereit, euch ohne Zurückhaltung zu treffen!
Die Texte handeln hauptsächlich von Religion und ein wenig von Feststellungen zur gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung, nur im letzten Song geht es um Sex, Drogen und Rock’n’Roll (um nicht die wirklich wichtigen Dinge aus den Augen zu verlieren). Sowohl bei der Musik als auch bei den Texten ist es nicht OPPRESSIONs Intention, etwas Pompöses oder Bombastisches zu schaffen, sondern etwas Ehrliches, Direktes und Wirkungsvolles. – Hail the Oppression!
Tracklist:
01 - No Safe Place (1:51)
02 - Attrition (4:25)
03 - Homeland's Fury (5:32)
04 - Psalm for the Fallen (4:38)
05 - Maria Rosenthal (6:42)
06 - Journey Beyond Consciousness (2:49)
07 - End Humanism (5:31)
08 - The Call of the Night (6:05)
09 - Nice Death Matters (3:44)
Total: 41:21
Line-up
G.S.V – vocals and lyrics
Tom L – guitar and composition
Predark – guitar
Desert – bass
John A – drums
Gesang aufgenommen von G.S.V im Mistic Studio, Warschau, Polen. Gitarren und Bass aufgenommen im Vangul Heim Studio, Angoulême, Frankreich. Schlagzeug aufgenommen im Bud Studio, Bordeaux, Frankreich. Gemixt im Vangul Heim Studio, gemastert im Bud Studio.
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Die deutschen Death-Metal-Veteranen CASKET, gegründet 1990, kündigen ihr neues, insgesamt fünftes Studioalbum „IN THE LONG RUN WE ARE ALL DEAD“ an, das am 23. Januar 2026 erscheint.
Ein erster Track mit dem Titel „Hammer, Knife, Spade“ ist hier zu hören: https://casketdeath.bandcamp.com/track/hammer-knife-spade
„In The Long Run We Are All Dead“ umfasst elf brutale, kompromisslose Songs. Wer CASKET hört, hört keine Trends, keinen Hype, sondern ehrlichen Death Metal, wie er sein soll!
Neckbreaker Records veröffentlicht die CD- und Vinyl-Versionen sowie das dazugehörige Merchandise. Eine Kassettenversion ist bei Slime Inhaler Records erhältlich, und das Album wird auf allen gängigen digitalen Plattformen verfügbar sein.
Cover artwork by Roberto Toderico.
Tracklist:
01. The Will To Comply
02. Highest Thrones
03. Mirrors
04. Seeds Of Desolation
05. Hammer, Knife, Spade
06. Skull Bunker
07. Necrowaves
08. Mainstream Mutilation
09. Fundamental Rot
10. Strangulation Culture
11. Graveyard Stomper
https://neckbreakerrecords.bigcartel.com/
https://www.facebook.com/slimeinhaler/
https://www.facebook.com/casketdeath
One of the most sought-after underground pearls from Sweden! Now finally officially re-issued. Recorded at Sunlight Studios, Stockholm, Sweden in January 1993 with Thomas Skogsberg and Lars Linden. Brilliant Swedish death metal with a melodic touch like early Amorphis. Remastered by Achilleas Kalantzis at Suncord Audiolab (Possessed, Vio Lence, Varathron). Booklet and artwork carefully restored like the original release by Ra Design (Sodom, Asphyx, Destruction).
https://www.vicrecords.com/
BÖDEL – “DÖDSBRINGAREN”
Genre: Punk
For fans of: Wolfbrigade, Disfear, Doom, Anti Cimex, Napalm Death, Nausea
Label: DiSTAT Records
Veröffentlichungs-Datum: 30 Januar 2026
Format: CD, LP & Digital
Born in the legendary punk lands of Skaraborg - home to icons like Wolfbrigade, Asta Kask, and Anti Cimex - Bödel brings raw, female-fronted crust punk straight from the heart of Sweden's underground.
Fronted by 19-year-old powerhouse Leya, alongside her father Arvid (The Crown, Deny), Henke (Pastoratet, The Liptones, Vänsternäven), and new drummer Micke (The Crown, Adept, Impious), Bödel deliver a sound that's both furious and fresh.
They channel old-school crust and hardcore energy, but with a dark, apocalyptic twist - driven by Leya's scorching, judgment-day screams.
The album packs 12 explosive new tracks, and the CD edition includes all of Bödel's previous releases -- 23 songs in total.
Get ready. These punks aren't here to play nice -- they're here to blow you away.
Line-Up:
Leya - Lead Vocals
Arvid - Guitars And Vocals
Henke - Bass And Vocals
Micke - Drums
Selling points:
Debut album "Dödsbringaren" by Bödel
12 songs, 25 minutes of furious judgment day crust-punk.
First single "Domare och bödel" release January 9th 2026
Female-fronted crust punk from Sweden
Includes Bödel's former releases (singles and eps) as bonus exclusively on the Dödsbringaren Cd version, total of 23 songs
Including members from The Crown, Adept, Pastoratet, Deny, Vänsternäven, The Liptones, Impious
Produced & mixed by Jocke Rydbjer from Wolfbrigade (Wolfden Studios)
Sweden's biggest newspaper Aftonbladet, called Bödel "the most interesting & future of punk in Sweden."
"Bilan Faller" from debut EP "Välkommen till verkligheten" got worldwide radio rotation
Heavy radio promotion is being made
Discography:
2024 - Välkommen till avrättningen, EP
2024 - Guidance Patrol, single
2025 - Snabbasth, EP
2026 - Dödsbringaren, Album
https://linktr.ee/bodelpunk
SUPERIOR RAGE, the long-running symphonic black metal
project known for its dark, epic, and atmospheric sound, announces the
release of its new EP, IN MEMORIAM. The record
highlights the project’s evolution, blending its “raw” black metal roots with
contemporary production and the work of skilled session musicians.
In Memoriam is not just a look back but a clear statement of renewal. It includes re-recorded classics and two new, previously unreleased tracks — “The Death of the Red Dragon” and “Soleright” — offering a focused and definitive experience for both long-time listeners and new fans of atmospheric black metal.
"Thanks to the contribution of session musicians, SUPERIOR RAGE's music has become more vibrant and pulsatile compared to their previous, colder and more minimal productions," says the project’s founder, Superior Rage (vocals and synths).
Theatrical Darkness: Spotlight on "Asmodeus Bacchic"
The centerpiece of the EP is a revitalized version of "Asmodeus Bacchic," a signature track dating back to Superior Rage's first demo in 2008.
Embodying a theatrical "bacchanal among demons," the track captures the mysterious essence of the Superior Rage character—invulnerable, clad in a black mantle and golden mask. "Asmodeus Bacchic" masterfully merges fury, destructive force, and a sense of dark, theatrical flair, complete with a synth interlude representing a moment of "dark light."
About SUPERIOR RAGE
SUPERIOR RAGE began in 2006, delivering raw black metal with atmospheric, dark, and symphonic tones. The core lineup features Superior Rage (vocals, synths), Pagan Fury (guitars, synths), and Hyemens Kaiser Tszar (bass).
The first demo (2008) earned strong national reviews, followed by Through Infinity (2010), a mix of unreleased tracks and new material. Between 2010 and 2011, the project released several live recordings with temporary session musicians.
In 2011, SUPERIOR RAGE shifted toward symphonic black metal with III. Two Fire Eternal EPs followed, covering classic black metal songs—first in their original style, then in an ambient approach.
In 2012 the lineup expanded, producing new online recordings, additional covers, and a remake of “The Night of Rains.” The project paused in 2014, briefly resurfacing in 2017 with a new version of “Indecent Condition.”
SUPERIOR RAGE returned in 2022 with the single Boobs Explosions. This led to Anthology, a 2024 collection of re-recorded key tracks, including a new prog-influenced take on “Cuore Sincero.”
In 2025, the promo Back to the Crypt introduced two re-recorded tracks and a new song, “Soleright,” with four session members. The EP In Memoriam followed, adding a new version of “Asmodeus Bacchic” and the unreleased “Death of the Red Dragon.”
The current line-up features the core vision of Superior Rage (music, lyrics, synth & bass) alongside a powerful contingent of session musicians:
Baelithiel (vocals & lyrics)
Maikon (drums)
Nemorion (guitars on “Indecent Condition” and “Soleright”)
Hrafnagud (guitars on “The Night of Rains”, “Asmodeus Bacchic”, “The Death of the Red Dragon”)
In Memoriam is a must-listen for anyone seeking symphonic black metal that is both rich in atmosphere and aggressive in execution.
Digital release TBA
Tracklist:
01. Indecent Condition
02. Asmodeus Bacchic
03. The Night of Rains
04. Soleright
05. The Death of the Red Dragon
www.youtube.com/@SuperiorRageRawchannel
www.facebook.com/rawsuperiorrage
We're excited to work with the new Mors Verum album which has been a long time coming. While we enjoyed their "The Living" release, their new one is an evolved beast in comparison. The album breaks the confines of dissonant death metal to create something expansive and immersive. The songs traverse freely without losing connection and it's a beautiful experience.
MORS VERUM – “CANVAS”
For
fans of - Gorguts, Morbid
Angel, Norse, Ulcerate, Saevus Finis
Forward-thinking Canadian band Mors Verum are giving their own interpretation to the death metal style, creating music that is simultaneously dissonant, progressive, and atmospheric. They've removed the shackles of the otherwise linear and niche style and have allowed their music to explore different realms whilst retaining the death metal sound along with its sharp dissonant edge. The result is absolutely riveting, with the music constantly alternating between throbbing discordant blasts and soothing passages, traversing worlds hitherto unexplored. The experience feels at once liberating and cathartic, as though having achieved epiphany after constant, dogged exploration. The lengthier song lengths never feel tedious either as the band embarks on their newfound path with relative ease and confidence. On "Canvas", they have adopted a fascinating approach to the style, one that is beautifully tempered yet adventurous enough to excite.
Tracklisting
1. Bloodied Teeth 04:19
2. Your Apocalypse 07:10
3. Serenade 05:30
4. Canvas 07:00
5. Mortal 06:37
Official release date - February 6th, 2026
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https://www.facebook.com/morsverumband
Cheers! Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity
Listen to Antihuman Artist EP: https://push.fm/fl/wounded-in-forest-antihuman
Antihuman Artist, a concept EP rooted in the blood-soaked soil of early 1700s Finland. Set during the horrors of the Great Wrath, the story follows a man born into violence and shaped by war, who descends into madness and murder — expressing himself by creating grotesque art from the suffering and remains of his victims. Musically, the EP delivers raw, old school flavored death metal with relentless blast beats, shifting rhythms, and riffs carved from chugs, tremolos, and open-picked decay. Dual vocalists tear through the narrative with high blackened shrieks and deep death growls, painting a portrait of moral collapse in sound. Antihuman Artist is not just a record — it’s a descent. One swing of the axe at a time.
Biography:
Wounded In Forest is a death metal band from Oulu, Finland, born from tragedy and reborn with a sharpened edge. Formed in 2023 following the death of the drummer from a previous project that had lasted over 15 years, the surviving members regrouped with a stripped-down, more direct musical vision. Every member took on a new role or instrument to forge something raw and uncompromising — an outlet for grief, rage, and reflection.
Musically rooted in old school death metal, Wounded in Forest blends the primal ferocity of early ’90s death metal with a conceptual storytelling approach. Their lyrics, written in English, revolve around one fictional narrative per release, each grounded in a real event or period from Finnish history. Themes of violence, war, trauma, and moral decay are explored with unflinching intensity.
The band’s debut EP, Antihuman Artist, is set during the Great Wrath in the early 1700s — a time of Russian occupation and widespread atrocities in Finland. The EP tells the disturbing story of an individual shaped by violence — born into abuse, sent to war, and ultimately transformed into a serial killer who expresses himself by creating grotesque art from the remains of his victims.
Wounded in Forest’s dual-vocalist setup deepens their storytelling Joni Moisanen delivers classic low-end death metal growls, while Miikka Pyykkönen unleashes high-pitched shrieks more akin to black metal. This contrast creates a dynamic narrative texture, with each voice representing different facets of the characters and their descent into darkness.
Musically, the band combines relentless blast beats, simple but sinister riffing, and shifting rhythmic patterns that keep listeners on edge. Guitarists Joni Moisanen and Joonas Kokkoniemi mix chugging riffs, open-picked chords, and black metal-style tremolo passages with the occasional technical flourish. Drummer Jussi Tuomisto drives the chaos with aggressive blasts and constantly evolving grooves that mirror the tension in each story.
For fans of old school Death Metal with a conceptual twist, Wounded In Forest offers stories carved from something raw and real. These are stories steeped in blood, rooted in Finnish soil, and delivered straight from the heart of the forest.
Track list:
1. The Growth
2. Take the Son of a Bitch
3. Virent Carnes
4. Godspeed Filthy Warrior
5. Altar of Needles
6. The Last Leg
Music, lyrics & arrangements by Jussi Tuomisto
Artwork by Jussi Tuomisto
Line-up:
Joni Moisanen (guitar, vox)
Miikka Pyykkönen (bass, vox)
Joonas Kokkoniemi (guitar)
Jussi Tuomisto (drums)
https://www.facebook.com/woundedinforest
DEVILZ
BY DEFINITION - "ANGEL WARFARE “
FFO: Pantera, Lamb Of God, Machine Head
Devilz By Definition Release Video Too Brutal for Google. You are being warned precisely because you need to witness the unrestrained chaos of "Angel Warfare," the single visual anthem that regulatory systems are actively trying to bury. Google has flagged this video for negative imagery and religious connotations, refusing to run ads and even attempting to have the brutally intense footage purged from YouTube entirely; this is the video the establishment does not want you to access.
If your musical preferences lean heavy, and you appreciate the shock-value, action, and unflinching gore of masters like Quentin Tarantino or Rob Zombie, this apocalyptic battle cry is mandatory viewing. The track delivers unrelenting carnage, painting a vision where bolts of lightning crash down, titans roam the scorched earth, and chariots race across a sky-stained red with the blood of angels and gods alike, described lyrically as a symphony of swords clashing and bodies dying in the final, unstoppable storm of devastation. Check out "Angel Warfare" now, defy the system, and understand exactly why this soundtrack to the end of days has caused such a monumental fuss.
Track description: Angel Warfare is an apocalyptic battle cry, painting a brutal vision of divine war and total annihilation. With thunderous riffs and relentless energy, the song describes angels and titans clashing in a celestial battlefield, raining destruction upon the earth as the skies burn red.
Lightning strikes, chariots race, and the dead rise as heaven and hell wage their final war. The breakdown and bridge drive home the chaos, with swords clashing and bodies falling in an unstoppable storm of devastation. “Angel Warfare “is pure, unrelenting carnage—the soundtrack to the end of days.
https://www.youtube.com/@DEVILZBYDEFINITIONOFFICIAL
https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/329933/
https://www.instagram.com/devilzbydefinitionofficial/
Helsinki-based
progressive melodic death metal band NUMENTO unleashes
their new single “WRATH” from the upcoming EP — a
relentless, hard-hitting track exploring the dark side of human nature.
Inspired by people forming abusive “relationships” with AI chatbots, the lyrics
take the abuser’s perspective to question empathy, control, and violence in the
digital age.
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/0_6K73Iqj8Q
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, Amazon Music etc.): https://push.fm/fl/numento-wrath
The band's guitarists, Atte Asikainen and Aleksi Vehmassalo, tell a bit more about the new single. Aleksi states the following about composing and producing the song:
"We started writing the song with the idea of making Numento's heaviest song to date, one that would showcase our death metal influences. That’s what the song turned out to be, but we also added a few clean vocal phrases, albeit doubled with growls. Still, the song is our most aggressive song to date." Atte Asikainen continues about the production: "We continued the production together with German producer Chris Herrle to ensure that the world-class quality and impact familiar from our third album would also be present in the new music. However, this time we used less synths and focused more on the core sound of the band."
Numento:
Atte Asikainen - guitar & backing vocals
Katri Hiovain-Asikainen - vocals & kantele
Simo Mattila - bass
Aleksi Vehmassalo - guitar
Mikko Virtanen - drums
https://linktr.ee/Numento
Guten
Tag, busy times in the LYCANTHROPIC CHANTS dungeon:
have just been on the road with CRYPTIC BROOD for the "Creeping
Cryptic Contagion" tour through Western Europe, releasing three new
records today (!!!), leaving with REPULSIVE FEAST to tour with ROTTEN
SOUND in January 2026.
Cheers, Steffen
Last three releases of 2025 out now
EXHUMATION / MASAKRE – “MORBID DEATH CULT” SPLIT-7″
A pact of sonic devastation! From the wrath of the Indonesian underground, a live record steeped in chaos. The essence of their noise assault in Jakarta pressed on 7″ wax. A multi national release of Grieve Records (Indonesia), Lycanthropic Chants (Germany) and Tanaka Shoten (Japan).
Limited to 200 copies. Both vinyl variants are housed in black poly-lined inner sleeves and a 300gsm fold out cover, incl. download:
100 copies on transparent orange vinyl
100 copies on white vinyl
Release date: 05.12.2025
DISMORFIA – “SLOW DISEMBOWELMENT TO BE DEFECATED ALIVE” 7″
Peru’s Chris Traumatic and Joel Noise return with their most revolting creation yet: Slow Disembowelment to be Defecated Alive, out now on Lycanthropic Chants (7” vinyl) and Gurgling Gore (cassette). Four tracks of gut-churning death/grind filth loaded with punishing blasts, frantic gutturals, deranged samples, and ripping leads, all buried beneath a primitively fetid, beyond-raw production. Their most disgusting and unhinged release yet…
Limited to 300 copies in total. Both vinyl variants are housed in black poly-lined inner sleeves and a fold out cover in light blue or mint green, incl. download:
150 copies on light blue vinyl
150 copies on mint green vinyl
Release date: 05.12.2025
HORRIFIER / IMPUGNER SPLIT-7″
HORRIFIER drags you into the crypt with their signature brand of filth-encrusted death metal, a sound forged in the depths of “Horrid Resurrection” (Duplicate Records) – where riffs fester and vocals gurgle with the stench of decay. They joined forces with IMPUGNER, also from Norway, the architects of “Advent Of The Wretched” (Caligari Records), whose weird death metal is an unspeakable hymn of echoing malevolence.
Limited to 300 copies on grey vinyl housed in black poly-lined inner sleeves and a 300gsm fold out cover, incl. download.
Release date: 05.12.2025
Upcoming local shows in Wolfsburg (Germany)
19. Dezember 2025
SUN WORSHIP (Black Metal / GER, Berlin)
DECIPHER (Black/Death Metal / GRC, Athens)
UNSTRUT (Black Metal / GER, Berlin)
7. Januar 2026
HEXENBRETT (Black/Heavy Metal, AUT/Linz)
KARLOFF (Black Metal/Punk, GER/Oldenburg)
ROTTEN SOUND + REPULSIVE FEAST "Grind Your Head Off" tour 2026
2026.01.09, GER/Hamburg @ Bambi Galore
2026.01.10, GER/Göttingen @ Freihafen
2026.01.11, NLD/Maastricht @ Muziekgieterij
2026.01.12, GER/Herford @ Kulturwerk
2026.01.13, GER/Essen @ Don’t Panic
2026.01.14, GER/tba
2026.01.15, GER/Leipzig @ Felsenkeller
2026.01.16, GER/Berlin @ Neue Zukunft
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Extreme
metal Collective YHWH have unleashed the lyric
video for "HELL ON EARTH (THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL)", a
harrowing glimpse into their upcoming EP, KHATHA, set for
release on December 12, 2025, through Wormholedeath.
YHWH’s new track “Hell on Earth (The Root of All Evil)” is a furious assault on speciesism, factory farming, and the greed that drives it. With unrelenting brutality, the band draws parallels between industrial slaughterhouses and humanity’s darkest chapters, forcing listeners to confront the suffering hidden behind walls of steel and concrete. This is not just extreme metal for shock value, it’s a manifesto against exploitation, a cry for justice, and a reminder that every choice carries weight. Raw, unsettling, and impossible to ignore, “Hell on Earth” pushes extreme music beyond sound into resistance.
About YHWH
YHWH stands at the forefront of the new wave of extreme metal, using unrelenting sound as a vehicle for profound social and ethical commentary. Formed in 2024 as a Belgian/Thai black metal collective, all music is initially composed by Schem HaMephorash and her sister C. Bones, with S.M. Goat Ritual joining the ranks in June.
Following their explosive debut EP, Tetragrammaton (released April 2025 via Wormholedeath), the band now unleashes their second, darker chapter: Khatha. Their forthcoming EP promises to be one of the most significant and uncompromising releases of the year, cementing their status as a force dedicated to resistance through sonic brutality. Prepare for the doom.
Stream "Tetragrammaton": https://orcd.co/tetragrammaton
Pre-save Khatha: https://orcd.co/khatha
www.youtube.com/@thetrueyhwh
https://thetrueyhwh.bandcamp.com
MORBID
DOOM RAW NIHILISTIC BLACK METAL!
BEGRAVET I SKOGEN - "DEMO II"
Release date : december 05th, 2025
CASSETTE Limited Edition of 50 copies, hand numbered
Murder Records is honored to announce the second artifact presented by Begravet I Skogen. A nihilistic project born amidst a necrophilic wilderness, where the ashes of the dead and fallen tree branches remain, in a remote, abysmal cave hidden in northern Norway.
The second demo was duly extracted from the misanthropic Nordic solitude, where cold winds blow and snow falls mercilessly during long winter nights, where necrophiliac crows await the merciless death that announces its arrival with the somber melodies of Begravet I Skogen, hidden in funereal nightmares.
"Demo II" is the title of the new, haunting blizzard that approaches ominously, described by somber poetry that transforms Begravet i Skogen into a morbid and obscure artistic expression, an unpredictable representation of archaic winter landscapes, burdened by the anguish of old age and the passage of time.
In 2024, the first demo was released, overwhelmed by horrendous nightmares of yesteryear, where pain, terror, and suffering were a constant funeral. Now is the time to release the next horrifying nightmare, recorded analog on a four-track recorder so that the cavernous essence of Begravet I Skogen's melodies remains raw, and its melodies remain true to their rotten origins.
begravetiskogen@gmail.com
https://begravetiskogen.bandcamp.com
Side A:
01 - Lengter Etter Lange Vinternetter - [13:11]
Side B:
02 - Våre Tapte Oppdagere Har Dødd - [16:05]
Recorded on an analog four-track cassette recorder between February and May 2025.
All music and lyrics by Sarkofag.
Layout made by Alemão & Danihell Slaughter.
Promotional videos made by Danihell Slaughter.
Line Up:
Sarkofag (Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano)
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https://gutsandblood.bandcamp.com/
"In times when despair overflows human hearts… when the chasm of strife between civilizations widens… when loyalty to ideologies tears blood ties apart… when the world stands still, poised for the final leap of prolonged self-destruction… We can draw strength solely from internal sources, which are filled only by the multifaceted power of Death Metal..."- Eximperitus
Eximperitus' forthcoming third album, Meritoriousness of Equanimity, contains nine independent compositions united by the idea of searching for inner support in an era of turbulence. Exposure and scourging of social dogmas and morbid tendencies on the ruins of the old world...
Pre-order:
https://eximperitus.bandcamp.com/album/meritoriousness-of-equanimity
https://www.willowtip.com/bands/details/eximperitus.aspx
Track
Listing:
I. One Step Long Infinity.
II. Contemplation of the Plastic Fibers of Perfection at the Second Level of Reality.
III. Twelve Centuries of Triumph of the Third Kingdom…
IV. Finding Consistency in the Fourth Quadrant of Eternity.
V. The Untimely Fruit of the Unsaid.
VI. Golden Chains for the Construction of Individual Greatness.
VII. Molecular Disintegration of an Unattainable Solitary Will in a Vessel of Wisdom...
VIII. Chalkionic Wandering Among the Wreckage of the Future.
IX. Standing at the Skirt of the Ruins of Human Nature (...on the Other Side of Man and Time).
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Release date : December 5 2025
Genre : Melancholic Metal
Origin: France
Duration: 56min12
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Credits
Florian Lecomte/Spellbound – Lyrics, compositions
Ben Lesous B-Blast records – Studio/mix/mastering
JOURS PÂLES, a project by Spellbound (singer – Aorlhac), rose from the ashes of Asphodèle’s first and only album, released in 2019 with Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions. Spellbound and Audrey Sylvain (Malenuit) were accompanied by Christian Larsson (Ex Apati, ex Shining, Gloson), Stefan Bayle and Sébastien Papot (guitar and drums, Au champ des morts).
After the band split up that same year, Spellbound continued the adventure, composing with a desire for both continuity and a break from the past, as the vocal duo was no longer together. This evolution responds to a desire to express themselves through the same moods and thick, dysthymic mists, while freeing themselves from the grip of the past, abandoning the rock spirit for a stylistic evolution leaning towards metal that remains melancholic, but with more galloping and aggressive overtones.
Éclosion, the first album from this new offshoot, is intended as a personal assessment of a world that is more than ever considered dislocated and torn apart, but above all as a perpetual search for hope and light, both in the lyrics and the visuals.
Far from flying solo, Spellbound has surrounded himself with musicians such as James Sloan on guitars (Uada, Gravelight) and Christian Larsson. The backbone was completed by several guests: Graf from Psychonaut 4 and Lilas Ondine Dupont (silhouette, backing vocals) as well as Sylvain Bégot (Monolithe) on lead guitar.
Sheltered from the world, awaiting its final blossoming, Jours Pâles was born…
JOURS PÂLES returns in 2022, still under the LADLO banner, with a second album entitled ‘Tensions’. Tensions is intended to be a personal representation of a dystopian modern world perceived as cold, mechanical and disillusioned, where social media and political scarecrows rule a Mephistophelean world that has completely lost its meaning and bearings. This general theme is visually represented on the artwork by Niklas Sundin (founding member of Dark Tranquillity, Laethora, etc.). Musically, the result is more aggressive, but the vision tends to distort clichés through egotistical composition, once again mixing genres. In addition to Spellbound, who is still at the helm (composition, vocals, lyrics), the line-up this time includes musicians such as Alex G. on bass (Aorlhac, Altaïr, Ritual Knives) Alexis S. on guitars, Ben L. on drums (B-Blast Records), and the traditional guest spot is this time entrusted to Natalie Koskinen (from the cult doom metal band Shape of Despair).
2023 marks very good feedback around ‘Tensions’ and also the beginning of the collaboration with the booking agency ‘Éclosion booking’ and therefore a busy year of concerts, including a 12-date tour across France and participation in several festivals throughout the country. Spellbound returned to composing and the band’s third album, ‘Dissolution’, was released on 10 May 2024, again via Les acteurs de l’ombre productions. The themes refer to disunity, break-ups, and the role and place of social media in human relationships.
In 2024/2025, Spellbound returned to composing and the band went back into the studio. ‘Résonances’ followed ‘Dissolution’ and the album was once again produced by Ben from B-blast records. The central theme of the album concerns the difficulties associated with the separation of a father from his child. Several tracks are testimonials or direct tributes to his daughter Aldérica, although the themes are broadened to other subjects such as the relationship with death, disgust for the modern world, the thrill of first encounters, the hell of paedophilia… The album also features some wonderful musical contributions, notably Kim Carlsson on vocals (Consider Suicide, Kall, ex-Lifeloer…) SD. Ramirez on lead guitar (Psychonaut 4) and Pereg Ar Bagol on diatonic accordion (Boisson Divine, Skiltron)..
Tracklist:
1. La frontière entre nous et le néant
2. Une splendeur devenue terne
3. L’essentialité du frisson
4. Cinéraire
5. Incommensurable (chanson pour Aldérica II)
6. Mouvement ostentatoire rémanent totalitaire
7. Viens avec moi
8. Savile
9. La plus belles des saisons
10. 10-11-2021
Preorders : https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/preorders
https://www.facebook.com/jourspales
FUCK
IT - "NO REST"
MCD Limited edition of 300 copies
FUCK IT is a Portuguese punk band from Porto, founded by Girø (Renegados do Boliqueime, Freedoom, Dokuga, Dimmer Future...) and Céd (Gorgámisco Pornoblastoma, Disfigured Human Mind, Insolência, Drenagem, Stercore, Hypomania...). These two creatures from the back alleys of the underworld decided to join forces like stray dogs to found FUCK IT, which presents a direct approach, expressed by a minimalist sound and an anti-conformist stance of protest against the oppression perpetrated by cultural elitism. To complete FUCK IT's lineup, young Spell (Estriknina, Dimmer Future) was adopted from the shelter to join the pack and came to help in the fight against banality and the obvious.
In this lost world where empty days are constant, we must remain vigilant to keep our filthy resistance active without getting tired of being eternally unwanted and where we are grateful that no one looks at us, so FUCK IT.
The time has come to unleash chaos and take to the streets with the rage that consumes us so cruelly and mercilessly. There's no time to rest here, and protests are imminent. Without grand musical flourishes, and where simplicity reigns unpleasantly, there's no need to complicate things, so FUCK IT!
FUCK IT:
Spell (Bass Vocals)
Céd (Guitar)
Girø (Drums Vocals)
Tracklist:
01 - No Rest [01:49]
02 - Vigilante [02:02]
03 - Cansado [02:12]
04 - Mundo Perdido [01:42]
05 - Indesejado [01:49]
06 - O Último Dos Moicanos [02:25]
07 - Dias Vazios [01:15]
08 - Fuck It [02:10]
09 - Não Olhes Para Mim [02:07]
Recorded at Studio Agradável, September 2025 by Óscar and Bruno.
Lyrics and music by FUCK IT, except Fuck It - lyrics by Jorginho.
Draw for layout made by Madalena Macedo.
Photo by Bruno Miguel.
Artwork and Layouts made by Cédric Rodrigues.
Promotional video made by Danihell Slaughter.
punkbotaebira@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/fuck_it_punk
https://fuckitpunk.bandcamp.com/album/demo-1
Murder Records and Enfermo Distro join forces to torment you again, this time with the debut EP of the Portuguese band FUCK IT, entitled "No Rest", which features five new tracks and will include the four tracks from the first demo.
info@murder-records.eu
www.murder-records.eu
Poland's SHINE will make its undeniable mark on the world next year with the release of WRATHCULT. The band's debut album will be out January 30 on Dark Descent Records.
Get an early taste of the fury to come with album track "Wrath of the Hammer." Listen now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MEeFC74xvo
Born from the grips of the pandemic, SHINE are the newest brainchild of Hazael’s Tomasz Dobrzeniecki, and their first album Wrathcult leaves no doubt that a new force in Polish extreme metal has awakened.
Inspired by the likes of Emperor, Bathory, Morbid Angel, Entombed and Dismember, Dobrzeniecki’s new outfit channels that lineage into something raw, relentless, and unmistakably its own.
‘SHINE’ for me is a sheen of a sword's blade, the last thing that your foes see in their lives. You can also relate it to the Promethean light given to people that enlightens or sometimes blinds us. It can also be a glare of rage stemming from the resistance towards the unnatural rules forced upon us,” explains Dobrzeniecki when asked about his new unit’s name. “Our music is full of references to ancient rules and rituals and times when people lived in accordance with nature and cosmos using the primeval knowledge.”
Dark Descent Records will handle the release, having previously collaborated with Dobrzeniecki on the reissue of Hazael’s classic opus. Wrathcult continues in similar thematic territory, invoking forgotten ancestral knowledge and tapping into primal forces, and mythic echoes of a pre-Christian world.
“Lyrics for the album are mainly inspired by the pre-Christian spirituality and mythology of our forefathers and based on such books as Bestiariusz Słowiański, Mitologia Słowiańska by J. Bobrowski and M. Wrona, and Słowiańska Czarownica (Slavic Bestiary, Slavic Mythology, Slavic Witch). The lyrics pay homage to nature and higher powers in order to upkeep the memories of the beliefs that once shaped our heritage. We live on the borderline of three cultures that blend together in some way – Germanic, Norse and Slavic mythology have quite a lot in common.”
The album was recorded at Heinrich House Studio in Legionowo, Poland - a small city on the outskirts of Warsaw that holds an important place in metal history, being the hometown of Daray (Dimmu Borgir, Vesania), Orion (Behemoth, Vesania) and Heinrich (Vesania, Decapitated). “Me and producer Heinrich (Filip Hałucha) have known each other for about 20 years. If you want to record a metal album that 100% meets your expectations, I think he's the only person that I trust.”
An uncompromising slab of ancient fury awaits! “See you in Valhalla! I’ve heard the parties there are worth dying for,” exclaims Dobrzeniecki.
Tracklist:
1. Ancient Chaos
2. The Lamb Against the Wolf
3. Kneel Before the Serpent
4. Oddajcie co moje
5. The Cult of Oak
6. The Horror of the Night
7. Witch's Prophecies
8. Wrath of the Hammer
9. The Necklace With Runes
10. Ancient Spirit
SHINE is:
Marek Krajcer-vocals
Tomasz Dobrzeniecki -guitars
Mateusz Waśkiewicz- guitars
Wojciech Gąsiorowski-bass
Paweł Duda- drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/shine.wrathcult/
The
latest cinematic showcase from NYC's Blackened Caribbean Doom trio, PRECIOUS
BLOOD is now streaming. "OLD MAN ABADDON" is
the third song from FALSE PROPHETS: Visual Album to receive
the official music video treatment.
Like the previous two, the video "Old Man Abaddon" was written, directed, and edited by drummer Grace Perez, and produced by Eye N Eye Productions.
Watch "Old Man Abaddon" at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4qAWCKFQH4
Fully formed in 2024, PRECIOUS BLOOD brings together three veterans of the NYC scene - AJ – guitar, vocals (Jesus Knevil, Snake Canyon), Dave Kramer – bass, back-up vocals (Blood Feast, Suaka, Stanley), and Grace Perez – drums, back-up vocals (The Wickedexorcist). The band’s shared love of doom and underground metal is expressed in an unholy concoction of rum-soaked riffs, brutal lyrics, and mystical tribal sounds.
With a signature sound best described as Blackened Caribbean Doom, PRECIOUS BLOOD delivers a unique blend of doom and thrash metal influenced tone, mixed with lyrical themes that draw profound inspiration from the enduring spirit of the Caribbean, shaped by brutal history of colonization, unwavering resilience of its people, and exploration of the darker aspects of human existence, including death, contemplation of mortality and the complexities of human suffering.
For fans of monstrous riffs, horror-inspired visuals, and genre-bending metal.
Tracklist:
1) False Prophets
2) Bludgeoned & Charred
3) Footsteps of Babylon
4) Shadow of the Cross
5) Cemetery Burn
6) Old Man Abaddon
7) El Muerte
8) Whore’s Grave
False Prophets was recorded and mixed by Joe Hogan at Captain’s Cove Catskills Studios with mastering and additional engineering by AJ Tissian (The Wave Lab). The album was produced by Joe Hogan and PRECIOUS BLOOD. Album cover photo by Mia. Cover layout by PRECIOUS BLOOD.
Line-Up:
AJ -Guitar, Vocals
Grace Perez - Drums, Back-up Vocals
Dave Kramer - Bass, Back-up Vocals
https://linktr.ee/preciousbloodband
Label: Xtreem Music
Release date: january 22nd 2026
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Sepultura | Kreator | Deathrow | Exodus
“I don’t want to live in this world…”- Corporation Parasite
Every morning when I awake a match is struck with the opening of my eyes…and my brain is consumed in flames of rage. With each passing hour I see the world slip further into a pit of mediocrity, selfishness, greed and stupidity. Values and meaning are consigned to the waste and it sets my soul on fire! All that mattered is buried beneath a mountain of vacuous idiocy and the masses kneel before deformed, plastic idols while their incompetent leaders choke on their own corruption. There is nothing to love, nothing to respect and my heart is burnt black. I am reborn each day, forged in hatred!
Brazilian thrashers Deathraiser have returned with their second collection of rampaging masterpieces, Forged In Hatred, nearly fifteen years after their debut album, Violent Aggression first stalked the earth! Incredibly, despite their lengthy time away from the spotlight, the band have never sounded harder, faster or more venomous! Opening with ‘Severe Atrocity’ Deathraiser set their stall out for everything that is to come, with top quality riffs delivered with pinpoint accuracy and a massive surge of adrenalin. Swathed in great atmosphere and infused with that authentic, essential thrash spirit, ‘Severe Atrocity’ is the beginning of something special. With teeth gritted Deathraiser fly on into the maelstrom with ‘Primitive Medicine’, combining great songcraft with explosive velocity. You can’t over intellectualize this music – this is thrash and if you understand what that means, tracks like ‘Corporation Parasite’ will speak to your heart, your gut and the very blood in your veins. If you need it explaining then this is not for you. Cascading solos, surging rhythms, the urge to headbang until your neck breaks…this is everything you could ask for in great thrash metal album. From the jagged, whiplash ferocity of ‘Toxic Legacy’ to the finger shredding riff work and blistering intensity of ‘One Step To The Grave’ this is an album of perfectly formed speedballs of violent vengeance. Don’t bother looking for a weak spot, a chink in the armour or a filler track – you won’t find one. When ‘Dead Generation’ brings you home on the crest of a blood wave, with fire in your wake, you’ll be left breathless and electrified by an exercise in thrash perfection!
With the partnership between Xtreem Music and Deathraiser renewed once more, the relentless, timeless thrash metal of Forged In Hatred will be unleashed on January 22nd – on CD, 12"LP, Cassette & Digital formats. This is music that makes you feel alive, that cuts through the torturous frustrations of modern life like a serrated blade. Be ready to taste the sweat and excitement of the pit, the chaotic abandon and metallic aggression…be ready to thrash!
Line-up:
Thiago Rocha - Vocals/Guitar
Ramon Bedim - Guitar
Junior Gaetho - Bass
William Fernandes - Drums
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DeathraiserOfficial
Old-school
thrash metal veterans BLOODRIDE return with their new
video for the song, “KILL WITHOUT HATE,” a relentless
attack on the cold, emotionless face of modern warfare. The track portrays the
grim reality of violence removed from human consequence, where killing becomes
as impersonal and routine as a video game.
Fast, brutal, and unflinching, “Kill Without Hate” is classic Bloodride: old-school thrash intensity fused with sharp, thought-provoking commentary.
"Kill without Hate" is a track taken from the band's album Deafening, out via Wormholedeath Worldwide. The album is a thrash metal assault that pushes boundaries and leaves no neck unthrashed.
Stream Deafening: https://orcd.co/deafening
Previous videos:
Come In Peace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTyMVdclhxY
Erase and Replace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6poreFkybRA
King Of Pain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSDmZ79LQo0
About Bloodride
Fierce Finnish thrash metal veterans Bloodride formed in 2000. They debuted with the EP Bloodridden Disease in 2004, followed by their first full-length album Crowned in Hell in 2011. Their fourth album, Idiocracy (2021), earned critical acclaim worldwide. Their sound blends old-school thrash with darker death metal tones and the raw edge of hardcore—pure neck-breaking intensity.
Over the years, Bloodride has torn through stages across Europe, sharing the stage with acts like Exhumed, Exodus, Nunslaughter, Toxic Holocaust, Whiplash, and Prestige. Live, they deliver nothing short of a perfect storm
www.facebook.com/bloodride
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the 1st ever LP pressing of the now classic NO/MÁS debut album on HPGD RAÍZ DEL MAL on December 19th.
For fans of : Assück, Bandit, Death Toll 80k, Disrupt, Full Of Hell, Insect Warfare, Internal Rot, Jarhead Fertilizer, Nails, Napalm Death, Sepultura and Trap Them
HPGD unleashes this 7th Anniversary Edition as a 45 RPM LP pressing for optimal audio quality, available on two limited variants of 100 copies each with double-sided insert featuring full lyrics/credits, packed in thick 3 mil polybags for extra protection.
Pressing info:
100 x Picture Disc
100 x White
Available for the first time ever on LP format!
Hailing from Washington D.C., NO/MÁS deliver a darker, more unique take on Grindcore. Raíz Del Mal blends elements of Black Metal, Crust Punk, Death Metal and Hardcore resulting in a blistering album of intense brutality. This album also features a guest appearance from Blake Harrison of Pig Destroyer (Rest In Power!).
Listen to the single "Victim Of Circumstance" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb98s4gQfKY
Tracklisting:
1. Case Study
2. Victim Of Circumstance
3. Vanity
4. Bloodwork
5. Fuck You
6. Raíz Del Mal
7. La Muerte No Tiene Edad
8. Vulnerable
9. Dwell
10. VI
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
THE MEDEA PROJECT – “LIVE AT DINGWALLS”
Label: Independent Release
Release date: january 9th 2026
Genre: Dark Primal Gothic Doom
For fans of: Celtic Frost | Tiamat | A Pale Horse Named Death | Darkthrone
As the ferry reaches the furthest shore, the stony bank emerging from the mist, Kharon points towards the land, silently urging you to disembark. The darkness within his cowl brooks no argument and invites no discussion or fond farewells. No sooner have you stepped ashore than he thrusts his pole against the riverbed and vanishes back into the fog that rides upon the silent current. Alone in the land of the dead you take your first faltering steps into the unknown and from the vast cavern ahead you hear a sound…music…music of other spheres and other spaces…music made of dreams and darkness…music of the night…
“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” Dracula – Bram Stoker
On June 20th 2025 The Medea Project took to the stage of Dingwalls 2 in London to celebrate the release of their new album – Kharon. They have always provided a powerful, engaging and entertaining live spectacle, but on that night they seemed to blossom into the dark flower they have always aspired to be; a thing of raw, rare and deadly beauty. They wove a spell that captured the attention of the gathered audience completely and transported them from a stiflingly hot summer night in Camden Town to the cold shadows that cloak the banks of the Styx. Tracks taken from Kharon’s haunted grooves like ‘Dance Of The Void’ and ‘Upon Your Bones (Stygian Surf)’ came to vivid, venomous life while older set stalwarts like ‘Babylon’, ‘F.E.A.R.’ and ‘The Desert Song’ seemed to grow in stature and exude a deeper darkness than ever before. The vocals, bestial roars and desperate howls entwined, echoed around the rafters while vast, staggering riffs rode upon the elemental rhythms, the glorious cacophony giving birth to a unique, enthralling atmosphere. The chaos magic of that night was captured, the black flame preserved forever and is presented in all its bloody honesty, just as it unfolded, on Live At Dingwalls; a worthy companion piece to the majesty of Kharon.
Live At Dingwalls will be released on January 9th and made available exclusively from The Medea Project’s Bandcamp Page. A memory revisited for those in attendance, a conjured vision of blood and flame for others…and another chapter in the unfolding tale of The Medea Project.
Line-up:
Brett Minnie - Guitars/Vocals
Pauline Silver - Drums & Percussion
https://medeaproject.com/
https://www.facebook.com/themedeaprojectband
Northern Irish post-atmospheric black metal band DOMHAIN have unveiled the first track from their upcoming debut full-length album “IN PERFECT STILLNESS”, set for release on 20th February via These Hands Melt.
Watch the video for “My Tomb Beneath The Tide” premiered via No Clean Singing: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/12/01/an-ncs-video-premiere-domhain-my-tomb-beneath-the-tide/
“My Tomb Beneath The Tide” is a dramatic and deeply evocative composition. The band described the track as “a death-scene on a collapsing world: a person lying on a cold beach, the final dopamine hit painting the sky with visions of their life and surrendering to the spirit of the sea with calm acceptance.”
Domhain added, “We took inspiration from our dark and stormy Irish weather, and from our connection to the sea and to wilderness in general. The subject of the tides came naturally for this track, as the riffs reminded us of the perpetual movement of the waves which will turn bones into sand.
“We were very lucky to welcome Sarah Fielding from Darkest Era as guest vocalist for this track; she joined the harmonies in this most powerful and creative way, unique to her.
“The music video itself was directed by our drummer/vocalist Anaïs. Thank you for watching, we hope you enjoy it!”
Hailing from Northern Ireland and consisting of four experienced musicians from the Irish metal scene, Domhain is a quartet that blends an emotional mix of post-black metal, blackgaze, and atmospheric black metal, featuring distinctive vocal harmonies and cello. Their debut EP, the three-song EP “Nimue” (October 2023), showcased their long-form songs filled with myths and remembrances, featured guest cello by Jo Quail and was recorded at Foel Studio with Chris Fielding (Conan, Primordial).
Following their debut, they released the split EP, “Of Pine and Oak” (May 2025), with labelmates Ephemeral, which the band described as "an ode to nature".
Domhain's powerful live show has garnered significant attention, notably at Fortress Festival 2024, where Kerrang! praised their set as “something bracingly original about their specific black metal blend: a sound that you can drift off into even in a live setting” and that “they already have the material to become giants of the genre”.
“In Perfect Stillness” will be available in the following formats:
CD Digipack (Limited to 300 copies): 3-panels, including a 12-page booklet.
LP Dark Green Vinyl (Limited to 200 copies): Includes a 12-page 30x30cm booklet.
Digital
“In Perfect Stillness” also features guests John Wilson (Piano) and Raul Andueza (Cello) on the track “Footsteps II”. The album was produced by Domhain and Chris Fielding. Engineered and mixed by Chris Fielding at Foel Studio, and mastered by Mike Lamb.
Pre-order now via These Hands Melt: https://ffm.bio/domhain
Tracklist:
1. Una Tarra Ci Hé
2. Talamh Lom
3. Footsteps II
4. In Perfect Stillness
5. My Tomb Beneath the Tide
Andy Ennis - Vocals & bass guitar
Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan - Drums, vocals & cello
Nathan Irvine - Guitars
Ashley Irwin - Guitars & backing vocals
https://thesehandsmelt.shop/
https://www.facebook.com/these.hands.melt
https://www.facebook.com/Domhain.band/
CADAVEROUS CONDITION – “DESTROYING THE NIGHT SKY” vinyl - out now! Out now and available, the limited vinyl version of our "Destroying The Night Sky" collaboration album.
Featuring all new artwork by Steven Stapleton (front cover and inlay sheet), looking absolutely fabulous.
230 copies on marbled black smoke vinyl.
Available in our online shop, free shipping! https://www.cadaverouscondition.com/cadaverous-webshop/cc-music/vinyl-destroying-the-night-sky-detail.html
Also available from our label The Circle Music https://www.cadaverouscondition.com/cadaverous-webshop/cc-music/vinyl-destroying-the-night-sky-detail.html
USA and Northern American customers can get it from Soleilmoon https://www.soleilmoon.com/shop/cadaverous-condition-various-artists-destroying-the-night-sky/
Still available in our shop:
NEVER ARRIVE, NEVER RETURN signed vinyl (last copies)
NEVER ARRIVE, NEVER RETURN splatter vinyl
BURN BRIGHTLY ALONE double LP
plus various albums on CD.
https://www.cadaverouscondition.com/
Athens, Greece; 29 November 2025: THE MAGUS, the Luciferian project helmed by Necromantia co-founder and ex-Rotting Christ musician, has revealed the first single from the forthcoming second album, “DAEMONOSOPHIA”. The crushing track, “PSEUDOPROPHETAE”, is streaming now and offers the first taste of the album's promised "more vengeful" sound.
NEWS 29.11.2025
Die Woche lief es irgendwie nicht so besonders gut.
Irgendwie kann einen das ganze Alltagsleben doch stressen, auch wenn man immer
wieder versucht, sich nicht allzu viele Gedanken darüber zu machen. Die so
langsam aufkommende vorweihnachtliche „Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen „Stimmung und
der ganze Konsum-/Kaufzwang der Menschheit lässt einen dann noch mal zusätzlich
völlig unverständlich und absolut nicht nachvollziehbar, dasitzen. Zwar tut es
dann gut, sich gerade jetzt ne gehörige Portion an knallharten Klängen einzuverleiben,
aber die passenden Worte dazu zu finden, ist dann halt nicht immer ganz so leicht.
Dennoch haben wir es irgendwie doch hinbekommen, euch an dieser Stelle mal
wieder ein paar Neuerscheinungen näher bringen zu können.
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The
new album from Montréal’s PHOBOCOSM is out now! GATEWAY is
available via Dark Descent Records on CD, vinyl, cassette and digital formats.
Order the album at:
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
www.ddmsuo.eu
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gateway
PHOBOCOSM will join Brazilian death/doom band Fossilization next year on a European tour in support of Gateway. The Gateway of Wounds tour is scheduled to run August 14 - September 6. Official dates and venues will be announced soon.
Gateway stands as an unrelenting and eldritch death metal opus that seals one chapter while unveiling the next. The album includes material from every songwriting period of the band, some of it dating back to the Deprived and Bringer of Drought eras, as well as Foreordained, of course,” explains guitarist Samuel Dufour.
Gateway was recorded, mixed, and mastered by long-time collaborator Xavier Berthiaume (Gevurah, Sanctvs) during the same session as Foreordained, giving the two records a consistent sonic throughline while allowing Gateway to close established narratives. “We view it as the closing of a chapter for the band,” Dufour continues. “Not that our future material will be completely different from our existing material, far from it, but we have decided to do things a little differently next time around by adding new elements that haven’t appeared in our music before, exploring different dynamics and experimenting with a new tuning.
Thematically, Gateway grows from ideas first explored on Foreordained: “The song ‘Revival’ from Foreordained inspired the album’s theme, which is the fact that humans have been trying to live forever - or to unnaturally prolong life - since the dawn of time, often for reasons even more absurd than the pursuit of eternal life itself,” elaborates Dufour.
“We used this as the main theme and pushed the concept further, exploring the most repulsive forms of cruelty humans are capable of — even when using science as a means to prolong barbarity against their enemies.”
Visually, the album continues PHOBOCOSM’s collaboration with Lauri Laaksonen (Desolate Shrine, Convocation, Pestilent Hex). “From looking at it, one can see that it is a gateway to something ominous, but what lies beyond is up to the listener.”
PHOBOCOSM will support Gateway with select North American performances, followed by European dates in 2026.
PHOBOCOSM is:
J.S.G.- Drums
S.D.- Guitars
E.B. - Vocals (lead), Bass
R.M. - Guitars
www.darkdescentrecords.com
The band shared their excitement regarding this new partnership:
"It’s hard to believe in this day and age, but good news still happens sometimes — well, at least for us. We’re thrilled to announce that Stalwart has officially signed with WormHoleDeath Records for the release of our new album, Tempvs Edax Rervm, coming in early 2026.
After a long break and years spent living across different parts of the world, this record marks a new chapter for us — one that connects everything we’ve built over the past two decades with the drive and perspective we have today".
About the Album: Tempvs Edax Rervm
Tempvs Edax Rervm (“Time, the Devourer of All Things”) reflects on how everything fades with time: vices die with their hosts, people hide behind new masks as they decay within, and even the old gods have grown powerless to change what’s coming. Heaven and earth have switched places — and the end might already be near.
Musically, the album brings together the elements that have always defined Stalwart: sharp, groove-driven riffs, intricate rhythms, atmospheric layers, and a balance between intensity and precision. Shaped by distance and experience, it’s not a restart — it’s a continuation, distilled into something heavier, darker, and more focused than ever before.
Tracklist
1. Ingressvs
2. Fear And Hate
3. Instead Of You
4. Through The Dead Eyes
5. Sacrifice
6. Tempvs Edax Rervm
7. Fenrir
8. Pandora
9. Smoke Of Temptation
10. The Master
11. Come And See
Stalwart History
Formed in 1999 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Stalwart has earned a reputation in the extreme metal scene with a unique blend of death, groove, thrash, and progressive metal. Over the years, the band has released six full-length albums on labels including Fono, Soyuz/MetalAgen, CD-Maximum, Metallism, and PRC Music. Four albums were produced by the renowned Wiesławski brothers (Vader, Decapitated, Behemoth, Hate) at Hertz Studio, known for its crisp, punishing sound.
Stalwart has shared stages with Behemoth, Kataklysm, Vader, Amon Amarth, Primal Fear, Finntroll, Carnifex, and more, performing across Russia, Ukraine, Finland, Estonia, and Germany. After a 2019 hiatus, during which members relocated across continents, the band returns with Tempvs Edax Rervm, delivering crushing grooves, intricate rhythms, relentless blast beats, and immersive atmospheres — a new chapter in Stalwart’s evolution.
Line Up:
Pavel Kozhukhovsky - vocals
Anton Sofronov - guitars
Leonid Verman - guitars, keyboards
Dmitry Ivanov - bass, back vocals
Alexey Timanov - drums
Pre-save Tempvs Edax Rervm here: https://orcd.co/teralbum
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ABSTRACT is the only band that Pařát Productions will release a studio album for this year. The collaboration between the band and Pařát Productions began in 2014 with the album "Lightheory" and continues to this day.
ABSTRACT is a Slovak band that has been playing instrumental metal since 1995 - meaning no vocals.
The album "MONOGRAM" will be released by Pařát Productions on 29.11. 2025.
You can order them at Pařátshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/abstract-monogram-3/
You can listen to full album on the Pařát Productions YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEqK-QoSZ1s&t=515s
www.paratshop.cz
www.facebook.com/ParatMagazine
Dead And Dripping's new album is just as shocking and delectably twisted as can be expected. They've truly taken things to the next level here and they remain a standout in the brutal death metal style. The new album is out now and streaming on all platforms and I would urge you all to check it out with an open mind.
DEAD AND DRIPPING - “NEFARIOUS SCINTILLATIONS”
For
fans of :
Demilich, Wicked Innocence, Wormed, Defeated Sanity, Mortal
Decay, Fathomless
Ritual, Suffocation
Dead And Dripping is back with another album of mind-warping, reality-deconstructing music. One-man crew Evan Daniele, who was already playing everything on the albums so far, has gone ahead and even created the artwork for this album that manages to replicate the intricate nature of the music along with some kind of hallucinogenic quality that it induces. The music is often slower, deliberate, as if to create a hypnotic effect aided by use of repetition, and with that the songs can go on for as long as nine minutes without seeming cumbersome as is almost always the case with the brutal death metal subgenre where lengthy songs go. Dead And Dripping is doing something novel in this space which begs to be heard with all its quirks including the Demilich-esque croaks to go with music sounding just as surreal and twisted. It's an album that is painstakingly composed with thought and effort put into every single aspect of it and with all of it done in a refreshingly organic manner. "Nefarious Scintillations" is a tour-de-force for the style and a testament to the dedication and prowess of one-man bands.
Line up
Evan Daniele - All music and artwork
Track listing
1. Nefariously Scintillating through Vacant Galactic Reservoirs
2. Horrifying Glimpses Into Inconceivably Demented Cityscapes
3. Pestilent Hints of Darkened Malodorous Vibrations
4. Swollen Torsos Adorned with Pustulating Hexagonal Crania
5. Sickeningly Vague Anatomical Silhouettes
6. Spontaneous Recollections of Unwitnessable Atrocity
7. Seeping through Ancient Transdimensional Corridors
8. An Utterly Tenantless World of Aeons-Long Death
Official release date - November 28th, 2025
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Thanks a lot for your support! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
The
Finnish black metal band VERILEHTO released their
second album AARNIHAUTA on November 28th 2025 via Inverse
Records.
Listen to the album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/verilehto-aarnihauta-album
"The album is built largely on the same principles as its predecessor: something new, something borrowed, and something black, combining old riffs and fresh ideas without trying to reinvent the wheel. The songs were created quite quickly during the summer and autumn of 2023, but the final production shaped more slowly into its current form. The material is diverse, containing both dark and slow-tempo pieces as well as faster and even catchy productions. The overall package is stronger than before, and with the new bassist Räipiö, the sound world has gained significantly more depth." says, Janne Tuikkala
Watch Aarnihauta music video: https://youtu.be/H86-L0xUx60
Biography:
The Finnish melodic black metal band Verilehto is back with a new album, Aarnihauta. The album title translates as 'hidden grave in the forest', which is a fitting description of the band's second album.
Verilehto plays Finnish 90s-style black metal, characterised by melodic and aggressive riffs, raw vocals, and an eerie overall tone. The Finnish folklore-inspired lyrics fit well with the band's versatile riffs, and the songs vary from fast blastbeats to slower storytelling elements.
This album also sees a change in Verilehto's line-up, with Markus Räppiö from Kaira joining the crew. With Markus on bass, Janne Partanen (Hautajaisyö, Alfa Pentatonik, Marraskuun Lapset, Paavalin Harhat) on vocals, and Janne Tuikkala (Muria & Dawn of Everwinter) on guitars, drums and synth, the band is stronger than ever.
'Aarnihauta' sees the band continuing to evolve from their debut album 'Kuoleman Siipien Havina' by focusing on their own sound and style. The album is not overly polished, and has a good raw quality to the production, but this is not the main focus. It was recorded by the band themselves in 2024–25.
The album artwork was created by the talented Awinita Alm, and the single artwork was created by the band. The "Aarnihauta" video was filmed in 2024 and edited by Janne Tuikkala and Markus Räppiö.
Track list:
01. Surutta Tapettu
02. Nälänhätä
03. Aarnihauta
04. Kalman Sotajuokko
05. Tuhkaverho
06. Syöjätär
07. Virvatulet
Artwork by Awinita Alm
Line-up:
Janne Tuikkala - Guitars, Drums, Synths
Janne Partanen - Vocals
Markus Räipiö - Bass & Backing Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/verilehto
INFRAHUMANO – “DEPTHS OF SUFFERING” (LP)
Genre: Death Metal (from Autopsy over Morbid Angel or Drawn and Quartered to old Cryptopsy)
Country: Spain
Label: Lavadome Productions
Release day: October 31, 2025 (digital), followed by CD version at the end of November
Recorded and mixed at La Cumbre Studios
Mastered by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios
Tracklist:
1. Across the Void
2. Thrown into the Fire
3. Battalion of Darkness
4. Baptized in Acid
5. Reduced to Fermented Pulp
6. Forced Self Cannibalism
7. Global Degradation
8. The Last Breath
9. Shades of Cruelty
Rejoice in the name of Death Metal decay and brutality. Spain's INFRAHUMANO will take you on a 9-song journey through US, European, South American Death Metal fields and will deliver devastating rhythms, yet memorable, influenced by seminal Death Metal but presented in Infrahumano's own extreme ways. The band's second studio album, Depths of Suffering, is ready to be heard.
https://linktr.ee/infrahumano_DM
https://www.facebook.com/infrahumanodeath
https://infrahumano.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/@lavadomeprods
https://facebook.com/lavadome
Featuring songs written between 1976 and 1983, Lords of Hypocrisy is a timeless classic of macabre Heavy/Doom Metal, centered around man’s inhumanity to man and its ultimate demise. Based on the beautiful editions on now defunct Temple of Mystery Records, Dying Victims continues making Pagan Altar’s back catalogue available again.
Heavy rocking DOOM metal pioneers!
Line-up:
Terry Jones (R.I.P. 2015) - Vocals
Alan Jones - Guitars, Banjo, Keyboards
Trevor Portch - Bass
Mark Elliot - Drums
From London, UK
Release date: 23rd January
Tracklist
01 The Lords of Hypocrisy
02 Satan's Henchmen
03 Sentinels of Hate
04 Armageddon
05 The Interlude
06 The Aftermath
07 The Masquerade
08 The Devil Came Down to Brockley
09 March of the Dead
Release info:
Regular double LP edition on black vinyl, with poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special double LP edition on ultra clear dark blue marbled vinyl, with poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD edition with obi and sticker.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
The second single 'Taste of Hatred' is unleashed today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/krushor-taste
The band comments:
"Taste of hatred is about situation where a person takes a stand for someone who's pushed 'em down long enough to make that person retaliate. What happens, when beaten and oppressed person decides to stand their ground and says they've had enough and gives back all they had to endure. What kind is this persons actual hatred if just a taste of it can turn tables and make the one who made them suffer have taste of their own medicine."
Listen to the first single 'Shockwave': https://push.fm/fl/krushor-shockwave
Biography:
The band found its current identity through shared musical tastes, playing together, and a shared hobby. We are a group of people who enjoy making and playing music that works for all of us. A big part of this is that composing, writing lyrics, and editing songs is open to everyone. All songs and compositions are created by the whole group, not based on one person's vision or goal.
Our influences definitely come from older metal, but that doesn't matter, because mixing genres actually adds a lot to our music; there's no one right way to do things. Krushor's goal is to make music that sounds good and at the same time talk about the difficult things that are part of life. For many people, music can be therapeutic, and if even one person feels that way about our music, we feel we have succeeded.
Track list:
01. Shockwave
02. Vortex
03. Rise Above
04. Taste of Hatred
Composed by Joni Kärsämä, Juho Mattila
Saku Hirvimäki, Sami Keränen
Lyrics by Ville Lehtoranta
Arranged by Krushor
EP cover by Joni Kärsämä
Line-up:
Ville Lehtoranta - Vocals
Joni Kärsämä - Guitar
Juho Mattila - Guitar
Sami Keränen - Bass
Saku Hirvimäki - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/krushorofficial
Label: Selfmaderecords
Release date: december 26th 2025
Genre: Punk Rock
For fans of: Electric Six | Iggy Pop | Toyah | Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction
"We’re the sound of a sun made of lightning on fire..."
Exploding out of the great white north, in a dazzling burst of stardust and exuberance, rebellion and radiance, come Toronto’s punk rock riders of the astral plane, Hot Apollo. After lighting up the Toronto club scene for over a decade with songs that transport audiences to realms of euphoria, the city’s self proclaimed ‘shiniest band’ are about to deliver their cerebral shock to the world. New album Against The Odds Because We’re Gods is coming and it’s time to join the Hot Apollo revolution!
“Exploding stars join our choir...”
The album opens in a burst of electrifying guitar, boldly heading straight into the band’s ‘superhero cartoon theme song’, the anthemic and irresistible ‘We’re Hot Apollo’ where a languid vocal rides on crisp drumming and punk vibes and a searing solo tears across the sky. From that blazing beginning Hot Apollo take you on a tour of driving grooves, flamboyant guitar embellishments, enfolding atmospheres and choruses that feel like you’ve known them all your life. From the slinky, sliding riffs of ‘Priorities’, a song that walks the margins between playful and defiant, to the dream state dance of ‘Slayance’; from ‘Beltane’, made to make you move with its cool lead guitar wandering through a patchwork of neon glow and shadow, to the metal edge and galloping rhythms of ‘Gjallarbu’. Every song on Against The Odds Because We’re Gods occupies its own unique space, but they are all united by the irrepressible, irresistible spirit of Hot Apollo. The final two songs on the album – ‘Stop Drop Rock ‘n’ Roll’ and ‘Never Stay Down’ – rock hard and joyously, leaving you energised, renewed and alive, before this band of maverick marauders head back to the stars from whence they came.
“Louder than thunder! We’re a sparkle storm…”
The vibrant sound of Against The Odds… was captured by renowned Canadian producer Scotty Komer of the band Boys Night Out, who has worked with the likes of Protest The Hero and Silverstein. Every voice in the Hot Apollo choir gets to speak and bathe in the spotlight – from the full figured bass to the snapping drums, the fizzing guitars to the sonorous vocals – and the result is effervescent. The album will be released by SelfMadeRecords on December 26th on CD, LP and Digital formats – the perfect party to end the year…and everyone’s invited!
“We’re Hot Apollo! We’re all Hot Apollo!”
Line-up:
Jaymes - Vocals
Tobi - Bass
Monet - Lead Guitar
Diego - Drums
https://selfmaderecordsllc-business.com/home
https://www.facebook.com/HotApollo/
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated sixth album of Italy’s BARBARIAN, REEK OF GOD, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Truer than true, Italy’s BARBARIAN have almost become a subgenre unto themselves during the past 16 years. Although, let there be no confusion: BARBARIAN are HEAVY METAL. A power-trio of not just metal maniacs but actual MUSIC maniacs, of all persuasions, BARBARIAN integrate all kinds of crude-yet-refined DNA into their particular palette, almost effortlessly resulting in something that’s dieharder than anything around and yet elevating heavy metal to an artform worthy of the fanciest museum. Or, quite the opposite: denim and leather, spikes and chains, swords and sorcery, ugly men and beautiful women, each dawn they die… Either way, to experience BARBARIAN is to imbibe the essence of heavy metal, infused with personality and panache, killing with power and charisma. Posers don’t need to leave the hall because they wouldn’t be able read the map to it in the first place.
Now, following a trio of hailed albums for Hells Headbangers – Cult of the Empty Grave (2016), To No God Shall I Kneel (2019), and Viperface (2022) – BARBARIAN join forces with longtime fans DYING VICTIMS for the Italians’ sixth full-length, Reek of God. Like clockwork, it’s another three years between albums, and BARBARIAN deliver the goods. And yet, this is also a new chapter in their series: “retrogarde metal,” chronologically after “total metal,” “absolute metal,” “obtuse metal,” and “regressive metal.” As such (and in possession of exactly 98 riffs in 35 minutes), the ten central songs comprising Reek of God are shorter and more to-the-point but basically with no classic rock structure of verse / chorus. BARBARIAN’s characteristic sound – in the simplest of terms, raw speed and epic metal meets even rawer proto-extreme metal – has here been enriched with a vein close to mid ‘80s death metal and even metal-tinged punk, but with a flow of tempo-changes and riffs to be found only in late ‘80s / early ‘90s developments of extreme metal. BARBARIAN are nothing if not studious acolytes; they know their shit, and then make records about it.
Still, Reek of God has its own surprises. Of course, the album’s lyrics strike at everything that is religious. But special mention must be made for “Shit He Forgives,” which is based on the lyrics of “Reality Asylum” by anarcho-punk pioneers Crass, and “Crossburn,” which is a political statement that places the band on the opposite side of the spectrum regarding the KKK connection the title might suggest. Deepening the record-nerd’dom, the album’s “Warning” intro is a take on the Ice-T intro of the same name on the legendary rapper’s Home Invasion album from 1993. Likewise, BARBARIAN’s cover here of the Los Angeles L7’s “Freak Magnet” is one featuring their typical Hellhammer-ish atonal riffs – which were atypical for L7, drawing an otherwise-overlooked throughline of aesthetic symbiosis – and inspired by the 1992 version produced by Butch Vig (on the Everglade EP) rather than the 1994 version produced by Gggaarth (on Hungry for Stink). Wait…Crass, L7, and Ice-T on a BARBARIAN album?! Believe it, comrade: this is the Reek of God!
Line-up:
Borys Crossburn - Guitars, Vocals
Cardinal Sinner - Bass
Sledgehammer - Drums
From Firenze, italy
Release date: 23rd January
Tracklist
1 Warning
2 Maxima Culpa
3 Sledgehammer
4 Eighth Sacrament
5 Shit He forgives
6 Cardinal Sinner
7 Cancer Cross
8 Crossburn
9 Mercy Swallower
10 Freak Magnet
11 Retrogarde Metal
12 Crurifragium
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on orange vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD edition with obi and sticker.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
"You may consider this EP as an representation of a journey towards the certain end." comments the singer Mikko Nurmi.
Listen to "To Non-Existence" EP on streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, Amazon etc.): https://push.fm/fl/torchus-tononexistence
Torch Us is a five-piece metal band from Turku, Finland, founded in 2022.
The band blends raw aggression with melodic darkness in away that leaves a mark on the listener. Their sound is a mix of melodic death metal and heavy riffs flavored with everything that feels old-school, raw, and unapologetically intense.
Torch Us:
Kim Orden: Bass
Janne Kodisoja: Drums
Ville Oksanen: Guitar
Antti Kivikoski: Guitar
Mikko Nurmi: Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/torchus
AURORA
BOREALIS joins forces with Non Serviam Records... A New Era Awakens . Total Darkness
Promotions is proud to announce that the legendary force Aurora
Borealis has officially entered a pact with Non Serviam Records.
This alliance marks the dawn of a bold new chapter for the band, joining a roster of relentless and uncompromising artists. Their upcoming full-length release set for unveiling in due time promises to expand their dark legacy with ferocity and unwavering vision. With Aurora Borealis’ unmatched intensity and long-standing presence in the extreme metal realm, this collaboration is poised to carve a formidable imprint upon the scene.
A statement from Aurora Borealis regarding the signing:
"We are proud to align ourselves with Non Serviam Records. This partnership reflects our shared dedication to Death Metal as an unfiltered and evocative art form. Through this union, we stand prepared to push our craft further than ever before, reaching new listeners without sacrificing the essence that defines us. Aurora Borealis has always been a vessel for the cold, the cosmic, and the uncompromising and with NSR, we have found the right stronghold to support the next phase of our vision."
Non Serviam Records adds:
"We are truly honored to welcome Aurora Borealis into the Non Serviam Records family. Their commanding presence, relentless musicianship, and unwavering authenticity have long set them apart. Aurora Borealis embodies the spirit and strength we value within our roster, and we are excited to support the next chapter of their journey and creations."
The band is currently forging new material, with the forthcoming album promising to deliver a monumental statement in their ever-evolving legacy.
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The amazing artwork was realized by the talented artist and graphic
designer Gogo Melone .
Tracklist :
1. Another Night In Pain
2. In The End...
3. All That Has Withered
4. Fading Memories
5. I Don't Want To Fight...
6. The Raven Cries...
With "The Raven Cries One Last Time" CHALICE OF SUFFERING introduces us into a world of depression, sadness and grief, into a very atmospheric, emotional and at the same time extreme universe full of pain, but painted with tinges totally rich in melancholy and despair. They convey emotions of loss rather than just heaviness, to crafting a deeply intense and bleak musical experience that explores the depths of human desperation through their distinctive Funeral Doom Metal sound with Death vibes incorporating instruments like bagpipes, flutes and keyboards and employing a mix of deep death growls and grim spoken word passages.
We are proud of what we are going to present and we can't wait to share all of this with you all. "The Raven Cries One Last Time" will be released next March 20th, 2026 on My Kingdom Music and it is absolutely ready to aim high for the genre throne in terms of intensity, personality and emotion.
The suffering continues!!!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/ChaliceOfSuffering
The
Finnish symphonic/melodic death metal band INTHRACED is
set to release their long-awaited debut album 'CONSTELLATION ZERO'
on May 15th 2026 via Inverse Records.
The first single, 'NEON FRONTIERS', which offers an excellent preview of what to expect from the album, is released today and it's available on all major streaming platforms: https://push.fm/fl/inthraced-neon-frontiers
The band comments:
"Neon Frontiers stands as the most melodic and captivating track on the album — a powerful fusion of signature Inthraced elements and a fresh, revitalized sound. Crushing riffs, soaring melodies, and intricate guitar solos intertwine seamlessly, pushing the band’s music into new and unexplored territories. The chorus features guest vocalist Marcus Lång, whose commanding voice breathes new life into the song and elevates it to another dimension — as if the stars themselves had finally aligned."
Biography:
Inthraced is a Finnish metal band founded in 2011, blending melodic intensity with cosmic darkness to forge a distinct and powerful soundscape. Their early releases, “The New Awakening” (2012) and “The Rising Chaos” (2014), set the foundation for their rise, further amplified by the 2019 single “Interstellar.”
In 2022, the band was reborn with a new guitarist and bassist, igniting the creative fire behind their debut album “Constellation Zero” — an epic and ambitious journey that carries the listener to the very edges of the universe
Track list:
01. The Revenant
02. Neon Frontiers
03. The Black Star
04. Darkest Chest
05. Constellation Zero
06. The Way Of The Voice
07. Lost Divinity
Mixed by Janne Korpela JK mixing studios Finland
Mastered by Mika Jussila @ Finnvox studios Finland
Cover art by Robert H, Holo Dreamz
Line-up:
Tommi Takkunen - Guitar & Vocals
Mirko Byman - Guitar
Eetu Kovapohja - Bass
Antti Ikonen - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/Inthraced
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present KARLOFF’S highly anticipated second album, REVERED BY DEATH, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Hailing from Germany, KARLOFF formed in 2018 initially as a means for erstwhile Graveyard Ghoul member Tom Horrified to blow off some punk-oriented steam with a couple close comrades. While their first Demo ’18 and then subsequent Raw Nights mini-album presented them as a more gutter-level Midnight, it was 2022’s debut album, The Appearing, where the true form of KARLOFF took shape. Recasting the band in a totally new, altogether more unique light, The Appearing strutted forth to a rich, robust, and rippingly muscular sound not unlike ancient-days metalpunk; think Carnivore, Best Wishes-era Cro-Mags, or even early Nasty Savage, and you’re in KARLOFF’s wheelhouse.
Turning that wheel yet further, KARLOFF return with their second full-length, Revered by Death. For sure, Revered by Death follows logically from The Appearing. That same lead-heavy stomp is present and accounted for here, but the paces KARLOFF go through are undeniably moodier and murkier; if there wasn’t a sense of stifled violence here, it would almost be accurate to call LP#2 “sludgy.” No amount of energy is sacrificed, thankfully, as KARLOFF’s olde-worlde evil goes in an even-darker direction while the tempos, in kind, feel slightly more reined in. Fleshing out that darkness further are chorus FX, once again tastefully applied and suggesting still a post-punk influence that could blossom in the future; just witness the deathrock-in-glue instrumental “On Weathered Altar” for poignant proof. As the present stands, Revered by Death more than lives up to its lofty title, with KARLOFF’s heaviness coming not so much from the volume or distortion they employ but, rather, from the overall feel of their songwriting: punchier, but portending a deeper doom & gloom.
Ghouls and ghosts, thugs and thieves: KARLOFF are back and calling upon you to be Revered by Death!
Line-up:
Tom Horrified - Electric Rhythm & Lead Guitar, Vocals
H. T. Steinbrecher - Drums & Percussion
733 - Electric Bass Guitar
From Oldenburg, Germany
Release date: 23rd January
Tracklist
01 A Pessimistic Soaring
02 Die Wiederkehr der Dunkelei
03 When The Flames Devour You All
04 On Weathered Altar
05 Prince Of Parasites
06 Regicide
07 Crown Cult Fate
08 Elisabetha's Revenge
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on oxblood vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD edition with obi and sticker.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
FUNERAL VOMIT – “UPHEAVAL OF NECROMANCY”
Label: Xtreem Music
Release date: december 19th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Autopsy | Grave | Mortician | Grave Desecrator
In the grand mausoleums of the world, in the forgotten plague pits and paupers’ graves, in the country churchyards and on the ancient battlefields where bones and steel lie submerged in time and mud…there is a stirring. Whispered words of summoning beyond the range of human hearing or understanding follow the worms into remains long still and silent. Powers from far deeper than the oldest grave are calling, calling for the forgotten to awake…
“He’s dead? Not anymore…” - Herbert West, Reanimator
Formed in the time of the global pandemic, Colombia’s Funeral Vomit have been spewing forth their particular brand of death metal sickness since 2020. They joined Xtreem Music in 2023 for the release of their debut full length album, Monumental Putrescence, which was followed in 2024 by an expanded reissue of their 2022 self titled EP. Now it’s time for the second album from Funeral Vomit, the second tome of monstrosities and malignancy – Upheaval Of Necromancy!
‘Intro (The Disentombment)’ leads you with beckoning claw and dire imprecations into the subterranean world of Funeral Vomit, where nothing is quite as dead as it seems – and from that atmospheric beginning all hell is unleashed! Title track, ‘Upheaval Of Necromancy’ erupts from the darkness with immense, cavernous vocals and guitars dusted in the last remains of the long, long dead. This is fetid death metal from the grave, a classic invocation of the ancient arts of death. There is no let up from the claustrophobic horror as ‘Sulphuric Regurgitation’, a rumbling war machine of unspeakably malicious intent gouges deep grooves into your flesh and the primitive horror of ‘Hematophagia’ pursues you through lightless catacombs, hungry for blood. Even ‘Interlude (Mortuary Ecstasy)’ is less a respite and more a promise of far, far worse to come...like ‘Cryptic Miasma Stench’, a monumental piece of soul devouring death metal, with screaming leads and crushing weight. After the scouring guitar riffs and colossal, bludgeoning bass and drums of ‘Rancid Insorcism’, ‘Outro (Effluvia Of The Mass Grave)’ settles into your mind, letting you know that while you may have reached the conclusion of Upheaval Of Necromancy, the Funeral Vomit nightmare will never end.
Xtreem Music will release Upheaval Of Necromancy on December 19th, the same fateful date on which Monumental Putrescence was exhumed, three years ago. Available on CD, 12” LP, Cassette and Digital formats, there will be no escaping this call from the grave!
Line-up:
Y. Lopez – Guitar
C. Monsalve - Guitar/ Vocals
H. Montaño - Bass guitar
J. Carvajal – Drums
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/funeral.vomit
On
"DOOMSSÖNDAGEN" (the Sunday before Advent), when
judgment is at hand, SHROUDED IN DARKNESS reveals their new EP, -"THE
PATH OF SUFFERING".
Release: 23 November 2025.
CD EP - 4 tracks
DIGITAL - 2 tracks.
This release is a meditation on the weight of sin, the silence of abandoned prayers, and the inevitability of suffering that shadows every soul.
Each track flows like a procession through dim cathedrals of sound: Towering guitars, ritualistic drums, and vocals that echo like sermons from beyond the grave.
"The Path of Suffering" is not simply heard—it is endured. It is the sound of twilight falling upon the human spirit, and the echo of final judgment made flesh in music.
Let the suffering begin!
https://shroudedindarkness.bandcamp.com/album/the-path-of-suffering
DECRYPTER
– “NECHRONICLES “
Genre : Death-/Black Metal
FFO: Hypocrisy, Mayhem, Cannibal Corpse
Release date: 29.11.2025
Location: Mexico
Bio:
Decrypter is a Mexican death metal band with black metal influences. Their sound is a fusion of melodies, aggression and dark atmosphere, resulting in content with a rich variety of musical textures. Inspired by cosmic horror themes, Decrypter with its debut album NECHRONICLES, aims to position itself among fans of extreme music.
https://www.youtube.com/@decryptermx
https://ironcladmetalpr.com/
https://www.facebook.com/decryptermx/
DECIMATOR
- "THE DOWNFALLEN" (EP)
Downfallen marks a fierce new chapter for the Sydney-based band, channeling their trademark blend of old-school aggression and sharp modern intensity.
The EP's release date is 05 December 2025.
Tracklist
1. Hexenkrieg
2. Downfallen
3. Teuer de Paysans
About DECIMATOR:
Formed in early 2021, Decimator has undergone a few lineup changes, seeing the band go from strength to strength.
In late 2024, Riley Perry joined the band on bass, bringing a new and even more refined approach to songwriting, having been active in projects such as "Of Flesh" and formerly being part of the thrash metal band Paralysis. Unfortunately, 2025 also saw more changes - but Caiseal Duncan replacing Ethan Reeves on guitar and Ashley Pollard replacing Bon Lowe on drums brought even more fire and ferocity
to the band.
Lance Holland-Keen, now the only original member, leads them on, with this single a small taste of the EP due out later this year.
The band are already writing new material for 2026 and playing shows in Sydney - decimating every stage they step onto.
Line-Up
Lance - vox/guitars
Riley Perry - bass/backing vox
Caiseal Duncan - guitars
Bon Lowe - drums on the EP
Ash Pollard is the new drummer for live shows.
Stream ’Til The Enemies Are Gone: https://orcd.co/tteag
CD: https://www.auralwebstore.com/shop/
www.youtube.com/@decimatorbandaustralia568
www.facebook.com/DecimatorBandAustralia
Quintaesencia Nocturna is a dark journey through the raw and shadowed side of the natural world, where old forests, silent waters, and forgotten rituals shape the album’s atmosphere. With its cold and immersive sound, the album delivers Black Metal rooted in nature’s darker presence and the unseen forces that surround us.
To celebrate this monumental unveiling, Vampiric Militant Legions presents a strictly limited European CD edition, capped at only 100 copies, featuring an 8-page booklet that expands the album’s nocturnal vision through evocative imagery and thematic depth.
The European release of Quintaesencia Nocturna is available now, carrying forward the Chilean underground spirit into new domains of darkness.
For fans of raw mysticism, atmospheric terror, and nature’s most sacred night-black essence, this is an edition not to be missed.
https://vampiricmilitantlegions.bandcamp.com/
EL MUERTO, the Netherlands' one-man Black/Death Metal project, has released debut EP, LOST AND AMSTERDAMNED!
FFO: Opeth, Immortal, Emperor, Mgla, Death
Stream/Purchase Lost and Amsterdamned: https://elmuerto2.bandcamp.com/album/lost-and-amsterdamned
El Muerto was born in the depths of personal crisis, a raw and unflinching document of depression, trauma, and the desire to disappear. Conceived as a final message from an artist who had lost the will to live, each track captures a chapter of that darkness. But this record is no longer a goodbye. It’s proof that even in the shadows, something can still survive.
El Muerto is the alter ego of a multi-instrumentalist whose journey spans continents, from the underground metal scene of Mexico (Sekhmet) to experimental projects in Australia (Conscious Comma), now anchored in the Dutch landscape. With Lost and Amsterdamned, he delivers a fiercely collaborative black/death metal EP shaped by the frostbitten influence of Immortal, the grim atmosphere of Darkthrone and Mgła, and the progressive shadows of Opeth and Emperor.
Driven by guitar-forward compositions and visceral vocals, the record balances old-school extremity with cinematic vision. Each track is both a personal exorcism and a descent into archetypal horror, as described by below by El Muerto.
"Enthroned in the Tower of Shadows (The Witch)" – A theatrical black metal tale of the witch-queen reigning from a tower of obsidian. Ritualistic, grand, and venomously lyrical, it reads like folklore soaked in blood and fire. Betrayal, treason and lies.
"Ghosts of Torment" – An inner war against unseen forces. This track is a descent into madness where haunting spirits represent trauma, anxiety, and mental illness. Dissonant and despairing, it’s a song about being torn from within—and haunted from without.
"Lich King" – A blighted anthem of death’s dominion. With imagery of skeletal monarchs and ruined worlds, it’s a march into the void, full of oppressive riffing and funereal dread.
"A Song for Ran" – A melancholic invocation of the Norse sea goddess, casting despair into the sea’s cold embrace. Melodic and mournful, it drifts between surrender and transcendence beneath crashing waves and whispered death. Where the final rest in the most peaceful as well.
"Blood Crypt" – The EP’s most venomous moment: a burial rite soaked in bile and loathing. A brutal poem of closure through decay, it turns memory into rot, laying ghosts to rest in a cathedral of scorn.
"Wolves of Den Haag" – Inspired by the real-life cannibalistic murder of Dutch statesman Johan de Witt in 1672, this track uses historical horror to reflect modern betrayal and societal rage. Gnarled riffs and spectral tension echo through The Hague’s ghost-soaked streets.
Each song speaks in the language of metal, but beneath the corpse paint and distortion lies something deeply human—anguish, defiance, and ultimately, release.
Each of these songs reflects personal trauma through the lens of myth, horror, and metal’s harshest language turning lived experience into sonic ritual. Lost and Amsterdamned no longer marks an ending. It is a violent testament of survival, memory, and transformation. A cathartic howl from the pit—and the sound of someone crawling out of it.
The album's rhythm section features guest musicians from international metal acts, such as downunder's Norse and Europe's Adarrak.
Mixed by the legendary Tomas Skogsberg of Sunlight Studios in Sweden and mastered by Ricardo Botello. Recorded in studios across the Netherlands.
Track
Listing:
1. Enthroned in the Tower of Shadows (The Witch)
2. Ghosts of Torment
3. Lich King
4. A Song for Ran
5. Blood Crypt
6. Wolves of Den Haag
Credits:
Produced by Ricardo Botello
Mixed by Tomas Skogsberg in Sunlight Studios, Stockholm, Sweden.
Mastered by Stefan Brown from Abbey Road Studios.
All artwork created by Francisco Torres Beltrán
Line-up:
Ricardo Botello - Guitars, Vocals, Piano
Zigor Munoz - Bass (except "Ghosts of Torment")
Tommaso Tani - Bass on "Ghosts of Torment"
Robin Stone - Drums
Bio:
El Muerto is the alter ego of a multi-instrumentalist, Ricardo Botello, who has made the Dutch landscape his creative home for the past years. His musical journey spans continents, from his work with the Mexican project Sekhmet to time spent with Australia’s Conscious Comma.
Now unveiling his debut EP, Lost in Amsterdamned, El Muerto presents a collaborative effort that features a dynamic cast of guest musicians.
https://elmuerto2.bandcamp.com/album/lost-and-amsterdamned
Finnish progressive metal band HUMMING WHALE has released their debut studio album "CHASING RABBITS"!
The band's guitarist Lassi tells about the album: "We follow a very slow and organic approach to songwriting and playing music. We like to experiment with and nurture our musical ideas until they feel just right. The soundscapes of the album represent our own musical tastes ranging from energetic bass and guitar riffs to atmospheric synthesizer landscapes, and from dissonance to harmony."
Listen to the album on streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, Amazon etc.): https://push.fm/fl/hummingwhale-chasingrabbits
The story of Humming Whale begun in 2006 in Tampere, Finland. Lassi Paunonen and Ville Kiiveri had already been friends for a long time, and had also been playing together in various bands. Their musical backgrounds steered the new band towards metal, but due to their broad tastes the band was from the beginning open to influences from a wide variety of genres. They especially embraced progressive elements in the form of nonlinear song structures and rhythmic experiments. Over the years, the band absorbed more and more influences from analogue synthesis and acoustic percussions, and their current sound begun to take form.
The band reached its first stable line-up in 2015 with Aki Hahto in vocals and Antti Lumijärvi in drums. The band begun to record its first full album in late 2016 based on the songs they had composed over the years. The recording took place in Lassi's studio and the band took their time in shaping (and even rewriting) the songs. The process finally resulted in the album Chasing Rabbits, published in November 2025.
At the end of the year 2023 the band also arrived at their current line-up, with Matias Kuure in drums.
Tracklist
01. The Wake
02. Chasing Rabbits
03. Equilibrium
04. Hountor
05. Waves
06. Ocular
07. Rover
08. Black Waters
Members:
Aki Hahto - Vocals and percussion
Lassi Paunonen - Guitar and synthesizers
Ville Kiiveri - Bass
Matias Kuure - Drums
https://www.youtube.com/@HummingWhaleBand
https://www.facebook.com/Hummingwhaleband
Listen to 'POMPEII' single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/nobody-pompeii
The man behind Nobody, Tuomas Kauppinen comments the single:
"The city of Pompeii was destroyed when it was founded in defiance of the people against the gods, next to a volcano that would eventually bring about its annihilation. The song is a memory of its people, their loves and hates, the downfall of an empire that could not survive its sicknesses, nor the remedies it would have needed to heal."
Track list:
01. North star
02. Pompeii
03. Crowspeak
04. The Gutter Screams
05. Truth Seeker
Music & Lyrics by Tuomas Kauppinen
Cover art by Don Artvaara
Producer: Jimi (Stellar Sounds Studios)
Line-up:
Tuomas Kauppinen - vocals, guitars, bass & drums
https://nobodymetal.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/nobodymetal
This exclusive premiere for ASH ECLIPSES FLESH comes from Decibel Magazine, who warns the band "will level anything still standing" with this crushing debut.
Stream Ash Eclipses Flesh now at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/11/19/album-stream-terror-corpse-ash-eclipses-flesh/
Dark Descent Records will release Ash Eclipses Flesh on November 21. The album will be available on digital, CD, cassette, and vinyl (black and splatter editions). The album was just named #24 in Decibel Magazine's Top 40 albums of 2025.
Pre-order at:
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ash-eclipses-flesh
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
https://ddmsuo.eu/
“Low tuned, dark and violent Texas death metal,” comes the uncompromising answer from TERROR CORPSE drummer Dobber Beverly when pressed to define his newest abomination. Formed in 2025 yet manned by veterans of the US underground, TERROR CORPSE rise from the remnants of Malignant Altar, continuing where their predecessor left off – still in league with Dark Descent Records.
Produced entirely in-house by the skinsman, the record’s sound is as distinctive as it is crushing. From the first pounding kick drum, soon joined by a gut-wrenching bass line, Ash Eclipses Flesh never loosens its relentless grip.
“I wanted to essentially have a super low tuned Celtic Frost guitar sound with a modern and large natural drum recording. Big room, big drum sounds. Tack on some cavernous low, Craig Pillard style vocals and bass guitar and you’ve got our sound.”
The band’s veneration of the Celtic Frost’s legacy is further demonstrated by the album’s closer, a cover of "Into the Crypts of Rays." Dobber makes no secret of TERROR CORPSE’s influences: “Disciples Of Mockery, Incantation, pre-2000s Morbid Angel; essentially older evil American death metal. Celtic Frost is a massive influence to all of us. From their primitive and violent beginnings to the ultra experimental and dark era of their later records.”
Ash Eclipses Flesh is clad in artwork courtesy of the notorious Shoggoth Kinetics, displaying a horrifying future so far and near: “Lyrically the album follows a kind of dystopian downfall of humanity. Something crossing surreality and future outlook based off of current happenings. A race of mutant human corpses conquering and enslaving the earth.”
TERROR CORPSE will headline the Metal and Beer Pre-Fest in Denver on December 4.
Tracklisting
1. Pyre of Ash and Bone
2. Gate Zero
3. Womb of the Hollow Earth
4. Blissful Incineration
5. Fallout Obliteration
6. Nuclear Winter
7. Transmission Beta
8. The Hollow that Devours
9. Sons of Perdition
10. Into the Crypts of Rays (Celtic Frost cover)
TERROR CORPSE is:
Mat V. - Vocals/Guitar
Christian Larson - Bass/High vocals
Dobber Beverly - Drums/Guitar
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572578455775
https://terrorcorpse.bandcamp.com/album/systems-of-apocalypse
Montréal’s PHOBOCOSM has released a new song off their forthcoming album, GATEWAY. "UNBOUND" marks the album's second single. Stream it now at www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaA1nNAyQus
Dark
Descent Records will release Gateway on CD, vinyl, cassette and
digital formats on November 28.
Pre-order the album at:
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
www.ddmsuo.eu
PHOBOCOSM previously released a stream of album track "Sempiternal Penance." Listen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wbH33wvvk0
Gateway stands as an unrelenting and eldritch death metal opus that seals one chapter while unveiling the next. The album includes material from every songwriting period of the band, some of it dating back to the Deprived and Bringer of Drought eras, as well as Foreordained, of course,” explains guitarist Samuel Dufour.
Gateway was recorded, mixed, and mastered by long-time collaborator Xavier Berthiaume (Gevurah, Sanctvs) during the same session as Foreordained, giving the two records a consistent sonic throughline while allowing Gateway to close established narratives. “We view it as the closing of a chapter for the band,” Dufour continues. “Not that our future material will be completely different from our existing material, far from it, but we have decided to do things a little differently next time around by adding new elements that haven’t appeared in our music before, exploring different dynamics and experimenting with a new tuning.
Thematically, Gateway grows from ideas first explored on Foreordained: “The song ‘Revival’ from Foreordained inspired the album’s theme, which is the fact that humans have been trying to live forever - or to unnaturally prolong life - since the dawn of time, often for reasons even more absurd than the pursuit of eternal life itself,” elaborates Dufour.
“We used this as the main theme and pushed the concept further, exploring the most repulsive forms of cruelty humans are capable of — even when using science as a means to prolong barbarity against their enemies.”
Visually, the album continues PHOBOCOSM’s collaboration with Lauri Laaksonen (Desolate Shrine, Convocation, Pestilent Hex). “From looking at it, one can see that it is a gateway to something ominous, but what lies beyond is up to the listener.”
PHOBOCOSM will support Gateway with select North American performances, followed by European dates in 2026.
PHOBOCOSM is:
J.S.G.- Drums
S.D.- Guitars
E.B. - Vocals (lead), Bass
R.M. - Guitars
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/Phobocosm
Greek
Death/Thrash Metal powerhouse CREMATE has returned with
their fierce new official video, "DIE AS YOU LIVED." This
track is a high-octane, unforgiving assault of pure thrash and death metal
fury, cementing the band's position as a titan of the Greek metal scene.
"Die As You Lived" is a declaration of death without redemption. It stands as a defiant call for absolute accountability, rejecting illusion and falsehood with unwavering intensity. The track delivers an uncompromising message, confronting the past, calling out hypocrisy, and demanding truth over deception.
Delivered through relentless, pounding thrash riffs and a driving, almost ritualistic rhythm, the single explores profound existential and social undertones. It is a violent, honest farewell to those who lived—and will die—without purpose, urging the listener to confront the lies they have built their lives upon.
Adding a distinctive, haunting layer of darkness to the metallic assault is special guest Charalampos Paritsis AKA Lusty Apricot, whose chilling violin contribution drags the entire track deeper into its thematic abyss.
"Die As You Lived" is featured on CREMATE’s latest EP, READY TO FIGHT.
Stream the EP Ready To Fight: https://orcd.co/rtfep
Previous videos: https://youtu.be/-RdHOoRT-HA
Greek Death/Thrash metal band CREMATE was originally formed in Alimos, Athens, in 1991, establishing a raw, aggressive sound influenced by titans like Kreator and Sodom. Their 1993 demo End of Time earned international acclaim, followed by the 1995 7" EP Enchanting Black Recess, before the band disbanded.
In 2021, founder Christos reignited CREMATE alongside George (Drums) and longtime collaborator Akis Pastras (Guitar). The band revisited their seminal demo, re-envisioning the 90s Death/Thrash fury by infusing dark synthesized atmospheres and new arrangements under a contemporary production lens.
The resulting 4-track EP, Ready To Fight, embodies this powerful rebirth. It features three reworked classics—including "Die as You Lived" enhanced by haunting violin from Lusty Apricot—and the brand-new title track showcasing a solo from Marios Iliopoulos (Nightrage). Recorded and mixed by Akis Pastras and mastered by George Nerantzis (Rotting Christ, Abbath), the EP delivers an uncompromising, dynamic fusion of vintage aggression and modern dark textures.
www.youtube.com/@CREMATEtheband
www.facebook.com/crematetheband
Musician,
actor, and celebrated horror icon COURTNEY GAINS, known
for his role as Malachai in the 1984 horror classic Children of the Corn, has
released the official music video for his newest single, "FEAR THE
BOOGIE."
Filmed on location at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, GA and the infamous Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, GA, the video also features footage from the first two installations of the Barn film series, provided by director Justin Seaman. The video was edited by Pat Dougherty.
Watch the video now at https://youtu.be/nLpFdgnZ60g
A hook-laden heavy rock horror anthem, "Fear the Boogie," is a collaboration between Gains and Peruvian guitarist/producer Wal. The song was written for the soundtrack to Barn III, an upcoming horror film starring Gains and Kelly Maroney (Fast Times at Ridgemont High).
Drums on the track were recorded by Toni Mateos , an accomplished session drummer with credits spanning rock, pop, and film music.
2024 saw Gains celebrate the 40th anniversary of Children of the Corn with a slate of horror-con appearances and a 35MM screening of the film at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain, regarded as the biggest horror/sci-fi festival across Europe. Recent projects include The Wrath of Becky, Thy Will Be Done, October 31, Lookout Weekend: Cruel Summer IV, Christmas Cowboy, and a standout role in the heavy-metal-infused horror film, Infernal. The Grime House Films production won Best Horror Feature Film at the Clout Film Fest. Watch the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYjV6oFtSYQ
The screening for Infernal took place at the infamous Bastrop, TX gas station featured in the 1974 classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Gains and his band played an exclusive set at the event. A live recording of the performance
is forthcoming.
In 2023, Gains released his Safe Haven EP — a six-track blend of rock, folk, and Americana that highlights his gritty vocals and honest songwriting. The critically acclaimed record captures a raw, roots-driven sound that reflects Gains’s hands-on approach and unfiltered style
Wal Bio:
Walter Peche, known artistically as Wal, is a Peruvian songwriter, guitarist, and producer whose music fuses the intensity of metal with the versatility of rock, blues, and pop. With more than a decade of experience, he has toured internationally across Mexico, Ecuador, and Colombia, establishing himself as one of Peru’s most distinctive and versatile musical voices.
While based in Peru, Wal and his band opened for legendary acts including KISS and The Smashing Pumpkins. Beyond live performance, he is also a seasoned mixing engineer and sound designer. A graduate of SCAD’s M.F.A. in Sound Design program, where he received the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award (2024), Wal brings cinematic depth and technical
mastery to every project.
As the founder of Rituality Records and Electric Andean Studios, Wal has built a creative hub where he writes, produces, and develops innovative music alongside emerging artists. Driven by vision, independence, and a passion for pushing boundaries, Wal continues to carve out his place as a bold new voice in the global rock and metal scene.
Line-up:
Courtney Gains - Vocals, Lyrics
Wal - Guitars, producer
Toni Mateos – drums
https://www.facebook.com/people/Courtney-Gains/100063431727264/
Label: Independent Release
Release date: january 3rd 2026
Genre: Acoustic Doom / Pagan Folk
For fans of: Hagalaz’ Runedance | Myrkur | Wardruna | Stille Volk | Jo Quail
Beneath the fallen leaves and in the dance of the naked flame, in the shifting shapes of clouds and in the birdsong and the silence that surrounds it, there lies the pathway back to the essence of all we have been. On the edge of shadows and below the stars, in the stories that are spoken, now and forever, in the dreams that the devices and distractions of a sterile life blow away from our waking minds with nervous breath, there is truth that cannot be twisted and remade. There is substance and value; there is meaning and matter if we choose not to be led away - if we choose to see the passage of the sun, to hear the celebrations of the spring and the lamentations of the winter night.
From the mountains, lakes and forests of the Berkshires region in Massachusetts comes Forever Autumn, the unique musical entity created by Autumn Ni Dubhghaill. Autumn’s music has been called avant-garde, pagan folk, acoustic doom…and it is all of these things and more. The emotional weight of doom and the cold mystery of black metal certainly add their shadowed hues to the Forever Autumn palette of sound, but the essence of these songs is far older…it resounds in the heart of us all and its roots are those that bind us to the earth. For nearly quarter of a century Autumn has been spinning her tales, invoking magic with albums like Patience Of ðm Fire-Keeper and Howls In The Forest At Dusk, working with artists like cellist Jon McGrath and vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe of My Dying Bride; but for her latest creation Autumn walked a solitary path – writing, performing, recording and producing alone. The results are breathtaking in their stark power and overwhelming atmosphere. They are The Lamentations.
The Lamentations begins with ‘Beltaine’, hypnotising in the simplicity of its melody, deeply moving in its undercurrent of loss. Within moments it has transported us to a place of darkness and firelight with the beautiful immediacy of the sound. It’s as if Autumn Ni Dubhghaill sits on the other side of the flames, the quiet fervour of her voice painting pictures in the ever moving shadows. From here The Lamentations unfolds with a rare intimacy and sense of secrets shared. We stand in the quiet companionship of mutual sorrows and watch the seasons change through the smoke shrouded blues of ‘Self Portrait In Blue, Black And Grey’, we enter the unnerving presence of the withered, wise and powerful in the ancient reel of ‘Hexes And Wards’, lost in the dreams of witches, while ‘Fylgia And The Fetch’ is a revelation in its intensity. With an elemental and haunting vocal performance this acoustic rendering of black metal is stunning. The album continues through realms of lost thoughts and whispers, of openings and giving, warnings and warmth before ‘The Salt Of Mortality’ leads us on a walk through the dying of the year; chill reflections and future ponderings, the long shadows and short days of November. And then our time here is passed and we step once more from the deep truth of dreams into the harsh noise of a world that has moved on. But Autumn Ni Dubhghaill will always be waiting by the fire for our return.
Mixed by Robby Baier and mastered by Jack Control (Darkthrone, Inculter, Ice War etc) – the same team that added the final touches of sonic sorcery to Forever Autumn’s last release, the Crowned In Skulls EP – The Lamentations reverberates with life and possesses a sound rich in texture and deep, deep depths. Adorned in artwork painted by Autumn Ni Dubhghaill, from her Self-Portrait In Winter collection, The Lamentations will be released on January 3rd, the night of the January full moon, the Wolf Moon. Walk in its light to the sanctuary of Forever Autumn…
Line-up:
Autumn Ni Dubhghaill – All music and vocals
https://autumnnidubhghaill.com/
https://www.facebook.com/HailWoodlandSorcery/
Dutch symphonic metal band EPINIKION releases their new single “LESSONS IN LIFE (ARE FOR FREE)” - another milestone on the road toward the album release of ‘THE FORCE OF NATURE’ in February 2026.
Epinikion stands firmly in its power with the solid lineup this symphonic metal band has had since 2023. The second single from the album ‘The Force of Nature’ is a thunderous orchestral train, driven by fast guitar riffs and racing toward the wisdom that life is best taken as it comes.
“Lessons in Life (Are for Free)” will be released on November 20, 2025 - another milestone on the journey toward the full album release in February 2026. A swirling lyric video by Marnix Darwinkel visually reinforces the theme of the power of nature in this uplifting track.
“‘Lessons in Life (Are for Free)’ is entirely about the power of going with the flow - following the course of life and nature, knowing that this is how we learn our personal lessons best. Those lessons are available everywhere and for everyone, as long as we pay attention. The only thing we need to do is recognize them and start working with them when they cross our path” says Renate de Boer, Epinikion’s songwriter.
“Lessons in Life (Are for Free)” will be streaming on all platforms on Thursday, November 20th 2025
The album was produced by Jacob Hansen, who created an amazingly clear yet beautifully heavy sound through his signature mixing and mastering. For the artwork, Giannis Nakos crafted near-magical visuals that perfectly capture the essence of the album and its songs.
The release of ‘The Force of Nature’ will be celebrated with a spectacular release show on February 6 at pop venue Sound Dog in Breda - the same place where the first video “The Force of Nature” was recorded. A new era for Epinikion begins with this fantastic package of 12 new songs that will appeal to both metal fans and mainstream listeners.
Biography
Epinikion is known for its energetic shows and strong connection with the audience. Kimberley Jongen impresses with her classically trained, bright voice.
Maarten Jungschläger is known for his heavier metal projects, yet also excels as a symphonic metal lead guitarist.
Rutger Klijn is a seasoned bassist whose distinctive and technical bass lines firmly establish Epinikion on the metal map.
Robert Tangerman not only composes together with keyboardist and partner Renate de Boer, but as rhythm guitarist and arranger, he plays a major role in fine-tuning Renate’s creativity.
Michal Gis is the young, talented drummer who brings rhythmically unique contributions and delivers them with precision.
Experts see great potential for Epinikion to grow into a band performing at a highly professional level, gaining more visibility along the way. The joy that drives them only makes the future of Epinikion all the brighter.
Line up
Maarten Jungschläger – Lead Guitar
Rutger Klijn – Bass
Kimberley Jongen – Vocals
Michal Gis – Drums
Renate de Boer – Keys
Robert Tangerman – Rhythm Guitar
https://www.facebook.com/epinikion
Their
debut album "VII VITIUM" was released a few
days ago, and Venetian Dark Occult band VII VITIUM presents now a new
lyric video from their release. It's "AVARIZIA / MAMMONA",
featuring special guests Joe Fè of CULTUS SANGUINE on vocals, Dario Vicariotto
on lead guitar, and Luca Gregori on backing vocals. The lyric video, created by
Stefano Mastronicola, is available at https://youtu.be/gSk4OO792jE
This is also an opportunity to invite you to the band's release party, taking place on Friday, November 21st at Club Il Giardino 2.0 in Lugagnano di Sona (VR). The band will be joined by numerous guests, including Sandra Silvestre, Dario Vicariotto, Emiliano Cioffi, and John Goldfinch.
Don't miss it!!
Order the LP and deluxe edition at: https://t.ly/TGN78
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/VIIVITIUM
French
Chaotic Hardcore Powerhouse BTK (BIND TORTURE KILL) Unleashes New
Video “LAPIDÉE” from 'SAUVAGERIE' album
FFO : ALL PIGS MUST DIE, Converge, Napalm Death, Sect, Trap Them...
One year after unleashing their third album 'Sauvagerie', French chaotic hardcore trio BIND TORTURE KILL strike again with the release of their final video — an intense visual interpretation of the track “Lapidée”, now available on YouTube.
Following the devastation of previous singles like “Fétide”, this last chapter captures the raw energy, fury, and emotional depth that have cemented BTK’s reputation as one of the most uncompromising acts in the French underground scene.
Lapidée closes the 'Sauvagerie' era with a visceral punch — brutal, unfiltered, and unrelenting.
...For the record...
BTK (Bind Torture Kill) is a chaotic hardcore trio from Lyon, France, formed in 2010. After several lineup changes, the band stripped down to its core in 2015 — drums, guitar, and screams — channeling pure, unfiltered aggression.
Their discography charts a steady descent into darkness:
Condamné (2015), Viscères (2018, via WOOAAARGH!, Troffea, and Hell-J Industries), and Sauvagerie (2023), recorded at Warmaudio and mastered by Nick Zampiello (New Alliance East, Boston).
Armed with a crushing triple-amp setup and HM2-fueled tone, BTK fuses death, crust, grind, and blackened hardcore into a dense wall of chaos — brutal, bleak, and unmistakably their own.
https://www.facebook.com/scoreav
https://btkmetal.bandcamp.com/album/sauvagerie
Watch the lyric video here: https://youtu.be/9PzYDwaMB28
"Alyssa" is now available on all major streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/monolicht-alyssa
Monolicht is a dark metal band from Finland, founded in 2015 and still performing with its original lineup. The band’s music draws inspiration from northern mysticism, channeling the melancholy and cold austerity of shadowed forests and frozen streams.
Line up
Vocals: Kalle Raijonkari
Guitar: Mikko Kupiainen
Guitar: Jukka Saarinen
Bass: Joonas Kolehmainen
Drums: Antti Hyvönen
https://linktr.ee/monolichtband
Augustus
Omnipotens is a conceptual journey through the rise of Octavian, later
Augustus, the first Emperor of Rome. Each track captures a key moment in his
path: from avenging Julius Caesar’s death, through political alliances and
brutal battles, to the final triumph of peace under the Pax Romana. The lyrics
weave together history, mythology, and personal legacy, portraying Augustus not
only as a ruler but as a symbol of transformation, from civil war and betrayal
to order and empire. It’s an album about power, fate, and the price of
immortality.
Driven by a visceral blend of blackened death metal, the music amplifies the narrative’s intensity: ferocious riffs embody the chaos of war, thunderous drums echo the march of legions, and sinister growls summon the weight of fate and bloodshed. In Augustus Omnipotens, music and lyrics merge into a monumental opus, where history is not only told but felt.
Tracklist
01 – In Aeternam
02 – Octavianus
03 – Caesar Divi Filius
04 – Gladium Stringere
05 – Triuvirat
06 – Dura Lex Sed Lex
07 – Mortem Proditorum
08 – Mylae Invicta
09 – Dedecus Magni Lepidi
10 – Ultimum Bellum
11 – Pax Romana
About DEOS:
Formed in 2014 by Fabio Battistella, Jack Graved, and Loïc Depauwe, DEOS have built a reputation for combining the ferocity of extreme metal with a passion for Ancient Rome that extends through their lyrics, artwork, and stagecraft. Their debut Ghosts of the Empire arrived in 2015, followed by In Nomine Romae in 2017 and extensive touring across France, Switzerland, and beyond. In 2021 they began work on their third record Furor Belli, mastered by J.-F. Dagenais (Kataklysm, Ex Deo) and released in 2022 via Wormholedeath, which led to the North Imperial Tour MMXXII. Over the past years they have continued to spread their vision of Roman metal across Europe, including London’s legendary Cart & Horses.
Now, with Augustus Omnipotens, DEOS take their concept further than ever before. Recorded between autumn 2024 and spring 2025 and once again mastered by Dagenais, the album is both a celebration of Rome’s past and a declaration of the band’s future.
DEOS are:
Jack “Janus” Graved (bass, vocals)
Fabio Battistella (guitar, backing vocals)
Cédric “Cedd” Boehm (guitar, backing vocals)
Loïc Depauwe (drums)
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‘Eye
Of The Storm’ is lyrically about the government unleashing its fury
on mankind, wiping them from the face of the earth, using superstorms as its
weapon of choice. Seemingly, a natural disasters that uproot families and
entire communities from their homes. Taking family, friends, household pets,
and all you possess and destroying lives. Eye Of The Storm tells you to be
ready. Prepare for the deluge, as the floods will wash you away. This song
is a powerhouse that is going to make your senses explode as you enter the ‘Eye
Of The Storm’
The music video, shot and directed by lead singer Erick Laurino, is nothing short of a thrill ride. Packed with images of the band performing, mixed in with footage that any storm chaser would love to pursue. This video leaves your heart racing and wanting more. Thy Kingdom Come!
Stream the single: https://orcd.co/eotssingle
'Eye of the Storm' is a track taken from the band's album "Proving Grounds, Vol. 1", out via Wormholedeath.
Stream “Proving Grounds Devastation”: https://orcd.co/pgd
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About Mass Punishment
New Jersey’s Mass Punishment deliver unflinching Apocalypse Metal — a brutal fusion of social awareness and unrelenting power.
Formed by Army veteran Chris “Axe” Milos, the band channels real-world chaos into explosive, thought-provoking metal. With frontman Erick “Maverick” Laurino commanding the mic and Ed “Arc Angel” Musto anchoring the low end, their sound blends aggression with message.
Signed to WormHoleDeath Records, Mass Punishment have shared stages with Machine Head, Soulfly, Meshuggah, Emmure, and GWAR, pushing forward with conviction and zero compromise. Their full-length debut, Proving Grounds Devastation, and recent singles, Enemy Within and Blood Dirt, mark them as one of the most fearless rising names in modern metal.
Upcoming EP:
As of Fall 2025, Mass Punishment is mixing their first EP with Eric Rachel.
The EP will be mastered by Ted Jensen and will feature several special guest appearances. Expected release: Spring 2026.
Endorsements:
Both Arc and Axe recently received their first endorsement deal with DR Strings.
Touring:
The band will embark on their first international tour in April 2026, supporting Warbringer on a Japanese run.
Drummer Anthony Coota (Blindfolded and Led to the Woods, New Zealand) will join the lineup for the tour and upcoming studio sessions.
Next Album:
Recording begins January 2026, with George Pond returning as producer.
Mass Punishment is:
Erick “Maverick” Laurino
Chris “Axe” Milos
Ed “Arc” Angel
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Baltimore (MD) - One-man Melodic Doom Metal outfit, ORCHID THRONE, has releeased "DREAMWORLD," the first single and epic opening track from forthcoming debut full-length, BURIED IN BLACK.
Stream "Dreamworld" at: https://orchidthrone.bandcamp.com/track/dreamworld
FFO: Swallow the Sun, Anathema, Woods of Ypres, Novembers Doom, Draconian
Orchid Throne is set to release Buried in Black on January 9, 2026! The project consists solely of Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) who performs the music, as well as producing, mixing and mastering the album.
After nearly 17 years of playing supporting roles in various bands, Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) is proud to make his debut as a solo artist as the man behind Orchid Throne. Bonsanto not only wrote and performed all of the music for Buried in Black, but also produced, mixed, and mastered the album.
While not a concept album, Buried in Black weaves themes of anxiety, depression, fear of death, and the search for life’s meaning throughout its lyrics. The title describes both the music itself and the feelings that Bonsanto has kept buried within for years. It may sound bleak, but what is buried in black will be set free and brought to light on January 9.
“This album is a long time coming for me,” said Bonsanto. “For more than a decade, I collected little recordings of ideas in the hope that one day they’d be useful. I could not be more proud of myself for how the album came out and for all of the things I have learned along the way.”
Bonsanto's Musical Journey to Buried in Black:
“As a musician performing in bands since I was 16, people who know me have seen me play a supportive role, and hear my musical contributions to my bands. But not everyone knows that I have always dreamed of releasing a record of my own. I am passionate about all kinds of music, and while I love playing in my current bands, doom metal is a big love that I long felt like I had no outlet for.
“While I’ve honed my songwriting abilities over the years, I began this project with zero knowledge of how to produce a record on my own. I introduced Orchid Throne to the world one year ago on my birthday with only one song done. Over the past year, I have finished writing, recording, and producing my entire debut record. I have finally achieved this goal and it's even better than I ever imagined it could be. It means so much to me to get this out there, to truly reflect who I am as an artist, and I’m already excited to create more.”
Pre-order Buried
in Black: https://orchidthrone.bandcamp.com/album/buried-in-black
Track Listing:
1. Dreamworld
2. Ephemerality
3. What Defines us
4. Moonlight Revelry
5. Guilt
6. Breath of Autumn
7. With Promise
Credits:
Album artwork painted by Ryan Gassaway.
Music and Lyrics written by Nick Bonsanto.
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Nick Bonsanto.
All instruments performed by Nick Bonsanto.
Flute on “Breath of Autumn” and “With Promise” performed by Mary Beck.
Orchid Throne is:
Nicholas Bonsanto - All instruments.
Bio:
Orchid Throne is a Melodic Doom Metal one-man band created by Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Orchid Throne is set to release its debut full-length album on January 9, 2026, titled Buried in Black. The album features a spellbinding variety of dark, heavy, and emotional material that beckons you to fall into the endless black. Drawing influence from a range of sounds such as melodic death metal, black metal, progressive rock, and folk, Orchid Throne is music from the heart for fellow souls who need it most.
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WITCHER – “ÖRÖKLÉT”
Label: Filosofem Records
Release date: november 2025
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
For fans of: Summoning | Avrigus | Empyrium | Eldamar
All that we were may have faded from the concrete streets, choked in smoke, our identity fractured and fragmented by the onslaught of modernity…but far from the boxes that enclose us and the algorithms that dictate our desires and direct our thoughts, beneath the trees, on the mountain tops, in the arms of the undying winds that traversed the world when the old gods walked, in the light of the moon and the dark of the shadows…we are eternal.
WitcheR emerged, as if from the pages of Hungarian folklore, back in 2010 and have since crafted an array of bewitching music, steeped in the history and mythology of their homeland. 2022s Lélekharang was a pivotal moment in the band’s career, lifting WitcheR to a new level creatively and it was followed by the remarkable 2024 EP of classical music adaptations entitled Boszorkányszimfóniák. Now it is time to unveil the next chapter in the tale of WitcheR – Ӧröklét…
“This record is not merely music — it is a gateway. Whoever crosses it will never be the same again. It is a moment of realization, when one understands that everything fades… and yet, everything remains eternal.” – WitcheR
Ӧröklét begins with the rich, haunting keys and powerful, mid-paced riffs of ‘Ӧrökség’ (Heritage) and with its air of majesty, melancholy and reflection, entwined in mystery and moonlight, it seems steeped in the very essence of all that word implies. Listening to WitcheR is like slipping into a dream and that has never been more true than with Ӧröklét. ‘Szélhozó’ (Windbringer) overflows with a spellbinding romanticism and the dual vocals of Gere Karola and Neubauer Roland – rather than dominating the music – slip between its textured layers like dryad spirits between the trees. This is WitcheR at their most beautiful and evocative. ‘Röghöz kötött’ (Soil-bound) and stately title track ‘Ӧröklét’ (Eternity) both move with the measured steps of medieval dances, courtly and chivalric. They draw out vast depths of emotion, in such contrast to the shallowness of modern society. With its weight, value and artistic worth WitcheR create music that stands outside of time. The album concludes with a reworking of Franz Schubert’s ‘Piano Trio No. 2 - Andante con moto’, which shows the gift that WitcheR have for interpreting classical pieces with respect for and understanding of the original music, whilst still transforming these masterful compositions into something entirely WitcheR in character. Something that could be crass in the hands of another band becomes breathtaking through the application of WitcheR’s subtle sorcery. With Ӧröklét, WitcheR have continued down their characterful path of atmospheric dark metal, becoming ever more unique and moving further beyond imitation; a precious and irreplaceable jewel in the world of imaginative, passionate music.
Adorned in the enthralling sepia toned imagery of Balázs Pénzes of Grafit & Hamu Artworks (Korp, Vrag, Siculicidium etc), who also provided the visual elements for Lélekharang and Boszorkányszimfóniák, the digital, cassette and CD versions of Ӧröklét were released by Filosofem Records on November 4th and the vinyl edition will follow, from Beverina Productions, coming late November. Let your eyes close and feel the world slip away as WitcheR lead you down forest paths, past lakes of crystal waters to a place where magic is in the air and reality is all that it is meant to be.
Line-up:
Gere Karola – Synths/Vocals
Neubauer Roland – Guitars/Drums/Vocals
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NO WORTH OF MAN – “THE KILLING STREETS”
Label: Brutal Records
Release date: february 13th 2026
Genre: Extreme Metal
For fans of: Gojira | Machine Head | Lamb Of God | Sepultura
Miami, 1985…it ain’t a nice place to be. It’s becoming like hell on earth, with the undead lurking down every alleyway and hovering on the margins of the ubiquitous neon glow. The vampires have infiltrated every strata of this cesspool of secrets and vice we laughingly call a society and they’re draining us dry; biting and bloodsucking their way to total domination. It’s hard to know who to trust – who’s got your back and who’s going to sink their teeth in when you turn it. But we’re not quite done yet; us humans, we have our champions…a group of men whose accumulated firepower is matched only by the garishness of their garb. They call themselves No Worth Of Man and they’re taking back our dirty streets one stake at a time.
Scourge of vampires and purveyors of the very heaviest of extreme metal, No Worth Of Man are an inexorable war machine. Having honed their skills, upgraded their weaponry and refined their tactics over a series of EPs and singles, the band are now ready to unleash their full length debut album. The Killing Streets erupts with the colossal riffs of ‘I Defy’ and the essence of that title can be heard in every soul shaking vocal roar and felt in every bone splintering drum beat. There is no room for debate or compromise with this band; they are resolute, defiant, solid steel to the end. ‘Those Of Our Kind’ transports you to the late night streets, moving between the pools of neon light, ready to unleash a barrage of lead and silver. The titanic vocal power of Peter Gale is staggering as he blasts his way through the bulldozing grooves laid down by drummer Gareth Lucas and guitarist Alex Punchard. However, to assume that The Killing Streets is simply a remorseless weapon of mass destruction would be a mistake. Yes, it hits hard, time and time again, but there are dark melodies seething beneath the body armour and muscle and the atmosphere of the fear filled streets is thrilling and immersive, the ever tightening tension fed by a threat of imminent violence. As the riffs of ‘Death Reflections’ roll you’re right there, looking down the barrel at the predators in need of some shotgun redemption. Concluding track ‘Kill Of Gold’ brings everything that is great about No Worth Of Man together in one final bloodbath. It’s savagely addictive and possesses the biggest, sharpest hooks of all, strong enough to hang a vampire on. It’s a fantastically accomplished display of song writing, a perfectly paced, devastating ending that leaves the listener with a hunger for more.
Mixed and mastered by Fredrick Nordstrom (Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquillity, In Flames etc) The Killing Streets sounds magnificent – the crowning glory of a career that began back in 2016. No Worth Of Man’s unique chemistry has become more potent with each release and The Killing Streets is set to crush everything in its path when Brutal Records unleash its formidable force on Friday, February 13th – definitely a date of ill omen for the undead fraternity!
Line-up:
Peter Gale - Vocals
Alex Punchard - Guitars
Gareth Lucas – Drums
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For fans of : Belphegor, God Dethroned, Hate, Incantation, Marduk, Morbid Angel and Vader.
Blood Of The Wolf return to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions the new album V: Indomitable! Hailing from Chicago Illinois, Blood Of The Wolf retaliate with overwhelming vengeance, pulverizing the weak with eight new songs executed with barbaric cruelty. Prepare yourself for murky massive riffs, relentless blast beats and commanding vocals on V: Indomitable... all glory to the Gods of War!
Listen
to the single "Assembled To Annihilate" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjmKg-6vt9A
Track listing:
1. Tempest Of Purifying Fire
2. Extinction Eclipse
3. Glory To The Gods Of War
4. Oath Of Supremacy
5. Assembled To Annihilate
6. Baptized In Fire And Combat
7. Flesh For The Warfather
8. Indomitable
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LUST OF DECAY – “ENTOMBED IN SEWAGE”
Label: Comatose
Music
Release date: december 12th 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse | Psycroptic | Disavowed | Prostitute Disfigurement
In the quietude beneath the city streets, the silence broken only by the slow dripping of polluted water and the chittering voices of the rats, in this forgotten place of filth and stench, they find a strange kind of peace. The screaming is over, the torment is complete, there is only endless sleep for these abused and broken bodies. And if the rats take sustenance from their bruised and lacerated flesh it is a gift they give without resentment. Embracing each other, entwined in cold comfort, they lie forever entombed in sewage…
Twenty five years since their tale of terror began and far too long a time since the release of their last album back in 2006, the demigods of death, legends of the underworld, Lust Of Decay have returned! They carry with them, in their bloodstained, disease riddled hands something bleak and soul destroying, ten new commandments of depravity and tragedy, new incitements to violence and degradation – their long, long awaited fourth full length album – Entombed in Sewage. From the first shocking moments of opening track, ‘Parasitic Exsanguination’, twisted riffs ensnare you and vocals from the other side of death engulf you. Drums deliver absolute oblivion and though the tempos shift the impact is never less than decimating. You can feel the knowledge, experience and dedication to the pursuit of brutality and extremity in every dextrous and deadly note. Featuring current and ex members of Atrocious Abnormality, Cesspool of Vermin, Coathanger Abortion and Shuriken Cadaveric Entwinement in their ranks, Lust Of Decay know more than a thing or two about the desolate arts of death. There are so many great riffs throughout this album and the drumming is simply phenomenal, not just driving the songs forward but playing a vital role in their dynamics and development. While the brutality is unquestionably unrelenting, there is so much going on in songs like the feast of rot and horror that is first single ‘Nourishing The Swine’. The song writing that has created ‘Fetal Contamination Process’ is several steps above most of Lust Of Decay’s genre contemporaries in its fascinating complexity. Every song is a definitive example of brutal death metal at its musically proficient, wickedly imaginative and
shocking best – and the three final songs, ‘Order 66’, ‘Desiccate The Epithelium’ and title track ‘Entombed In Sewage’ are simply incredible; a triptych of awesome atmosphere, magnificent destruction and nightmares brought to life. Entombed In Sewage will be gate crashing the end of year lists for the best that brutal death has offered up in 2025.
Mixed and mastered by Tony Tipton (Between The Killings, Necrotic Disgorgement, Reap etc) Entombed In Sewage has a surprisingly bright and vibrant sound that brings every element, every weapon in the Lust Of Decay armoury into play, to tremendous effect. The cover artwork that adorns this malignant offering, created by Daemorph Art (Aborted Fetus, Avulsed, Holycide etc), is a masterpiece of grim despondency – the perfect visual depiction of the overwhelming music that lies within. Irresistible in every sense of the word, Entombed In Sewage will be unleashed upon the world by Comatose Music on December 12th – a knife from the dark into the throat of the festive season.
Line-up:
Jay Barnes – Vocals
Steve Green – Guitars & Backing Vocals
Ryan Coulter – Bass
Jordan Varela – Drums
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CELTIC
FROST
unveil “MORBID TALES” Fine Art & Precious Metal Collection .
Officially approved and overseen by Tom G. Warrior; features a bronze sculpture and silver jewellery, transforming the band’s visual aesthetic into collectable fine art
Available to pre-order now exclusively via Down With The Most High Productions, with first non-bespoke items shipping in early December
Showcases to take place in London, UK (7 Dec), Madrid, Spain (13 Dec) and Winds of Agony Festival, Barcelona (17-18 Apr 2026)
Madrid, Spain; 17 November 2025:
A limited collection of Celtic Frost fine art and jewellery, overseen and approved by Tom G. Warrior, is set to be unleashed via Down With The Most High Productions. The items are now available for pre-order, with non-bespoke items shipping from 10 December, and bespoke items (such as the bronze sculpture) shipping from 10 January 2026. The collection pays homage to the dark spirit of the extreme metal pioneers and their influential debut EP “Morbid Tales”.
The collection features nine items in total, encompassing both bespoke fine art and premium accessories produced in Spain and the EU. The focus is on authentic materials and high-quality production. The centrepiece is an awe-inspiring Bronze Sculpture (made-to-order), representing the ultimate expression of Celtic Frost’s visual aesthetic. Each sculpture is hand-cast, guaranteeing a collector-grade finish that transcends typical merchandise.
The premium accessories include Silver Jewellery (Ring and Pendant) and a heavy Belt Buckle, crafted from precious metal to an exceptional level of detail, and are also produced on demand.
The collection is completed by a T-shirt that combines flat and 3D screen printing, a detailed embroidered Back Patch on synthetic leather, a Banner, a Sticker and a Button Badge.
Purchase collection items: https://downwiththemosthigh.com/celticfrost/
The collection is the result of years of devoted development, focusing on high manufacturing standards and supreme craftsmanship. It transforms the uncompromising dark aesthetic and immense creative richness of “Morbid Tales”, an EP first released in 1984, and pivotal in the evolution of extreme metal, into durable, investment-grade objects.
Preview events showcasing the craftsmanship are scheduled for London, UK (Helgi’s, 7 December), Madrid, Spain (The Rock Temple, 13 December) and Winds of Agony Festival, Barcelona, Spain (17-18 April 2026), with more to come in 2026.
Daniel Dabadan Gayoso, Founder of Down With The Most High Productions and Curator of the Celtic Frost collection, said:
"This project was born out of a decades-long devotion to Celtic Frost and the Morbid Tales album. This is not simply merchandise; every piece, from the silver jewellery to the bronze sculpture, adheres to a fine art production standard. We aimed to create official collectables that reflect the gravity and artistic commitment of the music itself, ensuring this legacy is preserved through objects of genuine quality."
Down With The Most High Productions (DWTMH) is a Spanish independent label and creative outlet specialising in high-end, niche releases across the black, death and thrash metal spectrum. Known for its strong focus on physical media excellence, and working with underground legends such as Tormentor, Possessed, Blasphemy, Beherit, Necromantia, Mystifier, Absu, Imprecation and Baxaxaxa, DWTMH seeks to elevate extreme metal's visual and collectable components beyond standard merchandise. This Celtic Frost collection is a definitive example of the label’s commitment to premium, art-focused production and preserving the heritage of seminal metal works.
COLLECTION
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SCUPLTURE MAKING OF
https://youtu.be/vC8Ma7HiOUE
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RING MAKING OF
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Technical specifications of the bespoke items
Bronze Sculpture
30 × 43 cm die-cast bronze, hand-moulded sculpture with a green patina finish.
Presented in a 36 × 47 × 7 cm lacquered wooden lightbox with a sliding methacrylate lid.
Features an upholstered base covered in synthetic leather fabric and a screen-printed DWTMH stamped logo on the back of the box.
Equipped with steel hasps for wall mounting.
Includes a hand-numbered certificate of authenticity.
Silver Pendant
4.5 × 6 cm 925 sterling silver pendant with a reinforced silver chain.
Pendant weight: 66 g (plus chain).
Presented in a deluxe soft matte-touch box with slipcase, featuring a black velvet interior with CELTIC FROST and DWTMH red hot-foil logos, stamped on the top of the slipcase and on the reverse of the box lid, respectively.
Includes a hand-numbered certificate of authenticity, plus an additional protective black custom jewellery mailer box.
Silver Ring
3 × 4 cm 925 sterling silver signet ring.
Average weight: 27 g (depending on size).
Presented in a deluxe soft matte-touch box with slipcase, featuring a black velvet interior with CELTIC FROST and DWTMH red hot-foil logos, stamped on the top of the slipcase and on the reverse of the box lid, respectively.
Includes a hand-numbered certificate of authenticity, plus an additional protective black custom jewellery mailer box.
Belt Buckle
Available in three versions:
Cast in 925 sterling silver (215 g), or
Brass with either an aged or silver-plated finish (both 175 g).
Presented in a deluxe soft matte-touch box with slipcase, featuring a black velvet interior with CELTIC FROST and DWTMH red hot-foil logos, stamped on the top of the slipcase and on the reverse of the box lid, respectively.
Includes a hand-numbered certificate of authenticity, plus an additional protective black custom jewellery mailer box.
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Ferkaad is essentially a musical experiment led by Munoz—who's mainly known for his metal work—as a creative outlet across genres. The collective treats each album as its own creative adventure, bringing in different musicians to tell stories through sound alone.
How It Started
Ferkaad's origin story is pretty organic. During the tail end of Covid restrictions in Singapore, Munoz got together with Australian jazz drummer Anthony Howe and Cuban percussionist Pablo Calzado for what was supposed to be just a casual jam session. Even though they only captured it on phone recordings, Munoz heard something special in those rough takes. That night became the catalyst for Ferkaad—a space where progressive musicians could experiment freely.
The Album
A Different Kind of Animosity is built around the core partnership of Zigor Munoz and guitarist/producer Niels van der Steenhoven, with talented guests rounding out the sound. They recorded across six cities throughout 2024 and 2025—Haarlem, Stilton, Rotterdam, Helsinki, Köln, and Toronto—before Benni Schäfer mixed and mastered everything at Horus Studios in Hannover, Germany.
About the album title, Munoz says:
"It reflects where we are right now. I can't wrap my head around the fact that it's 2025 and we're still at war with each other, still can't seem to agree on much for very long."
The music itself expresses things that don't need words. Munoz describes an interesting creative process: "Half the album came to me one afternoon just sitting on my couch. The other half hit me in the studio while I was finishing up those first songs—maybe 20 minutes total of inspiration. Those are just the foundational ideas I wrote on bass, though. Turning them into finished tracks took considerably longer."
Looking Ahead
The beauty of Ferkaad lies in constant evolution. Each album will feature different musicians, guaranteeing that every release has its own personality and influences. The next album, In Marvelous Hindsight, will spotlight Lex van der Zwaal (who guests on this debut) in a fresh take on Ferkaad's progressive sound. Munoz and van der Zwaal are planning to start recording this fall.
The lineup changes, but the mission stays the same: creating instrumental music that pushes boundaries and tells stories without words.
Munoz wraps it up like this:
"Thanks for taking time to listen to what we've made. There's something magical about instrumental music—it lets everyone bring their own meaning to what they hear. No lyrics to steer you in any particular direction. Just listen, enjoy, and thanks again."
Track
Listing:
1. A Different Kind of Animosity (feat. Derek Sherinian)
2. Placatory Gesture (feat. Hernán Martínez)
3. Esprit (feat. Lex van der Zwaal)
4. Verbal Jousting
5. Attitudinally (feat. Peter Shannon)
Credits:
Niels van der Steenhoven – lead & rhythm guitars.
Zigor Munoz – bass.
Jari Kankare – saxophone.
Tim Newcombe – keyboards.
Rob Stone – drums (guest).
Lex van der Zwaal – guest solo on "Esprit."
Hernán Martínez – guest solo on "Placatory Gesture."
Peter Shannon – guest solo on "Attitudinally."
Derek Sherinian – keyboards on "A Different Kind of Animosity."
https://ferkaad.bandcamp.com/album/a-different-kind-of-animosity
"THE
CRIES OF EVIL" is
the title of EVOKED ECLIPSE debut album which will be
released on Club Inferno Ent. next February 6th, 2026.
Mastered by Jens Bogren at the world-famous Fascination Street Studios (Opeth, Katatonia, Dimmu Borgir, Arch Enemy, Sepultura, Kreator etc. etc.), today we reveal the album cover realized by Gogo Melone and the tracklist which is as follows:
1. Enchantment
2. The Cries Of Evil
3. Land Of The White Spirit Lady
4. Mournishments
5. The Watch Of Spirits
6. Drops Of Blood
7. Illusions Of The Life
8. Ascension
The album in its CD format is already available for pre-order at https://t.ly/7Lvki
Led by Max Havler (ex-OPHIDIAN – ex-SHRIVEL), EVOKED ECLIPSE's sound is closely tied to the Scandinavian Black Metal and Death Metal scene, primarily Swedish, with references to Dissection, Naglfar, but also the melodic Death Metal of Dark Tranquillity and Opeth and the melancholic Doom Gothic elements of early Katatonia!
"The Cries Of Evil" will be out on February 6th, 2026 in CD and digital format.
Just be ready to a new vision of Extreme Music
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ANAGNOSIS presents “LABOURS OF HERCULES” – A Folk/Neoclassical journey into the most iconic mythic trials.
Anagnosis returns with a bold new instrumental album, “Labours of Hercules,” an immersive folk/neoclassical interpretation of the Twelve Labours—one of the most enduring legends in Greek mythology. Following the atmospheric depth of Homer’s Odyssey, this new release dives into the raw power, symbolism, and heroic struggle of Hercules, transforming myth into sound.
Album Concept
Labours of Hercules is built around the legendary trials imposed upon Hercules—twelve impossible tasks that test strength, morality, endurance, and divine will. Each instrumental track represents a different labour, unfolding like a sonic fresco of ancient heroism. From monstrous creatures to supernatural challenges, the album recreates the emotional and physical landscapes that Hercules traversed.
Style & Sound
Anagnosis blends Folk, Neoclassical, and Mythic Ambient elements, weaving together ancient timbres, ritualistic percussion, and cinematic harmonies. The result is a sound that feels both archaic. Listeners will encounter:
Folk instrumentation reminiscent of ancient pastoral life
Neoclassical arrangements evoking heroism and grandeur
Atmospheric textures inspired by mythic landscapes and spiritual symbolism
The music speaks without words, offering psychological depth, mythic resonance, and room for personal interpretation.
Mood & Listening Experience
The album balances intensity and serenity—alternating between battle, pursuit, mystery, and divine wonder. Its tones range from dark and primal to uplifting and ceremonial.
Listeners will experience:
the tension of the hunt,the terror of monstrous encounters,the discipline of heroic duty,and the mystical quiet before triumph.
Each piece stands as a self-contained chapter, yet together they form a cohesive musical epic, honoring the spirit of ancient storytelling.
Tracklist
Capturing and Bringing Back Cerberus – 03:49
Capturing the Ceryneian Hind – 03:49
Capturing the Cretan Bull – 04:22
Capturing the Erymanthian Boar – 03:49
Cleaning the Augean Stables in a Single Day – 02:41
Obtaining the Cattle of the Three-Bodied Giant Geryon – 03:16
Obtaining the Girdle of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons – 03:16
Slaying the Nemean Lion – 03:49
Slaying the Nine-Headed Lernaean Hydra – 03:16
Slaying the Stymphalian Birds – 02:43
Stealing the Mares of Diomedes – 02:43
Stealing Three of the Golden Apples of the Hesperides – Bonus conceptual finale
Why It Connects
Labours of Hercules appeals to fans of neoclassical folk, dark mythic ambient, and storytelling-driven instrumental music. By focusing on atmosphere over narration, it invites listeners to step inside the legend through their own imagination.
This is not just a retelling of the myth—it is a sound-ritual of heroic struggle, a tribute to the endurance and spirit of one of antiquity’s greatest figures.
Availability
The album will be available on all major music platforms, including Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music.
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ULCERATE FESTER – “UNCEASING LIFE, CONTRADICTIO INTERMINUS”
Ulcerate Fester was a one of the early Dutch death metal bands from Almelo, The Netherlands, formed in 1989. After two promising demo's, 2 tracks on a Dutch compilation CD, the band released two full lengths. This compilation CD that includes the 2 demos recorded in 1990 and 1991 for true fans of Old European (Dutch!!) Death Metal. All songs are recorded and produced by Harry Weijering (Asphyx, Hail of Bullets) at Harrow Studios, Losser 1991, ‘92 and 1993. Bonus are 2 bonus tracks from 1991 and 1994. The booklet contains extensive liner notes and old and rare pictures. Ulcerate Fester members also played in Abrupt Demise, Anarchos, Eternal Solstice, Burning Hatred, Adetar, Jagannath and Etherial Winds. Remastered by Achilleas Kalantzis (Possessed, Vio Lence, Varathron).
ADETAR – “SINISTER RESURRECTION OF THE MORBID”
Adetar was a legendary but obscure death metal band from Enschede, The Netherlands. Unfortunately after two promising demo's the band ceased to exist. This compilation CD includes the 2 demos recorded in 1990 and 1991 for true fans of Old European Death Metal. Second demo ‘Death Deified’ was recorded by Harry Weijering (Asphyx, Hail of Bullets) at Harrow Studios, Losser 1991. Six live bonus tracks from 1990 – ’92 , including two never released tracks. Extensive liner notes from Steven Willems (Rock Tribune, Streams of Ancient Wisdom: The History of Dutch Death And Extreme Metal). Adetar members also played during the early 90’s in Ulcerate Fester, Jagannath, Dead Head, God Dethroned or still today in Putrefied Corpse. Partially remastered by Achilleas Kalantzis (Possessed, Vio-Lence, Varathron).
MALIGNANT- “SEGRUOCS LACITSAISELCCE”
Cult black death metal from the South of The Netherlands, formed in 1989. ‘Segruocs Lacitsaiselcce’ contains the bands second demo, the two official rehearsal demos and one special Asphyx related track. And featuring the classic line up of: Roel Sanders on drums (Asphyx, God Dethroned, Inhume), Guitars Ben Janssen (Inhume, ex-Asphyx), Bass & Vocals: Ron van de Pol (also featuring on Asphyx – Asphyx album from 1994). New cover art, remastered, Extensive liner notes from Steven Willems (Rock Tribune, Streams of Ancient Wisdom: The History of Dutch Death And Extreme Metal). Maybe most special is the track ‘Of Unsound Mind – Sectarianism‘ recorded at Woodhouse Studios where all Malignant members were to record Asphyx - Asphyx album (1994) and they recorded one Malignant track. All members were in Asphyx as well.
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Hi!
We are Alchemical Death Metal band TRIA PRIMA from Ukraine and we
want to give you our new mini album ‘THREE PRIMES OF ALCHEMY’ and
music video.
Style: Death Metal with Doom/Dungeon Synth elements
Date release:18 November 2025
Label: Nocturnus Records (CD release)
Location: Zhytomyr (Ukraine)
First single: https://youtu.be/ZbvPp0cVrCU
Full album: https://youtu.be/7jMq0AamemU (use please after 18 november)
Press release:
Anira Star - female vocals
Evgeniy Maestro - solo guitars, keyboards (Bestial Invasion, Cosmic Jaguar, Violent Omen)
Recorded at Morrison Studio, Zhytomyr
Mixed and mastering at Nuts4all Studio, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Produced by Serhii D. D. Bondar
Covert by Grace Ace Blood
Design art by H.E.
triaprima.ua@gmail.com
https://www.youtube.com/@TriaPrimaband
https://triaprimaua.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/triaprima.band
NEWS 16.11.2025
BLASTING THE MOUNTAINS FEST | Pt. 1 – Offizieller
Vorverkaufsstart am 14.11.2025.
Der offizielle Ticketvorverkauf für das neue Metal-Festival BLASTING THE MOUNTAINS FEST | Pt. 1 hat begonnen! Ab sofort können Hardtickets direkt über den gemeinnützigen Verein Hellbollwerk e.V. aus Ilsenburg (Harz) bestellt werden.
Genau ein Jahr vor dem Festival, das am 14. November 2026 die Harzlandhalle Ilsenburg zu einer bebenden Metal-Hochburg machen wird, ist nun der Startschuss für den VVK gefallen.
So funktioniert die Ticketbestellung
Die Bestellung erfolgt einfach und direkt über das Team des Hellbollwerk e.V. – ohne Zwischenhändler - szenenah und fair.
Kontaktmöglichkeiten:
• via Instagram-DM (@hellbollwerk_ev)
• per E-Mail: hellbollwerk@gmx.de
Hintergrund zum Hellbollwerk e.V. und seinem Zusammenschluss
Der Hellbollwerk e.V. wurde am 29. Juni 2025 in Ilsenburg gegründet und verfolgt ausschließlich und unmittelbar gemeinnützige Zwecke, insbesondere die Förderung von Kunst, Kultur sowie der regionalen Rock- und Metal-Subkultur im Raum Harz und Magdeburg.
Die Vision: Kultur in der Region sichtbar machen, junge Bands stärken, Räume für Kreativität schaffen und dabei regionale Musiklandschaften fördern, die andernorts oft wenig Aufmerksamkeit bekommen.
Hervorgegangen ist der Verein aus dem Zusammenschluss zweier langjähriger Underground-Initiativen – Elbbollwerk39 Concerts (Magdeburg) und Hellfire Over Ilsenburg – getragen von vier Freunden (Martin, Sebastian, Sven & David) und ihrer gemeinsamen Idee, etwas Nachhaltiges für die Szene aufzubauen.
Die Gründer – Martin, Sven, Sebastian & David – haben zwei bisher eigenständige Underground-Projekte vereint:
• „Elbbollwerk39 Concerts“ (Magdeburg) – bekannt für harte, ehrliche, bodenständige Undergroundshows
• „Hellfire Over Ilsenburg“ – ein wachsendes lokales Eventformat, das seit Jahren Bands in den Harz bringt
Aus dieser Freundschaft wurde ein gemeinsamer, gemeinnütziger Kulturverein, der künftig Konzerte, Workshops, Nachwuchsförderung und regionale Vernetzung betreiben wird – alles mit dem Ziel, die Szene nachhaltig zu stärken. Die Gründungsversammlung brachte dabei klar die Motivation hervor, regionale Musiker*innen, Veranstaltungsformate und kulturelle Projekte sichtbar zu machen und zugleich soziale Initiativen einzubinden.
Bedeutung für die Region Harz & Magdeburg
Mit der Gründung des Vereins übernimmt Hellbollwerk eine kulturpolitisch wichtige Rolle:
• Förderung der kulturellen Vielfalt
• Unterstützung junger regionaler Bands
• Aufbau eines aktiven Vereinslebens
• Durchführung gemeinnütziger und sozialer Projekte
• Etablierung neuer Kulturformate in einer ländlich geprägten Region
Weitere Projekte:
Neben dem großen Festival steht auch das nächste lokale Underground-Event bereits fest:
HELLFIRE OVER ILSENBURG | Pt. IV – 21.03.2026
Mit fünf Bands im Haus der Vereine im Ilsetal. Auch hierfür startete der Vorverkauf im Herbst 2025.
EXTREME ÄTTÄCK in Magdeburg | 29.05.2026 – weitere Informationen folgen
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Liebe Grüße aus Ilsenburg Euer Hellbollwerk e.V. – David Siegmund
Härter. Schärfer. Tiefer verwurzelt als je zuvor. Die Groove-Death-Metal-Band MAGNACULT kündigt die Veröffentlichung von LUCIS an, einem kraftvollen und spirituell aufgeladenen neuen Album. Auf diesem Album hat die Band ihren Sound verfeinert: massive Gitarrensoli, donnernde Basslinien, unerbittliche Grooves, kombiniert mit der Brutalität des klassischen Death Metal. Es ist der Höhepunkt jahrelanger kreativer Auseinandersetzung – persönlicher Verlust, Sucht, die globale Pandemie –, all das verdichtet in elf Tracks, die lautstark gehört werden wollen.
Tracklist :
01. Eternity's Gate
02. Darkest Truth
03. The Red Circle
04. Lucis I
05. Deceived From Day One
06. Heartless
07. Blackened Crystal
08. Lucis II
09. Winds of Creation
10. Final Decision I
11. Final Decision II
Dieses Album entstand in schwierigen Zeiten, präsentiert sich aber mit neuer Stärke und Zusammenhalt. Hinter den Kulissen arbeitete MagnaCult mit Joost van den Broek (Epica, Ayreon) an den Schlagzeugaufnahmen und Matt Bayles (Norma Jean, Mastodon, Pearl Jam) an seinem meisterhaften Mix und der Co-Produktion zusammen. Das Ergebnis ist ein intensives und ausgefeiltes Album mit elf Titeln voller Bedeutung und spiritueller Spannung. Auf Lucis erzählen die Songs von den Dämonen, die in uns allen lauern – und beschreiben die Wege, die wir beschreiten, wenn wir vor der Wahl zwischen Dunkelheit und Licht stehen.
Mit elf Titeln – darunter das polyphone „Final Decision I & II“ – präsentiert Lucis eine in sich geschlossene Erzählung. Der Titel selbst, lateinisch für „Licht“ oder „Erleuchtung“, unterstreicht das zentrale Thema des Albums: den inneren Kampf zwischen Dunkelheit und Erleuchtung. MagnaCult lädt die Hörer ein, diesen Weg mit ihnen zu gehen.
MagnaCult haben sich über die Jahre einen beeindruckenden Ruf als Live-Band erarbeitet. Sie teilten die Bühne in ganz Europa mit Größen wie Five Finger Death Punch, DevilDriver, Ill Niño, Nile, Kittie, Butcher Babies, Trivium, KING810, Whitechapel, Soulfly, Shadows Fall en Six Feet Under. Ihre Energie auf der Bühne und ihre bisherigen Support-Auftritte zeugen von einer Band, die bereit ist, ihre Präsenz weiter auszubauen. Mit einem neuen Album und neuer Besetzung planen sie nun eine intensive Konzertreihe im Jahr 2026.
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PHANTOM
CORPORATION
– Neue Single/Video „KROKODIL” ab jetzt online.
The Death Crust Commando strikes back – louder, fiercer, heavier.
“Time And Tide” is here to crush everything in its path!
Seit ihrer Gründung 2016 sind PHANTOM CORPORATION eine unaufhaltsame Macht im Underground. Gegründet von Szene-Veteranen aus Bremen und Dortmund – mit Wurzeln in Bands wie Dew-Scented, Eroded, BK 49 und Weak Aside – verschmilzt die Band gnadenlosen D-Beat Crust mit Death Metal und rohem Old-School Thrash/Punk zu einem kompromisslosen Crossover-Sound.
Nach der Debüt-Mini „First Commandment“ (2016), den furiosen EPs „Cause and Effect“ (2017) und „Belligerent Powers“ (2018) sowie der Split „Banner Of Hatred“ (2022, mit den Schweden Harrowed) und dem ersten vollen Album „Fallout“ (2023), präsentiert die Band nun ihr tödlichstes Geschoss: Das neue Album „Time And Tide“, das in den letzten Tagen des Jahres 2025 über Supreme Chaos Records erscheint.
Produziert von Jörg Uken in den Soundlodge Studios (u. a. God Dethroned, Temple Of Dread), hebt
„Time And Tide“ die Band auf ein völlig neues Level. Über 11 Tracks hinweg liefern PHANTOM CORPORATION ein unerbittliches Feuerwerk – vielseitiger, brutaler und kompromissloser als je zuvor. Rasende Thrash-Riffs, Crust- Attacken und Death Metal vereinen sich zu einem apokalyptischen Schlagabtausch ohne Atempause.
PHANTOM CORPORATION – „TIME AND TIDE” (42:14)
Tracklist:
1. Frantic Disruption (4:16)
2. Dead Of Night (4:30)
3. Crushed (3:59)
4. Krokodil (1:31)
5. Pound Of Flesh (2:42)
6. To The Hilt (4:14)
7. Time And Tide (4:17)
8. Sorcerer (3:57)
9. For All The Wrong Reasons (4:42)
10. Crisis (2:21)
11. Western Apocalypse (5:35)
Der zweite neue Song von „Time And Tide” erscheint heute, checkt das von Costin Chioreanu erstellte Video zu „Krokodil“ hier: https://youtu.be/dLoKFLsGLRA
PHANTOM CORPORATION über „Krokodil”:
„Wie der brachiale Titel schon vermuten lässt, ist dieser Track ungezähmt, brutal und tödlich! „Krokodil“ hat einen hymnischen, treibenden Vibe, der den Hörer nach 91 Sekunden nach Luft schnappen und gleichzeitig dennoch nach mehr klanglicher Gewalt bettelt lässt. Ein furioser Rausch und eine unaufhaltsame Machtdemonstration – genau das, was man braucht!”
“Shattered life - Beaten down - The only solution – Lies at hand…” (Krokodil Lyrics)
Die erste Single des Albums, „Sorcerer”, wurde in einem von Costin Chioreanu kreierten Visualizer auf Basis des Album-Artworks von Skurktur veröffentlicht: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnfyBYeQLMs
„Time And Tide” wird in den folgenden Formaten erhältlich sein:
Black LP
Orange Marbled LP (Limitiert auf 150 Kopien)
Clear Rusty Marbled LP (Limitiert auf 100 Kopien / Band-Exklusiv)
Splatter Clear Orange Black LP (Limitiert auf 100 Kopien)
Digipak CD (Limitiert auf 500 Kopien / Handnummeriert)
Jewelcase CD
Black Tape (Limitiert auf 150 Kopien)
Purple Tape (Limitiert to 50 Kopien / SCR-Exklusiv)
Digital Album
Der „Time And Tide” Album Pre-Order ist hier erhältlich: https://linktr.ee/phantomcorporation
Oder direkt über Supreme Chaos Records: https://supremechaos.com/scr-artists/phantom-corporation/
PHANTOM CORPORATIONs Debütalbum „Fallout” und dessen limitierte „Fire Splatter” und „Orange/Black marbled” Vinyl-Varianten sind nach wie vor hier erhältlich: https://supremechaos.com/link/phantomcorporation/
PHANTOM CORPORATION 2025
Ulf – Bass
Arne – Guitars
Philipp – Guitars
Marc – Drums
Leif – Vocals
Achtung: Für das „Time And Tide” Album-Release-Wochenende werden PHANTOM CORPORATION zwei sehr besondere, kostenlose In-Store Gigs spielen:
12.12.2025 Bremen – Hot Shot Records
13.12.2025 Hamburg – Plattenkiste
Auf keinen Fall verpassen!!!
PHANTOM CORPORATION – Live 2025/2026:
24.01.2026 Krefeld – Kulturrampe
07.02.2026 Osnabrück – JZ Westwerk 141 / Waking The Ghouls II
18.-20.06.2026 Protzen – Protzen Open Air
17.10.2026 Nordhorn – Alte Weberei / Nordhorn Deathfest
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FRANTIC AGGRESSOR – “EXTINCTION”
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 17.10.2025
Sechs Jahre nach ihrem Debüt »Land Mine Logic« lassen FRANTIC AGGRESSOR aus Ost-Berlin unter dem Banner des Nihilistic Black Metal eine noch heftigere Salve los!
Auf »Extinction« schwingt nicht, wie bei vielen anderen, eine dunkle Romantik mit, und es gibt keine Sehnsucht nach einer wie auch immer gearteten mystischen Erfahrung als Gott-Ersatz. Stattdessen verströmen die neuen Tracks oft das Flair eines Beschusses auf offenem, kargen Gelände.
Das ist abermals ein Lehrstück in Sachen musikalischer Militanz und die erneute Verkündung einer Metaphysik des Nichts. Dabei befasst sich jeder Song mit einem anderen Thema der menschlichen Existenz und ihrem Verschwinden, seien es Aspekte der Geschichte, der Religion, Philosophie, Technologie oder das uns umgebende Universum. – »All it takes is a little push to let Atlas lose balance. What if you cut a leg off, or slice up the arms?«
Ausgehend von dieser Idee der Fragilität des menschlichen Überlebens propagiert das Trio aus Discrimination, Humiliation und Contempt den reinen Nihilismus und feiert das Ende der Zivilisation. – Onward to the extinction of all!
»Extinction«
1. Morals - Across
2. Metaphysics – Beyond
3. Religion - Insurrection of the Lesser
4. Revolution - Death of all Masks
5.Technology – Harvest
6. History – Empire
7. Cosmos - Lightless Skies
Total: 39.20
Line-up
Discrimination: git & voc
Humiliation: bass
Contempt: drums
Aufgenommen im November 2024 von Henker. Gemixt und gemastert in den Kalthallen Studios.
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England-based atmospheric black metal band NEMOROUS has shared the first single off their upcoming full-length, WHAT REMAINS WHEN HOPE HAS FAILED.
Stream "Quiescence" now at https://youtu.be/ct8FHWs6By4?si=pkp_teYku5k3lD_O
The wait for the full-length follow-up to the promising debut EP from England's NEMOROUS is nearly over! Four years after the self-titled, the band has finally returned with a six-track atmospheric black metal experience titled What Remains When Hope Has Failed. Bindrune Records will release the album on CD, vinyl and digital formats on December 19.
Pre-order What
Remains When Hope Has Failed at https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/
and https://bindrunerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/what-remains-when-hope-has-failed
Tracklist:
1) The Wyrm at World's End
2) This Rotten Bough
3) Sky Avalanche
4) Quiescence
5) Bereft Part 2
6) What Remains When Hope Has Failed
Formed from the ashes of Wodensthrone, NEMOROUS carry the torch of atmospheric English black influenced metal proudly, but it’s not the main driving force behind them. The vision is far more expansive and eclectic. With their debut self-titled EP, they have proven that the twisting melodies and fog-like aura they create with their sound indeed harkens back to their past musical conquests, yet progression is a core tenet as it walks hand in hand with rich melodies and a fierce sense of aggressive tradition.
What Remains When Hope Has Failed is four years in the making and finds the band emerging victorious from a line-up change, where Chris Walsh (Vocals/Guitars) was replaced by Nick Craggs (Vocals - Vacivus/Neolithic) and Rob Hindmarsh on second guitar. Now as sextet, the band dove into the music for their first full-length reinvigorated, and it shows in the album’s composition.
What Remains When Hope Has Failed is a dynamic and emotional journey where quiet musical passages draw the listener in with vulnerability and beautiful, clean guitar arrangements that feel like Fields of the Nephilim at their most post-apocalyptic, only to build with reflective, melancholic mids, before exploding with blasting ferocity. From subtle, yet expansive synth textures, complex drum work that never loses grasp on a powerful feel/swing, it all strengthens the overall impact of this album with colorful dynamics and a songwriting characteristic which can certainly be traced back to the early days of Wodensthrone.
NEMOROUS is:
Phil Heckles - Bass
Ian Finley - Drums
Michael Blenkarn - Guitars
Alexandra Durning - Keyboards
Rob Hindmarsh - Guitars
Nick Craggs - Vocals
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www.facebook.com/NemorousUK
Eclectic and progressive act WEFT has released a new track off its upcoming debut album, THE SPLINTERED OAR.
Masterminded by Panopticon's Charlie Anderson, The Splintered Oar is a wide-ranging and stunning piece of work that takes the listener on a journey through the wilds of the composer's artistic soul. will release The Splitered Oar on CD, vinyl, and digital formats on December 19.
Pre-order The
Splintered Oar at https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/
and https://bindrunerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-splintered-oar
Tracklist:
1) Leaves
2) False Kingdoms
3) The Hull
4) Red Dawn
5) Dream of Oaks
They say that it takes a band/musician their entire life to create their first album, and on the weathered, atmospheric, and truly adventurous The Splintered Oar, it sounds like every note has indeed a lifetime of exploration, joy, loss, and growth behind it.
WEFT is the sole vision of Charlie Anderson, a name you may have heard before, as he has toured the world with and has become a very integral part of Panopticon with his amazing violin work and gift for musical composition. On The Splintered Oar, Charlie has meticulously constructed an album that may occasionally hint at his influences, but finds him empowering his musical vision with many different styles. At the core lies atmosphere, ignited by a churning death and black metal accelerant. Add alternate musical paths such as country/Americana, prog, and other distortionless endeavors, and you have a very adventurous and exciting album.
The Splintered Oar further deepens the experience with a vocal range that churns in the deepest of brutality, basks in the howling rage of a fire-lit night sky, only to enchant with choirs/clean singing, which strengthens every colorful moment cascading across this album like waves slowly eroding away the shoreline. And the violin… Charlie has used this instrument in a very creative way… one that certainly has never been experienced in the metal sphere before. Haunting melody lines and effects augmented treatments offer moments of bold experimentation that never suffocates, only transports the listener deeper into the experience. The Splintered Oar is indeed a vessel of exploration set adrift in a vibrant storm of metal intensities.
For this recording, Charlie formed a community of talented friends and contributors who helped see that his vision come to fruition:
Performed by:
Charlie Anderson- Bass, Guitars, Vocals, Strings, Electric Violin, Synth, Piano, Additional Percussion
Austin Lunn- Drums
Andrea Morgan- Violin, Vocals (Falling Leaves, The Hull, A Dream of Oaks)
Jordan Day- Vocals (A Dream of Oaks)
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Finnish
one-man black metal band VALONTUOJA released the second
album 'TULESTA SYNTYNYT' on November 14th 2025 via
Inverse Records.
Listen to the album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/valontuoja-tulesta-syntynyt
From the blaze of transformation and the silence of the wild, Valontuoja conjures"Tulesta Syntynyt" (Born of Fire) a melodic black metal odyssey through flame, fate, and solitude.
Rooted in the ouroboric cycle of death and rebirth, this album burns with the intensity of solar flares and the instinct of the hunt. Wolves howl beneath a collapsing sky as destiny tightens its grip, dragging the listener through a world where every step into the unknown is both burden and awakening.
Each track is a rite of passage an exploration of primal responsibility, of finding home in the heart of the wilderness, and embracing the cold clarity of solitude. Here, fire does not only destroy it refines, purifies, and reveals. "Tulesta Syntynyt" is the sound of becoming, where the self is tempered in isolation and reborn in the eternal blaze.
Biography:
Valontuoja, meaning "Bringer of Light" in Finnish, is the one-man black metal entity forged in the icy depths of Helsinki by the Jal'zoroth. Formed in 2024, Valontuoja channels the primordial essence of black metal, weaving a sonic tapestry that is both ferocious and hauntingly melodic. Valontuoja's soundscape is a maelstrom of raw, unyielding black metal fused with ethereal and melodic elements. Valontuoja conjures an atmosphere that is as brutal as it is beautiful, guiding listeners through the desolate realms of human despair and nature's unforgiving majesty
Track list:
1. Palaneiden Kasvojen Maa
2. Ympyrä Joka Syö Itseään
3. Kameleontti
4. Aurinkoroihun Kirous
5. Välikappale
6. Asiat Jotka On Tähtiin Kirjoitettu
7. Sinä Vastaat Teoistasi
8. Korvessa On Kotini
9. Kun Kaikki Muu Vaikenee
Album cover by Vhan Artwork
Line-up:
Jal'zoroth - vocals, guitars, bass & drums
https://www.facebook.com/Valontuojablackmetal
If you want to feel your brain explode inside your skull, I must inform you that the time is coming to burst your eardrums with this split, which will be presented in 7-inch vinyl format, in an orange EP where nothing and nobody will be. Anyone interested in supporting the bands or labels involved in this release, get in touch to purchase your copy while you're still alive.
GRINDCORE ON... BULLSHIT OFF...
SICKRECY / BRAINWASHER
Format : Split 7'EP Orange Vinyl
Genre : Grindcore
Release date : November 21st, 2025
Sickrecy Side:
01 - First World Anxiety [02:51]
02 - I Am Paty [02:30]
Brainwasher Side:
03 - Infinite Growth Doctrine [02:52]
04 - To Stupidity And Beyond [01:36]
Co-release with Murder Records, Flyktsoda Records, Global Help Records, Disturbed Mind Records, Necro Records, Rødel Records, Throne Of Lies Records, 7 Degrees Records, Helldog Records, and Sickrec(y)
SICKRECY
Sickrecy is a Swedish band formed in 2021 that overwhelms us with violent Grindcore full of insanity, where we will be devoured alive with brutality clearly evident in the two tracks included in this split.
Line Up:
Martin Eriksson: Drums
Marcus Dahl: Guitar
Adde Mitroulis: Vocals
Isac Nordgren Jonasson: Bass
Tobbe Ander: Guitar
sickrecyband@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/Sickrecy
BRAINWASHER
The band Brainwasher also comes from Sweden, was formed in 2018, and presents extreme Grindcore where the despotism of social ignorance is quite explicit in the two tracks included in this split, where no one will emerge unscathed from an auditory beating.
Line Up:
Henrik Blomqvist: Vocals
Patrik Tegnander: Bass
Johan: Guitars
Victor Berglund: Drums
brainwashergrind@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/BrainwasherGrind
Swedish melodic death metal veterans IMPERIAL DOMAIN proudly
announce that their critically acclaimed album PORTENTUM is out
today!
Listen now on all major digital platforms: https://orcd.co/portentum
Portentum is a gripping exploration of humanity’s recurring struggles, societal upheaval, and the omens that have shaped our world. The album delves into cycles of conflict, the consequences of unchecked exploitation, and the tension between human ambition and its destructive potential, painting a dark and immersive vision of a world on the brink.
With Portentum, Imperial Domain deliver a melodic death metal statement that fuses aggression, atmosphere, and sharp social commentary, reinforcing their status as one of Sweden’s most compelling extreme acts.
"History Repeating": https://youtu.be/o4HTtmGfMWo
Retribution (Music Video): https://youtu.be/oRjvtoJqh_Y
About Imperial Domain
Hailing from Uppsala, Sweden, Imperial Domain emerged in the mid-90s with their demo The Final Chapter (1995), followed by In the Ashes of the Fallen (1996), which earned recognition on the Top Swedish Demotapes list. Their debut album (1998, Pulverised Records) received critical acclaim, establishing their presence in the scene, while 2003’s The Ordeal (Konqueror Records) showcased intricate songwriting and melodic depth.
Despite disbanding in 2004 and the tragic loss of singer Tobias Heideman in 2014, the band returned with The Deluge (2016), earning praise for its powerful songwriting and authentic melodic death metal sound.
Line-Up
Peter Laitinen Sundström – Guitar
Philip Borg – Guitar
Andreas Öman – Vocals
Mattias Hansson – Bass
Alvaro Svanerö – Drums
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Check out the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_t3ubeiPMc
HyperioN return with new LP, Cybergenesis, a dark sci-fi concept album for fans of traditional Heavy Metal. Fighter Records will release the album on January 15, 2026.
Album pre-orders are available now at: https://hyperionbandheavy.bandcamp.com/album/cybergenesis
Cybergenesis, HyperioN’s third full-length album, is eight tracks of powerful, dynamic Heavy Metal!
The concept of Cybergenesis fits seamlessly with the fiery heavy metal therein. A daring expedition into a space-time rift ends in disaster, awakening the Choir, an ancient alien hive mind from an alternate dimension, and plunging humanity into a desperate war for survival. On an Earth enslaved by the Choir's army of cyborgs, a former commander is reborn as the Rhizome Rider, leading a rebellion from within and sacrificing himself to free humanity.
Rooted in classic sci-fi, from Star Trek to Ghost in the Shell, Cybergenesis tells a story of resistance and sacrifice, where the human spirit defies impossible odds.
The album’s striking cover artwork was hand-painted on canvas by English artist Ryan T. Hancock, renowned for his work with bands such as Seven Sisters, Blood Star, and Stormborn. HyperioN chose a handcrafted, non-AI artwork to give Cybergenesis a tangible and authentic visual identity.
Track
Listing:
1. Deafening
2. Rewire, Rebuild
3. Yet We Still Fight
4. The Shackles of Chronitus
5. Blood Over Chrome
6. Grain of Sand
7. Rhizome Rider
8. The Whole of Time
Credits:
All lyrics written by Davide Cotti. All music written by Davide Cotti except track #02 (written by Davide Cotti and Francesco Madonna) and track #07 (written by Francis Dipasquale and Davide Cotti).
Production, recording, mixing and mastering by Davide Cotti.
Vocals recorded by Antonio Inserillo.
Line-up:
Davide Cotti - Guitars
Francesco Madonna - Drums
Max Morelli - Vocals
Simone “Nega” Cauli - Bass
Francis Dipasquale - Guitars
Bio:
HyperioN were formed in 2015 by drummer Jason Beghelli and guitarist Davide Cotti to play traditional heavy metal, drawing inspiration from bands such as Metal Church, early Queensrÿche, and Judas Priest, while adding their own personal touch.
The band quickly gained attention with their debut album Dangerous Days (2017), released via Spanish label Fighter Records. The album was warmly welcomed by critics and gave HyperioN the chance to share thestage with established Italian acts such as Tarchon Fist, Black Phantom, and Rain.
After the recording of the second album, founding drummer Jason Beghelli stepped down for personal reasons and was replaced by Francesco Madonna. In 2020, the band released Into The Maelstrom, again on Fighter Records. The album received excellent reviews worldwide, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of all live promotion plans. Despite the circumstances, HyperioN significantly expanded their fanbase across the United States, Canada,
Mexico, and Europe through platforms like Bandcamp, finally returning to the stage in 2021.
This first era of the band came to a turning point in 2021, when several lineup changes reshaped HyperioN’s identity. Long-time bassist Antonio Scalia left the band, and after a long search Simone Cauli joined in September 2022. Just a week earlier, guitarist Luke Fortini had
departed, but the vacant role was swiftly filled by Francis Dipasquale (from thrashers Dypron). With the lineup restored, work began on new material, only to face another setback in spring 2023 when vocalist Michelangelo Carano decided to leave.
After months of auditions, HyperioN found the missing piece in singer Max Morelli, known for his work with Signum Draconis and Ladykiller. With this new and revitalized lineup, Hyperion completed the writing and production of their third album Cybergenesis, a record that represents both continuity and rebirth. Although only guitarist Davide Cotti remains from the original formation, he has always been the main composer and driving force behind the band, making sure HyperioN's sound stays true to its roots: driving riffs that ignite into bursts of speed, soaring yet gritty vocals, and melodic hooks that make every chorus memorable.
https://www.fighter-records.com/
https://linktr.ee/hyperionband
We
are proud to announce that Club Inferno Ent. (My Kingdom Music sublabel) will
distribute and promote EVOKED ECLIPSE debut album "THE
CRIES OF EVIL".
Led by Max Havler (ex-OPHIDIAN – ex-SHRIVEL), EVOKED ECLIPSE's sound is closely tied to the Scandinavian Black Metal and Death Metal scene, primarily Swedish, with references to Dissection, Naglfar, but also the melodic Death Metal of Dark Tranquillity and Opeth and the melancholic Doom Gothic elements of early Katatonia!
Max comments: "I'm really excited to have reached this agreement with Club Inferno because I really care about this work. I worked hard on it, and just before the final details of the mastering phase were finalized, the label offered me a collaboration. It couldn't have been a better time, and I'm sure they'll be able to promote the work done at the best. I can't wait for you to listen to it!".
"The Cries Of Evil" will be out on February 6th, 2026 in CD and digital format.
Just be ready to a new vision of Extreme Music!
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https://www.facebook.com/evokedeclipse
Between
1989–2024, R.E.T. was a band consisting of members mostly from
Třinec, the second easternmost town in the Czech Republic, and its
surroundings, close to the borders with Poland and Slovakia.
R.E.T. – “DEPRESSION”(30th Anniversary Edition)
Style: Doom metal
Type: Digipak (500 copies)
Release date: 29.11. 2025
Pre-orders start: 1.11. 2025
That is, from the Moravian-Silesian region, where a strong doom-metal base established itself in the mid-1990s, led by bands such as DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY, HYPNOTIC SCENERY or SILENT STREAM OF GODLESS ELEGY. Although this period lasted only a few years, spontaneously emerged and just as spontaneously dissolved, it made an indelible mark in the history of the Czech (doom) metal scene.
The recording “Depression”, with which R.E.T. first entered the chronicles of Czech doom metal and hard music in general in 1995 as their debut CD, was first released as a cassette demo without any ambitions.
This year's digipak re-edition, 30 years later, contains 5 original tracks + 2 new ones from 2024, with which R.E.T. ended their career after 35 years.
Pre-orders, including merchandise, started on 1.11. at www.paratshop.cz
Full article can be read on the Pařát Productions website https://paratshop.cz/2025/11/03/prvni-album-r-e-t-vyjde-po-30-letech-v-digipakove-reedici-i-s-bonusovymi-songy-predobjednavky-jiz-spusteny/
THUS DEFILED – “WINGS OF THE NIGHTSTORM”
Label: Vic Records
Release date: november 28th 2025
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Venom | Emperor | Cradle Of Filth | Varathron
Throughout the 1990s black metal was spreading around the globe like an irresistible plague. Covens of corpse-painted disciples of the dark sprang up everywhere, from the icy fjords of Norway to the sun-baked climes of Greece. And the country where the very concept of black metal was first created was no exception – England, the home of Venom, the first, the black metal gods, was spawning its own new breed of devils. In the vanguard of the British legions, alongside co-conspirators Cradle Of Filth, were Thus Defiled. After two vicious demos, Blasphemous Coven and Enchanted By The Dark One, both released in 1993, Thus Defiled then unleashed two seminal works of raw, atmospheric blasphemy that have remained revered and treasured in the black metal underground ever since…1995s Through The Impure Veil Of Dawn and 1997s Wings Of The Nightstorm. Thus Defiled would go on to create more finely crafted and sophisticated albums later in their career, in particular the devastating Daemonspawn, but their first two albums held something special. Born from a youthful fervour and passionate dedication to the dark heart of black metal, they retain strong musical links to the first wave of the genre, most notably the mighty Venom and both are shrouded in a primal, shadowed atmosphere that has endeared them to fans for the last thirty years.
Now, these long unavailable classics of metal’s darkest sub-genre are finally to be re-released. Vic Records, whose roots go back to the same early ‘90s era as Thus Defiled themselves, will relight the black flame on November 28th and set loose Through The Impure Veil Of Dawn and Wings Of The Nightstorm into the world once more.
These two albums have long since secured their place in the annals of black metal history and their power and presence remains undiminished by the passing decades. The wild, black chaos of Through The Impure Veil Of Dawn shows that ‘metal’ was always as important as the ‘blackness’ for Thus Defiled; demonstrated in the epic thunder of ‘Under Blackening Horizons’ and the atmospheric title track. And even at this early stage in the band’s development their ambition, their reaching for grandeur can be found in ‘A Crimson Vision In The Glade Of Shadowfire’ and the classically influenced ‘Fear Us For We Are The Darkness’. Fittingly the debut concludes with its most accomplished and creative track – ‘Darkness Rape The Tranquil Shore Of Eternity’ – which lights the way to the dramatic developments of Wings Of The Nightstorm. Thus Defiled’s second album is where the band really took flight in terms of what would become their fierce, intense, melodic, riff driven black metal. The songs are longer, more complex and involved, yet still with that instant impact of metallic power. The likes of ‘(Angelblood) The Tears Of An Age Now Dead’ and ‘Empire Of Souls Bleeding’ showed that Thus Defiled were more than just standard bearers for a nascent British black metal scene, they were a force that could contend on the global stage.
Both albums have been carefully restored and remastered by Thus Defiled’s Paul C. and come with new liner notes written by Officium Triste’s Pim Blankenstein. What makes these reissues utterly essential for long standing admirers of Thus Defiled though are the bonus tracks which supplement each release. Taken from unearthed 1994 rehearsal tapes these include never before released songs like ‘Shadow Of All Forsaken’, ‘Where The Forest Screams’, ‘I Of The Blackstorm’ and ‘The Final Sunrise (Purity Lies Dying)’. Two hell born beasts have returned from the void and are coming for your souls once again!
Line-up:
Paul C - Guitars/Vocals
Sam C - Bass
Andy R - Guitars
Nick L – Drums
Paul N – Session Keyboards
https://www.vicrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thusdefiled
SOUL REBORN return with “CEREBRO”, the second single and title track from their upcoming full-length release, delivering a brutal, thought-provoking statement carved directly into the core of modern extreme metal. Fusing the visceral intensity of Death Metal with the ferocity and weight of Metalcore, Cerebro pushes listeners into a confrontation with one of humanity’s oldest beliefs: faith versus reason.
The track tears forward with razor sharp riffs, pulverizing drums, and a vocal performance that grips with raw conviction. Lyrically, Cerebro challenges the idea of divine authority, instead placing the power and responsibility of existence within the human mind. There is no promised paradise or eternal torment, only the undeniable truth that our bodies return to the earth, fragmenting into the particles that form new life. It’s an unfiltered vision of death not as an ending, but as a continuation of the infinite cycle.
Cerebro is a declaration of freedom, choosing consciousness, empathy, and reality over blind doctrine. It is about living fully, respecting the world and the living beings within it, and embracing the knowledge that our legacy carries on through matter and memory.
Soul Reborn have crafted a track that hits just as hard philosophically as it does sonically. This is extreme music with purpose, weight, and intent.
Biography
Soul Reborn stands as the brainchild of Italian guitarist Stefano Pelosi. Conceived in 2019, it serves as a platform for Stefano's creative expression, unbound by any limitations. Handling every facet of the project—from composing music and lyrics to recording, drum composition via Superior Drummer 3, production, mixing, and even crafting logos and artworks—Stefano's vision remains singularly his own. The only external inputs are the chosen vocalist, varying with each album, and the mastering, entrusted to an outside studio.
He project's musical ethos encompasses a modern iteration of death metal, infused with diverse influences reflective of Stefano's eclectic background. There are no boundaries; instead, Soul Reborn is perceived by Stefano as a dynamic entity, constantly evolving. Each album serves not as a final destination but as a stepping stone in an ever-unfolding odyssey, perpetually in motion according to Stefano's perspective.
https://www.facebook.com/soulrebornband
Greek
melodic death metal quintet FLAMECORE has released the
official lyric video for their track "PROJECTED
REALITY," featured on their self-titled debut album, Flamecore (out
now via Wormholedeath).
“Projected Reality” strikes at the heart of modern existence, exposing a world built on deception, false idols, and relentless struggle. With razor-sharp riffs and unyielding intensity, Flamecore delivers a merciless track that reveals freedom as nothing more than a cage.
The single follows the band’s previously released videos:
https://youtu.be/k2UZLvR4r74
https://youtu.be/4hyddSoXW_Y
Stream Flamecore here: https://orcd.co/flamecore
About:
Flamecore’s debut self-titled album is a fierce and emotionally charged statement from a band determined to reshape the boundaries of melodic death metal. Rooted in the genre’s foundations but sharpened with a modern edge, the record blends soaring harmonized leads, thunderous double-kick rhythms, and vocals that shift from guttural roars to anguished screams. The band draws inspiration from the likes of In Flames, Slipknot, and Gojira, channeling that energy into a sound that feels immediate and immersive.
The album was recorded across two cities, reflecting Flamecore’s collaborative spirit and DIY ethos: drums and vocals were tracked at Leonidas’ studio in Chania, while guitars and bass were recorded at Stathis’ studio in Athens. Mixing and mastering were handled by John Mor at Apex Soundworks, who brought clarity and weight to the band’s sonic vision. Lyrically, the record explores the friction between inner demons and external pressures, with recurring themes of identity, struggle, and societal decay.
Flamecore:
Formed by Stathis Lianos and Leonidas Viglakis, the Greek melodic death metal band Flamecore emerged from a collaborative spark between Chania and Athens. Their journey began with a single riff, which grew into the track "Plains of Nameck."
This initial creative success led to their self-titled debut album, released in February 2025. With a lineup solidified by the additions of Panagiotis Tsopelas and Akis Blazakis, Flamecore brought their vision of extreme, melodic metal to life. Following the album's release and a series of live shows, the band is now focused on promoting their work with new bassist Panagiotis Mousouras while composing their next chapter.
www.youtube.com/@Flamecoreband
www.facebook.com/Flamecoreband
Finnish melodic death metal band CROWEN released a new single and music video 'EMBER WRAITH'. The track is taken from the forthcoming 'THROUGH THE DYING MIST' EP which is set to be released on February 20th 2026 via Inverse Records.
Watch 'Ember Wraith' music video: https://youtu.be/0N_QWg4VI-w
The first single from Through the Dying Mist EP, Ember Wraith, is pure Crowen from start to finish, offering no room to breathe. Crushing guitar riffs and furious blast beats alternate with slower, heavier passages. “From the very beginning, this song is a straight punch in the face,” says vocalist-songwriter Esa Uusimaa, and continues: “The riffs are technically fast-paced and demanding. Luckily, I have the incredibly skilled Sami Sandberg alongside me on guitar, and Tuomas Saukkonen’s monumental bass playing crowns the whole piece.”
Ember Wraith tells the story of a ghostlike entity, born from ashes and dwelling in hellfire. It is a shadow of the past, returning time and again to remind us of pain and loss. The message is both threatening and sorrowful. “Ember Wraith is a spirit of vengeance, walking the path of fire, destruction, and death. The lyrics awaken the thought that death must be respected,” Uusimaa explains.
Listen
to Ember Wraith single: https://push.fm/fl/crowen-ember
Track list:
01. Ember Wraith
02. Line of Silence
03. I Am The Sorrow
04. The Unwritten End
Composed, lyrics, recorded, mixed & produced by Esa Uusimaa.
Mastered by Ville Hautaluoma
EP cover by Jussi Virtanen
EP Line-up:
Esa Uusimaa – vocals, guitars, keyboards
Sami Sandberg – guitars, lead guitar
Tuomas Saukkonen – bass
http://crowenofficial.net
https://www.facebook.com/CrowenOfficial
Following the massive response to their first single Sworn to Repay — which gained over 150,000 YouTube views in less than three weeks and landed in major official Spotify playlists with hundreds of thousands of saves — ACRANIUS continue to carve their new chapter with the release of “SYNCHRONIZED.”
For fans of: Slamming Death Metal, Deathcore, pure sonic violence.
Once again, the band joined forces with director Daniel Prieß, delivering another high-quality visual that perfectly matches the track’s sheer intensity. Musically, Synchronized pushes Acranius’ trademark brutality even further — darker, tighter, and more unrelenting than before.
With this release, Acranius reaffirm their position as one of the most dominant and uncompromising forces in modern extreme metal.
Release date: November 14th, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsCOeLhg3EQ
https://acranius.bfan.link/synchronized
The
wait for the first song from DAWN OF A DARK AGE new
album "VER SACRUM" is over.
Here is "IL RITO DELLA CONSACRAZIONE", a song with which the band led by Vittorio Sabelli and featuring vocals for the first time by Ignazio Cuga, aka Brusiòre, of KRE'U, opens the gates to the obscure path between Atmospheric Black Metal, Doom, Folk and Jazz represented by "Ver Sacrum".
The official video realized by Noxifer (aka Gianfranco Logiudice) and presented at the Berlin Music Video Awards is available at: https://youtu.be/ak8vV-7aYDk
After 2 years of hard work from the previous "Transumanza", DAWN OF A DARK AGE present the new album "Ver Sacrum" out on December 12th, 2025 via My Kingdom Music.
The album is available in digipakCD, LP, Deluxe Edition and it's available at: https://t.ly/N8-LW
"Ver Sacrum" has opened its doors to the darkness for those who have the courage to walk this path.
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Listen to "PYRE OF BONE AND ASH" now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPazjKVxIew
Dark Descent Records will release Ash Eclipses Flesh on November 21. The album will be available on digital, CD, cassette, and vinyl (black and splatter editions). The album was just named #24 in Decibel Magazine's Top 40 albums of 2025.
Pre-order at:
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ash-eclipses-flesh
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
https://ddmsuo.eu/
“Low tuned, dark and violent Texas death metal,” comes the uncompromising answer from TERROR CORPSE drummer Dobber Beverly when pressed to define his newest abomination. Formed in 2025 yet manned by veterans of the US underground, TERROR CORPSE rise from the remnants of Malignant Altar, continuing where their predecessor left off – still in league with Dark Descent Records.
Produced entirely in-house by the skinsman, the record’s sound is as distinctive as it is crushing. From the first pounding kick drum, soon joined by a gut-wrenching bass line, Ash Eclipses Flesh never loosens its relentless grip.
“I wanted to essentially have a super low tuned Celtic Frost guitar sound with a modern and large natural drum recording. Big room, big drum sounds. Tack on some cavernous low, Craig Pillard style vocals and bass guitar and you’ve got our sound.”
The band’s veneration of the Celtic Frost’s legacy is further demonstrated by the album’s closer, a cover of "Into the Crypts of Rays." Dobber makes no secret of TERROR CORPSE’s influences: “Disciples Of Mockery, Incantation, pre-2000s Morbid Angel; essentially older evil American death metal. Celtic Frost is a massive influence to all of us. From their primitive and violent beginnings to the ultra experimental and dark era of their later records.”
Ash Eclipses Flesh is clad in artwork courtesy of the notorious Shoggoth Kinetics, displaying a horrifying future so far and near: “Lyrically the album follows a kind of dystopian downfall of humanity. Something crossing surreality and future outlook based off of current happenings. A race of mutant human corpses conquering and enslaving the earth.”
TERROR CORPSE will headline the Metal and Beer Pre-Fest in Denver on December 4.
Tracklisting
1. Pyre of Ash and Bone
2. Gate Zero
3. Womb of the Hollow Earth
4. Blissful Incineration
5. Fallout Obliteration
6. Nuclear Winter
7. Transmission Beta
8. The Hollow that Devours
9. Sons of Perdition
10. Into the Crypts of Rays (Celtic Frost cover)
TERROR CORPSE is:
Mat V. - Vocals/Guitar
Christian Larson - Bass/High vocals
Dobber Beverly - Drums/Guitar
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572578455775
Chicago (IL) - Blackened Melodic Death Metal quartet, WITHERING SOUL, in collaboration with Decibel Magazine, has premiered upcoming album, PASSAGE OF THE ARCANE. Stream it ahead of Friday's official release at: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/11/12/album-stream-withering-soul-passage-of-the-arcane/
FFO: Dark Fortress, Windir, Hypocrisy, Dissection, God Dethroned
Withering Soul are set to release their fifth album, Passage of the Arcane, November 14 on Liminal Dread Productions!
Passage of the Arcane is a convergence of blackened atmospheres and sweeping song structures. A mystifying journey that exceeds boundaries while remaining fun and exciting. The overall theme of the album involves human experiences traversing into cursed oblivion. Each song explores its own story, ranging from unexplained disappearances to the supernatural. While variation is abundant within the soundscapes, it is with a cohesive direction. Each chapter takes on its own "passage" through channels of cursed lore and harrowing experiences of the past. A seamless balance of crushingly heavy riffs and chilling melodies.
Pre-order Passage
of the Arcane: https://witheringsoul.bandcamp.com/album/passage-of-the-arcane
EU Customers: https://okandaodenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/passage-of-the-arcane-eu-distro
Track Listing:
1. Intro
2. Attrition Horizon
3. Grievance Eludes the Light
4. The Monolith Embodied
5. Gallery of the End
6. Trajectory
7. Among Covetous Eyes
8. Burden of the Valiant
Credits:
Guitars, Vocals - Christopher
Bass Guitar - Joel
Drums - Rick
Guest guitar solo on "Trajectory" by Nick "Exhul" Morgan.
Drums recorded and engineered by Vince Ippolito at Swift Road Studios.
Album mixed and mastered by Dennis Israel at Clintworks Audio.
Cover art by Adam Burke / Nightjar Illustration.
Line-up:
Christopher - Vocals, Guitar
Frank G. - Guitar
Joel - Bass Guitar
Rick - Drums
Bio:
A manifestation in the form of chilling soundscapes, foreboding atmospheres, contagious melodies and tortured chants echoing above an onslaught of calculated percussion. Withering Soul creates a musical elegy that is both majestic and haunting.
Conjured into existence by founding members Christopher (guitars and vocals) and Mykil (former lead vocalist) with the release of their debut album Apparitions of the Surreal in 2004, the band was later featured on "ReUnation - A Tribute to Running Wild" with a cover of "Firebreather" via Germany's Remedy Records earning "Best Song on the Album" by WeRock (SWE). A few years later saw the release of their follow-up album, No Closure via Mortal Music (MVD Distribution). The album promptly landed a spot on Apoch's Metal Review: "Top 50 Albums of 2011."
The band eventually recruited Rick Hernandez on drums and Joel Miller on bass guitar. Following an array of live shows brought the release of their third full length album Adverse Portrait (2015). It was later labeled “Album of the Month” by Metalreviews.com. The band made a few festival appearances such as Full Terror Assault III and Artifact Metal Fest in 2018.
Over the course of the 2020 world shutdown the band resolved to continue forward with Christopher on vocals and released its fourth full length effort Last Contact. The album reached an unprecedented level of acclaim not limited to earning the 3rd spot in World of Metal's top albums of 2021. The band immediately followed up with a busy live schedule both locally and out-of-state including a performance at Legion ov the Order festival in Tacoma, WA, Merciless Metalfest in Nova Scotia, Canada and Desecration Rituals VI and VII in Fort Wayne, IN.
Withering Soul has just recently finished its 5th album to be released at the end of 2025 and plans to continue transcending the boundaries of metal‘s darker genres while maintaining its own distinctive sound and leave its audiences spellbound for more.
https://www.facebook.com/liminaldreadproductions
https://www.facebook.com/witheringsoulband
The album is out on Friday, November 14 via Dark Descent Records (US) and Me Saco Un Ojo (EU).
Pre-order:
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
www.mesacounojo.com
Inhabiting a space between the soulless mists of the Pacific Northwest and the haunting rains of Mexico City, Degraved have re-emerged with their first full-length offering. Spectral Realm of Ruin brings the same seismic passages and eerie atmospheres that those familiar with the band’s early material will recognize, but captivatingly and meticulously expanded upon. Bludgeoning blast beats and relentless guitar riffs conjure a dark backdrop for the hellish, bestial vocal torment seeping with mirth for the atrocities of modern life. Slower passages and synthesizer accoutrements add an eldritch atmosphere to the picture, descending the listener into an unforgettable and sometimes furiously catchy proper debut.
Degraved harnesses the 90s Death Metal sound gloriously, mixing classic homages and maniacal hooks that will grab the unsuspecting and drag them along with hate and indignity. In the riffs, one can hear the influence of Morbid Angel and Immolation, and less obtuse references such as Slugathor and Cianide. Hell, some sections channel the corruptive influence of bands like Demoncy or Blaspherian. Produced by the band at their home studio, the sonically dark production, driving grooves and seriously killer art lend to its old school charm. Between the ripping armageddon, you will find dreary atmosphere, well-placed solos, and interesting hooks that all showcase a fierce dedication to the craft of creating what can only be described as pure Death Metal.
Album artwork by Hidris.
Tracklisting:
1. Pariah of Death & Darkness
2. Sulfuric Embalming
3. Inept Descent
4. Stalker of the Herd
5. Unseen
6. March of the Undead
7. Vacuous State
DEGRAVED is:
NE - Bass & Vocals
LP - Drums
MM - Guitars
DZ - Guitars
www.darkdescentrecords.com
www.mesacounojo.com
www.instagram.com/degraved__death
A twisted retelling of Genesis where creation is born from darkness, not divinity. Light becomes a weapon of deceit, innocence withers, and chaos reigns as the world is shaped by corruption—marking the true beginning of the end.
Biography
Black Rabbit is a concept-driven death metal band from Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, known forcombining relentless intensity with intricate storytelling and theatrical immersion. Their sound fuses death, thrash, and blackened elements into a grand, ritualistic experience — where every riff and lyric serves a purpose within an unfolding myth.
Forged by five musicians with distinct artistic backgrounds, Black Rabbit translates complex ideas into music that is both crushing and cinematic. Their live shows blur the line between concert and ceremony: drenched in light, smoke, and symbolism, drawing the audience deep into their dark mythology.
Black Rabbit made their first impact with the release of their debut EP and single in 2020, laying the foundation for their unfolding story of darkness and transformation. This path continued with the first full-length chapter of their legend: Hypnosomnia (2023) — an album exploring the boundaries of consciousness and dream manipulation. Building upon that, Chronolysis (2025) delved deeper into the human psyche — a sensory descent into the horror of sleep paralysis. These releases elevated the band to new heights, leading to performances in renowned venues such as Patronaat, Iduna, and even the Brabanthallen, while sharing stages with giants like Baest, Vader, Exhorder, and Pestilence.
Where Hypnosomnia and Chronolysis unravelled the tactics and techniques of the entity known as Black Rabbit, their upcoming EP ‘Warren of Necrosis’ dives into his inception — revealing the sacrifice, betrayal, and blasphemous devotion that transformed man into myth.
Warren of Necrosis
At the heart of the band lies the legend of Black Rabbit — a cursed being with a past drenched in faith, betrayal, and decay. Once a priest devoted to divine enlightenment, his lust for power led him down a path of desecration. What began with ritual animal offerings grew into a hunger for human sacrifice. His devotion turned to obsession, and the god he once worshipped cast him into exile.
In isolation, he encountered a mysterious entity — a shadow between worlds — who offered him the ability to halt time itself. The gift became a curse: eternal life at the cost of his humanity.
Slowly, he shed his humanity and transformed into a demonic entity — a Black Rabbit, the mirror of fertility, twisting the symbol of life into one of decay and extinction.
From the ashes of his faith, he forged his own doctrine: a blasphemous scripture written in despair, twisting sacred texts into a gospel of chaos. His followers, masked and devoted, carved a subterranean empire in his name — the Warren of Necrosis, a rotting labyrinth where sacrifices feed his hunger for dominion. At its heart stands a withered tree adorned with the bodies of the condemned, where Black Rabbit wields his colossal hammer of judgement upon the unworthy.
A Multimedia Experience
Musically, the EP expands the band’s sonic palette with haunting melodies, and ancient textures and ethnic instrumentation woven into the aggressive foundations of death metal. Each song unfolds a stage of corruption, a moment of sacrifice, or a whisper from the entity that granted him power — until the man is gone, and only the demon remains. Beyond the music, Black Rabbit manifests its concept through a complete artistic universe. Each release is accompanied by handcrafted artwork, stage design, and visual storytelling that deepen the immersion
On stage, Black Rabbit embraces the role of prophets of the myth — cloaked in ritual garb, surrounded by candlelight and relics of their creation. Their performance is not merely a show, but a sermon; not entertainment, but invocation. With Warren of Necrosis, Black Rabbit opens the gates to the beginning of its own legend — a descent into the roots of corruption, identity, and transcendence. It’s a record that does more than tell a story; it creates a world — one that breathes, mutates, and devours. Once you enter the Warren, there is no return...
Line-Up:
Vocals – Nino Thomas
Guitar – Jelle Brekelmans
Guitar – Hidde Hofland
Drums – Koen van der Voet
Bass – Thijs Mulder
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialBlackRabbit
Label: Rottweiler Records /
Broken Curfew Records
Release date: december 5th / december 19th
As the year wanders wearily towards its end, the days shortening and the nights drawing in, we enter a time of celebrations, festivities and traditions…and one of those traditions is the release of the Rottweiler Records Christmas singles selection! This year, working in association with Broken Curfew Records, the label is primed to serve up an absolute feast of powerful underground music – ranging from emotive alt-rock to skull shattering grindcore…
On December 5th Rottweiler Records and Broken Curfew Records will release ‘Flicker Of December’ from Seth Metoyer, a song of immeasurable emotional depth, full of great melodies and a stunning lead vocal performance. Steeped in melancholy this is a beautiful, heart rending track, a hymn to times past and precious things lost… “I’m not asking for forever, just a prayer in the dark…one more magical December that flickers in my heart…” Memorable song writing of the very highest magnitude…
On the same day, December 5th, Rottweiler Records will also release Cleansing Of The Temple’s very different entry into this catalogue of seasonal singles. The South Carolina deathcore troupe offer up an outstanding interpretation of the traditional tune, ‘Mary Did You Know?’, turning it into an epic journey of musical extremes; black metal, melodic death metal and deathcore colliding, complete with a next level vocal performance of absolute madness. There’s even a brilliantly executed acoustic section as Cleansing The Temple take a festive single release and make it a showcase for the breadth, scope and fierce focus of the band.
Finally, on December 19th, Rottweiler Records and Broken Curfew Records will combine again for the release of ‘King Of Nails’ from grindcore heroes Pulpit Vomit. This is a wild, shocking exercise in chaos, madness and blistering intensity. In a few brief minutes Pulpit Vomit redefine what a Christmas single can be and deliver one of the most fearsome songs of the year. ‘King Of Nails’ is a match for anything that graced Pulpit Vomit’s superb Hospital Lens debut album and promises more spirit-shaking sonic savagery to come.
Rottweiler Records and Broken Curfew Records – bringing you the very best in rock, metal and extreme music this Christmas!
Seth Metoyer
Seth Metoyer – All music and vocals
https://brokencurfewrecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/seth.metoyer.personal
Cleansing Of The Temple
Gavin James – Vocals
Matthew Clark – Guitar
Peyton Stewart – Guitar
Daniel Strassburg – Bass
Tristan Neal – Drums
https://www.facebook.com/Cleansingofthetemple
Pulpit Vomit
Seth Metoyer – Guitars/Vocals
Tim Olson - Drums
Kristeffor Olson – Bass
https://brokencurfewrecords.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/pulpitvomit
Finnish thrashers INDEMON have released a music video for their song 'ABUSE'. The track is taken from their critically acclaimed debut album, RECLAIMING CHAOS, which was released last June via Inverse Records.
Watch 'Abuse' music video: https://youtu.be/m2HwICPU3WA
The band comments:
"Abuse show's the narrator’s perspective on the conflict in which they want to break free from a person, yet at the same time want to keep that person under their control. The narrator has an obsession with control.
Alternatively, it could be that the other person does not exist at all, and the narrator is actually a voice inside the listener’s head — a kind of inner demon — telling the listener how it wants to get rid of them, while simultaneously keeping them in its grasp."
Listen to Reclaiming Chaos album: https://push.fm/fl/indemon-album
Biography:
INDEMON is a four-piece metal band formed in 2020 in Kerava, Finland. Drawing influences from various subgenres of metal, they blend them uniquely to create a powerful and atmospheric sound. INDEMON's debut EP Fear of Living was released in 2022, showcasing the band's ability to create intense and multifaceted metal. The band’s lyrical themes explore fear, self-doubt, and inner struggles, immersing the listener into the music's emotional world. INDEMON is known for their energetic live performances and distinctive music. Their debut album Reclaiming Chaos was released in June 2025 via Inverse Records.
Track
list:
1. Bring Down The Light
2. Internal Defeat
3. Passenger
4. Abuse
5. Necessary Evil
6. Shoot & Forget
7. Ruoja
8. Reclaim Chaos
Album cover by Sakari Vinko
Line-up:
Joose Riihelä - vocals
Santeri Liesmala - guitar
Ville Kangasharju - bass
Patrik Kuitunen - drums
https://www.facebook.com/indemonband
Genre : Avantgarde Black Metal
Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : November 28th 2025
For fans of: Spite Extreme Wing, Ved Buens Ende.
I RISE WITH THE DEAD (EP - 2025)
Following their appreciated latest album "Fanciulli D'Occidente" (2024, Dusktone), the italian Avantgarde Black Metal outfit LAETITIA IN HOLOCAUST comes back with a new short but yet ambitous work, titled "I Rise With The Dead".
Although featuring only two tracks, LAETITIA IN HOLOCAUST felt the need to tackle the composition of a 12-minutes long, atmospheric and wide-ranging piece - "Gioia e Pianto alle Teste dei Leoni" - trying to maintain the same intensity and ferocity of the latest album, although broaden its spectrum by creating more persistent and less rapidly changing musical scenarios.
The focal themes on which the lyrics are built around are the revival of vitalistic values, the transience of vigor and beauty, and the poison of Christianity; the nostalgia, contempt, and rejection that blacken fragments of dreamlike and symbolic visions (the lions' heads, simulacra of life cycles [predators - themselves prey - trophies] and testimonies of a dead but not defeated time).
The expressive center is thus settled on the tone of a funeral lament, a determined and vengeful lament, a cry of war and pain, a laughter that promises blood; a memory remains, in closing: the natural childhood of a lost world, of a dried-up source.
I FALL WITH THE SAINTS (EP - 2021 | REISSUE 2025)
Originally released in 2021 (Brucia Records), LAETITIA IN HOLOCAUST's "I Fall With The Saints" EP was recently reissued on CD and revitalized by Masked Dead Records/Sulphur Music.
Expect everything we have all come to love about LIH: incredibly inventive Black Metal with a unique vision and an unmatched delivery, a penchant for sophistication and experimentalism in its truest form, slaying and cold guitar riffs, outstanding lyrics, impeccable drumming and their signature fretless bass.
The LIH formula blends the solemnity and exaltation of late Spite Extreme Wing with the technical complexity and dynamism of acts such as Ved Bues Ende and Deathspell Omega.
https://maskeddeadrecords.com/
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ONSETCOLD
- "APOCALYPTIC SLEEP"
Apocalyptic Sleep is a chilling descent into themes of pain, survival, and the end of the world. The ten-track album takes listeners through a bleak, beautiful, and inescapable apocalypse. From the opening track, "The Blue Room," which sets a tone of perpetual suffering, the album weaves a narrative of ancient prophecies, cosmic chaos, and personal damnation. It explores the blurred lines between love and destruction ("Standing in the Rain Beside You"), the slow decay under a dying star ("Under the Nuclear Sun"), and a fatalistic acceptance of ruin ("Sleep Tonight"). The journey intensifies with a demonic waltz with Lucifer himself ("Underworld") and a violent, cult-like rebellion ("Cult"), before concluding with "Austere." Ultimately, Apocalyptic Sleep is not a story of hope, but a visceral and honest look at the beauty and terror of a world in its final throes. The album has been mixed and mastered by Dan Mullins(My Dying Bride).
The digital album's release date is 28 November 2025.
Tracklist
1. The Blue Room
2. The Oracle to Egypt
3. Hurricane
4. Standing in the Rain Beside You
5. Under the Nuclear Sun
6. Sleep Tonight
7. Short Circuit
8. Underworld
9. Breathing in This Cult
10. Austere
Onsetcold is the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end; a post‑apocalyptic extreme metal entity built to be the heaviest, most unhinged, and most unpredictable force possible. The name marks a fixed point in time: past the fire, past the point of return, where collapse is inevitable and volatility is the only constant. Across Art Destroyer, Death Blast (2020), and the full‑art detonation Noam Chomsky (2023), Onsetcold has treated albums like weapons tests—each one a different method of breaking the frame. The new record, Apocalyptic Sleep, is the most dangerous yet: ten movements that fuse black‑metal frost, death‑metal violence, symphonic black grandeur, avant‑garde sabotage, and phonk‑lit menace into a single unstable structure. Onsetcold thrives on disorientation: cathedral‑scale orchestration one moment, bass‑heavy cosmic street menace the next, then a sudden collapse into chaos. Apocalyptic Sleep is not a genre. It’s a place.
Line-up:
Shaq - Music/Vocals
Seiza Friedrich – Vocals
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Label: Independent Release
Release date: december 5th 2025
Genre: Post Metal/Progressive Rock
For fans of: Tool | Alice In Chains | Katatonia | Pink Floyd | Killing Joke
In the January of 2024, Final Coil released their third album, The World We Inherited; the crowning glory of a triptych of records which began with their vibrant debut Persistence Of Memory and continued with the highly critically acclaimed The World We Left Behind For Others. While every Final Coil release represents a musical and lyrical achievement to be savoured and treasured, with The World We Inherited, the Leicester-based band took huge strides forward into awe-inspiring creative landscapes. Their most complete, challenging, and thought-provoking release, The World We Inherited was also Final Coil’s most successful album to date. As a result, the band found themselves in the esteemed pages of Prog magazine, bestriding the stage at Bloodstock Open Air, setting out on their first headline European trek; which included an incredible sold out show at the Supersonic Club in Paris; and a return to the Fusion Festival, where they appeared alongside Amplifier and The Von Hertzen Brothers. The world’s rock press were unanimous in their praise for The World We Inherited and the album finished 2024 in many Album Of The Year lists.
The one thing that The World We Inherited wasn’t afforded in its original incarnation was a vinyl release; but now, after a great deal of thought and planning, Final Coil are delighted to finally give this incredible album that richly deserved honour. However, in keeping with their reputation for always trying to give fans the very best possible return for their money, a simple vinyl reissue was never going to be enough for Final Coil…hence the creation of The World We Inherited 2025 – Remastered And Expanded! Alongside a fresh, dynamic remaster of The World We Inherited – created specifically for vinyl by original album producer Russ Russell (Amorphis, The Wildhearts, Napalm Death etc), this new version of the album comes with no fewer than eleven additional tracks. There’s a complete live performance recorded at the Firebug in Leicester, never before heard demo tracks, as well as songs cut in preproduction, all available as a special digital download pack.
The World We Inherited itself remains a simply colossal album. A joy to revisit, its songs are still revealing more secrets nearly two years on from its original unveiling. Whereas the albums that preceded it examined our past, the societal failings that have brought us to our troubled present, The World We Inherited turns its gaze to the future, and the shadows of fear and division that bleed across its horizon. Inspired in no small part by a long and winding conversation with Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman and the prophetic, dystopian fiction of George Orwell, The World We Inherited wanders through a murky, broken world of conspiracy theories, authoritarian politics, and chilling isolation. Yet, while the lyrics and concepts provide the framework for The World We Inherited, it’s the beautifully textured music that draws the listener into the world of Final Coil and enfolds them in a breathtaking experience encompassing overwhelming melancholy, fierce intensity, passion, terror, confusion and starlit glimmers of hope. Drawing on the textures of post-rock, the emotional drive of grunge, the fire of heavy rock, as well as the imaginative sorcery of progressive rock and metal the Final Coil sound is fresh, original and also rooted in an array of influences from across the musical spectrum. The fluid bass work of Jola Stiles both augments and anchors the entwined guitars of Phil Stiles and Richard Awdry, while the vibrant, instinctive drumming of Barry French steers the band through the exquisite song structures, as Phil’s emotive vocals tell each chapter of the unfolding tale.
The expanded element of this new edition is, in truth, a worthy release in its own right, far beyond the scope of most bonus tracks tagged onto ‘tour editions’ or rereleases. The live set from the Firebug in Leicester is a raw and fiery performance – the energy and power of Final Coil in the live environment captured in all its glory - taken straight from the desk, but then mixed and mastered by the frontman Phil Stiles. The previously unreleased ‘Evoking History’ and ‘Self Reflection’ are genuine treasures, exciting additions to the Final Coil canon, while the demos of ‘Humanity’ and ‘Stay With Me’ offer fascinating insights into the evolution of the songs. Available on a strictly limited edition splatter vinyl with digital download on December 5th, this is the perfect way to draw the opening trilogy of Final Coil’s story to a close…and prepare for the next chapter, which is not too far away.
Line-up:
Phil Stiles: Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Synths and Programming
Richard Awdry: Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Vocals and Programming
Jola Stiles: Bass Guitar
Drums on the album recorded by Barry French
Drums on live tracks by Dan Brown
Lead vocals, rhythm & lead guitar, synth, programming, sound effects, bass on demo tracks by Phil Stiles
Lead guitar on demo tracks by Richard Awdry
Pre-orders open now at https://finalcoilrock.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-we-inherited-2025-remastered-expanded
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SLOWLY
WE ROT #26
will be out soon! https://slowlywerot.limitedrun.com/
English written
A4
B/W glossy
Underground attitude
Interviews with:
Archgoat • Batushka • Bestial Profanation • Centinex • Devilpriest • Elcano • Fatal Embrace • Fragments Of Unbecoming • Funeral • Goatzied • Gurthadun • Impía Maleficencia • Infernal Crown • Misanthrope • Ocean Throne • Ofermod • Opera IX • Pitchfork • Praesepultus • Putrevore • Ramchat • Ranzer • Saor • Sarcasm •
Skalnastal • Stoic • Tales of Mike • The NecroVomits
+ Articles:
"In Their Own Words" – Bands talk about the tracks on the included compilation CD
"Topic of the Issue" - how important (still) is the underground
"Extreme & Exotic" - Tunisia scene feature
+ Reviews
Free Compilation CD included
Support print. Support the underground.
Slowly We Rot #27 already in works and scheduled for a Spring 2026 release!
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DEPRESSION - Second Video "MASSIVE DEPRESSIVE AGGRESSIVE". Hello Folks, check out the second single "Massive Depressive Aggressive" from the upcoming DEPRESSION album "Das Monument"!Official release date is November 28, 2025!
Click to watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EILLQE__2fs
LECHEROUS
NOCTURNE
is currently working on their next full-length 'VIOLUST' (no
current label), currently being mixed and mastered by Ronnie Björnström
(Björnström Ljud & Produktion).
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Hometown: Greenville, South Carolina, USA
For Fans Of: Dark Funeral, Immolation, Cryptopsy
Lecherous Nocturne is:
Zach Jeter - Vocals (Nile/Olkoth)
Kreishloff Lofgren - Guitar
James O'Neal - Bass (ex-Atrocious Abnormality)
Ethan Lane - Guitar
Alex Lancia - Drums (Olkoth)
Lecherous Nocturne is an undeniable force in Extreme Death Metal, delivering a unique blend of unhinged speed, chaotic precision, and blackened aggression. Since their formation in 1997, the South Carolina-based group has built a reputation for intense musicianship, dark thematic content, and crushing live performances.
Their discography includes four full-length albums:
Adoration of the Blade (2006) - Deepsend Records
The Age of Miracles Has Passed (2008) - Deepsend Records
Behold Almighty Doctrine (2013) - Unique Leader Records
Occultaclysmic (2018) - Willowtip Records
Lecherous Nocturne has toured extensively across North America, sharing stages with extreme metal heavyweights including Cannibal Corpse, Melechesh, Deicide, Abigail Williams, Immolation, and appearing at major underground festivals like Maryland Deathfest and Las Vegas Deathfest. Their music has been praised for its uncompromising ferocity, ruthless technicality, and unrelenting speed.
https://www.facebook.com/lecherousnocturne
Best Regards, Robby Perry Artist Agent Viscera Disgust Media
Label: Road To Masochist
Release date: november 14th 2025
As the planet burns around us and human society collapses into a mire of self-deceit, avarice and cruelty there has never been a more urgent need for music that confronts, devastates and blasts through the shallow, soulless bullshit we’re drowning in. An outlet for frustrated anger, a searing indictment of mindless, servile acceptance, a blast of intensity to rip through the mind-numbing clouds of lethargy…and when you bring together the combustible hardcore punk of Thumbsucker and the explosive grindcore insanity of Atomҫk you get all that and more; this is a wake-up call of shocking vehemence and a fourteen track nail bomb of a split release that will blow your world apart. Thumbsucker and Atomҫk are two voices from the UK underground that demand to be heard.
It’s down to Thumbsucker to kick off this ripping collection and after a short intro they let loose with the vein-bulging rage of ‘An Accident Waiting To End’ – a detonation of wild, grinding mayhem. And from there there’s no turning back, no chance to get off the ride as each track charges into the next. Be it the jarring riff shards, venomous vocals and irresistible rhythms of ‘Coward’, the bewildering bomb drops of ‘First World Problem’ or the rampaging, needle in the red adrenaline of ‘Grift’, Thumbsucker deliver in shocking, breathless fashion until the last unequivocal blow of ‘You Will Not Be Missed’. And before you’ve had a second to check for broken bones, Atomҫk take up the mantle of destruction. Fourteen years on from their debut EP, Yes To Alien Victory, Atomҫk have only become more abrasive and furious with the passage of time. Opening up with the caustic ‘Fuck Off Back To London (Again)’ Atomҫk are a battering assault on the senses, powered by some incredible drumming and utterly insane vocals. No matter how many acts of sonic extremity you have been exposed to over the years tracks like ‘Are You, Jon’ and ‘Thought Terminating Cliché’ are going to flay you alive. By the time the madness of ‘Still Dead’ reaches its conclusion you’ll be left beaten and broken.
Road To Masochist will release this incendiary cocktail of extremity on November 14th, on CD and 10” black vinyl. Make no mistake this split release is one of the most intense outpourings of rage and defiance that you’ll hear this year, or any other.
Thumbsucker Line-up:
Duane - Drums, Vocals
Stringer - Guitars, Vocals
Genre: Hardcore Punk
For fans of: Anti Cimex | Extreme Noise Terror | Dropdead
Atomҫk Line-up:
Karl - Drums
Linus - Vocals, machines
Barthur - Bass
Luke – Guitars
Genre: Grindcore
For fans of: Napalm Death | Nasum | Cyness
https://roadtomasochist.co.uk/
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https://www.facebook.com/atomckgrind
Veilburner have revealed a new track from their highly awaited new album. It only showcases more of their unique madness and experimental flair, and their command over the blend of styles. No Clean Singing premiered it at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/23/an-ncs-premiere-veilburner-matter-o-the-most-awful-martyrs/. Make sure to give their album enough spins by the time it comes out!
VEILBURNER - “LONGING FOR TRIUMPH, REEKING OF TRAGEDY”
Genre :
Avantgarde Death/Black Metal
For fans of : Blut aus Nord, Imperial Triumphant, Deathspell Omega, Hexrot, Oranssi Pazuzu, Akhyls, Akercocke
"Only a year after the release of their critically acclaimed "The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom" album, Veilburner are returning with their eighth full-length album, titled "Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy."
In the spirit of striking while the iron is hot, this eighth evolution of the Veilburner story capitalizes on momentum while simultaneously achieving new heights in their song-crafting and story-telling. It leads their characters on a journey in which they cannot recognize triumph without tragedy, and sees them residing somewhere between the abyss and their devotion to mortal re-occurrence, that which seems to attract death. They face not just any death, but the kind in which they are bound to an infinite loop of reincarnation and destined to repeat the same traumas and failures as before. They continue to suffer like two dragons consuming one another in a serpentine-like fashion until one can no longer consume the other, frozen in the shape of infinity (∞) and numerologically represented by the digit eight (8). Samael (the "poison of god" and the eighth sphere of the Qlippoth), as well as Choronzon (the dweller of the threshold) and the Ouroboros all correlate with this symbol of infinity and exist in Veilburner’s lore as the antagonistic and immutable eternity, which if confronted can lead to self-destruction and the finality of manifestation, permenantly breaking the loop.
Mephisto’s discordant cacophony of dripping notes and riff-filled rot remain foul as ever, yet undeniably addictive. The music twists and turns on itself in an auditory embodiment of the album's theme and takes the listener on a snaking, bending musical roller coaster that seemingly ends at the precipice of where it began, endlessly inviting another listen. Chrisom Infernium acts as a medium, casting shadows of hiss filled hymns that harken to the past call to the present channeling the chatter of choired cataclysms, creating doppelgängers of sonic dispersions which leave the listener to contemplate if they are willing to confront the thing they fear most, the true version of themselves."
Line up
Mephisto Deleterio - Music and production
Chrisom Infernium - Vocals, lyrics, and album design
Cover artwork by Luciana Nedelea
Track listing
1. Longing for Triumph...
2. Pestilent Niche
3. Rigor & Wraith
4. That Which Crypts Howls Grandeur
5. Da'ath Ye Shadow Portrait
6. Ouroboreal Whorl
7. Matter o' the Most Awful of Martyrs
8. ...Reeking of Tragedy
Official release date - November 14th, 2025
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https://www.facebook.com/veilburner
Thanks a lot for your support! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
TENEBRIS
unleash
first new album in over a decade .From one of Poland’s most original and
long-running metal bands ."KOCHANOWSKI" is out now via
Pagan Records. Features unique blend of death metal, jazz, and Polish literary
lore
Band participated at special Radio Łódź event with Pagan Records' Tomasz Krajewski
The new album from Tenebris, "Kochanowski", the band's first full-length in over a decade and a follow-up to the 2018 “Legendarna” EP, is out now via Pagan Records.
Stream "Kochanowski" via YouTube and all major streaming platforms: https://youtu.be/PTo3uAAtyQw
Order the CD/LP via the Pagan Records webstore: https://www.pagan-records.com/pl/searchquery/kochanowski/1/phot/5?url=kochanowski
Founded in Łódź in 1991, Tenebris is one of Poland's most original and long-running metal bands. “Kochanowski” is a musical continuation of their 2018 EP, “Legendarna”, and delves into the surprising, esoteric side of Polish poet Jan Kochanowski. The band's frontman, Siwy Jaszy, discovered that Kochanowski’s epigrams were a labyrinth based on Pythagorean numerology, transforming the poet into a figure of magical arts.
The album's creative process began in 2021 and was completed in 2025, with lyrics drawing from literary giants like Kochanowski, Słowacki, Adam Mickiewicz. The new record features special guests, including Maciej Pasiński (ex Sirrah, Pincer Consortium) on backing vocals and growls, Paweł Szamburski on clarinet, and Sylwia Levy on backing vocals.
The band recently participated in a special listening session and meeting at Radio Łódź, which also featured Tomasz Krajewski from Pagan Records.
The current lineup consists of:
Siwy Jaszy - vocals, guitar
Bartek Polny - bass guitar
Przemysław Dominiak - guitar
Grzegorz Graczyk - drums
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/paganrecords
https://www.youtube.com/@TenebriSalpha/featured
https://www.facebook.com/TenebrisAlpha
Hungarian
Death Metal powerhouse ANGERSEED announces new album "RAPTURE
IS MINE… GLORY IS OURS"
GerHungary's Old-School Technical Death Metal force ANGERSEED returns with their long-awaited second full-length album, "Rapture is Mine… Glory is Ours", marking nine years since the band's debut, "The Proclamation". The new record sees the band reconnecting with its early roots while boldly reshaping its sound into a more modern, dynamic, and expressive form. The lyrical themes delve deeper than before, enhancing the band's characteristic social-critical perspective with profound inner and spiritual reflections.
The album spans 45 minutes across eight new compositions, followed by a special Hungarian-language bonus track, "Epilógus / Számvetés 33", a poetic, introspective summation of frontman Peter D. Maniak's 33-year musical journey.
The album title reflects the culmination of a long and demanding creative era. This time, Peter D. Maniak assumed full artistic control over the songwriting, defining both the sonic identity and the future direction of ANGERSEED.
"Rapture is Mine… Glory is Ours" will be released digitally on November 15th, with the CD edition to follow in December via a collaboration between Pest Records and Metal Ör Die Records.
Tracklist:
1. Nothingness is Calling Me
2. Conquering the Nemesis
3. When Life Turns to Grey
4. Barathrum of Consciousness
5. The Emptiness Within
6. Self-Expulsion from Paradise
7. Redefine My Universe
8. With Rapture for the Glory
9. Epilogue / Accounting 33 (Bonus Track)
Line-up:
Peter D. Maniak – vocals, vocals
Zoltán Bilcsik – bass guitar
Péter Losonczi – guitars (studio session)
Jozsef Gáva – Drums (live & studio session)
Recorded by: Losonczi Péter (Saron Records, Debrecen, 2024–2025)
Mix/master: István Simon (No Silence Studios)
Producers: Angerseed and István Simon
Cover and booklet: Bertalan Pór (Krowze)
Upcoming Live Dates
22.11.2025 – Budapest (HU) @ S8 Underground Club – Unhallowed Night VI
+ Feretrum, Deprived of Salvation, Closure
27.12.2025 – Ózd (HU) @ Civil Ház – XV Metal Karácsony
+ Action, Archaic, Remorse, Vírus, Closure & more
10.01.2026 – Debrecen (HU) @ Stage Underground Music Club –
XVI Full Of Anger Underground Metal Festival
+ Aornos, Crowhill Tales, Closure & more
Short biography:
Formed in 2008 by vocalist Peter D. Maniak, ANGERSEED has performed more than 200 shows in Hungary and abroad, appearing at festivals such as Gothoom, Rockmaraton, Death By Metal, MetalGate Czech Death Fest, and Rockstadt Extreme Fest. The band is also closely connected to the Full Of Anger Underground Metal Festival, currently preparing for its 28th edition.
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https://www.youtube.com/user/ANGERSEEDofficial
https://www.facebook.com/Angerseed
NEWS 9.11.2025
Happy Release Day! SICK OF SOCIETY melden
sich mit ihrer neuen Single „FAHNE IN DEN WIND“ zurück – ein
unmissverständlicher, wütender Punk-Song, der die Ohnmacht der Gegenwart in
rohen Bildern einfängt und zu trotzigem Widerstand aufruft.
„No future“ – eigentlich längst nur noch eine Phrase – ist heute wieder erschreckend nah an der Realität. Krieg und Konflikte, die Beschleunigung der Klimakrise, das Wiedererstarken nationalistischer und rechtsextremer Bewegungen sowie der Rückbau sozialer Errungenschaften zeichnen ein bedrückendes Bild. Inmitten dieser Lage wirkt vieles aussichtslos: „Wenn die Welt im Meer versenkt, dann fang ich nicht an zu schwimmen“, heißt es im Songtext.
Statt Resignation setzt SICK OF SOCIETY auf Trotz. Die Band bleibt unbequem, direkt und kompromisslos. Und sie dreht das Bild: Aus dem sprichwörtlichen Fähnchen im Wind wird eine kämpferische Ansage – hart, leidenschaftlich und ungezügelt. „Fahne in den Wind“ ist kein Aufruf zur Hoffnung, die alles entschuldigt – es ist ein klares Statement: Auch wenn der Ausgang ungewiss scheint, sind sie sicher, dass die Idee fortbestehen wird. „Auch wenn wir längst verloren sind, werden wir nicht untergehen“, heißt es eindringlich.
Musikalisch bleibt die Band ihrer Linie treu, geht aber mit diesem Song auch wieder deutlich stärker nach vorne: treibende Gitarren, knallige Riffs und aggressivem Gesang. Der Song verbindet modernen Sound mit klassischer Deutschpunk-Ästhetik und aktuellen politischen Beobachtungen, wirkt dadurch sowohl zeitlos als auch hochaktuell. Am Ende bleibt die Erkenntnis: „Es gibt kein Morgen, für dich und für mich. Es gibt kein Morgen, sie hatten verdammt recht.“
"Fahne in den Wind" auf Spotify:
"Fahne in den Wind" Video auf YouTube: https://youtu.be/cnVbBiEmZCQ
INFRAHUMANO — “DEPTHS OF SUFFERING” (LP)
Genre: Death Metal (from
Autopsy over Morbid Angel or Drawn and Quartered to old Cryptopsy)
Country: Spain
Label: Lavadome Productions
Release day: October 31, 2025 (digital), followed by CD version at the end of November
Recorded and mixed at La Cumbre Studios
Mastered by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios
Tracklist:
1. Across the Void
2. Thrown into the Fire
3. Battalion of Darkness
4. Baptized in Acid
5. Reduced to Fermented Pulp
6. Forced Self Cannibalism
7. Global Degradation
8. The Last Breath
9. Shades of Cruelty
Rejoice in the name of Death Metal decay and brutality. Spain's INFRAHUMANO will take you on a 9-song journey through US, European, South American Death Metal fields and will deliver devastating rhythms, yet memorable, influenced by seminal Death Metal but presented in Infrahumano's own extreme ways. The band's second studio album, Depths of Suffering, is ready to be heard.
For the insiders out there: I have not been this excited about a Death Metal release from Spain since Unnatural, do you remember?
https://lavadome.bandcamp.com/album/depths-of-suffering
https://linktr.ee/infrahumano_DM
https://www.facebook.com/infrahumanodeath
The
new album from UK-based death metal band QRIXKOUR has
arrived. THE WOMB OF THE WORLD is out now on Dark
Descent Records (US) and Invictus Productions (Europe).
The Womb of the World is available on CD, vinyl, and cassette at
QRIXKUOR surface once more to bring the crepuscular whispers of 2021’s Poison Palinopsia LP and 2022’s Zoetrope EP to a roaring, terrifying and triumphant crowning crescendo with their 2nd full-length album, entitled The Womb of the World.
Once again recorded, mixed and mastered on familiar ground at Priory Recording Studios in Birmingham, England by Greg Chandler (ESOTERIC) and emblazoned with a much-expanded outer and inner gatefold piece by Zoetrope artist-extraordinaire Santiago Caruso (as well as additional insert art contributed by Nuno Zuki), The Womb of the World further defies the dogmas of death and black metal by dragging them deeper still into the depths of textural and timbral delirium, more so than its predecessors even dared fathom, augmented throughout its 4 chapters by the sinistrous siren song of The Orchestra of the Silent Stars.
The venomous tongues of guest-contributor slithering serendipity herself, Jaded fucking Lungs (ADORIOR) maniacally guide "And You Shall Know Perdition As Your Shrine" into the album’s eponymous climax, a tumultuous ending in fire certain to be the apotheosis of QRIXKUOR’s vision to date.
The Womb of the World is the echo of time tearing itself apart, a dauntless deliverance of dissolution. Perhaps now the seas can be still at last…
Tracklisting:
1. So Spoke the Silent Stars
2. Slithering Serendipity
3. And You Shall Know Perdition as Your Shrine…
4. The Womb of the World
Lineup:
S - Guitars, bass and vocals
D - Drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://invictusproductions.net/
www.facebook.com/qrixkuor
KAMI
NO IKARI – “DIVINE EXCUSE”
Heaven falls. Hell answers! DIVINE EXCUSE is the most merciless strike yet from KAMI NO IKARI—a furious blend of epic melodies and death metal ferocity, crowned by a monstrous guest feature from the voice of BENIGHTED.
This is melodic deathcore metal at its most unholy—anthemic riffs meet blastbeat carnage, choirs clash with brutality, and every scream is a nail in the coffin of false salvation. Majestic, violent, and deeply blasphemous, it channels the rage of bands like BEHEMOTH, FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, and HYPOCRISY—without losing its own twisted identity.
DIVINE EXCUSE is not a song. It’s a reckoning. Prepare for judgment.
WHITE RITUAL – “RITUAL LUST”
Where passion turns to ashes.
Ritual Lust fuses darkwave, synthwave, and industrial rock into a feverish storm of sound and emotion.
Hailing from France, WHITE RITUAL deliver their unique sound signature and visuals — led by the haunting voice of their frontwoman Lily, whose performance burns with both sensuality and sorrow.
This is where love bleeds, lust devours, and everything sacred burns. Give in to the ritual. Let it consume you.
https://www.darktunes.com/en/
You can pre-order it at: https://t.ly/JNH6t
We also reveal the 10 gems that enrich this work:
1. Stateless Journey
2. Origins Of Light
3. The Crucible
4. Night Torn
5. Dissonant Void
6. Baiterek
7. Ov Seas & Seeds
8. In A Dream
9. Come Undone
10. Brother Of Sleep
Infusing moods ranging from dark and psychedelic, to heavy and galloping riffs, "In Essence Divided" is an intense and captivating album inspired by the roots of Progressive Metal from the early 70's, by Avantgarde Black Metal of the last decade, by the melodic Metal of the 90's.
The album was mixed and mastered by Raphaël Bovey from Switzerland, known for his work with Monkey3, Nostromo, Gojira, Samael among his extensive discography and features several guests that we will reveal to you soon.
"In Essence Divided" will delight fans of Progressive Metal à la OPETH, but also those enjoying an uncanny mix of styles and influences from PINK FLOYD to BLOOD INCANTATION, from SAMAEL to GOJIRA!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/NightshadeMetal
US
progressive metal innovators SPIRAL FRACTURE unleash
their third single & video "BURNING" alongside
a compelling lyric video. The track comes from their eagerly awaited album
GRACE IN DECAY, due via Wormholedeath.
“Burning” is a revenge anthem forged from grief and loss. The track explores the transformation of sorrow into fiery resolve, blending crushing riffs, pounding drums, and soaring vocals into a narrative of poetic brutality. It’s metal with depth, a song that lingers in the mind and strikes at the core of human emotion.
Stream the single here: https://orcd.co/burningsingle
Pre-save "Grace in Decay": https://orcd.co/graceindecay
About Spiral Fracture
Spiral Fracture is a progressive metal band that bridges the past and future of the genre. Their sound blends thunderous drums, soul-shaking bass, and atmospheric guitar textures with the soaring clarity of a classically trained alto vocalist. Inspired by the Fibonacci spiral, their music mirrors the fractures of modern society through a fusion of prog, rock, death, black, and power metal.
Featuring David Givens (guitar), Brian Fisher (drums), Brian Tanner (bass), and Javier Ramos (vocals), the band creates a precise yet primal sonic tapestry. Now managed by Extreme Management Group, Spiral Fracture is set to expand their reach and connect with listeners worldwide.
https://www.youtube.com/@spiralfracture
https://www.spiralfracturemetal.com
https://www.facebook.com/spiralfracturemusic
Listen to the album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/mourniaty-musta-maa
Karulainen wrote Musta Maa over a span of several years. During those years demos were discarded, but Karulainen knew a good song when he wrote one. Those songs ended up forming an album that described the mindset of the songwriter: angry, bleak and rough around the edges.
"-Feels like this album has an edge that is far too uncommon on todays music scene", Karulainen states.
Karulainen describes Musta Maa as being ”bleak in the right way” and also different in its mid-tempo landscape, where you can hear influences from bands such as Ajattara (FIN), Dimmu Borgir (NO) or Carach Angren (NED). Combining these influences an album was born that looks and sounds exactly like its creator.
"-If something didn’t please me, I’d redo it to my own liking. Even though there is a full band playing on this album, I’d still use my veto-right when needed. These are my songs, after all. I call Mourniaty a ”democracy with a gentle, dictatorial touch”."
Biography:
When you get fed up with Christianity and Paganism starts to arouse your interest, interesting things are often created. Sometimes this process needs an accelerant, which is exactly what happened when Karulainen and Metällinen found themselves to be merged in the same family tree. Now, what else would fresh, Finnish relatives do but make aggressive noises together? This gave an outlet for the music Karulainen had already been writing.
Finnish Mourniaty began its life as a smoldering project already in 2015. It burst into raging fire five years later, when situations in life permitted concentrating on music full-time. When bass player Tenho joined the group in 2022, Mourniaty finally became a real band instead of two men with backing tracks.
Karulainen describes Mourniaty’s music as black metal, which combines mid-tempo grooves and even symphonic arrangements combined with lyrics sung in both Finnish and English, which revolve around themes of Paganism and Anti-Christianity. The debut album, “Musta maa” (Black Earth), was released thru Inverse records on digital platforms and in cd-format in November of 2025. What a perfect soundtrack for the darkest season of the year.
Track list:
01. Ajan saattama
02. Musta maa
03. All Your Lies
04. Aika Roudan
05. Shrines
06. Kyynelten virta
07. Seventh Seal
08. A Son of the Plague
09. Sodomia
10. Pyhä on valani
Mixed by Karulainen & Joona Rinne / Deep Noise Studios
Mastered by Saku Moilanen / Deep Noise Studios
Album cover by Karulainen
Line-up:
Metällinen - drums
Tenho - bass
Liekkiö - guitar
Karulainen - vocals & guitar
https://mourniaty.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/mourniaty
Slovak
instrumentalists ABSTRACT return after 11 years
with a new album to celebrate their 30 years on the metal scene.
ABSTRACT – “MONOGRAM”
Label: Pařát Productions
Style: Instrumental metal
Type: Digipak (500pcs), special collector´s box (100 pcs)
Release date: 29.11. 2025
Pre-orders start: 1.11. 2025
ABSTRACT is the only band that Pařát Productions will release a studio album for this year. The collaboration between the band and Pařát Productions began in 2014 with the album "Lightheory" and continues to this day.
ABSTRACT is a Slovak band that has been playing instrumental metal since 1995 - meaning no vocals.
The album "Monogram" will be released by Pařát Productions on 29.11. 2025 as a digipak with a 16-page booklet. A limited edition collector's box is also available in Pařátshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_XegeI1c6A
Pre-orders, including merchandise, started on 1.11. at www.paratshop.cz
First singl from new album "Monogram" listen on the Pařát Productions YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_XegeI1c6A
www.paratshop.cz
www.facebook.com/ParatMagazine
A
new occult/doom rock act, DROWNED IN SILVER, has unveiled
their debut album “MOTHERS”, which is out now via Pagan
Records in CD, LP and digital formats.
Listen to the album in full on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bDGQzLvV62I
“Mothers” is also available on all streaming platforms.
The band previously released a music video to the track "Waves of Sorrow", which is a powerful testament to the band’s signature sound, blending the dark atmospheres of occult and doom rock with a distinct gothic touch. The music video, created in collaboration with the artists from Zaćma Visual Studio and the Kraków-based dance group Morphos, visually captures the song’s intensity and mood.
Drowned in Silver is a new project formed by seasoned musicians from the black metal and experimental music scenes. Their music finds a unique balance between occult rock and trance-like expression, drawing inspiration from the spiritual intensity of artists like The Devil’s Blood, Dead Can Dance and Wardruna.
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/paganrecords
https://www.facebook.com/drownedinsilver
Baltimore (MD) - One-man Melodic Doom Metal outfit, ORCHID THRONE, will release debut full-length album, BURIED IN BLACK, on January 9, 2026! The project consists solely of Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) who performs the music, as well as producing, mixing and mastering the album.
FFO: Swallow the Sun, Anathema, Woods of Ypres, Novembers Doom, Draconian
The album's first single, "Dreamworld," will be available November 16 on all streaming platforms. Album pre-orders will be available at https://orchidthrone.bandcamp.com/ on the same day.
After nearly 17 years of playing supporting roles in various bands, Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) is proud to make his debut as a solo artist as the man behind Orchid Throne. Bonsanto not only wrote and performed all of the music for Buried in Black, but also produced, mixed, and mastered the album.
While not a concept album, Buried in Black weaves themes of anxiety, depression, fear of death, and the search for life’s meaning throughout its lyrics. The title describes both the music itself and the feelings that Bonsanto has kept buried within for years. It may sound bleak, but what is buried in black will be set free and brought to light on January 9.
“This album is a long time coming for me,” said Bonsanto. “For more than a decade, I collected little recordings of ideas in the hope that one day they’d be useful. I could not be more proud of myself for how the album came out and for all of the things I have learned along the way.”
Bonsanto's Musical Journey to Buried in Black:
“As a musician performing in bands since I was 16, people who know me have seen me play a supportive role, and hear my musical contributions to my bands. But not everyone knows that I have always dreamed of releasing a record of my own. I am passionate about all kinds of music, and while I love playing in my current bands, doom metal is a big love that I long felt like I had no outlet for.
“While I’ve honed my songwriting abilities over the years, I began this project with zero knowledge of how to produce a record on my own. I introduced Orchid Throne to the world one year ago on my birthday with only one song done. Over the past year, I have finished writing, recording, and producing my entire debut record. I have finally achieved this goal and it's even better than I ever imagined it could be. It means so much to me to get this out there, to truly reflect who I am as an artist, and I’m already excited to create more.”
Track
Listing:
1. Dreamworld
2. Ephemerality
3. What Defines us
4. Moonlight Revelry
5. Guilt
6. Breath of Autumn
7. With Promise
Credits:
Album artwork painted by Ryan Gassaway.
Music and Lyrics written by Nick Bonsanto.
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Nick Bonsanto.
All instruments performed by Nick Bonsanto.
Flute on “Breath of Autumn” and “With Promise” performed by Mary Beck.
Orchid Throne is:
Nicholas Bonsanto - All instruments.
Bio:
Orchid Throne is a Melodic Doom Metal one-man band created by Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Orchid Throne is set to release its debut full-length album on January 9, 2026, titled Buried in Black. The album features a spellbinding variety of dark, heavy, and emotional material that beckons you to fall into the endless black. Drawing influence from a range of sounds such as melodic death metal, black metal, progressive rock, and folk, Orchid Throne is music from the heart for fellow souls who need
it most.
https://linktr.ee/orchidthrone
Label: Xtreem Music
Release date: february 5th 2026
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Entombed | Ribspreader | Grave | Vomitory
What is man but a short-lived parasite, a brief flickering of light in the long, long aeons of darkness…for those who dwell in the deep places of the Earth, all mankind’s endeavours – his childlike learning, his shining towers and imbecilic weapons, his self applauded works of art – are unworthy of note or notice. They slumbered; dreaming their epoch spanning dreams in their temples of silence, whispering their strange sorceries, long before man dragged himself from the primeval swamps. And they will dream on in the times to come, while the stars grow cold and as mankind rots.
The Scandinavian Warmachine rolls on! After twenty seven years, thirteen full length studio albums and an ever growing brood of EPs, split releases, live albums and compilations Paganizer still sound adrenalized, bloodstained and glorious! It seems that Rogga Johansson still wakes every morning with a new batch of rotten riffs hatched inside his head, clawing to get out into the world…and album number fourteen is ready to lay waste to all that stands in its path. It’s time for As Mankind Rots!
Paganizer make two kinds of records – good ones and great ones – and from the explosive beginning of title track and first single, ‘As Mankind Rots’, it’s obvious that with this album they are hitting greatness. There’s no intro, no samples, it’s just headfirst into riffs and mayhem; pure Swedish death metal magnificence! From that opening salvo on there is not a moment which is anything less than definitive death metal. You could explain real, unadulterated death metal to the uninitiated by simply handing them this album to listen to. Every vocal punctuation, every roar, every drumbeat every goddamn riff is exactly what you want it to be. From the supremely catchy ‘Put On Your Gasmask’, with its wailing air raid siren to ‘Hollow’s crawl through lightless tunnels; ‘Afterworld’s searing guitar solo and atmosphere to revel in, drown in, to the rampaging, breathless fury of ‘The Rotting End’ - As Mankind Rots is headbanging classic after headbanging classic. Rogga’s voice is as powerful as his riffs and Paganizer have never sounded better. A nice surprise to finish the album is a new recording of ‘Vanans Makt’, which appeared on the Compiled Ammunition compilation back in 2020, with guest vocals from Bulten of Swedish punk band Lastkaj 14.
Mixed and mastered by long term collaborator Ronnie Björnström, who has also applied his magic touch to other Rogga Johansson projects like Ribspreader, Those Who Bring The Torture and Revolting, As Mankind Rots simply could not sound any better. The package is completed by the haunting artwork of Ivan Bragin (The Gathering, October Tide, Woods Of Ypres etc) and will be released by Xtreem Music on CD, 12"LP Cassette & Digital formats on February 5th. For all fans of real death metal – this is unmissable!
Line-up:
Rogga Johansson - Guitars, Vocals
Matte Fiebig - Drums
Dennis Blomberg - Lead Guitars
Martin Klasén - Bass
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/paganizersweden
Label: Xtreem Music
Release date: december 4th 2025
Genre: Progressive Death/Thrash Metal
For fans of: Death | Anacrusis | Coroner | Watchtower
One more voyage of exploration, one more combination of chemicals, one more step into the forbidden darkness…one more ‘immoral’ experiment. There is no right or wrong here on this frontier, there is only the light of knowledge, the thrill of discovery and the grasping of power. Warnings are just challenges to courage and laws only bind those too weak to break them. Is the essence of our humanity really so great a price to pay when the reward is the ultimate understanding of everything? Is it not time to transcend the natural order, the chains of conscience that have bound us and leave this world behind…in ruins if that is what must be…
A union of two prodigious talents - Alessandro Gargivolo and Erymanthon Seth – Jester Majesty create music to fire the imagination and astound the senses. Formed in early 2024 by Alessandro Gargivolo when his musical ambitions began to extend into territories beyond the remit of his band, thrashers Alchemist, a first EP Plains Of Heaven appeared later that year. Erymanthon Seth (Apocalypse) contributed to the Plains Of Heaven EP and a full partnership with Alessandro Gargivolo soon developed. Now the breathtaking results of that partnership can be revealed; a majestic concept album of stunning progressive metal that deals with mankind’s insatiable thirst for knowledge and ongoing battle against the limitations that restrain him – Infinite Measure, Finite Existence…
The heavy, insistent and rhythmic introduction of ‘Zero-Point Collapse’ opens the door to an album that defies any attempt to provide a simple summation of its contents. The huge, shifting riffs and elaborate leads of ‘Echoes Of π’ sublimely illustrate the blend of outstanding musicianship and songcraft which lies at the heart of the Jester Majesty sound. The individual abilities at play open up vast possibilities for the songs, creating music that is limited only by the scope of the imagination. Each song is unique within itself and yet they are all intrinsically connected – working wonderfully as individual pieces but staggeringly so as a collective whole. It’s an exhilarating experience to ride the storm-tossed seas of ‘Married To The Masterplan’, with so much to absorb, so much to hear, layer upon layer of sound, with the powerful chorus an anchor in the tumult. Infinite Measure, Finite Existence is constantly evolving and changing forms and the individual songs are microcosms of that process, metamorphosising as they progress, pools mirroring the tides of an ocean. Each musical element of Jester Majesty is of the highest quality, from the superb vocals to the mesmerising guitar work to the overwhelming drums and ‘φinal Jest’ is the perfect ending to an album of superlative accomplishment. It leaves you with a hunger to revisit the many paths of Infinite Measure…, a feeling that you could uncover a whole new experience by listening with a slightly different focus. There are near limitless secrets to be found in the realms of this indisputable masterpiece of progressive metal.
Mixed and mastered by Nikola Zanev (Other Night Fears, Mudcrab) to allow every facet of this intricate musical jewel to shine and adorned in the powerful artwork of Vini Vhummel (Kairos, Entormus etc), Infinite Measure, Finite Existence will be released by Xtreem Music, on CD and digital formats, on December 4th. This is one album that simply cannot be ignored.
Line-up:
Alessandro Gargivolo - Guitars/Bass/Vocals
Erymanthon Seth – Lead Guitar/Keyboards
*composition credit to Emiliano Ostertag on ‘φinal Jest’
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563217256871
The video was written, directed, and edited by drummer Grace Perez, and produced by Eye N Eye Productions.
Check "Whore's Grave" at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-hfTh1gd2Y
Fully formed in 2024, PRECIOUS BLOOD brings together three veterans of the NYC scene - AJ – guitar, vocals (Jesus Knevil, Snake Canyon), Dave Kramer – bass, vocals (Blood Feast, Suaka, Stanley), and Grace Perez – drums, vocals (The Wickedexorcist). The band’s shared love of doom and underground metal is expressed in an unholy concoction of rum-soaked riffs, brutal lyrics, and mystical tribal sounds.
With a signature sound best described as Blackened Caribbean Doom, PRECIOUS BLOOD delivers a unique blend of doom and thrash metal influenced tone, mixed with lyrical themes that draw profound inspiration from the enduring spirit of the Caribbean, shaped by brutal history of colonization, unwavering resilience of its people, and exploration of the darker aspects of human existence, including death, contemplation of mortality and the complexities of human suffering.
For fans of monstrous riffs, horror-inspired visuals, and genre-bending metal.
Tracklist:
1) False Prophets
2) Bludgeoned & Charred
3) Footsteps of Babylon
4) Shadow of the Cross
5) Cemetery Burn
6) Old Man Abaddon
7) El Muerte
8) Whore’s Grave
False Prophets was recorded and mixed by Joe Hogan at Captain’s Cove Catskills Studios with mastering and additional engineering by AJ Tissian (The Wave Lab). The album was produced by Joe Hogan and PRECIOUS BLOOD. Album cover photo by Mia. Cover layout by PRECIOUS BLOOD.
Line-Up:
AJ -Guitar, Vocals
Grace Perez - Drums, Backing Vocals
Dave Kramer - Bass, Backing Vocals
https://linktr.ee/preciousbloodband
With Crimson Hallows, Screams Of Tranquility deliver a furious yet deeply emotional full-length that marks the next chapter in the saga around the Bloodshades and the hunter's heir caught between frost, blood, and redemption.
Each track bleeds with the band’s trademark fusion of melodic death metal, blackened thrash, and symphonic despair. Written and produced entirely by Marc P. Prohaska, the album captures the sound of torment transforming into triumph: haunting orchestrations, relentless double-kicks, and vocals that tear through the veil between rage and melancholy.
Crimson Hallows is not just another record - it's a reckoning. Born from frost and blood, it carries both the curse and the cure. Between ruin and rebirth - this is where the hunt begins again."
Biography
"Screams Of Tranquility" stands as the dynamic brainchild led by the gifted Marc P. Prohaska, a 29-year-old musician based in the idyllic foothills of the Austrian Alps in Upper Austria. This captivating project delves deep into the narratives of a society marred by excess, laying bare its hypocrisies, collective folly, and the gradual erosion of humanity.
Marc's musical palette is a vibrant fusion of influences, melding Scandinavian melodic death, American thrash, and hints of black metal. With deft craftsmanship, he intertwines pulsating rhythms and intricate orchestrations, weaving a spellbinding tapestry of sound.
From his beginnings as a musician at the age of 18, Marc has explored diverse musical avenues, ranging from pop-punk to rock and metal cover bands. However, it was through the emergence of Screams Of Tranquility that his artistic vision truly blossomed. In 2019, Marc graduated as a recording, mixing, and mastering engineer from HOFA College, now operating his own successful mixing and mastering business as a freelancer.
While Screams Of Tranquility is a solo endeavor, questions about the absence of additional band members only underscore Marc's proficiency and the effectiveness of his approach to "running SOT as if it were a fully occupied band." His unwavering dedication and skill shine through in every aspect of his work.
For those in search of authentic, meticulously crafted music that transcends the confines of mainstream melodic death metal, replete with searing leads, impassioned vocals, and profound thematic depth, Screams Of Tranquility stands as a beacon of artistic excellence worthy of exploration.
https://www.sodeh.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/ScreamsOfTranquility
Label: Selfmaderecords
Release date: december 26th 2025
Genre: Punk Rock
For fans of: Electric Six | Iggy Pop | Toyah | Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction
"We’re the sound of a sun made of lightning on fire..."
Exploding out of the great white north, in a dazzling burst of stardust and exuberance, rebellion and radiance, come Toronto’s punk rock riders of the astral plane, Hot Apollo. After lighting up the Toronto club scene for over a decade with songs that transport audiences to realms of euphoria, the city’s self proclaimed ‘shiniest band’ are about to deliver their cerebral shock to the world. New album Against The Odds Because We’re Gods is coming and it’s time to join the Hot Apollo revolution!
“Exploding stars join our choir...”
The album opens in a burst of electrifying guitar, boldly heading straight into the band’s ‘superhero cartoon theme song’, the anthemic and irresistible ‘We’re Hot Apollo’ where a languid vocal rides on crisp drumming and punk vibes and a searing solo tears across the sky. From that blazing beginning Hot Apollo take you on a tour of driving grooves, flamboyant guitar embellishments, enfolding atmospheres and choruses that feel like you’ve known them all your life. From the slinky, sliding riffs of ‘Priorities’, a song that walks the margins between playful and defiant, to the dream state dance of ‘Slayance’; from ‘Beltane’, made to make you move with its cool lead guitar wandering through a patchwork of neon glow and shadow, to the metal edge and galloping rhythms of ‘Gjallarbu’. Every song on Against The Odds Because We’re Gods occupies its own unique space, but they are all united by the irrepressible, irresistible spirit of Hot Apollo. The final two songs on the album – ‘Stop Drop Rock ‘n’ Roll’ and ‘Never Stay Down’ – rock hard and joyously, leaving you energised, renewed and alive, before this band of maverick marauders head back to the stars from whence they came.
“Louder than thunder! We’re a sparkle storm…”
The vibrant sound of Against The Odds… was captured by renowned Canadian producer Scotty Komer of the band Boys Night Out, who has worked with the likes of Protest The Hero and Silverstein. Every voice in the Hot Apollo choir gets to speak and bathe in the spotlight – from the full figured bass to the snapping drums, the fizzing guitars to the sonorous vocals – and the result is effervescent. The album will be released by SelfMadeRecords on December 26th on CD, LP and Digital formats – the perfect party to end the year…and everyone’s invited!
“We’re Hot Apollo! We’re all Hot Apollo!”
Line-up:
Jaymes - Vocals
Tobi - Bass
Monet - Lead Guitar
Diego - Drums
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Label: Comatose Music
Release date: january 16th 2026
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse | Skinless | Devourment | Disentomb
Within the long, dark corridors of my mind there are numberless doors, all locked tight, concealing the prisoner’s of my heart’s creation. In these rooms I vent my passions, bathe in the screams, dissect and desecrate, peel and penetrate, lose myself in a fantasy of blood and power. And for as long as I can remember this has been enough for me; my internal dungeon paradise. But now I realise it has all just been a preparation, a gentle tuition, the beginning of my manifest destiny. The time has come to step outside and share my dreams with others…
It’s been more than five years since Houston’s Architectural Genocide released their cataclysmic debut album, the raging brutality of Cordyceptic Anthropomorph, but time has not mellowed them or soothed the temperament of their inner beast. If anything, their long awaited second album is an even more dangerous, vicious creation that adds an unnerving, skin crawling terror to their trademark elixir of darkness and depravity. Prepare yourself for the fearsome assault of Malignant Cognition!
Opening with ‘Precursor To Bloodshed’, a litany of horrors over a nerve-grinding riff, there is a sense of suppressed violence, silently screaming to be unleashed…and that unleashing comes with ‘Coercion Into Carnality’, an irresistible weight that drags you down into a mire of torture and sickness, shifting from the methodical to the frenzied with the unpredictability of a broken mind. And from here the remorseless attack continues unabated – from the slow motion compression of the internal organs blended with lacerating savagery of ‘Trophies For My Murders’, to the surging, stabbing ‘Zed Requiem’ – tormenting with a pitiless curiosity, devoid of empathy – on to the shocking climax of ‘Stuffed Under Floorboards’. This is perhaps the most potent combination of chilling atmosphere and punishing riffing that Architectural Genocide have yet invoked, a true monster of a song, meticulous in its dismembering delivery.
Encased in the superb artwork of Rudi Yanto (Devastrosity, E-Force, Perveration etc) and Den Yudi (Decrepitation, Realm Of Chaos, Rotting Demise etc), the perfect visual depiction of the soul-eating madness within, Malignant Cognition will be let loose by Comatose Music on January 16th. Mixed and mastered at Southwing Audio (Oceans Of Slumber, Stabbing etc) for maximum impact, Malignant Cognition serves up a banquet of Architectural Genocide’s inimitable brutality. The New Year will begin with a brutal death metal holocaust!
Line-up:
Daniel Brockway - Vocals
Matt Day - Bass
Tom Savage - Guitar
Nat Conner - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/architecturalgenocide/
San Antonio (TX) - U.S. Hateful Death Metal band, CALCRAFT, recently signed to Lifeforce Records are set to release their debut album, REBORN THROUGH TORTURE, on November 21st digitally, with physical album release on January 30th.
The band now return with the second single from the new effort, PERPETUALLY STABBED. Calcraft also shot a music video for the new song, in style of 1990’s Death Metal videos.
Calcraft takes it's lyrical inspiration from Giallo horror and classic American slasher films. This is not a brand new frontier for American Death Metal, but more of a continuation of it's honored tradition. Comparable to the tropes horror audiences are accustomed to when seeing a new film at the cinema. Perpetually Stabbed could be seen as the apex of this thematic homage of horror for the album; it's the band at it's most visceral.
With the uncompromising credo “Unrelenting death metal. No trends. No mercy.” CALCRAFT define their sound - and with their debut album "Reborn Through Torture", they deliver a merciless statement against anything watered-down or trend-driven.
The Texas-based outfit stands for raw, hate-fueled death metal, deeply rooted in the legacy of Immolation, Suffocation, and Incantation. But CALCRAFT go further: their songs are steeped in dark atmosphere, thrashy aggression, and a cinematic violence that feels ripped straight from the bloodiest scenes of Giallo and slasher films.
Their name is no coincidence - William Calcraft, England’s infamous executioner, serves as a grim source of inspiration. Like their namesake, CALCRAFT show no mercy: their music is an auditory noose, each track an execution. "Reborn Through Torture" is a blood-soaked manifesto of riffs, madness, and horror, dragging the listener into a world of pain and cinematic carnage.
Each song tells a story - of insanity, torture, and final breaths. CALCRAFT don’t aim to entertain; they aim to disturb. Their goal is to create a threatening sonic landscape that sounds like “a blood-soaked soundtrack to the final scene you never survive.”
Those who face this album won’t be spared. CALCRAFT hold themselves to their own brutal standard - and deliver death metal in its most relentless, uncompromising form.
CALCRAFT REBORN THROUGH TORTURE OUT NOVEMBER 21ST
Track Listing
1. Satisfying Strangulation
2. Fuck Blade
3. Slovakian Carnage
4. Perpetually Stabbed
5. Interlude
6. Wolves Sight
7. Purest Pain
8. Carving Flesh
9. Outro
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US death metal band Glorious Depravity have unveiled another track from their upcoming album which upholds their high standards for old school, thrashy death metal. No Clean Singing premiered it at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/20/an-ncs-premiere-glorious-depravity-necrobotic-enslavement/ and here's an excerpt from it - "It’s an exhilarating thing to hear, made even more thrilling by the hard-slugging and fast-firing drumwork."
Glorious Depravity have also announced a US tour for the promotion of their new album
Nov 15 - (TBA)
Nov 16 - Grand Rapids MI, Morning Ritual
Nov 17 - Chicago IL, Sleeping Village
Nov 18 - Indianapolis IN, Black Circle
Nov 19 - Louisville KY, Mag Bar
Nov 20 - Asheville NC, The Odd
Nov 21 - Raleigh NC, Chapel of Bones
Nov 22 - Richmond VA, Fuzzy Cactus
All shows with Wretched Blessing
Flyer by Caroline Harrison
Photo by Suren Karapetyan
GLORIOUS
DEPRAVITY – “DEATH NEVER SLEEPS”
Genre - Death metal with thrash metal touches
For fans of - Cannibal Corpse, Monstrosity, Vader, Deicide, Sinister, Decapitated, Power Trip
With an illustrious lineup featuring members of Pyrrhon, Gravesend, Woe, Scarcity
and more, one can safely presume that Glorious Depravity would know their way around extreme metal music. And they deliver in spades; they have come up with an album that showcases the best elements of death metal, even with its roots in the old school sound and the music tinged with thrash metal influences. In comparison to their debut, they have refined and upgraded their music and have left no stone unturned for this one. The meticulously written music is more impactful and powerful than ever before and they seem to have found more of their identity on this one. With recording and mixing done by Joe Cincotta (Suffocation, Obituary) and mastering by Ryan Williams (The Black Dahlia Murder), the album sounds tremendous and is an absolute delight to listen to - being clear, resonant, and robust. To top things off, a painting of the legendary artist Dan Seagrave adorns this release. A death metal fan could die happy right now. "Death Never Sleeps" is undoubtedly a significant release in the style, one that will be remembered for a long time for being a top-tier, near-flawless, invigorating death metal album.
Line up
Doug Moore (Pyrrhon, Scarcity, Seputus) - Vocals
Matt Mewton (Woe) - Guitars
George Paul (Gravesend) - Guitars
John McKinney (Woe) - Bass
Chris Grigg (Woe) - Drums
Recorded and mixed by Joe Cincotta (Suffocation, Obituary) at Full Force Recording
Mastered by Ryan Williams (The Black Dahlia Murder)
Artwork by Dan Seagrave (Morbid Angel, Malevolent Creation)
Band pic taken by Suren Karapetyan
Track listing
1. Slaughter the Gerontocrats
2. Stripmined Flesh Extractor view
3. Freshkills Poltergeist view
4. Sulphrous Winds (Howling Through Christendom)
5. Scourged by the Wings of the Fell Destroyer
6. The Devouring Dust
7. Carnage at the Margins
8. Necrobotic Enslavement
9. Death Never Sleeps
Official release date - November 7th, 2025
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Thanks a lot for your support! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
Label: Filosofem Records
Release date: november 2025
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
For fans of: Summoning | Avrigus | Empyrium | Eldamar
All that we were may have faded from the concrete streets, choked in smoke, our identity fractured and fragmented by the onslaught of modernity…but far from the boxes that enclose us and the algorithms that dictate our desires and direct our thoughts, beneath the trees, on the mountain tops, in the arms of the undying winds that traversed the world when the old gods walked, in the light of the moon and the dark of the shadows…we are eternal.
WitcheR emerged, as if from the pages of Hungarian folklore, back in 2010 and have since crafted an array of bewitching music, steeped in the history and mythology of their homeland. 2022s Lélekharang was a pivotal moment in the band’s career, lifting WitcheR to a new level creatively and it was followed by the remarkable 2024 EP of classical music adaptations entitled Boszorkányszimfóniák. Now it is time to unveil the next chapter in the tale of WitcheR – Ӧröklét…
“This record is not merely music — it is a gateway. Whoever crosses it will never be the same again. It is a moment of realization, when one understands that everything fades… and yet, everything remains eternal.” – WitcheR
Ӧröklét begins with the rich, haunting keys and powerful, mid-paced riffs of ‘Ӧrökség’ (Heritage) and with its air of majesty, melancholy and reflection, entwined in mystery and moonlight, it seems steeped in the very essence of all that word implies. Listening to WitcheR is like slipping into a dream and that has never been more true than with Ӧröklét. ‘Szélhozó’ (Windbringer) overflows with a spellbinding romanticism and the dual vocals of Gere Karola and Neubauer Roland – rather than dominating the music – slip between its textured layers like dryad spirits between the trees. This is WitcheR at their most beautiful and evocative. ‘Röghöz kötött’ (Soil-bound) and stately title track ‘Ӧröklét’ (Eternity) both move with the measured steps of medieval dances, courtly and chivalric. They draw out vast depths of emotion, in such contrast to the shallowness of modern society. With its weight, value and artistic worth WitcheR create music that stands outside of time. The album concludes with a reworking of Franz Schubert’s ‘Piano Trio No. 2 - Andante con moto’, which shows the gift that WitcheR have for interpreting classical pieces with respect for and understanding of the original music, whilst still transforming these masterful compositions into something entirely WitcheR in character. Something that could be crass in the hands of another band becomes breathtaking through the application of WitcheR’s subtle sorcery. With Ӧröklét, WitcheR have continued down their characterful path of atmospheric dark metal, becoming ever more unique and moving further beyond imitation; a precious and irreplaceable jewel in the world of imaginative, passionate music.
Adorned in the enthralling sepia toned imagery of Balázs Pénzes of Grafit & Hamu Artworks (Korp, Vrag, Siculicidium etc), who also provided the visual elements for Lélekharang and Boszorkányszimfóniák, the digital, cassette and CD versions of Ӧröklét were released by Filosofem Records on November 4th and the vinyl edition will follow, from Beverina Productions, coming late November. Let your eyes close and feel the world slip away as WitcheR lead you down forest paths, past lakes of crystal waters to a place where magic is in the air and reality is all that it is meant to be.
Line-up:
Gere Karola – Synths/Vocals
Neubauer Roland – Guitars/Drums/Vocals
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Label:
Vic Records
Release date: november 28th 2025
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Venom | Emperor | Cradle Of Filth | Varathron
Throughout the 1990s black metal was spreading around the globe like an irresistible plague. Covens of corpse-painted disciples of the dark sprang up everywhere, from the icy fjords of Norway to the sun-baked climes of Greece. And the country where the very concept of black metal was first created was no exception – England, the home of Venom, the first, the black metal gods, was spawning its own new breed of devils. In the vanguard of the British legions, alongside co-conspirators Cradle Of Filth, were Thus Defiled. After two vicious demos, Blasphemous Coven and Enchanted By The Dark One, both released in 1993, Thus Defiled then unleashed two seminal works of raw, atmospheric blasphemy that have remained revered and treasured in the black metal underground ever since…1995s Through The Impure Veil Of Dawn and 1997s Wings Of The Nightstorm. Thus Defiled would go on to create more finely crafted and sophisticated albums later in their career, in particular the devastating Daemonspawn, but their first two albums held something special. Born from a youthful fervour and passionate dedication to the dark heart of black metal, they retain strong musical links to the first wave of the genre, most notably the mighty Venom and both are shrouded in a primal, shadowed atmosphere that has endeared them to fans for the last thirty years.
Now, these long unavailable classics of metal’s darkest sub-genre are finally to be re-released. Vic Records, whose roots go back to the same early ‘90s era as Thus Defiled themselves, will relight the black flame on November 28th and set loose Through The Impure Veil Of Dawn and Wings Of The Nightstorm into the world once more.
These two albums have long since secured their place in the annals of black metal history and their power and presence remains undiminished by the passing decades. The wild, black chaos of Through The Impure Veil Of Dawn shows that ‘metal’ was always as important as the ‘blackness’ for Thus Defiled; demonstrated in the epic thunder of ‘Under Blackening Horizons’ and the atmospheric title track. And even at this early stage in the band’s development their ambition, their reaching for grandeur can be found in ‘A Crimson Vision In The Glade Of Shadowfire’ and the classically influenced ‘Fear Us For We Are The Darkness’. Fittingly the debut concludes with its most accomplished and creative track – ‘Darkness Rape The Tranquil Shore Of Eternity’ – which lights the way to the dramatic developments of Wings Of The Nightstorm. Thus Defiled’s second album is where the band really took flight in terms of what would become their fierce, intense, melodic, riff driven black metal. The songs are longer, more complex and involved, yet still with that instant impact of metallic power. The likes of ‘(Angelblood) The Tears Of An Age Now Dead’ and ‘Empire Of Souls Bleeding’ showed that Thus Defiled were more than just standard bearers for a nascent British black metal scene, they were a force that could contend on the global stage.
Both albums have been carefully restored and remastered by Thus Defiled’s Paul C. and come with new liner notes written by Officium Triste’s Pim Blankenstein. What makes these reissues utterly essential for long standing admirers of Thus Defiled though are the bonus tracks which supplement each release. Taken from unearthed 1994 rehearsal tapes these include never before released songs like ‘Shadow Of All Forsaken’, ‘Where The Forest Screams’, ‘I Of The Blackstorm’ and ‘The Final Sunrise (Purity Lies Dying)’. Two hell born beasts have returned from the void and are coming for your souls once again!
Wings Of The Nightstorm Line-up:
Paul C - Guitars/Vocals
Sam C - Bass
Andy R - Guitars
Nick L – Drums
Paul N – Session Keyboards
https://www.vicrecords.com/
https://www.thusdefiled.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/thusdefiled
Belgian/Thai
black metal entity YHWH are back with KHATHA,
a short but punishing five-track EP that breathes life into
previously unrecorded compositions, confronting human cruelty, societal
injustice, and the darker corners of myth and the mind. With Khatha, YHWH
deliver a raw, uncompromising statement, reinforcing their place as one of modern
extreme metal’s most intense and thought-provoking forces.
Khatha will be released digitally on 12 December 2025 via Wormholedeath.
Tracklist
01 - Hell on Earth (The Root of All Evil)
02 - Murderer of Illusions
03 - Deathrash
04 - Night Terror
05 – Krasue
Formed in 2024, YHWH is a Belgian/Thai black metal band. All music is composed by Schem HaMephorash and her sister C. Bones, with S.M. Goat Ritual joining in June. Following their debut EP Tetragrammaton (April 2025, Wormholedeath), the band now unleashes the second chapter: Khatha. Prepare for the doom.
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RELICS FROM THE CRYPT, the sub-label of DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS dedicated to keeping the past alive, is proud to present reissues of NOT FRAGILE’S cult WHO DARES WINS mini-album on 12” vinyl format and the band’s One Way to Glory album on CD and vinyl LP formats.
One of the best hard-luck stories in the rich history of German heavy metal, NOT FRAGILE were originally active from 1980 to 1990. During that decade, the band released a couple demos, an EP, and an almost-album-length mini-album – and the requisite compilation appearances, which was mandatory during the ‘80s – and had even recorded a proper debut album, only for that first full-length to be posthumously released in various territories with confusing titles. They would eventually re-form in the mid ‘90s and remain active for nearly two decades, but the demand for the original NOT FRAGILE era has only grown as the years passed.
Feeling duty call, RELICS FROM THE CRYPT arrive with long-overdue reissues of NOT FRAGILE’s Who Dares Wins mini-album and their intended debut album, One Way to Glory, both remastered: the former adjusted for vinyl by Journey Into Eternity Studios, and the latter a whole new remaster by Patrick Engel at Temple of Disharmony.
Originally released in 1988 after being passed around by a couple labels, Who Dares Wins was a rough ‘n’ raucous slice of German speed / power metal emblematic of that era. With surprising heaviness if not thrashiness, the band’s 27-minute mini-album bore contemporaneous influence from the likes of Running Wild and Helloween nearby and Helstar and Liege Lord overseas. Nevertheless, NOT FRAGILE had the songwriting – and energy – to put them over, with the record’s production sounding particularly professional despite its meager budget. The following year, the band would record their ill-fated debut album, One Way to Glory. As presaged by its title, the lyrics shifted slightly toward more fantastical realms – the band did have an amazingly DIY castle backdrop for the mini’s “With All My Might” video, after all – and the thrashiness dialed back, but energy remained abundant here. The band’s execution actually got even sharper as the riffing became a bit brighter and more melodic, and the cleaner production brought a triumphant gleam to NOT FRAGILE whilst sacrificing no heaviness. Taken as a snapshot of the times, One Way to Glory simultaneously sounded out of date and ahead of the times, as power metal was about to have a resurgence across Europe during the mid ‘90s. However, their version of power metal surely bore the medieval stamp of the ‘80s, and was all the better for it. Sad, then, that their debut album would only see posthumous release in 1992 and 1993 as Hard to Be Alive and Lost in a Dream, respectively, alongside a mishmash of other ‘80s tracks.
Line-up:
Torsten Buczko - Guitars, Vocals
Matthias Belter - Bass
Markus Köhn - Drums
Raico Ebel - Guitars
From Hamburg, Germany
Release date:
19th December
Tracklist
1 Rael
2 With all my Might
3 High Into Heaven
4 Opus 73
5 Down in the Streets
6 Out of Law
7 Craze and Hunger
8 Bbbrrraaa
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on white vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
The Finnish progressive thrash metal band KRATEROS is set to release their debut EP 'LOST IN TRANSLATION' on January 30th 2026 via Inverse Records.
The first single 'LINGUICIDE' is unleashed today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/krateros-linguicide
The band comments:
" “Linguicide” is the first taste of our upcoming EP “Lost in Translation.” With its catchy groove and memorable guitar melody, it is arguably the most “commercial” track from the EP, yet it contains a great blend of all the elements that make our music what it is. Musically, the song is the oldest one on the EP, with the first demo going as far back as February 2020. Lyrically, the song went through two or three rewrites before finding its final form. Some of the discarded ideas have since been used in songs meant for future releases. As a product of our times, “Linguicide” deals with cancel culture and the death of independent thought, whether through self-censorship or outside pressure."
Biography:
Krateros is an emerging metal band from Helsinki, Finland, founded in 2023 and led by vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter Saku Rekonen. The band’s music combines influences from old-school thrash metal bands such as Annihilator, Exodus, and Megadeth with more contemporary acts like Trivium, Machine Head, and Stam1na — all the while being filtered through a progressive lens.
The band’s first EP, “Lost in Translation,” released through Inverse Records, is a response to a perceived lack of riffs that seems to plague the metal scene of the 2020s.
Krateros - Lost in Translation (EP 2026)
Track list:
1. Tomb Service
2. Linguicide
3. The Performer
4. Uticensis
5. Comatose Waltz
Cover art by All4band Design
Line-up:
Saku Rekonen - Vocals & Guitar
Roni Helminen - Bass & Backing vocals
Touko Kaihola - Drums
https://krateros.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/kraterosband
The
band issued the following statement on leaving the LIBERATION THROUGH
PUNISHMENT TOUR:
"Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have to cancel our tour with Vitriol and Weeping that we were so looking forward to being a part of. With such short notice, we were not able to find a drummer to fill in for the tour. We apologize to Vitriol, Weeping, the promoters and most of all to our fans.
We will be back out on the road to support Devouring Darkness as soon as we possibly can.
Make sure and DO NOT miss this tour! Vitriol and Weeping will crush the stage at every show!!"
UNMERCIFUL is still confirmed for the 2026 Maryland Deathfest.
The band's newest album, DEVOURING DARKNESS, marks a new era of relentless violence and sonic brutality! With ten tracks of scorching intensity and distorted vengeance, the album is filled with blistering blast beats, intricate kick drum patterns, and destructive riffing.
Devouring Darkness is out now on CD, digital, and vinyl formats on Willowtip Records.
Devouring Darkness sees the return of longtime member Jeremy Turner to guitar and introduces Josh Riley as the band’s new vocalist, further intensifying the group’s punishing sound.
The album was engineered and produced by Clinton Appelhanz at Waveworks Studio, with mastering handled by the legendary Alan Douches (Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal, etc.). Artwork by Santiago Francisco Jaramillo.
UNMERCIFUL is:
Clinton Appelhanz - Guitars/Bass
Jeremy Turner - Guitars/Bass
Trynt Kelly - Drums
Josh Riley - Vocals
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Label: Independent Release
Release date: november 21st 2025
Genre: Melodic Technical Death Metal
For fans of: Obscura | Inferi | Allegaeon | Darkest Hour
Amidst the ruined remnants of a chapel, dedicated to gods long forgotten, beneath endless starless skies where the night wanders on forever and the daylight never comes; they gather to remember all the things that they once were. From desiccated lips, rotten throats and absent hearts they raise a bitter threnody, up to the obsidian firmament. An atonal gathering of whispers, laden with the sorrow of centuries…listen…hear the brittle, broken song of the carcass choir.
The Carcass Choir is the third EP from Leicester, UK based band, Monachopsis, who have been refining the intricacies of their melodic, technical death metal tapestries since 2015. This collection of songs represents the culmination of years of hard work and adversities overcome and sees Monachopsis reaching a new level of creative accomplishment.
Opening with its title track, The Carcass Choir is ushered in on rafts of rich, dark chords adorned in the flickering light of electrifying lead work. Anticipation builds on a growing tidal wave of power that crashes down into shuddering riffs and aggressive vocal lines. There’s a complexity in the performances and the song’s structure, but it’s delivered in a finely honed, compact warhead of burnished steel and dazzling flares of melody ignite between the layers of sound. The atmosphere is superb, a sense of depth, darkness and things unseen, which continues into second song, ‘Letters From The Doomsday Vault’. These songs don’t offer up everything they are in a single listen; the engaging hooks and thrilling guitar work capture you immediately, but there is much more to uncover than is first apparent. As the music balances complexity and accessibility, immediacy and depth, so the vocals deliver both snarling venom and clarity of expression, with all these contrasts managed masterfully. A commanding version of Darkest Hour’s ‘Love As A Weapon’ sits at the heart of the EP, a nod to the genesis of Monachopsis, it being the first song ever performed live by the band. The two tracks which complete The Carcass Choir are stunning, revitalised versions of two tracks which originally appeared on Monachopsis’ 2018 EP From Mind To Eye. Both ‘Scathed By Branches Of Malice’ and ‘The God Project’ have become staples of the Monachopsis live set and here they are reborn – full of serrated intensity and superb guitar solos. Crisp, direct and focussed yet full of twists, turns and surprises – keeping the listener ensnared in their maze of thorns.
Meticulously mixed and mastered by Nik Palivos at Haunting Studios (Elysian, Rohan, Eonian etc), every element of The Carcass Choir’s elaborate and sophisticated sound palette possesses its own space, just waiting to be discovered. The final hallmark of quality is then applied by the magnificent artwork of Mohammed Hoirul (Flesh Remains etc) – emphasising The Carcass Choir’s status as the pinnacle of Monachopsis’ work to date and the gateway to an exciting future full of rare potential. The voices of The Carcass Choir will fill the night on November 21st - be sure to listen to the secrets that they share.
Line-up:
Richard Allsopp - Guitars, Vocals, Piano, Orchestral and Drum Programming
Mihir Miyangar - Vocals
William Bartholomew - Bass
Kieran Hickman – Guitars
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From their humble beginnings in 1985 on to their super-cult debut album, 1987’s Crest of Black, Japan’s SACRIFICE have stood for uncompromising, world-eating, thrashy METAL. Let’s reiterate: thrashy heavy metal rather than pure thrash metal. Thick and viscous is their thrust, with straightforward songwriting and exceptionally mean delivery. Arguably, they’d perfect that signature style with 1990’s Total Steel, which RELICS FROM THE CRYPT would reissue on vinyl in 2021, but there’s something uniquely powerful about its follow-up, Tears.
Released in 1992 and again featuring the band’s signature steel-encased demon mascot, SACRIFICE’s Tears was even more of anomaly than its not-inconsiderable predecessor. Compared to 1990, in 1992 was crossover largely dead on both sides of the Atlantic.
Nevertheless, SACRIFICE continued to fight the good fight and formed & finessed the idiom to their own idiosyncratic design. Such is intrinsic to their native musical culture, much in the way that Japanese punk takes bog-standard tropes and upends them in unique ways. So, while Total Steel took then-contemporaneous Cro-Mags, Venom, Razor, Carnivore, the UK’s Sacrilege, Nasty Savage, The Exploited, and even early Celtic Frost and spat it out as something that sounded like all those simultaneously and nothing like ‘em at all, Tears, by comparison, more often slowed down the still-hammering pulse and added a bit more space and daresay emotion – not for nothing is the album titled Tears, right? – and returned with something even more varied, more dynamic, and especially more world-eating. One need only peruse the album’s titles – “Hardest Life,” “Time Slips Through In Front of Your Eyes,” “Broken Heroes,” and the utterly classic opener “Never Land Never Again” among them – as well as the lyric sheet to find support for that “emotional” statement. As such, Tears could quite possibly eclipse Total Steel as SACRIFICE’s ultimate statement…but cruelly enough, the album currently stands as their recorded epitaph, for they broke up after its release and have yet to release anything following their 2020 reunion.
Even after all these years, Tears stands as a massive achievement during a strange era for metal, and possibly sounds even more refreshing today. Metalheads, punks, and metalpunks are hereby commanded to bow down again before SACRIFICE!
Line-up:
Tohru Nishida - Bass
Kenji Suzuki - Drums
Hiroyuki Murakami - Guitars
Akira Sugiuchi - Vocals
From Tokyo, Japan
Release date:
19th December
Tracklist
1 Never Land Never Again
2 Breaking the Silence of the Night
3 Your Soul
4 Broken Heroes
5 Time Slips through in front of your Eyes
6 Do I fight for God
7 Hardest Life
8 Down to You
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on blue vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD edition with slipcase and sticker.
CD edition with slipcase, sticker and patch.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Milwaukee (WI) - One-man CINEMATIC DOOM project, Liminal Spirit, has released full-length debut album, UNWELL!
FFO: Jesu, Cynic, Confessor, Swans, Skepticism
Unwell is the third presentation from Liminal Spirit, as told by Phillip, Jonathan, Madeline, C., E., and The Adjudicators over the course of five acts.
Purchase/Stream:
https://liminalspirit.bandcamp.com/album/unwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rORD2LIsavk
Multi-instrumentalist/composer, Jerry Hauppa (Northless, Ara, Deorbit), had this to say about the opus:
"I have a lot to say about what I've done with the album, but the main goal was an exploration of some of my biggest fears. I've worked in nursing homes and they are absolutely miserable places, and it is a tragedy that if we are lucky enough to live that long, that is where we will most likely end up. Losing control of my faculties, mental and physical decline, and the pondering of the unknown are all lingering fears overcasting my younger years, and I wanted to explore that musically, but also develop the idea of building sympathy for a character with dementia, only to find out that he is actually a monster who has done some horrific things despite not remembering them.
I wanted to tell a story showing that you are on the hook for your deeds no matter what- even if you can't remember them or if your mental decline has eroded away the part of you that is capable of heinous acts. I wanted the music to reflect the contemplation of a sick and addled person, and brought it together using microtonal guitars that provide an alien-sounding character to the music.
The music written for the record also is tied to the seeking of spiritual salvation referenced in the song 'Welcome to My World' from Jim Reeves, recorded in 1962 and presented here in the first track of the album as the character listens to it one last time for peace of mind. The melody for this song is manipulated repeatedly throughout the record as our main character, Phillip, seeks salvation despite the blight on his soul from acts he has forgotten, but unlike what is heard on the Jim Reeves song, those who can provide salvation do not take kindly to Phillip as judgment nears.
I hope those who listen are able to feel the themes expressed. It was a meaningful release to build and I am looking forward to the reception."
Track Listing:
1. Admittance
2. Unwell
3. Visiting Day
4. EOLC
5. A Better Place
Credits:
All music written, recorded, and mixed by Jerry Hauppa.
Role of Madeline peformed by Kaitlyn Menden.
Mastered by Jeff Wojtysiak at Spiritual Sound Mastering.
Liminal Spirit is:
Jerry Hauppa - Guitar, Bass, Drum Programming, Synthesizer, Vocoder, Violin
Bio:
Liminal Spirit is Jerry Hauppa's solo project. Prior to this, Hauppa was involved in sludge metal band Northless, death metal band Ara, and instrumental space-focused band, Deorbit.
https://liminalspirit.bandcamp.com/
New
video clip from SVART VINTER ("OF COLD AND GRIEF"
out from "INSVIND" album)
Svart Vinter is an Italian Black Metal band formed in Rome in 2021 by members of the band Veil of
Though relatively new to the scene, Svart Vinter has quickly established themselves in the
Svart Vinter's sound is characterized by haunting melodies, cold, sharp riffs, and a powerful,
Over the years, Svart Vinter have shared the stage with renowned acts such as Batushka and
Svart Vinter's new album, titled Isvind, was released by the Dutch label Non Serviam Records on
https://svartvinter.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/svartvinterband
Stream the album: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/31/an-ncs-album-premiere-and-a-review-cal%e2%97%8f-ludzie-bladzacy-w-nocy/
Devoted Art Propaganda will handle the EU tape release while Fiadh Productions will take care of the US version.
The band introduces a new and uncompromising voice while the album explores dark and unsettling sounds. Can the band's ethos be captured with the words: “In rapture, against unity, before the guards, it drips inwards, CAŁ”?
Tracklist:
1 Zanim Się stało
2 Poza granice
3 Niesen
4 Zanim Było
5 Ogrom Bytu
6 Kole
7 Za Nim
8 Na dnie popiołu
9 W Wszechbycie
https://d-a-p.org/
https://fiadh.bandcamp.com/music
https://callo.bandcamp.com/
Ready To Fight symbolizes CREMATE’S powerful rebirth, honoring their 1993 cult demo while boldly pushing forward. The EP is a must-listen for fans of authentic death/thrash metal with an atmospheric edge—heavy, relentless, and uniquely dynamic.
The digital EP's release date is November 7, 2025.
Tracklist
1. Die As You Lived
2. Human
3. Cerebral Pain
4. Ready To Fight
Formed in 1991 in Alimos, Athens by high school friends Christos (guitar/vocals) and Leonidas (drums), CREMATE quickly carved out a raw and aggressive niche blending death and thrash metal—drawing inspiration from titans like Kreator and Sodom. Their 1993 demo End of Time garnered international acclaim through critical reviews, radio play, and devoted underground support.
Following lineup changes and relentless live shows praised by Metal Hammer and other media, CREMATE released the 7" EP Enchanting Black Recess in 1995 via Dark Side Records. However, a full-length album never materialized as the band disbanded soon after.
In 2021, founder Christos reignited CREMATE alongside drummer George and longtime collaborator Akis Pastras (Dexter Ward, Damon Systema, Nightfall). Revisiting their seminal demo, Christos re-envisioned the material by infusing dark synthesized atmospheres, samples, and new arrangements that intensify the band’s signature 90s death/thrash fury.
Line up:
Chris C: Vocals/Bass
Akis Pastras: Rhythm/Lead Guitars
The Goat: Drums
Pre-save Ready to Fight: https://orcd.co/rtfep
www.facebook.com/crematetheband
Guten
Tag, we have recovered from an awesome SICK FEAST 2025 and
would like to send out a huge thank you to everyone who made the festival
unforgettable: the bands, crew, food stall of Café Schrill, illustrator and
layouter – and, of course, every single guest. We were treated to twelve
incredible bands delivering brutal performances. The dedicated team at s.v. Jugendhaus Ost worked tirelessly to ensure the
festival ran smoothly.
We hope everyone had an amazing time celebrating extreme underground musick!!!
If you have feedback, write a message or e-mail. Your feedback is highly appreciated!
Multi-cam videos from Sick Feast 2025 will be uploaded to https://www.youtube.com/@LycanthropicChants soon.
This newsletter is mostly be about shows from CRYPTIC BROOD and REPULSIVE FEAST plus upcoming locals shows in our hometown Wolfsburg. Label updates with the next newsletter in circa two weeks.
Cheers Steffen
CRYPTIC BROOD – “CREEPING CRYPTIC CONTAGION” TOUR
The brood creeps on! Following the devastating first wave of shows earlier this year, Lycanthropic Chants presents the CRYPTIC BROOD – “Creeping Cryptic Contagion” tour: a descent into rotting flesh and radioactive nightmares. The band will flood stages of Western Europe with their own toxic blend of death metal, grind and doom, straight from the decaying heart of their latest album “Necrotic Flesh Bacteria”.Come to these places and get lobotomised:
12.11.2025 BEL/Ghent @ Omgekeerde Kruis
13.11.2025 FRA/Rennes @ Uzine
14.11.2025 FRA/Bordeaux @ Le RedCat
15.11.2025 ESP/Unquera @ Los Bancos
16.11.2025 PRT/Porto @ Woodstock 69
17.11.2025 ESP/Zamora @ Pub Numancia
18.11.2025 ESP/Saragossa @ Pub Utopía (
19.11.2025 ESP/Barcelona @ Sala Lennon’s
20.11.2025 FRA/Montpellier @ Le KJBI
21.11.2025 FRA/Lyon @ Rock N Eat
22.11.2025 FRA/Strasbourg @ Le Local
LAST REPULSIVE FEAST SHOWS IN 2025
2025.11.06, GER/Leipzig @ *Connewitz*
2025.11.07, GER/Dresden @ Chemiefabrik
2026 shows to be announced soon.
DISTRO UPDATE
CORPSEHAMMER – “Metal De La Muerte” LP
GRAVEYARD / MORBID FLESH split 7″
HEXOFFENDER – “Erotic Terror!” LP (black or red vinyl)
MULL – “The Sound Of Melting Gristle” LP (red vinyl)
NO SHELTER. – “Remission/Resolve” LP (clear vinyl with black splatter)
SPECTRUM MORTIS – “Clavis Magica” 7″
UPCOMING LOCAL SHOWS IN WOLFSBURG (GERMANY)
Cocktail mit Schirmchen, Lycanthropic Chants und Shitface präsentieren am Freitag, den 28. November 2025 im s.v. Jugendhaus Ost in Wolfsburg:
EARTHBONG (Stoner/Doom Metal, GER/Berlin)
GAGAMAN (Stoner Metal, GER/Göttingen)
GAIA’S DEMISE (Heavy Psych Doom, GER/Braunschweig)
Am Samstag, den 6. Dezember 2025 im s.v. Jugendhaus Ost in Wolfsburg:
ABHORRENT EXECRATION (Black/Death Metal / FRA, Bordeaux)
KRYPTKEEPER (Black Metal / GER, Berlin)
DÜÜSTER (Black Metal/Crust / GER, Rostock)
https://lycanthropic.de/
The album was recorded primarily at Consonance Studio by Andrei Jumuga and Sol Faur (Dordeduh), with guitar sessions completed at Ras Alhage Studio by Fulmineos. Mixing and mastering duties were handled at Consonance Studio by Andrei Jumuga. Artwork and design by Alexandru Daș.
As a first taste of what the album has to offer, the band has unveiled "Iarba-fiarelor", a monumental 17-minute composition now available for streaming here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peWUpDrj55I
The
band comments:
"The album's title refers to a place hidden deep within the dark forests of the Carpathian Mountains, seen at twilight. It captures a moment of powerful communion between the wild nature within us and the vast, untamed world outside.
The first song we wish to reveal, "Iarba-fiarelor", is one of the most complex pieces we have ever created. It weaves together the raw, Atmospheric Black Metal of our early roots with new shades of Post-Rock and traditional rural ambience, sounds that grew naturally from the environment where this music was born.
The presence of Bogdan Luparu (Bucovina) on vocals and Andrei Oltean (E-an-na) performing traditional instruments (xylophone, flute, kaval, toacă), along with additional vocals throughout the album, adds a sacred, ancestral depth. Their contributions elevate the entire work, enriching its patriarchal, archaic atmosphere.
Yes, we are aware that "Iarba-fiarelor" is long by today's standards, but we do not write music for hurried attention spans. This is meant to be a spiritual journey, one that asks for time, presence, and a return toward the inner self, far from the frantic pace and fifteen-second focus of the modern world."
Pre-order "Cerburea apusului" here:
https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/argus-megere-cerburea-apusului
https://loudragemusic.limitedrun.com/products/870708-argus-megere-cerburea-apusului
Ageru Pământului – Vocals
Fulmineos – Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards
Urmuz – Bass
Putrid – Drums
Guests:
Bogdan Luparu (Bucovina) – Vocals
Andrei Oltean (E-An-Na) – Vocals, Traditional Folk Instruments
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/argusmegere/
Reviews
FERETRO – “THE MORTUARY DESTINY OF FLESH”
NORKH – “ UNDER TEARGAS FIRE” HAMMER
HKSPK – “THE HUMAN BUTCHER “(EP)
DEZENTRALISIERTES KADAVERKOLLEKTIV #669 (FANZINE)
Heute veröffentlicht die chilenische
Blackened-Thall-Band ATER stolz ihre packende neue
Single “VENUS”. Der Track gibt einen ersten Einblick in das
kommende Album der Band, “EVERLASTING”, das 2026 erscheinen
soll und vom renommierten Produzenten Dan Lancaster (Bring Me The
Horizon, Muse) produziert wurde. Der neue Track wird zusammen mit einem
offiziellen Musikvideo veröffentlicht, das unten zu sehen ist.
“Venus” fängt die für ATER charakteristische Fusion aus düsterer Wildheit sowie moderner Thall-Präzision ein und verbindet dissonante Atmosphären, harte Rhythmen und melodische Untertöne, die die kontinuierliche Entwicklung der Band widerspiegeln. Die Single kennzeichnet einen mutigen neuen Abschnitt für das chilenische Kollektiv, das seinen Sound in tiefere emotionale und klangliche Gefilde vorantreibt und dabei die viszerale Kraft beibehält, die es seit seiner Gründung auszeichnet.
Gründer und Frontmann Fernando Bühring kommentiert:
"Die neue Single und das neue Video zu 'Venus' sind heute erschienen! Erlebt uns diesen Herbst auf der Morbidfest-Tour mit Possessed, Terrorizer, Massacre und Nightfall. Frohes Samhain von uns allen bei ATER – wir sehen uns im Pit!"
"Venus"-Musikvideo ansehen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdfNWTvGqeA
"Venus" auf Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/4h82hMyLkLX3tE9cNpMxy5?si=q1YQHhakSL-t9J5HFWQfqA&nd=1&dlsi=605a05fc913e4780
Ab nächstem Monat wird ATER im Rahmen des Morbidfest zusammen mit Possessed, Terrorizer, Massacre und Nightfall durch Europa touren. Die Tour beginnt am 24. November in Warschau, Polen, im Progresja und endet am 19. Dezember im La Machine Du Moulin Rouge in Paris, Frankreich. Die vollständige Terminliste gibt es weiter unten.
Morbidfest
Ater mit Possessed, Terrorizer, Massacre and Nightfall
24.11. – Warschau (PL) Progresja
25.11. – Danzig (PL) B90
26.11. – Coesfeld (DE) Fabrik
27.11. – Kopenhagen (DK) Richter
28.11. – Göteborg (SE) The Abyss Fest
29.11. – Göteborg (SE) The Abyss Fest
01.12. – Bochum (DE) Matrix
02.12. – Leipzig (DE) Hellraiser
04.12. – Bukarest (RO) Quantic
05.12. – Belgrad (RS) Zappa Barka
06.12. – Košice (SK) Collosseum
07.12. – Krakau (PL) Hype Park
09.12. – Brünn (CZ) Fleda
10.12. – Wien (AT) Szene
11.12. – Graz (AT) Explosiv
12.12. – Lindau (DE) Vaudeville
13.12. – Eindhoven (NL) Eindhoven Metal Meeting
14.12. – Karlsruhe (DE) Substage
15.12. – Mailand (IT) Magazinni Generali
16.12. – Rom (IT) Orion
17.12. – Aarburg (CH) Musigburg
19.12. – Paris (FR) La Machine Du Moulin Rouge
Über ATER
ATER ist eine chilenische Dark-Metal-Band aus Santiago, die vom Komponisten und Multiinstrumentalisten Fernando Bühring gegründet wurde. Sie entstand 2010, wurde aber erst 2018 mit der Veröffentlichung ihres Debütalbums “Eternal Gray Spiral” wirklich aktiv. Die Band ist bekannt für ihren dunklen, emotionalen Sound und ihre fesselnden Live-Auftritte.
Das zweite Album von ATER, “Somber”, erschien 2024 und katapultierte die Band in die globale Metal-Szene. Die Band tourte ausgiebig, um das Album zu promoten, und nahm an vielen internationalen Tourneen mit Bands wie Cradle of Filth, Patriarkh, Hate, Venom Inc. und diversen anderen teil. Dieses Album ist bekannt für seine schiere Härte und dichte Ambient-Elemente.
2025 veröffentlichte die Band die Single “The Fall”, die zu einem ihrer beliebtesten Songs und besten Live-Momente geworden ist.
Derzeit arbeiten ATER mit dem Produzenten Dan Lancaster an ihrem kommenden Album “Everlasting”, das 2026 erscheinen wird.
https://ater.cl/
https://www.facebook.com/atermetal
Stream below! https://toiletovhell.com/exclusive-track-premiere-withering-souls-gallery-of-the-end/
FFO: Dark Fortress, Windir, Hypocrisy, Dissection, God Dethroned.
Passage of the Arcane is a convergence of blackened atmospheres and sweeping song structures. A mystifying journey that exceeds boundaries while remaining fun and exciting. The overall theme of the album involves human experiences traversing into cursed oblivion. Each song explores its own story, ranging from unexplained disappearances to the supernatural. While variation is abundant within the soundscapes, it is with a cohesive direction. Each chapter takes on its own "passage" through channels of cursed lore and harrowing experiences of the past. A seamless balance of crushingly heavy riffs and chilling melodies.
Pre-order Passage of the Arcane: https://witheringsoul.bandcamp.com/album/passage-of-the-arcane
Track
Listing:
1. Intro
2. Attrition Horizon
3. Grievance Eludes the Light
4. The Monolith Embodied
5. Gallery of the End
6. Trajectory
7. Among Covetous Eyes
8. Burden of the Valiant
Credits:
Guitars, Vocals - Christopher
Bass Guitar - Joel
Drums - Rick
Guest guitar solo on "Trajectory" by Nick "Exhul" Morgan.
Drums recorded and engineered by Vince Ippolito at Swift Road Studios.
Album mixed and mastered by Dennis Israel at Clintworks Audio.
Cover art by Adam Burke / Nightjar Illustration.
Line-up:
Christopher - Vocals, Guitar
Frank G. - Guitar
Joel - Bass Guitar
Rick - Drums
Bio:
A manifestation in the form of chilling soundscapes, foreboding atmospheres, contagious melodies and tortured chants echoing above an onslaught of calculated percussion. Withering Soul creates a musical elegy that is both majestic and haunting.
Conjured into existence by founding members Christopher (guitars and vocals) and Mykil (former lead vocalist) with the release of their debut album Apparitions of the Surreal in 2004, the band was later featured on "ReUnation - A Tribute to Running Wild" with a cover of "Firebreather" via Germany's Remedy Records earning "Best Song on the Album" by WeRock (SWE). A few years later saw the release of their follow-up album, No Closure via Mortal Music (MVD Distribution). The album promptly landed a spot on Apoch's Metal Review: "Top 50 Albums of 2011."
The band eventually recruited Rick Hernandez on drums and Joel Miller on bass guitar. Following an array of live shows brought the release of their third full length album Adverse Portrait (2015). It was later labeled “Album of the Month” by Metalreviews.com. The band made a few festival appearances such as Full Terror Assault III and Artifact Metal Fest in 2018.
Over the course of the 2020 world shutdown the band resolved to continue forward with Christopher on vocals and released its fourth full length effort Last Contact. The album reached an unprecedented level of acclaim not limited to earning the 3rd spot in World of Metal's top albums of 2021. The band immediately followed up with a busy live schedule both locally and out-of-state including a performance at Legion ov the Order festival in Tacoma, WA, Merciless Metalfest in Nova Scotia, Canada and Desecration Rituals VI and VII in Fort Wayne, IN.
Withering Soul has just recently finished its 5th album to be released at the end of 2025 and plans to continue transcending the boundaries of metal‘s darker genres while maintaining its own distinctive sound and leave its audiences spellbound for more.
https://www.facebook.com/liminaldreadproductions
https://www.facebook.com/witheringsoulband
Aussie
heavy/thrash powerhouse DECIMATOR is back, just in time
for the spooky season, with their new single “HALLOWEEN SEMATARY”,
out today via Wormholedeath.
Equal parts brutal and nostalgic, “Halloween Sematary” pays tribute to two cult classics—John Carpenter’s Halloween and the Ramones’ Pet Sematary—reimagined with Decimator’s raw energy and relentless thrash metal bite. The track captures the band’s trademark heaviness while giving a wicked nod to horror.
Stream the single here: https://orcd.co/hssingle
Halloween Sematary mixed and mastered by WidekMusic
Downfallen, Hexenkrieg, and Teuer de Paysans Mixed and mastered by Douglas Skene, Ploughman Studios, NSW
About Decimator:
Formed in early 2021, Decimator has undergone a few lineup changes, seeing the band go from strength to strength.
In late 2024, Riley Perry joined the band on bass, bringing a new and even more refined approach to songwriting, having been active in projects such as "Of Flesh" and formerly being part of the thrash metal band Paralysis. Unfortunately, 2025 also saw more changes - but Caiseal Duncan replacing Ethan Reeves on guitar and Ashley Pollard replacing Bon Lowe on drums brought even more fire and ferocity
to the band.
Lance Holland-Keen, now the only original member, leads them on, with this single a small taste of the EP due out later this year.
The band are already writing new material for 2026 and playing shows in Sydney - decimating every stage they step onto.
Their debut album, 'Til The Enemies Are Gone, was recorded in September 2023 and released in October 2024 through Wormholedeath.
Current Lineup
Lance Holland-Keen - guitar/lead vocals
Bon Lowe - drums/backing vox
Coen Winchester - bass/backing vox
Ethan Reeves - guitars/backing vox
www.youtube.com/@decimatorbandaustralia568
www.facebook.com/DecimatorBandAustralia
Listen to Olesin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqClHqJB9Tw
Olesin is a forest in eastern Poland, a place of ruined palaces with lions, libations, fights, suicides, drownings, mysterious candles, and the birthplace of figures who changed the course of history. A place of hunting returns. Just like home. Their music is a raw, chaotic, and Bergmansk form of black metal, channeling the turbulent and haunted essence of their origins.
Order the demo: https://d-a-p.org/
Tracklist:
1. I
2. II
3. III
https://d-a-p.org/
https://olesin.bandcamp.com/
French
Atmospheric black metal project SOUILLÉ has released a
new visualizer video for the track "DÉLUGE VIOLACÉ" (THE
VIOLACEOUS DELUGE), from its powerful LP,
I`ODEUR DU MEPRIS, out now via Wormholedeath.
"Déluge violacé" is a torrent of profound and overwhelming emotions, from melancholy to rage, that feels like an inundation. In a style that has become emblematic of Souillé's unique sound, the track navigates a spectrum of human experience, from humility to disdain, with a raw intensity that is both captivating and somber.
Stream the full L'odeur du mépris EP: https://orcd.co/odmep
Previous video: https://youtu.be/iVrfepMB1xo
About Souillé
Souillé is the creation of a French multi-instrumentalist whose work sits between black metal’s harsh extremity and the immersive textures of atmospheric post-black. The project’s identity is defined by melancholy and anxiety, weaving melodic flights into an aura that is both mystical and raw. Souillé’s music lives in the space between depressive poetry and relentless darkness — a place where listeners can confront their own shadows.www.youtube.com/@Souille
www.facebook.com/Souillé
For fans of : Autopsy, Boneyard, Coffins, Dismember, Exhumed, Impetigo, Haemorrhage, Gruesome Stuff Relish and Repulsion
Ghoulhouse return to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions with the terrifying new album Realm Of Ghouls! Sweden's own Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader, Revolting, etc.) and Håkan Stuvemark (Wombbath) are back with a deadly vengeance, as Ghoulhouse unleash more old school rotten, crusty Grindcore/Death Metal. Realm Of Ghouls is the third album in the rancid catalog of Ghoulhouse, vomiting forth 11 symphonies of sickness... for true necroholics only!
Listen to the single "Fetid Flesh Fairytale" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WpsD1DHPUU
Tracklisting:
1. Hacksore
2. Rotten Rancid Remains
3. Mall Full Of Zombies
4. Kingdom Of Squirming Worms
5. Where Ghouls Are Bred
6. Dying In The City (Of The Living Dead)
7. Fetid Flesh Fairytale
8. Pit Of Maggots
9. Realm Of Ghouls
10. Rothead
11. Devoured By Famined Pigs
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
https://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
Label: Road To Masochist
Release date: november 14th 2025
Thumbsucker
Line-up:
Duane - Drums, Vocals
Stringer - Guitars, Vocals
Genre: Hardcore Punk
For fans of: Anti Cimex | Extreme Noise Terror | Dropdead
Atomҫk Line-up:
Karl - Drums
Linus - Vocals, machines
Barthur - Bass
Luke – Guitars
Genre: Grindcore
For fans of: Napalm Death | Nasum | Cyness
As the planet burns around us and human society collapses into a mire of self-deceit, avarice and cruelty there has never been a more urgent need for music that confronts, devastates and blasts through the shallow, soulless bullshit we’re drowning in. An outlet for frustrated anger, a searing indictment of mindless, servile acceptance, a blast of intensity to rip through the mind-numbing clouds of lethargy…and when you bring together the combustible hardcore punk of Thumbsucker and the explosive grindcore insanity of Atomҫk you get all that and more; this is a wake-up call of shocking vehemence and a fourteen track nail bomb of a split release that will blow your world apart. Thumbsucker and Atomҫk are two voices from the UK underground that demand to be heard.
It’s down to Thumbsucker to kick off this ripping collection and after a short intro they let loose with the vein-bulging rage of ‘An Accident Waiting To End’ – a detonation of wild, grinding mayhem. And from there there’s no turning back, no chance to get off the ride as each track charges into the next. Be it the jarring riff shards, venomous vocals and irresistible rhythms of ‘Coward’, the bewildering bomb drops of ‘First World Problem’ or the rampaging, needle in the red adrenaline of ‘Grift’, Thumbsucker deliver in shocking, breathless fashion until the last unequivocal blow of ‘You Will Not Be Missed’. And before you’ve had a second to check for broken bones, Atomҫk take up the mantle of destruction. Fourteen years on from their debut EP, Yes To Alien Victory, Atomҫk have only become more abrasive and furious with the passage of time. Opening up with the caustic ‘Fuck Off Back To London (Again)’ Atomҫk are a battering assault on the senses, powered by some incredible drumming and utterly insane vocals. No matter how many acts of sonic extremity you have been exposed to over the years tracks like ‘Are You, Jon’ and ‘Thought Terminating Cliché’ are going to flay you alive. By the time the madness of ‘Still Dead’ reaches its conclusion you’ll be left beaten and broken.
Road To Masochist will release this incendiary cocktail of extremity on November 14th, on CD and 10” black vinyl. Make no mistake this split release is one of the most intense outpourings of rage and defiance that you’ll hear this year, or any other.
https://www.facebook.com/atomckgrind
https://roadtomasochist.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553346392588
DWELLING BELOW - „WEARISOME GUARDIANS“
Genre - Death/Doom Metal
For fans of - Hierarchies, Viande, Acausal Intrusion, Winter, Autopsy, Incantation
Dwelling Below are back with their mind-altering interpretation of dissonant, warped death/doom metal with a flair that only they are capable of doing. One would normally associate this style with music that's fairly straightforward and nothing that would particularly accelerate one's heartbeats save for the expected heaviness, but Dwelling Below's music sets off all kinds of medical beeps and alarms with their unpredictable and erratic approach. The interdimensional trajectories shoot off in different directions as the mass of the music keeps stomping and marching menacingly, getting closer with every beat as though to deal a final heart-stopping blow. Only they can lull the listener into a hypnotic, vulnerable state with their ponderous tunes and repetition for emphasis, and then bombard him with multiple angular riffs zipping through the flesh over the all-powerful roar of a subterranean demonic entity and even to the persistent wails of the foul, spiralling leads. Dwelling Below's music continues to be an exception in the style, even as the band evolves from the debut album to create something truly abominable albeit having a soul.
Line up
Jared Moran (Hierarchies, Acausal Intrusion, Occulsed) - Drums and vocals
Anthony Wheeler (Hierarchies) - Bass
Nicolas Turner (Hierarchies, Acausal Intrusion) - Guitar
Artwork by Alex Shadrin/Nether Temple Design
Track listing
1. Wearisome Guardians
2. Unfolding Universe
3. Interlude
4. Termination Experiments
5. The Altar
6. Sacraments
Official release date - October 31st, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/dwellingbelow
Thanks a lot for your support! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
Decibel Magazine launched the exclusive premiere of TYRANNUS AETERNUM, calling the album a "full-length inferno that marries neoclassical precision to melodic death-metal mayhem."
Listen now at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/10/29/album-premiere-burned-in-effigy-tyrannus-aeternum/
Rising from the heart of the Midwest metal scene, this Chicago-based quintet has announced a fall release for their much-anticipated second full-length, Tyrannus Aeternum. Following the 2022 release of their debut album, Rex Mortem, BURNED IN EFFIGY has sharpened their sound to a lethal edge. The result is an 11-track onslaught that blends the band’s skillful musicianship and technicality with volcanic brutality.
Tyrannus Aeternum is set for release on October 31. Order the album now at https://burnedineffigy.bandcamp.com/album/tyrannus-aeternum
Tracklist:
1) Befouled Benefaction
2) Retribution
3) Masquerade
4) Procession
5) Wage of Exile
6) Sacrificial Seance
7) Monstrosity Reborn
8) Gallows Hymn
9) The Racking
10) Crown Crusher
11) Citadel
Tyrannus Aeternum was recorded at Beal Audio and Bricktop Recording, with production, engineering and mixing by Jordan Beal. Orchestration and keyboards on the album were provided by Graham Southern. Album artwork by Timon Kokott.
Bio:
BURNED IN EFFIGY’s roots date back to 2017. In January 2022, the band independently released its debut album Rex Mortem, which was highly acclaimed by leading heavy music media and led to the band sharing the stage with iconic acts such as ORBIT CULTURE, OBSCURA, and REVOCATION.
A must for listeners of acts such as THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER and INFERI, with the band’s attention to virtuosity and intensity in equal measure, the effort and accomplishment of the band’s debut led to being talent scouted. With work on the band's sophomore album complete, BURNED IN EFFIGY aims to take its signature melodic death metal sound across the US, and in time, the world. The search for total conquest continues.
Line-up:
Mark “Smedy” Smedbron - Vocals
Steve Bacakos - Guitar
Mike Hisson - Guitar
Matt Watkins - Bass
Eddie Dec - Drums
https://www.youtube.com/@BurnedinEffigy
https://www.youtube.com/@BurnedinEffigy
For fans of monstrous riffs, horror-inspired visuals, and genre-bending metal.
False Prophets: Visual Album features 3 short films set to their singles "Old Man Abaddon," "El Muerte" and "Whore's Grave," shot by cinematographer Rigo Diaz and directed by Grace Perez, the band's drummer. The 3 stories are presented as parts of a Halloween-themed horror anthology, reminiscent of Tales from the Crypt and The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs, adding to its striking visual narrative.
Watch the visualizer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-32tC8ZOi-4
False Prophets is available October 29th, 2025 on all streaming platforms.
Fully formed in 2024, PRECIOUS BLOOD brings together three veterans of the NYC scene - AJ – guitar, vocals (Jesus Knevil, Snake Canyon), Dave Kramer – bass, vocals (Blood Feast, Suaka, Stanley), and Grace Perez – drums, vocals (The Wickedexorcist). The band’s shared love of doom and underground metal is expressed in an unholy concoction of rum-soaked riffs, brutal lyrics, and mystical tribal sounds.
With a signature sound best described as Blackened Caribbean Doom, PRECIOUS BLOOD delivers a unique blend of doom and thrash metal influenced tone, mixed with lyrical themes that draw profound inspiration from the enduring spirit of the Caribbean, shaped by brutal history of colonization, unwavering resilience of its people, and exploration of the darker aspects of human existence, including death, contemplation of mortality and the complexities of human suffering.
Tracklist:
1) False Prophets
2) Bludgeoned & Charred
3) Footsteps of Babylon
4) Shadow of the Cross
5) Cemetery Burn
6) Old Man Abaddon
7) El Muerte
8) Whore’s Grave
False Prophets was recorded and mixed by Joe Hogan at Captain’s Cove Catskills Studios with mastering and additional engineering by AJ Tissian (The Wave Lab). The album was produced by Joe Hogan and PRECIOUS BLOOD. Album cover photo by Mia. Cover layout by PRECIOUS BLOOD.
Line-Up:
AJ -Guitar, Vocals
Grace Perez - Drums, Backing Vocals
Dave Kramer - Bass, Backing Vocals
https://linktr.ee/preciousbloodband
Brutal
Records is proud to announce the worldwide signing of NO WORTH OF MAN, one of the UK’s most ferocious and
uncompromising brutal modern metal acts. The band joins the Brutal Records
roster for the release of their highly anticipated new album, THE KILLING
STREETS, hitting all digital and physical platforms on Friday, February
13th, 2026.
For Fans Of: Lamb Of God, Machine Head, Unearth, Gojira, Arch Enemy
Formed in 2016, No Worth Of Man has developed a unique sound defined by raw power, precision, and emotion. With Peter Gale on vocals, Alex Punchard on guitars, and Gareth Lucas on drums, the band fuses metalcore, thrash, and modern groove metal, creating music that is furious, intelligent, and emotionally charged.
“No Worth Of Man are not here to follow trends. They’re here to crush them. Their upcoming album The Killing Streets is a brutal, unflinching statement that defines the next era of heavy music.” – Michael Howard, Brutal Records Founder
A Legacy of FerocityFrom their debut Initium Novum EP (2017) to the crushing What’s Your Damage? (2023), No Worth Of Man has evolved relentlessly. They’ve shared stages with Karma To Burn, King 810, Coffin Birth, Evile, Left To Die, and Sepultura’s Paulo Jr. (Cultura Tres), building a loyal underground following.
Collaborating with world-renowned producer Fredrik Nordström (Arch Enemy, In Flames, Hammerfall) elevated their sound to new extremes, blending devastating power with technical mastery.
The Killing Streets – A New ChapterUnder Brutal Records, No Worth Of Man now unleashes The Killing Streets, an album that redefines intensity with thunderous riffs, machine-tight grooves, and vocals that cut through steel. This is more than a release—it’s a manifesto of fury and evolution in modern metal.
Line-Up:
Peter Gale – Vocals
Alex Punchard – Guitars
Gareth Lucas – Drums
https://brutalrecords.com/
https://www.noworthofman.com/
The second single 'TAKE THE SON OF A BITCH' is released today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/wounded-in-forest-take
“Take the Son of a Bitch’ throws you into the brutality of early 1700s Finland. Crown soldiers arrive at the antihero’s home to take a man for the army, and his own family gladly gives him up, calling him a waste of food. It’s based on real stories of men dragged from rural farmhouses into war. This is where his descent plunges even deeper — another step further into a life shaped entirely by violence.”
“The song opens with a skank beat and open-picked chords that nod toward thrash metal before diving into death metal riffing and blast beats. At 200bpm, it moves with the urgency of a forced march, shifting rhythms without losing focus. The dual vocals mirror the story’s tension — rage clashing with inevitability — until you’re marched out alongside him into the jaws of war.”
Listen to the first single Godspeed Filthy Warrior: https://push.fm/fl/wounded-in-forest-godspeed
Biography:
Wounded In Forest is a death metal band from Oulu, Finland, born from tragedy and reborn with a sharpened edge. Formed in 2023 following the death of the drummer from a previous project that had lasted over 15 years, the surviving members regrouped with a stripped-down, more direct musical vision. Every member took on a new role or instrument to forge something raw and uncompromising — an outlet for grief, rage, and reflection.
Musically rooted in old school death metal, Wounded in Forest blends the primal ferocity of early ’90s death metal with a conceptual storytelling approach. Their lyrics, written in English, revolve around one fictional narrative per release, each grounded in a real event or period from Finnish history. Themes of violence, war, trauma, and moral decay are explored with unflinching intensity.
The band’s upcoming debut EP, Antihuman Artist, is set during the Great Wrath in the early 1700s — a time of Russian occupation and widespread atrocities in Finland. The EP tells the disturbing story of an individual shaped by violence — born into abuse, sent to war, and ultimately transformed into a serial killer who expresses himself by creating grotesque art from the remains of his victims.
Wounded in Forest’s dual-vocalist setup deepens their storytelling Joni Moisanen delivers classic low-end death metal growls, while Miikka Pyykkönen unleashes high-pitched shrieks more akin to black metal. This contrast creates a dynamic narrative texture, with each voice representing different facets of the characters and their descent into darkness.
Musically, the band combines relentless blast beats, simple but sinister riffing, and shifting rhythmic patterns that keep listeners on edge. Guitarists Joni Moisanen and Joonas Kokkoniemi mix chugging riffs, open-picked chords, and black metal-style tremolo passages with the occasional technical flourish. Drummer Jussi Tuomisto drives the chaos with aggressive blasts and constantly evolving grooves that mirror the tension in each story.
For fans of old school Death Metal with a conceptual twist, Wounded In Forest offers stories carved from something raw and real. These are stories steeped in blood, rooted in Finnish soil, and delivered straight from the heart of the forest.
Track
list:
1. The Growth
2. Take the Son of a Bitch
3. Virent Carnes
4. Godspeed Filthy Warrior
5. Altar of Needles
6. The Last Leg
Music, lyrics & arrangements by Jussi Tuomisto
Artwork by Jussi Tuomisto
Line-up:
Joni Moisanen (guitar, vox)
Miikka Pyykkönen (bass, vox)
Joonas Kokkoniemi (guitar)
Jussi Tuomisto (drums)
https://www.facebook.com/woundedinforest
The digital album's release date is 14 November 2025.
Tracklist
01 History Repeating
02 The Die Is Cast
03 The Legacy
04 New World Order
05 Fragment Of A Dream
06 Portentum
07 Retribution
08 Into Oblivion
About Imperial Domain
Founded in the mid-90s, Imperial Domain quickly made waves in the Swedish death metal underground with their debut demo The Final Chapter (1995), followed by In the Ashes of the Fallen (1996)—a release that earned them national acclaim. Their full-length debut In the Ashes of the Fallen (1998) on Pulverised Records marked the band as a rising force, followed by the critically acclaimed The Ordeal (2003) via Konqueror Records.
After a brief hiatus and the tragic loss of vocalist Tobias Heideman in 2014, the band reemerged stronger than ever with The Deluge (2016), reaffirming their place in the melodic death metal pantheon. Now, Imperial Domain return with Portentum—an album that’s as uncompromising as it is thought-provoking.
Line-Up
Peter Laitinen Sundström – Guitar
Philip Borg – Guitar
Andreas Öman – Vocals
Mattias Hansson – Bass
Alvaro Svanerö – Drums
Pre-save "Portentum": https://orcd.co/portentum
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New VICRECORDS:
THUS DEFILED – „WINGS OF THE NIGHTSTORM”
Second opus of one of UK s finest BM outfits re-issue. Thus Defiled were originally formed in March 1992 with the aim of creating some of the most intense yet unique, bestial blackened metal within the extreme music scene. Through many years of evolution the band have expanded their style of black metal as the band members grew as individuals, but still hold true to their original dark, black metal roots. Remastered plus bonus tracks. Carefully restored original artwork and booklet. Extensive liner notes by Pim Blankenstein (Risk, Reverend, Sinister).
USURPER – “DIVINE SPIRITUAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT “ (AND ALL DEMOS)
Divine
Spiritual and Intellectual Development" is 1990 debut album by the Dutch
thrash band Usurper, formed in 1985.. The best late 80’s Dutch thrash bands
were those that rapidly made the transition into a death/thrash hybrid, and
then often into full on death metal. Pestilence, Thanatos, all need no
introduction, but there were very few bands that stuck with the initial genre
and met any kind of success. Usurper is a pretty rare find, a group that
actually started off as a death metal act (they put out a demo as Sepulchral
Death) and then evolved into a pure thrash act. All 3 demos, Sepulchral Death
(considered as Usurper demo 1) demo 1 1986, Chants of Traducement Demo 2,
1987, Demo 3 from 1988 and full length Divine Spiritual and Intellectual Development
are included on this massive double cd and double vinyl re-issue. The booklet
contains rare and old pictures, flyers and posters. Extensive liner notes from
Steven Willems (Rock Tribune, Streams of Ancient Wisdom: The History of Dutch
Death And Extreme Metal).
CD1: Divine Spiritual and Intellectual Development + live in Rotterdam
Egoistic Mind
Enthrallment Fate
Diseased Reality
The Room
Insane Decisions
Behind Mandela's Mask
Infest the Convent
Ozon Tragedy
Orphanage Children
Live in Nighttown, Rotterdam 1990
Insane Decisions (Live in Nighttown, Rotterdam 1990)
Behind Mandela's Mask (Live in Nighttown, Rotterdam 1990)
The Room (Live in Nighttown, Rotterdam 1990)
A Crime to Satisfy (Live in Nighttown, Rotterdam 1990)
Egoistic Mind (Live in Nighttown, Rotterdam 1990)
Ozon Tragedy (Live in Nighttown, Rotterdam 1990)
CD2: The Demos
Demo 3 1988
Insane Decisions (Demo 3 1988)
The Room ( Demo 3 1988)
Orphanage Children (Demo 3 1988)
Chants of Traducement demo 1987
Habeas Corpus ( Chants of Traducement demo 1987)
Enthrallment Fate ( Chants of Traducement demo 1987)
Parables of Terror (Chants of Traducement demo 1987)
Infest the Content (Chants of Traducement demo 1987)
Sepulchral Death - Praising Death demo 1986
Schizophrenic Doom (Sepulchral Death - Praising Death demo 1986 )
Praising Death ( Sepulchral Death - Praising Death demo 1986)
Sepulchral Death (Sepulchral Death - Praising Death demo 1986)
Capitol Punishment (Sepulchral Death - Praising Death demo 1986)
Exaltation of the Cross (Sepulchral Death - Praising Death demo 1986)
Mutual Repugnance (Sepulchral Death - Praising Death demo 1986
https://www.vicrecords.com/
Czech heavymetallers TRAHIR return with a sleazy single „MADNESS” . TRAHIR is Prague-based Heavy Metal trio.
Sharp riffs, soaring vocals, and thunderous rhythms, all delivered with a distinctive essence. Hypnotizing crowds with melodic hooks, tight grooves, and a hint of the mystical, Trahir carve their own path in today’s metal landscape. No gimmicks — just raw energy, big choruses, and the power of three.
They played with:
Candlemass, Hällas, Duel, Dopelord, Sanhedrin, Spirit Adrift,
1000mods, Ufomammut, Demon Head, The Hazytones, Red Scalp, Exorcizphobia, The Great
Machine, and Planet of Zeus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-3dkSraz-4
https://www.facebook.com/wearetrahir
For fans of: Gojira, Meshuggah, Decapitated, and Opeth
The track is an explosive display of SAGEN’s creative mastery. Punishing riffs, intricate drum patterns, and Adam Cheatham’s commanding vocals collide in a sonic maelstrom that mirrors the chaos and futility of war. Stephen Hegarty’s precision in composition, performance, and production (Lacerate Studios) ensures that every moment cuts deep, from the razor-sharp solos to the apocalyptic atmosphere.
The lyrics paint a grim picture of control, ideology, and extinction: a reflection of humanity’s endless appetite for dominance and destruction. In Animus, empathy is weakness, and survival is the only truth left standing.
With Whalefall on the horizon, Animus continues to build anticipation for an album that promises to merge storytelling and metal in a way few bands can match. SAGEN’s world is dark, cerebral, and relentlessly heavy, and Animus is the next brutal chapter.
Biography
Sagen effortlessly blends the aggressive intricacies of death, groove, technical, deathcore, and progressive metal to forge a unique and commanding sonic experience. With their signature style, they combine crushing riffs, electrifying guitar solos, complex drum patterns, and ferocious vocals to create a sound that is as engaging as it is punishing. Every Sagen album tells an immersive story, leaving an unforgettable impact on listeners.
The band’s discography includes three full-length albums: Tides of Succession (2016), Mammoth (2021), and Roots of Proctor (2023). Their forthcoming album, Whalefall, is set for release in early 2025, with four singles scheduled to roll out in the coming months. Alongside the album, a companion book delving into the narrative universe of the songs is in the works.
Sagen is:
Adam Cheatham
Stephen Hegarty
https://www.facebook.com/sagenmetal
Two songs from the album are streaming over here https://deathobvious-label.bandcamp.com/album/death-obvious
Death Obvious came out of nowhere to release a debut album that coalesces elements of black, death, and even doom metal to create a harrowing albeit intriguing sound that's strangely both alarming and comforting in parts. Without adhering to any particular style or school, they're just going about crafting music as it suits their demented vision in a recklessly intuitive manner, a cacophony of hurtling sounds that somehow hits the mark. The songs sound like excursions into pitch-black darkness, not knowing what's coming next, while the listener remains terrified, haunted by monstrous and spectral voices coming and going. Their sound might not be easily penetrable at first but it remains strongly alluring, imploring for more time and understanding, waiting for its mysteries to be unravelled with multiple visitations. The Finnish duo are onto something here, having created an exceptional and mature release right off the bat, one that deserves as much attention as it can possibly get before it gets lost in the annals of history. This release is not a rebirth but a necessary resuscitation.
For
fans of : Thantifaxath, Dodecahedron, Veilburner, Lurk, Blut
aus Nord, Hexrot, Deathspell Omega
Line up
Lea Lavey - Vocals
Sima Sioux - Everything else
Cover photo by Petri Kiviniemi
Merch artwork by CVSPE
Tracklisting
1. Mercury Off Axis
2. Santuario
3. The Great Gate Theory
4. Total Heavenly Desolation
5. The Third Eye Burning
6. Suffer The Spectacle
7. As Absence Expands Over Everything
8. Catechismus For The Plagued
Official release date - December 5th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/DeathObvious
Cheers! Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity
The
third single from VII VITIUM'S self-titled debut album
is "LUSSURIA / OSMODEO". Featuring the precious
presence of Alessandra "Trinity" Bersiani (La Grazia
Obliqua) at the synth, the song is one of their most iconic and personal
releases.
The lyric video, created by Stefano Mastronicola, is available at https://youtu.be/6ImIbPNKkTo
"VII Vitium", the album due out October 31st, is an introspective and emotional journey that explores the world of sin, giving voice to its Demons with a magical fusion of Dark Occult sounds à la DEATH SS and PAUL CHAIN, and European Doom, elements of Italian Progressive Rock blended with independent Rock and '80s Darkwave.
Numerous guests joined VII VITIUM and took part in the making of the album: Joe Ferraro (Cultus Sanguine), John Goldfinch (L'Impero Delle Ombre), Sandra Silver, Daniele Donini, Alessandra "Trinity" Bersiani (La Grazia Obliqua), Dario Vicariotto (IV Sigillo), David Cremoni, Lisa Bonacquisti, Melissa Bonacquisti, and Luca Gregori. Each of them brought their own interpretation to the project's captivating theme, contributing unique and valuable contributions.
VII VITIUM are ready to welcome you into their sinful world.
Pre-order LP and deluxe edition now at: https://t.ly/TGN78
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/VIIVITIUM
Label: Rottweiler Records ( https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/ )
Release date: october 31st 2025
This Halloween Rottweiler Records bring you two powerful new singles to hold the darkness at bay! Send those ghosts and ghouls running back to their graves with the latest releases from My Place Was Taken and The Light Superior!
My Place Was Taken, from the Mexican border town of Matamoros, announced their
alliance with Rottweiler Records in May, with the release of the ‘Altar De
Moloc’ single – a thunderous exposition of deathcore menace and might. Now they
deliver the even heavier follow up – ‘Rude Awakening’. A nerve shredding intro
gives way to an incredibly heavy riff; measured, paced and deliberate,
gradually growing in force and momentum. The sheer weight is intimidating and
the vocal presence immense, the song driven forward by muscle, blood and
unwavering belief. Each chord lands like a hammer blow as this armour plated
monster marches to its conclusion. The legend of My Place Is Taken is growing
more irresistible with each song they unveil…
In early 2024 Amarillo, Texas finest metalcore export, The Light Superior, released the stunning ‘Tidal Wave’ single, which won the hearts of fans everywhere with its magnificent melodies and stark emotional power. This Halloween they present the aptly entitled ‘Ghost’ and this colossal track is set to be another triumph for the band. Tumbling riffs and staggered rhythms carry a momentous, roaring vocal line upon their shoulders before The Light Superior’s patented magnificent, melodic chorus arrives. It’s the perfect contrast to those punishing opening riffs and proves instantly addictive. The superb song writing skills that made ‘Tidal Wave’ so special are back in full effect on ‘Ghost’.
Two singles from two remarkable artists released on one fateful day by one stalwart label – My Place Was Taken, The Light Superior and Rottweiler Records dominating Halloween 2025!
My Place Was Taken Line up:
Jesus Salas - Vocals
Abraham Barberi - Guitars
Edgar Zambrano - Bass
Daniel Castaneda - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/MyPlaceWasTaken
The Light Superior Line-up:
Michael Grice - Vocals
Matt Grice - Guitar
Chris Torres - Guitar
Giovanni Alvarez-Jimenez - Drums
www.youtube.com/@thelightsuperior2798
www.facebook.com/thelightsuperior
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Passend zu bald erscheinenden Scheibe “DAS MONUMENT” haben sich dann die Grindchaoten von DEPRESSION auch völlig "uneigennützig" dazu bereit erklärt , sich in unserer nächsten „Klolektüre“ mal wieder etwas ausgiebiger zu äußern – grins .
Aktuelle Reviews :
DEPRESSION - “DAS MONUMENT”( 2 CD ) HAMMER
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Exakt 40 Jahre nach seiner
Erstveröffentlichung freut sich Parlophone Records, eine brandneue, wunderschön
verpackte, limitierte Sammlerausgabe des klassischen Albums “LIVE
AFTER DEATH” von IRON MAIDEN auf 2
farbigen Vinyl-LPs anzukündigen.
Das Album erscheint mit dem originalen, beliebten Gatefold-Sleeve-Artwork und enthält zwei 140-Gramm-Vinyls (eine in Blau, die andere in Gelb) mit dem 2015 remasterten Audio. Das Paket enthält außerdem eine 24-seitige Replik des WORLD SLAVERY TOUR-Programms, welches das Original-Tourprogramm für neue Generationen wieder zum Leben erweckt.
Darüber hinaus enthält die Vinyl-Edition eine Tour-Pass-Replik und ein 12-seitiges Hochglanz-Booklet, das neben dem originalen 8-seitigen Booklet einen exklusiven und brandneuen Essay mit dem Titel “Rime And Punishment: Celebrating 40 Years Of Live After Death” enthält, in dem Iron-Maiden-Fanclub-Redakteur Alexander Milas Steve Harris, Nicko McBrain, Rod Smallwood und den renommierten Illustrator Derek Riggs zu dem legendären Album interviewt.
Steve Harris über diese Zeit: “Wir waren ununterbrochen auf Tour. Es war buchstäblich nur ‘Aufnehmen, Touren, Aufnehmen, Touren’ – wir haben nicht aufgehört. Rod hat uns ordentlich die Peitsche geschnellt und das war auch richtig so. Ich meine, wir waren total motiviert, es war nicht so, dass wir etwas gemacht haben, was wir nicht wollten. Man glaubt, man sei unbesiegbar – ‘Ja, das schaffen wir, kein Problem.’ So muss man es angehen. Das ist der einzige Weg für eine Band wie uns, denn damals wurden wir überhaupt nicht im Radio gespielt.”
“LIVE AFTER DEATH” gilt nicht nur weithin als das beste Heavy-Metal-Livealbum aller Zeiten, sondern auch als eines der ikonischsten Livealben aller Musikgenres. Es wurde größtenteils während der vier Konzerte aufgenommen, die Maiden im März 1985 in der Long Beach Arena in Los Angeles gaben. Die letzte Seite des Doppelalbums wurde während der vier Konzerte aufgenommen, die die Band im Oktober 1984 im Hammersmith Odeon spielte.
Beide Konzertreihen waren Teil der bahnbrechenden WORLD SLAVERY TOUR zum 1984 erschienenen Album “Powerslave”. Die Tour begann in Polen, umfasste 187 Konzerte an 331 Tagen und festigte den Ruf von Iron Maiden als eine der aufregendsten Live-Bands der Welt, den sie bis heute genießen.
“Live After Death” 40. Jubiläums-Edition hier vorbestellen: http://ironmaiden.lnk.to/LiveAfterDeath40
Iron Maiden, die nun seit 50 Jahren bestehen, haben 17 Studioalben veröffentlicht und weltweit weit über 100 Millionen Platten verkauft, fast 2.500 Live-Shows in 64 Ländern gespielt, einen Grammy Award und einen Brit Award sowie viele andere Auszeichnungen erhalten. Zuletzt wurden sie neben den Rolling Stones und Pink Floyd mit einer eigenen Briefmarkenserie der Royal Mail geehrt und werden 2025 mit einer Sammlung offizieller Münzen der Royal Mint gewürdigt.
Ihr Bier, Trooper Beer, gibt es nun schon seit zwölf Jahren. Es wurde bereits über 40 Millionen Mal verkauft und wird in 68 Ländern vertrieben, darunter in sechs lokalen Varianten in den USA, Deutschland, Brasilien, Spanien, Schweden und Australien. 2025 feiert die Band ihr offizielles 50-jähriges Bestehen mit einer zweijährigen Welttournee unter dem Titel RUN FOR YOUR LIVES und einer Reihe von Veranstaltungen und Produkten, darunter ihr erster offizieller Hardcover-Bildband “Infinite Dreams”.
Ein Dokumentarfilm über Iron Maiden von Universal Pictures Content Group wird Anfang 2026 erscheinen und die Band wird ihre zweijährige RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR durch Europa und darüber hinaus fortsetzen. Die Tour umfasst einen großen und historischen Auftritt im Knebworth Park in Großbritannien am 11. Juli 2026.
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES – Europäische Tourdaten 2026
MAI 2026
23. – Athen, GRIECHENLAND – OAKA
26. – Sofia, BULGARIEN – Vasil Levski Stadium
28. – Bucharest, RUMÄNIEN – Arena Națională
30. – Bratislava, SLOWAKEI – Národný Futbalový Štadión
JUNI 2026
02. – Hannover, DEUTSCHLAND – Heinz von Heiden Arena
10. – Amsterdam, NIEDERLANDE– Ziggo Dome
17. – Mailand, ITALIEN – San Siro Stadium
22. – Paris, FRANKREICH – Paris La Défense Arena
28. – Lyon - Décines, FRANKREICH – Groupama Stadium
JULI 2026
07. – Lissabon, PORTUGAL – Estádio da Luz
11. – Knebworth, UK – Knebworth Park
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Genre: Black Metal
Label: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 27.11.2025
Folter Records sind stolz, mit »Lucifer Lucem Proferens« das neue, Genre-Grenzen sprengende Werk von THOKKIAN VORTEX präsentieren zu können, ein Album, das in seiner mysteriösen okkulten Ausstrahlung seinesgleichen sucht.
THOKKIAN VORTEX ist das Black-Metal-Projekt von Lord Kaiaphas, der vor allem als Sänger der norwegischen Black-Metal-Legende ANCIENT bekannt ist.
THOKKIAN VORTEX weist eindeutig Einflüsse von nordischen Bands der zweiten Welle des Black Metal wie Mayhem, Darkthrone, Emperor, Immortal, Limbonic Art oder Dark Funeral auf und vereint dies in elaborierter Weise mit Elementen aus symphonischer Klassik, Progressive Metal und traditionellem Metal, Black 'n' Roll und Dark Ambient; mit der dunklen, zerbrechlichen Schönheit eines Songs wie »Christalline Dawn« dürfte »Lucifer Lucem Proferens« auch Fans von My Dying Bride faszinieren.
Im Wesentlichen jedoch ist Lord Kaiaphas und seinen Mitstreitern mit THOKKIAN VORTEX’ Dritter ein höchst eigenständiges, originelles und memorables Werk gelungen, dessen vielgestaltige Songs eine dunkle Reise ins Ungewisse evozieren. So will Lord Kaiaphas die Bedeutung des Bandnamens auch verstanden wissen als einen Riss, ein Wurmloch, durch das der Astralkörper einer Person in eine parallele Dimension unbekannter Dunkelheit gesaugt wird.
THOKKIAN VORTEX wurden am 06.06.2006 von Lord Kaiaphas gegründet. Das Debüt »Into the Nagual« wurde Ende Januar 2016 vom schwedischen Label Unexploded Records veröffentlicht. Das zweite Album »Thy Throne is Mine« erschien 2020 via des niederländischen Labels Non Serviam Records. Am 27.11.2025 erscheint das dritte Album »Lucifer Lucem Proferens« bei Folter Records.
»Lucifer Lucem Proferens«
1. Sethian Aeon (6:50)
2. Fires of Samum (5:39)
3. Lucifer Lucem Proferens (6:49)
4. At War with Ohrmuzd (4:31)
5. The Great Harlot (5:37)
6. Shadowmother (7:42)
7. Summoning the Evil Ones of Ekurra (4:34)
8. The Brazen Vessel of Solomon (10:15)
9. Drip Drip (9:07)
10. Crystalline Dawn (3:19)
Total: 64:27
Line-up
Lord Kaiaphas – vocals and synthesizers
Mantus – guitars
Sil – bass
Asmodevs DD – drums
Flute on »The Brazen Vessel of Solomon« and »Drip Drip« by Danielle Sassi.
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ATLAS - “SALT AND SULFUR" (SINGLE)
ATLAS versinken mit “Salt And Sulfur” in
eiskalte Tiefen von Trauer und Vergänglichkeit.
Dunkel, schwer und doch von einer durchschneidenden Zerbrechlichkeit geprägt: Mit ihrer neuen Single “Salt And Sulfur” melden sich die finnischen Northcore-Visionäre ATLAS eindrucksvoll zurück. Dieser Song zeigt die Finnen in einer Form, die gleichermaßen kompromisslos, wie zutiefst verletzlich ist.
“Salt And Sulfur” ist mehr als nur ein Song – es ist eine Erfahrung. Eine brutale und doch verletzlich klingende Metalcore-Hymne, die die Hörer:innen in einen Mahlstrom aus roher Energie und intensiver Emotionalität zieht. Schon die ersten Takte lassen keinen Zweifel: schwere, hämmernde Gitarrenriffs treffen auf Schnelle Blast Beats, die unaufhaltsam nach vorne peitschen, während sich über allem die eiskalten, klaren Vocals erheben – kristallin und doch schneidend wie gefrorene Luft.
Doch hinter der Härte verbirgt sich ein Abgrund. „Salt And Sulfur“ fühlt sich an wie ein langsamer, von Trauer durchtränkter Abstieg in Kummer und emotionalen Ruin. Mit jeder Sekunde entfaltet sich eine düstere Atmosphäre, die an den Nerven zerrt und dennoch eine eigentümliche Schönheit besitzt. Post-Metal-Poesie trifft hier auf elementare Angst, bis aus dem Chaos eine kathartische Klaheit entsteht – eine Hymne an Verlust und Vergänglichkeit, die so schwer wiegt, wie die Themen, die sie aufgreift.
ATLAS zeigen mit „Salt And Sulfur“ wie sehr sie ihre Fähigkeit verfeinert haben, brutale Härte mit atmosphärischer Tiefe zu verweben. Jeder Ton ist durchzogen von eisiger Melancholie, jeder Break wirkt wie ein Schlag in die Magengrube – und doch bleibt ein Gefühl von Erlösung zurück.
Embrace the cold.
Seht das Musikvideo hier : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ9QqvQO-5s
Mit der neuen Single „Salt And Sulfur“ im Gepäck gehen ATLAS ab Oktober 2025 mit Orbit Culture und Gaerea auf eine ausgiebige Europa- und UK-Tour. Live entfaltet die Band ihr volles Gewicht – eine intensive Erfahrung, die gleichermaßen schmerzhaft, lindernd und erhaben ist.
Line up:
Patrik Nuorteva – vocals
Tuomas Kurikka – guitar
Leevi Luoto – guitar, backing vocals
Aku Karjalainen – drums
Kevin Apostol – bass
https://www.facebook.com/atlasfin
RANCID veröffentlichen "SEX
& DEATH"-Cover vom kommenden Album "KILLED BY DEAF:
A PUNK TRIBUTE TO MOTÖRHEAD"
Heavy Metal und Punkrock! Man kann mit Fug und Recht behaupten, dass diese beiden lauten Tribes mittlerweile viel gemeinsam haben – oft verschmelzen sie miteinander, sind kaum noch voneinander zu unterscheiden und bringen ihre eigenen Bastard-Nachkommen hervor. Aber das war nicht immer so. Es gab tatsächlich eine Zeit, in der eher mit den Fäusten geprügelt als gegrüßt wurde und Bier eher geworfen als geteilt wurde – außer wenn es um Motörhead ging. Das war die einzige Band, auf die wir uns alle einigen konnten. Die einzige Band, die wirklich uns gehörte!
Auf den vierzehn Tracks dieses Albums mit dem cleveren Titel "Killed By Deaf" gibt es eine liebevolle Hommage an Motörhead von einigen der größten und angesehensten Punkrock-Bands zu hören. Die neueste die davon enthüllt wird ist "Sex & Death", gecovert von den Punk-Legenden Rancid – und ab sofort verfügbar.
Lars Frederiksen (Gitarre/Gesang) aus der Band sagt über ihr Cover:
"Für mich ist das der perfekte Motörhead-Song. Ihr alle wisst genauso gut wie ich, was für ein großer Ramones-Fan Lem war. Und für mich klingt das wie seine Interpretation – Motörhead spielen die Ramones. Aber da ist dieses klitzekleine Gitarrensolo. Und es war auch der Song von Motörhead, der am meisten dem Stil von Rancid ähnelte, der, von dem ich dachte, er käme einem Song, den wir schreiben würden, ziemlich nahe"
Jetzt hier im Video ansehen, was Lars über das Cover zu sagen hat, wie er dabei auf den Einfluss von Motörhead auf die härteren Musik-Genres eingeht und erklärt, warum die Band sowohl eine Punk- als auch eine Metal-Band war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4zgW4G7VT8
Neben Rancid haben sich an diesem Tribut-Album auch Größen wie Pennywise, Lagwagon, GBH, The Bronx und FEAR beteiligt, die allesamt raue Versionen ihrer Lieblingssongs von Motörhead beisteuern ... zusammen mit aufstrebenden Newcomern wie Slaughterhouse. Denn seien wir ehrlich: Motörhead haben immer die Underdogs geliebt und unterstützt. Der einzige Song auf diesem Album, der nicht von Motörhead stammt, ist eine zuvor unveröffentlichte, mitreißende Version des Klassikers "Neat, Neat, Neat" von The Damned, featuring The Great Man Himself, Lemmy, und The Damned.
"Killed By Deaf – A Punk Tribute To Motörhead" erscheint am 31. Oktober 2025 als LP, CD und in digitaler Form.
Das Album hier vorbestellen : https://motorhead.lnk.to/killedbydeafpr
Neuigkeiten und Updates gibt es auf : www.iMotorhead.com
INNERSPHERE veröffentlicht neue Single. Taucht ein in einen feurigen
Abgrund mit „ABYSS OF THE FLAME“.
Die westböhmische Melodic-Death-Metal-Band veröffentlicht ihre zweite Single des Jahres und zeigt dabei eine dunklere, aggressivere Seite ihres Schaffens. Beide diesjährigen Singles – „A.O.T.F.“ und „Tamtam“ – werden Teil des kommenden, vierten Studioalbums der Band, das sich derzeit in Arbeit befindet und die neue musikalische Richtung von Innersphere aufzeigt. Außerdem stellt die Band eine weitere Neuigkeit vor – eine erweiterte Besetzung.
Míra Litomerický, Frontmann von Innersphere:
„Abyss of the Flame ist für uns vor allem eine Reaktion auf die heutige Gesellschaft. Wir sind Zeugen des Aufblühens von Technologie und unendlichen Möglichkeiten, aber auch eines enormen Niedergangs menschlicher Kreativität, Individualität und Moral. In einer Zeit voller KI-Werkzeuge, Algorithmen und des Drucks sozialer Medien und Werbung verfallen wir der Manipulation der Realität, der Wahrnehmung der Welt und unserer selbst. Mit Werkzeugen, die uns als Menschheit voranbringen könnten, degenerieren und degradieren wir – und werden zu ihren Sklaven. Zu Sklaven des Systems, des Geschäfts, fremder Interessen… Was wir seit Langem beobachten, ist eine traurige Realität. Umso mehr schätze ich jeden, der wirklich etwas erschafft, handelt und lebt – und nicht nur Hass verbreitet. Seien wir stark, seien wir wir selbst, seien wir Menschen.“
Die Single wurde im The Barn Studio unter der Leitung von Dan Friml aufgenommen. Das Musikvideo stammt von Marek „Frodys“ Pytlík und enthält Aufnahmen vom Finale des Wacken Metal Battle im Palác Akropolis in Prag, das im Mai 2025 stattfand.
Anlässlich der Veröffentlichung der Single mit Video feiert die Band zugleich ein weiteres großes Jubiläum – 10 Jahre seit den Anfängen von Innersphere – mit einem besonderen Konzert am Samstag, den 11. Oktober 2025 im Klub Parlament in Pilsen (die Band wurde im Mai 2016 erstmals live aktiv). Der Abend wird einzigartig sein: Alle ehemaligen und aktuellen Mitglieder, die an Studioaufnahmen beteiligt waren, stehen gemeinsam auf der Bühne, präsentieren einen Querschnitt durch das gesamte Schaffen der Band und nehmen das Publikum auf eine „Zeitreise“ durch zwei Sets mit mehr als zwei Stunden Musik.
Míra Litomerický, Innersphere
„Das Jubiläumskonzert ‘X Years of Innersphere’ ist für uns alle ein Fest – für die aktuellen wie auch die ehemaligen Mitglieder und natürlich für unsere Fans. Wir haben uns wirklich alle zusammengetan, die jemals einen Abdruck in der Musik und der Geschichte von Innersphere hinterlassen haben. Zwischen uns herrscht immer noch eine gute Atmosphäre – es ist nostalgisch und gleichzeitig großartig, wieder gemeinsam zu spielen, auch wenn nur für kurze Zeit. Schon bei den Proben hat alles perfekt funktioniert, die Chemie ist einfach noch da. Ich freue mich riesig, dass es so gut geklappt hat. Auch wenn wir heute alle woanders stehen und sich die Prioritäten verändert haben – wir sind immer noch hier.“
InnersphereBooking@gmail.com
https://www.inner-sphere.com/
Die Heavy-Metal-Überflieger Wings of Steel aus Los Angeles kehren mit ihrem zweiten Album “Winds of Time” zurück und festigen damit ihren Status als eine der spannendsten neuen Kräfte des Genres.
Von Fans und Kritikern gleichermaßen als eine der am meisten erwarteten Metal-Veröffentlichungen des Jahres 2025 gefeiert, baut “Winds of Time” auf dem schnell wachsenden Vermächtnis der Band auf und bietet einen Sound, der sowohl nostalgisch als auch unverkennbar frisch ist. Von der ersten bis zur letzten Note vermittelt das Album den Geist einer goldenen Ära, in der Titanen wie Judas Priest, Dio und Queensrÿche die Bühne beherrschten – allerdings mit moderner Intensität und makelloser Produktion. Auf acht mitreißenden Tracks bietet “Winds of Time” unaufhaltsame Vocals, rasante Gitarrenarbeit und einen Rhythmus, der mit der unerbittlichen Kraft eines Hammers zuschlägt.
Zusammen haben diese Singles weltweit bereits über eine Million Streams erzielt und breite Anerkennung gefunden – damit ist “Winds of Time” ein Spitzenkandidat für den Titel “Album des Jahres”.
Die Band kommentiert:
“Winds of Time ist nicht nur ein Album, sondern eine immersive Reise ins Herz des Heavy Metal. Es sprüht vor Leidenschaft, Präzision und roher Power – eine Platte, die sowohl neue Hörer als auch langjährige Metal-Fans tief bewegen wird. Jede Note, jeder Drumbeat, jeder Text wurde so gestaltet, dass er die Essenz dessen einfängt, was Heavy Metal so zeitlos macht.“
“Winds of Time” ist ab sofort auf allen großen digitalen Plattformen sowie auf CD und Vinyl erhältlich. Fans in den USA können direkt über die offizielle website der Band bestellen, während Fans in Europa das Album über High Roller Records erwerben können.
Über Wings of Steel
Wings of Steel wurde 2019 gegründet und ist eine Heavy-Metal-/Hardrock-Band aus Los Angeles, deren Wurzeln im klassischen Stil der 70er- und 80er-Jahre liegen. Ihr Sound kombiniert Sänger Leo Unnermarks bluesige, kraftvolle Stimme mit Parker Halubs bombastischen Riffs und ausdrucksstarken Soli und schafft so einen Sound, der mit moderner Klarheit und Power an die glorreichen Tage des Heavy Metal erinnert.
Nach ihrer Debüt-EP “Wings of Steel“ aus dem Jahr 2022 veröffentlichte die Band ihr von Kritikern hochgelobtes erstes Album “Gates of Twilight“ (2023). Im Frühjahr 2024 begaben sich Wings of Steel auf ihre erste Europatournee, wo sie ihre Position als eine der prominentesten neuen Bands im Heavy Metal bekräftigten. Wings of Steel werden weiterhin für ihre energiegeladenen und fesselnden Live-Auftritte gelobt, die auf ihrem Live-Album “Live in France“ (2024) zu hören sind.
Bis heute haben Wings of Steel zahlreiche Shows in den USA und Europa gespielt, darunter Festivals und Veranstaltungsorte wie Heavy Week-End, Rock Hard Festival und viele weitere. Mit mehr Schwung denn je veröffentlicht die Band nun ihr mit Spannung erwartetes zweites Studioalbum “Winds of Time” und wird Anfang 2026 als Supportband von Sabaton auf eine Nordamerika-Tour gehen.
"Winds of Time" – Album streamen: https://hypeddit.com/wingsofsteel/windsoftime
"Winds Of Time" jetzt auf CD & Vinyl bestellen:
https://wingsofsteelband.com/#store
hrrecords.de/WINGS-OF-STEEL
Washington, D.C. - Metalcore Titans, AGE OF RUIN, have released new album, NOTHINGMAN, on CD and digital formats. Coinciding with the album's release is the launch of the official video for album track, "THE TRAVELER," which is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2u5dMEzpmg
FFO: In Flames, Soilwork, Killswitch Engage, and Gojira.
Purchase/Stream Nothingman:
https://ageofruin.bandcamp.com/album/nothingman
https://www.theupstagemusicfest.com/product-page/age-of-ruin-nothing-man
Nothingman is a collection of 10 songs that cuts a path to the heart with harmony and angst that others would be naïve not to mimic. The band sacrificed blood and sweat for two years to expel Nothingman. Age of Ruin began the recording process in October of 2023, and after nine months of tracking on location in Richmond, VA, at the Bakery Studio, in Washington, DC, at Ivakota Studio, and at the Riff Dojo in Takoma Park, MD, (the record was produced by Mike Schleibaum of Darkest Hour), Nothingman was complete. This is the biggest, most richly woven tapestry from the band yet.
In 2023 and 2024, Age of Ruin did some precursory promotion of Nothingman’s material, traveling up and down the east coast, dousing nonbelievers with their fire, with such acts as Black Flag, Madball, Jimmy’s Chicken Shack, and Anvil. Yes, that Anvil.
Ripping guitars, unforgivably brutal drums, bass sounds that have shaken the underworld, and screeching vocals are just the beginning of this incarnation of a true headbanger's incantation. What we saw unearthed back in 1998 has now grown. The road worn warriors of the AoRmy have forced enough breakdowns to overwhelm any AAA mechanic, with miles on the highway ahead.
Their punk and metal roots hold firm, and their thrash tendencies are on full display as this towering presence of a band branches out over new tonal terrain and soundscape; reminding all who fall under its shadow, that the light shining through is a new dawn in the Age of Ruin.
Track
Listing:
1. The Fixation
2. Heavy is the Crown
3. Lost in Shadows
4. The Traveler
5. Nothingman
6. An Awakening
7. The Ghosts We Carry
8. Promise Me
9. Bleed for Better Days
10. Lovesong
Credits:
Produced by Mike Schleibaum / The Riff Dojo.
Mixed and mastered by Will Beasley / The Bakery.
Original artwork, Oil on Canvas titled "Forest Mother" by Zack Dunn.
Line-up:
Benjamin Swan - vocals
Christopher Fleming - bass
Daniel Fleming - guitar
Hendrik Osinga - drums
Casey Flanagan - guitar
Bio:
The exact location of the dawn of man has been a constant subject of debate. Some say it was Prometheus delivering fire, some say it was Franklin discovering electricity, most people say it’s when Lars met James…but everyone agrees: those were simply precursors. Throughout the age of enlightenment, the renaissance, the reformation era and beyond, mortals have tried to make sense of mankind's meaning on earth.
Most archaeologists believe that in the late 90's, a surge of lightning fast riffs, guttural screams, devastatingly bass tones, and the relentless pulverizing rhythm of drums unearthed a crucial piece of this puzzle...this ushered in what would be known as The Age of Ruin. Those who heard it, really dug it. But those who dug it found there is much more than the surface layers. Music filled with textures, themes, and tunings that go deeper than a James Cameron film unbound by budgets.
For over 20 years, Age of Ruin has been firing off a relentless string of releases. Even the busiest trash compactors could not keep up with the amount of crushing that Age of Ruin crams into a single album, and this is so…with Nothingman. They have consistently delivered a brutal barrage of the heaviest hits metal has heard. Why stop At the Gates, when you can break down the whole house with your music? Why get Entombed when you can breathe new life into the scene? Why let the years waste away when the Age of Ruin can answer all of these questions?
Age of Ruin has definitely paid their dues, earning every ounce of the heaviest crown one band could carry. Naturally, the tonal tenure of the AoRmy servicemen is not something that can be held onto forever...the constant axe-wielding and riff hurling has required numerous changing of the guard over the years; however, the core horsemen of the Age of Ruin (Benjamin Swan, and Daniel and Christopher Fleming) remain, along with Casey Flanagan and Hendrik Osinga, forging an amalgamation of devastation which would conjure a collection of songs that few, if any, houses could harness. Fortunately, under the tutelage and production of Sound-Sensei Mike Schleibaum (Darkest Hour), Age of Ruin would hone their tone in Mike's Riff Dojo, creating an undeniable masterpiece of metal.
https://www.facebook.com/thisistheageofruin
TENEBRIS have unveiled the first
single from their upcoming album “KOCHANOWSKI”. The track “POPIEL”
offers a glimpse into the new record set for release on 7 November 2025
via Pagan Records.
Listen to “Popiel”: https://youtu.be/PmAbOextE80
"Popiel" is an excerpt of Juliusz Słowacki's epic poem Król Duch. The lyrics tell the story of a spirit incarnating in the bodies of Polish kings, beginning a journey of madness and magic with Popiel. The track's intense narrative is a perfect representation of Tenebris's unique sound, blending their death metal origins with progressive and jazz influences.
Founded in Łódź in 1991, Tenebris is one of Poland's most original and long-running metal bands. “Kochanowski” is a musical continuation of their 2018 EP, “Legendarna”, and delves into the surprising, esoteric side of Polish poet Jan Kochanowski. The band's frontman, Siwy Jaszy, discovered that Kochanowski’s epigrams were a labyrinth based on Pythagorean numerology, transforming the poet into a figure of magical arts.
The album's creative process began in 2021 and was completed in 2025, with lyrics drawing from literary giants like Kochanowski, Słowacki, Adam Mickiewicz. The new record features special guests, including Maciej Pasiński (ex Sirrah, Pincer Consortium) on backing vocals and growls, Paweł Szamburski on clarinet, and Sylwia Levy on backing vocals.
"Popiel" is available now on all major streaming platforms. Add it to your library via Spotify and other services.
The current lineup consists of:
Siwy Jaszy - vocals, guitar
Bartek Polny - bass guitar
Przemysław Dominiak - guitar
Grzegorz Graczyk - drums
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/paganrecords
https://www.youtube.com/@TenebriSalpha/featured
https://www.facebook.com/TenebrisAlpha
Occult black metal entity SUFFERING unveils their most
provocative vision yet - the sublimely NSFW video for 'ENTHRALLED',
featuring adult actress and fetish icon Sabien DeMonia, will be revealed
this Halloween.
Sabien comments:
"I always wanted to have a chance to work on creative projects like music videos and, as a metalhead myself, I was super excited when Suffering invited me. Absolutely loved working with the guys from Suffering!"
Head to the Apocalyptic Witchcraft YouTube channel for a tantalising trailer of the wickedness that lies behind the red door... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYLhV46hfjc
Let the joyous celebrations of hell begin this Halloween, as we await the coming of THINGS SEEN BUT ALWAYS HIDDEN on November 28th.
https://apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk/
https://orcd.co/apw054
https://www.facebook.com/Suffering.ukmetal/
Montreal (QC) - Canadian bruisers, DEADWOOD, have released "TALES OF MASSACRE," the second single from forthcoming EP, RITUALS OF A DYING LIGHT.
Check out the music video for "Tales of Massacre" at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqpk5XQXrSQ
Deadwood are set to release new EP, Rituals of a Dying Light, on January 6, 2026 via Innerstrength Records.
Deadwood uniquely blends death metal and hardcore to create a modern deathcore sound. Known for their heavy music and dark lyrics, their motto is "Make Deathcore Angry Again." The band aims to evoke terror and fear through their music, ensuring their performances are unforgettable.
Most importantly, the music of Deadwood caters to enthusiastic metalheads who crave pure brutality and violence.
Track
Listing:
1. Tales of Massacre
2. Heretic
3. Thirst for Blood
4. Whispers of Death
5. Echoes of the Fallen
Music and lyrics by Deadwood.
Recorded at EMNT studio January 2025.
Produced by Fred Element.
Mix and mastering by Fred Element.
Formed in the shadow of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Deadwood quickly carved out a place in the heavy scene with their dark, unrelenting sound. The lineup unites seasoned veterans: guitarist Fred (ex-The Plasmarifle, ex-Ion Dissonance), guitarist Stéphane (ex-Nova Spei, Iron Maiden tribute), drummer Charles (ex-Dismayd, Discovrey Through Tourment), and vocalist Derek, reuniting with Fred after a decade since their days in Malaga.
Drawing from the ferocity of Meshuggah, the brutality of Whitechapel, and the groove-driven power of Pantera, Deadwood delivers crushing riffs and haunting atmospheres steeped in true dark histories—from the Salem witch trials to the reign of Jack the Ripper.
Their catalog includes the EP Nemesis (2022), EP Inhuman (2023), and standout singles “Straightblade” (June 2023), “Djinn Pitts” (March 2024), and “Heretic” (April 2025). Known for their commanding live presence, Deadwood has toured Japan with Humanity's Last Breath and DVRK, stormed U.S. stages in 2025, opened twice for Born of Osiris in Montréal, and shook the grounds of Inkcarceration Festival 2025.
Currently on tour across Québec, Ontario, and New Brunswick, Deadwood is gearing up for their first European run in 2026 — bringing their brand of dark, murky heaviness to stages worldwide.
Line-up:
Fred Element - Guitars
Stephane Filion - Lead Guitars
Charles Etienne Lafrance - Drums
Derek Heynekemp - Vocals*
*Note: Vocals on the EP by Martin Demontigny.
https://celuiquiditquiest.com/rencards
https://linktr.ee/Deadwood.band
Purchase/Stream The Sleeping City:
https://bit.ly/tsc-willowtip
https://anabstractillusion.bandcamp.com/album/the-sleeping-city
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fLZYALPVWA
The critical response to the band's previous album, Woe, was nothing short of phenomenal! Black Metal Daily called it "An absolutely fucking herculean masterstroke" (10/10), while Metal-Only minced no words in dubbing it a "Masterpiece" (10/10). As such, the anticipation for the epic follow-up, The Sleeping City, has been sky high!
The Sleeping City, AN ABSTRACT ILLUSION’s third full-length album, utilizes their unique blend of progressive death metal and black metal with arpeggiating synths, wistful drones and vast soundscapes, harkening back to the era of 80’s sci-fi soundtracks. Being the band’s most atmospheric and heavy work to date, the album explores the depths of the human psyche and suffering. A decrepit yet monumental landmark, the sleeping city awaits ahead. Will you enter?
The band comments on the new album:
“When we compose an album we don't want it to just be a collection of random songs, we want a holistic theme coursing through the album's veins. When writing The Sleeping City we wanted to explore what the soundtrack to a dystopian sci-fi film, such as Blade Runner or Terminator, would sound like if it were written by a death metal band.
For The Sleeping City, we took inspiration from acts such as Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine, Kite, Ólafur Arnalds and Boards of Canada, pushing us to expand and refine our sound palette. Going from the long-song format of Woe, it was a fun challenge to once again write self-contained songs with a clear beginning and end.
During the creation of this album we worked with a great team of collaborators. Produced by the band’s own Karl Westerlund, The Sleeping City was once again mixed and mastered by Robin Leijon. Drums were recorded and produced by Jakob Herrmann (Devin Townsend, Evergrey, VOLA, Vildhjärta) at the legendary Top Floor Studios in Gothenburg, who has captured some of our all-time favorite drum tones. The gorgeous artwork, a homage to early black metal's painted artworks, was done by Alex Eckman-Lawn (Horrendous, Afterbirth, Woe, Nero Di Marte). We also worked with amazing musicians who provided us with beautiful strings and vocals.
With The Sleeping City we truly feel we’ve elevated our craft beyond anything we’ve done before and can’t wait for its release. Thank you all for your continued support!”
Track
Listing:
1. Blackmurmur
2. No Dreams Beyond Empty Horizons
3. Like A Geyser Ever Erupting
4. Frost Flower
5. Emmett
6. Silverfields
7. The Sleeping City
Line-up:
Christian Berglönn - Lead Vocals
Robert Stenvall - Keyboards, Vocals
Karl Westerlund - Guitars, Bass
Isak Nilsson - Drums, Background Vocals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fLZYALPVWA
https://linktr.ee/AnAbstractIllusion
Excerpt:"creates a compulsive body-heaving groove, and the rumbling drum-fills and undulating bass-lines are electric, but it feels like something monstrous and hungry is bearing down on the listener"
DROFNOSURA – “RITUAL OF SPLIT TONGUES”
Genre - Blackened/atmospheric
sludge/post-metal
For fans of - Blut aus Nord, Devenial Verdict, Eibon, Amenra, Lurk, Isis, Pillar of Light, The Angelic Process
Drofnosura from Canada are a strange beast and they're comfortable in their own iridescent, translucent skin. They have taken elements from multiple styles such as sludge, doom, black, and even post metal, finely ground them, and used the material to sculpt a new body entirely. The influences are not as distinct any more but the entity nonetheless is able to shape-shift and display the tendencies of those styles. The movement is whimsical, rhythmic, and elegant and the listener is left enraptured by it all. With songs going on for over 15 minutes, they do quite a lot in its duration, languidly traversing various realms, putting the emphasis on creating a meditative, transcendent atmosphere more than anything else. The music naturally evolves within each of the songs as they progress, and it isn't fatiguing just because it's done in such an intuitive manner. "Ritual of Split Tongues" is an astounding album where multiple influences converge to create music that's at once expansive, stirring, and dissonant, and lingers on in the mind for longer than one would think.
Line up
W.L.F. - Guitars, Vocals, Synthesizers
D.A.S. - Drums & Percussion, Vocals, Synthesizers
M.A.D. - Bass, Vocals, Synthesizers
Artwork by Dusty Ray Art
Track listing
1. Selection of a Corpse
2. Kapala Kriya
3. The Ritual of Split Tongues
4. ἐγείρω
5. The Well of Seven Heads
6. Desounen
Official release date - October 24th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/Drofnosura
Thanks a lot for your support! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
“Retribution” is Imperial Domain’s furious statement of long-delayed justice. Fueled by sharp riffs and a venomous chorus, the track channels humiliation and betrayal into pure melodic death metal vengeance. It’s a powerful preview of what’s to come on Portentum, an album set to showcase Imperial Domain’s signature blend of aggression, atmosphere, and precision.
Stream the single: https://orcd.co/retributionsingle
Pre-save Portentum: https://orcd.co/portentum
About Imperial Domain
Founded in the mid-90s, Imperial Domain quickly made waves in the Swedish death metal underground with their debut demo The Final Chapter (1995), followed by In the Ashes of the Fallen (1996)—a release that earned them national acclaim. Their full-length debut In the Ashes of the Fallen (1998) on Pulverised Records marked the band as a rising force, followed by the critically acclaimed The Ordeal (2003) via Konqueror Records.
After a brief hiatus and the tragic loss of vocalist Tobias Heideman in 2014, the band reemerged stronger than ever with The Deluge (2016), reaffirming their place in the melodic death metal pantheon. Now, Imperial Domain return with Portentum—an album that’s as uncompromising as it is thought-provoking.
Line-Up
Peter Laitinen Sundström – Guitar
Philip Borg – Guitar
Andreas Öman – Vocals
Mattias Hansson – Bass
Alvaro Svanerö – Drums
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DYSENTERY – “DEJECTION CHRYSALIS”
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: november 7th 2025
Genre: Brutal/Slam Death Metal
For fans of: Putrid Pile | Internal Bleeding | Guttural Secrete | Pyrexia
Wrapped tight and immobile inside the blackened shell of despair, entangled in the thorn covered vines of bitter acceptance, I bleed out my weakness and my excuses for it, along with a pitiful selection of laughable hopes and insipid dreams. The time has come for metamorphosis, for transformation through rage, violence and a hunger for wanton destruction. The imprisoning cocoon tears beneath my new found claws and I emerge, a beast reborn, from my shattered dejection chrysalis…
Ten years since their last full length album, Fragments, Dysentery have finally re-emerged into the light, carrying with them a new album of heaviness beyond comprehension; spine-splitting slams and deep grooves like scars in the surface of the Earth. Dejection Chrysalis is the fourth album to bear the Dysentery name and if it takes a decade to carve out a bludgeoning monstrosity like this, then so be it. Instrumental opener, ‘Transference’, is so much more than a simple intro. As its title infers, it is a crossing point from normality to the world of Dysentery, a passage of mutation, configuring your mind and body for the shocking impact to come. And then you’re there, in the grip of ‘Enslavement For The Obedient, Agony For The Wayward’, utterly consumed in an instant by the thick, powerful guitars, the ultra guttural vocals and the rhythms that speak to your flesh on a primal, bestial level. ‘Exhausted Bliss Of Self Loathing’ brings furious blast beats, precision tempo shifts, riffs like heavy machinery and a guest vocal appearance from Josh Welshman of Defeated Sanity, while listening to ‘A Bestial Omen’ is like being the plaything of an oblivious giant – your limbs twisted into impossible positions, through agonizing angles as the gargantuan hands manipulate your fragile form – this is ogre music! And as the album progresses you realise just what Dysentery have achieved with Dejection Chrysalis, why it was worth waiting every moment of those ten years for. They make this music their own; with an aura of power, of untouchable force and presence. This is how you deliver brutal, slam death metal and make it meaningful and beyond devastating. From the electrifying barrage of ‘Fratricidium’ to the elite level brutality of ‘Ascend This Harrowing Dream’ there are so many great touches from the guitars, the drums, the vocals that just lift Dysentery to a level above the surrounding pack. Dynamic beyond all expectations, Dejection Chrysalis is a masterpiece of musical extremity.
Mixed and mastered by Randy LeBoeuf at Graphic Nature Audio (Kublai Khan TX, The Acacia Strain, Vomit Forth etc) Dejection Chrysalis is sonically formidable and the accompanying visual impact is supplied by the artwork of Hidris (Anhedonic, Reign Of Erebus, Snakepit etc). With added variants of vocal violence supplied by guest appearances from Josh Welshman (Defeated Sanity), Jared Weed (Concrete, Futility) and JT Knight (Invoke Thy Wrath) Dejection Chrysalis is essential. Coming your way on Comatose Music on November 7th – be ready for the return of Dysentery!
Line-up:
Eric Taranto - Drums
Peter Spinazola - Guitar
Scott Savaria - Vocals
John Cook - Bass
Guest vocals on ‘Exhausted Bliss Of Self Loathing’ by Josh Welshman
Guest vocals on ‘Shackled By Idolatry’ by Jared Weed
Guest vocals on ‘Fratricidium’ by JT Knight
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
The first single 'Shockwave' accompanied by lyric video is unleashed today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/krushor-shockwave
The band comments:
"Shockwave is about war, its madness, and maybe, fittingly for the times, a bit about why wars are fought, who starts them, and who benefits from them. In war, there are no winners at least not for us poor folks. I don't like to politicize things, but in these times, wars are too present, and you can always write a song about how horrifying they are."
Biography:
The band found its current identity through shared musical tastes, playing together, and a shared hobby. We are a group of people who enjoy making and playing music that works for all of us. A big part of this is that composing, writing lyrics, and editing songs is open to everyone. All songs and compositions are created by the whole group, not based on one person's vision or goal.
Our influences definitely come from older metal, but that doesn't matter, because mixing genres actually adds a lot to our music; there's no one right way to do things. Krushor's goal is to make music that sounds good and at the same time talk about the difficult things that are part of life. For many people, music can be therapeutic, and if even one person feels that way about our music, we feel we have succeeded.
Track
list:
01. Shockwave
02. Vortex
03. Rise Above
04. Taste of Hatred
Composed by Joni Kärsämä, Juho Mattila
Saku Hirvimäki, Sami Keränen
Lyrics by Ville Lehtoranta
Arranged by Krushor
Line-up:
Ville Lehtoranta - Vocals
Joni Kärsämä - Guitar
Juho Mattila - Guitar
Sami Keränen - Bass
Saku Hirvimäki - Drums
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The world premiere for the official music video for "The Racking" comes via The Circle Pit. Watch the video now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JbTMkVOcag
The song is also streaming on all major platforms.
Rising from the heart of the Midwest metal scene, this Chicago-based quintet has announced a fall release for their much-anticipated second full-length, Tyrannus Aeternum. Following the 2022 release of their debut album, Rex Mortem, BURNED IN EFFIGY has sharpened their sound to a lethal edge. The result is an 11-track onslaught that blends the band’s skillful musicianship and technicality with volcanic brutality.
Tyrannus Aeternum is set for release on October 31. Pre-orders the album now at https://burnedineffigy.bandcamp.com/album/tyrannus-aeternum
Tracklist:
1) Befouled Benefaction
2) Retribution
3) Masquerade
4) Procession
5) Wage of Exile
6) Sacrificial Seance
7) Monstrosity Reborn
8) Gallows Hymn
9) The Racking
10) Crown Crusher
11) Citadel
Tyrannus Aeternum was recorded at Beal Audio and Bricktop Recording, with production, engineering and mixing by Jordan Beal. Orchestration and keyboards on the album were provided by Graham Southern. Album artwork by Timon Kokott.
Bio:
BURNED IN EFFIGY’s roots date back to 2017. In January 2022, the band independently released its debut album Rex Mortem, which was highly acclaimed by leading heavy music media and led to the band sharing the stage with iconic acts such as ORBIT CULTURE, OBSCURA, and REVOCATION.
A must for listeners of acts such as THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER and INFERI, with the band’s attention to virtuosity and intensity in equal measure, the effort and accomplishment of the band’s debut led to being talent scouted. With work on the band's sophomore album complete, BURNED IN EFFIGY aims to take its signature melodic death metal sound across the US, and in time, the world. The search for total conquest continues.
Line-up:
Mark “Smedy” Smedbron - Vocals
Steve Bacakos - Guitar
Mike Hisson - Guitar
Matt Watkins - Bass
Eddie Dec - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/burnedineffigyofficial
Now they've really done it...NOW I'VE DONE IT, a two-piece avant-garde metal unit from Philadelphia is now streaming their debut album, AN ILL GUEST, in full. The exclusive world premiere of An Ill Guest comes courtesy of Ghost Cult Magazine a day ahead of the album's official release date.
Listen now at https://ghostcultmag.com/exclusive-premiere-now-ive-done-it-stream-their-album-in-full-an-ill-guest-at-ghost-cult/
Leading up to the release of An Ill Guest, NOW I'VE DONE IT has taken an interesting approach to introducing fans to the album's singles. This includes the first-ever analog lyric video for "Panache"and the Powerpoint-created showing of "Jim-Jams" .
An Ill Guest is set for release on October 17. Order the album at https://nowivedoneit.bandcamp.com/album/an-ill-guest
What, or who, is NOW I’VE DONE IT? Four words. One way to live.
NOW: The present. Be the Now.
I’VE: I. Have. Contract. Take ownership. Seize the Now.
DONE: What’s done is done, and what hasn’t been will become done. What has become done has become the present… which is Now.
IT: What is It? It is Everything. It is Now.
NOW I’VE DONE IT is an eclectic blend of avant-garde metal, swing, and punk-cabaret hailing from Philadelphia. Comprised of current and former members of Philadelphia progressive power metal band Lör, NiDi offers something for everyone, or nothing for no one.
Track
list:
1. Disillusion
2. Dilly-Dally
3. Offering
4. Ruffled
5. Panache
6. Collywobbles
7. Muddled
8. Splinter
9. Jim-Jams
10. Kindling
Artwork painted by Eliran Kantor.
An Ill Guest was produced, mixed, mastered, and engineered by Peter Hraur.
Bio:
NOW I’VE DONE IT (stylized as NiDi) began in 2010 by high school friends, multi-instrumentalist Peter Hraur, and drummer Dan Reynolds. The two set out to create music that was a unique reflection of what they love about music: high energy but heavy, fun but dramatic, and funny without being a joke. With a rebellious DIY attitude, they scraped together whatever cheap recording equipment they could afford and put together their first demo of three avant-garde inspired metal tracks, aptly titled Rigamarole. The band would go on to spend years playing in the greater Philadelphia region, offering a theatrical, energetic, yet earnest live show, performing with such acts as Parius, Alustrium, Polkadot Cadaver, and more.
Peter and Dan took a "say yes" attitude while crafting An Ill Guest, resulting in 10 tracks filled to the brim with the kind of personality that can only result when two lifelong friends disregard convention and have a little too much fun in the writing room. Over the years of performing, the band has received phenomenal feedback, being described as "the most fun I've had at a live show," and inspiring listeners to dive into their own art with renewed energy.
The band’s hope is for this release to act as a radar to all those who want something a little different. It's bold and risk-taking, heavy and dramatic, but fun and extravagant. It's weird music for weird people.
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DETERIOROT
– “ECHOES FROM THE PAST”
The legendary Deteriorot has been active since 1988, formed by the songwriter, guitarist/vocalist Paul Zavaleta. Pioneering the genre through the early 90's. One of The True US cult underground Death Metal Elite. This compilation album features the ‘1992 demo’, the 1993 ‘Manifested Apparitions of Unholy Spirits’ ep, live 1993 recordings, ‘Unholy Return’ promo 2000, ‘The Faithless’ demo 2003 and a very special bonus track ‘Reanimate (2025 recordings). Artwork by Larry Lyannas (Lividity, Severance, Supreme Pain). The 1993 ep was engineered by Tim Gilles (MOD, SOD. Long time sold out (early) discography compilation deluxe! Bonus: unreleased 2000 Unholy Return promo, the demo 92, the entire 2003 demo The Faithless (all 5 tracks!)
DEMONOID – “RIDERS OF THE APOCALYPSE”
DEMONOID re-issue, THERION’s Christoffer Johnsson return to Death metal!
Therion entered a new path late 90’s with Therion. Of course Therion was one of the forefathers of Swedish death metal. After a decade the more progressive and gothic elements took over and made Therion the band it is nowadays. The death metal blood in Johnson was still running however and found a way out in the formation of Demoniod. The main goal was playing pure old school Swedish Death metal. Johnson was joined by his Therion bandmember Kristian Niemann on guitars (Sorcerer, ex-Snowy Shaw (live)) and completed by Johan Niemann on bass (Evergrey, Hollingshead, ex-Mind's Eye, ex-Tears of Anger, ex-Therion, ex-Tiamat) and Richard Evensand on drums (Ebony Tears, ex-Chimaira, ex-Sorcerer, ex-Therion, ex-Soilwork). CD out 7 th November!
https://www.vicrecords.com/
Costa Rican Death/doom metal band Perishing with members of Astriferous, Mortual, Necroferum, etc. are close to releasing their highly awaited debut full length and the singles out so far only reaffirm the quality of their music and their mastery over the style. No Clean Singing premiered a track reminiscent of Disembowelment recently at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/16/an-ncs-premiere-perishing-las-ruinas-del-palacio/
Excerpt - "the song proves to be subterranean, soul-sinking, spellbinding, titanically heavy, and physically compulsive – a lot to achieve so successfully in a single song"
PERISHING – “MALICIOUS ACROPOLIS UNVEILED”
Genre: Death/Doom Metal
For fans of: Disembowelment, Rippikoulu, Mortiferum, Winter, Thergothon, Inverloch
Following a sensational demo in "Lutum", Costa Rican death/doom metal band Perishing boasting members of Astriferous, Mortual, Necroferum, etc. in their lineup, have returned with their much awaited debut full length. It's an extension of their style of playing slow, torturous, dread-filled death/doom metal where every note carries weight and with it deathly implications. A fetid stench pervades the entire proceedings, which is overpowering when combined with the sickly tunes and vocals lingering in the air as if emanating from beyond the grave. The entire experience is morose, sickening, and yet strangely comforting just because it is done so well. The music transitions beautifully from the ponderous doom trudges to the trotting death metal parts without losing its asphyxiating grip on the listener, and just as smoothly eases back into the slowly churning maelstrom of death. Maintaining a suitably organic sound and being selective with their tunes to create the best impression, Perishing have created an album that fans of this kind of punishing, slow death/doom metal music will find impossible to resist.
Lineup
JM Arrea (Astriferous, ex-Bloodsoaked Necrovoid) - Drums
José Pablo Phillips (Astriferous, Candarian) - Bass
Justin Sánchez (Mortual, Necroferum) - Guitars
J. Antonio Salas - Vocals
Artwork by Belial NecroArts (Undersave, Hierarchies)
Track listing
1. Autolysis (I. Imago Fluidus Macula)
2. Autolysis (II. Fatum Cursed by Nature)
3. Castle of the Leached Body 08:57
4. Las Ruinas del Palacio
5. Osedax (Devoured by the Cavernous Worm) 09:21
6. Acropolis of Malignancy
Official release date - October 17th, 2025
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https://perishing.bandcamp.com/album/malicious-acropolis-unveiled
That's all for now! Thanks a lot for your support everyone! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
G.A.E.A. (GALACTIC ALIENS EXTERMINATION ARMADA) is a project created by Buzz (aka Giuseppe Nicolò - MEMORIES OF A LOST SOUL) and his desire to combine Progressive Metal, Death / Thrash, Avantgardish Modern sounds with the soundtracks of video games and 1980s sci-fi films and so CYNIC, ATHEIST, MESHUGGAH, GOJIRA can be considered the fathers of their sound even if the mastery of G.A.E.A.'s music is absolutely unique.
Today the band, which features a renewed line-up completed with Dysphoria on keyboards and female vocals and Emi Dattolo on bass, has signed a contract with Club Inferno for the digital distribution and promotion of the sophomore album "A FROZEN MOMENT IN TIME" out on November 14th, 2025.
Tracklist:
1. Lovelikebigbang
2. Pillars Of Creation
3. Stranger In A Stranger Land
4. Mechassault
5. Gates Of Zendocon
6. Second Chapter
7. Obliterator
8. Obliterator (Part 2)
9. The Moon And The Earth
10. Finally Free
"A Frozen Moment In Time" is based on the concept of the journey of the last humans aboard their mothership in search of a habitable planet due to the imminent explosion of the Earth.
The band creates atmospheres that masterfully intertwine different currents ranging from Prog to Death Metal to melodic Goth sounds.
Brutal vocals live in symbiosis with sweet melodies of female voices often embellished by the vocoder use, in the meantime lethal riffs spread through the air with devastating fury and sink into your body like sharp blades in an extremely refined style and with a sound born from Lost Soul Studio.
The result is "A Frozen Moment In Time", an album capable of having its heart and its soul projected towards the future.
G.A.E.A., a musical kaleidoscope of freezing atmospheres and devastating harmonies.
Pre-Order: https://clubinfernoent.bandcamp.com/album/a-frozen-moment-in-time
Pre-Save: https://onerpm.link/420154090175
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Greek Dark Americana outfit :SKULL & DAWN: have released a new lyric video for their haunting track "KNOXVILLE GIRL” from their second full-length album, “THE HARVEST”, officially out on 17 October 2025 through The Circle Music.
Watch the video for “Knoxville Girl”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGu7qnrW3YE&feature=youtu.be
“Knoxville Girl” is a traditional murder ballad that tells a dark tale of love, violence, and regret. The band's unique rendition of the classic folk tune, infused with their signature blend of American folklore and dark Americana, brings a fresh intensity to the centuries-old story.
This follows the release of the first single, "Down to Hell (Black Cat Bar)", which tells a story of late-night revelry and a dark descent. The band describes it as an "urban ceremony" filled with banjos, distorted guitars, percussion, chains and "lots of alcohol", culminating in a fall into a "dark well" that leads straight to hell.
The upcoming album “The Harvest” dives deep into a mysterious world of Southern Gothic horror, featuring songs about dead lovers, serial killers, lone cowboys, and lost souls. The album blends the band's neofolk past with a true Americana sound and a Southern Gothic atmosphere.
The album is available for pre-order via The Circle Music: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=skull-dawn and digital pre-save: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/TheHarvest
“The Harvest” will be released in digital and CD formats, with the CD version including two bonus tracks: "Kingdom of the Corn (Live)" and "St. James Infirmary (Live)". A limited edition black LP (250 copies) and a limited edition gold LP (250 copies) with a printed insert will also be available.
Guests on the album include Okoi Thierry Jones (Bölzer), Perikis Tikof (Opened Paradise), Ioanna Noir Zacharopoulou (Glitter Grotesque) and Vasso Jism.
Founded in 1999 under a different name as a trio in Athens, Greece, the band started by creating industrial noise music using hammers and electric screwdrivers. From 2002 to 2009, they embraced the heritage of Old Europe and folk instruments under the name Défilé des Âmes. They released the full-length LP Lust & Stone, a split EP, and several DIY EPs. They also collaborated with notable artists like Sieben.
The band reformed in 2009 as :Skull & dawn:, shifting their sound to be influenced by the American South. Their debut album, Zombie Horses (2016), fused their industrial roots with American folklore, creating a sound inspired by artists like The Bad Seeds and Hank 3. They have maintained a strong live presence over the years, performing with a wide range of artists, including Jarboe, Chelsea Wolfe and Psychic TV.
Tracklisting:
1. Down to hell (Black Cat Bar)
2. Knoxville Girl
3. Kingdom of the Corn
4. Born Dead
5. GG Allin
6. Gold is the Metal
7. Trouble was her Name
8. Old Testament
9. Hail to the King
10. Kingdom of the Corn (Live) (CD Bonus Track)
11. St. James Infirmary (Live) (CD Bonus Track)
Skull & dawn are:
Manos Six - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, Electric Guitar, Percussion
Stamos A. - Electric Bass
Chris Abatis - Electric Guitar
Alex Tabakakis - Drums + Percussion
Vassilis Kemanidis - Violin
https://thecirclemusic.gr/
https://facebook.com/skullanddawn/
Melodic death-metal outfit SELIAS has released their
brand-new single and video “BEYOND THE SWITCH”, the
second track revealed from the band’s forthcoming album KILLKARMA,
out November 7, 2025.
BEYOND THE SWITCH captures the turning point after betrayal and broken trust — the moment of clarity where new bonds are forged and old bridges are left to burn. As one of the standout singles from KILLKARMA, the track blends haunting melody with a dark, driven edge — a reflection of moving on, no matter the cost
Stream “Beyond The Switch ”: https://orcd.co/btssingle
With Killkarma, SELlAS expand their sonic territory, blending melodic brutality with cinematic atmosphere. Taking inspiration from In Flames, Soilwork, Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, and Orbit Culture, the band sharpens their identity into a sound that is at once relentless and immersive. Their 2025 live shows have already begun unveiling this next chapter with powerful, full-scale performances of light, sound, and intensity.
Pre-save the album Killkarma: https://orcd.co/killkarma
Previous singles & videos:
https://orcd.co/bulletssingle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ5NXahLmaI
About SELIAS
Formed in 2020 by guitarist Steve Elias, SELIAS fuses aggression with atmosphere, precision, and emotion. Rounded out by Guillaume Pascual (vocals/keys), Daniel Bouwman (drums), and Jeff Hyde (bass), the band delivers a cinematic metal experience that bridges classic death metal ferocity with modern melodic edge.
www.youtube.com/@seliasmetal
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Listen
to the album teaser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM6-LtnMBQU
Bindrune Records will release What Remains When Hope Has Failed on CD, vinyl and digital formats on November 21.
Tracklist:
1) The Wyrm at World's End
2) This Rotten Bough
3) Sky Avalanche
4) Quiescence
5) Bereft Part 2
6) What Remains When Hope Has Failed
Formed from the ashes of Wodensthrone, NEMOROUS carry the torch of atmospheric English black influenced metal proudly, but it’s not the main driving force behind them. The vision is far more expansive and eclectic. With their debut self-titled EP, they have proven that the twisting melodies and fog-like aura they create with their sound indeed harkens back to their past musical conquests, yet progression is a core tenet as it walks hand in hand with rich melodies and a fierce sense of aggressive tradition.
What Remains When Hope Has Failed is four years in the making and finds the band emerging victorious from a line-up change, where Chris Walsh (Vocals/Guitars) was replaced by Nick Craggs (Vocals - Vacivus/Neolithic) and Rob Hindmarsh on second guitar. Now as sextet, the band dove into the music for their first full-length reinvigorated, and it shows in the album’s composition.
What Remains When Hope Has Failed is a dynamic and emotional journey where quiet musical passages draw the listener in with vulnerability and beautiful, clean guitar arrangements that feel like Fields of the Nephilim at their most post-apocalyptic, only to build with reflective, melancholic mids, before exploding with blasting ferocity. From subtle, yet expansive synth textures, complex drum work that never loses grasp on a powerful feel/swing, it all strengthens the overall impact of this album with colorful dynamics and a songwriting characteristic which can certainly be traced back to the early days of Wodensthrone.
NEMOROUS is:
Phil Heckles - Bass
Ian Finley - Drums
Michael Blenkarn - Guitars
Alexandra Durning - Keyboards
Rob Hindmarsh - Guitars
Nick Craggs - Vocals
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www.facebook.com/NemorousUK
The
legendary Finnish metal band SOULGRIND, founded in 1992, is
set to release its tenth album, AD PULCHRAM MORTEM, via Inverse
Records. The release date will be announced later.
The second single 'Tears of the Earth' is unleashed today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/soulgrind-tears
Vocalist/keyboardist Azhemin comments:
"Tears of the Earth was a laborious project in every respect. At its peak, the session had 93 tracks, and refining all the small nuances sometimes felt like shooting oneself in the foot. However, in the end, the mix became quite simple. Even if you have a palette full of colored pencils, you don’t always need to use them all.
The song basically consists of three separate parts or spaces that form the whole. The lyrics support the mood of these scenes in just the right way. Tears of the Earth is a compact yet multifaceted piece."
Guitarist Lord Heikkinen continues:
"Tears of the Earth was built around a riffing I had done a few years earlier. Azhem and I started creating a song together from the riffs. Azhem came up with a great prog-inspired middle section that sounds simple but is actually quite intricate when you listen closely to the riff. Additionally, Micko Hell arranged excellent acoustic parts for the song. Not to mention Tanya Lilith's wonderful melodies and harmonies. Overall, it’s a successful and unique whole.
The lyrics are based on an apocalyptic theme, the final nightmares. They describe how all organized cultures and religions drain everything and everywhere dry. In the end, only death remains—along with the Earth Mother’s tears and sorrow. These lyrics are actually embedded in the album’s story, a dark journey along the rivers of Tuonela. This trip mostly takes place in the traveler’s mind."
Watch music video of first single 'Jylhä Metsämies' : https://youtu.be/aoBIyV44VOY
Biography:
Soulgrind is a Finnish metal band formed in 1992, known primarily for their blend of gothic metal, thrash and black metal with a dark, melodic atmosphere. The band was founded by Lord Heikkinen, who has consistently contributed guitars and programming throughout their career.
Soulgrind's music often explores themes related to the darker aspects of Finnish history and psyche, combining passion, war, and the "dark side of mind" into their lyrical content, reflecting a deep connection to Finland's cultural and historical roots. But there has always been the bride side for the aspects as well. Classic war of love and hate.The sound has evolved over the time, but Soulgrind has maintained a core identity rooted in metal with a dark, atmospheric edge, resisting strict genre categorization and embracing musical development freely. Freedom of metal has always been the theme. And so it shall be.
Soulgrind is recognized for their intelligent and unique approach to metal, merging melodic and dark elements to create a distinctive sound within the Finnish metal scene. Their long-standing presence since the early 90s marks them as a significant act in the gothic and black metal genres in Finland.
Soulgrind - Ad Pulchram Mortem (Album)
Track list:
01. Jylhä Metsämies
02. Origins of The Serpent
03. In The Circus of Tuonela
04. Dark Water Wide
05. Black Prediction´s Bite
06. Tears of The Earth
07. Weight of The Old Sins
08. Ikiliekki
09. Dance Of The White Wolf
10. A Whispered Curse Upon The Gale
11. As Narrow Fjord Descends
12. Into The Shadows of Devotion
Album pic by Susanna Mansner
Line-up:
Lord Heikkinen: guitars
Azhemin: Keybords, vocals
Tanya Lilith: Vocals
Suntio: Drums:
JP: Bass
Micko Hell: Guitars, Vocals
Former members: Roope Latvala ( Children of Bodom, Stone ), Juke Eräkangas, Tommi McLaunone (Gloomy Grim, Nomicon), Henrik Laine (Deepred )
https://soulgrind.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/SoulgrindFinland
Norway’s MYR, the black metal duo comprised of Svartan and TZommer, will release their debut album, “HELVEGEN”, on a strictly limited edition vinyl format. The LP is limited to just 100 copies and will be available to purchase exclusively via the band’s Bandcamp page on 22 October 2025.
Following the digital release of Helvegen in June, MYR is offering collectors a physical artefact to match the album’s dark, untamed spirit. The band continues to build momentum, having previously released two powerful music videos from the record: "Saturnine Child" and "Brennt" (which premiered on NoCleanSinging). Both videos were created in collaboration with the renowned Grupa 13 (Behemoth, Amon Amarth etc.), showcasing the album’s thematic depth. MYR delivers a sound that is both raw and melodic, drawing deeply from Scandinavian legends and the traditions of Northern black metal, inviting comparison to legends such as Satyricon, Bathory, and Dissection.
MYR has also confirmed their first major live appearance, announcing they will perform at the prestigious Inferno Metal Festival in Oslo, Norway in 2026.
The band said:
"The sound of Helvegen was forged in the cold, and it demands to be heard on vinyl, it’s the definitive way to experience the album's atmosphere. Announcing Inferno 2026 is the next crucial step. We are ready to bring the darkness of the North to the stage."
"Helvegen" was mixed and mastered by the renowned Tore Stjerna at Necromorbus Studio in Sweden, known for his work with Watain, Mayhem, and Tribulation.
Track list:
1. December Coma
2. In Perpetum
3. Brennt
4. Røkkr
5. Saturnine Child
6. Naraka
7. Proch
8. Tungsten
9. Kaldr
MYR are:
Svartan - Guitars, Vocals
TZommer - Guitars
https://www.facebook.com/myrnorge
The second demo was duly extracted from the misanthropic Nordic solitude, where cold winds blow and snow falls mercilessly during long winter nights, where necrophiliac crows await the merciless death that announces its arrival with the somber melodies of Begravet I Skogen, hidden in funereal nightmares.
"Demo II" is the title of the new, haunting blizzard that approaches ominously, described by somber poetry that transforms Begravet i Skogen into a morbid and obscure artistic expression, an unpredictable representation of archaic winter landscapes, burdened by the anguish of old age and the passage of time.
In 2024, the first demo was released, overwhelmed by horrendous nightmares of yesteryear, where pain, terror, and suffering were a constant funeral. Now is the time to release the next horrifying nightmare, recorded analog on a four-track recorder so that the cavernous essence of Begravet I Skogen's melodies remains raw, and its melodies remain true to their rotten origins.
MORBID DOOM RAW NIHILISTIC BLACK METAL!
BEGRAVET I SKOGEN - "DEMO II"
Cassette Limited Edition of 50 copies, hand numbered
Side A:
01 - Lengter Etter Lange Vinternetter - [13:11]
Side B:
02 - Våre Tapte Oppdagere Har Dødd - [16:05]
Recorded on an analog four-track cassette recorder between February and May 2025.
All music and lyrics by Sarkofag.
Layout made by Alemão & Danihell Slaughter.
Promotional videos made by Danihell Slaughter.
RELEASE DATE 05th DECEMBER 2025
Official distribution by Hellstore Europe
BEGRAVET I SKOGEN Line Up:
Sarkofag (Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano)
begravetiskogen@gmail.com
https://begravetiskogen.bandcamp.com
www.murder-records.eu
Between
1989–2024, R.E.T. was a band
consisting of members mostly from Třinec, the second easternmost town in the
Czech Republic, and its surroundings, close to the borders with Poland and
Slovakia.
Label: Pařát Productions
Style: Doom metal
Type: Digipak (500 copies)
Release date: 29.11. 2025
Pre-orders start: 1.11. 2025
That is, from the Moravian-Silesian region, where a strong doom-metal base established itself in the mid-1990s, led by bands such as DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY, HYPNOTIC SCENERY or SILENT STREAM OF GODLESS ELEGY. Although this period lasted only a few years, spontaneously emerged and just as spontaneously dissolved, it made an indelible mark in the history of the Czech (doom) metal scene.
The recording “DEPRESSION”, with which R.E.T. first entered the chronicles of Czech doom metal and hard music in general in 1995 as their debut CD, was first released as a cassette demo without any ambitions.
It was recorded already in 1993. No one expected where and how quickly things would move forward.
Full article can be read on the Pařát Productions website https://paratshop.cz/2025/10/07/depression-od-r-e-t-vyjde-po-30-letech-v-reedici-na-digipaku/
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Genre
: Raw, Hateful Death Metal
Release dates:
Digital - November 21st, 2025
Physical - January 30th, 2026
With the uncompromising credo “Unrelenting death metal. No trends. No mercy.” CALCRAFT define their sound - and with their debut album "Reborn Through Torture", they deliver a merciless statement against anything watered-down or trend-driven.
The Texas-based outfit stands for raw, hate-fueled death metal, deeply rooted in the legacy of Immolation, Suffocation, and Incantation. But CALCRAFT go further: their songs are steeped in dark atmosphere, thrashy aggression, and a cinematic violence that feels ripped straight from the bloodiest scenes of Giallo and slasher films.
Their name is no coincidence - William Calcraft, England’s infamous executioner, serves as a grim source of inspiration. Like their namesake, CALCRAFT show no mercy: their music is an auditory noose, each track an execution. "Reborn Through Torture" is a blood-soaked manifesto of riffs, madness, and horror, dragging the listener into a world of pain and cinematic carnage.
Each song tells a story - of insanity, torture, and final breaths. CALCRAFT don’t aim to entertain; they aim to disturb. Their goal is to create a threatening sonic landscape that sounds like “a blood-soaked soundtrack to the final scene you never survive.”
Those who face this album won’t be spared. CALCRAFT hold themselves to their own brutal standard - and deliver death metal in its most relentless, uncompromising form.
https://calcraftlfr.bandcamp.com/album/reborn-through-torture
Dead And Dripping continue to create some of the music unique-sounding brutal death metal music. One-man army Evan Daniele has upgraded his skills in all ways and he's even managed to write songs that go on for around 9 mins which is no mean feat. It's an incredible, engrossing album that will be talked about for years. Listen to a couple of singles from it at https://deadanddrippingus.bandcamp.com/album/nefarious-scintillations
DEAD AND DRIPPING - “NEFARIOUS SCINTILLATIONS”
Genre:
Brutal/Technical
Death Metal)
For fans of : Demilich, Wicked Innocence, Wormed, Defeated Sanity, Mortal Decay, Fathomless Ritual,
Suffocation
Dead And Dripping is back with another album of mind-warping, reality-deconstructing music. One-man crew Evan Daniele, who was already playing everything on the albums so far, has gone ahead and even created the artwork for this album that manages to replicate the intricate nature of the music along with some kind of hallucinogenic quality that it induces. The music is often slower, deliberate, as if to create a hypnotic effect aided by use of repetition, and with that the songs can go on for as long as nine minutes without seeming cumbersome as is almost always the case with the brutal death metal subgenre where lengthy songs go. Dead And Dripping is doing something novel in this space which begs to be heard with all its quirks including the Demilich-esque croaks to go with music sounding just as surreal and twisted. It's an album that is painstakingly composed with thought and effort put into every single aspect of it and with all of it done in a refreshingly organic manner. "Nefarious Scintillations" is a tour-de-force for the style and a testament to the dedication and prowess of one-man bands.
Track listing
1. Nefariously Scintillating through Vacant Galactic Reservoirs
2. Horrifying Glimpses Into Inconceivably Demented Cityscapes
3. Pestilent Hints of Darkened Malodorous Vibrations
4. Swollen Torsos Adorned with Pustulating Hexagonal Crania
5. Sickeningly Vague Anatomical Silhouettes
6. Spontaneous Recollections of Unwitnessable Atrocity
7. Seeping through Ancient Transdimensional Corridors
8. An Utterly Tenantless World of Aeons-Long Death
Line up
Evan Daniele - All music and artwork
Official release date - November 28th, 2025
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Thanks a lot for your support! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
A
new occult/doom rock act, DROWNED IN SILVER, has unveiled "WAVES
OF SORROW", the first single and video from their debut album “MOTHERS”.
The full-length record is set to be released on 7 November 2025 via Pagan
Records in CD, LP and digital formats.
Watch “Waves of Sorrow”: https://youtu.be/8DcnLzblDbg
"Waves of Sorrow" is a powerful testament to the band’s signature sound, blending the dark atmospheres of occult and doom rock with a distinct gothic touch. The music video, created in collaboration with the artists from Zaćma Visual Studio and the Kraków-based dance group Morphos, visually captures the song’s intensity and mood.
Drowned in Silver is a new project formed by seasoned musicians from the black metal and experimental music scenes. Their music finds a unique balance between occult rock and trance-like expression, drawing inspiration from the spiritual intensity of artists like The Devil’s Blood, Dead Can Dance and Wardruna.
https://www.pagan-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/drownedinsilver
Milwaukee (WI) - One-man Cinematic Doom project, LIMINAL SPIRIT, will release full-length debut album, UNWELL, on October 31.
Unwell is the third presentation from Liminal Spirit, as told by Phillip, Jonathan, Madeline, C., E., and The Adjudicators over the course of five acts.
FFO: Jesu, Cynic, Confessor, Swans, Skepticism
Multi-instrumentalist/composer, Jerry Hauppa (Northless, Ara, Deorbit), had this to say about the forthcoming opus:
"I have a lot to say about what I've done with the album, but the main goal was an exploration of some of my biggest fears. I've worked in nursing homes and they are absolutely miserable places, and it is a tragedy that if we are lucky enough to live that long, that is where we will most likely end up. Losing control of my faculties, mental and physical decline, and the pondering of the unknown are all lingering fears overcasting my younger years, and I wanted to explore that musically, but also develop the idea of building sympathy for a character with dementia, only to find out that he is actually a monster who has done some horrific things despite not remembering them.
I wanted to tell a story showing that you are on the hook for your deeds no matter what- even if you can't remember them or if your mental decline has eroded away the part of you that is capable of heinous acts. I wanted the music to reflect the contemplation of a sick and addled person, and brought it together using microtonal guitars that provide an alien-sounding character to the music.
The music written for the record also is tied to the seeking of spiritual salvation referenced in the song 'Welcome to My World' from Jim Reeves, recorded in 1962 and presented here in the first track of the album as the character listens to it one last time for peace of mind. The melody for this song is manipulated repeatedly throughout the record as our main character, Phillip, seeks salvation despite the blight on his soul from acts he has forgotten, but unlike what is heard on the Jim Reeves song, those who can provide salvation do not take kindly to Phillip as judgment nears.
I hope those who listen are able to feel the themes expressed. It was a meaningful release to build and I am looking forward to the reception."
The album's title track is streaming now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeiBBqAmu9o as well as on https://liminalspirit.bandcamp.com/track/unwell
Track
Listing:
1. Admittance
2. Unwell
3. Visiting Day
4. EOLC
5. A Better Place
Pre-order Unwell: https://liminalspirit.bandcamp.com/album/unwell
Credits:
All music written, recorded, and mixed by Jerry Hauppa.
Role of Madeline peformed by Kaitlyn Menden.
Mastered by Jeff Wojtysiak at Spiritual Sound Mastering.
Liminal Spirit is:
Jerry Hauppa - Guitar, Bass, Drum Programming, Synthesizer, Vocoder, Violin
Bio:
Liminal Spirit is Jerry Hauppa's solo project. Prior to this, Hauppa was involved in sludge metal band Northless, death metal band Ara, and instrumental space-focused band, Deorbit.
https://www.facebook.com/people/Liminal-Spirit/61575618106702
Label: Ardua Music
Release date: october 24th 2025
Genre: Melodic Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Anathema | The Gathering | Tiamat | Ghostheart Nebula
As the sky shifts through its kaleidoscope of colours, gradually slipping into darker hues and the stars emerge from hiding, a dusting of distant diamonds across the velvet canopy, I sink down into the welcoming arms of sleep. I cross the bridge of dreams beneath the watching eyes of the moon and a journey, forgotten in daylight hours, begins anew…
Briefly existing as a full band in the early 2000s, producing one demo, Utopia: A Winternight’s Traveller in 2004, Ars Onirica was reborn as the solo project of Alessandro Sforza in 2018. Two superbly crafted albums of melodic doom/death – I: Cold and II: Lost – have established Ars Onirica as a name synonymous with imaginative, enthralling music and now the next chapter in this story of enchantment and revelation is about to begin. Despite, as its title suggests, being an interlude between albums, 2.5 Nighttime is a sublime work, rich in wonders and overflowing with magic, that is destined to become a treasured part of Ars Onirica’s unfolding discography. Opening track, ‘Dusk (An Ode To The Stars)’ entwines gently emotive vocals and guitars like whispered incantations to transport the listener to the deeply dreaming world of Ars Onirica, opening the gateway to the remarkable three part title track which forms the heart of this EP. ‘Nighttime Part I’ blossoms around you, all enveloping and lifts you, weightless, to the stars before the momentous weight and power of ‘Nighttime Part II (Your Silence Around Me) is unveiled. With vast chords and cascading notes leading into fiercely emotive harsh vocals alongside quiet, yet equally compelling clean vocals, the dream walks the boundaries between light and dark. ‘…Part III’ brings a sense of urgency and an almost blackened aura, but always juxtaposed with the warmth and beauty that run through this EP like unifying threads of gold. The contrasts and dynamics are stunning, yet smoothly blended, the shifts of scene as perfect as the changing scenarios of a dream. And finally, ‘Dawn’ provides a sweetly languorous awakening, the experiences of the hours of darkness drifting apart like gossamer threads as the sun rises, delivering a perfectly formed sense of conclusion and completeness. 2.5 Nighttime is a remarkable, immersive creation to be savoured and experienced again and again.
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Blue Ocean Recording Studio by Alessandro Sforza in partnership with Lorenzo Carlini of Black Therapy and Invernoir, who also worked on I:Cold and II: Lost, every nuance of 2.5 Nighttime’s layered and textured compositions can be fully appreciated. And with Disturbing Grace Design supplying one of those rare pieces of cover art that perfectly captures the spirit and soul of the music within, every contributing element has combined to make this release something truly special. Ardua Music will unveil 2.5 Nighttime on October 24th and the dream will begin once more.
Line-up:
Alessandro Sforza – All music and vocals
https://www.arduamusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ArsOnirica/
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse, Sanguisugabogg, Thy art is murder,Visions of Disorder & The Acacia Strain.
The EP will be released at a date TBA through Alien Swarm Records Singer/Guitarist Walt Fitzjurls describes the EP as, "Crushingly heavy melodic death metal with touches of hardcore breakdowns and prog metal moments."
The first single, 'The Beauty of Letting Go,' will drop on, 10/20/25 across most digital outlets.
Tracklist:
1: The Beauty of Letting Go – 4:29
2: Addicted To Death – 2:24
3: A Heavier Shade of Black - 3:00
4: The Burden – 2:58
The Burial Curse Is:
Walt Fitzjurls-lead vocals/guitar/bass
Matt Diko-vocals/lead guitar
Dustin Pynes-vocals/drums
Jim Gould-lights/samples/sound reinforcement/general mayhem
www.alienswarmrecords.com
www.facebook.com/p/The-Burial-Curse-61556091631811
Strix (Latin: owl) - according to Ovid, a mythical, sinister creature, appearing in the form of a bird with piercing eyes and curved talons, sucking blood and feeding on human entrails.
“Strix” – according to Malignant Voices, the third album by Krakow-based Owls Woods Graves, containing 10 tracks, is scheduled for release on CD, LP, and digital formats in October 2025. Left Hand Sounds presents a tour promoting “Strix”, starting November 20th and encompassing 11 Polish cities. OWG will be joined by Above Aurora and Garota. In 2026, the band will visit Heathen Strike Over Brno in Czech Republic and A Thousand Lost Civilizations in Belgium, with further European dates to be confirmed.
Owls Woods Graves - an entity conceived by The Fall & E.V.T. in 2015 (both ex-Medico Peste, Mgła (live) and plenty others), stories inspired by witches, woods, the Devil & his apprentices wrapped into blackened punk, simply haunted woods hardcore.
Live in 2026:
Heathen Strike Over Brno, CZ
A Thousand Lost Civilizations, BE
Tracklist:
1. They Come Again
2. The Aura of Knives
3. The Flag Is Raised
4. Not Entirely Human
5. Anarcho-Occultism
6. The Cliff Dance
7. Nightshifts
8. Black Flame In Our Hearts
9. Say No To Heaven
10. Winged They Come
http://www.malignantvoices.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MalignantVoicesProductions/
Avant-garde progressive black/death metal project NERVOUS has dropped an intense new guitar playthrough for “HEAVY IS THE HEAD THAT WEARS AN IMAGINARY CROWN”, taken from the album ACQUIESCENCE (out now via Wormholedeath).
Aaron Ciesielski, the creative force behind NERVOUS, blends precision and chaos with unnerving control, twisting dissonant motifs, unpredictable modulations into something that feels both calculated and unhinged. His playing moves from cold technicality to expressive turbulence, showing the kind of fretboard command that turns theory into atmosphere.
Ciesielski describes the piece as “deliberately dissonant and chaotic, but still relatively accessible,” a reflection of his broader vision for Acquiescence — a record that merges black and death metal extremity with avant-garde composition and classical nuance.
Stream "Acquiescence" here: https://orcd.co/acquiescence
CD Release: October 27, 2025
Previous videos: https://youtu.be/3k6IAp8j5Vg https://youtu.be/9iBBvcXuq6g
www.youtube.com/@NervousProject
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And guess what... they're on the ballot !!
"Bloodstorm" has officially been submitted for "Best Metal Performance" at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards...!!!
Thank you ALL for listening to our music! Whatever the result, let's enjoy this! We're all in this together !” – say the bandmembers.
"Bloodstorm" is pure energy, a tribute to what we love, a 'salute' to the heavy metal music of the 80s with a modern approach.
Guest musicians: George Simeonidis (vocals - Sarissa/Long Live), Mike Wead (solo - King Diamond/Mercyful Fate).
Listen to the song here (Spotify):
For the YouTube users: https://youtu.be/7BUdH3Gr9JI?si=bmyH2JucOKRxHF2f
DEPRESSION
- 'DAS MONUMENT'
Hello Folks, Pre-sales for the 35-years-jubilee Double-CD"Das Monument" by DEPRESSION are now open!
With many great new tracks as well as newly recorded and previously unreleased material, plus cover songs, a guest appearance by Dany from mighty DEAD and a really great cover artwork by spanish artist Juanjo Castellano Rosado!
Groovy Death/Grind at it's best!Official release date: November 28, 2025!
DOUBLE ALBUM (D.D.R. 039) CONSISTING OF:
"Das Monument" (CD 1, songs 1-20)
"Eine Rückbesinnung II" (CD 2, songs 21-55)
PRE-ORDER CD: https://defyingdanger.de/shop/DEPRESSION-Das-Monument-DCD
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PRE-ORDER BUNDLE (CD and T-SHIRT): https://defyingdanger.de/.../Grind-Defying-Danger...
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BLACK RABBIT – “WARREN OF NECROSIS”
Format: Digital CD-EP / Physical CD-EP
Label: Independent Release
Tracklist:
01. Initium Finis
02. Apprehension
03. Null and Void
04. Insurrection…Liberation
Black Rabbit is a concept-driven death metal band from Apeldoorn that seamlessly interweaves brute force and aggression with profound themes and a compelling visual presentation.
The band consists of five musical forces with diverse influences, who together create a dynamic, ruthless but refined sound.
With energetic live shows full of theatrical visuals and an intense light spectacle, Black Rabbit takes their audience into a narrative world of darkness and mystery.
Black Rabbit made their first impact with the release of their debut EP and single in 2020, laying the foundation for their unfolding story of darkness and transformation. This path continued with the first full-length chapter of their legend: ‘Hypnosomnia’ (2023) — an album exploring the boundaries of consciousness and dream manipulation. Building upon that, ‘Chronolysis’(2025) delved deeper into the human psyche — a sensory descent into the horror of sleep paralysis. These releases elevated the band to new heights, leading to performances in renowned venues such as Patronaat, Iduna, and even the Brabanthallen, while sharing stages with giants like Baest, Vader, Exhorder, and Pestilence.
Where ‘Hypnosomnia’ and ‘Chronolysis’ unravelled the tactics and techniques of the entity known as Black Rabbit, their upcoming newest EP ‘Warren of Necrosis’ dives into his inception — revealing the sacrifice, betrayal, and blasphemous devotion that transformed man into myth.
Beyond the music, Black Rabbit manifests its concept through a complete artistic universe. Each release is accompanied by handcrafted artwork, stage design, and visual storytelling that deepen the immersion.
On stage, Black Rabbit embraces the role of prophets of the myth — cloaked in ritual garb, surrounded by candlelight and relics of their creation. Their performance is not merely a show, but a sermon; not entertainment, but invocation.
With ‘Warren of Necrosis’, Black Rabbit opens the gates to the beginning of its own legend — a descent into the roots of corruption, identity, and transcendence. It’s a record that does more than tell a story; it creates a world — one that breathes, mutates, and devours. Once you enter the Warren, there is no return…
BLACK RABBIT is:
Vocals: Nino Thomas
Guitar: Jelle Brekelmans
Guitar: Hidde Hofland
Drums: Koen van der Voet
Bassguitar: Thijs Mulder
https://blackrabbitofficial.com/
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialBlackRabbit
DEVASTROSITY – “EVISCERATING DESOLATION”
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: october 24th 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Brodequin | Putridity | Disgorge | Devangelic
All men are equal in the pit. As flesh and features dissolve and brittle bones crack and fracture, we all scream the same. Each river of blood runs together to form an intermingled crimson sea, where no status, stature, name or dream can be distinguished. As entrails fall to the floor from torn torsos they rush together like glistening serpents, gathering in some unspeakable, slippery orgy of alien pleasures. There is no dignity, no honour, when we come undone.
From Kediri in East Java, Indonesia come Devastrosity; a new venture into audio violence from a trio of musicians with a wealth of experience in the fertile Indonesian brutal death metal scene. Having introduced themselves with the limited edition Human Depravation demo last year, they are now ready to unleash the blood storm of their full length debut album – Eviscerating Desolation.
After an eerie, skin-crawling intro ‘Human Depravation’ casts the listener down into the depths of hell. Frantic drumming, massive riffs and utterly inhuman vocals, all delivered with wicked precision and evil intent; the band switching from face-peeling speed to a broken crawl through decaying corpses in the space between breaths. Despite the overwhelming onslaught of death and dismemberment, Eviscerating Desolation possesses an unnerving clarity to its sound – with the varied elements of sadistic savagery that imbue annihilating tracks like ‘Morbid Desires’ distinct and discernible. Every track on this relentless ride to oblivion is infused with an uncontrollable need to kill and Eviscerating Desolation delivers blow after sickening blow. ‘The Dealer Of Death’ is absolutely crushing, its rich, thick guitars breaking out into riffs that connect at a gut level and put a sick smile of contentment on your face. ‘Parasitic Epidemic’ is bewildering in its crazed rhythms and twisted riffs as it gnaws at the frayed edges of your sanity and finally we come to ‘Cadaveric Feast’, perhaps the most horrific track of all. This is a rabid gore-soaked nightmare to the bloody end, as Devastrosity try to ensure that there is no recognisable remnant of your body left before they depart.
Devastrosity have been welcomed into the deranged ranks of the Comatose Music army and Eviscerating Desolation will be discharged upon the world in a flood of bile and venom on October 24th, adorned in the eye-gouging artwork of Rudi GorgingSuicide (Avulsed, Devangelic, Gutrectomy etc). This is not for the curious, casual listener…this is brutal death metal at its disease ridden, corpse consuming, flesh-rending best. Intense to the last drop of blood.
Line-up:
Billy - Drums
Roby - Guitar/Bass
Ardian - Vocals
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/devastrosity
MEAT
5000 RECORDS
proudly presents the SPLIT CD 'SLAUGHTERHOUSE OF AGONY',
featuring two of the heaviest forces in underground death metal. GRIM
FATE and MANCUERDA each contribute three tracks, two
originals and one devastating cover (Autopsy and Celtic Frost, respectively),
for a total of six tracks of uncompromising, crushing metal.
GRIM FATE delivers their signature blend of suffocating riffs, relentless grooves, and pure old-school aggression, while MANCUERDA matches them with heavy, lompe death metal that hits hard and leaves a lasting impression. Together, the split captures the raw energy and brutality of underground death metal at its finest.
Kind regards, Greg / Meat 5000 Records
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https://meat5000records.com/
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions brings together two generations of Puerto Rican Death Metal who collide on the split release Putrid Sanctity!
First up on the chopping block is Necronemesis, who return to HPGD vomiting forth two blistering tracks of unforgiving Death Metal. Necronemesis present their most extreme material to date, following up on the 'Warfield Forever' EP released back in 2023.
Formed
in 2022, Gangrenesia is a slamming, brutal Death Metal band from Caguas, Puerto
Rico, and represents the island’s new wave of extreme underground brutality.
Making their HPGD debut, Gangrenesia blends crushing slam riffs with the raw
aggression of old-school Death Metal, with a sound that is grotesque,
relentless, and straight to the point.
Putrid Sanctity delivers bone-snapping breakdowns, guttural vocals, and fast-paced chaos for fans of Belphegor, Bodybox, Cannibal Corpse, Death, Dying Fetus, Immolation, Massacre, Mordax, Mortician, PeelingFlesh, Sanguisugabogg, Suffocation, and Snuffed On Sight.
Listen to the single "Seed" by Necronemesis at https://youtu.be/wBnDBfnPv8g
Listen to the single "Strangled By An Umbilical Cord" by Gangrenesia at https://youtu.be/uEQqLxonevc
Pre-order the CD for only $8 at http://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com/products/necronemesis-gangrenesia-putrid-sanctity-cd
Pre-order the Digital Download for only $4.44 at https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/album/putrid-sanctity
Tracklisting:
1. Necronemesis - Seed
2. Necronemesis - Depths
3. Gangrenesia - Strangled By An Umbilical Cord
4. Gangrenesia - Gargling Womb Infested Puss And Maggots
https://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com
Connecticut-based
trad-doom/psychedelic metal entity HARMOZEL returns with its
newest album, SONGS OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS. HARMOZEL was born
in the temples built by Elder, Candlemass, and Cirith Ungol. The band blends
bold experimentation and a Gregorian chant-inspired grandeur for a daring twist
on classic doom.
Featuring eight unique and haunting tracks, Songs of the Hungry Ghosts delivers furnace-forged riffs hammered into a kaleidoscope of blood and hallucinatory visions.
Songs of the Hungry Ghosts is out now. Order the album at https://harmozel.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-the-hungry-ghosts
Tracklisting:
1) Burning
2) Know Thyself
3) A Hero's Journey
4) The Fall Of Pistis Sophia
5) Tara Of The Liberating Knives
6) Thich Quang Duc
7) The Screams Of Dying Children
8) Jets Of Blood Coiling Up The Muddy Needle
All music and lyrics on Songs of the Hungry Ghosts were written and performed by Pat Jenkinson. The album was mixed at Primordial Sound Studios by Pat Jenkinson and mastered at Audiosiege Mastering.
https://www.facebook.com/HarmozelBand/
The band tracked both the LP and EP at Band Mother Recording with none other than Michael Sabatini (Attacker) behind the board. The final mastering touch came courtesy of legendary engineer Alan Douches (West West Side Music), whose resume reads like a metal hall of fame: Aerosmith, Obituary, Nile, The Ramones, Dying Fetus, and beyond
The digital album's release date is 17 October 2025, and the EP's release date is 14 November 2025.
Tracklist
1. Bastard Skull
2. After The Plague
3. Time is the Destroyer
4. Beyond The Fray
5. Iconoclast
6. The Last Death
7. Catch Kill Release
8. Chaos Order
Bonus Tracks:
9. More Dread
10. Impalement
11. Raw Nerve
Born from a chance reunion at a Mercyful Fate show in Brooklyn on November 13, 2022, Bastard Skull unites a crew of seasoned veterans with deep roots in the thrash underground. The spontaneous spark between John Blicharz (Annunanki, Blood Feast, Dusk) and Tom Lorenzo (Blood Feast, Without End) lit the fuse. Joined shortly after by George Kostadimas and Mark Mari (Sneak Attack), Bastard Skull formed like a sonic supernova, driven by decades of pure metal instinct.
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Aber diese Woche hat man dann endlich wieder Zeit gefunden, um sich mal wieder nen bissel was an leckerem unbekanntem Metalstoff einzuverleiben und seine „geistigen Ergüsse"aufs Papier zu bringen.
NECROMASS DESECRATION – “TUMBA / BLACK VOMIT 666 / HELLROT” ((LIVE SPLIT DVD)
MASTER OF CRUELTY - " MONUMENT OF THE FORSAKEN"(TAPE) HAMMER
HELLAVENGER – „ THE PRIMORDIAL FIRE“ (LP)
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„AURA DER DUNKELHEIT“ ist die
zweite Single Veröffentlichung aus XIV DARK CENTURIES’ kommendem
Werk „AUS URALTER ZEIT“. Während „Unendlichkeit“ noch tief im
Geist des Black Metal verwurzelt war, entfaltet sich hier ein anderer Pfad: Es
ertönt ein gewaltiges Werk welches am ehesten im Melodic Death Metal beheimatet
ist, durchsetzt von gelegentlichen Einflüssen des Power Metal. Die Band beweist
erneut ihre Kunst, über die engen Schranken der Genres hinauszuschreiten und
verschiedene Strömungen zu einem eigenständigen Klangbild zu verweben. Das Lied
pulsiert mit treibender Rhythmik, getragen von hymnischer Melodik, und offenbart
eine erhabene Klangweite, die zugleich wild und majestätisch wirkt. Auch
lyrisch setzen die Musiker ihre Reise ins Unbekannte gekonnt fort – hinaus ins
Unergründliche, in jene Sphären, die jenseits des Menschlichen liegen. Erzählt
wird die Geschichte einer uralten Wesenheit, älter als die Erde selbst, ein
Mysterium aus den Zeiten vor der Zeit, das nun aus finstrer Aura wieder
hervorstrebt.
Der Song „Unendlichkeit“ erscheint auf allen gängigen Streaming Portalen und auf der Bandcamp Seite der Band am Donnerstag dem 02.10.2025. Dazu wird am selben Tag um 19 Uhr ein entsprechendes Lyrik Video auf youtube veröffentlicht. https://youtu.be/d5QN7XYHMqE
Tracklist :
01 Aus den Nebeln der...
02 Unendlichkeit
03 Aura der Dunkelheit
04 Rachelust der Ewigkeit
05 Das Portal
06 Aus eiskaltem Nebel
07 Wo Flüche leis' geflüstert
08 In kalten Hallen
09 Was ewig liegt
10 Nahab
Das zugehörige neue Album „Aus uralter Zeit“ wird als Digi-Pack-CD, LP und als Download am 05.12.2025 veröffentlicht. Außerdem wird eine limitierte Auflage der CD in einer sehr, sehr aufwendigen Spezial Box Edition mit einigen Extras erhältlich sein. Lasst euch überraschen, dazu gibt es später mehr.
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Genre: Black Metal
Label: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 03.10.2025
FROSTED UNDERGROWTH, die 2016 mit ihrer exzellenten „Under Satans Sun“-EP erstmals auf sich aufmerksam machten, sind im Mai dieses Jahres zu Folter Records gestoßen. Wir sind stolz, nun mit „Unchained“ das verdammt großartige neue Album dieser Band aus NRW präsentieren zu können, die sich die Ehrung und Bewahrung traditionellen Black Metals auf die Fahnen geschrieben hat!
„Unchained“ besticht in seiner Kompromisslosigkeit, den Geist der Vergangenheit ins Heute zu transferieren. Es existieren keine symphonischen oder überbetont progressiven Ansätze auf „Unchained“ – es ist stattdessen eine pure, radikale, spielerisch äußerst geschickte Umsetzung dessen, was einst den nordischen Second-Wave-Black Metal ausmachte, angereichert mit einer subtilen melodischen Tiefe.
Dabei erzeugen FROSTED UNDERGROWTH in ihren oft rasenden, von abartig frostigen Vocals geprägten Kompositionen eine kalte und so abweisende wie – für die richtigen Leute – anziehende Intensität, die der eines wegweisenden Werkes wie Setherials „Nord“ gleichkommt.
FROSTED UNDERGROWTH ist für alle Beteiligten nicht allein eine Band, sondern auch eine Überzeugung, eine Lebenseinstellung. Zu ihren wichtigen Einflüssen zählen die frühen Celtic Frost, Pest (Swe), Gorgoroth, Nargaroth und Taake. Der Bandname symbolisiert dabei eine verborgene, dunkle Kraft, die den Wald sterben lässt, aber zugleich nährt. Er spielt damit auf das Böse und Zerstörerische im Menschen an, welches das Leben zerfrisst, aus dem aber gleichzeitig Kraft geschöpft werden kann.
Raise the Banner of Pure Black Metal!
Tracklist
1. Bloodshed in the Name of God - 6:05
2. Glacier on Permafrost - 4:55
3. Master's Dominion - 6:42
4. Mist of Plague - 5:52
5. Raven Pt. III - 4:54
6. Raise the Banner - 4:38
7. Nightsky Above the Dark Absence – 7:33
Total: 40:39
Line-up
White Wolf: Bass, Vocals (backing)
Deathroned: Vocals, Guitars
Melkor: Drums
Undead: Guitars
Kompositionen und Texte:
Frosted Undergrowth
Aufnahme, Mix und Master: Deathroned Production.
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Missouri metal band DEGRAVE are threatening the status quo with the release of their new album, METALITHIC. The band's fourth and most maniacal album boasts 9 unyielding tracks of pure, bullshit-free metal.
For fans of : Anthrax, D.R.I., Exodus, Motorhead, Municipal Waste, Obituary, Overkill, Pantera, Slayer, and Toxic Holocaust
Order the CD at https://degrave.bigcartel.com/
DEGRAVE will mark the release of Metalithic with a CD Release show at Rose Music Hall in Columbia, MO on Saturday, September 27. Support will come from Orphan Source and Soul Terminus. For tickets, visit https://rosemusichall.com/
Check out the official music video for the album's lead single, "Every Fucking Day." Watch now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czTuDBWILJ8
Tracklist:
1) Usurper of Flame
2) Sing the Body Electric
3) Every Fucking Day
4) Lockdown
5) Abort the Court
6) Living In A Smokescreen
7) Ignis Accendere
8) Burn Up the Sky
9) Death Is
Metalithic was produced by Chad Brown and DEGRAVE. The album was recorded by Conrad Hildebrand at Five Turn Production Studios, and mixed and mastered by John Breeden of Johnny DCat Entertainment.
Formed in 2016, DEGRAVE is an intense four-piece metal act schooled by metal masters of the past. The band showcases a highly-crafted musical skill with originality, and not accompanied by any pretentious attitude. Thrash or be thrashed!
Line-Up:
Clyde Daniels - Guitars, Vocals
Dylan Volmert - Guitars, Vocals
Isaiah "Cliff" Curtis - Bass
Caleb Bethel - Drums
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Seattle (WA) - Having recently released its explosive debut, HIGH RISK, HYPERSTRIKE is pleased to present the official video for album track, "LEAVING YOU AGAIN."
Click the following link to watch and listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuLjvIJyz8w
A high-octane collision of anthemic clean vocals, bone-crushing riffs, punk-fueled drum fire, and the razor edge of melodic death metal, Hyperstrike deliver danger with every track. This is metal built like an action movie soundtrack: explosive, relentless, and larger than life.
Purchase/Stream High Risk:
https://hyperstrikeband.bandcamp.com/album/high-risk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSfVWWbHNyQ
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/hyperstrike1/high-risk
Explosive. Relentless. Unstoppable. This is the soundtrack to chaos.
“Meltdown” — the core goes critical, and the blast is unstoppable.
“Leaving You Again” — love is a weapon… and heartbreak is the trigger.
“High Risk” — play the game, roll the dice… win it all, or lose your life.
“Shadowbound” — where the darkness hunts… and only the cursed survive.
“Warning Shot” — one bullet in the chamber… and mania in his eyes.
“Slug City” — neon streets, blood on the asphalt… nobody gets out alive.
“Steel Heart” — forged in fire, unbreakable, unstoppable.
“Slowman” — you can’t outrun fate… when death walks at your speed.
“King of the Slain” — one battlefield, one crown… and a throne of bones.
“Savage Sword” — sharpened for vengeance, raised for the final strike.
As if that weren't enough, Hyperstrike has released the demo for the official Hyperstrike video game! Play the game demo here https://hyperstrike.itch.io/hyperstrike-game-demo
while anticipating the album, just over the horizon.
High Risk.
No Risk. No Reward.
Track
Listing:
1. Meltdown
2. Leaving You Again
3. High Risk
4. Shadowbound
5. Warning Shot
6. Slug City
7. Steel Heart
8. Slowman
9. King of the Slain
10. Savage Sword
Credits:
Cover art - Mark Richards (Heavy Hand)
Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Ben “Chop Daddy” Bennett
Lyrics and music by Hyperstrike.
Logo by Dipayandas Arts.
Line-Up:
Ben (Chop Daddy) Bennett - Speed Chopper Bass
Adon (Brain Lord) Fanion - Maniacal Pyro Vocals
Ilya (Siberian Claw) Ignatov - Elite Assassin Shred Guitar
Josh (Goblin Hammer) Hoffman - Master Drum Blaster
Bio:
Born in the Blade, forged in chaos—Hyperstrike is Seattle's action metal war machine. Founded in 2024 by bass-slapping juggernaut Ben "Chop Daddy" Bennett, this band doesn’t play music; they drop sonic bombs. With a shadowy past tearing through thrash titans Warbringer and Bonded by Blood, and reigning as the "Lord of the Low End" in sci-fi shredders Xoth, Bennett knew exactly what kind of beast he was building. First, he wrangled in Ilya, the shredder known as "The Claw," an assassin with riffs sharper than steel. Then came Adon, the "Brain Lord"—a maniacal force spitting venomous truths, carrying the fire from his days in Ghost Ship Octavius and the twisted depths of Spiritual Suicide. Together, they built a soundtrack for the end of the world: songs about nuclear meltdowns, cage fighters, and kings of the slain.
The final weapon in their arsenal? Josh, a drum-detonating powerhouse known as "Goblin Hammer," whose percussive assault forged their chaos into a relentless onslaught. Hyperstrike is a raw, unfiltered force with hearts of steel and a taste for mania. No apologies. No survivors. Just unrelenting aggression. Brace for impact—because once the trigger drops, nothing will ever be the same.
Devoted Art Propaganda will handle the EU release of the debut full-length album from new experimental black metal entity, CAŁ●. Titled “LUDZIE BŁĄDZĄCY W NOCY”, the album is set for a casette release on 31 October 2025. Fiadh Productions will take care of the US version.
The band introduces a new and uncompromising voice while the album explores dark and unsettling sounds. Can the band's ethos be captured with the words: “In rapture, against unity, before the guards, it drips inwards, CAŁ●”?
Ahead of the album’s release, the band has unveiled two advance tracks from the album.
Listen to “Kole” i “Za nim” : https://callo.bandcamp.com/ https://youtu.be/XPImrz7KMyI
Tracklist:
1 Zanim Się stało
2 Poza granice
3 Niesen
4 Zanim Było
5 Ogrom Bytu
6 Kole
7 Za Nim
8 Na dnie popiołu
9 W Wszechbycie
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https://d-a-p.org/
https://callo.bandcamp.com/
Montreal (QC) - Canadian bruisers, DEADWOOD, have signed to Innerstrength Records! The band is set to release new EP, RITUALS OF A DYING LIGHT, on January 6, 2026.
A music video for the EP's first single,"Heretic," is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd3b7p4zTug
Deadwood uniquely blends death metal and hardcore to create a modern deathcore sound. Known for their heavy music and dark lyrics, their motto is "Make Deathcore Angry Again." The band aims to evoke terror and fear through their music, ensuring their performances are unforgettable.
Most importantly, the music of Deadwood caters to enthusiastic metalheads who crave pure brutality and violence.
The EP's second single, "Tales of Masscacre," is set to be unleashed with lethal intent on October 17.
Track
Listing:
1. Tales of Massacre
2. Heretic
3. Thirst for Blood
4. Whispers of Death
5. Echoes of the Fallen
Music and lyrics by Deadwood.
Recorded at EMNT studio January 2025.
Produced by Fred Element.
Mix and mastering by Fred Element.
Formed in the shadow of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Deadwood quickly carved out a place in the heavy scene with their dark, unrelenting sound. The lineup unites seasoned veterans: guitarist Fred (ex-The Plasmarifle, ex-Ion Dissonance), guitarist Stéphane (ex-Nova Spei, Iron Maiden tribute), drummer Charles (ex-Dismayd, Discovrey Through Tourment), and vocalist Derek, reuniting with Fred after a decade since their days in Malaga.
Drawing from the ferocity of Meshuggah, the brutality of Whitechapel, and the groove-driven power of Pantera, Deadwood delivers crushing riffs and haunting atmospheres steeped in true dark histories—from the Salem witch trials to the reign of Jack the Ripper.
Their catalog includes the EP Nemesis (2022), EP Inhuman (2023), and standout singles “Straightblade” (June 2023), “Djinn Pitts” (March 2024), and “Heretic” (April 2025). Known for their commanding live presence, Deadwood has toured Japan with Humanity's Last Breath and DVRK, stormed U.S. stages in 2025, opened twice for Born of Osiris in Montréal, and shook the grounds of Inkcarceration Festival 2025.
Currently on tour across Québec, Ontario, and New Brunswick, Deadwood is gearing up for their first European run in 2026 — bringing their brand of dark, murky heaviness to stages worldwide.
Line-up:
Fred Element - Guitars
Stephane Filion - Lead Guitars
Charles Etienne Lafrance - Drums
Derek Heynekemp - Vocals*
*Note: Vocals on the EP by Martin Demontigny.
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Wormholedeath
Records proudly welcomes CREMATE, the legendary Athens-based
death/thrash metal act, to their roster. The band is set to release their
much-anticipated EP READY TO FIGHT on November 7, 2025, marking
a fierce return that bridges their cult 1990s roots with a fresh, modern sonic
assault.
Formed in 1991 in Alimos, Athens by high school friends Christos (guitar/vocals) and Leonidas (drums), CREMATE quickly carved out a raw and aggressive niche blending death and thrash metal—drawing inspiration from titans like Kreator and Sodom. Their 1993 demo End of Time garnered international acclaim through critical reviews, radio play, and devoted underground support.
Following lineup changes and relentless live shows praised by Metal Hammer and other media, CREMATE released the 7" EP Enchanting Black Recess in 1995 via Dark Side Records. However, a full-length album never materialized as the band disbanded soon after.
In 2021, founder Christos reignited CREMATE alongside drummer George and longtime collaborator Akis Pastras (Dexter Ward, Damon Systema, Nightfall). Revisiting their seminal demo, Christos re-envisioned the material by infusing dark synthesized atmospheres, samples, and new arrangements that intensify the band’s signature 90s death/thrash fury.
The result is Ready To Fight, a 4-track EP embodying raw energy through a contemporary production lens. It features three reworked classics—“Another Pain Born” reborn as “Human,” “Die as You Lived” enhanced with haunting violin by Lusty Apricot—and the brand-new title track showcasing a blistering solo from Marios Iliopoulos (Nightrage). Recorded and mixed by Akis Pastras and mastered by George Nerantzis (Abbath, Rotting Christ, Gus G.), the EP delivers an uncompromising fusion of vintage aggression and modern dark textures.
Ready To Fight symbolizes CREMATE’s powerful rebirth, honoring their 1993 cult demo while boldly pushing forward. The EP is a must-listen for fans of authentic death/thrash metal with an atmospheric edge—heavy, relentless, and uniquely dynamic.
Tracklist
1. Die As You Lived
2. Human
3. Cerebral Pain
4. Ready To Fight
Line up:
Chris C: Vocals/Bass
Akis Pastras: Rhythm/Lead Guitars
The Goat: Drums
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DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present TYRANN’S amazing two album, DJÄVULENS MUSIK & BESATT, on CD format. Vinyl editions were released by Electric Assault Records.
The Swedish supergroup TYRANN is currently working on their third album, but in the meantime, both of their killer albums are finally available on cd! 2021 Djävulens Musik started their powergrab of the old school heavy metal scene and sophomore album Besatt (2023) cemented their position. Add selected, highly energetic live shows and you know why headbangers from far and away love this band. Extremely catchy, traditional heavy metal, always to the point rather than loosing themselves in too long song structures.
Line-up:
Jakob Ljungberg - Drums
Tobias Lindqvist - Vocals, Bass
Joseph Tholl - Guitars
From Stockholm, Sweden
Release date:
21st November
Release info:
CD with sticker and obi.
Tracklist
1 Djävulens Musik
2 DMFOOHMP
3 Brinn Med Mig
4 Den Andra Siden
5 Satanisk Majestat
6 Sodom
7 Undergang
8 Tyrann
9 Transylvanien
10 Face the Tyrant
11 Varje Sekund Och Andetag
12 Besatt
13 Omen
14 Knytna¨ve Fran Underjorden
15 Ingen Tid For Oss
16 Ra Energi
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DE PROFUNDIS – “THE GOSPEL OF ROT” (EP)
Label: Independent Release
Release date: october 1st 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Death | Morbid Angel | Immolation | Nocturnus
How we have fallen, how our empire has crumbled…our values and learning trampled into the dust as we kneel before altars to idiocy and greed. We offer prayers to the war machine, no longer abhorring the taking of life, but raging in our ignorance we fervently debate which lives are suitable for sacrifice and which children deserve no future. Truth has become a malleable property, no longer a definable absolute and manipulation is now an applauded art form. Our gods cradle missiles while we twitch in nervous anxiety, awaiting the latest incarnation of the hand held devices that consume our identity, our reason and our morality. We are naught but rot…
“The Gospel Of Rot is both a warning and a weapon – a sonic rebellion against the forces that seek to silence and subjugate. De Profundis offers not salvation but a wake-up call…”- De Profundis
Celebrating 20 years of death dealing and devastation, De Profundis have returned with a rejuvenated line-up and a brand new EP of stunning power and intensity. The Gospel Of Rot brings together four tracks of furious death metal and masterful musicianship into a manifesto of resistance against the empty vessels that rule us, dragging our civilisation into a mire of degradation. Beginning with ‘I: Corruption’ we are hit by a torrent of classic death metal that makes incursions into the realms of thrash and black metal, thriving in the fluid boundaries between the genres. New vocalist Stefano Bassi immediately makes his mark with deep, guttural tones of depth and substance and second new addition to the ranks, bassist Simon McAuliffe, is immediately noticeable too, punching through the mix, an intrinsic part of this new chapter for De Profundis. Despite the remarkable work this band have produced over the years, by the midpoint of second song, ‘II: Deception’ it’s a struggle not to immediately embrace The Gospel Of Rot as their finest work to date. On one level it’s direct, hard-hitting and straight between the eyes – on another there are so many subtle shifts, touches and nuances that set it apart from the rest of the field. The vocal delivery in ‘III: Indoctrination’ is imperious, the drumming overwhelming, the lead playing simply brilliant. Every progression, every passage, every scuttling spider-legged scale and formidable blast on this EP is just right, crafted to perfection. The Gospel Of Rot concludes with a raging cover of Sepultura’s classic ‘Subtraction’ and De Profundis have made it their own; sublimely executed it slots into place as an integral part of a magnificently engineered death metal machine. With incredible performances and incredible songs, De Profundis are back at the very top of their game.
Mixed and mastered by Matt Jones at Capsaarx Studios (Fury, Vanitas, Dakesis etc) The Gospel Of Rot sounds magnificent, with exquisite tones and a perfect balance between clarity and power. The final hallmarks of quality have been applied with the wonderful artwork of Pierre-Alain D. of 3mmi Design (Necrodeath, Scar Symmetry, The Crawling etc) and it’s hard to see how The Gospel Of Rot could have been any better. The fight back begins on October 1st!
“…the rot is everywhere — and it’s time to tear it down.”- De Profundis
Line-up:
Stefano Bassi - Vocals
Shoi Sen - Guitars
Paul Nazarkardeh - Guitars
Simon McAuliffe - Bass
Tom Atherton - Drums
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Finnish black metal -group MOURNIATY has already pricked ears with their first two single releases, Kyynelten Virta & All Your Lies, sung respectively in Finnish and English.
On the third and final single preceding the MUSTA MAA -debut album (to be released on 7th of November through Inverse Records), the band yet again refuses to bow down before anyone building places of worship, but will rather see them fall with their shrines.
Listen to 'Shrines' on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/mourniaty-shrines
"The song is about the downfall of different religions without singling out any specific one, song writer Karulainen states.
So you better watch the skies at nighttime, since the stars will shine like the eyes of the serpentine!"
Biography:
When you get fed up with Christianity and Paganism starts to arouse your interest, interesting things are often created. Sometimes this process needs an accelerant, which is exactly what happened when Karulainen and Metällinen found themselves to be merged in the same family tree. Now, what else would fresh, Finnish relatives do but make aggressive noises together? This gave an outlet for the music Karulainen had already been writing.
Finnish Mourniaty began its life as a smoldering project already in 2015. It burst into raging fire five years later, when situations in life permitted concentrating on music full-time. When bass player Tenho joined the group in 2022, Mourniaty finally became a real band instead of two men with backing tracks.
Karulainen describes Mourniaty’s music as black metal, which combines mid-tempo grooves and even symphonic arrangements combined with lyrics sung in both Finnish and English, which revolve around themes of Paganism and Anti-Christianity. The debut album, “Musta maa” (Black Earth), will be released thru Inverse records on digital platforms and in cd-format in November of 2025. What a perfect soundtrack for the darkest season of the year.
Listen to the first single 'Kyynelten virta': https://push.fm/fl/mourniaty-kyynelten-virta
Listen to the second single 'All Your Lies': https://push.fm/fl/mourniaty-lies
Mourniaty - Musta maa (Album 2025)
Track list:
01. Ajan saattama
02. Musta maa
03. All Your Lies
04. Aika Roudan
05. Shrines
06. Kyynelten virta
07. Seventh Seal
08. A Son of the Plague
09. Sodomia
10. Pyhä on valani
Line-up:
Metällinen - drums
Tenho - bass
Liekkiö - guitar
Karulainen - vocals & guitar
Mixed by Karulainen & Joona Rinne / Deep Noise Studios
Mastered by Saku Moilanen / Deep Noise Studios
Album cover by Karulainen
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Watch the video for "Hanging Tree": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2tYvYekTnw
According to Kathodos, “Hanging Tree” is the catchiest song on Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus. The track features a hidden lyrical concept meant to be discovered by only the most astute listeners. The idea was to create a surreal, dream-like atmosphere that brings the listener back to ancient times. The music video features the explosive second half of ‘Hanging Tree’. Some of the imagery in the video is taken from ‘La Vie et la Passion de Jesus Christ’, a French silent film from 1903. The film’s colors and religious nature fit the song perfectly. I am featured in the video to portray the lyrical orator while Lavinia enhanced it with her sultry dancing.”
Kathodos previously released a music video for the track “A Memory Dwindles…” (Spotify), which is a song about a person haunted by a horrifying memory of seeing a child falling off a rooftop and features footage from the 1920 silent film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
“Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” is meant to be experienced as a sequence of strange dreams. It comprises a listening journey of confusing, dark, beautiful, scary, comical, twisted, psychotic, and bizarre dreams. The album takes the listener on a dark and sometimes terrifying journey of strange voices, bizarre sounds, beautiful moments, maddening architecture, and intricate instrumentation. It is highly unique, making use of hypnotising drones, occult rituals, odd lyrics, and hidden meanings. Listeners will hear something new each time they play the album.
Kathodos, the man behind the project, conceptualised the band in 2019 as an "experiment in darkness". Having previously performed as a rock musician, he sought to create something darker. The album's atmosphere was conjured from the best fragments of his dreams and the worst fragments of his nightmares. The entire album was composed in the spring of 2021 after lying dormant for nearly two years. Following another period of latency, most of the instrumentation and vocals were recorded in the spring of 2022. A difficult period in late 2022 delayed the project until 2023, when the rest of the album was finally recorded. Lavinia was recruited in late 2023 to provide soprano, spoken word vocals, and guitar on a few tracks. Kathodos also produced, mixed, and mastered the album in late 2023 and early 2024. After gaining a strong following from the few people who happened upon the initial release, Kathodos signed with Rune Serpent Europa in 2025 to reach a wider audience.
Kathodos is a studio-only project and does not perform live. A second album is currently in the works. The band has also appeared on two official compilations released by Rune Serpent Europa: Laibach Tribut - Schlecht Und Ironisch, for which Kathodos covered the Laibach song "White Law" and Saturno Butto tribute “The Five Senses”, contributing the track "Death & Rebirth".
Pre-order the CD version of “Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” via The Circle Music (worldwide distributor for this release): https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/distributed-stuff/?filter_artist-name=kathodos
Kathodos’ “Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” is recommended for fans of Nurse With Wound, Coil and Current 93.
Tracklist:
1. Phantom of the Throne Room
2. A Memory Dwindles…
3. …Window
4. The Dark Priests
5. Hanging Tree
6. Message Sent to Earth
Kathodos are:
Kathodos – all instrumentation, vocals, lyrics, sounds, composition, production, mixing and mastering
except:
Lavinia - soprano, spoken word and guitar
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Hi
everybody,Petr from PARAT PRODUCTIONS, Czech Republic, here. On Tuesday, September 23, we commemorated the sad anniversary of the passing of
René Krystyn, known as Fusaty, founder, guitarist, and singer of Czech
death/doom legend DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY, who left this world
involuntarily in 2013 at the age of only 39.
After the death of my great friend, I am trying to keep his musical legacy "alive" and spread it to music collectors around the world by re-releasing his band's recordings.
Symbolically, on the occasion of this sad anniversary, I am bringing news to the metal world that on January 30, 2026, Pařát Productions will release a vinyl version of DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY's last studio song from 2010. "ZLODEJSKÁ SVETELKA" was first released on a separate CD on May 11 this year, so as a fan and collector, I see the LP version as another (necessary) step.
The CD "Zlodejska svetelka" can still be ordered from the Pařátshop . Over 3/4 of the print run has already been sold out. The bigotry CD "Step To The Grave", released in April 2023 on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the band's recording, which preceded the formation of DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY, is nearing complete sell-out. Approximately 20 copies remain in stock. It can be ordered at Pařátshop .
What will the LP "Zlodějská světélka" look like? Why the symbolic date of January 30, 2026? And what other DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY re-edition will be released by Pařát Productions on that day? We'll talk about that in November .
Listen to the recording on YouTube channel Pařát Productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJKrFppXUrk
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The
Brazilian Heavy Metal band, MORTTICIA, has released the
single "MISTAKES", the first power ballad of their
career, bringing deep reflections on the mistakes we make throughout life and
how they shape our path toward the inevitable end, giving meaning and purpose
to existence. "After all, if from birth to death everything went right and
we only did what was expected of us, our life would be nothing more than the
flight of a bird with the predictable trajectory from the nest to the
grave," highlights the band.
Listen to "Mistakes" on all streaming platforms or via the link below: https://open.spotify.com/intl-pt/track/6jtLp2GtJpI7TPMvfNUf9J?si=ffa3e84bc4a141a8
About the composition, the band also comments: "It is a song in which we carefully worked on the melodies to create one of those addictive ballads like those of Helloween or Angra. For the first time, we worked with an arranger for the keyboards, and this elevated the instrumental to another level."
Founded in 2010 in the Brazilian city of Alegrete-RS, Mortticia moved in 2012 to Porto Alegre-RS and became one of the Brazilian exponents of the New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal (N.W.O.T.H.M.), a movement that has been gaining strength on the global scene by revitalizing the classic sound of the genre with a more modern and sophisticated approach, without straying from its essence. The band’s discography includes several singles, an EP released physically on CD and cassette tape by labels in Romania and Brazil, and now they are preparing to present their long-awaited debut album.
The current lineup of Mortticia features Lucas Zawacki on vocals, Lucio Brenner on rhythm guitar, Gustavo Galho on lead guitar, Guilherme Hoppen on bass, and Doug Mansur on drums.
"Mistakes" was produced by renowned music producer Renato Osorio, former member of Hibria, and features the participation of Rafael Kurai in the keyboard arrangements. The cover art, signed by artist Gus Bringel, visually translates the essence of the song by bringing together elements such as the bird, the cemetery, and the figure of Mortticia, in a composition marked by colors and strokes reminiscent of the classic albums of the 80s and 90s. The promotional photography is by José Florêncio.
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
http://www.linktr.ee/mortticia.metal
Augustus Omnipotens is a conceptual journey through the rise of Octavian, later Augustus, the first Emperor of Rome. Each track captures a key moment in his path: from avenging Julius Caesar’s death, through political alliances and brutal battles, to the final triumph of peace under the Pax Romana. The lyrics weave together history, mythology, and personal legacy, portraying Augustus not only as a ruler but as a symbol of transformation, from civil war and betrayal to order and empire. It’s an album about power, fate, and the price of immortality.
Driven by a visceral blend of blackened death metal, the music amplifies the narrative’s intensity: ferocious riffs embody the chaos of war, thunderous drums echo the march of legions, and sinister growls summon the weight of fate and bloodshed. In Augustus Omnipotens, music and lyrics merge into a monumental opus, where history is not only told but felt.
Tracklist
01 – In Aeternam
02 – Octavianus
03 – Caesar Divi Filius
04 – Gladium Stringere
05 – Triuvirat
06 – Dura Lex Sed Lex
07 – Mortem Proditorum
08 – Mylae Invicta
09 – Dedecus Magni Lepidi
10 – Ultimum Bellum
11 – Pax Romana
About DEOS:
Formed in 2014 by Fabio Battistella, Jack Graved, and Loïc Depauwe, DEOS have built a reputation for combining the ferocity of extreme metal with a passion for Ancient Rome that extends through their lyrics, artwork, and stagecraft. Their debut Ghosts of the Empire arrived in 2015, followed by In Nomine Romae in 2017 and extensive touring across France, Switzerland, and beyond. In 2021 they began work on their third record Furor Belli, mastered by J.-F. Dagenais (Kataklysm, Ex Deo) and released in 2022 via Wormholedeath, which led to the North Imperial Tour MMXXII. Over the past years they have continued to spread their vision of Roman metal across Europe, including London’s legendary Cart & Horses.
Now, with Augustus Omnipotens, DEOS take their concept further than ever before. Recorded between autumn 2024 and spring 2025 and once again mastered by Dagenais, the album is both a celebration of Rome’s past and a declaration of the band’s future.
DEOS are:
Jack “Janus” Graved (bass, vocals)
Fabio Battistella (guitar, backing vocals)
Cédric “Cedd” Boehm (guitar, backing vocals)
Loïc Depauwe (drums).
www.youtube.com/@deos-official9793/
www.facebook.com/deos.legio
SPEEDCLAW are a Croatian metal band that have been delivering raw heavy metal since 2015. First came the aptly titled Iron Speed EP in 2016, and the Beast in the Mist EP followed the next year. Between the two short-lengths, SPEEDCLAW wielded exuberant-yet-reverent steel of early ‘80s vintage, an era when the NWOBHM was in full steam and speed metal was in its nascent days. The uptick in professionalism and POWER from one EP to the next certainly heightened expectations for what the Croatians could do on a full-length.
At last here, Stardust is that full-length, and SPEEDCLAW show everything – and MORE – they’re capable of. Taking all the electricity and excitement of those two EPs and amplifying ‘em with a certain starpower, Stardust is indeed aptly titled. That aforementioned uptick in power & professionalism play out to its fullest extent across this eight-song / 33-minute stick of dynamite, all whilst retaining SPEEDCLAW’s early edge. Stardust is actually a semi-conceptual album: four of the eight tracks are thematically connected, forming a narrative, while the remaining songs stand independently. The conceptual “Night Side” features four songs that tell a story inspired by the band’s life on the road and everything that comes with it.
Keeping their original sound but just ramping it up – truly, you can imagine the band slaying huge stages to this – on Stardust do SPEEDCLAW dependably deliver melodic, bursting-at-the-seams riffs and an authentically old-school flair, still heavily rooted in classic heavy metal traditions but with a raw edge that reflects their own identity. Just clear enough, never overdriven by crunch, and with an ancient earthiness, Stardust was recorded at the GIS studio in Croatia by none other than Let 3's Matej Zec, a well-established Croatian musician. Mixing and mastering were done by Enforcer's Olof Wikstrand, who also makes an appearance on one of the songs on the album. Get showered in Stardust and prepare to be ensnared by SPEEDCLAW!
Line-up:
Dorian Perušic - Drums
Luka Hrelja - Guitars
Luka Jurišic - Guitars
Silvano Cosic - Vocals, Bass
From Rijeka, Croatia
Artwork:
Velio Josto
Release date:
21st November
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on blue vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi
Tracklist
1 Tonight
2 Allnighter
3 Queen of the Night
4 Nightwatch
5 Fly Hight
6 Crystal Light
7 White Town Rider
8 The Curse Never Dies
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
IRREPARABLE-„ THE FATE OF ALL LIFE”
Melbourne, Australia-based IRREPARABLE are set to release their new album, “The Fate Of All Life”, on October 17th via These Hands Melt. This introspective and emotional musical canvas sees the band weaving together industrial black metal, goth and darkwave to create a sound that is both haunting and cathartic.
The album is a monument to the reality of the human condition, exploring themes of cyclical suffering and death. IRREPARABLE has expertly laid the foundations of a personal apocalypse, aptly titled “The Fate Of All Life”, which is reflected in their poignant quote: “We rise to the sky from the sea, only to come pouring down”.
The new album will be available as a limited edition CD Digipack and a limited Vinyl LP (150 copies) in red transparent, as well as on all major digital platforms.
In support of the album, the band released a lyric video to the track "Failure to Thrive" with a music video for the lead single "Forever Remain" coming on 1 October. The band will celebrate the release of the “The Fate Of All Life” at The Leadbeater, Richmond, VIC (Australia) with Burden Man, The Nihilistic Front and Nighteyes on November 29th.
Tracklist:
1. Revelations
2. Upon Malignant Shores
3. Forever Remain
4. Exposed
5. Failure to Thrive
6. 140283
7. Death in a Time Capsule
IRREPARABLE are:
D.B. - Guitar, Electronics
N.M. - Vocals
M.B. - Bass
Album credits:
All Music by D.B.
All Lyrics by N.M.
Guest vocals on “Exposed” & “Death In A Time Capsule”
by Carline Van Roos
Violin on “Forever Remain” written and performed by Hayley Anderson
Additional vocal harmonies on “Death In A Time Capsule” by D.B.
Recorded and mixed by D.B.
Mastered by Dav Byrne at Iridium Audio
Artwork by Promathiart
Design and Layout by Tryfar x These Hands Melt
https://thesehandsmelt.shop/
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https://www.facebook.com/irreparable2019
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions is set to release the new album from Wyoming's vicious Death Metal/Grindcore/Thrash act VIOLENT TESTIMONY. AGGRAVATE is now available for pre-order and will be released on October 17th in CD and Digital formats, along with merchandise.
For fans of: Napalm Death, Insect Warfare, Terrorizer, Wormrot, Blood Duster, Exhumed, Extreme Noise Terror, Nails, Birdflesh and Impaled Nazarene
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcomes Violent Testimony to the roster with the new album Aggravate! Residing in the barren wastelands of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Violent Testimony has brought a devastating combination of Grind/Death/Thrash to the Rocky Mountain region since 2022. Aggravate is all gas and no breaks, ripping through 21 crushing tracks in less than 26 minutes and delivering the aggressive, rowdy energy Violent Testimony has become known for in their scene.
Listen to the single "Psychotic Episode" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZh8Np4LGyY
Tracklisting:
1. God Complex Massacre
2. Piss Vomit Acid Corrosion
3. Isolation Torture
4. Perpetual Self-Execution
5. Cognitive Behavioral Restructuring
6. Flashbang Celebration
7. Mass Hysteria
8. Coercive Doctrines
9. Psychotic Episode
10. Left To Rot
11. Death Sentence Serenade
12. Insectual Penetration
13. Rider In The Night
14. Counterfeit
15. Obligatory Manifestation Of Infinite Grind
16. Aggravating Circumstances
17. Algorithmic Witch Hunt
18. Idiocracy Of Daily Life
19. S.O.W.
20. DrinkFightFuck (Blood Duster Cover)
21. Hit N' Run
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
It was but 2021 when FATE’S HAND quietly emerged with their self-titled debut EP. Downplaying their membership, the Australians nevertheless possessed a wealth of veteran experience, with members hailing from such heavyweights as StarGazer and Mongrels Cross among others. As FATE’S HAND, they deftly drew from the primordial well of Northern lore and attacked in a savage foray of traditionalist heavy metal. In a word, Fate’s Hand was both old and new, surprising and unsurpassed.
Now flexing those same muscles across a full-length, FATE’S HAND at last arrive with their debut album, almost-too-perfectly titled Steel, Fire and Ice. With swords drawn and teeth bared, on Steel, Fire and Ice do FATE’S HAND sing an ode to victories on the physical and metaphysical battlefield. Whereas the Aussies’ debut EP totaled four songs, their debut album doubles that; as such, it more boldly and brazenly displays the full fathom of their powers and prowess. And like that EP, on Steel, Fire and Ice does visceral melody grasp tightly on the spear of classic heavy metal, hearkening to the genre’s progenitors and – in the same breath – taunting, daring the very same gods. Bloodied but unbowed, FATE’S HAND’s songwriting goes to more epic lengths whilst remaining urgent and impassioned, stoicism and bravado colliding headlong for a timeless sturm and drang that engages ever more as the album plays on to its penultimate conclusion. High drama as heavy metal, still surprising and unsurpassed!
FATE’S HAND keep the torch lit for fans of Judas Priest, King Diamond, Destruction, and Bathory. Turn the lights down and play it loud – glory to the brave with Steel, Fire and Ice!
Line-up:
Denimal - Battle Hymns
Gjoll - Iron Age Axe
Conscripts:
Artillery - Jarl Earl.
Additional sorcery and spellcasting - Rotten
From Australia
Tracklist
01 THE QUEST SPIRIT
02 FOUNT OF ALL WATERS
03 WOVEN IN SPACE AND TIME
404 IN THE DRAUGR DEEPS
05 FIRE REIGNS ONCE MORE
06 STARFORGER
07 THE COSMIC ASH
08 STALLION OF SKY AND SEAS
Artwork:
Paolo Girardi
Release date:
21st November
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on grey vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Label: Apocalyptic Witchcraft
Release date: november 28th 2025
Genre: Occult Black Metal
For fans of: Akercocke | Shining | Acherontas | Forgotten Tomb
It seems that every step you have taken, every choice you have made has led you to this place. You have fled from it, appalled by what you can sense within, but no matter where you run you find it waiting…an impossibility that can never be found, yet never left behind. In resignation…or is that anticipation now, lurking in the blackest corners of your heart…you turn and walk towards the crimson door, beneath his heavy gaze.
Formed in 2012 in the UK’s West Midlands, Suffering are exponents of occult black metal, conjurers of fevered nightmares and invokers of darkness and madness. Their music draws upon the oppressive weight of soul crushing doom and the violent fervour of the blackest metal, bringing them together in an elixir of spirit staining, mind warping venom. Their first arcane offering was the 2018 album, 11, which was followed by two EPs – Temen-Ni-Gru (11:11) in 2022 and last year’s Symphonies: Diabolis. Now, newly signed to Apocalyptic Witchcraft – a label which band front man Sturmgeist Fornicator Insultus describes as one that “…supports, encourages and thrives on pushing the boundaries within extreme music…” – they are ready to unveil their second full length album, their most enthralling and disturbing work to date, Things Seen But Always Hidden.
Notes of dread, enticement and sorrow emerge from the storm and lead you away from all you know and all you understand as first track, ‘The House With The Red Door’ begins. And once your disorientation and dislocation is complete it erupts into furious violence and intimidating domination. Walls of haunting, unnerving blackness close around you, fear rises from the gloom like mist and shadowed shapes seem to move within the enveloping sound. Each track bleeds into the next as Things Seen But Always Hidden progresses, an unbroken journey into the unknown. ‘The Chamber Of Breathtaking Delights’ ensnares you in a conflict of desolation and ecstasy, a dying of conscience and birthing of consuming depravation. Dark, doomed riffs providing a funeral procession for the self you once knew. Songs rise like unholy entities from the album’s fever dream torrent…the aching ritual, ineffable darkness and oppressive weight of ‘Consorting With The Devil’, ‘Apocrypha Through The Keyhole’s ragged, bloody conjuration – dust in the mouth and rust on the blade, its inescapable atmosphere a lament and glorification entwined. At the last, ‘Behind The Green Door’ brings together intensity and power, insistent rhythms, dread pronouncements and desolate melodies. Monolithic marches and ritualistic immolation, agony and remaking before a final release into an eternal screaming nightmare…
“The darkness and truth that lies within is far beyond what we had imagined possible. But remember, things are not always what they seem and some things are right in front of your face.”- Suffering
The way to Things Seen But Always Hidden will be revealed by Apocalyptic Witchcraft on November 28th. But remember, once you have set foot on this path there is no way back…
Line-up:
Sturmgeist Fornicator Insultus - Vocals
Aýdlig - Guitars
Malleus - Drums
Inquinatus - Bass
https://apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/apocalypticwitchcraftrecordings
https://www.facebook.com/Suffering.ukmetal/
Excerpt - "undeniably fast and violent, but it’s also both monstrously alien and wickedly addictive"
DEMIURGON - “MIASMATIC DEATHLESS CHAMBER”
Genre: Death metal with
brutal and tech elements
For fans of: Hate Eternal, Origin, Depravity, Carnophage, Diabolizer, Unmerciful, Hideous Divinity,
Arborescence of Wrath
Demiurgon whip up a storm almost literally with their kind of ferocious, unbridled death metal. Hurtling towards the listener at ridiculous speeds, it stirs up a variety of emotions usually of the violent kind. Mostly though, there is sheer trepidation listening to the forceful nature of their music, and strangely, at the same time an innate sense of awe witnessing the control they have over the entire catastrophic event. Having over a decade of experience, they have cultivated the art of channeling the raw energy into writing satisfyingly long compositions marked with numerous variations and coming with up incessantly buzzing, catchy and memorable albeit inevitably head-imploding riffs. After all, this is pure death metal on steroids, fanned by brutal and technical doses to attain monstrous proportions. It's the kind of music a death metal fan can't dislike - it's simply dialled up to a fiery level here, backed by years of songwriting expertise and delivered like a punch to the face.
Line up
Stefano Borciani - Voice
Emanuele Otani - Guitars
Dani Benincasa - Guitars
Riccardo Benedini - Bass
Riccardo Valent - Drums
Artwork by Giannis Nakos / Remedy Art Design
Track listing
1. Worldwide Grave
2. The Era of Defiance
3. Aspiring to Omnipotence
4. Miasmatic Deathless Chamber
5. Flashforward to the End
6. Throne of Derangement
7. Apoptosi
Release date - September 19th, 2025
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https://www.facebook.com/Demiurgon
Thanks a lot for your support everyone! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
DAWN
OF A DARK AGE are
finally ready to unveil some of the main aspects of their new album "VER
SACRUM". It will be released on December 12th, via My Kingdom
Music in digipakCD, LP and deluxe edition and here we present the amazing cover
artwork created by Norwegian photographer Kjetil Karlsen - https://www.instagram.com/kjetil.karlsen.foto
Here is the complete tracklist with the titles of the 4 jewels present in "Ver Sacrum":
1. Il Voto Infranto (L'Ira Di Mamerte)
2. Il Consiglio Degli Anziani (L'Oracolo)
3. Il Rito Della Consacrazione
4. Venti Anni Dopo: La Partenza (Nascita Della Nazione Sannita)
The album sees the presence of a new singer, Ignazio Cuga, aka Brusiòre, of the Sardinian Folkish Black Metal band KRE'U and this will permit the album to be brought on stage for the first time for the band with exclusive live shows programmed for December.
Musically, it is even darker and more sinister, with truly ancient atmospheres that leave an indelible mark on this work.
The theme once again harks back to the Samnites, and in particular to the so-called Sacred Spring (Ver Sacrum in Latin), a social and religious ritual common in pre-Roman times.
So, we just have to wait; extreme music, folk music and jazz will once again blend together in a balance, capable of telling stories of times gone by in an absolutely unique and precious way.
Pre-order: Dawn Of A Dark Age -"Ver Sacrum" at: https://t.ly/N8-LW
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
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Greek
melodic death metal force FLAMECORE presents the
official music video for “ONLY WASTE REMAINS”, taken
from their forthcoming self-titled debut album, FLAMECORE,
due for release on October 24th, 2025 through Wormholedeath.
Dark, heavy, and straight to the point, “Only Waste Remains” shows Flamecore at full force. The track blends speed and precision with a crushing breakdown and raw, aggressive vocals—creating a wall of sound that feels both epic and unrelenting. Lyrically, it explores ruin, time, and defiance: a portrait of empires collapsing and voices fading into dust.
About:
Formed by Stathis Lianos and Leonidas Viglakis, the Greek melodic death metal band Flamecore emerged from a collaborative spark between Chania and Athens. Their journey began with a single riff, which grew into the track "Plains of Nameck."
This initial creative success led to their self-titled debut album, released in February 2025. With a lineup solidified by the additions of Panagiotis Tsopelas and Akis Blazakis, Flamecore brought their vision of extreme, melodic metal to life. Following the album's release and a series of live shows, the band is now focused on promoting their work with new bassist Panagiotis Mousouras while composing their next chapter.
Pre-save Flamecore: https://orcd.co/flamecore
Planes of Nameck: https://youtu.be/k2UZLvR4r74
Line-up
Akis Mplazakis – Vocals
Stathis Lianos – Rhythm and lead guitars
Panagiotis Tsopelas – Rhythm guitars
Panagiotis Mousouras – Bass
Leonidas Viglakis – Drums
www.youtube.com/@Flamecoreband
www.facebook.com/Flamecoreband
Label:
Independent
Release
Release date: october 2nd 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Bolt Thrower | Sodom | Slayer | Obituary
Formed in Hyderabad, Telangana, India in 2017 Warmarshal bring together the malevolent sounds of the early death metal masters and the furious adrenaline of the darkest extremes of thrash to produce a heady, high impact cocktail of extreme metal. Their debut release, the formidable …To Regain Lost Glory EP was unleashed by Slaytanic Records in 2018, a war torn collection of songs that brought the band to the attention of respected webzines like VM-Underground and saw them perform internationally in Sri Lanka in 2019, Dubai in 2024 and locally at Death over Decaan - an event organized by DethFest which has hosted international acts like Fountainhead and top Indian extreme metal acts like Gutslit and Kill The King. A single, ‘Shell-Shocked’, followed in 2024 and now the band a ready to release a new two-track single, that highlights their ever increasing power and sonic intensity – ‘The Diseased’!
After opening in a barrage of huge chords like rumbling heavy artillery ‘The Diseased’ delivers a furious attack, like a virulent poison burning through your veins. Vicious riffs are delivered with sniper-like precision over wild vocals that howl on the cusp of madness, while an overwhelming drum battery, a force of nature, decimates and devastates all in its path. The blend of raw, rampaging chaos and accomplished musicianship proves an explosive mixture and gives Warmarshal the character and unique identity to escape the long shadows of their influences and inspirations. Lyrically, ‘The Diseased’ is an excoriating assault on the hypocrisy of organised religion and the weaponizing of people’s faith and fears. Warmarshal take a stand against the rising tide of extremism and open fire on the manipulators and despots who engender division and inflame hatred for their own personal gain.
‘The Diseased’ is backed by an instrumental version of the same song and despite the strength of the lyrical message it really works – providing a rewarding listen. Full of different parts and shifting tempos, along with a melodic and superbly constructed solo, ‘The Diseased’ hits hard even without the primal violence of the vocal parts. Multifaceted and ferociously intense this song, in both its incarnations, shows all too clearly the monstrous force and venom that Warmarshal now possess.
Mixed and mastered by renowned German guitarist Tom ‘Fountainhead’ Geldschläger, who has performed with the likes of Belphegor, Defeated Sanity and Obscura, ‘The Diseased’ sounds absolutely incendiary. Accompanied by a superb video the single will be released on October 2nd and the name of Warmarshal will spread through the metal underground like wildfire.
Current Line up:
Akaash Kishore - Drums
Tahan Chen aka Hubert - Bass
Soumick Chakraborty - Guitars/Vocals
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRNs6WEUa8iB_gYiVe8gE1A
https://www.facebook.com/warmarshalindia/
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No Masks Left Standing: SCREAMS OF TRANQUILITY Deliver a Cold Reckoning from the Austrian Alp .
For fans of : Death, Obituary, and Morbid Angel, A Borrowed Name delivers a cold, unforgiving reckoning, a reminder that some masks don’t fall… they rot.
Forged in the cold isolation of the Austrian Alps, Screams Of Tranquility return with “A BORROWED NAME,” a merciless melodic death metal strike that refuses abstraction, comfort, or emotional escape routes. This is not a song built on metaphor or melancholy, it is a confrontation, sharp-edged and deliberate, aimed straight at betrayal, self-deception, and the quiet cowardice of avoiding truth.
Driven by razor-cut melodic death metal riffs, crushing rhythmic weight, and icy atmospheric layers, A Borrowed Name balances brutality with surgical precision. The guitars tear through the mix with controlled violence, while the vocals arrive like a verdict, accusatory, unflinching, and stripped of sentimentality. There is no release here, no false sense of healing, only clarity.
Lyrically,
the track dismantles hollow identities and borrowed masks. It targets those who
chase validation, dodge accountability, and replace honesty with beautifully
wrapped lies. The recurring line “Never been more than a borrowed name” becomes
both accusation and epitaph, the collapse of a persona built entirely on
denial.Where previous material like Crimson Hallows leaned into symbolism and deeper lore, A Borrowed Name stands as Screams Of Tranquility’s most direct and human statement to date. Raw, personal, and intentionally uncomfortable, the song exposes what happens when silence is chosen over truth and comfort is valued over consequence.
This is melodic death metal without romanticism or safe distance.
No mercy for self-deception.
No refuge in silence.
Biography
"Screams Of Tranquility" stands as the dynamic brainchild led by the gifted Marc P. Prohaska, a 29-year-old musician based in the idyllic foothills of the Austrian Alps in Upper Austria. This captivating project delves deep into the narratives of a society marred by excess, laying bare its hypocrisies, collective folly, and the gradual erosion of humanity.
Marc's musical palette is a vibrant fusion of influences, melding Scandinavian melodic death, American thrash, and hints of black metal. With deft craftsmanship, he intertwines pulsating rhythms and intricate orchestrations, weaving a spellbinding tapestry of sound.
From his beginnings as a musician at the age of 18, Marc has explored diverse musical avenues, ranging from pop-punk to rock and metal cover bands. However, it was through the emergence of Screams Of Tranquility that his artistic vision truly blossomed. In 2019, Marc graduated as a recording, mixing, and mastering engineer from HOFA College, now operating his own successful mixing and mastering business as a freelancer.
While Screams Of Tranquility is a solo endeavor, questions about the absence of additional band members only underscore Marc's proficiency and the effectiveness of his approach to "running SOT as if it were a fully occupied band." His unwavering dedication and skill shine through in every aspect of his work.
For those in search of authentic, meticulously crafted music that transcends the confines of mainstream melodic death metal, replete with searing leads, impassioned vocals, and profound thematic depth, Screams Of Tranquility stands as a beacon of artistic excellence worthy of exploration.
https://www.facebook.com/ScreamsOfTranquility
Egypt’s
death metal legends return with ritualistic riffs, cinematic orchestration, and
crushing aggression.Brutal Records unleashes Transmutation of Fate, the new EP from Egypt’s legendary death metal force SCARAB. With this release, the band enters a new chapter under its global alliance with the iconic American label. As a result, SCARAB launches a devastating new era. Brutal Records now drives the band’s ancient sonic incantations through its international network.
The Rise of SCARAB in Egyptian Death Metal
SCARAB formed in 2006 and quickly earned a reputation for ferocity, atmosphere, and spiritual intensity. Over the years, the band refined a sound that stands apart. Moreover, SCARAB fuses uncompromising death metal with Middle Eastern and Egyptian mysticism. Because of this approach, the music creates a ritualistic experience that transcends borders, cultures, and belief systems. Crushing riffs collide with cinematic orchestrations. Meanwhile, relentless aggression channels ancient mythology into modern extreme metal.
Lineup and Sonic Identity
Sammy Sayed leads the band on vocals and orchestrations. Alongside him, Tarek Amr and Omar Abou Doma command the guitars. Mohamed El Sherbieny anchors the sound on bass. At the same time, Amir El-Saidi drives the music forward with punishing drums. Sherif Elias expands the sonic landscape on keyboards and synths. Together, SCARAB pushes its mythology further with a sound that remains both brutal and transcendent.
A Ritualistic EP with Global Impact
Each track functions as a ceremonial invocation. In particular, the band blends fearless precision with deep atmospheric layers. Therefore, the EP reinforces SCARAB’s role as pioneers of Egyptian extreme metal on a global scale.
Statement from SCARAB
“We are very happy to join forces with Brutal Records. This marks a new era for SCARAB, and we are looking forward to what we are going to be putting out to the world through Brutal Records. Let the magick begin!”
Upcoming Releases via Brutal Records SCARAB and Brutal Records are already preparing devastating new material for release:
Transmutation of Fate (EP – May 8th, 2026) A metaphysical journey through destiny, transformation, and awakening, delivered through dark, atmospheric, and ritual-driven death metal.
Blinding the Masses [Reincarnated] (LP – July 31th, 2026) A brutal reimagining of SCARAB’s debut album—heavier, sharper, and reborn for a new generation of extreme metal devotees.
The Ritual Begins This signing represents more than a business agreement—it is an awakening. With Brutal Records’ global reach and SCARAB’s uncompromising vision, the coming releases will expand the band’s
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Label: Abstract EmotionsRelease date: april 24th 2026
Genre: Melodic Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Candlemass | Novembers Doom | Paradise Lost | My Dying Bride
Held in the arms of comfort and love, surrounded by joy and affirmation, I had no expectation, nor understanding of failure and loss. I had no sense of my own true measure, or of the darknesses that lay so far below me, watching me with hungry eyes and endless patience. I flew higher, heedless and carefree, gathering happiness like an endless crop, a constant golden yield. And as the flames began to flicker along my wings I took them to be just another well-deserved adornment, another gift from a universe that loved me best. And when the fall came, it came fast. I spiralled into shadow, crashing into night…my heart, my mind, my spirit shattering on the rocks of reality. Toxicity and spite, rejection and grief, jealousy and hunger lapped at my feet like a bitter sea, as I lay on the cold, cruel shores of realisation…the scales rebalanced.
Following in the wake of their towering Spreading The Wings Of Hope album, Spain’s Golgotha have returned with the altogether darker hues and harsher, more rugged textures of Hubris. This is an album forged in the pitiless furnace of life; eight songs steeped in the struggle, turmoil and challenges that shape us, that make us human. Reflecting on their latest creation the band have emphatically stated, “these are not fictional stories, but fragments of real life turned into music”.
The album begins with first single, ‘A Simple Life’, opening with a brave, exposed vocal from María J. Lladó that focusses the attention, drawing the listener in before the full tide of Golgotha’s overwhelming sound crashes over them. The poignancy of emotion in this track, with its hypnotic refrain, flows like blood through every chord, every note. Elsewhere, the gargantuan, crawling riffs and huge, monstrous vocals of ‘Broken Toy’ open out into a reflective, melancholy melody – harsh vocals switching to Maria’s clear, emotive tones – as contrasts blend and entwine. Throughout Hubris these two sides of Golgotha, the forceful, bleak and blackened and the doomed, delicate beauty dance with each other in a deftly harmonious, disparate duality. ‘Too Late’ is deep, dark, slow motion death metal until a melodious chorus arrives, allowing a pale, gentle light into the black and a vibrant solo is a burst of flame in the cold murk. From ‘Blind’, in all its tarnished, faded majesty, like a funeral of kings, to the concluding ‘Intolerance’ – a musical conflict between the nobility of sorrow and the raw pain of grief – this is an album that lays bare its heart and shows all its scars. It will hollow you out, caressing your hidden anguish and drawing your wounds into the light.
“I became just an echo…”- Blind
To capture the real and vivid darkness of Hubris, Golgotha turned to producer Davide Billia (Antropofagus, Beheaded, Posthuman Abomination etc) and the band have described his contribution as “essential in shaping the power and character we wanted for this album”. Hubris will be released by Abstract Emotions on April 24th – another incredible chapter in the unfolding story of Golgotha.
Line-up:
Vicente J. Paya – Guitar/Keyboards/Vocals
Andrew Spinoza – Bass/Harsh Vocals
Rafel Garcies – Drums
María J. Lladó – Clean Vocals
Dan Garcia – Guitars
https://abstractemotions.com/en/
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TARDIGRADE INFERNO continue their streak of rolling out new music head of the release of the band's third studio album, HUSH. The official music video from these charming dark cabaret metal adepts, "Deadly Fairytales" is out now.
Watch "Deadly Fairytales" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tiq0aj0J94
Hush is a compelling result of TARDIGRADE INFERNO’s evolving signature style and the sheer power of their live performance. What truly defines the band is the experience the listener gets at their live shows, the thoughtful songwriting, the ironic lyricism, and the striking, highly aesthetic visuals. In June 2025, TARDIGRADE INFERNO released an atmospheric and emotional live album Made In Hell that captures their ferocious performance and their connection with the audience. Hush blends all of these strengths with an authentic sound delivered with studio precision.
Hush is due out March 5 on CD, digital and four exclusive vinyl editions. Pre-order the album at https://tr.ee/TiHush
Tracklist:1. The Final Show
2. Hide 'n' Seek
3. Deadly Fairytales
4. All In your Head
5. Dead Fish Smile
6. Subatomic Heist
7. I.C.D.
8. Goor
9. Hush
10. Hypograph
11. I Am Eternal
Hush naturally picks up where 2023's Burn the Circus left off. At the beginning you hear the crackling of a circus burning down. A surviving radio plays a mournful melody that opens a grand show amid the ashes. Like a massive blazing phoenix, TARDIGRADE INFERNO opens its wings with elemental force. It sweeps away what remains and reclaiming its place at the center of attention.
The gorgeous Darya Rorria uses her flexible contralto to tell stories that are anything but cheerful. Her expressive vocals pulse with the music. They tease sharply, flow lyrically, spread in a soft velvet hush, and fade into a tragic whisper. They soar through tense passages and then glide back down into a low, intimate tone. The lyrics are charged to the point of electric crackling, just as one expects from the TARDIGRADE INFERNO.
Their trademark keyboards sound even more retro-futuristic, paying tribute to the classic horror movies of the past. The guitar acts like the wildest creature in the prairie with it's fury clothed in the polished frock coat of a respectable gentleman. The bass has the “AWESOME” knob turned to 100%. The drums are emotional, dynamic, and alive. Altogether it creates a familiar yet more sincere and revealing sound. The music becomes almost visible, almost tangible.
TARDIGRADE INFERNO have always paid special attention to the visual side of their art - from stage costumes and characters to their album covers. The cover for Hush was created by artist Milena Kress in a dark-aesthetic style. This is the band's first experience with analog painting - the piece is oil on canvas. It conveys the anxiety and emotional intensity that mirror the album’s lyrics. It’s also the first time the band’s mascot, the Tardigrade, is absent from the cover. It symbolizes a kind of coming-of-age. The toys have been left behind in the nursery.
Mixing, mastering, and production were handled by Vladimir Lehtinen, who has been working with the band continuously since the release of The Worst of Me EP. Vladimir helped the band capture their live energy without losing the studio polish of their recordings.
TARDIGRADE INFERNO is:
Darya Rorria - vocals
Alexander Pavlovich - guitars, keys
Maxim Belekhov - bass
Andrew Drew - drums
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SERMON TO THE LAMBS – “SERMON TO THE LAMBS”
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: march 6th 2026
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Brodequin | Deeds Of Flesh | Enmity | Liturgy
Rising through the countless layers of the inferno, through an eternity of screams and tears, pleas and regret, he brings his message from the unfathomable depths of darkness and flame. Such is his form, his dark abyssal presence, that sanity crumbles beneath the gaze of his multitudinous eyes…and his words of desolation turn flesh to liquid. The abject creatures that have gathered to receive his malediction cower in awe, before falling from madness to destruction. Worshippers become sacrifices as the forgotten king delivers his sermon to the lambs…
A new entity from the depths of the death metal underground has emerged, a baleful presence stepping forth from the shadows to deliver judgement without mercy. Hailing from Chile, Sermon To The Lambs are set to unleash the soul-shaking savagery of their debut, self titled album. Opening with ‘Crowned King Of Worms’, guitars rise around you like a cloud of venomous winged insects while a voice of undead malevolence roars from the heart of the swarm. Masterfully entwining slow, hypnotic passages that dance with a sinuous, serpentine wickedness and explosions of rabid speed and fury, Sermon To The Lambs begin to disassemble your reality. The eponymous title track follows with imperious power and subjugating force - it hits hard with an iron fist, threatening to separate skin from flesh and flesh from bone - and that tangible sense of unquestionable domination permeates the whole of this formidably impressive first album. From ‘Maximum Apostasy’, which beguiles with an atmosphere of dust and sacrilege before bringing forth absolute annihilation that sets the blood on fire, to ‘Flagrum Taxillatum’, a spiralling descent into the depths of perdition, this album just gets stronger and stronger as it progresses; more vivid, inventive and excruciating in its torments. The final two tracks – ‘God Spat And The Man Was Done’ and ‘Clergy’s Malevolence’, both colossal outpourings of death, appear as twin-headed devils, reprised as bonus tracks featuring guest vocals from Jeff Page of Manifestations. Sermon To The Lambs is magnificently unforgiving, an eruption of crawling horrors from a tortured, broken earth.
Sermon To The Lambs’ first offering of blasphemic brutality will be brought into the light on March 6th by the masters of malignancy and pain, Comatose Music. Given teeth and claws by the skilled mixing and mastering of the band’s own Victor Araneda, who has also worked with the likes of In Asymmetry, First Degree Murder and Supreme Banishment, Sermon To The Lambs sounds vicious and uncontrollable. Adorned in the stunning artwork of Par Olofsson (Winds Of Plague, Unleashed, Thy Art Is Murder) this album is set to leave its indelible mark, a suppurating wound, on the global death metal scene.
Line-up:
Richard Aguayo - Vocals
Mauro M. - Guitar/Bass
Victor Araneda – Drums
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MUERTO - “ECLIPSED REALMS”
For
fans of
- Amenra, Emptiness, (early) Opera IX, Deathspell OmegaGenre - Black metal with doom metal elements
There is something about the rawness of emotions expressed in their pure, undiluted form and that's probably what's most appealing about this release. Against the backdrop of harrowing, plaintive music are the hollow echoes of an aggrieved, possessed-sounding woman, adding more malice to the music than anything possibly contrived. Over here is something dark, unseemly, insidious if only by being so naturally real and relatable. The intriguing doom-laden black metal music throbs and twists with a firm grip of the atmosphere pressing down on the listener like a hand to the throat. Muerto's disarmingly direct delivery, masterful juggling of various emotions in an aura of suffocating darkness, and their refreshing rawness in a time of overly processed music make them a band worthy of your attention.
Line up
Penelope Matamoros - Vocals & Bass
Juan Mondragon (Necronos, ex-Castleumbra) - Guitars
Eddel Jared - Drums
Artwork by Ricardo González
Track listing
1. Serpentine Echoes
2. Veil of Desolation
3. Burning Shadows
4. Wilderness
5. Decay
6. Radiance
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Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
"Dreaming Song to You" is the emotional core of Horizon Line, a track described as a journey through the spirit of exploration. Driven by solid song structures, showcased by unflinching guitar virtuosity, and anchored by a truly standout vocal performance, this ballad is your ticket aboard a metaphorical motorcycle ride deep into your own emotions.
Previous video:
https://youtu.be/MNJ8yRlY6PQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POIgeyGhvY8
THE SOUND: REAL VINTAGE, MODERN CRUSH
Thunder Rising delivers a sound intimate to those who live and die by the sacred riff, having perfectly distilled the rich essence of the late '70s and '80s. This isn't theoretical appreciation; it's deep-cut knowledge, forged by the band's history, which includes production work with Italian heavyweights like Firehouse and prog titans Arachnes during that very era. Their signature style, self-dubbed "Real Vintage," is an expertly crafted fusion of heavy rock power and melodic sophistication that draws equally from the crushing, organ-drenched riffage reminiscent of prime Deep Purple and Rainbow, and the soaring, arena-ready vocal hooks and melodic sensibilities that dominated the era, channeling the spirit of bands like Journey and Boston. Crucially, this authenticity isn't achieved through cheap digital imitation. Thunder Rising deploys a devastating arsenal of TRUE VINTAGE GEAR—including Hammond organs, classic Fender guitars, and genuine Marshall stacks—all paired with modern, cutting-edge recording techniques. The result is a sound that is both POWERFULLY VINTAGE and CRYSTAL CLEAR, showcasing the band's deep experience delivered with uncompromising modern clarity.
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1. Endless Buildings2. Solitude
3. The Dark Machine
4. Desolate Place
5. Fragments
6. In Sorrow's Requiem
7. Pulvere Sacro
8. Love Damned Of Dead
9. Shelter Me
10. End Begun
The album will be released in CD, LP (black and marble gold vinyl) & digital and it's available for PRE-ORDER at https://t.ly/AyAM7
It's been almost 10 years since their last album "Deathrising" and MOTUS TENEBRAE return to make their voice heard in the most powerful, dark and full of pathos way possible with a new album that treasures the legacy of that work, enriching it with new nuances and atmospheres, creating their most mature, most emotional and most decadent work in their 25 years of career.
With "In Sorrow's Requiem", MOTUS TENEBRAE rise again, stronger, darker and deeper than ever with a music which does not leave indifferent those who live for sounds dear to Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Sentenced, Katatonia.!
Three visions... one sound. Embrace the unknown!
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Originally released in 2021 through Northern Silence Productions, “Elegieën”
established itself as a landmark in the post-black evolution, defined by its
blunt, ferocious, and euphoric attitude paired with consistently inspired
songwriting. Now, five years after its initial arrival, the album is finally
being presented on the format for which it was originally intended.The limited-edition reissue is pressed on transparent green vinyl and includes a printed insert. Mastered for the format by Dennis Blomberg with design and layout by tryfar, the records are expected to ship in mid-to-late February.
Pre-order “Noctambulist I: Elegieën”: https://thesehandsmelt.shop/products/noctambulist-i-elegieen-lp
The band commented:
"Conceived at the dawn of a global pandemic, shelved for a year, born into a locked-down world; Noctambulist I: Elegieën has been marred by delay time and again. Now, upon its fifth anniversary, Noctambulist are proud and relieved to finally offer our debut record on vinyl through the efforts and grace of These Hands Melt. Finally pressed on the medium for which it was destined, we hope you can fully experience the fruits of our labour anew. Even five years down the road, the songs in this collection still ring true. At least to us, they do".
Noctambulist are an atmospheric post-black metal outfit from Tilburg, the Netherlands. Formed in 2015 between housemates J.D. Kaye, Sam C.A. and Mitchell Scheerder, they set out to create a hard-hitting, melancholic style of black metal that draws inspiration from other genres such as post-rock, shoegaze, new wave and post-punk. Noctambulist stand for contrasts. Serotonin summits and strung-out canyons. The empty and the grandiose. The beautiful and the appalling.
After defining their sound and completing the lineup with guitarists Tristan Tabbers and Stef Heesakkers, they released their full-length debut “Noctambulist I: Elegieën” via Northern Silence Productions. Their second album, “Noctambulist II: De Droom”, was released through These Hands Melt in February 2025, and saw the band dive deeper into post-punk and shoegaze influences while retaining the fierceness of their debut record Elegiëen
Noctambulist are
J.D. Kaye – Vocals & Guitar
Stef Heesakkers – Guitar
Tristan Tabbers – Guitar
Sam C.A. – Bass
Mitchell Scheerder - Drums
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HELA – “A REIGN TO CONQUER”
Label: Ardua MusicRelease date: february 27th 2026
Genre: Melodic Doom Metal
For fans of: The Gathering | The 3rd And The Mortal | Inborn Suffering | Katatonia
Taking their name from the Norse goddess of death, Spanish voyagers through realms of shadow and sorrow, Hela, formed in Elche, Spain in 2012. They quickly made their mark on the doom metal scene with their well-received debut album, Broken Cross, which was picked up for a vinyl release by the respected Svart Records. Their star continued to rise with their second and third albums – Death May Die and Vegvísir – their sound developing in a natural and organic way. Trends and fashions have always been meaningless to Hela, with their reputation being based on honesty of expression and a palpable passion for the music they create. The global pandemic ushered in a period of silence from Hela, with the personal changes of circumstance that life tends to bring following in its wake…but the time for their reawakening has come. With new vocalist Raquel Navarro adding her sublime, dreaming tones to the band’s most emotive music to date, Hela are poised to present A Reign To Conquer.
Opening track, ‘Vessel To Nowhere’, begins in forbidding fashion, with dark, cold and powerful chords before engaging melodies and warmly human vocals open up that daunting exterior. Portentous narrative passages lend weight, while the lead guitar takes hold of your heart in an ascending spiral of emotion. ‘The Infinite Tower’ introduces a lightness, an ethereal feel as superb guitar lines flit like ghosts between the dreaming passages and storm-tossed, turbulent passions. A captivating piece, from the pinnacle of this tower you can gaze out across a landscape painted in the muted colours of dusk…and with each track we fall a little deeper into Hela’s embrace. ‘Crystal Bridge’ speaks in a universal language, connecting with the listener at a fundamental level beyond words as its wistful melancholy and bittersweet reflections build to an overwhelmingly powerful chorus. There is a sense of journeying through this album, of onward movement, as we walk, drift, float, stumble and soar through the cascading guitars of ‘Emerald Mirror’, the waltz through emptiness and memories of ‘Architect Of Disorder’ to arrive at the towering conclusion of ‘Nomad’…only to find that the journey continues – the restless nomad wandering the dusty paths of the world for eternity, with only the ghosts of lost loves for company. Hela have continued to grow, to subtly transform, to follow where their hearts and their music lead them…and A Reign To Conquer is a work of beauty that could only have been achieved through that open authenticity and untarnished integrity.
Recorded at the Red Records studio in Alicante, with Jose Franciso Rojo and mixed by the band’s own Julian Velasco, A Reign To Conquer was then mastered by Dan Swano whose touch has dusted albums by so many acclaimed artists with magic; from Barren Earth to Hypocrisy, Novembers Doom to Novembre…the list is practically endless. The result is an album of rare vitality and potency, an all-encompassing presence that holds the attention effortlessly. Adorned, as always, in the evocative imagery of Deadsign, A Reign To Conquer will be released by the highly regarded Ardua Music on CD digipak and digital formats and by Tormo Records on limited edition vinyl on February 27th. If you have yet to discover the fragility and power of Hela then now is the time. If you are a seasoned traveller, then welcome back to the road that never ends…
Line-up:
Raquel Navarro · Vocals
Julián Velasco · Guitars, fx
Tano Giménez · Bass
Miguel Fernández · Drums
https://www.arduamusic.com/
https://www.tormorecords.com/en/
https://www.helaband.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Helaband/
Belgian
extreme black metal act YHWH presents their latest lyric video
for the track “MURDERER OF ILLUSIONS”, a relentless outpouring of
nihilistic fury rooted in hatred for mankind and the mental suffering born from
human stupidity. The song confronts the collapse of ego, hope, and human
certainty, unfolding as a journey through despair, misanthropy, and the destruction
of every illusion, delivered through a harsh and uncompromising soundscape that
mirrors its lyrical intensity.With “Murderer of Illusions”, YHWH solidifies their place at the forefront of extreme black metal, merging philosophical depth with uncompromising aggression.
“Murderer of Illusions” is a track taken from the band's EP Khatha, out now via Wormholedeath
Stream Khatha: https://orcd.co/khathaep
Previous video Hell on Earth (The Root of All Evil): https://youtu.be/FjTY5SyNqvg
Formed in 2024, YHWH is a Belgian/Thai black metal band. All music is composed by Schem HaMephorash and her sister C. Bones, with S.M. Goat Ritual joining in June. Following their debut EP Tetragrammaton (April 2025, Wormholedeath), the band now unleashes the second chapter: Khatha. Prepare for the doom.
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“Horisontit” is a strong cross-section of Karelian Warcry’s music. At the heart of the track is a forward-rolling armoured train, and a mid-section rising to majestic heights observes the horizon from a bird’s-eye perspective. The lyrics are a cathartic journey to a liminal point where everything falls apart in your hands, yet there is nothing to do but keep moving forward. Vocal tracks originally intended as demo vocals remained on the final recording, dictated by death.
Listen to the single on music services : https://push.fm/fl/karelianwarcry-horisontit
The work of Veripellot album took shape over the years 2010–2024, nearly coming to a halt following the death of the band’s founding member, vocalist-guitarist M.I. Mikkonen. Veripellot became a composite, uniting Karelian Warcry’s two different line-ups and the pandemonium of the entire timespan.
Veripellot is a study of war, grief, and the dark sides of humanity. The themes rise from the band members’ personal experiences, collective traumas, and a shared interest in the events of their home region and its war history. The album is, on one hand, a memorial writing for fallen friends, and on the other, a glimpse into the horrors of the Finnish Civil War. On Veripellot, the rough thunder of war resounds — and at times an oppressive stillness.
Veripellot consists of nine distinct tracks. Musically, the album is a step forward for the band — groovier, yet straightforwardly uncompromising. Progressive elements have also been brought into the mix.
Discography:Demo '04 (2004)
Kylmä rautainen (Album, 2005)
Verinen taival, päättymätön tie (Album, 2010)
Minun aikani (Single, 2020)
Line-up:
A. O. Heiskanen - Drums
J. H. Järvinen - Vocals
J. T. Kousa - Guitars
S. P. Ukkonen - Bass
https://linktr.ee/Karelian_Warcry
Style: Death/doom metalType: CD standard jewel box + 16 page booklet
Release date: 30.1. 2026
Here is my second release this year. It is very close to my heart. This re-release is being released as a gift for the 50th birthday of flutist Valda from DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY, a very good friend of mine.
DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY was a Czech doom metal band that existed between 1993 and 2013. It is one of the world's most respected Czech doom metal bands. When René "Fusaty" Krystyn, frontman and founder of DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY, died of cardiac arrest in September 2013 at the age of only 39, his band also physically died.
After Fusaty's death, Petr Herdron, owner of Pařát Productions, decided to spread the musical legacy of his good friend's band around the world. As a result, over the past 10+ years, almost all of the band's recordings have been reissued not only on CD with new graphic booklets, but also on LP´s and MC´s.
"Štvanice" is the last studio album by DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY from 2008. Following its release on vinyl (2014) and audio cassette (2021), it is now time for the first CD re-release, which, unlike the original, is being released in a larger print run with the ambition of reaching collectors around the world. Since the original CD version was released as a digipak, re-release is presented in a standard jewel box with the original sound.
Bonus material on this re-release includes part of Fusaty's music archive – a song that was never completed.
"Štvanice" will be released FIRST TIME ON CD STANDARD JEWEL BOX 30.1. by Pařát Productions. You can order them at https://paratshop.cz/produkt/dissolving-of-prodigy-stvanice-re-release-2026/
You can listen to full recording on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSVdupnusrI
In the five years since the release of 2021's Transmigrator, GRAVEBORN has been meticulously crafting their newest magnum opus - an 11-track concept album about continuity in the face of collapse.
Throughout the course of Metempsychosis, GRAVEBORN challenges themselves and the listener to stare into an internal and external abyss. Moving from inner psychological fracture to societal and species-wide decline, the album rejects narratives of tragedy or triumph, treating destruction as a necessary mechanism of transmission. Metempsychosis asks one question and refuses to soften the answer- what remains when everything else is gone?
Hear part of this journey with the album's new single and final track, "Orthologs." Watch the lyric video now at
Vocalist John Leblanc describes the track as the album's closing statement - a reflection on consciousness as continuity, and the nature of self-evolution.
"'Orthologs' is about what survives after annihilation, not as hope, but as function. It’s evolution under pressure. Forced transformation. The essential self persists, but the form changes radically. I don’t return to who I was. I don’t heal into the old shape. I become something else because survival requires it. Like orthologous genes, the structure diverges, but the core purpose remains intact. This isn’t triumphant. It’s real. It’s not a victory lap. It’s the moment after the maw, when something still stands. Not because it’s unbroken, but because it adapted.
This song means: continuity is not comfort. Continuity is persistence. I am changed. I am not whole. But something essential still functions, still moves forward, still exists.
Not healed.
Not restored.
Still here.
And that is enough."
Metempsychosis is due out April 3. Pre-order the album at https://gravebornma.bandcamp.com/album/metempsychosis
Tracklist:1) Embers of Existence
2) The Archaea Paradox
3) Temporal Sands
4) Idols of Bone
5) Paralogs
6) Metempsychosis
7) River of the Eternal Mind
8) Epistatic Drift
9) Legacy of Light
10) The Maw of Recursion
11) Orthologs
Line-Up:
Reggie Lewis - Bass
Jesse Blanchette - Guitars
Chris Ramusiewicz - Guitars
John LeBlanc - Vocals
Marc Brennan - Drums
Bio:
Formed in 2013 in Boston, MA, Graveborn serves up an ethereally heavy strain of progressive death metal. Over the last decade, they have released 4 albums (Samsara (2014), Seeds Of Life (2016), The Athenaeum (2018) and Transmigrator (2021)) and performed throughout the Northeast US with the likes of Fallujah, Rivers of Nihil, Cognitive, Ghost Bath, Ov Sulfur, and others. Graveborn weaves the themes of self-evolution and introspection through their lyrics, and embodies this ethos in their collaborations.
After over 5 years since their last album, Transmigrator, Graveborn returns with their 5th full length album, Metempsychosis, set to release on April 3, 2026. Combining the odd-time aggression and dissonant ferocity of bands like Car Bomb, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, and Ion Dissonance with the ethereal melodicism and riff worship of bands like Fallujah, Rivers of Nihil, and Kardashev, Graveborn stand apart from the crowd.
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Extreme
metal veterans STALWART unveil the lyric video
for “SACRIFICE", a track taken from their 7th
album, "TEMPVS EDAX RERVM", out now via
Wormholedeath.“Sacrifice” blends the existential dread with Stalwart’s trademark intensity. The track digs into the fear of being forgotten, following a lone figure wandering through a city that no longer sees him. Stalwart pushes the track into darker territory with lyrics that confront memory, guilt, and the weight of a past scorched by loss. It’s a raw look at a man fighting the silence that threatens to erase him, carried by the band’s signature mix of death, thrash, groove, and prog brutality.
The video premiered on Headbangers Australia: https://www.headbangersaustralia.com/
About Tempvs Edax Rervm
Stalwart's Tempvs Edax Rervm delves into the inexorable power of time, exploring themes of fading identity and inevitable decay as "heaven and earth have switched places." The album distills the band's essence—groove-driven riffs, intricate rhythms, and atmospheric layers—into a heavier, darker, and more focused continuation of their intense, precise metal sound.
Stream the album: https://orcd.co/teralbum
Previous video:
https://youtu.be/biyuFljFGTQ
https://youtu.be/No_nn9kzzVg
About Stalwart
Formed in 1999 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Stalwart has built a reputation in the extreme metal scene with a distinctive blend of death, thrash, groove, and progressive metal — combining crushing riffs, intricate rhythms, and atmospheric layers. Over their career, they’ve released six full-length albums through labels including Fono, Soyuz/MetalAgen, CD-Maximum, Metallism, and PRC Music, with four albums produced by the renowned Wiesławski brothers (Vader, Decapitated, Behemoth) at Hertz Studio, Poland. Stalwart has shared stages with Behemoth, Kataklysm, Vader, Amon Amarth, Primal Fear, Finntroll, and Carnifex, performing across Russia, Ukraine, Finland, Estonia, and Germany.
After a hiatus starting in 2019, the band returns with their seventh album, Tempvs Edax Rervm, out early 2026 via WormHoleDeath Records, promising crushing grooves, complex rhythms, relentless blast beats, and immersive atmospheres — a new chapter in Stalwart’s evolution.
www.youtube.com/@stalwart.metalband
www.facebook.com/stalwartmetal
CRÈME FLESH – “FOR YOUR ASS ONLY”
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: april 3rd 2026
Genre: Slam/Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Devourment | Kraanium | Vulvectomy | Korpse
With the world teetering on the brink of absolute destruction, what we need is a hero – or even better, four of them – and with serendipitous good fortune, out of the great white north come Canadian secret agents of slam, Crème Flesh! Returning after the successful 2023 operation: Casablumpkin, they are licensed to blast, brutalize and wield pornographic puns like deadly weapons! All too often in the world of extreme music an offensive song title or a humorous soundbite is used to disguise a spectacular lack of musical ability…but not with Crème Flesh. With these maniacs you can laugh, be offended and get blown to bits by some of the most severely savage brutal death metal you will ever hear, executed with clinical precision. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to survive the ten tracks of bowel-rupturing, cranium crushing brutality that is…For Your Ass Only!
Beginning with the crisp, accomplished assault of ‘Field Of Creams’, For Your Ass Only quickly demonstrates just how deadly serious the music behind its over the top song titles really is. The riffs are impeccable, the vocals beyond monstrous, the drumming superbly skilled and the tempo shifts from a mid-paced, bone splintering grind to insane, frenzied velocities navigated with a slick, deceptive nonchalance. ‘Lake Flaccid’ begins with a carefully selected quote from the film Lake Placid before unleashing a landslide of punishing heaviness, while ‘Sleepless On Cialis’ is the kind of groove heavy pit anthem, grotesquely adorned in spurts of wanton aggression, that is designed for live violence. From the crawling beast that is ‘The Gapes Of Wrath’ to the twisted insanity of ‘Jagged Little Penis’, For Your Ass Only is utterly relentless - reaching a cataclysmic climax with ‘Whores Of Perception’, where thick, pustulant riffs collide with a rhythm that’s as infected as it is infectious. It’s one hell of a conclusion to an album that’s a masterclass in slamming, brutal death metal. Come for the jokes but stay for Crème Flesh’s unquestionable massive killing capacity.
Complete with a sound that combines intimidating muscle and shocking clarity, thanks to producer Geoff Hodsman (Human Compost, Apegod etc) and brilliantly realised artwork courtesy of Krag (Paroxsihzem, Nuclearhammer etc), For Your Ass Only will begin its assignment of subversion and devastation on April 3rd, under the command of Comatose Music. This press release will self-destruct in five seconds…
Line-up:
Matt Hilden - Vocals
Rory Kennedy - Bass
Sophokles Theodoru - Guitar
Allen L. - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
MORS VERUM – “CANVAS”
For
fans of - Gorguts, Morbid
Angel, Norse, Ulcerate, Saevus FinisForward-thinking Canadian band Mors Verum are giving their own interpretation to the death metal style, creating music that is simultaneously dissonant, progressive, and atmospheric. They've removed the shackles of the otherwise linear and niche style and have allowed their music to explore different realms whilst retaining the death metal sound along with its sharp dissonant edge. The result is absolutely riveting, with the music constantly alternating between throbbing discordant blasts and soothing passages, traversing worlds hitherto unexplored. The experience feels at once liberating and cathartic, as though having achieved epiphany after constant, dogged exploration. The lengthier song lengths never feel tedious either as the band embarks on their newfound path with relative ease and confidence. On "Canvas", they have adopted a fascinating approach to the style, one that is beautifully tempered yet adventurous enough to excite.
Tracklisting
1. Bloodied Teeth 04:19
2. Your Apocalypse 07:10
3. Serenade 05:30
4. Canvas 07:00
5. Mortal 06:37
Official release date - February 6th, 2026
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/morsverumband
Cheers! Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity
Format: Digital CD /
Physical CDLabel: Independent Release
Style : Epic / Symphonic / Metal
For fans of : Epica, Kamelot, Nightwish, Delain, After Forever, Within Temptation, Serenity, Xandria, Rhapsody of Fire, Two Steps From Hell, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Symphony X and such….
This new album is the second full-length album from this Dutch band that offers us an excellent form of symphonic metal. The release date is February 6, 2026, and thealbum will be released as an Independent Release.
Tracklist:
01. The Moon, the Sun and the Stars
02. The Force of Nature
03. Lessons in Life(Are for Free)
04. Come into My World
05. Your Ultimate Joy
06. I Thought You Were on My Side
07. Don’t Wake Up the Dead
08. Monsters in My Head
09. Two Hearts
10. Run with the Wolves
11. What Goes Up Must Come Down
12. Eyes Will Glow
Much can be said about Dutch epic symphonic metalers Epinikion, but their story certainly is unique.
Hailing from the Netherlands, former athletes Renate de Boer and Robert Tangerman initially started an ambitious project to write a rockopera album.
With no musical background to speak of, but with incredible talent, inspiration, and sheer will, the critically acclaimed debut Inquisition came to life.
Epinikion is a ‘hymne for the winner’. In Ancient Greece the heroic stories of athletes were sung in an epinikion after their victories at major events. A fitting band name for musicians rising from the ashes of their former sports careers, as reflected by the phoenix in the band’s logo.
From the very beginning Epinikion combined heavy guitar riffs with subtle progressive and heavy metal influences, complimented with harmonic and bombastic orchestral lines. With their new music, the band takes it a step further, blending each bandmember’s musical influences and creativity into a unique and refreshing sound.
Epinikion is ready to unleash their upcoming new album The Force of Nature upon the world.
Mixed and mastered by Jacob Hansen, and featuring artwork from Giannis Nakos, the album reflects the band’s conscious decision to commit and go big, and it promises to be a blast of a successor to their debut…
Line-Up:
Robert Tangerman: guitar
Renate de Boer: keyboards
Rutger Klijn: bassguitar
Maarten Jungschläger: guitar
Kimberley Jongen: vocals
Michal Gis: drums
https://www.facebook.com/epinikion
Label: Throne Of Lies Records
Release date: january 10th 2026
Genre: Blackened Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: 1914 | Woods Of Ypres | Katatonia | Fear Of God
I lie in a sea of dreams, the substance of my life flowing around me in tattered stories – the triumphs and tragedies, such as they were, my great loves, lies, betrayals and sins, they all swim before my empty, unblinking eyes. Were they really all as inconsequential as they seem now to my still heart? Did it all mean so pitifully little? Perspective changes when the clamour of your breathing has ceased. None of it mattered then, none of it matters now in this cold bed of worms – with the earth above and a grave beneath…
The Earth Above, A Grave Beneath is the fourth full length album from Louisville, Kentucky sextet The Promise Of Plague – a band that draw inspiration from across the metal spectrum, fusing diverse elements into a dark and powerfully distinct sound. Nearly a decade on from their first EP, Sleepwalking Into Armageddon, the band’s experience and accomplished musicianship can be heard in every note of the bravely creative The Earth Above, A Grave Beneath. Opening in savage fashion with ‘Vomit Running Through My Veins’, The Promise Of Plague slam you back in your seat before the song uncoils itself, shifting between moods and tempos, adding melodic guitar lines and rich atmosphere, driven forward by a visceral vocal presence. This opening sets the tone for what is to follow…expect the unexpected, be prepared for every song to possess its own individual character, but with an emotional weight and depth that anchors the band’s sound as they explore. From the emotive darkness and haunted landscapes of ‘Dead Mistake’, via the varied vocal interplay of ‘One Line Poem’, to the album’s title track, with its guitar motifs with deep, deep roots that speak in a universal voice; there are a myriad of treasures to uncover in The Promise Of Plague’s musical darkness. The venomous black metal heart of ‘My World Is Better, Darker’ beats slower as it reaches its end and slips into the epic ‘Of Sorrow’ – resounding chords, wearied marches across windswept hills, jagged riffs, frantic velocities, raw, impassioned screams – they are all here, all part of the great tapestry of this momentous song. And then? Then we celebrate our passage through the night with a brutal reworking of Quiet Riot’s headbanging classic, ‘Metal Health’! Twisted into The Promise Of Plague’s form, it provides a triumphant conclusion to this harrowing but rewarding album.
Recorded and mixed by Chris Leffler (Stonecutters etc) and mastered by Overload drummer Todd Hawkins, The Earth Above, A Grave Beneath has the strength, dexterity and clarity of sound to bring the best out of The Promise Of Plague’s diverse and adventurous creativity. Completed by the evocative cover artwork of the band’s own Jerry Barksdale (who also supplied the visual elements for many albums by death metal veterans Abominant) The Earth Above, A Grave Beneath will be released by Throne Of Lies Records on March 10th…prepare for a voyage into the stygian depths of the soul.
Line-up:
JD Hall – Vocals
Joanie Michele – Vocals
Jerry Barksdale – Guitars
Sam Pedneau – Guitars
Phil Garrett – Bass
Jim Huggins – Drums
*additional guest guitars by Chris Leffler
https://throneofliesrecords.bigcartel.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thepromiseofplague
Release
date:
23.01.2026Location: Nepal
FFO: Misery Index, Death, Brutal Truth
Lineup:
Darshan Angdembe Limbu - Guitars/Vocals
Season Bajracharya - Bass/Vocals
Suraj Nakarmi - Drums
Bio:
Nepali death metal band ANIMALITY was formed in 2017 and released their first EP, Animality Inherent, in 2018 with an earlier lineup, marking the initial phase of the band's sound and identity. The band draws influence from a wide range of extreme music, spanning death metal, grindcore, and thrash, but rather than being driven by specific bands, Animality's music comes from day-to-day lived realities—experiences that cannot always be expressed openly while leading an ordinary life. Extreme music became the band's art of expression, a way to translate unspoken experiences into sound.
https://www.youtube.com/@animalitynepal7119
https://www.facebook.com/Animality.band
The song is about people in great desperation, maybe hit by catastrophes or struck by fate, so they are praying for help from a higher power or a god - but the prayers remain unanswered. That's the invocator's doom.
The video was once again designed by Andrea Matelli, who did the job perfectly for "Drown in Blood", too.
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK8iJDYIiCU
The band was founded in 1993 in Helmstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany. After one lineup change in 1994, they have been active in the same formation for over 30 years now. On guitar and vocals there is Peter Geißler, bass guitar and vocals by Mirco Brandes, lead guitar by Chrille and drums by Alex.
SERVATOR started as a death metal band but due to their diverse taste in metal music, they included some other influences, mainly thrash metal.
Over the years they found their place right between thrash and death metal, with some groove punch included.
SERVATOR draw inspiration from anything that has a solid metal edge.
In January 2026, their new all-out attack titled “The Dark Triad” was released.
Like “incite the unCreation”, it was recorded and produced at Splash’n’Dash Studio by Reimund Junker in Helmstedt.
The lyrics deal with conflicts, wars, personal tragedies, and crises - basically everything that’s going wrong in the world.
It is available as a digipak with a 12-page booklet and, after the release, on all major streaming platforms. A vinyl is planned, too.
In December 2025, alongside an Instagram account, their YouTube channel went online with the first lyric video for “Drown in Blood,” to be followed soon by another video for “The Invocator.”
On January 17, 2026, the CD release party took place at JFBZ Helmstedt.
They were able to secure Instructor (thrash metal) from Rostock and the death metal steamroller New World Depression from Emsdetten as support acts (New World Depression headlining, to be more precise).
SERVATOR never stepped back from doing what they call “Servator Metal”, that’s the way they love metal and they would be grateful, if there are some follewers outside to support the underground.
https://www.youtube.com/@Servator-Metal
https://www.facebook.com/Servator.Metal/
ARCHVILE KING - "AUX HEURES DÉSESPÉRÉES"
Release date : January 23, 2025
Genre : Black Metal
For fans of: Dissection, MGLA, Dark Funeral, etc...
Origin: France
Duration: 46min43
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Tracklist:1. Riposte
2. Le Chant Des Braves
3. L’Excusé
4. Le Carneval Du Roi Des Vers
5. Sépulture
6. Aux Heures Désespérées
7. À Ces Batailles Abandonnées
8… Et Aux Hommes Misérables
Emerging at the end of 2019, ARCHVILE KING is the solo project of french multi-instrumentalist Baurus. Drawing from the sharp, biting sounds of retro Thrash and Black Metal, his music fully reflects his inspirations, offering intoxicating melodies over riffs as sharp as rusted steel.
After a unashamedly Thrash Metal solo EP, followed by a darker full-length album, ARCHVILE KING now pulls us deeper into its world with a new concept album plunging further into the swamps of the King of Worms. With "Aux Heures Désespérées", we are drawn into Black Metal infused with shades of Heavy Metal, Thrash, and grandiloquent tones, pulling us down into the depths.
"Aux Heures Désespérées" is ARCHVILE KING’s second album. From the portrait fiercely drawn by "VILE" to the festering marshes of "À La Ruine", this time Baurus recounts the final great battle of humankind against the vile Worm King. This new concept album offers several points of view, opening the door to multiple interpretations. From a wounded general who forces his son to leave him behind, to the Worm King himself mocking the troops in disarray, to the bitter reflections of a soldier on the verge of death, a bleak depiction of a futile battle is painted across eight relentless tracks.
The futility of war, the sins of the soldier, false convictions—through "Aux Heures Désespérées", Baurus gives himself over to a pacifist meditation and a scathing critique of conflict through the lens of a blood-soaked tale.
Orders : https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/bands/archvile-king
NEWS 31.1.2026
ORPHAN
PLAYGROUND SNIPER - "CHRONICLES II: SLAMPEDE OF THE HAMMERED" 2023 begann Orphan Playground Sniper mit neuen Studioaufnahmen – diesmal mit dem klaren Ziel, nichts dem Zufall zu überlassen. Tsuntsun Production formte die rohe Brutalität der Band in etwas zu verwandeln, das man guten Gewissens veröffentlichen kann. Die Aufnahmen wurden Mitte 2025 abgeschlossen.
Am 05.12.2025 erschien das zweite Album „Chronicles II: Slampede of the hammered“ über
Rising Nemesis Records.
Das Album ist eine bewusste Hommage an die Death-Metal- und Slam-Helden der Band (u.
a. Devourment, Suffocation, Dehumanized, Dying Fetus, Defeated Sanity, Hatebreed, Deicide, Vital Remains), offen verarbeitet im Artwork und direkt in den Songs. Gleichzeitig bleibt es eine Einladung an alle Metalheads zur OPS-typischen Vodka-flavored Party: sich einen ordentlichen Refill der OPS-typischen Vodka-flavored Party einzuschenken.
https://youtu.be/Dsfbq3DQIfM?si=EaCaIrp30oJirQTq
https://youtu.be/G4sv1PX0uTg?si=g9oSWbedyu0bfnrH
https://orphanplaygroundsniper.bandcamp.com/album/chronicles-ii-slampede-of-the-hammered
The video begins with the atmospheric intro “Una Tarra Ci Hé”, centred on a delicate, stirring cello performance by the band's own Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan, setting a sombre tone before transitioning into the expansive power of “Talamh Lom”.
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/lzQMDZMLtVE?si=tgVKWJLqOxts4TwV
The band said:
“Una Tarra Ci Hé and Talamh Lom are the opening tracks of our new album, they develop the concept of our first EP Nimue, but from the point of view of a human being. One who feels close to nature and yet contemplates the damages created by his own species. It is a meditation on death as return rather than ending. Rooted in forest, soil, and ancestral memory, the song follows a final offering of body and spirit back to the land: where decay becomes rebirth and the self dissolves into ocean, mountain, and earth. It mourns a world stripped of soul and freedom, while quietly affirming an infinite connection that survives beyond flesh and time.”
“In Perfect Stillness” will be available in the following formats:
CD Digipack (Limited to 300 copies): 3-panels, including a 12-page booklet.
LP Dark Green Vinyl (Limited to 200 copies): Includes a 12-page 30x30cm booklet.
Digital
“In Perfect Stillness” features guests Sarah Fielding (Darkest Era) on “My Tomb Beneath The Tide”, along with John Wilson (Piano) and Raul Andueza (Cello) on the track “Footsteps II”. Domhain and Chris Fielding produced the album. Engineered and mixed by Chris Fielding at Foel Studio, and mastered by Mike Lamb.
Pre-order now via These Hands Melt: https://ffm.bio/domhain
The band will showcase the new album live at their album launch show on Saturday, March 7th, at The Voodoo in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Hailing from Northern Ireland and consisting of four experienced musicians from the Irish metal scene, Domhain is a quartet that blends an emotional mix of post-black metal, blackgaze, and atmospheric black metal, featuring distinctive vocal harmonies and cello. Their debut EP, the three-song EP “Nimue” (October 2023), showcased their long-form songs filled with myths and remembrances, featured guest cello by Jo Quail and was recorded at Foel Studio with Chris Fielding (Conan, Primordial).
Following their debut, they released the split EP, “Of Pine and Oak” (May 2025), with labelmates Ephemeral, which the band described as "an ode to nature".
Domhain's powerful live show has garnered significant attention, notably at Fortress Festival 2024, where Kerrang! praised their set as “something bracingly original about their specific black metal blend: a sound that you can drift off into even in a live setting” and that “they already have the material to become giants of the genre”.
Tracklist: 1. Una Tarra Ci Hé
2. Talamh Lom
3. Footsteps II
4. In Perfect Stillness
5. My Tomb Beneath the Tide
Domhain are:
Andy Ennis - Vocals & bass guitar
Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan - Drums, vocals & cello
Nathan Irvine - Guitars
Ashley Irwin - Guitars & backing vocals
https://www.facebook.com/these.hands.melt
https://www.facebook.com/Domhain.band/
KINGS OF DARK DESIRES were founded in late 2022 in Oldenburg, Germany, as the project of two musicians deeply rooted in rock and metal culture for more than three decades. For around 25 years, both members have been active in various underground bands and projects, shaping a musical identity forged through experience rather than trend. Beyond their own work, they are also involved in the local metal scene, including activities connected to Hellpower Oldenburg e.V.
With KINGS OF DARK DESIRES, the duo set out to rekindle one of their earliest passions: the raw and uncompromising Black Metal of the early 1990s. Drawing inspiration from bands such as Darkthrone, Immortal, and Marduk, as well as Dark Metal acts like Type O Negative, and Moonspell, the band blends harshness with atmosphere, maturity, and emotional depth. The result is a dark and intense fusion of Black Metal and Dark Metal, shaped by life experience and a strong sense of mood rather than nostalgia.
The new album CURSE OF THE THRONE will be released digitally on February 13, 2025. Compared to its predecessor, the album is darker, more focused, and atmospherically denser, unfolding a sonic landscape steeped in decay, power, inner abysses, and dark magic as a narrative and aesthetic element. CURSE OF THE THRONE is conceived as a cohesive work, drawing the listener into a bleak, immersive world with a distinctly ritualistic intensity—without relying on dogma or ideology.
A vinyl edition is scheduled for release in March/April 2025, underlining the band’s strong connection to physical formats and classic album culture.
The debut album Battles Below, released on March 8, 2024, laid the foundation for this path. Recorded and produced entirely independently, its nine tracks marked the starting point for the artistic development that now reaches a new level with CURSE OF THE THRONE.
KINGS OF DARK DESIRES appear under the pseudonyms “King Orcus” and “King Victor”, which are part of a broader thematic framework connected to the fictional universe of THE BOOK OF ODDITY. While this background is not required to engage with the music, it offers additional layers for those who wish to explore further.
As a two-member project, live performances are not planned at present, though they remain a possibility in the more distant future with additional musicians. Instead, the band released a music video for the song “Mistress of the Dark”, produced entirely in-house as a homage to classic horror cinema.
CURSE OF THE THRONE will be available on all major streaming platforms, with Bandcamp serving as a central hub for listeners and press alike.
https://www.youtube.com/@bookofoddity
https://kingsofdarkdesires.com
https://www.facebook.com/bookofoddity
Listen to Lost in Translation on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/krateros-ep
“Lost in Translation” is the debut release that has been a long time in the making and will finally see the light of day through Inverse Records. Self-produced by the band, the EP showcases the variety of the band’s expression — from the all-out aggressive thrash of “Uticensis” to the introspective and progressive “Comatose Waltz.” Even while drawing influence from all types of music, “Lost in Translation” manages to make a cohesive statement, held together by an undying love for strong riffs and creative arrangements. The band is unbothered by current trends and will continue to write music the only way they know how — intuitively and for themselves!
Biography:
Krateros is an emerging metal band from Helsinki, Finland, founded in 2023 and led by vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter Saku Rekonen. The band’s music combines influences from old-school thrash metal bands such as Annihilator, Exodus, and Megadeth with more contemporary acts like Trivium, Machine Head, and Stam1na — all the while being filtered through a progressive lens.
The band’s first EP, “Lost in Translation,” released through Inverse Records, is a response to a perceived lack of riffs that seems to plague the metal scene of the 2020s.
Track
list:1. Tomb Service
2. Linguicide
3. The Performer
4. Uticensis
5. Comatose Waltz
Cover art by All4band Design
Line-up:
Saku Rekonen - Vocals & Guitar
Roni Helminen - Bass & Backing vocals
Touko Kaihola - Drums
Jódís Rannveigardóttir - Backing vocals on Uticensis
https://www.facebook.com/kraterosband
Label: Independent Release
Release date: february 27th 2026
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
For fans of: Insomnium | Amon Amarth | Omnium Gatherum | Wolfheart
Conflict is a constant, resurfacing long after the moment has passed - moving through history and war, and settling within oneself. Struggle appears in many forms, from external confrontation to internal collapse, blurring the line between memory, myth, and lived experience. Battles are fought not only on the battlefield, but in thought, instinct, and endurance, leaving marks that shape identity over time… until resilience - the ability to persist, to adapt, and to continue forward while carrying the weight of what came before - becomes the measure of what we endure.
The first nascent ideas that would grow into the formidable entity that is Mývalyĭr appeared during the pandemic, with isolated musicians exchanging fledgling musical concepts, before finally finding its identity and solidifying its purpose in 2023. Mývalyĭr are steeped in the forms and aesthetics of melodic death metal, but they also draw on folk traditions and orchestral stylings, incorporating violin, cello and traditional instruments like the nyckelharpa to bring additional depth and layers to their sound, sending roots deeper into musical history, long past the apocryphal birth of metal. After releasing two singles – ‘Reign’ and ‘Recollection’ – in late 2025, Mývalyĭr are now ready to present their debut full length album. A concept album that explores the idea of the eternal conflict, both within and without, that shapes us and runs through every aspect of our history and culture. The Past Tales is a staggering beginning to the story of Mývalyĭr…
Opening track, ‘Requiem’, is a gateway to the world of Mývalyĭr, a rite of passage through which the listener is transported and transformed, before being plunged into the dark waters of ‘Recollection’. Dense, layered and fierce, with cataclysmic drums, keyboards dancing between the steel-clad guitars and vocals with real bestial menace, ‘Recollection’ is comprised of a multitude of musical chapters. The sense of drama is immense, the melody lines superb…and we have only just begun to make our way through this expansive narrative. The measured and powerful ‘Reign’ is next, imbued with an air of tragedy that twists between the riffs like a cold mist, the harsh vocals a revelation – demonstrating just how evocative and effective this style of delivery can be. Enthroned at the heart of the album, the epic ‘The Past Tales Part 1’ is magnificent from the first note – with haunting melody lines, bloodied riffs and a cinematic feel, as if a curtain is being drawn back to reveal something vast and breathtaking. Beautiful female vocals add a weight of melancholy as “the battle rages on” and a superbly atmospheric conclusion flows directly into ‘The Past Tales Part 2’; an epilogue to Part 1, but tumultuous and emotionally overwhelming in its own right, with superb touches of violin. ‘The Mighty Never Fall’ then grabs you in an iron fist of death metal, immediate, engaging and irresistible, before ‘Renascence’ provides a majestic conclusion, a march from the war-torn kingdom of The Past Tales, back into the light of reality…the vivid, visceral landscape of Mývalyĭr’s creation slowly fading from perception, leaving you with an ache - a need to return.
Adorned in the striking artwork of Felipe Machado Franco (Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, Rhapsody Of Fire etc) and mixed and mastered by Janne Lunnas (Boreal Grave, Shade Of Sorrow etc) The Past Tales is the complete package – a thrilling, immersive listening experience that will never let you go. Your voyage begins on February 27th…
Line-up:
Dale Pountney – Bass
Kai Boyce – Lead Guitar
Stephen Wilkinson – Drums
Joe Clayton – Guitar/Backing Vocals
Natalie Fluess – Keyboards/Violin/Cello/Nyckelharpa/Backing Vocals
Kain - Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/myvalyir
Genre : Atmospheric Black Metal
Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : February 27th 2025
MEK NA VER is the parallel dimension, the invisible and astral realm where only the deepest sensations dwell, the feelings words cannot describe, the unseen. It is the place where pain, regret, and abandonment arise and exist in pure form, without the need for definitions.
With a line-up featuring members of the legendary Symphonic Black Metal band OPERA IX and ex-ABORYM, this second album titled "Noctivaga" is a must-listen for every hard-core fans of the genre. More specifically, Atmospheric music in the vein of Saor and the Northern Silence releases, with a strong backbone of second wave Black Metal.
This album is a descending journey into witch-related mournings, an ontological widowhood, the radical rejection of linear time and light. Through witchy archetypes, it explores the stages of the disintegration of the veil.
The artwork, painted by Dipsas Dianaria (vocalist) herself, depicts a wintery landscape inhabitated by an owl; a perfect depiction of the album's atmospheres and symphonies: cold, sheer and magical.
Steeped in an esoteric folklore of decadence, "Noctivaga" is an invitation to lose yourself in the call of the dark.
Sales Point:
For fans of Saor and the Northern Silence catalog;
Strong second wave Black Metal backbone;
With members of OPERA IX and ex-ABORYM;
Symphonic sound; cold, sheer and magical;
Witchy, esoteric folklore themed.
Tracklist:1. Silenzio d'Incanto e Fiele
2. Strix - Elegia Lunae
3. Strige - Altar of Unspoken Vows
4. Strigae - Canticum Nihilitatis (il Canto del Nulla)
5. Strigoi - In Nihilum
6. Ascensio Astrae (tra le Stelle) [Feat. Federico Sanna on vocals]
7. Sabbat - Vespera Ultima
Line-up:
Dipsas Dianara (Opera IX) – Vocals, Bass, Songwriting
Thomas A. (ex-Aborym) – Guitars
Andrea S. – Drums
Emanuele T. (Opera IX) – Synths & Keyboards
https://maskeddeadrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MekNaVer
Born from the grips of the pandemic, SHINE are the newest brainchild of Hazael’s Tomasz Dobrzeniecki, and their first album Wrathcult leaves no doubt that a new force in Polish extreme metal has awakened.
Inspired by the likes of Emperor, Bathory, Morbid Angel, Entombed and Dismember, Dobrzeniecki’s new outfit channels that lineage into something raw, relentless, and unmistakably its own.
“‘SHINE’ for me is a sheen of a sword's blade, the last thing that your foes see in their lives. You can also relate it to the Promethean light given to people that enlightens or sometimes blinds us. It can also be a glare of rage stemming from the resistance towards the unnatural rules forced upon us,” explains Dobrzeniecki when asked about his new unit’s name. “Our music is full of references to ancient rules and rituals and times when people lived in accordance with nature and cosmos using the primeval knowledge.”
Dark Descent Records will handle the release, having previously collaborated with Dobrzeniecki on the reissue of Hazael’s classic opus. Wrathcult continues in similar thematic territory, invoking forgotten ancestral knowledge and tapping into primal forces, and mythic echoes of a pre-Christian world.
“Lyrics for the album are mainly inspired by the pre-Christian spirituality and mythology of our forefathers and based on such books as Bestiariusz Słowiański, Mitologia Słowiańska by J. Bobrowski and M. Wrona, and Słowiańska Czarownica (Slavic Bestiary, Slavic Mythology, Slavic Witch). The lyrics pay homage to nature and higher powers in order to upkeep the memories of the beliefs that once shaped our heritage. We live on the borderline of three cultures that blend together in some way – Germanic, Norse and Slavic mythology have quite a lot in common.”
The album was recorded at Heinrich House Studio in Legionowo, Poland - a small city on the outskirts of Warsaw that holds an important place in metal history, being the hometown of Daray (Dimmu Borgir, Vesania), Orion (Behemoth, Vesania) and Heinrich (Vesania, Decapitated). “Me and producer Heinrich (Filip Hałucha) have known each other for about 20 years. If you want to record a metal album that 100% meets your expectations, I think he's the only person that I trust.”
An uncompromising slab of ancient fury awaits! “See you in Valhalla! I’ve heard the parties there are worth dying for,” exclaims Dobrzeniecki.
Tracklist:1. Ancient Chaos
2. The Lamb Against the Wolf
3. Kneel Before the Serpent
4. Oddajcie co moje
5. The Cult of Oak
6. The Horror of the Night
7. Witch's Prophecies
8. Wrath of the Hammer
9. The Necklace With Runes
10. Ancient Spirit
SHINE is:
Marek Krajcer-vocals
Tomasz Dobrzeniecki -guitars
Mateusz Waśkiewicz- guitars
Wojciech Gąsiorowski-bass
Paweł Duda- drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/shine.wrathcult/
Portland,
Me – Rising progressive Latin metal force MANUEL has
released the official music video for their latest single, "NATIVE
TEMPLE," featuring a powerful guest performance by
vocalist Ryan Reeves. The track is the second glimpse into the band’s
highly anticipated EP, PARASITE, set to arrive on
February 27, 2026, via Wormholedeath Records."Native Temple" is a visceral exploration of emotional entropy, masterfully bridging the gap between celestial beauty and the grit of human decay. Featuring a haunting performance by Ryan Reeves, the track serves as a sonic meditation on the "Frostfire", the paralyzing intersection of burning passion and the cold stasis of a dying connection.
The song gets deep into the pain of drifting apart, using words like "sutures" and "creases" to describe a relationship breaking at the seams. It’s a powerful look at isolation and how being away from someone can change your whole world, leaving you caught between the warmth of the past and the cold truth of the present.
The Evolution of Parasite
While "Native Temple" explores internal landscapes, the upcoming EP Parasite is a fierce outward confrontation of systemic rot. The record boldly challenges the oppressive grip of the wealthy elite, exposing the manipulative tactics used to divide society for corporate and political gain.
"Parasite is more than just a title; it’s a reflection of the parasitic forces at work in our society," says project founder Manuel Urgiles. "We reject the idea of rulers or masters. This EP serves as a rallying cry to unite against the corrupt systems that exploit us. It’s a call to dismantle their control and build a future rooted in genuine change."
Fans can experience the fearless evolution of progressive Latin metal by pre-saving the EP now.
Pre-save "Parasite" here: https://orcd.co/parasiteep
Previous Release “Ladrón” featuring Patrice Elizabeth Vigeant: https://youtu.be/1712gTH71DE
MANUEL is:
Manuel Urgiles – Lead/Rhythm Guitar
Jason Ingalls – Drums
Thomas Hiscock – Bass Guitar
Ryan Cummings – Rhythm Guitar
DJKTF – Keys/Percussion
www.facebook.com/manuelguitarist
The first single 'MAAN NIELEMÄ' is unleashed today, accompanied by a music video available here: https://youtu.be/L4ygntH5stk
The first single from the new Hautajaisyö album, Surun Paino (Weight of Sorrow), comes with brutality. 'Maan Nielemä' (Swallowed by Dirt) showcases the band at their best. It features heavy riffs, violent drums and low-growl vocals. The song is inspired by the year 536, the "Year of Darkness", when the world was shrouded in darkness and nearly all of humanity perished. Amidst the chaos, a lone gravedigger toils endlessly. The song has a DIY music video which was filmed in one take at the band's practice venue. This fits well, as the album was recorded by the band themselves using their own equipment.
'Maan Nielemä' is one of my favourite songs from the new album. It hits like a hammer on hot metal, and you can feel the darkness of the song. Making the video was damn fun. We had a rough idea of what we wanted to do, and we tried to keep the costs down. Then we just 'hit our heads against the wall' until we had the finished video." says vocalist Janne Partanen
Listen to the single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/hautajaisyo-maan-nielema
Track list: 01. Surun Paino
02. Maan Nielemä
03. Kuusi Kantajaa
04. Kasvoton Kuljettaja
05. Hetki Viimeinen
06. Lyhyt Matka Hautaan
07. Eloton
08. Haaskalinnut Minut Muistaa
Composed by Janne Partanen, Sami Lustig, Simo Pesonen & Teemu Roth
Lyrics by Janne Partanen
Production, recording & mixing: Sami Lustig
Mastering: Janne Tuikkala
Cover art by Minttu Koskinen
Line-up:
Janne Partanen: vocals
Sami Lustig: guitars
Simo Pesonen: bass
Teemu Roth: drums
https://linktr.ee/hautajaisyo
SCARAB – Death Metal Forged in
Ancient Ritual . SCARAB Signs with BRUTAL RECORDS (USA) Brutal
Records is proud to officially announce the signing of SCARAB, Egypt’s
pioneering death metal force, to its global roster. This partnership marks a
major milestone for both parties, uniting SCARAB’s ritualistic death metal
vision with one of the most respected underground metal labels in the
world—Brutal Records (USA), active since 1986.This new alliance signals a devastating new era for SCARAB, as their ancient sonic incantations are prepared for worldwide release under the Brutal Records banner.
SCARAB: Ancient Power, Global Impact Formed in 2006, SCARAB has become synonymous with ferocity, atmosphere, and spiritual intensity. Their sound fuses uncompromising death metal with Middle Eastern and Egyptian mysticism, creating a ritualistic experience that transcends borders and cultures.
Led by Sammy Sayed (vocals, orchestrations), alongside Tarek Amr (guitars), Omar Abou Doma (guitars), Mohamed El Sherbieny (bass), Amir El-Saidi (drums), and Sherif Elias (keyboards/synth), SCARAB channels ancient mythology through crushing riffs, cinematic arrangements, and relentless aggression.
The band holds a historic place in metal history as the first Egyptian extreme metal band to perform internationally, appearing at major festivals such as Dubai Desert Rock Festival (UAE), With Full Force Festival (Germany), and Bloodstock Open Air (UK).
A Proven Legacy of Extreme MetalSCARAB’s discography includes critically acclaimed releases such as:
Blinding the Masses (2010)
Serpents of the Nile (2015)
Martyrs of the Storm (2020)
Their work has featured collaborations with renowned metal figures Karl Sanders (Nile) and Joe Haley (Psycroptic), further cementing SCARAB’s status as a dominant force in the global death metal underground.
Statement from SCARAB
“We are very happy to join forces with Brutal Records. This marks a new era for SCARAB, and we are looking forward to what we are going to be putting out to the world through Brutal Records. Let the magick begin!”
Upcoming Releases via Brutal Records SCARAB and Brutal Records are already preparing devastating new material for release:
Transmutation of Fate (EP – May 8th, 2026) A metaphysical journey through destiny, transformation, and awakening, delivered through dark, atmospheric, and ritual-driven death metal.
Blinding the Masses [Reincarnated] (LP – July 31th, 2026) A brutal reimagining of SCARAB’s debut album—heavier, sharper, and reborn for a new generation of extreme metal devotees.
The Ritual Begins This signing represents more than a business agreement—it is an awakening. With Brutal Records’ global reach and SCARAB’s uncompromising vision, the coming releases will expand the band’s mythology and deliver apocalyptic death metal where the sacred and the savage collide.
Stay tuned for release dates, preorders, and exclusive content.
https://brutalrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BrutalRecords.USA/
Belorusian
Death Metal Pack, EXIMPERITUS, have partnered
with Metal Injection for the pre-release stream of forthcoming
album, MERITORIOUSNESS OF EQUANIMITY. The premiere
coincides with the unveiling of the album's line-up, which includes
vocalist/lyricist Pawel Nalecki (ex-Ominous Scriptures) and
composer/multi-instrumentalist Siarhei Liakh (Relics Of
Humanity, ex-Ominous Scriptures), as well as session drummer Davide
“Brutal Dave” Billia (Beheaded, Antropofagus).Stream the album now at:
Willowtip Records will unleash Meritoriousness of Equanimity January 30 on vinyl, cassette, CD, and digital formats.
Eximperitus' forthcoming third album, Meritoriousness of Equanimity, contains nine independent compositions united by the idea of searching for inner support in an era of turbulence. Exposure and scourging of social dogmas and morbid tendencies on the ruins of the old world...
"In times when despair overflows human hearts… when the chasm of strife between civilizations widens… when loyalty to ideologies tears blood ties apart… when the world stands still, poised for the final leap of prolonged self-destruction… We can draw strength solely from internal sources, which are filled only by the multifaceted power of Death Metal..."- Eximperitus
Pre-order:
https://eximperitus.bandcamp.com/album/meritoriousness-of-equanimity
https://www.willowtip.com/bands/details/eximperitus.aspx
Track Listing:
I. One Step Long Infinity.
II. Contemplation of the Plastic Fibers of Perfection at the Second Level of Reality.
III. Twelve Centuries of Triumph of the Third Kingdom…
IV. Finding Consistency in the Fourth Quadrant of Eternity.
V. The Untimely Fruit of the Unsaid.
VI. Golden Chains for the Construction of Individual Greatness.
VII. Molecular Disintegration of an Unattainable Solitary Will in a Vessel of Wisdom...
VIII. Chalkionic Wandering Among the Wreckage of the Future.
IX. Standing at the Skirt of the Ruins of Human Nature (...on the Other Side of Man and Time).
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/eximperitus.official
2002
formed Finnish industrial metal band RUOSKA, will release
their sixth studio album "KADE" February
27th. Now they have released the final single IKIROUTA from
the upcoming album. When the mood darkens and despair rears its head, Ikirouta hits you in the face with memories, biting into your bones and core like a freezing winter wind.
Based on audience reactions at recent gigs, Ikirouta proved that there is demand among Ruoska fans for heavy, slow-tempo tracks. The feedback on the song surprised the band members themselves, even though Ikirouta breaks the traditional boundaries of Ruoska.
For the first time, Ruoska combines powerful distorted guitars with stunning orchestral arrangements in a way that reveals new nuances with each listen. Ikirouta keeps its listeners in its strong grip, creating a chilling and gloomy mental landscape that only a Finn can understand.
Listen to the single on music services : https://push.fm/fl/ruoska-ikirouta
The band, which hails from Juva, Eastern Finland, and has already racked up nearly 25 million plays on Spotify alone, will also be heading out on an album release tour, which will be starting right after album release.
Ruoska is:
Patrik Mennander (Vocals)
Samuli Rimmi (Guitar, Backing vocals)
Miika Kokkola (Bass, Backing vocals)
Teemu Karppinen (Drums)
https://www.facebook.com/ruoskaband
Guten
Tag, here's the first LYCANTHROPIC CHANTS NEWSLETTER of
2026! The year has already gotten off to a busy start, with REPULSIVE
FEAST touring with ROTTEN SOUND at the beginning of the year,
and today we will officially (re-)release three different records, accompanied
by https://lycanthropic.de/product-category/merch drop.PULMONARY FIBROSIS / REPULSIVE FEAST - "FETISH OF GORE" SPLIT-7" green variant out now!
The first run of this gory collaboration on wax has been sold out from us within a few days. To have them available again, we pressed 200 green copies.
This is the fetid feast you’ve been waiting for: a putrid split 7” featuring long-running French goregrind maniacs PULMONARY FIBROSIS and German deathgrinding sickos REPULSIVE FEAST.
All songs from both bands are about the serial killer Adolfo Constanzo.
Tracklist:
Side A – PULMONARY FIBROSIS
1. Human Slaughterhouse
2. Spines & Brains*
Side B – REPULSIVE FEAST
1. Twisted Infamous Terror
2. Narcosatanists
*featuring David Mikkelsen (Extremely Rotten Productions, UNDERGANG, SEQUESTRUM, etc.)
Artwork by Doodles Of Death. Layout by Steffen Brandes and FINAdesigns.
Second pressing:
200x green vinyl + logos on cover, fold out cover made of 300gsm recycling paper. Poly-lined black inner-sleeves plus bandcamp download code.
TWO CRYPTIC BROOD ALBUMS AVAILABLE ON TAPE AGAIN!
Some might have seem them on the "Creeping Cryptic Contagion" tour through Western Europe already, officially released today and available from our shop now:
CRYPTIC BROOD – “Necrotic Flesh Bacteria” MC
100 clear shell tapes with silver glitter and black on-body print. Hand-numbered, withth J-card, separate lyric sheet and includes a free bandcamp download.
CRYPTIC BROOD - "Outcome Of Obnoxious Science" MC
100 copies on clear shell tapes with green glitter and black on-body print. Hand-numbered, 5 panel J-card, separate lyric sheet and a bandcamp download.
NEW REPULSIVE FEAST MERCHANDISE AVAILABLE
New longsleeves, t-shirts, caps and patches are available from our shop now.
"Fetish Of Gore" longsleeve
"Meat Hook Mutilation" longsleeve"
Fetish Of Gore" t-shirt
"Death Grind Gore" baseball cap
Logo trucker caps (black, green, magenta)
"Death Grind Gore" woven patch
Logo punk patches (white or green logo)
All merch from CRYPTIC BROOD and REPULSIVE FEAST available can be found via https://lycanthropic.de/product-category/merch
UPCOMING LOCAL SHOWS IN WOLFSBURG (GERMANY)
...and this time including one show presented by Lycanthropic Chants in Braunschweig (Germany):
Am Freitag, den 20. Februar 2026 im „B58“ in Braunschweig:
NO SHELTER. (Death Metal/Hardcore / GER, Emsdetten)
REPULSIVE FEAST (Death Metal/Grindcore / GER, Wolfsburg)
MUDHEAD (Thrash Metal/Crossover / GER, Rotenburg an der Wümme)
Am Montag, den 27. April 2026 im s.v. Jugendhaus Ost in Wolfsburg:
VASTUM (Death Metal / USA, San Francisco)
MORBIFIC (Death Metal / FIN, Kitee)
https://lycanthropic.de/
https://www.facebook.com/lycanthropic.de
Montreal (QC) / Stockholm (SE) - International Progressive Metal band, VOIDCHASER, have announced the April 9th release of their second full-length album, titled INTERSTELLAR I.
FFO: Devin Townsend, Haken, Dream Theater, Scar Symmetry, Ayreon, Pagan's Mind
Depicting themes of technological overreach, mass corruption and personal struggles related to identity, love and survival, the narrative unfolds within a vast, lore infused deep space universe. Interstellar I balances a dense and layered wall of sound with high-energy choruses and memorable melodies, where every moment serves the storytelling. Musically, the album brings to mind the style of Devin Townsend’s Ziltoid the Omniscient and Dream Theater’s Systematic Chaos, while reinterpreting those influences through Voidchaser’s own modern and distinctive sound, also drawing from classic foundations found in Deep Purple’s Machine Head and Black Sabbath’s Paranoid. With this release, Voidchaser returns with a level of maturity that defines their most ambitious and fully realized work to date.
Voidchaser will release the album's first single, "Welcome to the Terror Corp," on February 13.
On April 10th at Piranha Bar in Montreal, QC, Canada, Voidchaser will launch their new album, Interstellar I, performing it in its entirety in an exclusive live set, along with additional material. Omnivide and Jovian Storms will perform as special guests.
Track
Listing:1. The Grand Design
2. Welcome to Terra Corp
3. Initiation Day
4. Hyperconverter
5. Anything for Love
6. Rain / Solar Winds
7. Ivory Tower
8. Renew
Credits:
Lyrics and Songwriting by Chad Bernatchez.
Production and Arrangements by Jici Lord-Gauthier.
Management and Booking by Jici Lord-Gauthier (Chaotic Good Music).
Mixed and Mastered by Jason Poulin.
Drums Recorded by David Lizotte.
Session keyboards by Mathieu Fiset.
Artwork by Sam Harwood.
Photography by Josh Kirschner (Kirschner Studios).
Line-Up:
Chad Bernatchez - Vocals, Guitar
Jici Lord-Gauthier - Guitar, Bass
Colin MacAndrew - Drums
Bio:
Based in Montreal and Stockholm, Voidchaser is a progressive metal band that quickly established itself as a band worth watching on both local and international stages. Formed in 2023, the band rapidly gained momentum through a steady stream of releases, earning attention from niche outlets such as The ProgSpace, Prog Magazine and Prog Sphere, alongside coverage from major metal media, including Metal Injection and Decibel Magazine.
In 2024, Voidchaser released their debut EP, Odyssey, followed by two standalone singles and their debut full-length album, Solace. Written as a single continuous 30-minute composition, Solace is a concept album set in an orbital dystopia, exploring themes of power, uncertainty and love. The release charted among the top metal albums on Apple Music and iTunes in Canada, Sweden, Norway and several other countries.
The band continued its momentum in 2025 with the release of Trust, an EP featuring guest appearances from Jim Grey of Caligula’s Horse and members of The Anchoret. That same year, the band embarked on its first international tour, performing 12 dates across Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden, and sharing the stage with acts such as Vulkan, Threshold, Kingcrow, Nospūn, Omnivide and Ok Goodnight. Highlights included appearances at ProgPower Europe in the Netherlands and the inaugural ProgStorm Festival in Montréal, Canada.
In 2026, Voidchaser announced the upcoming release of Interstellar I, their second full-length record.
https://www.facebook.com/VoidchaserOfficial
Another
step for NIGHTSHADE towards the release of "IN
ESSENCE DIVIDED", available from February 20, 2026, on My Kingdom
Music.Today, we present a new song, "OV SEAS & SEEDS", which opens the door to another facet of the Swiss band's world.
The official video, directed by DHRood, is available at https://youtu.be/nYh8YdSjF00
The single is available on digital platforms, together to a different version mixed and mastered at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios in London, giving the song an even warmer, more classic sound and tone. You can find both versions on Spotify, Apple Music, and more.
"Ov Seas & Seed" is an intense and engaging track, embracing the roots of early '70s Progressive Metal, the avant-garde Black Metal of the last decade, and the Melodic Metal of the '90s. It explores melancholic dynamics and atmospheres ranging from dark and psychedelic to heavy, galloping riffs by Thomas Wacinski, with the emotional David Genillard's vocals.
And it's just another taste of what's to come on "In Essence Divided", an album that was mixed and mastered by Swiss engineer Raphaël Bovey, known for his work with Monkey3, Nostromo, Gojira, Samael, and his extensive discography.
This album will delight fans of Progressive Metal à la OPETH, as well as those who appreciate a haunting mix of styles and influences, from PINK FLOYD to BLOOD INCANTATION, from SAMAEL to GOJIRA!
Pre-order digipakCD at https://t.ly/JNH6t
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/NightshadeMetal
Finnish
heavy psych metal trio MOUNT PALATINE‘S upcoming album WORMHOLY
WORLD is released on February 6th
2026 through Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records on CD and
digital formats.Wormholy World
Wormholy World by Mount Palatine is an ultimate trip through destruction and recreation, that is, the chaos of life and universe itself. Musically, the album builds on the psychedelic heavy jams of a trio that consists of Jean the Baron (Guitars), Count Boogie (Bass), and Lord of the Groove (Drums). Through years of ensemble playing, the trio has developed their signature style of heavy psych metal, which combined elements of doom, stoner, sludge, psychedelic rock, and progressive metal. As a result, these chaotic trips form into a cosmic dance, where brittle melodies break under crushing riffs, just to be reformed again into triumphant harmony. Likewise, the vocals vary from ethereal choirs to heavy growls.
In the vein of their debut album “Cockroach Crusade” (self-released under the name The Paladin), Wormholy World was born from intense jam sessions, shaping a sound that is both cohesive and expansive. All songs have been created and arranged through continuous jams and iterations, and caught on tape in a similar fashion; via live-recordings of the band playing together in their own rehearsal place and home studio at Saarni Music. On top of these jam-like base tracks, layers and layers of additional guitars, synths, sound effects, and vocals have been stacked, until the songs have reached their final cosmic level envisioned by the collective mind of the band. The final, magic touch on the audio track was added by Mactus the Magemaster from Saarni Music, breathing life into it, making it sparkle with cosmic glister.
While the debut explored a wide array of influences, this album moves ever more clearly toward the band’s chosen path and artistic vision, bringing a stronger sense of cohesion to their evolving style. Mount Palatine’s Wormholy World is something that might resonate with fans of bands like Elder, Stoned Jesus, Mastodon, and Down without sounding directly like any of them, yet perhaps a little like all of them combined. With the album, the band continues to carve their own distinctive niche in the landscape of modern heavy psychedelic metal.
Band biography
Mount Palatine is a heavy psych metal trio founded in Helsinki, Finland. Built on years of playing together, the band thrives on long-form jamming, through which raw improvisational pieces are transformed into towering compositions. What began as a reunion of old bandmates for casual jamming in the year 2020, soon developed into a collective musical entity with relentless creative force.
The lineup consists of Jean the Baron (guitar & vocals), Count Boogie (bass), and Lord of the Groove (drums). Together they channel their unique chemistry into sprawling songs that range from crushing sludge-laden riffs to hypnotic psychedelic textures, from screamed vocals that tear through the void to ethereal clean melodies that linger like echoes from another realm. The result is an immersive soundscape that is as punishing as it is transcendental — heavy but never static, spiritual yet grounded in groove. Drawing inspiration from across genres, Mount Palatine weave elements of doom, stoner, progressive metal, psychedelic rock, and beyond into a sound unmistakably their own.
Originally performing under the name The Paladin, the trio released their debut album Cockroach Crusade (2024), which laid the foundations of their evolving sound. As their style matured, the decision came to adopt a new name that would better reflect their unique identity. Thus, Mount Palatine was born — a symbol of rebirth, expansion, and the next stage of their journey. The band continues to operate from Helsinki.
Lyrically and thematically, Mount Palatine delves into cosmic and spiritual realms, examining existence, life, death, and the mysteries of reality and the universe, often flirting with religious and philosophical concepts. The result is music that resonates on both visceral and contemplative levels — an invitation to lose oneself in sound while reflecting on the infinite.
Mount Palatine is something that might resonate with fans of bands like Elder, Stoned Jesus, Mastodon, and Down without sounding directly like any of them, yet perhaps a little like all of them combined.
The band is now preparing to broaden its horizons internationally with their upcoming second album, Wormholy World that is released via the renowned doom label Argonauta Records. With crushing heaviness, visionary songwriting, and uncompromising energy on stage, Mount Palatine are carving their place in the evolving landscape of modern heavy psychedelic music.
Young old guys playing good old music.
https://www.mountpalatine.com/
Genre : Melodic Black MetalLabel : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : February 27th 2025
IMBOLC third album "Sette Cornici di Purificazione" displays a sound and stuye that ranges from classic up-tempo Melodic Black Metal to passages featuring classical-acoustic guitars, very often supported by synths inspired by '70s and '90s horror films, with a surprising result of various influences in a pretty much old school formula.
The riffing is still a powerful backbone of the IMBOLC sound, supported by a notable melancholy and, musically speaking, a mixture of second-wave Melodic Black Metal and Post-Black Metal in the vein of Agalloch and first-era Satyricon. The themes are once again centered on inner suffering, the discomfort of everyday life and the worthlessness of human beings, once again with references to old school horror cinema.
IMBOLC line-up features members of the notable Occult Black Metal band Darkend, along with relevant italian Death Metal bands such as Demiurgon and Unbirth.
Sales point:
The artwork is inspired by the film "The Masque of the Red Death" (1964, Roger Corman). Drawn by Maira Pedroni (http://www.mairapedroni.art/)
Old-school Melodic Black Metal style, primarly second-wave;
Reminiscent of first-era Satyricon and Agalloch, but not strictly;
Influenced by 70's-90's horror movies;
With members of Darkend, Demiurgon and Unbirth
https://maskeddeadrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Imbolcoriginal
Listen to The Wounds on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/deadvoidinc-wounds
"Musically, the track charges forward at full speed, sending chills down the listener’s spine from start to finish. In fact, it serves as an excellent cross-section of the band as a whole, as it features nuances drawn from several different genres. Lyrically, the song delves into the inner landscapes of vocalist Jonne “Monni” Saarinen, with the words rooted in the tragedies and turning points of his own childhood", says Tuomas Torikka (composer/guitarist)
Biography:Deadvoid Inc. is a Finnish melodic death metal band that blends elements ranging from classical music to extreme metal, creating an energetic, technically skilled, and
completely distinctive musical entity.
D-inc was formed in early 2025 when longtime acquaintances Jonne Saarinen (vocals) and Tuomas Torikka (composition & guitar) decided to build something new in the midst of everything old. The album was completed in its entirety, and prior to its release, guitarist Jami Honkala and bassist Ville Heino—both heavily involved in the making
of the record—joined the band.
This lineup of seasoned professionals in their field brings a fresh new subgenre to the airwaves, unlike anything you’ve heard before. Energetic songs, catchy grand melodies, furious riffs, and heart-wrenching slow sections are here to show everyone what Deadvoid Inc. is all about.
The band will release their debut album in March 2026.
Composed by Tuomas Torikka
Lyrics by Jonne Saarinen & Tuomas Torikka
Cover art by Kai Kolima
Line-up:
Vocals: Jonne Saarinen
Guitars: Tuomas Torikka
Bass: Ville Mikkola
Drums: Tino Jäntti
https://www.facebook.com/deadvoidinc
Label: Black Metal ArchivesRelease date: february 27th 2026
Genre: Thrash Metal/Horror Punk
For fans of: Venom | Mercyful Fate | Celtic Frost | Plasmatics
The engine roars, adding its primal, petrol-fuelled fury to the cacophony of the midnight streets. With menace in its very construction the car seems to prowl the pools of neon light, the sound of the devil’s music blasting from it like a heartbeat. Hymns to lust, violence and rebellion rise up through the darkness, clawing their way through the watching windows, becoming a soundtrack to the sordid stories being played out behind the glass. The Necrosexual smiles, tasting every warm, wet drop of passion, pain, desperation and cruelty as he passes. Hands on the wheel he rides through the hopeless, despairing dreams of the shadow people, trapped on a road to rubble and ruin…
Road To Rubble is the new album from Philadelphia’s Necrosexual, a band that revel in the dark excesses of the metal mindset and ideology, bringing together overdriven guitars and irreverent belligerence, extremes of velocity with the blackest humour and resolute defiance. Lead by charismatic frontman, The Necrosexual, these creatures of the night have been rampaging through the metal underground with their intoxicating elixir of heavy metal, thrash metal and horror punk since 2011, releasing their debut album, GRIM-1, in 2018 - and they’ve never sounded better than they do right now…
Opening with the primal riffs and bestial vocalisations of ‘High Times In Hell’, a song built from old bones but with fresh flesh upon them, Road To Rubble walks a weaving, drunken line between carnage and celebration. ‘The Brimstone Brothel’ combines a punk punch with blast beat madness in a tale of cannibalism behind the walls of an old west bordello and ‘Kiss The Knife’ is a burlesque carnival of horror and erotica with snarling riffs, driving rhythms and scything, melodic lead work. Each song is a step along the road to damnation, another mile into a hell curated by The Necrosexual; from the tattered majesty and epic tales of wasteland warriors that is ‘All Roads Lead To Rubble’ to ‘Nocturnal Ignition’ that shifts from moonlight and dust to muscular riffs, gothic drama and dirty punk sleaze. When the bloodthirsty dominatrix of ‘Hard Leather Woman’ has finished with you – a strident, ironclad, climactic conclusion – you’ll be left scarred and bloodstained, with illusions shattered and eyes open to all that walks on the other side of the night.
Mixed by Steve Roche (Blemish, Pariiah, Serpent Throne etc) and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Blood Incantation, Cavelera Conspiracy), Road To Rubble has an ‘80s metal darkness and bite, but with a scalpel sharp clarity and modern vivacity. It’s a heady, hypnotic combination that will keep you crawling back for more. Adorned in the garish, gaudy, acid nightmare of Scott R. Johnston’s vibrant cover artwork, Road To Rubble will be available on vinyl, CD, cassette and digital formats from the Necrosexual webstore in the US and on CD and cassette from Black Metal Archives in the UK. The Necrosexual party begins on February 27th – and no-one’s going home…
Continue your voyage into The Necrosexual’s world of metal and madness in the official Necrosexual comic books! #2: Necrosexual Encounters, the long awaited follow up to #1: The Insatiable Necrosexual.
Line-up:
The Necrosexual - lead bass, guitar, screams, keyboards, whip strikes
Anthony ‘Vigo’ Gabriele - lead guitar, conspiracy and conjuration
Nick Roskow - lead guitar, divebombs
Miles Ziskind - drums, smoke
https://blackmetalarchiveslabel.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/Grimmestofalltime
Toilet ov Hell premiered a new song with a pretty interesting twist that can be found at https://toiletovhell.com/exclusive-track-premiere-phasmas-iii/
Excerpt - "Phasma’s new era is twinned and twined, staging the great cosmic tug between black metal and death metal in the depths of darkness"
PHASMA - “PURGATORY”
For
fans of - Mgla, Dying
Fetus, Crypts of Despair, Kriegsmaschine, PsycropticGreek band Phasma are attempting to meld influences ranging from black metal to brutal death metal and everything in between. The music effortlessly oscillates from sharp black metal riffs to pummelling death metal blasts with matching vocal styles, and even toss in a breakdown or two in the middle. It’s something that doesn’t seem to work on paper and yet they manage to make it sound cohesive and convincing enough, with songwriting that's elaborate and well thought out to warrant songs lasting beyond mere novelty quick-listen length. Every song seems like an extension if not an improvisation over the previous one, as the band unfurls dimensions within the sound that they have concocted. Bands playing a mix of styles isn't uncommon but to intermingle influences of such disparate, almost contrasting styles is fascinating and remarkable especially when they have high replay value and lasting appeal. Like it or not, Phasma are here to stay.
Lineup
Jason Athanasiadis (Kawir) - Guitars and songwriting
Luis Ferre (Gravecarver) - Vocals and lyrics
Bill Nanos (Dead Conregation) - Drums
George Markantonis - Bass
Album cover by George Angelis
Merch design by CVSPE
Track listing
1. I
2. II
3. III
4. IV
5. V
6. VI
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/PhasmaProject
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity
On April 24th, 2026, Post-Punk ensemble 30 DENARI will release their debut album "KINDLY PLOTTING FOR RIOT". We unveil the cover artwork painted by Crez Adrenalink Dojo, band's singer and talented tattoo artist, who perfectly transformed into art the band's intents.
They will present 10 tracks. Here is the complete tracklist:1. Modern Era Working Class
2. Judgment Day
3. The Horizon (ft. Rikarda Parasol)
4. Colpiscimi
5. Traitor (ft. Federica Lee Querizia Garenna)
6. Il Maleficio
7. Get Used To It (ft. Numa Echos)
8. Caro Nemico
9. Mirame A La Cara
10. Mestre Bahnhof Central
Pre-order CD and LP at: https://t.ly/Ylu3d
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Artesonika Studio by Ivan Moni Bidin (Elvenking, Vivaldi Metal Project, Serenity, Visions Of Atlantis among his collaboration), "Kindly Plotting For Riot", is a sonorous manifesto forged in darkness, to dismantle stylistic boundaries.
The project and its music find their roots in the Post-Punk and New Wave scene (Joy Division, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Coil, Gary Numan) and into more contemporary visions such as Nine Inch Nails, Editors, and Chelsea Wolfe, but also paying homage to the Italian Punk and Post-Punk scene represented by Negazione, Kina, Franti, Diaframma, Disciplinatha and Limbo / Pankow.
Expect a visceral journey, almost a hypnotic and sharp ritual, capable of combining mechanical impulses and emotional tension.
Release date: "Kindly Plotting For Riot" out on April 24th on CD/LP/digital
Musicians: Crez - voice; Zuzu - guitars / keyboards; Agostino - bass; Lorenzo - drums (members of Ensoph, Awake The Sun, Ishvara, Raptus, Aliensurfers, Cani Sciolti, Permanent)
Style: Post-Punk with Electro-Industrial, Dark Wave and Middle Eastern Ethnic nuances.
Digital distribution: Sodeh Records
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/30denariband
For fans of : Entombed, early Fear Factory, Napalm Death, Obituary, Slayer, Terrorizer and Voivod.
CrusHuman return to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions with the new album Imperial! Washington DC's CrusHuman return with an extreme concoction of Grindcore, Death Metal, Hardcore and Punk. Imperial unleashes 14 tracks that take you down another dark twisted chaotic journey into the control matrix we live in. Featuring cover artwork by Walter Figueroa, and guest vocals from Frank Rini, Richard Johnson, Dave Kaye, amiiithiiist and Juan Ramon Lopez.
Guest vocals on Bell Ringer by Frank Rini, Richard Johnson and Dave Kaye
Guest vocals on 5 Dollar Lobotomy by amiiithiiist
Guest vocals on Synthetic Religion by amiiithiiist
Guest vocals on Die Young by Dave Kaye
Guest vocals on OTTO by Juan Ramon Lopez
Listen to the single "Synthetic Religion" at https://youtu.be/C-kpsLLCdd8
Pre-order the CD for only $10 at https://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com/products/crushuman-imperial-cd
Pre-order the Digital Download for only $6.66 at https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/album/imperial
Tracklisting:1. Bell Ringer
2. Lab Rat
3. 5 Dollar Lobotomy
4. Synthetic Religion
5. Hive Mind
6. Die Young
7. Order Of The Dragon
8. Discord
9. The List
10. Trinity
11. Wet Works
12. Artificial Salvation
13. Last Drop
14. OTTO
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
www.horrorpaingoredeath.com
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
Label: Meuse Music RecordsRelease date: february 27th 2026
Genre: Funeral Doom / Death Metal
For fans of: Shape Of Despair | Indescinence | Hellight | Skepticism
I saw the hand of doom reach into my sky and enfold my sun, drawing it down beyond the distant horizon. The colours of my world bled away, through differing shades of grey to the darkness of unending night and there, in the black, wracked by pain beyond all previous imagining, I found I could see with a clarity I had never known before. As love and dreams fled into the shadows, my vision of the path ahead was suddenly unobstructed and I could see my final place of rest awaiting me. The tomb held no terrors for me now and I began my steady, deliberate journey through the vale of tears with quiet acceptance – slowly fading as each step brought me closer to that cold, ungentle bed.
Born in Tbilisi in Georgia, on the banks of the Kura River, Ennui have built a formidable reputation on the foundations of four full length studio albums, each one a towering edifice of funeral doom/death metal. From the 2012 debut, Mze Ukunisa, inspired by the poetic works of Terentio Graneli, to 2018s End Of The Circle, described by Mystification Zine as “a stunning dance of extremes”, Ennui have followed their own path of vast, measured heaviness and unflinching explorations of life changing emotions and the fundamental questions of existence. Now, it is time for the fifth chapter in their grand tale to be written as Ennui walk ever deeper into the darkness...with Qroba.
Qroba, meaning vanishment, the process of disappearance, begins with the revelatory ‘Antinatalism’, its staggering chords and drum beats like distant thunder conjuring a sense of immeasurable scale entwined with a piercing, poignant intimacy of thought and experience. A voice rises through the music, climbing up from the deepest chambers of the heart and the melancholy, grief and summoned solitude are all encompassing. Portentous melodies lead us on through a windswept wilderness and shuddering riffs draw down the dark and bleach the sun’s warmth from the world. This is deeper, darker, colder than ever before…and we have only just begun. The weight of the first full chords of ‘Becoming Void’ drive the breath from your body and the illusions of life’s comforts are crushed, ground into the frozen soil, before achingly beautiful guitar leads of sublime sorrow climb from the bleak vista. Ennui’s ability to weave remarkable subtlety and emotion into music of such staggering weight is exemplified in ‘Decima’, where delicate notes and avalanches of sound evoke the moment of heartbreak and draw it out through eternity, with a traditional three stringed lute, the panduri, adding the melancholy atmosphere of the Georgian mountains. And still Qroba carries us onwards, through the soul-shaking, overwhelming majesty of ‘Down To The Stars’ to our final unmaking with ‘Mokvda Mze’; where opening notes of rich resonance are gradually consumed by the tremendous power of Ennui in full flight – those earthshaking vocals, those inexorable chords and lamenting melodies – and we are cast upon the eternal, fathomless seas of grief, until, at last, we slip into nothingness.
Mixed and mastered by Esoteric’s Greg Chandler, whose knowledgeable touch has given such heft and presence to works by Officium Triste, My Silent Wake, Pantheist and many more, Qroba possesses an agonised nobility of sound, a layered, textured depth that infuses the songs with a remarkable unswerving honesty. Surely the pinnacle in Ennui’s outstanding canon of work to date, Qroba will be released by Meuse Music Records on February 27th, bedecked in the stunning artwork of Ben J ‘Winterkeep’ (Ofnus), with additional design from Vladimir 'Smerdulak' Chebakov (1914, Lake Of Tears etc) – and the scope and power of funeral doom will be redefined once more.
Line-up:
David Unsaved – Guitars, bass, vocals
Serge Shengelia – Guitars
Alexander Gongliashvili – Drums
Andrey Azatyan – Guitars
Kakhi Kiknadzr – Guitars
https://www.meusemusicrecords.eu/
https://linktr.ee/ennuitheband
Style : Death Metal
Format : CD / LP
Release date : 20.3. 2026
Label : MusikÖ_Eye
Line up
Eflam : guitars & vocals
Melaine : bass & vocals
Morgann : drums
Tracklist :
01 – Gwad An Diaoul
02 – Enteuzet Get Trenk
03 – Diskar
04 – Distrujour Hor Bed
05 - Argad
06- An Ankou Ar E Varc’h
07 – Sklaved An Doueed
08 – Slave New World (Sepultura cover)
Recorded & mixed in July 2025
All music by Tanork / Lyrics by Eflam & Melaine
Mixing & mastering : Estebane Coudray
Artwork & layout : Hugo Zrd
https://www.musiko-eye.fr/boutique/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088855216403
The most essential thing in the third millennium is to stay human.
Distorted Reflection was formed in August 2022 by Kostas Sal (ex-Sorrows Path) to pursue a heavier vision of the doom metal genre. The band maintains a low-profile approach, yet their first full length album (Doom Rules Eternally-2024) received significant radio airplay, positive reviews and decent sales.
"Doom Zone" will be released on February 27 via German Iron Shield Records.
Tracklist
:1) 3000 A.D.
2) My Second Father
3) Gates Of Paranoia
4) Love On Earth
5) Asphyxiating
6) Certain Death
7) Diminished
8) Tower Of Dreams
9) Forecourt To Death
10) The Final Attempt
11) Morbid Reality
Album pre-order:
Line up
Jack Starr: Guitar Solo on “3000 A.D.”
Kostas Sal: Guitar, Vocals
Vangelis Yal: Bass, Synth, Backing Vocals
Thomas Zen: Drums
Cover Artwork, CD Artwork and Logo Artwork by Tomas Arfert
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Vangelis Yal at Fragile Studio
https://www.youtube.com/@distortedreflectiondoom
https://distortedreflectiondoom.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/distortedreflectiondoom
Pre-Order starts NOW!
Hello Folks! On 13 March 2026, we will release the new VOR DIE HUNDE album entitled ‘WELTMARKTFÜHRER BEFIEHL – WIR ENTFOLGEN!’ A treat for all Grindcore and Crust fans among you! The band from Passau delivers 15 powerful songs as if there were no tomorrow! Thematically, it's about a wild journey through our capitalist consumer world. Here we present the truly brilliant album cover and a live recording from 2025, which includes two songs from the new album!
Available for pre-order in our shop: https://defyingdanger.de/shop/VOR-DIE-HUNDE-Weltmarktfuehrer-Befiehl-Wir-EntFolgen-CD
Hello to All.We are more than happy to present to you the new, official video clip for ACID DEATH`S
latest album, "EVOLUTION". The video clip is called "Coded Dominion":
"Coded Dominion" is the 3rd official video that comes from band's latest album, following the two lyric videos, "The Gateway To Knowledge (feat. Kelly R Shaefer and James Murphy)" (https://youtu.be/kCIse8yEFNs?si=WzzI194X5ZSouFHa) and "Rise Of Salvation" (https://youtu.be/l1KK25WjMJc?si=hH7w2E41Yt7CPaVg)
"Coded Dominion" was filmed at the Athenian theater "Roes" in December/2025. Cameras by band's guitarist, Dennis Kostopoulos and Elena Vasilaki. Directed and edited by Dennis Kostopoulos.
Band's latest album, "Evolution" was released on November 21st, 2025 by the German label, 7hard/7us Media Group GmbH.
Thank you for your time and support. All the best ACID DEATH .
www.7hard.de
www.sevenus.de
www.aciddeath.net
Originally released in 2009, as well as on tape through Dying Victims in 2011, this album has not lost any of its juvenile enthusiasm for raw and evil thrash metal. While the band developed a more complex style of blackened heavy thrash throughout the years, this debut album is pure and straightforward black thrashing madness. Clocking in at just over half an hour, the album perfectly represents the Teutonic (black) thrash revival of the mid-2000s.
Line-up 2009:
Marco Justinger - Bass
Sascha Bastian - Guitars
Jan Hirtz - Vocals, Guitars
Simon Wender - Drums
From Saarland, Germany
Release date:
27th March
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on red vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
Tracklist01 Rise of the Desecrated
02 Eternal War
03 Burn the Witch
04 Pedophiliac
05 Underworld Alliance
06 Blood in the Alley
07 Vlad the Impaler
08 Cold Grave
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
NEWS 24.1.2026
TÜRBÖWITCH – “UNDER HAUNTED SKIES”
VÖ: 20.03.2026Label: Time To Kill Records
Die ungarischen Speed-/Thrash-Metal-Maniacs TÜRBÖWITCH haben soeben ihr drittes Album "Under Haunted Skies" angekündigt, das am 20. März 2026 über Time To Kill Records erscheinen wird.
Das neue Album markiert einen entscheidenden Schritt nach vorne für die Band aus Budapest, die damit ihre kompromisslose Haltung und ihre unerbittliche Live-Energie, die ihnen einen sehr guten Ruf in der europäischen Underground-Szene eingebracht haben, weiter verfeinert. Mit "Under Haunted Skies" liefern TÜRBÖWITCH ihr bisher fokussiertestes und wildestes Material: eine geballte Ladung massiver Riffs, halsbrecherischer Tempi und instinktiver Dringlichkeit.
Das Album hat seine Wurzeln im Blackened Speed-Thrash und schöpft aus der rohen Wildheit und punkigen Aggression von Bands wie Midnight, der messerscharfen Thrash-Präzision von The Crown und dem dunklen melodischen Drive von Hellripper, wobei es sich dennoch eine klar erkennbare Persönlichkeit bewahrt. Melodische Akzente durchbrechen das gezielte Chaos und verleihen dem Album Tiefe und Charakter, ohne jemals die viszerale Wirkung der Band zu schmälern.
Getreu ihrem kompromisslosen Ethos kanalisieren TÜRBÖWITCH den Geist des Extreme Metal der 80er-Jahre durch ein modernes Gefühl der Unmittelbarkeit und liefern Songs, die schnell, dreckig und auf maximale Wirkung ausgelegt sind. Mit Time To Kill Records als Partner für die Veröffentlichung von "Under Haunted Skies" ist die Band bereit, ihren unheiligen Speed-Angriff einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich zu machen, während sie gleichzeitig fest in der rücksichtslosen Intensität verwurzelt bleibt, die sie seit ihren Anfängen auszeichnet.
Über TÜRBÖWITCH
TÜRBÖWITCH wurde 2016 in Budapest gegründet, ins Leben gerufen von Sänger Zslöd und Gitarrist Kommandante Klit als rohe, schnörkellose Hommage an die klangliche Wucht und den visuellen Wahnsinn des Extreme Metal der 80er-Jahre. Was als lustiges Nebenprojekt langjähriger Freunde begann, entwickelte sich schnell zu einer weitaus fokussierteren und engagierteren Band, die jedoch nie ihre ungefilterte Energie und Liebe zum Chaos verlor. Im Laufe der Zeit wuchs TÜRBÖWITCH zu einer vollwertigen fünfköpfigen Live-Band heran. Ihre Diskografie begann 2016 mit einer Demo, gefolgt vom Debütalbum "Napalm to Posers" (2017), der EP "Beyond the Last Call" (2018) und ihrem zweiten Album "Fullmoon Liquorthropy", das Ende 2022 veröffentlicht wurde. Musikalisch liefern TÜRBÖWITCH eine explosive Mischung aus der Aggressivität des frühen Thrash Metal, der Geschwindigkeit des Speed Metal und einer gehörigen Portion Punk-Attitüde: schnell, laut und vollkommen erbarmungslos. Auf der Bühne hat die Band das Chaos bereits mit Kultbands aus aller Welt geteilt, darunter Abigail (JP), Mystifier (BR), Nuclear (CL), Blackevil (DE), Adversor (IT), Sexmag (PL), Necro Ritual (UK), Siberian Meat Grinder (RU), Deströyer 666 (AU) und Nunslaughter (US) und dabei stets alkoholgetriebene Energie sowie unerbittliche Lautstärke in den Pit gebracht. Ihr Momentum erreichte im Juni 2024 einen neuen Höhepunkt, als sie das Finale des WACKEN METAL BATTLE Hungary gewannen und sich damit einen begehrten Platz beim legendären WACKEN OPEN AIR im August 2024 sicherten, wo sie auf der Bühne des größten Metal-Festivals der Welt ihren akustischen Angriff starteten. Im März 2025 begaben sich TÜRBÖWITCH gemeinsam mit den schwedischen Heavy-Metal-Titanen Enforcer auf Tournee und brachten ihre explosive Live-Energie einem noch größeren europäischen Publikum näher. Hoffnungslos süchtig nach schnellen Riffs, unheiligen Klängen und lauten Partys, gedeihen TÜRBÖWITCH weiterhin im Schmutz und der Wut der Underground-Metal-Szene.
Line-up:
Botond "Khäosz Bringer" Kasper – Schlagzeug, Vocals (Backing)
Péter "Mr. Fireball" Tóth – Gitarren (Rhythm), Vocals (Backing)
Valdemár "Välde" Volcsánszky – Bass
Zsolt "Kommandante Klit" Harsányi – Gitarren (Lead), Vocals (Backing)
Zsolt "Zslöd" Lédeczi – Vocals (Lead)
https://www.facebook.com/turbowitch666
Mit ihrer neuen EP „DEATH THROES OF A DROWNING
GOD" öffnen GUYOD am 23.01.2026 ein weiteres
finsteres Portal zwischen Doom, Death und Black Metal - ein Werk, das ebenso
schwer und erdrückend wie atmosphärisch aufgeladen ist. Die Veröffentlichung
markiert nicht nur das nächste Kapitel ihrer künstlerischen Entwicklung,
sondern setzt zugleich ein kraftvolles Statement innerhalb der extremen
Musikszene: kompromisslos, intensiv und voller klanglicher Abgründe … Die EP stellt eine vierteilige Reise zum Abgrund des Ozeans dar, vier Songs werden jeweils von einem Drone-Track ein- bzw. ausgeleitet. Am Weg nach unten starren den Hörenden „A thousand invisible eyes“ direkt in die Seele, man entdeckt verborgene Reiche „Behind walls of ice“, rast durch den „Vortex of infinite despair“ und betrachtet mit Abscheu den erschreckenden Anblick von „Hestia drowning“.
Man durchdringt düstere Klanglandschaften, in denen verzerrte Gitarrenwände, tiefe Growls und eisige Screams auf wuchtige, monolithische Riffs treffen. Dabei bleibt die Band ihrem Anspruch, die erdrückende Schwere des Doom mit der brutalen Direktheit des Death Metal und der kalten, rituellen Atmosphäre des Black Metal zu verbinden, weiterhin treu. Der Level an Direktheit und hasserfüllter, verzweifelter Aggression ist jedoch deutlich gestiegen.
Mit dieser Veröffentlichung beweist die Band, dass Extreme Metal auch 2026 noch neue Wege beschreiten kann. Sie verschmelzen Genregrenzen, ohne ihre Wurzeln zu verleugnen, und schaffen damit ein Werk, das sowohl alte Fans als auch neue Hörer*innen fesseln wird. Die EP ist ein kompromissloses Manifest der Finsternis - eine Klangreise, die lange nachhallt und ihre Hörer*innen tief unter die Oberfläche zieht.
Ab dem 23. Januar 2026 ist „Death throes of a drowning god" auf allen gängigen digitalen Plattformen, sowie in einer limitierten physischen Edition auf CD und Tape erhältlich. Eine Veröffentlichung, die sich Liebhaber atmosphärisch dichter, extrem metal-lastiger Klangkunst nicht entgehen lassen sollten!
https://youtu.be/9C2KO5mWW3E?si=vEcaz2UsGVgST5Cl
https://www.guyod.net
Am
27.03.2026 erscheint „Say Hello To Tragedy“ von Caliban als exklusives
Vinyl-Rerelease in drei verschiedenen edlen und hochwertigen Versionen über
Noisy Plastics Records / Red Flame Distribution.Mit „Say Hello to Tragedy“ eröffnete Caliban 2009 ein neues Kapitel ihrer Bandgeschichte – kompromisslos, kraftvoll und emotional aufgeladen. Das Album zeigt die deutsche Metalcore-Instanz so fokussiert und kreativ wie selten zuvor. Mit einer Mischung aus brachialer Energie, eingängigen Melodien und atmosphärischer Tiefe gelingt es Caliban, ihren charakteristischen Sound weiterzuentwickeln, ohne ihre Wurzeln aus den Augen zu verlieren.
„Say Hello“ ist ein Statement: ein Gruß an die Dämonen der Vergangenheit, an persönliche Abgründe und gesellschaftliche Spannungen – aber auch ein mutiger Blick nach vorn. In jedem Track bündeln sich rohe Intensität, technische Raffinesse und eine emotionale Offenheit, die das Album bis dato zu einem der eindringlichsten Werke ihrer Karriere macht. Von wuchtigen Breakdowns über cineastische Synth-Flächen bis hin zu hymnischen Refrains präsentiert sich Caliban vielseitig und zugleich unverkennbar.
Thematisch schlägt das Album einen Bogen zwischen Konfrontation, Veränderung und Aufbruch. „Say Hello to Tragedy“ ist sowohl Einladung als auch Herausforderung – ein musikalischer Brückenschlag zwischen lichtdurchfluteter Hoffnung und tiefschwarzer Härte. Caliban beweisen damit einmal mehr, warum sie seit Jahrzehnten zu den prägendsten Kräften des modernen Metalcore zählen.
Folgende Versionen sind ab sofort vorbestellbar:
Liquid filled Vinyl (lim. 50 Stück)
Glitter Sand filled Vinyl (lim. 50 Stück)
Black/green color in color effect vinyl (lim. 111 Stück)
https://noisyplastics.com
Die Version „Black/green color in color effect vinyl (lim. 111 Stück)“ gibt es auch bei Supreme Chaos Records:
https://supremechaos.com/caliban-say-hello-to-tragedy-black-green-lp.html
Label: Ardua MusicRelease date: february 27th 2026
Genre: Melodic Doom Metal
For fans of: The Gathering | The 3rd And The Mortal | Inborn Suffering | Katatonia
Taking their name from the Norse goddess of death, Spanish voyagers through realms of shadow and sorrow, Hela, formed in Elche, Spain in 2012. They quickly made their mark on the doom metal scene with their well-received debut album, Broken Cross, which was picked up for a vinyl release by the respected Svart Records. Their star continued to rise with their second and third albums – Death May Die and Vegvísir – their sound developing in a natural and organic way. Trends and fashions have always been meaningless to Hela, with their reputation being based on honesty of expression and a palpable passion for the music they create. The global pandemic ushered in a period of silence from Hela, with the personal changes of circumstance that life tends to bring following in its wake…but the time for their reawakening has come. With new vocalist Raquel Navarro adding her sublime, dreaming tones to the band’s most emotive music to date, Hela are poised to present A Reign To Conquer.
Opening track, ‘Vessel To Nowhere’, begins in forbidding fashion, with dark, cold and powerful chords before engaging melodies and warmly human vocals open up that daunting exterior. Portentous narrative passages lend weight, while the lead guitar takes hold of your heart in an ascending spiral of emotion. ‘The Infinite Tower’ introduces a lightness, an ethereal feel as superb guitar lines flit like ghosts between the dreaming passages and storm-tossed, turbulent passions. A captivating piece, from the pinnacle of this tower you can gaze out across a landscape painted in the muted colours of dusk…and with each track we fall a little deeper into Hela’s embrace. ‘Crystal Bridge’ speaks in a universal language, connecting with the listener at a fundamental level beyond words as its wistful melancholy and bittersweet reflections build to an overwhelmingly powerful chorus. There is a sense of journeying through this album, of onward movement, as we walk, drift, float, stumble and soar through the cascading guitars of ‘Emerald Mirror’, the waltz through emptiness and memories of ‘Architect Of Disorder’ to arrive at the towering conclusion of ‘Nomad’…only to find that the journey continues – the restless nomad wandering the dusty paths of the world for eternity, with only the ghosts of lost loves for company. Hela have continued to grow, to subtly transform, to follow where their hearts and their music lead them…and A Reign To Conquer is a work of beauty that could only have been achieved through that open authenticity and untarnished integrity.
Recorded at the Red Records studio in Alicante, with Jose Franciso Rojo and mixed by the band’s own Julian Velasco, A Reign To Conquer was then mastered by Dan Swano whose touch has dusted albums by so many acclaimed artists with magic; from Barren Earth to Hypocrisy, Novembers Doom to Novembre…the list is practically endless. The result is an album of rare vitality and potency, an all-encompassing presence that holds the attention effortlessly. Adorned, as always, in the evocative imagery of Deadsign, A Reign To Conquer will be released by the highly regarded Ardua Music on CD digipak and digital formats and by Tormo Records on limited edition vinyl on February 27th. If you have yet to discover the fragility and power of Hela then now is the time. If you are a seasoned traveller, then welcome back to the road that never ends…
Line-up:
Raquel Navarro · Vocals
Julián Velasco · Guitars, fx
Tano Giménez · Bass
Miguel Fernández · Drums
https://www.arduamusic.com/
https://www.tormorecords.com/en/
https://www.helaband.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Helaband/
MERCULISTARYA – “ÁRADÓ FÁJDALOM A TŰNŐDÉS MEDRÉBEN”
Full-length, CD / Digital, February 2026, Pest Records & Metal Or Die Records
Black Metal from Hungary
MERCULISTARYA is the one-man project of Árpád Szenti, best known for his drumming work with bands such as Thy Catafalque, Ahriman, Athame, and Damnation. Áradó fájdalom a tűnődés medrében is the project’s debut full-length album, a deeply personal statement that has been taking shape for over two decades, reflecting a long and introspective creative journey.
VAMPIRIC OATH – “DOCTRINES OF WITHERING NATURE”
Full-length, CD / Digital, January 2026, Vampiric Militant Legions
Black Metal from Romania
Debut full-length album from this mysterious one-man-band. Doctrines of Withering Nature exposes human hatred as instinct, a doctrine of decay driven by mankind's will toward self-destruction
CADAVRUL
– “NECROTIC SAVAGERY “Full-length, CD / Digital, January 2026, Loud Rage Music
Death Metal from Romania
The band's second full-length album, 13 years from the previous opus, "Enter the Morgue".
ANGERSEED – “RAPTURE IS MINE… GLORY IS OURS”
Full-length, CD / Digital, January 2026, Pest Records / Metal Or Die Records
Old-School Death Metal from Hungary
Hungary's Old-School Technical Death Metal force ANGERSEED returns with their long-awaited second full-length album, "Rapture is Mine… Glory is Ours", marking nine years since the band's debut, "The Proclamation". The new record sees the band reconnecting with its early roots while boldly reshaping its sound into a more modern, dynamic, and expressive form. The lyrical themes delve deeper than before, enhancing the band's characteristic social-critical perspective with profound inner and spiritual reflections.
ARGUS MEGERE – “CERBUREA APUSULUI”
Full-length, CD / Digital, December 2025, Loud Rage Music
Symphonic Gothic Doom Metal from Romania
Doom/Gothic/Symphonic metal project, founded by two resilient metal veterans from Romania. Originally conceived by guitarist Dragoș Grigorescu (Abigail, Hovercraft, Serenity), the project truly began to take shape when his lifelong friends, bassist Cătălin “Flamă” Scânteie (Abigail, Rising Shadow, Hatemode) and vocalist Georgiana Bogdana Stoian (Vârf Carpatin) joined the lineup, bringing their full passion, dedication and creativity into the mix.
UMBRÍO – “QUINTAESENCIA NOCTURNA”
Full-length, CD / Digital, November 2025, Vampiric Militant Legions
Atmospheric Black Metal from Chile
From the funeral mists of Valdivia, Chile, UMBRÍO returns with its second full-length offering:
"Quintaesencia Nocturna", a black flame burning beyond time, invoking the absolute essence of the nocturnal void.
SPIRITUAL RAVISHMENT – “EXIT HUMANITY”
Full-length, CD / Digital, October 2025, Loud Rage Music
Grindcore (with Sludge, Stoner, Death influences) from Romania
Second full-length album by veteran Romanian Grinders SPIRITUAL
www.loudragemusic.com
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
PSYCHO
SYMPHONY: “SILENT FALL”FFO: Psychotic Waltz, Mekong Delta, Sieges Even…
More than 25 years after its original 1997 release, Romanian cult Prog Thrash band PSYCHO SYMPHONY brings back Silent Fall. Remastered and reimagined, the album is now available again—and for the first time pressed on CD via Loud Rage Music. Recorded in Romania during a burst of creative intensity and progressive spirit, it continues to resonate with fans worldwide.
Band members share their enthusiasm about the reissue: “For us, ‘Silent Fall’ was never just a debut—it was a statement. An experiment in pushing boundaries, blending aggression with atmosphere, and searching for something honest and uniquely our own within the noise. Though born in a time and place where resources were limited, the vision was always clear.
This re-release is more than nostalgia. It’s a way to bring the music to new ears, to give it the sound it always deserved, and to honor the path we started. With a careful remastering and artwork based on the haunting paintings of Étienne Sándorfi, this edition breathes new life into the dust-covered soul of the original.
Thank you to everyone who believed in this album—then and now.”
Rude Awakening Records proudly takes care of digital distribution for “Silent Fall”, which will be available on February 6th on all the main providers, while physical copies can already be ordered through Loud Rage Music and Rude Awakening Records as well.
A visualizer for “Shadowed with Life” is now available: https://youtu.be/z4fKkI_ABHg
Tracklist:
1. The King
2. Temptations
3. The Temple of Delight
4. Over the Walls
5. Shadowed with Life
6. Bloodthirsty Desires
7. Reality Falls Asleep I & II
https://linktr.ee/rudeawakeningrecords
In Memoriam is not just a look back but a clear statement of renewal. It includes re-recorded classics and two new, previously unreleased tracks — “The Death of the Red Dragon” and “Soleright” — offering a focused and definitive experience for both long-time listeners and new fans of atmospheric black metal.
"Thanks to the contribution of session musicians, SUPERIOR RAGE's music has become more vibrant and pulsatile compared to their previous, colder and more minimal productions," says the project’s founder, Superior Rage (vocals and synths).
About SUPERIOR RAGESUPERIOR RAGE began in 2006, delivering raw black metal with atmospheric, dark, and symphonic tones. The core lineup features Superior Rage (vocals, synths), Pagan Fury (guitars, synths), and Hyemens Kaiser Tszar (bass).
The first demo (2008) earned strong national reviews, followed by Through Infinity (2010), a mix of unreleased tracks and new material. Between 2010 and 2011, the project released several live recordings with temporary session musicians.
In 2011, SUPERIOR RAGE shifted toward symphonic black metal with III. Two Fire Eternal EPs followed, covering classic black metal songs—first in their original style, then in an ambient approach.
In 2012 the lineup expanded, producing new online recordings, additional covers, and a remake of “The Night of Rains.” The project paused in 2014, briefly resurfacing in 2017 with a new version of “Indecent Condition.”
SUPERIOR RAGE returned in 2022 with the single Boobs Explosions. This led to Anthology, a 2024 collection of re-recorded key tracks, including a new prog-influenced take on “Cuore Sincero.”
In 2025, the promo Back to the Crypt introduced two re-recorded tracks and a new song, “Soleright,” with four session members. The EP In Memoriam followed, adding a new version of “Asmodeus Bacchic” and the unreleased “Death of the Red Dragon.”
The current line-up features the core vision of Superior Rage (music, lyrics, synth & bass) alongside a powerful contingent of session musicians:
Baelithiel (vocals & lyrics)
Maikon (drums)
Nemorion (guitars on “Indecent Condition” and “Soleright”)
Hrafnagud (guitars on “The Night of Rains”, “Asmodeus Bacchic”, “The Death of the Red Dragon”)
In Memoriam is a must-listen for anyone seeking symphonic black metal that is both rich in atmosphere and aggressive in execution.
www.youtube.com/@SuperiorRageRawchannel
www.facebook.com/rawsuperiorrage
Former Stortregn vocalist/guitarist has started his own new band called Apolaustic in which he seems to have poured his heart out. He's put his years of experience in writing elaborate songs enriched with poignant melodies. Two songs from the debut album are streaming now, one in the form of a lyric video that was released recently.
APOLAUSTIC – “NO PLENITUDE WITHOUT SUFFERING”
Genre - Melodic
black/death metalFor fans of - Dissection, Naglfar, Sacramentum, Unanimated, Thulcandra, Stortregn, Dyssebeia
Apolaustic was formed by the former Stortregn vocalist/guitarist Romain Negro as an outlet for him to express his personal vision. At once scathing and stirring, the sharp, insistent riffs go hand in hand with elegant melodies that never outstay their welcome. The aggression and poignancy is beautifully managed with plenty of variations provided to highlight those emotions at the right times. After experiencing the turmoil of life, the aching pain in the melodies is all too palpable. "No Plenitude Without Suffering" is a heartfelt, meticulously put together, pristine-sounding debut from a veteran musician that is bound to stand the test of time if only on the basis of the sheer quality of melodies contained within.
Line up
Romain Negro (ex-Stortregn) - Vocals, Songwriting
Merlin Bogado (Dyssebeia) - Session Guitars & Bass
Nicolas Muller (Akiavel) - Session Drums
Cover artwork by Romain Negro
Track listing
1. Devouring the Past
2. Fragments from a Misty Journey
3. Testimony of an Obsolescent World
4. Shining Amidst the Lights
5. Smells Like Dead Autumn Fire
6. Black Flame Reviver
7. De Feu et de Cendre
8. Peregrination Towards Childhood Memories
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https://www.facebook.com/ApolausticBand
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Label: Apocalyptic WitchcraftRelease date: april 24th 2026
Genre: Black/Folk Metal
For fans of: Primordial | Winterfylleth | Saor | Forefather
“Let warlocks grim an' wither'd hags
Tell how wi' you on ragweed nags
They skim the muirs an' dizzy crags
Wi' wicked speed;
And in kirk-yards renew their leagues,
Owre howket dead.”
- Robert Burns – Address To The Devil
Eight years on from their last album, The Forty Five, Scotland’s Cnoc An Tursa have returned with an evocative tribute to the history, the folklore, the unique magic of their homeland. With their characteristic blend of fierce black metal and traditional melodies they have conjured up a set of songs that bring together mourning and defiance, mystery and fear, pride and passion. It is rare for a band to return from years of silence with an album that represents a new creative peak in their story, but with A Cry For The Slain that is exactly what Cnoc An Tursa have achieved. Speaking about their aims with this album, the band have said,
"With this new album we feel like we are going back to our roots with a more guitar driven style and bringing back some of the folk elements musically and lyrically which was the original inspiration for the band."
And by looking back they have found the way forward, reigniting their fire and forging an album that will resonate through the years to come.
‘Na Fir Ghorma’ with its haunting guitar notes and sense of dignity and sorrow opens the door to A Cry For The Slain, ushering you into the furious opening blast of ‘The Caoineag’. Steeped in bardic tradition and storytelling this majestic track introduces the listener to a highland banshee who foretells death and tragedy and sings her laments beside the deep lochs and chill waterfalls. With the Caoineag’s song atmosphere rises like mountain mists, enshrouding and transporting while the captivating melodies conjured by Cnoc An Tursa lead us into a different world. ‘Cailleach And The Guardians Of The Seven Stones’ is a magnificent, sweeping tribute to the goddess of winter who shapes the landscape with her hammer, the ghost of Thin Lizzy’s ‘Emerald’ dancing in its Gaelic reels. A stunning guitar solo adorns the multifaceted track that captures the power, allure, mystery and terror of the blood thirsty ‘Baobhan Sith’, while the thundering energy of ‘Am Fear Liath Mòr’ takes you to the mountain passes of the Cairngorms, haunted by a giant presence…“I can hear the footsteps behind me, I can see the Big Grey Man”… And nestled amongst all the stories and ‘Address To The Devil’s epic dark poetry, we find first single, ‘Alba In My Heart’ – a pledge of allegiance, a song of devotion to Cnoc An Tursa’s beloved Scotland. There’s a raised fist and a strength of spirit in the blood stirring melodies and the rolling rhythms, in the riffs tumbling down like mountain streams. The authenticity of emotion in this song is undeniable. By the time ‘The Nine Maidens Of Dundee’ leads us down from the peaks once more, with a head full of dreams and a belief that magic may still exist in the less travelled glens of the northlands, the sheer power of Cnoc An Tursa’s return has become abundantly clear. A Cry For The Slain is a breathtaking album, a beacon burning in the night of mundane modernity, calling to those of us who want more than we’ve been sold.
With the intuitive mastering of Jaime Gomez Arellano (Paradise Lost, Primordial, Hexvessel etc) bringing depth and vigour to every note, A Cry For The Slain smoulders with sonic intensity and all the emotion and secrets of its narrative are captured in the evocative artwork of Olga Kann (Winteria, Withered Land, Ruadh etc) that adorns its cover. Apocalyptic Witchcraft will release this monumental album on April 24th and the defiant cry of Cnoc An Tursa will echo through the landscape once more.
“When thowes dissolve the snawy hoord,
An' float the jinglin icy-boord,
Then water-kelpies haunt the foord
By your direction,
An' nighted trav'lers are allur'd
To their destruction.”
- Robert Burns – Address To The Devil
Line-up:
Alan Buchan - Vocals
Rene McDonald Hill - Guitars, Keyboards
Bryan Hamilton - Drums
https://apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/apocalypticwitchcraftrecordings
https://www.facebook.com/cnocantursa/
Poland's
SHINE is now streaming a new track off their forthcoming debut
album, WRATHCULT. "KNEEL BEFORE THE SERPENT"
marks the second taste of the fury to come later this month with the album's
impending release.Stream "Kneel Before the Serpent" now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_JCjauzBtU
Wrathcult is due out January 30 on Dark Descent Records.
Pre-order Wrathcult on digital, CD and vinyl formats at:
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
https://ddmsuo.eu/
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/
Born from the grips of the pandemic, SHINE are the newest brainchild of Hazael’s Tomasz Dobrzeniecki, and their first album Wrathcult leaves no doubt that a new force in Polish extreme metal has awakened.
Inspired by the likes of Emperor, Bathory, Morbid Angel, Entombed and Dismember, Dobrzeniecki’s new outfit channels that lineage into something raw, relentless, and unmistakably its own.
‘SHINE’ for me is a sheen of a sword's blade, the last thing that your foes see in their lives. You can also relate it to the Promethean light given to people that enlightens or sometimes blinds us. It can also be a glare of rage stemming from the resistance towards the unnatural rules forced upon us,” explains Dobrzeniecki when asked about his new unit’s name. “Our music is full of references to ancient rules and rituals and times when people lived in accordance with nature and cosmos using the primeval knowledge.”
Dark Descent Records will handle the release, having previously collaborated with Dobrzeniecki on the reissue of Hazael’s classic opus. Wrathcult continues in similar thematic territory, invoking forgotten ancestral knowledge and tapping into primal forces, and mythic echoes of a pre-Christian world.
“Lyrics for the album are mainly inspired by the pre-Christian spirituality and mythology of our forefathers and based on such books as Bestiariusz Słowiański, Mitologia Słowiańska by J. Bobrowski and M. Wrona, and Słowiańska Czarownica (Slavic Bestiary, Slavic Mythology, Slavic Witch). The lyrics pay homage to nature and higher powers in order to upkeep the memories of the beliefs that once shaped our heritage. We live on the borderline of three cultures that blend together in some way – Germanic, Norse and Slavic mythology have quite a lot in common.”
The album was recorded at Heinrich House Studio in Legionowo, Poland - a small city on the outskirts of Warsaw that holds an important place in metal history, being the hometown of Daray (Dimmu Borgir, Vesania), Orion (Behemoth, Vesania) and Heinrich (Vesania, Decapitated). “Me and producer Heinrich (Filip Hałucha) have known each other for about 20 years. If you want to record a metal album that 100% meets your expectations, I think he's the only person that I trust.”
An uncompromising slab of ancient fury awaits! “See you in Valhalla! I’ve heard the parties there are worth dying for,” exclaims Dobrzeniecki.
Tracklist:
1. Ancient Chaos
2. The Lamb Against the Wolf
3. Kneel Before the Serpent
4. Oddajcie co moje
5. The Cult of Oak
6. The Horror of the Night
7. Witch's Prophecies
8. Wrath of the Hammer
9. The Necklace With Runes
10. Ancient Spirit
SHINE is:
Marek Krajcer-vocals
Tomasz Dobrzeniecki -guitars
Mateusz Waśkiewicz- guitars
Wojciech Gąsiorowski-bass
Paweł Duda- drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/shine.wrathcult/
Musically, the track combines black and death metal in Saasta’s characteristic way, with death metal’s brute force ensuring that the black metal message reaches the listener’s deepest core.
The single’s cover art and the music video were created with a raw DIY spirit by Saasta.
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/pAuWejidUuw
Listen to the single on music services : https://push.fm/fl/saasta-theleeches
Saasta is an extreme metal band from Kotka, Finland. Formed in 2020 the band combines the mercilessness of black and death metal, with the more subtle nuances of doom. The combination is dark and groovy metal with its own distinctive sound, where strong lyrical expression meets raw energy. Saasta is known for their intense stage presence and uncompromising effort.
Line up
Vocals – Leevi Kärsämä
Guitar – Topias Jokipii
Bass Guitar – Janne Hietanen
Drums – Jimi Lahtinen
https://www.saastaofficial.com/
https://www.facebook.com/saastaofficial
CATTLE HAMMER – “DARK THOUGHTS WITH LIGHTS OUT”
Label: Road To MasochistRelease date: february 6th 2026
Genre: Blackened Sludge/Drone
For fans of: Moss | Burning Witch | Old Year| Khanate
With foundations of loss and desperation, bricks of countless small rejections and a mortar of indifference…adorned in carefully sculpted cruelties, with a watchfire of self hatred blazing out into the night; so is my tower of pain and isolation built, my black edifice, my fortress and my prison. And even in the utter solitude behind these cold stone walls I am not master of myself. Even here I am a slave to the voices, speaking from the past, making their whispered incisions in my tattered, wastrel soul.
“…that’s what you’re entitled to…pain, suffering, misery…”- CATTLE HAMMER, ‘Rotting’
Formed in the spring of 2023 by Duncan Wilkins (Fukpig/Mistress/ex-Anaal Nathrakh), Cattle Hammer is a caustic, unforgiving blend of sludge, drone, impenetrable blackness and deep rooted negative emotion. Their first outpourings of choking, bleak despair included the 71 minute, uninterrupted track ‘Methlehem’ – a declaration of just how far into the darkness they were prepared to venture. Now Cattle Hammer are primed to unleash their formidable debut full length album, an amalgamation of four of their most harrowing songs, Dark Thoughts With Lights Out…
The descent begins with ‘Gloomsower’, vocals like tortured spirits howling behind thick walls of sludge. It’s a slow, painful march, like wading through quicksand with each agonising step dragging you down a little deeper, the certainty of suffocating death a constant presence. The raw, organic sound brings a reality to the emotions expressed, creating a tangible link between the misery within and the sound without. There’s no gilded artifice, just a soporific dirge that vibrates through every cell…
There is no relief…
‘Rotting’ rises up through words of bitter judgement, carefully enunciated, before riffs like towering, quivering monoliths drag your heart down through your stomach. While clearly a distinct entity from ‘Gloomsower’, ‘Rotting’ further intensifies that doomed aura, continuing the process of entombment in misery. A deep lethargy eats away at time and you can almost see your skin wither as days bleed into weeks, months, years, empty decades between chords…
There is no mercy…
‘Watchmen, Alone’ jabs at your torpid consciousness with disorientating, disjointed bursts of sound before the black hammer descends in inescapable slow motion and a chasm of abyssal grief opens beneath you. It’s vicious, lumbering, brutish, vile and painful…
There is no hope but death…
The final disassembling of reality comes with ‘Body Puzzle’. The sheer scale of the riffs is terrifying, like being caught between colliding planets, while a voice of damnation injects fear and panic into the claustrophobic onslaught.
Dark Thoughts With Lights Out will be released by Road To Masochist on CD and vinyl on February 6th. It will leave you a weeping wreck, with your sense of self worth bleeding from your ears. It will take you beyond the point of no return. Is it cruel or cathartic? Harmful or healing? All of the above? Whatever it turns out to be for you…approach it with care.
Line-up:
Wilkins, D – Vocals/Guitar
Cartwright, I - Drums
Wyles, J - Guitar
Von Donovan, D - Bass
https://www.facebook.com/cattlehammer
DISSOLVING
OF PRODIGY was
a Czech doom metal band that existed between 1993 and 2013. It is one of the
world's most respected Czech doom metal bands. When René "Fusaty"
Krystyn, frontman and founder of DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY,died of cardiac
arrest in September 2013 at the age of only 39, his band also physically died.Since Fusaty was one of my friends, after 2013 I decided to re-releases DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY's recordings and release them on vinyl for the first time.
When I sent out the “ZLODĚJSKÁ SVĚTÉLKA” CD for manufacturing in April 2025, it was clear that the final original song by DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY would also be released on vinyl at some point. I just didn’t know when. It was only this summer that Valda, the flautist, advised me that another milestone in his life was slowly approaching. He’s turning 50 and thus the LP is released on 30 January 2026, to be seen as a birthday present for his half-century on earth. On the same day as the CD re-release of the album “Štvanice”.
Let’s admit that the release of a CD offering a single song of 14 minutes was already an unusual feat. And the LP release is no different. It is not traditionally divided into sides A and B. It is a one song story.
"Zlodějská světélka" will be released FIRTST TIME ON VINYL 30.1. by Pařát Productions. You can order them at https://paratshop.cz/produkt/dissolving-of-prodigy-zlodejska-svetelka-3/
You can listen to full recording on the Pařát Productions YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hosqSzSFsaA
DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY – “ZLODĚJSKÁ SVĚTÉLKA” (LIGHTS OF THIEVES)
Label: Pařát Productions
Style: Death/doom metal
Type: Limited 250 copies black LP 12" (140g) with full-color labels, printed inner bag, original foil
Release date: 30.1. 2025
www.paratshop.cz
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With
just a couple of weeks to go until the release of EVOKED ECLIPSE'S
debut album, today you can finally enter the world of this Italian atmospheric
Death Black Metal band. We're proud to present the project's first single, the
title track "THE CRIES OF EVIL", from the album
out on February 6th via Club Inferno Ent.The song can be heard on all digital platforms and on YouTube at https://youtu.be/nkR1ZMw_S5Y
Led by Max Havler (ex-OPHIDIAN – ex-SHRIVEL), mastered by Jens Bogren at the world-famous Fascination Street Studios (Opeth, Katatonia, Dimmu Borgir, Arch Enemy, Sepultura, Kreator etc. etc.), with the album cover realized by the talented artist Gogo Melone, "THE CRIES OF EVIL" present a dark sound, very close to the Scandinavian Black Metal and Death Metal scene, primarily Swedish, with references to Dissection, Naglfar, but also the melodic Death Metal of Dark Tranquillity and Opeth and the melancholic Doom Gothic elements of early Katatonia!
The album in its CD format is already available for pre-order at https://t.ly/7Lvki
Just be ready to a new vision of Extreme Music
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https://www.facebook.com/evokedeclipse
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present MIDYRASI’S KULT’S highly anticipated debut album, ITALIAN DARK SOUND, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
MIDRYASI'S KULT are revolutionary and uncompromised. Featuring veterans from such Italian doom stalwarts as Doomsword, Midryasi, Agarthi, and Fiurach, their unique blend of elements from the NWOBHM, doom metal, and early black metal – all fused in their distinctive national dark-sound tradition, which includes such cult legends as Black Hole and Death SS – results in an obscure, hypnotic, and exciting formula.
In March 2025, after just one week on Bandcamp, MIDYRASI’S KULT were intercepted by Caligari Records, who released on cassette their debut demo, Mountain Devil. Featuring three songs in a concise 15 minutes, this demo reaped international acclaim for its originality and attitude.
But that was but a foretaste of darker delights to come. Witness the first full-length of MIDRYASI’S KULT, Italian Dark Sound. Truly titled, Italian Dark Sound is an intoxicating spelunk into catacombs both idiosyncratic and indefinable. Totaling 32 time-/mind-expanding minutes, the eight primary tracks here – the outro is titled “The Lost Son of Sylvester Anfang,” which should offer an obvious clue to the black-metal-minded out there – each offer something different from the next, and yet all add up into a shadowy experience that’s both rocking and atmospheric. In fact, if one were to single out an aspect between the demo and album, it’s that MIDYRASI’S KULT exude more energy on this full-length without sacrificing any of their occult aura. But, just like that demo, Italian Dark Sound features supremely pro production – gritty, earthy, and yet kaleidoscopic in texture – under the guidance of Gabry "The Way" Strada, head of RDF Studio and who’s now collaborating on the upcoming Doomsword new album. In the vein of an open artistic project, all the artwork is made by vocalist / bassist Geilt himself, and up to 11 musicians have been involved in these recordings.
Love Pentagram, Danzig, Celtic Frost, Mercyful Fate, Bathory, AND Jacula? Then you absolutely must hear MIDYRASI’S KULT’s Italian Dark Sound ASAP!
Line-up:Avenir - Rhytm and solo Guitar
Geilt - Vocals, Music
DulltheDog - Bass
WrathLord - Drums
Gabry”The Way”Strada - fx, arrangiaments
From Italy
Release date:
27th March
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Colored edition on dark purple vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on tricolor spinner marbled vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
Tracklist
01 Italian Dark Sound
02 MIM Mayhem
03 Into the Cellar
04 Mountain Devil
05 Taste for Damnation
06 The Slow-ther of Genius-Lunacy
07 Hypnopriest
08 The Lost Son of Silvester Anfang
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DEATH
DIES'
new album "MALEDICTI IN AETERNVM" will be
released on April 3rd via My Kingdom Music and will be a journey into the
blackest depths of Black Metal where light and hope end.Today we unveil the cover artwork of the album realized by Maira Pedroni and the tracklist that is:
1. Il Bosco Siamo Noi
2. Asmodevs
3. Trivia Soteira
4. Mater Meretrix
5. La Casa Del Diaol
6. La Malcontenta
7. Patavinorvm Tyrannvs
8. Carmina Trivmphalia
9. Caron Dimonio
10. Destroyer
Recorded at Thorazine Music Studio and at Unhealty Recording studio, mixed and mastered at Deadferro Audio Project Studio by Daniele Ferretto, "Maledicti In Aeternvm" is the result of two years worth of blood and sweat. It is uncompromising extreme music and elite Dark Art in the name of the most ferocious, extremist and evil Black Metal.
The band takes the legacy of Primordial Black Metal and enriches it with devastating elements of Hard-core and Thrash Death Metal. All this leads to a fast, powerful, violent album... in short, "Maledicti In Aeternvm" is a creature that will sink into your flesh like a blade able of piercing your quiet existence.
This is DEATH DIES... the purest essence of Black Metal.
"Maledicti In Aeternvm", out on April 3rd, is now available to pre-order in LP, digipak CD and Deluxe Edition from the following: https://t.ly/O-Q7U
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The video was premiered today via The Devil's Mouth: https://thedevilsmouth.substack.com/p/video-premiere-ols-bes-nas
"bez nas" is a dreamlike tale of drifting away, from love, from a former self, and from the sacred myths of childhood. The track explores a world where memories take on the texture of a dream, shifting and entangling until the past becomes a fable. It reflects on the indifference of the cosmos; while a personal "apocalypse" may occur, nature continues its cycles, oblivious to our loss.
Musically, the song highlights the evolution of the Ols sound. It begins with a dreamy, swaying verse centred on a melancholic piano, creating a sense of suspended animation. This stillness is eventually shattered by a heavy, guitar-driven chorus that draws inspiration from the crushing atmospheres of bands like Cult of Luna.
As the closing track on Poświaty, "bez nas" functions as a connective thread for the entire record. It weaves in musical quotations from earlier tracks and nods to the artists who shaped the imagination of Anna (the creative force behind Ols), leaving the listener in a space of quiet pain and lingering nostalgia.
Anna of Ols commented: “The world that once felt ‘ours’ no longer belongs to us, and someone we once loved becomes distant and unfamiliar. 'bez nas' works like an echo: it recalls and amplifies earlier themes without offering resolution. Instead of closure, it leaves space for melancholy and quiet pain, allowing the afterglow of this story to linger just above the surface.”
The album "Poświaty" is available in a jewelcase CD format with a 20-page booklet that includes lyrics and translations. Thematically, the album “Poświaty” delves into the formative period between childhood and adulthood, exploring themes of personal mythology, the transformative power of love and the inevitable pain of loss.
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FROSTMORNER - "ORBITAL KAOS“
“Orbital Kaos” marks the first full-length chapter of Frostmorner and showcases the project’s foundation: a blend of blackened intensity, atmospheric layers, and death metal grit. The album pulls inspiration from Nile, Hypocrisy, Belphegor, and Death, while weaving in modern influences from Lorna Shore and Rings of Saturn. Its thematic core draws from a lifelong fascination with Lovecraft, mythology, space, and horror. The album’s title captures its essence. Each track stands on its own, shaped by its own narrative and energy, yet all orbit around the central concept of Kaos. The result is a record built on fragmentation, unpredictability, and tension: an audio universe where no two moments land in the same place.
The digital album's release date is 06 February 2026 .
Tracklist1 -Pillars of Creation
2 -Necromorph
3 -Kronvs
4 -Demiurge
5- Arra Agga Bandar
6- Gorgone
7 -Claymore
8 -Eclipse
9 -Orbital Kaos
Founded by Mario and rooted in Sicily, Frostmorner began its journey in 2019. What started with the support of other musicians soon evolved into a fully solo project, allowing Mario to build a sound that reflects his vision without compromise. Over the years, Frostmorner has caught the attention of magazines, fanzines, and radio stations, opening the door to collaborations and conversations with artists across the extreme metal world.
www.youtube.com/@frostmorner
www.facebook.com/FrostmornerMusicOfficial
Released in 2019 via DYING VICTIMS, AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR’s Havoc at the Midnight Hour debut album introduced this British power-trio with no small amount of sleazy, Satanic fanfare. While their background may jointly lie in black metal, the three un-gentlemen of AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR held high heavy metal done the ancient way: classic Tank, early Raven, Warfare, and of course the almighty Venom as well as modern torchbearers like Midnight, Whipstriker, and Power From Hell. Unsurprisingly, the album garnered international acclaim.
Eclipsing that feat is the band’s second album, Come Creeping Fiends. Truly titled once again, Come Creeping Fiends comprises nine tracks of heavy metal for the insane, forged in the Manchester morgue. Raging like a ravenous beast, summoning ancient ones, and agonizing with morbid doom, AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR cover a lot of ground here, but like the rotting undead that inspired it, this second album somehow holds together. The same black magic that made Havoc at the Midnight Hour a highlight six(-six-six) years ago is here again, only this time with a higher kill count and hit rate. Cleaner and crisper in execution but somehow darker and dirtier in its content, Come Creeping Fiends offers highlights at every crooked turn; tunes like “Strange Companion,” “Fiend in You,” and lead track “Dead Undead” will have all the witches dancing. Needless to say, fans of maniacal, EVIL heavy metal music and horror movies will find a lot to love.
The wait for AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR’s second album might have been long, but Come Creeping Fiends will prove to be worth it…find the “Fiend in You”!
Line-up:Mr. 666 - Bass,
Intimidator - Drums
Dan Chainshaw - Vocals, Guitars
From Manchester, UK
Release date:
27th March
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Colored edition on red vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on pink & violet/purple cloudy vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
Tracklist
1 Dead Undead
2 Strange Companion
3 Fiend in You
4 Like a Beast
5 Obscene Cult
6 Denied by the Reaper
7 Harlot’s Spell
8 Return of the Axe
9 Gallows Eve
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
The second single 'The Black Star' is unleashed today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/inthraced-black-star
The band comments:
“The Black Star” is the fastest and most chaotic track on the album. Relentless blasting from start to finish. More is more. The drummer’s absolute favorite."
Biography:
Inthraced is a Finnish metal band founded in 2011, blending melodic intensity with cosmic darkness to forge a distinct and powerful soundscape. Their early releases, “The New Awakening” (2012) and “The Rising Chaos” (2014), set the foundation for their rise, further amplified by the 2019 single “Interstellar.”
In 2022, the band was reborn with a new guitarist and bassist, igniting the creative fire behind their debut album “Constellation Zero” — an epic and ambitious journey that carries the listener to the very edges of the universe.
Listen
to the first single 'Neon Frontiers': https://push.fm/fl/inthraced-neon-frontiers
Track list:
01. The Revenant
02. Neon Frontiers
03. The Black Star
04. Darkest Chest
05. Constellation Zero
06. The Way Of The Voice
07. Lost Divinity
Mixed by Janne Korpela JK mixing studios Finland
Mastered by Mika Jussila @ Finnvox studios Finland
Cover art by Robert H, Holo Dreamz
Line-up:
Tommi Takkunen - Guitar & Vocals
Mirko Byman - Guitar
Eetu Kovapohja - Bass
Antti Ikonen - Drums
https://inthraced.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/Inthraced
Click below! https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2026/01/19/video-premiere-viogression-light-harvester/
Thaumaturgic Veil is a metaphysical sonic construct, weaving intricate threads of human consciousness, vibrational frequency, and esoteric intent into a tapestry that transcends the boundaries of death metal. This work explores the interplay of awareness, magic, and the latent potential encoded within humanity’s neurocognitive framework.
Thaumaturgic Veil explores the interplay of consciousness, subconsciousness, and materiality, viewing existence as a binary system shaped by vibrational frequencies—the core medium molded by individual intent. These measurable waves connect the chaos of infinite potential to the order of the observable universe, reflecting ancient alchemy’s transformation of matter and awareness, akin to esoteric traditions and Thelema’s Great Work, uniting boundless Nuit and focused Hadit. Meditation and altered mental states enhance this, using frequencies to push perception and align with higher realities, as Crowley’s magick—change through intent—shapes the album’s structure.
The opening track ("Enûma Elish Ilū") introduces infinity as a recurring theme, its modal tones evoking Nuit’s expanse and microtonal shifts hinting at Hadit’s precision, tying into the album’s finite-eternal tension. Building on 2022’s 3rd Stage of Decay, this work intensifies with complex compositions: a primordial voice, heavy, growling guitars and bass conjure raw potential; relentless drums blast and propel it forward, while melodic leads and overtones pierce the dissonance, balancing distortion and clarity. Guttural yet ethereal, its sound design engages the auditory cortex, heightening awareness to match the album’s vision.
For enthusiasts of old-school death metal, Viogression delivers a raw, unrelenting sound steeped in the genre’s early ‘90s roots. Reviewers frequently liken their sludgy, thuggish heaviness to Obituary, noting a shared penchant for trudging, dissonant riffs, though Viogression infuses a Midwestern grit distinct from Florida’s swampy polish. Their technical ferocity and morbid atmospheres draw parallels to Death’s foundational aggression and Pestilence’s chaotic edge, as seen in comments praising their thrash-leaning debut Expound & Exhort. Fans of Morbid Saint’s cult intensity and Autopsy’s doom-drenched decay will find kinship in Viogression’s ability to meld intricate brutality with a haunting, unrefined vibe. Echoes of Possessed’s primal fury and Morbid Angel’s raw power further cement their appeal, making them a hidden gem for devotees of death metal’s formative, unpolished era.
Diego Gedoz de Souza is responsible for the artwork.
Track
Listing:2. Jinx
3. Akhara Aakasa
4. Renumeration
5. Samsara Ananta
6. Travesty ov darkness
7. Heqet Saeculum
8. Pummeled
9. Amaranthine Kairos
10. Superposition
11. Buki’s dream*
12. Vulnus sclopetarium
13. Ouroboros Noesis
14. Eaten by flies
15. Aeternitas Aevum
16. As the light fades
17. Adrothia Akaru
18. Summon
19. Light harvester
Credits:
Produced by Viogression.
Engineered and mixed by Chris Djuricic.
Mastered by Dave Otero.
Vocals and guitar solos: Recorded at Belle City Sound by Chris Djuricic.
Drums and rhythm guitars: Recorded at Level3Studios, Mount Horeb, Wisconsin; produced by Erik Schultek.
Bass: Recorded at Cavern Entertainment by Nino Nienas.
Album cover artist: Diego Gedoz de Souza.
CD artist: Yan Sek.
Design: DGX Studio.
Band photography: Alyssa Otter.
*Buki’s Dream: Written by Bryan Jaeger (RIP)/Brian DeNeffe. Originally recorded at Smart Studios, Madison, WI, 1994. Embellished by Lief Larson at Belle City Sound Studios, 2025.
Guest vocals: Steve Wilson.
Guest guitar solo on "Vulnus Sclopetarium:" Chris Monroy.
Line-up:
Brian DeNeffe - Vocals
Lief Larson - Guitar
Johnathon Iberra - Guitar
Jason Hellman - Bass
Erik Schultek - Drums
Bio:
Formed in 1988, Viogression swiftly forged a formidable presence in the metal underground with three searing demos, paving the way for their critically lauded debut, Expound & Exhort (1990). This landmark release launched them onto a world tour, igniting stages alongside Death and Pestilence. Their second album, Passage (1994), released incomplete, led to a nine-year hiatus. Reborn in 2003, Viogression unleashed fresh material, culminating in the 2014 EP, A Pure Formality, which sparked the band’s comeback with electrifying festival performances. Defying 2020’s global turmoil, they delivered 3rd Stage of Decay, released worldwide in 2022 through Satanath Records and Moribund Records. Now, Viogression stands on the brink of their fourth album, Thaumaturgic Veil, set for Summer 2025, poised to unleash a cataclysmic new chapter in their storied legacy.
https://viogression.info/
https://viogressionr.bandcamp.com/album/expound-and-exhort
From the cellars of Würzburg, Germany, ZERRE have been keeping the torch of old-school thrash metal burning while carving their own vicious path. Their sound draws on the razor-sharp aggression of classic Metallica and Exodus and the stomping groove of early Faith No More: no frills, no mercy. Their third full-length, 2024’s Scorched Souls, tore through the scene and earned critical acclaim for its searing riffs and unflinching energy.
Now, ZERRE take a decisive step forward with Rotting on a Golden Throne. Darker, more overtly political, and more aggressive than its predecessor, this fourth full-length dives headfirst into the rot of power, corruption, and human decay – a brutal soundtrack for a world teetering on the edge. Onstage, ZERRE embody the chaos of their music: riff-driven assaults, breakneck tempos, and a raw intensity that leaves no room to breathe. On record, while those influences still remain, but the DNA has been splintered into something more unique and definitely more powerful: thrashing, yes, but within a crossover framework that feels titanic. The production is razor-sharp, but with ominous atmosphere to spare; the execution is even sharper, as the drumming especially pulses like a dread locomotive; and vocals spit forth venom, raging against a machine fatted by suffering.
As the throne collapses, ZERRE deliver the anthem of its fall. Keep on Rotting on a Golden Throne!
Line-up:Tim Müller - Bass
Basti Spahn - Drums
Dominik Bertelt - Guitars
Rocco Lepore - Guitars
Nico Ziska - Vocals
From Würzburg, Germany
Release date:
27th March
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Colored edition on transparent red vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on green/black marbled vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi
Tracklist
1 Intro
2 Pigs will be Pigs
3 Deception of the Weak
4 Mental Vacation
5 Concrete Hell
6 Rotting on a Golden Throne
7 Tin God
8 Killing Taste
9 No Alibi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Label: Apocalyptic WitchcraftRelease date: february 13th 2026
Genre: Depressive Rock / Atmospheric Black Metal
For fans of: Lifelover | Katatonia | Apati | Joyless
City dwellers have all sensed the life, the power, the autonomous identity of their home. They understand, on some deeply buried level, that it is more than a collection of buildings and intersecting streets…it is an entity beyond its elements, a tarnished, hungry god with a character that changes with the setting of the sun and the flickering into life of the street lights and neon signs. They know there is another world, a darkly different reality that lies behind a thin veil of perception; held in check only by a silently agreed refusal to believe in its existence. But a glimpse from the corner of the eye, a movement in the shadows not rejected and quickly forgotten and the door to that other city begins to stand ajar. And with Askdrömmar, Frozen Ocean are holding that door open and beckoning you inside…
For more than twenty years Frozen Ocean has brought us a staggering array of musical gifts; journeys that have taken us from the depths of space to the worlds of Tove Jansson’s literary creations, from Norse mythology to complex internal landscapes – riding on the wings of cold black metal and textured ambience – dramatic and visionary works. Now Vaarwel, the creative spirit behind the Frozen Ocean name, has returned with another sonic dream to ignite our imaginations and transport us to new dimensions. A work that draws inspiration from the writing of John Ajvide Lindqvist and the music of Lifelover, with lyrics written entirely in Swedish that communicate on a level beyond language. Askdrömmar leads us through a gallery of images, of haunting vignettes, to a destination unique to each soul that listens.
We enter the world of Askdrömmar along the moon road, ‘Mångata’ – both frightening and fascinating in equal measure. Vaarwel’s grim voice rasps over the dark, richly melodic music, a superlative demonstration of the power of black metal vocals at their most emotive. Already the light behind you is but a pinprick in the distance as the city begins to swallow you. The melodic, gothic doom inflections of ‘Bortkastade dödsrunor’ draw you deeper still and it becomes clear that these songs are creating an environment as well as a narrative and atmosphere – listening to Askdrömmar is to explore the secret streets of this dark urban domain. As you reach ‘Jag sover’ you are haunted by the city, surrounded by it, consumed by it, lost in its labyrinthine heart. The melancholy melodies twist through the night time world and the chosen language of presentation with its harsh poetry invokes imagery while avoiding definite definition. The liquid keys of ‘I lyktornas sken’ move between the pools of light that punctuate the blackness, creating unfathomable depths and innumerable layers, possessing the power to hypnotise and enthral. From the sinuous lament of ‘Köttkvarn’ with its bewitching despair, through the frantic fear of ‘Långt lopp genom mörkret’ to the beautiful, humbling conclusion of ‘Brunkebergstunneln’, Vaarwel has created nothing less than magic. Askdrömmar is the most powerful and affecting Frozen Ocean work to date – and that is some achievement.
Adorned in the superbly atmospheric artwork of Mosaeye Art (The Hearth Of Discordia, Shiningstar, Pyre etc), Askdrömmar will be unveiled by Apocalyptic Witchcraft on February 13th on CD digipak, cassette and digital formats, as well as an exclusive, extremely limited boxed set. Prepare to pass through the veil and wander through your darkest dreams…
Line-up:
Vaarwel – Vocals, guitars, bass, e-bow, keys, lyrics and music
https://apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/frozenoceanrus
Watch the "All in Your Head" now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1AH1_gPS3Q&t=1s
Hush is a compelling result of TARDIGRADE INFERNO’s evolving signature style and the sheer power of their live performance. What truly defines the band is the experience the listener gets at their live shows, the thoughtful songwriting, the ironic lyricism, and the striking, highly aesthetic visuals. In June 2025, TARDIGRADE INFERNO released an atmospheric and emotional live album Made In Hell that captures their ferocious performance and their connection with the audience. Hush blends all of these strengths with an authentic sound delivered with studio precision.
Watch the video for the album's first single, "Hide 'n' Seek" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fscAHuASUoo
Hush is due out March 5 on CD, digital and four exclusive vinyl editions. Pre-order the album at https://tr.ee/TiHush
Tracklist:1. The Final Show
2. Hide 'n' Seek
3. Deadly Fairytales
4. All In your Head
5. Dead Fish Smile
6. Subatomic Heist
7. I.C.D.
8. Goor
9. Hush
10. Hypograph
11. I Am Eternal
Hush naturally picks up where 2023's Burn the Circus left off. At the beginning you hear the crackling of a circus burning down. A surviving radio plays a mournful melody that opens a grand show amid the ashes. Like a massive blazing phoenix, TARDIGRADE INFERNO opens its wings with elemental force. It sweeps away what remains and reclaiming its place at the center of attention.
The gorgeous Darya Rorria uses her flexible contralto to tell stories that are anything but cheerful. Her expressive vocals pulse with the music. They tease sharply, flow lyrically, spread in a soft velvet hush, and fade into a tragic whisper. They soar through tense passages and then glide back down into a low, intimate tone. The lyrics are charged to the point of electric crackling, just as one expects from the TARDIGRADE INFERNO.
Their trademark keyboards sound even more retro-futuristic, paying tribute to the classic horror movies of the past. The guitar acts like the wildest creature in the prairie with it's fury clothed in the polished frock coat of a respectable gentleman. The bass has the “AWESOME” knob turned to 100%. The drums are emotional, dynamic, and alive. Altogether it creates a familiar yet more sincere and revealing sound. The music becomes almost visible, almost tangible.
TARDIGRADE INFERNO have always paid special attention to the visual side of their art - from stage costumes and characters to their album covers. The cover for Hush was created by artist Milena Kress in a dark-aesthetic style. This is the band's first experience with analog painting - the piece is oil on canvas. It conveys the anxiety and emotional intensity that mirror the album’s lyrics. It’s also the first time the band’s mascot, the Tardigrade, is absent from the cover. It symbolizes a kind of coming-of-age. The toys have been left behind in the nursery.
Mixing, mastering, and production were handled by Vladimir Lehtinen, who has been working with the band continuously since the release of The Worst of Me EP. Vladimir helped the band capture their live energy without losing the studio polish of their recordings.
TARDIGRADE INFERNO is:
Darya Rorria - vocals
Alexander Pavlovich - guitars, keys
Maxim Belekhov - bass
Andrew Drew - drums
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To celebrate the announcement, the band has released a music video for the title track, “Sylfaera”, which can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oQasXY_R5w
Stream the song here: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/Sylfaera
The band provided a glimpse into the mystical narrative governing the new track: “In the Emerald Forest on the sharp mountains of Vetolian, six ancient souls, children of the same root and bearers of the symbol of 'Inner Sight' on the palms of their hands, gather to celebrate a ritual agreed aeons ago. Each of them comes from a different realm of water, wind, rock, and flame. The musical rite they will create together will reshape reality, collapsing their forthcoming artistic and epic endeavours into matter.
“Two of these souls, Loona and Muirreann, have met since the beginning of worlds, from lifetime to lifetime, sometimes for a moment, sometimes for a whole lifetime, to honour their mystical union. Each time they greet each other with these words: "Do you wish to know me? Lie down upon the fire! Sing your Song, and I will rise in Love, and from Love to Wisdom, dancing again and again ascending.”
“Sylfaera the Fair” follows 2024’s “Centaurea” and 2022’s “Pomegranate (The Chant of the Elementals)”. “Sylfaera the Fair” tells the story of a quest undertaken by five free spirits, artists, and warriors, culminating on a full moon night on a mountain where silvery waterfalls and milky-white stone slabs create an otherworldly dimension. In this symbolic place, the souls of the five manage to cross a dimensional portal, raising their energies and entering a new dimension, bringing into being the law of the octave. From matter to energy, from energy to spirit.
Musically, the album sees Ataraxia venturing into evocative new territories, weaving a tapestry of nordic, dark and ritual folk. This shift is anchored by the deep, resonant tones of the uilleann pipes and bodhran, creating a primordial atmosphere that feels both ancient and futuristic.
The album features the band's core lineup: Francesca Nicoli (vocals, bells, chimes), Vittorio Vandelli (bouzouki, drums, programming, electric and classical guitars, backing vocals), Giovanni Pagliari (keyboards, horn, backing vocals, programming), as well as guests Gregorio Bellodi (uilleann pipes, bodhran, low and high whistles, backing vocals) and Alessia Baraldi (backing vocals). Notably, the vocal performances on this work utilise glossolalia, an invented, non-linear language that bypasses traditional lyrics to evoke pure emotional and spiritual energy.
The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Vittorio Vandelli between April 2025 and December 2025. The accompanying cinematic video was shot and edited by Giovanni Pagliari, featuring a guest appearance by Damiano útburðr Rosati.
The album will be available in three different physical editions through The Circle Music. It will be available on Digi CD and in a marbled transparent turquoise & black LP, with the latter limited to 400 copies. The label is offering a Deluxe Black Box embossed in silver, limited to only 100 copies worldwide. This exclusive box set includes a unique silver vinyl pressing with a printed insert, the Digi CD, and a numbered certificate of authenticity. The box also contains a ritual “Travelling Stone”, an exclusive 16-page booklet and a “hand-written oracle by Ataraxia”.
The band has created 100 hand-drawn stones (“The Travelling Stone”) depicting the eye, representing the subtle vision linked to this concept, and paired them with 100 different oracles, each inspired by a Greek deity or mythological figure. Each person will receive their own unique and original talisman that they can wear around their neck or place in their hidden sanctuary.
Pre-Order: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/distributed-stuff/?filter_artist-name=ataraxia&products-per-page=allDigital Pre-Save: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/SylfaeraTheFair
Tracklist
1. Alabaster
2. Breanwinn
3. Alqua
4. Sylfaera
5. Silvertine
6. Loona
7. Llawarra
8. Muirreann (CD Bonus Track)
9. Ojos Sagrados
10. Crowea
https://linktr.ee/thecirclemusic
https://www.youtube.com/@atarassxia
http://www.ataraxia.net/
https://www.facebook.com/AtaraxiaFB
The Evolution of Shadow
Formed in 2022 by Mikel Telletxea (vocals, guitar, programming), Aschen originally began as a collaboration with bassist Igor Valle. Following the underground success of their self-titled 2023 demo, the lineup evolved with the addition of Atauzz (Korkut, Kurkuma, 2Sonte) on bass.
This partnership solidified the band’s vision, leading them to Atala Studios in Spain (Infest, Willis Drummond) in August 2025 to record their debut full-length. To ensure a world-class sonic assault, the album was mastered by the legendary Toni Lindgren at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden—the sonic architect behind heavyweights like Dimmu Borgir, Katatonia, and Kreator.
A Sound Beyond Tradition
Musically, Aschen offers a harrowing exploration of dynamic tension. While the DNA of black metal remains clear, the band naturally weaves through diverse styles, characterized by constant rhythmic shifts, moving seamlessly from suffocating doom-laden passages to relentless blast beats, devastating riffage, harmonizing raw aggression with haunting, melodic textures and emotional depth, evoking a spectrum of intensity that transcends the typical "grim" tropes of the genre.
Ancestral Roots & Inner Conflicts
Lyrically, Aschen carves its own path. While the band utilizes English, they also pay homage to their heritage by singing in Basque, their ancestral mother tongue.
Breaking away from traditional satanic or pagan themes, the band’s narrative explores the human psyche’s inability to confront its own internal fractures. Their poetry reflects how this individual downfall resonates through a decaying society and a suffering natural world.
The Labyrinth of the Self
The album artwork, created by Mikel Telletxea, visually reflects this concept. An endless labyrinth shaped like overlapping fingerprints floats between the macrocosm and the microcosm. It represents a search without a clear exit: inward, outward, and always unresolved.
Tracklist01-Sasi Santuaren Amiltzea
02-From the Depths of Decay
03-Azken Arbolak
04-Buried Name
05-Black Hounds of Justice
06-The Never Ending Search
07-The Forsaken Redeemer
08-The Last Glow
09-Amal
www.youtube.com/@aschenband
www.facebook.com/people/Aschen/61556623060502
FFO: Kreator, Iced Earth, Into Eternity, Mutiny Within, Control Denied
A lyric video for the album's first single, "IF THE JUDGES BECAME THE JUDGED," is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6dai0LN_mQ
Stream the single on your platform of choice at: https://ditto.fm/if-the-judges-became-the-judged
Multi-instrumental, composer, and founder, Frank D'Erasmo had this to say about the forthcoming album:
"This new album is a continuation of the path we took on our last EP, Prison Realm. For fans of that EP, this new album is in that style again, but on steroids! Things sound heavier, more epic, and more massive on this album. All of the same guys from the last release have returned, including vocalist Chris Clancy (As I Lay Dying, Invictus, Mutiny Within) and lead guitarist Tony Barhoum (Chaos Sanctuary, Condition Critical), but the big addition this time around was mix engineer, Mike Low. Things have never sounded this BIG on a Legionary release!"
Track Listing:
1. Sentenced to a Life of Chronic Guilt
2. If the Judges Became the Judged
3. Never-Ending Quest for Purpose
4. Controllers of Perception
5. Story Without Closure
Pre-order: https://legionary.bandcamp.com/album/never-ending-quest-for-purpose
Line
up:Frank D’Erasmo: Rhythm Guitars, Drums, Bass
Tony Barhoum: Lead Guitars
Chris Clancy: Vocals
Guest Violin Solo on "Story Without Closure": Ben Karas
Engineer: Ben Karas
Mixed/Mastered by: Mike Low
All Music & Lyrics written by Frank D'Erasmo
Album art: Mark Cooper
Bio:
Legionary is a melodic death/thrash metal band, that originated in NYC, but now mostly operates out of New Jersey. Legionary once played live regularly, but is currently a one man band headed by mastermind Frank D'Erasmo (Drums/Rhythm Guitar). Frank uses the services of the best metal musicians he can find, and is currently dedicated to just doing studio projects at the moment. Legionary has several releases, mostly EPs, but now has two albums under its belt with this latest release!
https://www.youtube.com/user/thelegionary07
https://www.facebook.com/Legionaryband/
BEYOND THE PALE – “MONUMENT IN TIME”
Label: Black Metal ArchivesRelease date: january 30th 2026
Genre: Thrash Metal/Melodic Death Metal
For fans of: Izegrim | Occult | Dew Scented | Arch Enemy
Forged in the confusion and anxiety of the global pandemic in 2020 and then tempered in the flames of tragedy and the cold ice of loss when their friend and founding member, Jeroen van Donselaar, collapsed on stage in 2022, struck down by a fatal cardiac arrest – Utrecht’s Beyond The Pale emerged from adversity unbowed and unbroken. With a renewed sense of purpose, they recruited former Martyr guitarist Geoffrey Maas and set about honouring the memory of their fallen comrade. The Monument In Time EP was released independently in The Netherlands in 2024, featuring an array of Jeroen’s accomplished guitar riffs, but this release deserved more. Now, with the backing of new British label, Black Metal Archives, Monument In Time – with two bonus tracks that have never been released on any physical format before – will find its way to a global metal audience. This tribute to friendship and the power of metal, this searing attack of thrash and melodic death metal, will carve the name of Beyond The Pale into the annals of extreme music forever.
Monument In Time explodes into life with the precision riffing of ‘Liberation For The Damned’ – a finely honed thrash/death weapon with every element fiercely focussed; from the interlocked twin guitars to the prominent bass lines that subtly weave their way through the axe attack, the powerhouse drumming to the stunning, ferocious vocal presence of Janneke de Rooy (ex-Altar). The essence of Beyond The Pale is summed up in this opening fusillade, but each song that follows possesses an individual character that adds immeasurably to Monument In Time’s vehement and venomous delivery. Be it the atmospheric intro and irresistible refrain of ‘Walk The Plank’, the power, hook-filled and instantly addictive ‘Facts And Figures’ or the viciously intense thrashing fervour of ‘Payback Is A Bitch’, with its touches of melodic lead adding an extra dimension, Beyond The Pale crush with every song, every note, every venomously articulated word of imperious rage.
The two bonus tracks that have been added to the track list of Monument In Time are the original 2021 recording of the band’s first single, ‘Storm en Drift’ – a song that appears in a re-recorded form elsewhere on the EP – and a reimagining of the thundering ‘Facts And Figures’, remixed by Japanese artist Frost (Gods Of Decay, Godfrost). Frost has added gleaming circuitry and bionic enhancements to the monstrous original and ‘Facts And Figures’ is a track with the strength to emerge from this invasive surgery still bristling with malicious intent, but with a new horror-tinged atmosphere infused into its bones.
Engineered and mixed by the team at Mass Audio Studios in Utrecht and mastered by the renowned Tony Lindgren (Amorphis, Arch Enemy, Insomnium, Kreator etc) at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden, the sound that has been captured on Monument In Time is exceptional – with clarity, a cutting edge and formidable force all accorded equal importance. A fitting tribute to the much-missed Jeroen van Donselaar and a titanic barrage of expertly blended thrash and melodic death metal, Monument In Time is about to receive the release it deserves through Black Metal Archives on January 30th.
Line-up:
Janneke de Rooy - Vocals
Johnny Derechos - Drums
Frank van Boven - Bass
Boudewijn de Kraaij - Guitars
Geoffrey Maas - Guitars
https://blackmetalarchiveslabel.bandcamp.com
https://beyondthepale.nl/
NEWS 17.1.2026
STREAMS OF BLOOD – “VERMALEDEIT”
Genre: Black MetalLabel: The Hidden Art
Release: 18.12.2025
Nach Jahren persönlicher und kreativer Umbrüche legt Streams Of Blood mit „Vermaledeit“ am 18. Dezember ihr neues Album vor – ein Werk, das die Erfahrungen und Brüche seiner Entstehungszeit spürbar in sich trägt.
Fünf Jahre voller Veränderungen, Verluste und innerer Kämpfe haben ihre Spuren hinterlassen. „Vermaledeit“ ist das Ergebnis dieser Phase – intensiv, direkt und emotional aufgeladen.
Die Songs bewegen sich zwischen Melancholie und Nihilismus, zwischen Selbstzweifel und Befreiung. Roh und ungeschliffen aufgenommen, zeigt das Album den unverstellten Charakter seines Entstehungsprozesses – ehrlich, kompromisslos und ohne Rücksicht.
Das begleitende Artwork entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit Void Revelations und ergänzt die Musik um eine visuelle Dimension, die die Atmosphäre von „Vermaledeit“ treffend einfängt.
Ein Album, das aus persönlicher Dunkelheit hervorgegangen ist – und den Weg von Streams Of Blood konsequent weiterführt.
https://www.facebook.com/StreamsOfficial
BERLIN DESECRATION FEST 28.5-30.5 BERLIN „ORWO
HAUS“
Seid gegrüßt Freunde der brutalen Unterhaltung,wir laden euch ein zu 3 Tagen Brutal Death Metal, Slam und Goregrind. Im Geiste des Berlin Death Fests liefern wir euch 26 internationale Bands, Grill und Getränke. Wir freuen uns auf ein abgefahrenes Wochenende euer Berlin Desecration Fest Team.
Despondency (Germany)
Guttural Slug (Denmark)
Korpse (Netherlands)
Imperial Execration (UK)
Unbirth (Italy)
Slob (UK)
Inverecund (Italy)
Chainsaw Castration (United Kingdom)
Terrible Sickness (Germany)
Desecrated Extinction (UK)
Putridity (Italy)
Carnivore Diprosopus (EU-Colombia)
Traumatomy (Russia)
Brutal Sphincer (Belgium)
Esophagus (Chile)
.357 Homicide (United Kingdom)
Pusboil (Switzerland)
Coprocephalic Mutation (United Kingdom)
Cerebral Enema (Germany)
Hacked Up (UK)
Clitcommander (Germany)
Einlass 30./31.05.25 : 13 Uhr
Beginn 30./31.05.25: 14 Uhr
Abendkasse: Donnerstag 35 €
Abendkasse: Freitag 55 €
Abendkasse: Samstag 55€
Abendkasse: Wochenendticket 100 €
Ihr könnt Tickets für Freitag und Samstag im VVK holen. Für alle 3 Tage gibt es aber ab Donnerstag auch genug Tickets an der AK.
info@berlindesecrationfest.de https://www.facebook.com/share/1Cnayt37hy/
Der bayrische Groove/Thrash Metal-Maschinerie DEATH
RECEIPT aus Wallersdorf meldet sich mit der brandneuen Single „FREQUENCY
OF DEATH“ zurück (VÖ: 14.01.2026). Mit dem Song hat sich das Trio
darauf konzentriert einen knallharten und thrashigen Kettenhund von der Leine
zu lassen.„Frequency of death“ ist ein klares Statement: Der Song ist durch und durch mitreißend und fängt die pure Live-Spielfreude und Energie der Band perfekt ein. Nachdem der Song auf der Bühne getestet wurde, erkannte die Band schnell: „Wir haben da was Einzigartiges zusammengebraut.“
Der Track ist ein waschechtes DIY-Projekt. Er wurde im eigenen Proberaum aufgenommen, gemixt und gemastert. Die bewusste Herausforderung bestand darin, neue Techniken zu erlernen und anzuwenden, um den eigenen Sound zu kreieren und weiterzuentwickeln. Der Songtitel folgt einer aufgeregten Spur der Herzfrequenz, die eine Inspiration für das Albumcover und die facettenreichen Riffparts waren.
Hört genau hin, dann nehmt ihr den Puls wahr, der diesen Song antreibt. Doch passt auf, sonst kommt ihr der Frequenz des Todes zu nahe!
https://www.instagram.com/death_receipt
HERMIT DREAMS –“ DESPERATE ANOMIES”
Release date: 05.12.2025 Location: Norway
FFO: Weeping Sores,My Dying Bride, Diskord
Bio:
HERMIT DREAMS is a new experimental death/doom metal band from Norway, featuring experienced musicians from a wide array of metal bands from the national scene, current and past. The band explores topics revolving around loneliness, anxiety, fear, transience, wonder and confusion in the context of death metal with elements of doom and progressive outbursts.
Lineup:
Eirik Waadeland (CELESTIAL SCOURGE, RUUN) – Vocals
Martin Storm-Olsen (VINGULMORK, DEFECT DESIGNER) – Banjo, guitar, clean vocals
Eyvind W. Axelsen (DISKORD) – Cello, upright bass, bass guitar, theremin
Bjørn Tore Erlandsen (BOLVERK, ASPHERIUM) – Drums
Musically, the band takes death/doom into strange and uncharted places fusing traditional heaviness with banjo, cello, upright bass, and theremin, alongside harsh vocals and pummeling drums. The result is an unsettling yet mesmerizing soundscape, pushing the boundaries of extreme metal while remaining steeped in darkness.
https://chaos-records.bandcamp.com/album/desperate-anomies
https://facebook.com/hermitdreams
Listen To Your Funeral album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/funeral-home-your-funeral
Biography:
Founded in 2009, Funeral Home is a death metal band from Kuopio, Finland. Their musical influences range from death 'n' roll and old-school styles to with gloomy melodies of death metal . The band writes its songs with the music first, keeping the song structures simple and the arrangements flowing.
Track
list:1. You Failed My Trust
2. Wall
3. My Kingdom Is Hell
4. Rotten To The Core
5. Depths
6. Sacrificial Goat
7. Your Funeral
8. Graveyard Blues
9. Blood & Sacrifice
Album cover by Henna Pulkkinen
Line-up:
Ossi Maalampi - vocals
Henri Ojala - lead guitar
Henri Thitz - rhythm guitar
Juha Korhonen - bass
Jouko Poussu – drums
https://linktr.ee/Funeral.Home
XENOVICE
– “FRAGMENTS FOR THE END OF US”Release date: 15.01.2026
Location: Germany/France
FFO: Combichrist, Youth Code,
Xenovice is a dark electronic side project by members of Lycantrophilia, moving between hellektro/EBM, dark trap, and metallic aggression, addressing personal psychological abysses. The debut EP, Fragments For The End Of Us, distills experiences of violence, addiction, and strain into tracks that deal with living alongside one's own demons. Its experimental sound deliberately sets Xenovice apart from Lycantrophilia's established identity. While musically distinct, the EP is released through Lycantrophilia's existing channels—under a different name.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvIWX80GX
https://lycantrophilia.bandcamp.com/album/fragments-for-the-end-of-us
Ave
populus !!!! Extreme metal warriors DEOS return with
the official music video for “CAESAR DIVI FILIUS,” a
standout track taken from their latest album AUGUSTUS OMNIPOTENS,
out now via Wormholedeath.Conceived alongside the song itself, the video is the result of a long-term vision that began taking shape in late 2024. Directed by David (Dax Studio), it brings DEOS’ sonic universe into a striking historical frame, where ritual, discipline, and power collide. The result is direct, intense, and rooted in symbolism.
To achieve this level of authenticity, DEOS once again joined forces with Lorica Romana (LEGIO X), one of France’s leading Roman reenactment groups. The video was filmed in the monumental Arena of Nîmes, a site closely tied to the legacy of Augustus. The setting is not a backdrop—it’s part of the story. Stone, steel, and bodies in motion echo the themes of authority, lineage, and destiny that define the track.
“Caesar Divi Filius” reflects a key chapter in the narrative arc of Augustus Omnipotens. The album is a full conceptual work tracing the rise of Octavian, from the aftermath of Julius Caesar’s assassination to the establishment of imperial rule and the Pax Romana. Each song captures a decisive moment, driven by DEOS’ visceral blend of blackened death metal, where precision and brutality serve the story.
Augustus Omnipotens is available on all digital platforms worldwide: https://orcd.co/augustusomnipotens
CD format: www.auralwebstore.com/deos-augustus-omnipotens
Previos video "Dura Lex Sed Lex": https://youtu.be/JPh8dLggqgQ
About DEOS:
Formed in 2014 by Fabio Battistella, Jack Graved, and Loïc Depauwe, DEOS have built a reputation for combining the ferocity of extreme metal with a passion for Ancient Rome that extends through their lyrics, artwork, and stagecraft. Their debut Ghosts of the Empire arrived in 2015, followed by In Nomine Romae in 2017 and extensive touring across France, Switzerland, and beyond. In 2021 they began work on their third record Furor Belli, mastered by J.-F. Dagenais (Kataklysm, Ex Deo) and released in 2022 via Wormholedeath, which led to the North Imperial Tour MMXXII. Over the past years they have continued to spread their vision of Roman metal across Europe, including London’s legendary Cart & Horses.
Now, with Augustus Omnipotens, DEOS take their concept further than ever before. Recorded between autumn 2024 and spring 2025 and once again mastered by Dagenais, the album is both a celebration of Rome’s past and a declaration of the band’s future.
DEOS are:
Jack “Janus” Graved (bass, vocals)
Fabio Battistella (guitar, backing vocals)
Cédric “Cedd” Boehm (guitar, backing vocals)
Loïc Depauwe (drums)
www.facebook.com/deos.legio
EPINIKION
embraces
nature by dancing with wolves in their third single “RUN WITH THE WOLVES” . Epinikion creates powerful melodic metal with the tight and strong lineup of
this symphonic metal band. The album’s third single “Run with the Wolves” is
a beautiful ode to nature and the connection between humans and animals. Heavy
guitars combine with a powerful rhythmic orchestra and the clear voice of Kimberley
Jongen, who takes everyone on a rollercoaster ride of nature scenes and a wolf
as a friend. Not just any wolf, but behind the scenes, Robert and Renate’s white
shepherd Nala, who, from the very beginning of the songwriting, had an
uncontrollable urge to sing along.Therefore, Nala has become the ultimate backing vocalist on this song and the star alongside Kimberley in the accompanying video. Purity, movement, and connection with the earth are beautifully captured by Jay Dee Video. “Run with the Wolves” will be released on 15 January 2026, a third step towards the release of the album “THE FORCE OF NATURE” in February 2026.
“Run with the Wolves” races between tall trees, dances in the moonlight, and soars across crystal-clear waters in the unique company of a white wolf. The deep connection between human and animal, surrounded by powerful natural forces, is a rhythmic statement from Epinikion that harks back to our human essence: a swirling wind, captivating, powerful, and full of natural beauty.
The album’s production was in the capable hands of Jacob Hansen, who, with his signature mixing and mastering, created a fantastically clear yet beautifully heavy sound. For the artwork, Giannis Nakos created almost magical images that couldn't have better captured the essence of the album and its songs.
Pre-orders for “The Force of Nature” have now officially started and can be placed via www.epinikion.org
The release of “The Force of Nature” will be celebrated with a fantastic release show on 6 February at pop venue Sound Dog in Breda - the same venue where the first single “The Force of Nature” was filmed. Epinikion is thus entering a completely new phase with an impressive list of 12 new songs that will appeal to both metal fans and mainstream listeners.
Biography
Epinikion is known for its energetic shows and strong connection with the audience. Kimberley Jongen impresses with her classically trained, bright voice. Maarten Jungschläger is known for his heavier metal projects, yet also excels as a symphonic metal lead guitarist. Rutger Klijn is a seasoned bassist whose distinctive and technical bass lines firmly establish Epinikion on the metal map. Robert Tangerman not only composes together with keyboardist and partner Renate de Boer, but as rhythm guitarist and arranger, he plays a major role in fine-tuning Renate’s creativity. Michal Gis is the young, talented drummer who brings rhythmically unique contributions and delivers them with precision.
Experts see great potential for Epinikion to grow into a band performing at a highly professional level, gaining more visibility along the way. The joy that drives them only makes the future of Epinikion all the brighter.
https://www.facebook.com/epinikion
NOIRNOISE are proud to
reveal their first official video for the single "MORPHINE".
It was realized by Damiano Mussetti and you can view it here: https://youtu.be/__gDQlmd22s
The single released on all the digital platforms will present the exclusive and unreleased song "Shit Of Poor".
"Morphine" is taken from band's debut full-length album "PLANT RESILIENCE" out on January 30th via Club Inferno and shows the essence of the band based on harsh guitars, dynamic tempo changes, dreamy melodies, heavy musical dynamics and rough vocals.
Mastered at the great Lost Soul Studio by Giuseppe "Buzz" Nicolò and with a great cover which photo was realized by Flavio Porrati (Nequam / THE MAGIK WAY), "Plant Resilience" will present something original, expression of the dark feeling of their influences ranging from Alternative Rock to Post-Punk, from Grunge to Dark Wave with important points of references such as Sonic Youth, Pixies, Soundgarden, Melvins, Killing Joke, Mudhoney.
You can pre-order the CD at https://t.ly/RSZKb
The time machine has been turned on... get on board!
http://www.facebook.com/clubinfernoent
https://www.facebook.com/noirnoise
Stream/Purchase:
The concept of Cybergenesis fits seamlessly with the fiery heavy metal therein. A daring expedition into a space-time rift ends in disaster, awakening the Choir, an ancient alien hive mind from an alternate dimension, and plunging humanity into a desperate war for survival. On an Earth enslaved by the Choir's army of cyborgs, a former commander is reborn as the Rhizome Rider, leading a rebellion from within and sacrificing himself to free humanity.
Rooted in classic sci-fi, from Star Trek to Ghost in the Shell, Cybergenesis tells a story of resistance and sacrifice, where the human spirit defies impossible odds.
The album’s striking cover artwork was hand-painted on canvas by English artist Ryan T. Hancock, renowned for his work with bands such as Seven Sisters, Blood Star, and Stormborn. HyperioN chose a handcrafted, non-AI artwork to give Cybergenesis a tangible and authentic visual identity.
Track
Listing:1. Deafening
2. Rewire, Rebuild
3. Yet We Still Fight
4. The Shackles of Chronitus
5. Blood Over Chrome
6. Grain of Sand
7. Rhizome Rider
8. The Whole of Time
Credits:
All lyrics written by Davide Cotti. All music written by Davide Cotti except track #02 (written by Davide Cotti and Francesco Madonna) and track #07 (written by Francis Dipasquale and Davide Cotti).
Production, recording, mixing and mastering by Davide Cotti.
Vocals recorded by Antonio Inserillo.
Line-up:
Davide Cotti - Guitars
Francesco Madonna - Drums
Max Morelli - Vocals
Simone “Nega” Cauli - Bass
Francis Dipasquale - Guitars
Bio:
HyperioN were formed in 2015 by drummer Jason Beghelli and guitarist Davide Cotti to play traditional heavy metal, drawing inspiration from bands such as Metal Church, early Queensrÿche, and Judas Priest, while adding their own personal touch.
The band quickly gained attention with their debut album Dangerous Days (2017), released via Spanish label Fighter Records. The album was warmly welcomed by critics and gave HyperioN the chance to share thestage with established Italian acts such as Tarchon Fist, Black Phantom, and Rain.
After the recording of the second album, founding drummer Jason Beghelli stepped down for personal reasons and was replaced by Francesco Madonna. In 2020, the band released Into The Maelstrom, again on Fighter Records. The album received excellent reviews worldwide, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of all live promotion plans. Despite the circumstances, HyperioN significantly expanded their fanbase across the United States, Canada,
Mexico, and Europe through platforms like Bandcamp, finally returning to the stage in 2021.
This first era of the band came to a turning point in 2021, when several lineup changes reshaped HyperioN’s identity. Long-time bassist Antonio Scalia left the band, and after a long search Simone Cauli joined in September 2022. Just a week earlier, guitarist Luke Fortini had
departed, but the vacant role was swiftly filled by Francis Dipasquale (from thrashers Dypron). With the lineup restored, work began on new material, only to face another setback in spring 2023 when vocalist Michelangelo Carano decided to leave.
After months of auditions, HyperioN found the missing piece in singer Max Morelli, known for his work with Signum Draconis and Ladykiller. With this new and revitalized lineup, Hyperion completed the writing and production of their third album Cybergenesis, a record that represents both continuity and rebirth. Although only guitarist Davide Cotti remains from the original formation, he has always been the main composer and driving force behind the band, making sure HyperioN's sound stays true to its roots: driving riffs that ignite into bursts of speed, soaring yet gritty vocals, and melodic hooks that make every chorus memorable.
https://www.fighter-records.com/
https://linktr.ee/hyperionband
Athens,
Greece; 15 January 2026: THE MAGUS, the Luciferian
project helmed by Necromantia co-founder and ex-Rotting Christ musician, has
unleashed the second single and lyric video from the upcoming sophomore album, “DAEMONOSOPHIA”.
Titled “MAGIA OBSCURA”, the track delves into the esoteric heart
of the project, exploring the profound depths of spiritual and physical
evolution.Following the aggressive stance of the first single “Pseudoprophetae”, “Magia Obscura” arrives further expanding the diverse and uneasy atmosphere promised for the new record.
Listen to “Magia Obscura”: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/MagiaObscura
Watch the lyric video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyFCuVOJJ8I
The Magus provided the following insight into the track’s theme:
"Magia Obscura is about transformation and evolution. Both in physical and the metaphysical plane. Through transformation comes enlightenment. Through the Serpent self you communicate with the Draconian core. A rite of passage for the sorcerer. A step closer to Daemonhood....."
“Daemonosophia”, the follow-up to “ΒΥΣΣΟΔΟΜΩΝΤΑΣ”, is set to be released on 20 February 2026 via The Circle Music and is available to pre-order in CD and vinyl formats, along with a limited luxurious box set and merch bundles: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=the-magus
Pre-save the album on digital platforms: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/Daemonosophia
The Magus previously revealed that the new album promises a more aggressive and dynamic sound than the first album, “ΒΥΣΣΟΔΟΜΩΝΤΑΣ”, while keeping the devouring dark atmosphere the project’s music is known for. The album's sound has some unexpected and diabolically diverse moments that will make listeners feel uneasy.
For the album cover art, The Magus collaborated with Mexican artist Nestor Avalos, known for his work with numerous bands, including Exodus, Deicide and Rotting Christ. The artwork is an Infernal Triptych that portrays six infernal entities: Lucifer/Samael, Leviathan/Tiamat, and Belial/Satan. Nestor created a majestic painting of infernal wisdom and occult meanings, giving prominence to the Luciferian tradition and the music of the album.
Tracklist:
0. Pater Noster
1. Pseudoprophetae
2. Daemonosophia
3. The six in three is all One
4. The Era of Lucifer Rising- A Luciferian interpretation of the THOU ART LORD classic
5. Magia Obscura
6. Amelia
7. The Chapel of Iniquities
8. The Pact
9. La Llorona Negra
The Magus was formed in 2022, following the dissolution of the legendary Greek black metal band Necromantia, which The Magus co-founded. He decided to end Necromantia after the death of his bandmate Baron Blood in 2019, releasing a final album, “To the Depths We Descend”, in 2021 as a tribute. A seminal figure in the extreme scene, The Magus’s storied history includes playing a pivotal role in the early days of Rotting Christ and co-founding the cult project Thou Art Lord alongside Sakis Tolis. For this new project, The Magus continues his legacy of uncompromising Luciferian Black Metal, bringing in long-time collaborators El on guitars and Maelstrom on drums to push the boundaries of the Hellenic sound.
https://linktr.ee/thecirclemusic
https://www.facebook.com/themagus666
Symphonic
metal band MEMOIRA has released a new video for their
latest single DOLLMAKER. The epic new video is
loosely based on the world of the well-known Italian fairy tale, Pinocchio, and
the song is now being heard in its entirety for the first time. The video was
produced and shot by SOFT NEON AUDIOVISUAL, while the band members were
heavily involved in the production of the video. The band's bassist Niko
Laaksonen is responsible for the lighting and lighting design of the
video, and keyboardist Lassi Nuolivaara is responsible for the
scriptwriting and directing the actors.Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/wDGG9dnvbfI
“The story of the video is seen from the perspective of a dollmaker, who desperately hopes for a son of his own, with whom he can share the joys and sorrows of life. He decides to build a doll out of wood and hopes that it will come to life. It’s also great to finally have the full version of the song out in video form and see the audience’s reaction.” - Lassi Nuolivaara / Keyboards
A single edit version of the song Dollmaker was released earlier this fall and is available on all streaming services.
Memoira is a symphonic metal band from Finland formed in 2007. Known for it's big atmospheric and epic sound, Memoira combines dynamic melodic metal and symphonic ethereal orchestrations into one, consistent flow of storytelling.
On it's 15- year journey before the latest line-up changes, the band has released three albums and seven singles worldwide.
With the current lineup, which has been active since 2023, and Krista Astrid Schröter as their vocalist, the band has already released three singles (Cryonic Heart 2024, Emerald Eyes 2024 and Dollmaker 2025), each of which has brought the band more listeners and streams. The renewed lineup has also brought a whole new energy to the band's stage performance and image, which has already been noticed among fans.
MEMOIRA Line-Up
Krista Astrid Schröter – Vocals
Lassi Nuolivaara – Keyboards & Piano
Serdar Ilter – Guitars
Niko Laaksonen – Bass
Kimmo Puhakka – Drums
https://www.youtube.com/@MemoiraOfficial
https://www.memoiraofficial.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MemoiraOfficial
Melodic
death-metal act SELIAS has unveiled the official video
for “CAUTIONARY TALE”, a track taken from their latest album
KILLKARMA, released via Wormholedeath Records.Bringing medieval war into a modern metal vision, “Cautionary Tale” delivers a story of clashing steel, betrayal, and the brutal lessons history refuses to let us forget. The track reflects the cyclical nature of conflict a raven’s call that has echoed across centuries, now given voice through SELIAS’ signature blend of ferocity and melody.
Stream the single: https://orcd.co/ctale
Get your copy of Killkarma: https://orcd.co/killkarma
Previous Releases:
https://orcd.co/bulletssingle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ5NXahLmaI
https://orcd.co/btssingle
https://youtu.be/_BsoUpNj6bs
About
Formed in 2020 by guitarist Steve Elias, SELIAS fuses aggression with atmosphere, precision, and emotion. Rounded out by Guilliaume Pascal (vocals/keys), Daniel Bouwman (drums), and Jeff Hyde (bass), the band delivers a cinematic metal experience that bridges classic death metal ferocity with modern melodic edge.
www.youtube.com/@seliasmetal
www.facebook.com/seliasmetal
Finnish melodic death metal band CROWEN released a new single and music video 'THE UNWRITTEN END'. The track is taken from the forthcoming 'THROUGH THE DYING MIST' EP which is set to be released on February 20th 2026 via Inverse Records.
Listen to The Unwritten End on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/crowen-unwritten-end
Crowen’s new single The Unwritten End tells a story where every step is both a beginning and an ending. The song portrays the dreamworld as a place that is dark yet beautiful. Its protagonist walks toward the unknown, carrying with him both uncertainty and the inevitability of fate, striving to escape a world with no way out.
The melody is sorrowful yet beautiful. The clean vocals in the choruses inspired the song’s entire melodic landscape. In the verses, melodic passages and heavy rhythms alternate. The opening contrasts Crowen’s traditional death metal assault with acoustic guitar and a calm, atmospheric mood. “Guitarist Sami Sandberg managed to fit the melodic line perfectly into the song’s atmosphere. Listening to Sami’s playing gives me a hypnotic feeling,” says vocalist-songwriter Esa Uusimaa.
Crowen is a Finnish melodic death metal band consisting of Esa Uusimaa and guitarist Sami Sandberg. On this track, the bass is played by Tuomas Saukkonen.
Watch 'Ember Wraith' music video of first single: https://youtu.be/0N_QWg
Track
list:01. Ember Wraith
02. Line of Silence
03. I Am The Sorrow
04. The Unwritten End
Composed, lyrics, recorded, mixed & produced by Esa Uusimaa.
Mastered by Ville Hautaluoma
EP cover by Jussi Virtanen
EP Line-up:
Esa Uusimaa – vocals, guitars, keyboards
Sami Sandberg – guitars, lead guitar
Tuomas Saukkonen – bass
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Progressive
metal band DUST ORCHARD from Helsinki, Finland, has
released their new single "HOURS IN THE VOID". For fans of: Amorphis, Evergrey, Soilwork (and Swedish melodic death metal), modern progressive metal.
The band is known for weaving violin-led melodies into a dense, riff-driven foundation of modern heavy music. After a 2022 EP and a major rebuild of the lineup, Dust Orchard is now moving into a new phase with renewed focus and fresh material in the works. New single introduces this current chapter: ambitious, dark, and deliberately dynamic.
With thunderous guitars, soaring violins and a blend of growls and clean vocal harmonies, “Hours in the Void” tells the story of a desperate struggle for survival in an apocalyptic future. The track balances progressive structure and heavy riff weight with melodic, atmospheric sections—showcasing the band’s range without losing cohesion.
Listen to the single on music services : https://push.fm/fl/dustorchard-hoursinthevoid
Violinist Vegard Lillevoll describes the song as a statement of intent:
“I think ‘Hours in the Void’ lights the way forward for the new metamorphosis of Dust Orchard. It’s lofty, catchy and heavy in all the right places.”
Founder and guitarist Petri Siikander highlights the song’s scene-setting approach and the way the arrangement pivots between extremes:
“I try to paint a picture with every song. Usually I’ll have a specific scenery and feeling in mind when writing… The upcoming single has a heavy intro, trashy metal growls, an epic chorus and some Rush stuff in the middle. What’s not to love?”
Founded in 2018, Dust Orchard emerged from the underground corners of Helsinki with a clear aim: write progressive metal that resists predictability while still landing with emotional weight. The band’s identity is rooted in its instrumentation — especially the use of violin as a lead voice inside a heavy, guitar-driven framework — allowing songs to move from crushing intensity to melodic introspection without warning.
Following the release of an EP in 2022, Dust Orchard went through a significant lineup transition and spent time rebuilding the band from the inside out. Re-emerging with a sharpened intent and new material taking shape, the current lineup is focused on releasing new music and preparing more songs for a forthcoming longer-form release.
Line up:
Tommy Olenius - vocals
Petri Siikander - guitar
Marko Hanski - guitar
Vegard Lillevoll - violin
Niko Salo – bass
https://www.youtube.com/@dustorchard9222
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Label: Xtreem MusicRelease date: february 5th 2026
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Entombed | Ribspreader | Grave | Vomitory
What is man but a short-lived parasite, a brief flickering of light in the long, long aeons of darkness…for those who dwell in the deep places of the Earth, all mankind’s endeavours – his childlike learning, his shining towers and imbecilic weapons, his self applauded works of art – are unworthy of note or notice. They slumbered; dreaming their epoch spanning dreams in their temples of silence, whispering their strange sorceries, long before man dragged himself from the primeval swamps. And they will dream on in the times to come, while the stars grow cold and as mankind rots.
The Scandinavian Warmachine rolls on! After twenty seven years, thirteen full length studio albums and an ever growing brood of EPs, split releases, live albums and compilations Paganizer still sound adrenalized, bloodstained and glorious! It seems that Rogga Johansson still wakes every morning with a new batch of rotten riffs hatched inside his head, clawing to get out into the world…and album number fourteen is ready to lay waste to all that stands in its path. It’s time for As Mankind Rots!
Paganizer make two kinds of records – good ones and great ones – and from the explosive beginning of title track and first single, ‘As Mankind Rots’, it’s obvious that with this album they are hitting greatness. There’s no intro, no samples, it’s just headfirst into riffs and mayhem; pure Swedish death metal magnificence! From that opening salvo on there is not a moment which is anything less than definitive death metal. You could explain real, unadulterated death metal to the uninitiated by simply handing them this album to listen to. Every vocal punctuation, every roar, every drumbeat every goddamn riff is exactly what you want it to be. From the supremely catchy ‘Put On Your Gasmask’, with its wailing air raid siren to ‘Hollow’s crawl through lightless tunnels; ‘Afterworld’s searing guitar solo and atmosphere to revel in, drown in, to the rampaging, breathless fury of ‘The Rotting End’ - As Mankind Rots is headbanging classic after headbanging classic. Rogga’s voice is as powerful as his riffs and Paganizer have never sounded better. A nice surprise to finish the album is a new recording of ‘Vanans Makt’, which appeared on the Compiled Ammunition compilation back in 2020, with guest vocals from Bulten of Swedish punk band Lastkaj 14.
Mixed and mastered by long term collaborator Ronnie Björnström, who has also applied his magic touch to other Rogga Johansson projects like Ribspreader, Those Who Bring The Torture and Revolting, As Mankind Rots simply could not sound any better. The package is completed by the haunting artwork of Ivan Bragin (The Gathering, October Tide, Woods Of Ypres etc) and will be released by Xtreem Music on CD, 12"LP Cassette & Digital formats on February 5th. For all fans of real death metal – this is unmissable!
Line-up:
Rogga Johansson - Guitars, Vocals
Matte Fiebig - Drums
Dennis Blomberg - Lead Guitars
Martin Klasén - Bass
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Belgium’s
metal underground has a new force rising from the Turnhout region, and its name
is STUNG — a razor‑edged fusion of thrash, hardcore and crossover
delivered by four seasoned musicians who previously left their mark in Leave
Scars, Meantime and Soultaker. Their collective history includes stages such as
Graspop, Wacken, Metaldays, and support slots for icons like Master and Exhumer,
and that pedigree fuels every riff and every roar of their sound.STUNG’s explosive hybrid has already earned them stages alongside Channel Zero, Kill The Logo, Bark and Temptation For The Weak, proving their ability to stand tall among the country’s heavyweights. In their first year alone, they hit Kid’s Antwerp, Hell Diest and The Club Mechelen, and stormed festivals including Frietrock Metal Fest, PeironFest and AsgardFest — a rapid rise that speaks volumes.
After releasing their debut video “Follow” in late 2023, STUNG returned with the crushing single “C.O.C”, mixed and mastered by Joey Zampella (Life Of Agony) — who immediately became a supporter of the band’s raw intensity. Both clips, along with live footage, are available on their YouTube channel. Their debut EP ‘Reflection on Normality’ (February 21, 2024) captures STUNG at full power: sharp, aggressive, unfiltered, and rooted in the legacy of thrash and hardcore while pushing the sound forward.
STUNG is now actively seeking album and single reviews, radio airplay, and playlist support. The band is also fully available for interviews — written, audio, or video — and happy to provide additional press materials upon request.
A new sound with a nod to the past. A band ready to break through.
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The album was meticulously crafted for approximately two years, evolving from a mere idea to a finished product. The central theme of the album is to unveil the inherent ‘evil’ embedded in organized religions, particularly those led by fanatical leaders. Musically, it presents a fusion of traditional Norwegian and Swedish black metal, heavily influenced by the American death metal scene. The creation of the music is a collaborative effort, with all three members working in unison from inception to completion."
The album is available on all digital platforms: https://orcd.co/spiritualsyphilis
Tracklist01 Curse of Jehovah
02 The Con Man
03 The Chosen People
04 Spiritual Syphilis
05 Deceiver
06 Lenkene er brutt
07 Svik
08 Glossolalia
09 Til evig tid
Odio Deus was started in 2020 in Oslo, Norway by Telal. After many years of several different black metal bands, Telal decided to start his own band, where he’s in control of the musical vision and lyrical concepts. The band’s goal is to make black metal with a strong death metal influence, using lyrical concepts that deal with the hypocrisy within organized religion and other relevant subject matters.
Odio Deus is:
Telal - Drums, Lyrics, Bass
Braatebrann - Guitars, vocals, bass
Winterheart - Guitars
Join the ranks of the damned and follow ODIO DEUS on their journey through the shadows:
www.youtube.com/@OdioDeusband
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For fans of: Ghoul, Witchery, The Haunted, Gwar, Converge, The Crown, Midnight
The band comments on their newest 4-song dose of debauchery, "Before ROTGUT was formed, we still wrote music in our concrete, lightless hell. Raw, dogged, but not yet Rotgut. Four tracks that kick-started the oeuvre. We’re bringing them out of the dark so they can rot in the light of day."
Stream the EP's first single, "SLASH AND BURN" now on Apple Music and Spotify.
Watch the lyric video at https://youtu.be/1Xh8GB_duis
8 oz. Cantrip is out on Friday, January 16.
Stream the band's debut, 24 oz CANTRIP on Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp. The EP is also available as a limited-edition VHS style cassette.
Born fully formed, screaming, and covered in goo out of the dumpster behind DaVinci's pizza on Merrick Road, a horned figure scrambled blindly through piles of empty paint cans, ceramic vases, and angry cats in order to move undetected. He found refuge in a musty old cellar. After pulling his foot loose from the bucket he had stepped in, he closed the heavy steel doors
behind him.
Wiping
the thick blanket of dust off a 30-rack of Genesee Specialty Cream Ale, he
schemed. He was cursed with the knowledge of an incantation: a spell that would
bring Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, into this world. He wrestled with the
thought while crushing and tossing another empty can. The ritual required great
rigor and perfect focus, but he was exacting.He chanted. He chanted and chanted. The ceiling groaned and cracked. Polyvinyl dust plumed and swirled before vanishing into imperceptible motes. He drew sorcerous glyphs in the air with two fingers outstretched. The walls trembled with a sickening low rumble. Bracing his hands firm against his ersatz altar — a Playskool Mighty My Size Table and Chair Set — he ignored the throbbing in his head and steadied himself.
A spiraling portal ripped into reality. Out spilled two bumbling homunculi, fully formed, screaming, and covered in goo. This wasn't right! The pair stumbled and scratched their way through the cellar, bleating, squawking, and tearing through nearby cases of Natty Daddy like vultures to carrion. He pondered for what seemed like hours over the pyramid of discarded beer cans and the now-empty bottle of Old Grand Dad he had chanced upon halfway through. What could have gone wrong?
The cellar burst open. Darkening the door was a group of hulking, hazmat-suited figures. At once, the three slickened homunculi grappled one another in a long and futile struggle to get on their feet. They shouted in a panic if they were "being detained" until they were eventually tased into unconsciousness.
Bio:
Assembled against their will by a faceless shadow organization in the Winter of 2024, Rotgut was bound by a great purpose: to form an extreme metal band, inspired by crust punk, rock ’n’ roll, and classic schlock to shred wanton across the greater US and parts beyond.
ROTGUT is:
FD - Guitar and Vocals
C19 - Guitar and Vocals
AX - Bass and Vocals
El CC - Drums
https://rotgutofficial.bandcamp.com/
GUYOD
- "VORTEX OF INFINITE DESPAIR" Genre : Extreme Metal, Dark Metal
Release date : 8th of January, 2026
Der Weg in die ewige Finsternis des Ozeans führt durch den „Vortex of infinite despair“.
Mit diesem brandneuen Song belegt die Black/Doom/Death Metal Combo GUYOÐ, dass sie nach ihrem 2023 Debütalbum eine Band sind, die gekommen ist, um zu bleiben. Voller Verzweiflung, Aggression und Spielfreude prügeln sich die vier Grazer durch den Song, welcher auch wieder mit einem äußerst stimmungsvollen Video von Revvidy aufwartet.
Thematisiert wird der Untergang der menschlichen Zivilisation, Ängste, Furcht und Verzweiflung – eine Stimmung, die der Song, ebenso wie das Video, gekonnt in Szene setzen. Flirrende Gitarren, treibende Bässe, ein verspielt druckvolles Schlagzeug, sowie die stimmliche Vielfalt des Sängers machen GUYOÐ insgesamt und diesen Song im Speziellen aus und führen zu einem Hörerlebnis der besonderen Art.
https://youtu.be/9C2KO5mWW3E?si=87HUjmIkmj98Lgod
https://www.guyod.net/
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the new album from Maryland's dark, depressive Black/Death Metal demons MOONCHAPEL . "THREE FACED TRINITY FOR A TWO-FACED WORLD" is up now for pre-order and will be released February 13th on CD and Digital formats along with merch.
For fans of :Beherit, Bolt Thrower, Demoncy, Goreaphobia, Incantation, Infester, Mystifier, Nyogthaeblisz, Profanatica, Sadistic Intent and Seance
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcome Moonchapel to the roster with the new album Three Faced Trinity For A Two-Faced World! Since its birth and inception in 2023 in Westminster Maryland, Moonchapel perform Black/Death Metal that explores our deepest anxieties and our darkest depressions. Three Faced Trinity For A Two-Faced Existence is influenced by the parallels between religious delirium and psychotic symptomatology, diving into the motives of consciousness, the drives of the subconscious and the existential loneliness of perceiving our own mortality.
Listen to the single "Dispersed And Stone Still" at https://youtu.be/MrYxgETmSVc
Tracklisting:1. Ominous And Omniscient
2. Beyond Death Is A Parched Paradise
3. Burden Of Shadows, This Harrowing
4. Dispersed And Stone Still
5. Demonic Froth Behind The Frontal Lobe
6. Union Of Opposites
7. Eskhatos
8. Three Faced Trinity For A Two-Faced Existence
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The song arrives with a psychedelic live video, featuring footage captured at Club Flex in Arad, Romania. The visuals highlight the track’s uneasy, atmospheric feel, giving a vivid look at Brusaschetto’s experimental edge in a live setting.
About Daniele Brusaschetto
Since 1994, Daniele Brusaschetto has been on a continuous journey through his own world of sonic soot.
Performing as a power trio, he follows the imaginative path paved by Voivod, Godflesh, and early Mastodon—a mix of granite-heavy riffs, metal grit, no wave dissonance, and an emotional machinery waiting to be discovered beyond the wall of guitars.
In 2016, his passion for the six-string and extreme rock was reignited. “Flying Stag” (2019) marked his return to a metal–math–groove–stoner sound. In 2023, he released “Bruise A Shadow” via WormHoleDeath Records.
Now, Daniele is preparing to unveil his new full-length album, Dichotomous, which captures the natural evolution of his distinctive and uncompromising sound.
Pre-save "Dichotomous": https://orcd.co/dctms
Previous video: https://youtu.be/7gnBYbCQk9I
The Lineup Driving the Sound:
Daniele Brusaschetto: voce/chitarra
Daniele Pagliero: basso
Alberto "Mono" Marietta: batteria
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www.danielebrusaschetto.net
www.facebook.com/danielebrusaschetto
Montreal (QC) - Canadian bruisers, DEADWOOD, have released new EP, RITUALS OF A DYING LIGHT, via Innerstrength Records. The EP is available at the following locations:
https://innerstrengthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deadwood-rituals-of-a-dying-light
https://hypeddit.com/deadwood/ritualsofadyinglight-1
Deadwood uniquely blends death metal and hardcore to create a modern deathcore sound. Known for their heavy music and dark lyrics, their motto is "Make Deathcore Angry Again." The band aims to evoke terror and fear through their music, ensuring their performances are unforgettable.
Most importantly, the music of Deadwood caters to enthusiastic metalheads who crave pure brutality and violence.
Track Listing
1. Tales of Massacre
2. Heretic
3. Thirst for Blood
4. Whispers of Death
5. Echoes of the Fallen
Music and lyrics by Deadwood.
Recorded at EMNT studio January 2025.
Produced by Fred Element.
Mix and mastering by Fred Element.
Formed in the shadow of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Deadwood quickly carved out a place in the heavy scene with their dark, unrelenting sound. The lineup unites seasoned veterans: guitarist Fred (ex-The Plasmarifle, ex-Ion Dissonance), guitarist Stéphane (ex-Nova Spei, Iron Maiden tribute), drummer Charles (ex-Dismayd, Discovrey Through Tourment), and vocalist Derek, reuniting with Fred after a decade since their days in Malaga.
Drawing from the ferocity of Meshuggah, the brutality of Whitechapel, and the groove-driven power of Pantera, Deadwood delivers crushing riffs and haunting atmospheres steeped in true dark histories—from the Salem witch trials to the reign of Jack the Ripper.
Their catalog includes the EP Nemesis (2022), EP Inhuman (2023), and standout singles “Straightblade” (June 2023), “Djinn Pitts” (March 2024), and “Heretic” (April 2025). Known for their commanding live presence, Deadwood has toured Japan with Humanity's Last Breath and DVRK, stormed U.S. stages in 2025, opened twice for Born of Osiris in Montréal, and shook the grounds of Inkcarceration Festival 2025.
Currently on tour across Québec, Ontario, and New Brunswick, Deadwood is gearing up for their first European run in 2026 — bringing their brand of dark, murky heaviness to stages worldwide.
Line-up:
Fred Element - Guitars
Stephane Filion - Lead Guitars
Charles Etienne Lafrance - Drums
Derek Heynekemp - Vocals*
*Note: Vocals on the EP by Martin Demontigny.
https://innerstrengthrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://deadwoodmetal.com/
DIATRIBES
– “DEGENERATE”DIATRIBES – Dominating the Extreme Metal Apocalypse
Genre: Extreme Metal / Modern Death Metal
Emerging from the extreme metal Brazilian underground, DIATRIBES is a ruthless and uncompromising force driven by sheer aggression, sonic violence, and modern extreme heaviness. The band has forged a brutal identity defined by crushing guitar work, relentless rhythmic assaults, and ferocious vocal intensity, positioning DIATRIBES as a commanding presence in today’s extreme metal scene.
Founded by guitarist Gladyson Rivero, DIATRIBES transformed a focused creative vision into a fully weaponized lineup built for impact. The band features Danilo Luna on vocals, delivering savage, commanding performances that cut through with raw hostility; Gladyson Rivero and Marcelo Souza on guitars, constructing dense walls of riffs and razor-sharp leads; Niko Teixeira on drums and production, unleashing precision-driven brutality shaped by extensive national and international experience; and Sergio Roma on bass, anchoring the sound with a punishing and oppressive low end.
DIATRIBES has completed the recording of its debut full-length album. The release delivers 13 devastating tracks of modern extreme metal, pushing intensity, darkness, and sonic weight to their limits. Every song reflects the band’s obsessive commitment to power, clarity, and professional-level production.
Designed for fans of extreme metal, death metal, modern death metal, and aggressive heavy music, DIATRIBES is entering an active album promotion campaign, positioning this release for maximum visibility within the international metal underground and beyond.
DIATRIBES is ready to unleash a release built for impact, confrontation, and lasting domination in the global metal scene.
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Hungary's Old-School Technical Death Metal force ANGERSEED returns with their long-awaited second full-length album, "Rapture is Mine… Glory is Ours", marking nine years since the band's debut, "The Proclamation". The new record sees the band reconnecting with its early roots while boldly reshaping its sound into a more modern, dynamic, and expressive form. The lyrical themes delve deeper than before, enhancing the band's characteristic social-critical perspective with profound inner and spiritual reflections.
The album spans 45 minutes across eight new compositions, followed by a special Hungarian-language bonus track, "Epilógus / Számvetés 33", a poetic, introspective summation of frontman Peter D. Maniak's 33-year musical journey.
The album title reflects the culmination of a long and demanding creative era. This time, Peter D. Maniak assumed full artistic control over the songwriting, defining both the sonic identity and the future direction of ANGERSEED.
"Rapture is Mine… Glory is Ours" is out now on jewel-case CD edition, a collaboration between Pest Records and Metal Ör Die Records, and is available to play / order here:
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/angerseed-rapture-is-mine-glory-is-ours
Tracklist:
1. Nothingness is Calling Me
2. Conquering the Nemesis
3. When Life Turns to Grey
4. Barathrum of Consciousness
5. The Emptiness Within
6. Self-Expulsion from Paradise
7. Redefine My Universe
8. With Rapture for the Glory
9. Epilogue / Accounting 33 (Bonus Track)
Line-up:
Peter D. Maniak – vocals, vocals
Zoltán Bilcsik – bass guitar
Péter Losonczi – guitars (studio session)
Jozsef Gáva – Drums (live & studio session)
Recorded by: Losonczi Péter (Saron Records, Debrecen, 2024–2025)
Mix/master: István Simon (No Silence Studios)
Producers: Angerseed and István Simon
Cover and booklet: Bertalan Pór (Krowze)
Short biography:
Formed in 2008 by vocalist Peter D. Maniak, ANGERSEED has performed more than 200 shows in Hungary and abroad, appearing at festivals such as Gothoom, Rockmaraton, Death By Metal, MetalGate Czech Death Fest, and Rockstadt Extreme Fest. The band is also closely connected to the Full Of Anger Underground Metal Festival, currently preparing for its 28th edition.
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MERCULISTARYA, One-Man Band by Árpád Szenti (Thy Catafalque, Ahriman, Athame, Damnation), Announces Debut Album
Hungarian Black Metal one-man band MERCULISTARYA announce its debut full-length album to be released on Pest Records and Metal Ör Die Records this February 20th. Titled "ÁRADÓ FÁJDALOM A TŰNŐDÉS MEDRÉBEN", this is the deeply personal and emotional work of Árpád Szenti, known from his work in bands like Thy Catafalque, Ahriman, Athame or Damnation.
As a taste of things to come, here's the first single for the track "Rémálomköd" which features the guest appearance of vocalist Ivett Dudás also of Thy Catafalque fame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Re4Z4GUsg
"Áradó fájdalom a tűnődés medrében" is available for pre-order here: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/
"Áradó fájdalom a tűnődés medrében is a concept album, each song connected, each meaning intertwined, forming a single immersive narrative. It follows a thorn‑ridden path of struggle, fear, disappointment, madness, resignation, and death, contrasted against the vastness of nature, its elemental force, its mysticism, and the unseen dimensions that pulse beneath reality.
This album is a fragment of my soul. Through MERCULISTARYA, I unearthed emotions and energies that could not have surfaced through any other form of expression.
MERCULISTARYA is a long‑standing personal vision, a vessel through which my inner world takes musical form. Rooted in the darker currents of old‑school Black Metal, it draws from the place where the genre first spoke to me. The earliest foundations were laid in 2002, when the songs began to take shape, guided by dreams, shadows, and the subconscious landscapes that inspired both the music and the lyrics.
Despite years of obstacles, the album was first recorded in 2009 but remained unreleased as my focus shifted toward the bands in which I served as drummer (Athame, Ahriman, Sentio Ergo Sum, Damnation, Fagyhamu, Voidshrine, and Thy Catafalque). MERCULISTARYA was set aside, waiting for its moment.
In 2024, with renewed experience and a stronger technical foundation, I chose to resurrect the material and re‑record the entire work. This final version is the true realization of what the project was always meant to be." Árpád Szenti
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BEYOND
THE PALE – “MONUMENT IN TIME”Label: Black Metal Archives
Release date: january 30th 2026
Genre: Thrash Metal/Melodic Death Metal
For fans of: Izegrim | Occult | Dew Scented | Arch Enemy
Forged in the confusion and anxiety of the global pandemic in 2020 and then tempered in the flames of tragedy and the cold ice of loss when their friend and founding member, Jeroen van Donselaar, collapsed on stage in 2022, struck down by a fatal cardiac arrest – Utrecht’s Beyond The Pale emerged from adversity unbowed and unbroken. With a renewed sense of purpose, they recruited former Martyr guitarist Geoffrey Maas and set about honouring the memory of their fallen comrade. The Monument In Time EP was released independently in The Netherlands in 2024, featuring an array of Jeroen’s accomplished guitar riffs, but this release deserved more. Now, with the backing of new British label, Black Metal Archives, Monument In Time – with two bonus tracks that have never been released on any physical format before – will find its way to a global metal audience. This tribute to friendship and the power of metal, this searing attack of thrash and melodic death metal, will carve the name of Beyond The Pale into the annals of extreme music forever.
Monument In Time explodes into life with the precision riffing of ‘Liberation For The Damned’ – a finely honed thrash/death weapon with every element fiercely focussed; from the interlocked twin guitars to the prominent bass lines that subtly weave their way through the axe attack, the powerhouse drumming to the stunning, ferocious vocal presence of Janneke de Rooy (ex-Altar). The essence of Beyond The Pale is summed up in this opening fusillade, but each song that follows possesses an individual character that adds immeasurably to Monument In Time’s vehement and venomous delivery. Be it the atmospheric intro and irresistible refrain of ‘Walk The Plank’, the power, hook-filled and instantly addictive ‘Facts And Figures’ or the viciously intense thrashing fervour of ‘Payback Is A Bitch’, with its touches of melodic lead adding an extra dimension, Beyond The Pale crush with every song, every note, every venomously articulated word of imperious rage.
The two bonus tracks that have been added to the track list of Monument In Time are the original 2021 recording of the band’s first single, ‘Storm en Drift’ – a song that appears in a re-recorded form elsewhere on the EP – and a reimagining of the thundering ‘Facts And Figures’, remixed by Japanese artist Frost (Gods Of Decay, Godfrost). Frost has added gleaming circuitry and bionic enhancements to the monstrous original and ‘Facts And Figures’ is a track with the strength to emerge from this invasive surgery still bristling with malicious intent, but with a new horror-tinged atmosphere infused into its bones.
Engineered and mixed by the team at Mass Audio Studios in Utrecht and mastered by the renowned Tony Lindgren (Amorphis, Arch Enemy, Insomnium, Kreator etc) at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden, the sound that has been captured on Monument In Time is exceptional – with clarity, a cutting edge and formidable force all accorded equal importance. A fitting tribute to the much-missed Jeroen van Donselaar and a titanic barrage of expertly blended thrash and melodic death metal, Monument In Time is about to receive the release it deserves through Black Metal Archives on January 30th.
Line-up:
Janneke de Rooy - Vocals
Johnny Derechos - Drums
Frank van Boven - Bass
Boudewijn de Kraaij - Guitars
Geoffrey Maas – Guitars
https://blackmetalarchiveslabel.bandcamp.com
https://beyondthepale.nl/
Wormholedeath Records is proud to announce the signing of the most galvanizing force in modern progressive metal: MANUEL. Led by the visionary guitarist Manuel Urgiles, who fuses virtuosic technicality, infectious Latin rhythms, and an uncompromising socio-political edge, creating a sound that is both raw and utterly essential. Their EP "PARASITE" will drop on 27 February 2026, via Wormholedeath.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Manuel Urgiles has forged a reputation as one of the most innovative voices in contemporary progressive metal. His band MANUEL merges intricate, virtuosic guitar work with authentic cultural influences, creating a sound that is both visceral and intellectually charged. Grammy Award winner Stacy Parrish calls MANUEL "a true musical revelation, pushing boundaries with genre-defying fusion and emotionally charged, virtuoso guitar performances."
"Parasite" boldly confronts the oppressive grip of the wealthy elite who manipulate and divide us for their own gain. It exposes how those in power intentionally pit us against one another while continuing to grow richer and more dominant.
"We reject the idea of rulers or masters. Instead, this EP serves as a rallying cry to unite against the true enemies—the corrupt systems and individuals who exploit us. It’s a call to shift our focus toward dismantling their control and building a future rooted in genuine change," states Manuel. "Parasite" is more than just a title; it’s a reflection of the parasitic forces at work in our society. I’m eager to hear your thoughts—what do you think of this message and direction?"
Featuring collaborations with guest vocalists, "PARASITE" showcases MANUEL's ability to seamlessly blend crushing progressive metal with Latin percussion, socially conscious lyricism, and genre-defying experimentation. The EP explores themes of immigrant resilience and cultural pride while delivering unrelenting sonic intensity.
MANUEL has already established themselves as a formidable live force, performing at major New England festivals including All Roads and VICES Fest, with a relentless touring schedule across the Northeast. Their high-energy performances have captivated audiences across metal, punk, and alternative scenes alike, proving that authentic artistry transcends genre boundaries.
MANUEL is:
Manuel Urgiles – Lead/Rhythm Guitar
Jason Ingalls – Drums
Thomas Hiscock – Bass Guitar
Ryan Cummings – Rhythm Guitar
DJKTF – Keys/Percussion
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On
March 13, 2026, VOR DIE HUNDE will expand their successful product
portfolio with the launch of a brand-new full-length Album via DEFYING DANGER
RECORDS! This premium-segment release is designed to dominate the global
Grindcore market and further solidify their position as industry leaders in
extreme music monetization!VOR DIE HUNDE are four businessmen from the future, armed with the knowledge of how to turn noise into revenue. They have returned to the present to launch their hyper-lucrative fusion of Grindcore, Death Metal, and Punk against us. Their business model is simple and straightforward: blastbeats in, money out. With unprecedented brutality, they extract listeners’ hard-earned cash — all while delivering maximum customer satisfaction!
VOR DIE HUNDE proudly embrace their role as the world’s first profit-driven Grindcore band. Fueled by pseudo-intellectual world-improvement lyrics and a sound scientifically engineered by leading experts to trigger consumer desire, they target a premium audience eager to invest in exclusive, limited-edition merchandise at luxury price points. The scientific foundation of their success: advanced AI models trained on the output of world market leaders like ROTTEN SOUND, NASUM, NAPALM DEATH, CARCASS, and others — ensuring exponential audience growth with minimal effort!
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Montreal
(QC) - Canadian bruisers, DEADWOOD, have released new
EP, RITUALS OF A DYING LIGHT, via Innerstrength Records.
The EP is available at the following locations:
https://innerstrengthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deadwood-rituals-of-a-dying-light
https://hypeddit.com/deadwood/ritualsofadyinglight-1
Deadwood uniquely blends death metal and hardcore to create a modern deathcore sound. Known for their heavy music and dark lyrics, their motto is "Make Deathcore Angry Again." The band aims to evoke terror and fear through their music, ensuring their performances are unforgettable.
Most importantly, the music of Deadwood caters to enthusiastic metalheads who crave pure brutality and violence.
Track Listing:
1. Tales of Massacre
2. Heretic
3. Thirst for Blood
4. Whispers of Death
5. Echoes of the Fallen
Music and lyrics by Deadwood.
Recorded at EMNT studio January 2025.
Produced by Fred Element.
Mix and mastering by Fred Element.
Formed in the shadow of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Deadwood quickly carved out a place in the heavy scene with their dark, unrelenting sound. The lineup unites seasoned veterans: guitarist Fred (ex-The Plasmarifle, ex-Ion Dissonance), guitarist Stéphane (ex-Nova Spei, Iron Maiden tribute), drummer Charles (ex-Dismayd, Discovrey Through Tourment), and vocalist Derek, reuniting with Fred after a decade since their days in Malaga.
Drawing from the ferocity of Meshuggah, the brutality of Whitechapel, and the groove-driven power of Pantera, Deadwood delivers crushing riffs and haunting atmospheres steeped in true dark histories—from the Salem witch trials to the reign of Jack the Ripper.
Their catalog includes the EP Nemesis (2022), EP Inhuman (2023), and standout singles “Straightblade” (June 2023), “Djinn Pitts” (March 2024), and “Heretic” (April 2025). Known for their commanding live presence, Deadwood has toured Japan with Humanity's Last Breath and DVRK, stormed U.S. stages in 2025, opened twice for Born of Osiris in Montréal, and shook the grounds of Inkcarceration Festival 2025.
Currently on tour across Québec, Ontario, and New Brunswick, Deadwood is gearing up for their first European run in 2026 — bringing their brand of dark, murky heaviness to stages worldwide.
Line-up:
Fred Element - Guitars
Stephane Filion - Lead Guitars
Charles Etienne Lafrance - Drums
Derek Heynekemp - Vocals*
*Note: Vocals on the EP by Martin Demontigny.
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Rising
blackened atmospheric death metal force FROSTMORNER is
proud to unveil the official visualizer for "GORGONE," the
visceral new single from the upcoming debut full-length, ORBITAL
KAOS. Set to drop on February 13, 2026, the album marks a
definitive statement from one of the genre's most promising solo visionaries.
Rooted in the myth of Medusa and shaped with a cinematic mindset, “Gorgone” is built to feel immersive rather than conventional. What began as an influence drawn from Nile soon developed into a personal statement, where atmosphere plays a central role. The track layers brutal riffs with monster-like sound design inspired by film and video game audio, creating a dense and unsettling soundscape.
Structurally, “Gorgone” hits hard and moves with intent. Fast, aggressive riffing and slam-driven sections dominate the opening, before giving way to a slow, oppressive final act. This closing passage relies on steady, unyielding drumming and dark ambient textures, conjuring the image of a Gorgon carrying out a ritual. The narrative follows Medusa as she turns her victims to stone, then reshapes them through a dark rite into a monstrous force that spreads fear wherever it moves.
About Frostmorner
Hailing from Sicilian roots, Mario began the Frostmorner journey in 2019. After evolving from a collaborative effort into a solo powerhouse, Frostmorner has carved out a distinct niche in the Blackened Atmospheric Death Metal landscape. Handling all duties from guitars and drums to artwork and design, Frostmorner represents the ultimate DIY spirit in extreme metal, earning acclaim from fanzines and radio stations worldwide.
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WOLFBASTARD – “SATANIC SCUM PUNKS”
Label: Apocalyptic Witchcraft
Release date: march 13th 2026
Genre: Black Metal/Crust Punk
For fans of: Venom | Exploited | Midnight | Extreme Noise Terror
We’re careering to the end now, pedal to the metal and picking up speed with every turn around the sun; humanity clambering over itself to reach the landfill of shit, bones and misery where it belongs. Some will weep their way to our mass, open grave, capturing their final pathetic moments on the cracked screens of the devices that have eaten their souls. And some will howl in the flames of destruction…drink, fight and bleed their way to oblivion. The end of days will be their best of days as they grind glass into society’s rotten face. Nihilistic and defiant, venomous and violent – no cause, no cares, no code of conduct – the streets belong to the satanic scum punks!
Four years on from their cranium crushing third album, Hammer The Bastards, Manchester’s feral kings of the underworld – Wolfbastard – have returned, armed with the turbo charged belligerence of new album Satanic Scum Punks! Opening track ‘It’s Fucking Dark’ begins with a strange, tarnished majesty before a riotous punk riff tears out its throat and a raucous cry of ‘Fuck Off!’ sends us hurtling into the darkness. There’s no respite, no acoustic interludes or moments of atmospheric reflection, just ultra-aggressive punk riffs with a jagged black metal blade concealed inside them. ‘Let The Bastards Burn’ leaves you in no doubt that Wolfbastard won’t just let the bastards burn, they’ll be starting the fire, adding any accelerant that comes to hand and kicking any escapees back into the flames. The ripping, addictive black mayhem of first single ‘Hail Satan Kurwa’ is a breathtaking rush of full force blast and ‘F.O.T.D.’ is the kind of song that would headbutt you for breathing. There is no weakening of the ice and dirt, fire and thunder assault as Satanic Scum Punks progresses; from the devil may care, feet first into the abyss adrenaline of ‘Drink For Hell’ to the body breaking ‘Manic Street Creatures’ this album just hits harder and harder. And finally it ends just where it began, with a spittle-flecked ‘fuck off’, before collapsing back into the gutter.
Now with the backing of a powerhouse new label, champions of the underground Apocalyptic Witchcraft, the filth, fury, malice and menace of Wolfbastard will be spread like a disfiguring plague. Satanic Scum Punks will be unleashed on March 13th and available on limited edition vinyl, digipak CD, Cassette and digital formats. Be ready for wanton destruction and drunken devastation – expect no mercy here.
Line-up:
Dez – Guitar/Vocals
Si Fox - Bass
Dave Buchan - Drums
https://apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk/
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As
is the tradition for us, we've started this year with our new label sampler.
It's always free-for-download with the proceeds going towards our animal
sanctuary having around 40 rescued cats and dogs now (I hope I can get them
some new toys and maybe a treehouse after this!). The artwork is made by Nekromold and
we've come up with a couple of colour options too just in case.
Label Sampler link : https://transcendingobscurity.bandcamp.com/album/2026-label-...
You'll find more familiar bands on the label sampler this time around because quite a few of them have come up with new material but the overall quality remains the same and the essence undiluted. A few bold bands have been given prominence and I'm sure the songs on the label sampler will grow on the listeners because several of them are rather intricate or just weird/interesting. At this rate, we'll probably never end up being a big "commercial" label but I can live with that.
Compilation info
We are truly privileged to enter another year working with both known bands returning to release their new albums with us as well as fledgling ones showing promise. The 2026 label sampler is a free-for-download compilation with all fresh songs, mostly off albums that are likely to come out in the same year. As can be expected, there's plenty of diversity and it should be an interesting year for the label.
The artwork by Nekromold is a reflection of our messy times, where art and music are getting infested by AI, with some gnarly Warhammer 40k influence thrown in for good measure.
The proceeds from this goes towards the upkeep of the Transcending Obscurity-run animal sanctuary having over 40 rescued cats and dogs, and others outside being fed and taken care of on a daily basis.
Track listing
1. ENDSPACE (Canada) - Sixth Transmission (Sci-fi Black Metal)
2. VEILBURNER (US) - Vitriolic Hiss (Avantgarde Black/Death Metal)
3. FEBRUUS (Sweden) - Measures of Escalation (Progressive Death Metal)
4. DEVENIAL VERDICT (Finland) - Elysium (Death Metal)
5. HAXPROCESS (US) - The Divinity of the Self (Death Metal)
6. THE SCALAR PROCESS (France) - Far From the Flesh (Progressive/Atmospheric Death Metal)
7. VIANDE (France) - Cercuiel de vase (Death Metal)
8. RITUAL FOG (US) - Enraptured (Death/Thrash Metal)
9. NINTH REALM (US) - Rituals in Thar'amath (Death/Thrash Metal)
10. DEFECT DESIGNER (Norway) - Repeated Aversive Stimuli Inducer (Progressive Death Metal)
11. CUTTERRED FLESH (Czech Republic) - The Colour Out of Space (Brutal Death Metal)
12. CHAOS MOTION (France) - Neurotic Contortion Abuse (Dissonant/Technical Death Metal)
13. DYSGNOSTIC (Denmark) - The Black Sun (Dissonant Death Metal)
14. ELITIST (Denmark) - Enforced Malnourishment (Dissonant Death Metal)
15. CARBON TOMB (Denmark) - A Hidden Creature (Dissonant Death Metal)
16. GOREWORM (Canada) - The Enthralling Grave (Technical Death Metal)
17. DISSECT THE MASSES (US) - Flesh Mechanics (Death Metal)
18. XENOSIS (US) - Prolapsed Twin Entombment (Progressive Death Metal)
19. HANGING GARDEN (US) - Dreamwoven (Progressive Death Metal)
20. DECIPHER (Greece) - Return to Naught (Black Metal)
21. APOLAUSTIC (Switzerland) - Shining Amidst the Lights (Black/Death Metal)
22. VERDUN (France) - Funeral of the Cosmic Knight (Blackened Sludge Metal)
23. MUERTO (Mexico) - Serpentine Echoes (Black Metal)
24. BESOTTEN (US) - Mist of Decay (Death/Doom Metal)
25. ABYSSAL RIFT (US) - The Enlightenment (There Was Never Will) (Death/Doom Metal)
26. DEATH OBVIOUS (Finland) - Sipirja (Avantgarde Black/Death/Doom Metal)
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Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Watch the "Alone" music video: https://youtu.be/fAf_y38Mki0
Listen to the "Katharsis" album on music services : https://push.fm/fl/fod-katharsis
FoD singer Saku Solin tells about the album:
”Katharsis is the culmination of our entire band’s evolution and the rebirth of its members. It’s often said that art requires pain and faith… and this album truly contains both. The process tested us through adversity and demanding production, but perhaps because of that, I am now incredibly proud of us for having the strength to fight our way through it.
When we now compare the final album to the original demos, it’s clear that every bit of work and effort was absolutely worth it.
For the songs themselves, we were able to carve out material from Lasse’s pen, some of which had been waiting to be born for years. At the same time, we created our first full-length album together with Anton and Jessica. On a personal level, the biggest thing for me was being able to write songs for FoD again after a long time with my close friends and to share my story through the music. Feel may be the most beautiful song of my entire artist career. At leat one of the most important ones for me.”
Fear of Domination was originally founded in 2006. Over the years they have toured around the Europe with bands like Deathstars, Turmion Kätilöt, Velcra, Shade Empire, Hanzel and Gretyl, Amaranthe, PAIN and many many more.
Pre-order the limited CD-digipak (CD release day, January 23rd) from Inverse Store or Bandcamp.
Upcoming shows:
16.1.2026 Kouvola, House of Rock /w King Satan [FIN]
17.1.2026 Helsinki, On The Rocks /w Let It All Burn [FIN]
23.1.2026 Turku, Apollo /w Herja, Morket [FIN]
24.1.2026 Tampere, Olympia /w King Satan [FIN]
30.1.2026 Jyväskylä, Freetime [FIN]
31.1.2026 Oulu, Kantakrouvi, Winter Massacre [FIN]
13.3.2026 Kuopio, Circus /w Ruoska [FIN]
Fear Of Domination are:
Jessica Salmi – voc
Saku Solin – voc
Johannes Niemi – gtr
Jan-Erik Kari – gtr
Lauri Ojanen – Bass
Lasse Raelahti – Synths
Anton Nisonen - Drums
Tracklist
01. Alone
02. Dead Anyway
03. Monsters
04. Imposter
05. Last Words
06. Primum Noce Apte
07. Rabbit Hole
08. All As One
09. Endgame
10. Feel
Release date: January 9th 2026
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Label: Meuse Music Records
Release date: february 27th 2026
Genre: Funeral Doom / Death Metal
For fans of: Shape Of Despair | Indescinence | Hellight | Skepticism
I saw the hand of doom reach into my sky and enfold my sun, drawing it down beyond the distant horizon. The colours of my world bled away, through differing shades of grey to the darkness of unending night and there, in the black, wracked by pain beyond all previous imagining, I found I could see with a clarity I had never known before. As love and dreams fled into the shadows, my vision of the path ahead was suddenly unobstructed and I could see my final place of rest awaiting me. The tomb held no terrors for me now and I began my steady, deliberate journey through the vale of tears with quiet acceptance – slowly fading as each step brought me closer to that cold, ungentle bed.
Born in Tbilisi in Georgia, on the banks of the Kura River, Ennui have built a formidable reputation on the foundations of four full length studio albums, each one a towering edifice of funeral doom/death metal. From the 2012 debut, Mze Ukunisa, inspired by the poetic works of Terentio Graneli, to 2018s End Of The Circle, described by Mystification Zine as “a stunning dance of extremes”, Ennui have followed their own path of vast, measured heaviness and unflinching explorations of life changing emotions and the fundamental questions of existence. Now, it is time for the fifth chapter in their grand tale to be written as Ennui walk ever deeper into the darkness...with Qroba.
Qroba, meaning vanishment, the process of disappearance, begins with the revelatory ‘Antinatalism’, its staggering chords and drum beats like distant thunder conjuring a sense of immeasurable scale entwined with a piercing, poignant intimacy of thought and experience. A voice rises through the music, climbing up from the deepest chambers of the heart and the melancholy, grief and summoned solitude are all encompassing. Portentous melodies lead us on through a windswept wilderness and shuddering riffs draw down the dark and bleach the sun’s warmth from the world. This is deeper, darker, colder than ever before…and we have only just begun. The weight of the first full chords of ‘Becoming Void’ drive the breath from your body and the illusions of life’s comforts are crushed, ground into the frozen soil, before achingly beautiful guitar leads of sublime sorrow climb from the bleak vista. Ennui’s ability to weave remarkable subtlety and emotion into music of such staggering weight is exemplified in ‘Decima’, where delicate notes and avalanches of sound evoke the moment of heartbreak and draw it out through eternity, with a traditional three stringed lute, the panduri, adding the melancholy atmosphere of the Georgian mountains. And still Qroba carries us onwards, through the soul-shaking, overwhelming majesty of ‘Down To The Stars’ to our final unmaking with ‘Mokvda Mze’; where opening notes of rich resonance are gradually consumed by the tremendous power of Ennui in full flight – those earthshaking vocals, those inexorable chords and lamenting melodies – and we are cast upon the eternal, fathomless seas of grief, until, at last, we slip into nothingness.
Mixed and mastered by Esoteric’s Greg Chandler, whose knowledgeable touch has given such heft and presence to works by Officium Triste, My Silent Wake, Pantheist and many more, Qroba possesses an agonised nobility of sound, a layered, textured depth that infuses the songs with a remarkable unswerving honesty. Surely the pinnacle in Ennui’s outstanding canon of work to date, Qroba will be released by Meuse Music Records on February 27th, bedecked in the stunning artwork of Ben J ‘Winterkeep’ (Ofnus), with additional design from Vladimir 'Smerdulak' Chebakov (1914, Lake Of Tears etc) – and the scope and power of funeral doom will be redefined once more.
Line-up:
David Unsaved – Guitars, bass, vocals
Serge Shengelia – Guitars
Alexander Gongliashvili – Drums
Andrey Azatyan – Guitars
Kakhi Kiknadzr – Guitars
https://www.meusemusicrecords.eu/
https://linktr.ee/ennuitheband
The band describes the album and its creative process as follows:
"This album is the destination of a very long journey, and at the same time, a new beginning. While the process has been incredibly interesting and inspiring, for a band like ours — working primarily remotely — it has required significant effort. We’ve had to invent new ways of working and change many of our internal practices. From the very beginning, our goal was to create a debut so strong that we wouldn’t have to regret it years down the line. We believe we achieved that goal 100%. With the lessons learned, working on the next album will be a much faster undertaking."
Listen to the album on music services : https://push.fm/fl/inborntendency-lettherebesin
The band worked on the album with producer Juho Koskinen, who was responsible for the production as well as the final mixing and mastering.
"When we decided to start working on the debut in 2023, it became clear after a moment of reflection that we wanted an outside producer to provide fresh perspectives on the songs. We were looking for someone with experience producing music beyond just the metal genre. We happened to find Juho through mutual acquaintances, and that same year we released 'Heritage.' From that point on, it was clear that the entire album would be crafted with this team. Remote work has been a necessity and a natural way for us to operate since the band's early days, so the collaboration with Juho ran smoothly. The singles released so far have received excellent feedback on both production and sound, and we believe the full album will live up to the expectations of both fans and new listeners!"
The cover art for the singles and the final album was created by Henri Tervapuro, an artist from Ostrobothnia.
"We started working with Henri years ago when we released the Godkiller EP. Henri’s style of creating graphics through painting works incredibly well for us; it adds just the right amount of edge and narrative to the songs. Henkka got to listen to the tracks and create the first drafts based on pure intuition. This way of working has been very effective, and Henri’s art often brings new, interesting perspectives to the music."
The band's lyrics and songwriting style have been atmospheric and thought-provoking since their inception. The band has refrained from explaining or opening up the themes of the lyrics, aiming instead to let the listener draw their own conclusions from the stories behind the songs. The band describes the debut album as follows:
"The overarching theme of the album is the inherent sinfulness planted in humans from the womb. The songs' themes lead the listener to face their deepest fears and the evil that resides within every human being. Although the stories draw from Christian tradition, they provoke thought about the nature of evil, regardless of one's personal convictions."
"Something new, something old, something of our own, and something stolen," describes Ville Herranen, who is responsible for the lyrics.
The band will kick off their album release tour on January 31st, 2026, at Ottopoika in Kuopio. You can catch the band during the spring at the following venues:
Jan 31 – Kuopio, Ottopoika (FIN)
Feb 20 – Seinäjoki, Bar 15 (FIN)
Mar 7 – Helsinki, Bar Base (FIN)
Apr 18 – Turku, Nirvana (FIN)
May 9 – Espoo, Olarin Ossi (FIN)
See you at the shows!
Inborn Tendency:
Mika Hänninen, Guitar
Hugo Tiitinen, Drums
Ville Herranen, Vocals
Credits:
Mixing and Mastering: Juho Koskinen
Cover Art: Henri Tervapuro
Tracklist
01. Defiled
02. Heritage
03. Flesh Eater
04. Imperfected
05. Exiled
06. Ungod
07. Fist Evangelist
08. Lament
09. Death Do Us Part
10. Returnal
https://lnk.bio/Inborntendency
Listen to the EP on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/krushor-ep
The band comments:
"The themes of the songs on EP are not the easiest to grasp, but they are extremely important! I have always wanted to write about my own experiences and the things happening around me, especially the negative things and mental struggles. It's kind of therapeutic to get the words down on paper first and then shout these themes out as loud as I can, maybe that's my way of dealing with difficult things.
The process itself was very exciting. We did the recordings ourselves for the first time and got the necessary equipment for it. It wasn't the easiest way to do it, but we're happy with the result. There is always room for improvement, and that drives us forward. We want to learn new things and get better at these things too. Most of the actual recording was done by our guitarist Joni, and we owe him a big thank you for his time, effort, and perseverance in the name of "creativity."
Next, we will focus on gigging, as long as we are blessed with gigs, and on writing new songs. Our goal is to make a whole album, which we also intend to record ourselves. The schedule is not rushed, so don't hold your breath just yet. Making the EP was a great process, we got what we wanted out of it and learned a lot through the process!"
Biography:
The band found its current identity through shared musical tastes, playing together, and a shared hobby. We are a group of people who enjoy making and playing music that works for all of us. A big part of this is that composing, writing lyrics, and editing songs is open to everyone. All songs and compositions are created by the whole group, not based on one person's vision or goal.
Our influences definitely come from older metal, but that doesn't matter, because mixing genres actually adds a lot to our music; there's no one right way to do things. Krushor's goal is to make music that sounds good and at the same time talk about the difficult things that are part of life. For many people, music can be therapeutic, and if even one person feels that way about our music, we feel we have succeeded.
Track
list:
01. Shockwave
02. Vortex
03. Rise Above
04. Taste of Hatred
Composed by Joni Kärsämä, Juho Mattila
Saku Hirvimäki, Sami Keränen
Lyrics by Ville Lehtoranta
Arranged by Krushor
EP cover by Joni Kärsämä
Line-up:
Ville Lehtoranta - Vocals
Joni Kärsämä - Guitar
Juho Mattila - Guitar
Sami Keränen - Bass
Saku Hirvimäki - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/krushorofficial
Release
date :
February 20, 2026
Genre : Melodic Black Metal
For fans of: MGLA, Misþyrming, Forteresse, Regarde les hommes tomber, etc...
Origin: France
Duration: 31min48
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Line up
Vocals : Diffamie / Thomas Deffrasnes
Guitar : Thomas Deffrasnes
Bass : Clément Joly
Drums : Robin Grabmann
Tracklist:
1. Les galibots
2. Cheval de fosse
3. Courrières
4. Barbara
5. Les nords
6. Terre d’euch mau
7. Le Galibot
8. Schlamms
GALIBOT is a melodic black metal band — but it is also the name given to children who were sent to work in the mines of northern France. And for good reason, as the quintet hails from there.
Initiated in 2023 by Thomas, Agathe and Clément, the project, initially a studio project, aims to establish a parallel between the raw and visceral dark matter that is coal and black metal music. Wallers-Arenberg, the name of the town where the project was born and which bears the scars of the mining industry, was the demo for what was still only a trio.
In 2024, “Euch’mau Noir” — “The Black Devil” in Ch’ti — was released, an album portraying the North as the devil’s cradle, a harsh and infernal land.
At the beginning of 2026, GALIBOT invites you to (re)discover this work in a fully reimagined version: “Euch’mau Noir bis”, scheduled for release on Friday, February 20, 2026, via Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions.
This new edition revisits the imagery of the North, a land of dark legends and human tragedies. It brings forth miners shaped by the pits, villages scarred by disasters, and a multiculturalism whose ink stains the pages of Zola.
The six original tracks return transfigured through new arrangements, accompanied by a completely reworked mix and mastering at Minotaure Studio, delivering an even more massive sonic impact.
The tracklist is expanded with the return of “Schlamms”, an emblematic track from their demo, now entirely recomposed and re-recorded, and fully integrated into the definitive version of their debut album.
“Euch’mau Noir bis” was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Minotaure Studio under the direction of Julien Baquero.
Pre-orders are now open for the various editions of the album, which also features a complete visual overhaul by Tryfar, further reinforcing the project’s dark and assertive identity.
https://www.facebook.com/GalibotBand/
Belorusian Death Metal Pack, EXIMPERITUS, in partnership with No Clean Singing, have premiered, "GOLDEN CHAINS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF INDIVIDUAL GREATNESS," the second single from forthcoming Willowtip album, MERITORIOUSNESS OF EQUANIMITY.
Get pummeled at: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2026/01/07/an-ncs-premiere-eximperitus-golden-chains-for-the-construction-of-individual-greatness/
The song will be available on all digital platforms this Friday, January 9.
Eximperitus are set to release the follow-up to 2021's widely praised sophomore album, Šahrartu! Willowtip Records will unleash Meritoriousness of Equanimity January 30 on vinyl, cassette, CD, and digital formats.
"In times when despair overflows human hearts… when the chasm of strife between civilizations widens… when loyalty to ideologies tears blood ties apart… when the world stands still, poised for the final leap of prolonged self-destruction… We can draw strength solely from internal sources, which are filled only by the multifaceted power of Death Metal..."- Eximperitus
Eximperitus' forthcoming third album, Meritoriousness of Equanimity, contains nine independent compositions united by the idea of searching for inner support in an era of turbulence. Exposure and scourging of social dogmas and morbid tendencies on the ruins of the old world...
Pre-order:
https://eximperitus.bandcamp.com/album/meritoriousness-of-equanimity
https://www.willowtip.com/bands/details/eximperitus.aspx
Track
Listing:
I. One Step Long Infinity.
II. Contemplation of the Plastic Fibers of Perfection at the Second Level of Reality.
III. Twelve Centuries of Triumph of the Third Kingdom…
IV. Finding Consistency in the Fourth Quadrant of Eternity.
V. The Untimely Fruit of the Unsaid.
VI. Golden Chains for the Construction of Individual Greatness.
VII. Molecular Disintegration of an Unattainable Solitary Will in a Vessel of Wisdom...
VIII. Chalkionic Wandering Among the Wreckage of the Future.
IX. Standing at the Skirt of the Ruins of Human Nature (...on the Other Side of Man and Time).
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Athens,
Greece – In 1993, the world was a different place, but the darkest corners
of the human psyche remain unchanged. Today, Greek death/thrash metal icon CREMATE taps
into that timeless darkness with the premiere of the official lyric video
for "HUMAN," a standout track from their
powerhouse EP, READY TO FIGHT, out now via
Wormholedeath.
Originally written over three decades ago, "Human" has evolved from a raw expression of 90s angst into a chillingly relevant commentary on our modern digital age. The track serves as a visceral thrash metal statement on the things society chooses to ignore: fear, pride, and hypocrisy.
While the song was born from internal human conflict, CREMATE notes that these emotions have migrated from our hearts into our hardware. "Human" explores the blurred line between biology and technology, questioning what happens when we translate our pain and fears into algorithms and artificial intelligence—systems that can process data, but can never truly "feel" what it means to be human.
Stream the EP Ready To Fight: https://orcd.co/rtfep
Previous videos:
Die As You Lived: https://youtu.be/k38HueUtCos
Ready to Fight – https://youtu.be/-RdHOoRT-HA
CREMATE’s story is one of resurrection. Originally formed in Alimos, Athens, in 1991, the band carved out a reputation for a raw, aggressive sound inspired by titans like Kreator and Sodom. After a successful run in the mid-90s—including the internationally acclaimed End of Time demo—the band disbanded, leaving a void in the Greek underground scene.
In 2021, founder Christos reignited the flame. Alongside drummer George and guitarist/producer Akis Pastras, the band returned to their roots to re-envision their 90s fury through a contemporary lens.
About the EP: Ready To Fight The resulting 4-track EP is an uncompromising fusion of vintage aggression and modern dark textures. Ready To Fight features three reworked classics and the brand-new title track, which boasts a guest solo from Marios Iliopoulos (Nightrage). The EP also features haunting violin work from Lusty Apricot on "Die as You Lived," adding a layer of gothic atmosphere to the band's signature brutality.
Recorded and mixed by Akis Pastras and mastered by the legendary George Nerantzis (Rotting Christ, Abbath),
www.youtube.com/@CREMATEtheband
www.facebook.com/crematetheband
Finnish melodic death metal act OBSCURE FATE is about to release their debut album 'SHADES OF A DYING WORLD' on March 27th 2026 via Inverse Records.
The second single 'POISON THRONE' is unleashed today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/obscure-fate-poison-throne
The band comments:
" "Poison Throne" represents corrupt authority that poisoned what it was supposed to protect. The song refers directly to the Inquisition, historical events in which innocent people were executed on religious grounds. Religion was used as a tool of power, not salvation. The song "Poison Throne" urges us to remember the injustices of the past and expands the theme from the individual to the collective trauma of an entire nation."
Biography:
Obscure Fate was originally formed in 2008 in Paltamo, Finland, as the solo project of guitarist and songwriter Kaleva Kovalainen. In 2009, drummer Jari Keränen and bassist Petri Möttönen joined, giving the songs their first real band form. Shortly after, guitarist Joni Moisanen and vocalist Tapio Möttönen became official members, and together the group arranged dozens of tracks for full band performances. From the very beginning, Tapio handled the lyrics, with Petri contributing to the song Spectral Exile.
The current lineup was completed in 2019 when bassist Antti Möttönen replaced Petri. Musically, Obscure Fate is rooted in traditional melodic death metal, though elements of thrash and classic heavy metal also find their way into the band’s sound. Kaleva’s prolific songwriting provided a strong foundation for the band, while the lyrics explore themes of social criticism, fictional storytelling, and inner struggles.
In 2021, Obscure Fate released their first EP. Recording sessions for their debut full-length album began soon after, but due to various setbacks the process turned into a long and seemingly endless project. Finally, in April 2025, the band reached the final stages of completing the album, marking an important milestone in their journey. The debut album 'Shades of a Dying World' is set to be released in March 2026 via Inverse Records.
Listen to the first single 'Age of Delusion': https://push.fm/fl/obscure-fate-age-of-delusion
Track
list:
01. Shadows of the Past
02. Beyond Pain
03. Turn To Dust
04. Spectral Exile
05. Age of Delusion
06. Shade of the Destruction
07. Reign of Madness
08. Valhalla
09. Spirit of Vengeance
10. Poison Throne
11. Eksyneiden Jumala
Album cover by Jarno Lahti
Mixed by Tero "TeeCee" Kinnunen
Mastered by Mika Jussila, Finnvox Studiot Oy
Line-up:
Kaleva Kovalainen, Guitars
Tapio Möttönen, Vocals
Jari Keränen, Drums
Joni Moisanen, Guitars, Backing Vocals
Antti Möttönen, Bass
https://obscurefate.net
https://www.facebook.com/ObscureFateBand
Hailing
from Foix a french city worldwide famous for his castle comes True
Pyrenean Black Metal act NOIRSUAIRE! Solely driven by mastermind N who created this dark entity back in 2023,
NOIRSUAIRE delivers traditional Black Metal laden by influences ranging from
Darkthrone, Gorgoroth to French scene from the late 90s like Funeral, Osculum
Infame, Bekhira etc.
After some demos and EPs released on various labels, NOIRSUAIRE signed to the legendary label Osmose Productions, a label that doesn't need any introduction, for the release of its debut album.
This debut album entirely recorded in an old attic then mastered at BST Studio (Mütiilation, Aosoth, Hell Militia) is entitled "THE DRAGGING POISON" and contains 9 tracks, everything wrapped in a splendid artwork by famous artist David Thiérée known for his works for bands like Behemoth, Ihsahn, Warloghe to name a few!
"The Dragging Poison" has been released on December 26th via Osmose Productions and can be ordered straight from NOIRSUAIRE on the official webshop or via Osmose Productions.
https://www.facebook.com/noirsuaire
SUPERIOR
RAGE – “IN MEMORIAM” (EP)
In Memoriam is not merely a collection of past works but a powerful statement of resurrection and refinement. The EP features re-recorded classics alongside two brand-new, previously unreleased tracks: “The Death of the Red Dragon” and “Soleright,” offering a definitive listening experience for both long-time followers and new fans of atmospheric black metal. "Thanks to the contribution of session musicians, SUPERIOR RAGE's music has become more vibrant and pulsatile compared to their previous, colder and more minimal productions," says the project’s founder, Superior Rage (vocals and synths).
In Memoriam is a must-listen for anyone seeking symphonic black metal that is both rich in atmosphere and aggressive in execution.
Tracklist
01. Indecent Condition
02. Asmodeus Bacchic
03. The Night of Rains
04. Soleright
05. The Death of the Red Dragon
About SUPERIOR RAGE
SUPERIOR RAGE began in 2006, delivering raw black metal with atmospheric, dark, and symphonic tones. The core lineup features Superior Rage (vocals, synths), Pagan Fury (guitars, synths), and Hyemens Kaiser Tszar (bass).
The first demo (2008) earned strong national reviews, followed by Through Infinity (2010), a mix of unreleased tracks and new material. Between 2010 and 2011, the project released several live recordings with temporary session musicians.
In 2011, SUPERIOR RAGE shifted toward symphonic black metal with III. Two Fire Eternal EPs followed, covering classic black metal songs—first in their original style, then in an ambient approach.
In 2012 the lineup expanded, producing new online recordings, additional covers, and a remake of “The Night of Rains.” The project paused in 2014, briefly resurfacing in 2017 with a new version of “Indecent Condition.”
SUPERIOR RAGE returned in 2022 with the single Boobs Explosions. This led to Anthology, a 2024 collection of re-recorded key tracks, including a new prog-influenced take on “Cuore Sincero.”
In 2025, the promo Back to the Crypt introduced two re-recorded tracks and a new song, “Soleright,” with four session members. The EP In Memoriam followed, adding a new version of “Asmodeus Bacchic” and the unreleased “Death of the Red Dragon.”
The current line-up features the core vision of Superior Rage (music, lyrics, synth & bass) alongside a powerful contingent of session musicians:
Baelithiel (vocals & lyrics)
Maikon (drums)
Nemorion (guitars on “Indecent Condition” and “Soleright”)
Hrafnagud (guitars on “The Night of Rains”, “Asmodeus Bacchic”, “The Death of the Red Dragon”)
www.youtube.com/@SuperiorRageRawchannel
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The
solo project "WOODEN SHADOW" by Jeremia Ponto, who
just turned 25, from Ylöjärvi, Finland and the latest song "We are the
North" is a representative song as its name suggests, in which the north
brings honor and strength. The chorus raises the sound levels to the
stratosphere and the song's otherwise rich and rich melody can be heard. There
are also experiments with different guitar sections, of which at least Jeremia
Ponto himself is really happy about.
Listen to 'We Are The North' single on all major streaming platforms: https://push.fm/fl/wooden-shadow-we-are-the-north
From year 2020 onwards, the first demo (Meaning of Wonders) also started a new project. Wooden Shadow is the solo project of Jeremia Ponto from Ylöjärvi, where the genres vary between melodic styles in the form of different formats. As a rule, founder Ponto writes his compositions based on melodic death metal, but there are also combinations of folk and melodic black metal. Jeremia Ponto, 25, describes his solo project: "Ever since I started making my first compositions, I had in mind to write diverse music that fits the colors of my project itself. Let the people, who find my music
to listen to decide for themselves what my genre represents. I define my music as "melodic metal" because it feels more realistic to me as a composer."
https://www.facebook.com/Tormentius
https://woodenshadow.bandcamp.com
Finnish
blackened death metal band KARELIAN WARCRY have worked
with their third album for years and finally it sees the light of day this
spring. The first bite from the album, a single "MIELEN
RUTTO" (The plague of mind) is now out.
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, Bandcamp etc.) https://push.fm/fl/karelianwarcry-mielenrutto
Karelian Warcry was founded in Kouvola, Finland, in 2002. In its early stages, KW’s music leaned more distinctly towards Black Metal. Nowadays it’s influenced by other subgenres of metal as well as other types of music. The lyrics explore themes related to war, violence and the darker sides of humanity. Each member brings their own musical roots, personal ambitions, and thematic passions into the mix, resulting in unique and recognizable sound. Wistful and haunting melodies, crushing grooves, and relentlessly driving rhythms blend with violent storytelling and poetic expression, hallmarks of Karelian Warcry’s musical identity.
In 2014, the band went on hiatus following the passing of vocalist-guitarist Matti Mikkonen. Although the members have scattered from their hometown of Kouvola, they have continued creating music together—both remotely and in their rehearsal chamber. One could say Karelian Warcry never ceased to exist. And now, a bit over a decade later, they have finally completed the upcoming album, "Veripellot" — their most crushing and cohesive work to date.
Discography:
Demo '04 (2004)
Kylmä rautainen (Album, 2005)
Verinen taival, päättymätön tie (Album, 2010)
Minun aikani (Single, 2020)
Line-up:
A. O. Heiskanen - Drums
J. H. Järvinen - Vocals
J. T. Kousa - Guitars
S. P. Ukkonen - Bass
https://linktr.ee/Karelian_Warcry
The video also featuring the hellish fire ‘work’ stunts of the most wikkid “Flames of Anubis” gang and select video footage from Robert Cuzens.
Stream
the album: https://orcd.co/scalbum
Previous videos:
“Genital Dismemberment Bot Cult”: https://youtu.be/om99zzMY0ac
"Satans Cock": https://youtu.be/Nso_kHVv3oI
“Psychotropic Lyfe”: https://youtu.be/xeeiwOvpmr4
"Eat Your Entrails": https://youtu.be/26xpIfMKKhE
“Ominous”: https://youtu.be/3ugPaxkkJlE
"Satans Cock" The Album
Following their 2022 self-titled debut, which sold out multiple pressings and carved a cult following across the underground, KÜNTSQUÄD (pronounced Kountskard) double down on everything grotesque, unholy, and deliberately absurd. There are no genre walls here—only a relentless descent into sonic madness.
With the album “Satans Cock”, the band delivers a grotesque yet calculated assault—layering blast-beaten fury, apocalyptic riffs, and sneering satire into a weaponized soundscape for the damned
About KÜNTSQUÄD:
KÜNTSQUÄD (pron. Kountskard) is a crusty death metal band from Melbourne blending guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and blackened chaos. Their 2022 self-titled debut on Wormholedeath Records earned global acclaim and sold-out pressings. Raw, extreme, and satirically twisted—this is metal with no genre boundaries.
https://black-roos.com/
www.youtube.com/@Kuntsquad666
www.facebook.com/kuntsquad666
Greek black metal band Decipher have come up with a new album this year which is an extension of their sound on their acclaimed previous one. If you're into thoughtfully composed, steely black metal with melodic undertones, you can't pass up on this one. Listen to a track from it at https://decipherbm.bandcamp.com/album/thelema
DECIPHER - “ΘΕΛΗΜΑ (THELEMA)”
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of : Emperor, Yoth Iria, Bolzer, Lucifer's Child, Varathron, Necromantia, Ravencult, Dodsferd
Decipher released a sublime album in "Arcane Paths to Resurrection", which was steely and composed, enriched with melodic undertones. It was the timeless kind of black metal that was largely inspired by the classic black metal bands and yet didn't sound too dated. Two years later, the Greeks return with a new opus, elaborating on the music forged on that album, adding better nuance and structure to the songs whilst retaining the sound and appeal. Allowed better expression, the songs are comparatively longer and have a narrative quality to them without straying too far from the core sound. The riffs are drenched in emotions without being overtly melodic as the music marches ahead resolutely with its steely demeanour. This is the kind of black metal that gets its priorities straight - with the right focus on riffs, feeling, intensity, and passion.
Line up
Kostas Gerochristos (Lucifer's Child) - Guitars and vocals
Kostas Ragiadakos (Dephosphorous) - Bass
Nodas Chatzopoulos - Drums
Artwork by Artem Grigoryev (Dödsrit, Nightbringer)
Track listing
1. Return to Naught
2. The Black March
3. Seven Scars
4. Bound to the Wheel
5. Hail Death
6. Towards Renaissance
7. Litany
Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity
https://www.facebook.com/decipherbandgr
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Just
a few days and on January 16th the album "MMXXVI - GRAVE" realized
by the Italian Doomsters DVM SPIRO will see the
light!
"PRELUDIO" is the second song taken from the album and you can listen to it on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/8QXM-sH737o
The song is a long 10 minutes and more suite, a prelude to a loveless mourning, mantled by desperation and the natural funereal atmospheres of their Doom Metal. Heavy riffs, female vocals and deep growls, ancient atmospheres are the keywords of a music that will surely be a must-listen for fans of My Dying Bride, Funeral, early Paradise Lost, and Shape of Despair!
DVM SPIRO are back, and the magic of their sad art is ready to drag you into the deepest abyss.
"MMXXVI - Grave" will be released on January 16, 2026.
You can pre-order the CD here: https://t.ly/2cDTv
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/dvmspiro
Baltimore (MD) - One-man Melodic Doom Metal outfit, ORCHID THRONE, ring in the new year with the official video for "Ephemerality," the third single from forthcoming debut full-length, BURIED IN BLACK.
Dive right in at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxuZyULxMBg
FFO: Swallow the Sun, Anathema, Woods of Ypres, Novembers Doom, Draconian
Orchid Throne is set to release Buried in Black on January 9, 2026! The project consists solely of Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) who performs the music, as well as producing, mixing and mastering the album.
After nearly 17 years of playing supporting roles in various bands, Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) is proud to make his debut as a solo artist as the man behind Orchid Throne. Bonsanto not only wrote and performed all of the music for Buried in Black, but also produced, mixed, and mastered the album.
While not a concept album, Buried in Black weaves themes of anxiety, depression, fear of death, and the search for life’s meaning throughout its lyrics. The title describes both the music itself and the feelings that Bonsanto has kept buried within for years. It may sound bleak, but what is buried in black will be set free and brought to light on January 9.
“This album is a long time coming for me,” said Bonsanto. “For more than a decade, I collected little recordings of ideas in the hope that one day they’d be useful. I could not be more proud of myself for how the album came out and for all of the things I have learned along the way.”
Bonsanto's Musical Journey to Buried in Black:
“As a musician performing in bands since I was 16, people who know me have seen me play a supportive role, and hear my musical contributions to my bands. But not everyone knows that I have always dreamed of releasing a record of my own. I am passionate about all kinds of music, and while I love playing in my current bands, doom metal is a big love that I long felt like I had no outlet for.
“While I’ve honed my songwriting abilities over the years, I began this project with zero knowledge of how to produce a record on my own. I introduced Orchid Throne to the world one year ago on my birthday with only one song done. Over the past year, I have finished writing, recording, and producing my entire debut record. I have finally achieved this goal and it's even better than I ever imagined it could be. It means so much to me to get this out there, to truly reflect who I am as an artist, and I’m already excited to create more.”
Pre-order Buried
in Black:
https://orchidthrone.bandcamp.com/album/buried-in-black
Track Listing:
1. Dreamworld
2. Ephemerality
3. What Defines us
4. Moonlight Revelry
5. Guilt
6. Breath of Autumn
7. With Promise
Credits:
Album artwork painted by Ryan Gassaway.
Music and Lyrics written by Nick Bonsanto.
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Nick Bonsanto.
All instruments performed by Nick Bonsanto.
Flute on “Breath of Autumn” and “With Promise” performed by Mary Beck.
Orchid Throne is:
Nicholas Bonsanto - All instruments.
Bio:
Orchid Throne is a Melodic Doom Metal one-man band created by Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Orchid Throne is set to release its debut full-length album on January 9, 2026, titled Buried in Black. The album features a spellbinding variety of dark, heavy, and emotional material that beckons you to fall into the endless black. Drawing influence from a range of sounds such as melodic death metal, black metal, progressive rock, and folk, Orchid Throne is music from the heart for fellow souls who need it most.
https://orchidthrone.bandcamp.com/album/buried-in-black
Constanța,
Romania based Death Metal veterans CADAVRUL are proud
to announce the release of their second full-length album, "NECROTIC
SAVAGERY", slated for January 23, 2026 in partnership with Loud
Rage Music and Axa Valaha Productions.
Pre-orders are now open here:
https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/cadavrul-necrotic-savagery
https://loudragemusic.limitedrun.com/products/872346-cadavrul-necrotic-savagery
After "Marș Funebru" (https://youtu.be/L10fG0Z6TTo), CADAVRUL present a new video for the song "Devoured": https://youtu.be/h3ZYZQxLRJI
Since emerging from the underground Metal scene in 2005, CADAVRUL has built a reputation for uncompromising brutality in Death Metal. The band's history includes the 2006 demo "Forensic Nightmares", the debut full-length debut "Enter The Morgue" (2013) and a steady stream of live appearances that have solidified its legacy in Romania's Extreme Metal community.
"Necrotic Savagery" was meticulously crafted: tracking sessions took place at Crossover Sound Studio in Constanța, mixing and mastering were completed at DigitalDemonForge in the UK, the album's production was overseen by Axa Valaha Productions, and the release will be handled by Loud Rage Music. The artwork and visual presentation were created by highly-acclaimed artist Costin Chioreanu, known for his work across the global Metal scene.
The album promises a relentless attack of raw, old-school Death Metal energy refined for the contemporary listener, a sinister descent into soundscapes of decay, devastation, and unrestrained terror.
CADAVRUL is:
Valentin "Karcalac" Mincu (vocals)
Corneliu "The Dacian" Belu (guitars, vocals - live)
Patrick Andrei Preda (drums)
Sorin "Tormentor" Vlad (bass, vocals - live)
https://www.facebook.com/AxaValahaProductions
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/CADAVRULdeathmetal/
Brutal Records proudly presents NO WORTH OF MAN and their devastating new full-length album, THE KILLING STREETS — a sonic assault set to dominate the global metal scene on February 13th, 2026. The record will be available worldwide on CD, vinyl, and all digital platforms.
Formed in 2016, No Worth Of Man have built a reputation as one of the UK’s most ferocious and uncompromising modern metal bands. Blending metalcore, thrash, and groove metal, the trio delivers pure aggression and unmatched technical precision.
From their debut Initium Novum EP (2017) to the crushing What’s Your Damage? (2023), No Worth Of Man have shown relentless growth and artistic destruction.
Their work with world-renowned producer Fredrik Nordström (Arch Enemy, In Flames, Hammerfall) refined their sound into a deadly precision weapon — a blend of technical mastery, dark melody, and raw power.
The band has shared stages with Karma To Burn, King 810, Coffin Birth, Evile, Left To Die, and Cultura Tres (featuring Sepultura’s Paulo Jr.), earning a devoted underground following throughout Europe.
Now, under the banner of Brutal Records, The Killing Streets pushes the limits of modern metal with devastating force. Expect crushing grooves, thunderous riffs, and vocals that tear through steel.
Every track is a declaration of rage, evolution, and identity — an album built for fans who live and breathe the chaos of heavy music.
Tracks:
1. I Defy
2. Those of Our Kind
3. Into the Dirt
4. Mondo Decay
5. Death Reflections
6. Alarmus
7. The Hands Resist Him
8. An Unpaintable Soul
9. Kill of Gold
Band Line-Up:
Peter Gale Vocals
Alex Punchard Guitars
Gareth Lucas Drums
https://brutalrecords.com/release/no-worth-of-man-the-killing-streets/
https://mvdshop.com/products/no-worth-of-man-the-killing-streets-cd
https://orcd.co/brut89675
ENGORGEMENT – “THEY Rot Beneath Our Floor”
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: march 20th 2026
Genre: Brutal /Slam Death Metal
For fans of: Slob | Traumatomy | Gorevent | Colpocleisis
The night’s work is done. He stands in silence, the sweat of exertion mingling with the blood that coats his face, hands and clothes. The passion, the anger, the lust and the excitement has all drained away, like pus from a lanced boil. It’s time to lift the floorboards and open the mausoleum…time to tip the latest faceless bundle of guts and gore, bone, bile and bruised flesh into the darkness; there to lie in the stench and the rot, in quiet communion with those who have gone before. At least she won’t be alone. They have each other…and the worms.
More than thirteen years on from the release of their horrifying debut album, Excruciating Intestinal Lacerations, the UK’s heaviest and sickest exponents of shocking brutality are back with a new assault on morality, enlightenment and good taste… Engorgement have returned, with They Rot Beneath Our Floor!
The nightmare begins with ‘Prelude To Your Dismemberment’, which leads us down a spiral staircase into darkness. We know that nothing good awaits us in that impenetrable murk, but locked in the dream sequence we cannot stop our descent…and as we reach the bottom step the world explodes. ‘Keep Festering’ erupts like a spray of arterial blood – pain, violence, animalistic vocals over bludgeoning riffs and mercilessly methodical drums. ‘Rot Beneath Our Floor’ follows with cataclysmic blasts, sluggish crawls through offal and deliberate, punching riffs – the different stages of slaughter and dissection delivered with a thrilling intensity. There’s no let up in this massacre, no islands of peace in the sea of carnage. ‘Watching Your Body Twitch’ delivers deep, deep grooves like hatchet wounds cut right to the bone, while the drum beats in ‘Resurrection’ fall with imperious, bone-breaking force. ‘Blunt Force Osteotomy’ leads us to the final exit – punishing to the last breath, to the last guttural exhortation of hate.
Nobody understands brutal death metal better than Floor Van Kuijk of Korpse, Sijjeel, Carnifloor and many more – and the Dutchman has mixed and mastered They Rot Beneath Our Floor at his GLDCHN Studios (Virulent Excision, Parasitic Infestation, Crimson Butchery etc). The results are gloriously repugnant - raw, bloody and pustulent beyond belief. Complete with suitably sickening artwork from Christian Castro, Engorgement’s new testament to mankind’s inhumanity will be unleashed by Comatose Music on March 20th. Your journey into the heart of darkness starts here…
Line-up:
Mitch Rider - Drums
Ricky Hill - Guitar
Stu Hine - Vocals
Richard Lynn – Bass/Backing Vocals
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Engorgement
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the new album from Japan's ruthless extreme guitarist KOSUKE HASHIDA. MOMENT OF SILENCE is up now for pre-order and will be released January 30th on CD and Digital formats along with merch.
For fans of : Napalm Death, Terrorizer, Lock Up, Brutal Truth, Repulsion, Pig Destroyer and Nasum
Kosuke Hashida returns to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions with the new album Moment Of Silence! Japanese guitar player Kosuke Hashida is back with a new album of Grinding Thrashing Death Metal brutality! Fueled by breakneck velocity and ruthless riffcraft, Moment Of Silence is a Deathgrind assault that delivers pure intensity without a second to breathe. It’s a full-spectrum barrage of Grindcore urgency and Death Metal brutality. No mercy. All fire. Play loud, die faster!
Listen to the single "Secularization" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcB4MM_NIIw
Tracklisting:
1. The Cultist
2. Mind Dead
3. Secularization
4. Left In Pieces
5. Damnation
6. 201
7. Scorched Earth
8. Reason To Kill
9. Religious Reality
10. Bleed Out
11. Slaughtered Again
12. Retaliation
13. Blood Boost
14. Tokyo Calling
www.horrorpaingoredeath.com
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SERMON TO THE LAMBS – “SERMON TO THE LAMBS”
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: march 6th 2026
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Brodequin | Deeds Of Flesh | Enmity | Liturgy
Rising through the countless layers of the inferno, through an eternity of screams and tears, pleas and regret, he brings his message from the unfathomable depths of darkness and flame. Such is his form, his dark abyssal presence, that sanity crumbles beneath the gaze of his multitudinous eyes…and his words of desolation turn flesh to liquid. The abject creatures that have gathered to receive his malediction cower in awe, before falling from madness to destruction. Worshippers become sacrifices as the forgotten king delivers his sermon to the lambs…
A new entity from the depths of the death metal underground has emerged, a baleful presence stepping forth from the shadows to deliver judgement without mercy. Hailing from Chile, Sermon To The Lambs are set to unleash the soul-shaking savagery of their debut, self titled album. Opening with ‘Crowned King Of Worms’, guitars rise around you like a cloud of venomous winged insects while a voice of undead malevolence roars from the heart of the swarm. Masterfully entwining slow, hypnotic passages that dance with a sinuous, serpentine wickedness and explosions of rabid speed and fury, Sermon To The Lambs begin to disassemble your reality. The eponymous title track follows with imperious power and subjugating force - it hits hard with an iron fist, threatening to separate skin from flesh and flesh from bone - and that tangible sense of unquestionable domination permeates the whole of this formidably impressive first album. From ‘Maximum Apostasy’, which beguiles with an atmosphere of dust and sacrilege before bringing forth absolute annihilation that sets the blood on fire, to ‘Flagrum Taxillatum’, a spiralling descent into the depths of perdition, this album just gets stronger and stronger as it progresses; more vivid, inventive and excruciating in its torments. The final two tracks – ‘God Spat And The Man Was Done’ and ‘Clergy’s Malevolence’, both colossal outpourings of death, appear as twin-headed devils, reprised as bonus tracks featuring guest vocals from Jeff Page of Manifestations. Sermon To The Lambs is magnificently unforgiving, an eruption of crawling horrors from a tortured, broken earth.
Sermon To The Lambs’ first offering of blasphemic brutality will be brought into the light on March 6th by the masters of malignancy and pain, Comatose Music. Given teeth and claws by the skilled mixing and mastering of the band’s own Victor Araneda, who has also worked with the likes of In Asymmetry, First Degree Murder and Supreme Banishment, Sermon To The Lambs sounds vicious and uncontrollable. Adorned in the stunning artwork of Par Olofsson (Winds Of Plague, Unleashed, Thy Art Is Murder) this album is set to leave its indelible mark, a suppurating wound, on the global death metal scene.
Line-up:
Richard Aguayo - Vocals
Mauro M. - Guitar/Bass
Victor Araneda - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
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"SONGS
FROM THE RESTLESS OBLIVION" is MEMORIES OF A LOST
SOUL last full-length album and the second one released by My Kingdom
Music. Today we present a new video for the song "INTO THIS
MAZE OF TORMENT" realized by Noxifer (aka
Gianfranco Logiudice), drummer of the band and available at https://youtu.be/zi9TIXj1YAo
Once again it's melodic Black Metal, fierce Death Metal and dark Gothic a la ROTTING CHRIST, DARK TRANQUILLITY, for these pioneers of the Italian Death/Black scene.
MEMORIES OF A LOST SOUL reach with this album a level of maturity and professionalism that has no equal in their career. Their sound becomes absolutely personal, crossing different emotional states within the whole panorama of the Extreme Metal.
The band goes from the fury and aggression of Death Metal to the dark and malignant essence of Black Metal, from the Symphonic and Progressive elements of their arrangements to a macabre and horrifying Gothic Metal, all built on an extremely powerful and clear production, daughter of the Lost Soul Studios led by Giuseppe "Buzz" Nicolò himself.
The album is still available in CD format at https://t.ly/7Bn5e
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https://innerstrengthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deadwood-rituals-of-a-dying-light
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Deadwood uniquely blends death metal and hardcore to create a modern deathcore sound. Known for their heavy music and dark lyrics, their motto is "Make Deathcore Angry Again." The band aims to evoke terror and fear through their music, ensuring their performances are unforgettable.
Most importantly, the music of Deadwood caters to enthusiastic metalheads who crave pure brutality and violence.
Track Listing:
1. Tales of Massacre
2. Heretic
3. Thirst for Blood
4. Whispers of Death
5. Echoes of the Fallen
Music and lyrics by Deadwood.
Recorded at EMNT studio January 2025.
Produced by Fred Element.
Mix and mastering by Fred Element.
Formed in the shadow of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Deadwood quickly carved out a place in the heavy scene with their dark, unrelenting sound. The lineup unites seasoned veterans: guitarist Fred (ex-The Plasmarifle, ex-Ion Dissonance), guitarist Stéphane (ex-Nova Spei, Iron Maiden tribute), drummer Charles (ex-Dismayd, Discovrey Through Tourment), and vocalist Derek, reuniting with Fred after a decade since their days in Malaga.
Drawing from the ferocity of Meshuggah, the brutality of Whitechapel, and the groove-driven power of Pantera, Deadwood delivers crushing riffs and haunting atmospheres steeped in true dark histories—from the Salem witch trials to the reign of Jack the Ripper.
Their catalog includes the EP Nemesis (2022), EP Inhuman (2023), and standout singles “Straightblade” (June 2023), “Djinn Pitts” (March 2024), and “Heretic” (April 2025). Known for their commanding live presence, Deadwood has toured Japan with Humanity's Last Breath and DVRK, stormed U.S. stages in 2025, opened twice for Born of Osiris in Montréal, and shook the grounds of Inkcarceration Festival 2025.
Currently on tour across Québec, Ontario, and New Brunswick, Deadwood is gearing up for their first European run in 2026 — bringing their brand of dark, murky heaviness to stages worldwide.
Line-up:
Fred Element - Guitars
Stephane Filion - Lead Guitars
Charles Etienne Lafrance - Drums
Derek Heynekemp - Vocals*
*Note: Vocals on the EP by Martin Demontigny.
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Rising
blackened atmospheric death metal force FROSTMORNER is
proud to unveil the official visualizer for "GORGONE," the
visceral new single from the upcoming debut full-length, ORBITAL
KAOS. Set to drop on February 13, 2026, the album marks a
definitive statement from one of the genre's most promising solo visionaries.Rooted in the myth of Medusa and shaped with a cinematic mindset, “Gorgone” is built to feel immersive rather than conventional. What began as an influence drawn from Nile soon developed into a personal statement, where atmosphere plays a central role. The track layers brutal riffs with monster-like sound design inspired by film and video game audio, creating a dense and unsettling soundscape.
Structurally, “Gorgone” hits hard and moves with intent. Fast, aggressive riffing and slam-driven sections dominate the opening, before giving way to a slow, oppressive final act. This closing passage relies on steady, unyielding drumming and dark ambient textures, conjuring the image of a Gorgon carrying out a ritual. The narrative follows Medusa as she turns her victims to stone, then reshapes them through a dark rite into a monstrous force that spreads fear wherever it moves.
About Frostmorner
Hailing from Sicilian roots, Mario began the Frostmorner journey in 2019. After evolving from a collaborative effort into a solo powerhouse, Frostmorner has carved out a distinct niche in the Blackened Atmospheric Death Metal landscape. Handling all duties from guitars and drums to artwork and design, Frostmorner represents the ultimate DIY spirit in extreme metal, earning acclaim from fanzines and radio stations worldwide.
Pre-save "Orbital Kaos" now: https://orcd.co/orbitalkaos
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WOLFBASTARD – “SATANIC SCUM PUNKS”
Label: Apocalyptic WitchcraftRelease date: march 13th 2026
Genre: Black Metal/Crust Punk
For fans of: Venom | Exploited | Midnight | Extreme Noise Terror
We’re careering to the end now, pedal to the metal and picking up speed with every turn around the sun; humanity clambering over itself to reach the landfill of shit, bones and misery where it belongs. Some will weep their way to our mass, open grave, capturing their final pathetic moments on the cracked screens of the devices that have eaten their souls. And some will howl in the flames of destruction…drink, fight and bleed their way to oblivion. The end of days will be their best of days as they grind glass into society’s rotten face. Nihilistic and defiant, venomous and violent – no cause, no cares, no code of conduct – the streets belong to the satanic scum punks!
Four years on from their cranium crushing third album, Hammer The Bastards, Manchester’s feral kings of the underworld – Wolfbastard – have returned, armed with the turbo charged belligerence of new album Satanic Scum Punks! Opening track ‘It’s Fucking Dark’ begins with a strange, tarnished majesty before a riotous punk riff tears out its throat and a raucous cry of ‘Fuck Off!’ sends us hurtling into the darkness. There’s no respite, no acoustic interludes or moments of atmospheric reflection, just ultra-aggressive punk riffs with a jagged black metal blade concealed inside them. ‘Let The Bastards Burn’ leaves you in no doubt that Wolfbastard won’t just let the bastards burn, they’ll be starting the fire, adding any accelerant that comes to hand and kicking any escapees back into the flames. The ripping, addictive black mayhem of first single ‘Hail Satan Kurwa’ is a breathtaking rush of full force blast and ‘F.O.T.D.’ is the kind of song that would headbutt you for breathing. There is no weakening of the ice and dirt, fire and thunder assault as Satanic Scum Punks progresses; from the devil may care, feet first into the abyss adrenaline of ‘Drink For Hell’ to the body breaking ‘Manic Street Creatures’ this album just hits harder and harder. And finally it ends just where it began, with a spittle-flecked ‘fuck off’, before collapsing back into the gutter.
Now with the backing of a powerhouse new label, champions of the underground Apocalyptic Witchcraft, the filth, fury, malice and menace of Wolfbastard will be spread like a disfiguring plague. Satanic Scum Punks will be unleashed on March 13th and available on limited edition vinyl, digipak CD, Cassette and digital formats. Be ready for wanton destruction and drunken devastation – expect no mercy here.
Line-up:
Dez – Guitar/Vocals
Si Fox - Bass
Dave Buchan - Drums
https://apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk/
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As
is the tradition for us, we've started this year with our new label sampler.
It's always free-for-download with the proceeds going towards our animal
sanctuary having around 40 rescued cats and dogs now (I hope I can get them
some new toys and maybe a treehouse after this!). The artwork is made by Nekromold and
we've come up with a couple of colour options too just in case.Label Sampler link : https://transcendingobscurity.bandcamp.com/album/2026-label-...
You'll find more familiar bands on the label sampler this time around because quite a few of them have come up with new material but the overall quality remains the same and the essence undiluted. A few bold bands have been given prominence and I'm sure the songs on the label sampler will grow on the listeners because several of them are rather intricate or just weird/interesting. At this rate, we'll probably never end up being a big "commercial" label but I can live with that.
Compilation info
We are truly privileged to enter another year working with both known bands returning to release their new albums with us as well as fledgling ones showing promise. The 2026 label sampler is a free-for-download compilation with all fresh songs, mostly off albums that are likely to come out in the same year. As can be expected, there's plenty of diversity and it should be an interesting year for the label.
The artwork by Nekromold is a reflection of our messy times, where art and music are getting infested by AI, with some gnarly Warhammer 40k influence thrown in for good measure.
The proceeds from this goes towards the upkeep of the Transcending Obscurity-run animal sanctuary having over 40 rescued cats and dogs, and others outside being fed and taken care of on a daily basis.
Track listing
1. ENDSPACE (Canada) - Sixth Transmission (Sci-fi Black Metal)
2. VEILBURNER (US) - Vitriolic Hiss (Avantgarde Black/Death Metal)
3. FEBRUUS (Sweden) - Measures of Escalation (Progressive Death Metal)
4. DEVENIAL VERDICT (Finland) - Elysium (Death Metal)
5. HAXPROCESS (US) - The Divinity of the Self (Death Metal)
6. THE SCALAR PROCESS (France) - Far From the Flesh (Progressive/Atmospheric Death Metal)
7. VIANDE (France) - Cercuiel de vase (Death Metal)
8. RITUAL FOG (US) - Enraptured (Death/Thrash Metal)
9. NINTH REALM (US) - Rituals in Thar'amath (Death/Thrash Metal)
10. DEFECT DESIGNER (Norway) - Repeated Aversive Stimuli Inducer (Progressive Death Metal)
11. CUTTERRED FLESH (Czech Republic) - The Colour Out of Space (Brutal Death Metal)
12. CHAOS MOTION (France) - Neurotic Contortion Abuse (Dissonant/Technical Death Metal)
13. DYSGNOSTIC (Denmark) - The Black Sun (Dissonant Death Metal)
14. ELITIST (Denmark) - Enforced Malnourishment (Dissonant Death Metal)
15. CARBON TOMB (Denmark) - A Hidden Creature (Dissonant Death Metal)
16. GOREWORM (Canada) - The Enthralling Grave (Technical Death Metal)
17. DISSECT THE MASSES (US) - Flesh Mechanics (Death Metal)
18. XENOSIS (US) - Prolapsed Twin Entombment (Progressive Death Metal)
19. HANGING GARDEN (US) - Dreamwoven (Progressive Death Metal)
20. DECIPHER (Greece) - Return to Naught (Black Metal)
21. APOLAUSTIC (Switzerland) - Shining Amidst the Lights (Black/Death Metal)
22. VERDUN (France) - Funeral of the Cosmic Knight (Blackened Sludge Metal)
23. MUERTO (Mexico) - Serpentine Echoes (Black Metal)
24. BESOTTEN (US) - Mist of Decay (Death/Doom Metal)
25. ABYSSAL RIFT (US) - The Enlightenment (There Was Never Will) (Death/Doom Metal)
26. DEATH OBVIOUS (Finland) - Sipirja (Avantgarde Black/Death/Doom Metal)
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Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Watch the "Alone" music video: https://youtu.be/fAf_y38Mki0
Listen to the "Katharsis" album on music services : https://push.fm/fl/fod-katharsis
FoD singer Saku Solin tells about the album:
”Katharsis is the culmination of our entire band’s evolution and the rebirth of its members. It’s often said that art requires pain and faith… and this album truly contains both. The process tested us through adversity and demanding production, but perhaps because of that, I am now incredibly proud of us for having the strength to fight our way through it.
When we now compare the final album to the original demos, it’s clear that every bit of work and effort was absolutely worth it.
For the songs themselves, we were able to carve out material from Lasse’s pen, some of which had been waiting to be born for years. At the same time, we created our first full-length album together with Anton and Jessica. On a personal level, the biggest thing for me was being able to write songs for FoD again after a long time with my close friends and to share my story through the music. Feel may be the most beautiful song of my entire artist career. At leat one of the most important ones for me.”
Fear of Domination was originally founded in 2006. Over the years they have toured around the Europe with bands like Deathstars, Turmion Kätilöt, Velcra, Shade Empire, Hanzel and Gretyl, Amaranthe, PAIN and many many more.
Pre-order the limited CD-digipak (CD release day, January 23rd) from Inverse Store or Bandcamp.
Upcoming shows:
16.1.2026 Kouvola, House of Rock /w King Satan [FIN]
17.1.2026 Helsinki, On The Rocks /w Let It All Burn [FIN]
23.1.2026 Turku, Apollo /w Herja, Morket [FIN]
24.1.2026 Tampere, Olympia /w King Satan [FIN]
30.1.2026 Jyväskylä, Freetime [FIN]
31.1.2026 Oulu, Kantakrouvi, Winter Massacre [FIN]
13.3.2026 Kuopio, Circus /w Ruoska [FIN]
Fear Of Domination are:
Jessica Salmi – voc
Saku Solin – voc
Johannes Niemi – gtr
Jan-Erik Kari – gtr
Lauri Ojanen – Bass
Lasse Raelahti – Synths
Anton Nisonen - Drums
Tracklist01. Alone
02. Dead Anyway
03. Monsters
04. Imposter
05. Last Words
06. Primum Noce Apte
07. Rabbit Hole
08. All As One
09. Endgame
10. Feel
Release date: January 9th 2026
https://www.youtube.com/user/FoDofficial
https://www.fod.fi/
https://www.facebook.com/FearOfDomination/
Label: Meuse Music RecordsRelease date: february 27th 2026
Genre: Funeral Doom / Death Metal
For fans of: Shape Of Despair | Indescinence | Hellight | Skepticism
I saw the hand of doom reach into my sky and enfold my sun, drawing it down beyond the distant horizon. The colours of my world bled away, through differing shades of grey to the darkness of unending night and there, in the black, wracked by pain beyond all previous imagining, I found I could see with a clarity I had never known before. As love and dreams fled into the shadows, my vision of the path ahead was suddenly unobstructed and I could see my final place of rest awaiting me. The tomb held no terrors for me now and I began my steady, deliberate journey through the vale of tears with quiet acceptance – slowly fading as each step brought me closer to that cold, ungentle bed.
Born in Tbilisi in Georgia, on the banks of the Kura River, Ennui have built a formidable reputation on the foundations of four full length studio albums, each one a towering edifice of funeral doom/death metal. From the 2012 debut, Mze Ukunisa, inspired by the poetic works of Terentio Graneli, to 2018s End Of The Circle, described by Mystification Zine as “a stunning dance of extremes”, Ennui have followed their own path of vast, measured heaviness and unflinching explorations of life changing emotions and the fundamental questions of existence. Now, it is time for the fifth chapter in their grand tale to be written as Ennui walk ever deeper into the darkness...with Qroba.
Qroba, meaning vanishment, the process of disappearance, begins with the revelatory ‘Antinatalism’, its staggering chords and drum beats like distant thunder conjuring a sense of immeasurable scale entwined with a piercing, poignant intimacy of thought and experience. A voice rises through the music, climbing up from the deepest chambers of the heart and the melancholy, grief and summoned solitude are all encompassing. Portentous melodies lead us on through a windswept wilderness and shuddering riffs draw down the dark and bleach the sun’s warmth from the world. This is deeper, darker, colder than ever before…and we have only just begun. The weight of the first full chords of ‘Becoming Void’ drive the breath from your body and the illusions of life’s comforts are crushed, ground into the frozen soil, before achingly beautiful guitar leads of sublime sorrow climb from the bleak vista. Ennui’s ability to weave remarkable subtlety and emotion into music of such staggering weight is exemplified in ‘Decima’, where delicate notes and avalanches of sound evoke the moment of heartbreak and draw it out through eternity, with a traditional three stringed lute, the panduri, adding the melancholy atmosphere of the Georgian mountains. And still Qroba carries us onwards, through the soul-shaking, overwhelming majesty of ‘Down To The Stars’ to our final unmaking with ‘Mokvda Mze’; where opening notes of rich resonance are gradually consumed by the tremendous power of Ennui in full flight – those earthshaking vocals, those inexorable chords and lamenting melodies – and we are cast upon the eternal, fathomless seas of grief, until, at last, we slip into nothingness.
Mixed and mastered by Esoteric’s Greg Chandler, whose knowledgeable touch has given such heft and presence to works by Officium Triste, My Silent Wake, Pantheist and many more, Qroba possesses an agonised nobility of sound, a layered, textured depth that infuses the songs with a remarkable unswerving honesty. Surely the pinnacle in Ennui’s outstanding canon of work to date, Qroba will be released by Meuse Music Records on February 27th, bedecked in the stunning artwork of Ben J ‘Winterkeep’ (Ofnus), with additional design from Vladimir 'Smerdulak' Chebakov (1914, Lake Of Tears etc) – and the scope and power of funeral doom will be redefined once more.
Line-up:
David Unsaved – Guitars, bass, vocals
Serge Shengelia – Guitars
Alexander Gongliashvili – Drums
Andrey Azatyan – Guitars
Kakhi Kiknadzr – Guitars
https://www.meusemusicrecords.eu/
https://linktr.ee/ennuitheband
The band describes the album and its creative process as follows:
"This album is the destination of a very long journey, and at the same time, a new beginning. While the process has been incredibly interesting and inspiring, for a band like ours — working primarily remotely — it has required significant effort. We’ve had to invent new ways of working and change many of our internal practices. From the very beginning, our goal was to create a debut so strong that we wouldn’t have to regret it years down the line. We believe we achieved that goal 100%. With the lessons learned, working on the next album will be a much faster undertaking."
Listen to the album on music services : https://push.fm/fl/inborntendency-lettherebesin
The band worked on the album with producer Juho Koskinen, who was responsible for the production as well as the final mixing and mastering.
"When we decided to start working on the debut in 2023, it became clear after a moment of reflection that we wanted an outside producer to provide fresh perspectives on the songs. We were looking for someone with experience producing music beyond just the metal genre. We happened to find Juho through mutual acquaintances, and that same year we released 'Heritage.' From that point on, it was clear that the entire album would be crafted with this team. Remote work has been a necessity and a natural way for us to operate since the band's early days, so the collaboration with Juho ran smoothly. The singles released so far have received excellent feedback on both production and sound, and we believe the full album will live up to the expectations of both fans and new listeners!"
The cover art for the singles and the final album was created by Henri Tervapuro, an artist from Ostrobothnia.
"We started working with Henri years ago when we released the Godkiller EP. Henri’s style of creating graphics through painting works incredibly well for us; it adds just the right amount of edge and narrative to the songs. Henkka got to listen to the tracks and create the first drafts based on pure intuition. This way of working has been very effective, and Henri’s art often brings new, interesting perspectives to the music."
The band's lyrics and songwriting style have been atmospheric and thought-provoking since their inception. The band has refrained from explaining or opening up the themes of the lyrics, aiming instead to let the listener draw their own conclusions from the stories behind the songs. The band describes the debut album as follows:
"The overarching theme of the album is the inherent sinfulness planted in humans from the womb. The songs' themes lead the listener to face their deepest fears and the evil that resides within every human being. Although the stories draw from Christian tradition, they provoke thought about the nature of evil, regardless of one's personal convictions."
"Something new, something old, something of our own, and something stolen," describes Ville Herranen, who is responsible for the lyrics.
The band will kick off their album release tour on January 31st, 2026, at Ottopoika in Kuopio. You can catch the band during the spring at the following venues:
Jan 31 – Kuopio, Ottopoika (FIN)
Feb 20 – Seinäjoki, Bar 15 (FIN)
Mar 7 – Helsinki, Bar Base (FIN)
Apr 18 – Turku, Nirvana (FIN)
May 9 – Espoo, Olarin Ossi (FIN)
See you at the shows!
Inborn Tendency:
Mika Hänninen, Guitar
Hugo Tiitinen, Drums
Ville Herranen, Vocals
Credits:
Mixing and Mastering: Juho Koskinen
Cover Art: Henri Tervapuro
Tracklist01. Defiled
02. Heritage
03. Flesh Eater
04. Imperfected
05. Exiled
06. Ungod
07. Fist Evangelist
08. Lament
09. Death Do Us Part
10. Returnal
https://lnk.bio/Inborntendency
Listen to the EP on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/krushor-ep
The band comments:
"The themes of the songs on EP are not the easiest to grasp, but they are extremely important! I have always wanted to write about my own experiences and the things happening around me, especially the negative things and mental struggles. It's kind of therapeutic to get the words down on paper first and then shout these themes out as loud as I can, maybe that's my way of dealing with difficult things.
The process itself was very exciting. We did the recordings ourselves for the first time and got the necessary equipment for it. It wasn't the easiest way to do it, but we're happy with the result. There is always room for improvement, and that drives us forward. We want to learn new things and get better at these things too. Most of the actual recording was done by our guitarist Joni, and we owe him a big thank you for his time, effort, and perseverance in the name of "creativity."
Next, we will focus on gigging, as long as we are blessed with gigs, and on writing new songs. Our goal is to make a whole album, which we also intend to record ourselves. The schedule is not rushed, so don't hold your breath just yet. Making the EP was a great process, we got what we wanted out of it and learned a lot through the process!"
Biography:
The band found its current identity through shared musical tastes, playing together, and a shared hobby. We are a group of people who enjoy making and playing music that works for all of us. A big part of this is that composing, writing lyrics, and editing songs is open to everyone. All songs and compositions are created by the whole group, not based on one person's vision or goal.
Our influences definitely come from older metal, but that doesn't matter, because mixing genres actually adds a lot to our music; there's no one right way to do things. Krushor's goal is to make music that sounds good and at the same time talk about the difficult things that are part of life. For many people, music can be therapeutic, and if even one person feels that way about our music, we feel we have succeeded.
Track
list:01. Shockwave
02. Vortex
03. Rise Above
04. Taste of Hatred
Composed by Joni Kärsämä, Juho Mattila
Saku Hirvimäki, Sami Keränen
Lyrics by Ville Lehtoranta
Arranged by Krushor
EP cover by Joni Kärsämä
Line-up:
Ville Lehtoranta - Vocals
Joni Kärsämä - Guitar
Juho Mattila - Guitar
Sami Keränen - Bass
Saku Hirvimäki - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/krushorofficial
Release
date :
February 20, 2026Genre : Melodic Black Metal
For fans of: MGLA, Misþyrming, Forteresse, Regarde les hommes tomber, etc...
Origin: France
Duration: 31min48
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Line up
Vocals : Diffamie / Thomas Deffrasnes
Guitar : Thomas Deffrasnes
Bass : Clément Joly
Drums : Robin Grabmann
Tracklist:
1. Les galibots
2. Cheval de fosse
3. Courrières
4. Barbara
5. Les nords
6. Terre d’euch mau
7. Le Galibot
8. Schlamms
GALIBOT is a melodic black metal band — but it is also the name given to children who were sent to work in the mines of northern France. And for good reason, as the quintet hails from there.
Initiated in 2023 by Thomas, Agathe and Clément, the project, initially a studio project, aims to establish a parallel between the raw and visceral dark matter that is coal and black metal music. Wallers-Arenberg, the name of the town where the project was born and which bears the scars of the mining industry, was the demo for what was still only a trio.
In 2024, “Euch’mau Noir” — “The Black Devil” in Ch’ti — was released, an album portraying the North as the devil’s cradle, a harsh and infernal land.
At the beginning of 2026, GALIBOT invites you to (re)discover this work in a fully reimagined version: “Euch’mau Noir bis”, scheduled for release on Friday, February 20, 2026, via Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions.
This new edition revisits the imagery of the North, a land of dark legends and human tragedies. It brings forth miners shaped by the pits, villages scarred by disasters, and a multiculturalism whose ink stains the pages of Zola.
The six original tracks return transfigured through new arrangements, accompanied by a completely reworked mix and mastering at Minotaure Studio, delivering an even more massive sonic impact.
The tracklist is expanded with the return of “Schlamms”, an emblematic track from their demo, now entirely recomposed and re-recorded, and fully integrated into the definitive version of their debut album.
“Euch’mau Noir bis” was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Minotaure Studio under the direction of Julien Baquero.
Pre-orders are now open for the various editions of the album, which also features a complete visual overhaul by Tryfar, further reinforcing the project’s dark and assertive identity.
https://www.facebook.com/GalibotBand/
Belorusian Death Metal Pack, EXIMPERITUS, in partnership with No Clean Singing, have premiered, "GOLDEN CHAINS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF INDIVIDUAL GREATNESS," the second single from forthcoming Willowtip album, MERITORIOUSNESS OF EQUANIMITY.
Get pummeled at: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2026/01/07/an-ncs-premiere-eximperitus-golden-chains-for-the-construction-of-individual-greatness/
The song will be available on all digital platforms this Friday, January 9.
Eximperitus are set to release the follow-up to 2021's widely praised sophomore album, Šahrartu! Willowtip Records will unleash Meritoriousness of Equanimity January 30 on vinyl, cassette, CD, and digital formats.
"In times when despair overflows human hearts… when the chasm of strife between civilizations widens… when loyalty to ideologies tears blood ties apart… when the world stands still, poised for the final leap of prolonged self-destruction… We can draw strength solely from internal sources, which are filled only by the multifaceted power of Death Metal..."- Eximperitus
Eximperitus' forthcoming third album, Meritoriousness of Equanimity, contains nine independent compositions united by the idea of searching for inner support in an era of turbulence. Exposure and scourging of social dogmas and morbid tendencies on the ruins of the old world...
Pre-order:
https://eximperitus.bandcamp.com/album/meritoriousness-of-equanimity
https://www.willowtip.com/bands/details/eximperitus.aspx
Track
Listing:I. One Step Long Infinity.
II. Contemplation of the Plastic Fibers of Perfection at the Second Level of Reality.
III. Twelve Centuries of Triumph of the Third Kingdom…
IV. Finding Consistency in the Fourth Quadrant of Eternity.
V. The Untimely Fruit of the Unsaid.
VI. Golden Chains for the Construction of Individual Greatness.
VII. Molecular Disintegration of an Unattainable Solitary Will in a Vessel of Wisdom...
VIII. Chalkionic Wandering Among the Wreckage of the Future.
IX. Standing at the Skirt of the Ruins of Human Nature (...on the Other Side of Man and Time).
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Athens,
Greece – In 1993, the world was a different place, but the darkest corners
of the human psyche remain unchanged. Today, Greek death/thrash metal icon CREMATE taps
into that timeless darkness with the premiere of the official lyric video
for "HUMAN," a standout track from their
powerhouse EP, READY TO FIGHT, out now via
Wormholedeath.Originally written over three decades ago, "Human" has evolved from a raw expression of 90s angst into a chillingly relevant commentary on our modern digital age. The track serves as a visceral thrash metal statement on the things society chooses to ignore: fear, pride, and hypocrisy.
While the song was born from internal human conflict, CREMATE notes that these emotions have migrated from our hearts into our hardware. "Human" explores the blurred line between biology and technology, questioning what happens when we translate our pain and fears into algorithms and artificial intelligence—systems that can process data, but can never truly "feel" what it means to be human.
Stream the EP Ready To Fight: https://orcd.co/rtfep
Previous videos:
Die As You Lived: https://youtu.be/k38HueUtCos
Ready to Fight – https://youtu.be/-RdHOoRT-HA
CREMATE’s story is one of resurrection. Originally formed in Alimos, Athens, in 1991, the band carved out a reputation for a raw, aggressive sound inspired by titans like Kreator and Sodom. After a successful run in the mid-90s—including the internationally acclaimed End of Time demo—the band disbanded, leaving a void in the Greek underground scene.
In 2021, founder Christos reignited the flame. Alongside drummer George and guitarist/producer Akis Pastras, the band returned to their roots to re-envision their 90s fury through a contemporary lens.
About the EP: Ready To Fight The resulting 4-track EP is an uncompromising fusion of vintage aggression and modern dark textures. Ready To Fight features three reworked classics and the brand-new title track, which boasts a guest solo from Marios Iliopoulos (Nightrage). The EP also features haunting violin work from Lusty Apricot on "Die as You Lived," adding a layer of gothic atmosphere to the band's signature brutality.
Recorded and mixed by Akis Pastras and mastered by the legendary George Nerantzis (Rotting Christ, Abbath),
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Finnish melodic death metal act OBSCURE FATE is about to release their debut album 'SHADES OF A DYING WORLD' on March 27th 2026 via Inverse Records.
The second single 'POISON THRONE' is unleashed today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/obscure-fate-poison-throne
The band comments:
" "Poison Throne" represents corrupt authority that poisoned what it was supposed to protect. The song refers directly to the Inquisition, historical events in which innocent people were executed on religious grounds. Religion was used as a tool of power, not salvation. The song "Poison Throne" urges us to remember the injustices of the past and expands the theme from the individual to the collective trauma of an entire nation."
Biography:
Obscure Fate was originally formed in 2008 in Paltamo, Finland, as the solo project of guitarist and songwriter Kaleva Kovalainen. In 2009, drummer Jari Keränen and bassist Petri Möttönen joined, giving the songs their first real band form. Shortly after, guitarist Joni Moisanen and vocalist Tapio Möttönen became official members, and together the group arranged dozens of tracks for full band performances. From the very beginning, Tapio handled the lyrics, with Petri contributing to the song Spectral Exile.
The current lineup was completed in 2019 when bassist Antti Möttönen replaced Petri. Musically, Obscure Fate is rooted in traditional melodic death metal, though elements of thrash and classic heavy metal also find their way into the band’s sound. Kaleva’s prolific songwriting provided a strong foundation for the band, while the lyrics explore themes of social criticism, fictional storytelling, and inner struggles.
In 2021, Obscure Fate released their first EP. Recording sessions for their debut full-length album began soon after, but due to various setbacks the process turned into a long and seemingly endless project. Finally, in April 2025, the band reached the final stages of completing the album, marking an important milestone in their journey. The debut album 'Shades of a Dying World' is set to be released in March 2026 via Inverse Records.
Listen to the first single 'Age of Delusion': https://push.fm/fl/obscure-fate-age-of-delusion
Track
list:01. Shadows of the Past
02. Beyond Pain
03. Turn To Dust
04. Spectral Exile
05. Age of Delusion
06. Shade of the Destruction
07. Reign of Madness
08. Valhalla
09. Spirit of Vengeance
10. Poison Throne
11. Eksyneiden Jumala
Album cover by Jarno Lahti
Mixed by Tero "TeeCee" Kinnunen
Mastered by Mika Jussila, Finnvox Studiot Oy
Line-up:
Kaleva Kovalainen, Guitars
Tapio Möttönen, Vocals
Jari Keränen, Drums
Joni Moisanen, Guitars, Backing Vocals
Antti Möttönen, Bass
https://obscurefate.net
https://www.facebook.com/ObscureFateBand
Hailing
from Foix a french city worldwide famous for his castle comes True
Pyrenean Black Metal act NOIRSUAIRE! Solely driven by mastermind N who created this dark entity back in 2023,
NOIRSUAIRE delivers traditional Black Metal laden by influences ranging from
Darkthrone, Gorgoroth to French scene from the late 90s like Funeral, Osculum
Infame, Bekhira etc.After some demos and EPs released on various labels, NOIRSUAIRE signed to the legendary label Osmose Productions, a label that doesn't need any introduction, for the release of its debut album.
This debut album entirely recorded in an old attic then mastered at BST Studio (Mütiilation, Aosoth, Hell Militia) is entitled "THE DRAGGING POISON" and contains 9 tracks, everything wrapped in a splendid artwork by famous artist David Thiérée known for his works for bands like Behemoth, Ihsahn, Warloghe to name a few!
"The Dragging Poison" has been released on December 26th via Osmose Productions and can be ordered straight from NOIRSUAIRE on the official webshop or via Osmose Productions.
https://www.facebook.com/noirsuaire
SUPERIOR
RAGE – “IN MEMORIAM” (EP)In Memoriam is not merely a collection of past works but a powerful statement of resurrection and refinement. The EP features re-recorded classics alongside two brand-new, previously unreleased tracks: “The Death of the Red Dragon” and “Soleright,” offering a definitive listening experience for both long-time followers and new fans of atmospheric black metal. "Thanks to the contribution of session musicians, SUPERIOR RAGE's music has become more vibrant and pulsatile compared to their previous, colder and more minimal productions," says the project’s founder, Superior Rage (vocals and synths).
In Memoriam is a must-listen for anyone seeking symphonic black metal that is both rich in atmosphere and aggressive in execution.
Tracklist
01. Indecent Condition
02. Asmodeus Bacchic
03. The Night of Rains
04. Soleright
05. The Death of the Red Dragon
About SUPERIOR RAGE
SUPERIOR RAGE began in 2006, delivering raw black metal with atmospheric, dark, and symphonic tones. The core lineup features Superior Rage (vocals, synths), Pagan Fury (guitars, synths), and Hyemens Kaiser Tszar (bass).
The first demo (2008) earned strong national reviews, followed by Through Infinity (2010), a mix of unreleased tracks and new material. Between 2010 and 2011, the project released several live recordings with temporary session musicians.
In 2011, SUPERIOR RAGE shifted toward symphonic black metal with III. Two Fire Eternal EPs followed, covering classic black metal songs—first in their original style, then in an ambient approach.
In 2012 the lineup expanded, producing new online recordings, additional covers, and a remake of “The Night of Rains.” The project paused in 2014, briefly resurfacing in 2017 with a new version of “Indecent Condition.”
SUPERIOR RAGE returned in 2022 with the single Boobs Explosions. This led to Anthology, a 2024 collection of re-recorded key tracks, including a new prog-influenced take on “Cuore Sincero.”
In 2025, the promo Back to the Crypt introduced two re-recorded tracks and a new song, “Soleright,” with four session members. The EP In Memoriam followed, adding a new version of “Asmodeus Bacchic” and the unreleased “Death of the Red Dragon.”
The current line-up features the core vision of Superior Rage (music, lyrics, synth & bass) alongside a powerful contingent of session musicians:
Baelithiel (vocals & lyrics)
Maikon (drums)
Nemorion (guitars on “Indecent Condition” and “Soleright”)
Hrafnagud (guitars on “The Night of Rains”, “Asmodeus Bacchic”, “The Death of the Red Dragon”)
www.youtube.com/@SuperiorRageRawchannel
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The
solo project "WOODEN SHADOW" by Jeremia Ponto, who
just turned 25, from Ylöjärvi, Finland and the latest song "We are the
North" is a representative song as its name suggests, in which the north
brings honor and strength. The chorus raises the sound levels to the
stratosphere and the song's otherwise rich and rich melody can be heard. There
are also experiments with different guitar sections, of which at least Jeremia
Ponto himself is really happy about.Listen to 'We Are The North' single on all major streaming platforms: https://push.fm/fl/wooden-shadow-we-are-the-north
From year 2020 onwards, the first demo (Meaning of Wonders) also started a new project. Wooden Shadow is the solo project of Jeremia Ponto from Ylöjärvi, where the genres vary between melodic styles in the form of different formats. As a rule, founder Ponto writes his compositions based on melodic death metal, but there are also combinations of folk and melodic black metal. Jeremia Ponto, 25, describes his solo project: "Ever since I started making my first compositions, I had in mind to write diverse music that fits the colors of my project itself. Let the people, who find my music
to listen to decide for themselves what my genre represents. I define my music as "melodic metal" because it feels more realistic to me as a composer."
https://www.facebook.com/Tormentius
https://woodenshadow.bandcamp.com
Finnish
blackened death metal band KARELIAN WARCRY have worked
with their third album for years and finally it sees the light of day this
spring. The first bite from the album, a single "MIELEN
RUTTO" (The plague of mind) is now out.Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, Bandcamp etc.) https://push.fm/fl/karelianwarcry-mielenrutto
Karelian Warcry was founded in Kouvola, Finland, in 2002. In its early stages, KW’s music leaned more distinctly towards Black Metal. Nowadays it’s influenced by other subgenres of metal as well as other types of music. The lyrics explore themes related to war, violence and the darker sides of humanity. Each member brings their own musical roots, personal ambitions, and thematic passions into the mix, resulting in unique and recognizable sound. Wistful and haunting melodies, crushing grooves, and relentlessly driving rhythms blend with violent storytelling and poetic expression, hallmarks of Karelian Warcry’s musical identity.
In 2014, the band went on hiatus following the passing of vocalist-guitarist Matti Mikkonen. Although the members have scattered from their hometown of Kouvola, they have continued creating music together—both remotely and in their rehearsal chamber. One could say Karelian Warcry never ceased to exist. And now, a bit over a decade later, they have finally completed the upcoming album, "Veripellot" — their most crushing and cohesive work to date.
Discography:
Demo '04 (2004)
Kylmä rautainen (Album, 2005)
Verinen taival, päättymätön tie (Album, 2010)
Minun aikani (Single, 2020)
Line-up:
A. O. Heiskanen - Drums
J. H. Järvinen - Vocals
J. T. Kousa - Guitars
S. P. Ukkonen - Bass
https://linktr.ee/Karelian_Warcry
The video also featuring the hellish fire ‘work’ stunts of the most wikkid “Flames of Anubis” gang and select video footage from Robert Cuzens.
Stream
the album: https://orcd.co/scalbumPrevious videos:
“Genital Dismemberment Bot Cult”: https://youtu.be/om99zzMY0ac
"Satans Cock": https://youtu.be/Nso_kHVv3oI
“Psychotropic Lyfe”: https://youtu.be/xeeiwOvpmr4
"Eat Your Entrails": https://youtu.be/26xpIfMKKhE
“Ominous”: https://youtu.be/3ugPaxkkJlE
"Satans Cock" The Album
Following their 2022 self-titled debut, which sold out multiple pressings and carved a cult following across the underground, KÜNTSQUÄD (pronounced Kountskard) double down on everything grotesque, unholy, and deliberately absurd. There are no genre walls here—only a relentless descent into sonic madness.
With the album “Satans Cock”, the band delivers a grotesque yet calculated assault—layering blast-beaten fury, apocalyptic riffs, and sneering satire into a weaponized soundscape for the damned
About KÜNTSQUÄD:
KÜNTSQUÄD (pron. Kountskard) is a crusty death metal band from Melbourne blending guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and blackened chaos. Their 2022 self-titled debut on Wormholedeath Records earned global acclaim and sold-out pressings. Raw, extreme, and satirically twisted—this is metal with no genre boundaries.
https://black-roos.com/
www.youtube.com/@Kuntsquad666
www.facebook.com/kuntsquad666
Greek black metal band Decipher have come up with a new album this year which is an extension of their sound on their acclaimed previous one. If you're into thoughtfully composed, steely black metal with melodic undertones, you can't pass up on this one. Listen to a track from it at https://decipherbm.bandcamp.com/album/thelema
DECIPHER - “ΘΕΛΗΜΑ (THELEMA)”
Genre: Black MetalFor fans of : Emperor, Yoth Iria, Bolzer, Lucifer's Child, Varathron, Necromantia, Ravencult, Dodsferd
Decipher released a sublime album in "Arcane Paths to Resurrection", which was steely and composed, enriched with melodic undertones. It was the timeless kind of black metal that was largely inspired by the classic black metal bands and yet didn't sound too dated. Two years later, the Greeks return with a new opus, elaborating on the music forged on that album, adding better nuance and structure to the songs whilst retaining the sound and appeal. Allowed better expression, the songs are comparatively longer and have a narrative quality to them without straying too far from the core sound. The riffs are drenched in emotions without being overtly melodic as the music marches ahead resolutely with its steely demeanour. This is the kind of black metal that gets its priorities straight - with the right focus on riffs, feeling, intensity, and passion.
Line up
Kostas Gerochristos (Lucifer's Child) - Guitars and vocals
Kostas Ragiadakos (Dephosphorous) - Bass
Nodas Chatzopoulos - Drums
Artwork by Artem Grigoryev (Dödsrit, Nightbringer)
Track listing
1. Return to Naught
2. The Black March
3. Seven Scars
4. Bound to the Wheel
5. Hail Death
6. Towards Renaissance
7. Litany
Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity
https://www.facebook.com/decipherbandgr
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Just
a few days and on January 16th the album "MMXXVI - GRAVE" realized
by the Italian Doomsters DVM SPIRO will see the
light! "PRELUDIO" is the second song taken from the album and you can listen to it on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/8QXM-sH737o
The song is a long 10 minutes and more suite, a prelude to a loveless mourning, mantled by desperation and the natural funereal atmospheres of their Doom Metal. Heavy riffs, female vocals and deep growls, ancient atmospheres are the keywords of a music that will surely be a must-listen for fans of My Dying Bride, Funeral, early Paradise Lost, and Shape of Despair!
DVM SPIRO are back, and the magic of their sad art is ready to drag you into the deepest abyss.
"MMXXVI - Grave" will be released on January 16, 2026.
You can pre-order the CD here: https://t.ly/2cDTv
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/dvmspiro
Baltimore (MD) - One-man Melodic Doom Metal outfit, ORCHID THRONE, ring in the new year with the official video for "Ephemerality," the third single from forthcoming debut full-length, BURIED IN BLACK.
Dive right in at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxuZyULxMBg
FFO: Swallow the Sun, Anathema, Woods of Ypres, Novembers Doom, Draconian
Orchid Throne is set to release Buried in Black on January 9, 2026! The project consists solely of Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) who performs the music, as well as producing, mixing and mastering the album.
After nearly 17 years of playing supporting roles in various bands, Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) is proud to make his debut as a solo artist as the man behind Orchid Throne. Bonsanto not only wrote and performed all of the music for Buried in Black, but also produced, mixed, and mastered the album.
While not a concept album, Buried in Black weaves themes of anxiety, depression, fear of death, and the search for life’s meaning throughout its lyrics. The title describes both the music itself and the feelings that Bonsanto has kept buried within for years. It may sound bleak, but what is buried in black will be set free and brought to light on January 9.
“This album is a long time coming for me,” said Bonsanto. “For more than a decade, I collected little recordings of ideas in the hope that one day they’d be useful. I could not be more proud of myself for how the album came out and for all of the things I have learned along the way.”
Bonsanto's Musical Journey to Buried in Black:
“As a musician performing in bands since I was 16, people who know me have seen me play a supportive role, and hear my musical contributions to my bands. But not everyone knows that I have always dreamed of releasing a record of my own. I am passionate about all kinds of music, and while I love playing in my current bands, doom metal is a big love that I long felt like I had no outlet for.
“While I’ve honed my songwriting abilities over the years, I began this project with zero knowledge of how to produce a record on my own. I introduced Orchid Throne to the world one year ago on my birthday with only one song done. Over the past year, I have finished writing, recording, and producing my entire debut record. I have finally achieved this goal and it's even better than I ever imagined it could be. It means so much to me to get this out there, to truly reflect who I am as an artist, and I’m already excited to create more.”
Pre-order Buried
in Black:
https://orchidthrone.bandcamp.com/album/buried-in-blackTrack Listing:
1. Dreamworld
2. Ephemerality
3. What Defines us
4. Moonlight Revelry
5. Guilt
6. Breath of Autumn
7. With Promise
Credits:
Album artwork painted by Ryan Gassaway.
Music and Lyrics written by Nick Bonsanto.
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Nick Bonsanto.
All instruments performed by Nick Bonsanto.
Flute on “Breath of Autumn” and “With Promise” performed by Mary Beck.
Orchid Throne is:
Nicholas Bonsanto - All instruments.
Bio:
Orchid Throne is a Melodic Doom Metal one-man band created by Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Orchid Throne is set to release its debut full-length album on January 9, 2026, titled Buried in Black. The album features a spellbinding variety of dark, heavy, and emotional material that beckons you to fall into the endless black. Drawing influence from a range of sounds such as melodic death metal, black metal, progressive rock, and folk, Orchid Throne is music from the heart for fellow souls who need it most.
https://orchidthrone.bandcamp.com/album/buried-in-black
Constanța,
Romania based Death Metal veterans CADAVRUL are proud
to announce the release of their second full-length album, "NECROTIC
SAVAGERY", slated for January 23, 2026 in partnership with Loud
Rage Music and Axa Valaha Productions. Pre-orders are now open here:
https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/cadavrul-necrotic-savagery
https://loudragemusic.limitedrun.com/products/872346-cadavrul-necrotic-savagery
After "Marș Funebru" (https://youtu.be/L10fG0Z6TTo), CADAVRUL present a new video for the song "Devoured": https://youtu.be/h3ZYZQxLRJI
Since emerging from the underground Metal scene in 2005, CADAVRUL has built a reputation for uncompromising brutality in Death Metal. The band's history includes the 2006 demo "Forensic Nightmares", the debut full-length debut "Enter The Morgue" (2013) and a steady stream of live appearances that have solidified its legacy in Romania's Extreme Metal community.
"Necrotic Savagery" was meticulously crafted: tracking sessions took place at Crossover Sound Studio in Constanța, mixing and mastering were completed at DigitalDemonForge in the UK, the album's production was overseen by Axa Valaha Productions, and the release will be handled by Loud Rage Music. The artwork and visual presentation were created by highly-acclaimed artist Costin Chioreanu, known for his work across the global Metal scene.
The album promises a relentless attack of raw, old-school Death Metal energy refined for the contemporary listener, a sinister descent into soundscapes of decay, devastation, and unrestrained terror.
CADAVRUL is:
Valentin "Karcalac" Mincu (vocals)
Corneliu "The Dacian" Belu (guitars, vocals - live)
Patrick Andrei Preda (drums)
Sorin "Tormentor" Vlad (bass, vocals - live)
https://www.facebook.com/AxaValahaProductions
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/CADAVRULdeathmetal/
Brutal Records proudly presents NO WORTH OF MAN and their devastating new full-length album, THE KILLING STREETS — a sonic assault set to dominate the global metal scene on February 13th, 2026. The record will be available worldwide on CD, vinyl, and all digital platforms.
Formed in 2016, No Worth Of Man have built a reputation as one of the UK’s most ferocious and uncompromising modern metal bands. Blending metalcore, thrash, and groove metal, the trio delivers pure aggression and unmatched technical precision.
From their debut Initium Novum EP (2017) to the crushing What’s Your Damage? (2023), No Worth Of Man have shown relentless growth and artistic destruction.
Their work with world-renowned producer Fredrik Nordström (Arch Enemy, In Flames, Hammerfall) refined their sound into a deadly precision weapon — a blend of technical mastery, dark melody, and raw power.
The band has shared stages with Karma To Burn, King 810, Coffin Birth, Evile, Left To Die, and Cultura Tres (featuring Sepultura’s Paulo Jr.), earning a devoted underground following throughout Europe.
Now, under the banner of Brutal Records, The Killing Streets pushes the limits of modern metal with devastating force. Expect crushing grooves, thunderous riffs, and vocals that tear through steel.
Every track is a declaration of rage, evolution, and identity — an album built for fans who live and breathe the chaos of heavy music.
Tracks:1. I Defy
2. Those of Our Kind
3. Into the Dirt
4. Mondo Decay
5. Death Reflections
6. Alarmus
7. The Hands Resist Him
8. An Unpaintable Soul
9. Kill of Gold
Band Line-Up:
Peter Gale Vocals
Alex Punchard Guitars
Gareth Lucas Drums
https://brutalrecords.com/release/no-worth-of-man-the-killing-streets/
https://mvdshop.com/products/no-worth-of-man-the-killing-streets-cd
https://orcd.co/brut89675
ENGORGEMENT – “THEY Rot Beneath Our Floor”
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: march 20th 2026
Genre: Brutal /Slam Death Metal
For fans of: Slob | Traumatomy | Gorevent | Colpocleisis
The night’s work is done. He stands in silence, the sweat of exertion mingling with the blood that coats his face, hands and clothes. The passion, the anger, the lust and the excitement has all drained away, like pus from a lanced boil. It’s time to lift the floorboards and open the mausoleum…time to tip the latest faceless bundle of guts and gore, bone, bile and bruised flesh into the darkness; there to lie in the stench and the rot, in quiet communion with those who have gone before. At least she won’t be alone. They have each other…and the worms.
More than thirteen years on from the release of their horrifying debut album, Excruciating Intestinal Lacerations, the UK’s heaviest and sickest exponents of shocking brutality are back with a new assault on morality, enlightenment and good taste… Engorgement have returned, with They Rot Beneath Our Floor!
The nightmare begins with ‘Prelude To Your Dismemberment’, which leads us down a spiral staircase into darkness. We know that nothing good awaits us in that impenetrable murk, but locked in the dream sequence we cannot stop our descent…and as we reach the bottom step the world explodes. ‘Keep Festering’ erupts like a spray of arterial blood – pain, violence, animalistic vocals over bludgeoning riffs and mercilessly methodical drums. ‘Rot Beneath Our Floor’ follows with cataclysmic blasts, sluggish crawls through offal and deliberate, punching riffs – the different stages of slaughter and dissection delivered with a thrilling intensity. There’s no let up in this massacre, no islands of peace in the sea of carnage. ‘Watching Your Body Twitch’ delivers deep, deep grooves like hatchet wounds cut right to the bone, while the drum beats in ‘Resurrection’ fall with imperious, bone-breaking force. ‘Blunt Force Osteotomy’ leads us to the final exit – punishing to the last breath, to the last guttural exhortation of hate.
Nobody understands brutal death metal better than Floor Van Kuijk of Korpse, Sijjeel, Carnifloor and many more – and the Dutchman has mixed and mastered They Rot Beneath Our Floor at his GLDCHN Studios (Virulent Excision, Parasitic Infestation, Crimson Butchery etc). The results are gloriously repugnant - raw, bloody and pustulent beyond belief. Complete with suitably sickening artwork from Christian Castro, Engorgement’s new testament to mankind’s inhumanity will be unleashed by Comatose Music on March 20th. Your journey into the heart of darkness starts here…
Line-up:
Mitch Rider - Drums
Ricky Hill - Guitar
Stu Hine - Vocals
Richard Lynn – Bass/Backing Vocals
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Engorgement
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the new album from Japan's ruthless extreme guitarist KOSUKE HASHIDA. MOMENT OF SILENCE is up now for pre-order and will be released January 30th on CD and Digital formats along with merch.
For fans of : Napalm Death, Terrorizer, Lock Up, Brutal Truth, Repulsion, Pig Destroyer and Nasum
Kosuke Hashida returns to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions with the new album Moment Of Silence! Japanese guitar player Kosuke Hashida is back with a new album of Grinding Thrashing Death Metal brutality! Fueled by breakneck velocity and ruthless riffcraft, Moment Of Silence is a Deathgrind assault that delivers pure intensity without a second to breathe. It’s a full-spectrum barrage of Grindcore urgency and Death Metal brutality. No mercy. All fire. Play loud, die faster!
Listen to the single "Secularization" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcB4MM_NIIw
Tracklisting:1. The Cultist
2. Mind Dead
3. Secularization
4. Left In Pieces
5. Damnation
6. 201
7. Scorched Earth
8. Reason To Kill
9. Religious Reality
10. Bleed Out
11. Slaughtered Again
12. Retaliation
13. Blood Boost
14. Tokyo Calling
www.horrorpaingoredeath.com
https://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
SERMON TO THE LAMBS – “SERMON TO THE LAMBS”
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: march 6th 2026
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Brodequin | Deeds Of Flesh | Enmity | Liturgy
Rising through the countless layers of the inferno, through an eternity of screams and tears, pleas and regret, he brings his message from the unfathomable depths of darkness and flame. Such is his form, his dark abyssal presence, that sanity crumbles beneath the gaze of his multitudinous eyes…and his words of desolation turn flesh to liquid. The abject creatures that have gathered to receive his malediction cower in awe, before falling from madness to destruction. Worshippers become sacrifices as the forgotten king delivers his sermon to the lambs…
A new entity from the depths of the death metal underground has emerged, a baleful presence stepping forth from the shadows to deliver judgement without mercy. Hailing from Chile, Sermon To The Lambs are set to unleash the soul-shaking savagery of their debut, self titled album. Opening with ‘Crowned King Of Worms’, guitars rise around you like a cloud of venomous winged insects while a voice of undead malevolence roars from the heart of the swarm. Masterfully entwining slow, hypnotic passages that dance with a sinuous, serpentine wickedness and explosions of rabid speed and fury, Sermon To The Lambs begin to disassemble your reality. The eponymous title track follows with imperious power and subjugating force - it hits hard with an iron fist, threatening to separate skin from flesh and flesh from bone - and that tangible sense of unquestionable domination permeates the whole of this formidably impressive first album. From ‘Maximum Apostasy’, which beguiles with an atmosphere of dust and sacrilege before bringing forth absolute annihilation that sets the blood on fire, to ‘Flagrum Taxillatum’, a spiralling descent into the depths of perdition, this album just gets stronger and stronger as it progresses; more vivid, inventive and excruciating in its torments. The final two tracks – ‘God Spat And The Man Was Done’ and ‘Clergy’s Malevolence’, both colossal outpourings of death, appear as twin-headed devils, reprised as bonus tracks featuring guest vocals from Jeff Page of Manifestations. Sermon To The Lambs is magnificently unforgiving, an eruption of crawling horrors from a tortured, broken earth.
Sermon To The Lambs’ first offering of blasphemic brutality will be brought into the light on March 6th by the masters of malignancy and pain, Comatose Music. Given teeth and claws by the skilled mixing and mastering of the band’s own Victor Araneda, who has also worked with the likes of In Asymmetry, First Degree Murder and Supreme Banishment, Sermon To The Lambs sounds vicious and uncontrollable. Adorned in the stunning artwork of Par Olofsson (Winds Of Plague, Unleashed, Thy Art Is Murder) this album is set to leave its indelible mark, a suppurating wound, on the global death metal scene.
Line-up:
Richard Aguayo - Vocals
Mauro M. - Guitar/Bass
Victor Araneda - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Sermontothelambs
"SONGS
FROM THE RESTLESS OBLIVION" is MEMORIES OF A LOST
SOUL last full-length album and the second one released by My Kingdom
Music. Today we present a new video for the song "INTO THIS
MAZE OF TORMENT" realized by Noxifer (aka
Gianfranco Logiudice), drummer of the band and available at https://youtu.be/zi9TIXj1YAoOnce again it's melodic Black Metal, fierce Death Metal and dark Gothic a la ROTTING CHRIST, DARK TRANQUILLITY, for these pioneers of the Italian Death/Black scene.
MEMORIES OF A LOST SOUL reach with this album a level of maturity and professionalism that has no equal in their career. Their sound becomes absolutely personal, crossing different emotional states within the whole panorama of the Extreme Metal.
The band goes from the fury and aggression of Death Metal to the dark and malignant essence of Black Metal, from the Symphonic and Progressive elements of their arrangements to a macabre and horrifying Gothic Metal, all built on an extremely powerful and clear production, daughter of the Lost Soul Studios led by Giuseppe "Buzz" Nicolò himself.
The album is still available in CD format at https://t.ly/7Bn5e
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/memoriesofalostsoulofficial
NEWS 28.12.2025
Loud
Rage Music proudly presents the upcoming album from the mysterious
Bucharest, Romania-based Symphonic Gothic Doom Metal ensemble GREEN
EYES OF DARKNESS. Comprising 13 extensive tracks and running for nearly
80 minutes, "FIRE WAVES" is the result of several
decades of creation, featuring compositions that trace their origins back to
the '90s. This makes it a deeply personal and highly significant release for
the Romanian Metal scene."Fire Waves" is out on December 22nd in collaboration with Loud Rage Music.
Available here:
https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/green-eyes-of-darkness-fire-waves
https://loudragemusic.limitedrun.com/products/871983-green-eyes-of-darkness-fire-waves
About GREEN EYES OF DARKNESS:
Doom Gothic Symphonic metal project, founded by two resilient metal veterans from Romania. Originally conceived by guitarist Dragoș Grigorescu (Abigail, Hovercraft, Serenity), the project truly began to take shape when his lifelong friends, bassist Cătălin "Flamă" Scânteie (Abigail, Rising Shadow, Hatemode) and vocalist Georgiana Bogdana Stoian (Vârf Carpatin) joined the lineup, bringing their full passion, dedication and creativity into the mix.
Today, Green Eyes of Darkness stands an open lineup project, that thrives on collaboration with talented artists from diverse backgrounds. Among those who have contributed to its evolving sound are: Alex Igor (vocals), Claudia Deleanu (vocals), Ștefania Ionescu (flute, vocals), Alina Rotaru (church organ), Alex Gomez (drums), Nunu Răcriș (drums) and others.
Their first release, Fire Waves, is the culmination of nearly five years of persistence and transformation and it gathers the most defining compositions created by Dragoș and Cătălin across distinct creative periods and recorded in different settings. Some of these songs had never been heard before, remaining as unfinished sketches, waiting for their time to come to life. Others were played live a few times in the late '90s, but never recorded, while some early recordings were bound to the technical limitations of their time.
At its core, the symbolism of Fire Waves reflects the eternal conflict between creation and destruction. Waves rise and fall, collide and dissolve, but the sea beneath always remains calm and intact, untouched by the surface unrest. Same for the fire, it can kill, or ignite life, it can destroy or purify, but its deeper essence always transcends the momentary material transformation. The same philosophy defines the Green Eyes of Darkness project, their music defies patterns, refuses to follow formulas and fleeting trends. It is not crafted to be pleasant or easily understandable, but it is meant to endure, to transform and to leave a lasting impression on those who truly listen to unveil its inner truth, hard to perceive in a superficial approach.
Watch the fire. Hear the Waves. Embrace the darkness…
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
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The album is a compelling result of TARDIGRADE INFERNO’s evolving signature style and the sheer power of their live performance. What truly defines the band is the experience the listener gets at their live shows, the thoughtful songwriting, the ironic lyricism, and the striking, highly aesthetic visuals. In June 2025, TARDIGRADE INFERNO released an atmospheric and emotional live album Made In Hell that captures their ferocious performance and their connection with the audience. Hush blends all of these strengths with an authentic sound delivered with studio precision.
Experience your first taste of Hush with the official music video for the album's first single, "Hide 'n' Seek." Watch now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fscAHuASUoo
Hush is due out March 5 on CD, digital and four exclusive vinyl editions.
Pre-order the album at https://tr.ee/TiHush
Tracklist:1. The Final Show
2. Hide 'n' Seek
3. Deadly Fairytales
4. All In your Head
5. Dead Fish Smile
6. Subatomic Heist
7. I.C.D.
8. Goor
9. Hush
10. Hypograph
11. I Am Eternal
Hush naturally picks up where 2023's Burn the Circus left off. At the beginning you hear the crackling of a circus burning down. A surviving radio plays a mournful melody that opens a grand show amid the ashes. Like a massive blazing phoenix, TARDIGRADE INFERNO opens its wings with elemental force. It sweeps away what remains and reclaiming its place at the center of attention.
The gorgeous Darya Rorria uses her flexible contralto to tell stories that are anything but cheerful. Her expressive vocals pulse with the music. They tease sharply, flow lyrically, spread in a soft velvet hush, and fade into a tragic whisper. They soar through tense passages and then glide back down into a low, intimate tone. The lyrics are charged to the point of electric crackling, just as one expects from the TARDIGRADE INFERNO.
Their trademark keyboards sound even more retro-futuristic, paying tribute to the classic horror movies of the past. The guitar acts like the wildest creature in the prairie with it's fury clothed in the polished frock coat of a respectable gentleman. The bass has the “AWESOME” knob turned to 100%. The drums are emotional, dynamic, and alive. Altogether it creates a familiar yet more sincere and revealing sound. The music becomes almost visible, almost tangible.
TARDIGRADE INFERNO have always paid special attention to the visual side of their art - from stage costumes and characters to their album covers. The cover for Hush was created by artist Milena Kress in a dark-aesthetic style. This is the band's first experience with analog painting - the piece is oil on canvas. It conveys the anxiety and emotional intensity that mirror the album’s lyrics. It’s also the first time the band’s mascot, the Tardigrade, is absent from the cover. It symbolizes a kind of coming-of-age. The toys have been left behind in the nursery.
Mixing, mastering, and production were handled by Vladimir Lehtinen, who has been working with the band continuously since the release of The Worst of Me EP. Vladimir helped the band capture their live energy without losing the studio polish of their recordings.
TARDIGRADE INFERNO is:
Darya Rorria - vocals
Alexander Pavlovich - guitars, keys
Maxim Belekhov - bass
Andrew Drew - drums
https://www.facebook.com/tardigradeinfernomusic/
Label: Fighter RecordsRelease date: march 12th 2026
Genre: Heavy Metal
For fans of: Iron Maiden | Cloven Hoof | Greyhawk | Visigoth
We came in search of legends, following in the footsteps of fallen heroes. We have crossed nameless, storm-tossed oceans and seas of sand beneath a merciless sun. Through snow shrouded mountain passes and forests that seemed to swallow the world we have marched undaunted. And now, with steel in hand we take the final step, through the shadowgate into the realm of the Obsidian King. The darkness enfolds us and as our spirits tremble the only sound is the beating of titanic wings…
With a searing riff and a lung-bursting scream the listener is catapulted into the world of the Obsidian King, the debut full length album from Canadian heavy metal force Ravenspell! Opening track ‘God The Watcher’ is a breathless introduction to this revelatory band; steeped in classic metal atmosphere, adorned in beautifully fluid guitar leads and masterfully combining metallic power and sumptuous melodies. ‘Onwards We March’ follows with its driving riffs and rhythms and already there can be no doubt that this is a band, an album, that will speak to every true metal heart. As it progresses Obsidian King just seems to get stronger and stronger, drawing us ever deeper into its magnificent twilight world. At the album’s heart we find tracks like ‘Obsidian Wing’ with its superlative, unforgettable melodic chorus rising out of pure, thunderous metal; the thrilling charge of the adrenalized ‘Hellstorm’ and the metal masterpiece that is ‘Raise Hell’ – featuring some fantastic interplay between roared vocals and gleaming shards of lead work. Then at the Obsidian King’s conclusion we find the grandeur of ‘Atilla’, a truly epic song that moves through superb classical guitar parts, doom-touched riffs, cascading drums, stunning solos and instrumental sections that seem to open up vast vistas of the imagination…it’s a glorious metal creation and a fitting finish to an album of breathtaking quality.
Mixed and mastered by David Lizotte (Ültra Raptör, Saccage etc), Obsidian King benefits from a textured, organic sound that captures the blood, sweat, passion and belief of the musicians who have crafted it. In this age of fakery, imitation and flexible truths this album stands tall as something real and vital, a work of substance. Completed by the haunting artwork of renowned Canadian artist Carl Lavoie, Obsidian King will be released by Fighter Records on March 12th, on CD, 12” LP, Cassette and digital formats and the speed and melody, character and fire of Ravenspell will be felt around the metal world. Join the Black Feather Legion and be there at the start of a legend.
Line-up:
Alisander The Seer - Lead Vocals
Ravok Blackwing - Guitars/Backing Vocals
Corvax Crowhammer - Bass
Volpale The Ravenous - Drums
https://www.fighter-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ravenspellofficial
Italian
Thrash/Death Metallers CRISALIDE are proud to announce they
have signed with My Kingdom Music for the release of their new album, scheduled
for release in early 2027.In a statement from the band, CRISALIDE expresses their enthusiasm about this partnership:
"We are delighted to be part of My Kingdom Music because we already know the excellent work they do for Italian bands, and it's important for us to have them by our side during this period when we will be extremely busy with concerts, already scheduled festivals, and especially the recording of the new album, which we've been working so hard on. It's going to be a long journey, and we're incredibly excited to be part of their family and to share our music with the whole world very soon!"
CRISALIDE have over 30 years of career, and they played on the important stages, such as the legendary Whiskey A-Go-Go in Hollywood on the legendary Sunset Boulevard, and with bands like Pestilence, Vomitory, M-Pire of Evil, Nightrage and more. Now confirmed for the 2026 Luppolo in Rock Festival, they'll share the stage with Overkill, Marduk, Rotting Chris, and more.
After their latest album, "Dark Inside" released in 2019, the band has finally achieved the balance of a well-oiled and close-knit line-up, led by founder and longtime frontman Giuliano Zippo, and capable of providing a successor to that work, so acclaimed both in Italy and internationally.
Fans of bands like Sepultura, Fear Factory, and Gojira as well as the more classic sound of Kreator and Testament, can now put a smile on their faces because another band proudly flying the Thrash/Death Metal flag is ready to rock their lives and enter their most disturbing nightmares.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/crisalide.official
Label: Road To MasochistRelease date: february 6th 2026
Genre: Blackened Sludge/Drone
For fans of: Moss | Burning Witch | Old Year| Khanate
With foundations of loss and desperation, bricks of countless small rejections and a mortar of indifference…adorned in carefully sculpted cruelties, with a watchfire of self hatred blazing out into the night; so is my tower of pain and isolation built, my black edifice, my fortress and my prison. And even in the utter solitude behind these cold stone walls I am not master of myself. Even here I am a slave to the voices, speaking from the past, making their whispered incisions in my tattered, wastrel soul.
“…that’s what you’re entitled to…pain, suffering, misery…”- CATTLE HAMMER, ‘Rotting’
Formed in the spring of 2023 by Duncan Wilkins (Fukpig/Mistress/ex-Anaal Nathrakh), Cattle Hammer is a caustic, unforgiving blend of sludge, drone, impenetrable blackness and deep rooted negative emotion. Their first outpourings of choking, bleak despair included the 71 minute, uninterrupted track ‘Methlehem’ – a declaration of just how far into the darkness they were prepared to venture. Now Cattle Hammer are primed to unleash their formidable debut full length album, an amalgamation of four of their most harrowing songs, Dark Thoughts With Lights Out…
The descent begins with ‘Gloomsower’, vocals like tortured spirits howling behind thick walls of sludge. It’s a slow, painful march, like wading through quicksand with each agonising step dragging you down a little deeper, the certainty of suffocating death a constant presence. The raw, organic sound brings a reality to the emotions expressed, creating a tangible link between the misery within and the sound without. There’s no gilded artifice, just a soporific dirge that vibrates through every cell…
There is no relief…
‘Rotting’ rises up through words of bitter judgement, carefully enunciated, before riffs like towering, quivering monoliths drag your heart down through your stomach. While clearly a distinct entity from ‘Gloomsower’, ‘Rotting’ further intensifies that doomed aura, continuing the process of entombment in misery. A deep lethargy eats away at time and you can almost see your skin wither as days bleed into weeks, months, years, empty decades between chords…
There is no mercy…
‘Watchmen, Alone’ jabs at your torpid consciousness with disorientating, disjointed bursts of sound before the black hammer descends in inescapable slow motion and a chasm of abyssal grief opens beneath you. It’s vicious, lumbering, brutish, vile and painful…
There is no hope but death…
The final disassembling of reality comes with ‘Body Puzzle’. The sheer scale of the riffs is terrifying, like being caught between colliding planets, while a voice of damnation injects fear and panic into the claustrophobic onslaught.
Dark Thoughts With Lights Out will be released by Road To Masochist on CD and vinyl on February 6th. It will leave you a weeping wreck, with your sense of self worth bleeding from your ears. It will take you beyond the point of no return. Is it cruel or cathartic? Harmful or healing? All of the above? Whatever it turns out to be for you…approach it with care.
Line-up:
Wilkins, D – Vocals/Guitar
Cartwright, I - Drums
Wyles, J - Guitar
Von Donovan, D - Bass
https://roadtomasochist.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/roadtomascochist/
https://www.facebook.com/cattlehammer/
Driven by a visceral blend of blackened death metal, the music amplifies the narrative’s intensity: ferocious riffs embody the chaos of war, thunderous drums echo the march of legions, and sinister growls summon the weight of fate and bloodshed. In Augustus Omnipotens, music and lyrics merge into a monumental opus, where history is not only told but felt.
Augustus Omnipotens is available on all digital platforms worldwide: https://orcd.co/augustusomnipotens
CD format: www.auralwebstore.com/deos-augustus-omnipotens
Tracklist01 – In Aeternam
02 – Octavianus
03 – Caesar Divi Filius
04 – Gladium Stringere
05 – Triuvirat
06 – Dura Lex Sed Lex
07 – Mortem Proditorum
08 – Mylae Invicta
09 – Dedecus Magni Lepidi
10 – Ultimum Bellum
11 – Pax Romana
About DEOS:
Formed in 2014 by Fabio Battistella, Jack Graved, and Loïc Depauwe, DEOS have built a reputation for combining the ferocity of extreme metal with a passion for Ancient Rome that extends through their lyrics, artwork, and stagecraft. Their debut Ghosts of the Empire arrived in 2015, followed by In Nomine Romae in 2017 and extensive touring across France, Switzerland, and beyond. In 2021 they began work on their third record Furor Belli, mastered by J.-F. Dagenais (Kataklysm, Ex Deo) and released in 2022 via Wormholedeath, which led to the North Imperial Tour MMXXII. Over the past years they have continued to spread their vision of Roman metal across Europe, including London’s legendary Cart & Horses.
Now, with Augustus Omnipotens, DEOS take their concept further than ever before. Recorded between autumn 2024 and spring 2025 and once again mastered by Dagenais, the album is both a celebration of Rome’s past and a declaration of the band’s future.
DEOS are:
Jack “Janus” Graved (bass, vocals)
Fabio Battistella (guitar, backing vocals)
Cédric “Cedd” Boehm (guitar, backing vocals)
Loïc Depauwe (drums)
www.youtube.com/@deos-official9793/
www.facebook.com/deos.legio
NEWS 21.12.2025
Ich
bin ganz ehrlich. Jetzt habe ich mir schon mal ne halbe Pulle Rum eingeholfen und ziehe mir volle Pulle
BOLT THROWERR rein ,
um so ganz langsam mal runterzukommen. Denn genau so wie das Jahr, gehen bei
uns nun die vorhandenen Kraftreserven auch langsam dem Ende zu und man ist an
einem Punkt angelangt, wo bald gar nichts mehr geht. Aber um bei Euch aber in den
paar verbleibenden freien Tagen noch für nen bissel metallische Unterhaltung zu
sorgen, präsentieren wir euch heute noch die letzten paar Neuigkeiten aus der Szene,
bevor wir dann noch einmal die letzten Kraftreserven aus uns rausholen, um euch
mit unserer aktuellen Nr . 60 vielleicht erfreuen zu können. Zwei, drei Tage
müsst ihr euch aber noch gedulden, dann könnt ihr euch mal wieder auf eine
längere Sitzung auf dem Klo vorbereiten. Bis dahin könnt ihr ja aber erst mal noch
euer Interesse an dem folgenden Material bekunden.BOTTLED - “FRANKFURT”
NUCLEAR WINTER ZINE # 6 (A5 /englisch)
Zehn Jahre nach der Entstehung des ersten Songs von „LORD OF MOUNTAINS“ hat die Berliner Epic Death Metal Band MYTHERINE am 14. November 2025 endlich das komplette Album veröffentlicht.
Es war ein langer, beschwerlicher Weg mit vielen Höhen und Tiefen - ähnlich der Reise, die Vuldar, der Protagonist von „Lord of mountains“, durchstehen musste. Dabei geht es um einen jungen Jäger, der sich weigert, sein Schicksal zu akzeptieren, welches von den Göttern bestimmt wurde und von Einsamkeit geprägt ist. "Lord of mountains" ist eine Geschichte über die Grausamkeit des Unabwendbaren und dem Umgang mit ihm - über Angst und Einsamkeit, Freundschaft und Loyalität.
"Lord of mountains" ist unter Garantie nicht die letzte Veröffentlichung, die ihr von MYTHERINE hören werdet - seit gespannt auf mehr epischen Death Metal aus Berlin!
OPPRESSION – “NO SAFE PLACE”
Genre: Black MetalLabel: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 12.12.2025
»Hope… Believe… There is no safe place for you!«
Große Dinge kündigen sich an mit dem Debüt der Franzosen OPPRESSION und so vehementem, wie facettenreichen und in der Tiefe wirkenden Black Metal der Sonderklasse!
Als alte Freunde, die Konzerthallen und Bars durchstreiften, beschlossen G.S.V (Gesang) und Tom L (Gitarre), gemeinsam eine Band zu gründen, um die Komposition und Ausrichtung von Anfang bis Ende selbst bestimmen zu können. Gegenüber einer wachsenden Anzahl von Veröffentlichungen mit Ambient-Ausrichtung, wollten sie mit einem sehr geradlinigen Projekt den Ton angeben.
Geschwindigkeit, Kraft und ein Hauch von Melodie (addiert mit etwas gesundem Hass) – so legten sie den Grundstein für OPPRESSION, zu denen sich schnell Predark (Gitarre) gesellte.
Als die Komposition des ersten Albums bereits weit fortgeschritten war, holten sie sich für die Positionen am Schlagzeug und am Bass zwei bekannte Musiker aus der Bordeaux-Szene dazu, die Brüder John (Otargos, Lifestream) und Désert (Lifestream). Gemeinsam stellten sie ihr Debüt »No Safe Place« fertig – bereit, euch ohne Zurückhaltung zu treffen!
Die Texte handeln hauptsächlich von Religion und ein wenig von Feststellungen zur gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung, nur im letzten Song geht es um Sex, Drogen und Rock’n’Roll (um nicht die wirklich wichtigen Dinge aus den Augen zu verlieren). Sowohl bei der Musik als auch bei den Texten ist es nicht OPPRESSIONs Intention, etwas Pompöses oder Bombastisches zu schaffen, sondern etwas Ehrliches, Direktes und Wirkungsvolles. – Hail the Oppression!
Tracklist:
01 - No Safe Place (1:51)
02 - Attrition (4:25)
03 - Homeland's Fury (5:32)
04 - Psalm for the Fallen (4:38)
05 - Maria Rosenthal (6:42)
06 - Journey Beyond Consciousness (2:49)
07 - End Humanism (5:31)
08 - The Call of the Night (6:05)
09 - Nice Death Matters (3:44)
Total: 41:21
Line-up
G.S.V – vocals and lyrics
Tom L – guitar and composition
Predark – guitar
Desert – bass
John A – drums
Gesang aufgenommen von G.S.V im Mistic Studio, Warschau, Polen. Gitarren und Bass aufgenommen im Vangul Heim Studio, Angoulême, Frankreich. Schlagzeug aufgenommen im Bud Studio, Bordeaux, Frankreich. Gemixt im Vangul Heim Studio, gemastert im Bud Studio.
https://www.facebook.com/FolterRecordsGermany
https://www.facebook.com/oppressionblackmetal
MAGNACULT veröffentlichen ihr neues
Video FINAL DECISION zeitgleich mit ihrem Album LUCIS.
Dieser Track markiert einen Wendepunkt in der Geschichte des Albums und taucht
tief in die psychologischen und spirituellen Turbulenzen ein, die das Album
prägen. Er fängt den Moment ein, in dem Zweifel, Angst und Schuld
aufeinanderprallen - und eine Entscheidung getroffen werden muss.Final Decision schildert einen intensiven inneren Konflikt: den Kampf zwischen Glaube und Ablehnung, Scham und Erlösung. Im Verlauf des Songs weicht die Lähmung der Klarheit. Innere Dämonen werden konfrontiert und ausgetrieben, Schmerz wird losgelassen und Entschlossenheit ergreift die Oberhand. Was mit Angst beginnt, endet in Führung - eine Reise zu höherer Wahrheit und spiritueller Befreiung.
Visuell verstärkt das Video die Erzählung des Songs durch düstere Symbolik und rituelle Intensität und spiegelt so das übergreifende Thema des Albums wider: Licht, das aus der Dunkelheit hervortritt. Als Teil von Lucis - lateinisch für „Licht“ oder „Erleuchtung“ - repräsentiert der Song den Wendepunkt, an dem Erleuchtung unausweichlich wird.
MagnaCult, bekannt für ihren mitreißenden Groove-Death-Sound und ihre beeindruckenden Live-Auftritte, erweitern mit Lucis weiterhin ihre künstlerischen Grenzen. Angesichts einer bevorstehenden ausgedehnten Tournee lädt die Band ihre Zuhörer ein, sich ihren eigenen inneren Kämpfen zu stellen und gestärkt daraus hervorzugehen.
https://www.facebook.com/GravitonMusicServices
https://www.facebook.com/MagnaCult/
Label: H-MusicRelease date: january 23rd 2026
Genre: Symphonic Metal
For fans of: Epica | Leaves’ Eyes | After Forever | Sirenia
We have passed through so many doors upon this journey it seems I am a different creature to the one who first set out in silence upon this road. The shadows seem deeper now and I no longer understand the ones I once held dear. Bonds I once cherished seem meaningless and the gulf between myself and others, impossible to bridge. I thought I was at an end to this odyssey but as I reach the once distant hilltop I find not rest and reflection, but flames that illuminate the night, desperate, dissonant cries that shatter the silence like my broken mind. It seems that this was all just a beginning…
“…I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep…”- Robert Frost
Back in the summer months of 2025 Hungary’s purveyors of innovative, emotive symphonic metal, Meteora, released the first in what would be a trilogy of EPs, In this Silence. As the leaves took on the colours of autumn In this Silence was followed by the second EP, Broken Mind – and now, in the heart of winter, Meteora are ready to unveil the final part in this story, Dissonance…
Dissonance begins with the lilting melodies and waltz-like rhythms of ‘Darkest Light’, a song rich in the drama and narrative style that typifies Meteora’s music. The band’s triple vocal blend is used to tremendous effect, with each voice – male, female and beast – bringing unique character to this outpouring of grand gothic darkness. An additional touch of finesse and sophistication is added by a guest guitar solo from Nils Courbaron of Sirenia and Bloodorn.The band explore themes of disassociation and alienation on the next song, ‘Shadows Of Ignorance’, which features a beautiful vocal performance from Noémi Holló. ‘Shadows Of Ignorance’ marks a hugely successful collaborative writing debut for guitarist Dániel Baranya and keyboard player/vocalist Atilla Király, suggesting that another fertile creative pathway has opened up for the band. Dissonance concludes with two of the heaviest songs that Meteora have yet recorded – ‘Dissonance – My Reality Pt IV’ – a dark, powerful piece of symphonic metal, driven by some immense harsh vocals and riding on a jagged, muscular guitar riff and then ‘Witch Hunt – Tragedy Of Delusion’, a spectacular piece of Wagnerian drama with touches of black metal that explores the whole, vast vista of Meteora’s sound, demonstrating the practically limitless potential that this band possess. Conjuring visions of flame and shadow this is a breathtaking creation, a wonderfully climactic way to conclude this outstanding trilogy of EPs.
As with In this Silence and Broken Mind, Meteora have worked with recording engineer Balázs Pálfi (Türböwitch etc) and the mixing and mastering team of Nino Helfrich (Thrash Cult, Traces Of A Life etc), Dmitry Kim (Khors, Arhat etc) and Joel Wanasek (Machine Head, Carnation, Dååth etc) to give Dissonance the perfect layered and powerful sound. Again, as with the previous EPs, the Dissonance cover art was created by Dronicon Films (Swallow The Sun, Katatonia, October Tide etc). Dissonance will be released via H-Music on January 23rd…and it will not be alone. On the same day Meteora will release the full length album Darkest Light, which brings together all the music from the trilogy of EPs into one incredible package. This may be the end of a remarkable chapter for Meteora, but you have the sense that this project has unleashed a creative force that will not soon be stilled. Without a doubt this special band have many, many miles to go before they sleep...
Line-up:
Noémi Holló – vocals
Máté Fülöp – bass, growls
Gábor Kása – drums
Dániel Baranya – guitars
Dániel Schreiber – guitars
Atilla Király – keys, vocals
Backing vocals from the Meteora choir – assembled and conducted by Ádám Attila Kurucz
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CULTUS
SANGUINE will
enter Moonhouse Studio in Milan in late December 2025 to create their fourth
album, "TEARS PAINTED SKY" the follow-up to 2023's
"Dust Once Alive", which will be released on My Kingdom Music.Joe, the band's longtime frontman, describes it as a descent, a slow and inexorable journey into the depths of the soul, where the light is only a memory, the darkness intensifies, and pain takes shape.
"Tears Painted Sky" is scheduled for release in late May 2026, and the band is already planning a series of concerts to spread their darkness to every corner of the world.
With "Tears Painted Sky", CULTUS SANGUINE pushes the already fragile boundaries of their poetics, exploring painful territories and completely abandoning themselves to the aesthetic of the end.
It's a work that doesn't console, but accompanies those who know how to listen into the darkest heart of their own solitude.
There is no hope, no catharsis, only the decadent elegance of the inner twilight.
The cult is alive!
Photo by FotoReporter X
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DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Finland’s CHALICE, DIVINE SPEAR, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Formed in 2016, the Helsinki-based CHALICE have quickly become a beacon of esoteric heavy metal. Featuring current or former members of such bands as Ranger, Satan’s Fall, and Vincent Revenge, CHALICE released an opening demo and then subsequent EP in 2017 and ’19, respectively, before their decisive debut album, Trembling Crown, in 2020. Reaping widespread acclaim, CHALICE’s first full-length weaved high drama and dynamic metal into a tapestry of wonder and weightiness.
Now, CHALICE return with a record that eclipses that feat: Divine Spear. Presciently titled, Divine Spear is a carefully crafted, razor-sharp package that nevertheless reveals a bounty of sonic and psychic treasures. Forged in the freezing winds of the Finnish winter, here do CHALICE further refine their deceptively elegant sound, combining the pure spirit of classic European metal in a unique blend with cinematic progressive influences and the dark aura of their northernmost melancholy. Sometimes slow-burning in its doling out of details but duly benefiting patient listeners, Divine Spear paints a picturesque landscape of both light and dark, offering deliverance to those seeking beyond the boundaries of the so-called “new wave of traditional metal” movement. Of especial note are the poignant shifts into cleaner, quieter territory, truly heightening the drama that so earmarked their debut album; CHALICE are nothing if not master craftsmen in this regard, utilizing their prodigious chops in the service of literally awe-inspiring songwriting and beckoning listeners to lose themselves in their narrative flow.
Completed by wholly suiting production – clean and crisp, and yet somehow warm and natural – Divine Spear dives into deeper depths than what meets the eye…raise this CHALICE!
Line-up:
Verneri Pouttu - Vocals, Lead electric guitars & acoustic guitars
Mikael Haavisto - Lead electric and acoustic guitars, Keyboards
Joni Petander - Bass and backing vocals
Olli Törrönen - Drums and Percussions
From Helsinki, Finland
Release date:
27th February
Tracklist
01 Mare Imbrium
02 Dwell of a Stellar Trance
03 Hollow Curtain
04 The Pact
05 Age Ethereal
06 Divine Spear
07 Empyrean Liturgy
08 In from the Cold
09 Alioth
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Color edition on neon violet vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on blue/white/grey marbled vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
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Swedish
gothic rock band SCHEITAN has released a new video to, "A
KISS OF DEATH", the opening track of the band's new album, “WINE
FOR A TORMENTED SOUL”, which is out now via The Circle Music.Watch "A Kiss of Death"video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlpF0vxz03c
Scheitan's Pierre Tornkvist said: "A Kiss of Death is the opening track of the album so it felt suitable to do a video for it. The song itself is as most of Scheitan's songs these days, a dark story of love, death and all things between."
The video and album release also coincides with the band's live slot on Swedish state-controlled radio P4. The song is played on P4 throughout the week of December 15–19, with the band performing it live at the radio studio later today on December 19th.
More details: https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/scheitan-besjunger-doden-slapper-gotisk-rock-pa-svenska
Pierre shared the inspiration behind the album, "I am very much looking forward to presenting the new Scheitan album to the audience. The title 'Wine For a Tormented Soul' comes from what music can mean to people that run into hardship in life. Music is my therapy, it is my best friend in dark times. The last 10 years have been a bumpy road with one of my best friends passing away too early as well as my father leaving us from one day to another. Some of the songs have been presented to people as singles, with the upcoming album you can hear them in the context of an album, and also listen to them in a non-digital format such as vinyl which I think is the best way to do it. We will try to come out and play these new songs for you as much as we can."
Order "Wine For a Tormented Soul" via The Circle Music: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=scheitan
Tracklisting:
1. A Kiss of Death
2. Heaven Tonight
3. Döden är helt underbar
4. Love n Death
5. Every Little Thing
6. Out of Here
7. Carry Me Home
8. Dream Away
"Wine For a Tormented Soul" follows Scheitan's 2024 album "Songs for the Gothic People" (The Circle Music) and their return after a 24-year hiatus. Having formed in 1996 by Pierre Törnkvist, Scheitan began with black metal roots but evolved to define their current gothic rock sound and continue to build on their sound. Their previous albums, including 1999's "Nemesis" (Century Media) have garnered a reputation as hidden gems within the genre.
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Four years after the self-titled, the band has finally returned with a six-track atmospheric black metal experience titled What Remains When Hope Has Failed. The album is now available on CD, vinyl and digital formats.
Order What Remains When Hope Has Failed at https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/
and https://bindrunerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/what-remains-when-hope-has-failed
Stream
album track "Quiescence" now at https://youtu.be/ct8FHWs6By4?si=pkp_teYku5k3lD_OTracklist:
1) The Wyrm at World's End
2) This Rotten Bough
3) Sky Avalanche
4) Quiescence
5) Bereft Part 2
6) What Remains When Hope Has Failed
Formed from the ashes of Wodensthrone, NEMOROUS carry the torch of atmospheric English black influenced metal proudly, but it’s not the main driving force behind them. The vision is far more expansive and eclectic. With their debut self-titled EP, they have proven that the twisting melodies and fog-like aura they create with their sound indeed harkens back to their past musical conquests, yet progression is a core tenet as it walks hand in hand with rich melodies and a fierce sense of aggressive tradition.
What Remains When Hope Has Failed is four years in the making and finds the band emerging victorious from a line-up change, where Chris Walsh (Vocals/Guitars) was replaced by Nick Craggs (Vocals - Vacivus/Neolithic) and Rob Hindmarsh on second guitar. Now as sextet, the band dove into the music for their first full-length reinvigorated, and it shows in the album’s composition.
What Remains When Hope Has Failed is a dynamic and emotional journey where quiet musical passages draw the listener in with vulnerability and beautiful, clean guitar arrangements that feel like Fields of the Nephilim at their most post-apocalyptic, only to build with reflective, melancholic mids, before exploding with blasting ferocity. From subtle, yet expansive synth textures, complex drum work that never loses grasp on a powerful feel/swing, it all strengthens the overall impact of this album with colorful dynamics and a songwriting characteristic which can certainly be traced back to the early days of Wodensthrone.
NEMOROUS is:
Phil Heckles - Bass
Ian Finley - Drums
Michael Blenkarn - Guitars
Alexandra Durning - Keyboards
Rob Hindmarsh - Guitars
Nick Craggs - Vocals
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The duo is currently recording their debut EP, The Dark Places on the Earth, at the Czech recording studio DiGaZ. The material is produced by Tom “Digaz” Pletnický, and the release is scheduled for January 2026.
All information about WEAK AND MORTAL can be found on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Weak-and-Mortal/61582720475493/?sk=grid
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Featuring songs mostly written between 1977 and 1983, Mythical & Magical is Pagan Altar’s third release. This grandiose, ancient-sounding album is a mixture of heavy Doom Rock and mournful English folk—and is without a doubt the pinnacle of their career. Based on the beautiful editions on now defunct Temple of Mystery Records, Dying Victims continues making Pagan Altar’s back catalogue available again.
Line-up:
Trevor Portch - Bass
Mark Elliot - Drums
Terry Jones (RIP 2015) - Vocals
Alan Jones - Guitars
From London, UK
Release date:
27th February
Tracklist01 Samhein
02 The Cry of the Banshee
03 The Crowman
04 Daemoni Na Noiche
05 The Sorcerer
06 The Flight of the Witch Queen
07 Dance of the Druids
08 The Erl King
09 The Witches Pathway
10 Sharnie
11 The Rising of the dark Lord
Release info:
Regular 3 sided + etching double LP edition on black vinyl, with poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Colored 3 sided + etching double LP edition on beige vinyl, with poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special 3 sided + etching double LP edition on ultra-clear, brown marbled vinyl, with poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Realese date: 23 Janvier
2025Genre : Black Metal
Origin: France
Duration: 46min43
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Credits: Baurus – Composition, Lyrics, Mix, Mastering
Tracklist:
1. Riposte
2. Le Chant Des Braves
3. L’Excusé
4. Le Carneval Du Roi Des Vers
5. Sépulture
6. Aux Heures Désespérées
7. À Ces Batailles Abandonnées
8… Et Aux Hommes Misérables
Emerging at the end of 2019, ARCHVILE KING is the solo project of french multi-instrumentalist Baurus. Drawing from the sharp, biting sounds of retro Thrash and Black Metal, his music fully reflects his inspirations, offering intoxicating melodies over riffs as sharp as rusted steel.
After a unashamedly Thrash Metal solo EP, followed by a darker full-length album, ARCHVILE KING now pulls us deeper into its world with a new concept album plunging further into the swamps of the King of Worms. With "AUX HEURES DÉSESPÉRÉES", we are drawn into Black Metal infused with shades of Heavy Metal, Thrash, and grandiloquent tones, pulling us down into the depths.
"Aux Heures Désespérées" is ARCHVILE KING’s second album. From the portrait fiercely drawn by "VILE" to the festering marshes of "À La Ruine", this time Baurus recounts the final great battle of humankind against the vile Worm King. This new concept album offers several points of view, opening the door to multiple interpretations. From a wounded general who forces his son to leave him behind, to the Worm King himself mocking the troops in disarray, to the bitter reflections of a soldier on the verge of death, a bleak depiction of a futile battle is painted across eight relentless tracks.
The futility of war, the sins of the soldier, false convictions—through "Aux Heures Désespérées", Baurus gives himself over to a pacifist meditation and a scathing critique of conflict through the lens of a blood-soaked tale.
Preorders : https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/preorders
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Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: january 9th 2026
Genre: Dark Primal Gothic Doom
For fans of: Celtic Frost | Tiamat | A Pale Horse Named Death | Darkthrone
As the ferry reaches the furthest shore, the stony bank emerging from the mist, Kharon points towards the land, silently urging you to disembark. The darkness within his cowl brooks no argument and invites no discussion or fond farewells. No sooner have you stepped ashore than he thrusts his pole against the riverbed and vanishes back into the fog that rides upon the silent current. Alone in the land of the dead you take your first faltering steps into the unknown and from the vast cavern ahead you hear a sound…music…music of other spheres and other spaces…music made of dreams and darkness…music of the night…
“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”Dracula – Bram Stoker
On June 20th 2025 The Medea Project took to the stage of Dingwalls 2 in London to celebrate the release of their new album – Kharon. They have always provided a powerful, engaging and entertaining live spectacle, but on that night they seemed to blossom into the dark flower they have always aspired to be; a thing of raw, rare and deadly beauty. They wove a spell that captured the attention of the gathered audience completely and transported them from a stiflingly hot summer night in Camden Town to the cold shadows that cloak the banks of the Styx. Tracks taken from Kharon’s haunted grooves like ‘Dance Of The Void’ and ‘Upon Your Bones (Stygian Surf)’ came to vivid, venomous life while older set stalwarts like ‘Babylon’, ‘F.E.A.R.’ and ‘The Desert Song’ seemed to grow in stature and exude a deeper darkness than ever before. The vocals, bestial roars and desperate howls entwined, echoed around the rafters while vast, staggering riffs rode upon the elemental rhythms, the glorious cacophony giving birth to a unique, enthralling atmosphere. The chaos magic of that night was captured, the black flame preserved forever and is presented in all its bloody honesty, just as it unfolded, on Live At Dingwalls; a worthy companion piece to the majesty of Kharon.
Live At Dingwalls will be released on January 9th and made available exclusively from The Medea Project’s Bandcamp Page. A memory revisited for those in attendance, a conjured vision of blood and flame for others…and another chapter in the unfolding tale of The Medea Project.
Line-up:
Brett Minnie - Guitars/Vocals
Pauline Silver - Drums & Percussion
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Hailing from Sweden, VENTHIAX are a speed / thrash metal band that was formed in March 2021 with the goal of becoming the loudest and most ruthless metal band in the region of Huskvarna / Jönköping. The band consists of bass-player Wendy Juneström, who also creates and distributes the old-school thrash metal fanzine Black Pages since 2019; guitarist Viggo Heinonen, who also played in the black metal band Pyrrha; and drummer Emil Borg, who is recognized as the roaring percussionist, embracing the true old-school spirit when whipping the toms. Thus armed, VENTHIAX let free a flurry of releases, including a first demo, EP, and not one, but two live albums.
Keeping that iron burning hot, VENTHIAX strike with their meanest and most assured recording yet: the mini-album Rites of Ra. While those prior short-lengths indeed laid their noble foundation – old Slayer, Sodom, Nifelheim, Celtic Frost, Death, Agent Steel, Törr, and Blessed Death – on Rites of Ra is where VENTHIAX blaze beyond the gates with maximum efficiency…and maximum overdrive! Said influences might mostly reside in the ‘80s, and there’s certainly no disputing the power-trio’s authenticity, but VENTHIAX exude the sort of charisma and songwriting acumen that elevates Rites of Ra above another retro-retread exercise. Dungeonic in its atmosphere but fighting tooth & nail to emerge from those dungeons with righteous plunder aplenty, this six-song / 21-minute record rips forth with a memorability that commands repeat plays – and repeat possession. Not for nothing is one of the mini’s most emblematic songs titled “Speed Metal Mayhem”!
Line-up:
Wendy Juneström - Bass
Emil Borg - Drums, Vocals
Viggo Heinonen - Guitars
From Huskvarna, Sweden
Release
date:27th February
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Color edition on white vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on transparent orange black splatter vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
Tracklist
01 Warfare
02 Rites of Ra
03 Infernal Demise
04 Speed Metal Mayhem
05 Dawn of Terror
06 The Omen's Arrival
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Finnish
black/dark metal royalty MIRZADEH has released a black
metal version and music video of the 80s classic YOU'RE MY HEART,
YOU'RE MY SOUL. After experiencing several lineup changes, the
25-year-old Mirzadeh is also working on new material with new keyboardist Descrato (Star
Insight, Arina) and session guitarist Asagor (Boneset). Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/BvhlTrRbD74
Listen to the single on music streaming platforms : https://push.fm/fl/mirzadeh-ymhyms
Founded in 2000, the Finnish band Mirzadeh has created a dark sound inspired by Finnish mythology. The band's lyrics are in both English and Finnish. Over more than two decades, the band has released three full-length albums as well as several singles, EPs, and demos.
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Born from tragedy, BURNING PATH is the continuation of Chile’s beloved heavy metal heroes LUCIFER’S HAMMER. In late December 2024, founding member Andre Adasme, AKA Hades, was murdered by a stranger. His brother Rodrigo, AKA Titan, had a difficult task ahead of him. But eventually, Titan decided to keep Andre’s legacy alive along with longtime guitarist Hypnos, and BURNING PATH was (re)born. Titan decided to retire the LUCIFER’S HAMMER moniker “because there is no other who can replace my brother’s leading role and character, who will forever be the signature of LUCIFER’S HAMMER music.”
However, those whose hearts keep it true will be thrilled to hear the direction of BURNING PATH – “the same traditional heavy metal essence that has been our call for the last 13 years playing with LUCIFER’S HAMMER,” Titan humbly states. Witness the band’s “debut” full-length, Burning Path. With absolutely accurate artwork gloriously adoring its cover, BURNING PATH’s self-titled debut picks right up where 2024’s Be and Exist left off: like an iron fist lined with velvet, a deceptively silky surge that drives deepest into the heart of mid ‘80s metal. With Titan taking up the vocal duties as well as drums and guitar – and Hypnos, in kind, handling guitar, bass, and keyboards – the duo create a pistons-pumping juggernaut of melodic-yet-moody METAL, conveying electricity and energy no matter the tempo. In fact, much of Burning Path hovers near a strutting mid-tempo, and is all the better for it: BURNING PATH are equally powerful when illustrating heroism or heartache. As such, Be and Exist’s trace elements of prime Dokken, Heavy Pettin’, Diamond Head, Europe, Witch Cross, Virgin Steele, and even ‘80s KISS at their most metal are resurgent here, once again rearranged and reformed into anthems entirely their own.
Hades may be much missed, but he’d be honored by the BURNING PATH his former bandmates are on!
Line-up:
TITAN – Vocals, Drums and Guitars
HYPNOS – Guitars, Bass and Keyboards
From Santiago, Chile
Release
date:27th February
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Color edition on golden vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on orange triple spinner vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
Tracklist
01 The Imminent Passage Of Time
02 Chasing the Future
03 Another Day
04 Take me High
05 The God who dwells in the Sword
06 A Step far Beyond
07 When Darkness falls
08 The Darkness that will last
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Genre : Black/Death Metal
For fans of : Mgla, Dying Fetus, Crypts of Despair, Kriegsmaschine, Psycroptic
Greek band Phasma are attempting to meld influences ranging from black metal to brutal death metal and everything in between. The music effortlessly oscillates from sharp black metal riffs to pummelling death metal blasts with matching vocal styles, and even toss in a breakdown or two in the middle. It’s something that doesn’t seem to work on paper and yet they manage to make it sound cohesive and convincing enough, with songwriting that's elaborate and well thought out to warrant songs lasting beyond mere novelty quick-listen length. Every song seems like an extension if not an improvisation over the previous one, as the band unfurls dimensions within the sound that they have concocted. Bands playing a mix of styles isn't uncommon but to intermingle influences of such disparate, almost contrasting styles is fascinating and remarkable especially when they have high replay value and lasting appeal. Like it or not, Phasma are here to stay.
Line
up:Songwriting & guitars: Jason Athanasiadis
Lyrics & vocals: Luis Ferre
Bass: George Markantonis
Drums: Bill Nanos
Album cover by George Angelis
Merch design by CVSPE
Track listing
1. I
2. II
3. III
4. IV
5. V
6. VI
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity
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HyperioN return with new LP, Cybergenesis, a dark sci-fi concept album for fans of traditional Heavy Metal. Fighter Records will release the album on January 15, 2026. Album pre-orders are available now at:
Cybergenesis, HyperioN’s third full-length album, is eight tracks of powerful, dynamic Heavy Metal!
The concept of Cybergenesis fits seamlessly with the fiery heavy metal therein. A daring expedition into a space-time rift ends in disaster, awakening the Choir, an ancient alien hive mind from an alternate dimension, and plunging humanity into a desperate war for survival. On an Earth enslaved by the Choir's army of cyborgs, a former commander is reborn as the Rhizome Rider, leading a rebellion from within and sacrificing himself to free humanity.
Rooted in classic sci-fi, from Star Trek to Ghost in the Shell, Cybergenesis tells a story of resistance and sacrifice, where the human spirit defies impossible odds.
The album’s striking cover artwork was hand-painted on canvas by English artist Ryan T. Hancock, renowned for his work with bands such as Seven Sisters, Blood Star, and Stormborn. HyperioN chose a handcrafted, non-AI artwork to give Cybergenesis a tangible and authentic visual identity.
Track
Listing:1. Deafening
2. Rewire, Rebuild
3. Yet We Still Fight
4. The Shackles of Chronitus
5. Blood Over Chrome
6. Grain of Sand
7. Rhizome Rider
8. The Whole of Time
Credits:
All lyrics written by Davide Cotti. All music written by Davide Cotti except track #02 (written by Davide Cotti and Francesco Madonna) and track #07 (written by Francis Dipasquale and Davide Cotti).
Production, recording, mixing and mastering by Davide Cotti.
Vocals recorded by Antonio Inserillo.
Line-up:
Davide Cotti - Guitars
Francesco Madonna - Drums
Max Morelli - Vocals
Simone “Nega” Cauli - Bass
Francis Dipasquale - Guitars
Bio:
HyperioN were formed in 2015 by drummer Jason Beghelli and guitarist Davide Cotti to play traditional heavy metal, drawing inspiration from bands such as Metal Church, early Queensrÿche, and Judas Priest, while adding their own personal touch.
The band quickly gained attention with their debut album Dangerous Days (2017), released via Spanish label Fighter Records. The album was warmly welcomed by critics and gave HyperioN the chance to share thestage with established Italian acts such as Tarchon Fist, Black Phantom, and Rain.
After the recording of the second album, founding drummer Jason Beghelli stepped down for personal reasons and was replaced by Francesco Madonna. In 2020, the band released Into The Maelstrom, again on Fighter Records. The album received excellent reviews worldwide, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of all live promotion plans. Despite the circumstances, HyperioN significantly expanded their fanbase across the United States, Canada,
Mexico, and Europe through platforms like Bandcamp, finally returning to the stage in 2021.
This first era of the band came to a turning point in 2021, when several lineup changes reshaped HyperioN’s identity. Long-time bassist Antonio Scalia left the band, and after a long search Simone Cauli joined in September 2022. Just a week earlier, guitarist Luke Fortini had
departed, but the vacant role was swiftly filled by Francis Dipasquale (from thrashers Dypron). With the lineup restored, work began on new material, only to face another setback in spring 2023 when vocalist Michelangelo Carano decided to leave.
After months of auditions, HyperioN found the missing piece in singer Max Morelli, known for his work with Signum Draconis and Ladykiller. With this new and revitalized lineup, Hyperion completed the writing and production of their third album Cybergenesis, a record that represents both continuity and rebirth. Although only guitarist Davide Cotti remains from the original formation, he has always been the main composer and driving force behind the band, making sure HyperioN's sound stays true to its roots: driving riffs that ignite into bursts of speed, soaring yet gritty vocals, and melodic hooks that make every chorus memorable.
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The man behind Nobody, Tuomas Kauppinen comments the EP:
"Jesus ain't cumming is an anti-christmas EP against all the bullshit that the mad prophet has induced upon our beautiful world. It mixes fingerstyle guitar, anger, full warm upright bass, simple drum grooves and various genres I have studied over the years with various bands. But it's not pure hate but also love and appreciation of life and the possibilities it offers. Just remember, nobody's gonna save your ass but yourself."
Listen to EP: https://push.fm/fl/nobody-jesus
Track
list:01. North star
02. Pompeii
03. Crowspeak
04. The Gutter Screams
05. Truth Seeker
Music & Lyrics by Tuomas Kauppinen
Cover art by Don Artvaara
Producer: Jimi (Stellar Sounds Studios)
Line-up:
Tuomas Kauppinen - vocals, guitars, bass & drums
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A
journey into the blackest depths where light and hope end. This is DEATH
DIES... 30 years of uncompromising extreme music and elite black Art in
the name of the most ferocious, extremist and evil Black Metal and today we can
announce the beginning of their collaboration with My Kingdom Music. It will
lead them to the release next spring of "MALEDICTI IN
AETERNVM", the album of the definitive consecration, a creature
that will sink into your flesh like a blade able of piercing your quiet
existence."Maledicti In Aeternvm" takes the legacy of Primordial Black Metal, enriching it with devastating elements of Hard-core and Thrash Death Metal. The result is a fast, powerful, violent and uncompromising album... in short, the purest essence of Black Metal.
"I am really proud to represent with My Kingdom Music the home where my friends Samael Von Martin, Demian De Saba, Krom and Der Todesking wants to paint their own demons and their apocalyptic soundtracks". This is the thought that Francesco Palumbo, owner of the Italian label, expresses.
This is what Samael Von Martin confided to us: "In the long journey through shadows, visions, and sound, every band recognizes the moment when its roots meet a land able of nourishing them. For us, DEATH DIES, joining My Kingdom Music isn't just a simple recording step, but a natural convergence of intent and vision. Francesco's label has proven over time that it knows how to preserve what is authentic, extreme and untamable. In this space, we feel our voice can breathe, grow and strike with the force it deserves, without compromise. The new album is born from a period of silence, ferment and awareness. It doesn't pretend to impose itself with clamor, but it wants to leave a mark. We face this new chapter with pride, respect for the path of those who walk alongside and against us, with the certainty that what is about to be released doesn't ask for permission.
Time will do the rest!
We have lit the fire!"
"Maledicti In Aeternvm" will be released on April 2026 in CD, LP & digital.
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Listen to the single on music services : https://push.fm/fl/depressure-blockedraysofsun
Heavy moods and aching emotions. From melancholic yearning to modern heavy rock, it drills into your brain like a Makita 666. Born in Joensuu, Finland, 2006. Two demos, a few shows, then a decade of silence. In early 2018, Depressure was dragged out of the grave, and the first album was composed and recorded by Antti Heikura. “September” came out on February 19th, 2020.
A new lineup took shape in Antti’s new home country, Poland. Gigs in Gdańsk, more sweat, more drilling. In autumn ‘24, recording of the next album began. “Worst is Yet to Come” is set to release in January 2026 and the band is ready to freeze audiences with their northern rock
Depressure:
Antti Heikura – Vocals & Guitar
Paweł Kempa – Guitar
Tomasz Kacmajor – Drums
Konrad Piątkowski – Bass
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Label : DarkwoodsFormat : CD
Release Date: 09/02/2026
Genre : Atmospheric Post Black Metal from Sweden
För evigt is the debut full-length album by Swedish atmospheric post-black metal project Motljus, created by A. Lundén and shaped by long winters, urban solitude and restrained emotional intensity.
The album presents an introspective, urban approach to atmospheric black metal, rooted in everyday experience rather than mythology or folklore, offering a distinctly modern perspective on contemporary Scandinavian black metal.
Across five tracks, För evigt develops a carefully balanced sound where cold, melodic guitar work, mid-paced rhythms and subtle post-black textures coexist with a strong sense of atmosphere and control. The songwriting favors gradual evolution over dramatic peaks, while the production remains clear and spacious, emphasizing depth without sacrificing intensity. Elements of blackgaze appear at times, not as a dominant feature, but as a textural layer enhancing the album’s melancholic and reflective mood.
För evigt will resonate with listeners drawn to the introspective side of contemporary black metal, particularly fans of Yellow Eyes, Gris, ColdWorld, Alcest or Ellende, while maintaining a distinct identity rooted in its Scandinavian origin and urban perspective.
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www.darkwoods.eu
HOT APOLLO – “AGAINST THE ODDS BECAUSE WE’RE GODS”
Label: SelfmaderecordsRelease date: december 26th 2025
Genre: Punk Rock
For fans of: Electric Six | Iggy Pop | Toyah | Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction
"We’re the sound of a sun made of lightning on fire..."
Exploding out of the great white north, in a dazzling burst of stardust and exuberance, rebellion and radiance, come Toronto’s punk rock riders of the astral plane, Hot Apollo. After lighting up the Toronto club scene for over a decade with songs that transport audiences to realms of euphoria, the city’s self proclaimed ‘shiniest band’ are about to deliver their cerebral shock to the world. New album Against The Odds Because We’re Gods is coming and it’s time to join the Hot Apollo revolution!
“Exploding stars join our choir...”
The album opens in a burst of electrifying guitar, boldly heading straight into the band’s ‘superhero cartoon theme song’, the anthemic and irresistible ‘We’re Hot Apollo’ where a languid vocal rides on crisp drumming and punk vibes and a searing solo tears across the sky. From that blazing beginning Hot Apollo take you on a tour of driving grooves, flamboyant guitar embellishments, enfolding atmospheres and choruses that feel like you’ve known them all your life. From the slinky, sliding riffs of ‘Priorities’, a song that walks the margins between playful and defiant, to the dream state dance of ‘Slayance’; from ‘Beltane’, made to make you move with its cool lead guitar wandering through a patchwork of neon glow and shadow, to the metal edge and galloping rhythms of ‘Gjallarbu’. Every song on Against The Odds Because We’re Gods occupies its own unique space, but they are all united by the irrepressible, irresistible spirit of Hot Apollo. The final two songs on the album – ‘Stop Drop Rock ‘n’ Roll’ and ‘Never Stay Down’ – rock hard and joyously, leaving you energised, renewed and alive, before this band of maverick marauders head back to the stars from whence they came.
“Louder than thunder! We’re a sparkle storm…”
The vibrant sound of Against The Odds… was captured by renowned Canadian producer Scotty Komer of the band Boys Night Out, who has worked with the likes of Protest The Hero and Silverstein. Every voice in the Hot Apollo choir gets to speak and bathe in the spotlight – from the full figured bass to the snapping drums, the fizzing guitars to the sonorous vocals – and the result is effervescent. The album will be released by SelfMadeRecords on December 26th on CD, LP and Digital formats – the perfect party to end the year…and everyone’s invited!
“We’re Hot Apollo! We’re all Hot Apollo!”
Line-up:
Jaymes - Vocals
Tobi - Bass
Monet - Lead Guitar
Diego - Drums
https://selfmaderecordsllc-business.com/home
https://www.facebook.com/HotApollo/
HARROWED are a maggot-ridden death metal band from the Stockholm sewers. Rising from the hallowed ashes of Swedish death metal outliers Morbus Chron, the band comes as the creation of vocalist / drummer Adam Lindmark, who has teamed up with guitarist Tobias Alpadie (VAK, ghost department of Tribulation). A demo and subsequent split arrived in 2021 and ’22, respectively, setting forth HARROWED’s harrowing foundation: classic Autopsy, Entombed, Obituary, and Death Strike “funneled through a garbage disposal,” accurately stated Adolf Vondkra of Tones of Decay festival.
The time has now come for HARROWED to make their full-length debut with The Eternal Hunger. Sharper but not without their signature stench, The Eternal Hunger sees the duo offering a more nuanced listening experience – but don’t think for a second they’ve gone soft! Surely, HARROWED have gestated into a twisted mass of putrid filth, incorporating elements of old-school American and Scandinavian death metal, a lethal dose of punk riffage, and mind-bending weirdness (and even some shattered shards of skewed melody, if we’re counting). The songwriting on The Eternal Hunger thusly exhibits more variety both in the micro and macro, with each of these eight tracks possessing the potential to rupture ear drums, crack skulls, and have you plunge head-first while maniacally screaming into the darkened abyss of crushing riffs, doomsday drumming, and nightmarish horrors…. The production on the album is stellar, as HARROWED teamed up with Robert Pehrsson (Death Breath, ex-Runemagick) in his Studio Humbucker during the summer of 2025 and created an authentically physical sound that’s clear and concise whilst keeping a vintage raw edge. As such, The Eternal Hunger stays true to the original spirit of death metal without being yet another washed-out-copy of the HM2-sound. The album also features musical guest appearances from Nicke Andersson (Entombed, Death Breath) and Scott Carlson (Repulsion, Death Breath), among others, so you can bet this stuff is the real deal.
With the addition of a live lineup consisting of fellow creeps Dag Landin (ex-Morbus Chron, Tøronto) on bass and Estefan Carrillo (Hazemaze, Morbid Breath) on guitar, the HARROWED lineup is fully armed and diseased — ready to drag their decomposing death metal across stages and into your nightmares. Are you ready to submit to The Eternal Hunger?
Line-up:Tobias Alpadie - Guitars, Bass
Adam Lindmark - Vocals, Drums
From Stockholm, Sweden
Release date:
27th February
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Colored edition on golden vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on red/gold galaxy vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
Tracklist
01 Bayonet
02 The Cold Of A Thousand Snows
03 Ultra Terrene Phantasmagoria
04 The Haunter
05 Blood Covenant
06 The Reins
07 Formaldehyde Dreaming (16bit44,1kHz)
08 The Eternal Hunger
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
The Finnish progressive thrash metal band KRATEROS is set to release their debut EP 'LOST IN TRANSLATION' on January 30th 2026 via Inverse Records.
The second single 'UTICENSIS' is unleashed today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/krateros-uticensis
The band comments:
" “As the second single from our upcoming EP “Lost in Translation,” “Uticensis” showcases the band’s more aggressive output with fast, precise riffing and all-out screaming, without compromising on musicality or finesse. As is often the case, the music was written long before the lyrics came to be. This time, inspiration was found in an unexpected place, as the song got its subject from a book of collected and translated philosophical texts by Seneca the Younger that our songwriter Saku received as a birthday gift from a friend. Some of these writings were about the trials and tribulations of Cato the Younger (also known by the epithet “Uticensis”), which sparked an immediate idea for the lyrics. This song is also a favorite of the whole band."
Biography:
Krateros is an emerging metal band from Helsinki, Finland, founded in 2023 and led by vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter Saku Rekonen. The band’s music combines influences from old-school thrash metal bands such as Annihilator, Exodus, and Megadeth with more contemporary acts like Trivium, Machine Head, and Stam1na — all the while being filtered through a progressive lens.
The band’s first EP, “Lost in Translation,” released through Inverse Records, is a response to a perceived lack of riffs that seems to plague the metal scene of the 2020s.
Track
list:1. Tomb Service
2. Linguicide
3. The Performer
4. Uticensis
5. Comatose Waltz
Cover art by All4band Design
Line-up:
Saku Rekonen - Vocals & Guitar
Roni Helminen - Bass & Backing vocals
Touko Kaihola - Drums
Jódís Rannveigardóttir - Backing vocals on Uticensis
https://www.facebook.com/kraterosband
Death/Thrash/Groove/Prog Metal powerhouse STALWART presents the visualizer video for their devastating track, "THROUGH THE DEAD EYES," a monumental commentary on modern spiritual decay. Stripping away all platitudes, the song plunges listeners into a world of profound disillusionment, where existence is a "way through desert," and hope has decayed. Driven by crushing riffs and a complex rhythmic core, the track explores the futility of human endeavor, echoing the pain of suppressed anguish and the numbing effect of routine.
About TEMPVS EDAX RERVM
Stalwart's Tempvs Edax Rervm delves into the inexorable power of time, exploring themes of fading identity and inevitable decay as "heaven and earth have switched places." The album distills the band's essence—groove-driven riffs, intricate rhythms, and atmospheric layers—into a heavier, darker, and more focused continuation of their intense, precise metal sound.
Pre-save the album: https://orcd.co/teralbum
Previous video: https://youtu.be/biyuFljFGTQ
About Stalwart
Formed in 1999 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Stalwart has built a reputation in the extreme metal scene with a distinctive blend of death, thrash, groove, and progressive metal — combining crushing riffs, intricate rhythms, and atmospheric layers. Over their career, they’ve released six full-length albums through labels including Fono, Soyuz/MetalAgen, CD-Maximum, Metallism, and PRC Music, with four albums produced by the renowned Wiesławski brothers (Vader, Decapitated, Behemoth) at Hertz Studio, Poland. Stalwart has shared stages with Behemoth, Kataklysm, Vader, Amon Amarth, Primal Fear, Finntroll, and Carnifex, performing across Russia, Ukraine, Finland, Estonia, and Germany.
After a hiatus starting in 2019, the band returns with their seventh album, Tempvs Edax Rervm, out early 2026 via WormHoleDeath Records, promising crushing grooves, complex rhythms, relentless blast beats, and immersive atmospheres — a new chapter in Stalwart’s evolution.
www.youtube.com/@stalwart.metalband
www.facebook.com/stalwartmetal
Italian
Doomsters DVM SPIRO premiere "DISSENTIMENTO",
the first single from "MMXXVI - GRAVE", with a
monumental official video lasting over 11 minutes, a sort of pictorial graphic
short film created by Noxifer (aka Gianfranco Logiudice) and
available at the following address: https://youtu.be/AP9HR-A-byEThe song is a long suite where feelings of desperation and loneliness blend with the natural funereal atmospheres of their Doom Metal. Heavy riffs, female vocals and deep growls, ancient atmospheres, and classical music enrich a unique sound that will surely be a must-listen for fans of My Dying Bride, Funeral, early Paradise Lost, and Shape of Despair!
The art of DVM SPIRO is an indistinct death, where madness shines in the dark, without peeling frames and funereal paintings of intangible prisons.
DVM SPIRO are back, and the magic of their sad art is ready to drag you into the deepest abyss.
"MMXXVI - Grave" will be released on January 16, 2026.
You can pre-order the CD here: https://t.ly/2cDTv
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/dvmspiro
FFO: Swallow the Sun, Anathema, Woods of Ypres, Novembers Doom, Draconian
Stop, look, and listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzHTKDxnvpk
Orchid Throne is set to release Buried in Black on January 9, 2026! The project consists solely of Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) who performs the music, as well as producing, mixing and mastering the album.
After nearly 17 years of playing supporting roles in various bands, Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) is proud to make his debut as a solo artist as the man behind Orchid Throne. Bonsanto not only wrote and performed all of the music for Buried in Black, but also produced, mixed, and mastered the album.
While not a concept album, Buried in Black weaves themes of anxiety, depression, fear of death, and the search for life’s meaning throughout its lyrics. The title describes both the music itself and the feelings that Bonsanto has kept buried within for years. It may sound bleak, but what is buried in black will be set free and brought to light on January 9.
“This album is a long time coming for me,” said Bonsanto. “For more than a decade, I collected little recordings of ideas in the hope that one day they’d be useful. I could not be more proud of myself for how the album came out and for all of the things I have learned along the way.”
Bonsanto's Musical Journey to Buried in Black:
“As a musician performing in bands since I was 16, people who know me have seen me play a supportive role, and hear my musical contributions to my bands. But not everyone knows that I have always dreamed of releasing a record of my own. I am passionate about all kinds of music, and while I love playing in my current bands, doom metal is a big love that I long felt like I had no outlet for.
“While I’ve honed my songwriting abilities over the years, I began this project with zero knowledge of how to produce a record on my own. I introduced Orchid Throne to the world one year ago on my birthday with only one song done. Over the past year, I have finished writing, recording, and producing my entire debut record. I have finally achieved this goal and it's even better than I ever imagined it could be. It means so much to me to get this out there, to truly reflect who I am as an artist, and I’m already excited to create more.”
Pre-order Buried in Black: https://orchidthrone.bandcamp.com/album/buried-in-black
Track
Listing:1. Dreamworld
2. Ephemerality
3. What Defines us
4. Moonlight Revelry
5. Guilt
6. Breath of Autumn
7. With Promise
Credits:
Album artwork painted by Ryan Gassaway.
Music and Lyrics written by Nick Bonsanto.
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Nick Bonsanto.
All instruments performed by Nick Bonsanto.
Flute on “Breath of Autumn” and “With Promise” performed by Mary Beck
Orchid Throne is:
Nicholas Bonsanto - All instruments.
Bio:
Orchid Throne is a Melodic Doom Metal one-man band created by Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Orchid Throne is set to release its debut full-length album on January 9, 2026, titled Buried in Black. The album features a spellbinding variety of dark, heavy, and emotional material that beckons you to fall into the endless black. Drawing influence from a range of sounds such as melodic death metal, black metal, progressive rock, and folk, Orchid Throne is music from the heart for fellow souls who need
it most.
https://linktr.ee/orchidthrone
Italian
blackened atmospheric death metal project FROSTMORNER is
proud to announce its official signing with Wormholedeath. The collaboration
will see the worldwide release of Frostmorner's debut album, ORBITAL
KAOS, scheduled to drop on February 13, 2026.Founded by Mario and rooted in Sicily, Frostmorner began its journey in 2019. What started with the support of other musicians soon evolved into a fully solo project, allowing Mario to build a sound that reflects his vision without compromise. Over the years, Frostmorner has caught the attention of magazines, fanzines, and radio stations, opening the door to collaborations and conversations with artists across the extreme metal world.
“Orbital Kaos” marks the first full-length chapter of Frostmorner and showcases the project’s foundation: a blend of blackened intensity, atmospheric layers, and death metal grit. The album pulls inspiration from Nile, Hypocrisy, Belphegor, and Death, while weaving in modern influences from Lorna Shore and
Rings of Saturn. Its thematic core draws from a lifelong fascination with Lovecraft, mythology, space, and horror.
The album’s title captures its essence. Each track stands on its own, shaped by its own narrative and energy, yet all orbit around the central concept of Kaos. The result is a record built on fragmentation, unpredictability, and tension: an audio universe where no two moments land in the same place.
Tracklist
1 -Pillars of Creation
2 -Necromorph
3 -Kronvs
4 -Demiurge
5- Arra Agga Bandar
6- Gorgone
7 -Claymore
8 -Eclipse
9 -Orbital Kaos
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www.facebook.com/FrostmornerMusicOfficial
NECROSEXUAL – “ROAD TO RUBBLE”
Label: Black Metal ArchivesRelease date: february 27th 2026
Genre: Thrash Metal/Horror Punk
For fans of: Venom | Mercyful Fate | Celtic Frost | Plasmatics
The engine roars, adding its primal, petrol-fuelled fury to the cacophony of the midnight streets. With menace in its very construction the car seems to prowl the pools of neon light, the sound of the devil’s music blasting from it like a heartbeat. Hymns to lust, violence and rebellion rise up through the darkness, clawing their way through the watching windows, becoming a soundtrack to the sordid stories being played out behind the glass. The Necrosexual smiles, tasting every warm, wet drop of passion, pain, desperation and cruelty as he passes. Hands on the wheel he rides through the hopeless, despairing dreams of the shadow people, trapped on a road to rubble and ruin…
Road To Rubble is the new album from Philadelphia’s Necrosexual, a band that revel in the dark excesses of the metal mindset and ideology, bringing together overdriven guitars and irreverent belligerence, extremes of velocity with the blackest humour and resolute defiance. Lead by charismatic frontman, The Necrosexual, these creatures of the night have been rampaging through the metal underground with their intoxicating elixir of heavy metal, thrash metal and horror punk since 2011, releasing their debut album, GRIM-1, in 2018 - and they’ve never sounded better than they do right now…
Opening with the primal riffs and bestial vocalisations of ‘High Times In Hell’, a song built from old bones but with fresh flesh upon them, Road To Rubble walks a weaving, drunken line between carnage and celebration. ‘The Brimstone Brothel’ combines a punk punch with blast beat madness in a tale of cannibalism behind the walls of an old west bordello and ‘Kiss The Knife’ is a burlesque carnival of horror and erotica with snarling riffs, driving rhythms and scything, melodic lead work. Each song is a step along the road to damnation, another mile into a hell curated by The Necrosexual; from the tattered majesty and epic tales of wasteland warriors that is ‘All Roads Lead To Rubble’ to ‘Nocturnal Ignition’ that shifts from moonlight and dust to muscular riffs, gothic drama and dirty punk sleaze. When the bloodthirsty dominatrix of ‘Hard Leather Woman’ has finished with you – a strident, ironclad, climactic conclusion – you’ll be left scarred and bloodstained, with illusions shattered and eyes open to all that walks on the other side of the night.
Mixed by Steve Roche (Blemish, Pariiah, Serpent Throne etc) and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Blood Incantation, Cavelera Conspiracy), Road To Rubble has an ‘80s metal darkness and bite, but with a scalpel sharp clarity and modern vivacity. It’s a heady, hypnotic combination that will keep you crawling back for more. Adorned in the garish, gaudy, acid nightmare of Scott R. Johnston’s vibrant cover artwork, Road To Rubble will be available on vinyl, CD, cassette and digital formats from the Necrosexual webstore in the US and on CD and cassette from Black Metal Archives in the UK. The Necrosexual party begins on February 27th – and no-one’s going home…
Continue your voyage into The Necrosexual’s world of metal and madness in the official Necrosexual comic books! #2: Necrosexual Encounters, the long awaited follow up to #1: The Insatiable Necrosexual, is available now as a physical version at the Necrosexual bandcamp page https://necrosexual.bandcamp.com/merch/necrosexual-encounters-graphic-novel-free-usa-shipping
The Necrosexual - lead bass, guitar, screams, keyboards, whip strikes
Anthony ‘Vigo’ Gabriele - lead guitar, conspiracy and conjuration
Nick Roskow - lead guitar, divebombs
Miles Ziskind - drums, smoke
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https://www.facebook.com/Grimmestofalltime
Damit
ihr nicht nur eure Gehörgänge mit metallischem Unterhaltungsmaterial traktiert
und „belastet“ , sondern auch mal wieder was Handfestes zum Lesen in den Händen
halten könnt, gibts heute bei uns mal nen bissel mehr an gedruckten Lesestoff
zu entdecken.Die Fertigstellung unserer aktuellen Nr.60 geht auch so langsam auch in die Endphase. Seid jetzt schon mal drauf gespannt was euch HEREZA, FALSE MUTATION , das SCHATTENLEGION MAGAZIN , DEPRESSION, ASHTAR , ARCHAIC THORN und noch einige mehr zum aktuellen Geschehen in der Szene zu berichten haben .
Neben jeder Menge an diversem Tonträgermaterial und nem fetten Batzen an neuem Lesestoff, gib es dieses Mal auch so einiges an Liveberichten für euch zu entdecken. Natürlich werden auch die Rubriken „Metallisch verborgenes aus den tiefsten Abgründen des Internets“, „Best of the ground“ und „Metallisches aus ostdeutschen Jugendzeiten Part 4 „von uns in der neuesten Ausgabe weitergeführt. Zur Einstimmung und sozusagen als kleinen Vorgeschmack präsentieren wir euch hier dann auch schon mal gleich das aktuelle Cover .
„30 JAHRE S.U.F.F.- MIT DER SPASSGUERILLA DURCH OSTDEUTSCHLAND"
SCHATTENLEGION MAGAZIN - JAHRGANG 2024 (A5 / deutsch)
REALM OF SHADES # 10 (A5 englisch)
CASKET – “IN THE LONG RUN WE ARE ALL DEAD”
Wir vom HELLBOLLWERK E.V., dem
gemeinnützigen Kulturverein aus Ilsenburg am Fuße des Brockens – freuen uns
sehr, euch heute eine weitere bedeutende Neuigkeit mitzuteilen.Der Hellbollwerk e.V. freut sich, eine positive Entwicklung im Vorverkauf des BLASTING THE MOUNTAINS FEST | Pt. 1 bekanntzugeben:
Aufgrund der überwältigenden Resonanz aus der Szene wird das Early Bird Ticket bis zum 31. Dezember 2025 verlängert.
Seit dem offiziellen Vorverkaufsstart der Hardtickets am 14. November 2025 wurden innerhalb von nur vier Wochen bereits rund 90 % der ursprünglich geplanten Early Bird Tickets verkauft. Dieses starke Zeichen der Unterstützung hat den Veranstalter dazu bewogen, die ursprünglich limitierte Stückzahl aufzuheben. Das Early Bird Ticket ist ab sofort bis Jahresende ohne Stückzahllimit zum Preis von 39,90 Euro erhältlich. Ab dem 01.01.2026 erfolgt die Umstellung auf das Nabu Bird Ticket zum Preis von 44,90 Euro. Das finale Dead Bird Ticket wird anschließend für 49,90 Euro angeboten.
Zehn Bands für 39,90 Euro – ein Preis, der die Leidenschaft für die extreme Musikszene widerspiegelt und bewusst fair gehalten ist.
Ticketinformationen (Vorverkauf):
Early Bird – 39,90 € (bis 31.12.2025)
Nabu Bird – 44,90 € (limitiert)
Dead Bird – 49,90 €
Die Ticketbestellung erfolgt direkt über den Veranstalter:
So funktioniert die Ticketbestellung . Die Bestellung erfolgt einfach und direkt über das Team des Hellbollwerk e.V. – ohne Zwischenhändler - szenenah und fair.
Kontaktmöglichkeiten:
via Instagram-DM (@hellbollwerk_ev)
per E-Mail hellbollwerk@gmx.de
Line-up:
Einsachtzich
Pure Massacre
Torturized
Drill Star Autopsy
Casket | Extinct
DER ROTE MILAN
Aeon of Disease
MNHG
Obscenity
Der Hellbollwerk e.V. bedankt sich ausdrücklich bei allen Unterstützerinnen und Unterstützern für das entgegengebrachte Vertrauen und die enorme Resonanz.
Gemeinsam wird 2026 die Harzlandhalle in Ilsenburg zum Beben gebracht.
Wir bitten um Veröffentlichung dieser Pressemitteilung.
Unsere offiziellen Social-Media-Kanäle:
https://www.instagram.com/hellbollwerk_ev
https://www.facebook.com/Hellbollwerk
Vielen Dank für eure Unterstützung und euren Einsatz für regionale Kultur!
TEUTONIC SLAUGHTER – “CHEAP FOOD”
Stil: Thrash MetalFormat : CD/LP
Label : Iron Shield Records
VÖ Datum: 30.01.2026
TEUTONIC SLAUGHTER sind ein oldschool Thrash Metal Quartett, welches 2012 von Fabian Kellermann und Philip Krisch, aus einem ursprünglichen Schülerprojekt, gegründet wurde. Wer Bock auf NEO --, Alien --, Black oder Technical Thrash Metal hat, ist
hier definitiv an der falschen Adresse. TEUTONIC SLAUGHTER liefern kompromisslosen teutonic Thrash Metal der alten Schule „ straight in Your Face“ und ohne Schnörkel. Das Quartett orientiert sich in Ihrer musikalischen Identität unverkennbar an Ruhrpott Thrash Metal Legenden, wie Violent Force, Kreator, Sodom und Darkness , ohne dabei
selber an Authentizität einzubüßen. Durch den einzigartigen Gesang und die ständig treibende, offen gespielte Gitarre, schafft die Band Ihren einzigartigen Sound und knüpfen gleichzeitig dort an, wo viele
deutschen Thrash Metal Acts in den 80er Jahren aufgehört haben. In der Besetzung Jan Heinen (Gitarre), Christian Vollmer (Backing Vocals), Fabian Kellermann (Bass/ Backing Vocals) und Philip Krisch (Vocals/Gitarre) wurden von 2012 bis 2022 sechs Tonträger veröffentlicht (2013 Teutonic Slaughter Live at UnBaCo/ 2024 United in Hate Demo/ 2015 Witches Rock’n’Roll Album/ 2018 Split Single mit
Darkness / 2018 Puppeteer of Death Album/ 2022 Decade of Terror Compilation). In dieser Zeit spielte die Band unzählige Auftritte im In und Ausland und konnte sich als „Live Abrissbirne“ in der Szene
etablieren. Schon seit Mitte 2019 gab es konkrete Pläne und Material für die Veröffentlichung eines dritten, von den Fans heiß ersehnten, Full Lenght Albums von TEUTONIC SLAUGHTER. Diese konnten, aufgrund des Wegzugs von Jan und Christian, sowie der anschließenden Corona
Pandemie nicht mehr umgesetzt werden. Nach der
Eigenveröffentlichung der Compilation Decade of Terror Ende 2022 verließen die beiden die Band, um TEUTONIC SLAUGHTER die Möglichkeit zu geben, in anderem Line Up , wieder aktiver auftreten zu
können. 2023 stiegen mit Nico Iserloh (ex. Resistor , Spirit Detective ) an den Drums und Ivan Almeida (ex. Goytaca , ex. Thy Great Empire) an der Lead Gitarre zwei langjährige Freunde der Band in das Line Up mit ein.
In dieser Besetzung konzentrierte man sich in 2023 und 2024 auf gewählte Live Auftritte und besonders darauf, das Material für Album Nummer drei zu überarbeiten und zusätzlich neues Material zu
erstellen. Da die ersten beiden Alben auf Vinyl (jeweils 300er Auflage) mittlerweile ausverkauft waren, stieg der Bedarf an neuem Material. So wurden die Aufnahmen zum dritten Studioalbum "Cheap Food“ Ende 2024 in dem Studio von MK Records in Essen abgeschlossen. Für die Backing Vocals auf der Scheibe liehen u.a. Marius Wegener (SMORRAH), Robert Gornella (ex. Assassin Raging Rob) und Jörg Juraschek (WARRANT) ihre Stimmen. Die Aufnahmen stellen das generische Bindeglied zwischen der alten und neuen Besetzung der Band dar und zeigen, dass TEUTONIC SLAUGHTER in den vergangenen Jahren nicht stehengeblieben ist. Die Band klingt erwachsener, brutaler, kraftvoller und gleichzeitig unverkennbar wie früher…nach Oldschool
Teutonic Thrash Metal!
HAIL TO THE WITCHES ROCK’N’ROLL!!!
Tracklist
01 Intro
02 Hostage
03 Cheap Food
04 Redistribution
05 Witches Rock‘n‘Roll
06 Eviscerating Surgery
07 Fight the Reaper 08 Give em Hell
Line up :
Philip Krisch – Vocals/Guitar
Ivan Almeida - Lead Guitar
Fabian Kellermann – Bass
Nico Iserloh – Drums
www.facebook.com/teutonicslaughter
https://ironshieldrecords.de/
GRAND
DEVOURER und ZOMBIE
RIOT: Vorverkauf für die Split "NIGHTHAUNTER" gestartet
: Die Hannoveraner Death-Metal-Acts Grand Devourer und Zombie Riot tun sich zusammen und veröffentlichen am 19.12.2025 ihre Split Nighthaunter. Für Grand Devourer ist es nach der Debüt-EP bereits das zweite Lebenszeichen innerhalb eines Jahres, während die lokalen Szene-Urgesteine Zombie Riot mit ihrem mittlerweile vierten Release nachlegen.
Acht Tracks – je vier pro Band – ballern hier kompromisslos in den Death-Metal-Underground. Das Bremer Studio Silence Sucks Productions liefert den gewohnt druckvollen, heftigen Sound, der die Wucht der beiden Formationen passgenau einfängt. Für das Artwork zeichnet die Hannoveraner Tattoo-Künstlerin Maya Goldfinch verantwortlich, die die düstere Ästhetik von Nighthaunter visuell auf den Punkt bringt.
Erscheint am 19.12.2025 via Neckbreaker Records. Vorbestellung können hier getätigt werden!
Außerdem gibt es ein exklusives Shirt Design von Grand Devourer im Warhammer 40K Stil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdJEWpodemc&t=10s
https://neckbreakerrecords.bigcartel.com
STREAMS OF BLOOD – “VERMALEDEIT”
Genre: Black Metal
Label: The Hidden Art
Release: 18.12.2025
Nach Jahren persönlicher und kreativer Umbrüche legt Streams Of Blood mit „Vermaledeit“ am 18. Dezember ihr neues Album vor – ein Werk, das die Erfahrungen und Brüche seiner Entstehungszeit spürbar in sich trägt.
Fünf Jahre voller Veränderungen, Verluste und innerer Kämpfe haben ihre Spuren hinterlassen. „Vermaledeit“ ist das Ergebnis dieser Phase – intensiv, direkt und emotional aufgeladen.
Die Songs bewegen sich zwischen Melancholie und Nihilismus, zwischen Selbstzweifel und Befreiung. Roh und ungeschliffen aufgenommen, zeigt das Album den unverstellten Charakter seines Entstehungsprozesses – ehrlich, kompromisslos und ohne Rücksicht.
Das begleitende Artwork entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit Void Revelations und ergänzt die Musik um eine visuelle Dimension, die die Atmosphäre von „Vermaledeit“ treffend einfängt.
Ein Album, das aus persönlicher Dunkelheit hervorgegangen ist – und den Weg von Streams Of Blood konsequent weiterführt.
https://www.facebook.com/StreamsOfficial
The Death Crust Commando strikes back – louder, fiercer, heavier.“Time And Tide” is here to crush everything in its path!
Seit ihrer Gründung 2016 sind PHANTOM CORPORATION eine unaufhaltsame Macht im Underground. Gegründet von Szene-Veteranen aus Bremen und Dortmund – mit Wurzeln in Bands wie Dew-Scented, Eroded, BK 49 und Weak Aside – verschmilzt die Band gnadenlosen D-Beat Crust mit Death Metal und rohem Old-School Thrash/Punk zu einem kompromisslosen Crossover-Sound.
Nach der Debüt-Mini „First Commandment“ (2016), den furiosen EPs „Cause and Effect“ (2017) und „Belligerent Powers“ (2018) sowie der Split „Banner Of Hatred“ (2022, mit den Schweden Harrowed) und dem ersten vollen Album „Fallout“ (2023), präsentiert die Band nun ihr tödlichstes Geschoss: Das neue Album „Time And Tide“, das heute über Supreme Chaos Records erscheint.
Hier geht’s zum brandneuen Video zu „Frantic Disruption“ : https://youtu.be/BnuZnvPj_xc
Produziert von Jörg Uken in den Soundlodge Studios (u. a. God Dethroned, Temple Of Dread), hebt
„Time And Tide“ die Band auf ein völlig neues Level. Über 11 Tracks hinweg liefern PHANTOM CORPORATION ein unerbittliches Feuerwerk – vielseitiger, brutaler und kompromissloser als je zuvor. Rasende Thrash-Riffs, Crust- Attacken und Death Metal vereinen sich zu einem apokalyptischen Schlagabtausch ohne Atempause.
Tracklist:1. Frantic Disruption (4:16)
2. Dead Of Night (4:30)
3. Crushed (3:59)
4. Krokodil (1:31)
5. Pound Of Flesh (2:42)
6. To The Hilt (4:14)
7. Time And Tide (4:17)
8. Sorcerer (3:57)
9. For All The Wrong Reasons (4:42)
10. Crisis (2:21)
11. Western Apocalypse (5:35)
„Time And Tide” ist in den folgenden Formaten erhältlich:
Black LP
Orange Marbled LP (Limitiert auf 150 Kopien)
Clear Rusty Marbled LP (Limitiert auf 100 Kopien / Band-Exklusiv)
Splatter Clear Orange Black LP (Limitiert auf 100 Kopien)
Digipak CD (Limitiert auf 500 Kopien / Handnummeriert)
Jewelcase CD
Black Tape (Limitiert auf 150 Kopien)
Purple Tape (Limitiert to 50 Kopien / SCR-Exklusiv)
Digital Album
„Time And Tide” ist hier erhältlich: https://linktr.ee/phantomcorporation
Oder direkt über Supreme Chaos Records: https://supremechaos.com/scr-artists/phantom-corporation/
PHANTOM CORPORATIONs Debütalbum „Fallout” und dessen limitierte „Fire Splatter” und „Orange/Black marbled” Vinyl-Varianten sind nach wie vor hier erhältlich: https://supremechaos.com/link/phantomcorporation/
PHANTOM CORPORATION 2025:
Ulf – Bass
Arne – Guitars
Philipp – Guitars
Marc – Drums
Leif – Vocals
Live
24.01.2026 Krefeld – Kulturrampe
07.02.2026 Osnabrück – JZ Westwerk 141 / Waking The Ghouls II
18.-20.06.2026 Protzen – Protzen Open Air
17.10.2026 Nordhorn – Alte Weberei / Nordhorn Deathfest
https://www.facebook.com/phantomcorporation
Mit ihrer neuen EP „DEATH THROES OF A
DROWNING GOOD" öffnen GUYOD am 23.01.2026 ein
weiteres finsteres Portal zwischen Doom, Death und Black Metal - ein Werk, das
ebenso schwer und erdrückend wie atmosphärisch aufgeladen ist. Die
Veröffentlichung markiert nicht nur das nächste Kapitel ihrer künstlerischen
Entwicklung, sondern setzt zugleich ein kraftvolles Statement innerhalb der
extremen Musikszene: kompromisslos, intensiv und voller klanglicher Abgründe …Die EP stellt eine vierteilige Reise zum Abgrund des Ozeans dar, vier Songs werden jeweils von einem Drone-Track ein- bzw. ausgeleitet. Am Weg nach unten starren den Hörenden „A thousand invisible eyes“ direkt in die Seele, man entdeckt verborgene Reiche „Behind walls of ice“, rast durch den „Vortex of infinite despair“ und betrachtet mit Abscheu den erschreckenden Anblick von „Hestia drowning“.
Man durchdringt düstere Klanglandschaften, in denen verzerrte Gitarrenwände, tiefe Growls und eisige Screams auf wuchtige, monolithische Riffs treffen. Dabei bleibt die Band ihrem Anspruch, die erdrückende Schwere des Doom mit der brutalen Direktheit des Death Metal und der kalten, rituellen Atmosphäre des Black Metal zu verbinden, weiterhin treu. Der Level an Direktheit und hasserfüllter, verzweifelter Aggression ist jedoch deutlich gestiegen.
Mit dieser Veröffentlichung beweist die Band, dass Extreme Metal auch 2026 noch neue Wege beschreiten kann. Sie verschmelzen Genregrenzen, ohne ihre Wurzeln zu verleugnen, und schaffen damit ein Werk, das sowohl alte Fans als auch neue Hörer*innen fesseln wird. Die EP ist ein kompromissloses Manifest der Finsternis - eine Klangreise, die lange nachhallt und ihre Hörer*innen tief unter die Oberfläche zieht.
Ab dem 23. Januar 2026 ist „Death throes of a drowning good" auf allen gängigen digitalen Plattformen, sowie in einer limitierten physischen Edition auf CD und Tape erhältlich. Eine Veröffentlichung, die sich Liebhaber atmosphärisch dichter, extrem metal-lastiger Klangkunst nicht entgehen lassen sollten!
https://www.guyod.net/
jewelcase cd with 8-page booklet+2-side inlay+plastic wrapped.
7 tracks of norweigan black-metal, with an oldschool feeling!
Norsk svartmetall, Innlandet, Hamar, Norway.
ILLVILJE: [fra norrønt, illvili] et sadistisk ønske om å påføre andre mennesker smerte og lidelse | hatets egen vilje.
Steven - Guitar & bass
Are - Drums
Jolm - Vocals & guitar
https://downfallrecords.bandcamp.com/album/la-meg-sj-alt-omkring-meg-falle
Genre
: Atmospheric
Black MetalFormate : CD & LP
Release date : 25/01/2026
For fans of: Woods of Desolation, Austere, Panopticon, Mesarthim
Brought forth by the Sweden-based multi-instrumentalist Matthew Bell (Autumn's Dawn, Austere live & many more), TJAKTJADÁLVVE is an Atmospheric Black Metal project now at its third full-lenght release.
"Encompassing Nothingness" perfectly blends the sorrow of depression-tinged black metal with the coldness, thrill and melancholy of its atmospheric kind, guiding the listener through his low-paced and synth-driven scenarios. With a neat production and dreadful vocals, the musical journey that this album encloses can't reward the listener more than so.
Tracklist:
1. The Solitude of Abject Darkness
2. Norrsken
3. Longing
4. Encompassing Nothingness
Total length: 32:22 minutes
https://flowingdownward.com/
https://tjaktjadalvve.bandcamp.com/
FROZEN OCEAN – “ASKDRӦMMAR”
Label: Apocalyptic WitchcraftRelease date: february 13th 2026
Genre: Depressive Rock / Atmospheric Black Metal
For fans of: Lifelover | Katatonia | Apati | Joyless
City dwellers have all sensed the life, the power, the autonomous identity of their home. They understand, on some deeply buried level, that it is more than a collection of buildings and intersecting streets…it is an entity beyond its elements, a tarnished, hungry god with a character that changes with the setting of the sun and the flickering into life of the street lights and neon signs. They know there is another world, a darkly different reality that lies behind a thin veil of perception; held in check only by a silently agreed refusal to believe in its existence. But a glimpse from the corner of the eye, a movement in the shadows not rejected and quickly forgotten and the door to that other city begins to stand ajar. And with Askdrömmar, Frozen Ocean are holding that door open and beckoning you inside…
For more than twenty years Frozen Ocean has brought us a staggering array of musical gifts; journeys that have taken us from the depths of space to the worlds of Tove Jansson’s literary creations, from Norse mythology to complex internal landscapes – riding on the wings of cold black metal and textured ambience – dramatic and visionary works. Now Vaarwel, the creative spirit behind the Frozen Ocean name, has returned with another sonic dream to ignite our imaginations and transport us to new dimensions. A work that draws inspiration from the writing of John Ajvide Lindqvist and the music of Lifelover, with lyrics written entirely in Swedish that communicate on a level beyond language. Askdrömmar leads us through a gallery of images, of haunting vignettes, to a destination unique to each soul that listens.
We enter the world of Askdrömmar along the moon road, ‘Mångata’ – both frightening and fascinating in equal measure. Vaarwel’s grim voice rasps over the dark, richly melodic music, a superlative demonstration of the power of black metal vocals at their most emotive. Already the light behind you is but a pinprick in the distance as the city begins to swallow you. The melodic, gothic doom inflections of ‘Bortkastade dödsrunor’ draw you deeper still and it becomes clear that these songs are creating an environment as well as a narrative and atmosphere – listening to Askdrömmar is to explore the secret streets of this dark urban domain. As you reach ‘Jag sover’ you are haunted by the city, surrounded by it, consumed by it, lost in its labyrinthine heart. The melancholy melodies twist through the night time world and the chosen language of presentation with its harsh poetry invokes imagery while avoiding definite definition. The liquid keys of ‘I lyktornas sken’ move between the pools of light that punctuate the blackness, creating unfathomable depths and innumerable layers, possessing the power to hypnotise and enthral. From the sinuous lament of ‘Köttkvarn’ with its bewitching despair, through the frantic fear of ‘Långt lopp genom mörkret’ to the beautiful, humbling conclusion of ‘Brunkebergstunneln’, Vaarwel has created nothing less than magic. Askdrömmar is the most powerful and affecting Frozen Ocean work to date – and that is some achievement.
Adorned in the superbly atmospheric artwork of Mosaeye Art (The Hearth Of Discordia, Shiningstar, Pyre etc), Askdrömmar will be unveiled by Apocalyptic Witchcraft on February 13th on CD digipak, cassette and digital formats, as well as an exclusive, extremely limited boxed set. Prepare to pass through the veil and wander through your darkest dreams…
Line-up:
Vaarwel – Vocals, guitars, bass, e-bow, keys, lyrics and music
https://apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/frozenoceanrus
New single "AUTUMN NOSTALGIA" from TÅKEVANDRER! Sagas summon all wanderers of the dark forests. Rising from the misty Austrian mountains in the autumn of ’25, their lyrics dive into the profane, the
occult, and the mystic paths of lunar existence.
https://www.youtube.com/@Takevandrer.Official
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61584122578056
YHWH
Release
New EP KHATHA . Five Tracks of Unrelenting Extreme Metal Fury Now
Available .Stream Now: https://orcd.co/khathaep
Extreme metal powerhouse YHWH have unleashed their latest sonic assault with Khatha, a short but devastatingly punishing five-track EP that showcases the band at their most raw and uncompromising.
Khatha breathes life into previously unrecorded compositions, each track a brutal confrontation with human cruelty, societal injustice, and the darker corners of myth and the mind. With unrelenting intensity, YHWH deliver a statement that refuses to compromise, reinforcing their place as one of modern extreme metal's most intense and thought-provoking forces.
Khatha strips away all pretense, delivering five tracks of pure extreme metal that challenge listeners to confront uncomfortable truths. From the opening salvo to the final crushing note, YHWH demonstrate why they've become essential listening for fans of uncompromising heavy music.
The previously unrecorded material showcases the band's evolution while maintaining the ferocity that has defined their sound. Each composition serves as a mirror to humanity's darkest impulses, forcing listeners to gaze unflinchingly into the abyss.
Khatha represents YHWH's commitment to extreme metal at its most vital and unforgiving. In an era of overproduced mediocrity, the band delivers an honest statement that reminds us why extreme music matters. This is metal that doesn't just entertain, it challenges, provokes, and leaves permanent scars.
For fans of uncompromising extreme metal who demand substance with their savagery, Khatha is essential listening.
Formed in 2024, YHWH is a Belgian/Thai black metal band. All music is composed by Schem HaMephorash and her sister C. Bones, with S.M. Goat Ritual joining in June. Following their debut EP Tetragrammaton (April 2025, Wormholedeath), the band now unleashes the second chapter: Khatha. Prepare for the doom.
"Tetragrammaton": https://orcd.co/tetragrammaton
https://thetrueyhwh.bandcamp.com
Finnish melodic death/doom metal band THE HARBINGER released a new EP 'GATES OF HELL' via Inverse Records. Also a brand new music video 'BLEAK SALVATION' is unleashed today and it's available here: https://youtu.be/r7KIQF_zFGg
Listen to 'Gates of Hell' EP on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/the-harbinger-ep
Watch Hollow music video: https://youtu.be/1VvGF_7o7B0
Watch Sleepless music video: https://youtu.be/0ruWLSsza5I
Biography:
From the cracks of concrete hell, Kouvola, Finland, rises a new band with beautiful yearning doom metal melodies and crushing death metal riffs.
The band was formed in the cold winter of 2016. After some line up changes and finding their sound, the band released their first EP ”Shadows Dance” in three singles between 2020-2021. ”Dead Ends” EP was released in 2023 and it felt like the band had sharpened their sound and style.
A New EP "Gates of Hell" was released in December 2025 via Inverse Records.
Track
list:01. Sleepless
02. Fading Lines
03. Bleak Salvation
04. Hollow
05. Glass Walls
EP cover by Aku Rundberg
Recorded and mixed by Arto Kujala
Mastered by Saku Moilanen, Deep Noise Studios
Line-up:
Aku Rundberg - Drums
Arto Kujala - Guitar & backing vocals
Lauri Korhonen - Bass & backing vocals
Pasi Kanerva - Vocals
Sami Karhu - Guitar
https://www.facebook.com/theharbingermetal
Romanian Atmospheric Black Metal entity ARGUS MEGERE return with their first new album in six years. Titled "CERBUREA APUSULUI", the band's fifth full-length record is out now through Loud Rage Music.
The album was recorded primarily at Consonance Studio by Andrei Jumuga and Sol Faur (Dordeduh), with guitar sessions completed at Ras Alhage Studio by Fulmineos. Mixing and mastering duties were handled at Consonance Studio by Andrei Jumuga. Artwork and design by Alexandru Daș.
A new single, "Soma", taken off "Cerburea apusului", is now streaming here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_ZGcMaoZxo
The band comments:
"Today is the big day: we release "Cerburea Apusului" into the unknown. Over the past years, this moment felt like a Fata Morgana, layered with growing uncertainty. Yet here we are, and "Soma" reflects this state of mind perfectly.
The song tells of ancient hunters depicted on cave walls in a remote area of the Apuseni Mountains, exploring the connection between the human condition and the deities of the wild, and ultimately the idea of achieving immortality through art. From its midpoint to the end, "Soma" becomes fully instrumental, shaped as a meditation on meaning, on the question of purpose, and on the long and unlikely journey of Argus Megere, nearly thirty years of existence and an improbable destiny. In a way, it feels like a farewell, a thought about stepping back into the shadows, at least regarding the release of any new album in the near future.
But not all is lost. We still have plans for a celebration next year; it all depends on our motivation and the means to make it happen. And then... perhaps we blow out the candles and eventually rise from the darkness again. Who knows?
Enjoy this offering. It was created with sincere dedication and blood."
Order "Cerburea apusului" here: https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/argus-megere-cerburea-apusului
https://loudragemusic.limitedrun.com/products/870708-argus-megere-cerburea-apusului
ARGUS MEGERE is:
Ageru Pământului – Vocals
Fulmineos – Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards
Urmuz – Bass
Putrid – Drums
Guests:
Bogdan Luparu (Bucovina) – Vocals
Andrei Oltean (E-An-Na) – Vocals, Traditional Folk Instruments
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/argusmegere/
At the turn of the millennium, THALARION were one of the fundamental bands of the Slovak metal underground. Not only because of the contract abroad, but mainly because of the quality of their music. As a fan of THEATRE OF TRAGEDY, THE GATHERING, DREAMS OF SANITY or even the Slovak GALADRIEL, I couldn’t miss also THALARION. Their music enchanted me. “Tales Of The Woods... Thus Was Written” (1998) already sounded amazing, but the third album “FOUR ELEMENTS MYSTERIUM” is my favourite of all THALARION recordings. Plenty of catchy riffs blending doom metal with melodic death metal, charming vocals, and especially the “beauty and the beast” approach, popular at that time, offering atmospheric heaviness, gloom... this is just a part of what the original nine-track album has been offering for listening for a quarter of a century.
This anniversary prompted me to re-edition “Four Elements Mysterium” on my label Pařát Productions, while not killing two birds with one stone. That explains why the digipak edition was released in August, while the LP version didn’t come out until December.
Style: Death/doom metalType: Limited 250 copies black LP 12" (140g) with full-color labels, printed inner bag, original foil
Release date: 18.12. 2025
A gift for the album's 25th birthday!
- first time on LP
- restored frontcover
- new graphics
"Four Elements Mysterium" will be released FIRTST TIME ON VINYL 18.12. by Pařát Productions. You can order them at Pařátshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/thalarion-four-elements-mysterium/
You can listen to full recording on the Pařát Productions YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhkc7vE9hlc&t=16s
www.paratshop.cz
www.facebook.com/ParatMagazine
Melodic
Death Metal legion EVOCATUS has unleashed the official
music video for their monolithic title track, "DEVOTED TO
INEVITABLE DEATH." This aggressive, animated single arrives
as a new visual chapter from their uncompromising album, INEVITABLE
DEATH, out via WormHoleDeath."Devoted To Inevitable Death" is a thunderous ode to fate, warfare, and the inescapable end that comes for us all…
Vaughan explains: "I wrote the main riff for this song just after recording finished for our last album, Path to Tartarus, not quite making it in time for that release. I was listening to a lot of Beyond Creation at the time, and this main riff was inspired by the chunky intro on Omnipresent Perception. I aimed to combine this with the soaring highs and churning lows of the choruses to really give it a contrasting 'triumph through tribulation' feeling. This song also has my favourite solo on the album, very happy with how it turned out."
The new music video is illustrated, animated, and edited by @VKI-ILL, bringing the track’s intensity and emotion into a visual world of war-torn myth and looming finality.
Music by Douchkov, lyrics by Jones.
Produced, mixed, and mastered by Ryan Huthnance (Emissary Studios).
Logo by Carlo Santos.
Stream & buy INEVITABLE DEATH:
https://orcd.co/inevitabledeath
www.auralwebstore.com/inevitable-death
About:
Evocatus are a 5-piece Battle metal / Melodeath from NSW, Australia.
Hailing from the desolate craterfields of Australia’s Hunter Valley, Evocatus are a 5-piece melodic death metal band, crafting epic tales with crushing riffs, blistering solos, and haunting melodies. A potent blend of thrash, death, folk, and symphonic elements, Evocatus has been leaving a trail of sonic destruction across the Australian metalscape.
EVOCATUS are:
Nich Shields – Vocals
Vaughan Jones – Guitars
Callan Douchkov – Guitars
Brad Delforce – Bass
Adam Watts – Drums
https://www.youtube.com/@evocatusbandofficial
https://www.facebook.com/EvocatusBand
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: january 16th 2026
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse | Skinless | Devourment | Disentomb
Within the long, dark corridors of my mind there are numberless doors, all locked tight, concealing the prisoner’s of my heart’s creation. In these rooms I vent my passions, bathe in the screams, dissect and desecrate, peel and penetrate, lose myself in a fantasy of blood and power. And for as long as I can remember this has been enough for me; my internal dungeon paradise. But now I realise it has all just been a preparation, a gentle tuition, the beginning of my manifest destiny. The time has come to step outside and share my dreams with others…
It’s been more than five years since Houston’s Architectural Genocide released their cataclysmic debut album, the raging brutality of Cordyceptic Anthropomorph, but time has not mellowed them or soothed the temperament of their inner beast. If anything, their long awaited second album is an even more dangerous, vicious creation that adds an unnerving, skin crawling terror to their trademark elixir of darkness and depravity. Prepare yourself for the fearsome assault of Malignant Cognition!
Opening with ‘Precursor To Bloodshed’, a litany of horrors over a nerve-grinding riff, there is a sense of suppressed violence, silently screaming to be unleashed…and that unleashing comes with ‘Coercion Into Carnality’, an irresistible weight that drags you down into a mire of torture and sickness, shifting from the methodical to the frenzied with the unpredictability of a broken mind. And from here the remorseless attack continues unabated – from the slow motion compression of the internal organs blended with lacerating savagery of ‘Trophies For My Murders’, to the surging, stabbing ‘Zed Requiem’ – tormenting with a pitiless curiosity, devoid of empathy – on to the shocking climax of ‘Stuffed Under Floorboards’. This is perhaps the most potent combination of chilling atmosphere and punishing riffing that Architectural Genocide have yet invoked, a true monster of a song, meticulous in its dismembering delivery.
Encased in the superb artwork of Rudi Yanto (Devastrosity, E-Force, Perveration etc) and Den Yudi (Decrepitation, Realm Of Chaos, Rotting Demise etc), the perfect visual depiction of the soul-eating madness within, Malignant Cognition will be let loose by Comatose Music on January 16th. Mixed and mastered at Southwing Audio (Oceans Of Slumber, Stabbing etc) for maximum impact, Malignant Cognition serves up a banquet of Architectural Genocide’s inimitable brutality. The New Year will begin with a brutal death metal holocaust!
Line-up:
Daniel Brockway - Vocals
Matt Day - Bass
Tom Savage - Guitar
Nat Conner - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/architecturalgenocide/
Genre
: Epic
Symphonic Black MetalFormat : CD
Release date : 08/01/2026
For fans of: Summoning, Caladan Brood, Sojourner, Pure Wrath, Emyn Muil.
Sickle of Dust is the best Epic Symphonic Black Metal you probably haven't heard yet. Solemn, epic, astonishing: with "Across the Vultures Trail", the 5th album to date, the eastern european project finally reaches maturity.
Fully composed by Ash (also founder of the 90's neofolk cult project Neutral), "Across the Vultures Trail" displays a very harmonic and detailed symphonic tone, sweeping in scope and majestic in sound, constantly evolving in enchanting and epic ways throughout the whole record length. The pathos created by such multi-layered arrangements is the heart of Sickle Of Dust's music, wired by mid-tempo rhythms, emotional riffs, acoustic sections and almost narrative scream vocals.
Tracklist:
1. Brothers of the Storm (08:36)
2. On the Battlefield (07:54)
3. Across the Vultures Trail (07:36)
4. Wizards Don't Dance (08:04)
5. The Black Stones Inn (08:16)
Total length: 40:26 minutes
https://flowingdownward.com/
https://www.facebook.com/SickleofDust/
The
darkness of a new era has descended. Finnish melodic death metal band RE-ARMED returns
from the shadows with their new single “OMINOUS PENUMBRA”,
serving as a foreboding introduction to the band’s upcoming full-length album.Listen to the song on music services: https://push.fm/fl/rearmed-ominouspenumbra
The song’s oppressive atmosphere and symbolism – “A dark mass with wispy tendrils, floats across the sky...” – intertwine with the concept of a shadow that is not born solely from individual darkness, but surrounds us all. “We ourselves are the greatest enemies of all living things,” the band reflects on the song’s message.
“Ominous Penumbra” continues Re-Armed’s journey toward the spring 2026 album, exploring the delicate balance between light and darkness in ever deeper ways. The album is loosely themed around opposing forces and the ongoing struggle between them – both in the world and within the human mind.
The single is now available on all streaming platforms – a reminder that shadows are never far, and each of us carries our own.
https://www.re-armed.net
Finnish
Kuopio-based death metal band LICUATION unveils an
exceptionally intense double single, with the tracks 213 and STIGMATIZED
showcasing the band’s most brutal and ambitious side to date. 213 is a
relentless and straightforward death metal strike, blending rapid-fire riffing,
pounding double-kick patterns, and sewer-rat-like guttural
vocals. Lyrically, the track plunges into the horrifying world of serial
killer Jeffrey Dahmer and his infamous “death room,” from which no
one ever returned. The song’s physical, aggressive energy mirrors the
human darkness at the core of Dahmer’s story.Stigmatized, on the other hand, delivers a longer and more epic composition that fuses direct riffing with groove elements and layered rhythmic variations. The track features a bass solo, tight guitar tapping, and deliberate rhythmic intricacies that highlight the band’s technical skill and compositional ambition. Lyrically, Stigmatized explores dangerous cults and the twisted internal logic that pulls people into their orbit. The song constructs a closed, oppressive world where personal freedom is consumed by the deranged rules of the collective.
Together, the two tracks demonstrate Licuation’s ability to combine raw aggression, technical proficiency, and storytelling in a way that stands out within the Finnish metal landscape. 213 represents the band at its most explosive and direct, while Stigmatized expands their sound into longer and heavier territories. Through these two songs, Licuation proves capable of both crushing intensity and nuanced atmosphere-building.
The result is dark, menacing, and musically tight — exactly what modern death metal demands. This double single stands as a strong testament to Licuation’s readiness to ascend to the next level. Both 213 and Stigmatized reflect the band’s evolution toward an even bolder and heavier sonic identity.
Listen to Stigmatized on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/licuation-stigmatized
The band comments tracks:
"213" is a straightforward and merciless track that blends rapid-fire riffing, pounding double-kick patterns, and sewer-rat-like guttural vocals. Lyrically, it delves into the twisted world of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Plunging straight into his infamous “death room,” from which there is no return.
"Stigmatized" is a long, epic death metal track that blends straightforward riffing with heavy groove elements. The song features intricate rhythmic twists, a bass solo, and tight guitar tapping. Lyrically, it explores dangerous cults that pull people into their orbit — closed worlds ruled by their own disturbed internal logic."
Biography:
Licuation is a death metal band from Kuopio, Finland, known for playing fast, heavy and uncompromisingly hard. Their music fuses relentless blast beats, growling bass lines, ice-cold guitar tones and melodic solos. Tying it all together is a raw, ferocious vocal delivery that channels themes of pain and death. The group has released several acclaimed records and music videos. Their latest EP, Morbidly Curious, garnered wide attention and strong support from metal fans around the world. Now the band is hungrier than ever — ready to show what they’re truly capable of. Licuation has earned a reputation on major festivals and club stages across Finland: performing in front of a 5,000-strong crowd at Raahe Kölifest, five consecutive shows at Kuopiorock, and an intense set at Turku Metallivuori are just a few highlights. Licuation has shared the stage with acts such as Stam1na and Marco Hietala. This regiment won’t slow down until it rests in the grave.
Composed & lyrics by Esa Laukkanen, Veeti Heiskanen, Teemu Tick, Jani Nevasalmi ja Samu Reijonen
Single cover by Tata Kumislizer
Line-up:
Esa Laukkanen - Bass
Veeti Heiskanen - Vocals
Teemu Tick - Guitars
Jani Nevasalmi - Guitars
Samu Reijonen - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/Licuation
Welcome
to the alienating, passionate and mystic universe of Swiss duo NIGHTSHADE who
present the first track from their upcoming album "IN ESSENCE
DIVIDED" due out on February 20, 2026, via My Kingdom Music.The doors open in front of the song "DISSONANT VOID" featuring Skevent, a Swiss electronic band exploring the border between joy and melancholy.
The official video realized by DHRood is available at https://youtu.be/PeSf96z9ZFA
Infusing moods ranging from dark and psychedelic, to heavy and galloping riffs, with Noemie Torche's emotional voice, "Dissonant Void" is an intense and captivating song inspired by the roots of Progressive Metal from the early 70's, by Avantgarde Black Metal of the last decade, by the melodic Metal of the 90's.
"In Essence Divided" was mixed and mastered by Raphaël Bovey from Switzerland, known for his work with Monkey3, Nostromo, Gojira, Samael among his extensive discography, and will delight fans of Progressive Metal à la OPETH, but also those enjoying an uncanny mix of styles and influences from PINK FLOYD to BLOOD INCANTATION, from SAMAEL to GOJIRA!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/NightshadeMetal
The footage was captured live at the London Metal Coalition event at The Signature Brew in London, UK, showcasing the band’s visceral, sharp-edged sound in its purest form. "Warm Up" is a concrete statement of the band’s uncompromising energy and technical prowess, serving as a powerful reminder of why Slave Steel is one of the most exciting forces in the UK metal underground.
New Album and London Show Announced
The quartet is not slowing down. Following the success of their critically acclaimed full-length album, In Fieri (out via Wormholedeath), Slave Steel confirms they are now deep in the production phase of their highly anticipated new album. More news coming soon!
Fans can catch the band live in London on December 12th. This pivotal show offers Slave Steel the opportunity to secure a prestigious slot at the Sun & Thunder Fest 2026. This is a must-see event for those looking to witness the band's raw power in person and support their ascent to the next stage.
"Warm Up" is a track taken from the band's album "In Fieri", available on all digital platforms and in CD format https://www.auralwebstore.com/shop/cd/1288-temtris-khaos-divine.html
Previous videos to explore:
https://youtu.be/C7khQyIEFQs
https://youtu.be/HE_5J_LSbKw
https://youtu.be/00m0l6iXmtU
https://youtu.be/NnBco89fqoQ
https://youtu.be/zL_5m27aDq4
About Slave Steel:
Founded in Rome and based in London since 2014, Slave Steel delivers an impetuous, dark, and sharp blend of Thrash and Death Metal. Their music relentlessly explores the contradictions of human nature—the capacity for both wonder and destruction—set against a reality defined by conflict. Their lyrics weave ongoing analogies between science and abstraction, creating a primordial chant of resilience and change.
Having released their Dream of Decadence EP in 2021, the band quickly garnered attention, earning an invitation to perform at Bloodstock Open Air. In 2023, they signed with Wormholedeath Records, announced the In Fieri album, and commanded the stage at the WTF Rock Festival, opening for legends Sepultura.
Slave Steel is:
Vocals: Pil Nazar
Guitars: Daniele Manganaro
Bass: Marco Agosta
Drums: Riccardo Prior
www.slavesteelmusic.com
www.facebook.com/slavesteelofficial
FOREVER AUTUMN – “THE LAMENTATIONS”
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: january 3rd 2026
For fans of: Hagalaz’ Runedance | Myrkur | Wardruna | Stille Volk | Jo Quail
Beneath the fallen leaves and in the dance of the naked flame, in the shifting shapes of clouds and in the birdsong and the silence that surrounds it, there lies the pathway back to the essence of all we have been. On the edge of shadows and below the stars, in the stories that are spoken, now and forever, in the dreams that the devices and distractions of a sterile life blow away from our waking minds with nervous breath, there is truth that cannot be twisted and remade. There is substance and value; there is meaning and matter if we choose not to be led away - if we choose to see the passage of the sun, to hear the celebrations of the spring and the lamentations of the winter night.
From the mountains, lakes and forests of the Berkshires region in Massachusetts comes Forever Autumn, the unique musical entity created by Autumn Ni Dubhghaill. Autumn’s music has been called avant-garde, pagan folk, acoustic doom…and it is all of these things and more. The emotional weight of doom and the cold mystery of black metal certainly add their shadowed hues to the Forever Autumn palette of sound, but the essence of these songs is far older…it resounds in the heart of us all and its roots are those that bind us to the earth. For nearly quarter of a century Autumn has been spinning her tales, invoking magic with albums like Patience Of ðm Fire-Keeper and Howls In The Forest At Dusk, working with artists like cellist Jon McGrath and vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe of My Dying Bride; but for her latest creation Autumn walked a solitary path – writing, performing, recording and producing alone. The results are breathtaking in their stark power and overwhelming atmosphere. They are The Lamentations.
The Lamentations begins with ‘Beltaine’, hypnotising in the simplicity of its melody, deeply moving in its undercurrent of loss. Within moments it has transported us to a place of darkness and firelight with the beautiful immediacy of the sound. It’s as if Autumn Ni Dubhghaill sits on the other side of the flames, the quiet fervour of her voice painting pictures in the ever moving shadows. From here The Lamentations unfolds with a rare intimacy and sense of secrets shared. We stand in the quiet companionship of mutual sorrows and watch the seasons change through the smoke shrouded blues of ‘Self Portrait In Blue, Black And Grey’, we enter the unnerving presence of the withered, wise and powerful in the ancient reel of ‘Hexes And Wards’, lost in the dreams of witches, while ‘Fylgia And The Fetch’ is a revelation in its intensity. With an elemental and haunting vocal performance this acoustic rendering of black metal is stunning. The album continues through realms of lost thoughts and whispers, of openings and giving, warnings and warmth before ‘The Salt Of Mortality’ leads us on a walk through the dying of the year; chill reflections and future ponderings, the long shadows and short days of November. And then our time here is passed and we step once more from the deep truth of dreams into the harsh noise of a world that has moved on. But Autumn Ni Dubhghaill will always be waiting by the fire for our return.
Mixed by Robby Baier and mastered by Jack Control (Darkthrone, Inculter, Ice War etc) – the same team that added the final touches of sonic sorcery to Forever Autumn’s last release, the Crowned In Skulls EP – The Lamentations reverberates with life and possesses a sound rich in texture and deep, deep depths. Adorned in artwork painted by Autumn Ni Dubhghaill, from her Self-Portrait In Winter collection, The Lamentations will be released on January 3rd, the night of the January full moon, the Wolf Moon. Walk in its light to the sanctuary of Forever Autumn…
Line-up:
Autumn Ni Dubhghaill – All music and vocals
Genre: Acoustic Doom / Pagan Folk
https://www.facebook.com/HailWoodlandSorcery/
https://autumnnidubhghaill.com/
The band comments:
"My Kingdom Is Hell" is dedicated to rock legend and Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister. The song is a furiously fast-paced death 'n roll blast from start to finish...a tribute to the man who changed rock 'n' roll forever with his absoluteness and determination. "49% motherfucker 51% son of a bitch" "
Biography:
Founded in 2009, Funeral Home is a death metal band from Kuopio, Finland. Their musical influences range from death 'n' roll and old-school styles to with gloomy melodies of death metal . The band writes its songs with the music first, keeping the song structures simple and the arrangements flowing.
Listen to the first single 'You Failed My Trust': https://push.fm/fl/funeral-home-trust
Track
list:1. You Failed My Trust
2. Wall
3. My Kingdom Is Hell
4. Rotten To The Core
5. Depths
6. Sacrificial Goat
7. Your Funeral
8. Graveyard Blues
9. Blood & Sacrifice
Album cover by Henna Pulkkinen
Line-up:
Ossi Maalampi - vocals
Henri Ojala - lead guitar
Henri Thitz - rhythm guitar
Juha Korhonen - bass
Jouko Poussu - drums
https://linktr.ee/Funeral.Home
MEZZROW were formed during the autumn of 1987. They released three demos and a full-length album before calling it quits in 1993, a dark era for thrash indeed.
During 2021 MEZZROW rose from the ashes, when bass player Conny Welén and singer Uffe Pettersson decided to make a new mark in the thrash metal world of today and have together with new guitarists Magnus Söderman (ex-Nightrage) and Ronnie Björnström (ex-Defiatory, ex-Aeon) written new killer songs, which have pure thrash metal top-class written all over them.
”Of course we have a bit of a new and updated sound, more mature and dark, but it’s still old school thrash metal in the famous Bay Area style that lays the foundation. We refuse to downtune the guitars and you can definitely hear what Uffe sings! Some of the songs are actually a bit melodic, but in a thrashy kind of way. So don’t worry, we don’t do any ballads”, comments Conny Welén.
The line-up was completed by excellent drummer Alvaro Svanerö
“Embrace The Awakening”, their second album since the return, was released on ROAR/Rock Of Angels Records on November 14, 2025.
http://www.mezzrow.black/
https://www.facebook.com/mezzrowsweden
"IN SORROW'S REQUIEM",
this is the title of the new album by Italian Gothic-Doomsters MOTUS
TENEBRAE, due out on May 8th 2026 on My Kingdom Music which renewed
them trust and loyalty.It's been almost 10 years since their last album "Deathrising" and MOTUS TENEBRAE return to make their voice heard in the most powerful, dark and full of pathos way possible with a new album that treasures the legacy of that work, enriching it with new nuances and atmospheres, creating their most mature, most emotional and most decadent work in their 25 years of career.
Andrea, bassist and longtime founding member of the band, tells us: "It's been a really long time since our last release, and we're so happy that My Kingdom Music believed in us and gave us the chance to make a strong return to the world scene. "In Sorrow's Requiem" is for us a sad and melancholic chant woven from despair, longing, and the fading light of hope. It's a journey into pain, into a kind of twilight, the decline of the human essence. We really care about this work, and I can't wait for you to listen to it and tell us what you think!"
With "In Sorrow's Requiem", MOTUS TENEBRAE rise again, stronger, darker and deeper than ever!
Three visions... One sound. Embrace the unknown!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/MotusTenebraeOfficial
For fans of : Anatomia, Asphyx, Autopsy, Bolt Thrower, Cancer, Carcass, Coffins, Exhumed, Haemorrhage, Hooded Menace, Impetigo, Machetazo, Undergang and Unleashed.
Stranguliatorius return to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions to unleash their fourth album Flies Don't Lie! The Lithuanian savages Stranguliatorius are back with a vengeance, and deliver a brutal dose of raw Death Metal, infected by unhygienic guitars and a relentless grinding hangover. Flies Don't Lie delivers twelves tracks of sarcastic sadism, grotesque gory and relentless riffs that hit like a sledgehammer! Mastered by Jack Control (Aura Noir, Darkthrone, Cianide, Frozen Soul, etc.) at Enormous Door Mastering.
Listen to the single "Stinks" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwr7JffpMxQ
Tracklisting:1. Funebraclav
2. Doctor Syringe
3. Acetone Dream
4. They Who Don't Sleep Will Not Wake Up
5. Cremator Operator
6. C9H13N
7. The Notes Of The Deceased
8. When I Lift The Coffin Lid
9. Flies Don't Lie
10. AC/Necro/DC
11. Stinks
12. Flashback
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
www.horrorpaingoredeath.com
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
HEXBANE, a new sinister force
born out of nostalgia and admiration for the primal days of black metal, has
announced its formation. Fuelled by the spirit of the genre's pioneers, HEXBANE is a return to the foundational days of extreme music. The band’s ethos is simple: to create pure, unadulterated proto-black metal that honours the nostalgia and aggression of the era that started it all.
The band comprises a monumental lineup of extreme metal veterans:
The Magus on vocals (ex-Necromantia, ex-Rotting Christ, The Magus, Thou Art Lord)
George Emmanuel on guitars (Lucifer’s Child, ex-Rotting Christ)
Tas Danazoglou on bass (Friends of Hell, ex-Electric Wizard, Mirror, Satan’s Wrath)
Faust on drums (Djevel, ex-Emperor, Blood Fire Death)
The band said:
“HEXBANE is a band born out of nostalgia and admiration of the primal black metal days, where pioneer bands created and established the genre. So expect nothing more and nothing less than pure proto- black metal in music and spirit.”
HEXBANE is currently preparing to enter the studio early next year to record its debut release, which will be available via The Circle Music and Hell’s Fire Records.
https://www.hellsfire-records.com/
https://linktr.ee/thecirclemusic
EPISTULUM – “CANTIGA PSYCHOTICA”
Format: Digital CD / Physical CD
Label: Independent Release
For fans of : Amon Amarth, Hypocrisy, Children of Bodom, At The Gates and such…..
Founded in 2017 by keyboardist and vocalist Thijs Ronteltap as a solo project, Epistulum slowly grew to a full-fledged band featuring Jeroen Nels on lead-guitar, Ramón Roest on drums, Justus Ebel on bass and Billy ter Horst on rhythm guitar, later replaced by Jeremy De Boer.
The band went on to produce and release their first full-length album on August 26th, 2022. The album, FROM THE DEAD MASSES, is a collection of musical portraits on the primordial aggressions within the human grounds of being, through explosive, synth-driven death metal.
So far the band has been playing multiple shows in their native country, the Netherlands, but has also played its first show abroad in Ahrensburg, Germany in March in 2024.
The band finished a new album earlier this year, titled ‘CANTIGA PSYCHOTICA’, which was released in October 2025.This release paints different schizophrenic pictures of various human practices, be it religion or the psychology of the inner world, to establish a sense of paranoid dread throughout its runtime.
From darkened archetypes guiding the listener to abolish all hopes of clinging to any sense of personality to desolate pictures of a great she-demon who allows the souls of her followers on earth to feast upon her flesh in sexual ecstasy, CANTIGA PSYCHOTICA is a boundary-expanding experiment meant to inflict a fear-instilled but harmonic exercise of great aggression into the listener, mainly to liberate oneself from destructive convention, be it social, political or religious conditioning of any kind.
Tracklist:
01. Prologue (Hel)
02. Behold The Carcass Messiah
03. Black Lotus Cannibal
04. Unearth The Dark Mother
05. Omen
06. Voidwalker
07. Vedic Detrimentum
08. Eye Of Dukkha
09. Invocation Of Insanity
10. Jungian Armageddon
11. The Pathless Wrath
12. Initiation Complete
Line-Up:
Thijs Ronteltap: keyboards/vocals
Jeroen Nels: lead guitar
Ramón Roest: drums
Justus Ebel: bassguitar
Jeremy de Boer: rhythm guitar
https://www.facebook.com/Epistulumband/
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Die italienisch-schweizerischen Heavy Rocker TARCHON FIST haben zu ihrem Song "3 DAYS IN HELL" von ihrem Jubiläums-Album "XX YEARS OF ROCK AND HEAVY METAL" - Release: 28.11.2025 über das Label Underground Symphony - ein Musikvideo veröffentlicht.
Den Song und das zugehörige Video kann man über folgenden Link auf dem Youtube-Channel der 2005 gegründeten Band genießen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aA2OIumsRY
In dem professionell und mit großer Detailvielfalt gefertigten Animations-Video wirken die aktuellen TARCHON FIST-Bandmitglieder, die in der neuen Aufnahme von "3 Days in Hell" zu hören sind - Gitarrist LVCIO (Luciano Tattini), Sänger RAMON (Mirco Ramondo), Bassist WALLACE (Marco Pazzini), Gitarrist RIX (Sergio Rizzo) und Drummer MATT (Mattia Vescovi) - als Animations-Charaktere mit.
Zu dem Youtube-Link erklären TARCHON FIST, dass die Originalfassung des Songs "3 Days in Hell" - somit auch die Lyrics - im Jahr 2008 geschrieben wurden.
Das Thema greift die damalige Auslegung einer Maya-Prophezeiung auf, die das Ende der Welt für den 21. Dezember 2012 voraussagte. Wie es danach weitergeht, erfahrt Ihr in dem Video.
Insgesamt beinhaltet die CD "XX YEARS OF ROCK AND HEAVY METAL" 11 Tracks, darunter neu aufgenommene Stücke aus den ersten beiden Alben und bisher unveröffentlichte Werke.
Die Tracklist lautet wie folgt:01. Bad Situation
02. 3 Days in Hell
03. Carved with Fire
04. Hammersquad
05. It doesn't Matter
06. Flower in the Sand
07. Football Aces
08. Earth Song
09. Bad Man Mania
10. Falling Down
11. Crazy Times (XX Years Of Rock And Heavy Metal)
Die Gestaltung des epischen Cover-Artworks zu "XX YEARS OF ROCK AND HEAVY METAL" erfolgte durch den Künstler Stan W. Decker.
Gemäß der Ankündigung durch das Label Underground Symphony ( https://usstore.it ) soll das Album als elegantes CD Digipack und auf allen größeren digitalen Plattformen verfügbar sein.
Diskografie:
"Tarchon Fist" (2008, Label My Graveyard Productions)
"Fighters" (2009, Label My Graveyard Productions)
"Heavy Metal Black Force" (2013, Label My Graveyard Productions)
"Celebration" (2015, Label Il Male Production / Pure Steel Promotion (Jubiläums-Compilation)
"Apocalypse" (2019, Label Pride & Joy Music / Soulfood)
"The Flame Still Burns" ( 2023, Label Underground Symphony)
"XX Years Of Rock And Heavy Metal" (28.11.2025, Label Underground Symphony (Jubiläums-Compilation)
https://usstore.it
https://www.youtube.com/@tarchonfistofficial
http://www.tarchonfist.com/
https://www.facebook.com/tarchon.fist0
ASARU - "V.O.I.D."
Bereits 1995 gründete Frank Nordmann ASARU – eine der
ersten Black-Metal-Bands Südhessens und damit eine der langlebigsten
Formationen des Genres in Deutschland. Seit jeher steht der Name ASARU für
kompromisslosen Black Metal, der tief in den norwegischen Wurzeln verwurzelt
ist, dabei jedoch stets eine eigene, charakterstarke Handschrift bewahrt hat.Von Anfang an verfolgten ASARU das Ziel, ihre ganz persönliche Vision des Black Metal zu verwirklichen – fernab von gängigen Szenekonventionen und ohne den Drang, Erwartungen zu erfüllen, außer den eigenen. Das Ergebnis ist ein vielschichtiges, durchweg eigenständiges Werk, das seit Jahrzehnten den deutschen Black Metal mitprägt: mal episch, mal thrashig, immer ideenreich, aber nie verspielt – und vor allem eines: absolut authentisch.
In ihrer fast 30-jährigen Geschichte erlebte die Band zahlreiche Besetzungswechsel. Die konstante treibende Kraft blieb jedoch Frank Nordmann, der ASARU mit unerschütterlicher Leidenschaft durch die Jahre führte und dem eisigen Geist des Black Metal stets treu blieb.
Nach zwei Demos, einer Mini-CD und dem gefeierten zweiten Longplayer From the Chasm of Oblivion (2012) meldet sich ASARU nun nach über einem Jahrzehnt eindrucksvoll zurück – mit neuem Songmaterial und einem klaren künstlerischen Konzept.
Der erste Vorbote des kommenden Albums V.O.I.D. war die Single „Raise the Flame“ – ein wuchtiger Track über das Element Feuer, das sowohl Leben spendet als auch zerstört. Im dazugehörigen Videoclip entfaltet sich bereits die thematische Tiefe des Albums, das sich mit den vier Elementen ebenso auseinandersetzt wie mit den ewigen Gegenspielern: Menschlichkeit, Religion, Krieg und Untergang.
Das neue Album V.O.I.D. erscheint am 23.01.2026 über Schwarzdorn Production – digital, als edle Digi-CD sowie in einer streng limitierten Vinyl-Auflage.
ASARU sind zurück – stärker, düsterer und intensiver denn je.
Line-Up:
Frank Nordmann: Vocals/Guitars
Petter Myrvold: Bass/Vocals
Seb Wilkins: Drums/Vocals
https://youtu.be/6XLF_aLv0g8?si=Sw1ZvApq4XvP_zee
http://www.schwarzdorn.de
https://www.facebook.com/schwarzdornproduction/
OPPRESSION – “NO SAFE PLACE”
Genre: Black MetalLabel: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 12.12.2025
»Hope… Believe… There is no safe place for you!«
Große Dinge kündigen sich an mit dem Debüt der Franzosen OPPRESSION und so vehementem, wie facettenreichen und in der Tiefe wirkenden Black Metal der Sonderklasse!
Als alte Freunde, die Konzerthallen und Bars durchstreiften, beschlossen G.S.V (Gesang) und Tom L (Gitarre), gemeinsam eine Band zu gründen, um die Komposition und Ausrichtung von Anfang bis Ende selbst bestimmen zu können. Gegenüber einer wachsenden Anzahl von Veröffentlichungen mit Ambient-Ausrichtung, wollten sie mit einem sehr geradlinigen Projekt den Ton angeben.
Geschwindigkeit, Kraft und ein Hauch von Melodie (addiert mit etwas gesundem Hass) – so legten sie den Grundstein für OPPRESSION, zu denen sich schnell Predark (Gitarre) gesellte.
Als die Komposition des ersten Albums bereits weit fortgeschritten war, holten sie sich für die Positionen am Schlagzeug und am Bass zwei bekannte Musiker aus der Bordeaux-Szene dazu, die Brüder John (Otargos, Lifestream) und Désert (Lifestream). Gemeinsam stellten sie ihr Debüt »No Safe Place« fertig – bereit, euch ohne Zurückhaltung zu treffen!
Die Texte handeln hauptsächlich von Religion und ein wenig von Feststellungen zur gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung, nur im letzten Song geht es um Sex, Drogen und Rock’n’Roll (um nicht die wirklich wichtigen Dinge aus den Augen zu verlieren). Sowohl bei der Musik als auch bei den Texten ist es nicht OPPRESSIONs Intention, etwas Pompöses oder Bombastisches zu schaffen, sondern etwas Ehrliches, Direktes und Wirkungsvolles. – Hail the Oppression!
Tracklist:
01 - No Safe Place (1:51)
02 - Attrition (4:25)
03 - Homeland's Fury (5:32)
04 - Psalm for the Fallen (4:38)
05 - Maria Rosenthal (6:42)
06 - Journey Beyond Consciousness (2:49)
07 - End Humanism (5:31)
08 - The Call of the Night (6:05)
09 - Nice Death Matters (3:44)
Total: 41:21
Line-up
G.S.V – vocals and lyrics
Tom L – guitar and composition
Predark – guitar
Desert – bass
John A – drums
Gesang aufgenommen von G.S.V im Mistic Studio, Warschau, Polen. Gitarren und Bass aufgenommen im Vangul Heim Studio, Angoulême, Frankreich. Schlagzeug aufgenommen im Bud Studio, Bordeaux, Frankreich. Gemixt im Vangul Heim Studio, gemastert im Bud Studio.
https://www.facebook.com/FolterRecordsGermany
https://www.facebook.com/oppressionblackmetal
Die deutschen Death-Metal-Veteranen CASKET, gegründet 1990, kündigen ihr neues, insgesamt fünftes Studioalbum „IN THE LONG RUN WE ARE ALL DEAD“ an, das am 23. Januar 2026 erscheint.
Ein erster Track mit dem Titel „Hammer, Knife, Spade“ ist hier zu hören: https://casketdeath.bandcamp.com/track/hammer-knife-spade
„In The Long Run We Are All Dead“ umfasst elf brutale, kompromisslose Songs. Wer CASKET hört, hört keine Trends, keinen Hype, sondern ehrlichen Death Metal, wie er sein soll!
Neckbreaker Records veröffentlicht die CD- und Vinyl-Versionen sowie das dazugehörige Merchandise. Eine Kassettenversion ist bei Slime Inhaler Records erhältlich, und das Album wird auf allen gängigen digitalen Plattformen verfügbar sein.
Cover artwork by Roberto Toderico.
Tracklist:01. The Will To Comply
02. Highest Thrones
03. Mirrors
04. Seeds Of Desolation
05. Hammer, Knife, Spade
06. Skull Bunker
07. Necrowaves
08. Mainstream Mutilation
09. Fundamental Rot
10. Strangulation Culture
11. Graveyard Stomper
https://neckbreakerrecords.bigcartel.com/
https://www.facebook.com/slimeinhaler/
https://www.facebook.com/casketdeath
One of the most sought-after underground pearls from Sweden! Now finally officially re-issued. Recorded at Sunlight Studios, Stockholm, Sweden in January 1993 with Thomas Skogsberg and Lars Linden. Brilliant Swedish death metal with a melodic touch like early Amorphis. Remastered by Achilleas Kalantzis at Suncord Audiolab (Possessed, Vio Lence, Varathron). Booklet and artwork carefully restored like the original release by Ra Design (Sodom, Asphyx, Destruction).
https://www.vicrecords.com/
BÖDEL – “DÖDSBRINGAREN”
Genre: PunkFor fans of: Wolfbrigade, Disfear, Doom, Anti Cimex, Napalm Death, Nausea
Label: DiSTAT Records
Veröffentlichungs-Datum: 30 Januar 2026
Format: CD, LP & Digital
Born in the legendary punk lands of Skaraborg - home to icons like Wolfbrigade, Asta Kask, and Anti Cimex - Bödel brings raw, female-fronted crust punk straight from the heart of Sweden's underground.
Fronted by 19-year-old powerhouse Leya, alongside her father Arvid (The Crown, Deny), Henke (Pastoratet, The Liptones, Vänsternäven), and new drummer Micke (The Crown, Adept, Impious), Bödel deliver a sound that's both furious and fresh.
They channel old-school crust and hardcore energy, but with a dark, apocalyptic twist - driven by Leya's scorching, judgment-day screams.
The album packs 12 explosive new tracks, and the CD edition includes all of Bödel's previous releases -- 23 songs in total.
Get ready. These punks aren't here to play nice -- they're here to blow you away.
Line-Up:
Leya - Lead Vocals
Arvid - Guitars And Vocals
Henke - Bass And Vocals
Micke - Drums
Selling points:
Debut album "Dödsbringaren" by Bödel
12 songs, 25 minutes of furious judgment day crust-punk.
First single "Domare och bödel" release January 9th 2026
Female-fronted crust punk from Sweden
Includes Bödel's former releases (singles and eps) as bonus exclusively on the Dödsbringaren Cd version, total of 23 songs
Including members from The Crown, Adept, Pastoratet, Deny, Vänsternäven, The Liptones, Impious
Produced & mixed by Jocke Rydbjer from Wolfbrigade (Wolfden Studios)
Sweden's biggest newspaper Aftonbladet, called Bödel "the most interesting & future of punk in Sweden."
"Bilan Faller" from debut EP "Välkommen till verkligheten" got worldwide radio rotation
Heavy radio promotion is being made
Discography:
2024 - Välkommen till avrättningen, EP
2024 - Guidance Patrol, single
2025 - Snabbasth, EP
2026 - Dödsbringaren, Album
https://linktr.ee/bodelpunk
SUPERIOR RAGE, the long-running symphonic black metal
project known for its dark, epic, and atmospheric sound, announces the
release of its new EP, IN MEMORIAM. The record
highlights the project’s evolution, blending its “raw” black metal roots with
contemporary production and the work of skilled session musicians.In Memoriam is not just a look back but a clear statement of renewal. It includes re-recorded classics and two new, previously unreleased tracks — “The Death of the Red Dragon” and “Soleright” — offering a focused and definitive experience for both long-time listeners and new fans of atmospheric black metal.
"Thanks to the contribution of session musicians, SUPERIOR RAGE's music has become more vibrant and pulsatile compared to their previous, colder and more minimal productions," says the project’s founder, Superior Rage (vocals and synths).
Theatrical Darkness: Spotlight on "Asmodeus Bacchic"
The centerpiece of the EP is a revitalized version of "Asmodeus Bacchic," a signature track dating back to Superior Rage's first demo in 2008.
Embodying a theatrical "bacchanal among demons," the track captures the mysterious essence of the Superior Rage character—invulnerable, clad in a black mantle and golden mask. "Asmodeus Bacchic" masterfully merges fury, destructive force, and a sense of dark, theatrical flair, complete with a synth interlude representing a moment of "dark light."
About SUPERIOR RAGE
SUPERIOR RAGE began in 2006, delivering raw black metal with atmospheric, dark, and symphonic tones. The core lineup features Superior Rage (vocals, synths), Pagan Fury (guitars, synths), and Hyemens Kaiser Tszar (bass).
The first demo (2008) earned strong national reviews, followed by Through Infinity (2010), a mix of unreleased tracks and new material. Between 2010 and 2011, the project released several live recordings with temporary session musicians.
In 2011, SUPERIOR RAGE shifted toward symphonic black metal with III. Two Fire Eternal EPs followed, covering classic black metal songs—first in their original style, then in an ambient approach.
In 2012 the lineup expanded, producing new online recordings, additional covers, and a remake of “The Night of Rains.” The project paused in 2014, briefly resurfacing in 2017 with a new version of “Indecent Condition.”
SUPERIOR RAGE returned in 2022 with the single Boobs Explosions. This led to Anthology, a 2024 collection of re-recorded key tracks, including a new prog-influenced take on “Cuore Sincero.”
In 2025, the promo Back to the Crypt introduced two re-recorded tracks and a new song, “Soleright,” with four session members. The EP In Memoriam followed, adding a new version of “Asmodeus Bacchic” and the unreleased “Death of the Red Dragon.”
The current line-up features the core vision of Superior Rage (music, lyrics, synth & bass) alongside a powerful contingent of session musicians:
Baelithiel (vocals & lyrics)
Maikon (drums)
Nemorion (guitars on “Indecent Condition” and “Soleright”)
Hrafnagud (guitars on “The Night of Rains”, “Asmodeus Bacchic”, “The Death of the Red Dragon”)
In Memoriam is a must-listen for anyone seeking symphonic black metal that is both rich in atmosphere and aggressive in execution.
Digital release TBA
Tracklist:
01. Indecent Condition
02. Asmodeus Bacchic
03. The Night of Rains
04. Soleright
05. The Death of the Red Dragon
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We're excited to work with the new Mors Verum album which has been a long time coming. While we enjoyed their "The Living" release, their new one is an evolved beast in comparison. The album breaks the confines of dissonant death metal to create something expansive and immersive. The songs traverse freely without losing connection and it's a beautiful experience.
MORS VERUM – “CANVAS”
For
fans of - Gorguts, Morbid
Angel, Norse, Ulcerate, Saevus FinisForward-thinking Canadian band Mors Verum are giving their own interpretation to the death metal style, creating music that is simultaneously dissonant, progressive, and atmospheric. They've removed the shackles of the otherwise linear and niche style and have allowed their music to explore different realms whilst retaining the death metal sound along with its sharp dissonant edge. The result is absolutely riveting, with the music constantly alternating between throbbing discordant blasts and soothing passages, traversing worlds hitherto unexplored. The experience feels at once liberating and cathartic, as though having achieved epiphany after constant, dogged exploration. The lengthier song lengths never feel tedious either as the band embarks on their newfound path with relative ease and confidence. On "Canvas", they have adopted a fascinating approach to the style, one that is beautifully tempered yet adventurous enough to excite.
Tracklisting
1. Bloodied Teeth 04:19
2. Your Apocalypse 07:10
3. Serenade 05:30
4. Canvas 07:00
5. Mortal 06:37
Official release date - February 6th, 2026
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Cheers! Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity
Listen to Antihuman Artist EP: https://push.fm/fl/wounded-in-forest-antihuman
Antihuman Artist, a concept EP rooted in the blood-soaked soil of early 1700s Finland. Set during the horrors of the Great Wrath, the story follows a man born into violence and shaped by war, who descends into madness and murder — expressing himself by creating grotesque art from the suffering and remains of his victims. Musically, the EP delivers raw, old school flavored death metal with relentless blast beats, shifting rhythms, and riffs carved from chugs, tremolos, and open-picked decay. Dual vocalists tear through the narrative with high blackened shrieks and deep death growls, painting a portrait of moral collapse in sound. Antihuman Artist is not just a record — it’s a descent. One swing of the axe at a time.
Biography:
Wounded In Forest is a death metal band from Oulu, Finland, born from tragedy and reborn with a sharpened edge. Formed in 2023 following the death of the drummer from a previous project that had lasted over 15 years, the surviving members regrouped with a stripped-down, more direct musical vision. Every member took on a new role or instrument to forge something raw and uncompromising — an outlet for grief, rage, and reflection.
Musically rooted in old school death metal, Wounded in Forest blends the primal ferocity of early ’90s death metal with a conceptual storytelling approach. Their lyrics, written in English, revolve around one fictional narrative per release, each grounded in a real event or period from Finnish history. Themes of violence, war, trauma, and moral decay are explored with unflinching intensity.
The band’s debut EP, Antihuman Artist, is set during the Great Wrath in the early 1700s — a time of Russian occupation and widespread atrocities in Finland. The EP tells the disturbing story of an individual shaped by violence — born into abuse, sent to war, and ultimately transformed into a serial killer who expresses himself by creating grotesque art from the remains of his victims.
Wounded in Forest’s dual-vocalist setup deepens their storytelling Joni Moisanen delivers classic low-end death metal growls, while Miikka Pyykkönen unleashes high-pitched shrieks more akin to black metal. This contrast creates a dynamic narrative texture, with each voice representing different facets of the characters and their descent into darkness.
Musically, the band combines relentless blast beats, simple but sinister riffing, and shifting rhythmic patterns that keep listeners on edge. Guitarists Joni Moisanen and Joonas Kokkoniemi mix chugging riffs, open-picked chords, and black metal-style tremolo passages with the occasional technical flourish. Drummer Jussi Tuomisto drives the chaos with aggressive blasts and constantly evolving grooves that mirror the tension in each story.
For fans of old school Death Metal with a conceptual twist, Wounded In Forest offers stories carved from something raw and real. These are stories steeped in blood, rooted in Finnish soil, and delivered straight from the heart of the forest.
Track list:
1. The Growth
2. Take the Son of a Bitch
3. Virent Carnes
4. Godspeed Filthy Warrior
5. Altar of Needles
6. The Last Leg
Music, lyrics & arrangements by Jussi Tuomisto
Artwork by Jussi Tuomisto
Line-up:
Joni Moisanen (guitar, vox)
Miikka Pyykkönen (bass, vox)
Joonas Kokkoniemi (guitar)
Jussi Tuomisto (drums)
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DEVILZ
BY DEFINITION - "ANGEL WARFARE “FFO: Pantera, Lamb Of God, Machine Head
Devilz By Definition Release Video Too Brutal for Google. You are being warned precisely because you need to witness the unrestrained chaos of "Angel Warfare," the single visual anthem that regulatory systems are actively trying to bury. Google has flagged this video for negative imagery and religious connotations, refusing to run ads and even attempting to have the brutally intense footage purged from YouTube entirely; this is the video the establishment does not want you to access.
If your musical preferences lean heavy, and you appreciate the shock-value, action, and unflinching gore of masters like Quentin Tarantino or Rob Zombie, this apocalyptic battle cry is mandatory viewing. The track delivers unrelenting carnage, painting a vision where bolts of lightning crash down, titans roam the scorched earth, and chariots race across a sky-stained red with the blood of angels and gods alike, described lyrically as a symphony of swords clashing and bodies dying in the final, unstoppable storm of devastation. Check out "Angel Warfare" now, defy the system, and understand exactly why this soundtrack to the end of days has caused such a monumental fuss.
Track description: Angel Warfare is an apocalyptic battle cry, painting a brutal vision of divine war and total annihilation. With thunderous riffs and relentless energy, the song describes angels and titans clashing in a celestial battlefield, raining destruction upon the earth as the skies burn red.
Lightning strikes, chariots race, and the dead rise as heaven and hell wage their final war. The breakdown and bridge drive home the chaos, with swords clashing and bodies falling in an unstoppable storm of devastation. “Angel Warfare “is pure, unrelenting carnage—the soundtrack to the end of days.
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https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/329933/
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Helsinki-based
progressive melodic death metal band NUMENTO unleashes
their new single “WRATH” from the upcoming EP — a
relentless, hard-hitting track exploring the dark side of human nature.
Inspired by people forming abusive “relationships” with AI chatbots, the lyrics
take the abuser’s perspective to question empathy, control, and violence in the
digital age. Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/0_6K73Iqj8Q
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, Amazon Music etc.): https://push.fm/fl/numento-wrath
The band's guitarists, Atte Asikainen and Aleksi Vehmassalo, tell a bit more about the new single. Aleksi states the following about composing and producing the song:
"We started writing the song with the idea of making Numento's heaviest song to date, one that would showcase our death metal influences. That’s what the song turned out to be, but we also added a few clean vocal phrases, albeit doubled with growls. Still, the song is our most aggressive song to date." Atte Asikainen continues about the production: "We continued the production together with German producer Chris Herrle to ensure that the world-class quality and impact familiar from our third album would also be present in the new music. However, this time we used less synths and focused more on the core sound of the band."
Numento:
Atte Asikainen - guitar & backing vocals
Katri Hiovain-Asikainen - vocals & kantele
Simo Mattila - bass
Aleksi Vehmassalo - guitar
Mikko Virtanen - drums
https://linktr.ee/Numento
Guten
Tag, busy times in the LYCANTHROPIC CHANTS dungeon:
have just been on the road with CRYPTIC BROOD for the "Creeping
Cryptic Contagion" tour through Western Europe, releasing three new
records today (!!!), leaving with REPULSIVE FEAST to tour with ROTTEN
SOUND in January 2026. Cheers, Steffen
Last three releases of 2025 out now
EXHUMATION / MASAKRE – “MORBID DEATH CULT” SPLIT-7″
A pact of sonic devastation! From the wrath of the Indonesian underground, a live record steeped in chaos. The essence of their noise assault in Jakarta pressed on 7″ wax. A multi national release of Grieve Records (Indonesia), Lycanthropic Chants (Germany) and Tanaka Shoten (Japan).
Limited to 200 copies. Both vinyl variants are housed in black poly-lined inner sleeves and a 300gsm fold out cover, incl. download:
100 copies on transparent orange vinyl
100 copies on white vinyl
Release date: 05.12.2025
DISMORFIA – “SLOW DISEMBOWELMENT TO BE DEFECATED ALIVE” 7″
Peru’s Chris Traumatic and Joel Noise return with their most revolting creation yet: Slow Disembowelment to be Defecated Alive, out now on Lycanthropic Chants (7” vinyl) and Gurgling Gore (cassette). Four tracks of gut-churning death/grind filth loaded with punishing blasts, frantic gutturals, deranged samples, and ripping leads, all buried beneath a primitively fetid, beyond-raw production. Their most disgusting and unhinged release yet…
Limited to 300 copies in total. Both vinyl variants are housed in black poly-lined inner sleeves and a fold out cover in light blue or mint green, incl. download:
150 copies on light blue vinyl
150 copies on mint green vinyl
Release date: 05.12.2025
HORRIFIER / IMPUGNER SPLIT-7″
HORRIFIER drags you into the crypt with their signature brand of filth-encrusted death metal, a sound forged in the depths of “Horrid Resurrection” (Duplicate Records) – where riffs fester and vocals gurgle with the stench of decay. They joined forces with IMPUGNER, also from Norway, the architects of “Advent Of The Wretched” (Caligari Records), whose weird death metal is an unspeakable hymn of echoing malevolence.
Limited to 300 copies on grey vinyl housed in black poly-lined inner sleeves and a 300gsm fold out cover, incl. download.
Release date: 05.12.2025
Upcoming local shows in Wolfsburg (Germany)
19. Dezember 2025
SUN WORSHIP (Black Metal / GER, Berlin)
DECIPHER (Black/Death Metal / GRC, Athens)
UNSTRUT (Black Metal / GER, Berlin)
7. Januar 2026
HEXENBRETT (Black/Heavy Metal, AUT/Linz)
KARLOFF (Black Metal/Punk, GER/Oldenburg)
ROTTEN SOUND + REPULSIVE FEAST "Grind Your Head Off" tour 2026
2026.01.09, GER/Hamburg @ Bambi Galore
2026.01.10, GER/Göttingen @ Freihafen
2026.01.11, NLD/Maastricht @ Muziekgieterij
2026.01.12, GER/Herford @ Kulturwerk
2026.01.13, GER/Essen @ Don’t Panic
2026.01.14, GER/tba
2026.01.15, GER/Leipzig @ Felsenkeller
2026.01.16, GER/Berlin @ Neue Zukunft
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Extreme
metal Collective YHWH have unleashed the lyric
video for "HELL ON EARTH (THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL)", a
harrowing glimpse into their upcoming EP, KHATHA, set for
release on December 12, 2025, through Wormholedeath.YHWH’s new track “Hell on Earth (The Root of All Evil)” is a furious assault on speciesism, factory farming, and the greed that drives it. With unrelenting brutality, the band draws parallels between industrial slaughterhouses and humanity’s darkest chapters, forcing listeners to confront the suffering hidden behind walls of steel and concrete. This is not just extreme metal for shock value, it’s a manifesto against exploitation, a cry for justice, and a reminder that every choice carries weight. Raw, unsettling, and impossible to ignore, “Hell on Earth” pushes extreme music beyond sound into resistance.
About YHWH
YHWH stands at the forefront of the new wave of extreme metal, using unrelenting sound as a vehicle for profound social and ethical commentary. Formed in 2024 as a Belgian/Thai black metal collective, all music is initially composed by Schem HaMephorash and her sister C. Bones, with S.M. Goat Ritual joining the ranks in June.
Following their explosive debut EP, Tetragrammaton (released April 2025 via Wormholedeath), the band now unleashes their second, darker chapter: Khatha. Their forthcoming EP promises to be one of the most significant and uncompromising releases of the year, cementing their status as a force dedicated to resistance through sonic brutality. Prepare for the doom.
Stream "Tetragrammaton": https://orcd.co/tetragrammaton
Pre-save Khatha: https://orcd.co/khatha
www.youtube.com/@thetrueyhwh
https://thetrueyhwh.bandcamp.com
MORBID
DOOM RAW NIHILISTIC BLACK METAL! BEGRAVET I SKOGEN - "DEMO II"
Release date : december 05th, 2025
CASSETTE Limited Edition of 50 copies, hand numbered
Murder Records is honored to announce the second artifact presented by Begravet I Skogen. A nihilistic project born amidst a necrophilic wilderness, where the ashes of the dead and fallen tree branches remain, in a remote, abysmal cave hidden in northern Norway.
The second demo was duly extracted from the misanthropic Nordic solitude, where cold winds blow and snow falls mercilessly during long winter nights, where necrophiliac crows await the merciless death that announces its arrival with the somber melodies of Begravet I Skogen, hidden in funereal nightmares.
"Demo II" is the title of the new, haunting blizzard that approaches ominously, described by somber poetry that transforms Begravet i Skogen into a morbid and obscure artistic expression, an unpredictable representation of archaic winter landscapes, burdened by the anguish of old age and the passage of time.
In 2024, the first demo was released, overwhelmed by horrendous nightmares of yesteryear, where pain, terror, and suffering were a constant funeral. Now is the time to release the next horrifying nightmare, recorded analog on a four-track recorder so that the cavernous essence of Begravet I Skogen's melodies remains raw, and its melodies remain true to their rotten origins.
begravetiskogen@gmail.com
https://begravetiskogen.bandcamp.com
Side A:
01 - Lengter Etter Lange Vinternetter - [13:11]
Side B:
02 - Våre Tapte Oppdagere Har Dødd - [16:05]
Recorded on an analog four-track cassette recorder between February and May 2025.
All music and lyrics by Sarkofag.
Layout made by Alemão & Danihell Slaughter.
Promotional videos made by Danihell Slaughter.
Line Up:
Sarkofag (Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano)
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https://gutsandblood.bandcamp.com/
"In times when despair overflows human hearts… when the chasm of strife between civilizations widens… when loyalty to ideologies tears blood ties apart… when the world stands still, poised for the final leap of prolonged self-destruction… We can draw strength solely from internal sources, which are filled only by the multifaceted power of Death Metal..."- Eximperitus
Eximperitus' forthcoming third album, Meritoriousness of Equanimity, contains nine independent compositions united by the idea of searching for inner support in an era of turbulence. Exposure and scourging of social dogmas and morbid tendencies on the ruins of the old world...
Pre-order:
https://eximperitus.bandcamp.com/album/meritoriousness-of-equanimity
https://www.willowtip.com/bands/details/eximperitus.aspx
Track
Listing:I. One Step Long Infinity.
II. Contemplation of the Plastic Fibers of Perfection at the Second Level of Reality.
III. Twelve Centuries of Triumph of the Third Kingdom…
IV. Finding Consistency in the Fourth Quadrant of Eternity.
V. The Untimely Fruit of the Unsaid.
VI. Golden Chains for the Construction of Individual Greatness.
VII. Molecular Disintegration of an Unattainable Solitary Will in a Vessel of Wisdom...
VIII. Chalkionic Wandering Among the Wreckage of the Future.
IX. Standing at the Skirt of the Ruins of Human Nature (...on the Other Side of Man and Time).
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Release date : December 5 2025
Genre : Melancholic Metal
Origin: France
Duration: 56min12
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Credits
Florian Lecomte/Spellbound – Lyrics, compositions
Ben Lesous B-Blast records – Studio/mix/mastering
JOURS PÂLES, a project by Spellbound (singer – Aorlhac), rose from the ashes of Asphodèle’s first and only album, released in 2019 with Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions. Spellbound and Audrey Sylvain (Malenuit) were accompanied by Christian Larsson (Ex Apati, ex Shining, Gloson), Stefan Bayle and Sébastien Papot (guitar and drums, Au champ des morts).
After the band split up that same year, Spellbound continued the adventure, composing with a desire for both continuity and a break from the past, as the vocal duo was no longer together. This evolution responds to a desire to express themselves through the same moods and thick, dysthymic mists, while freeing themselves from the grip of the past, abandoning the rock spirit for a stylistic evolution leaning towards metal that remains melancholic, but with more galloping and aggressive overtones.
Éclosion, the first album from this new offshoot, is intended as a personal assessment of a world that is more than ever considered dislocated and torn apart, but above all as a perpetual search for hope and light, both in the lyrics and the visuals.
Far from flying solo, Spellbound has surrounded himself with musicians such as James Sloan on guitars (Uada, Gravelight) and Christian Larsson. The backbone was completed by several guests: Graf from Psychonaut 4 and Lilas Ondine Dupont (silhouette, backing vocals) as well as Sylvain Bégot (Monolithe) on lead guitar.
Sheltered from the world, awaiting its final blossoming, Jours Pâles was born…
JOURS PÂLES returns in 2022, still under the LADLO banner, with a second album entitled ‘Tensions’. Tensions is intended to be a personal representation of a dystopian modern world perceived as cold, mechanical and disillusioned, where social media and political scarecrows rule a Mephistophelean world that has completely lost its meaning and bearings. This general theme is visually represented on the artwork by Niklas Sundin (founding member of Dark Tranquillity, Laethora, etc.). Musically, the result is more aggressive, but the vision tends to distort clichés through egotistical composition, once again mixing genres. In addition to Spellbound, who is still at the helm (composition, vocals, lyrics), the line-up this time includes musicians such as Alex G. on bass (Aorlhac, Altaïr, Ritual Knives) Alexis S. on guitars, Ben L. on drums (B-Blast Records), and the traditional guest spot is this time entrusted to Natalie Koskinen (from the cult doom metal band Shape of Despair).
2023 marks very good feedback around ‘Tensions’ and also the beginning of the collaboration with the booking agency ‘Éclosion booking’ and therefore a busy year of concerts, including a 12-date tour across France and participation in several festivals throughout the country. Spellbound returned to composing and the band’s third album, ‘Dissolution’, was released on 10 May 2024, again via Les acteurs de l’ombre productions. The themes refer to disunity, break-ups, and the role and place of social media in human relationships.
In 2024/2025, Spellbound returned to composing and the band went back into the studio. ‘Résonances’ followed ‘Dissolution’ and the album was once again produced by Ben from B-blast records. The central theme of the album concerns the difficulties associated with the separation of a father from his child. Several tracks are testimonials or direct tributes to his daughter Aldérica, although the themes are broadened to other subjects such as the relationship with death, disgust for the modern world, the thrill of first encounters, the hell of paedophilia… The album also features some wonderful musical contributions, notably Kim Carlsson on vocals (Consider Suicide, Kall, ex-Lifeloer…) SD. Ramirez on lead guitar (Psychonaut 4) and Pereg Ar Bagol on diatonic accordion (Boisson Divine, Skiltron)..
Tracklist:
1. La frontière entre nous et le néant
2. Une splendeur devenue terne
3. L’essentialité du frisson
4. Cinéraire
5. Incommensurable (chanson pour Aldérica II)
6. Mouvement ostentatoire rémanent totalitaire
7. Viens avec moi
8. Savile
9. La plus belles des saisons
10. 10-11-2021
Preorders : https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/preorders
https://www.facebook.com/jourspales
FUCK
IT - "NO REST"MCD Limited edition of 300 copies
FUCK IT is a Portuguese punk band from Porto, founded by Girø (Renegados do Boliqueime, Freedoom, Dokuga, Dimmer Future...) and Céd (Gorgámisco Pornoblastoma, Disfigured Human Mind, Insolência, Drenagem, Stercore, Hypomania...). These two creatures from the back alleys of the underworld decided to join forces like stray dogs to found FUCK IT, which presents a direct approach, expressed by a minimalist sound and an anti-conformist stance of protest against the oppression perpetrated by cultural elitism. To complete FUCK IT's lineup, young Spell (Estriknina, Dimmer Future) was adopted from the shelter to join the pack and came to help in the fight against banality and the obvious.
In this lost world where empty days are constant, we must remain vigilant to keep our filthy resistance active without getting tired of being eternally unwanted and where we are grateful that no one looks at us, so FUCK IT.
The time has come to unleash chaos and take to the streets with the rage that consumes us so cruelly and mercilessly. There's no time to rest here, and protests are imminent. Without grand musical flourishes, and where simplicity reigns unpleasantly, there's no need to complicate things, so FUCK IT!
FUCK IT:
Spell (Bass Vocals)
Céd (Guitar)
Girø (Drums Vocals)
Tracklist:
01 - No Rest [01:49]
02 - Vigilante [02:02]
03 - Cansado [02:12]
04 - Mundo Perdido [01:42]
05 - Indesejado [01:49]
06 - O Último Dos Moicanos [02:25]
07 - Dias Vazios [01:15]
08 - Fuck It [02:10]
09 - Não Olhes Para Mim [02:07]
Recorded at Studio Agradável, September 2025 by Óscar and Bruno.
Lyrics and music by FUCK IT, except Fuck It - lyrics by Jorginho.
Draw for layout made by Madalena Macedo.
Photo by Bruno Miguel.
Artwork and Layouts made by Cédric Rodrigues.
Promotional video made by Danihell Slaughter.
punkbotaebira@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/fuck_it_punk
https://fuckitpunk.bandcamp.com/album/demo-1
Murder Records and Enfermo Distro join forces to torment you again, this time with the debut EP of the Portuguese band FUCK IT, entitled "No Rest", which features five new tracks and will include the four tracks from the first demo.
info@murder-records.eu
www.murder-records.eu
Poland's SHINE will make its undeniable mark on the world next year with the release of WRATHCULT. The band's debut album will be out January 30 on Dark Descent Records.
Get an early taste of the fury to come with album track "Wrath of the Hammer." Listen now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MEeFC74xvo
Born from the grips of the pandemic, SHINE are the newest brainchild of Hazael’s Tomasz Dobrzeniecki, and their first album Wrathcult leaves no doubt that a new force in Polish extreme metal has awakened.
Inspired by the likes of Emperor, Bathory, Morbid Angel, Entombed and Dismember, Dobrzeniecki’s new outfit channels that lineage into something raw, relentless, and unmistakably its own.
‘SHINE’ for me is a sheen of a sword's blade, the last thing that your foes see in their lives. You can also relate it to the Promethean light given to people that enlightens or sometimes blinds us. It can also be a glare of rage stemming from the resistance towards the unnatural rules forced upon us,” explains Dobrzeniecki when asked about his new unit’s name. “Our music is full of references to ancient rules and rituals and times when people lived in accordance with nature and cosmos using the primeval knowledge.”
Dark Descent Records will handle the release, having previously collaborated with Dobrzeniecki on the reissue of Hazael’s classic opus. Wrathcult continues in similar thematic territory, invoking forgotten ancestral knowledge and tapping into primal forces, and mythic echoes of a pre-Christian world.
“Lyrics for the album are mainly inspired by the pre-Christian spirituality and mythology of our forefathers and based on such books as Bestiariusz Słowiański, Mitologia Słowiańska by J. Bobrowski and M. Wrona, and Słowiańska Czarownica (Slavic Bestiary, Slavic Mythology, Slavic Witch). The lyrics pay homage to nature and higher powers in order to upkeep the memories of the beliefs that once shaped our heritage. We live on the borderline of three cultures that blend together in some way – Germanic, Norse and Slavic mythology have quite a lot in common.”
The album was recorded at Heinrich House Studio in Legionowo, Poland - a small city on the outskirts of Warsaw that holds an important place in metal history, being the hometown of Daray (Dimmu Borgir, Vesania), Orion (Behemoth, Vesania) and Heinrich (Vesania, Decapitated). “Me and producer Heinrich (Filip Hałucha) have known each other for about 20 years. If you want to record a metal album that 100% meets your expectations, I think he's the only person that I trust.”
An uncompromising slab of ancient fury awaits! “See you in Valhalla! I’ve heard the parties there are worth dying for,” exclaims Dobrzeniecki.
Tracklist:1. Ancient Chaos
2. The Lamb Against the Wolf
3. Kneel Before the Serpent
4. Oddajcie co moje
5. The Cult of Oak
6. The Horror of the Night
7. Witch's Prophecies
8. Wrath of the Hammer
9. The Necklace With Runes
10. Ancient Spirit
SHINE is:
Marek Krajcer-vocals
Tomasz Dobrzeniecki -guitars
Mateusz Waśkiewicz- guitars
Wojciech Gąsiorowski-bass
Paweł Duda- drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/shine.wrathcult/
The
latest cinematic showcase from NYC's Blackened Caribbean Doom trio, PRECIOUS
BLOOD is now streaming. "OLD MAN ABADDON" is
the third song from FALSE PROPHETS: Visual Album to receive
the official music video treatment.Like the previous two, the video "Old Man Abaddon" was written, directed, and edited by drummer Grace Perez, and produced by Eye N Eye Productions.
Watch "Old Man Abaddon" at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4qAWCKFQH4
Fully formed in 2024, PRECIOUS BLOOD brings together three veterans of the NYC scene - AJ – guitar, vocals (Jesus Knevil, Snake Canyon), Dave Kramer – bass, back-up vocals (Blood Feast, Suaka, Stanley), and Grace Perez – drums, back-up vocals (The Wickedexorcist). The band’s shared love of doom and underground metal is expressed in an unholy concoction of rum-soaked riffs, brutal lyrics, and mystical tribal sounds.
With a signature sound best described as Blackened Caribbean Doom, PRECIOUS BLOOD delivers a unique blend of doom and thrash metal influenced tone, mixed with lyrical themes that draw profound inspiration from the enduring spirit of the Caribbean, shaped by brutal history of colonization, unwavering resilience of its people, and exploration of the darker aspects of human existence, including death, contemplation of mortality and the complexities of human suffering.
For fans of monstrous riffs, horror-inspired visuals, and genre-bending metal.
Tracklist:
1) False Prophets
2) Bludgeoned & Charred
3) Footsteps of Babylon
4) Shadow of the Cross
5) Cemetery Burn
6) Old Man Abaddon
7) El Muerte
8) Whore’s Grave
False Prophets was recorded and mixed by Joe Hogan at Captain’s Cove Catskills Studios with mastering and additional engineering by AJ Tissian (The Wave Lab). The album was produced by Joe Hogan and PRECIOUS BLOOD. Album cover photo by Mia. Cover layout by PRECIOUS BLOOD.
Line-Up:
AJ -Guitar, Vocals
Grace Perez - Drums, Back-up Vocals
Dave Kramer - Bass, Back-up Vocals
https://linktr.ee/preciousbloodband
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease date: january 22nd 2026
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Sepultura | Kreator | Deathrow | Exodus
“I don’t want to live in this world…”- Corporation Parasite
Every morning when I awake a match is struck with the opening of my eyes…and my brain is consumed in flames of rage. With each passing hour I see the world slip further into a pit of mediocrity, selfishness, greed and stupidity. Values and meaning are consigned to the waste and it sets my soul on fire! All that mattered is buried beneath a mountain of vacuous idiocy and the masses kneel before deformed, plastic idols while their incompetent leaders choke on their own corruption. There is nothing to love, nothing to respect and my heart is burnt black. I am reborn each day, forged in hatred!
Brazilian thrashers Deathraiser have returned with their second collection of rampaging masterpieces, Forged In Hatred, nearly fifteen years after their debut album, Violent Aggression first stalked the earth! Incredibly, despite their lengthy time away from the spotlight, the band have never sounded harder, faster or more venomous! Opening with ‘Severe Atrocity’ Deathraiser set their stall out for everything that is to come, with top quality riffs delivered with pinpoint accuracy and a massive surge of adrenalin. Swathed in great atmosphere and infused with that authentic, essential thrash spirit, ‘Severe Atrocity’ is the beginning of something special. With teeth gritted Deathraiser fly on into the maelstrom with ‘Primitive Medicine’, combining great songcraft with explosive velocity. You can’t over intellectualize this music – this is thrash and if you understand what that means, tracks like ‘Corporation Parasite’ will speak to your heart, your gut and the very blood in your veins. If you need it explaining then this is not for you. Cascading solos, surging rhythms, the urge to headbang until your neck breaks…this is everything you could ask for in great thrash metal album. From the jagged, whiplash ferocity of ‘Toxic Legacy’ to the finger shredding riff work and blistering intensity of ‘One Step To The Grave’ this is an album of perfectly formed speedballs of violent vengeance. Don’t bother looking for a weak spot, a chink in the armour or a filler track – you won’t find one. When ‘Dead Generation’ brings you home on the crest of a blood wave, with fire in your wake, you’ll be left breathless and electrified by an exercise in thrash perfection!
With the partnership between Xtreem Music and Deathraiser renewed once more, the relentless, timeless thrash metal of Forged In Hatred will be unleashed on January 22nd – on CD, 12"LP, Cassette & Digital formats. This is music that makes you feel alive, that cuts through the torturous frustrations of modern life like a serrated blade. Be ready to taste the sweat and excitement of the pit, the chaotic abandon and metallic aggression…be ready to thrash!
Line-up:
Thiago Rocha - Vocals/Guitar
Ramon Bedim - Guitar
Junior Gaetho - Bass
William Fernandes - Drums
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DeathraiserOfficial
Old-school
thrash metal veterans BLOODRIDE return with their new
video for the song, “KILL WITHOUT HATE,” a relentless
attack on the cold, emotionless face of modern warfare. The track portrays the
grim reality of violence removed from human consequence, where killing becomes
as impersonal and routine as a video game.Fast, brutal, and unflinching, “Kill Without Hate” is classic Bloodride: old-school thrash intensity fused with sharp, thought-provoking commentary.
"Kill without Hate" is a track taken from the band's album Deafening, out via Wormholedeath Worldwide. The album is a thrash metal assault that pushes boundaries and leaves no neck unthrashed.
Stream Deafening: https://orcd.co/deafening
Previous videos:
Come In Peace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTyMVdclhxY
Erase and Replace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6poreFkybRA
King Of Pain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSDmZ79LQo0
About Bloodride
Fierce Finnish thrash metal veterans Bloodride formed in 2000. They debuted with the EP Bloodridden Disease in 2004, followed by their first full-length album Crowned in Hell in 2011. Their fourth album, Idiocracy (2021), earned critical acclaim worldwide. Their sound blends old-school thrash with darker death metal tones and the raw edge of hardcore—pure neck-breaking intensity.
Over the years, Bloodride has torn through stages across Europe, sharing the stage with acts like Exhumed, Exodus, Nunslaughter, Toxic Holocaust, Whiplash, and Prestige. Live, they deliver nothing short of a perfect storm
www.facebook.com/bloodride
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the 1st ever LP pressing of the now classic NO/MÁS debut album on HPGD RAÍZ DEL MAL on December 19th.
For fans of : Assück, Bandit, Death Toll 80k, Disrupt, Full Of Hell, Insect Warfare, Internal Rot, Jarhead Fertilizer, Nails, Napalm Death, Sepultura and Trap Them
HPGD unleashes this 7th Anniversary Edition as a 45 RPM LP pressing for optimal audio quality, available on two limited variants of 100 copies each with double-sided insert featuring full lyrics/credits, packed in thick 3 mil polybags for extra protection.
Pressing info:
100 x Picture Disc
100 x White
Available for the first time ever on LP format!
Hailing from Washington D.C., NO/MÁS deliver a darker, more unique take on Grindcore. Raíz Del Mal blends elements of Black Metal, Crust Punk, Death Metal and Hardcore resulting in a blistering album of intense brutality. This album also features a guest appearance from Blake Harrison of Pig Destroyer (Rest In Power!).
Listen to the single "Victim Of Circumstance" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb98s4gQfKY
Tracklisting:1. Case Study
2. Victim Of Circumstance
3. Vanity
4. Bloodwork
5. Fuck You
6. Raíz Del Mal
7. La Muerte No Tiene Edad
8. Vulnerable
9. Dwell
10. VI
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THE MEDEA PROJECT – “LIVE AT DINGWALLS”
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: january 9th 2026
Genre: Dark Primal Gothic Doom
For fans of: Celtic Frost | Tiamat | A Pale Horse Named Death | Darkthrone
As the ferry reaches the furthest shore, the stony bank emerging from the mist, Kharon points towards the land, silently urging you to disembark. The darkness within his cowl brooks no argument and invites no discussion or fond farewells. No sooner have you stepped ashore than he thrusts his pole against the riverbed and vanishes back into the fog that rides upon the silent current. Alone in the land of the dead you take your first faltering steps into the unknown and from the vast cavern ahead you hear a sound…music…music of other spheres and other spaces…music made of dreams and darkness…music of the night…
“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” Dracula – Bram Stoker
On June 20th 2025 The Medea Project took to the stage of Dingwalls 2 in London to celebrate the release of their new album – Kharon. They have always provided a powerful, engaging and entertaining live spectacle, but on that night they seemed to blossom into the dark flower they have always aspired to be; a thing of raw, rare and deadly beauty. They wove a spell that captured the attention of the gathered audience completely and transported them from a stiflingly hot summer night in Camden Town to the cold shadows that cloak the banks of the Styx. Tracks taken from Kharon’s haunted grooves like ‘Dance Of The Void’ and ‘Upon Your Bones (Stygian Surf)’ came to vivid, venomous life while older set stalwarts like ‘Babylon’, ‘F.E.A.R.’ and ‘The Desert Song’ seemed to grow in stature and exude a deeper darkness than ever before. The vocals, bestial roars and desperate howls entwined, echoed around the rafters while vast, staggering riffs rode upon the elemental rhythms, the glorious cacophony giving birth to a unique, enthralling atmosphere. The chaos magic of that night was captured, the black flame preserved forever and is presented in all its bloody honesty, just as it unfolded, on Live At Dingwalls; a worthy companion piece to the majesty of Kharon.
Live At Dingwalls will be released on January 9th and made available exclusively from The Medea Project’s Bandcamp Page. A memory revisited for those in attendance, a conjured vision of blood and flame for others…and another chapter in the unfolding tale of The Medea Project.
Line-up:
Brett Minnie - Guitars/Vocals
Pauline Silver - Drums & Percussion
https://medeaproject.com/
https://www.facebook.com/themedeaprojectband
Northern Irish post-atmospheric black metal band DOMHAIN have unveiled the first track from their upcoming debut full-length album “IN PERFECT STILLNESS”, set for release on 20th February via These Hands Melt.
Watch the video for “My Tomb Beneath The Tide” premiered via No Clean Singing: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/12/01/an-ncs-video-premiere-domhain-my-tomb-beneath-the-tide/
“My Tomb Beneath The Tide” is a dramatic and deeply evocative composition. The band described the track as “a death-scene on a collapsing world: a person lying on a cold beach, the final dopamine hit painting the sky with visions of their life and surrendering to the spirit of the sea with calm acceptance.”
Domhain added, “We took inspiration from our dark and stormy Irish weather, and from our connection to the sea and to wilderness in general. The subject of the tides came naturally for this track, as the riffs reminded us of the perpetual movement of the waves which will turn bones into sand.
“We were very lucky to welcome Sarah Fielding from Darkest Era as guest vocalist for this track; she joined the harmonies in this most powerful and creative way, unique to her.
“The music video itself was directed by our drummer/vocalist Anaïs. Thank you for watching, we hope you enjoy it!”
Hailing from Northern Ireland and consisting of four experienced musicians from the Irish metal scene, Domhain is a quartet that blends an emotional mix of post-black metal, blackgaze, and atmospheric black metal, featuring distinctive vocal harmonies and cello. Their debut EP, the three-song EP “Nimue” (October 2023), showcased their long-form songs filled with myths and remembrances, featured guest cello by Jo Quail and was recorded at Foel Studio with Chris Fielding (Conan, Primordial).
Following their debut, they released the split EP, “Of Pine and Oak” (May 2025), with labelmates Ephemeral, which the band described as "an ode to nature".
Domhain's powerful live show has garnered significant attention, notably at Fortress Festival 2024, where Kerrang! praised their set as “something bracingly original about their specific black metal blend: a sound that you can drift off into even in a live setting” and that “they already have the material to become giants of the genre”.
“In Perfect Stillness” will be available in the following formats:
CD Digipack (Limited to 300 copies): 3-panels, including a 12-page booklet.
LP Dark Green Vinyl (Limited to 200 copies): Includes a 12-page 30x30cm booklet.
Digital
“In Perfect Stillness” also features guests John Wilson (Piano) and Raul Andueza (Cello) on the track “Footsteps II”. The album was produced by Domhain and Chris Fielding. Engineered and mixed by Chris Fielding at Foel Studio, and mastered by Mike Lamb.
Pre-order now via These Hands Melt: https://ffm.bio/domhain
Tracklist: 1. Una Tarra Ci Hé
2. Talamh Lom
3. Footsteps II
4. In Perfect Stillness
5. My Tomb Beneath the Tide
Andy Ennis - Vocals & bass guitar
Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan - Drums, vocals & cello
Nathan Irvine - Guitars
Ashley Irwin - Guitars & backing vocals
https://thesehandsmelt.shop/
https://www.facebook.com/these.hands.melt
https://www.facebook.com/Domhain.band/
CADAVEROUS CONDITION – “DESTROYING THE NIGHT SKY” vinyl - out now! Out now and available, the limited vinyl version of our "Destroying The Night Sky" collaboration album.
Featuring all new artwork by Steven Stapleton (front cover and inlay sheet), looking absolutely fabulous.
230 copies on marbled black smoke vinyl.
Available in our online shop, free shipping! https://www.cadaverouscondition.com/cadaverous-webshop/cc-music/vinyl-destroying-the-night-sky-detail.html
Also available from our label The Circle Music https://www.cadaverouscondition.com/cadaverous-webshop/cc-music/vinyl-destroying-the-night-sky-detail.html
USA and Northern American customers can get it from Soleilmoon https://www.soleilmoon.com/shop/cadaverous-condition-various-artists-destroying-the-night-sky/
Still available in our shop:
NEVER ARRIVE, NEVER RETURN signed vinyl (last copies)
NEVER ARRIVE, NEVER RETURN splatter vinyl
BURN BRIGHTLY ALONE double LP
plus various albums on CD.
https://www.cadaverouscondition.com/
Athens, Greece; 29 November 2025: THE MAGUS, the Luciferian project helmed by Necromantia co-founder and ex-Rotting Christ musician, has revealed the first single from the forthcoming second album, “DAEMONOSOPHIA”. The crushing track, “PSEUDOPROPHETAE”, is streaming now and offers the first taste of the album's promised "more vengeful" sound.
Listen to “Pseudoprophetae”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iskaUNCMjMA
Pre-save the track on digital platforms: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/Pseudoprophetae
Speaking about the thematic depth of the new track, The Magus offered the following insight:
"The song is about false prophets, false messiahs, fake sorcerers and liars. For those who lie on purpose to serve their pathetic needs and for those who are so entangled in their lies that they perceive them as truth. In all levels..."
“Daemonosophia”, the follow-up to “ΒΥΣΣΟΔΟΜΩΝΤΑΣ” is set to be released on 20 February 2026 via The Circle Music and is available to pre-order in CD and vinyl formats, along with a limited luxurious box set and merch bundles: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=the-magus
The Magus previously revealed that the new album promises a more aggressive and dynamic sound than the previous album, “ΒΥΣΣΟΔΟΜΩΝΤΑΣ”, while keeping the devouring dark atmosphere the project’s music is known for. The album's sound has some unexpected and diabolically diverse moments that will make listeners feel uneasy.
For the album cover art, The Magus collaborated with Mexican artist Nestor Avalos, known for his work with numerous bands, including Exodus, Deicide and Rotting Christ. The artwork is an Infernal Triptych that portrays six infernal entities: Lucifer/Samael, Leviathan/Tiamat, and Belial/Satan. Nestor created a majestic painting of infernal wisdom and occult meanings, giving prominence to the Luciferian tradition and the music of the album.
Tracklist:
0. Pater Noster
1. Pseudoprophetae
2. Daemonosophia
3. The six in three is all One
4. The Era of Lucifer Rising
5. Magia Obscura
6. Amelia
7. The Chapel of Iniquities
8. The Pact
9. La Llorona Negra
The Magus was formed in 2022, following the dissolution of the legendary Greek black metal band Necromantia, which The Magus co-founded. He decided to end Necromantia after the death of his bandmate Baron Blood in 2019, releasing a final album, “To the Depths We Descend”, in 2021 as a tribute. For this new project, The Magus brought in long-time collaborators El on guitars and Maelstrom on drums.
https://www.facebook.com/The-Circle-Music-109161897443413/
https://thecirclemusic.gr/
https://www.themagus666.com/
https://www.facebook.com/themagus666
Pre-save the track on digital platforms: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/Pseudoprophetae
Speaking about the thematic depth of the new track, The Magus offered the following insight:
"The song is about false prophets, false messiahs, fake sorcerers and liars. For those who lie on purpose to serve their pathetic needs and for those who are so entangled in their lies that they perceive them as truth. In all levels..."
“Daemonosophia”, the follow-up to “ΒΥΣΣΟΔΟΜΩΝΤΑΣ” is set to be released on 20 February 2026 via The Circle Music and is available to pre-order in CD and vinyl formats, along with a limited luxurious box set and merch bundles: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=the-magus
The Magus previously revealed that the new album promises a more aggressive and dynamic sound than the previous album, “ΒΥΣΣΟΔΟΜΩΝΤΑΣ”, while keeping the devouring dark atmosphere the project’s music is known for. The album's sound has some unexpected and diabolically diverse moments that will make listeners feel uneasy.
For the album cover art, The Magus collaborated with Mexican artist Nestor Avalos, known for his work with numerous bands, including Exodus, Deicide and Rotting Christ. The artwork is an Infernal Triptych that portrays six infernal entities: Lucifer/Samael, Leviathan/Tiamat, and Belial/Satan. Nestor created a majestic painting of infernal wisdom and occult meanings, giving prominence to the Luciferian tradition and the music of the album.
Tracklist: 0. Pater Noster
1. Pseudoprophetae
2. Daemonosophia
3. The six in three is all One
4. The Era of Lucifer Rising
5. Magia Obscura
6. Amelia
7. The Chapel of Iniquities
8. The Pact
9. La Llorona Negra
The Magus was formed in 2022, following the dissolution of the legendary Greek black metal band Necromantia, which The Magus co-founded. He decided to end Necromantia after the death of his bandmate Baron Blood in 2019, releasing a final album, “To the Depths We Descend”, in 2021 as a tribute. For this new project, The Magus brought in long-time collaborators El on guitars and Maelstrom on drums.
https://www.facebook.com/The-Circle-Music-109161897443413/
https://thecirclemusic.gr/
https://www.themagus666.com/
https://www.facebook.com/themagus666
NEWS 29.11.2025
Die Woche lief es irgendwie nicht so besonders gut.
Irgendwie kann einen das ganze Alltagsleben doch stressen, auch wenn man immer
wieder versucht, sich nicht allzu viele Gedanken darüber zu machen. Die so
langsam aufkommende vorweihnachtliche „Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen „Stimmung und
der ganze Konsum-/Kaufzwang der Menschheit lässt einen dann noch mal zusätzlich
völlig unverständlich und absolut nicht nachvollziehbar, dasitzen. Zwar tut es
dann gut, sich gerade jetzt ne gehörige Portion an knallharten Klängen einzuverleiben,
aber die passenden Worte dazu zu finden, ist dann halt nicht immer ganz so leicht.
Dennoch haben wir es irgendwie doch hinbekommen, euch an dieser Stelle mal
wieder ein paar Neuerscheinungen näher bringen zu können. Reviews
HROSSHARSGRANI - " TALVISOTA"
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The
new album from Montréal’s PHOBOCOSM is out now! GATEWAY is
available via Dark Descent Records on CD, vinyl, cassette and digital formats.Order the album at:
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
www.ddmsuo.eu
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gateway
PHOBOCOSM will join Brazilian death/doom band Fossilization next year on a European tour in support of Gateway. The Gateway of Wounds tour is scheduled to run August 14 - September 6. Official dates and venues will be announced soon.
Gateway stands as an unrelenting and eldritch death metal opus that seals one chapter while unveiling the next. The album includes material from every songwriting period of the band, some of it dating back to the Deprived and Bringer of Drought eras, as well as Foreordained, of course,” explains guitarist Samuel Dufour.
Gateway was recorded, mixed, and mastered by long-time collaborator Xavier Berthiaume (Gevurah, Sanctvs) during the same session as Foreordained, giving the two records a consistent sonic throughline while allowing Gateway to close established narratives. “We view it as the closing of a chapter for the band,” Dufour continues. “Not that our future material will be completely different from our existing material, far from it, but we have decided to do things a little differently next time around by adding new elements that haven’t appeared in our music before, exploring different dynamics and experimenting with a new tuning.
Thematically, Gateway grows from ideas first explored on Foreordained: “The song ‘Revival’ from Foreordained inspired the album’s theme, which is the fact that humans have been trying to live forever - or to unnaturally prolong life - since the dawn of time, often for reasons even more absurd than the pursuit of eternal life itself,” elaborates Dufour.
“We used this as the main theme and pushed the concept further, exploring the most repulsive forms of cruelty humans are capable of — even when using science as a means to prolong barbarity against their enemies.”
Visually, the album continues PHOBOCOSM’s collaboration with Lauri Laaksonen (Desolate Shrine, Convocation, Pestilent Hex). “From looking at it, one can see that it is a gateway to something ominous, but what lies beyond is up to the listener.”
PHOBOCOSM will support Gateway with select North American performances, followed by European dates in 2026.
PHOBOCOSM is:
J.S.G.- Drums
S.D.- Guitars
E.B. - Vocals (lead), Bass
R.M. - Guitars
www.darkdescentrecords.com
The band shared their excitement regarding this new partnership:
"It’s hard to believe in this day and age, but good news still happens sometimes — well, at least for us. We’re thrilled to announce that Stalwart has officially signed with WormHoleDeath Records for the release of our new album, Tempvs Edax Rervm, coming in early 2026.
After a long break and years spent living across different parts of the world, this record marks a new chapter for us — one that connects everything we’ve built over the past two decades with the drive and perspective we have today".
About the Album: Tempvs Edax Rervm
Tempvs Edax Rervm (“Time, the Devourer of All Things”) reflects on how everything fades with time: vices die with their hosts, people hide behind new masks as they decay within, and even the old gods have grown powerless to change what’s coming. Heaven and earth have switched places — and the end might already be near.
Musically, the album brings together the elements that have always defined Stalwart: sharp, groove-driven riffs, intricate rhythms, atmospheric layers, and a balance between intensity and precision. Shaped by distance and experience, it’s not a restart — it’s a continuation, distilled into something heavier, darker, and more focused than ever before.
Tracklist1. Ingressvs
2. Fear And Hate
3. Instead Of You
4. Through The Dead Eyes
5. Sacrifice
6. Tempvs Edax Rervm
7. Fenrir
8. Pandora
9. Smoke Of Temptation
10. The Master
11. Come And See
Stalwart History
Formed in 1999 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Stalwart has earned a reputation in the extreme metal scene with a unique blend of death, groove, thrash, and progressive metal. Over the years, the band has released six full-length albums on labels including Fono, Soyuz/MetalAgen, CD-Maximum, Metallism, and PRC Music. Four albums were produced by the renowned Wiesławski brothers (Vader, Decapitated, Behemoth, Hate) at Hertz Studio, known for its crisp, punishing sound.
Stalwart has shared stages with Behemoth, Kataklysm, Vader, Amon Amarth, Primal Fear, Finntroll, Carnifex, and more, performing across Russia, Ukraine, Finland, Estonia, and Germany. After a 2019 hiatus, during which members relocated across continents, the band returns with Tempvs Edax Rervm, delivering crushing grooves, intricate rhythms, relentless blast beats, and immersive atmospheres — a new chapter in Stalwart’s evolution.
Line Up:
Pavel Kozhukhovsky - vocals
Anton Sofronov - guitars
Leonid Verman - guitars, keyboards
Dmitry Ivanov - bass, back vocals
Alexey Timanov - drums
Pre-save Tempvs Edax Rervm here: https://orcd.co/teralbum
www.youtube.com/@stalwart.metalband
www.facebook.com/stalwartmetal
ABSTRACT is the only band that Pařát Productions will release a studio album for this year. The collaboration between the band and Pařát Productions began in 2014 with the album "Lightheory" and continues to this day.
ABSTRACT is a Slovak band that has been playing instrumental metal since 1995 - meaning no vocals.
The album "MONOGRAM" will be released by Pařát Productions on 29.11. 2025.
You can order them at Pařátshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/abstract-monogram-3/
You can listen to full album on the Pařát Productions YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEqK-QoSZ1s&t=515s
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Dead And Dripping's new album is just as shocking and delectably twisted as can be expected. They've truly taken things to the next level here and they remain a standout in the brutal death metal style. The new album is out now and streaming on all platforms and I would urge you all to check it out with an open mind.
DEAD AND DRIPPING - “NEFARIOUS SCINTILLATIONS”
For
fans of :
Demilich, Wicked Innocence, Wormed, Defeated Sanity, Mortal
Decay, Fathomless Ritual, Suffocation
Dead And Dripping is back with another album of mind-warping, reality-deconstructing music. One-man crew Evan Daniele, who was already playing everything on the albums so far, has gone ahead and even created the artwork for this album that manages to replicate the intricate nature of the music along with some kind of hallucinogenic quality that it induces. The music is often slower, deliberate, as if to create a hypnotic effect aided by use of repetition, and with that the songs can go on for as long as nine minutes without seeming cumbersome as is almost always the case with the brutal death metal subgenre where lengthy songs go. Dead And Dripping is doing something novel in this space which begs to be heard with all its quirks including the Demilich-esque croaks to go with music sounding just as surreal and twisted. It's an album that is painstakingly composed with thought and effort put into every single aspect of it and with all of it done in a refreshingly organic manner. "Nefarious Scintillations" is a tour-de-force for the style and a testament to the dedication and prowess of one-man bands.
Line up
Evan Daniele - All music and artwork
Track listing
1. Nefariously Scintillating through Vacant Galactic Reservoirs
2. Horrifying Glimpses Into Inconceivably Demented Cityscapes
3. Pestilent Hints of Darkened Malodorous Vibrations
4. Swollen Torsos Adorned with Pustulating Hexagonal Crania
5. Sickeningly Vague Anatomical Silhouettes
6. Spontaneous Recollections of Unwitnessable Atrocity
7. Seeping through Ancient Transdimensional Corridors
8. An Utterly Tenantless World of Aeons-Long Death
Official release date - November 28th, 2025
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The
Finnish black metal band VERILEHTO released their
second album AARNIHAUTA on November 28th 2025 via Inverse
Records. Listen to the album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/verilehto-aarnihauta-album
"The album is built largely on the same principles as its predecessor: something new, something borrowed, and something black, combining old riffs and fresh ideas without trying to reinvent the wheel. The songs were created quite quickly during the summer and autumn of 2023, but the final production shaped more slowly into its current form. The material is diverse, containing both dark and slow-tempo pieces as well as faster and even catchy productions. The overall package is stronger than before, and with the new bassist Räipiö, the sound world has gained significantly more depth." says, Janne Tuikkala
Watch Aarnihauta music video: https://youtu.be/H86-L0xUx60
Biography:
The Finnish melodic black metal band Verilehto is back with a new album, Aarnihauta. The album title translates as 'hidden grave in the forest', which is a fitting description of the band's second album.
Verilehto plays Finnish 90s-style black metal, characterised by melodic and aggressive riffs, raw vocals, and an eerie overall tone. The Finnish folklore-inspired lyrics fit well with the band's versatile riffs, and the songs vary from fast blastbeats to slower storytelling elements.
This album also sees a change in Verilehto's line-up, with Markus Räppiö from Kaira joining the crew. With Markus on bass, Janne Partanen (Hautajaisyö, Alfa Pentatonik, Marraskuun Lapset, Paavalin Harhat) on vocals, and Janne Tuikkala (Muria & Dawn of Everwinter) on guitars, drums and synth, the band is stronger than ever.
'Aarnihauta' sees the band continuing to evolve from their debut album 'Kuoleman Siipien Havina' by focusing on their own sound and style. The album is not overly polished, and has a good raw quality to the production, but this is not the main focus. It was recorded by the band themselves in 2024–25.
The album artwork was created by the talented Awinita Alm, and the single artwork was created by the band. The "Aarnihauta" video was filmed in 2024 and edited by Janne Tuikkala and Markus Räppiö.
Track list:
01. Surutta Tapettu
02. Nälänhätä
03. Aarnihauta
04. Kalman Sotajuokko
05. Tuhkaverho
06. Syöjätär
07. Virvatulet
Artwork by Awinita Alm
Line-up:
Janne Tuikkala - Guitars, Drums, Synths
Janne Partanen - Vocals
Markus Räipiö - Bass & Backing Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/verilehto
INFRAHUMANO – “DEPTHS OF SUFFERING” (LP)
Genre: Death Metal (from Autopsy over Morbid Angel or Drawn and Quartered to old Cryptopsy)
Country: Spain
Label: Lavadome Productions
Release day: October 31, 2025 (digital), followed by CD version at the end of November
Recorded and mixed at La Cumbre Studios
Mastered by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios
Tracklist:1. Across the Void
2. Thrown into the Fire
3. Battalion of Darkness
4. Baptized in Acid
5. Reduced to Fermented Pulp
6. Forced Self Cannibalism
7. Global Degradation
8. The Last Breath
9. Shades of Cruelty
Rejoice in the name of Death Metal decay and brutality. Spain's INFRAHUMANO will take you on a 9-song journey through US, European, South American Death Metal fields and will deliver devastating rhythms, yet memorable, influenced by seminal Death Metal but presented in Infrahumano's own extreme ways. The band's second studio album, Depths of Suffering, is ready to be heard.
https://linktr.ee/infrahumano_DM
https://www.facebook.com/infrahumanodeath
https://infrahumano.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/@lavadomeprods
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Featuring songs written between 1976 and 1983, Lords of Hypocrisy is a timeless classic of macabre Heavy/Doom Metal, centered around man’s inhumanity to man and its ultimate demise. Based on the beautiful editions on now defunct Temple of Mystery Records, Dying Victims continues making Pagan Altar’s back catalogue available again.
Heavy rocking DOOM metal pioneers!
Line-up:
Terry Jones (R.I.P. 2015) - Vocals
Alan Jones - Guitars, Banjo, Keyboards
Trevor Portch - Bass
Mark Elliot - Drums
From London, UK
Release date: 23rd January
Tracklist01 The Lords of Hypocrisy
02 Satan's Henchmen
03 Sentinels of Hate
04 Armageddon
05 The Interlude
06 The Aftermath
07 The Masquerade
08 The Devil Came Down to Brockley
09 March of the Dead
Release info:
Regular double LP edition on black vinyl, with poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special double LP edition on ultra clear dark blue marbled vinyl, with poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD edition with obi and sticker.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
The second single 'Taste of Hatred' is unleashed today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/krushor-taste
The band comments:
"Taste of hatred is about situation where a person takes a stand for someone who's pushed 'em down long enough to make that person retaliate. What happens, when beaten and oppressed person decides to stand their ground and says they've had enough and gives back all they had to endure. What kind is this persons actual hatred if just a taste of it can turn tables and make the one who made them suffer have taste of their own medicine."
Listen to the first single 'Shockwave': https://push.fm/fl/krushor-shockwave
Biography:The band found its current identity through shared musical tastes, playing together, and a shared hobby. We are a group of people who enjoy making and playing music that works for all of us. A big part of this is that composing, writing lyrics, and editing songs is open to everyone. All songs and compositions are created by the whole group, not based on one person's vision or goal.
Our influences definitely come from older metal, but that doesn't matter, because mixing genres actually adds a lot to our music; there's no one right way to do things. Krushor's goal is to make music that sounds good and at the same time talk about the difficult things that are part of life. For many people, music can be therapeutic, and if even one person feels that way about our music, we feel we have succeeded.
Track list:
01. Shockwave
02. Vortex
03. Rise Above
04. Taste of Hatred
Composed by Joni Kärsämä, Juho Mattila
Saku Hirvimäki, Sami Keränen
Lyrics by Ville Lehtoranta
Arranged by Krushor
EP cover by Joni Kärsämä
Line-up:
Ville Lehtoranta - Vocals
Joni Kärsämä - Guitar
Juho Mattila - Guitar
Sami Keränen - Bass
Saku Hirvimäki - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/krushorofficial
Label: SelfmaderecordsRelease date: december 26th 2025
Genre: Punk Rock
For fans of: Electric Six | Iggy Pop | Toyah | Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction
"We’re the sound of a sun made of lightning on fire..."
Exploding out of the great white north, in a dazzling burst of stardust and exuberance, rebellion and radiance, come Toronto’s punk rock riders of the astral plane, Hot Apollo. After lighting up the Toronto club scene for over a decade with songs that transport audiences to realms of euphoria, the city’s self proclaimed ‘shiniest band’ are about to deliver their cerebral shock to the world. New album Against The Odds Because We’re Gods is coming and it’s time to join the Hot Apollo revolution!
“Exploding stars join our choir...”
The album opens in a burst of electrifying guitar, boldly heading straight into the band’s ‘superhero cartoon theme song’, the anthemic and irresistible ‘We’re Hot Apollo’ where a languid vocal rides on crisp drumming and punk vibes and a searing solo tears across the sky. From that blazing beginning Hot Apollo take you on a tour of driving grooves, flamboyant guitar embellishments, enfolding atmospheres and choruses that feel like you’ve known them all your life. From the slinky, sliding riffs of ‘Priorities’, a song that walks the margins between playful and defiant, to the dream state dance of ‘Slayance’; from ‘Beltane’, made to make you move with its cool lead guitar wandering through a patchwork of neon glow and shadow, to the metal edge and galloping rhythms of ‘Gjallarbu’. Every song on Against The Odds Because We’re Gods occupies its own unique space, but they are all united by the irrepressible, irresistible spirit of Hot Apollo. The final two songs on the album – ‘Stop Drop Rock ‘n’ Roll’ and ‘Never Stay Down’ – rock hard and joyously, leaving you energised, renewed and alive, before this band of maverick marauders head back to the stars from whence they came.
“Louder than thunder! We’re a sparkle storm…”
The vibrant sound of Against The Odds… was captured by renowned Canadian producer Scotty Komer of the band Boys Night Out, who has worked with the likes of Protest The Hero and Silverstein. Every voice in the Hot Apollo choir gets to speak and bathe in the spotlight – from the full figured bass to the snapping drums, the fizzing guitars to the sonorous vocals – and the result is effervescent. The album will be released by SelfMadeRecords on December 26th on CD, LP and Digital formats – the perfect party to end the year…and everyone’s invited!
“We’re Hot Apollo! We’re all Hot Apollo!”
Line-up:
Jaymes - Vocals
Tobi - Bass
Monet - Lead Guitar
Diego - Drums
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DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated sixth album of Italy’s BARBARIAN, REEK OF GOD, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Truer than true, Italy’s BARBARIAN have almost become a subgenre unto themselves during the past 16 years. Although, let there be no confusion: BARBARIAN are HEAVY METAL. A power-trio of not just metal maniacs but actual MUSIC maniacs, of all persuasions, BARBARIAN integrate all kinds of crude-yet-refined DNA into their particular palette, almost effortlessly resulting in something that’s dieharder than anything around and yet elevating heavy metal to an artform worthy of the fanciest museum. Or, quite the opposite: denim and leather, spikes and chains, swords and sorcery, ugly men and beautiful women, each dawn they die… Either way, to experience BARBARIAN is to imbibe the essence of heavy metal, infused with personality and panache, killing with power and charisma. Posers don’t need to leave the hall because they wouldn’t be able read the map to it in the first place.
Now, following a trio of hailed albums for Hells Headbangers – Cult of the Empty Grave (2016), To No God Shall I Kneel (2019), and Viperface (2022) – BARBARIAN join forces with longtime fans DYING VICTIMS for the Italians’ sixth full-length, Reek of God. Like clockwork, it’s another three years between albums, and BARBARIAN deliver the goods. And yet, this is also a new chapter in their series: “retrogarde metal,” chronologically after “total metal,” “absolute metal,” “obtuse metal,” and “regressive metal.” As such (and in possession of exactly 98 riffs in 35 minutes), the ten central songs comprising Reek of God are shorter and more to-the-point but basically with no classic rock structure of verse / chorus. BARBARIAN’s characteristic sound – in the simplest of terms, raw speed and epic metal meets even rawer proto-extreme metal – has here been enriched with a vein close to mid ‘80s death metal and even metal-tinged punk, but with a flow of tempo-changes and riffs to be found only in late ‘80s / early ‘90s developments of extreme metal. BARBARIAN are nothing if not studious acolytes; they know their shit, and then make records about it.
Still, Reek of God has its own surprises. Of course, the album’s lyrics strike at everything that is religious. But special mention must be made for “Shit He Forgives,” which is based on the lyrics of “Reality Asylum” by anarcho-punk pioneers Crass, and “Crossburn,” which is a political statement that places the band on the opposite side of the spectrum regarding the KKK connection the title might suggest. Deepening the record-nerd’dom, the album’s “Warning” intro is a take on the Ice-T intro of the same name on the legendary rapper’s Home Invasion album from 1993. Likewise, BARBARIAN’s cover here of the Los Angeles L7’s “Freak Magnet” is one featuring their typical Hellhammer-ish atonal riffs – which were atypical for L7, drawing an otherwise-overlooked throughline of aesthetic symbiosis – and inspired by the 1992 version produced by Butch Vig (on the Everglade EP) rather than the 1994 version produced by Gggaarth (on Hungry for Stink). Wait…Crass, L7, and Ice-T on a BARBARIAN album?! Believe it, comrade: this is the Reek of God!
Line-up:
Borys Crossburn - Guitars, Vocals
Cardinal Sinner - Bass
Sledgehammer - Drums
From Firenze, italy
Release date: 23rd January
Tracklist1 Warning
2 Maxima Culpa
3 Sledgehammer
4 Eighth Sacrament
5 Shit He forgives
6 Cardinal Sinner
7 Cancer Cross
8 Crossburn
9 Mercy Swallower
10 Freak Magnet
11 Retrogarde Metal
12 Crurifragium
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on orange vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD edition with obi and sticker.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
"You may consider this EP as an representation of a journey towards the certain end." comments the singer Mikko Nurmi.
Listen to "To Non-Existence" EP on streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, Amazon etc.): https://push.fm/fl/torchus-tononexistence
Torch Us is a five-piece metal band from Turku, Finland, founded in 2022.
The band blends raw aggression with melodic darkness in away that leaves a mark on the listener. Their sound is a mix of melodic death metal and heavy riffs flavored with everything that feels old-school, raw, and unapologetically intense.
Torch Us:
Kim Orden: Bass
Janne Kodisoja: Drums
Ville Oksanen: Guitar
Antti Kivikoski: Guitar
Mikko Nurmi: Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/torchus
AURORA
BOREALIS joins forces with Non Serviam Records... A New Era Awakens . Total Darkness
Promotions is proud to announce that the legendary force Aurora
Borealis has officially entered a pact with Non Serviam Records.This alliance marks the dawn of a bold new chapter for the band, joining a roster of relentless and uncompromising artists. Their upcoming full-length release set for unveiling in due time promises to expand their dark legacy with ferocity and unwavering vision. With Aurora Borealis’ unmatched intensity and long-standing presence in the extreme metal realm, this collaboration is poised to carve a formidable imprint upon the scene.
A statement from Aurora Borealis regarding the signing:
"We are proud to align ourselves with Non Serviam Records. This partnership reflects our shared dedication to Death Metal as an unfiltered and evocative art form. Through this union, we stand prepared to push our craft further than ever before, reaching new listeners without sacrificing the essence that defines us. Aurora Borealis has always been a vessel for the cold, the cosmic, and the uncompromising and with NSR, we have found the right stronghold to support the next phase of our vision."
Non Serviam Records adds:
"We are truly honored to welcome Aurora Borealis into the Non Serviam Records family. Their commanding presence, relentless musicianship, and unwavering authenticity have long set them apart. Aurora Borealis embodies the spirit and strength we value within our roster, and we are excited to support the next chapter of their journey and creations."
The band is currently forging new material, with the forthcoming album promising to deliver a monumental statement in their ever-evolving legacy.
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The amazing artwork was realized by the talented artist and graphic
designer Gogo Melone .Tracklist :
1. Another Night In Pain
2. In The End...
3. All That Has Withered
4. Fading Memories
5. I Don't Want To Fight...
6. The Raven Cries...
With "The Raven Cries One Last Time" CHALICE OF SUFFERING introduces us into a world of depression, sadness and grief, into a very atmospheric, emotional and at the same time extreme universe full of pain, but painted with tinges totally rich in melancholy and despair. They convey emotions of loss rather than just heaviness, to crafting a deeply intense and bleak musical experience that explores the depths of human desperation through their distinctive Funeral Doom Metal sound with Death vibes incorporating instruments like bagpipes, flutes and keyboards and employing a mix of deep death growls and grim spoken word passages.
We are proud of what we are going to present and we can't wait to share all of this with you all. "The Raven Cries One Last Time" will be released next March 20th, 2026 on My Kingdom Music and it is absolutely ready to aim high for the genre throne in terms of intensity, personality and emotion.
The suffering continues!!!
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The
Finnish symphonic/melodic death metal band INTHRACED is
set to release their long-awaited debut album 'CONSTELLATION ZERO'
on May 15th 2026 via Inverse Records. The first single, 'NEON FRONTIERS', which offers an excellent preview of what to expect from the album, is released today and it's available on all major streaming platforms: https://push.fm/fl/inthraced-neon-frontiers
The band comments:
"Neon Frontiers stands as the most melodic and captivating track on the album — a powerful fusion of signature Inthraced elements and a fresh, revitalized sound. Crushing riffs, soaring melodies, and intricate guitar solos intertwine seamlessly, pushing the band’s music into new and unexplored territories. The chorus features guest vocalist Marcus Lång, whose commanding voice breathes new life into the song and elevates it to another dimension — as if the stars themselves had finally aligned."
Biography:
Inthraced is a Finnish metal band founded in 2011, blending melodic intensity with cosmic darkness to forge a distinct and powerful soundscape. Their early releases, “The New Awakening” (2012) and “The Rising Chaos” (2014), set the foundation for their rise, further amplified by the 2019 single “Interstellar.”
In 2022, the band was reborn with a new guitarist and bassist, igniting the creative fire behind their debut album “Constellation Zero” — an epic and ambitious journey that carries the listener to the very edges of the universe
Track list:
01. The Revenant
02. Neon Frontiers
03. The Black Star
04. Darkest Chest
05. Constellation Zero
06. The Way Of The Voice
07. Lost Divinity
Mixed by Janne Korpela JK mixing studios Finland
Mastered by Mika Jussila @ Finnvox studios Finland
Cover art by Robert H, Holo Dreamz
Line-up:
Tommi Takkunen - Guitar & Vocals
Mirko Byman - Guitar
Eetu Kovapohja - Bass
Antti Ikonen - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/Inthraced
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present KARLOFF’S highly anticipated second album, REVERED BY DEATH, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Hailing from Germany, KARLOFF formed in 2018 initially as a means for erstwhile Graveyard Ghoul member Tom Horrified to blow off some punk-oriented steam with a couple close comrades. While their first Demo ’18 and then subsequent Raw Nights mini-album presented them as a more gutter-level Midnight, it was 2022’s debut album, The Appearing, where the true form of KARLOFF took shape. Recasting the band in a totally new, altogether more unique light, The Appearing strutted forth to a rich, robust, and rippingly muscular sound not unlike ancient-days metalpunk; think Carnivore, Best Wishes-era Cro-Mags, or even early Nasty Savage, and you’re in KARLOFF’s wheelhouse.
Turning that wheel yet further, KARLOFF return with their second full-length, Revered by Death. For sure, Revered by Death follows logically from The Appearing. That same lead-heavy stomp is present and accounted for here, but the paces KARLOFF go through are undeniably moodier and murkier; if there wasn’t a sense of stifled violence here, it would almost be accurate to call LP#2 “sludgy.” No amount of energy is sacrificed, thankfully, as KARLOFF’s olde-worlde evil goes in an even-darker direction while the tempos, in kind, feel slightly more reined in. Fleshing out that darkness further are chorus FX, once again tastefully applied and suggesting still a post-punk influence that could blossom in the future; just witness the deathrock-in-glue instrumental “On Weathered Altar” for poignant proof. As the present stands, Revered by Death more than lives up to its lofty title, with KARLOFF’s heaviness coming not so much from the volume or distortion they employ but, rather, from the overall feel of their songwriting: punchier, but portending a deeper doom & gloom.
Ghouls and ghosts, thugs and thieves: KARLOFF are back and calling upon you to be Revered by Death!
Line-up:
Tom Horrified - Electric Rhythm & Lead Guitar, Vocals
H. T. Steinbrecher - Drums & Percussion
733 - Electric Bass Guitar
From Oldenburg, Germany
Release date: 23rd January
Tracklist01 A Pessimistic Soaring
02 Die Wiederkehr der Dunkelei
03 When The Flames Devour You All
04 On Weathered Altar
05 Prince Of Parasites
06 Regicide
07 Crown Cult Fate
08 Elisabetha's Revenge
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on oxblood vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD edition with obi and sticker.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
FUNERAL VOMIT – “UPHEAVAL OF NECROMANCY”
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease date: december 19th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Autopsy | Grave | Mortician | Grave Desecrator
In the grand mausoleums of the world, in the forgotten plague pits and paupers’ graves, in the country churchyards and on the ancient battlefields where bones and steel lie submerged in time and mud…there is a stirring. Whispered words of summoning beyond the range of human hearing or understanding follow the worms into remains long still and silent. Powers from far deeper than the oldest grave are calling, calling for the forgotten to awake…
“He’s dead? Not anymore…” - Herbert West, Reanimator
Formed in the time of the global pandemic, Colombia’s Funeral Vomit have been spewing forth their particular brand of death metal sickness since 2020. They joined Xtreem Music in 2023 for the release of their debut full length album, Monumental Putrescence, which was followed in 2024 by an expanded reissue of their 2022 self titled EP. Now it’s time for the second album from Funeral Vomit, the second tome of monstrosities and malignancy – Upheaval Of Necromancy!
‘Intro (The Disentombment)’ leads you with beckoning claw and dire imprecations into the subterranean world of Funeral Vomit, where nothing is quite as dead as it seems – and from that atmospheric beginning all hell is unleashed! Title track, ‘Upheaval Of Necromancy’ erupts from the darkness with immense, cavernous vocals and guitars dusted in the last remains of the long, long dead. This is fetid death metal from the grave, a classic invocation of the ancient arts of death. There is no let up from the claustrophobic horror as ‘Sulphuric Regurgitation’, a rumbling war machine of unspeakably malicious intent gouges deep grooves into your flesh and the primitive horror of ‘Hematophagia’ pursues you through lightless catacombs, hungry for blood. Even ‘Interlude (Mortuary Ecstasy)’ is less a respite and more a promise of far, far worse to come...like ‘Cryptic Miasma Stench’, a monumental piece of soul devouring death metal, with screaming leads and crushing weight. After the scouring guitar riffs and colossal, bludgeoning bass and drums of ‘Rancid Insorcism’, ‘Outro (Effluvia Of The Mass Grave)’ settles into your mind, letting you know that while you may have reached the conclusion of Upheaval Of Necromancy, the Funeral Vomit nightmare will never end.
Xtreem Music will release Upheaval Of Necromancy on December 19th, the same fateful date on which Monumental Putrescence was exhumed, three years ago. Available on CD, 12” LP, Cassette and Digital formats, there will be no escaping this call from the grave!
Line-up:
Y. Lopez – Guitar
C. Monsalve - Guitar/ Vocals
H. Montaño - Bass guitar
J. Carvajal – Drums
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/funeral.vomit
On
"DOOMSSÖNDAGEN" (the Sunday before Advent), when
judgment is at hand, SHROUDED IN DARKNESS reveals their new EP, -"THE
PATH OF SUFFERING".Release: 23 November 2025.
CD EP - 4 tracks
DIGITAL - 2 tracks.
This release is a meditation on the weight of sin, the silence of abandoned prayers, and the inevitability of suffering that shadows every soul.
Each track flows like a procession through dim cathedrals of sound: Towering guitars, ritualistic drums, and vocals that echo like sermons from beyond the grave.
"The Path of Suffering" is not simply heard—it is endured. It is the sound of twilight falling upon the human spirit, and the echo of final judgment made flesh in music.
Let the suffering begin!
https://shroudedindarkness.bandcamp.com/album/the-path-of-suffering
DECRYPTER
– “NECHRONICLES “Genre : Death-/Black Metal
FFO: Hypocrisy, Mayhem, Cannibal Corpse
Release date: 29.11.2025
Location: Mexico
Bio:
Decrypter is a Mexican death metal band with black metal influences. Their sound is a fusion of melodies, aggression and dark atmosphere, resulting in content with a rich variety of musical textures. Inspired by cosmic horror themes, Decrypter with its debut album NECHRONICLES, aims to position itself among fans of extreme music.
https://www.youtube.com/@decryptermx
https://ironcladmetalpr.com/
https://www.facebook.com/decryptermx/
Jetzt, wo es draußen kälter wird und der Drang sich zu
bewegen doch merklich nachlässt, hat man doch mehr Zeit und Lust, sich bedeutend
intensiver mit all den brandaktuellen Unterhaltungsmedien, welche noch drauf warten,
reviewt zu werden, auseinanderzusetzten. Und da haben sich einem mal wieder ein
paar richtig sau geile Veröffentlichungen offenbart, welche ihr unbedingt mal
antesten solltet.
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DECIMATOR
- "THE DOWNFALLEN" (EP)Downfallen marks a fierce new chapter for the Sydney-based band, channeling their trademark blend of old-school aggression and sharp modern intensity.
The EP's release date is 05 December 2025.
Tracklist
1. Hexenkrieg
2. Downfallen
3. Teuer de Paysans
About DECIMATOR:
Formed in early 2021, Decimator has undergone a few lineup changes, seeing the band go from strength to strength.
In late 2024, Riley Perry joined the band on bass, bringing a new and even more refined approach to songwriting, having been active in projects such as "Of Flesh" and formerly being part of the thrash metal band Paralysis. Unfortunately, 2025 also saw more changes - but Caiseal Duncan replacing Ethan Reeves on guitar and Ashley Pollard replacing Bon Lowe on drums brought even more fire and ferocity
to the band.
Lance Holland-Keen, now the only original member, leads them on, with this single a small taste of the EP due out later this year.
The band are already writing new material for 2026 and playing shows in Sydney - decimating every stage they step onto.
Line-Up
Lance - vox/guitars
Riley Perry - bass/backing vox
Caiseal Duncan - guitars
Bon Lowe - drums on the EP
Ash Pollard is the new drummer for live shows.
Stream ’Til The Enemies Are Gone: https://orcd.co/tteag
CD: https://www.auralwebstore.com/shop/
www.youtube.com/@decimatorbandaustralia568
www.facebook.com/DecimatorBandAustralia
Quintaesencia Nocturna is a dark journey through the raw and shadowed side of the natural world, where old forests, silent waters, and forgotten rituals shape the album’s atmosphere. With its cold and immersive sound, the album delivers Black Metal rooted in nature’s darker presence and the unseen forces that surround us.
To celebrate this monumental unveiling, Vampiric Militant Legions presents a strictly limited European CD edition, capped at only 100 copies, featuring an 8-page booklet that expands the album’s nocturnal vision through evocative imagery and thematic depth.
The European release of Quintaesencia Nocturna is available now, carrying forward the Chilean underground spirit into new domains of darkness.
For fans of raw mysticism, atmospheric terror, and nature’s most sacred night-black essence, this is an edition not to be missed.
https://vampiricmilitantlegions.bandcamp.com/
EL MUERTO, the Netherlands' one-man Black/Death Metal project, has released debut EP, LOST AND AMSTERDAMNED!
FFO: Opeth, Immortal, Emperor, Mgla, Death
Stream/Purchase Lost and Amsterdamned: https://elmuerto2.bandcamp.com/album/lost-and-amsterdamned
El Muerto was born in the depths of personal crisis, a raw and unflinching document of depression, trauma, and the desire to disappear. Conceived as a final message from an artist who had lost the will to live, each track captures a chapter of that darkness. But this record is no longer a goodbye. It’s proof that even in the shadows, something can still survive.
El Muerto is the alter ego of a multi-instrumentalist whose journey spans continents, from the underground metal scene of Mexico (Sekhmet) to experimental projects in Australia (Conscious Comma), now anchored in the Dutch landscape. With Lost and Amsterdamned, he delivers a fiercely collaborative black/death metal EP shaped by the frostbitten influence of Immortal, the grim atmosphere of Darkthrone and Mgła, and the progressive shadows of Opeth and Emperor.
Driven by guitar-forward compositions and visceral vocals, the record balances old-school extremity with cinematic vision. Each track is both a personal exorcism and a descent into archetypal horror, as described by below by El Muerto.
"Enthroned in the Tower of Shadows (The Witch)" – A theatrical black metal tale of the witch-queen reigning from a tower of obsidian. Ritualistic, grand, and venomously lyrical, it reads like folklore soaked in blood and fire. Betrayal, treason and lies.
"Ghosts of Torment" – An inner war against unseen forces. This track is a descent into madness where haunting spirits represent trauma, anxiety, and mental illness. Dissonant and despairing, it’s a song about being torn from within—and haunted from without.
"Lich King" – A blighted anthem of death’s dominion. With imagery of skeletal monarchs and ruined worlds, it’s a march into the void, full of oppressive riffing and funereal dread.
"A Song for Ran" – A melancholic invocation of the Norse sea goddess, casting despair into the sea’s cold embrace. Melodic and mournful, it drifts between surrender and transcendence beneath crashing waves and whispered death. Where the final rest in the most peaceful as well.
"Blood Crypt" – The EP’s most venomous moment: a burial rite soaked in bile and loathing. A brutal poem of closure through decay, it turns memory into rot, laying ghosts to rest in a cathedral of scorn.
"Wolves of Den Haag" – Inspired by the real-life cannibalistic murder of Dutch statesman Johan de Witt in 1672, this track uses historical horror to reflect modern betrayal and societal rage. Gnarled riffs and spectral tension echo through The Hague’s ghost-soaked streets.
Each song speaks in the language of metal, but beneath the corpse paint and distortion lies something deeply human—anguish, defiance, and ultimately, release.
Each of these songs reflects personal trauma through the lens of myth, horror, and metal’s harshest language turning lived experience into sonic ritual. Lost and Amsterdamned no longer marks an ending. It is a violent testament of survival, memory, and transformation. A cathartic howl from the pit—and the sound of someone crawling out of it.
The album's rhythm section features guest musicians from international metal acts, such as downunder's Norse and Europe's Adarrak.
Mixed by the legendary Tomas Skogsberg of Sunlight Studios in Sweden and mastered by Ricardo Botello. Recorded in studios across the Netherlands.
Track
Listing:1. Enthroned in the Tower of Shadows (The Witch)
2. Ghosts of Torment
3. Lich King
4. A Song for Ran
5. Blood Crypt
6. Wolves of Den Haag
Credits:
Produced by Ricardo Botello
Mixed by Tomas Skogsberg in Sunlight Studios, Stockholm, Sweden.
Mastered by Stefan Brown from Abbey Road Studios.
All artwork created by Francisco Torres Beltrán
Line-up:
Ricardo Botello - Guitars, Vocals, Piano
Zigor Munoz - Bass (except "Ghosts of Torment")
Tommaso Tani - Bass on "Ghosts of Torment"
Robin Stone - Drums
Bio:
El Muerto is the alter ego of a multi-instrumentalist, Ricardo Botello, who has made the Dutch landscape his creative home for the past years. His musical journey spans continents, from his work with the Mexican project Sekhmet to time spent with Australia’s Conscious Comma.
Now unveiling his debut EP, Lost in Amsterdamned, El Muerto presents a collaborative effort that features a dynamic cast of guest musicians.
https://elmuerto2.bandcamp.com/album/lost-and-amsterdamned
Finnish progressive metal band HUMMING WHALE has released their debut studio album "CHASING RABBITS"!
The band's guitarist Lassi tells about the album: "We follow a very slow and organic approach to songwriting and playing music. We like to experiment with and nurture our musical ideas until they feel just right. The soundscapes of the album represent our own musical tastes ranging from energetic bass and guitar riffs to atmospheric synthesizer landscapes, and from dissonance to harmony."
Listen to the album on streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, Amazon etc.): https://push.fm/fl/hummingwhale-chasingrabbits
The story of Humming Whale begun in 2006 in Tampere, Finland. Lassi Paunonen and Ville Kiiveri had already been friends for a long time, and had also been playing together in various bands. Their musical backgrounds steered the new band towards metal, but due to their broad tastes the band was from the beginning open to influences from a wide variety of genres. They especially embraced progressive elements in the form of nonlinear song structures and rhythmic experiments. Over the years, the band absorbed more and more influences from analogue synthesis and acoustic percussions, and their current sound begun to take form.
The band reached its first stable line-up in 2015 with Aki Hahto in vocals and Antti Lumijärvi in drums. The band begun to record its first full album in late 2016 based on the songs they had composed over the years. The recording took place in Lassi's studio and the band took their time in shaping (and even rewriting) the songs. The process finally resulted in the album Chasing Rabbits, published in November 2025.
At the end of the year 2023 the band also arrived at their current line-up, with Matias Kuure in drums.
Tracklist
01. The Wake
02. Chasing Rabbits
03. Equilibrium
04. Hountor
05. Waves
06. Ocular
07. Rover
08. Black Waters
Members:
Aki Hahto - Vocals and percussion
Lassi Paunonen - Guitar and synthesizers
Ville Kiiveri - Bass
Matias Kuure - Drums
https://www.youtube.com/@HummingWhaleBand
https://www.facebook.com/Hummingwhaleband
Listen to 'POMPEII' single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/nobody-pompeii
The man behind Nobody, Tuomas Kauppinen comments the single:
"The city of Pompeii was destroyed when it was founded in defiance of the people against the gods, next to a volcano that would eventually bring about its annihilation. The song is a memory of its people, their loves and hates, the downfall of an empire that could not survive its sicknesses, nor the remedies it would have needed to heal."
Track list:
01. North star
02. Pompeii
03. Crowspeak
04. The Gutter Screams
05. Truth Seeker
Music & Lyrics by Tuomas Kauppinen
Cover art by Don Artvaara
Producer: Jimi (Stellar Sounds Studios)
Line-up:
Tuomas Kauppinen - vocals, guitars, bass & drums
https://nobodymetal.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/nobodymetal
This exclusive premiere for ASH ECLIPSES FLESH comes from Decibel Magazine, who warns the band "will level anything still standing" with this crushing debut.
Stream Ash Eclipses Flesh now at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/11/19/album-stream-terror-corpse-ash-eclipses-flesh/
Dark Descent Records will release Ash Eclipses Flesh on November 21. The album will be available on digital, CD, cassette, and vinyl (black and splatter editions). The album was just named #24 in Decibel Magazine's Top 40 albums of 2025.
Pre-order at:
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ash-eclipses-flesh
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
https://ddmsuo.eu/
“Low tuned, dark and violent Texas death metal,” comes the uncompromising answer from TERROR CORPSE drummer Dobber Beverly when pressed to define his newest abomination. Formed in 2025 yet manned by veterans of the US underground, TERROR CORPSE rise from the remnants of Malignant Altar, continuing where their predecessor left off – still in league with Dark Descent Records.
Produced entirely in-house by the skinsman, the record’s sound is as distinctive as it is crushing. From the first pounding kick drum, soon joined by a gut-wrenching bass line, Ash Eclipses Flesh never loosens its relentless grip.
“I wanted to essentially have a super low tuned Celtic Frost guitar sound with a modern and large natural drum recording. Big room, big drum sounds. Tack on some cavernous low, Craig Pillard style vocals and bass guitar and you’ve got our sound.”
The band’s veneration of the Celtic Frost’s legacy is further demonstrated by the album’s closer, a cover of "Into the Crypts of Rays." Dobber makes no secret of TERROR CORPSE’s influences: “Disciples Of Mockery, Incantation, pre-2000s Morbid Angel; essentially older evil American death metal. Celtic Frost is a massive influence to all of us. From their primitive and violent beginnings to the ultra experimental and dark era of their later records.”
Ash Eclipses Flesh is clad in artwork courtesy of the notorious Shoggoth Kinetics, displaying a horrifying future so far and near: “Lyrically the album follows a kind of dystopian downfall of humanity. Something crossing surreality and future outlook based off of current happenings. A race of mutant human corpses conquering and enslaving the earth.”
TERROR CORPSE will headline the Metal and Beer Pre-Fest in Denver on December 4.
Tracklisting1. Pyre of Ash and Bone
2. Gate Zero
3. Womb of the Hollow Earth
4. Blissful Incineration
5. Fallout Obliteration
6. Nuclear Winter
7. Transmission Beta
8. The Hollow that Devours
9. Sons of Perdition
10. Into the Crypts of Rays (Celtic Frost cover)
TERROR CORPSE is:
Mat V. - Vocals/Guitar
Christian Larson - Bass/High vocals
Dobber Beverly - Drums/Guitar
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572578455775
https://terrorcorpse.bandcamp.com/album/systems-of-apocalypse
Montréal’s PHOBOCOSM has released a new song off their forthcoming album, GATEWAY. "UNBOUND" marks the album's second single. Stream it now at www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaA1nNAyQus
Dark
Descent Records will release Gateway on CD, vinyl, cassette and
digital formats on November 28.Pre-order the album at:
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
www.ddmsuo.eu
PHOBOCOSM previously released a stream of album track "Sempiternal Penance." Listen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wbH33wvvk0
Gateway stands as an unrelenting and eldritch death metal opus that seals one chapter while unveiling the next. The album includes material from every songwriting period of the band, some of it dating back to the Deprived and Bringer of Drought eras, as well as Foreordained, of course,” explains guitarist Samuel Dufour.
Gateway was recorded, mixed, and mastered by long-time collaborator Xavier Berthiaume (Gevurah, Sanctvs) during the same session as Foreordained, giving the two records a consistent sonic throughline while allowing Gateway to close established narratives. “We view it as the closing of a chapter for the band,” Dufour continues. “Not that our future material will be completely different from our existing material, far from it, but we have decided to do things a little differently next time around by adding new elements that haven’t appeared in our music before, exploring different dynamics and experimenting with a new tuning.
Thematically, Gateway grows from ideas first explored on Foreordained: “The song ‘Revival’ from Foreordained inspired the album’s theme, which is the fact that humans have been trying to live forever - or to unnaturally prolong life - since the dawn of time, often for reasons even more absurd than the pursuit of eternal life itself,” elaborates Dufour.
“We used this as the main theme and pushed the concept further, exploring the most repulsive forms of cruelty humans are capable of — even when using science as a means to prolong barbarity against their enemies.”
Visually, the album continues PHOBOCOSM’s collaboration with Lauri Laaksonen (Desolate Shrine, Convocation, Pestilent Hex). “From looking at it, one can see that it is a gateway to something ominous, but what lies beyond is up to the listener.”
PHOBOCOSM will support Gateway with select North American performances, followed by European dates in 2026.
PHOBOCOSM is:
J.S.G.- Drums
S.D.- Guitars
E.B. - Vocals (lead), Bass
R.M. - Guitars
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/Phobocosm
Greek
Death/Thrash Metal powerhouse CREMATE has returned with
their fierce new official video, "DIE AS YOU LIVED." This
track is a high-octane, unforgiving assault of pure thrash and death metal
fury, cementing the band's position as a titan of the Greek metal scene."Die As You Lived" is a declaration of death without redemption. It stands as a defiant call for absolute accountability, rejecting illusion and falsehood with unwavering intensity. The track delivers an uncompromising message, confronting the past, calling out hypocrisy, and demanding truth over deception.
Delivered through relentless, pounding thrash riffs and a driving, almost ritualistic rhythm, the single explores profound existential and social undertones. It is a violent, honest farewell to those who lived—and will die—without purpose, urging the listener to confront the lies they have built their lives upon.
Adding a distinctive, haunting layer of darkness to the metallic assault is special guest Charalampos Paritsis AKA Lusty Apricot, whose chilling violin contribution drags the entire track deeper into its thematic abyss.
"Die As You Lived" is featured on CREMATE’s latest EP, READY TO FIGHT.
Stream the EP Ready To Fight: https://orcd.co/rtfep
Previous videos: https://youtu.be/-RdHOoRT-HA
Greek Death/Thrash metal band CREMATE was originally formed in Alimos, Athens, in 1991, establishing a raw, aggressive sound influenced by titans like Kreator and Sodom. Their 1993 demo End of Time earned international acclaim, followed by the 1995 7" EP Enchanting Black Recess, before the band disbanded.
In 2021, founder Christos reignited CREMATE alongside George (Drums) and longtime collaborator Akis Pastras (Guitar). The band revisited their seminal demo, re-envisioning the 90s Death/Thrash fury by infusing dark synthesized atmospheres and new arrangements under a contemporary production lens.
The resulting 4-track EP, Ready To Fight, embodies this powerful rebirth. It features three reworked classics—including "Die as You Lived" enhanced by haunting violin from Lusty Apricot—and the brand-new title track showcasing a solo from Marios Iliopoulos (Nightrage). Recorded and mixed by Akis Pastras and mastered by George Nerantzis (Rotting Christ, Abbath), the EP delivers an uncompromising, dynamic fusion of vintage aggression and modern dark textures.
www.youtube.com/@CREMATEtheband
www.facebook.com/crematetheband
Musician,
actor, and celebrated horror icon COURTNEY GAINS, known
for his role as Malachai in the 1984 horror classic Children of the Corn, has
released the official music video for his newest single, "FEAR THE
BOOGIE."Filmed on location at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, GA and the infamous Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, GA, the video also features footage from the first two installations of the Barn film series, provided by director Justin Seaman. The video was edited by Pat Dougherty.
Watch the video now at https://youtu.be/nLpFdgnZ60g
A hook-laden heavy rock horror anthem, "Fear the Boogie," is a collaboration between Gains and Peruvian guitarist/producer Wal. The song was written for the soundtrack to Barn III, an upcoming horror film starring Gains and Kelly Maroney (Fast Times at Ridgemont High).
Drums on the track were recorded by Toni Mateos , an accomplished session drummer with credits spanning rock, pop, and film music.
2024 saw Gains celebrate the 40th anniversary of Children of the Corn with a slate of horror-con appearances and a 35MM screening of the film at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain, regarded as the biggest horror/sci-fi festival across Europe. Recent projects include The Wrath of Becky, Thy Will Be Done, October 31, Lookout Weekend: Cruel Summer IV, Christmas Cowboy, and a standout role in the heavy-metal-infused horror film, Infernal. The Grime House Films production won Best Horror Feature Film at the Clout Film Fest. Watch the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYjV6oFtSYQ
The screening for Infernal took place at the infamous Bastrop, TX gas station featured in the 1974 classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Gains and his band played an exclusive set at the event. A live recording of the performance
is forthcoming.
In 2023, Gains released his Safe Haven EP — a six-track blend of rock, folk, and Americana that highlights his gritty vocals and honest songwriting. The critically acclaimed record captures a raw, roots-driven sound that reflects Gains’s hands-on approach and unfiltered style
Wal Bio:
Walter Peche, known artistically as Wal, is a Peruvian songwriter, guitarist, and producer whose music fuses the intensity of metal with the versatility of rock, blues, and pop. With more than a decade of experience, he has toured internationally across Mexico, Ecuador, and Colombia, establishing himself as one of Peru’s most distinctive and versatile musical voices.
While based in Peru, Wal and his band opened for legendary acts including KISS and The Smashing Pumpkins. Beyond live performance, he is also a seasoned mixing engineer and sound designer. A graduate of SCAD’s M.F.A. in Sound Design program, where he received the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award (2024), Wal brings cinematic depth and technical
mastery to every project.
As the founder of Rituality Records and Electric Andean Studios, Wal has built a creative hub where he writes, produces, and develops innovative music alongside emerging artists. Driven by vision, independence, and a passion for pushing boundaries, Wal continues to carve out his place as a bold new voice in the global rock and metal scene.
Line-up:
Courtney Gains - Vocals, Lyrics
Wal - Guitars, producer
Toni Mateos – drums
https://www.facebook.com/people/Courtney-Gains/100063431727264/
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: january 3rd 2026
Genre: Acoustic Doom / Pagan Folk
For fans of: Hagalaz’ Runedance | Myrkur | Wardruna | Stille Volk | Jo Quail
Beneath the fallen leaves and in the dance of the naked flame, in the shifting shapes of clouds and in the birdsong and the silence that surrounds it, there lies the pathway back to the essence of all we have been. On the edge of shadows and below the stars, in the stories that are spoken, now and forever, in the dreams that the devices and distractions of a sterile life blow away from our waking minds with nervous breath, there is truth that cannot be twisted and remade. There is substance and value; there is meaning and matter if we choose not to be led away - if we choose to see the passage of the sun, to hear the celebrations of the spring and the lamentations of the winter night.
From the mountains, lakes and forests of the Berkshires region in Massachusetts comes Forever Autumn, the unique musical entity created by Autumn Ni Dubhghaill. Autumn’s music has been called avant-garde, pagan folk, acoustic doom…and it is all of these things and more. The emotional weight of doom and the cold mystery of black metal certainly add their shadowed hues to the Forever Autumn palette of sound, but the essence of these songs is far older…it resounds in the heart of us all and its roots are those that bind us to the earth. For nearly quarter of a century Autumn has been spinning her tales, invoking magic with albums like Patience Of ðm Fire-Keeper and Howls In The Forest At Dusk, working with artists like cellist Jon McGrath and vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe of My Dying Bride; but for her latest creation Autumn walked a solitary path – writing, performing, recording and producing alone. The results are breathtaking in their stark power and overwhelming atmosphere. They are The Lamentations.
The Lamentations begins with ‘Beltaine’, hypnotising in the simplicity of its melody, deeply moving in its undercurrent of loss. Within moments it has transported us to a place of darkness and firelight with the beautiful immediacy of the sound. It’s as if Autumn Ni Dubhghaill sits on the other side of the flames, the quiet fervour of her voice painting pictures in the ever moving shadows. From here The Lamentations unfolds with a rare intimacy and sense of secrets shared. We stand in the quiet companionship of mutual sorrows and watch the seasons change through the smoke shrouded blues of ‘Self Portrait In Blue, Black And Grey’, we enter the unnerving presence of the withered, wise and powerful in the ancient reel of ‘Hexes And Wards’, lost in the dreams of witches, while ‘Fylgia And The Fetch’ is a revelation in its intensity. With an elemental and haunting vocal performance this acoustic rendering of black metal is stunning. The album continues through realms of lost thoughts and whispers, of openings and giving, warnings and warmth before ‘The Salt Of Mortality’ leads us on a walk through the dying of the year; chill reflections and future ponderings, the long shadows and short days of November. And then our time here is passed and we step once more from the deep truth of dreams into the harsh noise of a world that has moved on. But Autumn Ni Dubhghaill will always be waiting by the fire for our return.
Mixed by Robby Baier and mastered by Jack Control (Darkthrone, Inculter, Ice War etc) – the same team that added the final touches of sonic sorcery to Forever Autumn’s last release, the Crowned In Skulls EP – The Lamentations reverberates with life and possesses a sound rich in texture and deep, deep depths. Adorned in artwork painted by Autumn Ni Dubhghaill, from her Self-Portrait In Winter collection, The Lamentations will be released on January 3rd, the night of the January full moon, the Wolf Moon. Walk in its light to the sanctuary of Forever Autumn…
Line-up:
Autumn Ni Dubhghaill – All music and vocals
https://autumnnidubhghaill.com/
https://www.facebook.com/HailWoodlandSorcery/
Dutch symphonic metal band EPINIKION releases their new single “LESSONS IN LIFE (ARE FOR FREE)” - another milestone on the road toward the album release of ‘THE FORCE OF NATURE’ in February 2026.
Epinikion stands firmly in its power with the solid lineup this symphonic metal band has had since 2023. The second single from the album ‘The Force of Nature’ is a thunderous orchestral train, driven by fast guitar riffs and racing toward the wisdom that life is best taken as it comes.
“Lessons in Life (Are for Free)” will be released on November 20, 2025 - another milestone on the journey toward the full album release in February 2026. A swirling lyric video by Marnix Darwinkel visually reinforces the theme of the power of nature in this uplifting track.
“‘Lessons in Life (Are for Free)’ is entirely about the power of going with the flow - following the course of life and nature, knowing that this is how we learn our personal lessons best. Those lessons are available everywhere and for everyone, as long as we pay attention. The only thing we need to do is recognize them and start working with them when they cross our path” says Renate de Boer, Epinikion’s songwriter.
“Lessons in Life (Are for Free)” will be streaming on all platforms on Thursday, November 20th 2025
The album was produced by Jacob Hansen, who created an amazingly clear yet beautifully heavy sound through his signature mixing and mastering. For the artwork, Giannis Nakos crafted near-magical visuals that perfectly capture the essence of the album and its songs.
The release of ‘The Force of Nature’ will be celebrated with a spectacular release show on February 6 at pop venue Sound Dog in Breda - the same place where the first video “The Force of Nature” was recorded. A new era for Epinikion begins with this fantastic package of 12 new songs that will appeal to both metal fans and mainstream listeners.
BiographyEpinikion is known for its energetic shows and strong connection with the audience. Kimberley Jongen impresses with her classically trained, bright voice.
Maarten Jungschläger is known for his heavier metal projects, yet also excels as a symphonic metal lead guitarist.
Rutger Klijn is a seasoned bassist whose distinctive and technical bass lines firmly establish Epinikion on the metal map.
Robert Tangerman not only composes together with keyboardist and partner Renate de Boer, but as rhythm guitarist and arranger, he plays a major role in fine-tuning Renate’s creativity.
Michal Gis is the young, talented drummer who brings rhythmically unique contributions and delivers them with precision.
Experts see great potential for Epinikion to grow into a band performing at a highly professional level, gaining more visibility along the way. The joy that drives them only makes the future of Epinikion all the brighter.
Line up
Maarten Jungschläger – Lead Guitar
Rutger Klijn – Bass
Kimberley Jongen – Vocals
Michal Gis – Drums
Renate de Boer – Keys
Robert Tangerman – Rhythm Guitar
https://www.facebook.com/epinikion
Their
debut album "VII VITIUM" was released a few
days ago, and Venetian Dark Occult band VII VITIUM presents now a new
lyric video from their release. It's "AVARIZIA / MAMMONA",
featuring special guests Joe Fè of CULTUS SANGUINE on vocals, Dario Vicariotto
on lead guitar, and Luca Gregori on backing vocals. The lyric video, created by
Stefano Mastronicola, is available at https://youtu.be/gSk4OO792jEThis is also an opportunity to invite you to the band's release party, taking place on Friday, November 21st at Club Il Giardino 2.0 in Lugagnano di Sona (VR). The band will be joined by numerous guests, including Sandra Silvestre, Dario Vicariotto, Emiliano Cioffi, and John Goldfinch.
Don't miss it!!
Order the LP and deluxe edition at: https://t.ly/TGN78
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/VIIVITIUM
French
Chaotic Hardcore Powerhouse BTK (BIND TORTURE KILL) Unleashes New
Video “LAPIDÉE” from 'SAUVAGERIE' albumFFO : ALL PIGS MUST DIE, Converge, Napalm Death, Sect, Trap Them...
One year after unleashing their third album 'Sauvagerie', French chaotic hardcore trio BIND TORTURE KILL strike again with the release of their final video — an intense visual interpretation of the track “Lapidée”, now available on YouTube.
Following the devastation of previous singles like “Fétide”, this last chapter captures the raw energy, fury, and emotional depth that have cemented BTK’s reputation as one of the most uncompromising acts in the French underground scene.
Lapidée closes the 'Sauvagerie' era with a visceral punch — brutal, unfiltered, and unrelenting.
...For the record...
BTK (Bind Torture Kill) is a chaotic hardcore trio from Lyon, France, formed in 2010. After several lineup changes, the band stripped down to its core in 2015 — drums, guitar, and screams — channeling pure, unfiltered aggression.
Their discography charts a steady descent into darkness:
Condamné (2015), Viscères (2018, via WOOAAARGH!, Troffea, and Hell-J Industries), and Sauvagerie (2023), recorded at Warmaudio and mastered by Nick Zampiello (New Alliance East, Boston).
Armed with a crushing triple-amp setup and HM2-fueled tone, BTK fuses death, crust, grind, and blackened hardcore into a dense wall of chaos — brutal, bleak, and unmistakably their own.
https://www.facebook.com/scoreav
https://btkmetal.bandcamp.com/album/sauvagerie
Watch the lyric video here: https://youtu.be/9PzYDwaMB28
"Alyssa" is now available on all major streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/monolicht-alyssa
Monolicht is a dark metal band from Finland, founded in 2015 and still performing with its original lineup. The band’s music draws inspiration from northern mysticism, channeling the melancholy and cold austerity of shadowed forests and frozen streams.
Line up
Vocals: Kalle Raijonkari
Guitar: Mikko Kupiainen
Guitar: Jukka Saarinen
Bass: Joonas Kolehmainen
Drums: Antti Hyvönen
https://linktr.ee/monolichtband
Augustus
Omnipotens is a conceptual journey through the rise of Octavian, later
Augustus, the first Emperor of Rome. Each track captures a key moment in his
path: from avenging Julius Caesar’s death, through political alliances and
brutal battles, to the final triumph of peace under the Pax Romana. The lyrics
weave together history, mythology, and personal legacy, portraying Augustus not
only as a ruler but as a symbol of transformation, from civil war and betrayal
to order and empire. It’s an album about power, fate, and the price of
immortality.Driven by a visceral blend of blackened death metal, the music amplifies the narrative’s intensity: ferocious riffs embody the chaos of war, thunderous drums echo the march of legions, and sinister growls summon the weight of fate and bloodshed. In Augustus Omnipotens, music and lyrics merge into a monumental opus, where history is not only told but felt.
Tracklist
01 – In Aeternam
02 – Octavianus
03 – Caesar Divi Filius
04 – Gladium Stringere
05 – Triuvirat
06 – Dura Lex Sed Lex
07 – Mortem Proditorum
08 – Mylae Invicta
09 – Dedecus Magni Lepidi
10 – Ultimum Bellum
11 – Pax Romana
About DEOS:
Formed in 2014 by Fabio Battistella, Jack Graved, and Loïc Depauwe, DEOS have built a reputation for combining the ferocity of extreme metal with a passion for Ancient Rome that extends through their lyrics, artwork, and stagecraft. Their debut Ghosts of the Empire arrived in 2015, followed by In Nomine Romae in 2017 and extensive touring across France, Switzerland, and beyond. In 2021 they began work on their third record Furor Belli, mastered by J.-F. Dagenais (Kataklysm, Ex Deo) and released in 2022 via Wormholedeath, which led to the North Imperial Tour MMXXII. Over the past years they have continued to spread their vision of Roman metal across Europe, including London’s legendary Cart & Horses.
Now, with Augustus Omnipotens, DEOS take their concept further than ever before. Recorded between autumn 2024 and spring 2025 and once again mastered by Dagenais, the album is both a celebration of Rome’s past and a declaration of the band’s future.
DEOS are:
Jack “Janus” Graved (bass, vocals)
Fabio Battistella (guitar, backing vocals)
Cédric “Cedd” Boehm (guitar, backing vocals)
Loïc Depauwe (drums)
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‘Eye
Of The Storm’ is lyrically about the government unleashing its fury
on mankind, wiping them from the face of the earth, using superstorms as its
weapon of choice. Seemingly, a natural disasters that uproot families and
entire communities from their homes. Taking family, friends, household pets,
and all you possess and destroying lives. Eye Of The Storm tells you to be
ready. Prepare for the deluge, as the floods will wash you away. This song
is a powerhouse that is going to make your senses explode as you enter the ‘Eye
Of The Storm’ The music video, shot and directed by lead singer Erick Laurino, is nothing short of a thrill ride. Packed with images of the band performing, mixed in with footage that any storm chaser would love to pursue. This video leaves your heart racing and wanting more. Thy Kingdom Come!
Stream the single: https://orcd.co/eotssingle
'Eye of the Storm' is a track taken from the band's album "Proving Grounds, Vol. 1", out via Wormholedeath.
Stream “Proving Grounds Devastation”: https://orcd.co/pgd
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About Mass Punishment
New Jersey’s Mass Punishment deliver unflinching Apocalypse Metal — a brutal fusion of social awareness and unrelenting power.
Formed by Army veteran Chris “Axe” Milos, the band channels real-world chaos into explosive, thought-provoking metal. With frontman Erick “Maverick” Laurino commanding the mic and Ed “Arc Angel” Musto anchoring the low end, their sound blends aggression with message.
Signed to WormHoleDeath Records, Mass Punishment have shared stages with Machine Head, Soulfly, Meshuggah, Emmure, and GWAR, pushing forward with conviction and zero compromise. Their full-length debut, Proving Grounds Devastation, and recent singles, Enemy Within and Blood Dirt, mark them as one of the most fearless rising names in modern metal.
Upcoming EP:
As of Fall 2025, Mass Punishment is mixing their first EP with Eric Rachel.
The EP will be mastered by Ted Jensen and will feature several special guest appearances. Expected release: Spring 2026.
Endorsements:
Both Arc and Axe recently received their first endorsement deal with DR Strings.
Touring:
The band will embark on their first international tour in April 2026, supporting Warbringer on a Japanese run.
Drummer Anthony Coota (Blindfolded and Led to the Woods, New Zealand) will join the lineup for the tour and upcoming studio sessions.
Next Album:
Recording begins January 2026, with George Pond returning as producer.
Mass Punishment is:
Erick “Maverick” Laurino
Chris “Axe” Milos
Ed “Arc” Angel
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Baltimore (MD) - One-man Melodic Doom Metal outfit, ORCHID THRONE, has releeased "DREAMWORLD," the first single and epic opening track from forthcoming debut full-length, BURIED IN BLACK.
Stream "Dreamworld" at: https://orchidthrone.bandcamp.com/track/dreamworld
FFO: Swallow the Sun, Anathema, Woods of Ypres, Novembers Doom, Draconian
Orchid Throne is set to release Buried in Black on January 9, 2026! The project consists solely of Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) who performs the music, as well as producing, mixing and mastering the album.
After nearly 17 years of playing supporting roles in various bands, Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) is proud to make his debut as a solo artist as the man behind Orchid Throne. Bonsanto not only wrote and performed all of the music for Buried in Black, but also produced, mixed, and mastered the album.
While not a concept album, Buried in Black weaves themes of anxiety, depression, fear of death, and the search for life’s meaning throughout its lyrics. The title describes both the music itself and the feelings that Bonsanto has kept buried within for years. It may sound bleak, but what is buried in black will be set free and brought to light on January 9.
“This album is a long time coming for me,” said Bonsanto. “For more than a decade, I collected little recordings of ideas in the hope that one day they’d be useful. I could not be more proud of myself for how the album came out and for all of the things I have learned along the way.”
Bonsanto's Musical Journey to Buried in Black:
“As a musician performing in bands since I was 16, people who know me have seen me play a supportive role, and hear my musical contributions to my bands. But not everyone knows that I have always dreamed of releasing a record of my own. I am passionate about all kinds of music, and while I love playing in my current bands, doom metal is a big love that I long felt like I had no outlet for.
“While I’ve honed my songwriting abilities over the years, I began this project with zero knowledge of how to produce a record on my own. I introduced Orchid Throne to the world one year ago on my birthday with only one song done. Over the past year, I have finished writing, recording, and producing my entire debut record. I have finally achieved this goal and it's even better than I ever imagined it could be. It means so much to me to get this out there, to truly reflect who I am as an artist, and I’m already excited to create more.”
Pre-order Buried
in Black: https://orchidthrone.bandcamp.com/album/buried-in-blackTrack Listing:
1. Dreamworld
2. Ephemerality
3. What Defines us
4. Moonlight Revelry
5. Guilt
6. Breath of Autumn
7. With Promise
Credits:
Album artwork painted by Ryan Gassaway.
Music and Lyrics written by Nick Bonsanto.
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Nick Bonsanto.
All instruments performed by Nick Bonsanto.
Flute on “Breath of Autumn” and “With Promise” performed by Mary Beck.
Orchid Throne is:
Nicholas Bonsanto - All instruments.
Bio:
Orchid Throne is a Melodic Doom Metal one-man band created by Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Orchid Throne is set to release its debut full-length album on January 9, 2026, titled Buried in Black. The album features a spellbinding variety of dark, heavy, and emotional material that beckons you to fall into the endless black. Drawing influence from a range of sounds such as melodic death metal, black metal, progressive rock, and folk, Orchid Throne is music from the heart for fellow souls who need it most.
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WITCHER – “ÖRÖKLÉT”
Label: Filosofem RecordsRelease date: november 2025
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
For fans of: Summoning | Avrigus | Empyrium | Eldamar
All that we were may have faded from the concrete streets, choked in smoke, our identity fractured and fragmented by the onslaught of modernity…but far from the boxes that enclose us and the algorithms that dictate our desires and direct our thoughts, beneath the trees, on the mountain tops, in the arms of the undying winds that traversed the world when the old gods walked, in the light of the moon and the dark of the shadows…we are eternal.
WitcheR emerged, as if from the pages of Hungarian folklore, back in 2010 and have since crafted an array of bewitching music, steeped in the history and mythology of their homeland. 2022s Lélekharang was a pivotal moment in the band’s career, lifting WitcheR to a new level creatively and it was followed by the remarkable 2024 EP of classical music adaptations entitled Boszorkányszimfóniák. Now it is time to unveil the next chapter in the tale of WitcheR – Ӧröklét…
“This record is not merely music — it is a gateway. Whoever crosses it will never be the same again. It is a moment of realization, when one understands that everything fades… and yet, everything remains eternal.” – WitcheR
Ӧröklét begins with the rich, haunting keys and powerful, mid-paced riffs of ‘Ӧrökség’ (Heritage) and with its air of majesty, melancholy and reflection, entwined in mystery and moonlight, it seems steeped in the very essence of all that word implies. Listening to WitcheR is like slipping into a dream and that has never been more true than with Ӧröklét. ‘Szélhozó’ (Windbringer) overflows with a spellbinding romanticism and the dual vocals of Gere Karola and Neubauer Roland – rather than dominating the music – slip between its textured layers like dryad spirits between the trees. This is WitcheR at their most beautiful and evocative. ‘Röghöz kötött’ (Soil-bound) and stately title track ‘Ӧröklét’ (Eternity) both move with the measured steps of medieval dances, courtly and chivalric. They draw out vast depths of emotion, in such contrast to the shallowness of modern society. With its weight, value and artistic worth WitcheR create music that stands outside of time. The album concludes with a reworking of Franz Schubert’s ‘Piano Trio No. 2 - Andante con moto’, which shows the gift that WitcheR have for interpreting classical pieces with respect for and understanding of the original music, whilst still transforming these masterful compositions into something entirely WitcheR in character. Something that could be crass in the hands of another band becomes breathtaking through the application of WitcheR’s subtle sorcery. With Ӧröklét, WitcheR have continued down their characterful path of atmospheric dark metal, becoming ever more unique and moving further beyond imitation; a precious and irreplaceable jewel in the world of imaginative, passionate music.
Adorned in the enthralling sepia toned imagery of Balázs Pénzes of Grafit & Hamu Artworks (Korp, Vrag, Siculicidium etc), who also provided the visual elements for Lélekharang and Boszorkányszimfóniák, the digital, cassette and CD versions of Ӧröklét were released by Filosofem Records on November 4th and the vinyl edition will follow, from Beverina Productions, coming late November. Let your eyes close and feel the world slip away as WitcheR lead you down forest paths, past lakes of crystal waters to a place where magic is in the air and reality is all that it is meant to be.
Line-up:
Gere Karola – Synths/Vocals
Neubauer Roland – Guitars/Drums/Vocals
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NO WORTH OF MAN – “THE KILLING STREETS”
Label: Brutal RecordsRelease date: february 13th 2026
Genre: Extreme Metal
For fans of: Gojira | Machine Head | Lamb Of God | Sepultura
Miami, 1985…it ain’t a nice place to be. It’s becoming like hell on earth, with the undead lurking down every alleyway and hovering on the margins of the ubiquitous neon glow. The vampires have infiltrated every strata of this cesspool of secrets and vice we laughingly call a society and they’re draining us dry; biting and bloodsucking their way to total domination. It’s hard to know who to trust – who’s got your back and who’s going to sink their teeth in when you turn it. But we’re not quite done yet; us humans, we have our champions…a group of men whose accumulated firepower is matched only by the garishness of their garb. They call themselves No Worth Of Man and they’re taking back our dirty streets one stake at a time.
Scourge of vampires and purveyors of the very heaviest of extreme metal, No Worth Of Man are an inexorable war machine. Having honed their skills, upgraded their weaponry and refined their tactics over a series of EPs and singles, the band are now ready to unleash their full length debut album. The Killing Streets erupts with the colossal riffs of ‘I Defy’ and the essence of that title can be heard in every soul shaking vocal roar and felt in every bone splintering drum beat. There is no room for debate or compromise with this band; they are resolute, defiant, solid steel to the end. ‘Those Of Our Kind’ transports you to the late night streets, moving between the pools of neon light, ready to unleash a barrage of lead and silver. The titanic vocal power of Peter Gale is staggering as he blasts his way through the bulldozing grooves laid down by drummer Gareth Lucas and guitarist Alex Punchard. However, to assume that The Killing Streets is simply a remorseless weapon of mass destruction would be a mistake. Yes, it hits hard, time and time again, but there are dark melodies seething beneath the body armour and muscle and the atmosphere of the fear filled streets is thrilling and immersive, the ever tightening tension fed by a threat of imminent violence. As the riffs of ‘Death Reflections’ roll you’re right there, looking down the barrel at the predators in need of some shotgun redemption. Concluding track ‘Kill Of Gold’ brings everything that is great about No Worth Of Man together in one final bloodbath. It’s savagely addictive and possesses the biggest, sharpest hooks of all, strong enough to hang a vampire on. It’s a fantastically accomplished display of song writing, a perfectly paced, devastating ending that leaves the listener with a hunger for more.
Mixed and mastered by Fredrick Nordstrom (Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquillity, In Flames etc) The Killing Streets sounds magnificent – the crowning glory of a career that began back in 2016. No Worth Of Man’s unique chemistry has become more potent with each release and The Killing Streets is set to crush everything in its path when Brutal Records unleash its formidable force on Friday, February 13th – definitely a date of ill omen for the undead fraternity!
Line-up:
Peter Gale - Vocals
Alex Punchard - Guitars
Gareth Lucas – Drums
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For fans of : Belphegor, God Dethroned, Hate, Incantation, Marduk, Morbid Angel and Vader.
Blood Of The Wolf return to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions the new album V: Indomitable! Hailing from Chicago Illinois, Blood Of The Wolf retaliate with overwhelming vengeance, pulverizing the weak with eight new songs executed with barbaric cruelty. Prepare yourself for murky massive riffs, relentless blast beats and commanding vocals on V: Indomitable... all glory to the Gods of War!
Listen
to the single "Assembled To Annihilate" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjmKg-6vt9ATrack listing:
1. Tempest Of Purifying Fire
2. Extinction Eclipse
3. Glory To The Gods Of War
4. Oath Of Supremacy
5. Assembled To Annihilate
6. Baptized In Fire And Combat
7. Flesh For The Warfather
8. Indomitable
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LUST OF DECAY – “ENTOMBED IN SEWAGE”
Label: Comatose
MusicRelease date: december 12th 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse | Psycroptic | Disavowed | Prostitute Disfigurement
In the quietude beneath the city streets, the silence broken only by the slow dripping of polluted water and the chittering voices of the rats, in this forgotten place of filth and stench, they find a strange kind of peace. The screaming is over, the torment is complete, there is only endless sleep for these abused and broken bodies. And if the rats take sustenance from their bruised and lacerated flesh it is a gift they give without resentment. Embracing each other, entwined in cold comfort, they lie forever entombed in sewage…
Twenty five years since their tale of terror began and far too long a time since the release of their last album back in 2006, the demigods of death, legends of the underworld, Lust Of Decay have returned! They carry with them, in their bloodstained, disease riddled hands something bleak and soul destroying, ten new commandments of depravity and tragedy, new incitements to violence and degradation – their long, long awaited fourth full length album – Entombed in Sewage. From the first shocking moments of opening track, ‘Parasitic Exsanguination’, twisted riffs ensnare you and vocals from the other side of death engulf you. Drums deliver absolute oblivion and though the tempos shift the impact is never less than decimating. You can feel the knowledge, experience and dedication to the pursuit of brutality and extremity in every dextrous and deadly note. Featuring current and ex members of Atrocious Abnormality, Cesspool of Vermin, Coathanger Abortion and Shuriken Cadaveric Entwinement in their ranks, Lust Of Decay know more than a thing or two about the desolate arts of death. There are so many great riffs throughout this album and the drumming is simply phenomenal, not just driving the songs forward but playing a vital role in their dynamics and development. While the brutality is unquestionably unrelenting, there is so much going on in songs like the feast of rot and horror that is first single ‘Nourishing The Swine’. The song writing that has created ‘Fetal Contamination Process’ is several steps above most of Lust Of Decay’s genre contemporaries in its fascinating complexity. Every song is a definitive example of brutal death metal at its musically proficient, wickedly imaginative and
shocking best – and the three final songs, ‘Order 66’, ‘Desiccate The Epithelium’ and title track ‘Entombed In Sewage’ are simply incredible; a triptych of awesome atmosphere, magnificent destruction and nightmares brought to life. Entombed In Sewage will be gate crashing the end of year lists for the best that brutal death has offered up in 2025.
Mixed and mastered by Tony Tipton (Between The Killings, Necrotic Disgorgement, Reap etc) Entombed In Sewage has a surprisingly bright and vibrant sound that brings every element, every weapon in the Lust Of Decay armoury into play, to tremendous effect. The cover artwork that adorns this malignant offering, created by Daemorph Art (Aborted Fetus, Avulsed, Holycide etc), is a masterpiece of grim despondency – the perfect visual depiction of the overwhelming music that lies within. Irresistible in every sense of the word, Entombed In Sewage will be unleashed upon the world by Comatose Music on December 12th – a knife from the dark into the throat of the festive season.
Line-up:
Jay Barnes – Vocals
Steve Green – Guitars & Backing Vocals
Ryan Coulter – Bass
Jordan Varela – Drums
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CELTIC
FROST
unveil “MORBID TALES” Fine Art & Precious Metal Collection . Officially approved and overseen by Tom G. Warrior; features a bronze sculpture and silver jewellery, transforming the band’s visual aesthetic into collectable fine art
Available to pre-order now exclusively via Down With The Most High Productions, with first non-bespoke items shipping in early December
Showcases to take place in London, UK (7 Dec), Madrid, Spain (13 Dec) and Winds of Agony Festival, Barcelona (17-18 Apr 2026)
Madrid, Spain; 17 November 2025:
A limited collection of Celtic Frost fine art and jewellery, overseen and approved by Tom G. Warrior, is set to be unleashed via Down With The Most High Productions. The items are now available for pre-order, with non-bespoke items shipping from 10 December, and bespoke items (such as the bronze sculpture) shipping from 10 January 2026. The collection pays homage to the dark spirit of the extreme metal pioneers and their influential debut EP “Morbid Tales”.
The collection features nine items in total, encompassing both bespoke fine art and premium accessories produced in Spain and the EU. The focus is on authentic materials and high-quality production. The centrepiece is an awe-inspiring Bronze Sculpture (made-to-order), representing the ultimate expression of Celtic Frost’s visual aesthetic. Each sculpture is hand-cast, guaranteeing a collector-grade finish that transcends typical merchandise.
The premium accessories include Silver Jewellery (Ring and Pendant) and a heavy Belt Buckle, crafted from precious metal to an exceptional level of detail, and are also produced on demand.
The collection is completed by a T-shirt that combines flat and 3D screen printing, a detailed embroidered Back Patch on synthetic leather, a Banner, a Sticker and a Button Badge.
Purchase collection items: https://downwiththemosthigh.com/celticfrost/
The collection is the result of years of devoted development, focusing on high manufacturing standards and supreme craftsmanship. It transforms the uncompromising dark aesthetic and immense creative richness of “Morbid Tales”, an EP first released in 1984, and pivotal in the evolution of extreme metal, into durable, investment-grade objects.
Preview events showcasing the craftsmanship are scheduled for London, UK (Helgi’s, 7 December), Madrid, Spain (The Rock Temple, 13 December) and Winds of Agony Festival, Barcelona, Spain (17-18 April 2026), with more to come in 2026.
Daniel Dabadan Gayoso, Founder of Down With The Most High Productions and Curator of the Celtic Frost collection, said:
"This project was born out of a decades-long devotion to Celtic Frost and the Morbid Tales album. This is not simply merchandise; every piece, from the silver jewellery to the bronze sculpture, adheres to a fine art production standard. We aimed to create official collectables that reflect the gravity and artistic commitment of the music itself, ensuring this legacy is preserved through objects of genuine quality."
Down With The Most High Productions (DWTMH) is a Spanish independent label and creative outlet specialising in high-end, niche releases across the black, death and thrash metal spectrum. Known for its strong focus on physical media excellence, and working with underground legends such as Tormentor, Possessed, Blasphemy, Beherit, Necromantia, Mystifier, Absu, Imprecation and Baxaxaxa, DWTMH seeks to elevate extreme metal's visual and collectable components beyond standard merchandise. This Celtic Frost collection is a definitive example of the label’s commitment to premium, art-focused production and preserving the heritage of seminal metal works.
COLLECTION
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SCUPLTURE MAKING OF
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RING MAKING OF
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Technical specifications of the bespoke items
Bronze Sculpture
30 × 43 cm die-cast bronze, hand-moulded sculpture with a green patina finish.
Presented in a 36 × 47 × 7 cm lacquered wooden lightbox with a sliding methacrylate lid.
Features an upholstered base covered in synthetic leather fabric and a screen-printed DWTMH stamped logo on the back of the box.
Equipped with steel hasps for wall mounting.
Includes a hand-numbered certificate of authenticity.
Silver Pendant
4.5 × 6 cm 925 sterling silver pendant with a reinforced silver chain.
Pendant weight: 66 g (plus chain).
Presented in a deluxe soft matte-touch box with slipcase, featuring a black velvet interior with CELTIC FROST and DWTMH red hot-foil logos, stamped on the top of the slipcase and on the reverse of the box lid, respectively.
Includes a hand-numbered certificate of authenticity, plus an additional protective black custom jewellery mailer box.
Silver Ring
3 × 4 cm 925 sterling silver signet ring.
Average weight: 27 g (depending on size).
Presented in a deluxe soft matte-touch box with slipcase, featuring a black velvet interior with CELTIC FROST and DWTMH red hot-foil logos, stamped on the top of the slipcase and on the reverse of the box lid, respectively.
Includes a hand-numbered certificate of authenticity, plus an additional protective black custom jewellery mailer box.
Belt Buckle
Available in three versions:
Cast in 925 sterling silver (215 g), or
Brass with either an aged or silver-plated finish (both 175 g).
Presented in a deluxe soft matte-touch box with slipcase, featuring a black velvet interior with CELTIC FROST and DWTMH red hot-foil logos, stamped on the top of the slipcase and on the reverse of the box lid, respectively.
Includes a hand-numbered certificate of authenticity, plus an additional protective black custom jewellery mailer box.
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Ferkaad is essentially a musical experiment led by Munoz—who's mainly known for his metal work—as a creative outlet across genres. The collective treats each album as its own creative adventure, bringing in different musicians to tell stories through sound alone.
How It Started
Ferkaad's origin story is pretty organic. During the tail end of Covid restrictions in Singapore, Munoz got together with Australian jazz drummer Anthony Howe and Cuban percussionist Pablo Calzado for what was supposed to be just a casual jam session. Even though they only captured it on phone recordings, Munoz heard something special in those rough takes. That night became the catalyst for Ferkaad—a space where progressive musicians could experiment freely.
The Album
A Different Kind of Animosity is built around the core partnership of Zigor Munoz and guitarist/producer Niels van der Steenhoven, with talented guests rounding out the sound. They recorded across six cities throughout 2024 and 2025—Haarlem, Stilton, Rotterdam, Helsinki, Köln, and Toronto—before Benni Schäfer mixed and mastered everything at Horus Studios in Hannover, Germany.
About the album title, Munoz says:
"It reflects where we are right now. I can't wrap my head around the fact that it's 2025 and we're still at war with each other, still can't seem to agree on much for very long."
The music itself expresses things that don't need words. Munoz describes an interesting creative process: "Half the album came to me one afternoon just sitting on my couch. The other half hit me in the studio while I was finishing up those first songs—maybe 20 minutes total of inspiration. Those are just the foundational ideas I wrote on bass, though. Turning them into finished tracks took considerably longer."
Looking Ahead
The beauty of Ferkaad lies in constant evolution. Each album will feature different musicians, guaranteeing that every release has its own personality and influences. The next album, In Marvelous Hindsight, will spotlight Lex van der Zwaal (who guests on this debut) in a fresh take on Ferkaad's progressive sound. Munoz and van der Zwaal are planning to start recording this fall.
The lineup changes, but the mission stays the same: creating instrumental music that pushes boundaries and tells stories without words.
Munoz wraps it up like this:
"Thanks for taking time to listen to what we've made. There's something magical about instrumental music—it lets everyone bring their own meaning to what they hear. No lyrics to steer you in any particular direction. Just listen, enjoy, and thanks again."
Track
Listing:1. A Different Kind of Animosity (feat. Derek Sherinian)
2. Placatory Gesture (feat. Hernán Martínez)
3. Esprit (feat. Lex van der Zwaal)
4. Verbal Jousting
5. Attitudinally (feat. Peter Shannon)
Credits:
Niels van der Steenhoven – lead & rhythm guitars.
Zigor Munoz – bass.
Jari Kankare – saxophone.
Tim Newcombe – keyboards.
Rob Stone – drums (guest).
Lex van der Zwaal – guest solo on "Esprit."
Hernán Martínez – guest solo on "Placatory Gesture."
Peter Shannon – guest solo on "Attitudinally."
Derek Sherinian – keyboards on "A Different Kind of Animosity."
https://ferkaad.bandcamp.com/album/a-different-kind-of-animosity
"THE
CRIES OF EVIL" is
the title of EVOKED ECLIPSE debut album which will be
released on Club Inferno Ent. next February 6th, 2026.Mastered by Jens Bogren at the world-famous Fascination Street Studios (Opeth, Katatonia, Dimmu Borgir, Arch Enemy, Sepultura, Kreator etc. etc.), today we reveal the album cover realized by Gogo Melone and the tracklist which is as follows:
1. Enchantment
2. The Cries Of Evil
3. Land Of The White Spirit Lady
4. Mournishments
5. The Watch Of Spirits
6. Drops Of Blood
7. Illusions Of The Life
8. Ascension
The album in its CD format is already available for pre-order at https://t.ly/7Lvki
Led by Max Havler (ex-OPHIDIAN – ex-SHRIVEL), EVOKED ECLIPSE's sound is closely tied to the Scandinavian Black Metal and Death Metal scene, primarily Swedish, with references to Dissection, Naglfar, but also the melodic Death Metal of Dark Tranquillity and Opeth and the melancholic Doom Gothic elements of early Katatonia!
"The Cries Of Evil" will be out on February 6th, 2026 in CD and digital format.
Just be ready to a new vision of Extreme Music
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ANAGNOSIS presents “LABOURS OF HERCULES” – A Folk/Neoclassical journey into the most iconic mythic trials.
Anagnosis returns with a bold new instrumental album, “Labours of Hercules,” an immersive folk/neoclassical interpretation of the Twelve Labours—one of the most enduring legends in Greek mythology. Following the atmospheric depth of Homer’s Odyssey, this new release dives into the raw power, symbolism, and heroic struggle of Hercules, transforming myth into sound.
Album Concept
Labours of Hercules is built around the legendary trials imposed upon Hercules—twelve impossible tasks that test strength, morality, endurance, and divine will. Each instrumental track represents a different labour, unfolding like a sonic fresco of ancient heroism. From monstrous creatures to supernatural challenges, the album recreates the emotional and physical landscapes that Hercules traversed.
Style & Sound
Anagnosis blends Folk, Neoclassical, and Mythic Ambient elements, weaving together ancient timbres, ritualistic percussion, and cinematic harmonies. The result is a sound that feels both archaic. Listeners will encounter:
Folk instrumentation reminiscent of ancient pastoral life
Neoclassical arrangements evoking heroism and grandeur
Atmospheric textures inspired by mythic landscapes and spiritual symbolism
The music speaks without words, offering psychological depth, mythic resonance, and room for personal interpretation.
Mood & Listening Experience
The album balances intensity and serenity—alternating between battle, pursuit, mystery, and divine wonder. Its tones range from dark and primal to uplifting and ceremonial.
Listeners will experience:
the tension of the hunt,the terror of monstrous encounters,the discipline of heroic duty,and the mystical quiet before triumph.
Each piece stands as a self-contained chapter, yet together they form a cohesive musical epic, honoring the spirit of ancient storytelling.
Tracklist
Capturing and Bringing Back Cerberus – 03:49
Capturing the Ceryneian Hind – 03:49
Capturing the Cretan Bull – 04:22
Capturing the Erymanthian Boar – 03:49
Cleaning the Augean Stables in a Single Day – 02:41
Obtaining the Cattle of the Three-Bodied Giant Geryon – 03:16
Obtaining the Girdle of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons – 03:16
Slaying the Nemean Lion – 03:49
Slaying the Nine-Headed Lernaean Hydra – 03:16
Slaying the Stymphalian Birds – 02:43
Stealing the Mares of Diomedes – 02:43
Stealing Three of the Golden Apples of the Hesperides – Bonus conceptual finale
Why It Connects
Labours of Hercules appeals to fans of neoclassical folk, dark mythic ambient, and storytelling-driven instrumental music. By focusing on atmosphere over narration, it invites listeners to step inside the legend through their own imagination.
This is not just a retelling of the myth—it is a sound-ritual of heroic struggle, a tribute to the endurance and spirit of one of antiquity’s greatest figures.
Availability
The album will be available on all major music platforms, including Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music.
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ULCERATE FESTER – “UNCEASING LIFE, CONTRADICTIO INTERMINUS”
Ulcerate Fester was a one of the early Dutch death metal bands from Almelo, The Netherlands, formed in 1989. After two promising demo's, 2 tracks on a Dutch compilation CD, the band released two full lengths. This compilation CD that includes the 2 demos recorded in 1990 and 1991 for true fans of Old European (Dutch!!) Death Metal. All songs are recorded and produced by Harry Weijering (Asphyx, Hail of Bullets) at Harrow Studios, Losser 1991, ‘92 and 1993. Bonus are 2 bonus tracks from 1991 and 1994. The booklet contains extensive liner notes and old and rare pictures. Ulcerate Fester members also played in Abrupt Demise, Anarchos, Eternal Solstice, Burning Hatred, Adetar, Jagannath and Etherial Winds. Remastered by Achilleas Kalantzis (Possessed, Vio Lence, Varathron).
ADETAR – “SINISTER RESURRECTION OF THE MORBID”
Adetar was a legendary but obscure death metal band from Enschede, The Netherlands. Unfortunately after two promising demo's the band ceased to exist. This compilation CD includes the 2 demos recorded in 1990 and 1991 for true fans of Old European Death Metal. Second demo ‘Death Deified’ was recorded by Harry Weijering (Asphyx, Hail of Bullets) at Harrow Studios, Losser 1991. Six live bonus tracks from 1990 – ’92 , including two never released tracks. Extensive liner notes from Steven Willems (Rock Tribune, Streams of Ancient Wisdom: The History of Dutch Death And Extreme Metal). Adetar members also played during the early 90’s in Ulcerate Fester, Jagannath, Dead Head, God Dethroned or still today in Putrefied Corpse. Partially remastered by Achilleas Kalantzis (Possessed, Vio-Lence, Varathron).
MALIGNANT- “SEGRUOCS LACITSAISELCCE”
Cult black death metal from the South of The Netherlands, formed in 1989. ‘Segruocs Lacitsaiselcce’ contains the bands second demo, the two official rehearsal demos and one special Asphyx related track. And featuring the classic line up of: Roel Sanders on drums (Asphyx, God Dethroned, Inhume), Guitars Ben Janssen (Inhume, ex-Asphyx), Bass & Vocals: Ron van de Pol (also featuring on Asphyx – Asphyx album from 1994). New cover art, remastered, Extensive liner notes from Steven Willems (Rock Tribune, Streams of Ancient Wisdom: The History of Dutch Death And Extreme Metal). Maybe most special is the track ‘Of Unsound Mind – Sectarianism‘ recorded at Woodhouse Studios where all Malignant members were to record Asphyx - Asphyx album (1994) and they recorded one Malignant track. All members were in Asphyx as well.
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Hi!
We are Alchemical Death Metal band TRIA PRIMA from Ukraine and we
want to give you our new mini album ‘THREE PRIMES OF ALCHEMY’ and
music video.Style: Death Metal with Doom/Dungeon Synth elements
Date release:18 November 2025
Label: Nocturnus Records (CD release)
Location: Zhytomyr (Ukraine)
First single: https://youtu.be/ZbvPp0cVrCU
Full album: https://youtu.be/7jMq0AamemU (use please after 18 november)
Press release:
Anira Star - female vocals
Evgeniy Maestro - solo guitars, keyboards (Bestial Invasion, Cosmic Jaguar, Violent Omen)
Recorded at Morrison Studio, Zhytomyr
Mixed and mastering at Nuts4all Studio, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Produced by Serhii D. D. Bondar
Covert by Grace Ace Blood
Design art by H.E.
triaprima.ua@gmail.com
https://www.youtube.com/@TriaPrimaband
https://triaprimaua.bandcamp.com/
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NEWS 16.11.2025
Damit
es bei euch daheim in keinster Weise irgendwie mal langweilig werden
soll , gibt es heute Mal wieder ein fetteres update in Sachen
metallischer Unterhaltung . Dieses mal gibt es aber nicht nur was
für eure Ohren , ne ,ihr könnt euren geistigen Horizont auch
mal wieder mit
richtig geilem Lesestoff erweitern . Auch in punkto der nächsten
FATAL UNDERGROUND Printausgabe geht es gut voran ,so dass wir euch dann
Ende des Jahres mit unserer Nr.60 beehren können .
Reviews
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KREUZIGER – „EEN ARTIGEN DOD“
DISTASE – „AGONIEPOSITUR“
METAL STRIKER Nr.4 (A4 - DEUTSCH)
KRACHMANIFEST NR.9 ( A4 / DEUTSCH)
DISTASE – „AGONIEPOSITUR“
METAL STRIKER Nr.4 (A4 - DEUTSCH)
KRACHMANIFEST NR.9 ( A4 / DEUTSCH)
BLASTING THE MOUNTAINS FEST | Pt. 1 – Offizieller
Vorverkaufsstart am 14.11.2025.Der offizielle Ticketvorverkauf für das neue Metal-Festival BLASTING THE MOUNTAINS FEST | Pt. 1 hat begonnen! Ab sofort können Hardtickets direkt über den gemeinnützigen Verein Hellbollwerk e.V. aus Ilsenburg (Harz) bestellt werden.
Genau ein Jahr vor dem Festival, das am 14. November 2026 die Harzlandhalle Ilsenburg zu einer bebenden Metal-Hochburg machen wird, ist nun der Startschuss für den VVK gefallen.
So funktioniert die Ticketbestellung
Die Bestellung erfolgt einfach und direkt über das Team des Hellbollwerk e.V. – ohne Zwischenhändler - szenenah und fair.
Kontaktmöglichkeiten:
• via Instagram-DM (@hellbollwerk_ev)
• per E-Mail: hellbollwerk@gmx.de
Hintergrund zum Hellbollwerk e.V. und seinem Zusammenschluss
Der Hellbollwerk e.V. wurde am 29. Juni 2025 in Ilsenburg gegründet und verfolgt ausschließlich und unmittelbar gemeinnützige Zwecke, insbesondere die Förderung von Kunst, Kultur sowie der regionalen Rock- und Metal-Subkultur im Raum Harz und Magdeburg.
Die Vision: Kultur in der Region sichtbar machen, junge Bands stärken, Räume für Kreativität schaffen und dabei regionale Musiklandschaften fördern, die andernorts oft wenig Aufmerksamkeit bekommen.
Hervorgegangen ist der Verein aus dem Zusammenschluss zweier langjähriger Underground-Initiativen – Elbbollwerk39 Concerts (Magdeburg) und Hellfire Over Ilsenburg – getragen von vier Freunden (Martin, Sebastian, Sven & David) und ihrer gemeinsamen Idee, etwas Nachhaltiges für die Szene aufzubauen.
Die Gründer – Martin, Sven, Sebastian & David – haben zwei bisher eigenständige Underground-Projekte vereint:
• „Elbbollwerk39 Concerts“ (Magdeburg) – bekannt für harte, ehrliche, bodenständige Undergroundshows
• „Hellfire Over Ilsenburg“ – ein wachsendes lokales Eventformat, das seit Jahren Bands in den Harz bringt
Aus dieser Freundschaft wurde ein gemeinsamer, gemeinnütziger Kulturverein, der künftig Konzerte, Workshops, Nachwuchsförderung und regionale Vernetzung betreiben wird – alles mit dem Ziel, die Szene nachhaltig zu stärken. Die Gründungsversammlung brachte dabei klar die Motivation hervor, regionale Musiker*innen, Veranstaltungsformate und kulturelle Projekte sichtbar zu machen und zugleich soziale Initiativen einzubinden.
Bedeutung für die Region Harz & Magdeburg
Mit der Gründung des Vereins übernimmt Hellbollwerk eine kulturpolitisch wichtige Rolle:
• Förderung der kulturellen Vielfalt
• Unterstützung junger regionaler Bands
• Aufbau eines aktiven Vereinslebens
• Durchführung gemeinnütziger und sozialer Projekte
• Etablierung neuer Kulturformate in einer ländlich geprägten Region
Weitere Projekte:
Neben dem großen Festival steht auch das nächste lokale Underground-Event bereits fest:
HELLFIRE OVER ILSENBURG | Pt. IV – 21.03.2026
Mit fünf Bands im Haus der Vereine im Ilsetal. Auch hierfür startete der Vorverkauf im Herbst 2025.
EXTREME ÄTTÄCK in Magdeburg | 29.05.2026 – weitere Informationen folgen
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Liebe Grüße aus Ilsenburg Euer Hellbollwerk e.V. – David Siegmund
Härter. Schärfer. Tiefer verwurzelt als je zuvor. Die Groove-Death-Metal-Band MAGNACULT kündigt die Veröffentlichung von LUCIS an, einem kraftvollen und spirituell aufgeladenen neuen Album. Auf diesem Album hat die Band ihren Sound verfeinert: massive Gitarrensoli, donnernde Basslinien, unerbittliche Grooves, kombiniert mit der Brutalität des klassischen Death Metal. Es ist der Höhepunkt jahrelanger kreativer Auseinandersetzung – persönlicher Verlust, Sucht, die globale Pandemie –, all das verdichtet in elf Tracks, die lautstark gehört werden wollen.
Tracklist :
01. Eternity's Gate
02. Darkest Truth
03. The Red Circle
04. Lucis I
05. Deceived From Day One
06. Heartless
07. Blackened Crystal
08. Lucis II
09. Winds of Creation
10. Final Decision I
11. Final Decision II
Dieses Album entstand in schwierigen Zeiten, präsentiert sich aber mit neuer Stärke und Zusammenhalt. Hinter den Kulissen arbeitete MagnaCult mit Joost van den Broek (Epica, Ayreon) an den Schlagzeugaufnahmen und Matt Bayles (Norma Jean, Mastodon, Pearl Jam) an seinem meisterhaften Mix und der Co-Produktion zusammen. Das Ergebnis ist ein intensives und ausgefeiltes Album mit elf Titeln voller Bedeutung und spiritueller Spannung. Auf Lucis erzählen die Songs von den Dämonen, die in uns allen lauern – und beschreiben die Wege, die wir beschreiten, wenn wir vor der Wahl zwischen Dunkelheit und Licht stehen.
Mit elf Titeln – darunter das polyphone „Final Decision I & II“ – präsentiert Lucis eine in sich geschlossene Erzählung. Der Titel selbst, lateinisch für „Licht“ oder „Erleuchtung“, unterstreicht das zentrale Thema des Albums: den inneren Kampf zwischen Dunkelheit und Erleuchtung. MagnaCult lädt die Hörer ein, diesen Weg mit ihnen zu gehen.
MagnaCult haben sich über die Jahre einen beeindruckenden Ruf als Live-Band erarbeitet. Sie teilten die Bühne in ganz Europa mit Größen wie Five Finger Death Punch, DevilDriver, Ill Niño, Nile, Kittie, Butcher Babies, Trivium, KING810, Whitechapel, Soulfly, Shadows Fall en Six Feet Under. Ihre Energie auf der Bühne und ihre bisherigen Support-Auftritte zeugen von einer Band, die bereit ist, ihre Präsenz weiter auszubauen. Mit einem neuen Album und neuer Besetzung planen sie nun eine intensive Konzertreihe im Jahr 2026.
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PHANTOM
CORPORATION
– Neue Single/Video „KROKODIL” ab jetzt online.The Death Crust Commando strikes back – louder, fiercer, heavier.
“Time And Tide” is here to crush everything in its path!
Seit ihrer Gründung 2016 sind PHANTOM CORPORATION eine unaufhaltsame Macht im Underground. Gegründet von Szene-Veteranen aus Bremen und Dortmund – mit Wurzeln in Bands wie Dew-Scented, Eroded, BK 49 und Weak Aside – verschmilzt die Band gnadenlosen D-Beat Crust mit Death Metal und rohem Old-School Thrash/Punk zu einem kompromisslosen Crossover-Sound.
Nach der Debüt-Mini „First Commandment“ (2016), den furiosen EPs „Cause and Effect“ (2017) und „Belligerent Powers“ (2018) sowie der Split „Banner Of Hatred“ (2022, mit den Schweden Harrowed) und dem ersten vollen Album „Fallout“ (2023), präsentiert die Band nun ihr tödlichstes Geschoss: Das neue Album „Time And Tide“, das in den letzten Tagen des Jahres 2025 über Supreme Chaos Records erscheint.
Produziert von Jörg Uken in den Soundlodge Studios (u. a. God Dethroned, Temple Of Dread), hebt
„Time And Tide“ die Band auf ein völlig neues Level. Über 11 Tracks hinweg liefern PHANTOM CORPORATION ein unerbittliches Feuerwerk – vielseitiger, brutaler und kompromissloser als je zuvor. Rasende Thrash-Riffs, Crust- Attacken und Death Metal vereinen sich zu einem apokalyptischen Schlagabtausch ohne Atempause.
PHANTOM CORPORATION – „TIME AND TIDE” (42:14)
Tracklist:
1. Frantic Disruption (4:16)
2. Dead Of Night (4:30)
3. Crushed (3:59)
4. Krokodil (1:31)
5. Pound Of Flesh (2:42)
6. To The Hilt (4:14)
7. Time And Tide (4:17)
8. Sorcerer (3:57)
9. For All The Wrong Reasons (4:42)
10. Crisis (2:21)
11. Western Apocalypse (5:35)
Der zweite neue Song von „Time And Tide” erscheint heute, checkt das von Costin Chioreanu erstellte Video zu „Krokodil“ hier: https://youtu.be/dLoKFLsGLRA
PHANTOM CORPORATION über „Krokodil”:
„Wie der brachiale Titel schon vermuten lässt, ist dieser Track ungezähmt, brutal und tödlich! „Krokodil“ hat einen hymnischen, treibenden Vibe, der den Hörer nach 91 Sekunden nach Luft schnappen und gleichzeitig dennoch nach mehr klanglicher Gewalt bettelt lässt. Ein furioser Rausch und eine unaufhaltsame Machtdemonstration – genau das, was man braucht!”
“Shattered life - Beaten down - The only solution – Lies at hand…” (Krokodil Lyrics)
Die erste Single des Albums, „Sorcerer”, wurde in einem von Costin Chioreanu kreierten Visualizer auf Basis des Album-Artworks von Skurktur veröffentlicht: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnfyBYeQLMs
„Time And Tide” wird in den folgenden Formaten erhältlich sein:
Black LP
Orange Marbled LP (Limitiert auf 150 Kopien)
Clear Rusty Marbled LP (Limitiert auf 100 Kopien / Band-Exklusiv)
Splatter Clear Orange Black LP (Limitiert auf 100 Kopien)
Digipak CD (Limitiert auf 500 Kopien / Handnummeriert)
Jewelcase CD
Black Tape (Limitiert auf 150 Kopien)
Purple Tape (Limitiert to 50 Kopien / SCR-Exklusiv)
Digital Album
Der „Time And Tide” Album Pre-Order ist hier erhältlich: https://linktr.ee/phantomcorporation
Oder direkt über Supreme Chaos Records: https://supremechaos.com/scr-artists/phantom-corporation/
PHANTOM CORPORATIONs Debütalbum „Fallout” und dessen limitierte „Fire Splatter” und „Orange/Black marbled” Vinyl-Varianten sind nach wie vor hier erhältlich: https://supremechaos.com/link/phantomcorporation/
PHANTOM CORPORATION 2025
Ulf – Bass
Arne – Guitars
Philipp – Guitars
Marc – Drums
Leif – Vocals
Achtung: Für das „Time And Tide” Album-Release-Wochenende werden PHANTOM CORPORATION zwei sehr besondere, kostenlose In-Store Gigs spielen:
12.12.2025 Bremen – Hot Shot Records
13.12.2025 Hamburg – Plattenkiste
Auf keinen Fall verpassen!!!
PHANTOM CORPORATION – Live 2025/2026:
24.01.2026 Krefeld – Kulturrampe
07.02.2026 Osnabrück – JZ Westwerk 141 / Waking The Ghouls II
18.-20.06.2026 Protzen – Protzen Open Air
17.10.2026 Nordhorn – Alte Weberei / Nordhorn Deathfest
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FRANTIC AGGRESSOR – “EXTINCTION”
Genre: Black MetalLabel: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 17.10.2025
Sechs Jahre nach ihrem Debüt »Land Mine Logic« lassen FRANTIC AGGRESSOR aus Ost-Berlin unter dem Banner des Nihilistic Black Metal eine noch heftigere Salve los!
Auf »Extinction« schwingt nicht, wie bei vielen anderen, eine dunkle Romantik mit, und es gibt keine Sehnsucht nach einer wie auch immer gearteten mystischen Erfahrung als Gott-Ersatz. Stattdessen verströmen die neuen Tracks oft das Flair eines Beschusses auf offenem, kargen Gelände.
Das ist abermals ein Lehrstück in Sachen musikalischer Militanz und die erneute Verkündung einer Metaphysik des Nichts. Dabei befasst sich jeder Song mit einem anderen Thema der menschlichen Existenz und ihrem Verschwinden, seien es Aspekte der Geschichte, der Religion, Philosophie, Technologie oder das uns umgebende Universum. – »All it takes is a little push to let Atlas lose balance. What if you cut a leg off, or slice up the arms?«
Ausgehend von dieser Idee der Fragilität des menschlichen Überlebens propagiert das Trio aus Discrimination, Humiliation und Contempt den reinen Nihilismus und feiert das Ende der Zivilisation. – Onward to the extinction of all!
»Extinction«
1. Morals - Across
2. Metaphysics – Beyond
3. Religion - Insurrection of the Lesser
4. Revolution - Death of all Masks
5.Technology – Harvest
6. History – Empire
7. Cosmos - Lightless Skies
Total: 39.20
Line-up
Discrimination: git & voc
Humiliation: bass
Contempt: drums
Aufgenommen im November 2024 von Henker. Gemixt und gemastert in den Kalthallen Studios.
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England-based atmospheric black metal band NEMOROUS has shared the first single off their upcoming full-length, WHAT REMAINS WHEN HOPE HAS FAILED.
Stream "Quiescence" now at https://youtu.be/ct8FHWs6By4?si=pkp_teYku5k3lD_O
The wait for the full-length follow-up to the promising debut EP from England's NEMOROUS is nearly over! Four years after the self-titled, the band has finally returned with a six-track atmospheric black metal experience titled What Remains When Hope Has Failed. Bindrune Records will release the album on CD, vinyl and digital formats on December 19.
Pre-order What
Remains When Hope Has Failed at https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/and https://bindrunerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/what-remains-when-hope-has-failed
Tracklist:
1) The Wyrm at World's End
2) This Rotten Bough
3) Sky Avalanche
4) Quiescence
5) Bereft Part 2
6) What Remains When Hope Has Failed
Formed from the ashes of Wodensthrone, NEMOROUS carry the torch of atmospheric English black influenced metal proudly, but it’s not the main driving force behind them. The vision is far more expansive and eclectic. With their debut self-titled EP, they have proven that the twisting melodies and fog-like aura they create with their sound indeed harkens back to their past musical conquests, yet progression is a core tenet as it walks hand in hand with rich melodies and a fierce sense of aggressive tradition.
What Remains When Hope Has Failed is four years in the making and finds the band emerging victorious from a line-up change, where Chris Walsh (Vocals/Guitars) was replaced by Nick Craggs (Vocals - Vacivus/Neolithic) and Rob Hindmarsh on second guitar. Now as sextet, the band dove into the music for their first full-length reinvigorated, and it shows in the album’s composition.
What Remains When Hope Has Failed is a dynamic and emotional journey where quiet musical passages draw the listener in with vulnerability and beautiful, clean guitar arrangements that feel like Fields of the Nephilim at their most post-apocalyptic, only to build with reflective, melancholic mids, before exploding with blasting ferocity. From subtle, yet expansive synth textures, complex drum work that never loses grasp on a powerful feel/swing, it all strengthens the overall impact of this album with colorful dynamics and a songwriting characteristic which can certainly be traced back to the early days of Wodensthrone.
NEMOROUS is:
Phil Heckles - Bass
Ian Finley - Drums
Michael Blenkarn - Guitars
Alexandra Durning - Keyboards
Rob Hindmarsh - Guitars
Nick Craggs - Vocals
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Eclectic and progressive act WEFT has released a new track off its upcoming debut album, THE SPLINTERED OAR.
Masterminded by Panopticon's Charlie Anderson, The Splintered Oar is a wide-ranging and stunning piece of work that takes the listener on a journey through the wilds of the composer's artistic soul. will release The Splitered Oar on CD, vinyl, and digital formats on December 19.
Pre-order The
Splintered Oar at https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/and https://bindrunerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-splintered-oar
Tracklist:
1) Leaves
2) False Kingdoms
3) The Hull
4) Red Dawn
5) Dream of Oaks
They say that it takes a band/musician their entire life to create their first album, and on the weathered, atmospheric, and truly adventurous The Splintered Oar, it sounds like every note has indeed a lifetime of exploration, joy, loss, and growth behind it.
WEFT is the sole vision of Charlie Anderson, a name you may have heard before, as he has toured the world with and has become a very integral part of Panopticon with his amazing violin work and gift for musical composition. On The Splintered Oar, Charlie has meticulously constructed an album that may occasionally hint at his influences, but finds him empowering his musical vision with many different styles. At the core lies atmosphere, ignited by a churning death and black metal accelerant. Add alternate musical paths such as country/Americana, prog, and other distortionless endeavors, and you have a very adventurous and exciting album.
The Splintered Oar further deepens the experience with a vocal range that churns in the deepest of brutality, basks in the howling rage of a fire-lit night sky, only to enchant with choirs/clean singing, which strengthens every colorful moment cascading across this album like waves slowly eroding away the shoreline. And the violin… Charlie has used this instrument in a very creative way… one that certainly has never been experienced in the metal sphere before. Haunting melody lines and effects augmented treatments offer moments of bold experimentation that never suffocates, only transports the listener deeper into the experience. The Splintered Oar is indeed a vessel of exploration set adrift in a vibrant storm of metal intensities.
For this recording, Charlie formed a community of talented friends and contributors who helped see that his vision come to fruition:
Performed by:
Charlie Anderson- Bass, Guitars, Vocals, Strings, Electric Violin, Synth, Piano, Additional Percussion
Austin Lunn- Drums
Andrea Morgan- Violin, Vocals (Falling Leaves, The Hull, A Dream of Oaks)
Jordan Day- Vocals (A Dream of Oaks)
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Finnish
one-man black metal band VALONTUOJA released the second
album 'TULESTA SYNTYNYT' on November 14th 2025 via
Inverse Records. Listen to the album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/valontuoja-tulesta-syntynyt
From the blaze of transformation and the silence of the wild, Valontuoja conjures"Tulesta Syntynyt" (Born of Fire) a melodic black metal odyssey through flame, fate, and solitude.
Rooted in the ouroboric cycle of death and rebirth, this album burns with the intensity of solar flares and the instinct of the hunt. Wolves howl beneath a collapsing sky as destiny tightens its grip, dragging the listener through a world where every step into the unknown is both burden and awakening.
Each track is a rite of passage an exploration of primal responsibility, of finding home in the heart of the wilderness, and embracing the cold clarity of solitude. Here, fire does not only destroy it refines, purifies, and reveals. "Tulesta Syntynyt" is the sound of becoming, where the self is tempered in isolation and reborn in the eternal blaze.
Biography:
Valontuoja, meaning "Bringer of Light" in Finnish, is the one-man black metal entity forged in the icy depths of Helsinki by the Jal'zoroth. Formed in 2024, Valontuoja channels the primordial essence of black metal, weaving a sonic tapestry that is both ferocious and hauntingly melodic. Valontuoja's soundscape is a maelstrom of raw, unyielding black metal fused with ethereal and melodic elements. Valontuoja conjures an atmosphere that is as brutal as it is beautiful, guiding listeners through the desolate realms of human despair and nature's unforgiving majesty
Track list:
1. Palaneiden Kasvojen Maa
2. Ympyrä Joka Syö Itseään
3. Kameleontti
4. Aurinkoroihun Kirous
5. Välikappale
6. Asiat Jotka On Tähtiin Kirjoitettu
7. Sinä Vastaat Teoistasi
8. Korvessa On Kotini
9. Kun Kaikki Muu Vaikenee
Album cover by Vhan Artwork
Line-up:
Jal'zoroth - vocals, guitars, bass & drums
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If you want to feel your brain explode inside your skull, I must inform you that the time is coming to burst your eardrums with this split, which will be presented in 7-inch vinyl format, in an orange EP where nothing and nobody will be. Anyone interested in supporting the bands or labels involved in this release, get in touch to purchase your copy while you're still alive.
GRINDCORE ON... BULLSHIT OFF...
SICKRECY / BRAINWASHER Format : Split 7'EP Orange Vinyl
Genre : Grindcore
Release date : November 21st, 2025
Sickrecy Side:
01 - First World Anxiety [02:51]
02 - I Am Paty [02:30]
Brainwasher Side:
03 - Infinite Growth Doctrine [02:52]
04 - To Stupidity And Beyond [01:36]
Co-release with Murder Records, Flyktsoda Records, Global Help Records, Disturbed Mind Records, Necro Records, Rødel Records, Throne Of Lies Records, 7 Degrees Records, Helldog Records, and Sickrec(y)
SICKRECY
Sickrecy is a Swedish band formed in 2021 that overwhelms us with violent Grindcore full of insanity, where we will be devoured alive with brutality clearly evident in the two tracks included in this split.
Line Up:
Martin Eriksson: Drums
Marcus Dahl: Guitar
Adde Mitroulis: Vocals
Isac Nordgren Jonasson: Bass
Tobbe Ander: Guitar
sickrecyband@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/Sickrecy
BRAINWASHER
The band Brainwasher also comes from Sweden, was formed in 2018, and presents extreme Grindcore where the despotism of social ignorance is quite explicit in the two tracks included in this split, where no one will emerge unscathed from an auditory beating.
Line Up:
Henrik Blomqvist: Vocals
Patrik Tegnander: Bass
Johan: Guitars
Victor Berglund: Drums
brainwashergrind@gmail.com
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Swedish melodic death metal veterans IMPERIAL DOMAIN proudly
announce that their critically acclaimed album PORTENTUM is out
today!Listen now on all major digital platforms: https://orcd.co/portentum
Portentum is a gripping exploration of humanity’s recurring struggles, societal upheaval, and the omens that have shaped our world. The album delves into cycles of conflict, the consequences of unchecked exploitation, and the tension between human ambition and its destructive potential, painting a dark and immersive vision of a world on the brink.
With Portentum, Imperial Domain deliver a melodic death metal statement that fuses aggression, atmosphere, and sharp social commentary, reinforcing their status as one of Sweden’s most compelling extreme acts.
"History Repeating": https://youtu.be/o4HTtmGfMWo
Retribution (Music Video): https://youtu.be/oRjvtoJqh_Y
About Imperial Domain
Hailing from Uppsala, Sweden, Imperial Domain emerged in the mid-90s with their demo The Final Chapter (1995), followed by In the Ashes of the Fallen (1996), which earned recognition on the Top Swedish Demotapes list. Their debut album (1998, Pulverised Records) received critical acclaim, establishing their presence in the scene, while 2003’s The Ordeal (Konqueror Records) showcased intricate songwriting and melodic depth.
Despite disbanding in 2004 and the tragic loss of singer Tobias Heideman in 2014, the band returned with The Deluge (2016), earning praise for its powerful songwriting and authentic melodic death metal sound.
Line-Up
Peter Laitinen Sundström – Guitar
Philip Borg – Guitar
Andreas Öman – Vocals
Mattias Hansson – Bass
Alvaro Svanerö – Drums
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Check out the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_t3ubeiPMc
HyperioN return with new LP, Cybergenesis, a dark sci-fi concept album for fans of traditional Heavy Metal. Fighter Records will release the album on January 15, 2026.
Album pre-orders are available now at: https://hyperionbandheavy.bandcamp.com/album/cybergenesis
Cybergenesis, HyperioN’s third full-length album, is eight tracks of powerful, dynamic Heavy Metal!
The concept of Cybergenesis fits seamlessly with the fiery heavy metal therein. A daring expedition into a space-time rift ends in disaster, awakening the Choir, an ancient alien hive mind from an alternate dimension, and plunging humanity into a desperate war for survival. On an Earth enslaved by the Choir's army of cyborgs, a former commander is reborn as the Rhizome Rider, leading a rebellion from within and sacrificing himself to free humanity.
Rooted in classic sci-fi, from Star Trek to Ghost in the Shell, Cybergenesis tells a story of resistance and sacrifice, where the human spirit defies impossible odds.
The album’s striking cover artwork was hand-painted on canvas by English artist Ryan T. Hancock, renowned for his work with bands such as Seven Sisters, Blood Star, and Stormborn. HyperioN chose a handcrafted, non-AI artwork to give Cybergenesis a tangible and authentic visual identity.
Track
Listing:1. Deafening
2. Rewire, Rebuild
3. Yet We Still Fight
4. The Shackles of Chronitus
5. Blood Over Chrome
6. Grain of Sand
7. Rhizome Rider
8. The Whole of Time
Credits:
All lyrics written by Davide Cotti. All music written by Davide Cotti except track #02 (written by Davide Cotti and Francesco Madonna) and track #07 (written by Francis Dipasquale and Davide Cotti).
Production, recording, mixing and mastering by Davide Cotti.
Vocals recorded by Antonio Inserillo.
Line-up:
Davide Cotti - Guitars
Francesco Madonna - Drums
Max Morelli - Vocals
Simone “Nega” Cauli - Bass
Francis Dipasquale - Guitars
Bio:
HyperioN were formed in 2015 by drummer Jason Beghelli and guitarist Davide Cotti to play traditional heavy metal, drawing inspiration from bands such as Metal Church, early Queensrÿche, and Judas Priest, while adding their own personal touch.
The band quickly gained attention with their debut album Dangerous Days (2017), released via Spanish label Fighter Records. The album was warmly welcomed by critics and gave HyperioN the chance to share thestage with established Italian acts such as Tarchon Fist, Black Phantom, and Rain.
After the recording of the second album, founding drummer Jason Beghelli stepped down for personal reasons and was replaced by Francesco Madonna. In 2020, the band released Into The Maelstrom, again on Fighter Records. The album received excellent reviews worldwide, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of all live promotion plans. Despite the circumstances, HyperioN significantly expanded their fanbase across the United States, Canada,
Mexico, and Europe through platforms like Bandcamp, finally returning to the stage in 2021.
This first era of the band came to a turning point in 2021, when several lineup changes reshaped HyperioN’s identity. Long-time bassist Antonio Scalia left the band, and after a long search Simone Cauli joined in September 2022. Just a week earlier, guitarist Luke Fortini had
departed, but the vacant role was swiftly filled by Francis Dipasquale (from thrashers Dypron). With the lineup restored, work began on new material, only to face another setback in spring 2023 when vocalist Michelangelo Carano decided to leave.
After months of auditions, HyperioN found the missing piece in singer Max Morelli, known for his work with Signum Draconis and Ladykiller. With this new and revitalized lineup, Hyperion completed the writing and production of their third album Cybergenesis, a record that represents both continuity and rebirth. Although only guitarist Davide Cotti remains from the original formation, he has always been the main composer and driving force behind the band, making sure HyperioN's sound stays true to its roots: driving riffs that ignite into bursts of speed, soaring yet gritty vocals, and melodic hooks that make every chorus memorable.
https://www.fighter-records.com/
https://linktr.ee/hyperionband
We
are proud to announce that Club Inferno Ent. (My Kingdom Music sublabel) will
distribute and promote EVOKED ECLIPSE debut album "THE
CRIES OF EVIL".Led by Max Havler (ex-OPHIDIAN – ex-SHRIVEL), EVOKED ECLIPSE's sound is closely tied to the Scandinavian Black Metal and Death Metal scene, primarily Swedish, with references to Dissection, Naglfar, but also the melodic Death Metal of Dark Tranquillity and Opeth and the melancholic Doom Gothic elements of early Katatonia!
Max comments: "I'm really excited to have reached this agreement with Club Inferno because I really care about this work. I worked hard on it, and just before the final details of the mastering phase were finalized, the label offered me a collaboration. It couldn't have been a better time, and I'm sure they'll be able to promote the work done at the best. I can't wait for you to listen to it!".
"The Cries Of Evil" will be out on February 6th, 2026 in CD and digital format.
Just be ready to a new vision of Extreme Music!
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https://www.facebook.com/evokedeclipse
Between
1989–2024, R.E.T. was a band consisting of members mostly from
Třinec, the second easternmost town in the Czech Republic, and its
surroundings, close to the borders with Poland and Slovakia.R.E.T. – “DEPRESSION”(30th Anniversary Edition)
Style: Doom metal
Type: Digipak (500 copies)
Release date: 29.11. 2025
Pre-orders start: 1.11. 2025
That is, from the Moravian-Silesian region, where a strong doom-metal base established itself in the mid-1990s, led by bands such as DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY, HYPNOTIC SCENERY or SILENT STREAM OF GODLESS ELEGY. Although this period lasted only a few years, spontaneously emerged and just as spontaneously dissolved, it made an indelible mark in the history of the Czech (doom) metal scene.
The recording “Depression”, with which R.E.T. first entered the chronicles of Czech doom metal and hard music in general in 1995 as their debut CD, was first released as a cassette demo without any ambitions.
This year's digipak re-edition, 30 years later, contains 5 original tracks + 2 new ones from 2024, with which R.E.T. ended their career after 35 years.
Pre-orders, including merchandise, started on 1.11. at www.paratshop.cz
Full article can be read on the Pařát Productions website https://paratshop.cz/2025/11/03/prvni-album-r-e-t-vyjde-po-30-letech-v-digipakove-reedici-i-s-bonusovymi-songy-predobjednavky-jiz-spusteny/
THUS DEFILED – “WINGS OF THE NIGHTSTORM”
Label: Vic RecordsRelease date: november 28th 2025
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Venom | Emperor | Cradle Of Filth | Varathron
Throughout the 1990s black metal was spreading around the globe like an irresistible plague. Covens of corpse-painted disciples of the dark sprang up everywhere, from the icy fjords of Norway to the sun-baked climes of Greece. And the country where the very concept of black metal was first created was no exception – England, the home of Venom, the first, the black metal gods, was spawning its own new breed of devils. In the vanguard of the British legions, alongside co-conspirators Cradle Of Filth, were Thus Defiled. After two vicious demos, Blasphemous Coven and Enchanted By The Dark One, both released in 1993, Thus Defiled then unleashed two seminal works of raw, atmospheric blasphemy that have remained revered and treasured in the black metal underground ever since…1995s Through The Impure Veil Of Dawn and 1997s Wings Of The Nightstorm. Thus Defiled would go on to create more finely crafted and sophisticated albums later in their career, in particular the devastating Daemonspawn, but their first two albums held something special. Born from a youthful fervour and passionate dedication to the dark heart of black metal, they retain strong musical links to the first wave of the genre, most notably the mighty Venom and both are shrouded in a primal, shadowed atmosphere that has endeared them to fans for the last thirty years.
Now, these long unavailable classics of metal’s darkest sub-genre are finally to be re-released. Vic Records, whose roots go back to the same early ‘90s era as Thus Defiled themselves, will relight the black flame on November 28th and set loose Through The Impure Veil Of Dawn and Wings Of The Nightstorm into the world once more.
These two albums have long since secured their place in the annals of black metal history and their power and presence remains undiminished by the passing decades. The wild, black chaos of Through The Impure Veil Of Dawn shows that ‘metal’ was always as important as the ‘blackness’ for Thus Defiled; demonstrated in the epic thunder of ‘Under Blackening Horizons’ and the atmospheric title track. And even at this early stage in the band’s development their ambition, their reaching for grandeur can be found in ‘A Crimson Vision In The Glade Of Shadowfire’ and the classically influenced ‘Fear Us For We Are The Darkness’. Fittingly the debut concludes with its most accomplished and creative track – ‘Darkness Rape The Tranquil Shore Of Eternity’ – which lights the way to the dramatic developments of Wings Of The Nightstorm. Thus Defiled’s second album is where the band really took flight in terms of what would become their fierce, intense, melodic, riff driven black metal. The songs are longer, more complex and involved, yet still with that instant impact of metallic power. The likes of ‘(Angelblood) The Tears Of An Age Now Dead’ and ‘Empire Of Souls Bleeding’ showed that Thus Defiled were more than just standard bearers for a nascent British black metal scene, they were a force that could contend on the global stage.
Both albums have been carefully restored and remastered by Thus Defiled’s Paul C. and come with new liner notes written by Officium Triste’s Pim Blankenstein. What makes these reissues utterly essential for long standing admirers of Thus Defiled though are the bonus tracks which supplement each release. Taken from unearthed 1994 rehearsal tapes these include never before released songs like ‘Shadow Of All Forsaken’, ‘Where The Forest Screams’, ‘I Of The Blackstorm’ and ‘The Final Sunrise (Purity Lies Dying)’. Two hell born beasts have returned from the void and are coming for your souls once again!
Line-up:
Paul C - Guitars/Vocals
Sam C - Bass
Andy R - Guitars
Nick L – Drums
Paul N – Session Keyboards
https://www.vicrecords.com/
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SOUL REBORN return with “CEREBRO”, the second single and title track from their upcoming full-length release, delivering a brutal, thought-provoking statement carved directly into the core of modern extreme metal. Fusing the visceral intensity of Death Metal with the ferocity and weight of Metalcore, Cerebro pushes listeners into a confrontation with one of humanity’s oldest beliefs: faith versus reason.
The track tears forward with razor sharp riffs, pulverizing drums, and a vocal performance that grips with raw conviction. Lyrically, Cerebro challenges the idea of divine authority, instead placing the power and responsibility of existence within the human mind. There is no promised paradise or eternal torment, only the undeniable truth that our bodies return to the earth, fragmenting into the particles that form new life. It’s an unfiltered vision of death not as an ending, but as a continuation of the infinite cycle.
Cerebro is a declaration of freedom, choosing consciousness, empathy, and reality over blind doctrine. It is about living fully, respecting the world and the living beings within it, and embracing the knowledge that our legacy carries on through matter and memory.
Soul Reborn have crafted a track that hits just as hard philosophically as it does sonically. This is extreme music with purpose, weight, and intent.
Biography
Soul Reborn stands as the brainchild of Italian guitarist Stefano Pelosi. Conceived in 2019, it serves as a platform for Stefano's creative expression, unbound by any limitations. Handling every facet of the project—from composing music and lyrics to recording, drum composition via Superior Drummer 3, production, mixing, and even crafting logos and artworks—Stefano's vision remains singularly his own. The only external inputs are the chosen vocalist, varying with each album, and the mastering, entrusted to an outside studio.
He project's musical ethos encompasses a modern iteration of death metal, infused with diverse influences reflective of Stefano's eclectic background. There are no boundaries; instead, Soul Reborn is perceived by Stefano as a dynamic entity, constantly evolving. Each album serves not as a final destination but as a stepping stone in an ever-unfolding odyssey, perpetually in motion according to Stefano's perspective.
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Greek
melodic death metal quintet FLAMECORE has released the
official lyric video for their track "PROJECTED
REALITY," featured on their self-titled debut album, Flamecore (out
now via Wormholedeath).“Projected Reality” strikes at the heart of modern existence, exposing a world built on deception, false idols, and relentless struggle. With razor-sharp riffs and unyielding intensity, Flamecore delivers a merciless track that reveals freedom as nothing more than a cage.
The single follows the band’s previously released videos:
https://youtu.be/k2UZLvR4r74
https://youtu.be/4hyddSoXW_Y
Stream Flamecore here: https://orcd.co/flamecore
About:
Flamecore’s debut self-titled album is a fierce and emotionally charged statement from a band determined to reshape the boundaries of melodic death metal. Rooted in the genre’s foundations but sharpened with a modern edge, the record blends soaring harmonized leads, thunderous double-kick rhythms, and vocals that shift from guttural roars to anguished screams. The band draws inspiration from the likes of In Flames, Slipknot, and Gojira, channeling that energy into a sound that feels immediate and immersive.
The album was recorded across two cities, reflecting Flamecore’s collaborative spirit and DIY ethos: drums and vocals were tracked at Leonidas’ studio in Chania, while guitars and bass were recorded at Stathis’ studio in Athens. Mixing and mastering were handled by John Mor at Apex Soundworks, who brought clarity and weight to the band’s sonic vision. Lyrically, the record explores the friction between inner demons and external pressures, with recurring themes of identity, struggle, and societal decay.
Flamecore:
Formed by Stathis Lianos and Leonidas Viglakis, the Greek melodic death metal band Flamecore emerged from a collaborative spark between Chania and Athens. Their journey began with a single riff, which grew into the track "Plains of Nameck."
This initial creative success led to their self-titled debut album, released in February 2025. With a lineup solidified by the additions of Panagiotis Tsopelas and Akis Blazakis, Flamecore brought their vision of extreme, melodic metal to life. Following the album's release and a series of live shows, the band is now focused on promoting their work with new bassist Panagiotis Mousouras while composing their next chapter.
www.youtube.com/@Flamecoreband
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Finnish melodic death metal band CROWEN released a new single and music video 'EMBER WRAITH'. The track is taken from the forthcoming 'THROUGH THE DYING MIST' EP which is set to be released on February 20th 2026 via Inverse Records.
Watch 'Ember Wraith' music video: https://youtu.be/0N_QWg4VI-w
The first single from Through the Dying Mist EP, Ember Wraith, is pure Crowen from start to finish, offering no room to breathe. Crushing guitar riffs and furious blast beats alternate with slower, heavier passages. “From the very beginning, this song is a straight punch in the face,” says vocalist-songwriter Esa Uusimaa, and continues: “The riffs are technically fast-paced and demanding. Luckily, I have the incredibly skilled Sami Sandberg alongside me on guitar, and Tuomas Saukkonen’s monumental bass playing crowns the whole piece.”
Ember Wraith tells the story of a ghostlike entity, born from ashes and dwelling in hellfire. It is a shadow of the past, returning time and again to remind us of pain and loss. The message is both threatening and sorrowful. “Ember Wraith is a spirit of vengeance, walking the path of fire, destruction, and death. The lyrics awaken the thought that death must be respected,” Uusimaa explains.
Listen
to Ember Wraith single: https://push.fm/fl/crowen-emberTrack list:
01. Ember Wraith
02. Line of Silence
03. I Am The Sorrow
04. The Unwritten End
Composed, lyrics, recorded, mixed & produced by Esa Uusimaa.
Mastered by Ville Hautaluoma
EP cover by Jussi Virtanen
EP Line-up:
Esa Uusimaa – vocals, guitars, keyboards
Sami Sandberg – guitars, lead guitar
Tuomas Saukkonen – bass
http://crowenofficial.net
https://www.facebook.com/CrowenOfficial
Following the massive response to their first single Sworn to Repay — which gained over 150,000 YouTube views in less than three weeks and landed in major official Spotify playlists with hundreds of thousands of saves — ACRANIUS continue to carve their new chapter with the release of “SYNCHRONIZED.”
For fans of: Slamming Death Metal, Deathcore, pure sonic violence.
Once again, the band joined forces with director Daniel Prieß, delivering another high-quality visual that perfectly matches the track’s sheer intensity. Musically, Synchronized pushes Acranius’ trademark brutality even further — darker, tighter, and more unrelenting than before.
With this release, Acranius reaffirm their position as one of the most dominant and uncompromising forces in modern extreme metal.
Release date: November 14th, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsCOeLhg3EQ
https://acranius.bfan.link/synchronized
The
wait for the first song from DAWN OF A DARK AGE new
album "VER SACRUM" is over.Here is "IL RITO DELLA CONSACRAZIONE", a song with which the band led by Vittorio Sabelli and featuring vocals for the first time by Ignazio Cuga, aka Brusiòre, of KRE'U, opens the gates to the obscure path between Atmospheric Black Metal, Doom, Folk and Jazz represented by "Ver Sacrum".
The official video realized by Noxifer (aka Gianfranco Logiudice) and presented at the Berlin Music Video Awards is available at: https://youtu.be/ak8vV-7aYDk
After 2 years of hard work from the previous "Transumanza", DAWN OF A DARK AGE present the new album "Ver Sacrum" out on December 12th, 2025 via My Kingdom Music.
The album is available in digipakCD, LP, Deluxe Edition and it's available at: https://t.ly/N8-LW
"Ver Sacrum" has opened its doors to the darkness for those who have the courage to walk this path.
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Listen to "PYRE OF BONE AND ASH" now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPazjKVxIew
Dark Descent Records will release Ash Eclipses Flesh on November 21. The album will be available on digital, CD, cassette, and vinyl (black and splatter editions). The album was just named #24 in Decibel Magazine's Top 40 albums of 2025.
Pre-order at:
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ash-eclipses-flesh
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
https://ddmsuo.eu/
“Low tuned, dark and violent Texas death metal,” comes the uncompromising answer from TERROR CORPSE drummer Dobber Beverly when pressed to define his newest abomination. Formed in 2025 yet manned by veterans of the US underground, TERROR CORPSE rise from the remnants of Malignant Altar, continuing where their predecessor left off – still in league with Dark Descent Records.
Produced entirely in-house by the skinsman, the record’s sound is as distinctive as it is crushing. From the first pounding kick drum, soon joined by a gut-wrenching bass line, Ash Eclipses Flesh never loosens its relentless grip.
“I wanted to essentially have a super low tuned Celtic Frost guitar sound with a modern and large natural drum recording. Big room, big drum sounds. Tack on some cavernous low, Craig Pillard style vocals and bass guitar and you’ve got our sound.”
The band’s veneration of the Celtic Frost’s legacy is further demonstrated by the album’s closer, a cover of "Into the Crypts of Rays." Dobber makes no secret of TERROR CORPSE’s influences: “Disciples Of Mockery, Incantation, pre-2000s Morbid Angel; essentially older evil American death metal. Celtic Frost is a massive influence to all of us. From their primitive and violent beginnings to the ultra experimental and dark era of their later records.”
Ash Eclipses Flesh is clad in artwork courtesy of the notorious Shoggoth Kinetics, displaying a horrifying future so far and near: “Lyrically the album follows a kind of dystopian downfall of humanity. Something crossing surreality and future outlook based off of current happenings. A race of mutant human corpses conquering and enslaving the earth.”
TERROR CORPSE will headline the Metal and Beer Pre-Fest in Denver on December 4.
Tracklisting
1. Pyre of Ash and Bone
2. Gate Zero
3. Womb of the Hollow Earth
4. Blissful Incineration
5. Fallout Obliteration
6. Nuclear Winter
7. Transmission Beta
8. The Hollow that Devours
9. Sons of Perdition
10. Into the Crypts of Rays (Celtic Frost cover)
TERROR CORPSE is:
Mat V. - Vocals/Guitar
Christian Larson - Bass/High vocals
Dobber Beverly - Drums/Guitar
www.darkdescentrecords.com
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Chicago (IL) - Blackened Melodic Death Metal quartet, WITHERING SOUL, in collaboration with Decibel Magazine, has premiered upcoming album, PASSAGE OF THE ARCANE. Stream it ahead of Friday's official release at: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/11/12/album-stream-withering-soul-passage-of-the-arcane/
FFO: Dark Fortress, Windir, Hypocrisy, Dissection, God Dethroned
Withering Soul are set to release their fifth album, Passage of the Arcane, November 14 on Liminal Dread Productions!
Passage of the Arcane is a convergence of blackened atmospheres and sweeping song structures. A mystifying journey that exceeds boundaries while remaining fun and exciting. The overall theme of the album involves human experiences traversing into cursed oblivion. Each song explores its own story, ranging from unexplained disappearances to the supernatural. While variation is abundant within the soundscapes, it is with a cohesive direction. Each chapter takes on its own "passage" through channels of cursed lore and harrowing experiences of the past. A seamless balance of crushingly heavy riffs and chilling melodies.
Pre-order Passage
of the Arcane: https://witheringsoul.bandcamp.com/album/passage-of-the-arcane
EU Customers: https://okandaodenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/passage-of-the-arcane-eu-distro
Track Listing:
1. Intro
2. Attrition Horizon
3. Grievance Eludes the Light
4. The Monolith Embodied
5. Gallery of the End
6. Trajectory
7. Among Covetous Eyes
8. Burden of the Valiant
Credits:
Guitars, Vocals - Christopher
Bass Guitar - Joel
Drums - Rick
Guest guitar solo on "Trajectory" by Nick "Exhul" Morgan.
Drums recorded and engineered by Vince Ippolito at Swift Road Studios.
Album mixed and mastered by Dennis Israel at Clintworks Audio.
Cover art by Adam Burke / Nightjar Illustration.
Line-up:
Christopher - Vocals, Guitar
Frank G. - Guitar
Joel - Bass Guitar
Rick - Drums
Bio:
A manifestation in the form of chilling soundscapes, foreboding atmospheres, contagious melodies and tortured chants echoing above an onslaught of calculated percussion. Withering Soul creates a musical elegy that is both majestic and haunting.
Conjured into existence by founding members Christopher (guitars and vocals) and Mykil (former lead vocalist) with the release of their debut album Apparitions of the Surreal in 2004, the band was later featured on "ReUnation - A Tribute to Running Wild" with a cover of "Firebreather" via Germany's Remedy Records earning "Best Song on the Album" by WeRock (SWE). A few years later saw the release of their follow-up album, No Closure via Mortal Music (MVD Distribution). The album promptly landed a spot on Apoch's Metal Review: "Top 50 Albums of 2011."
The band eventually recruited Rick Hernandez on drums and Joel Miller on bass guitar. Following an array of live shows brought the release of their third full length album Adverse Portrait (2015). It was later labeled “Album of the Month” by Metalreviews.com. The band made a few festival appearances such as Full Terror Assault III and Artifact Metal Fest in 2018.
Over the course of the 2020 world shutdown the band resolved to continue forward with Christopher on vocals and released its fourth full length effort Last Contact. The album reached an unprecedented level of acclaim not limited to earning the 3rd spot in World of Metal's top albums of 2021. The band immediately followed up with a busy live schedule both locally and out-of-state including a performance at Legion ov the Order festival in Tacoma, WA, Merciless Metalfest in Nova Scotia, Canada and Desecration Rituals VI and VII in Fort Wayne, IN.
Withering Soul has just recently finished its 5th album to be released at the end of 2025 and plans to continue transcending the boundaries of metal‘s darker genres while maintaining its own distinctive sound and leave its audiences spellbound for more.
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The album is out on Friday, November 14 via Dark Descent Records (US) and Me Saco Un Ojo (EU).
Pre-order:
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
www.mesacounojo.com
Inhabiting a space between the soulless mists of the Pacific Northwest and the haunting rains of Mexico City, Degraved have re-emerged with their first full-length offering. Spectral Realm of Ruin brings the same seismic passages and eerie atmospheres that those familiar with the band’s early material will recognize, but captivatingly and meticulously expanded upon. Bludgeoning blast beats and relentless guitar riffs conjure a dark backdrop for the hellish, bestial vocal torment seeping with mirth for the atrocities of modern life. Slower passages and synthesizer accoutrements add an eldritch atmosphere to the picture, descending the listener into an unforgettable and sometimes furiously catchy proper debut.
Degraved harnesses the 90s Death Metal sound gloriously, mixing classic homages and maniacal hooks that will grab the unsuspecting and drag them along with hate and indignity. In the riffs, one can hear the influence of Morbid Angel and Immolation, and less obtuse references such as Slugathor and Cianide. Hell, some sections channel the corruptive influence of bands like Demoncy or Blaspherian. Produced by the band at their home studio, the sonically dark production, driving grooves and seriously killer art lend to its old school charm. Between the ripping armageddon, you will find dreary atmosphere, well-placed solos, and interesting hooks that all showcase a fierce dedication to the craft of creating what can only be described as pure Death Metal.
Album artwork by Hidris.
Tracklisting:1. Pariah of Death & Darkness
2. Sulfuric Embalming
3. Inept Descent
4. Stalker of the Herd
5. Unseen
6. March of the Undead
7. Vacuous State
DEGRAVED is:
NE - Bass & Vocals
LP - Drums
MM - Guitars
DZ - Guitars
www.darkdescentrecords.com
www.mesacounojo.com
www.instagram.com/degraved__death
A twisted retelling of Genesis where creation is born from darkness, not divinity. Light becomes a weapon of deceit, innocence withers, and chaos reigns as the world is shaped by corruption—marking the true beginning of the end.
BiographyBlack Rabbit is a concept-driven death metal band from Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, known forcombining relentless intensity with intricate storytelling and theatrical immersion. Their sound fuses death, thrash, and blackened elements into a grand, ritualistic experience — where every riff and lyric serves a purpose within an unfolding myth.
Forged by five musicians with distinct artistic backgrounds, Black Rabbit translates complex ideas into music that is both crushing and cinematic. Their live shows blur the line between concert and ceremony: drenched in light, smoke, and symbolism, drawing the audience deep into their dark mythology.
Black Rabbit made their first impact with the release of their debut EP and single in 2020, laying the foundation for their unfolding story of darkness and transformation. This path continued with the first full-length chapter of their legend: Hypnosomnia (2023) — an album exploring the boundaries of consciousness and dream manipulation. Building upon that, Chronolysis (2025) delved deeper into the human psyche — a sensory descent into the horror of sleep paralysis. These releases elevated the band to new heights, leading to performances in renowned venues such as Patronaat, Iduna, and even the Brabanthallen, while sharing stages with giants like Baest, Vader, Exhorder, and Pestilence.
Where Hypnosomnia and Chronolysis unravelled the tactics and techniques of the entity known as Black Rabbit, their upcoming EP ‘Warren of Necrosis’ dives into his inception — revealing the sacrifice, betrayal, and blasphemous devotion that transformed man into myth.
Warren of Necrosis
At the heart of the band lies the legend of Black Rabbit — a cursed being with a past drenched in faith, betrayal, and decay. Once a priest devoted to divine enlightenment, his lust for power led him down a path of desecration. What began with ritual animal offerings grew into a hunger for human sacrifice. His devotion turned to obsession, and the god he once worshipped cast him into exile.
In isolation, he encountered a mysterious entity — a shadow between worlds — who offered him the ability to halt time itself. The gift became a curse: eternal life at the cost of his humanity.
Slowly, he shed his humanity and transformed into a demonic entity — a Black Rabbit, the mirror of fertility, twisting the symbol of life into one of decay and extinction.
From the ashes of his faith, he forged his own doctrine: a blasphemous scripture written in despair, twisting sacred texts into a gospel of chaos. His followers, masked and devoted, carved a subterranean empire in his name — the Warren of Necrosis, a rotting labyrinth where sacrifices feed his hunger for dominion. At its heart stands a withered tree adorned with the bodies of the condemned, where Black Rabbit wields his colossal hammer of judgement upon the unworthy.
A Multimedia Experience
Musically, the EP expands the band’s sonic palette with haunting melodies, and ancient textures and ethnic instrumentation woven into the aggressive foundations of death metal. Each song unfolds a stage of corruption, a moment of sacrifice, or a whisper from the entity that granted him power — until the man is gone, and only the demon remains. Beyond the music, Black Rabbit manifests its concept through a complete artistic universe. Each release is accompanied by handcrafted artwork, stage design, and visual storytelling that deepen the immersion
On stage, Black Rabbit embraces the role of prophets of the myth — cloaked in ritual garb, surrounded by candlelight and relics of their creation. Their performance is not merely a show, but a sermon; not entertainment, but invocation. With Warren of Necrosis, Black Rabbit opens the gates to the beginning of its own legend — a descent into the roots of corruption, identity, and transcendence. It’s a record that does more than tell a story; it creates a world — one that breathes, mutates, and devours. Once you enter the Warren, there is no return...
Line-Up:
Vocals – Nino Thomas
Guitar – Jelle Brekelmans
Guitar – Hidde Hofland
Drums – Koen van der Voet
Bass – Thijs Mulder
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Label: Rottweiler Records /
Broken Curfew RecordsRelease date: december 5th / december 19th
As the year wanders wearily towards its end, the days shortening and the nights drawing in, we enter a time of celebrations, festivities and traditions…and one of those traditions is the release of the Rottweiler Records Christmas singles selection! This year, working in association with Broken Curfew Records, the label is primed to serve up an absolute feast of powerful underground music – ranging from emotive alt-rock to skull shattering grindcore…
On December 5th Rottweiler Records and Broken Curfew Records will release ‘Flicker Of December’ from Seth Metoyer, a song of immeasurable emotional depth, full of great melodies and a stunning lead vocal performance. Steeped in melancholy this is a beautiful, heart rending track, a hymn to times past and precious things lost… “I’m not asking for forever, just a prayer in the dark…one more magical December that flickers in my heart…” Memorable song writing of the very highest magnitude…
On the same day, December 5th, Rottweiler Records will also release Cleansing Of The Temple’s very different entry into this catalogue of seasonal singles. The South Carolina deathcore troupe offer up an outstanding interpretation of the traditional tune, ‘Mary Did You Know?’, turning it into an epic journey of musical extremes; black metal, melodic death metal and deathcore colliding, complete with a next level vocal performance of absolute madness. There’s even a brilliantly executed acoustic section as Cleansing The Temple take a festive single release and make it a showcase for the breadth, scope and fierce focus of the band.
Finally, on December 19th, Rottweiler Records and Broken Curfew Records will combine again for the release of ‘King Of Nails’ from grindcore heroes Pulpit Vomit. This is a wild, shocking exercise in chaos, madness and blistering intensity. In a few brief minutes Pulpit Vomit redefine what a Christmas single can be and deliver one of the most fearsome songs of the year. ‘King Of Nails’ is a match for anything that graced Pulpit Vomit’s superb Hospital Lens debut album and promises more spirit-shaking sonic savagery to come.
Rottweiler Records and Broken Curfew Records – bringing you the very best in rock, metal and extreme music this Christmas!
Seth Metoyer
Seth Metoyer – All music and vocals
https://brokencurfewrecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/seth.metoyer.personal
Cleansing Of The Temple
Gavin James – Vocals
Matthew Clark – Guitar
Peyton Stewart – Guitar
Daniel Strassburg – Bass
Tristan Neal – Drums
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Pulpit Vomit
Seth Metoyer – Guitars/Vocals
Tim Olson - Drums
Kristeffor Olson – Bass
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Finnish thrashers INDEMON have released a music video for their song 'ABUSE'. The track is taken from their critically acclaimed debut album, RECLAIMING CHAOS, which was released last June via Inverse Records.
Watch 'Abuse' music video: https://youtu.be/m2HwICPU3WA
The band comments:
"Abuse show's the narrator’s perspective on the conflict in which they want to break free from a person, yet at the same time want to keep that person under their control. The narrator has an obsession with control.
Alternatively, it could be that the other person does not exist at all, and the narrator is actually a voice inside the listener’s head — a kind of inner demon — telling the listener how it wants to get rid of them, while simultaneously keeping them in its grasp."
Listen to Reclaiming Chaos album: https://push.fm/fl/indemon-album
Biography:
INDEMON is a four-piece metal band formed in 2020 in Kerava, Finland. Drawing influences from various subgenres of metal, they blend them uniquely to create a powerful and atmospheric sound. INDEMON's debut EP Fear of Living was released in 2022, showcasing the band's ability to create intense and multifaceted metal. The band’s lyrical themes explore fear, self-doubt, and inner struggles, immersing the listener into the music's emotional world. INDEMON is known for their energetic live performances and distinctive music. Their debut album Reclaiming Chaos was released in June 2025 via Inverse Records.
Track
list:1. Bring Down The Light
2. Internal Defeat
3. Passenger
4. Abuse
5. Necessary Evil
6. Shoot & Forget
7. Ruoja
8. Reclaim Chaos
Album cover by Sakari Vinko
Line-up:
Joose Riihelä - vocals
Santeri Liesmala - guitar
Ville Kangasharju - bass
Patrik Kuitunen - drums
https://www.facebook.com/indemonband
Genre : Avantgarde Black Metal
Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : November 28th 2025
For fans of: Spite Extreme Wing, Ved Buens Ende.
I RISE WITH THE DEAD (EP - 2025)
Following their appreciated latest album "Fanciulli D'Occidente" (2024, Dusktone), the italian Avantgarde Black Metal outfit LAETITIA IN HOLOCAUST comes back with a new short but yet ambitous work, titled "I Rise With The Dead".
Although featuring only two tracks, LAETITIA IN HOLOCAUST felt the need to tackle the composition of a 12-minutes long, atmospheric and wide-ranging piece - "Gioia e Pianto alle Teste dei Leoni" - trying to maintain the same intensity and ferocity of the latest album, although broaden its spectrum by creating more persistent and less rapidly changing musical scenarios.
The focal themes on which the lyrics are built around are the revival of vitalistic values, the transience of vigor and beauty, and the poison of Christianity; the nostalgia, contempt, and rejection that blacken fragments of dreamlike and symbolic visions (the lions' heads, simulacra of life cycles [predators - themselves prey - trophies] and testimonies of a dead but not defeated time).
The expressive center is thus settled on the tone of a funeral lament, a determined and vengeful lament, a cry of war and pain, a laughter that promises blood; a memory remains, in closing: the natural childhood of a lost world, of a dried-up source.
I FALL WITH THE SAINTS (EP - 2021 | REISSUE 2025)
Originally released in 2021 (Brucia Records), LAETITIA IN HOLOCAUST's "I Fall With The Saints" EP was recently reissued on CD and revitalized by Masked Dead Records/Sulphur Music.
Expect everything we have all come to love about LIH: incredibly inventive Black Metal with a unique vision and an unmatched delivery, a penchant for sophistication and experimentalism in its truest form, slaying and cold guitar riffs, outstanding lyrics, impeccable drumming and their signature fretless bass.
The LIH formula blends the solemnity and exaltation of late Spite Extreme Wing with the technical complexity and dynamism of acts such as Ved Bues Ende and Deathspell Omega.
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ONSETCOLD
- "APOCALYPTIC SLEEP"Apocalyptic Sleep is a chilling descent into themes of pain, survival, and the end of the world. The ten-track album takes listeners through a bleak, beautiful, and inescapable apocalypse. From the opening track, "The Blue Room," which sets a tone of perpetual suffering, the album weaves a narrative of ancient prophecies, cosmic chaos, and personal damnation. It explores the blurred lines between love and destruction ("Standing in the Rain Beside You"), the slow decay under a dying star ("Under the Nuclear Sun"), and a fatalistic acceptance of ruin ("Sleep Tonight"). The journey intensifies with a demonic waltz with Lucifer himself ("Underworld") and a violent, cult-like rebellion ("Cult"), before concluding with "Austere." Ultimately, Apocalyptic Sleep is not a story of hope, but a visceral and honest look at the beauty and terror of a world in its final throes. The album has been mixed and mastered by Dan Mullins(My Dying Bride).
The digital album's release date is 28 November 2025.
Tracklist
1. The Blue Room
2. The Oracle to Egypt
3. Hurricane
4. Standing in the Rain Beside You
5. Under the Nuclear Sun
6. Sleep Tonight
7. Short Circuit
8. Underworld
9. Breathing in This Cult
10. Austere
Onsetcold is the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end; a post‑apocalyptic extreme metal entity built to be the heaviest, most unhinged, and most unpredictable force possible. The name marks a fixed point in time: past the fire, past the point of return, where collapse is inevitable and volatility is the only constant. Across Art Destroyer, Death Blast (2020), and the full‑art detonation Noam Chomsky (2023), Onsetcold has treated albums like weapons tests—each one a different method of breaking the frame. The new record, Apocalyptic Sleep, is the most dangerous yet: ten movements that fuse black‑metal frost, death‑metal violence, symphonic black grandeur, avant‑garde sabotage, and phonk‑lit menace into a single unstable structure. Onsetcold thrives on disorientation: cathedral‑scale orchestration one moment, bass‑heavy cosmic street menace the next, then a sudden collapse into chaos. Apocalyptic Sleep is not a genre. It’s a place.
Line-up:
Shaq - Music/Vocals
Seiza Friedrich – Vocals
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Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: december 5th 2025
Genre: Post Metal/Progressive Rock
For fans of: Tool | Alice In Chains | Katatonia | Pink Floyd | Killing Joke
In the January of 2024, Final Coil released their third album, The World We Inherited; the crowning glory of a triptych of records which began with their vibrant debut Persistence Of Memory and continued with the highly critically acclaimed The World We Left Behind For Others. While every Final Coil release represents a musical and lyrical achievement to be savoured and treasured, with The World We Inherited, the Leicester-based band took huge strides forward into awe-inspiring creative landscapes. Their most complete, challenging, and thought-provoking release, The World We Inherited was also Final Coil’s most successful album to date. As a result, the band found themselves in the esteemed pages of Prog magazine, bestriding the stage at Bloodstock Open Air, setting out on their first headline European trek; which included an incredible sold out show at the Supersonic Club in Paris; and a return to the Fusion Festival, where they appeared alongside Amplifier and The Von Hertzen Brothers. The world’s rock press were unanimous in their praise for The World We Inherited and the album finished 2024 in many Album Of The Year lists.
The one thing that The World We Inherited wasn’t afforded in its original incarnation was a vinyl release; but now, after a great deal of thought and planning, Final Coil are delighted to finally give this incredible album that richly deserved honour. However, in keeping with their reputation for always trying to give fans the very best possible return for their money, a simple vinyl reissue was never going to be enough for Final Coil…hence the creation of The World We Inherited 2025 – Remastered And Expanded! Alongside a fresh, dynamic remaster of The World We Inherited – created specifically for vinyl by original album producer Russ Russell (Amorphis, The Wildhearts, Napalm Death etc), this new version of the album comes with no fewer than eleven additional tracks. There’s a complete live performance recorded at the Firebug in Leicester, never before heard demo tracks, as well as songs cut in preproduction, all available as a special digital download pack.
The World We Inherited itself remains a simply colossal album. A joy to revisit, its songs are still revealing more secrets nearly two years on from its original unveiling. Whereas the albums that preceded it examined our past, the societal failings that have brought us to our troubled present, The World We Inherited turns its gaze to the future, and the shadows of fear and division that bleed across its horizon. Inspired in no small part by a long and winding conversation with Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman and the prophetic, dystopian fiction of George Orwell, The World We Inherited wanders through a murky, broken world of conspiracy theories, authoritarian politics, and chilling isolation. Yet, while the lyrics and concepts provide the framework for The World We Inherited, it’s the beautifully textured music that draws the listener into the world of Final Coil and enfolds them in a breathtaking experience encompassing overwhelming melancholy, fierce intensity, passion, terror, confusion and starlit glimmers of hope. Drawing on the textures of post-rock, the emotional drive of grunge, the fire of heavy rock, as well as the imaginative sorcery of progressive rock and metal the Final Coil sound is fresh, original and also rooted in an array of influences from across the musical spectrum. The fluid bass work of Jola Stiles both augments and anchors the entwined guitars of Phil Stiles and Richard Awdry, while the vibrant, instinctive drumming of Barry French steers the band through the exquisite song structures, as Phil’s emotive vocals tell each chapter of the unfolding tale.
The expanded element of this new edition is, in truth, a worthy release in its own right, far beyond the scope of most bonus tracks tagged onto ‘tour editions’ or rereleases. The live set from the Firebug in Leicester is a raw and fiery performance – the energy and power of Final Coil in the live environment captured in all its glory - taken straight from the desk, but then mixed and mastered by the frontman Phil Stiles. The previously unreleased ‘Evoking History’ and ‘Self Reflection’ are genuine treasures, exciting additions to the Final Coil canon, while the demos of ‘Humanity’ and ‘Stay With Me’ offer fascinating insights into the evolution of the songs. Available on a strictly limited edition splatter vinyl with digital download on December 5th, this is the perfect way to draw the opening trilogy of Final Coil’s story to a close…and prepare for the next chapter, which is not too far away.
Line-up:
Phil Stiles: Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Synths and Programming
Richard Awdry: Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Vocals and Programming
Jola Stiles: Bass Guitar
Drums on the album recorded by Barry French
Drums on live tracks by Dan Brown
Lead vocals, rhythm & lead guitar, synth, programming, sound effects, bass on demo tracks by Phil Stiles
Lead guitar on demo tracks by Richard Awdry
Pre-orders open now at https://finalcoilrock.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-we-inherited-2025-remastered-expanded
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SLOWLY
WE ROT #26
will be out soon! https://slowlywerot.limitedrun.com/English written
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Interviews with:
Archgoat • Batushka • Bestial Profanation • Centinex • Devilpriest • Elcano • Fatal Embrace • Fragments Of Unbecoming • Funeral • Goatzied • Gurthadun • Impía Maleficencia • Infernal Crown • Misanthrope • Ocean Throne • Ofermod • Opera IX • Pitchfork • Praesepultus • Putrevore • Ramchat • Ranzer • Saor • Sarcasm •
Skalnastal • Stoic • Tales of Mike • The NecroVomits
+ Articles:
"In Their Own Words" – Bands talk about the tracks on the included compilation CD
"Topic of the Issue" - how important (still) is the underground
"Extreme & Exotic" - Tunisia scene feature
+ Reviews
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Support print. Support the underground.
Slowly We Rot #27 already in works and scheduled for a Spring 2026 release!
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DEPRESSION - Second Video "MASSIVE DEPRESSIVE AGGRESSIVE". Hello Folks, check out the second single "Massive Depressive Aggressive" from the upcoming DEPRESSION album "Das Monument"!Official release date is November 28, 2025!
Click to watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EILLQE__2fs
LECHEROUS
NOCTURNE
is currently working on their next full-length 'VIOLUST' (no
current label), currently being mixed and mastered by Ronnie Björnström
(Björnström Ljud & Produktion).Genre: Technical Death Metal
Hometown: Greenville, South Carolina, USA
For Fans Of: Dark Funeral, Immolation, Cryptopsy
Lecherous Nocturne is:
Zach Jeter - Vocals (Nile/Olkoth)
Kreishloff Lofgren - Guitar
James O'Neal - Bass (ex-Atrocious Abnormality)
Ethan Lane - Guitar
Alex Lancia - Drums (Olkoth)
Lecherous Nocturne is an undeniable force in Extreme Death Metal, delivering a unique blend of unhinged speed, chaotic precision, and blackened aggression. Since their formation in 1997, the South Carolina-based group has built a reputation for intense musicianship, dark thematic content, and crushing live performances.
Their discography includes four full-length albums:
Adoration of the Blade (2006) - Deepsend Records
The Age of Miracles Has Passed (2008) - Deepsend Records
Behold Almighty Doctrine (2013) - Unique Leader Records
Occultaclysmic (2018) - Willowtip Records
Lecherous Nocturne has toured extensively across North America, sharing stages with extreme metal heavyweights including Cannibal Corpse, Melechesh, Deicide, Abigail Williams, Immolation, and appearing at major underground festivals like Maryland Deathfest and Las Vegas Deathfest. Their music has been praised for its uncompromising ferocity, ruthless technicality, and unrelenting speed.
https://www.facebook.com/lecherousnocturne
Best Regards, Robby Perry Artist Agent Viscera Disgust Media
Label: Road To MasochistRelease date: november 14th 2025
As the planet burns around us and human society collapses into a mire of self-deceit, avarice and cruelty there has never been a more urgent need for music that confronts, devastates and blasts through the shallow, soulless bullshit we’re drowning in. An outlet for frustrated anger, a searing indictment of mindless, servile acceptance, a blast of intensity to rip through the mind-numbing clouds of lethargy…and when you bring together the combustible hardcore punk of Thumbsucker and the explosive grindcore insanity of Atomҫk you get all that and more; this is a wake-up call of shocking vehemence and a fourteen track nail bomb of a split release that will blow your world apart. Thumbsucker and Atomҫk are two voices from the UK underground that demand to be heard.
It’s down to Thumbsucker to kick off this ripping collection and after a short intro they let loose with the vein-bulging rage of ‘An Accident Waiting To End’ – a detonation of wild, grinding mayhem. And from there there’s no turning back, no chance to get off the ride as each track charges into the next. Be it the jarring riff shards, venomous vocals and irresistible rhythms of ‘Coward’, the bewildering bomb drops of ‘First World Problem’ or the rampaging, needle in the red adrenaline of ‘Grift’, Thumbsucker deliver in shocking, breathless fashion until the last unequivocal blow of ‘You Will Not Be Missed’. And before you’ve had a second to check for broken bones, Atomҫk take up the mantle of destruction. Fourteen years on from their debut EP, Yes To Alien Victory, Atomҫk have only become more abrasive and furious with the passage of time. Opening up with the caustic ‘Fuck Off Back To London (Again)’ Atomҫk are a battering assault on the senses, powered by some incredible drumming and utterly insane vocals. No matter how many acts of sonic extremity you have been exposed to over the years tracks like ‘Are You, Jon’ and ‘Thought Terminating Cliché’ are going to flay you alive. By the time the madness of ‘Still Dead’ reaches its conclusion you’ll be left beaten and broken.
Road To Masochist will release this incendiary cocktail of extremity on November 14th, on CD and 10” black vinyl. Make no mistake this split release is one of the most intense outpourings of rage and defiance that you’ll hear this year, or any other.
Thumbsucker Line-up:
Duane - Drums, Vocals
Stringer - Guitars, Vocals
Genre: Hardcore Punk
For fans of: Anti Cimex | Extreme Noise Terror | Dropdead
Atomҫk Line-up:
Karl - Drums
Linus - Vocals, machines
Barthur - Bass
Luke – Guitars
Genre: Grindcore
For fans of: Napalm Death | Nasum | Cyness
https://roadtomasochist.co.uk/
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https://www.facebook.com/atomckgrind
Veilburner have revealed a new track from their highly awaited new album. It only showcases more of their unique madness and experimental flair, and their command over the blend of styles. No Clean Singing premiered it at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/23/an-ncs-premiere-veilburner-matter-o-the-most-awful-martyrs/. Make sure to give their album enough spins by the time it comes out!
VEILBURNER - “LONGING FOR TRIUMPH, REEKING OF TRAGEDY”
Genre :
Avantgarde Death/Black MetalFor fans of : Blut aus Nord, Imperial Triumphant, Deathspell Omega, Hexrot, Oranssi Pazuzu, Akhyls, Akercocke
"Only a year after the release of their critically acclaimed "The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom" album, Veilburner are returning with their eighth full-length album, titled "Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy."
In the spirit of striking while the iron is hot, this eighth evolution of the Veilburner story capitalizes on momentum while simultaneously achieving new heights in their song-crafting and story-telling. It leads their characters on a journey in which they cannot recognize triumph without tragedy, and sees them residing somewhere between the abyss and their devotion to mortal re-occurrence, that which seems to attract death. They face not just any death, but the kind in which they are bound to an infinite loop of reincarnation and destined to repeat the same traumas and failures as before. They continue to suffer like two dragons consuming one another in a serpentine-like fashion until one can no longer consume the other, frozen in the shape of infinity (∞) and numerologically represented by the digit eight (8). Samael (the "poison of god" and the eighth sphere of the Qlippoth), as well as Choronzon (the dweller of the threshold) and the Ouroboros all correlate with this symbol of infinity and exist in Veilburner’s lore as the antagonistic and immutable eternity, which if confronted can lead to self-destruction and the finality of manifestation, permenantly breaking the loop.
Mephisto’s discordant cacophony of dripping notes and riff-filled rot remain foul as ever, yet undeniably addictive. The music twists and turns on itself in an auditory embodiment of the album's theme and takes the listener on a snaking, bending musical roller coaster that seemingly ends at the precipice of where it began, endlessly inviting another listen. Chrisom Infernium acts as a medium, casting shadows of hiss filled hymns that harken to the past call to the present channeling the chatter of choired cataclysms, creating doppelgängers of sonic dispersions which leave the listener to contemplate if they are willing to confront the thing they fear most, the true version of themselves."
Line up
Mephisto Deleterio - Music and production
Chrisom Infernium - Vocals, lyrics, and album design
Cover artwork by Luciana Nedelea
Track listing
1. Longing for Triumph...
2. Pestilent Niche
3. Rigor & Wraith
4. That Which Crypts Howls Grandeur
5. Da'ath Ye Shadow Portrait
6. Ouroboreal Whorl
7. Matter o' the Most Awful of Martyrs
8. ...Reeking of Tragedy
Official release date - November 14th, 2025
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Thanks a lot for your support! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
TENEBRIS
unleash
first new album in over a decade .From one of Poland’s most original and
long-running metal bands ."KOCHANOWSKI" is out now via
Pagan Records. Features unique blend of death metal, jazz, and Polish literary
loreBand participated at special Radio Łódź event with Pagan Records' Tomasz Krajewski
The new album from Tenebris, "Kochanowski", the band's first full-length in over a decade and a follow-up to the 2018 “Legendarna” EP, is out now via Pagan Records.
Stream "Kochanowski" via YouTube and all major streaming platforms: https://youtu.be/PTo3uAAtyQw
Order the CD/LP via the Pagan Records webstore: https://www.pagan-records.com/pl/searchquery/kochanowski/1/phot/5?url=kochanowski
Founded in Łódź in 1991, Tenebris is one of Poland's most original and long-running metal bands. “Kochanowski” is a musical continuation of their 2018 EP, “Legendarna”, and delves into the surprising, esoteric side of Polish poet Jan Kochanowski. The band's frontman, Siwy Jaszy, discovered that Kochanowski’s epigrams were a labyrinth based on Pythagorean numerology, transforming the poet into a figure of magical arts.
The album's creative process began in 2021 and was completed in 2025, with lyrics drawing from literary giants like Kochanowski, Słowacki, Adam Mickiewicz. The new record features special guests, including Maciej Pasiński (ex Sirrah, Pincer Consortium) on backing vocals and growls, Paweł Szamburski on clarinet, and Sylwia Levy on backing vocals.
The band recently participated in a special listening session and meeting at Radio Łódź, which also featured Tomasz Krajewski from Pagan Records.
The current lineup consists of:
Siwy Jaszy - vocals, guitar
Bartek Polny - bass guitar
Przemysław Dominiak - guitar
Grzegorz Graczyk - drums
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/paganrecords
https://www.youtube.com/@TenebriSalpha/featured
https://www.facebook.com/TenebrisAlpha
Hungarian
Death Metal powerhouse ANGERSEED announces new album "RAPTURE
IS MINE… GLORY IS OURS"GerHungary's Old-School Technical Death Metal force ANGERSEED returns with their long-awaited second full-length album, "Rapture is Mine… Glory is Ours", marking nine years since the band's debut, "The Proclamation". The new record sees the band reconnecting with its early roots while boldly reshaping its sound into a more modern, dynamic, and expressive form. The lyrical themes delve deeper than before, enhancing the band's characteristic social-critical perspective with profound inner and spiritual reflections.
The album spans 45 minutes across eight new compositions, followed by a special Hungarian-language bonus track, "Epilógus / Számvetés 33", a poetic, introspective summation of frontman Peter D. Maniak's 33-year musical journey.
The album title reflects the culmination of a long and demanding creative era. This time, Peter D. Maniak assumed full artistic control over the songwriting, defining both the sonic identity and the future direction of ANGERSEED.
"Rapture is Mine… Glory is Ours" will be released digitally on November 15th, with the CD edition to follow in December via a collaboration between Pest Records and Metal Ör Die Records.
Tracklist:
1. Nothingness is Calling Me
2. Conquering the Nemesis
3. When Life Turns to Grey
4. Barathrum of Consciousness
5. The Emptiness Within
6. Self-Expulsion from Paradise
7. Redefine My Universe
8. With Rapture for the Glory
9. Epilogue / Accounting 33 (Bonus Track)
Line-up:
Peter D. Maniak – vocals, vocals
Zoltán Bilcsik – bass guitar
Péter Losonczi – guitars (studio session)
Jozsef Gáva – Drums (live & studio session)
Recorded by: Losonczi Péter (Saron Records, Debrecen, 2024–2025)
Mix/master: István Simon (No Silence Studios)
Producers: Angerseed and István Simon
Cover and booklet: Bertalan Pór (Krowze)
Upcoming Live Dates
22.11.2025 – Budapest (HU) @ S8 Underground Club – Unhallowed Night VI
+ Feretrum, Deprived of Salvation, Closure
27.12.2025 – Ózd (HU) @ Civil Ház – XV Metal Karácsony
+ Action, Archaic, Remorse, Vírus, Closure & more
10.01.2026 – Debrecen (HU) @ Stage Underground Music Club –
XVI Full Of Anger Underground Metal Festival
+ Aornos, Crowhill Tales, Closure & more
Short biography:
Formed in 2008 by vocalist Peter D. Maniak, ANGERSEED has performed more than 200 shows in Hungary and abroad, appearing at festivals such as Gothoom, Rockmaraton, Death By Metal, MetalGate Czech Death Fest, and Rockstadt Extreme Fest. The band is also closely connected to the Full Of Anger Underground Metal Festival, currently preparing for its 28th edition.
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https://www.youtube.com/user/ANGERSEEDofficial
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NEWS 9.11.2025
Happy Release Day! SICK OF SOCIETY melden
sich mit ihrer neuen Single „FAHNE IN DEN WIND“ zurück – ein
unmissverständlicher, wütender Punk-Song, der die Ohnmacht der Gegenwart in
rohen Bildern einfängt und zu trotzigem Widerstand aufruft.„No future“ – eigentlich längst nur noch eine Phrase – ist heute wieder erschreckend nah an der Realität. Krieg und Konflikte, die Beschleunigung der Klimakrise, das Wiedererstarken nationalistischer und rechtsextremer Bewegungen sowie der Rückbau sozialer Errungenschaften zeichnen ein bedrückendes Bild. Inmitten dieser Lage wirkt vieles aussichtslos: „Wenn die Welt im Meer versenkt, dann fang ich nicht an zu schwimmen“, heißt es im Songtext.
Statt Resignation setzt SICK OF SOCIETY auf Trotz. Die Band bleibt unbequem, direkt und kompromisslos. Und sie dreht das Bild: Aus dem sprichwörtlichen Fähnchen im Wind wird eine kämpferische Ansage – hart, leidenschaftlich und ungezügelt. „Fahne in den Wind“ ist kein Aufruf zur Hoffnung, die alles entschuldigt – es ist ein klares Statement: Auch wenn der Ausgang ungewiss scheint, sind sie sicher, dass die Idee fortbestehen wird. „Auch wenn wir längst verloren sind, werden wir nicht untergehen“, heißt es eindringlich.
Musikalisch bleibt die Band ihrer Linie treu, geht aber mit diesem Song auch wieder deutlich stärker nach vorne: treibende Gitarren, knallige Riffs und aggressivem Gesang. Der Song verbindet modernen Sound mit klassischer Deutschpunk-Ästhetik und aktuellen politischen Beobachtungen, wirkt dadurch sowohl zeitlos als auch hochaktuell. Am Ende bleibt die Erkenntnis: „Es gibt kein Morgen, für dich und für mich. Es gibt kein Morgen, sie hatten verdammt recht.“
"Fahne in den Wind" auf Spotify:
"Fahne in den Wind" Video auf YouTube: https://youtu.be/cnVbBiEmZCQ
INFRAHUMANO — “DEPTHS OF SUFFERING” (LP)
Genre: Death Metal (from
Autopsy over Morbid Angel or Drawn and Quartered to old Cryptopsy)Country: Spain
Label: Lavadome Productions
Release day: October 31, 2025 (digital), followed by CD version at the end of November
Recorded and mixed at La Cumbre Studios
Mastered by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios
Tracklist:
1. Across the Void
2. Thrown into the Fire
3. Battalion of Darkness
4. Baptized in Acid
5. Reduced to Fermented Pulp
6. Forced Self Cannibalism
7. Global Degradation
8. The Last Breath
9. Shades of Cruelty
Rejoice in the name of Death Metal decay and brutality. Spain's INFRAHUMANO will take you on a 9-song journey through US, European, South American Death Metal fields and will deliver devastating rhythms, yet memorable, influenced by seminal Death Metal but presented in Infrahumano's own extreme ways. The band's second studio album, Depths of Suffering, is ready to be heard.
For the insiders out there: I have not been this excited about a Death Metal release from Spain since Unnatural, do you remember?
https://lavadome.bandcamp.com/album/depths-of-suffering
https://linktr.ee/infrahumano_DM
https://www.facebook.com/infrahumanodeath
The
new album from UK-based death metal band QRIXKOUR has
arrived. THE WOMB OF THE WORLD is out now on Dark
Descent Records (US) and Invictus Productions (Europe).The Womb of the World is available on CD, vinyl, and cassette at
QRIXKUOR surface once more to bring the crepuscular whispers of 2021’s Poison Palinopsia LP and 2022’s Zoetrope EP to a roaring, terrifying and triumphant crowning crescendo with their 2nd full-length album, entitled The Womb of the World.
Once again recorded, mixed and mastered on familiar ground at Priory Recording Studios in Birmingham, England by Greg Chandler (ESOTERIC) and emblazoned with a much-expanded outer and inner gatefold piece by Zoetrope artist-extraordinaire Santiago Caruso (as well as additional insert art contributed by Nuno Zuki), The Womb of the World further defies the dogmas of death and black metal by dragging them deeper still into the depths of textural and timbral delirium, more so than its predecessors even dared fathom, augmented throughout its 4 chapters by the sinistrous siren song of The Orchestra of the Silent Stars.
The venomous tongues of guest-contributor slithering serendipity herself, Jaded fucking Lungs (ADORIOR) maniacally guide "And You Shall Know Perdition As Your Shrine" into the album’s eponymous climax, a tumultuous ending in fire certain to be the apotheosis of QRIXKUOR’s vision to date.
The Womb of the World is the echo of time tearing itself apart, a dauntless deliverance of dissolution. Perhaps now the seas can be still at last…
Tracklisting:
1. So Spoke the Silent Stars
2. Slithering Serendipity
3. And You Shall Know Perdition as Your Shrine…
4. The Womb of the World
Lineup:
S - Guitars, bass and vocals
D - Drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://invictusproductions.net/
www.facebook.com/qrixkuor
KAMI
NO IKARI – “DIVINE EXCUSE”Heaven falls. Hell answers! DIVINE EXCUSE is the most merciless strike yet from KAMI NO IKARI—a furious blend of epic melodies and death metal ferocity, crowned by a monstrous guest feature from the voice of BENIGHTED.
This is melodic deathcore metal at its most unholy—anthemic riffs meet blastbeat carnage, choirs clash with brutality, and every scream is a nail in the coffin of false salvation. Majestic, violent, and deeply blasphemous, it channels the rage of bands like BEHEMOTH, FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, and HYPOCRISY—without losing its own twisted identity.
DIVINE EXCUSE is not a song. It’s a reckoning. Prepare for judgment.
WHITE RITUAL – “RITUAL LUST”
Where passion turns to ashes.
Ritual Lust fuses darkwave, synthwave, and industrial rock into a feverish storm of sound and emotion.
Hailing from France, WHITE RITUAL deliver their unique sound signature and visuals — led by the haunting voice of their frontwoman Lily, whose performance burns with both sensuality and sorrow.
This is where love bleeds, lust devours, and everything sacred burns. Give in to the ritual. Let it consume you.
https://www.darktunes.com/en/
You can pre-order it at: https://t.ly/JNH6tWe also reveal the 10 gems that enrich this work:
1. Stateless Journey
2. Origins Of Light
3. The Crucible
4. Night Torn
5. Dissonant Void
6. Baiterek
7. Ov Seas & Seeds
8. In A Dream
9. Come Undone
10. Brother Of Sleep
Infusing moods ranging from dark and psychedelic, to heavy and galloping riffs, "In Essence Divided" is an intense and captivating album inspired by the roots of Progressive Metal from the early 70's, by Avantgarde Black Metal of the last decade, by the melodic Metal of the 90's.
The album was mixed and mastered by Raphaël Bovey from Switzerland, known for his work with Monkey3, Nostromo, Gojira, Samael among his extensive discography and features several guests that we will reveal to you soon.
"In Essence Divided" will delight fans of Progressive Metal à la OPETH, but also those enjoying an uncanny mix of styles and influences from PINK FLOYD to BLOOD INCANTATION, from SAMAEL to GOJIRA!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/NightshadeMetal
US
progressive metal innovators SPIRAL FRACTURE unleash
their third single & video "BURNING" alongside
a compelling lyric video. The track comes from their eagerly awaited album
GRACE IN DECAY, due via Wormholedeath.“Burning” is a revenge anthem forged from grief and loss. The track explores the transformation of sorrow into fiery resolve, blending crushing riffs, pounding drums, and soaring vocals into a narrative of poetic brutality. It’s metal with depth, a song that lingers in the mind and strikes at the core of human emotion.
Stream the single here: https://orcd.co/burningsingle
Pre-save "Grace in Decay": https://orcd.co/graceindecay
About Spiral Fracture
Spiral Fracture is a progressive metal band that bridges the past and future of the genre. Their sound blends thunderous drums, soul-shaking bass, and atmospheric guitar textures with the soaring clarity of a classically trained alto vocalist. Inspired by the Fibonacci spiral, their music mirrors the fractures of modern society through a fusion of prog, rock, death, black, and power metal.
Featuring David Givens (guitar), Brian Fisher (drums), Brian Tanner (bass), and Javier Ramos (vocals), the band creates a precise yet primal sonic tapestry. Now managed by Extreme Management Group, Spiral Fracture is set to expand their reach and connect with listeners worldwide.
https://www.youtube.com/@spiralfracture
https://www.spiralfracturemetal.com
https://www.facebook.com/spiralfracturemusic
Listen to the album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/mourniaty-musta-maa
Karulainen wrote Musta Maa over a span of several years. During those years demos were discarded, but Karulainen knew a good song when he wrote one. Those songs ended up forming an album that described the mindset of the songwriter: angry, bleak and rough around the edges.
"-Feels like this album has an edge that is far too uncommon on todays music scene", Karulainen states.
Karulainen describes Musta Maa as being ”bleak in the right way” and also different in its mid-tempo landscape, where you can hear influences from bands such as Ajattara (FIN), Dimmu Borgir (NO) or Carach Angren (NED). Combining these influences an album was born that looks and sounds exactly like its creator.
"-If something didn’t please me, I’d redo it to my own liking. Even though there is a full band playing on this album, I’d still use my veto-right when needed. These are my songs, after all. I call Mourniaty a ”democracy with a gentle, dictatorial touch”."
Biography:
When you get fed up with Christianity and Paganism starts to arouse your interest, interesting things are often created. Sometimes this process needs an accelerant, which is exactly what happened when Karulainen and Metällinen found themselves to be merged in the same family tree. Now, what else would fresh, Finnish relatives do but make aggressive noises together? This gave an outlet for the music Karulainen had already been writing.
Finnish Mourniaty began its life as a smoldering project already in 2015. It burst into raging fire five years later, when situations in life permitted concentrating on music full-time. When bass player Tenho joined the group in 2022, Mourniaty finally became a real band instead of two men with backing tracks.
Karulainen describes Mourniaty’s music as black metal, which combines mid-tempo grooves and even symphonic arrangements combined with lyrics sung in both Finnish and English, which revolve around themes of Paganism and Anti-Christianity. The debut album, “Musta maa” (Black Earth), was released thru Inverse records on digital platforms and in cd-format in November of 2025. What a perfect soundtrack for the darkest season of the year.
Track list:01. Ajan saattama
02. Musta maa
03. All Your Lies
04. Aika Roudan
05. Shrines
06. Kyynelten virta
07. Seventh Seal
08. A Son of the Plague
09. Sodomia
10. Pyhä on valani
Mixed by Karulainen & Joona Rinne / Deep Noise Studios
Mastered by Saku Moilanen / Deep Noise Studios
Album cover by Karulainen
Line-up:
Metällinen - drums
Tenho - bass
Liekkiö - guitar
Karulainen - vocals & guitar
https://mourniaty.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/mourniaty
Slovak
instrumentalists ABSTRACT return after 11 years
with a new album to celebrate their 30 years on the metal scene.ABSTRACT – “MONOGRAM”
Label: Pařát Productions
Style: Instrumental metal
Type: Digipak (500pcs), special collector´s box (100 pcs)
Release date: 29.11. 2025
Pre-orders start: 1.11. 2025
ABSTRACT is the only band that Pařát Productions will release a studio album for this year. The collaboration between the band and Pařát Productions began in 2014 with the album "Lightheory" and continues to this day.
ABSTRACT is a Slovak band that has been playing instrumental metal since 1995 - meaning no vocals.
The album "Monogram" will be released by Pařát Productions on 29.11. 2025 as a digipak with a 16-page booklet. A limited edition collector's box is also available in Pařátshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_XegeI1c6A
Pre-orders, including merchandise, started on 1.11. at www.paratshop.cz
First singl from new album "Monogram" listen on the Pařát Productions YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_XegeI1c6A
www.paratshop.cz
www.facebook.com/ParatMagazine
A
new occult/doom rock act, DROWNED IN SILVER, has unveiled
their debut album “MOTHERS”, which is out now via Pagan
Records in CD, LP and digital formats. Listen to the album in full on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bDGQzLvV62I
“Mothers” is also available on all streaming platforms.
The band previously released a music video to the track "Waves of Sorrow", which is a powerful testament to the band’s signature sound, blending the dark atmospheres of occult and doom rock with a distinct gothic touch. The music video, created in collaboration with the artists from Zaćma Visual Studio and the Kraków-based dance group Morphos, visually captures the song’s intensity and mood.
Drowned in Silver is a new project formed by seasoned musicians from the black metal and experimental music scenes. Their music finds a unique balance between occult rock and trance-like expression, drawing inspiration from the spiritual intensity of artists like The Devil’s Blood, Dead Can Dance and Wardruna.
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/paganrecords
https://www.facebook.com/drownedinsilver
Baltimore (MD) - One-man Melodic Doom Metal outfit, ORCHID THRONE, will release debut full-length album, BURIED IN BLACK, on January 9, 2026! The project consists solely of Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) who performs the music, as well as producing, mixing and mastering the album.
FFO: Swallow the Sun, Anathema, Woods of Ypres, Novembers Doom, Draconian
The album's first single, "Dreamworld," will be available November 16 on all streaming platforms. Album pre-orders will be available at https://orchidthrone.bandcamp.com/ on the same day.
After nearly 17 years of playing supporting roles in various bands, Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) is proud to make his debut as a solo artist as the man behind Orchid Throne. Bonsanto not only wrote and performed all of the music for Buried in Black, but also produced, mixed, and mastered the album.
While not a concept album, Buried in Black weaves themes of anxiety, depression, fear of death, and the search for life’s meaning throughout its lyrics. The title describes both the music itself and the feelings that Bonsanto has kept buried within for years. It may sound bleak, but what is buried in black will be set free and brought to light on January 9.
“This album is a long time coming for me,” said Bonsanto. “For more than a decade, I collected little recordings of ideas in the hope that one day they’d be useful. I could not be more proud of myself for how the album came out and for all of the things I have learned along the way.”
Bonsanto's Musical Journey to Buried in Black:
“As a musician performing in bands since I was 16, people who know me have seen me play a supportive role, and hear my musical contributions to my bands. But not everyone knows that I have always dreamed of releasing a record of my own. I am passionate about all kinds of music, and while I love playing in my current bands, doom metal is a big love that I long felt like I had no outlet for.
“While I’ve honed my songwriting abilities over the years, I began this project with zero knowledge of how to produce a record on my own. I introduced Orchid Throne to the world one year ago on my birthday with only one song done. Over the past year, I have finished writing, recording, and producing my entire debut record. I have finally achieved this goal and it's even better than I ever imagined it could be. It means so much to me to get this out there, to truly reflect who I am as an artist, and I’m already excited to create more.”
Track
Listing:1. Dreamworld
2. Ephemerality
3. What Defines us
4. Moonlight Revelry
5. Guilt
6. Breath of Autumn
7. With Promise
Credits:
Album artwork painted by Ryan Gassaway.
Music and Lyrics written by Nick Bonsanto.
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Nick Bonsanto.
All instruments performed by Nick Bonsanto.
Flute on “Breath of Autumn” and “With Promise” performed by Mary Beck.
Orchid Throne is:
Nicholas Bonsanto - All instruments.
Bio:
Orchid Throne is a Melodic Doom Metal one-man band created by Nicholas Bonsanto (Lör, Empress, Helianthus, Barren) based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Orchid Throne is set to release its debut full-length album on January 9, 2026, titled Buried in Black. The album features a spellbinding variety of dark, heavy, and emotional material that beckons you to fall into the endless black. Drawing influence from a range of sounds such as melodic death metal, black metal, progressive rock, and folk, Orchid Throne is music from the heart for fellow souls who need
it most.
https://linktr.ee/orchidthrone
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease date: february 5th 2026
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Entombed | Ribspreader | Grave | Vomitory
What is man but a short-lived parasite, a brief flickering of light in the long, long aeons of darkness…for those who dwell in the deep places of the Earth, all mankind’s endeavours – his childlike learning, his shining towers and imbecilic weapons, his self applauded works of art – are unworthy of note or notice. They slumbered; dreaming their epoch spanning dreams in their temples of silence, whispering their strange sorceries, long before man dragged himself from the primeval swamps. And they will dream on in the times to come, while the stars grow cold and as mankind rots.
The Scandinavian Warmachine rolls on! After twenty seven years, thirteen full length studio albums and an ever growing brood of EPs, split releases, live albums and compilations Paganizer still sound adrenalized, bloodstained and glorious! It seems that Rogga Johansson still wakes every morning with a new batch of rotten riffs hatched inside his head, clawing to get out into the world…and album number fourteen is ready to lay waste to all that stands in its path. It’s time for As Mankind Rots!
Paganizer make two kinds of records – good ones and great ones – and from the explosive beginning of title track and first single, ‘As Mankind Rots’, it’s obvious that with this album they are hitting greatness. There’s no intro, no samples, it’s just headfirst into riffs and mayhem; pure Swedish death metal magnificence! From that opening salvo on there is not a moment which is anything less than definitive death metal. You could explain real, unadulterated death metal to the uninitiated by simply handing them this album to listen to. Every vocal punctuation, every roar, every drumbeat every goddamn riff is exactly what you want it to be. From the supremely catchy ‘Put On Your Gasmask’, with its wailing air raid siren to ‘Hollow’s crawl through lightless tunnels; ‘Afterworld’s searing guitar solo and atmosphere to revel in, drown in, to the rampaging, breathless fury of ‘The Rotting End’ - As Mankind Rots is headbanging classic after headbanging classic. Rogga’s voice is as powerful as his riffs and Paganizer have never sounded better. A nice surprise to finish the album is a new recording of ‘Vanans Makt’, which appeared on the Compiled Ammunition compilation back in 2020, with guest vocals from Bulten of Swedish punk band Lastkaj 14.
Mixed and mastered by long term collaborator Ronnie Björnström, who has also applied his magic touch to other Rogga Johansson projects like Ribspreader, Those Who Bring The Torture and Revolting, As Mankind Rots simply could not sound any better. The package is completed by the haunting artwork of Ivan Bragin (The Gathering, October Tide, Woods Of Ypres etc) and will be released by Xtreem Music on CD, 12"LP Cassette & Digital formats on February 5th. For all fans of real death metal – this is unmissable!
Line-up:
Rogga Johansson - Guitars, Vocals
Matte Fiebig - Drums
Dennis Blomberg - Lead Guitars
Martin Klasén - Bass
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/paganizersweden
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease date: december 4th 2025
Genre: Progressive Death/Thrash Metal
For fans of: Death | Anacrusis | Coroner | Watchtower
One more voyage of exploration, one more combination of chemicals, one more step into the forbidden darkness…one more ‘immoral’ experiment. There is no right or wrong here on this frontier, there is only the light of knowledge, the thrill of discovery and the grasping of power. Warnings are just challenges to courage and laws only bind those too weak to break them. Is the essence of our humanity really so great a price to pay when the reward is the ultimate understanding of everything? Is it not time to transcend the natural order, the chains of conscience that have bound us and leave this world behind…in ruins if that is what must be…
A union of two prodigious talents - Alessandro Gargivolo and Erymanthon Seth – Jester Majesty create music to fire the imagination and astound the senses. Formed in early 2024 by Alessandro Gargivolo when his musical ambitions began to extend into territories beyond the remit of his band, thrashers Alchemist, a first EP Plains Of Heaven appeared later that year. Erymanthon Seth (Apocalypse) contributed to the Plains Of Heaven EP and a full partnership with Alessandro Gargivolo soon developed. Now the breathtaking results of that partnership can be revealed; a majestic concept album of stunning progressive metal that deals with mankind’s insatiable thirst for knowledge and ongoing battle against the limitations that restrain him – Infinite Measure, Finite Existence…
The heavy, insistent and rhythmic introduction of ‘Zero-Point Collapse’ opens the door to an album that defies any attempt to provide a simple summation of its contents. The huge, shifting riffs and elaborate leads of ‘Echoes Of π’ sublimely illustrate the blend of outstanding musicianship and songcraft which lies at the heart of the Jester Majesty sound. The individual abilities at play open up vast possibilities for the songs, creating music that is limited only by the scope of the imagination. Each song is unique within itself and yet they are all intrinsically connected – working wonderfully as individual pieces but staggeringly so as a collective whole. It’s an exhilarating experience to ride the storm-tossed seas of ‘Married To The Masterplan’, with so much to absorb, so much to hear, layer upon layer of sound, with the powerful chorus an anchor in the tumult. Infinite Measure, Finite Existence is constantly evolving and changing forms and the individual songs are microcosms of that process, metamorphosising as they progress, pools mirroring the tides of an ocean. Each musical element of Jester Majesty is of the highest quality, from the superb vocals to the mesmerising guitar work to the overwhelming drums and ‘φinal Jest’ is the perfect ending to an album of superlative accomplishment. It leaves you with a hunger to revisit the many paths of Infinite Measure…, a feeling that you could uncover a whole new experience by listening with a slightly different focus. There are near limitless secrets to be found in the realms of this indisputable masterpiece of progressive metal.
Mixed and mastered by Nikola Zanev (Other Night Fears, Mudcrab) to allow every facet of this intricate musical jewel to shine and adorned in the powerful artwork of Vini Vhummel (Kairos, Entormus etc), Infinite Measure, Finite Existence will be released by Xtreem Music, on CD and digital formats, on December 4th. This is one album that simply cannot be ignored.
Line-up:
Alessandro Gargivolo - Guitars/Bass/Vocals
Erymanthon Seth – Lead Guitar/Keyboards
*composition credit to Emiliano Ostertag on ‘φinal Jest’
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
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The video was written, directed, and edited by drummer Grace Perez, and produced by Eye N Eye Productions.
Check "Whore's Grave" at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-hfTh1gd2Y
Fully formed in 2024, PRECIOUS BLOOD brings together three veterans of the NYC scene - AJ – guitar, vocals (Jesus Knevil, Snake Canyon), Dave Kramer – bass, vocals (Blood Feast, Suaka, Stanley), and Grace Perez – drums, vocals (The Wickedexorcist). The band’s shared love of doom and underground metal is expressed in an unholy concoction of rum-soaked riffs, brutal lyrics, and mystical tribal sounds.
With a signature sound best described as Blackened Caribbean Doom, PRECIOUS BLOOD delivers a unique blend of doom and thrash metal influenced tone, mixed with lyrical themes that draw profound inspiration from the enduring spirit of the Caribbean, shaped by brutal history of colonization, unwavering resilience of its people, and exploration of the darker aspects of human existence, including death, contemplation of mortality and the complexities of human suffering.
For fans of monstrous riffs, horror-inspired visuals, and genre-bending metal.
Tracklist:1) False Prophets
2) Bludgeoned & Charred
3) Footsteps of Babylon
4) Shadow of the Cross
5) Cemetery Burn
6) Old Man Abaddon
7) El Muerte
8) Whore’s Grave
False Prophets was recorded and mixed by Joe Hogan at Captain’s Cove Catskills Studios with mastering and additional engineering by AJ Tissian (The Wave Lab). The album was produced by Joe Hogan and PRECIOUS BLOOD. Album cover photo by Mia. Cover layout by PRECIOUS BLOOD.
Line-Up:
AJ -Guitar, Vocals
Grace Perez - Drums, Backing Vocals
Dave Kramer - Bass, Backing Vocals
https://linktr.ee/preciousbloodband
With Crimson Hallows, Screams Of Tranquility deliver a furious yet deeply emotional full-length that marks the next chapter in the saga around the Bloodshades and the hunter's heir caught between frost, blood, and redemption.
Each track bleeds with the band’s trademark fusion of melodic death metal, blackened thrash, and symphonic despair. Written and produced entirely by Marc P. Prohaska, the album captures the sound of torment transforming into triumph: haunting orchestrations, relentless double-kicks, and vocals that tear through the veil between rage and melancholy.
Crimson Hallows is not just another record - it's a reckoning. Born from frost and blood, it carries both the curse and the cure. Between ruin and rebirth - this is where the hunt begins again."
Biography"Screams Of Tranquility" stands as the dynamic brainchild led by the gifted Marc P. Prohaska, a 29-year-old musician based in the idyllic foothills of the Austrian Alps in Upper Austria. This captivating project delves deep into the narratives of a society marred by excess, laying bare its hypocrisies, collective folly, and the gradual erosion of humanity.
Marc's musical palette is a vibrant fusion of influences, melding Scandinavian melodic death, American thrash, and hints of black metal. With deft craftsmanship, he intertwines pulsating rhythms and intricate orchestrations, weaving a spellbinding tapestry of sound.
From his beginnings as a musician at the age of 18, Marc has explored diverse musical avenues, ranging from pop-punk to rock and metal cover bands. However, it was through the emergence of Screams Of Tranquility that his artistic vision truly blossomed. In 2019, Marc graduated as a recording, mixing, and mastering engineer from HOFA College, now operating his own successful mixing and mastering business as a freelancer.
While Screams Of Tranquility is a solo endeavor, questions about the absence of additional band members only underscore Marc's proficiency and the effectiveness of his approach to "running SOT as if it were a fully occupied band." His unwavering dedication and skill shine through in every aspect of his work.
For those in search of authentic, meticulously crafted music that transcends the confines of mainstream melodic death metal, replete with searing leads, impassioned vocals, and profound thematic depth, Screams Of Tranquility stands as a beacon of artistic excellence worthy of exploration.
https://www.sodeh.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/ScreamsOfTranquility
Label: SelfmaderecordsRelease date: december 26th 2025
Genre: Punk Rock
For fans of: Electric Six | Iggy Pop | Toyah | Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction
"We’re the sound of a sun made of lightning on fire..."
Exploding out of the great white north, in a dazzling burst of stardust and exuberance, rebellion and radiance, come Toronto’s punk rock riders of the astral plane, Hot Apollo. After lighting up the Toronto club scene for over a decade with songs that transport audiences to realms of euphoria, the city’s self proclaimed ‘shiniest band’ are about to deliver their cerebral shock to the world. New album Against The Odds Because We’re Gods is coming and it’s time to join the Hot Apollo revolution!
“Exploding stars join our choir...”
The album opens in a burst of electrifying guitar, boldly heading straight into the band’s ‘superhero cartoon theme song’, the anthemic and irresistible ‘We’re Hot Apollo’ where a languid vocal rides on crisp drumming and punk vibes and a searing solo tears across the sky. From that blazing beginning Hot Apollo take you on a tour of driving grooves, flamboyant guitar embellishments, enfolding atmospheres and choruses that feel like you’ve known them all your life. From the slinky, sliding riffs of ‘Priorities’, a song that walks the margins between playful and defiant, to the dream state dance of ‘Slayance’; from ‘Beltane’, made to make you move with its cool lead guitar wandering through a patchwork of neon glow and shadow, to the metal edge and galloping rhythms of ‘Gjallarbu’. Every song on Against The Odds Because We’re Gods occupies its own unique space, but they are all united by the irrepressible, irresistible spirit of Hot Apollo. The final two songs on the album – ‘Stop Drop Rock ‘n’ Roll’ and ‘Never Stay Down’ – rock hard and joyously, leaving you energised, renewed and alive, before this band of maverick marauders head back to the stars from whence they came.
“Louder than thunder! We’re a sparkle storm…”
The vibrant sound of Against The Odds… was captured by renowned Canadian producer Scotty Komer of the band Boys Night Out, who has worked with the likes of Protest The Hero and Silverstein. Every voice in the Hot Apollo choir gets to speak and bathe in the spotlight – from the full figured bass to the snapping drums, the fizzing guitars to the sonorous vocals – and the result is effervescent. The album will be released by SelfMadeRecords on December 26th on CD, LP and Digital formats – the perfect party to end the year…and everyone’s invited!
“We’re Hot Apollo! We’re all Hot Apollo!”
Line-up:
Jaymes - Vocals
Tobi - Bass
Monet - Lead Guitar
Diego - Drums
https://selfmaderecordsllc-business.com/home
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: january 16th 2026
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse | Skinless | Devourment | Disentomb
Within the long, dark corridors of my mind there are numberless doors, all locked tight, concealing the prisoner’s of my heart’s creation. In these rooms I vent my passions, bathe in the screams, dissect and desecrate, peel and penetrate, lose myself in a fantasy of blood and power. And for as long as I can remember this has been enough for me; my internal dungeon paradise. But now I realise it has all just been a preparation, a gentle tuition, the beginning of my manifest destiny. The time has come to step outside and share my dreams with others…
It’s been more than five years since Houston’s Architectural Genocide released their cataclysmic debut album, the raging brutality of Cordyceptic Anthropomorph, but time has not mellowed them or soothed the temperament of their inner beast. If anything, their long awaited second album is an even more dangerous, vicious creation that adds an unnerving, skin crawling terror to their trademark elixir of darkness and depravity. Prepare yourself for the fearsome assault of Malignant Cognition!
Opening with ‘Precursor To Bloodshed’, a litany of horrors over a nerve-grinding riff, there is a sense of suppressed violence, silently screaming to be unleashed…and that unleashing comes with ‘Coercion Into Carnality’, an irresistible weight that drags you down into a mire of torture and sickness, shifting from the methodical to the frenzied with the unpredictability of a broken mind. And from here the remorseless attack continues unabated – from the slow motion compression of the internal organs blended with lacerating savagery of ‘Trophies For My Murders’, to the surging, stabbing ‘Zed Requiem’ – tormenting with a pitiless curiosity, devoid of empathy – on to the shocking climax of ‘Stuffed Under Floorboards’. This is perhaps the most potent combination of chilling atmosphere and punishing riffing that Architectural Genocide have yet invoked, a true monster of a song, meticulous in its dismembering delivery.
Encased in the superb artwork of Rudi Yanto (Devastrosity, E-Force, Perveration etc) and Den Yudi (Decrepitation, Realm Of Chaos, Rotting Demise etc), the perfect visual depiction of the soul-eating madness within, Malignant Cognition will be let loose by Comatose Music on January 16th. Mixed and mastered at Southwing Audio (Oceans Of Slumber, Stabbing etc) for maximum impact, Malignant Cognition serves up a banquet of Architectural Genocide’s inimitable brutality. The New Year will begin with a brutal death metal holocaust!
Line-up:
Daniel Brockway - Vocals
Matt Day - Bass
Tom Savage - Guitar
Nat Conner - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/architecturalgenocide/
San Antonio (TX) - U.S. Hateful Death Metal band, CALCRAFT, recently signed to Lifeforce Records are set to release their debut album, REBORN THROUGH TORTURE, on November 21st digitally, with physical album release on January 30th.
The band now return with the second single from the new effort, PERPETUALLY STABBED. Calcraft also shot a music video for the new song, in style of 1990’s Death Metal videos.
Calcraft takes it's lyrical inspiration from Giallo horror and classic American slasher films. This is not a brand new frontier for American Death Metal, but more of a continuation of it's honored tradition. Comparable to the tropes horror audiences are accustomed to when seeing a new film at the cinema. Perpetually Stabbed could be seen as the apex of this thematic homage of horror for the album; it's the band at it's most visceral.
With the uncompromising credo “Unrelenting death metal. No trends. No mercy.” CALCRAFT define their sound - and with their debut album "Reborn Through Torture", they deliver a merciless statement against anything watered-down or trend-driven.
The Texas-based outfit stands for raw, hate-fueled death metal, deeply rooted in the legacy of Immolation, Suffocation, and Incantation. But CALCRAFT go further: their songs are steeped in dark atmosphere, thrashy aggression, and a cinematic violence that feels ripped straight from the bloodiest scenes of Giallo and slasher films.
Their name is no coincidence - William Calcraft, England’s infamous executioner, serves as a grim source of inspiration. Like their namesake, CALCRAFT show no mercy: their music is an auditory noose, each track an execution. "Reborn Through Torture" is a blood-soaked manifesto of riffs, madness, and horror, dragging the listener into a world of pain and cinematic carnage.
Each song tells a story - of insanity, torture, and final breaths. CALCRAFT don’t aim to entertain; they aim to disturb. Their goal is to create a threatening sonic landscape that sounds like “a blood-soaked soundtrack to the final scene you never survive.”
Those who face this album won’t be spared. CALCRAFT hold themselves to their own brutal standard - and deliver death metal in its most relentless, uncompromising form.
CALCRAFT REBORN THROUGH TORTURE OUT NOVEMBER 21ST
Track Listing
1. Satisfying Strangulation
2. Fuck Blade
3. Slovakian Carnage
4. Perpetually Stabbed
5. Interlude
6. Wolves Sight
7. Purest Pain
8. Carving Flesh
9. Outro
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https://orcd.co/calcraft_sast
US death metal band Glorious Depravity have unveiled another track from their upcoming album which upholds their high standards for old school, thrashy death metal. No Clean Singing premiered it at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/20/an-ncs-premiere-glorious-depravity-necrobotic-enslavement/ and here's an excerpt from it - "It’s an exhilarating thing to hear, made even more thrilling by the hard-slugging and fast-firing drumwork."
Glorious Depravity have also announced a US tour for the promotion of their new album
Nov 15 - (TBA)
Nov 16 - Grand Rapids MI, Morning Ritual
Nov 17 - Chicago IL, Sleeping Village
Nov 18 - Indianapolis IN, Black Circle
Nov 19 - Louisville KY, Mag Bar
Nov 20 - Asheville NC, The Odd
Nov 21 - Raleigh NC, Chapel of Bones
Nov 22 - Richmond VA, Fuzzy Cactus
All shows with Wretched Blessing
Flyer by Caroline Harrison
Photo by Suren Karapetyan
GLORIOUS
DEPRAVITY – “DEATH NEVER SLEEPS”Genre - Death metal with thrash metal touches
For fans of - Cannibal Corpse, Monstrosity, Vader, Deicide, Sinister, Decapitated, Power Trip
With an illustrious lineup featuring members of Pyrrhon, Gravesend, Woe, Scarcity
and more, one can safely presume that Glorious Depravity would know their way around extreme metal music. And they deliver in spades; they have come up with an album that showcases the best elements of death metal, even with its roots in the old school sound and the music tinged with thrash metal influences. In comparison to their debut, they have refined and upgraded their music and have left no stone unturned for this one. The meticulously written music is more impactful and powerful than ever before and they seem to have found more of their identity on this one. With recording and mixing done by Joe Cincotta (Suffocation, Obituary) and mastering by Ryan Williams (The Black Dahlia Murder), the album sounds tremendous and is an absolute delight to listen to - being clear, resonant, and robust. To top things off, a painting of the legendary artist Dan Seagrave adorns this release. A death metal fan could die happy right now. "Death Never Sleeps" is undoubtedly a significant release in the style, one that will be remembered for a long time for being a top-tier, near-flawless, invigorating death metal album.
Line up
Doug Moore (Pyrrhon, Scarcity, Seputus) - Vocals
Matt Mewton (Woe) - Guitars
George Paul (Gravesend) - Guitars
John McKinney (Woe) - Bass
Chris Grigg (Woe) - Drums
Recorded and mixed by Joe Cincotta (Suffocation, Obituary) at Full Force Recording
Mastered by Ryan Williams (The Black Dahlia Murder)
Artwork by Dan Seagrave (Morbid Angel, Malevolent Creation)
Band pic taken by Suren Karapetyan
Track listing
1. Slaughter the Gerontocrats
2. Stripmined Flesh Extractor view
3. Freshkills Poltergeist view
4. Sulphrous Winds (Howling Through Christendom)
5. Scourged by the Wings of the Fell Destroyer
6. The Devouring Dust
7. Carnage at the Margins
8. Necrobotic Enslavement
9. Death Never Sleeps
Official release date - November 7th, 2025
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Thanks a lot for your support! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
Label: Filosofem RecordsRelease date: november 2025
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
For fans of: Summoning | Avrigus | Empyrium | Eldamar
All that we were may have faded from the concrete streets, choked in smoke, our identity fractured and fragmented by the onslaught of modernity…but far from the boxes that enclose us and the algorithms that dictate our desires and direct our thoughts, beneath the trees, on the mountain tops, in the arms of the undying winds that traversed the world when the old gods walked, in the light of the moon and the dark of the shadows…we are eternal.
WitcheR emerged, as if from the pages of Hungarian folklore, back in 2010 and have since crafted an array of bewitching music, steeped in the history and mythology of their homeland. 2022s Lélekharang was a pivotal moment in the band’s career, lifting WitcheR to a new level creatively and it was followed by the remarkable 2024 EP of classical music adaptations entitled Boszorkányszimfóniák. Now it is time to unveil the next chapter in the tale of WitcheR – Ӧröklét…
“This record is not merely music — it is a gateway. Whoever crosses it will never be the same again. It is a moment of realization, when one understands that everything fades… and yet, everything remains eternal.” – WitcheR
Ӧröklét begins with the rich, haunting keys and powerful, mid-paced riffs of ‘Ӧrökség’ (Heritage) and with its air of majesty, melancholy and reflection, entwined in mystery and moonlight, it seems steeped in the very essence of all that word implies. Listening to WitcheR is like slipping into a dream and that has never been more true than with Ӧröklét. ‘Szélhozó’ (Windbringer) overflows with a spellbinding romanticism and the dual vocals of Gere Karola and Neubauer Roland – rather than dominating the music – slip between its textured layers like dryad spirits between the trees. This is WitcheR at their most beautiful and evocative. ‘Röghöz kötött’ (Soil-bound) and stately title track ‘Ӧröklét’ (Eternity) both move with the measured steps of medieval dances, courtly and chivalric. They draw out vast depths of emotion, in such contrast to the shallowness of modern society. With its weight, value and artistic worth WitcheR create music that stands outside of time. The album concludes with a reworking of Franz Schubert’s ‘Piano Trio No. 2 - Andante con moto’, which shows the gift that WitcheR have for interpreting classical pieces with respect for and understanding of the original music, whilst still transforming these masterful compositions into something entirely WitcheR in character. Something that could be crass in the hands of another band becomes breathtaking through the application of WitcheR’s subtle sorcery. With Ӧröklét, WitcheR have continued down their characterful path of atmospheric dark metal, becoming ever more unique and moving further beyond imitation; a precious and irreplaceable jewel in the world of imaginative, passionate music.
Adorned in the enthralling sepia toned imagery of Balázs Pénzes of Grafit & Hamu Artworks (Korp, Vrag, Siculicidium etc), who also provided the visual elements for Lélekharang and Boszorkányszimfóniák, the digital, cassette and CD versions of Ӧröklét were released by Filosofem Records on November 4th and the vinyl edition will follow, from Beverina Productions, coming late November. Let your eyes close and feel the world slip away as WitcheR lead you down forest paths, past lakes of crystal waters to a place where magic is in the air and reality is all that it is meant to be.
Line-up:
Gere Karola – Synths/Vocals
Neubauer Roland – Guitars/Drums/Vocals
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https://www.facebook.com/witcherband
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Vic RecordsRelease date: november 28th 2025
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Venom | Emperor | Cradle Of Filth | Varathron
Throughout the 1990s black metal was spreading around the globe like an irresistible plague. Covens of corpse-painted disciples of the dark sprang up everywhere, from the icy fjords of Norway to the sun-baked climes of Greece. And the country where the very concept of black metal was first created was no exception – England, the home of Venom, the first, the black metal gods, was spawning its own new breed of devils. In the vanguard of the British legions, alongside co-conspirators Cradle Of Filth, were Thus Defiled. After two vicious demos, Blasphemous Coven and Enchanted By The Dark One, both released in 1993, Thus Defiled then unleashed two seminal works of raw, atmospheric blasphemy that have remained revered and treasured in the black metal underground ever since…1995s Through The Impure Veil Of Dawn and 1997s Wings Of The Nightstorm. Thus Defiled would go on to create more finely crafted and sophisticated albums later in their career, in particular the devastating Daemonspawn, but their first two albums held something special. Born from a youthful fervour and passionate dedication to the dark heart of black metal, they retain strong musical links to the first wave of the genre, most notably the mighty Venom and both are shrouded in a primal, shadowed atmosphere that has endeared them to fans for the last thirty years.
Now, these long unavailable classics of metal’s darkest sub-genre are finally to be re-released. Vic Records, whose roots go back to the same early ‘90s era as Thus Defiled themselves, will relight the black flame on November 28th and set loose Through The Impure Veil Of Dawn and Wings Of The Nightstorm into the world once more.
These two albums have long since secured their place in the annals of black metal history and their power and presence remains undiminished by the passing decades. The wild, black chaos of Through The Impure Veil Of Dawn shows that ‘metal’ was always as important as the ‘blackness’ for Thus Defiled; demonstrated in the epic thunder of ‘Under Blackening Horizons’ and the atmospheric title track. And even at this early stage in the band’s development their ambition, their reaching for grandeur can be found in ‘A Crimson Vision In The Glade Of Shadowfire’ and the classically influenced ‘Fear Us For We Are The Darkness’. Fittingly the debut concludes with its most accomplished and creative track – ‘Darkness Rape The Tranquil Shore Of Eternity’ – which lights the way to the dramatic developments of Wings Of The Nightstorm. Thus Defiled’s second album is where the band really took flight in terms of what would become their fierce, intense, melodic, riff driven black metal. The songs are longer, more complex and involved, yet still with that instant impact of metallic power. The likes of ‘(Angelblood) The Tears Of An Age Now Dead’ and ‘Empire Of Souls Bleeding’ showed that Thus Defiled were more than just standard bearers for a nascent British black metal scene, they were a force that could contend on the global stage.
Both albums have been carefully restored and remastered by Thus Defiled’s Paul C. and come with new liner notes written by Officium Triste’s Pim Blankenstein. What makes these reissues utterly essential for long standing admirers of Thus Defiled though are the bonus tracks which supplement each release. Taken from unearthed 1994 rehearsal tapes these include never before released songs like ‘Shadow Of All Forsaken’, ‘Where The Forest Screams’, ‘I Of The Blackstorm’ and ‘The Final Sunrise (Purity Lies Dying)’. Two hell born beasts have returned from the void and are coming for your souls once again!
Wings Of The Nightstorm Line-up:
Paul C - Guitars/Vocals
Sam C - Bass
Andy R - Guitars
Nick L – Drums
Paul N – Session Keyboards
https://www.vicrecords.com/
https://www.thusdefiled.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/thusdefiled
Belgian/Thai
black metal entity YHWH are back with KHATHA,
a short but punishing five-track EP that breathes life into
previously unrecorded compositions, confronting human cruelty, societal
injustice, and the darker corners of myth and the mind. With Khatha, YHWH
deliver a raw, uncompromising statement, reinforcing their place as one of modern
extreme metal’s most intense and thought-provoking forces.Khatha will be released digitally on 12 December 2025 via Wormholedeath.
Tracklist
01 - Hell on Earth (The Root of All Evil)
02 - Murderer of Illusions
03 - Deathrash
04 - Night Terror
05 – Krasue
Formed in 2024, YHWH is a Belgian/Thai black metal band. All music is composed by Schem HaMephorash and her sister C. Bones, with S.M. Goat Ritual joining in June. Following their debut EP Tetragrammaton (April 2025, Wormholedeath), the band now unleashes the second chapter: Khatha. Prepare for the doom.
Stream "Tetragrammaton": https://orcd.co/tetragrammaton
Pre-save Khatha: https://orcd.co/khatha
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RELICS FROM THE CRYPT, the sub-label of DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS dedicated to keeping the past alive, is proud to present reissues of NOT FRAGILE’S cult WHO DARES WINS mini-album on 12” vinyl format and the band’s One Way to Glory album on CD and vinyl LP formats.
One of the best hard-luck stories in the rich history of German heavy metal, NOT FRAGILE were originally active from 1980 to 1990. During that decade, the band released a couple demos, an EP, and an almost-album-length mini-album – and the requisite compilation appearances, which was mandatory during the ‘80s – and had even recorded a proper debut album, only for that first full-length to be posthumously released in various territories with confusing titles. They would eventually re-form in the mid ‘90s and remain active for nearly two decades, but the demand for the original NOT FRAGILE era has only grown as the years passed.
Feeling duty call, RELICS FROM THE CRYPT arrive with long-overdue reissues of NOT FRAGILE’s Who Dares Wins mini-album and their intended debut album, One Way to Glory, both remastered: the former adjusted for vinyl by Journey Into Eternity Studios, and the latter a whole new remaster by Patrick Engel at Temple of Disharmony.
Originally released in 1988 after being passed around by a couple labels, Who Dares Wins was a rough ‘n’ raucous slice of German speed / power metal emblematic of that era. With surprising heaviness if not thrashiness, the band’s 27-minute mini-album bore contemporaneous influence from the likes of Running Wild and Helloween nearby and Helstar and Liege Lord overseas. Nevertheless, NOT FRAGILE had the songwriting – and energy – to put them over, with the record’s production sounding particularly professional despite its meager budget. The following year, the band would record their ill-fated debut album, One Way to Glory. As presaged by its title, the lyrics shifted slightly toward more fantastical realms – the band did have an amazingly DIY castle backdrop for the mini’s “With All My Might” video, after all – and the thrashiness dialed back, but energy remained abundant here. The band’s execution actually got even sharper as the riffing became a bit brighter and more melodic, and the cleaner production brought a triumphant gleam to NOT FRAGILE whilst sacrificing no heaviness. Taken as a snapshot of the times, One Way to Glory simultaneously sounded out of date and ahead of the times, as power metal was about to have a resurgence across Europe during the mid ‘90s. However, their version of power metal surely bore the medieval stamp of the ‘80s, and was all the better for it. Sad, then, that their debut album would only see posthumous release in 1992 and 1993 as Hard to Be Alive and Lost in a Dream, respectively, alongside a mishmash of other ‘80s tracks.
Line-up:
Torsten Buczko - Guitars, Vocals
Matthias Belter - Bass
Markus Köhn - Drums
Raico Ebel - Guitars
From Hamburg, Germany
Release date:
19th December
Tracklist1 Rael
2 With all my Might
3 High Into Heaven
4 Opus 73
5 Down in the Streets
6 Out of Law
7 Craze and Hunger
8 Bbbrrraaa
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on white vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
The Finnish progressive thrash metal band KRATEROS is set to release their debut EP 'LOST IN TRANSLATION' on January 30th 2026 via Inverse Records.
The first single 'LINGUICIDE' is unleashed today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/krateros-linguicide
The band comments:
" “Linguicide” is the first taste of our upcoming EP “Lost in Translation.” With its catchy groove and memorable guitar melody, it is arguably the most “commercial” track from the EP, yet it contains a great blend of all the elements that make our music what it is. Musically, the song is the oldest one on the EP, with the first demo going as far back as February 2020. Lyrically, the song went through two or three rewrites before finding its final form. Some of the discarded ideas have since been used in songs meant for future releases. As a product of our times, “Linguicide” deals with cancel culture and the death of independent thought, whether through self-censorship or outside pressure."
Biography:
Krateros is an emerging metal band from Helsinki, Finland, founded in 2023 and led by vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter Saku Rekonen. The band’s music combines influences from old-school thrash metal bands such as Annihilator, Exodus, and Megadeth with more contemporary acts like Trivium, Machine Head, and Stam1na — all the while being filtered through a progressive lens.
The band’s first EP, “Lost in Translation,” released through Inverse Records, is a response to a perceived lack of riffs that seems to plague the metal scene of the 2020s.
Krateros - Lost in Translation (EP 2026)
Track list:1. Tomb Service
2. Linguicide
3. The Performer
4. Uticensis
5. Comatose Waltz
Cover art by All4band Design
Line-up:
Saku Rekonen - Vocals & Guitar
Roni Helminen - Bass & Backing vocals
Touko Kaihola - Drums
https://krateros.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/kraterosband
The
band issued the following statement on leaving the LIBERATION THROUGH
PUNISHMENT TOUR:"Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have to cancel our tour with Vitriol and Weeping that we were so looking forward to being a part of. With such short notice, we were not able to find a drummer to fill in for the tour. We apologize to Vitriol, Weeping, the promoters and most of all to our fans.
We will be back out on the road to support Devouring Darkness as soon as we possibly can.
Make sure and DO NOT miss this tour! Vitriol and Weeping will crush the stage at every show!!"
UNMERCIFUL is still confirmed for the 2026 Maryland Deathfest.
The band's newest album, DEVOURING DARKNESS, marks a new era of relentless violence and sonic brutality! With ten tracks of scorching intensity and distorted vengeance, the album is filled with blistering blast beats, intricate kick drum patterns, and destructive riffing.
Devouring Darkness is out now on CD, digital, and vinyl formats on Willowtip Records.
Devouring Darkness sees the return of longtime member Jeremy Turner to guitar and introduces Josh Riley as the band’s new vocalist, further intensifying the group’s punishing sound.
The album was engineered and produced by Clinton Appelhanz at Waveworks Studio, with mastering handled by the legendary Alan Douches (Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal, etc.). Artwork by Santiago Francisco Jaramillo.
UNMERCIFUL is:
Clinton Appelhanz - Guitars/Bass
Jeremy Turner - Guitars/Bass
Trynt Kelly - Drums
Josh Riley - Vocals
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www.facebook.com/officialunmerciful
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: november 21st 2025
Genre: Melodic Technical Death Metal
For fans of: Obscura | Inferi | Allegaeon | Darkest Hour
Amidst the ruined remnants of a chapel, dedicated to gods long forgotten, beneath endless starless skies where the night wanders on forever and the daylight never comes; they gather to remember all the things that they once were. From desiccated lips, rotten throats and absent hearts they raise a bitter threnody, up to the obsidian firmament. An atonal gathering of whispers, laden with the sorrow of centuries…listen…hear the brittle, broken song of the carcass choir.
The Carcass Choir is the third EP from Leicester, UK based band, Monachopsis, who have been refining the intricacies of their melodic, technical death metal tapestries since 2015. This collection of songs represents the culmination of years of hard work and adversities overcome and sees Monachopsis reaching a new level of creative accomplishment.
Opening with its title track, The Carcass Choir is ushered in on rafts of rich, dark chords adorned in the flickering light of electrifying lead work. Anticipation builds on a growing tidal wave of power that crashes down into shuddering riffs and aggressive vocal lines. There’s a complexity in the performances and the song’s structure, but it’s delivered in a finely honed, compact warhead of burnished steel and dazzling flares of melody ignite between the layers of sound. The atmosphere is superb, a sense of depth, darkness and things unseen, which continues into second song, ‘Letters From The Doomsday Vault’. These songs don’t offer up everything they are in a single listen; the engaging hooks and thrilling guitar work capture you immediately, but there is much more to uncover than is first apparent. As the music balances complexity and accessibility, immediacy and depth, so the vocals deliver both snarling venom and clarity of expression, with all these contrasts managed masterfully. A commanding version of Darkest Hour’s ‘Love As A Weapon’ sits at the heart of the EP, a nod to the genesis of Monachopsis, it being the first song ever performed live by the band. The two tracks which complete The Carcass Choir are stunning, revitalised versions of two tracks which originally appeared on Monachopsis’ 2018 EP From Mind To Eye. Both ‘Scathed By Branches Of Malice’ and ‘The God Project’ have become staples of the Monachopsis live set and here they are reborn – full of serrated intensity and superb guitar solos. Crisp, direct and focussed yet full of twists, turns and surprises – keeping the listener ensnared in their maze of thorns.
Meticulously mixed and mastered by Nik Palivos at Haunting Studios (Elysian, Rohan, Eonian etc), every element of The Carcass Choir’s elaborate and sophisticated sound palette possesses its own space, just waiting to be discovered. The final hallmark of quality is then applied by the magnificent artwork of Mohammed Hoirul (Flesh Remains etc) – emphasising The Carcass Choir’s status as the pinnacle of Monachopsis’ work to date and the gateway to an exciting future full of rare potential. The voices of The Carcass Choir will fill the night on November 21st - be sure to listen to the secrets that they share.
Line-up:
Richard Allsopp - Guitars, Vocals, Piano, Orchestral and Drum Programming
Mihir Miyangar - Vocals
William Bartholomew - Bass
Kieran Hickman – Guitars
https://www.facebook.com/MonachopsisbandUK
From their humble beginnings in 1985 on to their super-cult debut album, 1987’s Crest of Black, Japan’s SACRIFICE have stood for uncompromising, world-eating, thrashy METAL. Let’s reiterate: thrashy heavy metal rather than pure thrash metal. Thick and viscous is their thrust, with straightforward songwriting and exceptionally mean delivery. Arguably, they’d perfect that signature style with 1990’s Total Steel, which RELICS FROM THE CRYPT would reissue on vinyl in 2021, but there’s something uniquely powerful about its follow-up, Tears.
Released in 1992 and again featuring the band’s signature steel-encased demon mascot, SACRIFICE’s Tears was even more of anomaly than its not-inconsiderable predecessor. Compared to 1990, in 1992 was crossover largely dead on both sides of the Atlantic.
Nevertheless, SACRIFICE continued to fight the good fight and formed & finessed the idiom to their own idiosyncratic design. Such is intrinsic to their native musical culture, much in the way that Japanese punk takes bog-standard tropes and upends them in unique ways. So, while Total Steel took then-contemporaneous Cro-Mags, Venom, Razor, Carnivore, the UK’s Sacrilege, Nasty Savage, The Exploited, and even early Celtic Frost and spat it out as something that sounded like all those simultaneously and nothing like ‘em at all, Tears, by comparison, more often slowed down the still-hammering pulse and added a bit more space and daresay emotion – not for nothing is the album titled Tears, right? – and returned with something even more varied, more dynamic, and especially more world-eating. One need only peruse the album’s titles – “Hardest Life,” “Time Slips Through In Front of Your Eyes,” “Broken Heroes,” and the utterly classic opener “Never Land Never Again” among them – as well as the lyric sheet to find support for that “emotional” statement. As such, Tears could quite possibly eclipse Total Steel as SACRIFICE’s ultimate statement…but cruelly enough, the album currently stands as their recorded epitaph, for they broke up after its release and have yet to release anything following their 2020 reunion.
Even after all these years, Tears stands as a massive achievement during a strange era for metal, and possibly sounds even more refreshing today. Metalheads, punks, and metalpunks are hereby commanded to bow down again before SACRIFICE!
Line-up:
Tohru Nishida - Bass
Kenji Suzuki - Drums
Hiroyuki Murakami - Guitars
Akira Sugiuchi - Vocals
From Tokyo, Japan
Release date:
19th December
Tracklist1 Never Land Never Again
2 Breaking the Silence of the Night
3 Your Soul
4 Broken Heroes
5 Time Slips through in front of your Eyes
6 Do I fight for God
7 Hardest Life
8 Down to You
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on blue vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD edition with slipcase and sticker.
CD edition with slipcase, sticker and patch.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Milwaukee (WI) - One-man CINEMATIC DOOM project, Liminal Spirit, has released full-length debut album, UNWELL!
FFO: Jesu, Cynic, Confessor, Swans, Skepticism
Unwell is the third presentation from Liminal Spirit, as told by Phillip, Jonathan, Madeline, C., E., and The Adjudicators over the course of five acts.
Purchase/Stream:
https://liminalspirit.bandcamp.com/album/unwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rORD2LIsavk
Multi-instrumentalist/composer, Jerry Hauppa (Northless, Ara, Deorbit), had this to say about the opus:
"I have a lot to say about what I've done with the album, but the main goal was an exploration of some of my biggest fears. I've worked in nursing homes and they are absolutely miserable places, and it is a tragedy that if we are lucky enough to live that long, that is where we will most likely end up. Losing control of my faculties, mental and physical decline, and the pondering of the unknown are all lingering fears overcasting my younger years, and I wanted to explore that musically, but also develop the idea of building sympathy for a character with dementia, only to find out that he is actually a monster who has done some horrific things despite not remembering them.
I wanted to tell a story showing that you are on the hook for your deeds no matter what- even if you can't remember them or if your mental decline has eroded away the part of you that is capable of heinous acts. I wanted the music to reflect the contemplation of a sick and addled person, and brought it together using microtonal guitars that provide an alien-sounding character to the music.
The music written for the record also is tied to the seeking of spiritual salvation referenced in the song 'Welcome to My World' from Jim Reeves, recorded in 1962 and presented here in the first track of the album as the character listens to it one last time for peace of mind. The melody for this song is manipulated repeatedly throughout the record as our main character, Phillip, seeks salvation despite the blight on his soul from acts he has forgotten, but unlike what is heard on the Jim Reeves song, those who can provide salvation do not take kindly to Phillip as judgment nears.
I hope those who listen are able to feel the themes expressed. It was a meaningful release to build and I am looking forward to the reception."
Track Listing:
1. Admittance
2. Unwell
3. Visiting Day
4. EOLC
5. A Better Place
Credits:
All music written, recorded, and mixed by Jerry Hauppa.
Role of Madeline peformed by Kaitlyn Menden.
Mastered by Jeff Wojtysiak at Spiritual Sound Mastering.
Liminal Spirit is:
Jerry Hauppa - Guitar, Bass, Drum Programming, Synthesizer, Vocoder, Violin
Bio:
Liminal Spirit is Jerry Hauppa's solo project. Prior to this, Hauppa was involved in sludge metal band Northless, death metal band Ara, and instrumental space-focused band, Deorbit.
https://liminalspirit.bandcamp.com/
New
video clip from SVART VINTER ("OF COLD AND GRIEF"
out from "INSVIND" album)Svart Vinter is an Italian Black Metal band formed in Rome in 2021 by members of the band Veil of
Though relatively new to the scene, Svart Vinter has quickly established themselves in the
Svart Vinter's sound is characterized by haunting melodies, cold, sharp riffs, and a powerful,
Over the years, Svart Vinter have shared the stage with renowned acts such as Batushka and
Svart Vinter's new album, titled Isvind, was released by the Dutch label Non Serviam Records on
https://svartvinter.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/svartvinterband
Stream the album: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/31/an-ncs-album-premiere-and-a-review-cal%e2%97%8f-ludzie-bladzacy-w-nocy/
Devoted Art Propaganda will handle the EU tape release while Fiadh Productions will take care of the US version.
The band introduces a new and uncompromising voice while the album explores dark and unsettling sounds. Can the band's ethos be captured with the words: “In rapture, against unity, before the guards, it drips inwards, CAŁ”?
Tracklist:
1 Zanim Się stało
2 Poza granice
3 Niesen
4 Zanim Było
5 Ogrom Bytu
6 Kole
7 Za Nim
8 Na dnie popiołu
9 W Wszechbycie
https://d-a-p.org/
https://fiadh.bandcamp.com/music
https://callo.bandcamp.com/
Ready To Fight symbolizes CREMATE’S powerful rebirth, honoring their 1993 cult demo while boldly pushing forward. The EP is a must-listen for fans of authentic death/thrash metal with an atmospheric edge—heavy, relentless, and uniquely dynamic.
The digital EP's release date is November 7, 2025.
Tracklist
1. Die As You Lived
2. Human
3. Cerebral Pain
4. Ready To Fight
Formed in 1991 in Alimos, Athens by high school friends Christos (guitar/vocals) and Leonidas (drums), CREMATE quickly carved out a raw and aggressive niche blending death and thrash metal—drawing inspiration from titans like Kreator and Sodom. Their 1993 demo End of Time garnered international acclaim through critical reviews, radio play, and devoted underground support.
Following lineup changes and relentless live shows praised by Metal Hammer and other media, CREMATE released the 7" EP Enchanting Black Recess in 1995 via Dark Side Records. However, a full-length album never materialized as the band disbanded soon after.
In 2021, founder Christos reignited CREMATE alongside drummer George and longtime collaborator Akis Pastras (Dexter Ward, Damon Systema, Nightfall). Revisiting their seminal demo, Christos re-envisioned the material by infusing dark synthesized atmospheres, samples, and new arrangements that intensify the band’s signature 90s death/thrash fury.
Line up:
Chris C: Vocals/Bass
Akis Pastras: Rhythm/Lead Guitars
The Goat: Drums
Pre-save Ready to Fight: https://orcd.co/rtfep
www.facebook.com/crematetheband
Guten
Tag, we have recovered from an awesome SICK FEAST 2025 and
would like to send out a huge thank you to everyone who made the festival
unforgettable: the bands, crew, food stall of Café Schrill, illustrator and
layouter – and, of course, every single guest. We were treated to twelve
incredible bands delivering brutal performances. The dedicated team at s.v. Jugendhaus Ost worked tirelessly to ensure the
festival ran smoothly.We hope everyone had an amazing time celebrating extreme underground musick!!!
If you have feedback, write a message or e-mail. Your feedback is highly appreciated!
Multi-cam videos from Sick Feast 2025 will be uploaded to https://www.youtube.com/@LycanthropicChants soon.
This newsletter is mostly be about shows from CRYPTIC BROOD and REPULSIVE FEAST plus upcoming locals shows in our hometown Wolfsburg. Label updates with the next newsletter in circa two weeks.
Cheers Steffen
CRYPTIC BROOD – “CREEPING CRYPTIC CONTAGION” TOUR
The brood creeps on! Following the devastating first wave of shows earlier this year, Lycanthropic Chants presents the CRYPTIC BROOD – “Creeping Cryptic Contagion” tour: a descent into rotting flesh and radioactive nightmares. The band will flood stages of Western Europe with their own toxic blend of death metal, grind and doom, straight from the decaying heart of their latest album “Necrotic Flesh Bacteria”.Come to these places and get lobotomised:
12.11.2025 BEL/Ghent @ Omgekeerde Kruis
13.11.2025 FRA/Rennes @ Uzine
14.11.2025 FRA/Bordeaux @ Le RedCat
15.11.2025 ESP/Unquera @ Los Bancos
16.11.2025 PRT/Porto @ Woodstock 69
17.11.2025 ESP/Zamora @ Pub Numancia
18.11.2025 ESP/Saragossa @ Pub Utopía (
19.11.2025 ESP/Barcelona @ Sala Lennon’s
20.11.2025 FRA/Montpellier @ Le KJBI
21.11.2025 FRA/Lyon @ Rock N Eat
22.11.2025 FRA/Strasbourg @ Le Local
LAST REPULSIVE FEAST SHOWS IN 2025
2025.11.06, GER/Leipzig @ *Connewitz*
2025.11.07, GER/Dresden @ Chemiefabrik
2026 shows to be announced soon.
DISTRO UPDATE
CORPSEHAMMER – “Metal De La Muerte” LP
GRAVEYARD / MORBID FLESH split 7″
HEXOFFENDER – “Erotic Terror!” LP (black or red vinyl)
MULL – “The Sound Of Melting Gristle” LP (red vinyl)
NO SHELTER. – “Remission/Resolve” LP (clear vinyl with black splatter)
SPECTRUM MORTIS – “Clavis Magica” 7″
UPCOMING LOCAL SHOWS IN WOLFSBURG (GERMANY)
Cocktail mit Schirmchen, Lycanthropic Chants und Shitface präsentieren am Freitag, den 28. November 2025 im s.v. Jugendhaus Ost in Wolfsburg:
EARTHBONG (Stoner/Doom Metal, GER/Berlin)
GAGAMAN (Stoner Metal, GER/Göttingen)
GAIA’S DEMISE (Heavy Psych Doom, GER/Braunschweig)
Am Samstag, den 6. Dezember 2025 im s.v. Jugendhaus Ost in Wolfsburg:
ABHORRENT EXECRATION (Black/Death Metal / FRA, Bordeaux)
KRYPTKEEPER (Black Metal / GER, Berlin)
DÜÜSTER (Black Metal/Crust / GER, Rostock)
https://lycanthropic.de/
The album was recorded primarily at Consonance Studio by Andrei Jumuga and Sol Faur (Dordeduh), with guitar sessions completed at Ras Alhage Studio by Fulmineos. Mixing and mastering duties were handled at Consonance Studio by Andrei Jumuga. Artwork and design by Alexandru Daș.
As a first taste of what the album has to offer, the band has unveiled "Iarba-fiarelor", a monumental 17-minute composition now available for streaming here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peWUpDrj55I
The
band comments:"The album's title refers to a place hidden deep within the dark forests of the Carpathian Mountains, seen at twilight. It captures a moment of powerful communion between the wild nature within us and the vast, untamed world outside.
The first song we wish to reveal, "Iarba-fiarelor", is one of the most complex pieces we have ever created. It weaves together the raw, Atmospheric Black Metal of our early roots with new shades of Post-Rock and traditional rural ambience, sounds that grew naturally from the environment where this music was born.
The presence of Bogdan Luparu (Bucovina) on vocals and Andrei Oltean (E-an-na) performing traditional instruments (xylophone, flute, kaval, toacă), along with additional vocals throughout the album, adds a sacred, ancestral depth. Their contributions elevate the entire work, enriching its patriarchal, archaic atmosphere.
Yes, we are aware that "Iarba-fiarelor" is long by today's standards, but we do not write music for hurried attention spans. This is meant to be a spiritual journey, one that asks for time, presence, and a return toward the inner self, far from the frantic pace and fifteen-second focus of the modern world."
Pre-order "Cerburea apusului" here:
https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/argus-megere-cerburea-apusului
https://loudragemusic.limitedrun.com/products/870708-argus-megere-cerburea-apusului
Ageru Pământului – Vocals
Fulmineos – Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards
Urmuz – Bass
Putrid – Drums
Guests:
Bogdan Luparu (Bucovina) – Vocals
Andrei Oltean (E-An-Na) – Vocals, Traditional Folk Instruments
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/argusmegere/
Reviews
FERETRO – “THE MORTUARY DESTINY OF FLESH”
NORKH – “ UNDER TEARGAS FIRE” HAMMER
HKSPK – “THE HUMAN BUTCHER “(EP)
DEZENTRALISIERTES KADAVERKOLLEKTIV #669 (FANZINE)
Heute veröffentlicht die chilenische
Blackened-Thall-Band ATER stolz ihre packende neue
Single “VENUS”. Der Track gibt einen ersten Einblick in das
kommende Album der Band, “EVERLASTING”, das 2026 erscheinen
soll und vom renommierten Produzenten Dan Lancaster (Bring Me The
Horizon, Muse) produziert wurde. Der neue Track wird zusammen mit einem
offiziellen Musikvideo veröffentlicht, das unten zu sehen ist.“Venus” fängt die für ATER charakteristische Fusion aus düsterer Wildheit sowie moderner Thall-Präzision ein und verbindet dissonante Atmosphären, harte Rhythmen und melodische Untertöne, die die kontinuierliche Entwicklung der Band widerspiegeln. Die Single kennzeichnet einen mutigen neuen Abschnitt für das chilenische Kollektiv, das seinen Sound in tiefere emotionale und klangliche Gefilde vorantreibt und dabei die viszerale Kraft beibehält, die es seit seiner Gründung auszeichnet.
Gründer und Frontmann Fernando Bühring kommentiert:
"Die neue Single und das neue Video zu 'Venus' sind heute erschienen! Erlebt uns diesen Herbst auf der Morbidfest-Tour mit Possessed, Terrorizer, Massacre und Nightfall. Frohes Samhain von uns allen bei ATER – wir sehen uns im Pit!"
"Venus"-Musikvideo ansehen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdfNWTvGqeA
"Venus" auf Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/4h82hMyLkLX3tE9cNpMxy5?si=q1YQHhakSL-t9J5HFWQfqA&nd=1&dlsi=605a05fc913e4780
Ab nächstem Monat wird ATER im Rahmen des Morbidfest zusammen mit Possessed, Terrorizer, Massacre und Nightfall durch Europa touren. Die Tour beginnt am 24. November in Warschau, Polen, im Progresja und endet am 19. Dezember im La Machine Du Moulin Rouge in Paris, Frankreich. Die vollständige Terminliste gibt es weiter unten.
Morbidfest
Ater mit Possessed, Terrorizer, Massacre and Nightfall
24.11. – Warschau (PL) Progresja
25.11. – Danzig (PL) B90
26.11. – Coesfeld (DE) Fabrik
27.11. – Kopenhagen (DK) Richter
28.11. – Göteborg (SE) The Abyss Fest
29.11. – Göteborg (SE) The Abyss Fest
01.12. – Bochum (DE) Matrix
02.12. – Leipzig (DE) Hellraiser
04.12. – Bukarest (RO) Quantic
05.12. – Belgrad (RS) Zappa Barka
06.12. – Košice (SK) Collosseum
07.12. – Krakau (PL) Hype Park
09.12. – Brünn (CZ) Fleda
10.12. – Wien (AT) Szene
11.12. – Graz (AT) Explosiv
12.12. – Lindau (DE) Vaudeville
13.12. – Eindhoven (NL) Eindhoven Metal Meeting
14.12. – Karlsruhe (DE) Substage
15.12. – Mailand (IT) Magazinni Generali
16.12. – Rom (IT) Orion
17.12. – Aarburg (CH) Musigburg
19.12. – Paris (FR) La Machine Du Moulin Rouge
Über ATER
ATER ist eine chilenische Dark-Metal-Band aus Santiago, die vom Komponisten und Multiinstrumentalisten Fernando Bühring gegründet wurde. Sie entstand 2010, wurde aber erst 2018 mit der Veröffentlichung ihres Debütalbums “Eternal Gray Spiral” wirklich aktiv. Die Band ist bekannt für ihren dunklen, emotionalen Sound und ihre fesselnden Live-Auftritte.
Das zweite Album von ATER, “Somber”, erschien 2024 und katapultierte die Band in die globale Metal-Szene. Die Band tourte ausgiebig, um das Album zu promoten, und nahm an vielen internationalen Tourneen mit Bands wie Cradle of Filth, Patriarkh, Hate, Venom Inc. und diversen anderen teil. Dieses Album ist bekannt für seine schiere Härte und dichte Ambient-Elemente.
2025 veröffentlichte die Band die Single “The Fall”, die zu einem ihrer beliebtesten Songs und besten Live-Momente geworden ist.
Derzeit arbeiten ATER mit dem Produzenten Dan Lancaster an ihrem kommenden Album “Everlasting”, das 2026 erscheinen wird.
https://ater.cl/
https://www.facebook.com/atermetal
Stream below! https://toiletovhell.com/exclusive-track-premiere-withering-souls-gallery-of-the-end/
FFO: Dark Fortress, Windir, Hypocrisy, Dissection, God Dethroned.
Passage of the Arcane is a convergence of blackened atmospheres and sweeping song structures. A mystifying journey that exceeds boundaries while remaining fun and exciting. The overall theme of the album involves human experiences traversing into cursed oblivion. Each song explores its own story, ranging from unexplained disappearances to the supernatural. While variation is abundant within the soundscapes, it is with a cohesive direction. Each chapter takes on its own "passage" through channels of cursed lore and harrowing experiences of the past. A seamless balance of crushingly heavy riffs and chilling melodies.
Pre-order Passage of the Arcane: https://witheringsoul.bandcamp.com/album/passage-of-the-arcane
Track
Listing:1. Intro
2. Attrition Horizon
3. Grievance Eludes the Light
4. The Monolith Embodied
5. Gallery of the End
6. Trajectory
7. Among Covetous Eyes
8. Burden of the Valiant
Credits:
Guitars, Vocals - Christopher
Bass Guitar - Joel
Drums - Rick
Guest guitar solo on "Trajectory" by Nick "Exhul" Morgan.
Drums recorded and engineered by Vince Ippolito at Swift Road Studios.
Album mixed and mastered by Dennis Israel at Clintworks Audio.
Cover art by Adam Burke / Nightjar Illustration.
Line-up:
Christopher - Vocals, Guitar
Frank G. - Guitar
Joel - Bass Guitar
Rick - Drums
Bio:
A manifestation in the form of chilling soundscapes, foreboding atmospheres, contagious melodies and tortured chants echoing above an onslaught of calculated percussion. Withering Soul creates a musical elegy that is both majestic and haunting.
Conjured into existence by founding members Christopher (guitars and vocals) and Mykil (former lead vocalist) with the release of their debut album Apparitions of the Surreal in 2004, the band was later featured on "ReUnation - A Tribute to Running Wild" with a cover of "Firebreather" via Germany's Remedy Records earning "Best Song on the Album" by WeRock (SWE). A few years later saw the release of their follow-up album, No Closure via Mortal Music (MVD Distribution). The album promptly landed a spot on Apoch's Metal Review: "Top 50 Albums of 2011."
The band eventually recruited Rick Hernandez on drums and Joel Miller on bass guitar. Following an array of live shows brought the release of their third full length album Adverse Portrait (2015). It was later labeled “Album of the Month” by Metalreviews.com. The band made a few festival appearances such as Full Terror Assault III and Artifact Metal Fest in 2018.
Over the course of the 2020 world shutdown the band resolved to continue forward with Christopher on vocals and released its fourth full length effort Last Contact. The album reached an unprecedented level of acclaim not limited to earning the 3rd spot in World of Metal's top albums of 2021. The band immediately followed up with a busy live schedule both locally and out-of-state including a performance at Legion ov the Order festival in Tacoma, WA, Merciless Metalfest in Nova Scotia, Canada and Desecration Rituals VI and VII in Fort Wayne, IN.
Withering Soul has just recently finished its 5th album to be released at the end of 2025 and plans to continue transcending the boundaries of metal‘s darker genres while maintaining its own distinctive sound and leave its audiences spellbound for more.
https://www.facebook.com/liminaldreadproductions
https://www.facebook.com/witheringsoulband
Aussie
heavy/thrash powerhouse DECIMATOR is back, just in time
for the spooky season, with their new single “HALLOWEEN SEMATARY”,
out today via Wormholedeath.Equal parts brutal and nostalgic, “Halloween Sematary” pays tribute to two cult classics—John Carpenter’s Halloween and the Ramones’ Pet Sematary—reimagined with Decimator’s raw energy and relentless thrash metal bite. The track captures the band’s trademark heaviness while giving a wicked nod to horror.
Stream the single here: https://orcd.co/hssingle
Halloween Sematary mixed and mastered by WidekMusic
Downfallen, Hexenkrieg, and Teuer de Paysans Mixed and mastered by Douglas Skene, Ploughman Studios, NSW
About Decimator:
Formed in early 2021, Decimator has undergone a few lineup changes, seeing the band go from strength to strength.
In late 2024, Riley Perry joined the band on bass, bringing a new and even more refined approach to songwriting, having been active in projects such as "Of Flesh" and formerly being part of the thrash metal band Paralysis. Unfortunately, 2025 also saw more changes - but Caiseal Duncan replacing Ethan Reeves on guitar and Ashley Pollard replacing Bon Lowe on drums brought even more fire and ferocity
to the band.
Lance Holland-Keen, now the only original member, leads them on, with this single a small taste of the EP due out later this year.
The band are already writing new material for 2026 and playing shows in Sydney - decimating every stage they step onto.
Their debut album, 'Til The Enemies Are Gone, was recorded in September 2023 and released in October 2024 through Wormholedeath.
Current Lineup
Lance Holland-Keen - guitar/lead vocals
Bon Lowe - drums/backing vox
Coen Winchester - bass/backing vox
Ethan Reeves - guitars/backing vox
www.youtube.com/@decimatorbandaustralia568
www.facebook.com/DecimatorBandAustralia
Listen to Olesin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqClHqJB9Tw
Olesin is a forest in eastern Poland, a place of ruined palaces with lions, libations, fights, suicides, drownings, mysterious candles, and the birthplace of figures who changed the course of history. A place of hunting returns. Just like home. Their music is a raw, chaotic, and Bergmansk form of black metal, channeling the turbulent and haunted essence of their origins.
Order the demo: https://d-a-p.org/
Tracklist:
1. I
2. II
3. III
https://d-a-p.org/
https://olesin.bandcamp.com/
French
Atmospheric black metal project SOUILLÉ has released a
new visualizer video for the track "DÉLUGE VIOLACÉ" (THE
VIOLACEOUS DELUGE), from its powerful LP, I`ODEUR DU MEPRIS, out now via Wormholedeath.
"Déluge violacé" is a torrent of profound and overwhelming emotions, from melancholy to rage, that feels like an inundation. In a style that has become emblematic of Souillé's unique sound, the track navigates a spectrum of human experience, from humility to disdain, with a raw intensity that is both captivating and somber.
Stream the full L'odeur du mépris EP: https://orcd.co/odmep
Previous video: https://youtu.be/iVrfepMB1xo
About Souillé
Souillé is the creation of a French multi-instrumentalist whose work sits between black metal’s harsh extremity and the immersive textures of atmospheric post-black. The project’s identity is defined by melancholy and anxiety, weaving melodic flights into an aura that is both mystical and raw. Souillé’s music lives in the space between depressive poetry and relentless darkness — a place where listeners can confront their own shadows.www.youtube.com/@Souille
www.facebook.com/Souillé
For fans of : Autopsy, Boneyard, Coffins, Dismember, Exhumed, Impetigo, Haemorrhage, Gruesome Stuff Relish and Repulsion
Ghoulhouse return to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions with the terrifying new album Realm Of Ghouls! Sweden's own Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader, Revolting, etc.) and Håkan Stuvemark (Wombbath) are back with a deadly vengeance, as Ghoulhouse unleash more old school rotten, crusty Grindcore/Death Metal. Realm Of Ghouls is the third album in the rancid catalog of Ghoulhouse, vomiting forth 11 symphonies of sickness... for true necroholics only!
Listen to the single "Fetid Flesh Fairytale" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WpsD1DHPUU
Tracklisting:1. Hacksore
2. Rotten Rancid Remains
3. Mall Full Of Zombies
4. Kingdom Of Squirming Worms
5. Where Ghouls Are Bred
6. Dying In The City (Of The Living Dead)
7. Fetid Flesh Fairytale
8. Pit Of Maggots
9. Realm Of Ghouls
10. Rothead
11. Devoured By Famined Pigs
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
https://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
Label: Road To Masochist
Release date: november 14th 2025
Thumbsucker
Line-up:Duane - Drums, Vocals
Stringer - Guitars, Vocals
Genre: Hardcore Punk
For fans of: Anti Cimex | Extreme Noise Terror | Dropdead
Atomҫk Line-up:
Karl - Drums
Linus - Vocals, machines
Barthur - Bass
Luke – Guitars
Genre: Grindcore
For fans of: Napalm Death | Nasum | Cyness
As the planet burns around us and human society collapses into a mire of self-deceit, avarice and cruelty there has never been a more urgent need for music that confronts, devastates and blasts through the shallow, soulless bullshit we’re drowning in. An outlet for frustrated anger, a searing indictment of mindless, servile acceptance, a blast of intensity to rip through the mind-numbing clouds of lethargy…and when you bring together the combustible hardcore punk of Thumbsucker and the explosive grindcore insanity of Atomҫk you get all that and more; this is a wake-up call of shocking vehemence and a fourteen track nail bomb of a split release that will blow your world apart. Thumbsucker and Atomҫk are two voices from the UK underground that demand to be heard.
It’s down to Thumbsucker to kick off this ripping collection and after a short intro they let loose with the vein-bulging rage of ‘An Accident Waiting To End’ – a detonation of wild, grinding mayhem. And from there there’s no turning back, no chance to get off the ride as each track charges into the next. Be it the jarring riff shards, venomous vocals and irresistible rhythms of ‘Coward’, the bewildering bomb drops of ‘First World Problem’ or the rampaging, needle in the red adrenaline of ‘Grift’, Thumbsucker deliver in shocking, breathless fashion until the last unequivocal blow of ‘You Will Not Be Missed’. And before you’ve had a second to check for broken bones, Atomҫk take up the mantle of destruction. Fourteen years on from their debut EP, Yes To Alien Victory, Atomҫk have only become more abrasive and furious with the passage of time. Opening up with the caustic ‘Fuck Off Back To London (Again)’ Atomҫk are a battering assault on the senses, powered by some incredible drumming and utterly insane vocals. No matter how many acts of sonic extremity you have been exposed to over the years tracks like ‘Are You, Jon’ and ‘Thought Terminating Cliché’ are going to flay you alive. By the time the madness of ‘Still Dead’ reaches its conclusion you’ll be left beaten and broken.
Road To Masochist will release this incendiary cocktail of extremity on November 14th, on CD and 10” black vinyl. Make no mistake this split release is one of the most intense outpourings of rage and defiance that you’ll hear this year, or any other.
https://www.facebook.com/atomckgrind
https://roadtomasochist.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553346392588
DWELLING BELOW - „WEARISOME GUARDIANS“
Genre - Death/Doom MetalFor fans of - Hierarchies, Viande, Acausal Intrusion, Winter, Autopsy, Incantation
Dwelling Below are back with their mind-altering interpretation of dissonant, warped death/doom metal with a flair that only they are capable of doing. One would normally associate this style with music that's fairly straightforward and nothing that would particularly accelerate one's heartbeats save for the expected heaviness, but Dwelling Below's music sets off all kinds of medical beeps and alarms with their unpredictable and erratic approach. The interdimensional trajectories shoot off in different directions as the mass of the music keeps stomping and marching menacingly, getting closer with every beat as though to deal a final heart-stopping blow. Only they can lull the listener into a hypnotic, vulnerable state with their ponderous tunes and repetition for emphasis, and then bombard him with multiple angular riffs zipping through the flesh over the all-powerful roar of a subterranean demonic entity and even to the persistent wails of the foul, spiralling leads. Dwelling Below's music continues to be an exception in the style, even as the band evolves from the debut album to create something truly abominable albeit having a soul.
Line up
Jared Moran (Hierarchies, Acausal Intrusion, Occulsed) - Drums and vocals
Anthony Wheeler (Hierarchies) - Bass
Nicolas Turner (Hierarchies, Acausal Intrusion) - Guitar
Artwork by Alex Shadrin/Nether Temple Design
Track listing
1. Wearisome Guardians
2. Unfolding Universe
3. Interlude
4. Termination Experiments
5. The Altar
6. Sacraments
Official release date - October 31st, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/dwellingbelow
Thanks a lot for your support! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
Decibel Magazine launched the exclusive premiere of TYRANNUS AETERNUM, calling the album a "full-length inferno that marries neoclassical precision to melodic death-metal mayhem."
Listen now at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/10/29/album-premiere-burned-in-effigy-tyrannus-aeternum/
Rising from the heart of the Midwest metal scene, this Chicago-based quintet has announced a fall release for their much-anticipated second full-length, Tyrannus Aeternum. Following the 2022 release of their debut album, Rex Mortem, BURNED IN EFFIGY has sharpened their sound to a lethal edge. The result is an 11-track onslaught that blends the band’s skillful musicianship and technicality with volcanic brutality.
Tyrannus Aeternum is set for release on October 31. Order the album now at https://burnedineffigy.bandcamp.com/album/tyrannus-aeternum
Tracklist:1) Befouled Benefaction
2) Retribution
3) Masquerade
4) Procession
5) Wage of Exile
6) Sacrificial Seance
7) Monstrosity Reborn
8) Gallows Hymn
9) The Racking
10) Crown Crusher
11) Citadel
Tyrannus Aeternum was recorded at Beal Audio and Bricktop Recording, with production, engineering and mixing by Jordan Beal. Orchestration and keyboards on the album were provided by Graham Southern. Album artwork by Timon Kokott.
Bio:
BURNED IN EFFIGY’s roots date back to 2017. In January 2022, the band independently released its debut album Rex Mortem, which was highly acclaimed by leading heavy music media and led to the band sharing the stage with iconic acts such as ORBIT CULTURE, OBSCURA, and REVOCATION.
A must for listeners of acts such as THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER and INFERI, with the band’s attention to virtuosity and intensity in equal measure, the effort and accomplishment of the band’s debut led to being talent scouted. With work on the band's sophomore album complete, BURNED IN EFFIGY aims to take its signature melodic death metal sound across the US, and in time, the world. The search for total conquest continues.
Line-up:
Mark “Smedy” Smedbron - Vocals
Steve Bacakos - Guitar
Mike Hisson - Guitar
Matt Watkins - Bass
Eddie Dec - Drums
https://www.youtube.com/@BurnedinEffigy
https://www.youtube.com/@BurnedinEffigy
For fans of monstrous riffs, horror-inspired visuals, and genre-bending metal.
False Prophets: Visual Album features 3 short films set to their singles "Old Man Abaddon," "El Muerte" and "Whore's Grave," shot by cinematographer Rigo Diaz and directed by Grace Perez, the band's drummer. The 3 stories are presented as parts of a Halloween-themed horror anthology, reminiscent of Tales from the Crypt and The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs, adding to its striking visual narrative.
Watch the visualizer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-32tC8ZOi-4
False Prophets is available October 29th, 2025 on all streaming platforms.
Fully formed in 2024, PRECIOUS BLOOD brings together three veterans of the NYC scene - AJ – guitar, vocals (Jesus Knevil, Snake Canyon), Dave Kramer – bass, vocals (Blood Feast, Suaka, Stanley), and Grace Perez – drums, vocals (The Wickedexorcist). The band’s shared love of doom and underground metal is expressed in an unholy concoction of rum-soaked riffs, brutal lyrics, and mystical tribal sounds.
With a signature sound best described as Blackened Caribbean Doom, PRECIOUS BLOOD delivers a unique blend of doom and thrash metal influenced tone, mixed with lyrical themes that draw profound inspiration from the enduring spirit of the Caribbean, shaped by brutal history of colonization, unwavering resilience of its people, and exploration of the darker aspects of human existence, including death, contemplation of mortality and the complexities of human suffering.
Tracklist:1) False Prophets
2) Bludgeoned & Charred
3) Footsteps of Babylon
4) Shadow of the Cross
5) Cemetery Burn
6) Old Man Abaddon
7) El Muerte
8) Whore’s Grave
False Prophets was recorded and mixed by Joe Hogan at Captain’s Cove Catskills Studios with mastering and additional engineering by AJ Tissian (The Wave Lab). The album was produced by Joe Hogan and PRECIOUS BLOOD. Album cover photo by Mia. Cover layout by PRECIOUS BLOOD.
Line-Up:
AJ -Guitar, Vocals
Grace Perez - Drums, Backing Vocals
Dave Kramer - Bass, Backing Vocals
https://linktr.ee/preciousbloodband
Brutal
Records is proud to announce the worldwide signing of NO WORTH OF MAN, one of the UK’s most ferocious and
uncompromising brutal modern metal acts. The band joins the Brutal Records
roster for the release of their highly anticipated new album, THE KILLING
STREETS, hitting all digital and physical platforms on Friday, February
13th, 2026.For Fans Of: Lamb Of God, Machine Head, Unearth, Gojira, Arch Enemy
Formed in 2016, No Worth Of Man has developed a unique sound defined by raw power, precision, and emotion. With Peter Gale on vocals, Alex Punchard on guitars, and Gareth Lucas on drums, the band fuses metalcore, thrash, and modern groove metal, creating music that is furious, intelligent, and emotionally charged.
“No Worth Of Man are not here to follow trends. They’re here to crush them. Their upcoming album The Killing Streets is a brutal, unflinching statement that defines the next era of heavy music.” – Michael Howard, Brutal Records Founder
A Legacy of FerocityFrom their debut Initium Novum EP (2017) to the crushing What’s Your Damage? (2023), No Worth Of Man has evolved relentlessly. They’ve shared stages with Karma To Burn, King 810, Coffin Birth, Evile, Left To Die, and Sepultura’s Paulo Jr. (Cultura Tres), building a loyal underground following.
Collaborating with world-renowned producer Fredrik Nordström (Arch Enemy, In Flames, Hammerfall) elevated their sound to new extremes, blending devastating power with technical mastery.
The Killing Streets – A New ChapterUnder Brutal Records, No Worth Of Man now unleashes The Killing Streets, an album that redefines intensity with thunderous riffs, machine-tight grooves, and vocals that cut through steel. This is more than a release—it’s a manifesto of fury and evolution in modern metal.
Line-Up:
Peter Gale – Vocals
Alex Punchard – Guitars
Gareth Lucas – Drums
https://brutalrecords.com/
https://www.noworthofman.com/
The second single 'TAKE THE SON OF A BITCH' is released today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/wounded-in-forest-take
“Take the Son of a Bitch’ throws you into the brutality of early 1700s Finland. Crown soldiers arrive at the antihero’s home to take a man for the army, and his own family gladly gives him up, calling him a waste of food. It’s based on real stories of men dragged from rural farmhouses into war. This is where his descent plunges even deeper — another step further into a life shaped entirely by violence.”
“The song opens with a skank beat and open-picked chords that nod toward thrash metal before diving into death metal riffing and blast beats. At 200bpm, it moves with the urgency of a forced march, shifting rhythms without losing focus. The dual vocals mirror the story’s tension — rage clashing with inevitability — until you’re marched out alongside him into the jaws of war.”
Listen to the first single Godspeed Filthy Warrior: https://push.fm/fl/wounded-in-forest-godspeed
Biography:
Wounded In Forest is a death metal band from Oulu, Finland, born from tragedy and reborn with a sharpened edge. Formed in 2023 following the death of the drummer from a previous project that had lasted over 15 years, the surviving members regrouped with a stripped-down, more direct musical vision. Every member took on a new role or instrument to forge something raw and uncompromising — an outlet for grief, rage, and reflection.
Musically rooted in old school death metal, Wounded in Forest blends the primal ferocity of early ’90s death metal with a conceptual storytelling approach. Their lyrics, written in English, revolve around one fictional narrative per release, each grounded in a real event or period from Finnish history. Themes of violence, war, trauma, and moral decay are explored with unflinching intensity.
The band’s upcoming debut EP, Antihuman Artist, is set during the Great Wrath in the early 1700s — a time of Russian occupation and widespread atrocities in Finland. The EP tells the disturbing story of an individual shaped by violence — born into abuse, sent to war, and ultimately transformed into a serial killer who expresses himself by creating grotesque art from the remains of his victims.
Wounded in Forest’s dual-vocalist setup deepens their storytelling Joni Moisanen delivers classic low-end death metal growls, while Miikka Pyykkönen unleashes high-pitched shrieks more akin to black metal. This contrast creates a dynamic narrative texture, with each voice representing different facets of the characters and their descent into darkness.
Musically, the band combines relentless blast beats, simple but sinister riffing, and shifting rhythmic patterns that keep listeners on edge. Guitarists Joni Moisanen and Joonas Kokkoniemi mix chugging riffs, open-picked chords, and black metal-style tremolo passages with the occasional technical flourish. Drummer Jussi Tuomisto drives the chaos with aggressive blasts and constantly evolving grooves that mirror the tension in each story.
For fans of old school Death Metal with a conceptual twist, Wounded In Forest offers stories carved from something raw and real. These are stories steeped in blood, rooted in Finnish soil, and delivered straight from the heart of the forest.
Track
list:1. The Growth
2. Take the Son of a Bitch
3. Virent Carnes
4. Godspeed Filthy Warrior
5. Altar of Needles
6. The Last Leg
Music, lyrics & arrangements by Jussi Tuomisto
Artwork by Jussi Tuomisto
Line-up:
Joni Moisanen (guitar, vox)
Miikka Pyykkönen (bass, vox)
Joonas Kokkoniemi (guitar)
Jussi Tuomisto (drums)
https://www.facebook.com/woundedinforest
The digital album's release date is 14 November 2025.
Tracklist
01 History Repeating
02 The Die Is Cast
03 The Legacy
04 New World Order
05 Fragment Of A Dream
06 Portentum
07 Retribution
08 Into Oblivion
About Imperial Domain
Founded in the mid-90s, Imperial Domain quickly made waves in the Swedish death metal underground with their debut demo The Final Chapter (1995), followed by In the Ashes of the Fallen (1996)—a release that earned them national acclaim. Their full-length debut In the Ashes of the Fallen (1998) on Pulverised Records marked the band as a rising force, followed by the critically acclaimed The Ordeal (2003) via Konqueror Records.
After a brief hiatus and the tragic loss of vocalist Tobias Heideman in 2014, the band reemerged stronger than ever with The Deluge (2016), reaffirming their place in the melodic death metal pantheon. Now, Imperial Domain return with Portentum—an album that’s as uncompromising as it is thought-provoking.
Line-Up
Peter Laitinen Sundström – Guitar
Philip Borg – Guitar
Andreas Öman – Vocals
Mattias Hansson – Bass
Alvaro Svanerö – Drums
Pre-save "Portentum": https://orcd.co/portentum
www.facebook.com/imperialdomain.se
New VICRECORDS:
THUS DEFILED – „WINGS OF THE NIGHTSTORM”
Second opus of one of UK s finest BM outfits re-issue. Thus Defiled were originally formed in March 1992 with the aim of creating some of the most intense yet unique, bestial blackened metal within the extreme music scene. Through many years of evolution the band have expanded their style of black metal as the band members grew as individuals, but still hold true to their original dark, black metal roots. Remastered plus bonus tracks. Carefully restored original artwork and booklet. Extensive liner notes by Pim Blankenstein (Risk, Reverend, Sinister).
USURPER – “DIVINE SPIRITUAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT “ (AND ALL DEMOS)
Divine
Spiritual and Intellectual Development" is 1990 debut album by the Dutch
thrash band Usurper, formed in 1985.. The best late 80’s Dutch thrash bands
were those that rapidly made the transition into a death/thrash hybrid, and
then often into full on death metal. Pestilence, Thanatos, all need no
introduction, but there were very few bands that stuck with the initial genre
and met any kind of success. Usurper is a pretty rare find, a group that
actually started off as a death metal act (they put out a demo as Sepulchral
Death) and then evolved into a pure thrash act. All 3 demos, Sepulchral Death
(considered as Usurper demo 1) demo 1 1986, Chants of Traducement Demo 2,
1987, Demo 3 from 1988 and full length Divine Spiritual and Intellectual Development
are included on this massive double cd and double vinyl re-issue. The booklet
contains rare and old pictures, flyers and posters. Extensive liner notes from
Steven Willems (Rock Tribune, Streams of Ancient Wisdom: The History of Dutch
Death And Extreme Metal).CD1: Divine Spiritual and Intellectual Development + live in Rotterdam
Egoistic Mind
Enthrallment Fate
Diseased Reality
The Room
Insane Decisions
Behind Mandela's Mask
Infest the Convent
Ozon Tragedy
Orphanage Children
Live in Nighttown, Rotterdam 1990
Insane Decisions (Live in Nighttown, Rotterdam 1990)
Behind Mandela's Mask (Live in Nighttown, Rotterdam 1990)
The Room (Live in Nighttown, Rotterdam 1990)
A Crime to Satisfy (Live in Nighttown, Rotterdam 1990)
Egoistic Mind (Live in Nighttown, Rotterdam 1990)
Ozon Tragedy (Live in Nighttown, Rotterdam 1990)
CD2: The Demos
Demo 3 1988
Insane Decisions (Demo 3 1988)
The Room ( Demo 3 1988)
Orphanage Children (Demo 3 1988)
Chants of Traducement demo 1987
Habeas Corpus ( Chants of Traducement demo 1987)
Enthrallment Fate ( Chants of Traducement demo 1987)
Parables of Terror (Chants of Traducement demo 1987)
Infest the Content (Chants of Traducement demo 1987)
Sepulchral Death - Praising Death demo 1986
Schizophrenic Doom (Sepulchral Death - Praising Death demo 1986 )
Praising Death ( Sepulchral Death - Praising Death demo 1986)
Sepulchral Death (Sepulchral Death - Praising Death demo 1986)
Capitol Punishment (Sepulchral Death - Praising Death demo 1986)
Exaltation of the Cross (Sepulchral Death - Praising Death demo 1986)
Mutual Repugnance (Sepulchral Death - Praising Death demo 1986
https://www.vicrecords.com/
Czech heavymetallers TRAHIR return with a sleazy single „MADNESS” . TRAHIR is Prague-based Heavy Metal trio.
Sharp riffs, soaring vocals, and thunderous rhythms, all delivered with a distinctive essence. Hypnotizing crowds with melodic hooks, tight grooves, and a hint of the mystical, Trahir carve their own path in today’s metal landscape. No gimmicks — just raw energy, big choruses, and the power of three.
They played with:
Candlemass, Hällas, Duel, Dopelord, Sanhedrin, Spirit Adrift,
1000mods, Ufomammut, Demon Head, The Hazytones, Red Scalp, Exorcizphobia, The Great
Machine, and Planet of Zeus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-3dkSraz-4
https://www.facebook.com/wearetrahir
For fans of: Gojira, Meshuggah, Decapitated, and Opeth
The track is an explosive display of SAGEN’s creative mastery. Punishing riffs, intricate drum patterns, and Adam Cheatham’s commanding vocals collide in a sonic maelstrom that mirrors the chaos and futility of war. Stephen Hegarty’s precision in composition, performance, and production (Lacerate Studios) ensures that every moment cuts deep, from the razor-sharp solos to the apocalyptic atmosphere.
The lyrics paint a grim picture of control, ideology, and extinction: a reflection of humanity’s endless appetite for dominance and destruction. In Animus, empathy is weakness, and survival is the only truth left standing.
With Whalefall on the horizon, Animus continues to build anticipation for an album that promises to merge storytelling and metal in a way few bands can match. SAGEN’s world is dark, cerebral, and relentlessly heavy, and Animus is the next brutal chapter.
Biography
Sagen effortlessly blends the aggressive intricacies of death, groove, technical, deathcore, and progressive metal to forge a unique and commanding sonic experience. With their signature style, they combine crushing riffs, electrifying guitar solos, complex drum patterns, and ferocious vocals to create a sound that is as engaging as it is punishing. Every Sagen album tells an immersive story, leaving an unforgettable impact on listeners.
The band’s discography includes three full-length albums: Tides of Succession (2016), Mammoth (2021), and Roots of Proctor (2023). Their forthcoming album, Whalefall, is set for release in early 2025, with four singles scheduled to roll out in the coming months. Alongside the album, a companion book delving into the narrative universe of the songs is in the works.
Sagen is:
Adam Cheatham
Stephen Hegarty
https://www.facebook.com/sagenmetal
Two songs from the album are streaming over here https://deathobvious-label.bandcamp.com/album/death-obvious
Death Obvious came out of nowhere to release a debut album that coalesces elements of black, death, and even doom metal to create a harrowing albeit intriguing sound that's strangely both alarming and comforting in parts. Without adhering to any particular style or school, they're just going about crafting music as it suits their demented vision in a recklessly intuitive manner, a cacophony of hurtling sounds that somehow hits the mark. The songs sound like excursions into pitch-black darkness, not knowing what's coming next, while the listener remains terrified, haunted by monstrous and spectral voices coming and going. Their sound might not be easily penetrable at first but it remains strongly alluring, imploring for more time and understanding, waiting for its mysteries to be unravelled with multiple visitations. The Finnish duo are onto something here, having created an exceptional and mature release right off the bat, one that deserves as much attention as it can possibly get before it gets lost in the annals of history. This release is not a rebirth but a necessary resuscitation.
For
fans of : Thantifaxath, Dodecahedron, Veilburner, Lurk, Blut
aus Nord, Hexrot, Deathspell OmegaLine up
Lea Lavey - Vocals
Sima Sioux - Everything else
Cover photo by Petri Kiviniemi
Merch artwork by CVSPE
Tracklisting
1. Mercury Off Axis
2. Santuario
3. The Great Gate Theory
4. Total Heavenly Desolation
5. The Third Eye Burning
6. Suffer The Spectacle
7. As Absence Expands Over Everything
8. Catechismus For The Plagued
Official release date - December 5th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/DeathObvious
Cheers! Kunal Choksi Label Owner Transcending Obscurity
The
third single from VII VITIUM'S self-titled debut album
is "LUSSURIA / OSMODEO". Featuring the precious
presence of Alessandra "Trinity" Bersiani (La Grazia
Obliqua) at the synth, the song is one of their most iconic and personal
releases. The lyric video, created by Stefano Mastronicola, is available at https://youtu.be/6ImIbPNKkTo
"VII Vitium", the album due out October 31st, is an introspective and emotional journey that explores the world of sin, giving voice to its Demons with a magical fusion of Dark Occult sounds à la DEATH SS and PAUL CHAIN, and European Doom, elements of Italian Progressive Rock blended with independent Rock and '80s Darkwave.
Numerous guests joined VII VITIUM and took part in the making of the album: Joe Ferraro (Cultus Sanguine), John Goldfinch (L'Impero Delle Ombre), Sandra Silver, Daniele Donini, Alessandra "Trinity" Bersiani (La Grazia Obliqua), Dario Vicariotto (IV Sigillo), David Cremoni, Lisa Bonacquisti, Melissa Bonacquisti, and Luca Gregori. Each of them brought their own interpretation to the project's captivating theme, contributing unique and valuable contributions.
VII VITIUM are ready to welcome you into their sinful world.
Pre-order LP and deluxe edition now at: https://t.ly/TGN78
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/VIIVITIUM
Label: Rottweiler Records ( https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/ )Release date: october 31st 2025
This Halloween Rottweiler Records bring you two powerful new singles to hold the darkness at bay! Send those ghosts and ghouls running back to their graves with the latest releases from My Place Was Taken and The Light Superior!
My Place Was Taken, from the Mexican border town of Matamoros, announced their
alliance with Rottweiler Records in May, with the release of the ‘Altar De
Moloc’ single – a thunderous exposition of deathcore menace and might. Now they
deliver the even heavier follow up – ‘Rude Awakening’. A nerve shredding intro
gives way to an incredibly heavy riff; measured, paced and deliberate,
gradually growing in force and momentum. The sheer weight is intimidating and
the vocal presence immense, the song driven forward by muscle, blood and
unwavering belief. Each chord lands like a hammer blow as this armour plated
monster marches to its conclusion. The legend of My Place Is Taken is growing
more irresistible with each song they unveil…In early 2024 Amarillo, Texas finest metalcore export, The Light Superior, released the stunning ‘Tidal Wave’ single, which won the hearts of fans everywhere with its magnificent melodies and stark emotional power. This Halloween they present the aptly entitled ‘Ghost’ and this colossal track is set to be another triumph for the band. Tumbling riffs and staggered rhythms carry a momentous, roaring vocal line upon their shoulders before The Light Superior’s patented magnificent, melodic chorus arrives. It’s the perfect contrast to those punishing opening riffs and proves instantly addictive. The superb song writing skills that made ‘Tidal Wave’ so special are back in full effect on ‘Ghost’.
Two singles from two remarkable artists released on one fateful day by one stalwart label – My Place Was Taken, The Light Superior and Rottweiler Records dominating Halloween 2025!
My Place Was Taken Line up:
Jesus Salas - Vocals
Abraham Barberi - Guitars
Edgar Zambrano - Bass
Daniel Castaneda - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/MyPlaceWasTaken
The Light Superior Line-up:
Michael Grice - Vocals
Matt Grice - Guitar
Chris Torres - Guitar
Giovanni Alvarez-Jimenez - Drums
www.youtube.com/@thelightsuperior2798
www.facebook.com/thelightsuperior
PHANTOM
CORPORATION - “TIME AND TIDE”
Vö: 12.12.2025
Label: Supreme Chaos Records
Stil: Death/Crust/Thrash Metal
The Death Crust Commando strikes back – louder, fiercer, heavier. “Time And Tide” is here to crush everything in its path!
Seit ihrer Gründung 2016 sind PHANTOM CORPORATION eine unaufhaltsame Macht im Underground. Gegründet von Szene-Veteranen aus Bremen und Dortmund – mit Wurzeln in Bands wie Dew-Scented, Eroded, BK 49 und Weak Aside – verschmilzt die Band gnadenlosen D-Beat Crust mit Death Metal und rohem Old-School Thrash/Punk zu einem kompromisslosen Crossover-Sound.
Nach der Debüt-Mini „First Commandment“ (2016), den furiosen EPs „Cause and Effect“ (2017) und „Belligerent Powers“ (2018) sowie der Split „Banner Of
Hatred“ (2022, mit den Schweden Harrowed) und dem ersten vollen Album „Fallout“ (2023), präsentiert die Band nun ihr tödlichstes Geschoss: Das neue Album „Time And Tide“, das in den letzten Tagen des Jahres 2025 über Supreme Chaos Records erscheint.
Produziert von Jörg Uken in den Soundlodge Studios (u. a. God Dethroned, Temple Of Dread), hebt Time And Tide die Band auf ein völlig neues Level.
Über 11 Tracks hinweg liefern PHANTOM CORPORATION ein unerbittliches Feuerwerk – vielseitiger, brutaler und kompromissloser als je zuvor. Rasende Thrash-Riffs, Crust- Attacken und Death Metal vereinen sich zu einem apokalyptischen Schlagabtausch ohne Atempause.
Mit „Time And Tide“ melden sich PHANTOM CORPORATION nicht nur eindrucksvoll zurück – sie preschen vehement nach vorn. Härter, wütender und dennoch facettenreicher als der gefeierte Vorgänger „Fallout“ ist dieses Album ein Manifest dessen, wofür die Band steht: Death Crust the brutal way.
Macht euch bereit – die Apokalypse hat ihren Soundtrack. Sein Name ist PHANTOM CORPORATION – Time And Tide.
Good to know:
Band besteht aus ex-Mitgliedern von Dew-Scented, Weak Aside, Slaughterday, Obscenity.
Nachfolger des viel gelobten Debüts „Fallout“.
Endlich ein zweites vollständiges Album, und es wird nicht dabei bleiben.
Tracklisting:
1. Frantic Disruption
2. Dead Of Night
3. Crushed
4. Krokodil
5. Pound Of Flesh
6. To The Hilt
7. Time And Tide
8. Sorcerer
9. For All The Wrong Reasons
10. Crisis
11. Western Apocalypse
Spielzeit 42:14
Musicians:
Leif: Vocals
Philipp: Guitar
Arne: Lead Guitar
Ulf: Bass
Marc: Drums
Discography:
2016 “FirstCommandment” Mini-CD&12"Mini-LP
2018 “CauseAndEffect” 7"EP
2018 “BelligerentPowers” Split7"EPw/Slaughterday
2022 “BannerOfHatred” Split12"EP&CDw/ Harrowed (Swe)
2023 “Fallout”Album CD/LP/MC
2025 “TimeAndTide” AlbumCD/LP/MC
https://supremechaos.de/
https://www.facebook.com/phantomcorporation/
Die erste Single "Komplex" macht unmissverständlich klar: Hier wird nichts in Watte gepackt. Stattdessen treffen brachiale Noise-Samples auf die markanten Screams von Frontmann Astharat und sorgen für ein dichtes Klanggewitter wie direkt von Hades. Das dazugehörige Musikvideo schien am 12. November auf Youtube.
Das gesamte Konzept des Albums ist eine stimmige Geschichte rund um die Rache und den Zerfall der Titanen, die sogar als Kurzgeschichte und Hörbuch produziert wurde. Ob Hades Gerechtigkeit findet, die Zyklopenkinder die Lösung sein könnten und was die Chimäre mit Zeus’ Ableben zu tun hat, sind Dinge, die man nur selbst herausfinden kann. Begleitend zur Veröffentlichung erscheint die Geschichte als bebilderte Kurzgeschichte in Form eines streng limitierten Artbooks und als Hörbuch.
Mit harten Gitarrenriffs, aggressiven Drums und weitläufigem Soundtrack-Ambient überzeugen Devil-M mit einem abwechslungsreichen Album, weit weg vom typischen Deutschrock oder der Neuen Deutschen Härte. Eben Industrial Metal, wie er zu klingen hat. Dazu verhalfen Aggrotech-Altmeister Elmar Schmidt von Centhron (Mixing) und Kristof Bathory von Dawn of Ashes (Mastering) zum finalen Ergebnis. Und nachdem Devil-M ihre gemeinsame Tour mit den Industrial-Legenden Psyclon Nine im Vorjahr absolviert haben, werden weitere Konzerte 2026 folgen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy1FRKG3Rzs
https://devil-m.bandcamp.com/album/titanomachie
https://www.facebook.com/devilmband
FERUCH - "FERUCH"
Genre
: Dolomitic
Black Metal
Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : November 20th 2025
In the mountain range called Alps, more precisely in their north-east point, lies an area of a certain charm and ancientness. Its name is Dolomities, a place of impressive mountain heights and valleys, whose ancient populations contributed to mark a unique cultural identity and spiritual inheritance.
FERUCH debut album is a Hymn to the darkness of Dolomites' areas; to the legends that dwell there; to their spiritual heritage; to their deep pagan roots; to the ancestors of our lineage.
Close to Djevel, Taake, Spite Extreme Wing, Beatrik and Imago Mortis in the style, FERUCH's 'Dolomitic Black Metal' features lyrics in italian and a close relationship with bands of the same area such as Tenebrae In Perpetuum (Avantgarde Music label)
Created and animated by the mastermind Fulgur Summa, this self-titled album has been recorded together with a studio line-up featuring musicians from acts such as MESSA .
Sales Point:
Dolomitic Black Metal, with members of MESSA
A concept based on the pagan legends of Dolomites;
A style close to Djevel, Taake and Spite Extreme Wing;
Published in February 2025 by Dolomia Nera on vinyl. Now available on CD via Masked Dead Records.
https://maskeddeadrecords.com/
https://www.instagram.com/feruch_blackmetal/
The first single 'You Failed My Trust' is out now and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/funeral-home-trust
The band comments:
"Funeral Home is ready to shake up listeners with their new single "You Failed My Trust", which is released on October 23rd 2025. The song tells the story of broken trust and the power that comes from it - a feeling that is at once crushing, real and relatable. The pounding beat and groove are the soul of the entire song."
Biography:
Founded in 2009, Funeral Home is a death metal band from Kuopio, Finland. Their musical influences range from death 'n' roll and old-school styles to with gloomy melodies of death metal . The band writes its songs with the music first, keeping the song structures simple and the arrangements flowing
Track
list:
1. You Failed My Trust
2. Wall
3. My Kingdom Is Hell
4. Rotten To The Core
5. Depths
6. Sacrificial Goat
7. Your Funeral
8. Graveyard Blues
9. Blood & Sacrifice
Album cover by Henna Pulkkinen
Line-up:
Ossi Maalampi - vocals
Henri Ojala - lead guitar
Henri Thitz - rhythm guitar
Juha Korhonen - bass
Jouko Poussu - drums
https://linktr.ee/Funeral.Home
The
second full-length album from veteran Romanian grinders SPIRITUAL
RAVISHMENT marks a grandiose comeback for one of the country's
most respected Extreme Metal acts! "EXIT HUMANITY" delivers
an intense blend of technical brutality, dark atmosphere, and thought-provoking
themes about the downfall of mankind.
This new chapter in the band's evolution expands their sound beyond pure Grindcore, incorporating heavy Stoner, Sludge, and Death Metal influences to create a massive, oppressive sonic experience. With crushing riffs, dynamic rhythms, and a powerful and highly versatile vocal assault, "Exit Humanity" stands as a bold and mature statement from SPIRITUAL RAVISHMENT, a milestone release for the Romanian extreme metal scene.
Originally recorded in 2015 at Postanalog Studio (Oradea) and Consonance Studio (Timișoara), the album was mixed by Andrei Jumugă and Tudor Scânteie, then mastered by Jumugă in 2016. Despite being scheduled for release nearly a decade ago, unforeseen circumstances forced the record into indefinite limbo... until now.
Line-up:
Cosmin Purge – vocals
Stancu Sebastian – vocals, bass
Andrei Bejușca – guitars
Andrei Jumugă – drums
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/SpiritualRavishment/
Berlin Based Gothic Metal Rock Project HIDECLOSE proudly presents his debut EP NOCTE MUTAMUR (BY NIGHT WE ARE CHANGED), a gothic novella in five movements.
Hideclose is the creation of Lenn Vane, a composer and storyteller from Berlin
whose work blends dark, doom-laden riffs with narrative precision,
exploring themes of spiritual decay, dream logic, and the sacred grotesque.
Nocte Mutamur unfolds like a Gothic novella set in Victorian London, 1889. Through five interconnected tracks, the listener follows Professor Dario Valperga, a scholar of religion whose fascination with evil draws him into visions, rituals, and a reality collapsing under its own shadows.
Each track marks a chapter in Dario Valperga’s descent — from the haunting visions of A Haunted View, to the forbidden rites of Sacred Play, the obsessive doubt of The Darkness Draws Near, the shocking murder in A Fatal Meeting, and the full-moon transformation in Nocte Mutamur, where danger and salvation merge in shadow.
Blending gothic metal, doom, and alternative influences, the EP evokes the atmosphere of classic Gothic literature — obsession, revelation, and transformation. It explores the tension between reason and darkness, faith and decay.
With Nocte Mutamur, Lenn Vane invites listeners into a world where horror becomes sacred and the grotesque reveals truth, a nocturnal journey through sound and story, where every note marks another step into the shadow.
Watch the official lyric video for “Haunted View”
The opening chapter of Nocte Mutamur comes to life in Haunted View, where Professor Dario Valperga begins his descent. On his nightly walk, Dario finds himself in a forest where shadows stir and unseen creatures watch. Reason fails him — the whispers will not let go.
Visually haunting and sonically gripping, the lyric video introduces the dark world of Nocte Mutamur and sets the tone for the journey that follows.
Listen to Nocte Mutamur: https://hideclose.bandcamp.com/album/nocte-mutamur
Tracklist:
1. Haunted View (first descent into the unknown)
2. Sacred Play (discovery of the rite)
3. The Darkness draws near (obsession and self-doubt)
4. A fatal meeting (the murder witnessed)
5. Nocte Mutamur (By night we are changed)
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Athens, Greece; 23 October 2025: THE MAGUS, the Luciferian project helmed by Necromantia co-founder and ex-Rotting Christ musician The Magus, unveiled further details about the second album, “DAEMONOSOPHIA”.
The follow-up to “ΒΥΣΣΟΔΟΜΩΝΤΑΣ” is set to be released on 20 February 2026 via The Circle Music and is now available to pre-order in CD and vinyl formats, along with a limited luxurious box set and merch bundles.
Pre-order: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=the-magus
The new album promises a more aggressive and dynamic sound compared to the previous album, “ΒΥΣΣΟΔΟΜΩΝΤΑΣ”, while keeping the devouring dark atmosphere the project’s music is known for. The album's sound has some unexpected and diabolically diverse moments that will make listeners feel uneasy.
According to The Magus, “The new album from THE MAGUS entitled "Daemonosophia" is a journey to Demonhood. The Truth lies Below not Above. The Six are Three. The Unholy Trinity. The Three are One. The Absolute. The Infernal pact.
“Musically, it is more edgy and vengeful. More aggressive and dynamic. Still theatrical and horrifying in nature, hellish and complex in performance. And as always there are these diabolically diverse moments that will surprise and will make you feel unease...but Lucifer has many names and many faces. In some parts, collaboration with top-level musicians and vocalists was deemed necessary to achieve maximum impact.”
"Daemonospohia" is pulsating Darkness in all its beauty and all its horror. A beacon of Luciferian Black Metal for Extraordinary People.
“In a few weeks, the first single and video will be unleashed!”
For the album cover art, The Magus collaborated with Mexican artist Nestor Avalos, known for his work with numerous bands, including Exodus, Deicide and Rotting Christ. The artwork is an Infernal Triptych that portrays six infernal entities: Lucifer/Samael, Leviathan/Tiamat, and Belial/Satan. Nestor created a majestic painting of infernal wisdom and occult meanings, giving prominence to the Luciferian tradition and the music of the album.
"Daemonospohia" was recorded, mixed and mastered at Pentagram Studio by George Emmanuel, with the exception of drums and choirs which were recorded at Ignite Studio. The album was produced by The Magus and George Emmanuel.
Tracklist:
0. Pater Noster
1. Pseudoprophetae
2. Daemonosophia
3. The six in three is all One
4. The Era of Lucifer Rising
5. Magia Obscura
6. Amelia
7. The Chapel of Iniquities
8. The Pact
9. La Llorona Negra
The Magus was formed in 2022, following the dissolution of the legendary Greek black metal band Necromantia, which The Magus co-founded. He decided to end Necromantia after the death of his bandmate Baron Blood in 2019, releasing a final album, “To the Depths We Descend”, in 2021 as a tribute. For this new project, The Magus brought in long-time collaborators El on guitars and Maelstrom on drums.
https://thecirclemusic.gr/
https://www.themagus666.com/
https://www.facebook.com/themagus666
Thrash metal titans BASTARD SKULL are back with the lyric
video for “AFTER THE PLAGUE”, a highlight from their
self-titled debut album via Wormholedeath.
A scorched vision of humanity’s downfall. After the Plague tears through a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where corruption, madness, and deceit outlive the disease itself. Brutal, bitter, and unflinchingly real — this is thrash metal at its most unforgiving.
Previous video: https://youtu.be/f4zdXazPlCQ
Stream the album: https://orcd.co/bastardskull
Pre-save "More Dread" EP: https://orcd.co/moredread
About Bastard Skull
Formed on November 13, 2022, at a Mercyful Fate show in Brooklyn, NY, Bastard Skull emerged when John Blicharz (Annuanki, Blood Feast, Dusk) reconnected with Tom Lorenzo (Blood Feast, Without End). Joined by Mark Mari (Sneak Attack) on drums and George Kostadimas on bass, Tom stepped up as the band’s vocalist for the first time.
Drawing on years of metal experience and raw energy, Bastard Skull quickly honed a ferocious sound. Their debut album, recorded with Mike Sabatini (Attacker) at Band Mother Recording and mastered by Alan Douches (Nile, Dying Fetus, Obituary), delivers unrelenting thrash metal power that fans have been waiting for.
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DVM
SPIRO will
release their new album "MMXXVI - GRAVE" on
January 16, 2026.
Today we're revealing the artwork, a painting by artists Zanardo and Anna, as well as the complete tracklist, which will last over 73 minutes.
Here it is:
1. Preludio
2. Indistinta Morte
3. Dissentimento
4. Troppo Lente Scendono Le Tue Lacrime
5. Insoluto D'Anima
6. Alla Fine
You can pre-order the CD here: https://t.ly/2cDTv
Italian Doomsters DVM SPIRO, created by members of NIHILI LOCUS (Max, Roberto, Valeria), have realized an extremely tormented album with a dark and arcane Doom Metal that blends with more atmospheric, horrific and at times symphonic elements. An overall feeling of dark desperation and loneliness, mixed with the natural funereal atmospheres of their Doom Metal, is what emerges from this opera.
Heavy riffs, female vocals and deep growls, ancient atmospheres and classical music enrich a unique sound that will surely be a must-listen for fans of My Dying Bride, Funeral, early Paradise Lost and Shape of Despair!
It's an indistinct death, where madness shines in the dark, without peeling frames or funereal paintings of intangible prisons.
DVM SPIRO are back, and the magic of their sad art is ready to drag you into the deepest abysses.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/dvmspiro
SELIAS – “KILLKARMA"
Killkarma marks
a darker, more emotionally intense chapter for SELIAS. The album merges
crushing riffs, moody synths, and raw vocals into a tightly crafted, immersive
metal experience. Fans are already getting a preview of what’s to come.
SELIAS has been showcasing new material from Killkarma on their
multiple 2025 Canadian tours, delivering high-octane performances complete
with immersive lighting, smoke effects, and dramatic synth moments that elevate
their already intense live presence. Musically, SELIAS draws
influence from bands like In Flames, Soilwork, Rammstein, and Orbit
Culture, offering a sound that balances melodic brutality with cinematic depth.
The album promises to be an emotionally charged and unapologetically heavy
statement from one of Canada’s rising metal acts. A sure not to miss for
2025 and 2026.
The digital album's release date is 07 November 2025.
Tracklist
1.The Day The World Went Away
2. Abducted
3. Bullets
4. 888
5. Beyond The Switch
6. Don't Tread on Me
7. Cautionary Tale
8. 88i8
9. Six 6 Sicks
10. Real Eyes Realize
11. Raven's Call
12. Flames
13. My Time
14. Twisted Path Reimagined
Founded in 2020 by guitarist Steve Elias, SELIAS combines melodic death metal with groove and alt metal elements. Their sound is heavy and cinematic, built on aggressive riffs, heavy and melodic vocals, and atmospheric textures.
The band’s lineup includes vocalist Guillaume Pascual, whose blend of guttural growls, soaring clean vocals, and ambient keys adds emotional range; Daniel Bouwman on hard-hitting drums; Jeff Hyde anchoring the sound with melodic, heavy bass lines; and Steve Elias, the band’s architect, with intricate, commanding guitar work. Together, they forge a sound that’s both emotionally resonant and relentlessly heavy.
www.youtube.com/@seliasmetal
www.facebook.com/seliasmetal
MURDER
RECORDS
is honored to announce the second artifact presented by BEGRAVET I SKOGEN.
A nihilistic project born amidst a necrophilic wilderness, where the ashes of
the dead and fallen tree branches remain, in a remote, abysmal cave hidden in
northern Norway.
The second demo was duly extracted from the misanthropic Nordic solitude, where cold winds blow and snow falls mercilessly during long winter nights, where necrophiliac crows await the merciless death that announces its arrival with the somber melodies of Begravet I Skogen, hidden in funereal nightmares.
"DEMO II" is the title of the new, haunting blizzard that approaches ominously, described by somber poetry that transforms Begravet i Skogen into a morbid and obscure artistic expression, an unpredictable representation of archaic winter landscapes, burdened by the anguish of old age and the passage of time.
In 2024, the first demo was released, overwhelmed by horrendous nightmares of yesteryear, where pain, terror, and suffering were a constant funeral. Now is the time to release the next horrifying nightmare, recorded analog on a four-track recorder so that the cavernous essence of Begravet I Skogen's melodies remains raw, and its melodies remain true to their rotten origins.
MORBID DOOM RAW NIHILISTIC BLACK METAL!
Recorded on an analog four-track cassette recorder between February and May 2025.
All music and lyrics by Sarkofag.
Layout made by Alemão & Danihell Slaughter.
Promotional videos made by Danihell Slaughter.
Line Up:
Sarkofag (Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano)
begravetiskogen@gmail.com
https://begravetiskogen.bandcamp.com
BEGRAVET I SKOGEN- "DEMO II"
Cassette Limited Edition of 50 copies, hand numbered
Side A:
01 - Lengter Etter Lange Vinternetter - [13:11]
Side B:
02 - Våre Tapte Oppdagere Har Dødd - [16:05]
Release date december 05th, 2025
Official distribution by Hellstore Europe
Pre-Order Price available until December 4th, 2025 - 6.66€
Price after release date on December 5th, 2025 - 9€
Pre-order :
https://www.facebook.com/southernsoundclash
www.murder-records.eu
Extreme
metal project ONSETCOLD is back with a new album, APOCALYPTIC
SLEEP, set for release via Wormholedeath.
Onsetcold is the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end; a post‑apocalyptic extreme metal entity built to be the heaviest, most unhinged, and most unpredictable force possible. The name marks a fixed point in time: past the fire, past the point of return, where collapse is inevitable and volatility is the only constant. Across Art Destroyer, Death Blast (2020), and the full‑art detonation Noam Chomsky (2023), Onsetcold has treated albums like weapons tests—each one a different method of breaking the frame. The new record, Apocalyptic Sleep, is the most dangerous yet: ten movements that fuse black‑metal frost, death‑metal violence, symphonic black grandeur, avant‑garde sabotage, and phonk‑lit menace into a single unstable structure. Onsetcold thrives on disorientation: cathedral‑scale orchestration one moment, bass‑heavy cosmic street menace the next, then a sudden collapse into chaos. Apocalyptic Sleep is not a genre. It’s a place.
Apocalyptic Sleep is a chilling descent into themes of pain, survival, and the end of the world. The ten-track album takes listeners through a bleak, beautiful, and inescapable apocalypse. From the opening track, "The Blue Room," which sets a tone of perpetual suffering, the album weaves a narrative of ancient prophecies, cosmic chaos, and personal damnation. It explores the blurred lines between love and destruction ("Standing in the Rain Beside You"), the slow decay under a dying star ("Under the Nuclear Sun"), and a fatalistic acceptance of ruin ("Sleep Tonight"). The journey intensifies with a demonic waltz with Lucifer himself ("Underworld") and a violent, cult-like rebellion ("Cult"), before concluding with "Austere." Ultimately, Apocalyptic Sleep is not a story of hope, but a visceral and honest look at the beauty and terror of a world in its final throes. The album has been mixed and mastered by Dan Mullins(My Dying Bride).
Tracklist
1. The Blue Room
2. The Oracle to Egypt
3. Hurricane
4. Standing in the Rain Beside You
5. Under the Nuclear Sun
6. Sleep Tonight
7. Short Circuit
8. Underworld
9. Breathing in This Cult
10. Austere
Line-up:
Shaq - Music/Vocals
Seiza Friedrich - Vocals
www.youtube.com/onsetcold
www.facebook.com/onsetcold
The
Finnish black metal band VERILEHTO is set to release
their second album AARNIHAUTA on November 28th 2025 via Inverse
Records.
The second single 'VIRVATULET' is unleashed today and the track can be heard here: https://push.fm/fl/verilehto-virvatulet
"The closing track of the album, Virvatulet, has been one of my favorites from the start. It eases off the gas pedal and gives room for the story. During the making of the album, I read a lot about old Finnish mythology and the lyrics of this song were among the first I wrote for the album. This song really shows the core of Verilehto. Beautifully wandering guitars, cries of pain and a gripping atmosphere. A magnificent conclusion to the album, which is why it was chosen as the second single." Says vocalist Janne Partanen
Listen to the first single Aarnihauta: https://push.fm/fl/verilehto-aarnihauta
Biography:
The Finnish melodic black metal band Verilehto is back with a new album, Aarnihauta. The album title translates as 'hidden grave in the forest', which is a fitting description of the band's second album.
Verilehto plays Finnish 90s-style black metal, characterised by melodic and aggressive riffs, raw vocals, and an eerie overall tone. The Finnish folklore-inspired lyrics fit well with the band's versatile riffs, and the songs vary from fast blastbeats to slower storytelling elements.
This album also sees a change in Verilehto's line-up, with Markus Räppiö from Kaira joining the crew. With Markus on bass, Janne Partanen (Hautajaisyö, Alfa Pentatonik, Marraskuun Lapset, Paavalin Harhat) on vocals, and Janne Tuikkala (Muria & Dawn of Everwinter) on guitars, drums and synth, the band is stronger than ever.
'Aarnihauta' sees the band continuing to evolve from their debut album 'Kuoleman Siipien Havina' by focusing on their own sound and style. The album is not overly polished, and has a good raw quality to the production, but this is not the main focus. It was recorded by the band themselves in 2024–25.
The album artwork was created by the talented Awinita Alm, and the single artwork was created by the band. The "Aarnihauta" video was filmed in 2024 and edited by Janne Tuikkala and Markus Räppiö.
Track list:
01. Surutta Tapettu
02. Nälänhätä
03. Aarnihauta
04. Kalman Sotajuokko
05. Tuhkaverho
06. Syöjätär
07. Virvatulet
Artwork by Awinita Alm
Line-up:
Janne Tuikkala - Guitars, Drums, Synths
Janne Partanen - Vocals
Markus Räipiö - Bass & Backing Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/verilehto
For
fans of:
Ghoul, Witchery, The Haunted, Gwar, Converge, The Crown, Midnight
The video features clips from a myriad of b-horror movies, including "Auntie Lee's Meat Pies" (Steiner Films), "Evil Laugh" (Vinegar Syndrome), "Microwave Massacre" (Arrow Video), "Rabid Grannies" (Vinegar Syndrome), and "Tromeo & Juliet" (Troma Entertainment). It also pays tribute to the late Scott Spiegel and his film, "Intruder" (Phantom Productions).
Watch the video for "Bonemelter" now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTrs9CYyCHc
24 oz CANTRIP boasts five tracks of booze-soaked thrash fury infused with the unholy union of punk attitude and blackened aggression.
The EP is also available as a limited-edition VHS style cassette.
Keep reading for the story of the soon-to-be infamous 24 oz CANTRIP.
Born fully formed, screaming, and covered in goo out of the dumpster behind DaVinci's pizza on Merrick Road, a horned figure scrambled blindly through piles of empty paint cans, ceramic vases, and angry cats in order to move undetected. He found refuge in a musty old cellar. After pulling his foot loose from the bucket he had stepped in, he closed the heavy steel doors
behind him.
Wiping the thick blanket of dust off a 30-rack of Genesee Specialty Cream Ale, he schemed. He was cursed with the knowledge of an incantation: a spell that would bring Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, into this world. He wrestled with the thought while crushing and tossing another empty can. The ritual required great rigor and perfect focus, but he was exacting.
He chanted. He chanted and chanted. The ceiling groaned and cracked. Polyvinyl dust plumed and swirled before vanishing into imperceptible motes. He drew sorcerous glyphs in the air with two fingers outstretched. The walls trembled with a sickening low rumble. Bracing his hands firm against his ersatz altar — a Playskool Mighty My Size Table and Chair Set — he ignored the throbbing in his head and steadied himself.
A spiraling portal ripped into reality. Out spilled two bumbling homunculi, fully formed, screaming, and covered in goo. This wasn't right! The pair stumbled and scratched their way through the cellar, bleating, squawking, and tearing through nearby cases of Natty Daddy like vultures to carrion. He pondered for what seemed like hours over the pyramid of discarded beer cans and the now-empty bottle of Old Grand Dad he had chanced upon halfway through. What could have gone wrong?
The cellar burst open. Darkening the door was a group of hulking, hazmat-suited figures. At once, the three slickened homunculi grappled one another in a long and futile struggle to get on their feet. They shouted in a panic if they were "being detained" until they were eventually tased into unconsciousness.
This was ROTGUT's ill-fated 24 oz CANTRIP.
Bio:
Assembled against their will by a faceless shadow organization in the Winter of 2024, the three designated FD, C19, and AX spent weeks in a lightless concrete hell. When the chance to escape emerged, they seized it — for they were bound by a great purpose: to form an extreme metal band, inspired by crust punk, rock ’n’ roll, and classic schlock to shred wanton across the greater US and parts beyond. That band is ROTGUT.
https://rotgut.band/
The second single 'NIGHTLESS NIGHT' is released today and music video of the track is available here: https://youtu.be/yB05gK9zZho
The guitarist Jani Moilanen comments:
"The new single "Nightless Night" continues the exploration into the Finnish paganism with ethereal and melodic approach. It is the second song of the upcoming album following the opening track "Seita", which was released earlier this year."
Listen To Nightless Night single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/kaamos-warriors-nightless
Biography:
The Finnish Pagan metal band Kaamos Warriors was formed in 2018 by Jani Moilanen (guitars) and Mikko Ojala (vocals, guitars). Their inspiration for the musical athmosphere is derived from the the beauty and the harshness of the Northern nature. The roots of the band rely heavily on the wilderness of the North. Current line-up includes also Inka Ojala (shamandrum) and Marjo Moilanen (bass guitar). Their presence in the band has further expanded the whole audiovisual atmosphere of the Finnish paganism. Jani, Mikko and Inka have also being playing together in the melodic metal band Dark The Suns. The former bass player for the Kaamos Wariors (played bass in the previous two albums) Jyri Moilanen is currently having a break from playing in the band. All the musical releases of the band have been released via Inverse Records.
The music video of first single 'Seita' can be seen here: https://youtu.be/rzjPK5KH9R4
Line-up:
Mikko Ojala - Vocals, Guitars & Drums
Jani Moilanen - Guitars
Inka Ojala - Shamndrum & percussions
Marjo Moilanen - Bass
Mikko Ojala & Inka Ojala - Synths & soundscapes
https://kaamoswarriors.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/KaamosWarriorsOfficial
El Paso’s legendary groove metal pioneers PISSING RAZORS are set to make their long-awaited return to the East Coast for the first time in over two decades. The upcoming seven-date run marks their first appearance in the region since 2004, when the band was touring in support of their Spitfire Records release, Evolution.
Now, in 2025, the band returns to the East in support of their acclaimed 2021 album Eulogy Death March —a tour that’s not only highly anticipated by fans but also historic in nature.
This lineup is the closest to the original Pissing Razors roster the band has had in years and features:
Joe Rodriguez – Vocals
Eddy Garcia – Drums
Mat Lynch – Guitar
Geo Gomez – Bass
The
East Coast leg will feature direct support from Single Bullet Theory, the
long-running East Coast metal force fronted by Matt DiFabio. DiFabio has strong
ties to Pissing Razors himself, having played guitar on the 2003 tour
supporting Evolution. Now, over 20 years later, the two camps reunite on
the same stages once again.
Joe Rodriguez shared his thoughts on the tour’s significance:
“The return to the East Coast after over two decades would mark a significant milestone—not just as a tour to the area with our friends in Single Bullet Theory but a reconnection with the fans in regions we haven’t formally visited in a long time.
It symbolizes the longevity of the band and our dedication to the groove metal scene, keeping the genre alive in new and legacy markets.
For long-time fans on the East Coast, it would be a nostalgic and emotional event, potentially the first chance to see the band live in nearly a generation.
For the band, it’s an opportunity to re-establish our presence, maybe test new songs (like tracks from our 2021 album Eulogy Death March), and grow our audience geography beyond our Texas-heavy touring footprint.”
Eddy Garcia added:
"It's with great pleasure that we get to hit the East Coast for a few dates! We haven't been that way since 2003! Many thanks to Matt and Single Bullet Theory! We look forward to seeing old friends and making some new ones! East Coast fans have always treated us well, and we look forward to playing all of these shows! Cheers!"
Formed in the mid-'90s, Pissing Razors gained a reputation for relentless touring and uncompromising live shows. From the late ’90s through the early 2000s, the band seemed to live on the road, clocking in tours alongside Cannibal Corpse, Six Feet Under, W.A.S.P., and select U.S. and European dates with Anthrax and NYHC legends Pro-Pain. Their impact helped shape the sound of American groove metal, influencing a new generation of heavyweights including Lamb of God and Gojira .
The upcoming East Coast tour promises to be a celebration of Pissing Razors’ legacy, a testament to their longevity, and a heavy reminder of their ongoing power and relevance in today’s metal scene.
PIssing Razors / Single Bullet Theory/ Byzantine
10/31 - Richmond, VA. - Another Round
11/01 - Bensalem, PA. - Broken Goblet (with Byzantine)
11/02 - Sabbatus, ME. - Mixers (with Byzantine and Ascend to Power)
11/03 - Westfield, MA. - Gabes 252 (with Byzantine)
11/04 - Providence, RI. - Alchemy (with Thy Will Be Done)
11/05- Hamden, CT. - The Cellar
11/06 - Buffalo, NY. - Rockin Buffalo Saloon
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News
VICRECORDS :
ROTTING CORPSE – „ THRASH IN PAIN OR DIE INSANE”
Covering from 1986 to 1990, this CD collects the four demos completely (remastered) by Texas thrash unit Rotting Corpse! This short lived band delivered hi-octane lone star thrash metal, perfectly fitting amongst the fellow bands from their area, such as Devastation, Rigor Mortis and Gammacide. These four demos are filled with thrashing goodness, with blazing riffs and basslines and tight drumming, everything topped with evil caustic vocals. One of the most underrated gems in US thrash metal history. The second two demos were produced by Vinnie Paul (Pantera) and the first demo by Vinnie and Dimebags’s father, Jerry Abbott (who also produced the first four Pantera albums). Featuring (ex) members of Solitude Aeturnus, Devastation, ex-Death (live) and Gammacide.
MORPHEUS – „ IN THE ARMS OF “
Morpheus was formed in Stockholm in 1990 by the current Necrophobic guitars players Sebastian (in Necrophobic from1996 till present) and Johan (2001 – present). The Stockholm youngsters recorded one demo in 1990 (as Exhumed) one mini album ‘in The Arms of..,.” and a full length before all members went on in more known Swedish death metal bands. And still are. For example: Sebastian Ramstedt (In Aphelion, Necrophobic, ex-Black Trip, ex-Nifelheim and Johan Bergebäck, (In Aphelion Necrophobic, ex-Dismember, ex-Amon Amarth (live), ex-Nifelheim). Drummer Markus Ruden was original member of Carbonized).
Recorded at Studio Sunlight with Thomas Skogsberg (Entombed, Dismember, Grave). Extensive liner notes by Chris Dick (Decibel Magazine). Many old and rare posters and drawings! This re-issue of ‘In the Arms of featured also the cult Exhumed demo where it all started for these ambitious young Swedish musicians.
https://www.vicrecords.com/
UK-based
black-gothic metal ensemble ABSCENCE unveils their
latest lyric video for the track “UNDER THE MOON’S GLANCE”.
In this chapter of Abscence’s dark odyssey, “Under the Moon’s Glance” unravels a tale of longing, blood, and nocturnal reverie. Born from the union of haunting melody and raw intensity, this track dives deep into the romance and ruin of our vampiric lovers.
"Let the moonlight guide you—and may you never look away."
The track comes from ENIGMA, the band’s latest concept album. Across nine epic songs, Enigma tells the tragic story of two vampire women bound by blood, devotion, and betrayal. Drawing from 90s black and gothic metal, the album layers symphonic textures, rich vocal arrangements, and immersive storytelling to create a world that is both timeless and intense.
Stream "Enigma" https://orcd.co/enigmaalbum
Abscence:
Emerging from the UK underground, Abscence channels the raw power and bleak beauty of black metal, blending ferocious riffs with haunting melodies to explore despair, nature, and the shadows of existence. With Enigma, Abscence invites listeners into a world of symphonic blackened art, embracing drama, darkness, and emotional intensity in its purest form.
https://www.youtube.com/@abscenceband
www.instagram.com/abscenceband
FUCK IT is a Portuguese punk band from Porto, founded by Girø (Renegados do Boliqueime, Freedoom, Dokuga, Dimmer Future...) and Céd (Gorgámisco Pornoblastoma, Disfigured Human Mind, Insolência, Drenagem, Stercore, Hypomania...). These two creatures from the back alleys of the underworld decided to join forces like stray dogs to found FUCK IT, which presents a direct approach, expressed by a minimalist sound and an anti-conformist stance of protest against the oppression perpetrated by cultural elitism. To complete FUCK IT's lineup, young Spell (Estriknina, Dimmer Future) was adopted from the shelter to join the pack and came to help in the fight against banality and the obvious.
In this lost world where empty days are constant, we must remain vigilant to keep our filthy resistance active without getting tired of being eternally unwanted and where we are grateful that no one looks at us, so FUCK IT.
The time has come to unleash chaos and take to the streets with the rage that consumes us so cruelly and mercilessly. There's no time to rest here, and protests are imminent. Without grand musical flourishes, and where simplicity reigns unpleasantly, there's no need to complicate things, so FUCK IT!
PORTUGUESE PUNK ROCK STOMPS ON YOUR UGLY FACE FROM THE FILTHY ALLEYS OF PORTO!
FUCK IT "No Rest"
MCD Limited edition of 300 copies
info@murder-records.eu
www.murder-records.eu
Tracklist:
01 - No Rest [01:49]
02 - Vigilante [02:02]
03 - Cansado [02:12]
04 - Mundo Perdido [01:42]
05 - Indesejado [01:49]
06 - O Último Dos Moicanos [02:25]
07 - Dias Vazios [01:15]
08 - Fuck It [02:10]
09 - Não Olhes Para Mim [02:07]
Recorded at Studio Agradável, September 2025 by Óscar and Bruno.
Lyrics and music by FUCK IT, except Fuck It - lyrics by Jorginho.
Draw for layout made by Madalena Macedo.
Photo by Bruno Miguel.
Artwork and Layouts made by Cédric Rodrigues.
Promotional video made by Danihell Slaughter.
Release date december 5th, 2025
Official distribution by Hellstore Europe
Line Up:
Girø (Drums Vocals)
Céd (Guitar)
Spell (Bass Vocals)
https://fuckitpunk.bandcamp.com/album/demo-1
Resistance On... Stupidity Off...
PUTREVORE – “UNENDING ROTTING CYCLE”
Label: Xtreem Music
Release date: november 11th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Incantation | Immolation | Avulsed | Grisly
We walk upon a road of mouldering bones, empty sockets staring up in silent reproach at our trespass. And then, with a last backward glance at the fading daylight, we step into the maw of death…descending into a darkness beyond black, the lightless catacombs of dying where life has no place and angels fear to tread. Here the gods have many eyes and many serpentine limbs. Here the dead converse in crackling whispers as their flesh sloughs from their bent and twisted frames. Here the aeons pass in unending rotting cycles…
Putrevore…a shared dream between two icons of death, a nascent idea hatched between Dave Rotten (Avulsed, Holycide etc) and Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader and a thousand more) to pay tribute to the hardest, heaviest and most brutal of the death metal pioneers of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, more than twenty years ago. Yet still the beast clings to life with a vicious tenacity and a fifth full length album of impossible horrors is about to be unleashed – Unending Rotting Cycle!
Attacking with a terrifying immediacy, ‘No Mourning The Grace’ reveals Dave Rotten’s vocals at their most tomb-trawling, deeper and more inhuman than ever before, while Rogga Johansson’s inexhaustible supply of superlative death metal riffs remains undiminished. An inherent sense of dark melody is always present behind the song’s wall of terror, spreading tendrils of utter desolation through its rotting cadaver. There’s an incredible murky darkness shrouding this album as a whole, the vocals clawing their way up through the thick, oppressive riffs, while the drums deliver a crisp, bone shaking thunder within the vortex of chaos. On tracks like the magnificent, rumbling, infernal majesty of ‘Subterranean Paths To The Temples’, the fear infused atmosphere is simply awesome. There is no let up in the nightmarish aura – once Putrevore have sunk their cracked, decaying teeth into your flesh they do not let go. From the stumbling zombie death march of ‘They Worship Disarray’, led by Rotten’s flesh melting vocals, to the paean to horrors from beyond the boundaries of sanity that is ‘Cult Of The Tentacle’, Unending Rotting Cycle is a testament to the fact that the blood in Putrevore’s collective veins runs black with the essence of death metal. The final act of desecration, ‘The Cradle Replaced By The Grave’, is haunting and morose as it grinds you into the dust, extinguishing the last flickering embers of life and hope.
Mixed and mastered by Avulsed guitarist, Alejandro Lobo, at his Acordica Studios and featuring the cataclysmic drumming of regular Rogga Johansson co-conspirator Thomas Ohlsson (Stass, War Magic etc), Unending Rotting Cycle is without question the most relentless, ravenous and remorseless example of Putrevore’s death metal war machine. It will be released by Xtreem Music on November 11th on CD, 12"LP Cassette & Digital formats, completed by the stunning artwork of Lucretia Morti (Avulsed, Ribspreader etc). Bleak, black and bestial, Putrevore remain the undead embodiment of an old phrase from the age that inspired them – some music was meant to stay underground.
Line-up:
Dave Rotten – Vocals
Rogga Johansson – Guitars/Bass
Drums on Unending Rotting Cycle performed by Thomas Ohlsson
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/putrevore
BELLE
MORTE,
one of the rising forces in symphonic female-fronted metal, return with a
new acoustic take on their hit single “EXORCISM”.
Stripping the track down to its raw, emotional core, the video highlights the
band’s signature dark atmosphere while offering a fresh perspective on the
fan-favorite song.
Known for blending symphonic metal with an array of ethnic instruments from around the world, BELLE MORTE’s Pearl Hunting album features collaborations with artists from over a dozen countries, creating a unique global sound. The acoustic “Exorcism” offers both longtime fans and newcomers a chance to experience the band’s cinematic storytelling in an intimate, stripped-back form.
About Belle Morte
Formed in Minsk, BELLE MORTE combines dark symphonic metal with gothic, progressive, and melancholic elements. After their 2018 EP Game On, the band signed with Wormholedeath in 2021 to release Crime of Passion, a conceptual album inspired by John Fowles’s The Collector. Their second album continues this global approach, delivering unique symphonic metal experiences for fans seeking something different.
www.youtube.com/@bellemortemusic
Vö: 12.12.2025Label: Supreme Chaos Records
Stil: Death/Crust/Thrash Metal
The Death Crust Commando strikes back – louder, fiercer, heavier. “Time And Tide” is here to crush everything in its path!
Seit ihrer Gründung 2016 sind PHANTOM CORPORATION eine unaufhaltsame Macht im Underground. Gegründet von Szene-Veteranen aus Bremen und Dortmund – mit Wurzeln in Bands wie Dew-Scented, Eroded, BK 49 und Weak Aside – verschmilzt die Band gnadenlosen D-Beat Crust mit Death Metal und rohem Old-School Thrash/Punk zu einem kompromisslosen Crossover-Sound.
Nach der Debüt-Mini „First Commandment“ (2016), den furiosen EPs „Cause and Effect“ (2017) und „Belligerent Powers“ (2018) sowie der Split „Banner Of
Hatred“ (2022, mit den Schweden Harrowed) und dem ersten vollen Album „Fallout“ (2023), präsentiert die Band nun ihr tödlichstes Geschoss: Das neue Album „Time And Tide“, das in den letzten Tagen des Jahres 2025 über Supreme Chaos Records erscheint.
Produziert von Jörg Uken in den Soundlodge Studios (u. a. God Dethroned, Temple Of Dread), hebt Time And Tide die Band auf ein völlig neues Level.
Über 11 Tracks hinweg liefern PHANTOM CORPORATION ein unerbittliches Feuerwerk – vielseitiger, brutaler und kompromissloser als je zuvor. Rasende Thrash-Riffs, Crust- Attacken und Death Metal vereinen sich zu einem apokalyptischen Schlagabtausch ohne Atempause.
Mit „Time And Tide“ melden sich PHANTOM CORPORATION nicht nur eindrucksvoll zurück – sie preschen vehement nach vorn. Härter, wütender und dennoch facettenreicher als der gefeierte Vorgänger „Fallout“ ist dieses Album ein Manifest dessen, wofür die Band steht: Death Crust the brutal way.
Macht euch bereit – die Apokalypse hat ihren Soundtrack. Sein Name ist PHANTOM CORPORATION – Time And Tide.
Good to know:
Band besteht aus ex-Mitgliedern von Dew-Scented, Weak Aside, Slaughterday, Obscenity.
Nachfolger des viel gelobten Debüts „Fallout“.
Endlich ein zweites vollständiges Album, und es wird nicht dabei bleiben.
Tracklisting:
1. Frantic Disruption
2. Dead Of Night
3. Crushed
4. Krokodil
5. Pound Of Flesh
6. To The Hilt
7. Time And Tide
8. Sorcerer
9. For All The Wrong Reasons
10. Crisis
11. Western Apocalypse
Spielzeit 42:14
Musicians:
Leif: Vocals
Philipp: Guitar
Arne: Lead Guitar
Ulf: Bass
Marc: Drums
Discography:
2016 “FirstCommandment” Mini-CD&12"Mini-LP
2018 “CauseAndEffect” 7"EP
2018 “BelligerentPowers” Split7"EPw/Slaughterday
2022 “BannerOfHatred” Split12"EP&CDw/ Harrowed (Swe)
2023 “Fallout”Album CD/LP/MC
2025 “TimeAndTide” AlbumCD/LP/MC
https://supremechaos.de/
https://www.facebook.com/phantomcorporation/
Die erste Single "Komplex" macht unmissverständlich klar: Hier wird nichts in Watte gepackt. Stattdessen treffen brachiale Noise-Samples auf die markanten Screams von Frontmann Astharat und sorgen für ein dichtes Klanggewitter wie direkt von Hades. Das dazugehörige Musikvideo schien am 12. November auf Youtube.
Das gesamte Konzept des Albums ist eine stimmige Geschichte rund um die Rache und den Zerfall der Titanen, die sogar als Kurzgeschichte und Hörbuch produziert wurde. Ob Hades Gerechtigkeit findet, die Zyklopenkinder die Lösung sein könnten und was die Chimäre mit Zeus’ Ableben zu tun hat, sind Dinge, die man nur selbst herausfinden kann. Begleitend zur Veröffentlichung erscheint die Geschichte als bebilderte Kurzgeschichte in Form eines streng limitierten Artbooks und als Hörbuch.
Mit harten Gitarrenriffs, aggressiven Drums und weitläufigem Soundtrack-Ambient überzeugen Devil-M mit einem abwechslungsreichen Album, weit weg vom typischen Deutschrock oder der Neuen Deutschen Härte. Eben Industrial Metal, wie er zu klingen hat. Dazu verhalfen Aggrotech-Altmeister Elmar Schmidt von Centhron (Mixing) und Kristof Bathory von Dawn of Ashes (Mastering) zum finalen Ergebnis. Und nachdem Devil-M ihre gemeinsame Tour mit den Industrial-Legenden Psyclon Nine im Vorjahr absolviert haben, werden weitere Konzerte 2026 folgen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy1FRKG3Rzs
https://devil-m.bandcamp.com/album/titanomachie
https://www.facebook.com/devilmband
FERUCH - "FERUCH"
Genre
: Dolomitic
Black MetalLabel : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : November 20th 2025
In the mountain range called Alps, more precisely in their north-east point, lies an area of a certain charm and ancientness. Its name is Dolomities, a place of impressive mountain heights and valleys, whose ancient populations contributed to mark a unique cultural identity and spiritual inheritance.
FERUCH debut album is a Hymn to the darkness of Dolomites' areas; to the legends that dwell there; to their spiritual heritage; to their deep pagan roots; to the ancestors of our lineage.
Close to Djevel, Taake, Spite Extreme Wing, Beatrik and Imago Mortis in the style, FERUCH's 'Dolomitic Black Metal' features lyrics in italian and a close relationship with bands of the same area such as Tenebrae In Perpetuum (Avantgarde Music label)
Created and animated by the mastermind Fulgur Summa, this self-titled album has been recorded together with a studio line-up featuring musicians from acts such as MESSA .
Sales Point:
Dolomitic Black Metal, with members of MESSA
A concept based on the pagan legends of Dolomites;
A style close to Djevel, Taake and Spite Extreme Wing;
Published in February 2025 by Dolomia Nera on vinyl. Now available on CD via Masked Dead Records.
https://maskeddeadrecords.com/
https://www.instagram.com/feruch_blackmetal/
The first single 'You Failed My Trust' is out now and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/funeral-home-trust
The band comments:
"Funeral Home is ready to shake up listeners with their new single "You Failed My Trust", which is released on October 23rd 2025. The song tells the story of broken trust and the power that comes from it - a feeling that is at once crushing, real and relatable. The pounding beat and groove are the soul of the entire song."
Biography:
Founded in 2009, Funeral Home is a death metal band from Kuopio, Finland. Their musical influences range from death 'n' roll and old-school styles to with gloomy melodies of death metal . The band writes its songs with the music first, keeping the song structures simple and the arrangements flowing
Track
list:1. You Failed My Trust
2. Wall
3. My Kingdom Is Hell
4. Rotten To The Core
5. Depths
6. Sacrificial Goat
7. Your Funeral
8. Graveyard Blues
9. Blood & Sacrifice
Album cover by Henna Pulkkinen
Line-up:
Ossi Maalampi - vocals
Henri Ojala - lead guitar
Henri Thitz - rhythm guitar
Juha Korhonen - bass
Jouko Poussu - drums
https://linktr.ee/Funeral.Home
The
second full-length album from veteran Romanian grinders SPIRITUAL
RAVISHMENT marks a grandiose comeback for one of the country's
most respected Extreme Metal acts! "EXIT HUMANITY" delivers
an intense blend of technical brutality, dark atmosphere, and thought-provoking
themes about the downfall of mankind.This new chapter in the band's evolution expands their sound beyond pure Grindcore, incorporating heavy Stoner, Sludge, and Death Metal influences to create a massive, oppressive sonic experience. With crushing riffs, dynamic rhythms, and a powerful and highly versatile vocal assault, "Exit Humanity" stands as a bold and mature statement from SPIRITUAL RAVISHMENT, a milestone release for the Romanian extreme metal scene.
Originally recorded in 2015 at Postanalog Studio (Oradea) and Consonance Studio (Timișoara), the album was mixed by Andrei Jumugă and Tudor Scânteie, then mastered by Jumugă in 2016. Despite being scheduled for release nearly a decade ago, unforeseen circumstances forced the record into indefinite limbo... until now.
Line-up:
Cosmin Purge – vocals
Stancu Sebastian – vocals, bass
Andrei Bejușca – guitars
Andrei Jumugă – drums
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/SpiritualRavishment/
Berlin Based Gothic Metal Rock Project HIDECLOSE proudly presents his debut EP NOCTE MUTAMUR (BY NIGHT WE ARE CHANGED), a gothic novella in five movements.
Hideclose is the creation of Lenn Vane, a composer and storyteller from Berlin
whose work blends dark, doom-laden riffs with narrative precision,
exploring themes of spiritual decay, dream logic, and the sacred grotesque.Nocte Mutamur unfolds like a Gothic novella set in Victorian London, 1889. Through five interconnected tracks, the listener follows Professor Dario Valperga, a scholar of religion whose fascination with evil draws him into visions, rituals, and a reality collapsing under its own shadows.
Each track marks a chapter in Dario Valperga’s descent — from the haunting visions of A Haunted View, to the forbidden rites of Sacred Play, the obsessive doubt of The Darkness Draws Near, the shocking murder in A Fatal Meeting, and the full-moon transformation in Nocte Mutamur, where danger and salvation merge in shadow.
Blending gothic metal, doom, and alternative influences, the EP evokes the atmosphere of classic Gothic literature — obsession, revelation, and transformation. It explores the tension between reason and darkness, faith and decay.
With Nocte Mutamur, Lenn Vane invites listeners into a world where horror becomes sacred and the grotesque reveals truth, a nocturnal journey through sound and story, where every note marks another step into the shadow.
Watch the official lyric video for “Haunted View”
The opening chapter of Nocte Mutamur comes to life in Haunted View, where Professor Dario Valperga begins his descent. On his nightly walk, Dario finds himself in a forest where shadows stir and unseen creatures watch. Reason fails him — the whispers will not let go.
Visually haunting and sonically gripping, the lyric video introduces the dark world of Nocte Mutamur and sets the tone for the journey that follows.
Listen to Nocte Mutamur: https://hideclose.bandcamp.com/album/nocte-mutamur
Tracklist:
1. Haunted View (first descent into the unknown)
2. Sacred Play (discovery of the rite)
3. The Darkness draws near (obsession and self-doubt)
4. A fatal meeting (the murder witnessed)
5. Nocte Mutamur (By night we are changed)
www.youtube.com/@Hidecloseofficial
www.facebook.com/hideclose
Athens, Greece; 23 October 2025: THE MAGUS, the Luciferian project helmed by Necromantia co-founder and ex-Rotting Christ musician The Magus, unveiled further details about the second album, “DAEMONOSOPHIA”.
The follow-up to “ΒΥΣΣΟΔΟΜΩΝΤΑΣ” is set to be released on 20 February 2026 via The Circle Music and is now available to pre-order in CD and vinyl formats, along with a limited luxurious box set and merch bundles.
Pre-order: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=the-magus
The new album promises a more aggressive and dynamic sound compared to the previous album, “ΒΥΣΣΟΔΟΜΩΝΤΑΣ”, while keeping the devouring dark atmosphere the project’s music is known for. The album's sound has some unexpected and diabolically diverse moments that will make listeners feel uneasy.
According to The Magus, “The new album from THE MAGUS entitled "Daemonosophia" is a journey to Demonhood. The Truth lies Below not Above. The Six are Three. The Unholy Trinity. The Three are One. The Absolute. The Infernal pact.
“Musically, it is more edgy and vengeful. More aggressive and dynamic. Still theatrical and horrifying in nature, hellish and complex in performance. And as always there are these diabolically diverse moments that will surprise and will make you feel unease...but Lucifer has many names and many faces. In some parts, collaboration with top-level musicians and vocalists was deemed necessary to achieve maximum impact.”
"Daemonospohia" is pulsating Darkness in all its beauty and all its horror. A beacon of Luciferian Black Metal for Extraordinary People.
“In a few weeks, the first single and video will be unleashed!”
For the album cover art, The Magus collaborated with Mexican artist Nestor Avalos, known for his work with numerous bands, including Exodus, Deicide and Rotting Christ. The artwork is an Infernal Triptych that portrays six infernal entities: Lucifer/Samael, Leviathan/Tiamat, and Belial/Satan. Nestor created a majestic painting of infernal wisdom and occult meanings, giving prominence to the Luciferian tradition and the music of the album.
"Daemonospohia" was recorded, mixed and mastered at Pentagram Studio by George Emmanuel, with the exception of drums and choirs which were recorded at Ignite Studio. The album was produced by The Magus and George Emmanuel.
Tracklist: 0. Pater Noster
1. Pseudoprophetae
2. Daemonosophia
3. The six in three is all One
4. The Era of Lucifer Rising
5. Magia Obscura
6. Amelia
7. The Chapel of Iniquities
8. The Pact
9. La Llorona Negra
The Magus was formed in 2022, following the dissolution of the legendary Greek black metal band Necromantia, which The Magus co-founded. He decided to end Necromantia after the death of his bandmate Baron Blood in 2019, releasing a final album, “To the Depths We Descend”, in 2021 as a tribute. For this new project, The Magus brought in long-time collaborators El on guitars and Maelstrom on drums.
https://thecirclemusic.gr/
https://www.themagus666.com/
https://www.facebook.com/themagus666
Thrash metal titans BASTARD SKULL are back with the lyric
video for “AFTER THE PLAGUE”, a highlight from their
self-titled debut album via Wormholedeath.A scorched vision of humanity’s downfall. After the Plague tears through a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where corruption, madness, and deceit outlive the disease itself. Brutal, bitter, and unflinchingly real — this is thrash metal at its most unforgiving.
Previous video: https://youtu.be/f4zdXazPlCQ
Stream the album: https://orcd.co/bastardskull
Pre-save "More Dread" EP: https://orcd.co/moredread
About Bastard Skull
Formed on November 13, 2022, at a Mercyful Fate show in Brooklyn, NY, Bastard Skull emerged when John Blicharz (Annuanki, Blood Feast, Dusk) reconnected with Tom Lorenzo (Blood Feast, Without End). Joined by Mark Mari (Sneak Attack) on drums and George Kostadimas on bass, Tom stepped up as the band’s vocalist for the first time.
Drawing on years of metal experience and raw energy, Bastard Skull quickly honed a ferocious sound. Their debut album, recorded with Mike Sabatini (Attacker) at Band Mother Recording and mastered by Alan Douches (Nile, Dying Fetus, Obituary), delivers unrelenting thrash metal power that fans have been waiting for.
www.facebook.com/people/BastardSkull
DVM
SPIRO will
release their new album "MMXXVI - GRAVE" on
January 16, 2026.Today we're revealing the artwork, a painting by artists Zanardo and Anna, as well as the complete tracklist, which will last over 73 minutes.
Here it is:
1. Preludio
2. Indistinta Morte
3. Dissentimento
4. Troppo Lente Scendono Le Tue Lacrime
5. Insoluto D'Anima
6. Alla Fine
You can pre-order the CD here: https://t.ly/2cDTv
Italian Doomsters DVM SPIRO, created by members of NIHILI LOCUS (Max, Roberto, Valeria), have realized an extremely tormented album with a dark and arcane Doom Metal that blends with more atmospheric, horrific and at times symphonic elements. An overall feeling of dark desperation and loneliness, mixed with the natural funereal atmospheres of their Doom Metal, is what emerges from this opera.
Heavy riffs, female vocals and deep growls, ancient atmospheres and classical music enrich a unique sound that will surely be a must-listen for fans of My Dying Bride, Funeral, early Paradise Lost and Shape of Despair!
It's an indistinct death, where madness shines in the dark, without peeling frames or funereal paintings of intangible prisons.
DVM SPIRO are back, and the magic of their sad art is ready to drag you into the deepest abysses.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/dvmspiro
SELIAS – “KILLKARMA"
Killkarma marks
a darker, more emotionally intense chapter for SELIAS. The album merges
crushing riffs, moody synths, and raw vocals into a tightly crafted, immersive
metal experience. Fans are already getting a preview of what’s to come.
SELIAS has been showcasing new material from Killkarma on their
multiple 2025 Canadian tours, delivering high-octane performances complete
with immersive lighting, smoke effects, and dramatic synth moments that elevate
their already intense live presence. Musically, SELIAS draws
influence from bands like In Flames, Soilwork, Rammstein, and Orbit
Culture, offering a sound that balances melodic brutality with cinematic depth.
The album promises to be an emotionally charged and unapologetically heavy
statement from one of Canada’s rising metal acts. A sure not to miss for
2025 and 2026. The digital album's release date is 07 November 2025.
Tracklist
1.The Day The World Went Away
2. Abducted
3. Bullets
4. 888
5. Beyond The Switch
6. Don't Tread on Me
7. Cautionary Tale
8. 88i8
9. Six 6 Sicks
10. Real Eyes Realize
11. Raven's Call
12. Flames
13. My Time
14. Twisted Path Reimagined
Founded in 2020 by guitarist Steve Elias, SELIAS combines melodic death metal with groove and alt metal elements. Their sound is heavy and cinematic, built on aggressive riffs, heavy and melodic vocals, and atmospheric textures.
The band’s lineup includes vocalist Guillaume Pascual, whose blend of guttural growls, soaring clean vocals, and ambient keys adds emotional range; Daniel Bouwman on hard-hitting drums; Jeff Hyde anchoring the sound with melodic, heavy bass lines; and Steve Elias, the band’s architect, with intricate, commanding guitar work. Together, they forge a sound that’s both emotionally resonant and relentlessly heavy.
www.youtube.com/@seliasmetal
www.facebook.com/seliasmetal
MURDER
RECORDS
is honored to announce the second artifact presented by BEGRAVET I SKOGEN.
A nihilistic project born amidst a necrophilic wilderness, where the ashes of
the dead and fallen tree branches remain, in a remote, abysmal cave hidden in
northern Norway.The second demo was duly extracted from the misanthropic Nordic solitude, where cold winds blow and snow falls mercilessly during long winter nights, where necrophiliac crows await the merciless death that announces its arrival with the somber melodies of Begravet I Skogen, hidden in funereal nightmares.
"DEMO II" is the title of the new, haunting blizzard that approaches ominously, described by somber poetry that transforms Begravet i Skogen into a morbid and obscure artistic expression, an unpredictable representation of archaic winter landscapes, burdened by the anguish of old age and the passage of time.
In 2024, the first demo was released, overwhelmed by horrendous nightmares of yesteryear, where pain, terror, and suffering were a constant funeral. Now is the time to release the next horrifying nightmare, recorded analog on a four-track recorder so that the cavernous essence of Begravet I Skogen's melodies remains raw, and its melodies remain true to their rotten origins.
MORBID DOOM RAW NIHILISTIC BLACK METAL!
Recorded on an analog four-track cassette recorder between February and May 2025.
All music and lyrics by Sarkofag.
Layout made by Alemão & Danihell Slaughter.
Promotional videos made by Danihell Slaughter.
Line Up:
Sarkofag (Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano)
begravetiskogen@gmail.com
https://begravetiskogen.bandcamp.com
BEGRAVET I SKOGEN- "DEMO II"
Cassette Limited Edition of 50 copies, hand numbered
Side A:
01 - Lengter Etter Lange Vinternetter - [13:11]
Side B:
02 - Våre Tapte Oppdagere Har Dødd - [16:05]
Release date december 05th, 2025
Official distribution by Hellstore Europe
Pre-Order Price available until December 4th, 2025 - 6.66€
Price after release date on December 5th, 2025 - 9€
Pre-order :
https://www.facebook.com/southernsoundclash
www.murder-records.eu
Extreme
metal project ONSETCOLD is back with a new album, APOCALYPTIC
SLEEP, set for release via Wormholedeath.Onsetcold is the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end; a post‑apocalyptic extreme metal entity built to be the heaviest, most unhinged, and most unpredictable force possible. The name marks a fixed point in time: past the fire, past the point of return, where collapse is inevitable and volatility is the only constant. Across Art Destroyer, Death Blast (2020), and the full‑art detonation Noam Chomsky (2023), Onsetcold has treated albums like weapons tests—each one a different method of breaking the frame. The new record, Apocalyptic Sleep, is the most dangerous yet: ten movements that fuse black‑metal frost, death‑metal violence, symphonic black grandeur, avant‑garde sabotage, and phonk‑lit menace into a single unstable structure. Onsetcold thrives on disorientation: cathedral‑scale orchestration one moment, bass‑heavy cosmic street menace the next, then a sudden collapse into chaos. Apocalyptic Sleep is not a genre. It’s a place.
Apocalyptic Sleep is a chilling descent into themes of pain, survival, and the end of the world. The ten-track album takes listeners through a bleak, beautiful, and inescapable apocalypse. From the opening track, "The Blue Room," which sets a tone of perpetual suffering, the album weaves a narrative of ancient prophecies, cosmic chaos, and personal damnation. It explores the blurred lines between love and destruction ("Standing in the Rain Beside You"), the slow decay under a dying star ("Under the Nuclear Sun"), and a fatalistic acceptance of ruin ("Sleep Tonight"). The journey intensifies with a demonic waltz with Lucifer himself ("Underworld") and a violent, cult-like rebellion ("Cult"), before concluding with "Austere." Ultimately, Apocalyptic Sleep is not a story of hope, but a visceral and honest look at the beauty and terror of a world in its final throes. The album has been mixed and mastered by Dan Mullins(My Dying Bride).
Tracklist
1. The Blue Room
2. The Oracle to Egypt
3. Hurricane
4. Standing in the Rain Beside You
5. Under the Nuclear Sun
6. Sleep Tonight
7. Short Circuit
8. Underworld
9. Breathing in This Cult
10. Austere
Line-up:
Shaq - Music/Vocals
Seiza Friedrich - Vocals
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The
Finnish black metal band VERILEHTO is set to release
their second album AARNIHAUTA on November 28th 2025 via Inverse
Records. The second single 'VIRVATULET' is unleashed today and the track can be heard here: https://push.fm/fl/verilehto-virvatulet
"The closing track of the album, Virvatulet, has been one of my favorites from the start. It eases off the gas pedal and gives room for the story. During the making of the album, I read a lot about old Finnish mythology and the lyrics of this song were among the first I wrote for the album. This song really shows the core of Verilehto. Beautifully wandering guitars, cries of pain and a gripping atmosphere. A magnificent conclusion to the album, which is why it was chosen as the second single." Says vocalist Janne Partanen
Listen to the first single Aarnihauta: https://push.fm/fl/verilehto-aarnihauta
Biography:
The Finnish melodic black metal band Verilehto is back with a new album, Aarnihauta. The album title translates as 'hidden grave in the forest', which is a fitting description of the band's second album.
Verilehto plays Finnish 90s-style black metal, characterised by melodic and aggressive riffs, raw vocals, and an eerie overall tone. The Finnish folklore-inspired lyrics fit well with the band's versatile riffs, and the songs vary from fast blastbeats to slower storytelling elements.
This album also sees a change in Verilehto's line-up, with Markus Räppiö from Kaira joining the crew. With Markus on bass, Janne Partanen (Hautajaisyö, Alfa Pentatonik, Marraskuun Lapset, Paavalin Harhat) on vocals, and Janne Tuikkala (Muria & Dawn of Everwinter) on guitars, drums and synth, the band is stronger than ever.
'Aarnihauta' sees the band continuing to evolve from their debut album 'Kuoleman Siipien Havina' by focusing on their own sound and style. The album is not overly polished, and has a good raw quality to the production, but this is not the main focus. It was recorded by the band themselves in 2024–25.
The album artwork was created by the talented Awinita Alm, and the single artwork was created by the band. The "Aarnihauta" video was filmed in 2024 and edited by Janne Tuikkala and Markus Räppiö.
Track list:
01. Surutta Tapettu
02. Nälänhätä
03. Aarnihauta
04. Kalman Sotajuokko
05. Tuhkaverho
06. Syöjätär
07. Virvatulet
Artwork by Awinita Alm
Line-up:
Janne Tuikkala - Guitars, Drums, Synths
Janne Partanen - Vocals
Markus Räipiö - Bass & Backing Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/verilehto
For
fans of:
Ghoul, Witchery, The Haunted, Gwar, Converge, The Crown, MidnightThe video features clips from a myriad of b-horror movies, including "Auntie Lee's Meat Pies" (Steiner Films), "Evil Laugh" (Vinegar Syndrome), "Microwave Massacre" (Arrow Video), "Rabid Grannies" (Vinegar Syndrome), and "Tromeo & Juliet" (Troma Entertainment). It also pays tribute to the late Scott Spiegel and his film, "Intruder" (Phantom Productions).
Watch the video for "Bonemelter" now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTrs9CYyCHc
24 oz CANTRIP boasts five tracks of booze-soaked thrash fury infused with the unholy union of punk attitude and blackened aggression.
The EP is also available as a limited-edition VHS style cassette.
Keep reading for the story of the soon-to-be infamous 24 oz CANTRIP.
Born fully formed, screaming, and covered in goo out of the dumpster behind DaVinci's pizza on Merrick Road, a horned figure scrambled blindly through piles of empty paint cans, ceramic vases, and angry cats in order to move undetected. He found refuge in a musty old cellar. After pulling his foot loose from the bucket he had stepped in, he closed the heavy steel doors
behind him.
Wiping the thick blanket of dust off a 30-rack of Genesee Specialty Cream Ale, he schemed. He was cursed with the knowledge of an incantation: a spell that would bring Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, into this world. He wrestled with the thought while crushing and tossing another empty can. The ritual required great rigor and perfect focus, but he was exacting.
He chanted. He chanted and chanted. The ceiling groaned and cracked. Polyvinyl dust plumed and swirled before vanishing into imperceptible motes. He drew sorcerous glyphs in the air with two fingers outstretched. The walls trembled with a sickening low rumble. Bracing his hands firm against his ersatz altar — a Playskool Mighty My Size Table and Chair Set — he ignored the throbbing in his head and steadied himself.
A spiraling portal ripped into reality. Out spilled two bumbling homunculi, fully formed, screaming, and covered in goo. This wasn't right! The pair stumbled and scratched their way through the cellar, bleating, squawking, and tearing through nearby cases of Natty Daddy like vultures to carrion. He pondered for what seemed like hours over the pyramid of discarded beer cans and the now-empty bottle of Old Grand Dad he had chanced upon halfway through. What could have gone wrong?
The cellar burst open. Darkening the door was a group of hulking, hazmat-suited figures. At once, the three slickened homunculi grappled one another in a long and futile struggle to get on their feet. They shouted in a panic if they were "being detained" until they were eventually tased into unconsciousness.
This was ROTGUT's ill-fated 24 oz CANTRIP.
Bio:
Assembled against their will by a faceless shadow organization in the Winter of 2024, the three designated FD, C19, and AX spent weeks in a lightless concrete hell. When the chance to escape emerged, they seized it — for they were bound by a great purpose: to form an extreme metal band, inspired by crust punk, rock ’n’ roll, and classic schlock to shred wanton across the greater US and parts beyond. That band is ROTGUT.
https://rotgut.band/
The second single 'NIGHTLESS NIGHT' is released today and music video of the track is available here: https://youtu.be/yB05gK9zZho
The guitarist Jani Moilanen comments:"The new single "Nightless Night" continues the exploration into the Finnish paganism with ethereal and melodic approach. It is the second song of the upcoming album following the opening track "Seita", which was released earlier this year."
Listen To Nightless Night single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/kaamos-warriors-nightless
Biography:
The Finnish Pagan metal band Kaamos Warriors was formed in 2018 by Jani Moilanen (guitars) and Mikko Ojala (vocals, guitars). Their inspiration for the musical athmosphere is derived from the the beauty and the harshness of the Northern nature. The roots of the band rely heavily on the wilderness of the North. Current line-up includes also Inka Ojala (shamandrum) and Marjo Moilanen (bass guitar). Their presence in the band has further expanded the whole audiovisual atmosphere of the Finnish paganism. Jani, Mikko and Inka have also being playing together in the melodic metal band Dark The Suns. The former bass player for the Kaamos Wariors (played bass in the previous two albums) Jyri Moilanen is currently having a break from playing in the band. All the musical releases of the band have been released via Inverse Records.
The music video of first single 'Seita' can be seen here: https://youtu.be/rzjPK5KH9R4
Line-up:
Mikko Ojala - Vocals, Guitars & Drums
Jani Moilanen - Guitars
Inka Ojala - Shamndrum & percussions
Marjo Moilanen - Bass
Mikko Ojala & Inka Ojala - Synths & soundscapes
https://kaamoswarriors.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/KaamosWarriorsOfficial
El Paso’s legendary groove metal pioneers PISSING RAZORS are set to make their long-awaited return to the East Coast for the first time in over two decades. The upcoming seven-date run marks their first appearance in the region since 2004, when the band was touring in support of their Spitfire Records release, Evolution.
Now, in 2025, the band returns to the East in support of their acclaimed 2021 album Eulogy Death March —a tour that’s not only highly anticipated by fans but also historic in nature.
This lineup is the closest to the original Pissing Razors roster the band has had in years and features:
Joe Rodriguez – Vocals
Eddy Garcia – Drums
Mat Lynch – Guitar
Geo Gomez – Bass
The
East Coast leg will feature direct support from Single Bullet Theory, the
long-running East Coast metal force fronted by Matt DiFabio. DiFabio has strong
ties to Pissing Razors himself, having played guitar on the 2003 tour
supporting Evolution. Now, over 20 years later, the two camps reunite on
the same stages once again.Joe Rodriguez shared his thoughts on the tour’s significance:
“The return to the East Coast after over two decades would mark a significant milestone—not just as a tour to the area with our friends in Single Bullet Theory but a reconnection with the fans in regions we haven’t formally visited in a long time.
It symbolizes the longevity of the band and our dedication to the groove metal scene, keeping the genre alive in new and legacy markets.
For long-time fans on the East Coast, it would be a nostalgic and emotional event, potentially the first chance to see the band live in nearly a generation.
For the band, it’s an opportunity to re-establish our presence, maybe test new songs (like tracks from our 2021 album Eulogy Death March), and grow our audience geography beyond our Texas-heavy touring footprint.”
Eddy Garcia added:
"It's with great pleasure that we get to hit the East Coast for a few dates! We haven't been that way since 2003! Many thanks to Matt and Single Bullet Theory! We look forward to seeing old friends and making some new ones! East Coast fans have always treated us well, and we look forward to playing all of these shows! Cheers!"
Formed in the mid-'90s, Pissing Razors gained a reputation for relentless touring and uncompromising live shows. From the late ’90s through the early 2000s, the band seemed to live on the road, clocking in tours alongside Cannibal Corpse, Six Feet Under, W.A.S.P., and select U.S. and European dates with Anthrax and NYHC legends Pro-Pain. Their impact helped shape the sound of American groove metal, influencing a new generation of heavyweights including Lamb of God and Gojira .
The upcoming East Coast tour promises to be a celebration of Pissing Razors’ legacy, a testament to their longevity, and a heavy reminder of their ongoing power and relevance in today’s metal scene.
PIssing Razors / Single Bullet Theory/ Byzantine
10/31 - Richmond, VA. - Another Round
11/01 - Bensalem, PA. - Broken Goblet (with Byzantine)
11/02 - Sabbatus, ME. - Mixers (with Byzantine and Ascend to Power)
11/03 - Westfield, MA. - Gabes 252 (with Byzantine)
11/04 - Providence, RI. - Alchemy (with Thy Will Be Done)
11/05- Hamden, CT. - The Cellar
11/06 - Buffalo, NY. - Rockin Buffalo Saloon
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VICRECORDS :ROTTING CORPSE – „ THRASH IN PAIN OR DIE INSANE”
Covering from 1986 to 1990, this CD collects the four demos completely (remastered) by Texas thrash unit Rotting Corpse! This short lived band delivered hi-octane lone star thrash metal, perfectly fitting amongst the fellow bands from their area, such as Devastation, Rigor Mortis and Gammacide. These four demos are filled with thrashing goodness, with blazing riffs and basslines and tight drumming, everything topped with evil caustic vocals. One of the most underrated gems in US thrash metal history. The second two demos were produced by Vinnie Paul (Pantera) and the first demo by Vinnie and Dimebags’s father, Jerry Abbott (who also produced the first four Pantera albums). Featuring (ex) members of Solitude Aeturnus, Devastation, ex-Death (live) and Gammacide.
MORPHEUS – „ IN THE ARMS OF “
Morpheus was formed in Stockholm in 1990 by the current Necrophobic guitars players Sebastian (in Necrophobic from1996 till present) and Johan (2001 – present). The Stockholm youngsters recorded one demo in 1990 (as Exhumed) one mini album ‘in The Arms of..,.” and a full length before all members went on in more known Swedish death metal bands. And still are. For example: Sebastian Ramstedt (In Aphelion, Necrophobic, ex-Black Trip, ex-Nifelheim and Johan Bergebäck, (In Aphelion Necrophobic, ex-Dismember, ex-Amon Amarth (live), ex-Nifelheim). Drummer Markus Ruden was original member of Carbonized).
Recorded at Studio Sunlight with Thomas Skogsberg (Entombed, Dismember, Grave). Extensive liner notes by Chris Dick (Decibel Magazine). Many old and rare posters and drawings! This re-issue of ‘In the Arms of featured also the cult Exhumed demo where it all started for these ambitious young Swedish musicians.
https://www.vicrecords.com/
UK-based
black-gothic metal ensemble ABSCENCE unveils their
latest lyric video for the track “UNDER THE MOON’S GLANCE”.In this chapter of Abscence’s dark odyssey, “Under the Moon’s Glance” unravels a tale of longing, blood, and nocturnal reverie. Born from the union of haunting melody and raw intensity, this track dives deep into the romance and ruin of our vampiric lovers.
"Let the moonlight guide you—and may you never look away."
The track comes from ENIGMA, the band’s latest concept album. Across nine epic songs, Enigma tells the tragic story of two vampire women bound by blood, devotion, and betrayal. Drawing from 90s black and gothic metal, the album layers symphonic textures, rich vocal arrangements, and immersive storytelling to create a world that is both timeless and intense.
Stream "Enigma" https://orcd.co/enigmaalbum
Abscence:
Emerging from the UK underground, Abscence channels the raw power and bleak beauty of black metal, blending ferocious riffs with haunting melodies to explore despair, nature, and the shadows of existence. With Enigma, Abscence invites listeners into a world of symphonic blackened art, embracing drama, darkness, and emotional intensity in its purest form.
https://www.youtube.com/@abscenceband
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FUCK IT is a Portuguese punk band from Porto, founded by Girø (Renegados do Boliqueime, Freedoom, Dokuga, Dimmer Future...) and Céd (Gorgámisco Pornoblastoma, Disfigured Human Mind, Insolência, Drenagem, Stercore, Hypomania...). These two creatures from the back alleys of the underworld decided to join forces like stray dogs to found FUCK IT, which presents a direct approach, expressed by a minimalist sound and an anti-conformist stance of protest against the oppression perpetrated by cultural elitism. To complete FUCK IT's lineup, young Spell (Estriknina, Dimmer Future) was adopted from the shelter to join the pack and came to help in the fight against banality and the obvious.
In this lost world where empty days are constant, we must remain vigilant to keep our filthy resistance active without getting tired of being eternally unwanted and where we are grateful that no one looks at us, so FUCK IT.
The time has come to unleash chaos and take to the streets with the rage that consumes us so cruelly and mercilessly. There's no time to rest here, and protests are imminent. Without grand musical flourishes, and where simplicity reigns unpleasantly, there's no need to complicate things, so FUCK IT!
PORTUGUESE PUNK ROCK STOMPS ON YOUR UGLY FACE FROM THE FILTHY ALLEYS OF PORTO!
FUCK IT "No Rest"
MCD Limited edition of 300 copies
info@murder-records.eu
www.murder-records.eu
Tracklist:01 - No Rest [01:49]
02 - Vigilante [02:02]
03 - Cansado [02:12]
04 - Mundo Perdido [01:42]
05 - Indesejado [01:49]
06 - O Último Dos Moicanos [02:25]
07 - Dias Vazios [01:15]
08 - Fuck It [02:10]
09 - Não Olhes Para Mim [02:07]
Recorded at Studio Agradável, September 2025 by Óscar and Bruno.
Lyrics and music by FUCK IT, except Fuck It - lyrics by Jorginho.
Draw for layout made by Madalena Macedo.
Photo by Bruno Miguel.
Artwork and Layouts made by Cédric Rodrigues.
Promotional video made by Danihell Slaughter.
Release date december 5th, 2025
Official distribution by Hellstore Europe
Line Up:
Girø (Drums Vocals)
Céd (Guitar)
Spell (Bass Vocals)
https://fuckitpunk.bandcamp.com/album/demo-1
Resistance On... Stupidity Off...
PUTREVORE – “UNENDING ROTTING CYCLE”
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease date: november 11th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Incantation | Immolation | Avulsed | Grisly
We walk upon a road of mouldering bones, empty sockets staring up in silent reproach at our trespass. And then, with a last backward glance at the fading daylight, we step into the maw of death…descending into a darkness beyond black, the lightless catacombs of dying where life has no place and angels fear to tread. Here the gods have many eyes and many serpentine limbs. Here the dead converse in crackling whispers as their flesh sloughs from their bent and twisted frames. Here the aeons pass in unending rotting cycles…
Putrevore…a shared dream between two icons of death, a nascent idea hatched between Dave Rotten (Avulsed, Holycide etc) and Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader and a thousand more) to pay tribute to the hardest, heaviest and most brutal of the death metal pioneers of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, more than twenty years ago. Yet still the beast clings to life with a vicious tenacity and a fifth full length album of impossible horrors is about to be unleashed – Unending Rotting Cycle!
Attacking with a terrifying immediacy, ‘No Mourning The Grace’ reveals Dave Rotten’s vocals at their most tomb-trawling, deeper and more inhuman than ever before, while Rogga Johansson’s inexhaustible supply of superlative death metal riffs remains undiminished. An inherent sense of dark melody is always present behind the song’s wall of terror, spreading tendrils of utter desolation through its rotting cadaver. There’s an incredible murky darkness shrouding this album as a whole, the vocals clawing their way up through the thick, oppressive riffs, while the drums deliver a crisp, bone shaking thunder within the vortex of chaos. On tracks like the magnificent, rumbling, infernal majesty of ‘Subterranean Paths To The Temples’, the fear infused atmosphere is simply awesome. There is no let up in the nightmarish aura – once Putrevore have sunk their cracked, decaying teeth into your flesh they do not let go. From the stumbling zombie death march of ‘They Worship Disarray’, led by Rotten’s flesh melting vocals, to the paean to horrors from beyond the boundaries of sanity that is ‘Cult Of The Tentacle’, Unending Rotting Cycle is a testament to the fact that the blood in Putrevore’s collective veins runs black with the essence of death metal. The final act of desecration, ‘The Cradle Replaced By The Grave’, is haunting and morose as it grinds you into the dust, extinguishing the last flickering embers of life and hope.
Mixed and mastered by Avulsed guitarist, Alejandro Lobo, at his Acordica Studios and featuring the cataclysmic drumming of regular Rogga Johansson co-conspirator Thomas Ohlsson (Stass, War Magic etc), Unending Rotting Cycle is without question the most relentless, ravenous and remorseless example of Putrevore’s death metal war machine. It will be released by Xtreem Music on November 11th on CD, 12"LP Cassette & Digital formats, completed by the stunning artwork of Lucretia Morti (Avulsed, Ribspreader etc). Bleak, black and bestial, Putrevore remain the undead embodiment of an old phrase from the age that inspired them – some music was meant to stay underground.
Line-up:
Dave Rotten – Vocals
Rogga Johansson – Guitars/Bass
Drums on Unending Rotting Cycle performed by Thomas Ohlsson
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/putrevore
BELLE
MORTE,
one of the rising forces in symphonic female-fronted metal, return with a
new acoustic take on their hit single “EXORCISM”.
Stripping the track down to its raw, emotional core, the video highlights the
band’s signature dark atmosphere while offering a fresh perspective on the
fan-favorite song.Known for blending symphonic metal with an array of ethnic instruments from around the world, BELLE MORTE’s Pearl Hunting album features collaborations with artists from over a dozen countries, creating a unique global sound. The acoustic “Exorcism” offers both longtime fans and newcomers a chance to experience the band’s cinematic storytelling in an intimate, stripped-back form.
About Belle Morte
Formed in Minsk, BELLE MORTE combines dark symphonic metal with gothic, progressive, and melancholic elements. After their 2018 EP Game On, the band signed with Wormholedeath in 2021 to release Crime of Passion, a conceptual album inspired by John Fowles’s The Collector. Their second album continues this global approach, delivering unique symphonic metal experiences for fans seeking something different.
www.youtube.com/@bellemortemusic
NEWS 19.10.2025
Passend zu bald erscheinenden Scheibe “DAS MONUMENT” haben sich dann die Grindchaoten von DEPRESSION auch völlig "uneigennützig" dazu bereit erklärt , sich in unserer nächsten „Klolektüre“ mal wieder etwas ausgiebiger zu äußern – grins .
DEPRESSION - “DAS MONUMENT”( 2 CD ) HAMMER
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Exakt 40 Jahre nach seiner
Erstveröffentlichung freut sich Parlophone Records, eine brandneue, wunderschön
verpackte, limitierte Sammlerausgabe des klassischen Albums “LIVE
AFTER DEATH” von IRON MAIDEN auf 2
farbigen Vinyl-LPs anzukündigen.Das Album erscheint mit dem originalen, beliebten Gatefold-Sleeve-Artwork und enthält zwei 140-Gramm-Vinyls (eine in Blau, die andere in Gelb) mit dem 2015 remasterten Audio. Das Paket enthält außerdem eine 24-seitige Replik des WORLD SLAVERY TOUR-Programms, welches das Original-Tourprogramm für neue Generationen wieder zum Leben erweckt.
Darüber hinaus enthält die Vinyl-Edition eine Tour-Pass-Replik und ein 12-seitiges Hochglanz-Booklet, das neben dem originalen 8-seitigen Booklet einen exklusiven und brandneuen Essay mit dem Titel “Rime And Punishment: Celebrating 40 Years Of Live After Death” enthält, in dem Iron-Maiden-Fanclub-Redakteur Alexander Milas Steve Harris, Nicko McBrain, Rod Smallwood und den renommierten Illustrator Derek Riggs zu dem legendären Album interviewt.
Steve Harris über diese Zeit: “Wir waren ununterbrochen auf Tour. Es war buchstäblich nur ‘Aufnehmen, Touren, Aufnehmen, Touren’ – wir haben nicht aufgehört. Rod hat uns ordentlich die Peitsche geschnellt und das war auch richtig so. Ich meine, wir waren total motiviert, es war nicht so, dass wir etwas gemacht haben, was wir nicht wollten. Man glaubt, man sei unbesiegbar – ‘Ja, das schaffen wir, kein Problem.’ So muss man es angehen. Das ist der einzige Weg für eine Band wie uns, denn damals wurden wir überhaupt nicht im Radio gespielt.”
“LIVE AFTER DEATH” gilt nicht nur weithin als das beste Heavy-Metal-Livealbum aller Zeiten, sondern auch als eines der ikonischsten Livealben aller Musikgenres. Es wurde größtenteils während der vier Konzerte aufgenommen, die Maiden im März 1985 in der Long Beach Arena in Los Angeles gaben. Die letzte Seite des Doppelalbums wurde während der vier Konzerte aufgenommen, die die Band im Oktober 1984 im Hammersmith Odeon spielte.
Beide Konzertreihen waren Teil der bahnbrechenden WORLD SLAVERY TOUR zum 1984 erschienenen Album “Powerslave”. Die Tour begann in Polen, umfasste 187 Konzerte an 331 Tagen und festigte den Ruf von Iron Maiden als eine der aufregendsten Live-Bands der Welt, den sie bis heute genießen.
“Live After Death” 40. Jubiläums-Edition hier vorbestellen: http://ironmaiden.lnk.to/LiveAfterDeath40
Iron Maiden, die nun seit 50 Jahren bestehen, haben 17 Studioalben veröffentlicht und weltweit weit über 100 Millionen Platten verkauft, fast 2.500 Live-Shows in 64 Ländern gespielt, einen Grammy Award und einen Brit Award sowie viele andere Auszeichnungen erhalten. Zuletzt wurden sie neben den Rolling Stones und Pink Floyd mit einer eigenen Briefmarkenserie der Royal Mail geehrt und werden 2025 mit einer Sammlung offizieller Münzen der Royal Mint gewürdigt.
Ihr Bier, Trooper Beer, gibt es nun schon seit zwölf Jahren. Es wurde bereits über 40 Millionen Mal verkauft und wird in 68 Ländern vertrieben, darunter in sechs lokalen Varianten in den USA, Deutschland, Brasilien, Spanien, Schweden und Australien. 2025 feiert die Band ihr offizielles 50-jähriges Bestehen mit einer zweijährigen Welttournee unter dem Titel RUN FOR YOUR LIVES und einer Reihe von Veranstaltungen und Produkten, darunter ihr erster offizieller Hardcover-Bildband “Infinite Dreams”.
Ein Dokumentarfilm über Iron Maiden von Universal Pictures Content Group wird Anfang 2026 erscheinen und die Band wird ihre zweijährige RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR durch Europa und darüber hinaus fortsetzen. Die Tour umfasst einen großen und historischen Auftritt im Knebworth Park in Großbritannien am 11. Juli 2026.
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES – Europäische Tourdaten 2026
MAI 2026
23. – Athen, GRIECHENLAND – OAKA
26. – Sofia, BULGARIEN – Vasil Levski Stadium
28. – Bucharest, RUMÄNIEN – Arena Națională
30. – Bratislava, SLOWAKEI – Národný Futbalový Štadión
JUNI 2026
02. – Hannover, DEUTSCHLAND – Heinz von Heiden Arena
10. – Amsterdam, NIEDERLANDE– Ziggo Dome
17. – Mailand, ITALIEN – San Siro Stadium
22. – Paris, FRANKREICH – Paris La Défense Arena
28. – Lyon - Décines, FRANKREICH – Groupama Stadium
JULI 2026
07. – Lissabon, PORTUGAL – Estádio da Luz
11. – Knebworth, UK – Knebworth Park
https://ironmaiden.com
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 27.11.2025
Folter Records sind stolz, mit »Lucifer Lucem Proferens« das neue, Genre-Grenzen sprengende Werk von THOKKIAN VORTEX präsentieren zu können, ein Album, das in seiner mysteriösen okkulten Ausstrahlung seinesgleichen sucht.
THOKKIAN VORTEX ist das Black-Metal-Projekt von Lord Kaiaphas, der vor allem als Sänger der norwegischen Black-Metal-Legende ANCIENT bekannt ist.
THOKKIAN VORTEX weist eindeutig Einflüsse von nordischen Bands der zweiten Welle des Black Metal wie Mayhem, Darkthrone, Emperor, Immortal, Limbonic Art oder Dark Funeral auf und vereint dies in elaborierter Weise mit Elementen aus symphonischer Klassik, Progressive Metal und traditionellem Metal, Black 'n' Roll und Dark Ambient; mit der dunklen, zerbrechlichen Schönheit eines Songs wie »Christalline Dawn« dürfte »Lucifer Lucem Proferens« auch Fans von My Dying Bride faszinieren.
Im Wesentlichen jedoch ist Lord Kaiaphas und seinen Mitstreitern mit THOKKIAN VORTEX’ Dritter ein höchst eigenständiges, originelles und memorables Werk gelungen, dessen vielgestaltige Songs eine dunkle Reise ins Ungewisse evozieren. So will Lord Kaiaphas die Bedeutung des Bandnamens auch verstanden wissen als einen Riss, ein Wurmloch, durch das der Astralkörper einer Person in eine parallele Dimension unbekannter Dunkelheit gesaugt wird.
THOKKIAN VORTEX wurden am 06.06.2006 von Lord Kaiaphas gegründet. Das Debüt »Into the Nagual« wurde Ende Januar 2016 vom schwedischen Label Unexploded Records veröffentlicht. Das zweite Album »Thy Throne is Mine« erschien 2020 via des niederländischen Labels Non Serviam Records. Am 27.11.2025 erscheint das dritte Album »Lucifer Lucem Proferens« bei Folter Records.
»Lucifer Lucem Proferens«
1. Sethian Aeon (6:50)
2. Fires of Samum (5:39)
3. Lucifer Lucem Proferens (6:49)
4. At War with Ohrmuzd (4:31)
5. The Great Harlot (5:37)
6. Shadowmother (7:42)
7. Summoning the Evil Ones of Ekurra (4:34)
8. The Brazen Vessel of Solomon (10:15)
9. Drip Drip (9:07)
10. Crystalline Dawn (3:19)
Total: 64:27
Line-up
Lord Kaiaphas – vocals and synthesizers
Mantus – guitars
Sil – bass
Asmodevs DD – drums
Flute on »The Brazen Vessel of Solomon« and »Drip Drip« by Danielle Sassi.
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https://www.facebook.com/ThokkianVortex
ATLAS - “SALT AND SULFUR" (SINGLE)
ATLAS versinken mit “Salt And Sulfur” in
eiskalte Tiefen von Trauer und Vergänglichkeit.Dunkel, schwer und doch von einer durchschneidenden Zerbrechlichkeit geprägt: Mit ihrer neuen Single “Salt And Sulfur” melden sich die finnischen Northcore-Visionäre ATLAS eindrucksvoll zurück. Dieser Song zeigt die Finnen in einer Form, die gleichermaßen kompromisslos, wie zutiefst verletzlich ist.
“Salt And Sulfur” ist mehr als nur ein Song – es ist eine Erfahrung. Eine brutale und doch verletzlich klingende Metalcore-Hymne, die die Hörer:innen in einen Mahlstrom aus roher Energie und intensiver Emotionalität zieht. Schon die ersten Takte lassen keinen Zweifel: schwere, hämmernde Gitarrenriffs treffen auf Schnelle Blast Beats, die unaufhaltsam nach vorne peitschen, während sich über allem die eiskalten, klaren Vocals erheben – kristallin und doch schneidend wie gefrorene Luft.
Doch hinter der Härte verbirgt sich ein Abgrund. „Salt And Sulfur“ fühlt sich an wie ein langsamer, von Trauer durchtränkter Abstieg in Kummer und emotionalen Ruin. Mit jeder Sekunde entfaltet sich eine düstere Atmosphäre, die an den Nerven zerrt und dennoch eine eigentümliche Schönheit besitzt. Post-Metal-Poesie trifft hier auf elementare Angst, bis aus dem Chaos eine kathartische Klaheit entsteht – eine Hymne an Verlust und Vergänglichkeit, die so schwer wiegt, wie die Themen, die sie aufgreift.
ATLAS zeigen mit „Salt And Sulfur“ wie sehr sie ihre Fähigkeit verfeinert haben, brutale Härte mit atmosphärischer Tiefe zu verweben. Jeder Ton ist durchzogen von eisiger Melancholie, jeder Break wirkt wie ein Schlag in die Magengrube – und doch bleibt ein Gefühl von Erlösung zurück.
Embrace the cold.
Seht das Musikvideo hier : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ9QqvQO-5s
Mit der neuen Single „Salt And Sulfur“ im Gepäck gehen ATLAS ab Oktober 2025 mit Orbit Culture und Gaerea auf eine ausgiebige Europa- und UK-Tour. Live entfaltet die Band ihr volles Gewicht – eine intensive Erfahrung, die gleichermaßen schmerzhaft, lindernd und erhaben ist.
Line up:
Patrik Nuorteva – vocals
Tuomas Kurikka – guitar
Leevi Luoto – guitar, backing vocals
Aku Karjalainen – drums
Kevin Apostol – bass
https://www.facebook.com/atlasfin
RANCID veröffentlichen "SEX
& DEATH"-Cover vom kommenden Album "KILLED BY DEAF:
A PUNK TRIBUTE TO MOTÖRHEAD"Heavy Metal und Punkrock! Man kann mit Fug und Recht behaupten, dass diese beiden lauten Tribes mittlerweile viel gemeinsam haben – oft verschmelzen sie miteinander, sind kaum noch voneinander zu unterscheiden und bringen ihre eigenen Bastard-Nachkommen hervor. Aber das war nicht immer so. Es gab tatsächlich eine Zeit, in der eher mit den Fäusten geprügelt als gegrüßt wurde und Bier eher geworfen als geteilt wurde – außer wenn es um Motörhead ging. Das war die einzige Band, auf die wir uns alle einigen konnten. Die einzige Band, die wirklich uns gehörte!
Auf den vierzehn Tracks dieses Albums mit dem cleveren Titel "Killed By Deaf" gibt es eine liebevolle Hommage an Motörhead von einigen der größten und angesehensten Punkrock-Bands zu hören. Die neueste die davon enthüllt wird ist "Sex & Death", gecovert von den Punk-Legenden Rancid – und ab sofort verfügbar.
Lars Frederiksen (Gitarre/Gesang) aus der Band sagt über ihr Cover:
"Für mich ist das der perfekte Motörhead-Song. Ihr alle wisst genauso gut wie ich, was für ein großer Ramones-Fan Lem war. Und für mich klingt das wie seine Interpretation – Motörhead spielen die Ramones. Aber da ist dieses klitzekleine Gitarrensolo. Und es war auch der Song von Motörhead, der am meisten dem Stil von Rancid ähnelte, der, von dem ich dachte, er käme einem Song, den wir schreiben würden, ziemlich nahe"
Jetzt hier im Video ansehen, was Lars über das Cover zu sagen hat, wie er dabei auf den Einfluss von Motörhead auf die härteren Musik-Genres eingeht und erklärt, warum die Band sowohl eine Punk- als auch eine Metal-Band war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4zgW4G7VT8
Neben Rancid haben sich an diesem Tribut-Album auch Größen wie Pennywise, Lagwagon, GBH, The Bronx und FEAR beteiligt, die allesamt raue Versionen ihrer Lieblingssongs von Motörhead beisteuern ... zusammen mit aufstrebenden Newcomern wie Slaughterhouse. Denn seien wir ehrlich: Motörhead haben immer die Underdogs geliebt und unterstützt. Der einzige Song auf diesem Album, der nicht von Motörhead stammt, ist eine zuvor unveröffentlichte, mitreißende Version des Klassikers "Neat, Neat, Neat" von The Damned, featuring The Great Man Himself, Lemmy, und The Damned.
"Killed By Deaf – A Punk Tribute To Motörhead" erscheint am 31. Oktober 2025 als LP, CD und in digitaler Form.
Das Album hier vorbestellen : https://motorhead.lnk.to/killedbydeafpr
Neuigkeiten und Updates gibt es auf : www.iMotorhead.com
INNERSPHERE veröffentlicht neue Single. Taucht ein in einen feurigen
Abgrund mit „ABYSS OF THE FLAME“.Die westböhmische Melodic-Death-Metal-Band veröffentlicht ihre zweite Single des Jahres und zeigt dabei eine dunklere, aggressivere Seite ihres Schaffens. Beide diesjährigen Singles – „A.O.T.F.“ und „Tamtam“ – werden Teil des kommenden, vierten Studioalbums der Band, das sich derzeit in Arbeit befindet und die neue musikalische Richtung von Innersphere aufzeigt. Außerdem stellt die Band eine weitere Neuigkeit vor – eine erweiterte Besetzung.
Míra Litomerický, Frontmann von Innersphere:
„Abyss of the Flame ist für uns vor allem eine Reaktion auf die heutige Gesellschaft. Wir sind Zeugen des Aufblühens von Technologie und unendlichen Möglichkeiten, aber auch eines enormen Niedergangs menschlicher Kreativität, Individualität und Moral. In einer Zeit voller KI-Werkzeuge, Algorithmen und des Drucks sozialer Medien und Werbung verfallen wir der Manipulation der Realität, der Wahrnehmung der Welt und unserer selbst. Mit Werkzeugen, die uns als Menschheit voranbringen könnten, degenerieren und degradieren wir – und werden zu ihren Sklaven. Zu Sklaven des Systems, des Geschäfts, fremder Interessen… Was wir seit Langem beobachten, ist eine traurige Realität. Umso mehr schätze ich jeden, der wirklich etwas erschafft, handelt und lebt – und nicht nur Hass verbreitet. Seien wir stark, seien wir wir selbst, seien wir Menschen.“
Die Single wurde im The Barn Studio unter der Leitung von Dan Friml aufgenommen. Das Musikvideo stammt von Marek „Frodys“ Pytlík und enthält Aufnahmen vom Finale des Wacken Metal Battle im Palác Akropolis in Prag, das im Mai 2025 stattfand.
Anlässlich der Veröffentlichung der Single mit Video feiert die Band zugleich ein weiteres großes Jubiläum – 10 Jahre seit den Anfängen von Innersphere – mit einem besonderen Konzert am Samstag, den 11. Oktober 2025 im Klub Parlament in Pilsen (die Band wurde im Mai 2016 erstmals live aktiv). Der Abend wird einzigartig sein: Alle ehemaligen und aktuellen Mitglieder, die an Studioaufnahmen beteiligt waren, stehen gemeinsam auf der Bühne, präsentieren einen Querschnitt durch das gesamte Schaffen der Band und nehmen das Publikum auf eine „Zeitreise“ durch zwei Sets mit mehr als zwei Stunden Musik.
Míra Litomerický, Innersphere
„Das Jubiläumskonzert ‘X Years of Innersphere’ ist für uns alle ein Fest – für die aktuellen wie auch die ehemaligen Mitglieder und natürlich für unsere Fans. Wir haben uns wirklich alle zusammengetan, die jemals einen Abdruck in der Musik und der Geschichte von Innersphere hinterlassen haben. Zwischen uns herrscht immer noch eine gute Atmosphäre – es ist nostalgisch und gleichzeitig großartig, wieder gemeinsam zu spielen, auch wenn nur für kurze Zeit. Schon bei den Proben hat alles perfekt funktioniert, die Chemie ist einfach noch da. Ich freue mich riesig, dass es so gut geklappt hat. Auch wenn wir heute alle woanders stehen und sich die Prioritäten verändert haben – wir sind immer noch hier.“
InnersphereBooking@gmail.com
https://www.inner-sphere.com/
Die Heavy-Metal-Überflieger Wings of Steel aus Los Angeles kehren mit ihrem zweiten Album “Winds of Time” zurück und festigen damit ihren Status als eine der spannendsten neuen Kräfte des Genres.
Von Fans und Kritikern gleichermaßen als eine der am meisten erwarteten Metal-Veröffentlichungen des Jahres 2025 gefeiert, baut “Winds of Time” auf dem schnell wachsenden Vermächtnis der Band auf und bietet einen Sound, der sowohl nostalgisch als auch unverkennbar frisch ist. Von der ersten bis zur letzten Note vermittelt das Album den Geist einer goldenen Ära, in der Titanen wie Judas Priest, Dio und Queensrÿche die Bühne beherrschten – allerdings mit moderner Intensität und makelloser Produktion. Auf acht mitreißenden Tracks bietet “Winds of Time” unaufhaltsame Vocals, rasante Gitarrenarbeit und einen Rhythmus, der mit der unerbittlichen Kraft eines Hammers zuschlägt.
Zusammen haben diese Singles weltweit bereits über eine Million Streams erzielt und breite Anerkennung gefunden – damit ist “Winds of Time” ein Spitzenkandidat für den Titel “Album des Jahres”.
Die Band kommentiert:
“Winds of Time ist nicht nur ein Album, sondern eine immersive Reise ins Herz des Heavy Metal. Es sprüht vor Leidenschaft, Präzision und roher Power – eine Platte, die sowohl neue Hörer als auch langjährige Metal-Fans tief bewegen wird. Jede Note, jeder Drumbeat, jeder Text wurde so gestaltet, dass er die Essenz dessen einfängt, was Heavy Metal so zeitlos macht.“
“Winds of Time” ist ab sofort auf allen großen digitalen Plattformen sowie auf CD und Vinyl erhältlich. Fans in den USA können direkt über die offizielle website der Band bestellen, während Fans in Europa das Album über High Roller Records erwerben können.
Über Wings of Steel
Wings of Steel wurde 2019 gegründet und ist eine Heavy-Metal-/Hardrock-Band aus Los Angeles, deren Wurzeln im klassischen Stil der 70er- und 80er-Jahre liegen. Ihr Sound kombiniert Sänger Leo Unnermarks bluesige, kraftvolle Stimme mit Parker Halubs bombastischen Riffs und ausdrucksstarken Soli und schafft so einen Sound, der mit moderner Klarheit und Power an die glorreichen Tage des Heavy Metal erinnert.
Nach ihrer Debüt-EP “Wings of Steel“ aus dem Jahr 2022 veröffentlichte die Band ihr von Kritikern hochgelobtes erstes Album “Gates of Twilight“ (2023). Im Frühjahr 2024 begaben sich Wings of Steel auf ihre erste Europatournee, wo sie ihre Position als eine der prominentesten neuen Bands im Heavy Metal bekräftigten. Wings of Steel werden weiterhin für ihre energiegeladenen und fesselnden Live-Auftritte gelobt, die auf ihrem Live-Album “Live in France“ (2024) zu hören sind.
Bis heute haben Wings of Steel zahlreiche Shows in den USA und Europa gespielt, darunter Festivals und Veranstaltungsorte wie Heavy Week-End, Rock Hard Festival und viele weitere. Mit mehr Schwung denn je veröffentlicht die Band nun ihr mit Spannung erwartetes zweites Studioalbum “Winds of Time” und wird Anfang 2026 als Supportband von Sabaton auf eine Nordamerika-Tour gehen.
"Winds of Time" – Album streamen: https://hypeddit.com/wingsofsteel/windsoftime
"Winds Of Time" jetzt auf CD & Vinyl bestellen:
https://wingsofsteelband.com/#store
hrrecords.de/WINGS-OF-STEEL
Washington, D.C. - Metalcore Titans, AGE OF RUIN, have released new album, NOTHINGMAN, on CD and digital formats. Coinciding with the album's release is the launch of the official video for album track, "THE TRAVELER," which is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2u5dMEzpmg
FFO: In Flames, Soilwork, Killswitch Engage, and Gojira.
Purchase/Stream Nothingman:
https://ageofruin.bandcamp.com/album/nothingman
https://www.theupstagemusicfest.com/product-page/age-of-ruin-nothing-man
Nothingman is a collection of 10 songs that cuts a path to the heart with harmony and angst that others would be naïve not to mimic. The band sacrificed blood and sweat for two years to expel Nothingman. Age of Ruin began the recording process in October of 2023, and after nine months of tracking on location in Richmond, VA, at the Bakery Studio, in Washington, DC, at Ivakota Studio, and at the Riff Dojo in Takoma Park, MD, (the record was produced by Mike Schleibaum of Darkest Hour), Nothingman was complete. This is the biggest, most richly woven tapestry from the band yet.
In 2023 and 2024, Age of Ruin did some precursory promotion of Nothingman’s material, traveling up and down the east coast, dousing nonbelievers with their fire, with such acts as Black Flag, Madball, Jimmy’s Chicken Shack, and Anvil. Yes, that Anvil.
Ripping guitars, unforgivably brutal drums, bass sounds that have shaken the underworld, and screeching vocals are just the beginning of this incarnation of a true headbanger's incantation. What we saw unearthed back in 1998 has now grown. The road worn warriors of the AoRmy have forced enough breakdowns to overwhelm any AAA mechanic, with miles on the highway ahead.
Their punk and metal roots hold firm, and their thrash tendencies are on full display as this towering presence of a band branches out over new tonal terrain and soundscape; reminding all who fall under its shadow, that the light shining through is a new dawn in the Age of Ruin.
Track
Listing:1. The Fixation
2. Heavy is the Crown
3. Lost in Shadows
4. The Traveler
5. Nothingman
6. An Awakening
7. The Ghosts We Carry
8. Promise Me
9. Bleed for Better Days
10. Lovesong
Credits:
Produced by Mike Schleibaum / The Riff Dojo.
Mixed and mastered by Will Beasley / The Bakery.
Original artwork, Oil on Canvas titled "Forest Mother" by Zack Dunn.
Line-up:
Benjamin Swan - vocals
Christopher Fleming - bass
Daniel Fleming - guitar
Hendrik Osinga - drums
Casey Flanagan - guitar
Bio:
The exact location of the dawn of man has been a constant subject of debate. Some say it was Prometheus delivering fire, some say it was Franklin discovering electricity, most people say it’s when Lars met James…but everyone agrees: those were simply precursors. Throughout the age of enlightenment, the renaissance, the reformation era and beyond, mortals have tried to make sense of mankind's meaning on earth.
Most archaeologists believe that in the late 90's, a surge of lightning fast riffs, guttural screams, devastatingly bass tones, and the relentless pulverizing rhythm of drums unearthed a crucial piece of this puzzle...this ushered in what would be known as The Age of Ruin. Those who heard it, really dug it. But those who dug it found there is much more than the surface layers. Music filled with textures, themes, and tunings that go deeper than a James Cameron film unbound by budgets.
For over 20 years, Age of Ruin has been firing off a relentless string of releases. Even the busiest trash compactors could not keep up with the amount of crushing that Age of Ruin crams into a single album, and this is so…with Nothingman. They have consistently delivered a brutal barrage of the heaviest hits metal has heard. Why stop At the Gates, when you can break down the whole house with your music? Why get Entombed when you can breathe new life into the scene? Why let the years waste away when the Age of Ruin can answer all of these questions?
Age of Ruin has definitely paid their dues, earning every ounce of the heaviest crown one band could carry. Naturally, the tonal tenure of the AoRmy servicemen is not something that can be held onto forever...the constant axe-wielding and riff hurling has required numerous changing of the guard over the years; however, the core horsemen of the Age of Ruin (Benjamin Swan, and Daniel and Christopher Fleming) remain, along with Casey Flanagan and Hendrik Osinga, forging an amalgamation of devastation which would conjure a collection of songs that few, if any, houses could harness. Fortunately, under the tutelage and production of Sound-Sensei Mike Schleibaum (Darkest Hour), Age of Ruin would hone their tone in Mike's Riff Dojo, creating an undeniable masterpiece of metal.
https://www.facebook.com/thisistheageofruin
TENEBRIS have unveiled the first
single from their upcoming album “KOCHANOWSKI”. The track “POPIEL”
offers a glimpse into the new record set for release on 7 November 2025
via Pagan Records. Listen to “Popiel”: https://youtu.be/PmAbOextE80
"Popiel" is an excerpt of Juliusz Słowacki's epic poem Król Duch. The lyrics tell the story of a spirit incarnating in the bodies of Polish kings, beginning a journey of madness and magic with Popiel. The track's intense narrative is a perfect representation of Tenebris's unique sound, blending their death metal origins with progressive and jazz influences.
Founded in Łódź in 1991, Tenebris is one of Poland's most original and long-running metal bands. “Kochanowski” is a musical continuation of their 2018 EP, “Legendarna”, and delves into the surprising, esoteric side of Polish poet Jan Kochanowski. The band's frontman, Siwy Jaszy, discovered that Kochanowski’s epigrams were a labyrinth based on Pythagorean numerology, transforming the poet into a figure of magical arts.
The album's creative process began in 2021 and was completed in 2025, with lyrics drawing from literary giants like Kochanowski, Słowacki, Adam Mickiewicz. The new record features special guests, including Maciej Pasiński (ex Sirrah, Pincer Consortium) on backing vocals and growls, Paweł Szamburski on clarinet, and Sylwia Levy on backing vocals.
"Popiel" is available now on all major streaming platforms. Add it to your library via Spotify and other services.
The current lineup consists of:
Siwy Jaszy - vocals, guitar
Bartek Polny - bass guitar
Przemysław Dominiak - guitar
Grzegorz Graczyk - drums
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/paganrecords
https://www.youtube.com/@TenebriSalpha/featured
https://www.facebook.com/TenebrisAlpha
Occult black metal entity SUFFERING unveils their most
provocative vision yet - the sublimely NSFW video for 'ENTHRALLED',
featuring adult actress and fetish icon Sabien DeMonia, will be revealed
this Halloween.Sabien comments:
"I always wanted to have a chance to work on creative projects like music videos and, as a metalhead myself, I was super excited when Suffering invited me. Absolutely loved working with the guys from Suffering!"
Head to the Apocalyptic Witchcraft YouTube channel for a tantalising trailer of the wickedness that lies behind the red door... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYLhV46hfjc
Let the joyous celebrations of hell begin this Halloween, as we await the coming of THINGS SEEN BUT ALWAYS HIDDEN on November 28th.
https://apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk/
https://orcd.co/apw054
https://www.facebook.com/Suffering.ukmetal/
Montreal (QC) - Canadian bruisers, DEADWOOD, have released "TALES OF MASSACRE," the second single from forthcoming EP, RITUALS OF A DYING LIGHT.
Check out the music video for "Tales of Massacre" at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqpk5XQXrSQ
Deadwood are set to release new EP, Rituals of a Dying Light, on January 6, 2026 via Innerstrength Records.
Deadwood uniquely blends death metal and hardcore to create a modern deathcore sound. Known for their heavy music and dark lyrics, their motto is "Make Deathcore Angry Again." The band aims to evoke terror and fear through their music, ensuring their performances are unforgettable.
Most importantly, the music of Deadwood caters to enthusiastic metalheads who crave pure brutality and violence.
Track
Listing:1. Tales of Massacre
2. Heretic
3. Thirst for Blood
4. Whispers of Death
5. Echoes of the Fallen
Music and lyrics by Deadwood.
Recorded at EMNT studio January 2025.
Produced by Fred Element.
Mix and mastering by Fred Element.
Formed in the shadow of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Deadwood quickly carved out a place in the heavy scene with their dark, unrelenting sound. The lineup unites seasoned veterans: guitarist Fred (ex-The Plasmarifle, ex-Ion Dissonance), guitarist Stéphane (ex-Nova Spei, Iron Maiden tribute), drummer Charles (ex-Dismayd, Discovrey Through Tourment), and vocalist Derek, reuniting with Fred after a decade since their days in Malaga.
Drawing from the ferocity of Meshuggah, the brutality of Whitechapel, and the groove-driven power of Pantera, Deadwood delivers crushing riffs and haunting atmospheres steeped in true dark histories—from the Salem witch trials to the reign of Jack the Ripper.
Their catalog includes the EP Nemesis (2022), EP Inhuman (2023), and standout singles “Straightblade” (June 2023), “Djinn Pitts” (March 2024), and “Heretic” (April 2025). Known for their commanding live presence, Deadwood has toured Japan with Humanity's Last Breath and DVRK, stormed U.S. stages in 2025, opened twice for Born of Osiris in Montréal, and shook the grounds of Inkcarceration Festival 2025.
Currently on tour across Québec, Ontario, and New Brunswick, Deadwood is gearing up for their first European run in 2026 — bringing their brand of dark, murky heaviness to stages worldwide.
Line-up:
Fred Element - Guitars
Stephane Filion - Lead Guitars
Charles Etienne Lafrance - Drums
Derek Heynekemp - Vocals*
*Note: Vocals on the EP by Martin Demontigny.
https://celuiquiditquiest.com/rencards
https://linktr.ee/Deadwood.band
Purchase/Stream The Sleeping City:
https://bit.ly/tsc-willowtip
https://anabstractillusion.bandcamp.com/album/the-sleeping-city
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fLZYALPVWA
The critical response to the band's previous album, Woe, was nothing short of phenomenal! Black Metal Daily called it "An absolutely fucking herculean masterstroke" (10/10), while Metal-Only minced no words in dubbing it a "Masterpiece" (10/10). As such, the anticipation for the epic follow-up, The Sleeping City, has been sky high!
The Sleeping City, AN ABSTRACT ILLUSION’s third full-length album, utilizes their unique blend of progressive death metal and black metal with arpeggiating synths, wistful drones and vast soundscapes, harkening back to the era of 80’s sci-fi soundtracks. Being the band’s most atmospheric and heavy work to date, the album explores the depths of the human psyche and suffering. A decrepit yet monumental landmark, the sleeping city awaits ahead. Will you enter?
The band comments on the new album:
“When we compose an album we don't want it to just be a collection of random songs, we want a holistic theme coursing through the album's veins. When writing The Sleeping City we wanted to explore what the soundtrack to a dystopian sci-fi film, such as Blade Runner or Terminator, would sound like if it were written by a death metal band.
For The Sleeping City, we took inspiration from acts such as Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine, Kite, Ólafur Arnalds and Boards of Canada, pushing us to expand and refine our sound palette. Going from the long-song format of Woe, it was a fun challenge to once again write self-contained songs with a clear beginning and end.
During the creation of this album we worked with a great team of collaborators. Produced by the band’s own Karl Westerlund, The Sleeping City was once again mixed and mastered by Robin Leijon. Drums were recorded and produced by Jakob Herrmann (Devin Townsend, Evergrey, VOLA, Vildhjärta) at the legendary Top Floor Studios in Gothenburg, who has captured some of our all-time favorite drum tones. The gorgeous artwork, a homage to early black metal's painted artworks, was done by Alex Eckman-Lawn (Horrendous, Afterbirth, Woe, Nero Di Marte). We also worked with amazing musicians who provided us with beautiful strings and vocals.
With The Sleeping City we truly feel we’ve elevated our craft beyond anything we’ve done before and can’t wait for its release. Thank you all for your continued support!”
Track
Listing:1. Blackmurmur
2. No Dreams Beyond Empty Horizons
3. Like A Geyser Ever Erupting
4. Frost Flower
5. Emmett
6. Silverfields
7. The Sleeping City
Line-up:
Christian Berglönn - Lead Vocals
Robert Stenvall - Keyboards, Vocals
Karl Westerlund - Guitars, Bass
Isak Nilsson - Drums, Background Vocals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fLZYALPVWA
https://linktr.ee/AnAbstractIllusion
Excerpt:"creates a compulsive body-heaving groove, and the rumbling drum-fills and undulating bass-lines are electric, but it feels like something monstrous and hungry is bearing down on the listener"
DROFNOSURA – “RITUAL OF SPLIT TONGUES”
Genre - Blackened/atmospheric
sludge/post-metalFor fans of - Blut aus Nord, Devenial Verdict, Eibon, Amenra, Lurk, Isis, Pillar of Light, The Angelic Process
Drofnosura from Canada are a strange beast and they're comfortable in their own iridescent, translucent skin. They have taken elements from multiple styles such as sludge, doom, black, and even post metal, finely ground them, and used the material to sculpt a new body entirely. The influences are not as distinct any more but the entity nonetheless is able to shape-shift and display the tendencies of those styles. The movement is whimsical, rhythmic, and elegant and the listener is left enraptured by it all. With songs going on for over 15 minutes, they do quite a lot in its duration, languidly traversing various realms, putting the emphasis on creating a meditative, transcendent atmosphere more than anything else. The music naturally evolves within each of the songs as they progress, and it isn't fatiguing just because it's done in such an intuitive manner. "Ritual of Split Tongues" is an astounding album where multiple influences converge to create music that's at once expansive, stirring, and dissonant, and lingers on in the mind for longer than one would think.
Line up
W.L.F. - Guitars, Vocals, Synthesizers
D.A.S. - Drums & Percussion, Vocals, Synthesizers
M.A.D. - Bass, Vocals, Synthesizers
Artwork by Dusty Ray Art
Track listing
1. Selection of a Corpse
2. Kapala Kriya
3. The Ritual of Split Tongues
4. ἐγείρω
5. The Well of Seven Heads
6. Desounen
Official release date - October 24th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/Drofnosura
Thanks a lot for your support! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
“Retribution” is Imperial Domain’s furious statement of long-delayed justice. Fueled by sharp riffs and a venomous chorus, the track channels humiliation and betrayal into pure melodic death metal vengeance. It’s a powerful preview of what’s to come on Portentum, an album set to showcase Imperial Domain’s signature blend of aggression, atmosphere, and precision.
Stream the single: https://orcd.co/retributionsingle
Pre-save Portentum: https://orcd.co/portentum
About Imperial Domain
Founded in the mid-90s, Imperial Domain quickly made waves in the Swedish death metal underground with their debut demo The Final Chapter (1995), followed by In the Ashes of the Fallen (1996)—a release that earned them national acclaim. Their full-length debut In the Ashes of the Fallen (1998) on Pulverised Records marked the band as a rising force, followed by the critically acclaimed The Ordeal (2003) via Konqueror Records.
After a brief hiatus and the tragic loss of vocalist Tobias Heideman in 2014, the band reemerged stronger than ever with The Deluge (2016), reaffirming their place in the melodic death metal pantheon. Now, Imperial Domain return with Portentum—an album that’s as uncompromising as it is thought-provoking.
Line-Up
Peter Laitinen Sundström – Guitar
Philip Borg – Guitar
Andreas Öman – Vocals
Mattias Hansson – Bass
Alvaro Svanerö – Drums
www.imperialdomain.se
www.facebook.com/imperialdomain.se
DYSENTERY – “DEJECTION CHRYSALIS”
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: november 7th 2025
Genre: Brutal/Slam Death Metal
For fans of: Putrid Pile | Internal Bleeding | Guttural Secrete | Pyrexia
Wrapped tight and immobile inside the blackened shell of despair, entangled in the thorn covered vines of bitter acceptance, I bleed out my weakness and my excuses for it, along with a pitiful selection of laughable hopes and insipid dreams. The time has come for metamorphosis, for transformation through rage, violence and a hunger for wanton destruction. The imprisoning cocoon tears beneath my new found claws and I emerge, a beast reborn, from my shattered dejection chrysalis…
Ten years since their last full length album, Fragments, Dysentery have finally re-emerged into the light, carrying with them a new album of heaviness beyond comprehension; spine-splitting slams and deep grooves like scars in the surface of the Earth. Dejection Chrysalis is the fourth album to bear the Dysentery name and if it takes a decade to carve out a bludgeoning monstrosity like this, then so be it. Instrumental opener, ‘Transference’, is so much more than a simple intro. As its title infers, it is a crossing point from normality to the world of Dysentery, a passage of mutation, configuring your mind and body for the shocking impact to come. And then you’re there, in the grip of ‘Enslavement For The Obedient, Agony For The Wayward’, utterly consumed in an instant by the thick, powerful guitars, the ultra guttural vocals and the rhythms that speak to your flesh on a primal, bestial level. ‘Exhausted Bliss Of Self Loathing’ brings furious blast beats, precision tempo shifts, riffs like heavy machinery and a guest vocal appearance from Josh Welshman of Defeated Sanity, while listening to ‘A Bestial Omen’ is like being the plaything of an oblivious giant – your limbs twisted into impossible positions, through agonizing angles as the gargantuan hands manipulate your fragile form – this is ogre music! And as the album progresses you realise just what Dysentery have achieved with Dejection Chrysalis, why it was worth waiting every moment of those ten years for. They make this music their own; with an aura of power, of untouchable force and presence. This is how you deliver brutal, slam death metal and make it meaningful and beyond devastating. From the electrifying barrage of ‘Fratricidium’ to the elite level brutality of ‘Ascend This Harrowing Dream’ there are so many great touches from the guitars, the drums, the vocals that just lift Dysentery to a level above the surrounding pack. Dynamic beyond all expectations, Dejection Chrysalis is a masterpiece of musical extremity.
Mixed and mastered by Randy LeBoeuf at Graphic Nature Audio (Kublai Khan TX, The Acacia Strain, Vomit Forth etc) Dejection Chrysalis is sonically formidable and the accompanying visual impact is supplied by the artwork of Hidris (Anhedonic, Reign Of Erebus, Snakepit etc). With added variants of vocal violence supplied by guest appearances from Josh Welshman (Defeated Sanity), Jared Weed (Concrete, Futility) and JT Knight (Invoke Thy Wrath) Dejection Chrysalis is essential. Coming your way on Comatose Music on November 7th – be ready for the return of Dysentery!
Line-up:
Eric Taranto - Drums
Peter Spinazola - Guitar
Scott Savaria - Vocals
John Cook - Bass
Guest vocals on ‘Exhausted Bliss Of Self Loathing’ by Josh Welshman
Guest vocals on ‘Shackled By Idolatry’ by Jared Weed
Guest vocals on ‘Fratricidium’ by JT Knight
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
The first single 'Shockwave' accompanied by lyric video is unleashed today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/krushor-shockwave
The band comments:
"Shockwave is about war, its madness, and maybe, fittingly for the times, a bit about why wars are fought, who starts them, and who benefits from them. In war, there are no winners at least not for us poor folks. I don't like to politicize things, but in these times, wars are too present, and you can always write a song about how horrifying they are."
Biography:
The band found its current identity through shared musical tastes, playing together, and a shared hobby. We are a group of people who enjoy making and playing music that works for all of us. A big part of this is that composing, writing lyrics, and editing songs is open to everyone. All songs and compositions are created by the whole group, not based on one person's vision or goal.
Our influences definitely come from older metal, but that doesn't matter, because mixing genres actually adds a lot to our music; there's no one right way to do things. Krushor's goal is to make music that sounds good and at the same time talk about the difficult things that are part of life. For many people, music can be therapeutic, and if even one person feels that way about our music, we feel we have succeeded.
Track
list:01. Shockwave
02. Vortex
03. Rise Above
04. Taste of Hatred
Composed by Joni Kärsämä, Juho Mattila
Saku Hirvimäki, Sami Keränen
Lyrics by Ville Lehtoranta
Arranged by Krushor
Line-up:
Ville Lehtoranta - Vocals
Joni Kärsämä - Guitar
Juho Mattila - Guitar
Sami Keränen - Bass
Saku Hirvimäki - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/krushorofficial
The world premiere for the official music video for "The Racking" comes via The Circle Pit. Watch the video now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JbTMkVOcag
The song is also streaming on all major platforms.
Rising from the heart of the Midwest metal scene, this Chicago-based quintet has announced a fall release for their much-anticipated second full-length, Tyrannus Aeternum. Following the 2022 release of their debut album, Rex Mortem, BURNED IN EFFIGY has sharpened their sound to a lethal edge. The result is an 11-track onslaught that blends the band’s skillful musicianship and technicality with volcanic brutality.
Tyrannus Aeternum is set for release on October 31. Pre-orders the album now at https://burnedineffigy.bandcamp.com/album/tyrannus-aeternum
Tracklist:1) Befouled Benefaction
2) Retribution
3) Masquerade
4) Procession
5) Wage of Exile
6) Sacrificial Seance
7) Monstrosity Reborn
8) Gallows Hymn
9) The Racking
10) Crown Crusher
11) Citadel
Tyrannus Aeternum was recorded at Beal Audio and Bricktop Recording, with production, engineering and mixing by Jordan Beal. Orchestration and keyboards on the album were provided by Graham Southern. Album artwork by Timon Kokott.
Bio:
BURNED IN EFFIGY’s roots date back to 2017. In January 2022, the band independently released its debut album Rex Mortem, which was highly acclaimed by leading heavy music media and led to the band sharing the stage with iconic acts such as ORBIT CULTURE, OBSCURA, and REVOCATION.
A must for listeners of acts such as THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER and INFERI, with the band’s attention to virtuosity and intensity in equal measure, the effort and accomplishment of the band’s debut led to being talent scouted. With work on the band's sophomore album complete, BURNED IN EFFIGY aims to take its signature melodic death metal sound across the US, and in time, the world. The search for total conquest continues.
Line-up:
Mark “Smedy” Smedbron - Vocals
Steve Bacakos - Guitar
Mike Hisson - Guitar
Matt Watkins - Bass
Eddie Dec - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/burnedineffigyofficial
Now they've really done it...NOW I'VE DONE IT, a two-piece avant-garde metal unit from Philadelphia is now streaming their debut album, AN ILL GUEST, in full. The exclusive world premiere of An Ill Guest comes courtesy of Ghost Cult Magazine a day ahead of the album's official release date.
Listen now at https://ghostcultmag.com/exclusive-premiere-now-ive-done-it-stream-their-album-in-full-an-ill-guest-at-ghost-cult/
Leading up to the release of An Ill Guest, NOW I'VE DONE IT has taken an interesting approach to introducing fans to the album's singles. This includes the first-ever analog lyric video for "Panache"and the Powerpoint-created showing of "Jim-Jams" .
An Ill Guest is set for release on October 17. Order the album at https://nowivedoneit.bandcamp.com/album/an-ill-guest
What, or who, is NOW I’VE DONE IT? Four words. One way to live.
NOW: The present. Be the Now.
I’VE: I. Have. Contract. Take ownership. Seize the Now.
DONE: What’s done is done, and what hasn’t been will become done. What has become done has become the present… which is Now.
IT: What is It? It is Everything. It is Now.
NOW I’VE DONE IT is an eclectic blend of avant-garde metal, swing, and punk-cabaret hailing from Philadelphia. Comprised of current and former members of Philadelphia progressive power metal band Lör, NiDi offers something for everyone, or nothing for no one.
Track
list:1. Disillusion
2. Dilly-Dally
3. Offering
4. Ruffled
5. Panache
6. Collywobbles
7. Muddled
8. Splinter
9. Jim-Jams
10. Kindling
Artwork painted by Eliran Kantor.
An Ill Guest was produced, mixed, mastered, and engineered by Peter Hraur.
Bio:
NOW I’VE DONE IT (stylized as NiDi) began in 2010 by high school friends, multi-instrumentalist Peter Hraur, and drummer Dan Reynolds. The two set out to create music that was a unique reflection of what they love about music: high energy but heavy, fun but dramatic, and funny without being a joke. With a rebellious DIY attitude, they scraped together whatever cheap recording equipment they could afford and put together their first demo of three avant-garde inspired metal tracks, aptly titled Rigamarole. The band would go on to spend years playing in the greater Philadelphia region, offering a theatrical, energetic, yet earnest live show, performing with such acts as Parius, Alustrium, Polkadot Cadaver, and more.
Peter and Dan took a "say yes" attitude while crafting An Ill Guest, resulting in 10 tracks filled to the brim with the kind of personality that can only result when two lifelong friends disregard convention and have a little too much fun in the writing room. Over the years of performing, the band has received phenomenal feedback, being described as "the most fun I've had at a live show," and inspiring listeners to dive into their own art with renewed energy.
The band’s hope is for this release to act as a radar to all those who want something a little different. It's bold and risk-taking, heavy and dramatic, but fun and extravagant. It's weird music for weird people.
https://www.facebook.com/nowivedoneitofficial
DETERIOROT
– “ECHOES FROM THE PAST”The legendary Deteriorot has been active since 1988, formed by the songwriter, guitarist/vocalist Paul Zavaleta. Pioneering the genre through the early 90's. One of The True US cult underground Death Metal Elite. This compilation album features the ‘1992 demo’, the 1993 ‘Manifested Apparitions of Unholy Spirits’ ep, live 1993 recordings, ‘Unholy Return’ promo 2000, ‘The Faithless’ demo 2003 and a very special bonus track ‘Reanimate (2025 recordings). Artwork by Larry Lyannas (Lividity, Severance, Supreme Pain). The 1993 ep was engineered by Tim Gilles (MOD, SOD. Long time sold out (early) discography compilation deluxe! Bonus: unreleased 2000 Unholy Return promo, the demo 92, the entire 2003 demo The Faithless (all 5 tracks!)
DEMONOID – “RIDERS OF THE APOCALYPSE”
DEMONOID re-issue, THERION’s Christoffer Johnsson return to Death metal!
Therion entered a new path late 90’s with Therion. Of course Therion was one of the forefathers of Swedish death metal. After a decade the more progressive and gothic elements took over and made Therion the band it is nowadays. The death metal blood in Johnson was still running however and found a way out in the formation of Demoniod. The main goal was playing pure old school Swedish Death metal. Johnson was joined by his Therion bandmember Kristian Niemann on guitars (Sorcerer, ex-Snowy Shaw (live)) and completed by Johan Niemann on bass (Evergrey, Hollingshead, ex-Mind's Eye, ex-Tears of Anger, ex-Therion, ex-Tiamat) and Richard Evensand on drums (Ebony Tears, ex-Chimaira, ex-Sorcerer, ex-Therion, ex-Soilwork). CD out 7 th November!
https://www.vicrecords.com/
Costa Rican Death/doom metal band Perishing with members of Astriferous, Mortual, Necroferum, etc. are close to releasing their highly awaited debut full length and the singles out so far only reaffirm the quality of their music and their mastery over the style. No Clean Singing premiered a track reminiscent of Disembowelment recently at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/16/an-ncs-premiere-perishing-las-ruinas-del-palacio/
Excerpt - "the song proves to be subterranean, soul-sinking, spellbinding, titanically heavy, and physically compulsive – a lot to achieve so successfully in a single song"
PERISHING – “MALICIOUS ACROPOLIS UNVEILED”
Genre: Death/Doom MetalFor fans of: Disembowelment, Rippikoulu, Mortiferum, Winter, Thergothon, Inverloch
Following a sensational demo in "Lutum", Costa Rican death/doom metal band Perishing boasting members of Astriferous, Mortual, Necroferum, etc. in their lineup, have returned with their much awaited debut full length. It's an extension of their style of playing slow, torturous, dread-filled death/doom metal where every note carries weight and with it deathly implications. A fetid stench pervades the entire proceedings, which is overpowering when combined with the sickly tunes and vocals lingering in the air as if emanating from beyond the grave. The entire experience is morose, sickening, and yet strangely comforting just because it is done so well. The music transitions beautifully from the ponderous doom trudges to the trotting death metal parts without losing its asphyxiating grip on the listener, and just as smoothly eases back into the slowly churning maelstrom of death. Maintaining a suitably organic sound and being selective with their tunes to create the best impression, Perishing have created an album that fans of this kind of punishing, slow death/doom metal music will find impossible to resist.
Lineup
JM Arrea (Astriferous, ex-Bloodsoaked Necrovoid) - Drums
José Pablo Phillips (Astriferous, Candarian) - Bass
Justin Sánchez (Mortual, Necroferum) - Guitars
J. Antonio Salas - Vocals
Artwork by Belial NecroArts (Undersave, Hierarchies)
Track listing
1. Autolysis (I. Imago Fluidus Macula)
2. Autolysis (II. Fatum Cursed by Nature)
3. Castle of the Leached Body 08:57
4. Las Ruinas del Palacio
5. Osedax (Devoured by the Cavernous Worm) 09:21
6. Acropolis of Malignancy
Official release date - October 17th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://perishing.bandcamp.com/album/malicious-acropolis-unveiled
That's all for now! Thanks a lot for your support everyone! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
G.A.E.A. (GALACTIC ALIENS EXTERMINATION ARMADA) is a project created by Buzz (aka Giuseppe Nicolò - MEMORIES OF A LOST SOUL) and his desire to combine Progressive Metal, Death / Thrash, Avantgardish Modern sounds with the soundtracks of video games and 1980s sci-fi films and so CYNIC, ATHEIST, MESHUGGAH, GOJIRA can be considered the fathers of their sound even if the mastery of G.A.E.A.'s music is absolutely unique.
Today the band, which features a renewed line-up completed with Dysphoria on keyboards and female vocals and Emi Dattolo on bass, has signed a contract with Club Inferno for the digital distribution and promotion of the sophomore album "A FROZEN MOMENT IN TIME" out on November 14th, 2025.
Tracklist:
1. Lovelikebigbang
2. Pillars Of Creation
3. Stranger In A Stranger Land
4. Mechassault
5. Gates Of Zendocon
6. Second Chapter
7. Obliterator
8. Obliterator (Part 2)
9. The Moon And The Earth
10. Finally Free
"A Frozen Moment In Time" is based on the concept of the journey of the last humans aboard their mothership in search of a habitable planet due to the imminent explosion of the Earth.
The band creates atmospheres that masterfully intertwine different currents ranging from Prog to Death Metal to melodic Goth sounds.
Brutal vocals live in symbiosis with sweet melodies of female voices often embellished by the vocoder use, in the meantime lethal riffs spread through the air with devastating fury and sink into your body like sharp blades in an extremely refined style and with a sound born from Lost Soul Studio.
The result is "A Frozen Moment In Time", an album capable of having its heart and its soul projected towards the future.
G.A.E.A., a musical kaleidoscope of freezing atmospheres and devastating harmonies.
Pre-Order: https://clubinfernoent.bandcamp.com/album/a-frozen-moment-in-time
Pre-Save: https://onerpm.link/420154090175
http://www.facebook.com/clubinfernoent
https://www.facebook.com/GAEAband
Greek Dark Americana outfit :SKULL & DAWN: have released a new lyric video for their haunting track "KNOXVILLE GIRL” from their second full-length album, “THE HARVEST”, officially out on 17 October 2025 through The Circle Music.
Watch the video for “Knoxville Girl”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGu7qnrW3YE&feature=youtu.be
“Knoxville Girl” is a traditional murder ballad that tells a dark tale of love, violence, and regret. The band's unique rendition of the classic folk tune, infused with their signature blend of American folklore and dark Americana, brings a fresh intensity to the centuries-old story.
This follows the release of the first single, "Down to Hell (Black Cat Bar)", which tells a story of late-night revelry and a dark descent. The band describes it as an "urban ceremony" filled with banjos, distorted guitars, percussion, chains and "lots of alcohol", culminating in a fall into a "dark well" that leads straight to hell.
The upcoming album “The Harvest” dives deep into a mysterious world of Southern Gothic horror, featuring songs about dead lovers, serial killers, lone cowboys, and lost souls. The album blends the band's neofolk past with a true Americana sound and a Southern Gothic atmosphere.
The album is available for pre-order via The Circle Music: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=skull-dawn and digital pre-save: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/TheHarvest
“The Harvest” will be released in digital and CD formats, with the CD version including two bonus tracks: "Kingdom of the Corn (Live)" and "St. James Infirmary (Live)". A limited edition black LP (250 copies) and a limited edition gold LP (250 copies) with a printed insert will also be available.
Guests on the album include Okoi Thierry Jones (Bölzer), Perikis Tikof (Opened Paradise), Ioanna Noir Zacharopoulou (Glitter Grotesque) and Vasso Jism.
Founded in 1999 under a different name as a trio in Athens, Greece, the band started by creating industrial noise music using hammers and electric screwdrivers. From 2002 to 2009, they embraced the heritage of Old Europe and folk instruments under the name Défilé des Âmes. They released the full-length LP Lust & Stone, a split EP, and several DIY EPs. They also collaborated with notable artists like Sieben.
The band reformed in 2009 as :Skull & dawn:, shifting their sound to be influenced by the American South. Their debut album, Zombie Horses (2016), fused their industrial roots with American folklore, creating a sound inspired by artists like The Bad Seeds and Hank 3. They have maintained a strong live presence over the years, performing with a wide range of artists, including Jarboe, Chelsea Wolfe and Psychic TV.
Tracklisting:
1. Down to hell (Black Cat Bar)
2. Knoxville Girl
3. Kingdom of the Corn
4. Born Dead
5. GG Allin
6. Gold is the Metal
7. Trouble was her Name
8. Old Testament
9. Hail to the King
10. Kingdom of the Corn (Live) (CD Bonus Track)
11. St. James Infirmary (Live) (CD Bonus Track)
Skull & dawn are:
Manos Six - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, Electric Guitar, Percussion
Stamos A. - Electric Bass
Chris Abatis - Electric Guitar
Alex Tabakakis - Drums + Percussion
Vassilis Kemanidis - Violin
https://thecirclemusic.gr/
https://facebook.com/skullanddawn/
Melodic death-metal outfit SELIAS has released their
brand-new single and video “BEYOND THE SWITCH”, the
second track revealed from the band’s forthcoming album KILLKARMA,
out November 7, 2025.BEYOND THE SWITCH captures the turning point after betrayal and broken trust — the moment of clarity where new bonds are forged and old bridges are left to burn. As one of the standout singles from KILLKARMA, the track blends haunting melody with a dark, driven edge — a reflection of moving on, no matter the cost
Stream “Beyond The Switch ”: https://orcd.co/btssingle
With Killkarma, SELlAS expand their sonic territory, blending melodic brutality with cinematic atmosphere. Taking inspiration from In Flames, Soilwork, Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, and Orbit Culture, the band sharpens their identity into a sound that is at once relentless and immersive. Their 2025 live shows have already begun unveiling this next chapter with powerful, full-scale performances of light, sound, and intensity.
Pre-save the album Killkarma: https://orcd.co/killkarma
Previous singles & videos:
https://orcd.co/bulletssingle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ5NXahLmaI
About SELIAS
Formed in 2020 by guitarist Steve Elias, SELIAS fuses aggression with atmosphere, precision, and emotion. Rounded out by Guillaume Pascual (vocals/keys), Daniel Bouwman (drums), and Jeff Hyde (bass), the band delivers a cinematic metal experience that bridges classic death metal ferocity with modern melodic edge.
www.youtube.com/@seliasmetal
www.facebook.com/seliasmetal
Listen
to the album teaser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM6-LtnMBQUBindrune Records will release What Remains When Hope Has Failed on CD, vinyl and digital formats on November 21.
Tracklist:
1) The Wyrm at World's End
2) This Rotten Bough
3) Sky Avalanche
4) Quiescence
5) Bereft Part 2
6) What Remains When Hope Has Failed
Formed from the ashes of Wodensthrone, NEMOROUS carry the torch of atmospheric English black influenced metal proudly, but it’s not the main driving force behind them. The vision is far more expansive and eclectic. With their debut self-titled EP, they have proven that the twisting melodies and fog-like aura they create with their sound indeed harkens back to their past musical conquests, yet progression is a core tenet as it walks hand in hand with rich melodies and a fierce sense of aggressive tradition.
What Remains When Hope Has Failed is four years in the making and finds the band emerging victorious from a line-up change, where Chris Walsh (Vocals/Guitars) was replaced by Nick Craggs (Vocals - Vacivus/Neolithic) and Rob Hindmarsh on second guitar. Now as sextet, the band dove into the music for their first full-length reinvigorated, and it shows in the album’s composition.
What Remains When Hope Has Failed is a dynamic and emotional journey where quiet musical passages draw the listener in with vulnerability and beautiful, clean guitar arrangements that feel like Fields of the Nephilim at their most post-apocalyptic, only to build with reflective, melancholic mids, before exploding with blasting ferocity. From subtle, yet expansive synth textures, complex drum work that never loses grasp on a powerful feel/swing, it all strengthens the overall impact of this album with colorful dynamics and a songwriting characteristic which can certainly be traced back to the early days of Wodensthrone.
NEMOROUS is:
Phil Heckles - Bass
Ian Finley - Drums
Michael Blenkarn - Guitars
Alexandra Durning - Keyboards
Rob Hindmarsh - Guitars
Nick Craggs - Vocals
www.facebook.com/bindrunerecordings
www.facebook.com/NemorousUK
The
legendary Finnish metal band SOULGRIND, founded in 1992, is
set to release its tenth album, AD PULCHRAM MORTEM, via Inverse
Records. The release date will be announced later. The second single 'Tears of the Earth' is unleashed today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/soulgrind-tears
Vocalist/keyboardist Azhemin comments:
"Tears of the Earth was a laborious project in every respect. At its peak, the session had 93 tracks, and refining all the small nuances sometimes felt like shooting oneself in the foot. However, in the end, the mix became quite simple. Even if you have a palette full of colored pencils, you don’t always need to use them all.
The song basically consists of three separate parts or spaces that form the whole. The lyrics support the mood of these scenes in just the right way. Tears of the Earth is a compact yet multifaceted piece."
Guitarist Lord Heikkinen continues:
"Tears of the Earth was built around a riffing I had done a few years earlier. Azhem and I started creating a song together from the riffs. Azhem came up with a great prog-inspired middle section that sounds simple but is actually quite intricate when you listen closely to the riff. Additionally, Micko Hell arranged excellent acoustic parts for the song. Not to mention Tanya Lilith's wonderful melodies and harmonies. Overall, it’s a successful and unique whole.
The lyrics are based on an apocalyptic theme, the final nightmares. They describe how all organized cultures and religions drain everything and everywhere dry. In the end, only death remains—along with the Earth Mother’s tears and sorrow. These lyrics are actually embedded in the album’s story, a dark journey along the rivers of Tuonela. This trip mostly takes place in the traveler’s mind."
Watch music video of first single 'Jylhä Metsämies' : https://youtu.be/aoBIyV44VOY
Biography:
Soulgrind is a Finnish metal band formed in 1992, known primarily for their blend of gothic metal, thrash and black metal with a dark, melodic atmosphere. The band was founded by Lord Heikkinen, who has consistently contributed guitars and programming throughout their career.
Soulgrind's music often explores themes related to the darker aspects of Finnish history and psyche, combining passion, war, and the "dark side of mind" into their lyrical content, reflecting a deep connection to Finland's cultural and historical roots. But there has always been the bride side for the aspects as well. Classic war of love and hate.The sound has evolved over the time, but Soulgrind has maintained a core identity rooted in metal with a dark, atmospheric edge, resisting strict genre categorization and embracing musical development freely. Freedom of metal has always been the theme. And so it shall be.
Soulgrind is recognized for their intelligent and unique approach to metal, merging melodic and dark elements to create a distinctive sound within the Finnish metal scene. Their long-standing presence since the early 90s marks them as a significant act in the gothic and black metal genres in Finland.
Soulgrind - Ad Pulchram Mortem (Album)
Track list:
01. Jylhä Metsämies
02. Origins of The Serpent
03. In The Circus of Tuonela
04. Dark Water Wide
05. Black Prediction´s Bite
06. Tears of The Earth
07. Weight of The Old Sins
08. Ikiliekki
09. Dance Of The White Wolf
10. A Whispered Curse Upon The Gale
11. As Narrow Fjord Descends
12. Into The Shadows of Devotion
Album pic by Susanna Mansner
Line-up:
Lord Heikkinen: guitars
Azhemin: Keybords, vocals
Tanya Lilith: Vocals
Suntio: Drums:
JP: Bass
Micko Hell: Guitars, Vocals
Former members: Roope Latvala ( Children of Bodom, Stone ), Juke Eräkangas, Tommi McLaunone (Gloomy Grim, Nomicon), Henrik Laine (Deepred )
https://soulgrind.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/SoulgrindFinland
Norway’s MYR, the black metal duo comprised of Svartan and TZommer, will release their debut album, “HELVEGEN”, on a strictly limited edition vinyl format. The LP is limited to just 100 copies and will be available to purchase exclusively via the band’s Bandcamp page on 22 October 2025.
Following the digital release of Helvegen in June, MYR is offering collectors a physical artefact to match the album’s dark, untamed spirit. The band continues to build momentum, having previously released two powerful music videos from the record: "Saturnine Child" and "Brennt" (which premiered on NoCleanSinging). Both videos were created in collaboration with the renowned Grupa 13 (Behemoth, Amon Amarth etc.), showcasing the album’s thematic depth. MYR delivers a sound that is both raw and melodic, drawing deeply from Scandinavian legends and the traditions of Northern black metal, inviting comparison to legends such as Satyricon, Bathory, and Dissection.
MYR has also confirmed their first major live appearance, announcing they will perform at the prestigious Inferno Metal Festival in Oslo, Norway in 2026.
The band said:
"The sound of Helvegen was forged in the cold, and it demands to be heard on vinyl, it’s the definitive way to experience the album's atmosphere. Announcing Inferno 2026 is the next crucial step. We are ready to bring the darkness of the North to the stage."
"Helvegen" was mixed and mastered by the renowned Tore Stjerna at Necromorbus Studio in Sweden, known for his work with Watain, Mayhem, and Tribulation.
Track list: 1. December Coma
2. In Perpetum
3. Brennt
4. Røkkr
5. Saturnine Child
6. Naraka
7. Proch
8. Tungsten
9. Kaldr
MYR are:
Svartan - Guitars, Vocals
TZommer - Guitars
https://www.facebook.com/myrnorge
The second demo was duly extracted from the misanthropic Nordic solitude, where cold winds blow and snow falls mercilessly during long winter nights, where necrophiliac crows await the merciless death that announces its arrival with the somber melodies of Begravet I Skogen, hidden in funereal nightmares.
"Demo II" is the title of the new, haunting blizzard that approaches ominously, described by somber poetry that transforms Begravet i Skogen into a morbid and obscure artistic expression, an unpredictable representation of archaic winter landscapes, burdened by the anguish of old age and the passage of time.
In 2024, the first demo was released, overwhelmed by horrendous nightmares of yesteryear, where pain, terror, and suffering were a constant funeral. Now is the time to release the next horrifying nightmare, recorded analog on a four-track recorder so that the cavernous essence of Begravet I Skogen's melodies remains raw, and its melodies remain true to their rotten origins.
MORBID DOOM RAW NIHILISTIC BLACK METAL!BEGRAVET I SKOGEN - "DEMO II"
Cassette Limited Edition of 50 copies, hand numbered
Side A:
01 - Lengter Etter Lange Vinternetter - [13:11]
Side B:
02 - Våre Tapte Oppdagere Har Dødd - [16:05]
Recorded on an analog four-track cassette recorder between February and May 2025.
All music and lyrics by Sarkofag.
Layout made by Alemão & Danihell Slaughter.
Promotional videos made by Danihell Slaughter.
RELEASE DATE 05th DECEMBER 2025
Official distribution by Hellstore Europe
BEGRAVET I SKOGEN Line Up:
Sarkofag (Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano)
begravetiskogen@gmail.com
https://begravetiskogen.bandcamp.com
www.murder-records.eu
Between
1989–2024, R.E.T. was a band
consisting of members mostly from Třinec, the second easternmost town in the
Czech Republic, and its surroundings, close to the borders with Poland and
Slovakia.Label: Pařát Productions
Style: Doom metal
Type: Digipak (500 copies)
Release date: 29.11. 2025
Pre-orders start: 1.11. 2025
That is, from the Moravian-Silesian region, where a strong doom-metal base established itself in the mid-1990s, led by bands such as DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY, HYPNOTIC SCENERY or SILENT STREAM OF GODLESS ELEGY. Although this period lasted only a few years, spontaneously emerged and just as spontaneously dissolved, it made an indelible mark in the history of the Czech (doom) metal scene.
The recording “DEPRESSION”, with which R.E.T. first entered the chronicles of Czech doom metal and hard music in general in 1995 as their debut CD, was first released as a cassette demo without any ambitions.
It was recorded already in 1993. No one expected where and how quickly things would move forward.
Full article can be read on the Pařát Productions website https://paratshop.cz/2025/10/07/depression-od-r-e-t-vyjde-po-30-letech-v-reedici-na-digipaku/
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Genre
: Raw, Hateful Death MetalRelease dates:
Digital - November 21st, 2025
Physical - January 30th, 2026
With the uncompromising credo “Unrelenting death metal. No trends. No mercy.” CALCRAFT define their sound - and with their debut album "Reborn Through Torture", they deliver a merciless statement against anything watered-down or trend-driven.
The Texas-based outfit stands for raw, hate-fueled death metal, deeply rooted in the legacy of Immolation, Suffocation, and Incantation. But CALCRAFT go further: their songs are steeped in dark atmosphere, thrashy aggression, and a cinematic violence that feels ripped straight from the bloodiest scenes of Giallo and slasher films.
Their name is no coincidence - William Calcraft, England’s infamous executioner, serves as a grim source of inspiration. Like their namesake, CALCRAFT show no mercy: their music is an auditory noose, each track an execution. "Reborn Through Torture" is a blood-soaked manifesto of riffs, madness, and horror, dragging the listener into a world of pain and cinematic carnage.
Each song tells a story - of insanity, torture, and final breaths. CALCRAFT don’t aim to entertain; they aim to disturb. Their goal is to create a threatening sonic landscape that sounds like “a blood-soaked soundtrack to the final scene you never survive.”
Those who face this album won’t be spared. CALCRAFT hold themselves to their own brutal standard - and deliver death metal in its most relentless, uncompromising form.
https://calcraftlfr.bandcamp.com/album/reborn-through-torture
Dead And Dripping continue to create some of the music unique-sounding brutal death metal music. One-man army Evan Daniele has upgraded his skills in all ways and he's even managed to write songs that go on for around 9 mins which is no mean feat. It's an incredible, engrossing album that will be talked about for years. Listen to a couple of singles from it at https://deadanddrippingus.bandcamp.com/album/nefarious-scintillations
DEAD AND DRIPPING - “NEFARIOUS SCINTILLATIONS”
Genre:
Brutal/Technical
Death Metal)For fans of : Demilich, Wicked Innocence, Wormed, Defeated Sanity, Mortal Decay, Fathomless Ritual,
Suffocation
Dead And Dripping is back with another album of mind-warping, reality-deconstructing music. One-man crew Evan Daniele, who was already playing everything on the albums so far, has gone ahead and even created the artwork for this album that manages to replicate the intricate nature of the music along with some kind of hallucinogenic quality that it induces. The music is often slower, deliberate, as if to create a hypnotic effect aided by use of repetition, and with that the songs can go on for as long as nine minutes without seeming cumbersome as is almost always the case with the brutal death metal subgenre where lengthy songs go. Dead And Dripping is doing something novel in this space which begs to be heard with all its quirks including the Demilich-esque croaks to go with music sounding just as surreal and twisted. It's an album that is painstakingly composed with thought and effort put into every single aspect of it and with all of it done in a refreshingly organic manner. "Nefarious Scintillations" is a tour-de-force for the style and a testament to the dedication and prowess of one-man bands.
Track listing
1. Nefariously Scintillating through Vacant Galactic Reservoirs
2. Horrifying Glimpses Into Inconceivably Demented Cityscapes
3. Pestilent Hints of Darkened Malodorous Vibrations
4. Swollen Torsos Adorned with Pustulating Hexagonal Crania
5. Sickeningly Vague Anatomical Silhouettes
6. Spontaneous Recollections of Unwitnessable Atrocity
7. Seeping through Ancient Transdimensional Corridors
8. An Utterly Tenantless World of Aeons-Long Death
Line up
Evan Daniele - All music and artwork
Official release date - November 28th, 2025
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Thanks a lot for your support! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
A
new occult/doom rock act, DROWNED IN SILVER, has unveiled "WAVES
OF SORROW", the first single and video from their debut album “MOTHERS”.
The full-length record is set to be released on 7 November 2025 via Pagan
Records in CD, LP and digital formats. Watch “Waves of Sorrow”: https://youtu.be/8DcnLzblDbg
"Waves of Sorrow" is a powerful testament to the band’s signature sound, blending the dark atmospheres of occult and doom rock with a distinct gothic touch. The music video, created in collaboration with the artists from Zaćma Visual Studio and the Kraków-based dance group Morphos, visually captures the song’s intensity and mood.
Drowned in Silver is a new project formed by seasoned musicians from the black metal and experimental music scenes. Their music finds a unique balance between occult rock and trance-like expression, drawing inspiration from the spiritual intensity of artists like The Devil’s Blood, Dead Can Dance and Wardruna.
https://www.pagan-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/drownedinsilver
Milwaukee (WI) - One-man Cinematic Doom project, LIMINAL SPIRIT, will release full-length debut album, UNWELL, on October 31.
Unwell is the third presentation from Liminal Spirit, as told by Phillip, Jonathan, Madeline, C., E., and The Adjudicators over the course of five acts.
FFO: Jesu, Cynic, Confessor, Swans, Skepticism
Multi-instrumentalist/composer, Jerry Hauppa (Northless, Ara, Deorbit), had this to say about the forthcoming opus:
"I have a lot to say about what I've done with the album, but the main goal was an exploration of some of my biggest fears. I've worked in nursing homes and they are absolutely miserable places, and it is a tragedy that if we are lucky enough to live that long, that is where we will most likely end up. Losing control of my faculties, mental and physical decline, and the pondering of the unknown are all lingering fears overcasting my younger years, and I wanted to explore that musically, but also develop the idea of building sympathy for a character with dementia, only to find out that he is actually a monster who has done some horrific things despite not remembering them.
I wanted to tell a story showing that you are on the hook for your deeds no matter what- even if you can't remember them or if your mental decline has eroded away the part of you that is capable of heinous acts. I wanted the music to reflect the contemplation of a sick and addled person, and brought it together using microtonal guitars that provide an alien-sounding character to the music.
The music written for the record also is tied to the seeking of spiritual salvation referenced in the song 'Welcome to My World' from Jim Reeves, recorded in 1962 and presented here in the first track of the album as the character listens to it one last time for peace of mind. The melody for this song is manipulated repeatedly throughout the record as our main character, Phillip, seeks salvation despite the blight on his soul from acts he has forgotten, but unlike what is heard on the Jim Reeves song, those who can provide salvation do not take kindly to Phillip as judgment nears.
I hope those who listen are able to feel the themes expressed. It was a meaningful release to build and I am looking forward to the reception."
The album's title track is streaming now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeiBBqAmu9o as well as on https://liminalspirit.bandcamp.com/track/unwell
Track
Listing:1. Admittance
2. Unwell
3. Visiting Day
4. EOLC
5. A Better Place
Pre-order Unwell: https://liminalspirit.bandcamp.com/album/unwell
Credits:
All music written, recorded, and mixed by Jerry Hauppa.
Role of Madeline peformed by Kaitlyn Menden.
Mastered by Jeff Wojtysiak at Spiritual Sound Mastering.
Liminal Spirit is:
Jerry Hauppa - Guitar, Bass, Drum Programming, Synthesizer, Vocoder, Violin
Bio:
Liminal Spirit is Jerry Hauppa's solo project. Prior to this, Hauppa was involved in sludge metal band Northless, death metal band Ara, and instrumental space-focused band, Deorbit.
https://www.facebook.com/people/Liminal-Spirit/61575618106702
Label: Ardua MusicRelease date: october 24th 2025
Genre: Melodic Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Anathema | The Gathering | Tiamat | Ghostheart Nebula
As the sky shifts through its kaleidoscope of colours, gradually slipping into darker hues and the stars emerge from hiding, a dusting of distant diamonds across the velvet canopy, I sink down into the welcoming arms of sleep. I cross the bridge of dreams beneath the watching eyes of the moon and a journey, forgotten in daylight hours, begins anew…
Briefly existing as a full band in the early 2000s, producing one demo, Utopia: A Winternight’s Traveller in 2004, Ars Onirica was reborn as the solo project of Alessandro Sforza in 2018. Two superbly crafted albums of melodic doom/death – I: Cold and II: Lost – have established Ars Onirica as a name synonymous with imaginative, enthralling music and now the next chapter in this story of enchantment and revelation is about to begin. Despite, as its title suggests, being an interlude between albums, 2.5 Nighttime is a sublime work, rich in wonders and overflowing with magic, that is destined to become a treasured part of Ars Onirica’s unfolding discography. Opening track, ‘Dusk (An Ode To The Stars)’ entwines gently emotive vocals and guitars like whispered incantations to transport the listener to the deeply dreaming world of Ars Onirica, opening the gateway to the remarkable three part title track which forms the heart of this EP. ‘Nighttime Part I’ blossoms around you, all enveloping and lifts you, weightless, to the stars before the momentous weight and power of ‘Nighttime Part II (Your Silence Around Me) is unveiled. With vast chords and cascading notes leading into fiercely emotive harsh vocals alongside quiet, yet equally compelling clean vocals, the dream walks the boundaries between light and dark. ‘…Part III’ brings a sense of urgency and an almost blackened aura, but always juxtaposed with the warmth and beauty that run through this EP like unifying threads of gold. The contrasts and dynamics are stunning, yet smoothly blended, the shifts of scene as perfect as the changing scenarios of a dream. And finally, ‘Dawn’ provides a sweetly languorous awakening, the experiences of the hours of darkness drifting apart like gossamer threads as the sun rises, delivering a perfectly formed sense of conclusion and completeness. 2.5 Nighttime is a remarkable, immersive creation to be savoured and experienced again and again.
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Blue Ocean Recording Studio by Alessandro Sforza in partnership with Lorenzo Carlini of Black Therapy and Invernoir, who also worked on I:Cold and II: Lost, every nuance of 2.5 Nighttime’s layered and textured compositions can be fully appreciated. And with Disturbing Grace Design supplying one of those rare pieces of cover art that perfectly captures the spirit and soul of the music within, every contributing element has combined to make this release something truly special. Ardua Music will unveil 2.5 Nighttime on October 24th and the dream will begin once more.
Line-up:
Alessandro Sforza – All music and vocals
https://www.arduamusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ArsOnirica/
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse, Sanguisugabogg, Thy art is murder,Visions of Disorder & The Acacia Strain.
The EP will be released at a date TBA through Alien Swarm Records Singer/Guitarist Walt Fitzjurls describes the EP as, "Crushingly heavy melodic death metal with touches of hardcore breakdowns and prog metal moments."
The first single, 'The Beauty of Letting Go,' will drop on, 10/20/25 across most digital outlets.
Tracklist:
1: The Beauty of Letting Go – 4:29
2: Addicted To Death – 2:24
3: A Heavier Shade of Black - 3:00
4: The Burden – 2:58
The Burial Curse Is:
Walt Fitzjurls-lead vocals/guitar/bass
Matt Diko-vocals/lead guitar
Dustin Pynes-vocals/drums
Jim Gould-lights/samples/sound reinforcement/general mayhem
www.alienswarmrecords.com
www.facebook.com/p/The-Burial-Curse-61556091631811
Strix (Latin: owl) - according to Ovid, a mythical, sinister creature, appearing in the form of a bird with piercing eyes and curved talons, sucking blood and feeding on human entrails.
“Strix” – according to Malignant Voices, the third album by Krakow-based Owls Woods Graves, containing 10 tracks, is scheduled for release on CD, LP, and digital formats in October 2025. Left Hand Sounds presents a tour promoting “Strix”, starting November 20th and encompassing 11 Polish cities. OWG will be joined by Above Aurora and Garota. In 2026, the band will visit Heathen Strike Over Brno in Czech Republic and A Thousand Lost Civilizations in Belgium, with further European dates to be confirmed.
Owls Woods Graves - an entity conceived by The Fall & E.V.T. in 2015 (both ex-Medico Peste, Mgła (live) and plenty others), stories inspired by witches, woods, the Devil & his apprentices wrapped into blackened punk, simply haunted woods hardcore.
Live in 2026:
Heathen Strike Over Brno, CZ
A Thousand Lost Civilizations, BE
Tracklist: 1. They Come Again
2. The Aura of Knives
3. The Flag Is Raised
4. Not Entirely Human
5. Anarcho-Occultism
6. The Cliff Dance
7. Nightshifts
8. Black Flame In Our Hearts
9. Say No To Heaven
10. Winged They Come
http://www.malignantvoices.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MalignantVoicesProductions/
Avant-garde progressive black/death metal project NERVOUS has dropped an intense new guitar playthrough for “HEAVY IS THE HEAD THAT WEARS AN IMAGINARY CROWN”, taken from the album ACQUIESCENCE (out now via Wormholedeath).
Aaron Ciesielski, the creative force behind NERVOUS, blends precision and chaos with unnerving control, twisting dissonant motifs, unpredictable modulations into something that feels both calculated and unhinged. His playing moves from cold technicality to expressive turbulence, showing the kind of fretboard command that turns theory into atmosphere.
Ciesielski describes the piece as “deliberately dissonant and chaotic, but still relatively accessible,” a reflection of his broader vision for Acquiescence — a record that merges black and death metal extremity with avant-garde composition and classical nuance.
Stream "Acquiescence" here: https://orcd.co/acquiescence
CD Release: October 27, 2025
Previous videos: https://youtu.be/3k6IAp8j5Vg https://youtu.be/9iBBvcXuq6g
www.youtube.com/@NervousProject
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And guess what... they're on the ballot !!
"Bloodstorm" has officially been submitted for "Best Metal Performance" at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards...!!!
Thank you ALL for listening to our music! Whatever the result, let's enjoy this! We're all in this together !” – say the bandmembers.
"Bloodstorm" is pure energy, a tribute to what we love, a 'salute' to the heavy metal music of the 80s with a modern approach.
Guest musicians: George Simeonidis (vocals - Sarissa/Long Live), Mike Wead (solo - King Diamond/Mercyful Fate).
Listen to the song here (Spotify):
For the YouTube users: https://youtu.be/7BUdH3Gr9JI?si=bmyH2JucOKRxHF2f
DEPRESSION
- 'DAS MONUMENT'Hello Folks, Pre-sales for the 35-years-jubilee Double-CD"Das Monument" by DEPRESSION are now open!
With many great new tracks as well as newly recorded and previously unreleased material, plus cover songs, a guest appearance by Dany from mighty DEAD and a really great cover artwork by spanish artist Juanjo Castellano Rosado!
Groovy Death/Grind at it's best!Official release date: November 28, 2025!
DOUBLE ALBUM (D.D.R. 039) CONSISTING OF:
"Das Monument" (CD 1, songs 1-20)
"Eine Rückbesinnung II" (CD 2, songs 21-55)
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BLACK RABBIT – “WARREN OF NECROSIS”
Format: Digital CD-EP / Physical CD-EPLabel: Independent Release
Tracklist:
01. Initium Finis
02. Apprehension
03. Null and Void
04. Insurrection…Liberation
Black Rabbit is a concept-driven death metal band from Apeldoorn that seamlessly interweaves brute force and aggression with profound themes and a compelling visual presentation.
The band consists of five musical forces with diverse influences, who together create a dynamic, ruthless but refined sound.
With energetic live shows full of theatrical visuals and an intense light spectacle, Black Rabbit takes their audience into a narrative world of darkness and mystery.
Black Rabbit made their first impact with the release of their debut EP and single in 2020, laying the foundation for their unfolding story of darkness and transformation. This path continued with the first full-length chapter of their legend: ‘Hypnosomnia’ (2023) — an album exploring the boundaries of consciousness and dream manipulation. Building upon that, ‘Chronolysis’(2025) delved deeper into the human psyche — a sensory descent into the horror of sleep paralysis. These releases elevated the band to new heights, leading to performances in renowned venues such as Patronaat, Iduna, and even the Brabanthallen, while sharing stages with giants like Baest, Vader, Exhorder, and Pestilence.
Where ‘Hypnosomnia’ and ‘Chronolysis’ unravelled the tactics and techniques of the entity known as Black Rabbit, their upcoming newest EP ‘Warren of Necrosis’ dives into his inception — revealing the sacrifice, betrayal, and blasphemous devotion that transformed man into myth.
Beyond the music, Black Rabbit manifests its concept through a complete artistic universe. Each release is accompanied by handcrafted artwork, stage design, and visual storytelling that deepen the immersion.
On stage, Black Rabbit embraces the role of prophets of the myth — cloaked in ritual garb, surrounded by candlelight and relics of their creation. Their performance is not merely a show, but a sermon; not entertainment, but invocation.
With ‘Warren of Necrosis’, Black Rabbit opens the gates to the beginning of its own legend — a descent into the roots of corruption, identity, and transcendence. It’s a record that does more than tell a story; it creates a world — one that breathes, mutates, and devours. Once you enter the Warren, there is no return…
BLACK RABBIT is:
Vocals: Nino Thomas
Guitar: Jelle Brekelmans
Guitar: Hidde Hofland
Drums: Koen van der Voet
Bassguitar: Thijs Mulder
https://blackrabbitofficial.com/
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialBlackRabbit
DEVASTROSITY – “EVISCERATING DESOLATION”
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: october 24th 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Brodequin | Putridity | Disgorge | Devangelic
All men are equal in the pit. As flesh and features dissolve and brittle bones crack and fracture, we all scream the same. Each river of blood runs together to form an intermingled crimson sea, where no status, stature, name or dream can be distinguished. As entrails fall to the floor from torn torsos they rush together like glistening serpents, gathering in some unspeakable, slippery orgy of alien pleasures. There is no dignity, no honour, when we come undone.
From Kediri in East Java, Indonesia come Devastrosity; a new venture into audio violence from a trio of musicians with a wealth of experience in the fertile Indonesian brutal death metal scene. Having introduced themselves with the limited edition Human Depravation demo last year, they are now ready to unleash the blood storm of their full length debut album – Eviscerating Desolation.
After an eerie, skin-crawling intro ‘Human Depravation’ casts the listener down into the depths of hell. Frantic drumming, massive riffs and utterly inhuman vocals, all delivered with wicked precision and evil intent; the band switching from face-peeling speed to a broken crawl through decaying corpses in the space between breaths. Despite the overwhelming onslaught of death and dismemberment, Eviscerating Desolation possesses an unnerving clarity to its sound – with the varied elements of sadistic savagery that imbue annihilating tracks like ‘Morbid Desires’ distinct and discernible. Every track on this relentless ride to oblivion is infused with an uncontrollable need to kill and Eviscerating Desolation delivers blow after sickening blow. ‘The Dealer Of Death’ is absolutely crushing, its rich, thick guitars breaking out into riffs that connect at a gut level and put a sick smile of contentment on your face. ‘Parasitic Epidemic’ is bewildering in its crazed rhythms and twisted riffs as it gnaws at the frayed edges of your sanity and finally we come to ‘Cadaveric Feast’, perhaps the most horrific track of all. This is a rabid gore-soaked nightmare to the bloody end, as Devastrosity try to ensure that there is no recognisable remnant of your body left before they depart.
Devastrosity have been welcomed into the deranged ranks of the Comatose Music army and Eviscerating Desolation will be discharged upon the world in a flood of bile and venom on October 24th, adorned in the eye-gouging artwork of Rudi GorgingSuicide (Avulsed, Devangelic, Gutrectomy etc). This is not for the curious, casual listener…this is brutal death metal at its disease ridden, corpse consuming, flesh-rending best. Intense to the last drop of blood.
Line-up:
Billy - Drums
Roby - Guitar/Bass
Ardian - Vocals
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/devastrosity
MEAT
5000 RECORDS
proudly presents the SPLIT CD 'SLAUGHTERHOUSE OF AGONY',
featuring two of the heaviest forces in underground death metal. GRIM
FATE and MANCUERDA each contribute three tracks, two
originals and one devastating cover (Autopsy and Celtic Frost, respectively),
for a total of six tracks of uncompromising, crushing metal.GRIM FATE delivers their signature blend of suffocating riffs, relentless grooves, and pure old-school aggression, while MANCUERDA matches them with heavy, lompe death metal that hits hard and leaves a lasting impression. Together, the split captures the raw energy and brutality of underground death metal at its finest.
Kind regards, Greg / Meat 5000 Records
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Horror Pain Gore Death Productions brings together two generations of Puerto Rican Death Metal who collide on the split release Putrid Sanctity!
First up on the chopping block is Necronemesis, who return to HPGD vomiting forth two blistering tracks of unforgiving Death Metal. Necronemesis present their most extreme material to date, following up on the 'Warfield Forever' EP released back in 2023.
Formed
in 2022, Gangrenesia is a slamming, brutal Death Metal band from Caguas, Puerto
Rico, and represents the island’s new wave of extreme underground brutality.
Making their HPGD debut, Gangrenesia blends crushing slam riffs with the raw
aggression of old-school Death Metal, with a sound that is grotesque,
relentless, and straight to the point.Putrid Sanctity delivers bone-snapping breakdowns, guttural vocals, and fast-paced chaos for fans of Belphegor, Bodybox, Cannibal Corpse, Death, Dying Fetus, Immolation, Massacre, Mordax, Mortician, PeelingFlesh, Sanguisugabogg, Suffocation, and Snuffed On Sight.
Listen to the single "Seed" by Necronemesis at https://youtu.be/wBnDBfnPv8g
Listen to the single "Strangled By An Umbilical Cord" by Gangrenesia at https://youtu.be/uEQqLxonevc
Pre-order the CD for only $8 at http://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com/products/necronemesis-gangrenesia-putrid-sanctity-cd
Pre-order the Digital Download for only $4.44 at https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/album/putrid-sanctity
Tracklisting:
1. Necronemesis - Seed
2. Necronemesis - Depths
3. Gangrenesia - Strangled By An Umbilical Cord
4. Gangrenesia - Gargling Womb Infested Puss And Maggots
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Connecticut-based
trad-doom/psychedelic metal entity HARMOZEL returns with its
newest album, SONGS OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS. HARMOZEL was born
in the temples built by Elder, Candlemass, and Cirith Ungol. The band blends
bold experimentation and a Gregorian chant-inspired grandeur for a daring twist
on classic doom. Featuring eight unique and haunting tracks, Songs of the Hungry Ghosts delivers furnace-forged riffs hammered into a kaleidoscope of blood and hallucinatory visions.
Songs of the Hungry Ghosts is out now. Order the album at https://harmozel.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-the-hungry-ghosts
Tracklisting:
1) Burning
2) Know Thyself
3) A Hero's Journey
4) The Fall Of Pistis Sophia
5) Tara Of The Liberating Knives
6) Thich Quang Duc
7) The Screams Of Dying Children
8) Jets Of Blood Coiling Up The Muddy Needle
All music and lyrics on Songs of the Hungry Ghosts were written and performed by Pat Jenkinson. The album was mixed at Primordial Sound Studios by Pat Jenkinson and mastered at Audiosiege Mastering.
https://www.facebook.com/HarmozelBand/
The band tracked both the LP and EP at Band Mother Recording with none other than Michael Sabatini (Attacker) behind the board. The final mastering touch came courtesy of legendary engineer Alan Douches (West West Side Music), whose resume reads like a metal hall of fame: Aerosmith, Obituary, Nile, The Ramones, Dying Fetus, and beyond
The digital album's release date is 17 October 2025, and the EP's release date is 14 November 2025.
Tracklist1. Bastard Skull
2. After The Plague
3. Time is the Destroyer
4. Beyond The Fray
5. Iconoclast
6. The Last Death
7. Catch Kill Release
8. Chaos Order
Bonus Tracks:
9. More Dread
10. Impalement
11. Raw Nerve
Born from a chance reunion at a Mercyful Fate show in Brooklyn on November 13, 2022, Bastard Skull unites a crew of seasoned veterans with deep roots in the thrash underground. The spontaneous spark between John Blicharz (Annunanki, Blood Feast, Dusk) and Tom Lorenzo (Blood Feast, Without End) lit the fuse. Joined shortly after by George Kostadimas and Mark Mari (Sneak Attack), Bastard Skull formed like a sonic supernova, driven by decades of pure metal instinct.
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NEWS 11.10.2025
N.Y.C.
– “BUILT TO DESTROY”
Release
Date:
November 14th, 2025
Label: Adrenalizing Media
Wie würde es klingen, wenn AC/DC sich in einer Gasse mit Judas Priest prügelten, während Motörhead daneben eine Harley aufheulen ließen? So klingen N.Y.C. mit ihrem Debütalbum “Built To Destroy” (VÖ: 14.11.). Die Platte wurde von Tommy Bolan produziert und wird von ADRENALIZING MEDIA NETWORK (Executive Producer) veröffentlicht. Aufgenommen wurde sie in den Deep End Music Studios (abgemischt von Kenny Meriedeth) und gemastert von Robert Vosgien (Los Angeles/USA). Auf dem Album ist außerdem der Grammy-Preisträger und Hollywood-Komponist Vince DiCola (Rocky IV, Transformers The Movie) mit einem Gastbeitrag vertreten. “Built To Destroy” ist heavy, laut, ziemlich angefressen – und hat definitiv nicht das Ziel, Freunde zu finden.
Gegründet von Sänger/Gitarrist Tommy Bolan, dem in Queens, NY geborenen und aufgewachsenen Sechs-Saiten-Shredder hinter Warlocks Platinum-Album “Triumph & Agony”, gehören zur Band auch die Metal-Legenden Stet Howland (W.A.S.P., Metal Church) an den Drums und Steve Unger (Metal Church) am Bass. Gemeinsam verkörpern sie den Sound von New York City – laut, unruhig, wütend und bereit, sich aus der Gosse zu erheben.
Mit der bahnbrechenden Single “Heavy As Hell” (VÖ: 05.09.), liefern N.Y.C. eine atemberaubende Ode an ausverkaufte Konzerthallen und das Spielen auf der eigenen Bühne des Lebens mit all der Intensität, nach der wir uns alle sehnen. Die Single, die mehr Gitarren enthält als der Hobbyraum deines liebsten Nachbarn, ist genauso rau und aggressiv wie das dazugehörige Video.
“Ich wollte Songs schreiben, die für mich echt sind,” sagt Bolan, der jeden Track geschrieben, produziert und mit viel Herzblut versehen hat. “Mit unseren Songs können wir unsere Aggressionen rauslassen und gleichzeitig die Dämonen unseres Wahnsinns exorzieren. Ich bin der Typ an der New Yorker Straßenecke, der wegen allem rumschreit und diese Intensität spürt man auch bei unseren Live-Shows.”
Das Album ist ein echter klanglicher Wutanfall, die Feierlichkeiten vor dem Release laufen auf Hochtouren. Die Veröffentlichung von Bolans eigenen Gitarrensaiten (über Optima Strings) ist in vollem Gange, flankiert von – im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes – epischen und beeindruckenden Videos mit VFX-Veteran Walter Schulz (Emmy- & Oscar-Preisträger und Hollywood VFX Director). Schulz und das Team von Adrenalizing Media Network haben mit Unreal Engine und all ihren neuesten Technologien gearbeitet und keine Mühen gescheut, um bislang nie realisierte neue Anwendungsfälle aus den herausragenden Fähigkeiten der neuesten Gaming-Technologie herauszuholen. “Walter ist ein Meister seines Fachs und passt perfekt zu uns“, erklärt Bolan. “Die visuelle Welt, die er geschaffen hat, fängt die Intensität von N.Y.C. ein.“
Außerdem stehen spannende Werbeaktionen und Werbegeschenke von Schecter, Peavey, Morley, Optima Strings, Tascam, EHX, Gator und Levy’s an sowie die Veröffentlichung vom N.Y.C.-eigenen Wein & Wodka.
‘Built To Destroy’ ist im Grunde der Wendepunkt für jeden, um all den Mist hinter sich lassen, der ihm in seinem Leben angetan wurde”, fügt Bolan hinzu. “All der Wahnsinn, die Lügen und die durch Dritte erzwungene Selbstaufopferung von Körper, Geist und Seele sollen nun umgedreht werden. Wie mein Song sagt: ‘I am Tired of Smiling’. All das hat mich zu der Mischung aus Mensch und Maschine gemacht, die ihr vor euch seht. Ich bin zurückgekehrt, um meine Dämonen freizulassen und die Einschränkung durch andere nicht länger zu tolerieren.”
“Built To Destroy” ist nicht nur ein Album. Es ist eine akustische 10-Tonnen-Atombombe, die auf deine Stereoanlage zusteuert – also anschnallen und festhalten!
https://www.facebook.com/Nyctheband
Die Feierlichkeiten zum großen Bandjubiläum der
britischen Heavy-Metal-Legenden IRON MAIDEN laufen auf
Hochtouren. Die RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR in Stadien in Deutschland und
weltweit war mit mehr als einer Million Ticketverkäufen ein unglaublicher
Erfolg und mit Festivalauftritten im nächsten Jahr, unter anderem bei Rock am
Ring und Rock im Park, stehen für Fans schon die nächsten Highlights an.
Doch auch in diesem Jahr können sich Fans über ein ganz besonderes Juwel freuen, dem viele von ihnen seit der Ankündigung Anfang 2025 entgegenfiebern.
Der offizielle Bildband “IRON MAIDEN: INFINITE DREAMS” (Englische Originalausgabe in UK über Thames & Hudson) ist soeben erschienen – auf Deutsch im Münchner Prestel Verlag.
Der außergewöhnliche Bildband ist in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Iron Maiden entstanden und bietet nie zuvor veröffentlichte Einblicke in die beeindruckende Entwicklung und Karriere der renommiertesten Heavy-Metal-Band der Welt, die seit ihrer Gründung 1975 17 Studioalben, 13 Live-Alben, vier EPs und sieben Compilations veröffentlicht hat und längst zu den einflussreichsten und umsatzstärksten Bands überhaupt zählt.
Mit “Infinite Dreams” können sich Fans auf ein spektakuläres und wunderschön gestaltetes Buch freuen und sich ein Stück Bandgeschichte nach Hause holen, das noch nie zuvor gesehene Stücke und Fotografien enthält, die über mehrere Jahre mit enormer Liebe zum Detail zusammengestellt wurden.
Der Bildband wartet neben exklusiven Textbeiträgen ehemaliger und aktueller Bandmitglieder und des Managements auch mit bislang unveröffentlichten Fotos aus den Archiven von Iron Maiden auf.
Er dokumentiert erstmals die gesamte Geschichte der Band von Beginn der 80er-Jahre, als sie als Pioniere des New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBH) gefeiert wurden und mit ihrer kompromisslosen Vision, furchtlosen Kreativität und ihrem brennenden Ehrgeiz ein weltweites, generationenübergreifendes Phänomen erschufen, bis heute, wenn die Briten im Rahmen ihrer RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR 50-jähriges Bestehen feiern.
Auf 352 Seiten und in über 600 Abbildungen werden ikonische Albumcover, Singles, Poster sowie jede Menge Songtexte, Arbeitsjournale, Gitarren, Schlagzeug-Sets, Bühnenrequisiten und vieles mehr präsentiert. Weiterhin enthält der Bildband bahnbrechende Fotografien von Ross Halfin und John McMurtrie sowie aufschlussreiche Geschichten und faszinierende Einblicke, wie sie in dieser Form bisher noch nie veröffentlicht wurden und jedes Fan-Herz höherschlagen lassen werden.
Mit einem Vorwort von Bandgründer Steve Harris und einem Nachwort von Sänger Bruce Dickinson ist “Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams” ein weiteres Highlight im Jubiläumsjahr von Iron Maiden, das 50 Jahre Kreativität, Hingabe, Persönlichkeit und Erfolg der Band feiert – ein Schatz, der in der Sammlung keines Fans fehlen darf!
Iron Maiden. Infinite Dreams. 50 Jahre Iron Maiden. Der offizielle Bildband.
352 Seiten, 600 Farbabbildungen
Gebunden, 24,3 x 32,0 cm
€59,00 (D) / €60,70 (A) / CHF 77,00
Erscheinungstermin: 07. Oktober 2025
https://www.penguin.de/
https://ironmaiden.com
PHANTOM CORPORATION – Neues Album „TIME AND TIDE“ erscheint am 12. Dezember 2025!
The Death Crust Commando strikes back – louder, fiercer, heavier.
“Time And Tide” is here to crush everything in its path!
Seit ihrer Gründung 2016 sind PHANTOM CORPORATION eine unaufhaltsame Macht im Underground. Gegründet von Szene-Veteranen aus Bremen und Dortmund – mit Wurzeln in Bands wie Dew-Scented, Eroded, BK 49 und Weak Aside – verschmilzt die Band gnadenlosen D-Beat Crust mit Death Metal und rohem Old-School Thrash/Punk zu einem kompromisslosen Crossover-Sound.
Nach der Debüt-Mini „First Commandment“ (2016), den furiosen EPs „Cause and Effect“ (2017) und „Belligerent Powers“ (2018) sowie der Split „Banner Of Hatred“ (2022, mit den Schweden Harrowed) und dem ersten vollen Album „Fallout“ (2023), präsentiert die Band nun ihr tödlichstes Geschoss: Das neue Album „Time And Tide“, das in den letzten Tagen des Jahres 2025 über Supreme Chaos Records erscheint.
Produziert von Jörg Uken in den Soundlodge Studios (u. a. God Dethroned, Temple Of Dread), hebt Time And Tide die Band auf ein völlig neues Level. Über 11 Tracks hinweg liefern PHANTOM CORPORATION ein unerbittliches Feuerwerk – vielseitiger, brutaler und kompromissloser als je zuvor. Rasende Thrash-Riffs, Crust- Attacken und Death Metal vereinen sich zu einem apokalyptischen Schlagabtausch ohne Atempause.
Tracklist:
1. Frantic Disruption (4:16)
2. Dead Of Night (4:30)
3. Crushed (3:59)
4. Krokodil (1:31)
5. Pound Of Flesh (2:42)
6. To The Hilt (4:14)
7. Time And Tide (4:17)
8. Sorcerer (3:57)
9. For All The Wrong Reasons (4:42)
10. Crisis (2:21)
11. Western Apocalypse (5:35)
Heute gibt es den ersten neuen Song von „Time And Tide”, schaut euch den Visualizer zu „Sorcerer” von Costin Chioreanu https://twilight13media.com an, der auf dem Cover-Artwork von Skurktur www.skurktur.com basiert.
Hier der Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnfyBYeQLMs
PHANTOM CORPORATION über „Sorcerer”:
“Ein düsterer, durchdringender und crustiger Death Metal Song.
„Sorcerer“ ist textlich vom gleichnamigen Film inspiriert und vereint auf sehr direkte Weise verschiedene Elemente aus dem typischen Werkzeugkasten der Band und bietet somit einen intensiven ersten Eindruck unseres zweiten Studioalbums „Time And Tide“.“
“No penance left, no past undone. Damnation rides with everyone!” (Sorcerer Lyrics)
„Time And Tide” wird in den folgenden Formaten erhältlich sein:
Black LP
Orange Marbled LP (Limitiert auf 150 Kopien)
Clear Rusty Marbled LP (Limitiert auf 100 Kopien / Band-Exclusiv)
Splatter Clear Orange Black LP (Limitiert auf 100 Kopien)
Digipak CD (Limitiert auf 500 Kopien / Handnummeriert)
Jewelcase CD
Black Tape (Limitiert auf 150 Kopien)
Purple Tape (Limitiert to 50 Kopien / SCR-Exclusiv)
Digital Album
Der „Time And Tide” Album Pre-Order startet heute hier: https://linktr.ee/phantomcorporation
Oder direkt über Supreme Chaos Records: https://supremechaos.com/scr-artists/phantom-corporation/
PHANTOM CORPORATIONs Debütalbum „Fallout” und dessen limitierte „Fire Splatter” und „Orange/Black marbled” Vinyl-Varianten sind nach wie vor hier erhältlich: https://supremechaos.com/link/phantomcorporation/
PHANTOM CORPORATION 2025:
Leif – Vocals
Marc – Drums
Ulf – Bass
Arne – Guitars
Philipp – Guitars
Live 2025/2026:
10.10.2025 Greifswald – JZ Klex
11.10.2025 Berlin – ORWOhaus / Necromania
01.11.2025 Rhauderfehn – JUKZ / Ear Terror Festival
29.11.2025 Lünen – Lükaz
24.01.2026 Krefeld – Kulturrampe
07.02.2026 Osnabrück – JZ Westwerk 141 / Waking The Ghouls II
18.-20.06.2026 Protzen – Protzen Open Air
17.10.2026 Nordhorn – Alte Weberei / Nordhorn Deathfest
https://phantomcorporation.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/phantomcorporation
STREAMS OF BLOOD – “VERMALEDEIT”
Genre: Black Metal
Label: The Hidden Art
Release: 18.12.2025
Nach Jahren persönlicher und kreativer Umbrüche legt Streams Of Blood mit „Vermaledeit“ am 18. Dezember ihr neues Album vor – ein Werk, das die Erfahrungen und Brüche seiner Entstehungszeit spürbar in sich trägt.
Fünf Jahre voller Veränderungen, Verluste und innerer Kämpfe haben ihre Spuren hinterlassen. „Vermaledeit“ ist das Ergebnis dieser Phase – intensiv, direkt und emotional aufgeladen.
Die Songs bewegen sich zwischen Melancholie und Nihilismus, zwischen Selbstzweifel und Befreiung. Roh und ungeschliffen aufgenommen, zeigt das Album den unverstellten Charakter seines Entstehungsprozesses – ehrlich, kompromisslos und ohne Rücksicht.
Das begleitende Artwork entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit Void Revelations und ergänzt die Musik um eine visuelle Dimension, die die Atmosphäre von „Vermaledeit“ treffend einfängt.
Ein Album, das aus persönlicher Dunkelheit hervorgegangen ist – und den Weg von Streams Of Blood konsequent weiterführt.
https://www.facebook.com/StreamsOfficial
HESSIAN
/ GOMOLD - "BLASPHEMOUS RITUAL IN THE UNHOLY UNDERWORLD..."
Split Cassette Limited to 50 copies, hand numbered
Tracklist:
HESSIAN Side
01 - Ritual 1
02 - Ritual 2
GOMOLD Side
01 - A Hala´l Szele
02 - A Fekete Ko´r
Release date 12th october 2025
Out now
Split cassette - 8€
PRIMITIVE RAW BLACK METAL APOCALYPTIC CHAOS...
The filthy Murder Records and the rotten Southern Soundclash Records join forces once again to cruelly torment you with unholy noises extracted from the occult tombs in the graveyard to begin the ritual that invokes the hellish storms of chaos.
Hessian is a horde originating from the primitive cemeteries of Atlanta in the United States and which presents us with two funeral rituals with deadly rotten remains duly unearthed from the deep graves, where the abominable torments of cadaveric agony echo in our perverted subconscious with Extreme Black Noise.
Gomold is an unholy horde originating from the bowels of the ZBMK in Hungary and presenting us with the nefariousness of the black plague, here announced with the spreading the harmful odors, where the wind of death mercilessly annihilates this horrendous humanity with Hellish Black Metal nightmares.
The blasphemous altar of the occult arts is now duly prepared to present the apocalyptic ritual, where the coffins of Hessian and Gomold are open to receive the putrid remains of your insignificant existence, and which will be devoured by starving rats in this ritual of human misery, where the rotten, deadly remains prevail with eternal hate...
HESSIAN Line-Up
Laremy Wade: Guitars, Composition, Effects, Production....
Nyvrosk: Drums
https://hessian666.bandcamp.com/
GOMOLD Credits:
Studio, Recording, Mixing: Tas Bálint Pataki, Attila Pap
Made in the Zvgloian Cave.
Gomold belongs to the ZBMK.
Special Thanks:
Dániel “Schleki” Schlekman
Dávid Deák
Attila Csihar
Laremy Wade
András Ládi
Gergely Laky
GOMOLD Line-up:
Crotalos: Guitar, Vocals
Lucius: Drums
Big Chris: Bass, Vocals (backing)
https://gomold.bandcamp.com/
Official distribution in the European Division by Hellstore Europe and in the North American Division by Southern Soundclash Records & Guts And Blood Records
MURDER RECORDS NORTH AMERICAN DIVISION
https://www.facebook.com/southernsoundclash
https://gutsandblood.bandcamp.com/album/rotten-pages-magazine-compilation-vol-11
NOW I'VE DONE IT's last video for "Panache" saw them make history with the first-ever analog lyric video. This time, the band takes a decidedly different approach - Powerpoint.
The band recently announced the video on social media, asking, "Is it good? I like to think art is neither good or bad. Is it bad? Yes."
You be the judge. Stream "Jim-Jams" at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmKi-BdE7kY
Watch the aforementioned video for "Panache" at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-zmb-WXgYw
An Ill Guest. The album is set for release on October 17.
Pre-order the album at : https://nowivedoneit.bandcamp.com/album/an-ill-guest
What, or who, is NOW I’VE DONE IT? Four words. One way to live.
NOW: The present. Be the Now.
I’VE: I. Have. Contract. Take ownership. Seize the Now.
DONE: What’s done is done, and what hasn’t been will become done. What has become done has become the present… which is Now.
IT: What is It? It is Everything. It is Now.
NOW I’VE DONE IT is an eclectic blend of avant-garde metal, swing, and punk-cabaret hailing from Philadelphia. Comprised of current and former members of Philadelphia progressive power metal band Lör, NiDi offers something for everyone, or nothing for no one.
Track
list:
1. Disillusion
2. Dilly-Dally
3. Offering
4. Ruffled
5. Panache
6. Collywobbles
7. Muddled
8. Splinter
9. Jim-Jams
10. Kindling
Artwork painted by Eliran Kantor.
An Ill Guest was produced, mixed, mastered, and engineered by Peter Hraur.
Bio:
NOW I’VE DONE IT (stylized as NiDi) began in 2010 by high school friends, multi-instrumentalist Peter Hraur, and drummer Dan Reynolds. The two set out to create music that was a unique reflection of what they love about music: high energy but heavy, fun but dramatic, and funny without being a joke. With a rebellious DIY attitude, they scraped together whatever cheap recording equipment they could afford and put together their first demo of three avant-garde inspired metal tracks, aptly titled Rigamarole. The band would go on to spend years playing in the greater Philadelphia region, offering a theatrical, energetic, yet earnest live show, performing with such acts as Parius, Alustrium, Polkadot Cadaver, and more.
Peter and Dan took a "say yes" attitude while crafting An Ill Guest, resulting in 10 tracks filled to the brim with the kind of personality that can only result when two lifelong friends disregard convention and have a little too much fun in the writing room. Over the years of performing, the band has received phenomenal feedback, being described as "the most fun I've had at a live show," and inspiring listeners to dive into their own art with renewed energy.
The band’s hope is for this release to act as a radar to all those who want something a little different. It's bold and risk-taking, heavy and dramatic, but fun and extravagant. It's weird music for weird people.
The concept for a Polish-language Tenebris album dates back to 2013, when the initial framework for the song "Wieleci" was recorded. The creative process was extended over several years due to lineup changes. In November 2018, after further personnel shifts, the band was finally ready to start working on what would become “Kochanowski”.
Initially, the idea was to create an album based on Juliusz Slowacki’s poem Król Duch. However, as time passed and new literary paths and ideas emerged, the band’s focus shifted. It became clear that Slowacki, along with other prominent Polish poets like Adam Mickiewicz, was deeply connected to the figure of Jan Kochanowski. This connection was fully realised after reading Joanna Salomon’s book Latarka Gombrowicza.
The band's frontman, Szymon, immersed himself in Kochanowski's writings and came to a profound conclusion: Kochanowski’s epigrams (fraszki) were a deliberate labyrinth based on Pythagorean numerology, which in turn was derived from Hermes Trismegistus. This new perspective transformed Kochanowski from a simple, pastoral poet into a practitioner of what might be called magical arts. The idea of Kochanowski as a prophet figure, transcending even Mickiewicz, became central to the album's unapologetic title.
The album cover, a sketch by Jan Matejko depicting his vision of Jan Kochanowski, further supports this narrative. It suggests that popular, historical figures are often flattened in mass narratives, hiding a wealth of unexpected stories behind them.
The lyrics to Kochanowski feature poems by Jan Kochanowski, Juliusz Slowacki, Olga Jackowska and Adam Mickiewicz, adding to the album's rich, literary tapestry. The album also features special guests: Maciej Pasinski (ex-Sirrah, currently Pincer Consotrium) on backing vocals, jazz clarinettist Pawel Szamburski and Sylwia Levy.
Formed in Lódz, Poland in 1991, Tenebris is considered by many a cult Polish metal band. They began as a death metal act before incorporating progressive and jazz influences into their sound.
Tracklist:
1 - Kochanowski
2 - Kosy
3 - Popiel
4 - Sarmacya
5 - Perunowy
6 - Duch
7 - Wolarz
8 - Kreon
9 - Wieleci
10 - Szmaragdowy somnambulik
Tenebris recording lineup:
Siwy Jaszy - guitar / vocals / lyrics
Przemyslaw Dominiak - guitar / FX / keyboards
Grzegorz Graczyk - drums / samples
Bartek Polniak - bass
Guests:
Maciej Pasinski - backing vocals, growls on "Kochanowski" and "Perunowy"
Sylwia Levy - backing vocals on "Kreon"
Pawel Szamburski - clarinets on "Szmaragdowy Somnambulik"
The songs "Popiel" and "Perunowy" are fragments of Juliusz Slowacki's work, Król Duch. "Sarmacya" is part of Jan Kochanowski's Porporzec, and the end of "Wolarz" is a piece from Adam Mickiewicz's Dziady.
https://www.facebook.com/paganrecords
https://www.facebook.com/TenebrisAlpha
Minneapolis (MN) - Progressive/extreme metal outfit, KOSTNATĚNÍ, have released "KŘEHKÝ BŮH (FRAGILE GOD)," the second single from forthcoming album, PŘÍLIŠNOST (EXCESS).
Stream the song at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a4EtGqMvyU
Přílišnost (Excess), the third album by KOSTNATĚNÍ, thoroughly destroys any remaining comparisons to the band’s contemporaries. Following up on 2023’s critically-acclaimed Úpal and its blend of technical black metal with Middle Eastern folk, KOSTNATĚNÍ has packed into this bizarre base an even stranger array of influences that must be heard to be believed. The band’s signature “highbrow” progressive riffs, now played on a uniquely alt-tuned guitar, cleverly interweave with a mix of “lowbrow” metal genres and moody synthesizers to create the band’s heaviest, most compact and violent songs to date. Continuing with the band’s introspective themes, Přílišnost (Excess) is dedicated to the suffocating, destructive pursuit of self-perfection. Lyrically and musically, it pushes beyond all limits.
Willowtip will release Přílišnost (Excess) November 7 on CD, vinyl, cassette and digital formats.
Pre-order:
https://www.willowtip.com/bands/details/kostnat-n.aspx
https://kostnateni.bandcamp.com/album/p-li-nost-excess
Track Listing
1. Dokonalé křišťálové město (Perfect Crystal City)
2. Křehký bůh (Fragile God)
3. Kostely byly mrakodrapy (Churches Were the Skyscrapers)
4. Zpět ke kmenům (Back to the Tribes)
5. Mrtvola Jupitera (Corpse of Jupiter)
6. Samotář (Loner)
7. Čelist utlačovatele k obrubníku (Jaw of the Oppressor to the Curb)
8. Znal jsem tě (I Knew You)
9. Dále zvenčí (Further from Outside)
10. Přílišnost (Excess)
Credits:
Kostnatění is D.L.
Drums by Joe Goldwater.
Additional vocal contributions by Mack.
Written and recorded from 2021-2024.
Mixed and mastered by D.L.
Drums recorded at Signaturetone by Adam Tucker.
Cover art and layout by Metastazis.
Thanks to the many voices that brought life to this work, especially Mack, The RIM, Tapekvlt, and Nat.
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip/
https://www.facebook.com/kostnateni/
Label: Independent Release
Release date: december 5th 2025
Genre: Post Metal/Progressive Rock
For fans of: Tool | Alice In Chains | Katatonia | Pink Floyd | Killing Joke
In the January of 2024, Final Coil released their third album, The World We Inherited; the crowning glory of a triptych of records which began with their vibrant debut Persistence Of Memory and continued with the highly critically acclaimed The World We Left Behind For Others. While every Final Coil release represents a musical and lyrical achievement to be savoured and treasured, with The World We Inherited, the Leicester-based band took huge strides forward into awe-inspiring creative landscapes. Their most complete, challenging, and thought-provoking release, The World We Inherited was also Final Coil’s most successful album to date. As a result, the band found themselves in the esteemed pages of Prog magazine, bestriding the stage at Bloodstock Open Air, setting out on their first headline European trek; which included an incredible sold out show at the Supersonic Club in Paris; and a return to the Fusion Festival, where they appeared alongside Amplifier and The Von Hertzen Brothers. The world’s rock press were unanimous in their praise for The World We Inherited and the album finished 2024 in many Album Of The Year lists
The one thing that The World We Inherited wasn’t afforded in its original incarnation was a vinyl release; but now, after a great deal of thought and planning, Final Coil are delighted to finally give this incredible album that richly deserved honour. However, in keeping with their reputation for always trying to give fans the very best possible return for their money, a simple vinyl reissue was never going to be enough for Final Coil…hence the creation of The World We Inherited 2025 – Remastered And Expanded! Alongside a fresh, dynamic remaster of The World We Inherited – created specifically for vinyl by original album producer Russ Russell (Amorphis, The Wildhearts, Napalm Death etc), this new version of the album comes with no fewer than eleven additional tracks. There’s a complete live performance recorded at the Firebug in Leicester, never before heard demo tracks, as well as songs cut in preproduction, all available as a special digital download pack.
The World We Inherited itself remains a simply colossal album. A joy to revisit, its songs are still revealing more secrets nearly two years on from its original unveiling. Whereas the albums that preceded it examined our past, the societal failings that have brought us to our troubled present, The World We Inherited turns its gaze to the future, and the shadows of fear and division that bleed across its horizon. Inspired in no small part by a long and winding conversation with Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman and the prophetic, dystopian fiction of George Orwell, The World We Inherited wanders through a murky, broken world of conspiracy theories, authoritarian politics, and chilling isolation. Yet, while the lyrics and concepts provide the framework for The World We Inherited, it’s the beautifully textured music that draws the listener into the world of Final Coil and enfolds them in a breathtaking experience encompassing overwhelming melancholy, fierce intensity, passion, terror, confusion and starlit glimmers of hope. Drawing on the textures of post-rock, the emotional drive of grunge, the fire of heavy rock, as well as the imaginative sorcery of progressive rock and metal the Final Coil sound is fresh, original and also rooted in an array of influences from across the musical spectrum. The fluid bass work of Jola Stiles both augments and anchors the entwined guitars of Phil Stiles and Richard Awdry, while the vibrant, instinctive drumming of Barry French steers the band through the exquisite song structures, as Phil’s emotive vocals tell each chapter of the unfolding tale.
The expanded element of this new edition is, in truth, a worthy release in its own right, far beyond the scope of most bonus tracks tagged onto ‘tour editions’ or rereleases. The live set from the Firebug in Leicester is a raw and fiery performance – the energy and power of Final Coil in the live environment captured in all its glory - taken straight from the desk, but then mixed and mastered by the frontman Phil Stiles. The previously unreleased ‘Evoking History’ and ‘Self Reflection’ are genuine treasures, exciting additions to the Final Coil canon, while the demos of ‘Humanity’ and ‘Stay With Me’ offer fascinating insights into the evolution of the songs. Available on a strictly limited edition splatter vinyl with digital download on December 5th, this is the perfect way to draw the opening trilogy of Final Coil’s story to a close…and prepare for the next chapter, which is not too far away.
Line-up:
Phil Stiles: Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Synths and Programming
Richard Awdry: Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Vocals and Programming
Jola Stiles: Bass Guitar
Drums on the album recorded by Barry French
Drums on live tracks by Dan Brown
Lead vocals, rhythm & lead guitar, synth, programming, sound effects, bass on demo tracks by Phil Stiles
Lead guitar on demo tracks by Richard Awdry
https://www.finalcoil.com/
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Release date: october 10, 2025 - Worlwide
Label: Total Metal Records
The first re-release of the sixth full-length studio album by cult German Thrash Metal band.
Necronomicon made an honest attempt at a comeback with 2004's "Construction Of Evil". But "Revenge Of The Beast" it's damned well the best album the band have whipped up since 20 years prior! “Revenge Of The Beast” marks the 25th anniversary of the band’s existence, and although only the forbidding voice and riffs of frontman, Volker "Freddy" Fredrich, remains of the original fold, you wouldn’t know it by how remarkably similar it sounds to the band’s renowned late 80s classics!
The band is still drawing from the same well as their more famous peers Sodom and Destruction, but they do so with enough finesse to get the blood circulating and the limbs thrashing out in anger. Tempos are kept high, the songs are characteristically evil yet sincere trip into a realm of unspeakable horror, rather than the homeboy driven nonsense that many American Thrashers can’t seem to pull themselves out of. The guitars are savage and powerful, they sound potent enough to grind meat with. Freddy likewise sounds great, like a cousin to both Schmier and Angelripper, his sneering giving the music below all the authentic character it needs to charm the German Thrash Metal diehard. Freddy’s vocals tend to maintain a sort of 2-dimensional affect here, going back and forth between his signature Punk inspired shouts and an occultist chant while making really odd metaphors lyrically pagan imagery right out of a shaman ritual.
Necronomicon stands as the flawless D’Artagnan that avoided the mistakes of the Teutonic 3 Musketeer, and thus perhaps worthy of a greater level of respect in some sense. “Revenge Of The Beast” is a worthy and consistent new addition to a brilliant discography of quasi-melodic, riff oriented Thrashing goodness that would fare well against many of the albums of the late 80s.
Crushing aggressive old school pure Teutonic Thrash Metal! Pure Necronomicon!!
Tracklist:
Side A
1. Magic Forest
2. Haunted
3. Warfare
4. Blood Sky
5. Who Dies?
6. Skull & Bone
Side B
1. Nightstalker
2. On Pain of Death
3. Refugee
4. Commit Suicide
5. War in the Cradle
6. One Universe
2024 remastered, limited edition coloured vinyl in soft-touch laminated cover with embossed band logo, including completely renewed artwork and printed innersleeve with full lyrics restored for the first time.
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Now
available - NOMAD SNAKEPIT PRODUCTIONS proudly presents:
Arkæon (Dk) - “Når Bjerge Bliver til Støv”
A pact has been made with some of the pioneers from the Danish Black Metal scene!
Hailing from the nefarious cradle associated with names such as Múspellzheimr, Tongues, Denial of God and Draug, Arkæon is a three-headed beast that will grasp you by the balls like no other has for a long time. A totally unearthly and outbalanced masterpiece of Black Metal mayhem this is!
“Når Bjerge Bliver til Støv” was in fact first created as a demo, following the band’s album “Parasit” (released in 2022 by I, Voidhanger Records). However, too good to remain half in the shadows as a mere demotape, Arkæon decided to join forces with Nomad Snakepit Productions and have this amazing work enhanced with an exclusive bonus track from the same recording sessions, to be re-emerged as an LP, summing up to over 29 minutes of playtime.
Thus we are now presenting a limited and exclusive release on vinyl only: 50 copies black vinyl and 150 on super marble black/white vinyl.
Arkæon prove that – even in 2025 – there is still a LOT of ground to explore!
Doom Cult Commando (De) - "Das Erwachen Der Schlange"
Prepare to meet thy doom! A new Black Metal horde has emerged from German soil!
Infernal K. (from Desaster) has assembled two dedicated comrades, with the aim to create some uncompromising abyssal form of Black Metal!
Despite of having been built around a very traditional BM core, it is not a straightforward task to describe Doom Cult Commando’s music, as it takes the listener as easily into the direction of Moonblood, Katharsis and old Dodheimsgard as it goes back to the bestial primitiveness of Blasphemy. The mindfuck is then complete as you find the vocals venturing between the spheres of Urfaust and Attila's vocals on De Mysteriis...
“Das Erwachen Der Schlange” is the band’s very first output, and Nomad Snakepit was given the honour of releasing it on vinyl! We are doing 200 copies only (black vinyl), with side B laser-printed.
Bezwering (NL) – "Dwalingen"
From the smouldering ashes of Wederganger, the foul entity Bezwering came into being in 2018, invoking the darkest spirits from the corpse-filled soil of their native Gelderland.
After one demo, a split EP and two albums on Ván Records, 2025 marks the return for the trio Alfschijn, Onmens and MR.
With this release, Bezwering wanders off from its usual path, delving into two occult mysteries from the Dutch Veluwezoom area.
Two brand new hymns have thus been pressed as an exclusive 7” picture EP, limited to 200 copies, featuring a folded sleeve insert and awesome artwork done by Warhead.
Bezwering plays Undeath Metal exclusively!
Shatterer (Swe) – “Fire”
Carrying deep scars from the obscure and truly threating black metal scene of the early 1990's, a time when the craft was sincere, passionate, burning and hungry, comes this cassette EP by an individual firmly rooted in that very soil.
"Fire" echoes those ancient sentiments whilst emanating new sparks kindling the undying flames.
This is the debut solo-endeavour of Mörk (MALIGN, WATAIN, SVARTSYN and more)
A tribute to the ancient sonic and ideological inferno yet with an unmistakable, rabid and unique expression.
This embodiment of true BM underground is strictly limited to 100 copies on tape!
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Hello,this
Jan of LAVADOME PRODUCTIONS with a news submission regarding the
first single of the upcoming LP by Spain's death metal band INFRAHUMANO.
INFRAHUMANO release first single of forthcoming album . Spain’s death metal battalion INFRAHUMANO is set to unleash its second studio album, "Depths of Suffering", on October 31st via Lavadome Productions.
The first single, “Battalion of Darkness,” is now available for streaming:
https://lavadome.bandcamp.com/track/battalion-of-darkness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLZZq4c1idU
"Depths of Suffering" delivers nine tracks of punishing death metal darkness, channeling the decadent nature of the genre through Infrahumano’s own grit. Recorded and mixed at La Cumbre Studios and mastered by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios, the album pushes the band’s sonic vision further into the cavernous depths.
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Listen to Denial album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/serpent-god-denial
The band comments:
”Denial -album is a manifestation of hopelessness and cynicism. The end is coming; If there's a light it is always surrounded by endless darkness. The 9 songs are here, so the truth won't be forgotten.
Denial was recorded, mixed and mastered during 2023 and 2024. All music and lyrics by Samu Männikkö, arrangements by Serpent God.”
Biography:
Serpent God is a band formed 2023 in Iisalmi, Finland. The birth is heavily related to Se, josta ei puhuta -band’s writing process; lots of material were created that didn’t fit in the spectrum of Se, josta ei puhuta. In general, the material was more slow-paced and more eerie. However, the mentioned material was also way too good to be deleted, so therefore another output was needed, so Serpent God was born. Different branches grow from a tree with strong roots. Serpent God has its foundation in extreme metal, but there are also heavy influences from post-rock, doom and smaller splashes of more avantgarde sounds.
Track
list:
1. denial
2. beneath
3. repent
4. revelation
5. alive
6. sermon
7. oblivion
8. keyhole
9. void
Album cover by Heidi Hyvärinen
Note that all song titles are intentionally written in lowercase
Line-up:
Samu Männikkö - Vocals, guitars and keyboards
Juho-Pekka Lappalainen - Bass
Jimi Myöhänen – Drums
https://www.facebook.com/serpentgodband
The critical response to the band's previous album, Woe, was nothing short of phenomenal! Black Metal Daily called it "An absolutely fucking herculean masterstroke" (10/10), while Metal-Only minced no words in dubbing it a "Masterpiece" (10/10). As such, the anticipation for the epic follow-up, The Sleeping City, has been sky high!
The Sleeping City, AN ABSTRACT ILLUSION’s third full-length album, utilizes their unique blend of progressive death metal and black metal with arpeggiating synths, wistful drones and vast soundscapes, harkening back to the era of 80’s sci-fi soundtracks. Being the band’s most atmospheric and heavy work to date, the album explores the depths of the human psyche and suffering. A decrepit yet monumental landmark, the sleeping city awaits ahead. Will you enter?
The band comments on the forthcoming album:
“When we compose an album we don't want it to just be a collection of random songs, we want a holistic theme coursing through the album's veins. When writing The Sleeping City we wanted to explore what the soundtrack to a dystopian sci-fi film, such as Blade Runner or Terminator, would sound like if it were written by a death metal band.
For The Sleeping City, we took inspiration from acts such as Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine, Kite, Ólafur Arnalds and Boards of Canada, pushing us to expand and refine our sound palette. Going from the long-song format of Woe, it was a fun challenge to once again write self-contained songs with a clear beginning and end.
During the creation of this album we worked with a great team of collaborators. Produced by the band’s own Karl Westerlund, The Sleeping City was once again mixed and mastered by Robin Leijon. Drums were recorded and produced by Jakob Herrmann (Devin Townsend, Evergrey, VOLA, Vildhjärta) at the legendary Top Floor Studios in Gothenburg, who has captured some of our all-time favorite drum tones. The gorgeous artwork, a homage to early black metal's painted artworks, was done by Alex Eckman-Lawn (Horrendous, Afterbirth, Woe, Nero Di Marte). We also worked with amazing musicians who provided us with beautiful strings and vocals.
With The Sleeping City we truly feel we’ve elevated our craft beyond anything we’ve done before and can’t wait for its release. Thank you all for your continued support!”
Willowtip will release The Sleeping City on October 17. The album will be available on CD, Limited Longbox CD, 2xLP vinyl, and digital formats.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/tsc-willowtip
https://anabstractillusion.bandcamp.com/album/the-sleeping-city
Track Listing:
1. Blackmurmur
2. No Dreams Beyond Empty Horizons
3. Like A Geyser Ever Erupting
4. Frost Flower
5. Emmett
6. Silverfields
7. The Sleeping City
Line-up:
Christian Berglönn - Lead Vocals
Robert Stenvall - Keyboards, Vocals
Karl Westerlund - Guitars, Bass
Isak Nilsson - Drums, Background Vocals
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https://linktr.ee/AnAbstractIllusion
Dear
Friends in the Press and Media worldwide.We're proud to announce one of our
greatest releases ever. American nuclear black industrial weapon URANIUM returns
to embody industrial music’s most terrifying triumph. In its life-entombing
thirty six minutes the band's brand new album “CORROSION OF
EXISTENCE” takes the mysterious one man band’s concept of nuclear
devastation to its most harrowing and inevitable conclusions, unfolding five
new monstrous tracks of plutonium-fueled auditory terror that will dominate
tyrannical above and beyond anything that the most lawless frontier of extreme
industrial has ever fathomed or imagined.
The immense album has been teased by reliable German experimental/extreme music blog Veil of Sound, who in premiering the song “Descent Into Entropic Death” have asked themselves "could this be one of the best records ever released via Sentient Ruin? Answer: yes”, and further elaborating “imagine Merzbow had mated with Gnaw their Tongues and are being midwifed by Teitanblood and Escotrilihum - then you get an idea of how utterly disastrous and gloriously mindblowing Uranium is!” - you can check out their feature and listen to the track here https://veilofsound.com/2025/10/09/Song_Premiere-Uranium.html
An immense industrial and blackened noise construct inspired by acts like Godflesh, Swans, Brighter Death Now, Gnaw Their Tongues, and Merzbow levitates out of a world-ending idealization, colliding with excoriations of techno and breakcore as well as with black/death metal influences from bands like Teitanblood, Portal and Irkallian Oracle into an unimaginable cauldron of destruction. Like an unstoppable chain reaction that has evaded any containment, “Corrosion of Existence” exponentially escalates the destructive yield of its black/death metal-inspired 2023 predecessor album “Pure Nuclear Death”, transmuting its never-before-heard sonic assault into Uranium’s most oppressive and inescapable conquest. A gigantic gaping void is blown out into the architecture of existence, revealing a massive radioactive wound seared with layer upon layer upon layer of caustic sequences and smoldering synth tapestries. A downpour of robotic samples pounds like radioactive rain falling from a nuclear maelstrom, engulfing the biosphere and sending a gigantic swath of fallout to travel horizonless, burying everything in a suffocating sarcophagus of molten corium and melted concrete. Torrents of gnarled, sampled guitars and bass compound the destruction, while the album's tectonic drum racks push its cataclysmic yield into world-ending upheaval, as a roaring vault of coiling death grunts and apocalyptic proclamations invoke a god-like idealization of death itself. Every composite element of existence from single nucleuses, to atoms, to organic molecules and compounds like cells and DNA, all the way to planet-sized ecosystems are destroyed and vaporized in an onslaught of ionizing death radiating from Uranium’s all-devouring pandemonium.
“Corrosion of Existence” is scheduled for a November 7 2025 on LP, CD, cassette and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, all pre-orderable now via all our channels
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases.Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/uranium-corrosion-of-existence
The experimental ritual dark ambient band KATHODOS has unveiled a new music video for their track "THE DARK PRIESTS". The song is featured on their album “PARASOMNIA: PAVOR NOCTURNUS”, which is set to be released on CD on 28 October 2025 via Rune Serpent Europa. The limited-edition CD will include a 4-page booklet and will have a pressing of 500 copies.
Watch the video for "The Dark Priests" via ReGen Mag: https://regenmag.com/news/regen-premiere-kathodos-delves-into-pagan-and-occult-imagery-with-latest-video-from-upcoming-album-release-on-rune-serpent-europa/
According to Kathodos, "'The Dark Priests' is a song meant to paint a nightmare of the darkest hue. Influenced by a scene in Stanley Kubrick's 1999 film, 'Eyes Wide Shut', the track intends to transport the listener to an active occult ritual. Images of pagan masks, dark thrones, black staffs and sacrifice are conjured while the blasphemous hymn is performed by the dark priests. The listener will decide whether they wish to escape from this nightmare or if they are seduced by what they experience during the ritual. The music video features the latter two-thirds of the track. All footage contained in the video is taken from the 1922 silent film, 'Häxan'. The visuals, the concept, and the acting from the film compliments the song perfectly."
Kathodos previously released music videos for the tracks “Hanging Tree” (Spotify), the catchiest number on the album with imagery from ‘La Vie et la Passion de Jesus Christ’, a French 1903 silent film, and “A Memory Dwindles…” (Spotify), which is a song about a person haunted by a horrifying memory of seeing a child falling off a rooftop and features footage from the 1920 silent film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
“Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” is meant to be experienced as a sequence of strange dreams. It comprises a listening journey of confusing, dark, beautiful, scary, comical, twisted, psychotic, and bizarre dreams. The album takes the listener on a dark and sometimes terrifying journey of strange voices, bizarre sounds, beautiful moments, maddening architecture, and intricate instrumentation. It is highly unique, making use of hypnotising drones, occult rituals, odd lyrics, and hidden meanings. Listeners will hear something new each time they play the album.
Kathodos, the man behind the project, conceptualised the band in 2019 as an "experiment in darkness". Having previously performed as a rock musician, he sought to create something darker. The album's atmosphere was conjured from the best fragments of his dreams and the worst fragments of his nightmares. The entire album was composed in the spring of 2021 after lying dormant for nearly two years. Following another period of latency, most of the instrumentation and vocals were recorded in the spring of 2022. A difficult period in late 2022 delayed the project until 2023, when the rest of the album was finally recorded. Lavinia was recruited in late 2023 to provide soprano, spoken word vocals, and guitar on a few tracks. Kathodos also produced, mixed, and mastered the album in late 2023 and early 2024. After gaining a strong following from the few people who happened upon the initial release, Kathodos signed with Rune Serpent Europa in 2025 to reach a wider audience.
Kathodos is a studio-only project and does not perform live. A second album is currently in the works. The band has also appeared on two official compilations released by Rune Serpent Europa: Laibach Tribut - Schlecht Und Ironisch, for which Kathodos covered the Laibach song "White Law" and Saturno Butto tribute “The Five Senses”, contributing the track "Death & Rebirth".
Pre-order the CD version of “Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” via The
Circle Music (worldwide distributor for this release): https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/distributed-stuff/?filter_artist-name=kathodos
Kathodos’ “Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” is recommended for fans of Nurse With Wound, Coil and Current 93.
Tracklist:
1. Phantom of the Throne Room
2. A Memory Dwindles…
3. …Window
4. The Dark Priests
5. Hanging Tree
6. Message Sent to Earth
Kathodos are:
Kathodos – all instrumentation, vocals, lyrics, sounds, composition, production, mixing and mastering
except:
Lavinia - soprano, spoken word and guitar
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UNREDEEMER – “PITY”
Release date: 26.09.2025
Genre : Death/Blackened death groove metal
Record label/distribution partner : Self released
Recording/mixing: Harri Hyytiäinen
Mastering studio : Niklas Piispala // Norppa Audio
Unredeemer is a Finnish death metal band formed in 2019.
In a world filled with false prophets and promises of redemption—offering an easy way out of pain and trouble—we offer Unredemption!
Unredeem yourself!
Become your own savior. Redemption was sold to you as a way to take responsibility from your hands—but why would you give it away?
By giving it away, you give your life away.
Reject redemption.
Unredeem yourself!
Musically, Unredeemer draws inspiration from classic death metal acts such as Death, Morbid Angel, Carcass and Slayer, with a healthy dose of modern thrash/death acts such as Decapitated, Cattle Decapitation, Amon Amarth and Devil Driver.
So far, the band has released one EP in 2020 titled 4-19-23, and one full-length album, Word Become Flesh, released in 2022.
On July 18th 2025 the band released their new single titled Shame, and
On September 26th 2025 the single titled Pity.
PITY reflects on the sorrow embedded in nostalgia. It speaks to the hidden cost of joy: the ache of remembering, the wound of beauty once lived. The lyrics suggest that to feel deeply is to suffer deeply—but that this suffering is not a flaw, but a mark of having lived fully.
The song condemns those who close themselves off from joy for fear of its inevitable aftermath, portraying them as lost souls, blind to the divine presence hidden in pain.
Through mythical imagery and a sense of spiritual reckoning, Pity elevates suffering as sacred—a necessary consequence of ecstasy, and perhaps even its proof.
Musically PITY continues the darker turn started with Shame, both musically and lyrically. Switching from high pitched screams to guttural, almost spoken parts, and wrapping up with pained screams, the musical and vocal performance reflect the lyrical theme.
Line up:
Olli Hänninen [Drums]
Sami Lehtonen [Bass]
Pekka Paasikivi [Guitar]
Mika (Nisu) Niskala [Guitar]
Saša Pul [Vocals]
https://www.facebook.com/unredeemer.band
OLD YEAR – “NO DISSENT”
Label: Apocalyptic Witchcraft
Release date: october 24th 2025
Genre: Drone/Death/Doom Metal
For fans of: Sunrot | Azell | Evoken | Khanate
“There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always… there will be the intoxication of power… the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. ”- George Orwell, 1984
I used to have words I wanted to say, opinions I wanted to voice. I believed fervently in right and wrong, in a morality that gave meaning to all I did. I used to have thoughts about…about…so many things. I know I stood for something and against something. But it has all drained away; down the tubes, through the wires, into the watching mechanical eyes. I am an empty vessel yet I make no noise. All is as it should be. I must sleep now. I’m not meant to be awake. I must sleep now…
Old Year have existed since 2017, initially as a two piece, in the murky shadows of the Boise, Idaho underground music scene…behind closed doors, a rumour, almost a secret. But in 2021, their line-up fleshed out to a trio, the band crawled out from their cellar stronghold into a post lockdown world and on to the stage, unleashing the insidious horror of the droning doom death that had sustained them in their isolation. In 2023 an eponymous 10 minute single became their first release – an immersion into the slow death of humanity. An ocean away Apocalyptic Witchcraft were drawn to the “uniquely desolate voice” of Old Year and now the first results of that new alliance are ready to be set loose.
No Dissent is a four track album of colossal weight, an agonised crawl through a parched, dystopian hellscape. ‘Death Frequency’ begins this trip into suffocating, bleak emotion…an insectile drone of guitars above slow, staggering drum beats carrying deep, suppurating vocal intonations – pronouncements of doom from a long dead throat. Will, desire, motivation and belief bleed slowly from your body, replaced by a black ichor of hopelessness fed into your veins to the sound of a scream of agony and despair, drawn out for eternity. Worlds die in the spaces between the chords of ‘Rotting Illusion’ and Old Year tighten their grip around your spirit, dragging you deeper into their claustrophobic embrace. There’s no moment to breathe as you slide into the maw of ‘Mechanical Birth’ where the threat becomes more direct, more immediate. This track, this movement in this grand symphony of suffering, is not content to let you drown. It moves towards you with hooks in hand…inescapable. And finally ‘Lock Step’; so oppressive you feel yourself dissolving beneath the awesome mass of Old Year. When it’s all over movement feels impossible. It takes time for the shadow of Old Year to slip from your skin, for its hold on your mind to release. And you’re left with a hunger…an addiction to the lethargic torment you have just escaped.
Adorned in bleak and tortured artwork, No Dissent will be presented to the world by Apocalyptic Witchcraft on October 24th. A vision, a warning, a promise… asphyxiating and soul crushing. Approach Old Year’s gifts with care – the future is bleak indeed.
Presale link: https://orcd.co/apw052
Line-up:
Robert Taylor Roark – Guitars/Vocals
Skyler Rezendes - Bass
Jered Veeneman - Drums
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https://www.facebook.com/OldYearBoisehttps://apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk/
One of Australia's best known death metal bands, Depravity awaken from their slumber to release a new full length that promises to be just as good if not better than their superbly received earlier albums. Their music is a perfect confluence of old school and contemporary death metal with brutal and technical death metal influences. It's some of the best death metal you'll hear of late! Two songs from the album are streaming and you can check them out on Bandcamp at https://depravitydeath.bandcamp.com/album/bestial-possession
DEPRAVITY – “BESTIAL POSSESSION”
For
fans of : Morbid
Angel, Suffocation, Deicide, Hate Eternal, Hour of
Penance, Nile, Demiurgon
Australian death metal titans Depravity emerge after a gap of five long years. Having a flawless and consistent discography, they pick up from where they left off ensuring that things remain that way as they proceed to add more nuance and colour to their brand of music on their latest album titled "Bestial Possession". Maintaining the same line-up, they are able to retain their sound while fleshing out their compositions, proving that they can not only rampage with abandon at will but also showcase their musicianship in a more controlled environment. At this point in their career, Depravity's music has become fairly amalgamated - rooted in the old school sound but not necessarily sounding old school, with the gradual incorporation of more brutal and technical death metal influences having a slightly contemporary edge. One thing is certain - they function perfectly as a unit and are able to create devastating death metal at any given time and this time things are no different. They exude sheer class, confidence, and maturity, and death metal fans are definitely in for a treat before the tumultuous year ends.
Line up
Louis Rando (Impiety, The Furor) - Drums
Lynton Cessford (Iniquitous Monolith) - Guitar
Jamie Kay (ex-The Ritual Aura) - Vocals
Ainsley Watkins (ex-Scourge) - Bass
Jarrod Curley (Pathogen) - Guitar
Artwork by Paolo Girardi (Cryptopsy, Skaphos)
Track listing
1. Engulfed in Agony
2. Eunuch Maker
3. Call to the Fallen
4. Awful Mangulation
5. Rot in the Pit
6. Aligned With Satan
7. Blinding Oblivion
8. Legacy
9. Catastrophic Contagion
Official release date - November 21st, 2025
Thanks a lot for your support! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/Depravitydestroy
VII
VITIUM unveil
the second single from their debut album out on October 31st, 20025.
It's "SUPERBIA / LUCIFERO" and it's available on YouTube with a lyric video created by Stefano Mastronicola.
Here is the link: https://youtu.be/o6QEFHPwV0Q
With Daniele Laurenti (Kryuhm), Giampi Tomezzoli (Kryuhm, Epitaph) and Daniele Pedrollo (Kayleth), the pillars of the project, we see the precious presence of John Goldfinch (L'IMPERO DELLE OMBRE) on vocals and Dario Vicariotto (IV SIGILLO) on lead guitar.
So the band's mission continues, exploring the world of sin, distancing itself from Christian teachings and offering a personal vision of the seven deadly sins, giving voice to their Demons with a magic fusion of Dark Occult sound a la DEATH SS and PAUL CHAIN, with the European Doom, of Italian Progressive Rock elements mixed to independent Rock and to 80's Darkwave.
VII VITIUM are ready to welcome you into their sinful world
Pre-order LP and deluxe edition now at: https://t.ly/TGN78
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
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A new song and lyric video from NYC doom trio PRECIOUS BLOOD is now streaming! "EL MUERTE" is the third single off the band's full-length debut album, FALSE PROPHETS.
Watch the lyric video for "El Muerte" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFdPTWqJsns
False Prophets is set for release on October 29.
Fully formed in 2024, PRECIOUS BLOOD brings together three veterans of the NYC scene - AJ – guitar, vocals (Jesus Knevil, Snake Canyon), Dave Kramer – bass, vocals (Blood Feast, Suaka, Stanley), and Grace Perez – drums, vocals (The Wickedexorcist). The band’s shared love of doom and underground metal is expressed in an unholy concoction of rum-soaked riffs, brutal lyrics, and mystical tribal sounds.
With a signature sound best described as Blackened Caribbean Doom, PRECIOUS BLOOD delivers a unique blend of doom and thrash metal influenced tone, mixed with lyrical themes that draw profound inspiration from the enduring spirit of the Caribbean, shaped by brutal history of colonization, unwavering resilience of its people, and exploration of the darker aspects of human existence, including death, contemplation of mortality and the complexities of human suffering.
For fans of monstrous riffs, horror-inspired visuals, and genre-bending metal.
Tracklist:
1) False Prophets
2) Bludgeoned & Charred
3) Footsteps of Babylon
4) Shadow of the Cross
5) Cemetery Burn
6) Old Man Abaddon
7) El Muerte
8) Whore’s Grave
False Prophets was recorded and mixed by Joe Hogan at Captain’s Cove Catskills Studios with mastering and additional engineering by AJ Tissian (The Wave Lab). The album was produced by Joe Hogan and PRECIOUS BLOOD. Album cover photo by Mia. Cover layout by PRECIOUS BLOOD.
Line-Up:
AJ -Guitar, Vocals
Grace Perez - Drums, Backing Vocals
Dave Kramer - Bass, Backing Vocals
https://linktr.ee/preciousbloodband
The
release of "DUSKETHA", the new album from Italian
Progressive Rock veterans GOAD, is just around the corner,
coming Friday, October 10th. Today, we present the second track from the
album, "Yes It Was Love (Message From A Cathedral)", whose music
video is available at https://youtu.be/0xd6DABASJ4
"Dusketha," available as a double CD and digital download, represents a captivating musical journey. Featuring 18 tracks, nearly two hours of pure art, it gives voice to the breath of lost poems where each note is a fragment of eternity.
The driving force and soul of the band, Maurilio Rossi, once again inspired by the greats of Anglo-American poetry such as Keats, Poe, Lovecraft, Masters, and Graham, after a career spanning over 50 years, manages to surprise us, and does so in the most sublime way possible.
GOAD, the history of Italian Prog!
"Dusketha" is available in PRE-ORDER at: https://t.ly/BkVeb
Tracklist
Disc 1
1. Yes It Was Love (Message From A Cathedral)
2. One Of These Days (Is There Still Day)
3. Alone Man In Empty Room
4. Poor Skull (Reverend Brothers)
5. Daisy' Rock
6. To An After Time My Harmonies
7. And Still We'll Dance Into The Light Of Heaven
8. My Feet In The Breaking Wave Sundown
9. Give It Not A Tear
Disc 2
1. Stop And Consider Life Is But A Day
2. While I Kiss To The Melody (Night Sleepy Eyes)
3. Hush My Love (Lullaby For A Woman)
4. The Speed Of My Nightmares
5. Let Out Song
6. Finally Remembering I'm Dead
7. Garden With Spectral Gleams
8. Foxsteps On My Nylon Guitar
9. The Woodkeeper, A Collar Of Red (bonus track)
This is what Maurilio wanted to tell us about the journey that led to the birth of this new creation: "Dusketha" for me represents a sort of sonorous ritual between poetry and shadow, the sound of an inner twilight, where poetry merges with unconventional harmonies and sometimes visionary arrangements.
The primordial idea for this album is the product of a journey that began in 1993... With it, I tried to give a sound to the original texts of John Keats, Edgar Lee Masters, H.P. Lovecraft, E.A. Poe, Jorie Graham, and others, and to do so, I searched for a warm, vibrant sound. After various experiments, aided by Max Cirone and his vast experience, we came to the conclusion that we needed to return to the use of "old" instruments and production methods, such as the Maxell UD 25-120 magnetic tape and the Akai GX4000D recorder, as well as the use of "tape bounce" to give the whole thing a "vintage" aesthetic. I must admit that the result was surprising, and I'm convinced that whoever listens to it will be transported into a deep and immersive experience like rarely happens."
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/MaurilioRossiGoad
Label: H-Music
Release date: october 17th 2025
Genre: Symphonic Metal
For fans of: Epica | Leaves’ Eyes | After Forever | Sirenia
My past is a place of shadows, of formative monsters that I have tried to run from but never left behind. They have shaped me and I have allowed them to. They gave me a structure, a framework and a shield. But you have unlocked each door that I have closed about my heart and let the light shine upon a version of myself I had almost forgotten. And I must make him stronger. I must draw him from the dark until he can stand beside you and let the monsters crumble into dust and become lost upon the wind. I must heal this broken mind…
After the powerful impact of their In this Silence EP, released in the summer, innovative Hungarian symphonic metal troupe Meteora are now set to unveil the second part in a previously announced trilogy of EPs – Broken Mind. While Atanathos webzine hailed In this Silence for setting “a new standard for contemporary symphonic metal”, Broken Mind manages to surpass that intriguing release, sounding even more accomplished, assured and supremely confident. Meteora are ready to lead us further into their kingdom of romance, magic, tragedy and hope.
Devil dancing keys over dark and storm-tossed riffs, fierce energy and grand drama usher in Broken Mind’s first single and opening, title track. Composer and keyboard player Atilla Király describes the song as having “a really special place in all of our hearts” and its wonderful melodies and powerfully contrasting vocal styles make for a dynamic and thrilling beginning to this new collection of songs. ‘Morningstar’ follows, slipping from enchanting melodies to driving, heavy sections with rampant guttural vocals, the sublimely managed shifts in mood and tempo epitomising the Meteora sound. There is so much happening in these songs that they feel like true symphonies, with surprises and secrets revealed keeping you on the edge of your seat. ‘Elysion’ seems to step from the pages of history with its lilting melody, transportative and emotive and Atilla Király takes the vocal lead on this darkly hued power metal piece, his rich, smooth tones working to exemplary affect. Broken Mind’s crowning glory however comes with its final, epic track. A drama worthy of a stage play, ‘In My Name’ evolves into ever more splendid forms, layers of sound are added, layer upon layer and all three vocalists are at their superlative best. Featuring some truly excellent riffs and a sense of real depth and substance, ‘In My Name’ is surely one of Meteora’s greatest ever songs. Broken Mind is an immensely satisfying and rewarding sonic experience that leaves the listener with a feeling of incredible anticipation for what the final part of this trilogy of EPs may bring…
Working with recording engineer Balázs Pálfi (Türböwitch etc) and utilising the mixing and mastering skills of Nino Helfrich (Thrash Cult, Traces Of A Life etc), Dmitry Kim (Khors, Arhat etc) and Joel Wanasek (Machine Head, Carnation, Dååth etc) Meteora have captured the perfect sound for Broken Mind – textured, powerful and resonant – while the impactful EP cover art was brought to life by Dronicon Films (Swallow The Sun, Katatonia, October Tide etc). The ‘Broken Mind’ single is available now, accompanied by a video created in association with Kill Monday Management and the full EP will arrive on October 17th via H-Music Hungary.
Line-up:
Noémi Holló – vocals
Máté Fülöp – bass, growls
Gábor Kása – drums
Dániel Baranya – guitars
Dániel Schreiber – guitars
Atilla Király – keys, vocals
Backing vocals from the Meteora choir – assembled and conducted by Ádám Attila Kurucz
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https://www.facebook.com/meteorabandhungary
Finnish melodic death metal act OBSCURE FATE is about to release their debut album 'SHADES OF A DYING WORLD'. The release date is announce later by Inverse Records.
The first single 'AGE OF DELUSION' is unleashed today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/obscure-fate-age-of-delusion
The band comments:
"Age of Delusion" is a dystopian and cynical view of the modern world. It criticizes those in power (politicians, the media, religion) who manipulate the masses with lies, fear, and illusions. The truth is lost, and freedom is just an illusion. The song is both a warning and an accusation. Who benefits from all this, and why are people blind to it?"
Biography:
Obscure Fate was originally formed in 2008 in Paltamo, Finland, as the solo project of guitarist and songwriter Kaleva Kovalainen. In 2009, drummer Jari Keränen and bassist Petri Möttönen joined, giving the songs their first real band form. Shortly after, guitarist Joni Moisanen and vocalist Tapio Möttönen became official members, and together the group arranged dozens of tracks for full band performances. From the very beginning, Tapio handled the lyrics, with Petri contributing to the song Spectral Exile.
The current lineup was completed in 2019 when bassist Antti Möttönen replaced Petri. Musically, Obscure Fate is rooted in traditional melodic death metal, though elements of thrash and classic heavy metal also find their way into the band’s sound. Kaleva’s prolific songwriting provided a strong foundation for the band, while the lyrics explore themes of social criticism, fictional storytelling, and inner struggles.
In 2021, Obscure Fate released their first EP. Recording sessions for their debut full-length album began soon after, but due to various setbacks the process turned into a long and seemingly endless project. Finally, in April 2025, the band reached the final stages of completing the album, marking an important milestone in their journey. The debut album 'Shades of a Dying World' is set to be released later in 2026 via Inverse Records.
Line-up:
Kaleva Kovalainen, Guitars
Tapio Möttönen, Vocals
Jari Keränen, Drums
Joni Moisanen, Guitars, Backing Vocals
Antti Möttönen, Bass
https://obscurefate.net
https://www.facebook.com/ObscureFateBand
TEMPLE
MIST – “O SPIRITUS, QUI IN HOC LOCO ADSUM, AUDI ME ET EXAUDI PRECĒS MEAS”
(TAPE)
Release date: 1st of November 2025
TEMPLE MIST emerges from the cryptic depths of the Netherlands, conjuring a storm of ancient rituals. Born from sinister energies, the project draws its inspiration from the obscure demo-era black metal of Greece’s legendary Necromantia and Abruptum. Ritualistic, primitive, obscure and sinister: TEMPLE MIST channels the spirit of black metal’s early days.
Death, necromancy, and darkness run through every sound, invoking eldritch rituals meant to summon ancient malvolent spirits. The second album, ‘O Spiritus, qui in hoc loco adsum, audi me et exaudi preces meas’, weaves a tapestry of harrowing improvisational drums and bass guitars. Haunted by analogue synths and strangled howling of the dead.
Songs
Part 1
Part 2
All songs by M. De Jong
More info
The songs can be played in radio shows from November 27th.
The band is open for interviews immediately.
About De Pankraker Records
De Pankraker was born in the depths of the underground, a rebellious radio program that delved into a cluster of metal sub-genres known for their daring sonic and visual transgressions. By 2022, it had expanded its reach with a magazine, and in 2023, it emerged from the shadows with its own festival. In 2024, we proudly unveiled De Pankraker Records, delving even deeper into the abyss with a distro and label.
We're all about serving up dishes that are cold and old-school. No fancy stuff, no technicalities, and definitely no triggered drums.
https://depankraker.be/
Click the following link to watch/listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j2xnE1Qpls
Lifeforce Records will release Bitter Lucid Truth on October 24! The EP will be available on limited 12" splatter vinyl, CD Digipak, ultra-limited cassette , and digital formats.
Pre-order/Pre-save the EP at: https://orcd.co/valletta_blt
There’s a palpable sense of urgency in Bitter Lucid Truth.
Valletta’s second proper release embraces what guitarist and singer Keenan Carroll describes as “anger, repulsion and intolerance toward the current political landscape.” But for all its confrontational inspiration, it’s also one of the year’s most thrilling metal releases.
With Bitter Lucid Truth, the Raleigh, N.C. quartet of Carroll, drummer Justin Valletta, bassist Cody Rogers, and guitarist/backing vocalist Will Goodyear, churn negative emotions into forceful, dynamic and “just genuinely pissed-off” outbursts that are equally searing and soaring.
This should come as no surprise from the veteran troupe, whose collective resume spans a heavy spectrum from sludge to prog to black metal, in bands including Lord Almighty, Barishi, Mo’ynoq, Prayer for Cleansing, and Between the Buried And Me. And, indeed, Valletta’s 2024 debut, Summer (Forcefield Records), defined a compelling hybrid of anthemic melody and bitter vitriol. But while Summer slung big riffs and even bigger hooks, Bitter Lucid Truth wields them like weapons.
“Aggressor” and “Cold Death” fuses the melodic impulses that have drawn comparisons to Tribulation and Kvelertak with a harsher, more belligerent approach more akin to Tragedy’s bold and defiantly melodic neo-crust. This is perhaps most apparent in the EP’s closing salvo, “Spitting the Word,” which answers “Doing Well"'s comparatively reflective tone with a vicious exclamation point. Of the song’s intent, Carroll says, “It’s time to speak your mind. No more thought paralysis.”
It’s fitting, then, that the EP was produced much more quickly than its predecessor. Where Summer evolved over a two-year gestation, Bitter Lucid Truth was written and recorded all in the first months of 2025. Recorded and mixed by Al Jacob (He Is Legend, Wailin Storms) at Warrior Sound Studio in Chapel Hill, N.C. — this time with production input from the band and TJ Childers of Inter Arma — and mastered by Matt Tuttle (Codeseven) at IAS Studios in Winston-Salem, NC, Valletta was able to capture the full and explosive sound the new songs’ dynamic volatility demands.
Managing to capture a boiling rage with a more dynamic and expansive approach to songwriting, Bitter Lucid Truth is a massive leap forward for the already ascendant band. Expect to see these vicious anthems take on a new life when Valletta brings them to the stage.
U.S. tours are planned for August and October of this year, surrounding the EP’s October release. In 2026, Valletta will accompany a European tour with a re-release of Summer also expected through Lifeforce Records.
Track
Listing:
1. Blood and Jesus
2. Cold Death
3. Aggressor
4. Doing Well
5. Spitting the Word
Line-Up:
Justin Valletta - Drums
Cody Rogers - Bass
Keenan Carroll - Guitar / Lead Vocals
Will Goodyear - Guitar / Backing Vocals
https://linktr.ee/lifeforcerecords
https://linktr.ee/vallettanc
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions is set to release the new EP from New Jersey's twisted Death Metal horror fiends, CHAINED TO THE DEAD. SOMETHING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO HELL is up now for pre-order and will be released October 31st on CD and Digital formats, along with merch.
Chained To The Dead return to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions to unleash the second installment in their new Death Metal/horror trilogy with Something Happened On The Way To Hell! While as sonically menacing as 2024's Only Hunger Remains, the Something Happened On The Way To Hell EP sounds like it crept out of a backwoods crypt and then crawled behind your eyeballs.
Recorded at Backroom Studios with mixing and mastering once again by Kevin Antreassian (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Gridlink, Organ Dealer), Something Happened On The Way To Hell features artwork by Mortuus and includes 4 brand new tracks as well as Genesis and Type O Negative covers.
For
fans of 200 Stabwounds, Organ Dealer, Carcass, Macabre, Goatwhore and Blood
Incantation
Listen to the single "Just Before Dawn" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JDu5KVAIpk
Tracklisting:
1. Rawhead Rex
2. Just Before Dawn
3. Return Of The Deadly Spawn
4. She Who Kills
5. Misunderstanding (Genesis cover)
6. Unsuccessfully Coping With The Loss Of (Type O Negative cover)
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
https://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
SCHEITAN – „WINE FOR A TORMENTED SOUL”
Swedish gothic rock band Scheitan will release their new album, "Wine For a Tormented Soul", on 19th December via The Circle Music.
"Wine For a Tormented Soul" features eight tracks, including the band's previously released singles "Carry Me Home", "Heaven Tonight" and "Love n Death".
Pierre Törnkvist from Scheitan shared the inspiration behind the album, "I am very much looking forward to presenting the new Scheitan album to the audience. The title 'Wine For a Tormented Soul' comes from what music can mean to people that run into hardship in life. Music is my therapy, it is my best friend in dark times. The last 10 years have been a bumpy road with one of my best friends passing away too early as well as my father leaving us from one day to another. Some of the songs have been presented to people as singles, with the upcoming album you can hear them in the context of an album, and also listen to them in a non-digital format such as vinyl which I think is the best way to do it. We will try to come out and play these new songs for you as much as we can."
"Wine For a Tormented Soul" follows Scheitan's 2024 album "Songs for the Gothic People" (The Circle Music) and their return after a 24-year hiatus. Having formed in 1996 by Pierre Törnkvist, Scheitan began with black metal roots but evolved to define their current gothic rock sound and continue to build on their sound. Their previous albums, including 1999's "Nemesis" (Century Media) have garnered a reputation as hidden gems within the genre.
Tracklist
1. A Kiss of Death
2. Heaven Tonight
3. Döden är helt underbar
4. Love n Death
5. Every Little Thing
6. Out of Here
7. Carry Me Home
8. Dream Away
Recording line-up:
Pierre Törnkvist - all instruments + drum programming
Guest vocals by Axel's son Milian Moe Lindberg on Every Little Thing
https://www.facebook.com/scheitanofficial
GLITCH
KILL
return with “DIRECTIVE 4”, a crushing new chapter in their
evolution that fuses Metal, Metalcore, and Alt Metal into a relentless sonic
barrage. This track is pure controlled chaos, riffs sharpened like blades,
breakdowns that detonate with precision, and vocals that channel raw defiance
against a fractured world.
Lyrically, Directive 4 explores the collision between human will and mechanical control, capturing themes of resistance, identity, and the inevitability of collapse in a system that consumes its creators. With lines like “I AM THE ANOMALY” and “Your Directive is dead to me”, Glitch Kill manifest rebellion in its purest form, an anthem of defiance against conformity and control.
For fans of brutal breakdowns, industrial-tinged aggression, and unflinching heaviness, Directive 4 is the sound of resistance weaponized. This is not just a song, it’s a declaration.
Biography
Brutal beats, crushing riffs, thunderous bass, and unorthodox vocal hooks—this is what sets Glitch Kill apart in California’s Central Valley metal scene. With nearly a century of combined experience and an unrelenting passion for heavy music, this band isn’t just making waves—they’re making fans need a chiropractor.
Rising from the ashes of Etched in Stone, bassist David "Crusher" Yanez, guitarist Travis Miller, and drummer Aaron Jones formed Glitch Kill with one goal: to create uncompromising, bone-crushing metal. The lineup was solidified with the addition of vocalist Shane Leon, whose raw intensity gave the band its signature sound.
Forming just before the world shut down in 2020, Glitch Kill took advantage of the downtime to craft their debut EP, Hindsight, which dropped on January 1st, 2021. Now, with their follow-up EP Post Hominid in the works and the latest addition of Robert Cole throwing down as a second guitarist, the band is back in full force, delivering relentless live performances across the Central Valley, the Bay Area, Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Fresno, Santa Cruz, and beyond—wherever there’s a demand for heavy metal.
The beast has been unleashed. Are you ready?
https://www.facebook.com/Glitchkill
Release date : November 7 2025
Style : Black Metal
Origin: France
Duration: 34min41
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Tracklist:
1. Ab Chaos
2. Quaestionis
3. Imperium
4. Stupor
5. Acceptio
6. Relapsus
MALEPESTE, a black metal band from Lyon founded in 2010, is preparing to release its third album, "Ex Nihilo", on November 7, 2025 via Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions.
After a demo in 2011 and a debut album, Dereliction (2013), the band made its mark with an abrasive style: slow tempos, dissonant arpeggios, incantatory vocals, and a raw stage aesthetic.
Their second album, Deliquescent Exaltation (2015), marked the arrival of Herjann, a second guitarist on rhythm. This evolution freed up the composition process, while also initiating a strong thematic shift: the rags were replaced by robes covered in Theban inscriptions; shows, thick with incense, became suffocating and transformed into overt rituals. The band’s occult dimension took shape—a ritualistic black metal fueled by inner resonance. The entity continued its path with a series of concerts and a tour alongside Malhkebre.
In 2018, MALEPESTE released a split with Dysylumn, “Ce qui fut, Ce qui est, Ce qui sera” (“What Was, What Is, What Will Be”), introducing clean vocal choirs. The sound became more controlled, more organic—without losing the distinctiveness that defines the band.
After a break devoted to the side project Grande Loge, MALEPESTE returns with "Ex Nihilo", an album matured over several years but delayed by the pandemic. It marks a continuation: always true to its essence, the band continues its quest on the border between the sacred and the ruined.
This new opus explores the theme of Creation in a broad sense—and the vertigo that comes with it. That inner tension that drives one to bring something out of the void, even at the risk of losing oneself in it. Each track embodies a stage in the cycle: impulse, pride, awe, doubt, relapse.
"Ex Nihilo" is a smoldering fire, a desperate forward escape… the cost of creating when you have nothing left to give—except yourself.
MALEPESTE line-up :
Xahaal – Lead guitar
Larsen – Vocals
Nostra – Bass
Herjann – Rhythm guitar
Flexor – Drums
An album driven by the breath of necessity: to create, to answer the call, even if nothing remains but ashes.
Preorders : https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/preorders
https://www.facebook.com/Malepeste
Veiled
in mystery and ancient ritual, ANGELIC FOE invites
listeners and viewers into a world where darkness and divinity intertwine with
their new music video “DISCORDIA”.
Step into a mystic realm of ancient power and forgotten rites, among the haunting ruins of centuries-old churches and the scattered stones of a lost castle, Discordia envisions a ritualistic journey through darkness and divinity, through sacred symbolism, raw nature, and the invocation of a dark lunar goddess. Move through elemental landscapes and mythic ruins, embodying a timeless cycle of strife, war, and cosmic rebirth.
The track is taken from Angelic Foe’s full-length album “AMULETS AND CHARMS”, released December 7th, 2024, via WormHoleDeath Records.
Stream Amulets and Charms on all platforms: https://orcd.co/amuletscharms
Previous official videos include:
https://youtu.be/Nf_Ttlr5s88
https://youtu.be/mmimMMd6oT8
https://youtu.be/WvrOrYNfGV0
https://youtu.be/6ylaF60WiPQ
https://youtu.be/nTBT4oZGT2E
Led by Annmari Thim and composer Fredrik Hermansson, Angelic Foe blends symphonic darkwave, neoclassical, and esoteric soundscapes, creating music that transcends time and space. With haunting melodies and deeply symbolic lyricism, the project crafts sonic rituals steeped in myth, spirituality, and the unseen forces that shape existence.
https://www.auralwebstore.com/
www.facebook.com/AngelicFoe
Format: Digital CD /
Physical CD
Label: Independent Release
Tracklist:
01. Only Madness Remains
02. Measure Of Guilt
03. When The Sharp Things Come
04. Sanity’s Rage
05. Blood Calls For Blood
06. Nothing Sacred Will Hold
07. The Dead Don’t Run
08. The Final Exhibit Of Pain
09. Reeducate The Masses
10. Sanity Lies In Ruin
Firmly rooted in the past, with a contemporary sound. Versatile, yet without compromise in aggression and technical level. Founded in 2002, when Thrash Metal bands were very few and other, more extreme genres had taken over the scene In Belgium, Sanity’s Rage came together as a band with a shared passion for catchy songwriting, raw energy and emotion, brought with technical skill.
The band has played renowned venues and festivals in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and The United Kingdom, alongside top acts such as After All, Agent Steel, Bonded By Blood, Cyclone, Destructor, Evil Invaders, Gama Bomb, Holy Moses, Huntress, Hyades, James Rivera, Laaz Rockit, Liar, Onslaught, Reign Of Fury, Savage Messiah, Skyclad, Saxon, Testament and many others. Some of the highlights being Beermageddon (UK) in 2014 and 2024 and Alcatraz Metal Fest (BE) in 2009 and 2024.
Their debut EP ‘The Rage Of One’ was well received by the international press, the follow-up CD ‘You Are What You Swallow’ proved they weren’t just a one trick pony and took them up a level. Now, in 2025, Sanity’s Rage is back with a new album ‘The Dead Don’t Run’, and continue the story of pure fucking thrash. Over 10 years after the last release, with a complete lineup change, bringing back most of the original band members who started the story 20 years ago.
‘The Dead Don't Run’ will be available worldwide on all major streaming platforms starting October 15th, 2025. A physical digipack (€15.00) and digital CD download (€9.99) will already be available on October 1st, 2025!
Line-up:
Tim de Bruyne: guitar
Tim de Bisschop: bassguitar / backing vocals
Kenny Molly: vocals
Sam Stoelzaet: drums
Kenny Claes: guitar
https://www.facebook.com/SanitysRage
Stream the single here: https://orcd.co/gdbcsingle
Stream the album: https://orcd.co/scalbum
Previous videos:
https://youtu.be/Nso_kHVv3oI
https://youtu.be/xeeiwOvpmr4
https://youtu.be/26xpIfMKKhE
https://youtu.be/3ugPaxkkJlE
"SATANS COCK" The Album
Following their 2022 self-titled debut, which sold out multiple pressings and carved a cult following across the underground, KÜNTSQUÄD (pronounced Kountskard) double down on everything grotesque, unholy, and deliberately absurd. There are no genre walls here—only a relentless descent into sonic madness.
With the album “Satans Cock”, the band delivers a grotesque yet calculated assault—layering blast-beaten fury, apocalyptic riffs, and sneering satire into a weaponized soundscape for the damned.
About KÜNTSQUÄD:
KÜNTSQUÄD (pron. Kountskard) is a crusty death metal band from Melbourne blending guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and blackened chaos. Their 2022 self-titled debut on Wormholedeath Records earned global acclaim and sold-out pressings. Raw, extreme, and satirically twisted—this is metal with no genre boundaries.
www.youtube.com/@Kuntsquad666
www.facebook.com/kuntsquad666
HELLBEARER – “DARKER FATES”
Label: Independent Release
Release date: october 17th 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Exodus | Testament | Machine Head | Forbidden
The cards are laid before us – The Tower, Three Of Swords, Five Of Pentacles, Ten Of Swords, Death and The Devil – each one presaging disaster, a final black chapter in our bloody story. Our ending is written in the stars, inescapable and now there is only a choice of pathways to our ultimate destruction. Greed, lust and ignorance, cowardice, cruelty and selfishness – they have all played their parts in our blinkered march to the grave. Now it just remains to select the manner of our dying; to step from our bleak, black present to a choice of darker fates.
Manchester’s Hellbearer leapt into the frontline trenches of thrash metal in 2022 and haven’t paused for breath since. They quickly released their fiery debut album, For Those About To Bear Hell and since then have shared the stage with the likes of 3 Inches Of Blood and the legendary Abaddon of Venom. They delivered a ferocious set at Thrashchester 2023 and went on to give a memorable performance at Bloodstock, inciting record crowd surfing numbers with their adrenalin infused riff attack. Now attention turns to their second album, Darker Fates, which sees the band striding effortlessly into the vanguard of UK thrash.
Scene setting intro, ‘Pull The Card’ leads directly into the classic thrash of ‘The Witch’, with its circling riffs and powerful vocals adorned with searing, exhilarating lead work. The Hellbearer sound is rooted in the ‘80s thrash explosion, but each song is delivered with a venomous fury and a vital, vibrant enthusiasm which makes it more than just relevant – rather an essential new blood infusion for the genre. From the gritty, grinding riffs and menacing, pit inducing aggression of ‘Absolution’ to the hard hitting, foreboding darkness of ‘The Mantra’; the measured, methodical annihilation of new single ‘Counting Seconds’ with its slow burning riff and twisted solo, to the jagged and dangerous ‘Through An Orphan’s Eyes’ – musically, Darker Fates is a powerful addition to the atomic arsenal of thrash metal. Lyrically the band have raised the bar too, striving to match the ambitious, creative nature of their new music with tales of dystopian futures and reflections on our fractured times. Incisive, powerful and metal to the bone, Hellbearer have surpassed all expectations with their latest creation.
With a sound so raw and real it could draw blood, Darker Fates will be unleashed on October 17th. This is British thrash, armed to the teeth, harder and heavier than ever!
Line-up:
Ash Allen - Vocals/Rhythm Guitar
Sam Hatt - Drums
Matthew Robinson - Lead Guitar
Kieran Brooks - Bass
https://www.facebook.com/hellbearerthrash
Undersave's have revealed the final song from their latest, mesmerizing album before it drops later in the week. Fans of dark, complex, dissonant, and yes, even atmospheric death metal should definitely take note. Listen to the final song premiered by Mystification Zine at https://mystificationzine.com/2025/10/03/undersavepremiere
Excerpt - "a new pinnacle within the band’s technical yet fluidic death metal riffcraft"
UNDERSAVE - “MERGED IN ABSTRACT PERDITION”
Genre: Dark, dissonant
and atmospheric death metal
For fans of: Immolation, Ulcerate, Replicant, Maere, Gorguts, Dysgnostic, Saevus Finis
Unheralded death metal heroes from Portugal, Undersave, have been trying to carve their own path and every half a decade or so we get an album that is a huge step ahead from the previous one. And while their previous album is already considered to be a significant one, their new album displays a marked progression from it without completely abandoning the core sound. "Merged in Abstract Perdition" is a masterful album that is at once dark, dissonant, and atmospheric. Having developed such good songwriting skills, they don't need to rely too much on abstractness or dissonance to get attention; while they navigate similar labyrinthine paths, they do so in an unhurried manner, allowing the riffs to create their own hypnotic crescendo. It is easy to get lost in their world swirling with mesmerizing, dissonant-edged riffs and that is probably the best way to listen to their music - to get immersed in it, just because there is so much in there to absorb. Even then, it will require multiple experiences for the arcane concepts to be fully grasped. Every song is a monolith, outwardly similar but each offering its own twisted interpretation without losing consistency. Undersave may have just come up with a masterpiece with this one, rivalling if not surpassing not only their own albums but also those by the other luminaries in the style.
Line up
Nuno Braz - Vocals, Guitars
Renato Laia - Bass
Pedro Pereira - Drums
André Carvalho - Guitars
Mixed and Mastered by Diogo Santana at Noise Portrait Recordings
Artwork by Belial NecroArts (Hierarchies, Perishing)
Track listing
1. Unshakable And Unlimited Levels Of Obsession
2. Unconscious Assimilation...Path To Tangible Reality
3. Effervescent Futile Thoughts Of A Phobic Being
4. Forced Retraumatization...Unlocking Spiritual Illumination
5. Fictitious And Impermanent Self-Refinement
6. Fathomless Contempt Nourished By Unrealistic Predictions
7. Narcissistic Supreme Alienation
Official release date - October 10th, 2025
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Release
Date:
November 14th, 2025Label: Adrenalizing Media
Wie würde es klingen, wenn AC/DC sich in einer Gasse mit Judas Priest prügelten, während Motörhead daneben eine Harley aufheulen ließen? So klingen N.Y.C. mit ihrem Debütalbum “Built To Destroy” (VÖ: 14.11.). Die Platte wurde von Tommy Bolan produziert und wird von ADRENALIZING MEDIA NETWORK (Executive Producer) veröffentlicht. Aufgenommen wurde sie in den Deep End Music Studios (abgemischt von Kenny Meriedeth) und gemastert von Robert Vosgien (Los Angeles/USA). Auf dem Album ist außerdem der Grammy-Preisträger und Hollywood-Komponist Vince DiCola (Rocky IV, Transformers The Movie) mit einem Gastbeitrag vertreten. “Built To Destroy” ist heavy, laut, ziemlich angefressen – und hat definitiv nicht das Ziel, Freunde zu finden.
Gegründet von Sänger/Gitarrist Tommy Bolan, dem in Queens, NY geborenen und aufgewachsenen Sechs-Saiten-Shredder hinter Warlocks Platinum-Album “Triumph & Agony”, gehören zur Band auch die Metal-Legenden Stet Howland (W.A.S.P., Metal Church) an den Drums und Steve Unger (Metal Church) am Bass. Gemeinsam verkörpern sie den Sound von New York City – laut, unruhig, wütend und bereit, sich aus der Gosse zu erheben.
Mit der bahnbrechenden Single “Heavy As Hell” (VÖ: 05.09.), liefern N.Y.C. eine atemberaubende Ode an ausverkaufte Konzerthallen und das Spielen auf der eigenen Bühne des Lebens mit all der Intensität, nach der wir uns alle sehnen. Die Single, die mehr Gitarren enthält als der Hobbyraum deines liebsten Nachbarn, ist genauso rau und aggressiv wie das dazugehörige Video.
“Ich wollte Songs schreiben, die für mich echt sind,” sagt Bolan, der jeden Track geschrieben, produziert und mit viel Herzblut versehen hat. “Mit unseren Songs können wir unsere Aggressionen rauslassen und gleichzeitig die Dämonen unseres Wahnsinns exorzieren. Ich bin der Typ an der New Yorker Straßenecke, der wegen allem rumschreit und diese Intensität spürt man auch bei unseren Live-Shows.”
Das Album ist ein echter klanglicher Wutanfall, die Feierlichkeiten vor dem Release laufen auf Hochtouren. Die Veröffentlichung von Bolans eigenen Gitarrensaiten (über Optima Strings) ist in vollem Gange, flankiert von – im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes – epischen und beeindruckenden Videos mit VFX-Veteran Walter Schulz (Emmy- & Oscar-Preisträger und Hollywood VFX Director). Schulz und das Team von Adrenalizing Media Network haben mit Unreal Engine und all ihren neuesten Technologien gearbeitet und keine Mühen gescheut, um bislang nie realisierte neue Anwendungsfälle aus den herausragenden Fähigkeiten der neuesten Gaming-Technologie herauszuholen. “Walter ist ein Meister seines Fachs und passt perfekt zu uns“, erklärt Bolan. “Die visuelle Welt, die er geschaffen hat, fängt die Intensität von N.Y.C. ein.“
Außerdem stehen spannende Werbeaktionen und Werbegeschenke von Schecter, Peavey, Morley, Optima Strings, Tascam, EHX, Gator und Levy’s an sowie die Veröffentlichung vom N.Y.C.-eigenen Wein & Wodka.
‘Built To Destroy’ ist im Grunde der Wendepunkt für jeden, um all den Mist hinter sich lassen, der ihm in seinem Leben angetan wurde”, fügt Bolan hinzu. “All der Wahnsinn, die Lügen und die durch Dritte erzwungene Selbstaufopferung von Körper, Geist und Seele sollen nun umgedreht werden. Wie mein Song sagt: ‘I am Tired of Smiling’. All das hat mich zu der Mischung aus Mensch und Maschine gemacht, die ihr vor euch seht. Ich bin zurückgekehrt, um meine Dämonen freizulassen und die Einschränkung durch andere nicht länger zu tolerieren.”
“Built To Destroy” ist nicht nur ein Album. Es ist eine akustische 10-Tonnen-Atombombe, die auf deine Stereoanlage zusteuert – also anschnallen und festhalten!
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Die Feierlichkeiten zum großen Bandjubiläum der
britischen Heavy-Metal-Legenden IRON MAIDEN laufen auf
Hochtouren. Die RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR in Stadien in Deutschland und
weltweit war mit mehr als einer Million Ticketverkäufen ein unglaublicher
Erfolg und mit Festivalauftritten im nächsten Jahr, unter anderem bei Rock am
Ring und Rock im Park, stehen für Fans schon die nächsten Highlights an.Doch auch in diesem Jahr können sich Fans über ein ganz besonderes Juwel freuen, dem viele von ihnen seit der Ankündigung Anfang 2025 entgegenfiebern.
Der offizielle Bildband “IRON MAIDEN: INFINITE DREAMS” (Englische Originalausgabe in UK über Thames & Hudson) ist soeben erschienen – auf Deutsch im Münchner Prestel Verlag.
Der außergewöhnliche Bildband ist in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Iron Maiden entstanden und bietet nie zuvor veröffentlichte Einblicke in die beeindruckende Entwicklung und Karriere der renommiertesten Heavy-Metal-Band der Welt, die seit ihrer Gründung 1975 17 Studioalben, 13 Live-Alben, vier EPs und sieben Compilations veröffentlicht hat und längst zu den einflussreichsten und umsatzstärksten Bands überhaupt zählt.
Mit “Infinite Dreams” können sich Fans auf ein spektakuläres und wunderschön gestaltetes Buch freuen und sich ein Stück Bandgeschichte nach Hause holen, das noch nie zuvor gesehene Stücke und Fotografien enthält, die über mehrere Jahre mit enormer Liebe zum Detail zusammengestellt wurden.
Der Bildband wartet neben exklusiven Textbeiträgen ehemaliger und aktueller Bandmitglieder und des Managements auch mit bislang unveröffentlichten Fotos aus den Archiven von Iron Maiden auf.
Er dokumentiert erstmals die gesamte Geschichte der Band von Beginn der 80er-Jahre, als sie als Pioniere des New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBH) gefeiert wurden und mit ihrer kompromisslosen Vision, furchtlosen Kreativität und ihrem brennenden Ehrgeiz ein weltweites, generationenübergreifendes Phänomen erschufen, bis heute, wenn die Briten im Rahmen ihrer RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR 50-jähriges Bestehen feiern.
Auf 352 Seiten und in über 600 Abbildungen werden ikonische Albumcover, Singles, Poster sowie jede Menge Songtexte, Arbeitsjournale, Gitarren, Schlagzeug-Sets, Bühnenrequisiten und vieles mehr präsentiert. Weiterhin enthält der Bildband bahnbrechende Fotografien von Ross Halfin und John McMurtrie sowie aufschlussreiche Geschichten und faszinierende Einblicke, wie sie in dieser Form bisher noch nie veröffentlicht wurden und jedes Fan-Herz höherschlagen lassen werden.
Mit einem Vorwort von Bandgründer Steve Harris und einem Nachwort von Sänger Bruce Dickinson ist “Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams” ein weiteres Highlight im Jubiläumsjahr von Iron Maiden, das 50 Jahre Kreativität, Hingabe, Persönlichkeit und Erfolg der Band feiert – ein Schatz, der in der Sammlung keines Fans fehlen darf!
Iron Maiden. Infinite Dreams. 50 Jahre Iron Maiden. Der offizielle Bildband.
352 Seiten, 600 Farbabbildungen
Gebunden, 24,3 x 32,0 cm
€59,00 (D) / €60,70 (A) / CHF 77,00
Erscheinungstermin: 07. Oktober 2025
https://www.penguin.de/
https://ironmaiden.com
PHANTOM CORPORATION – Neues Album „TIME AND TIDE“ erscheint am 12. Dezember 2025!
The Death Crust Commando strikes back – louder, fiercer, heavier.“Time And Tide” is here to crush everything in its path!
Seit ihrer Gründung 2016 sind PHANTOM CORPORATION eine unaufhaltsame Macht im Underground. Gegründet von Szene-Veteranen aus Bremen und Dortmund – mit Wurzeln in Bands wie Dew-Scented, Eroded, BK 49 und Weak Aside – verschmilzt die Band gnadenlosen D-Beat Crust mit Death Metal und rohem Old-School Thrash/Punk zu einem kompromisslosen Crossover-Sound.
Nach der Debüt-Mini „First Commandment“ (2016), den furiosen EPs „Cause and Effect“ (2017) und „Belligerent Powers“ (2018) sowie der Split „Banner Of Hatred“ (2022, mit den Schweden Harrowed) und dem ersten vollen Album „Fallout“ (2023), präsentiert die Band nun ihr tödlichstes Geschoss: Das neue Album „Time And Tide“, das in den letzten Tagen des Jahres 2025 über Supreme Chaos Records erscheint.
Produziert von Jörg Uken in den Soundlodge Studios (u. a. God Dethroned, Temple Of Dread), hebt Time And Tide die Band auf ein völlig neues Level. Über 11 Tracks hinweg liefern PHANTOM CORPORATION ein unerbittliches Feuerwerk – vielseitiger, brutaler und kompromissloser als je zuvor. Rasende Thrash-Riffs, Crust- Attacken und Death Metal vereinen sich zu einem apokalyptischen Schlagabtausch ohne Atempause.
Tracklist:
1. Frantic Disruption (4:16)
2. Dead Of Night (4:30)
3. Crushed (3:59)
4. Krokodil (1:31)
5. Pound Of Flesh (2:42)
6. To The Hilt (4:14)
7. Time And Tide (4:17)
8. Sorcerer (3:57)
9. For All The Wrong Reasons (4:42)
10. Crisis (2:21)
11. Western Apocalypse (5:35)
Heute gibt es den ersten neuen Song von „Time And Tide”, schaut euch den Visualizer zu „Sorcerer” von Costin Chioreanu https://twilight13media.com an, der auf dem Cover-Artwork von Skurktur www.skurktur.com basiert.
Hier der Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnfyBYeQLMs
PHANTOM CORPORATION über „Sorcerer”:
“Ein düsterer, durchdringender und crustiger Death Metal Song.
„Sorcerer“ ist textlich vom gleichnamigen Film inspiriert und vereint auf sehr direkte Weise verschiedene Elemente aus dem typischen Werkzeugkasten der Band und bietet somit einen intensiven ersten Eindruck unseres zweiten Studioalbums „Time And Tide“.“
“No penance left, no past undone. Damnation rides with everyone!” (Sorcerer Lyrics)
„Time And Tide” wird in den folgenden Formaten erhältlich sein:
Black LP
Orange Marbled LP (Limitiert auf 150 Kopien)
Clear Rusty Marbled LP (Limitiert auf 100 Kopien / Band-Exclusiv)
Splatter Clear Orange Black LP (Limitiert auf 100 Kopien)
Digipak CD (Limitiert auf 500 Kopien / Handnummeriert)
Jewelcase CD
Black Tape (Limitiert auf 150 Kopien)
Purple Tape (Limitiert to 50 Kopien / SCR-Exclusiv)
Digital Album
Der „Time And Tide” Album Pre-Order startet heute hier: https://linktr.ee/phantomcorporation
Oder direkt über Supreme Chaos Records: https://supremechaos.com/scr-artists/phantom-corporation/
PHANTOM CORPORATIONs Debütalbum „Fallout” und dessen limitierte „Fire Splatter” und „Orange/Black marbled” Vinyl-Varianten sind nach wie vor hier erhältlich: https://supremechaos.com/link/phantomcorporation/
PHANTOM CORPORATION 2025:
Leif – Vocals
Marc – Drums
Ulf – Bass
Arne – Guitars
Philipp – Guitars
Live 2025/2026:
10.10.2025 Greifswald – JZ Klex
11.10.2025 Berlin – ORWOhaus / Necromania
01.11.2025 Rhauderfehn – JUKZ / Ear Terror Festival
29.11.2025 Lünen – Lükaz
24.01.2026 Krefeld – Kulturrampe
07.02.2026 Osnabrück – JZ Westwerk 141 / Waking The Ghouls II
18.-20.06.2026 Protzen – Protzen Open Air
17.10.2026 Nordhorn – Alte Weberei / Nordhorn Deathfest
https://phantomcorporation.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/phantomcorporation
STREAMS OF BLOOD – “VERMALEDEIT”
Genre: Black Metal
Label: The Hidden Art
Release: 18.12.2025
Nach Jahren persönlicher und kreativer Umbrüche legt Streams Of Blood mit „Vermaledeit“ am 18. Dezember ihr neues Album vor – ein Werk, das die Erfahrungen und Brüche seiner Entstehungszeit spürbar in sich trägt.
Fünf Jahre voller Veränderungen, Verluste und innerer Kämpfe haben ihre Spuren hinterlassen. „Vermaledeit“ ist das Ergebnis dieser Phase – intensiv, direkt und emotional aufgeladen.
Die Songs bewegen sich zwischen Melancholie und Nihilismus, zwischen Selbstzweifel und Befreiung. Roh und ungeschliffen aufgenommen, zeigt das Album den unverstellten Charakter seines Entstehungsprozesses – ehrlich, kompromisslos und ohne Rücksicht.
Das begleitende Artwork entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit Void Revelations und ergänzt die Musik um eine visuelle Dimension, die die Atmosphäre von „Vermaledeit“ treffend einfängt.
Ein Album, das aus persönlicher Dunkelheit hervorgegangen ist – und den Weg von Streams Of Blood konsequent weiterführt.
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HESSIAN
/ GOMOLD - "BLASPHEMOUS RITUAL IN THE UNHOLY UNDERWORLD..."Split Cassette Limited to 50 copies, hand numbered
Tracklist:
HESSIAN Side
01 - Ritual 1
02 - Ritual 2
GOMOLD Side
01 - A Hala´l Szele
02 - A Fekete Ko´r
Release date 12th october 2025
Out now
Split cassette - 8€
PRIMITIVE RAW BLACK METAL APOCALYPTIC CHAOS...
The filthy Murder Records and the rotten Southern Soundclash Records join forces once again to cruelly torment you with unholy noises extracted from the occult tombs in the graveyard to begin the ritual that invokes the hellish storms of chaos.
Hessian is a horde originating from the primitive cemeteries of Atlanta in the United States and which presents us with two funeral rituals with deadly rotten remains duly unearthed from the deep graves, where the abominable torments of cadaveric agony echo in our perverted subconscious with Extreme Black Noise.
Gomold is an unholy horde originating from the bowels of the ZBMK in Hungary and presenting us with the nefariousness of the black plague, here announced with the spreading the harmful odors, where the wind of death mercilessly annihilates this horrendous humanity with Hellish Black Metal nightmares.
The blasphemous altar of the occult arts is now duly prepared to present the apocalyptic ritual, where the coffins of Hessian and Gomold are open to receive the putrid remains of your insignificant existence, and which will be devoured by starving rats in this ritual of human misery, where the rotten, deadly remains prevail with eternal hate...
HESSIAN Line-Up
Laremy Wade: Guitars, Composition, Effects, Production....
Nyvrosk: Drums
https://hessian666.bandcamp.com/
GOMOLD Credits:
Studio, Recording, Mixing: Tas Bálint Pataki, Attila Pap
Made in the Zvgloian Cave.
Gomold belongs to the ZBMK.
Special Thanks:
Dániel “Schleki” Schlekman
Dávid Deák
Attila Csihar
Laremy Wade
András Ládi
Gergely Laky
GOMOLD Line-up:
Crotalos: Guitar, Vocals
Lucius: Drums
Big Chris: Bass, Vocals (backing)
https://gomold.bandcamp.com/
Official distribution in the European Division by Hellstore Europe and in the North American Division by Southern Soundclash Records & Guts And Blood Records
MURDER RECORDS NORTH AMERICAN DIVISION
https://www.facebook.com/southernsoundclash
https://gutsandblood.bandcamp.com/album/rotten-pages-magazine-compilation-vol-11
NOW I'VE DONE IT's last video for "Panache" saw them make history with the first-ever analog lyric video. This time, the band takes a decidedly different approach - Powerpoint.
The band recently announced the video on social media, asking, "Is it good? I like to think art is neither good or bad. Is it bad? Yes."
You be the judge. Stream "Jim-Jams" at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmKi-BdE7kY
Watch the aforementioned video for "Panache" at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-zmb-WXgYw
An Ill Guest. The album is set for release on October 17.
Pre-order the album at : https://nowivedoneit.bandcamp.com/album/an-ill-guest
What, or who, is NOW I’VE DONE IT? Four words. One way to live.
NOW: The present. Be the Now.
I’VE: I. Have. Contract. Take ownership. Seize the Now.
DONE: What’s done is done, and what hasn’t been will become done. What has become done has become the present… which is Now.
IT: What is It? It is Everything. It is Now.
NOW I’VE DONE IT is an eclectic blend of avant-garde metal, swing, and punk-cabaret hailing from Philadelphia. Comprised of current and former members of Philadelphia progressive power metal band Lör, NiDi offers something for everyone, or nothing for no one.
Track
list:1. Disillusion
2. Dilly-Dally
3. Offering
4. Ruffled
5. Panache
6. Collywobbles
7. Muddled
8. Splinter
9. Jim-Jams
10. Kindling
Artwork painted by Eliran Kantor.
An Ill Guest was produced, mixed, mastered, and engineered by Peter Hraur.
Bio:
NOW I’VE DONE IT (stylized as NiDi) began in 2010 by high school friends, multi-instrumentalist Peter Hraur, and drummer Dan Reynolds. The two set out to create music that was a unique reflection of what they love about music: high energy but heavy, fun but dramatic, and funny without being a joke. With a rebellious DIY attitude, they scraped together whatever cheap recording equipment they could afford and put together their first demo of three avant-garde inspired metal tracks, aptly titled Rigamarole. The band would go on to spend years playing in the greater Philadelphia region, offering a theatrical, energetic, yet earnest live show, performing with such acts as Parius, Alustrium, Polkadot Cadaver, and more.
Peter and Dan took a "say yes" attitude while crafting An Ill Guest, resulting in 10 tracks filled to the brim with the kind of personality that can only result when two lifelong friends disregard convention and have a little too much fun in the writing room. Over the years of performing, the band has received phenomenal feedback, being described as "the most fun I've had at a live show," and inspiring listeners to dive into their own art with renewed energy.
The band’s hope is for this release to act as a radar to all those who want something a little different. It's bold and risk-taking, heavy and dramatic, but fun and extravagant. It's weird music for weird people.
The concept for a Polish-language Tenebris album dates back to 2013, when the initial framework for the song "Wieleci" was recorded. The creative process was extended over several years due to lineup changes. In November 2018, after further personnel shifts, the band was finally ready to start working on what would become “Kochanowski”.
Initially, the idea was to create an album based on Juliusz Slowacki’s poem Król Duch. However, as time passed and new literary paths and ideas emerged, the band’s focus shifted. It became clear that Slowacki, along with other prominent Polish poets like Adam Mickiewicz, was deeply connected to the figure of Jan Kochanowski. This connection was fully realised after reading Joanna Salomon’s book Latarka Gombrowicza.
The band's frontman, Szymon, immersed himself in Kochanowski's writings and came to a profound conclusion: Kochanowski’s epigrams (fraszki) were a deliberate labyrinth based on Pythagorean numerology, which in turn was derived from Hermes Trismegistus. This new perspective transformed Kochanowski from a simple, pastoral poet into a practitioner of what might be called magical arts. The idea of Kochanowski as a prophet figure, transcending even Mickiewicz, became central to the album's unapologetic title.
The album cover, a sketch by Jan Matejko depicting his vision of Jan Kochanowski, further supports this narrative. It suggests that popular, historical figures are often flattened in mass narratives, hiding a wealth of unexpected stories behind them.
The lyrics to Kochanowski feature poems by Jan Kochanowski, Juliusz Slowacki, Olga Jackowska and Adam Mickiewicz, adding to the album's rich, literary tapestry. The album also features special guests: Maciej Pasinski (ex-Sirrah, currently Pincer Consotrium) on backing vocals, jazz clarinettist Pawel Szamburski and Sylwia Levy.
Formed in Lódz, Poland in 1991, Tenebris is considered by many a cult Polish metal band. They began as a death metal act before incorporating progressive and jazz influences into their sound.
Tracklist: 1 - Kochanowski
2 - Kosy
3 - Popiel
4 - Sarmacya
5 - Perunowy
6 - Duch
7 - Wolarz
8 - Kreon
9 - Wieleci
10 - Szmaragdowy somnambulik
Tenebris recording lineup:
Siwy Jaszy - guitar / vocals / lyrics
Przemyslaw Dominiak - guitar / FX / keyboards
Grzegorz Graczyk - drums / samples
Bartek Polniak - bass
Guests:
Maciej Pasinski - backing vocals, growls on "Kochanowski" and "Perunowy"
Sylwia Levy - backing vocals on "Kreon"
Pawel Szamburski - clarinets on "Szmaragdowy Somnambulik"
The songs "Popiel" and "Perunowy" are fragments of Juliusz Slowacki's work, Król Duch. "Sarmacya" is part of Jan Kochanowski's Porporzec, and the end of "Wolarz" is a piece from Adam Mickiewicz's Dziady.
https://www.facebook.com/paganrecords
https://www.facebook.com/TenebrisAlpha
Minneapolis (MN) - Progressive/extreme metal outfit, KOSTNATĚNÍ, have released "KŘEHKÝ BŮH (FRAGILE GOD)," the second single from forthcoming album, PŘÍLIŠNOST (EXCESS).
Stream the song at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a4EtGqMvyU
Přílišnost (Excess), the third album by KOSTNATĚNÍ, thoroughly destroys any remaining comparisons to the band’s contemporaries. Following up on 2023’s critically-acclaimed Úpal and its blend of technical black metal with Middle Eastern folk, KOSTNATĚNÍ has packed into this bizarre base an even stranger array of influences that must be heard to be believed. The band’s signature “highbrow” progressive riffs, now played on a uniquely alt-tuned guitar, cleverly interweave with a mix of “lowbrow” metal genres and moody synthesizers to create the band’s heaviest, most compact and violent songs to date. Continuing with the band’s introspective themes, Přílišnost (Excess) is dedicated to the suffocating, destructive pursuit of self-perfection. Lyrically and musically, it pushes beyond all limits.
Willowtip will release Přílišnost (Excess) November 7 on CD, vinyl, cassette and digital formats.
Pre-order:
https://www.willowtip.com/bands/details/kostnat-n.aspx
https://kostnateni.bandcamp.com/album/p-li-nost-excess
Track Listing
1. Dokonalé křišťálové město (Perfect Crystal City)
2. Křehký bůh (Fragile God)
3. Kostely byly mrakodrapy (Churches Were the Skyscrapers)
4. Zpět ke kmenům (Back to the Tribes)
5. Mrtvola Jupitera (Corpse of Jupiter)
6. Samotář (Loner)
7. Čelist utlačovatele k obrubníku (Jaw of the Oppressor to the Curb)
8. Znal jsem tě (I Knew You)
9. Dále zvenčí (Further from Outside)
10. Přílišnost (Excess)
Credits:
Kostnatění is D.L.
Drums by Joe Goldwater.
Additional vocal contributions by Mack.
Written and recorded from 2021-2024.
Mixed and mastered by D.L.
Drums recorded at Signaturetone by Adam Tucker.
Cover art and layout by Metastazis.
Thanks to the many voices that brought life to this work, especially Mack, The RIM, Tapekvlt, and Nat.
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip/
https://www.facebook.com/kostnateni/
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: december 5th 2025
Genre: Post Metal/Progressive Rock
For fans of: Tool | Alice In Chains | Katatonia | Pink Floyd | Killing Joke
In the January of 2024, Final Coil released their third album, The World We Inherited; the crowning glory of a triptych of records which began with their vibrant debut Persistence Of Memory and continued with the highly critically acclaimed The World We Left Behind For Others. While every Final Coil release represents a musical and lyrical achievement to be savoured and treasured, with The World We Inherited, the Leicester-based band took huge strides forward into awe-inspiring creative landscapes. Their most complete, challenging, and thought-provoking release, The World We Inherited was also Final Coil’s most successful album to date. As a result, the band found themselves in the esteemed pages of Prog magazine, bestriding the stage at Bloodstock Open Air, setting out on their first headline European trek; which included an incredible sold out show at the Supersonic Club in Paris; and a return to the Fusion Festival, where they appeared alongside Amplifier and The Von Hertzen Brothers. The world’s rock press were unanimous in their praise for The World We Inherited and the album finished 2024 in many Album Of The Year lists
The one thing that The World We Inherited wasn’t afforded in its original incarnation was a vinyl release; but now, after a great deal of thought and planning, Final Coil are delighted to finally give this incredible album that richly deserved honour. However, in keeping with their reputation for always trying to give fans the very best possible return for their money, a simple vinyl reissue was never going to be enough for Final Coil…hence the creation of The World We Inherited 2025 – Remastered And Expanded! Alongside a fresh, dynamic remaster of The World We Inherited – created specifically for vinyl by original album producer Russ Russell (Amorphis, The Wildhearts, Napalm Death etc), this new version of the album comes with no fewer than eleven additional tracks. There’s a complete live performance recorded at the Firebug in Leicester, never before heard demo tracks, as well as songs cut in preproduction, all available as a special digital download pack.
The World We Inherited itself remains a simply colossal album. A joy to revisit, its songs are still revealing more secrets nearly two years on from its original unveiling. Whereas the albums that preceded it examined our past, the societal failings that have brought us to our troubled present, The World We Inherited turns its gaze to the future, and the shadows of fear and division that bleed across its horizon. Inspired in no small part by a long and winding conversation with Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman and the prophetic, dystopian fiction of George Orwell, The World We Inherited wanders through a murky, broken world of conspiracy theories, authoritarian politics, and chilling isolation. Yet, while the lyrics and concepts provide the framework for The World We Inherited, it’s the beautifully textured music that draws the listener into the world of Final Coil and enfolds them in a breathtaking experience encompassing overwhelming melancholy, fierce intensity, passion, terror, confusion and starlit glimmers of hope. Drawing on the textures of post-rock, the emotional drive of grunge, the fire of heavy rock, as well as the imaginative sorcery of progressive rock and metal the Final Coil sound is fresh, original and also rooted in an array of influences from across the musical spectrum. The fluid bass work of Jola Stiles both augments and anchors the entwined guitars of Phil Stiles and Richard Awdry, while the vibrant, instinctive drumming of Barry French steers the band through the exquisite song structures, as Phil’s emotive vocals tell each chapter of the unfolding tale.
The expanded element of this new edition is, in truth, a worthy release in its own right, far beyond the scope of most bonus tracks tagged onto ‘tour editions’ or rereleases. The live set from the Firebug in Leicester is a raw and fiery performance – the energy and power of Final Coil in the live environment captured in all its glory - taken straight from the desk, but then mixed and mastered by the frontman Phil Stiles. The previously unreleased ‘Evoking History’ and ‘Self Reflection’ are genuine treasures, exciting additions to the Final Coil canon, while the demos of ‘Humanity’ and ‘Stay With Me’ offer fascinating insights into the evolution of the songs. Available on a strictly limited edition splatter vinyl with digital download on December 5th, this is the perfect way to draw the opening trilogy of Final Coil’s story to a close…and prepare for the next chapter, which is not too far away.
Line-up:
Phil Stiles: Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Synths and Programming
Richard Awdry: Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Vocals and Programming
Jola Stiles: Bass Guitar
Drums on the album recorded by Barry French
Drums on live tracks by Dan Brown
Lead vocals, rhythm & lead guitar, synth, programming, sound effects, bass on demo tracks by Phil Stiles
Lead guitar on demo tracks by Richard Awdry
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Release date: october 10, 2025 - Worlwide
Label: Total Metal Records
The first re-release of the sixth full-length studio album by cult German Thrash Metal band.
Necronomicon made an honest attempt at a comeback with 2004's "Construction Of Evil". But "Revenge Of The Beast" it's damned well the best album the band have whipped up since 20 years prior! “Revenge Of The Beast” marks the 25th anniversary of the band’s existence, and although only the forbidding voice and riffs of frontman, Volker "Freddy" Fredrich, remains of the original fold, you wouldn’t know it by how remarkably similar it sounds to the band’s renowned late 80s classics!
The band is still drawing from the same well as their more famous peers Sodom and Destruction, but they do so with enough finesse to get the blood circulating and the limbs thrashing out in anger. Tempos are kept high, the songs are characteristically evil yet sincere trip into a realm of unspeakable horror, rather than the homeboy driven nonsense that many American Thrashers can’t seem to pull themselves out of. The guitars are savage and powerful, they sound potent enough to grind meat with. Freddy likewise sounds great, like a cousin to both Schmier and Angelripper, his sneering giving the music below all the authentic character it needs to charm the German Thrash Metal diehard. Freddy’s vocals tend to maintain a sort of 2-dimensional affect here, going back and forth between his signature Punk inspired shouts and an occultist chant while making really odd metaphors lyrically pagan imagery right out of a shaman ritual.
Necronomicon stands as the flawless D’Artagnan that avoided the mistakes of the Teutonic 3 Musketeer, and thus perhaps worthy of a greater level of respect in some sense. “Revenge Of The Beast” is a worthy and consistent new addition to a brilliant discography of quasi-melodic, riff oriented Thrashing goodness that would fare well against many of the albums of the late 80s.
Crushing aggressive old school pure Teutonic Thrash Metal! Pure Necronomicon!!
Tracklist:
Side A
1. Magic Forest
2. Haunted
3. Warfare
4. Blood Sky
5. Who Dies?
6. Skull & Bone
Side B
1. Nightstalker
2. On Pain of Death
3. Refugee
4. Commit Suicide
5. War in the Cradle
6. One Universe
2024 remastered, limited edition coloured vinyl in soft-touch laminated cover with embossed band logo, including completely renewed artwork and printed innersleeve with full lyrics restored for the first time.
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Now
available - NOMAD SNAKEPIT PRODUCTIONS proudly presents:Arkæon (Dk) - “Når Bjerge Bliver til Støv”
A pact has been made with some of the pioneers from the Danish Black Metal scene!
Hailing from the nefarious cradle associated with names such as Múspellzheimr, Tongues, Denial of God and Draug, Arkæon is a three-headed beast that will grasp you by the balls like no other has for a long time. A totally unearthly and outbalanced masterpiece of Black Metal mayhem this is!
“Når Bjerge Bliver til Støv” was in fact first created as a demo, following the band’s album “Parasit” (released in 2022 by I, Voidhanger Records). However, too good to remain half in the shadows as a mere demotape, Arkæon decided to join forces with Nomad Snakepit Productions and have this amazing work enhanced with an exclusive bonus track from the same recording sessions, to be re-emerged as an LP, summing up to over 29 minutes of playtime.
Thus we are now presenting a limited and exclusive release on vinyl only: 50 copies black vinyl and 150 on super marble black/white vinyl.
Arkæon prove that – even in 2025 – there is still a LOT of ground to explore!
Doom Cult Commando (De) - "Das Erwachen Der Schlange"
Prepare to meet thy doom! A new Black Metal horde has emerged from German soil!
Infernal K. (from Desaster) has assembled two dedicated comrades, with the aim to create some uncompromising abyssal form of Black Metal!
Despite of having been built around a very traditional BM core, it is not a straightforward task to describe Doom Cult Commando’s music, as it takes the listener as easily into the direction of Moonblood, Katharsis and old Dodheimsgard as it goes back to the bestial primitiveness of Blasphemy. The mindfuck is then complete as you find the vocals venturing between the spheres of Urfaust and Attila's vocals on De Mysteriis...
“Das Erwachen Der Schlange” is the band’s very first output, and Nomad Snakepit was given the honour of releasing it on vinyl! We are doing 200 copies only (black vinyl), with side B laser-printed.
Bezwering (NL) – "Dwalingen"
From the smouldering ashes of Wederganger, the foul entity Bezwering came into being in 2018, invoking the darkest spirits from the corpse-filled soil of their native Gelderland.
After one demo, a split EP and two albums on Ván Records, 2025 marks the return for the trio Alfschijn, Onmens and MR.
With this release, Bezwering wanders off from its usual path, delving into two occult mysteries from the Dutch Veluwezoom area.
Two brand new hymns have thus been pressed as an exclusive 7” picture EP, limited to 200 copies, featuring a folded sleeve insert and awesome artwork done by Warhead.
Bezwering plays Undeath Metal exclusively!
Shatterer (Swe) – “Fire”
Carrying deep scars from the obscure and truly threating black metal scene of the early 1990's, a time when the craft was sincere, passionate, burning and hungry, comes this cassette EP by an individual firmly rooted in that very soil.
"Fire" echoes those ancient sentiments whilst emanating new sparks kindling the undying flames.
This is the debut solo-endeavour of Mörk (MALIGN, WATAIN, SVARTSYN and more)
A tribute to the ancient sonic and ideological inferno yet with an unmistakable, rabid and unique expression.
This embodiment of true BM underground is strictly limited to 100 copies on tape!
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Hello,this
Jan of LAVADOME PRODUCTIONS with a news submission regarding the
first single of the upcoming LP by Spain's death metal band INFRAHUMANO.
INFRAHUMANO release first single of forthcoming album . Spain’s death metal battalion INFRAHUMANO is set to unleash its second studio album, "Depths of Suffering", on October 31st via Lavadome Productions.
The first single, “Battalion of Darkness,” is now available for streaming:
https://lavadome.bandcamp.com/track/battalion-of-darkness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLZZq4c1idU
"Depths of Suffering" delivers nine tracks of punishing death metal darkness, channeling the decadent nature of the genre through Infrahumano’s own grit. Recorded and mixed at La Cumbre Studios and mastered by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios, the album pushes the band’s sonic vision further into the cavernous depths.
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Listen to Denial album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/serpent-god-denial
The band comments:
”Denial -album is a manifestation of hopelessness and cynicism. The end is coming; If there's a light it is always surrounded by endless darkness. The 9 songs are here, so the truth won't be forgotten.
Denial was recorded, mixed and mastered during 2023 and 2024. All music and lyrics by Samu Männikkö, arrangements by Serpent God.”
Biography:
Serpent God is a band formed 2023 in Iisalmi, Finland. The birth is heavily related to Se, josta ei puhuta -band’s writing process; lots of material were created that didn’t fit in the spectrum of Se, josta ei puhuta. In general, the material was more slow-paced and more eerie. However, the mentioned material was also way too good to be deleted, so therefore another output was needed, so Serpent God was born. Different branches grow from a tree with strong roots. Serpent God has its foundation in extreme metal, but there are also heavy influences from post-rock, doom and smaller splashes of more avantgarde sounds.
Track
list:1. denial
2. beneath
3. repent
4. revelation
5. alive
6. sermon
7. oblivion
8. keyhole
9. void
Album cover by Heidi Hyvärinen
Note that all song titles are intentionally written in lowercase
Line-up:
Samu Männikkö - Vocals, guitars and keyboards
Juho-Pekka Lappalainen - Bass
Jimi Myöhänen – Drums
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The critical response to the band's previous album, Woe, was nothing short of phenomenal! Black Metal Daily called it "An absolutely fucking herculean masterstroke" (10/10), while Metal-Only minced no words in dubbing it a "Masterpiece" (10/10). As such, the anticipation for the epic follow-up, The Sleeping City, has been sky high!
The Sleeping City, AN ABSTRACT ILLUSION’s third full-length album, utilizes their unique blend of progressive death metal and black metal with arpeggiating synths, wistful drones and vast soundscapes, harkening back to the era of 80’s sci-fi soundtracks. Being the band’s most atmospheric and heavy work to date, the album explores the depths of the human psyche and suffering. A decrepit yet monumental landmark, the sleeping city awaits ahead. Will you enter?
The band comments on the forthcoming album:
“When we compose an album we don't want it to just be a collection of random songs, we want a holistic theme coursing through the album's veins. When writing The Sleeping City we wanted to explore what the soundtrack to a dystopian sci-fi film, such as Blade Runner or Terminator, would sound like if it were written by a death metal band.
For The Sleeping City, we took inspiration from acts such as Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine, Kite, Ólafur Arnalds and Boards of Canada, pushing us to expand and refine our sound palette. Going from the long-song format of Woe, it was a fun challenge to once again write self-contained songs with a clear beginning and end.
During the creation of this album we worked with a great team of collaborators. Produced by the band’s own Karl Westerlund, The Sleeping City was once again mixed and mastered by Robin Leijon. Drums were recorded and produced by Jakob Herrmann (Devin Townsend, Evergrey, VOLA, Vildhjärta) at the legendary Top Floor Studios in Gothenburg, who has captured some of our all-time favorite drum tones. The gorgeous artwork, a homage to early black metal's painted artworks, was done by Alex Eckman-Lawn (Horrendous, Afterbirth, Woe, Nero Di Marte). We also worked with amazing musicians who provided us with beautiful strings and vocals.
With The Sleeping City we truly feel we’ve elevated our craft beyond anything we’ve done before and can’t wait for its release. Thank you all for your continued support!”
Willowtip will release The Sleeping City on October 17. The album will be available on CD, Limited Longbox CD, 2xLP vinyl, and digital formats.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/tsc-willowtip
https://anabstractillusion.bandcamp.com/album/the-sleeping-city
Track Listing:
1. Blackmurmur
2. No Dreams Beyond Empty Horizons
3. Like A Geyser Ever Erupting
4. Frost Flower
5. Emmett
6. Silverfields
7. The Sleeping City
Line-up:
Christian Berglönn - Lead Vocals
Robert Stenvall - Keyboards, Vocals
Karl Westerlund - Guitars, Bass
Isak Nilsson - Drums, Background Vocals
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Dear
Friends in the Press and Media worldwide.We're proud to announce one of our
greatest releases ever. American nuclear black industrial weapon URANIUM returns
to embody industrial music’s most terrifying triumph. In its life-entombing
thirty six minutes the band's brand new album “CORROSION OF
EXISTENCE” takes the mysterious one man band’s concept of nuclear
devastation to its most harrowing and inevitable conclusions, unfolding five
new monstrous tracks of plutonium-fueled auditory terror that will dominate
tyrannical above and beyond anything that the most lawless frontier of extreme
industrial has ever fathomed or imagined.The immense album has been teased by reliable German experimental/extreme music blog Veil of Sound, who in premiering the song “Descent Into Entropic Death” have asked themselves "could this be one of the best records ever released via Sentient Ruin? Answer: yes”, and further elaborating “imagine Merzbow had mated with Gnaw their Tongues and are being midwifed by Teitanblood and Escotrilihum - then you get an idea of how utterly disastrous and gloriously mindblowing Uranium is!” - you can check out their feature and listen to the track here https://veilofsound.com/2025/10/09/Song_Premiere-Uranium.html
An immense industrial and blackened noise construct inspired by acts like Godflesh, Swans, Brighter Death Now, Gnaw Their Tongues, and Merzbow levitates out of a world-ending idealization, colliding with excoriations of techno and breakcore as well as with black/death metal influences from bands like Teitanblood, Portal and Irkallian Oracle into an unimaginable cauldron of destruction. Like an unstoppable chain reaction that has evaded any containment, “Corrosion of Existence” exponentially escalates the destructive yield of its black/death metal-inspired 2023 predecessor album “Pure Nuclear Death”, transmuting its never-before-heard sonic assault into Uranium’s most oppressive and inescapable conquest. A gigantic gaping void is blown out into the architecture of existence, revealing a massive radioactive wound seared with layer upon layer upon layer of caustic sequences and smoldering synth tapestries. A downpour of robotic samples pounds like radioactive rain falling from a nuclear maelstrom, engulfing the biosphere and sending a gigantic swath of fallout to travel horizonless, burying everything in a suffocating sarcophagus of molten corium and melted concrete. Torrents of gnarled, sampled guitars and bass compound the destruction, while the album's tectonic drum racks push its cataclysmic yield into world-ending upheaval, as a roaring vault of coiling death grunts and apocalyptic proclamations invoke a god-like idealization of death itself. Every composite element of existence from single nucleuses, to atoms, to organic molecules and compounds like cells and DNA, all the way to planet-sized ecosystems are destroyed and vaporized in an onslaught of ionizing death radiating from Uranium’s all-devouring pandemonium.
“Corrosion of Existence” is scheduled for a November 7 2025 on LP, CD, cassette and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, all pre-orderable now via all our channels
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases.Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/uranium-corrosion-of-existence
The experimental ritual dark ambient band KATHODOS has unveiled a new music video for their track "THE DARK PRIESTS". The song is featured on their album “PARASOMNIA: PAVOR NOCTURNUS”, which is set to be released on CD on 28 October 2025 via Rune Serpent Europa. The limited-edition CD will include a 4-page booklet and will have a pressing of 500 copies.
Watch the video for "The Dark Priests" via ReGen Mag: https://regenmag.com/news/regen-premiere-kathodos-delves-into-pagan-and-occult-imagery-with-latest-video-from-upcoming-album-release-on-rune-serpent-europa/
According to Kathodos, "'The Dark Priests' is a song meant to paint a nightmare of the darkest hue. Influenced by a scene in Stanley Kubrick's 1999 film, 'Eyes Wide Shut', the track intends to transport the listener to an active occult ritual. Images of pagan masks, dark thrones, black staffs and sacrifice are conjured while the blasphemous hymn is performed by the dark priests. The listener will decide whether they wish to escape from this nightmare or if they are seduced by what they experience during the ritual. The music video features the latter two-thirds of the track. All footage contained in the video is taken from the 1922 silent film, 'Häxan'. The visuals, the concept, and the acting from the film compliments the song perfectly."
Kathodos previously released music videos for the tracks “Hanging Tree” (Spotify), the catchiest number on the album with imagery from ‘La Vie et la Passion de Jesus Christ’, a French 1903 silent film, and “A Memory Dwindles…” (Spotify), which is a song about a person haunted by a horrifying memory of seeing a child falling off a rooftop and features footage from the 1920 silent film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
“Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” is meant to be experienced as a sequence of strange dreams. It comprises a listening journey of confusing, dark, beautiful, scary, comical, twisted, psychotic, and bizarre dreams. The album takes the listener on a dark and sometimes terrifying journey of strange voices, bizarre sounds, beautiful moments, maddening architecture, and intricate instrumentation. It is highly unique, making use of hypnotising drones, occult rituals, odd lyrics, and hidden meanings. Listeners will hear something new each time they play the album.
Kathodos, the man behind the project, conceptualised the band in 2019 as an "experiment in darkness". Having previously performed as a rock musician, he sought to create something darker. The album's atmosphere was conjured from the best fragments of his dreams and the worst fragments of his nightmares. The entire album was composed in the spring of 2021 after lying dormant for nearly two years. Following another period of latency, most of the instrumentation and vocals were recorded in the spring of 2022. A difficult period in late 2022 delayed the project until 2023, when the rest of the album was finally recorded. Lavinia was recruited in late 2023 to provide soprano, spoken word vocals, and guitar on a few tracks. Kathodos also produced, mixed, and mastered the album in late 2023 and early 2024. After gaining a strong following from the few people who happened upon the initial release, Kathodos signed with Rune Serpent Europa in 2025 to reach a wider audience.
Kathodos is a studio-only project and does not perform live. A second album is currently in the works. The band has also appeared on two official compilations released by Rune Serpent Europa: Laibach Tribut - Schlecht Und Ironisch, for which Kathodos covered the Laibach song "White Law" and Saturno Butto tribute “The Five Senses”, contributing the track "Death & Rebirth".
Pre-order the CD version of “Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” via The
Circle Music (worldwide distributor for this release): https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/distributed-stuff/?filter_artist-name=kathodosKathodos’ “Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” is recommended for fans of Nurse With Wound, Coil and Current 93.
Tracklist:
1. Phantom of the Throne Room
2. A Memory Dwindles…
3. …Window
4. The Dark Priests
5. Hanging Tree
6. Message Sent to Earth
Kathodos are:
Kathodos – all instrumentation, vocals, lyrics, sounds, composition, production, mixing and mastering
except:
Lavinia - soprano, spoken word and guitar
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UNREDEEMER – “PITY”
Release date: 26.09.2025 Genre : Death/Blackened death groove metal
Record label/distribution partner : Self released
Recording/mixing: Harri Hyytiäinen
Mastering studio : Niklas Piispala // Norppa Audio
Unredeemer is a Finnish death metal band formed in 2019.
In a world filled with false prophets and promises of redemption—offering an easy way out of pain and trouble—we offer Unredemption!
Unredeem yourself!
Become your own savior. Redemption was sold to you as a way to take responsibility from your hands—but why would you give it away?
By giving it away, you give your life away.
Reject redemption.
Unredeem yourself!
Musically, Unredeemer draws inspiration from classic death metal acts such as Death, Morbid Angel, Carcass and Slayer, with a healthy dose of modern thrash/death acts such as Decapitated, Cattle Decapitation, Amon Amarth and Devil Driver.
So far, the band has released one EP in 2020 titled 4-19-23, and one full-length album, Word Become Flesh, released in 2022.
On July 18th 2025 the band released their new single titled Shame, and
On September 26th 2025 the single titled Pity.
PITY reflects on the sorrow embedded in nostalgia. It speaks to the hidden cost of joy: the ache of remembering, the wound of beauty once lived. The lyrics suggest that to feel deeply is to suffer deeply—but that this suffering is not a flaw, but a mark of having lived fully.
The song condemns those who close themselves off from joy for fear of its inevitable aftermath, portraying them as lost souls, blind to the divine presence hidden in pain.
Through mythical imagery and a sense of spiritual reckoning, Pity elevates suffering as sacred—a necessary consequence of ecstasy, and perhaps even its proof.
Musically PITY continues the darker turn started with Shame, both musically and lyrically. Switching from high pitched screams to guttural, almost spoken parts, and wrapping up with pained screams, the musical and vocal performance reflect the lyrical theme.
Line up:
Olli Hänninen [Drums]
Sami Lehtonen [Bass]
Pekka Paasikivi [Guitar]
Mika (Nisu) Niskala [Guitar]
Saša Pul [Vocals]
https://www.facebook.com/unredeemer.band
OLD YEAR – “NO DISSENT”
Label: Apocalyptic WitchcraftRelease date: october 24th 2025
Genre: Drone/Death/Doom Metal
For fans of: Sunrot | Azell | Evoken | Khanate
“There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always… there will be the intoxication of power… the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. ”- George Orwell, 1984
I used to have words I wanted to say, opinions I wanted to voice. I believed fervently in right and wrong, in a morality that gave meaning to all I did. I used to have thoughts about…about…so many things. I know I stood for something and against something. But it has all drained away; down the tubes, through the wires, into the watching mechanical eyes. I am an empty vessel yet I make no noise. All is as it should be. I must sleep now. I’m not meant to be awake. I must sleep now…
Old Year have existed since 2017, initially as a two piece, in the murky shadows of the Boise, Idaho underground music scene…behind closed doors, a rumour, almost a secret. But in 2021, their line-up fleshed out to a trio, the band crawled out from their cellar stronghold into a post lockdown world and on to the stage, unleashing the insidious horror of the droning doom death that had sustained them in their isolation. In 2023 an eponymous 10 minute single became their first release – an immersion into the slow death of humanity. An ocean away Apocalyptic Witchcraft were drawn to the “uniquely desolate voice” of Old Year and now the first results of that new alliance are ready to be set loose.
No Dissent is a four track album of colossal weight, an agonised crawl through a parched, dystopian hellscape. ‘Death Frequency’ begins this trip into suffocating, bleak emotion…an insectile drone of guitars above slow, staggering drum beats carrying deep, suppurating vocal intonations – pronouncements of doom from a long dead throat. Will, desire, motivation and belief bleed slowly from your body, replaced by a black ichor of hopelessness fed into your veins to the sound of a scream of agony and despair, drawn out for eternity. Worlds die in the spaces between the chords of ‘Rotting Illusion’ and Old Year tighten their grip around your spirit, dragging you deeper into their claustrophobic embrace. There’s no moment to breathe as you slide into the maw of ‘Mechanical Birth’ where the threat becomes more direct, more immediate. This track, this movement in this grand symphony of suffering, is not content to let you drown. It moves towards you with hooks in hand…inescapable. And finally ‘Lock Step’; so oppressive you feel yourself dissolving beneath the awesome mass of Old Year. When it’s all over movement feels impossible. It takes time for the shadow of Old Year to slip from your skin, for its hold on your mind to release. And you’re left with a hunger…an addiction to the lethargic torment you have just escaped.
Adorned in bleak and tortured artwork, No Dissent will be presented to the world by Apocalyptic Witchcraft on October 24th. A vision, a warning, a promise… asphyxiating and soul crushing. Approach Old Year’s gifts with care – the future is bleak indeed.
Presale link: https://orcd.co/apw052
Line-up:
Robert Taylor Roark – Guitars/Vocals
Skyler Rezendes - Bass
Jered Veeneman - Drums
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https://www.facebook.com/OldYearBoisehttps://apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk/
One of Australia's best known death metal bands, Depravity awaken from their slumber to release a new full length that promises to be just as good if not better than their superbly received earlier albums. Their music is a perfect confluence of old school and contemporary death metal with brutal and technical death metal influences. It's some of the best death metal you'll hear of late! Two songs from the album are streaming and you can check them out on Bandcamp at https://depravitydeath.bandcamp.com/album/bestial-possession
DEPRAVITY – “BESTIAL POSSESSION”
For
fans of : Morbid
Angel, Suffocation, Deicide, Hate Eternal, Hour of
Penance, Nile, DemiurgonAustralian death metal titans Depravity emerge after a gap of five long years. Having a flawless and consistent discography, they pick up from where they left off ensuring that things remain that way as they proceed to add more nuance and colour to their brand of music on their latest album titled "Bestial Possession". Maintaining the same line-up, they are able to retain their sound while fleshing out their compositions, proving that they can not only rampage with abandon at will but also showcase their musicianship in a more controlled environment. At this point in their career, Depravity's music has become fairly amalgamated - rooted in the old school sound but not necessarily sounding old school, with the gradual incorporation of more brutal and technical death metal influences having a slightly contemporary edge. One thing is certain - they function perfectly as a unit and are able to create devastating death metal at any given time and this time things are no different. They exude sheer class, confidence, and maturity, and death metal fans are definitely in for a treat before the tumultuous year ends.
Line up
Louis Rando (Impiety, The Furor) - Drums
Lynton Cessford (Iniquitous Monolith) - Guitar
Jamie Kay (ex-The Ritual Aura) - Vocals
Ainsley Watkins (ex-Scourge) - Bass
Jarrod Curley (Pathogen) - Guitar
Artwork by Paolo Girardi (Cryptopsy, Skaphos)
Track listing
1. Engulfed in Agony
2. Eunuch Maker
3. Call to the Fallen
4. Awful Mangulation
5. Rot in the Pit
6. Aligned With Satan
7. Blinding Oblivion
8. Legacy
9. Catastrophic Contagion
Official release date - November 21st, 2025
Thanks a lot for your support! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/Depravitydestroy
VII
VITIUM unveil
the second single from their debut album out on October 31st, 20025.It's "SUPERBIA / LUCIFERO" and it's available on YouTube with a lyric video created by Stefano Mastronicola.
Here is the link: https://youtu.be/o6QEFHPwV0Q
With Daniele Laurenti (Kryuhm), Giampi Tomezzoli (Kryuhm, Epitaph) and Daniele Pedrollo (Kayleth), the pillars of the project, we see the precious presence of John Goldfinch (L'IMPERO DELLE OMBRE) on vocals and Dario Vicariotto (IV SIGILLO) on lead guitar.
So the band's mission continues, exploring the world of sin, distancing itself from Christian teachings and offering a personal vision of the seven deadly sins, giving voice to their Demons with a magic fusion of Dark Occult sound a la DEATH SS and PAUL CHAIN, with the European Doom, of Italian Progressive Rock elements mixed to independent Rock and to 80's Darkwave.
VII VITIUM are ready to welcome you into their sinful world
Pre-order LP and deluxe edition now at: https://t.ly/TGN78
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A new song and lyric video from NYC doom trio PRECIOUS BLOOD is now streaming! "EL MUERTE" is the third single off the band's full-length debut album, FALSE PROPHETS.
Watch the lyric video for "El Muerte" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFdPTWqJsns
False Prophets is set for release on October 29.
Fully formed in 2024, PRECIOUS BLOOD brings together three veterans of the NYC scene - AJ – guitar, vocals (Jesus Knevil, Snake Canyon), Dave Kramer – bass, vocals (Blood Feast, Suaka, Stanley), and Grace Perez – drums, vocals (The Wickedexorcist). The band’s shared love of doom and underground metal is expressed in an unholy concoction of rum-soaked riffs, brutal lyrics, and mystical tribal sounds.
With a signature sound best described as Blackened Caribbean Doom, PRECIOUS BLOOD delivers a unique blend of doom and thrash metal influenced tone, mixed with lyrical themes that draw profound inspiration from the enduring spirit of the Caribbean, shaped by brutal history of colonization, unwavering resilience of its people, and exploration of the darker aspects of human existence, including death, contemplation of mortality and the complexities of human suffering.
For fans of monstrous riffs, horror-inspired visuals, and genre-bending metal.
Tracklist:1) False Prophets
2) Bludgeoned & Charred
3) Footsteps of Babylon
4) Shadow of the Cross
5) Cemetery Burn
6) Old Man Abaddon
7) El Muerte
8) Whore’s Grave
False Prophets was recorded and mixed by Joe Hogan at Captain’s Cove Catskills Studios with mastering and additional engineering by AJ Tissian (The Wave Lab). The album was produced by Joe Hogan and PRECIOUS BLOOD. Album cover photo by Mia. Cover layout by PRECIOUS BLOOD.
Line-Up:
AJ -Guitar, Vocals
Grace Perez - Drums, Backing Vocals
Dave Kramer - Bass, Backing Vocals
https://linktr.ee/preciousbloodband
The
release of "DUSKETHA", the new album from Italian
Progressive Rock veterans GOAD, is just around the corner,
coming Friday, October 10th. Today, we present the second track from the
album, "Yes It Was Love (Message From A Cathedral)", whose music
video is available at https://youtu.be/0xd6DABASJ4"Dusketha," available as a double CD and digital download, represents a captivating musical journey. Featuring 18 tracks, nearly two hours of pure art, it gives voice to the breath of lost poems where each note is a fragment of eternity.
The driving force and soul of the band, Maurilio Rossi, once again inspired by the greats of Anglo-American poetry such as Keats, Poe, Lovecraft, Masters, and Graham, after a career spanning over 50 years, manages to surprise us, and does so in the most sublime way possible.
GOAD, the history of Italian Prog!
"Dusketha" is available in PRE-ORDER at: https://t.ly/BkVeb
Tracklist
Disc 1
1. Yes It Was Love (Message From A Cathedral)
2. One Of These Days (Is There Still Day)
3. Alone Man In Empty Room
4. Poor Skull (Reverend Brothers)
5. Daisy' Rock
6. To An After Time My Harmonies
7. And Still We'll Dance Into The Light Of Heaven
8. My Feet In The Breaking Wave Sundown
9. Give It Not A Tear
Disc 2
1. Stop And Consider Life Is But A Day
2. While I Kiss To The Melody (Night Sleepy Eyes)
3. Hush My Love (Lullaby For A Woman)
4. The Speed Of My Nightmares
5. Let Out Song
6. Finally Remembering I'm Dead
7. Garden With Spectral Gleams
8. Foxsteps On My Nylon Guitar
9. The Woodkeeper, A Collar Of Red (bonus track)
This is what Maurilio wanted to tell us about the journey that led to the birth of this new creation: "Dusketha" for me represents a sort of sonorous ritual between poetry and shadow, the sound of an inner twilight, where poetry merges with unconventional harmonies and sometimes visionary arrangements.
The primordial idea for this album is the product of a journey that began in 1993... With it, I tried to give a sound to the original texts of John Keats, Edgar Lee Masters, H.P. Lovecraft, E.A. Poe, Jorie Graham, and others, and to do so, I searched for a warm, vibrant sound. After various experiments, aided by Max Cirone and his vast experience, we came to the conclusion that we needed to return to the use of "old" instruments and production methods, such as the Maxell UD 25-120 magnetic tape and the Akai GX4000D recorder, as well as the use of "tape bounce" to give the whole thing a "vintage" aesthetic. I must admit that the result was surprising, and I'm convinced that whoever listens to it will be transported into a deep and immersive experience like rarely happens."
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/MaurilioRossiGoad
Label: H-MusicRelease date: october 17th 2025
Genre: Symphonic Metal
For fans of: Epica | Leaves’ Eyes | After Forever | Sirenia
My past is a place of shadows, of formative monsters that I have tried to run from but never left behind. They have shaped me and I have allowed them to. They gave me a structure, a framework and a shield. But you have unlocked each door that I have closed about my heart and let the light shine upon a version of myself I had almost forgotten. And I must make him stronger. I must draw him from the dark until he can stand beside you and let the monsters crumble into dust and become lost upon the wind. I must heal this broken mind…
After the powerful impact of their In this Silence EP, released in the summer, innovative Hungarian symphonic metal troupe Meteora are now set to unveil the second part in a previously announced trilogy of EPs – Broken Mind. While Atanathos webzine hailed In this Silence for setting “a new standard for contemporary symphonic metal”, Broken Mind manages to surpass that intriguing release, sounding even more accomplished, assured and supremely confident. Meteora are ready to lead us further into their kingdom of romance, magic, tragedy and hope.
Devil dancing keys over dark and storm-tossed riffs, fierce energy and grand drama usher in Broken Mind’s first single and opening, title track. Composer and keyboard player Atilla Király describes the song as having “a really special place in all of our hearts” and its wonderful melodies and powerfully contrasting vocal styles make for a dynamic and thrilling beginning to this new collection of songs. ‘Morningstar’ follows, slipping from enchanting melodies to driving, heavy sections with rampant guttural vocals, the sublimely managed shifts in mood and tempo epitomising the Meteora sound. There is so much happening in these songs that they feel like true symphonies, with surprises and secrets revealed keeping you on the edge of your seat. ‘Elysion’ seems to step from the pages of history with its lilting melody, transportative and emotive and Atilla Király takes the vocal lead on this darkly hued power metal piece, his rich, smooth tones working to exemplary affect. Broken Mind’s crowning glory however comes with its final, epic track. A drama worthy of a stage play, ‘In My Name’ evolves into ever more splendid forms, layers of sound are added, layer upon layer and all three vocalists are at their superlative best. Featuring some truly excellent riffs and a sense of real depth and substance, ‘In My Name’ is surely one of Meteora’s greatest ever songs. Broken Mind is an immensely satisfying and rewarding sonic experience that leaves the listener with a feeling of incredible anticipation for what the final part of this trilogy of EPs may bring…
Working with recording engineer Balázs Pálfi (Türböwitch etc) and utilising the mixing and mastering skills of Nino Helfrich (Thrash Cult, Traces Of A Life etc), Dmitry Kim (Khors, Arhat etc) and Joel Wanasek (Machine Head, Carnation, Dååth etc) Meteora have captured the perfect sound for Broken Mind – textured, powerful and resonant – while the impactful EP cover art was brought to life by Dronicon Films (Swallow The Sun, Katatonia, October Tide etc). The ‘Broken Mind’ single is available now, accompanied by a video created in association with Kill Monday Management and the full EP will arrive on October 17th via H-Music Hungary.
Line-up:
Noémi Holló – vocals
Máté Fülöp – bass, growls
Gábor Kása – drums
Dániel Baranya – guitars
Dániel Schreiber – guitars
Atilla Király – keys, vocals
Backing vocals from the Meteora choir – assembled and conducted by Ádám Attila Kurucz
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https://www.facebook.com/meteorabandhungary
Finnish melodic death metal act OBSCURE FATE is about to release their debut album 'SHADES OF A DYING WORLD'. The release date is announce later by Inverse Records.
The first single 'AGE OF DELUSION' is unleashed today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/obscure-fate-age-of-delusion
The band comments:
"Age of Delusion" is a dystopian and cynical view of the modern world. It criticizes those in power (politicians, the media, religion) who manipulate the masses with lies, fear, and illusions. The truth is lost, and freedom is just an illusion. The song is both a warning and an accusation. Who benefits from all this, and why are people blind to it?"
Biography:Obscure Fate was originally formed in 2008 in Paltamo, Finland, as the solo project of guitarist and songwriter Kaleva Kovalainen. In 2009, drummer Jari Keränen and bassist Petri Möttönen joined, giving the songs their first real band form. Shortly after, guitarist Joni Moisanen and vocalist Tapio Möttönen became official members, and together the group arranged dozens of tracks for full band performances. From the very beginning, Tapio handled the lyrics, with Petri contributing to the song Spectral Exile.
The current lineup was completed in 2019 when bassist Antti Möttönen replaced Petri. Musically, Obscure Fate is rooted in traditional melodic death metal, though elements of thrash and classic heavy metal also find their way into the band’s sound. Kaleva’s prolific songwriting provided a strong foundation for the band, while the lyrics explore themes of social criticism, fictional storytelling, and inner struggles.
In 2021, Obscure Fate released their first EP. Recording sessions for their debut full-length album began soon after, but due to various setbacks the process turned into a long and seemingly endless project. Finally, in April 2025, the band reached the final stages of completing the album, marking an important milestone in their journey. The debut album 'Shades of a Dying World' is set to be released later in 2026 via Inverse Records.
Line-up:
Kaleva Kovalainen, Guitars
Tapio Möttönen, Vocals
Jari Keränen, Drums
Joni Moisanen, Guitars, Backing Vocals
Antti Möttönen, Bass
https://obscurefate.net
https://www.facebook.com/ObscureFateBand
TEMPLE
MIST – “O SPIRITUS, QUI IN HOC LOCO ADSUM, AUDI ME ET EXAUDI PRECĒS MEAS”
(TAPE) Release date: 1st of November 2025
TEMPLE MIST emerges from the cryptic depths of the Netherlands, conjuring a storm of ancient rituals. Born from sinister energies, the project draws its inspiration from the obscure demo-era black metal of Greece’s legendary Necromantia and Abruptum. Ritualistic, primitive, obscure and sinister: TEMPLE MIST channels the spirit of black metal’s early days.
Death, necromancy, and darkness run through every sound, invoking eldritch rituals meant to summon ancient malvolent spirits. The second album, ‘O Spiritus, qui in hoc loco adsum, audi me et exaudi preces meas’, weaves a tapestry of harrowing improvisational drums and bass guitars. Haunted by analogue synths and strangled howling of the dead.
Songs
Part 1
Part 2
All songs by M. De Jong
More info
The songs can be played in radio shows from November 27th.
The band is open for interviews immediately.
About De Pankraker Records
De Pankraker was born in the depths of the underground, a rebellious radio program that delved into a cluster of metal sub-genres known for their daring sonic and visual transgressions. By 2022, it had expanded its reach with a magazine, and in 2023, it emerged from the shadows with its own festival. In 2024, we proudly unveiled De Pankraker Records, delving even deeper into the abyss with a distro and label.
We're all about serving up dishes that are cold and old-school. No fancy stuff, no technicalities, and definitely no triggered drums.
https://depankraker.be/
Click the following link to watch/listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j2xnE1Qpls
Lifeforce Records will release Bitter Lucid Truth on October 24! The EP will be available on limited 12" splatter vinyl, CD Digipak, ultra-limited cassette , and digital formats.
Pre-order/Pre-save the EP at: https://orcd.co/valletta_blt
There’s a palpable sense of urgency in Bitter Lucid Truth.
Valletta’s second proper release embraces what guitarist and singer Keenan Carroll describes as “anger, repulsion and intolerance toward the current political landscape.” But for all its confrontational inspiration, it’s also one of the year’s most thrilling metal releases.
With Bitter Lucid Truth, the Raleigh, N.C. quartet of Carroll, drummer Justin Valletta, bassist Cody Rogers, and guitarist/backing vocalist Will Goodyear, churn negative emotions into forceful, dynamic and “just genuinely pissed-off” outbursts that are equally searing and soaring.
This should come as no surprise from the veteran troupe, whose collective resume spans a heavy spectrum from sludge to prog to black metal, in bands including Lord Almighty, Barishi, Mo’ynoq, Prayer for Cleansing, and Between the Buried And Me. And, indeed, Valletta’s 2024 debut, Summer (Forcefield Records), defined a compelling hybrid of anthemic melody and bitter vitriol. But while Summer slung big riffs and even bigger hooks, Bitter Lucid Truth wields them like weapons.
“Aggressor” and “Cold Death” fuses the melodic impulses that have drawn comparisons to Tribulation and Kvelertak with a harsher, more belligerent approach more akin to Tragedy’s bold and defiantly melodic neo-crust. This is perhaps most apparent in the EP’s closing salvo, “Spitting the Word,” which answers “Doing Well"'s comparatively reflective tone with a vicious exclamation point. Of the song’s intent, Carroll says, “It’s time to speak your mind. No more thought paralysis.”
It’s fitting, then, that the EP was produced much more quickly than its predecessor. Where Summer evolved over a two-year gestation, Bitter Lucid Truth was written and recorded all in the first months of 2025. Recorded and mixed by Al Jacob (He Is Legend, Wailin Storms) at Warrior Sound Studio in Chapel Hill, N.C. — this time with production input from the band and TJ Childers of Inter Arma — and mastered by Matt Tuttle (Codeseven) at IAS Studios in Winston-Salem, NC, Valletta was able to capture the full and explosive sound the new songs’ dynamic volatility demands.
Managing to capture a boiling rage with a more dynamic and expansive approach to songwriting, Bitter Lucid Truth is a massive leap forward for the already ascendant band. Expect to see these vicious anthems take on a new life when Valletta brings them to the stage.
U.S. tours are planned for August and October of this year, surrounding the EP’s October release. In 2026, Valletta will accompany a European tour with a re-release of Summer also expected through Lifeforce Records.
Track
Listing:1. Blood and Jesus
2. Cold Death
3. Aggressor
4. Doing Well
5. Spitting the Word
Line-Up:
Justin Valletta - Drums
Cody Rogers - Bass
Keenan Carroll - Guitar / Lead Vocals
Will Goodyear - Guitar / Backing Vocals
https://linktr.ee/lifeforcerecords
https://linktr.ee/vallettanc
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions is set to release the new EP from New Jersey's twisted Death Metal horror fiends, CHAINED TO THE DEAD. SOMETHING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO HELL is up now for pre-order and will be released October 31st on CD and Digital formats, along with merch.
Chained To The Dead return to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions to unleash the second installment in their new Death Metal/horror trilogy with Something Happened On The Way To Hell! While as sonically menacing as 2024's Only Hunger Remains, the Something Happened On The Way To Hell EP sounds like it crept out of a backwoods crypt and then crawled behind your eyeballs.
Recorded at Backroom Studios with mixing and mastering once again by Kevin Antreassian (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Gridlink, Organ Dealer), Something Happened On The Way To Hell features artwork by Mortuus and includes 4 brand new tracks as well as Genesis and Type O Negative covers.
For
fans of 200 Stabwounds, Organ Dealer, Carcass, Macabre, Goatwhore and Blood
IncantationListen to the single "Just Before Dawn" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JDu5KVAIpk
Tracklisting:
1. Rawhead Rex
2. Just Before Dawn
3. Return Of The Deadly Spawn
4. She Who Kills
5. Misunderstanding (Genesis cover)
6. Unsuccessfully Coping With The Loss Of (Type O Negative cover)
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
https://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
SCHEITAN – „WINE FOR A TORMENTED SOUL”
Swedish gothic rock band Scheitan will release their new album, "Wine For a Tormented Soul", on 19th December via The Circle Music.
"Wine For a Tormented Soul" features eight tracks, including the band's previously released singles "Carry Me Home", "Heaven Tonight" and "Love n Death".
Pierre Törnkvist from Scheitan shared the inspiration behind the album, "I am very much looking forward to presenting the new Scheitan album to the audience. The title 'Wine For a Tormented Soul' comes from what music can mean to people that run into hardship in life. Music is my therapy, it is my best friend in dark times. The last 10 years have been a bumpy road with one of my best friends passing away too early as well as my father leaving us from one day to another. Some of the songs have been presented to people as singles, with the upcoming album you can hear them in the context of an album, and also listen to them in a non-digital format such as vinyl which I think is the best way to do it. We will try to come out and play these new songs for you as much as we can."
"Wine For a Tormented Soul" follows Scheitan's 2024 album "Songs for the Gothic People" (The Circle Music) and their return after a 24-year hiatus. Having formed in 1996 by Pierre Törnkvist, Scheitan began with black metal roots but evolved to define their current gothic rock sound and continue to build on their sound. Their previous albums, including 1999's "Nemesis" (Century Media) have garnered a reputation as hidden gems within the genre.
Tracklist1. A Kiss of Death
2. Heaven Tonight
3. Döden är helt underbar
4. Love n Death
5. Every Little Thing
6. Out of Here
7. Carry Me Home
8. Dream Away
Recording line-up:
Pierre Törnkvist - all instruments + drum programming
Guest vocals by Axel's son Milian Moe Lindberg on Every Little Thing
https://www.facebook.com/scheitanofficial
GLITCH
KILL
return with “DIRECTIVE 4”, a crushing new chapter in their
evolution that fuses Metal, Metalcore, and Alt Metal into a relentless sonic
barrage. This track is pure controlled chaos, riffs sharpened like blades,
breakdowns that detonate with precision, and vocals that channel raw defiance
against a fractured world.Lyrically, Directive 4 explores the collision between human will and mechanical control, capturing themes of resistance, identity, and the inevitability of collapse in a system that consumes its creators. With lines like “I AM THE ANOMALY” and “Your Directive is dead to me”, Glitch Kill manifest rebellion in its purest form, an anthem of defiance against conformity and control.
For fans of brutal breakdowns, industrial-tinged aggression, and unflinching heaviness, Directive 4 is the sound of resistance weaponized. This is not just a song, it’s a declaration.
Biography
Brutal beats, crushing riffs, thunderous bass, and unorthodox vocal hooks—this is what sets Glitch Kill apart in California’s Central Valley metal scene. With nearly a century of combined experience and an unrelenting passion for heavy music, this band isn’t just making waves—they’re making fans need a chiropractor.
Rising from the ashes of Etched in Stone, bassist David "Crusher" Yanez, guitarist Travis Miller, and drummer Aaron Jones formed Glitch Kill with one goal: to create uncompromising, bone-crushing metal. The lineup was solidified with the addition of vocalist Shane Leon, whose raw intensity gave the band its signature sound.
Forming just before the world shut down in 2020, Glitch Kill took advantage of the downtime to craft their debut EP, Hindsight, which dropped on January 1st, 2021. Now, with their follow-up EP Post Hominid in the works and the latest addition of Robert Cole throwing down as a second guitarist, the band is back in full force, delivering relentless live performances across the Central Valley, the Bay Area, Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Fresno, Santa Cruz, and beyond—wherever there’s a demand for heavy metal.
The beast has been unleashed. Are you ready?
https://www.facebook.com/Glitchkill
Release date : November 7 2025
Style : Black Metal
Origin: France
Duration: 34min41
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Tracklist:
1. Ab Chaos
2. Quaestionis
3. Imperium
4. Stupor
5. Acceptio
6. Relapsus
MALEPESTE, a black metal band from Lyon founded in 2010, is preparing to release its third album, "Ex Nihilo", on November 7, 2025 via Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions.
After a demo in 2011 and a debut album, Dereliction (2013), the band made its mark with an abrasive style: slow tempos, dissonant arpeggios, incantatory vocals, and a raw stage aesthetic.
Their second album, Deliquescent Exaltation (2015), marked the arrival of Herjann, a second guitarist on rhythm. This evolution freed up the composition process, while also initiating a strong thematic shift: the rags were replaced by robes covered in Theban inscriptions; shows, thick with incense, became suffocating and transformed into overt rituals. The band’s occult dimension took shape—a ritualistic black metal fueled by inner resonance. The entity continued its path with a series of concerts and a tour alongside Malhkebre.
In 2018, MALEPESTE released a split with Dysylumn, “Ce qui fut, Ce qui est, Ce qui sera” (“What Was, What Is, What Will Be”), introducing clean vocal choirs. The sound became more controlled, more organic—without losing the distinctiveness that defines the band.
After a break devoted to the side project Grande Loge, MALEPESTE returns with "Ex Nihilo", an album matured over several years but delayed by the pandemic. It marks a continuation: always true to its essence, the band continues its quest on the border between the sacred and the ruined.
This new opus explores the theme of Creation in a broad sense—and the vertigo that comes with it. That inner tension that drives one to bring something out of the void, even at the risk of losing oneself in it. Each track embodies a stage in the cycle: impulse, pride, awe, doubt, relapse.
"Ex Nihilo" is a smoldering fire, a desperate forward escape… the cost of creating when you have nothing left to give—except yourself.
MALEPESTE line-up :
Xahaal – Lead guitar
Larsen – Vocals
Nostra – Bass
Herjann – Rhythm guitar
Flexor – Drums
An album driven by the breath of necessity: to create, to answer the call, even if nothing remains but ashes.
Preorders : https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/preorders
https://www.facebook.com/Malepeste
Veiled
in mystery and ancient ritual, ANGELIC FOE invites
listeners and viewers into a world where darkness and divinity intertwine with
their new music video “DISCORDIA”.Step into a mystic realm of ancient power and forgotten rites, among the haunting ruins of centuries-old churches and the scattered stones of a lost castle, Discordia envisions a ritualistic journey through darkness and divinity, through sacred symbolism, raw nature, and the invocation of a dark lunar goddess. Move through elemental landscapes and mythic ruins, embodying a timeless cycle of strife, war, and cosmic rebirth.
The track is taken from Angelic Foe’s full-length album “AMULETS AND CHARMS”, released December 7th, 2024, via WormHoleDeath Records.
Stream Amulets and Charms on all platforms: https://orcd.co/amuletscharms
Previous official videos include:
https://youtu.be/Nf_Ttlr5s88
https://youtu.be/mmimMMd6oT8
https://youtu.be/WvrOrYNfGV0
https://youtu.be/6ylaF60WiPQ
https://youtu.be/nTBT4oZGT2E
Led by Annmari Thim and composer Fredrik Hermansson, Angelic Foe blends symphonic darkwave, neoclassical, and esoteric soundscapes, creating music that transcends time and space. With haunting melodies and deeply symbolic lyricism, the project crafts sonic rituals steeped in myth, spirituality, and the unseen forces that shape existence.
https://www.auralwebstore.com/
www.facebook.com/AngelicFoe
Format: Digital CD /
Physical CDLabel: Independent Release
Tracklist:
01. Only Madness Remains
02. Measure Of Guilt
03. When The Sharp Things Come
04. Sanity’s Rage
05. Blood Calls For Blood
06. Nothing Sacred Will Hold
07. The Dead Don’t Run
08. The Final Exhibit Of Pain
09. Reeducate The Masses
10. Sanity Lies In Ruin
Firmly rooted in the past, with a contemporary sound. Versatile, yet without compromise in aggression and technical level. Founded in 2002, when Thrash Metal bands were very few and other, more extreme genres had taken over the scene In Belgium, Sanity’s Rage came together as a band with a shared passion for catchy songwriting, raw energy and emotion, brought with technical skill.
The band has played renowned venues and festivals in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and The United Kingdom, alongside top acts such as After All, Agent Steel, Bonded By Blood, Cyclone, Destructor, Evil Invaders, Gama Bomb, Holy Moses, Huntress, Hyades, James Rivera, Laaz Rockit, Liar, Onslaught, Reign Of Fury, Savage Messiah, Skyclad, Saxon, Testament and many others. Some of the highlights being Beermageddon (UK) in 2014 and 2024 and Alcatraz Metal Fest (BE) in 2009 and 2024.
Their debut EP ‘The Rage Of One’ was well received by the international press, the follow-up CD ‘You Are What You Swallow’ proved they weren’t just a one trick pony and took them up a level. Now, in 2025, Sanity’s Rage is back with a new album ‘The Dead Don’t Run’, and continue the story of pure fucking thrash. Over 10 years after the last release, with a complete lineup change, bringing back most of the original band members who started the story 20 years ago.
‘The Dead Don't Run’ will be available worldwide on all major streaming platforms starting October 15th, 2025. A physical digipack (€15.00) and digital CD download (€9.99) will already be available on October 1st, 2025!
Line-up:
Tim de Bruyne: guitar
Tim de Bisschop: bassguitar / backing vocals
Kenny Molly: vocals
Sam Stoelzaet: drums
Kenny Claes: guitar
https://www.facebook.com/SanitysRage
Stream the single here: https://orcd.co/gdbcsingle
Stream the album: https://orcd.co/scalbum
Previous videos:
https://youtu.be/Nso_kHVv3oI
https://youtu.be/xeeiwOvpmr4
https://youtu.be/26xpIfMKKhE
https://youtu.be/3ugPaxkkJlE
"SATANS COCK" The Album
Following their 2022 self-titled debut, which sold out multiple pressings and carved a cult following across the underground, KÜNTSQUÄD (pronounced Kountskard) double down on everything grotesque, unholy, and deliberately absurd. There are no genre walls here—only a relentless descent into sonic madness.
With the album “Satans Cock”, the band delivers a grotesque yet calculated assault—layering blast-beaten fury, apocalyptic riffs, and sneering satire into a weaponized soundscape for the damned.
About KÜNTSQUÄD:
KÜNTSQUÄD (pron. Kountskard) is a crusty death metal band from Melbourne blending guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and blackened chaos. Their 2022 self-titled debut on Wormholedeath Records earned global acclaim and sold-out pressings. Raw, extreme, and satirically twisted—this is metal with no genre boundaries.
www.youtube.com/@Kuntsquad666
www.facebook.com/kuntsquad666
HELLBEARER – “DARKER FATES”
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: october 17th 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Exodus | Testament | Machine Head | Forbidden
The cards are laid before us – The Tower, Three Of Swords, Five Of Pentacles, Ten Of Swords, Death and The Devil – each one presaging disaster, a final black chapter in our bloody story. Our ending is written in the stars, inescapable and now there is only a choice of pathways to our ultimate destruction. Greed, lust and ignorance, cowardice, cruelty and selfishness – they have all played their parts in our blinkered march to the grave. Now it just remains to select the manner of our dying; to step from our bleak, black present to a choice of darker fates.
Manchester’s Hellbearer leapt into the frontline trenches of thrash metal in 2022 and haven’t paused for breath since. They quickly released their fiery debut album, For Those About To Bear Hell and since then have shared the stage with the likes of 3 Inches Of Blood and the legendary Abaddon of Venom. They delivered a ferocious set at Thrashchester 2023 and went on to give a memorable performance at Bloodstock, inciting record crowd surfing numbers with their adrenalin infused riff attack. Now attention turns to their second album, Darker Fates, which sees the band striding effortlessly into the vanguard of UK thrash.
Scene setting intro, ‘Pull The Card’ leads directly into the classic thrash of ‘The Witch’, with its circling riffs and powerful vocals adorned with searing, exhilarating lead work. The Hellbearer sound is rooted in the ‘80s thrash explosion, but each song is delivered with a venomous fury and a vital, vibrant enthusiasm which makes it more than just relevant – rather an essential new blood infusion for the genre. From the gritty, grinding riffs and menacing, pit inducing aggression of ‘Absolution’ to the hard hitting, foreboding darkness of ‘The Mantra’; the measured, methodical annihilation of new single ‘Counting Seconds’ with its slow burning riff and twisted solo, to the jagged and dangerous ‘Through An Orphan’s Eyes’ – musically, Darker Fates is a powerful addition to the atomic arsenal of thrash metal. Lyrically the band have raised the bar too, striving to match the ambitious, creative nature of their new music with tales of dystopian futures and reflections on our fractured times. Incisive, powerful and metal to the bone, Hellbearer have surpassed all expectations with their latest creation.
With a sound so raw and real it could draw blood, Darker Fates will be unleashed on October 17th. This is British thrash, armed to the teeth, harder and heavier than ever!
Line-up:
Ash Allen - Vocals/Rhythm Guitar
Sam Hatt - Drums
Matthew Robinson - Lead Guitar
Kieran Brooks - Bass
https://www.facebook.com/hellbearerthrash
Undersave's have revealed the final song from their latest, mesmerizing album before it drops later in the week. Fans of dark, complex, dissonant, and yes, even atmospheric death metal should definitely take note. Listen to the final song premiered by Mystification Zine at https://mystificationzine.com/2025/10/03/undersavepremiere
Excerpt - "a new pinnacle within the band’s technical yet fluidic death metal riffcraft"
UNDERSAVE - “MERGED IN ABSTRACT PERDITION”
Genre: Dark, dissonant
and atmospheric death metalFor fans of: Immolation, Ulcerate, Replicant, Maere, Gorguts, Dysgnostic, Saevus Finis
Unheralded death metal heroes from Portugal, Undersave, have been trying to carve their own path and every half a decade or so we get an album that is a huge step ahead from the previous one. And while their previous album is already considered to be a significant one, their new album displays a marked progression from it without completely abandoning the core sound. "Merged in Abstract Perdition" is a masterful album that is at once dark, dissonant, and atmospheric. Having developed such good songwriting skills, they don't need to rely too much on abstractness or dissonance to get attention; while they navigate similar labyrinthine paths, they do so in an unhurried manner, allowing the riffs to create their own hypnotic crescendo. It is easy to get lost in their world swirling with mesmerizing, dissonant-edged riffs and that is probably the best way to listen to their music - to get immersed in it, just because there is so much in there to absorb. Even then, it will require multiple experiences for the arcane concepts to be fully grasped. Every song is a monolith, outwardly similar but each offering its own twisted interpretation without losing consistency. Undersave may have just come up with a masterpiece with this one, rivalling if not surpassing not only their own albums but also those by the other luminaries in the style.
Line up
Nuno Braz - Vocals, Guitars
Renato Laia - Bass
Pedro Pereira - Drums
André Carvalho - Guitars
Mixed and Mastered by Diogo Santana at Noise Portrait Recordings
Artwork by Belial NecroArts (Hierarchies, Perishing)
Track listing
1. Unshakable And Unlimited Levels Of Obsession
2. Unconscious Assimilation...Path To Tangible Reality
3. Effervescent Futile Thoughts Of A Phobic Being
4. Forced Retraumatization...Unlocking Spiritual Illumination
5. Fictitious And Impermanent Self-Refinement
6. Fathomless Contempt Nourished By Unrealistic Predictions
7. Narcissistic Supreme Alienation
Official release date - October 10th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/Undersave
That's all for now! Thanks a lot for your support everyone!Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
NEWS 4.10.2025
PENNYWISE veröffentlichen "ACE
OF SPADES" Cover vom kommenden Album "KILLED BY
DEAF: A PUNK TRIBUTE TO MOTÖRHEAD"
Streamen & vorbestellen : https://motorhead.lnk.to/killedbydeafpr
Über Motörhead und ihr Cover von "Ace of Spades" sagt Pennywise-Gitarrist Fletcher Dragge: "Als ich um 1980 zum Punkrock kam, war Motörhead meiner Meinung nach im Grunde die einzige Metal-Band, die Teil der Punkrock-Szene sein durfte. Wenn man jemanden in einer Jeansweste mit dem Motörhead-Aufnäher auf dem Rücken sah, dachte man: 'Das ist ein Metaller, aber er kann mit uns abhängen!' Bei 'Ace of Spades' hörte man das und dachte: 'Das ist kein Metal, das ist Punkrock!'"
Heavy Metal und Punkrock! Man kann mit Fug und Recht behaupten, dass diese beiden lauten Tribes mittlerweile viel gemeinsam haben – oft verschmelzen sie miteinander, sind kaum noch voneinander zu unterscheiden und bringen ihre eigenen Bastard-Nachkommen hervor. Aber das war nicht immer so. Es gab tatsächlich eine Zeit, in der eher mit den Fäusten geprügelt als gegrüßt wurde und Bier eher geworfen als geteilt wurde – außer wenn es um Motörhead ging. Das war die einzige Band, auf die wir uns alle einigen konnten. Die einzige Band, die wirklich uns gehörte!
Auf den vierzehn Tracks dieses Albums mit dem cleveren Titel “Killed By Deaf” hört man eine liebevolle Hommage an Motörhead von einigen der größten und angesehensten Punkrock-Bands. Größen wie Rancid, Pennywise, Lagwagon, GBH, The Bronx und FEAR steuern allesamt raue Versionen ihrer Lieblingssongs von Motörhead bei... und auch aufstrebende Newcomer wie Slaughterhouse sind dabei, denn seien wir ehrlich: Motörhead haben immer die Underdogs geliebt und unterstützt. Der einzige Song auf diesem Album, der nicht von Motörhead stammt, ist eine bisher unveröffentlichte, mitreißende Version des Klassikers "Neat Neat Neat" von The Damned, bei der der großartige Lemmy selbst sowie The Damned mitwirken.
"Killed By Deaf – A Punk Tribute To Motörhead" erscheint am 31. Oktober 2025 als LP, CD und in digitaler Form. Die vollständige Trackliste findet sich unten. Neuigkeiten und Updates gibt es auf www.iMotorhead.com
Tracklist
1. Pennywise – Ace Of Spades
2. Rancid – Sex & Death
3. The Bronx – Over The Top
4. Lagwagon – Rock ‘N’ Roll
5. FEAR – The Chase Is Better Than The Catch
6. GBH – Bomber
7. Murphy’s Law – Stay Clean
8. Slaughterhouse – Love Me Like A Reptile
9. The Casualties – The Hammer
10. Anti-Nowhere League – Born To Raise Hell
11. Love Canal – Voices In The Sky
12. Soldiers Of Destruction – Overkill
13. Wisdom In Chains – Iron Fist
14. Motӧrhead & The Damned – Neat, Neat, Neat
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Von
einer aufstrebenden Musikszene und ihren Fans in einem fast rechtsfreien Raum
der Neunzigerjahre HEAVY OST
Sie waren aufregend, ganz sicher, die Neunzigerjahre im Osten der Republik. Vielleicht sogar wild, als sich ein alles kontrollierendes Regime infolge einer friedlichen Revolution verabschieden musste, aus der kleinen und etwas muffigen DDR ein Teil eines freien und damals sehr gut gelaunten Deutschlands wurde und sich allerorten Räume boten, Neues zu probieren. Im Fall von Ralf Niemiec eine Leidenschaft, die schon länger ihn und seine Freunde befallen hatte, nun aber auf eine Weise ausgelebt werden konnte und auch sollte, wie das vor 1989 undenkbar gewesen wäre.
Heavy Metal. ´Heavy Ost´, so lautet darum folgerichtig der Titel des soeben im Leipziger I.C.H. Verlag erschienenen Rückblicks des mittlerweile in der Schweiz lebenden Autors Ralf Niemiec, ein Buch, das sehr ausführlich die Szene im Osten Deutschlands, besonders aber im südlichen Sachsen-Anhalt, angrenzend an Thüringen und Sachsen, mit Halle und Leipzig als heruntergewirtschaftete aber aufstrebende Metropolen sowie kulturelle Magnete, dem Geiseltal, hier Fix- und Startpunkt von Gründungen, Konzerten und Tourneen, in allem, was irgendwie aufregend und Metal ist. Denn tatsächlich wird der Autor mit seiner Leidenschaft und den sich bietenden Möglichkeiten, vor allem den Dingen, die einfach im Osten noch nicht da sind, aber von vielen dringend herbeigesehnt werden, mehr und mehr zu einem Unternehmer in Sachen Heavy Metal, zu einem Gründer, Band- und Eventmanager und sogar Reiseveranstalter. Das alles natürlich wenig kommerziell, es geht hier um den Spaß und nicht das Geschäft, mit einigen beachtlichen Erfolgen und vielen auch schmerzhaften Reinfällen, die einfach passieren müssen, wenn die Kenntnisse über die Gesetzmäßigkeiten der Branche nur wenig vorhanden sein können, aber unweigerlich greifen, egal wie jung die Szene ist. Und dennoch passiert Erstaunliches, werden Metal-Feste organisiert und gefeiert, Köpfe geschleudert (Headbanging), Hände zum Metal Gruß erhoben, es wird getanzt und mitgeschrien und vor allem jede Menge Bier getrunken. Wen interessiert es da, ob hinterher die Kasse stimmt? Busse werden gechartert, Freibäder mitten im Sommer besetzt und mit schwitzenden Fans in Leder belagert, die örtliche Bevölkerung oft mehr als nur verunsichert. Konzerte, immer wieder Konzerte, mit Bands die auferstehen und wohl nur Insidern ein Begriff sind.
Hier ein Auszug: „Nach der Umbaupause wird es ebenso hart aber auch lustig und verrückt. Das Motto von Mucky Pup ist «Cant you take a Joke». Musikalisch schlägt die Band in die gleiche Kerbe wie Biohazard, hat aber zusätzlich im Verlauf des Konzerts noch eine Showeinlage zu bieten, mit der niemand gerechnet hat, weil sie völlig neu war. Mit ihrer Mischung aus Punk und Metal wurde nicht nur auf der Bühne für Stimmung gesorgt. Durch ihre Alben A Boy in a Mans World und Can´t you take a Joke waren Mucky Pup gut aufgestellt, feierten zusammen mit uns und lebten ihr Motto vollends aus. Der Sänger ließ sich, und das ist die Showeinlage, auf dem Höhepunkt des Gigs auf einer Matratze liegend einmal über das gesamte Publikum tragen.“ Doch blickt Niemiec hin und wieder auf, aus den Rauchschwaden, Bierlachen, den langen möglichst naturbelassenen Haaren, den Geschichten erzählenden Stickern und den schwarzen Klamotten und zeigt eine sich entwickelnde Szene im Osten der Republik, mit durchaus immer professionelleren Strukturen, aufstrebenden Bands wie Manos oder Morgoth und einer medialen Begleitung durch einen Kult-Sender des Osten, DT 64, mit der Ost-Stimme des Metal, Matthias Hopke, der auch über die Schattenseiten der Kommerzialisierung und die Dominanz des Westens spricht. Doch noch werden die Freiheit der Szene und das Vakuum des Ostens in vollen Zügen genutzt, denn es sind immer die Möglichkeiten, die unmittelbar spürbar sind, und nicht die schleichende Macht der Ordnung und des Geldes, die diese Freiheit immer mehr kommerzialisieren und zuteilen. Immerhin sehr zur Beruhigung der jeweils betroffenen Bevölkerung. So ist auch das Geiseltal wohl schon lange wieder ein sehr friedlicher Ort und die lärmenden Metaller von damals sind vermutlich Großeltern. Großeltern mit aufregenden Geschichten.
´Heavy Ost´ erhalten Sie ab sofort für 21,90 € bei www.bücherfairkaufen.de oder im Buchhandel.
Der Verlag Der I.C.H. Verlag setzt mit Autobiografien und Biografien oder Ratgebern auf ein durch und durch klares und ehrliches Programm. Schnörkellos, aber hilfreich und interessant. Und natürlich bezieht sich das Kürzel I.C.H. auf das was es auf den ersten Blick auch ist, das Ego. Denn das ist nun einmal der wichtigste Teil in einem Verlag, der ausschließlich nichtfiktive Bücher verlegt. Hoffentlich sehr erfolgreich. Und trotzdem entstand dieses Kürzel aus einer englischen Redewendung. Vielleicht ist es auch nur ein einfacher Satz, ein Zitat. Wir wissen es nicht ganz genau. Der lautet wie folgt: Individuality causes humanity.
Einbuch-Verlag/I.C.H. Verlag EINBUCH Buch- und Literaturverlag Leipzig Neichener Str. 19 04668 Grimma OT Nerchau
Tel.: 034382 730274
info@einbuch-verlag.de
www.einbuch-verlag.de
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: december 12th 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse | Psycroptic | Disavowed | Prostitute Disfigurement
In the quietude beneath the city streets, the silence broken only by the slow dripping of polluted water and the chittering voices of the rats, in this forgotten place of filth and stench, they find a strange kind of peace. The screaming is over, the torment is complete, there is only endless sleep for these abused and broken bodies. And if the rats take sustenance from their bruised and lacerated flesh it is a gift they give without resentment. Embracing each other, entwined in cold comfort, they lie forever entombed in sewage…
Twenty five years since their tale of terror began and far too long a time since the release of their last album back in 2006, the demigods of death, legends of the underworld, Lust Of Decay have returned! They carry with them, in their bloodstained, disease riddled hands something bleak and soul destroying, ten new commandments of depravity and tragedy, new incitements to violence and degradation – their long, long awaited fourth full length album – Entombed in Sewage. From the first shocking moments of opening track, ‘Parasitic Exsanguination’, twisted riffs ensnare you and vocals from the other side of death engulf you. Drums deliver absolute oblivion and though the tempos shift the impact is never less than decimating. You can feel the knowledge, experience and dedication to the pursuit of brutality and extremity in every dextrous and deadly note. Featuring current and ex members of Atrocious Abnormality, Cesspool of Vermin, Coathanger Abortion and Shuriken Cadaveric Entwinement in their ranks, Lust Of Decay know more than a thing or two about the desolate arts of death. There are so many great riffs throughout this album and the drumming is simply phenomenal, not just driving the songs forward but playing a vital role in their dynamics and development. While the brutality is unquestionably unrelenting, there is so much going on in songs like the feast of rot and horror that is first single ‘Nourishing The Swine’. The song writing that has created ‘Fetal Contamination Process’ is several steps above most of Lust Of Decay’s genre contemporaries in its fascinating complexity. Every song is a definitive example of brutal death metal at its musically proficient, wickedly imaginative and shocking best – and the three final songs, ‘Order 66’, ‘Desiccate The Epithelium’ and title track ‘Entombed In Sewage’ are simply incredible; a triptych of awesome atmosphere, magnificent destruction and nightmares brought to life. Entombed In Sewage will be gate crashing the end of year lists for the best that brutal death has offered up in 2025.
Mixed and mastered by Tony Tipton (Between The Killings, Necrotic Disgorgement, Reap etc) Entombed In Sewage has a surprisingly bright and vibrant sound that brings every element, every weapon in the Lust Of Decay armoury into play, to tremendous effect. The cover artwork that adorns this malignant offering, created by Daemorph Art (Aborted Fetus, Avulsed, Holycide etc), is a masterpiece of grim despondency – the perfect visual depiction of the overwhelming music that lies within. Irresistible in every sense of the word, Entombed In Sewage will be unleashed upon the world by Comatose Music on December 12th – a knife from the dark into the throat of the festive season.
Line-up:
Jay Barnes – Vocals
Steve Green – Guitars & Backing Vocals
Ryan Coulter – Bass
Jordan Varela – Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/LustOfDecayOfficial
Stream/Purchase:
https://bloodymountainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/guilded-abyss
http://www.bloodymountainrecords.com/
Note: Red-logo version of the album cover on CD only.
Valdur is a distortion guild of the riff; musical merchants of the deep.
Obscure music for mellifluous minds.
The individuals of this abyssal congregation need only the desire to assemble and create the vibrations of aural alchemy for your aural pleasure.
Track
Listing:
1. Hailing Molten Meteors
2. Mangled and Rotting (Spiritus Mortuus)
3. Guilded Abyss
4. Doomed Pt.II
5. Drinking from the Chalice of Banishment
6. Stars of Belial
7. Waves of Boiling Water/Molten Meteors Part II (Bonus Track)
Credits:
Recorded at the Bloody Mountain Bunker 2023-2025.
Mixed / mastered by Matthew at Canyon Lodge Studios.
Cover illustration by devilisyourmaster.
Layout by BMR.
Produced by Matthew and BMR.
Dragon logo by: farronloathing.
Old Valdur logo by Valdur.
Nature photos by James Holland.
Line-up:
Vuke - Guitar
William - Bass
Jackson - Vocals
Matthew – Drums
http://www.bloodymountainrecords.com/
https://valdur.bandcamp.com/album/guilded-abyss
Dear
all, CADAVEROUS CONDITION - DESTROYING THE NIGHT SKY
VINYL pre order now!
(NURSE WITH WOUND, THIGHPAULSANDRA, ANDREW LILES, COLIN POTTER, NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS, GJÖLL, HOLY McGRAIL, ALI HELNWEIN)
For the first time on vinyl, our collaborative album initially released on CD on Klanggalerie Records.
Release date: 28.11.2025
230 copies; Marbled Black Smoke Vinyl & Inlay.
Exclusive cover & inlay artwork by Steven Stapleton.
Pre order now
EURO 29.- incl. free shipping.
Click here to buy in our webshop: https://www.cadaverouscondition.com/cadaverous-webshop.html?idU=2
Please note that we are currently not able to ship to the USA.
US customers please order directly from our label, THE CIRCLE MUSIC.
Soleilmoon Mailorder may also get copies for the US.
Info about the album:
Many years ago Death Metal band CADAVEROUS CONDITION invited a stellar line up of experimental artists to completely dismember, rearrange and reconstruct songs of their “To The Night Sky” album. The result being “Destroying The Night Sky”, one of the weirdest collaborative albums ever assembled.
Extreme Metal melted and shaped into new ghoulish form. An experimental, surreal nightmare of sounds and outré weirdness originally released on Klanggalerie Records on CD only.
Now for the first time on vinyl (marbled black smoke vinyl) featuring new and exclusive artwork by Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound).
Mastered for vinyl by Michal “Neithan” Kielbasa.
The album starts with a monstrous longtrack by THIGHPAULSANDRA (COIL, HAWKWIND, ex-SPIRITUALIZED, JULIAN COPE etc.) who arranged a plethora of sounds and vocals and weirdness, thematically mixing Cadaverous Condition ideas with his own reminiscences of an old English TV series. GJÖLL from Iceland, featuring REPTILICUS personnel, go bass heavy in their soundscapes. As on the original CC song, this track features vocals by Patrick Leagas (SIXTH COMM). NURSE WITH WOUND feature here with one of the most extreme, heavy and noisy nightmarish reworks, crushing everything. Nurse With Wound members COLIN POTTER and ANDREW LILES (with a track that was not on the CD version, so completely unreleased until now) add their own solo reconstruction works, living up to their reputation as sound innovators. HOLY McGRAIL (SLOMO, JULIAN COPE collaborator) channels some drones from beyond the grave. Legendary sound artists NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS mix up several CC tracks into one intense piece. Bittersweet relief (maybe) comes with a cinematic neo classical version of CC favourite “Destroy Your Life”, done by ALI HELNWEIN, film score and classical music composer, son of Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein.
Cover and Inlay artwork exclusively done for this release by Steven Stapleton.
Tracklist:
SIDE A:
THIGHPAULSANDRA – At The Crossroads Motel 10:13
ANDREW LILES – Blue (To The Distant Grey) 04:06
GJÖLL – Now I See 04:29
COLIN POTTER – Relentless Repentance 03:44
SIDE B:
NURSE WITH WOUND – Nosedive 06:24
HOLY McGRAIL – Death Warmed Up 05:26
NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS – Deconstruction 01 04:28
ALI HELNWEIN – Destroy Your Beautiful Life 03:58
Also available in our webshop and with free shipping, the latest CADAVEROUS CONDITION CD and LP (blue vinyl and splatter vinyl versions) "Never Arrive, Never Return" as well as CD and LP copies of "Burn Brightly Alone" and more stuff.
Free shipping for all items!
https://www.cadaverouscondition.com/cadaverous-webshop.html
Thanks and take care.Cadaverous Condition October 2025
ABSTRACT is the only band that Pařát Productions will release a studio album for this year. The collaboration between the band and Pařát Productions began in 2014 with the album "Lightheory" and continues to this day.
ABSTRACT is a Slovak band that has been playing instrumental metal since 1995 - meaning no vocals.
The album "MONOGRAM" will be released by Pařát Productions on 29.11. 2025 as a digipak with a 16-page booklet. A strictly limited edition collector's box will also be available. Pre-orders, including merchandise, will be available at www.paratshop.cz starting 1.11. On the same day, the first full song and more detailed information about the album will be released.
Style: Instrumental metal
Type: Digipak (500pcs), special collector´s box (100 pcs)
Release date: 29.11. 2025
Pre-orders start: 1.11. 2025
FIRST TEASER FROM NEW ALBUM "Monogram" listen on the Pařát Productions YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUw3PMz-Udw
It's not often that you get a brutal death metal album that is so diverse, invigorating, and also immensely heavy. Finnish band Enragement have somehow managed to pull that off and it's getting everyone to sit up and take notice, even those who aren't normally into this sub-genre.
Inferno Magazine is streaming their album in full along with track-by-track commentary from the band members. You can find it at https://www.inferno.fi/uutiset/tayslaidallinen-kuoloa-ennakkokuuntelussa-enragementin-extinguish-all-existence/
ENRAGEMENT – “EXTINGUISH ALL EXISTENCE”
Genre: Death metal with
brutal, tech death, and black metal touches
For fans of: Cutterred Flesh, Devourment, Abominable Putridity, Blood Red Throne, Katalepsy, Benighted,
Aborted
Enragement from Finland are playing brutal death metal that's humongously heavy and also incredibly varied. Not too unlike their label mates Cutterred Flesh, they are borrowing elements from associated styles and mixing it all up. The result is an invigorating, powerful expression that ticks all the boxes. Their brutal death metal isn't the kind where you hear one song, you get the gist of the entire album because they're all just variations of the same rigid song type. Enragement in fact take the effort to approach songs differently each time, intermingling stirring melodies with heaving slams and everything in between. They aren't trying to be unnecessarily technical or flashy either; rather they are ensuring that the perfect expression is achieved and emphasis is given where needed, be it for solos or breakdowns. In simple words, this is as well-rounded a brutal death metal album as it can be when it comes to this obscene level of heaviness without the music getting dumbed down. Enragement have struck the right balance here, making their album satisfying, interesting, and also hugely enjoyable.
Line up
Atte Ojanne - Guitar & vocals
Tuomas Iivanainen - Guitar & vocals
Juhana Korkka Heinonen - Bass & vocals
Lasse Sannikka - Drums
Artwork by Daemorph Art (Cephalotripsy, 7 H.Target)
Track listing
1. Vorarephilia
2. Abyssal Hellscapes
3. Pathogenesis
4. Parasitic Ingress
5. Harbingers of Degradation
6. Vesuvius
7. Hypercarnivorous
8. Insectiferous Abomination
9. Natural Mass Asphyxiation
10. Extinguish All Existence
Release date - October 3rd, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/groups/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/Enragement
Thanks a lot for your support everyone!Kunal Choksi (label owner)Transcending Obscurity
PLAGUE PIT – “A WHISPERED CURSE” (EP)
Label: Road To Masochist
Release date: october 3rd 2025
Genre: Necrotic Death
For fans of: Bolt Thrower | Entombed | Deviated Instinct | Abstracter
Tomb walker, waste eater, plague bearer…with your dusty imprecations of evil crawling from your dry and tattered throat. You drag your broken body from your lead-lined nest and fix me with an eyeless stare. Bone fingers reach for my throat as I gaze, mesmerized, into those dirt rimed sockets. I am falling into eternity, into an emptiness unending. And with a determined strength that belies your rotten, ragged frame, your fleshless hands tighten about my throat; but all I see are your dark secrets and all I hear are your whispered curses…
Bristol’s Plague Pit only formed in 2024, but already they are set to unleash their skull-crushing debut EP – the dank and cavernous A Whispered Curse. Their earliest expulsions of noise saw them treading a blackened hardcore path for first demo ‘Give In To Death’, but ferocious live shows alongside the likes of Coffin Mulch and Thou began to lead them into bleaker, bitter and altogether more dangerous territories…which ultimately resulted in the rampaging, harrowing horror of A Whispered Curse. The EP begins with ‘The Seventh Bell’, darkly majestic and rife with dread portent before it breaks out into a feral attack of encrusted death metal fervour. ‘Womb Of Orchids’ follows in a miasma of jarring distortion, rot, rust and devastation, switching between crust punk violence and pounding, monolithic beats before bleeding out into a dark ambient ending – which is shattered in turn by the onslaught of the death driven ‘The Weeping God’. Collapsing pace, measured melancholy, melodic guitar lines and howls of feedback… into the brilliant bass intro of ‘A Whispered Curse’ with its monstrous riffs and graveyard mystery, monolithic stature and cold mist atmosphere. An ending in damp soil and broken teeth, old blood and stained promises. A Whispered Curse is shocking, thrilling, haunting and addictive…an incredible welcome to the dubious pleasures of the Plague Pit.
Plague Pit have joined the ranks of pilgrims on the Road To Masochist and the fast rising label will release A Whispered Curse on 10” transparent red vinyl on October 3rd, with Eggy Tapes providing a cassette alternative, or addition. Stare into the void and sell your soul for a copy of this beast from the black.
Line-up:
W.B. - Vocals
J.H. - Drums
L.E. - Guitar
J.H. - Guitar
W.P. - Bass
https://roadtomasochist.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/plaguepitviolence
The
Finnish death/thrash metal band GATES OPEN released a
new ferocious single 'THE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS'.
Listen to 'The Blood On Their Hands' single: https://push.fm/fl/gates-open-the-blood
The band comments:
"The idea for the lyrics for the single "The Blood On Their Hands" came from the Netflix series "The Fall of the House of Usher", which gave us the idea to make a fictional lyrical story about questionable medicine. The story is fiction, but there is certainly questionable medicine in this world, unfortunately."
Biography:
Gates Open is a Finnish blackened death/thrash metal band. Gates Open is a band founded in early 2023 by two men, the band includes Jere Neejärvi, in the role of guitarist/composer, and Tommi Manninen as singer.
The members' united history began already in 2007 during the previous band's time. Our band moved to the distribution of the Inverse Records label in June 2023. The first official single "The Awakening" under Inverse Records was released in June 2023. The second official single "Let The Night Become Your Guide" was released in October 2023. Our third single, by the band name "Gates Open" was released in December 2023. Our full-length debut album "Voice After Silence" was released on February 9th 2024 via Inverse Records. Black Clouds Over The World EP saw the daylight on October 2024.
Line-up:
Tommi Manninen - Vocals
Jere Neejärvi - Guitars, Bass, Drums
https://www.facebook.com/gatesopenband
Thorndale sprang to life in 2021 during the quiet chaos of the post-COVID era, emerging as a fierce and authentic voice.
Composed of seasoned musicians from around the globe, their sound blends groove-driven riffs with raw energy and a timeless heavy metal spirit. Their music channels the grit and depth of blues-inflected metal, enriched by influences ranging from Sabbath to brutal more modern styles.
What sets Thorndale apart is not just their powerful riffs, but the stories behind the music—tales of struggle, resilience, and the darker edges of the human condition.
Their debut “Lightning Spawn” carved out a strong presence, and their follow-up album, “Spiritual Chains,” continues to build on that foundation with rich melodies and evocative themes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTn_6XuEAc0&list=RDXTn_6XuEAc0
https://www.facebook.com/thorndaleofficial
The song is available on all the streaming services.
Pre-order: www.ossuaryrecords.com
CORRUPTION is a legendary Polish stoner metal band with eight (soon nine) full-length albums, one DVD release, and countless live performances under their belt.
The band has played at major festivals including:
Metalmania (1995, 2006)
Węgorzewo
Pol’and’RockFestival (2004, 2016)
Wacken Open Air 2007
Sonisphere Festival 2011
Cieszanów Rock Festival 2017
Przystanek Żory 2017
They have shared the stage with international giants such as:
Deep Purple, The Cult, Behemoth, Soulfly, Motörhead, Iron Maiden, Mastodon, Killing Joke, Volbeat, Down, Red Fang, Pentagram, Orange Goblin, Phil Anselmo & The Illegals, Nashville Pussy, and many more.
In 2011, the album “Bourbon River Bank” was nominated for a Fryderyk Award (Poland’s most prestigious music industry award) in the category Metal Album of the Year.
CORRUPTION has worked with labels such as Metal Mind Productions (4 albums) and Mystic Production (1 album). Their single “Born to be Zakk Wylde” was promoted by Zakk Wylde himself and featured on Black Label Society’s official page.
On October 24, 2024, vocalist Rafał “Rufus” Trela returned to the band. That same day, the new single “To Hell’n’Back” was released – a preview of the upcoming ninth studio album, set for release in 3th of October 2025 via Ossuary Records!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYt-5m_ki_s
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialCorruption
ALKHEMIA
enters
covenant with Non Serviam Records – New full-length descends spring 2026 .
Total Darkness Promotions is proud to announce that the visionary act Alkhemia has officially signed a deal with Non Serviam Records.
This marks the beginning of an ambitious new chapter for the band, joining a roster of uncompromising artists. Their highly anticipated next full-length album is set for release in the spring of 2026, promising an intense and powerful addition to their dark discography. With Alkhemia’s unique sound and profound vision, this partnership is primed to leave a lasting mark on the scene.
Alkhemia commented on the monumental alliance:
"We are proud to announce our alliance with Non Serviam Records. This collaboration represents the opportunity to work with a partner who shares our vision of Black Metal: a dark, uncompromising, and evocative art form. Through this covenant, we are more determined than ever to carry our music and our universe to a wider audience. For us, Alkhemia has always been more than music: it is the reflection of a decaying world and the voice of those who refuse conformity. We are honored to unveil our next chapter with NSR, where we have found the altar upon which to lay this vision."
Non Serviam Records expressed their enthusiasm for the new signing:
"We are delighted to welcome Alkhemia to our roster. The band has already made a strong impression with their debut, Abraxas. Their unique blend of furious modern black metal, atmospheric depth, and profound themes immediately resonated with us. We are truly proud that Alkhemia has chosen to join our label, and we look forward to unveiling the powerful next chapter of their journey together."
https://www.facebook.com/nonserviamrecords
https://www.facebook.com/Alkhemia.bm
Since its release, “INEVITABLE DEATH” has been EVOCATUS steadily making the rounds, and we truly believe it still deserves your ears. If you haven’t had a chance to dive in yet, we’d love for you to give it a spin — and we’re absolutely open to setting up a review or interview if it sparks your interest. Emerging from the scorched battlefields of New South Wales with a bloodstained banner of thrash, death, folk, and symphonic might, Evocatus wield melody and brutality in equal measure. Their latest sonic campaign, Inevitable Death, marks a monumental leap forward—expanding on the saga outlined in 2020’s Path to Tartarus with an epic, war-scarred offering of blistering riffs, sweeping orchestration, and lyrical odes to fate, myth, and warfare.
Produced once again by Ryan Huthnance at Emissary Studios, Inevitable Death captures the sharpened edge of the band’s evolving sound. Fans of Kreator, Amon Amarth, and Machine Head will find familiar fire here, but with an identity that is unmistakably Evocatus—tight, towering, and unapologetically intense.
Tracklist
1. Into Everlasting Night
2. Serpent of Chaos
3. The River Styx
4. ...and Die in my Name
5. In Graves Unknown
6. For Death and Glory
7. Devoted to Inevitable Death
8. The Sirens Call
9. To Live by the Sword
10. A Fate Worse than Death
With Inevitable Death, EVOCATUS don’t just sharpen their swords—they raise them high.
EVOCATUS are:
Nich Shields – Vocals
Vaughan Jones – Guitars
Callan Douchkov – Guitars
Brad Delforce – Bass
Adam Watts – Drums
www.youtube.com/@evocatusbandofficial
https://www.facebook.com/EvocatusBand
ACRANIUS brand-new single “SWORN TO REPAY”, which will be released on October 3rd, 2025. ACRANIUS have built a solid reputation over the years as one of the leading names in the international Deathcore/Slam scene, touring extensively across Europe and overseas and constantly pushing the boundaries of extreme music.
With “Sworn to Repay”, the band unleashes one of their heaviest and most uncompromising tracks to date: brutal breakdowns, relentless slam parts, guttural vocals, blasting drums and downtuned guitars, all captured in a high-quality music video directed by Daniel Prieß. This track also marks the first official single featuring Marcus Jasak as the band’s sole vocalist, adding even more intensity to the sound.
https://www.facebook.com/Acranius
EL MUERTO, the Netherlands' one-man Black/Death Metal project, has released a music video for "WOLVES OF DEN HAAG," the second single from forthcoming debut EP, LOST AND AMSTERDAMNED!
FFO: Opeth, Immortal, Emperor, Mgla, Death
"Wolves of Den Haag" was inspired by the real-life cannibalistic murder of Dutch statesman Johan de Witt in 1672.
Check out the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEF6srPxcEY
The song is also available on https://elmuerto2.bandcamp.com/track/wolves-of-den-haag
El Muerto was born in the depths of personal crisis, a raw and unflinching document of depression, trauma, and the desire to disappear. Conceived as a final message from an artist who had lost the will to live, each track captures a chapter of that darkness. But this record is no longer a goodbye. It’s proof that even in the shadows, something can still survive.
El Muerto is the alter ego of a multi-instrumentalist whose journey spans continents, from the underground metal scene of Mexico (Sekhmet) to experimental projects in Australia (Conscious Comma), now anchored in the Dutch landscape. With Lost and Amsterdamned, he delivers a fiercely collaborative black/death metal EP shaped by the frostbitten influence of Immortal, the grim atmosphere of Darkthrone and Mgła, and the progressive shadows of Opeth and Emperor.
Driven by guitar-forward compositions and visceral vocals, the record balances old-school extremity with cinematic vision. Each track is both a personal exorcism and a descent into archetypal horror, as described by below by El Muerto.
"Enthroned in the Tower of Shadows (The Witch)" – A theatrical black metal tale of the witch-queen reigning from a tower of obsidian. Ritualistic, grand, and venomously lyrical, it reads like folklore soaked in blood and fire. Betrayal, treason and lies.
"Ghosts of Torment" – An inner war against unseen forces. This track is a descent into madness where haunting spirits represent trauma, anxiety, and mental illness. Dissonant and despairing, it’s a song about being torn from within—and haunted from without.
"Lich King" – A blighted anthem of death’s dominion. With imagery of skeletal monarchs and ruined worlds, it’s a march into the void, full of oppressive riffing and funereal dread.
"A Song for Ran" – A melancholic invocation of the Norse sea goddess, casting despair into the sea’s cold embrace. Melodic and mournful, it drifts between surrender and transcendence beneath crashing waves and whispered death. Where the final rest in the most peaceful as well.
"Blood Crypt" – The EP’s most venomous moment: a burial rite soaked in bile and loathing. A brutal poem of closure through decay, it turns memory into rot, laying ghosts to rest in a cathedral of scorn.
"Wolves of Den Haag" – Inspired by the real-life cannibalistic murder of Dutch statesman Johan de Witt in 1672, this track uses historical horror to reflect modern betrayal and societal rage. Gnarled riffs and spectral tension echo through The Hague’s ghost-soaked streets.
Each song speaks in the language of metal, but beneath the corpse paint and distortion lies something deeply human—anguish, defiance, and ultimately, release.
Each of these songs reflects personal trauma through the lens of myth, horror, and metal’s harshest language turning lived experience into sonic ritual. Lost and Amsterdamned no longer marks an ending. It is a violent testament of survival, memory, and transformation. A cathartic howl from the pit—and the sound of someone crawling out of it.
The album's rhythm section features guest musicians from international metal acts, such as downunder's Norse and Europe's Adarrak.
Mixed by the legendary Tomas Skogsberg of Sunlight Studios in Sweden and mastered by Ricardo Botello. Recorded in studios across the Netherlands.
Lost and Amsterdamned is set for release on November 21!.
Pre-order:
https://elmuerto2.bandcamp.com/album/lost-and-amsterdamned
Track Listing:
1. Enthroned in the Tower of Shadows (The Witch)
2. Ghosts of Torment
3. Lich King
4. A Song for Ran
5. Blood Crypt
6. Wolves of Den Haag
Credits:
Produced by Ricardo Botello
Mixed by Tomas Skogsberg in Sunlight Studios, Stockholm, Sweden.
Mastered by Stefan Brown from Abbey Road Studios.
All artwork created by Francisco Torres Beltrán .
Line-up:
Ricardo Botello - Guitars, Vocals, Piano
Zigor Munoz - Bass (except "Ghosts of Torment")
Tommaso Tani - Bass on "Ghosts of Torment"
Robin Stone - Drums
Bio:
El Muerto is the alter ego of a multi-instrumentalist, Ricardo Botello, who has made the Dutch landscape his creative home for the past years. His musical journey spans continents, from his work with the Mexican project Sekhmet to time spent with Australia’s Conscious Comma.
Now unveiling his debut EP, Lost in Amsterdamned, El Muerto presents a collaborative effort that features a dynamic cast of guest musicians.
https://elmuerto2.bandcamp.com/album/lost-and-amsterdamned
DISTORTA
– “DEADMAN”
Following their 2024 debut Devil in the Dust, Deadman is the sound of a band hitting its stride—fusing thrash, groove, death, and power metal into an explosive signature style. Massive riffs, pounding rhythms, and anthemic choruses you can shout ‘til your lungs give out—this is DISTORTA.
The EP was entirely recorded, mixed, and mastered by the band themselves, and shows a marked evolution in sound and precision.
Tracklist
1. When the War Is Over
2. The Reaper
3. Deadman
4. Longway
5. Deafening Sins
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www.facebook.com/distorta
PUTREVORE – “UNENDING ROTTING CYCLE”
Label: Xtreem Music
Release date: november 11th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Incantation | Immolation | Avulsed | Grisly
We walk upon a road of mouldering bones, empty sockets staring up in silent reproach at our trespass. And then, with a last backward glance at the fading daylight, we step into the maw of death…descending into a darkness beyond black, the lightless catacombs of dying where life has no place and angels fear to tread. Here the gods have many eyes and many serpentine limbs. Here the dead converse in crackling whispers as their flesh sloughs from their bent and twisted frames. Here the aeons pass in unending rotting cycles…
Putrevore…a shared dream between two icons of death, a nascent idea hatched between Dave Rotten (Avulsed, Holycide etc) and Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader and a thousand more) to pay tribute to the hardest, heaviest and most brutal of the death metal pioneers of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, more than twenty years ago. Yet still the beast clings to life with a vicious tenacity and a fifth full length album of impossible horrors is about to be unleashed – Unending Rotting Cycle!
Attacking with a terrifying immediacy, ‘No Mourning The Grace’ reveals Dave Rotten’s vocals at their most tomb-trawling, deeper and more inhuman than ever before, while Rogga Johansson’s inexhaustible supply of superlative death metal riffs remains undiminished. An inherent sense of dark melody is always present behind the song’s wall of terror, spreading tendrils of utter desolation through its rotting cadaver. There’s an incredible murky darkness shrouding this album as a whole, the vocals clawing their way up through the thick, oppressive riffs, while the drums deliver a crisp, bone shaking thunder within the vortex of chaos. On tracks like the magnificent, rumbling, infernal majesty of ‘Subterranean Paths To The Temples’, the fear infused atmosphere is simply awesome. There is no let up in the nightmarish aura – once Putrevore have sunk their cracked, decaying teeth into your flesh they do not let go. From the stumbling zombie death march of ‘They Worship Disarray’, led by Rotten’s flesh melting vocals, to the paean to horrors from beyond the boundaries of sanity that is ‘Cult Of The Tentacle’, Unending Rotting Cycle is a testament to the fact that the blood in Putrevore’s collective veins runs black with the essence of death metal. The final act of desecration, ‘The Cradle Replaced By The Grave’, is haunting and morose as it grinds you into the dust, extinguishing the last flickering embers of life and hope.
Mixed and mastered by Avulsed guitarist, Alejandro Lobo, at his Acordica Studios and featuring the cataclysmic drumming of regular Rogga Johansson co-conspirator Thomas Ohlsson (Stass, War Magic etc), Unending Rotting Cycle is without question the most relentless, ravenous and remorseless example of Putrevore’s death metal war machine. It will be released by Xtreem Music on November 11th on CD, 12"LP Cassette & Digital formats, completed by the stunning artwork of Lucretia Morti (Avulsed, Ribspreader etc). Bleak, black and bestial, Putrevore remain the undead embodiment of an old phrase from the age that inspired them – some music was meant to stay underground.
Line-up:
Dave Rotten – Vocals
Rogga Johansson – Guitars/Bass
Drums on Unending Rotting Cycle performed by Thomas Ohlsson
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
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Australian darkwave/industrial black metal act IRREPARABLE have unveiled their new single, “FOREVER REMAIN”. It is a powerful and intense piece from their upcoming debut album, “THE FATE OF ALL LIFE”, and features a guest appearance by acclaimed violinist Hayley Anderson (Aquilus, Suldusk).
Watch the music video: https://metaladdicts.com/irreparable-unleash-forever-remain-feat-hayley-anderson-aquilus-suldusk/
The band commented:
"When Death finally frees you from the pain of suffering, what worse Hell to awake to than a rebirth into the same cycle? This is the idea behind the content of 'Forever Remain’. A track that well defines the concept of the new album ‘The Fate Of All Life’. One of the last tracks written for the album, it is particularly intense and features an outro of an incredibly mournful violin section that was written and performed by Hayley Anderson from Aquilus and Suldusk. The video was filmed in Lithuania by an amazing team that truly brought to life (and death) the vision.”
The new single is also now available to listen to via all major streaming services.
“Forever Remain” follows the release of the single “Failure to Thrive” and is the second single from the band’s upcoming debut album set for release on 17 October via These Hands Melt.
“The Fate Of All Life” sees the band weave together industrial black metal, goth and darkwave to create a sound that is both haunting and cathartic. The album is a monument to the reality of the human condition, exploring themes of cyclical suffering and death. IRREPARABLE has expertly laid the foundations of a personal apocalypse, which is reflected in their poignant quote: “We rise to the sky from the sea, only to come pouring down”.
The new album will be available as a limited edition CD Digipack and a limited Vinyl LP (150 copies) in red transparent, as well as on all major digital platforms.
Pre-order here: https://irreparable2019.bandcamp.com/album/the-fate-of-all-life
The band will celebrate the release of “The Fate Of All Life” at The Leadbeater, Richmond, VIC (Australia) with Burden Man, The Nihilistic Front and Nighteyes on November 29th.
IRREPARABLE are:
D.B. - Guitar, Electronics
N.M. - Vocals
M.B. - Bass
https://thesehandsmelt.shop/
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VALLETTA unleashes pure fury on their second EP, "Bitter Lucid Truth", out this October via Germany’s LIFEFORCE RECORDS. Fueled by raw anger toward today’s political climate, the Raleigh, NC quartet transforms venom into powerful, melodic outbursts that are both soaring and scathing.
Written and recorded in early 2025, the "Bitter Lucid Truth" EP was tracked by Al Jacob (He Is Legend, Wailin Storms) at Warrior Sound with input from Inter Arma’s TJ Childers, and mastered by Matt Tuttle (Codeseven). It’s a lean, explosive statement and a bold step forward from a lineup whose pedigree includes Lord Almighty, Mo’ynoq, Prayer For Cleansing and Between the Buried And Me.
VALLETTA hits the road in the U.S. this August and October 2025, with a European tour and re-release of "Summer" slated for 2026.
https://vallettalfr.bandcamp.com/album/bitter-lucid-truth
Finnish
one-man black metal band VALONTUOJA is set to unleash
the second album 'TULESTA SYNTYNYT' on November 14th 2025
via Inverse Records. The second single 'VÄLIKAPPALE' is unleashed
today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/valontuoja-valikappale
The man behind Valontuoja, Jal'zoroth comments the single:
"In the heart of the forest, where the wind speaks only in whispers and the stars vanish from the sky, a predator moves unseen."Välikappale" is a raw invocation of the hunter spirit a vessel of death, a servant of bloodthirsty gods, cloaked in silence and shadow.
The wolves howl. The earth drinks. Fate is written in blood."
Tulesta syntynyt CD PRE-ORDER available https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/
Listen to the first single here: https://push.fm/fl/valontuoja-ympyra
Biography:
Valontuoja, meaning "Bringer of Light" in Finnish, is the one-man black metal entity forged in the icy depths of Helsinki by the Jal'zoroth. Formed in 2024, Valontuoja channels the primordial essence of black metal, weaving a sonic tapestry that is both ferocious and hauntingly melodic. Valontuoja's soundscape is a maelstrom of raw, unyielding black metal fused with ethereal and melodic elements. Valontuoja conjures an atmosphere that is as brutal as it is beautiful, guiding listeners through the desolate realms of human despair and nature's unforgiving majesty
Track list:
1. Palaneiden Kasvojen Maa
2. Ympyrä Joka Syö Itseään
3. Kameleontti
4. Aurinkoroihun Kirous
5. Välikappale
6. Asiat Jotka On Tähtiin Kirjoitettu
7. Sinä Vastaat Teoistasi
8. Korvessa On Kotini
9. Kun Kaikki Muu Vaikenee
Album cover by Vhan Artwork
Line-up:
Jal'zoroth - vocals, guitars, bass & drums
https://valontuoja.bandcamp.com
For
over fifteen years Spain's recluse visual master, composer and death fetishist
Noir Noir has dredged the most forlorn depths of death industrial, dark wave,
and raw black metal to uncover an auditory death ritual of unprecedented
wretchedness and magnificence. The project's two crowning achievements - 2016's
mini album "Black Curtain" (originally released on cassette
by Fallow Field), and 2022's "Divine Swelling" (originally
released by Hedonic Reversal as side one of the split cassette with Vesakh), now
finally see their righteous enshrinement, remastered (courtesy of
death-industrial master Grant Richardson) and released for the first time ever
on vinyl and CD formats (and reissued on cassette) as due solemnization to one
of underground industrial's most defiant, enigmatic, and transformative
entities.
While the band's sparse but enduring output has touched upon various digressions in the realms of dark ambient, noise and power electronics, these two releases in particular are the ones which showcase the band's most coherent, focused, and visionary output, being the foremost two releases in Noir Noir's discography which most define and consecrate the project's monumental morbid triumph. By far the band's two most pervasive and straightforward releases, "Black Curtain" and "Divine Swelling" unfold a prodigious death-scarred voidscape of oppressive ritualistic rhythms, glacial sequences and tortured proclamations that condemn the listener to an all-consuming auditory punishment. Obviously influenced by, or convergently evolved from, the darkened explorations of acts like Brighter Death Now, Lurker of Chalice, Mütilation, Trepaneringsritualen, Skinny Puppy, Throbbing Gristle and Dead Can Dance, these crowning forty minutes of Noir Noir's discography represent an inestimable underground hidden jewel of perverse and grandiose nekro-industrial that are a must for any enthusiast of hermetic and cult-like auditory divergences into the depths of occultism, ritualism and sadism.
"Black Curtain / Divine Swelling" is streaming in full and pre-orderable now via all our channels along with an exclusive offering of brand new on-demand merch, and an official street date set for October 17 2025 on LP, CD, MC and digital formats worldwide.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/noir-noir-black-curtain-/-divine-swelling
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OLESIN joins Devoted
Art Propaganda with the release of their self-titled demo. It's set for a
31 October 2025 as a cassette. To mark the announcement, the band has premiered
an advance track from the release, now available to stream on their Bandcamp
page and YouTube.
Olesin is a forest in eastern Poland, a place of ruined palaces with lions, libations, fights, suicides, drownings, mysterious candles, and the birthplace of figures who changed the course of history. A place of hunting returns. Just like home. Their music is a raw, chaotic and Bergmansk form of black metal, channeling the turbulent and haunted essence of their origins.
To hear the advance track and for more information, visit the band's Bandcamp page: https://olesin.bandcamp.com/ or YouTube: https://youtu.be/7MgnMkjHoXI
Tracklist:
1. I
2. II
3. III
https://d-a-p.org/
https://olesin.bandcamp.com/
ARGESK – “MOONLIGHT PYROMANCY”
Label: Matriarch Records
Release date: october 17th 2025
Genre: Melodic Black Metal
For fans of: Cradle Of Filth | Hecate Enthroned | Naglfar | Ancient
Summoned through the gate of fire, drawn from the flames into the night, she wanders the darkness – a flickering shade of memory and loss. Her heart held forever in a glacial frost she hungers for the fleeting warmth of lifeblood, freely given in enraptured lust or taken by strength and spell, as needs must. And with every passing age her desperate need grows, to tear the pitiless, despoiling sun from the heavens, to dwell for endless aeons in star dusted night and deep twilight shadow, to drift for eternity upon cold, dark winds; a deathless beauty invoked by moonlight pyromancy…
Moonlight Pyromancy is the second album from the British black metal force Argesk and the band have progressed at a phenomenal rate since their Realm Of Eternal Night debut. This album possesses everything that made its predecessor such an exciting first statement; but better, richer, fuller and so much more accomplished. Beginning with ‘Invocation’, a short but effective instrumental piece that acts as a gateway to the gloaming country of Moonlight Pyromancy, Argesk proceed to enfold us in dark wings of nocturnal ambience. A newfound mastery of melody comes to the fore in ‘Accursed Victory’ as the emotive guitar work draws you deeper and deeper into this epic of tragedy and drama, while ‘Black Castle Waltz’ is a regal dance of vampiric splendour with a sense of world building – as if Argesk are constructing their own mythology through the complex interweaving of each instrument. At the heart of the album lies ‘Wreathing Serpent’, a formidable song that builds slowly before exploding like a shower of stars across the night sky and this track highlights the perfect balance of the Argesk sound; despite the beguiling melodies and lush layers of atmosphere they never allow sweetness to overpower the bitter hemlock of their black metal draught. Everything is steeped in devastation and gothic magic, bloodlust and damnation. The triumphant chords of the title track close the album with an air of dark celebration, before a reprise of ‘Black Castle Waltz’, complete with guest vocals from Dean Seddon, the man who supplied the banshee screams for Hecate Enthroned’s Kings Of Chaos and Redimus albums. Moonlight Pyromancy is infused with black sorcery and whispered promises, a true work of the very darkest art.
Superbly recorded and mixed by Chris Taylor at Noiseboy Studios (Burial, Steel Mage, Beyond Salvation etc) and immaculately mastered by Chris Fielding (Electric Wizard, Fen, Winterfylleth etc) every layer of Moonlight Symphony’s textured compositions can be fully appreciated, as each instrument is given room to breathe – and the outstanding artwork of Aghy Purakusuma (Pure Wrath, Morwinyon, Firienholt etc) sets the final seal of quality upon this outstanding album. Now bonded in blood and fire with Matriarch Records, Argesk will unlock the door to Moonlight Pyromancy on October 17th. Open your hearts to the darkness…
Line-up:
Matt IH - Guitar and harsh vocals
Roscoe - Bass and acoustic guitar
Leth - Synths, clean vocals and mandolin
Bob - Drums
Aidan - Guitar
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Innovative
female-fronted symphonic/prog metal band THE WAVE AND THE PARTICLE
have just released the official video for “ELECTRIC SHEEP,” the
title track from their latest album. Watch the video and stream the album now!
With its mix of cinematic synth layers, symphonic textures, and heavy guitars, “Electric Sheep” captures The Wave and the Particle’s signature fusion of industrial rock, symphonic metal, and progressive rock. The song explores the pull of collective thinking in the digital age and the loss of individuality in the face of ideological conformity. The video tells this story through the journey of a painter in a black-and-white world who, drawn into a powerful movement, loses his sense of self and becomes one with the faceless crowd.
Stream the "Electric Sheep" album here: https://orcd.co/electricsheep
Previous videos from the album:
https://youtu.be/_aQZ6_T4HQw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNJGK4V76PY
https://youtu.be/AEP_PUflV-U
About The Wave and the Particle:
Founded in 2015, The Wave and the Particle fuses symphonic metal, industrial, and progressive rock. Their music blends soaring vocals, layered synths, and intricate guitars. Electric Sheep showcases their signature genre-bending style and cyberpunk-inspired themes of technology, identity, and the future
Line up:
Abhiram - Drums
Alessandro Castelli - Bass
Chandra Garud - Guitar
Katharina Huang - Vocals
Vasiliy Sharikov - Keys, Synths, Programming
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Heavy rock all-stars ALPHA DESTROYER - featuring Martin Sweet (Crashdïet), Kelly LeMieux (Buckcherry), and Eric Sexton-Dorsett (Sleepless) have released the newest single from their forthcoming debut album, FASTLANE.
"Masterplan" marks the fourth single off this 10-track offering of high-octane rock, and the last before fans get to hear this rager in its entirety.
Watch the video for "Masterplan" at https://youtu.be/nx26wkcRkeI
Fast Lane is due out this fall on Necromantic Press Records. Physical copies of Fast Lane, including limited-edition red splatter and standard black vinyl, will begin shipping in October. The album will be available on all streaming platforms on October 31. Pre-orders are available
at https://necromanticpress.com/products/alpha-destroyer-fast-lane-vinyl-lp-limited-edition
Tracklisting:
1 - Straight into the Grind
2 - Masterplan
3 - Dirt in the Ground
4 - Lobotomized
5 - Transmission
6 - Fast Lane
7 - Sweet Dreams From Oblivion
8 - Manic Messiah
9 - Conspiracy
10 - The Prophet
“This Isn’t a Band. It’s a Warning.”
Alpha Destroyer was born in 2022, shortly after trad/thrash metal band Sleepless released its debut LP. Looking for a new creative outlet, Sleepless guitarist Eric Sexton-Dorsett began writing a series of dissonant, groove-heavy tracks—something that channeled the high-powered spirit of bands like Def Leppard while drawing on the chaos of Voivod and Morbid Angel.
After tracking initial guitar parts, Eric brought in drummer Ryan McPhaill to lay down drum tracks. The results exceeded expectations—every take locked in with the raw energy and precision the project demanded.
With a solid foundation in place, Eric filed the songs under the name Alpha Destroyer and started mapping out the next phase.
Soon after, on the Monsters of Rock Cruise, Eric met bassist Kelly LeMieux (Goldfinger, Buckcherry) through mutual friend Kevin Hahn—vocalist/lead guitarist for Sleepless and now a guitarist for Alpha Destroyer. Late-night conversations on the cruise led to a strong creative connection. Back in Portland, Kelly heard the early tracks and immediately added his signature, larger-than-life basslines. The songs—now three deep—began to take shape.
In 2024, another key moment happened on the same cruise. Eric met Martin Sweet (Crashdïet), a longtime influence. After staying in touch, Eric sent him the developing tracks—initially just to contribute guitar—but Martin offered something more: vocals. His performance on the first completed track, “Straight into the Grind,” helped define the band’s sound and opened the door to a deeper collaboration. What was meant to be a four-song EP quickly expanded as the ideas flowed naturally.
The result is Fast Lane—a 10-track debut album that rides the line between doom-laced introspection and high-octane rock. The title track and first single, “Fast Lane,” kicks things off with a punk-edged urgency and Martin’s heavy yet melodic take on personal struggle.
With new music already in the works and plans for live dates in 2026, Alpha Destroyer is just getting started.
THE STORM IS BUILDING. ALPHA DESTROYER IS COMING.
ALPHA DESTROYER is:
Eric Sexton-Dorsett
Martin Sweet
Kelly Lemieux
Ryan McPhaill
Kevin Hahn
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Label: Rottweiler Records
Release date: 03 october 2025
Shamash is set to release their commanding new single, The Gulf Between Us, on September 3, 2025 across all major streaming platforms via Rottweiler Records.
The track represents a defining moment for the band — one that balances the punishing aggression of heavy music with a melodic core that feels both intimate and universal. At its heart, The Gulf Between Us is a song about distance, conflict, and redemption. It paints the picture of standing at the edge of separation, staring into silence and despair, but refusing to remain there. Instead, the song charts the difficult but necessary journey of moving forward, of closing the divide, and of finding healing and hope on the other side.
For Shamash, this release is more than just another single — it is a milestone. It marks the beginning of a new chapter for the band, one in which every note and every lyric carries the weight of their evolution. The Gulf Between Us is heavier, sharper, and more dynamic than anything they’ve done before, offering listeners an unflinching glimpse into the band’s creative rebirth.
Production Notes:
The single was engineered by award-winning engineer JD Wong of 21:05 Productions, also recognized as the guitarist for Malaysian rock icons Pop Shuvit. His technical precision and creative touch bring both depth and impact to the recording.
Production was led by Darren Teh, Shamash’s bassist, backup vocalist, and producer. In addition to his work with Shamash, Teh is also known as the vocalist and guitarist for award-winning pop-punk band An Honest Mistake. His role within Shamash goes beyond performance — he shapes the band’s sound from within, ensuring that the music reflects their shared vision with clarity, intensity, and authenticity.
Looking ahead, Shamash is excited to confirm that they will continue their work with JD Wong and 21:05 Productions on their next full-length album, with more details to follow in the coming months.
Songwriting Credits:
The Gulf Between Us was written by Shamash members Darren Teh (bass/backup vocals/ producer) and André Chiang (vocals). Their collaboration reflects the strength of the band’s internal chemistry. Teh brings an ear for structure, melody, and production detail, while Chiang channels the emotional intensity of the lyrics through his raw and commanding vocal performance. Together, they have created a piece that is not only musically precise but also thematically powerful, speaking to universal struggles of division, healing, and renewal.
Band Lineup
This release also represents the first single to showcase Shamash’s revitalized lineup since their last record, Done with Misery: Nos Pergamos in Domine Saluteum.
André Chiang – Vocals
Darren Teh – Bass, Backup Vocals & Producer
Steven Thang – Lead Guitar
Puvan Sivanasan – Rhythm Guitar
Alexander Martin – Rhythm Guitar
About the Band:
Shamash was formed with a vision: to create music that is both punishing in its heaviness and honest in its message. Over the years, they have developed a reputation for weaving themes of struggle, redemption, and resilience into a sound that is at once aggressive and melodic. Their previous release, Done with Misery: Nos Pergamos in Domine Saluteum, gained international attention and secured them recognition in underground metal circles for its ambitious scope and emotional resonance.
With a refreshed lineup, renewed energy, and sharpened purpose, Shamash now enters its most ambitious era to date. The release of The Gulf Between Us signals not only their return but also their evolution — proof that the band is ready to step onto a larger stage, reaching audiences both at home and abroad with music that speaks to the core of the human experience.
Accolades & Recognition:
Shamash’s journey has already been marked by critical acclaim and chart success, demonstrating their ability to resonate across audiences and gain recognition within the global heavy music community:
Featured in Metal Hammer / Louder Sound's “The 15 Best New Metal Songs You Need to Hear This Week” (April 2024) for the single Take Me As I Am. Praised for its intensity and unique blend of melodeath energy with rhythmic elements reminiscent of Slipknot and Sepultura, the track was spotlighted as proof of Shamash’s rising international profile.
Reached #1 on the CMW Loud Charts with the single Suffering Servant (January 2021). This achievement underscored the band’s ability to reach beyond borders and connect with listeners through both their heaviness and their message.
Album Done With Misery (Nos Pergamos in Domine Saluteum) ranked #40 in KingdomCore’s Albums of the Year (2024). The annual list recognized Shamash’s unique voice among global heavy music releases, highlighting their growth and ambition.Featured in JesusFreakHideout’s Staff Picks (2024). Selected by editors as one of the year’s standout records, Done With Misery was praised for its intensity, artistry, and emotional depth.
Included in Heaven’s Metal Magazine’s Top 40 Albums of 2024, where Done With Misery landed at #28. This recognition confirmed the band’s growing influence and positioned them as one of the year’s most noteworthy acts in faith-driven heavy music.
Looking Ahead:
With The Gulf Between Us, Shamash takes a bold step forward. The single captures the essence of who they are: a band unafraid to confront heaviness, unafraid to tell the truth, and determined to carve out something meaningful in a noisy world. More than a song, it is a declaration of intent — heavier, sharper, and more purposeful than ever.
And this is only the beginning. With their next full-length album already in development in collaboration with Jedediah Wong and 2105 Productions, Shamash is poised to continue their ascent. Fans can expect more announcements soon, but for now, The Gulf Between Us stands as both a milestone and a promise: Shamash is here to stay, and the best is yet to come.
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NEWS 28.9.2025
Streamen & vorbestellen : https://motorhead.lnk.to/killedbydeafpr
Über Motörhead und ihr Cover von "Ace of Spades" sagt Pennywise-Gitarrist Fletcher Dragge: "Als ich um 1980 zum Punkrock kam, war Motörhead meiner Meinung nach im Grunde die einzige Metal-Band, die Teil der Punkrock-Szene sein durfte. Wenn man jemanden in einer Jeansweste mit dem Motörhead-Aufnäher auf dem Rücken sah, dachte man: 'Das ist ein Metaller, aber er kann mit uns abhängen!' Bei 'Ace of Spades' hörte man das und dachte: 'Das ist kein Metal, das ist Punkrock!'"
Heavy Metal und Punkrock! Man kann mit Fug und Recht behaupten, dass diese beiden lauten Tribes mittlerweile viel gemeinsam haben – oft verschmelzen sie miteinander, sind kaum noch voneinander zu unterscheiden und bringen ihre eigenen Bastard-Nachkommen hervor. Aber das war nicht immer so. Es gab tatsächlich eine Zeit, in der eher mit den Fäusten geprügelt als gegrüßt wurde und Bier eher geworfen als geteilt wurde – außer wenn es um Motörhead ging. Das war die einzige Band, auf die wir uns alle einigen konnten. Die einzige Band, die wirklich uns gehörte!
Auf den vierzehn Tracks dieses Albums mit dem cleveren Titel “Killed By Deaf” hört man eine liebevolle Hommage an Motörhead von einigen der größten und angesehensten Punkrock-Bands. Größen wie Rancid, Pennywise, Lagwagon, GBH, The Bronx und FEAR steuern allesamt raue Versionen ihrer Lieblingssongs von Motörhead bei... und auch aufstrebende Newcomer wie Slaughterhouse sind dabei, denn seien wir ehrlich: Motörhead haben immer die Underdogs geliebt und unterstützt. Der einzige Song auf diesem Album, der nicht von Motörhead stammt, ist eine bisher unveröffentlichte, mitreißende Version des Klassikers "Neat Neat Neat" von The Damned, bei der der großartige Lemmy selbst sowie The Damned mitwirken.
"Killed By Deaf – A Punk Tribute To Motörhead" erscheint am 31. Oktober 2025 als LP, CD und in digitaler Form. Die vollständige Trackliste findet sich unten. Neuigkeiten und Updates gibt es auf www.iMotorhead.com
Tracklist1. Pennywise – Ace Of Spades
2. Rancid – Sex & Death
3. The Bronx – Over The Top
4. Lagwagon – Rock ‘N’ Roll
5. FEAR – The Chase Is Better Than The Catch
6. GBH – Bomber
7. Murphy’s Law – Stay Clean
8. Slaughterhouse – Love Me Like A Reptile
9. The Casualties – The Hammer
10. Anti-Nowhere League – Born To Raise Hell
11. Love Canal – Voices In The Sky
12. Soldiers Of Destruction – Overkill
13. Wisdom In Chains – Iron Fist
14. Motӧrhead & The Damned – Neat, Neat, Neat
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Von
einer aufstrebenden Musikszene und ihren Fans in einem fast rechtsfreien Raum
der Neunzigerjahre HEAVY OST Sie waren aufregend, ganz sicher, die Neunzigerjahre im Osten der Republik. Vielleicht sogar wild, als sich ein alles kontrollierendes Regime infolge einer friedlichen Revolution verabschieden musste, aus der kleinen und etwas muffigen DDR ein Teil eines freien und damals sehr gut gelaunten Deutschlands wurde und sich allerorten Räume boten, Neues zu probieren. Im Fall von Ralf Niemiec eine Leidenschaft, die schon länger ihn und seine Freunde befallen hatte, nun aber auf eine Weise ausgelebt werden konnte und auch sollte, wie das vor 1989 undenkbar gewesen wäre.
Heavy Metal. ´Heavy Ost´, so lautet darum folgerichtig der Titel des soeben im Leipziger I.C.H. Verlag erschienenen Rückblicks des mittlerweile in der Schweiz lebenden Autors Ralf Niemiec, ein Buch, das sehr ausführlich die Szene im Osten Deutschlands, besonders aber im südlichen Sachsen-Anhalt, angrenzend an Thüringen und Sachsen, mit Halle und Leipzig als heruntergewirtschaftete aber aufstrebende Metropolen sowie kulturelle Magnete, dem Geiseltal, hier Fix- und Startpunkt von Gründungen, Konzerten und Tourneen, in allem, was irgendwie aufregend und Metal ist. Denn tatsächlich wird der Autor mit seiner Leidenschaft und den sich bietenden Möglichkeiten, vor allem den Dingen, die einfach im Osten noch nicht da sind, aber von vielen dringend herbeigesehnt werden, mehr und mehr zu einem Unternehmer in Sachen Heavy Metal, zu einem Gründer, Band- und Eventmanager und sogar Reiseveranstalter. Das alles natürlich wenig kommerziell, es geht hier um den Spaß und nicht das Geschäft, mit einigen beachtlichen Erfolgen und vielen auch schmerzhaften Reinfällen, die einfach passieren müssen, wenn die Kenntnisse über die Gesetzmäßigkeiten der Branche nur wenig vorhanden sein können, aber unweigerlich greifen, egal wie jung die Szene ist. Und dennoch passiert Erstaunliches, werden Metal-Feste organisiert und gefeiert, Köpfe geschleudert (Headbanging), Hände zum Metal Gruß erhoben, es wird getanzt und mitgeschrien und vor allem jede Menge Bier getrunken. Wen interessiert es da, ob hinterher die Kasse stimmt? Busse werden gechartert, Freibäder mitten im Sommer besetzt und mit schwitzenden Fans in Leder belagert, die örtliche Bevölkerung oft mehr als nur verunsichert. Konzerte, immer wieder Konzerte, mit Bands die auferstehen und wohl nur Insidern ein Begriff sind.
Hier ein Auszug: „Nach der Umbaupause wird es ebenso hart aber auch lustig und verrückt. Das Motto von Mucky Pup ist «Cant you take a Joke». Musikalisch schlägt die Band in die gleiche Kerbe wie Biohazard, hat aber zusätzlich im Verlauf des Konzerts noch eine Showeinlage zu bieten, mit der niemand gerechnet hat, weil sie völlig neu war. Mit ihrer Mischung aus Punk und Metal wurde nicht nur auf der Bühne für Stimmung gesorgt. Durch ihre Alben A Boy in a Mans World und Can´t you take a Joke waren Mucky Pup gut aufgestellt, feierten zusammen mit uns und lebten ihr Motto vollends aus. Der Sänger ließ sich, und das ist die Showeinlage, auf dem Höhepunkt des Gigs auf einer Matratze liegend einmal über das gesamte Publikum tragen.“ Doch blickt Niemiec hin und wieder auf, aus den Rauchschwaden, Bierlachen, den langen möglichst naturbelassenen Haaren, den Geschichten erzählenden Stickern und den schwarzen Klamotten und zeigt eine sich entwickelnde Szene im Osten der Republik, mit durchaus immer professionelleren Strukturen, aufstrebenden Bands wie Manos oder Morgoth und einer medialen Begleitung durch einen Kult-Sender des Osten, DT 64, mit der Ost-Stimme des Metal, Matthias Hopke, der auch über die Schattenseiten der Kommerzialisierung und die Dominanz des Westens spricht. Doch noch werden die Freiheit der Szene und das Vakuum des Ostens in vollen Zügen genutzt, denn es sind immer die Möglichkeiten, die unmittelbar spürbar sind, und nicht die schleichende Macht der Ordnung und des Geldes, die diese Freiheit immer mehr kommerzialisieren und zuteilen. Immerhin sehr zur Beruhigung der jeweils betroffenen Bevölkerung. So ist auch das Geiseltal wohl schon lange wieder ein sehr friedlicher Ort und die lärmenden Metaller von damals sind vermutlich Großeltern. Großeltern mit aufregenden Geschichten.
´Heavy Ost´ erhalten Sie ab sofort für 21,90 € bei www.bücherfairkaufen.de oder im Buchhandel.
Der Verlag Der I.C.H. Verlag setzt mit Autobiografien und Biografien oder Ratgebern auf ein durch und durch klares und ehrliches Programm. Schnörkellos, aber hilfreich und interessant. Und natürlich bezieht sich das Kürzel I.C.H. auf das was es auf den ersten Blick auch ist, das Ego. Denn das ist nun einmal der wichtigste Teil in einem Verlag, der ausschließlich nichtfiktive Bücher verlegt. Hoffentlich sehr erfolgreich. Und trotzdem entstand dieses Kürzel aus einer englischen Redewendung. Vielleicht ist es auch nur ein einfacher Satz, ein Zitat. Wir wissen es nicht ganz genau. Der lautet wie folgt: Individuality causes humanity.
Einbuch-Verlag/I.C.H. Verlag EINBUCH Buch- und Literaturverlag Leipzig Neichener Str. 19 04668 Grimma OT Nerchau
Tel.: 034382 730274
info@einbuch-verlag.de
www.einbuch-verlag.de
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: december 12th 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse | Psycroptic | Disavowed | Prostitute Disfigurement
In the quietude beneath the city streets, the silence broken only by the slow dripping of polluted water and the chittering voices of the rats, in this forgotten place of filth and stench, they find a strange kind of peace. The screaming is over, the torment is complete, there is only endless sleep for these abused and broken bodies. And if the rats take sustenance from their bruised and lacerated flesh it is a gift they give without resentment. Embracing each other, entwined in cold comfort, they lie forever entombed in sewage…
Twenty five years since their tale of terror began and far too long a time since the release of their last album back in 2006, the demigods of death, legends of the underworld, Lust Of Decay have returned! They carry with them, in their bloodstained, disease riddled hands something bleak and soul destroying, ten new commandments of depravity and tragedy, new incitements to violence and degradation – their long, long awaited fourth full length album – Entombed in Sewage. From the first shocking moments of opening track, ‘Parasitic Exsanguination’, twisted riffs ensnare you and vocals from the other side of death engulf you. Drums deliver absolute oblivion and though the tempos shift the impact is never less than decimating. You can feel the knowledge, experience and dedication to the pursuit of brutality and extremity in every dextrous and deadly note. Featuring current and ex members of Atrocious Abnormality, Cesspool of Vermin, Coathanger Abortion and Shuriken Cadaveric Entwinement in their ranks, Lust Of Decay know more than a thing or two about the desolate arts of death. There are so many great riffs throughout this album and the drumming is simply phenomenal, not just driving the songs forward but playing a vital role in their dynamics and development. While the brutality is unquestionably unrelenting, there is so much going on in songs like the feast of rot and horror that is first single ‘Nourishing The Swine’. The song writing that has created ‘Fetal Contamination Process’ is several steps above most of Lust Of Decay’s genre contemporaries in its fascinating complexity. Every song is a definitive example of brutal death metal at its musically proficient, wickedly imaginative and shocking best – and the three final songs, ‘Order 66’, ‘Desiccate The Epithelium’ and title track ‘Entombed In Sewage’ are simply incredible; a triptych of awesome atmosphere, magnificent destruction and nightmares brought to life. Entombed In Sewage will be gate crashing the end of year lists for the best that brutal death has offered up in 2025.
Mixed and mastered by Tony Tipton (Between The Killings, Necrotic Disgorgement, Reap etc) Entombed In Sewage has a surprisingly bright and vibrant sound that brings every element, every weapon in the Lust Of Decay armoury into play, to tremendous effect. The cover artwork that adorns this malignant offering, created by Daemorph Art (Aborted Fetus, Avulsed, Holycide etc), is a masterpiece of grim despondency – the perfect visual depiction of the overwhelming music that lies within. Irresistible in every sense of the word, Entombed In Sewage will be unleashed upon the world by Comatose Music on December 12th – a knife from the dark into the throat of the festive season.
Line-up:
Jay Barnes – Vocals
Steve Green – Guitars & Backing Vocals
Ryan Coulter – Bass
Jordan Varela – Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/LustOfDecayOfficial
Stream/Purchase:
https://bloodymountainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/guilded-abyss
http://www.bloodymountainrecords.com/
Note: Red-logo version of the album cover on CD only.
Valdur is a distortion guild of the riff; musical merchants of the deep.
Obscure music for mellifluous minds.
The individuals of this abyssal congregation need only the desire to assemble and create the vibrations of aural alchemy for your aural pleasure.
Track
Listing:1. Hailing Molten Meteors
2. Mangled and Rotting (Spiritus Mortuus)
3. Guilded Abyss
4. Doomed Pt.II
5. Drinking from the Chalice of Banishment
6. Stars of Belial
7. Waves of Boiling Water/Molten Meteors Part II (Bonus Track)
Credits:
Recorded at the Bloody Mountain Bunker 2023-2025.
Mixed / mastered by Matthew at Canyon Lodge Studios.
Cover illustration by devilisyourmaster.
Layout by BMR.
Produced by Matthew and BMR.
Dragon logo by: farronloathing.
Old Valdur logo by Valdur.
Nature photos by James Holland.
Line-up:
Vuke - Guitar
William - Bass
Jackson - Vocals
Matthew – Drums
http://www.bloodymountainrecords.com/
https://valdur.bandcamp.com/album/guilded-abyss
Dear
all, CADAVEROUS CONDITION - DESTROYING THE NIGHT SKY
VINYL pre order now!(NURSE WITH WOUND, THIGHPAULSANDRA, ANDREW LILES, COLIN POTTER, NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS, GJÖLL, HOLY McGRAIL, ALI HELNWEIN)
For the first time on vinyl, our collaborative album initially released on CD on Klanggalerie Records.
Release date: 28.11.2025
230 copies; Marbled Black Smoke Vinyl & Inlay.
Exclusive cover & inlay artwork by Steven Stapleton.
Pre order now
EURO 29.- incl. free shipping.
Click here to buy in our webshop: https://www.cadaverouscondition.com/cadaverous-webshop.html?idU=2
Please note that we are currently not able to ship to the USA.
US customers please order directly from our label, THE CIRCLE MUSIC.
Soleilmoon Mailorder may also get copies for the US.
Info about the album:
Many years ago Death Metal band CADAVEROUS CONDITION invited a stellar line up of experimental artists to completely dismember, rearrange and reconstruct songs of their “To The Night Sky” album. The result being “Destroying The Night Sky”, one of the weirdest collaborative albums ever assembled.
Extreme Metal melted and shaped into new ghoulish form. An experimental, surreal nightmare of sounds and outré weirdness originally released on Klanggalerie Records on CD only.
Now for the first time on vinyl (marbled black smoke vinyl) featuring new and exclusive artwork by Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound).
Mastered for vinyl by Michal “Neithan” Kielbasa.
The album starts with a monstrous longtrack by THIGHPAULSANDRA (COIL, HAWKWIND, ex-SPIRITUALIZED, JULIAN COPE etc.) who arranged a plethora of sounds and vocals and weirdness, thematically mixing Cadaverous Condition ideas with his own reminiscences of an old English TV series. GJÖLL from Iceland, featuring REPTILICUS personnel, go bass heavy in their soundscapes. As on the original CC song, this track features vocals by Patrick Leagas (SIXTH COMM). NURSE WITH WOUND feature here with one of the most extreme, heavy and noisy nightmarish reworks, crushing everything. Nurse With Wound members COLIN POTTER and ANDREW LILES (with a track that was not on the CD version, so completely unreleased until now) add their own solo reconstruction works, living up to their reputation as sound innovators. HOLY McGRAIL (SLOMO, JULIAN COPE collaborator) channels some drones from beyond the grave. Legendary sound artists NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS mix up several CC tracks into one intense piece. Bittersweet relief (maybe) comes with a cinematic neo classical version of CC favourite “Destroy Your Life”, done by ALI HELNWEIN, film score and classical music composer, son of Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein.
Cover and Inlay artwork exclusively done for this release by Steven Stapleton.
Tracklist:
SIDE A:
THIGHPAULSANDRA – At The Crossroads Motel 10:13
ANDREW LILES – Blue (To The Distant Grey) 04:06
GJÖLL – Now I See 04:29
COLIN POTTER – Relentless Repentance 03:44
SIDE B:
NURSE WITH WOUND – Nosedive 06:24
HOLY McGRAIL – Death Warmed Up 05:26
NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS – Deconstruction 01 04:28
ALI HELNWEIN – Destroy Your Beautiful Life 03:58
Also available in our webshop and with free shipping, the latest CADAVEROUS CONDITION CD and LP (blue vinyl and splatter vinyl versions) "Never Arrive, Never Return" as well as CD and LP copies of "Burn Brightly Alone" and more stuff.
Free shipping for all items!
https://www.cadaverouscondition.com/cadaverous-webshop.html
Thanks and take care.Cadaverous Condition October 2025
ABSTRACT is the only band that Pařát Productions will release a studio album for this year. The collaboration between the band and Pařát Productions began in 2014 with the album "Lightheory" and continues to this day.
ABSTRACT is a Slovak band that has been playing instrumental metal since 1995 - meaning no vocals.
The album "MONOGRAM" will be released by Pařát Productions on 29.11. 2025 as a digipak with a 16-page booklet. A strictly limited edition collector's box will also be available. Pre-orders, including merchandise, will be available at www.paratshop.cz starting 1.11. On the same day, the first full song and more detailed information about the album will be released.
Style: Instrumental metal
Type: Digipak (500pcs), special collector´s box (100 pcs)
Release date: 29.11. 2025
Pre-orders start: 1.11. 2025
FIRST TEASER FROM NEW ALBUM "Monogram" listen on the Pařát Productions YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUw3PMz-Udw
It's not often that you get a brutal death metal album that is so diverse, invigorating, and also immensely heavy. Finnish band Enragement have somehow managed to pull that off and it's getting everyone to sit up and take notice, even those who aren't normally into this sub-genre.
Inferno Magazine is streaming their album in full along with track-by-track commentary from the band members. You can find it at https://www.inferno.fi/uutiset/tayslaidallinen-kuoloa-ennakkokuuntelussa-enragementin-extinguish-all-existence/
ENRAGEMENT – “EXTINGUISH ALL EXISTENCE”
Genre: Death metal with
brutal, tech death, and black metal touchesFor fans of: Cutterred Flesh, Devourment, Abominable Putridity, Blood Red Throne, Katalepsy, Benighted,
Aborted
Enragement from Finland are playing brutal death metal that's humongously heavy and also incredibly varied. Not too unlike their label mates Cutterred Flesh, they are borrowing elements from associated styles and mixing it all up. The result is an invigorating, powerful expression that ticks all the boxes. Their brutal death metal isn't the kind where you hear one song, you get the gist of the entire album because they're all just variations of the same rigid song type. Enragement in fact take the effort to approach songs differently each time, intermingling stirring melodies with heaving slams and everything in between. They aren't trying to be unnecessarily technical or flashy either; rather they are ensuring that the perfect expression is achieved and emphasis is given where needed, be it for solos or breakdowns. In simple words, this is as well-rounded a brutal death metal album as it can be when it comes to this obscene level of heaviness without the music getting dumbed down. Enragement have struck the right balance here, making their album satisfying, interesting, and also hugely enjoyable.
Line up
Atte Ojanne - Guitar & vocals
Tuomas Iivanainen - Guitar & vocals
Juhana Korkka Heinonen - Bass & vocals
Lasse Sannikka - Drums
Artwork by Daemorph Art (Cephalotripsy, 7 H.Target)
Track listing
1. Vorarephilia
2. Abyssal Hellscapes
3. Pathogenesis
4. Parasitic Ingress
5. Harbingers of Degradation
6. Vesuvius
7. Hypercarnivorous
8. Insectiferous Abomination
9. Natural Mass Asphyxiation
10. Extinguish All Existence
Release date - October 3rd, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/groups/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/Enragement
Thanks a lot for your support everyone!Kunal Choksi (label owner)Transcending Obscurity
PLAGUE PIT – “A WHISPERED CURSE” (EP)
Label: Road To MasochistRelease date: october 3rd 2025
Genre: Necrotic Death
For fans of: Bolt Thrower | Entombed | Deviated Instinct | Abstracter
Tomb walker, waste eater, plague bearer…with your dusty imprecations of evil crawling from your dry and tattered throat. You drag your broken body from your lead-lined nest and fix me with an eyeless stare. Bone fingers reach for my throat as I gaze, mesmerized, into those dirt rimed sockets. I am falling into eternity, into an emptiness unending. And with a determined strength that belies your rotten, ragged frame, your fleshless hands tighten about my throat; but all I see are your dark secrets and all I hear are your whispered curses…
Bristol’s Plague Pit only formed in 2024, but already they are set to unleash their skull-crushing debut EP – the dank and cavernous A Whispered Curse. Their earliest expulsions of noise saw them treading a blackened hardcore path for first demo ‘Give In To Death’, but ferocious live shows alongside the likes of Coffin Mulch and Thou began to lead them into bleaker, bitter and altogether more dangerous territories…which ultimately resulted in the rampaging, harrowing horror of A Whispered Curse. The EP begins with ‘The Seventh Bell’, darkly majestic and rife with dread portent before it breaks out into a feral attack of encrusted death metal fervour. ‘Womb Of Orchids’ follows in a miasma of jarring distortion, rot, rust and devastation, switching between crust punk violence and pounding, monolithic beats before bleeding out into a dark ambient ending – which is shattered in turn by the onslaught of the death driven ‘The Weeping God’. Collapsing pace, measured melancholy, melodic guitar lines and howls of feedback… into the brilliant bass intro of ‘A Whispered Curse’ with its monstrous riffs and graveyard mystery, monolithic stature and cold mist atmosphere. An ending in damp soil and broken teeth, old blood and stained promises. A Whispered Curse is shocking, thrilling, haunting and addictive…an incredible welcome to the dubious pleasures of the Plague Pit.
Plague Pit have joined the ranks of pilgrims on the Road To Masochist and the fast rising label will release A Whispered Curse on 10” transparent red vinyl on October 3rd, with Eggy Tapes providing a cassette alternative, or addition. Stare into the void and sell your soul for a copy of this beast from the black.
Line-up:
W.B. - Vocals
J.H. - Drums
L.E. - Guitar
J.H. - Guitar
W.P. - Bass
https://roadtomasochist.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/plaguepitviolence
The
Finnish death/thrash metal band GATES OPEN released a
new ferocious single 'THE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS'. Listen to 'The Blood On Their Hands' single: https://push.fm/fl/gates-open-the-blood
The band comments:
"The idea for the lyrics for the single "The Blood On Their Hands" came from the Netflix series "The Fall of the House of Usher", which gave us the idea to make a fictional lyrical story about questionable medicine. The story is fiction, but there is certainly questionable medicine in this world, unfortunately."
Biography:
Gates Open is a Finnish blackened death/thrash metal band. Gates Open is a band founded in early 2023 by two men, the band includes Jere Neejärvi, in the role of guitarist/composer, and Tommi Manninen as singer.
The members' united history began already in 2007 during the previous band's time. Our band moved to the distribution of the Inverse Records label in June 2023. The first official single "The Awakening" under Inverse Records was released in June 2023. The second official single "Let The Night Become Your Guide" was released in October 2023. Our third single, by the band name "Gates Open" was released in December 2023. Our full-length debut album "Voice After Silence" was released on February 9th 2024 via Inverse Records. Black Clouds Over The World EP saw the daylight on October 2024.
Line-up:
Tommi Manninen - Vocals
Jere Neejärvi - Guitars, Bass, Drums
https://www.facebook.com/gatesopenband
Thorndale sprang to life in 2021 during the quiet chaos of the post-COVID era, emerging as a fierce and authentic voice.
Composed of seasoned musicians from around the globe, their sound blends groove-driven riffs with raw energy and a timeless heavy metal spirit. Their music channels the grit and depth of blues-inflected metal, enriched by influences ranging from Sabbath to brutal more modern styles.
What sets Thorndale apart is not just their powerful riffs, but the stories behind the music—tales of struggle, resilience, and the darker edges of the human condition.
Their debut “Lightning Spawn” carved out a strong presence, and their follow-up album, “Spiritual Chains,” continues to build on that foundation with rich melodies and evocative themes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTn_6XuEAc0&list=RDXTn_6XuEAc0
https://www.facebook.com/thorndaleofficial
The song is available on all the streaming services.
Pre-order: www.ossuaryrecords.com
CORRUPTION is a legendary Polish stoner metal band with eight (soon nine) full-length albums, one DVD release, and countless live performances under their belt.
The band has played at major festivals including:
Metalmania (1995, 2006)
Węgorzewo
Pol’and’RockFestival (2004, 2016)
Wacken Open Air 2007
Sonisphere Festival 2011
Cieszanów Rock Festival 2017
Przystanek Żory 2017
They have shared the stage with international giants such as:
Deep Purple, The Cult, Behemoth, Soulfly, Motörhead, Iron Maiden, Mastodon, Killing Joke, Volbeat, Down, Red Fang, Pentagram, Orange Goblin, Phil Anselmo & The Illegals, Nashville Pussy, and many more.
In 2011, the album “Bourbon River Bank” was nominated for a Fryderyk Award (Poland’s most prestigious music industry award) in the category Metal Album of the Year.
CORRUPTION has worked with labels such as Metal Mind Productions (4 albums) and Mystic Production (1 album). Their single “Born to be Zakk Wylde” was promoted by Zakk Wylde himself and featured on Black Label Society’s official page.
On October 24, 2024, vocalist Rafał “Rufus” Trela returned to the band. That same day, the new single “To Hell’n’Back” was released – a preview of the upcoming ninth studio album, set for release in 3th of October 2025 via Ossuary Records!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYt-5m_ki_s
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialCorruption
ALKHEMIA
enters
covenant with Non Serviam Records – New full-length descends spring 2026 .Total Darkness Promotions is proud to announce that the visionary act Alkhemia has officially signed a deal with Non Serviam Records.
This marks the beginning of an ambitious new chapter for the band, joining a roster of uncompromising artists. Their highly anticipated next full-length album is set for release in the spring of 2026, promising an intense and powerful addition to their dark discography. With Alkhemia’s unique sound and profound vision, this partnership is primed to leave a lasting mark on the scene.
Alkhemia commented on the monumental alliance:
"We are proud to announce our alliance with Non Serviam Records. This collaboration represents the opportunity to work with a partner who shares our vision of Black Metal: a dark, uncompromising, and evocative art form. Through this covenant, we are more determined than ever to carry our music and our universe to a wider audience. For us, Alkhemia has always been more than music: it is the reflection of a decaying world and the voice of those who refuse conformity. We are honored to unveil our next chapter with NSR, where we have found the altar upon which to lay this vision."
Non Serviam Records expressed their enthusiasm for the new signing:
"We are delighted to welcome Alkhemia to our roster. The band has already made a strong impression with their debut, Abraxas. Their unique blend of furious modern black metal, atmospheric depth, and profound themes immediately resonated with us. We are truly proud that Alkhemia has chosen to join our label, and we look forward to unveiling the powerful next chapter of their journey together."
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Since its release, “INEVITABLE DEATH” has been EVOCATUS steadily making the rounds, and we truly believe it still deserves your ears. If you haven’t had a chance to dive in yet, we’d love for you to give it a spin — and we’re absolutely open to setting up a review or interview if it sparks your interest. Emerging from the scorched battlefields of New South Wales with a bloodstained banner of thrash, death, folk, and symphonic might, Evocatus wield melody and brutality in equal measure. Their latest sonic campaign, Inevitable Death, marks a monumental leap forward—expanding on the saga outlined in 2020’s Path to Tartarus with an epic, war-scarred offering of blistering riffs, sweeping orchestration, and lyrical odes to fate, myth, and warfare.
Produced once again by Ryan Huthnance at Emissary Studios, Inevitable Death captures the sharpened edge of the band’s evolving sound. Fans of Kreator, Amon Amarth, and Machine Head will find familiar fire here, but with an identity that is unmistakably Evocatus—tight, towering, and unapologetically intense.
Tracklist1. Into Everlasting Night
2. Serpent of Chaos
3. The River Styx
4. ...and Die in my Name
5. In Graves Unknown
6. For Death and Glory
7. Devoted to Inevitable Death
8. The Sirens Call
9. To Live by the Sword
10. A Fate Worse than Death
With Inevitable Death, EVOCATUS don’t just sharpen their swords—they raise them high.
EVOCATUS are:
Nich Shields – Vocals
Vaughan Jones – Guitars
Callan Douchkov – Guitars
Brad Delforce – Bass
Adam Watts – Drums
www.youtube.com/@evocatusbandofficial
https://www.facebook.com/EvocatusBand
ACRANIUS brand-new single “SWORN TO REPAY”, which will be released on October 3rd, 2025. ACRANIUS have built a solid reputation over the years as one of the leading names in the international Deathcore/Slam scene, touring extensively across Europe and overseas and constantly pushing the boundaries of extreme music.
With “Sworn to Repay”, the band unleashes one of their heaviest and most uncompromising tracks to date: brutal breakdowns, relentless slam parts, guttural vocals, blasting drums and downtuned guitars, all captured in a high-quality music video directed by Daniel Prieß. This track also marks the first official single featuring Marcus Jasak as the band’s sole vocalist, adding even more intensity to the sound.
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EL MUERTO, the Netherlands' one-man Black/Death Metal project, has released a music video for "WOLVES OF DEN HAAG," the second single from forthcoming debut EP, LOST AND AMSTERDAMNED!
FFO: Opeth, Immortal, Emperor, Mgla, Death
"Wolves of Den Haag" was inspired by the real-life cannibalistic murder of Dutch statesman Johan de Witt in 1672.
Check out the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEF6srPxcEY
The song is also available on https://elmuerto2.bandcamp.com/track/wolves-of-den-haag
El Muerto was born in the depths of personal crisis, a raw and unflinching document of depression, trauma, and the desire to disappear. Conceived as a final message from an artist who had lost the will to live, each track captures a chapter of that darkness. But this record is no longer a goodbye. It’s proof that even in the shadows, something can still survive.
El Muerto is the alter ego of a multi-instrumentalist whose journey spans continents, from the underground metal scene of Mexico (Sekhmet) to experimental projects in Australia (Conscious Comma), now anchored in the Dutch landscape. With Lost and Amsterdamned, he delivers a fiercely collaborative black/death metal EP shaped by the frostbitten influence of Immortal, the grim atmosphere of Darkthrone and Mgła, and the progressive shadows of Opeth and Emperor.
Driven by guitar-forward compositions and visceral vocals, the record balances old-school extremity with cinematic vision. Each track is both a personal exorcism and a descent into archetypal horror, as described by below by El Muerto.
"Enthroned in the Tower of Shadows (The Witch)" – A theatrical black metal tale of the witch-queen reigning from a tower of obsidian. Ritualistic, grand, and venomously lyrical, it reads like folklore soaked in blood and fire. Betrayal, treason and lies.
"Ghosts of Torment" – An inner war against unseen forces. This track is a descent into madness where haunting spirits represent trauma, anxiety, and mental illness. Dissonant and despairing, it’s a song about being torn from within—and haunted from without.
"Lich King" – A blighted anthem of death’s dominion. With imagery of skeletal monarchs and ruined worlds, it’s a march into the void, full of oppressive riffing and funereal dread.
"A Song for Ran" – A melancholic invocation of the Norse sea goddess, casting despair into the sea’s cold embrace. Melodic and mournful, it drifts between surrender and transcendence beneath crashing waves and whispered death. Where the final rest in the most peaceful as well.
"Blood Crypt" – The EP’s most venomous moment: a burial rite soaked in bile and loathing. A brutal poem of closure through decay, it turns memory into rot, laying ghosts to rest in a cathedral of scorn.
"Wolves of Den Haag" – Inspired by the real-life cannibalistic murder of Dutch statesman Johan de Witt in 1672, this track uses historical horror to reflect modern betrayal and societal rage. Gnarled riffs and spectral tension echo through The Hague’s ghost-soaked streets.
Each song speaks in the language of metal, but beneath the corpse paint and distortion lies something deeply human—anguish, defiance, and ultimately, release.
Each of these songs reflects personal trauma through the lens of myth, horror, and metal’s harshest language turning lived experience into sonic ritual. Lost and Amsterdamned no longer marks an ending. It is a violent testament of survival, memory, and transformation. A cathartic howl from the pit—and the sound of someone crawling out of it.
The album's rhythm section features guest musicians from international metal acts, such as downunder's Norse and Europe's Adarrak.
Mixed by the legendary Tomas Skogsberg of Sunlight Studios in Sweden and mastered by Ricardo Botello. Recorded in studios across the Netherlands.
Lost and Amsterdamned is set for release on November 21!.
Pre-order:
https://elmuerto2.bandcamp.com/album/lost-and-amsterdamnedTrack Listing:
1. Enthroned in the Tower of Shadows (The Witch)
2. Ghosts of Torment
3. Lich King
4. A Song for Ran
5. Blood Crypt
6. Wolves of Den Haag
Credits:
Produced by Ricardo Botello
Mixed by Tomas Skogsberg in Sunlight Studios, Stockholm, Sweden.
Mastered by Stefan Brown from Abbey Road Studios.
All artwork created by Francisco Torres Beltrán .
Line-up:
Ricardo Botello - Guitars, Vocals, Piano
Zigor Munoz - Bass (except "Ghosts of Torment")
Tommaso Tani - Bass on "Ghosts of Torment"
Robin Stone - Drums
Bio:
El Muerto is the alter ego of a multi-instrumentalist, Ricardo Botello, who has made the Dutch landscape his creative home for the past years. His musical journey spans continents, from his work with the Mexican project Sekhmet to time spent with Australia’s Conscious Comma.
Now unveiling his debut EP, Lost in Amsterdamned, El Muerto presents a collaborative effort that features a dynamic cast of guest musicians.
https://elmuerto2.bandcamp.com/album/lost-and-amsterdamned
DISTORTA
– “DEADMAN”Following their 2024 debut Devil in the Dust, Deadman is the sound of a band hitting its stride—fusing thrash, groove, death, and power metal into an explosive signature style. Massive riffs, pounding rhythms, and anthemic choruses you can shout ‘til your lungs give out—this is DISTORTA.
The EP was entirely recorded, mixed, and mastered by the band themselves, and shows a marked evolution in sound and precision.
Tracklist
1. When the War Is Over
2. The Reaper
3. Deadman
4. Longway
5. Deafening Sins
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www.facebook.com/distorta
PUTREVORE – “UNENDING ROTTING CYCLE”
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease date: november 11th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Incantation | Immolation | Avulsed | Grisly
We walk upon a road of mouldering bones, empty sockets staring up in silent reproach at our trespass. And then, with a last backward glance at the fading daylight, we step into the maw of death…descending into a darkness beyond black, the lightless catacombs of dying where life has no place and angels fear to tread. Here the gods have many eyes and many serpentine limbs. Here the dead converse in crackling whispers as their flesh sloughs from their bent and twisted frames. Here the aeons pass in unending rotting cycles…
Putrevore…a shared dream between two icons of death, a nascent idea hatched between Dave Rotten (Avulsed, Holycide etc) and Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader and a thousand more) to pay tribute to the hardest, heaviest and most brutal of the death metal pioneers of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, more than twenty years ago. Yet still the beast clings to life with a vicious tenacity and a fifth full length album of impossible horrors is about to be unleashed – Unending Rotting Cycle!
Attacking with a terrifying immediacy, ‘No Mourning The Grace’ reveals Dave Rotten’s vocals at their most tomb-trawling, deeper and more inhuman than ever before, while Rogga Johansson’s inexhaustible supply of superlative death metal riffs remains undiminished. An inherent sense of dark melody is always present behind the song’s wall of terror, spreading tendrils of utter desolation through its rotting cadaver. There’s an incredible murky darkness shrouding this album as a whole, the vocals clawing their way up through the thick, oppressive riffs, while the drums deliver a crisp, bone shaking thunder within the vortex of chaos. On tracks like the magnificent, rumbling, infernal majesty of ‘Subterranean Paths To The Temples’, the fear infused atmosphere is simply awesome. There is no let up in the nightmarish aura – once Putrevore have sunk their cracked, decaying teeth into your flesh they do not let go. From the stumbling zombie death march of ‘They Worship Disarray’, led by Rotten’s flesh melting vocals, to the paean to horrors from beyond the boundaries of sanity that is ‘Cult Of The Tentacle’, Unending Rotting Cycle is a testament to the fact that the blood in Putrevore’s collective veins runs black with the essence of death metal. The final act of desecration, ‘The Cradle Replaced By The Grave’, is haunting and morose as it grinds you into the dust, extinguishing the last flickering embers of life and hope.
Mixed and mastered by Avulsed guitarist, Alejandro Lobo, at his Acordica Studios and featuring the cataclysmic drumming of regular Rogga Johansson co-conspirator Thomas Ohlsson (Stass, War Magic etc), Unending Rotting Cycle is without question the most relentless, ravenous and remorseless example of Putrevore’s death metal war machine. It will be released by Xtreem Music on November 11th on CD, 12"LP Cassette & Digital formats, completed by the stunning artwork of Lucretia Morti (Avulsed, Ribspreader etc). Bleak, black and bestial, Putrevore remain the undead embodiment of an old phrase from the age that inspired them – some music was meant to stay underground.
Line-up:
Dave Rotten – Vocals
Rogga Johansson – Guitars/Bass
Drums on Unending Rotting Cycle performed by Thomas Ohlsson
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
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Australian darkwave/industrial black metal act IRREPARABLE have unveiled their new single, “FOREVER REMAIN”. It is a powerful and intense piece from their upcoming debut album, “THE FATE OF ALL LIFE”, and features a guest appearance by acclaimed violinist Hayley Anderson (Aquilus, Suldusk).
Watch the music video: https://metaladdicts.com/irreparable-unleash-forever-remain-feat-hayley-anderson-aquilus-suldusk/
The band commented: "When Death finally frees you from the pain of suffering, what worse Hell to awake to than a rebirth into the same cycle? This is the idea behind the content of 'Forever Remain’. A track that well defines the concept of the new album ‘The Fate Of All Life’. One of the last tracks written for the album, it is particularly intense and features an outro of an incredibly mournful violin section that was written and performed by Hayley Anderson from Aquilus and Suldusk. The video was filmed in Lithuania by an amazing team that truly brought to life (and death) the vision.”
The new single is also now available to listen to via all major streaming services.
“Forever Remain” follows the release of the single “Failure to Thrive” and is the second single from the band’s upcoming debut album set for release on 17 October via These Hands Melt.
“The Fate Of All Life” sees the band weave together industrial black metal, goth and darkwave to create a sound that is both haunting and cathartic. The album is a monument to the reality of the human condition, exploring themes of cyclical suffering and death. IRREPARABLE has expertly laid the foundations of a personal apocalypse, which is reflected in their poignant quote: “We rise to the sky from the sea, only to come pouring down”.
The new album will be available as a limited edition CD Digipack and a limited Vinyl LP (150 copies) in red transparent, as well as on all major digital platforms.
Pre-order here: https://irreparable2019.bandcamp.com/album/the-fate-of-all-life
The band will celebrate the release of “The Fate Of All Life” at The Leadbeater, Richmond, VIC (Australia) with Burden Man, The Nihilistic Front and Nighteyes on November 29th.
IRREPARABLE are:
D.B. - Guitar, Electronics
N.M. - Vocals
M.B. - Bass
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VALLETTA unleashes pure fury on their second EP, "Bitter Lucid Truth", out this October via Germany’s LIFEFORCE RECORDS. Fueled by raw anger toward today’s political climate, the Raleigh, NC quartet transforms venom into powerful, melodic outbursts that are both soaring and scathing.
Written and recorded in early 2025, the "Bitter Lucid Truth" EP was tracked by Al Jacob (He Is Legend, Wailin Storms) at Warrior Sound with input from Inter Arma’s TJ Childers, and mastered by Matt Tuttle (Codeseven). It’s a lean, explosive statement and a bold step forward from a lineup whose pedigree includes Lord Almighty, Mo’ynoq, Prayer For Cleansing and Between the Buried And Me.
VALLETTA hits the road in the U.S. this August and October 2025, with a European tour and re-release of "Summer" slated for 2026.
https://vallettalfr.bandcamp.com/album/bitter-lucid-truth
Finnish
one-man black metal band VALONTUOJA is set to unleash
the second album 'TULESTA SYNTYNYT' on November 14th 2025
via Inverse Records. The second single 'VÄLIKAPPALE' is unleashed
today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/valontuoja-valikappaleThe man behind Valontuoja, Jal'zoroth comments the single:
"In the heart of the forest, where the wind speaks only in whispers and the stars vanish from the sky, a predator moves unseen."Välikappale" is a raw invocation of the hunter spirit a vessel of death, a servant of bloodthirsty gods, cloaked in silence and shadow.
The wolves howl. The earth drinks. Fate is written in blood."
Tulesta syntynyt CD PRE-ORDER available https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/
Listen to the first single here: https://push.fm/fl/valontuoja-ympyra
Biography:
Valontuoja, meaning "Bringer of Light" in Finnish, is the one-man black metal entity forged in the icy depths of Helsinki by the Jal'zoroth. Formed in 2024, Valontuoja channels the primordial essence of black metal, weaving a sonic tapestry that is both ferocious and hauntingly melodic. Valontuoja's soundscape is a maelstrom of raw, unyielding black metal fused with ethereal and melodic elements. Valontuoja conjures an atmosphere that is as brutal as it is beautiful, guiding listeners through the desolate realms of human despair and nature's unforgiving majesty
Track list:
1. Palaneiden Kasvojen Maa
2. Ympyrä Joka Syö Itseään
3. Kameleontti
4. Aurinkoroihun Kirous
5. Välikappale
6. Asiat Jotka On Tähtiin Kirjoitettu
7. Sinä Vastaat Teoistasi
8. Korvessa On Kotini
9. Kun Kaikki Muu Vaikenee
Album cover by Vhan Artwork
Line-up:
Jal'zoroth - vocals, guitars, bass & drums
https://valontuoja.bandcamp.com
For
over fifteen years Spain's recluse visual master, composer and death fetishist
Noir Noir has dredged the most forlorn depths of death industrial, dark wave,
and raw black metal to uncover an auditory death ritual of unprecedented
wretchedness and magnificence. The project's two crowning achievements - 2016's
mini album "Black Curtain" (originally released on cassette
by Fallow Field), and 2022's "Divine Swelling" (originally
released by Hedonic Reversal as side one of the split cassette with Vesakh), now
finally see their righteous enshrinement, remastered (courtesy of
death-industrial master Grant Richardson) and released for the first time ever
on vinyl and CD formats (and reissued on cassette) as due solemnization to one
of underground industrial's most defiant, enigmatic, and transformative
entities.While the band's sparse but enduring output has touched upon various digressions in the realms of dark ambient, noise and power electronics, these two releases in particular are the ones which showcase the band's most coherent, focused, and visionary output, being the foremost two releases in Noir Noir's discography which most define and consecrate the project's monumental morbid triumph. By far the band's two most pervasive and straightforward releases, "Black Curtain" and "Divine Swelling" unfold a prodigious death-scarred voidscape of oppressive ritualistic rhythms, glacial sequences and tortured proclamations that condemn the listener to an all-consuming auditory punishment. Obviously influenced by, or convergently evolved from, the darkened explorations of acts like Brighter Death Now, Lurker of Chalice, Mütilation, Trepaneringsritualen, Skinny Puppy, Throbbing Gristle and Dead Can Dance, these crowning forty minutes of Noir Noir's discography represent an inestimable underground hidden jewel of perverse and grandiose nekro-industrial that are a must for any enthusiast of hermetic and cult-like auditory divergences into the depths of occultism, ritualism and sadism.
"Black Curtain / Divine Swelling" is streaming in full and pre-orderable now via all our channels along with an exclusive offering of brand new on-demand merch, and an official street date set for October 17 2025 on LP, CD, MC and digital formats worldwide.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/noir-noir-black-curtain-/-divine-swelling
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/noir-noir
OLESIN joins Devoted
Art Propaganda with the release of their self-titled demo. It's set for a
31 October 2025 as a cassette. To mark the announcement, the band has premiered
an advance track from the release, now available to stream on their Bandcamp
page and YouTube.Olesin is a forest in eastern Poland, a place of ruined palaces with lions, libations, fights, suicides, drownings, mysterious candles, and the birthplace of figures who changed the course of history. A place of hunting returns. Just like home. Their music is a raw, chaotic and Bergmansk form of black metal, channeling the turbulent and haunted essence of their origins.
To hear the advance track and for more information, visit the band's Bandcamp page: https://olesin.bandcamp.com/ or YouTube: https://youtu.be/7MgnMkjHoXI
Tracklist:
1. I
2. II
3. III
https://d-a-p.org/
https://olesin.bandcamp.com/
ARGESK – “MOONLIGHT PYROMANCY”
Label: Matriarch RecordsRelease date: october 17th 2025
Genre: Melodic Black Metal
For fans of: Cradle Of Filth | Hecate Enthroned | Naglfar | Ancient
Summoned through the gate of fire, drawn from the flames into the night, she wanders the darkness – a flickering shade of memory and loss. Her heart held forever in a glacial frost she hungers for the fleeting warmth of lifeblood, freely given in enraptured lust or taken by strength and spell, as needs must. And with every passing age her desperate need grows, to tear the pitiless, despoiling sun from the heavens, to dwell for endless aeons in star dusted night and deep twilight shadow, to drift for eternity upon cold, dark winds; a deathless beauty invoked by moonlight pyromancy…
Moonlight Pyromancy is the second album from the British black metal force Argesk and the band have progressed at a phenomenal rate since their Realm Of Eternal Night debut. This album possesses everything that made its predecessor such an exciting first statement; but better, richer, fuller and so much more accomplished. Beginning with ‘Invocation’, a short but effective instrumental piece that acts as a gateway to the gloaming country of Moonlight Pyromancy, Argesk proceed to enfold us in dark wings of nocturnal ambience. A newfound mastery of melody comes to the fore in ‘Accursed Victory’ as the emotive guitar work draws you deeper and deeper into this epic of tragedy and drama, while ‘Black Castle Waltz’ is a regal dance of vampiric splendour with a sense of world building – as if Argesk are constructing their own mythology through the complex interweaving of each instrument. At the heart of the album lies ‘Wreathing Serpent’, a formidable song that builds slowly before exploding like a shower of stars across the night sky and this track highlights the perfect balance of the Argesk sound; despite the beguiling melodies and lush layers of atmosphere they never allow sweetness to overpower the bitter hemlock of their black metal draught. Everything is steeped in devastation and gothic magic, bloodlust and damnation. The triumphant chords of the title track close the album with an air of dark celebration, before a reprise of ‘Black Castle Waltz’, complete with guest vocals from Dean Seddon, the man who supplied the banshee screams for Hecate Enthroned’s Kings Of Chaos and Redimus albums. Moonlight Pyromancy is infused with black sorcery and whispered promises, a true work of the very darkest art.
Superbly recorded and mixed by Chris Taylor at Noiseboy Studios (Burial, Steel Mage, Beyond Salvation etc) and immaculately mastered by Chris Fielding (Electric Wizard, Fen, Winterfylleth etc) every layer of Moonlight Symphony’s textured compositions can be fully appreciated, as each instrument is given room to breathe – and the outstanding artwork of Aghy Purakusuma (Pure Wrath, Morwinyon, Firienholt etc) sets the final seal of quality upon this outstanding album. Now bonded in blood and fire with Matriarch Records, Argesk will unlock the door to Moonlight Pyromancy on October 17th. Open your hearts to the darkness…
Line-up:
Matt IH - Guitar and harsh vocals
Roscoe - Bass and acoustic guitar
Leth - Synths, clean vocals and mandolin
Bob - Drums
Aidan - Guitar
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Innovative
female-fronted symphonic/prog metal band THE WAVE AND THE PARTICLE
have just released the official video for “ELECTRIC SHEEP,” the
title track from their latest album. Watch the video and stream the album now!With its mix of cinematic synth layers, symphonic textures, and heavy guitars, “Electric Sheep” captures The Wave and the Particle’s signature fusion of industrial rock, symphonic metal, and progressive rock. The song explores the pull of collective thinking in the digital age and the loss of individuality in the face of ideological conformity. The video tells this story through the journey of a painter in a black-and-white world who, drawn into a powerful movement, loses his sense of self and becomes one with the faceless crowd.
Stream the "Electric Sheep" album here: https://orcd.co/electricsheep
Previous videos from the album:
https://youtu.be/_aQZ6_T4HQw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNJGK4V76PY
https://youtu.be/AEP_PUflV-U
About The Wave and the Particle:
Founded in 2015, The Wave and the Particle fuses symphonic metal, industrial, and progressive rock. Their music blends soaring vocals, layered synths, and intricate guitars. Electric Sheep showcases their signature genre-bending style and cyberpunk-inspired themes of technology, identity, and the future
Line up:
Abhiram - Drums
Alessandro Castelli - Bass
Chandra Garud - Guitar
Katharina Huang - Vocals
Vasiliy Sharikov - Keys, Synths, Programming
www.facebook.com/the.wave.and.the.particle
Heavy rock all-stars ALPHA DESTROYER - featuring Martin Sweet (Crashdïet), Kelly LeMieux (Buckcherry), and Eric Sexton-Dorsett (Sleepless) have released the newest single from their forthcoming debut album, FASTLANE.
"Masterplan" marks the fourth single off this 10-track offering of high-octane rock, and the last before fans get to hear this rager in its entirety.
Watch the video for "Masterplan" at https://youtu.be/nx26wkcRkeI
Fast Lane is due out this fall on Necromantic Press Records. Physical copies of Fast Lane, including limited-edition red splatter and standard black vinyl, will begin shipping in October. The album will be available on all streaming platforms on October 31. Pre-orders are available
at https://necromanticpress.com/products/alpha-destroyer-fast-lane-vinyl-lp-limited-edition
Tracklisting:1 - Straight into the Grind
2 - Masterplan
3 - Dirt in the Ground
4 - Lobotomized
5 - Transmission
6 - Fast Lane
7 - Sweet Dreams From Oblivion
8 - Manic Messiah
9 - Conspiracy
10 - The Prophet
“This Isn’t a Band. It’s a Warning.”
Alpha Destroyer was born in 2022, shortly after trad/thrash metal band Sleepless released its debut LP. Looking for a new creative outlet, Sleepless guitarist Eric Sexton-Dorsett began writing a series of dissonant, groove-heavy tracks—something that channeled the high-powered spirit of bands like Def Leppard while drawing on the chaos of Voivod and Morbid Angel.
After tracking initial guitar parts, Eric brought in drummer Ryan McPhaill to lay down drum tracks. The results exceeded expectations—every take locked in with the raw energy and precision the project demanded.
With a solid foundation in place, Eric filed the songs under the name Alpha Destroyer and started mapping out the next phase.
Soon after, on the Monsters of Rock Cruise, Eric met bassist Kelly LeMieux (Goldfinger, Buckcherry) through mutual friend Kevin Hahn—vocalist/lead guitarist for Sleepless and now a guitarist for Alpha Destroyer. Late-night conversations on the cruise led to a strong creative connection. Back in Portland, Kelly heard the early tracks and immediately added his signature, larger-than-life basslines. The songs—now three deep—began to take shape.
In 2024, another key moment happened on the same cruise. Eric met Martin Sweet (Crashdïet), a longtime influence. After staying in touch, Eric sent him the developing tracks—initially just to contribute guitar—but Martin offered something more: vocals. His performance on the first completed track, “Straight into the Grind,” helped define the band’s sound and opened the door to a deeper collaboration. What was meant to be a four-song EP quickly expanded as the ideas flowed naturally.
The result is Fast Lane—a 10-track debut album that rides the line between doom-laced introspection and high-octane rock. The title track and first single, “Fast Lane,” kicks things off with a punk-edged urgency and Martin’s heavy yet melodic take on personal struggle.
With new music already in the works and plans for live dates in 2026, Alpha Destroyer is just getting started.
THE STORM IS BUILDING. ALPHA DESTROYER IS COMING.
ALPHA DESTROYER is:
Eric Sexton-Dorsett
Martin Sweet
Kelly Lemieux
Ryan McPhaill
Kevin Hahn
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Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease date: 03 october 2025
Shamash is set to release their commanding new single, The Gulf Between Us, on September 3, 2025 across all major streaming platforms via Rottweiler Records.
The track represents a defining moment for the band — one that balances the punishing aggression of heavy music with a melodic core that feels both intimate and universal. At its heart, The Gulf Between Us is a song about distance, conflict, and redemption. It paints the picture of standing at the edge of separation, staring into silence and despair, but refusing to remain there. Instead, the song charts the difficult but necessary journey of moving forward, of closing the divide, and of finding healing and hope on the other side.
For Shamash, this release is more than just another single — it is a milestone. It marks the beginning of a new chapter for the band, one in which every note and every lyric carries the weight of their evolution. The Gulf Between Us is heavier, sharper, and more dynamic than anything they’ve done before, offering listeners an unflinching glimpse into the band’s creative rebirth.
Production Notes:
The single was engineered by award-winning engineer JD Wong of 21:05 Productions, also recognized as the guitarist for Malaysian rock icons Pop Shuvit. His technical precision and creative touch bring both depth and impact to the recording.
Production was led by Darren Teh, Shamash’s bassist, backup vocalist, and producer. In addition to his work with Shamash, Teh is also known as the vocalist and guitarist for award-winning pop-punk band An Honest Mistake. His role within Shamash goes beyond performance — he shapes the band’s sound from within, ensuring that the music reflects their shared vision with clarity, intensity, and authenticity.
Looking ahead, Shamash is excited to confirm that they will continue their work with JD Wong and 21:05 Productions on their next full-length album, with more details to follow in the coming months.
Songwriting Credits:
The Gulf Between Us was written by Shamash members Darren Teh (bass/backup vocals/ producer) and André Chiang (vocals). Their collaboration reflects the strength of the band’s internal chemistry. Teh brings an ear for structure, melody, and production detail, while Chiang channels the emotional intensity of the lyrics through his raw and commanding vocal performance. Together, they have created a piece that is not only musically precise but also thematically powerful, speaking to universal struggles of division, healing, and renewal.
Band Lineup
This release also represents the first single to showcase Shamash’s revitalized lineup since their last record, Done with Misery: Nos Pergamos in Domine Saluteum.
André Chiang – Vocals
Darren Teh – Bass, Backup Vocals & Producer
Steven Thang – Lead Guitar
Puvan Sivanasan – Rhythm Guitar
Alexander Martin – Rhythm Guitar
About the Band:
Shamash was formed with a vision: to create music that is both punishing in its heaviness and honest in its message. Over the years, they have developed a reputation for weaving themes of struggle, redemption, and resilience into a sound that is at once aggressive and melodic. Their previous release, Done with Misery: Nos Pergamos in Domine Saluteum, gained international attention and secured them recognition in underground metal circles for its ambitious scope and emotional resonance.
With a refreshed lineup, renewed energy, and sharpened purpose, Shamash now enters its most ambitious era to date. The release of The Gulf Between Us signals not only their return but also their evolution — proof that the band is ready to step onto a larger stage, reaching audiences both at home and abroad with music that speaks to the core of the human experience.
Accolades & Recognition:
Shamash’s journey has already been marked by critical acclaim and chart success, demonstrating their ability to resonate across audiences and gain recognition within the global heavy music community:
Featured in Metal Hammer / Louder Sound's “The 15 Best New Metal Songs You Need to Hear This Week” (April 2024) for the single Take Me As I Am. Praised for its intensity and unique blend of melodeath energy with rhythmic elements reminiscent of Slipknot and Sepultura, the track was spotlighted as proof of Shamash’s rising international profile.
Reached #1 on the CMW Loud Charts with the single Suffering Servant (January 2021). This achievement underscored the band’s ability to reach beyond borders and connect with listeners through both their heaviness and their message.
Album Done With Misery (Nos Pergamos in Domine Saluteum) ranked #40 in KingdomCore’s Albums of the Year (2024). The annual list recognized Shamash’s unique voice among global heavy music releases, highlighting their growth and ambition.Featured in JesusFreakHideout’s Staff Picks (2024). Selected by editors as one of the year’s standout records, Done With Misery was praised for its intensity, artistry, and emotional depth.
Included in Heaven’s Metal Magazine’s Top 40 Albums of 2024, where Done With Misery landed at #28. This recognition confirmed the band’s growing influence and positioned them as one of the year’s most noteworthy acts in faith-driven heavy music.
Looking Ahead:
With The Gulf Between Us, Shamash takes a bold step forward. The single captures the essence of who they are: a band unafraid to confront heaviness, unafraid to tell the truth, and determined to carve out something meaningful in a noisy world. More than a song, it is a declaration of intent — heavier, sharper, and more purposeful than ever.
And this is only the beginning. With their next full-length album already in development in collaboration with Jedediah Wong and 2105 Productions, Shamash is poised to continue their ascent. Fans can expect more announcements soon, but for now, The Gulf Between Us stands as both a milestone and a promise: Shamash is here to stay, and the best is yet to come.
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Aber diese Woche hat man dann endlich wieder Zeit gefunden, um sich mal wieder nen bissel was an leckerem unbekanntem Metalstoff einzuverleiben und seine „geistigen Ergüsse"aufs Papier zu bringen.
NECROMASS DESECRATION – “TUMBA / BLACK VOMIT 666 / HELLROT” ((LIVE SPLIT DVD)
MASTER OF CRUELTY - " MONUMENT OF THE FORSAKEN"(TAPE) HAMMER
HELLAVENGER – „ THE PRIMORDIAL FIRE“ (LP)
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„AURA DER DUNKELHEIT“ ist die
zweite Single Veröffentlichung aus XIV DARK CENTURIES’ kommendem
Werk „AUS URALTER ZEIT“. Während „Unendlichkeit“ noch tief im
Geist des Black Metal verwurzelt war, entfaltet sich hier ein anderer Pfad: Es
ertönt ein gewaltiges Werk welches am ehesten im Melodic Death Metal beheimatet
ist, durchsetzt von gelegentlichen Einflüssen des Power Metal. Die Band beweist
erneut ihre Kunst, über die engen Schranken der Genres hinauszuschreiten und
verschiedene Strömungen zu einem eigenständigen Klangbild zu verweben. Das Lied
pulsiert mit treibender Rhythmik, getragen von hymnischer Melodik, und offenbart
eine erhabene Klangweite, die zugleich wild und majestätisch wirkt. Auch
lyrisch setzen die Musiker ihre Reise ins Unbekannte gekonnt fort – hinaus ins
Unergründliche, in jene Sphären, die jenseits des Menschlichen liegen. Erzählt
wird die Geschichte einer uralten Wesenheit, älter als die Erde selbst, ein
Mysterium aus den Zeiten vor der Zeit, das nun aus finstrer Aura wieder
hervorstrebt.Der Song „Unendlichkeit“ erscheint auf allen gängigen Streaming Portalen und auf der Bandcamp Seite der Band am Donnerstag dem 02.10.2025. Dazu wird am selben Tag um 19 Uhr ein entsprechendes Lyrik Video auf youtube veröffentlicht. https://youtu.be/d5QN7XYHMqE
Tracklist :
01 Aus den Nebeln der...
02 Unendlichkeit
03 Aura der Dunkelheit
04 Rachelust der Ewigkeit
05 Das Portal
06 Aus eiskaltem Nebel
07 Wo Flüche leis' geflüstert
08 In kalten Hallen
09 Was ewig liegt
10 Nahab
Das zugehörige neue Album „Aus uralter Zeit“ wird als Digi-Pack-CD, LP und als Download am 05.12.2025 veröffentlicht. Außerdem wird eine limitierte Auflage der CD in einer sehr, sehr aufwendigen Spezial Box Edition mit einigen Extras erhältlich sein. Lasst euch überraschen, dazu gibt es später mehr.
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Genre: Black MetalLabel: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 03.10.2025
FROSTED UNDERGROWTH, die 2016 mit ihrer exzellenten „Under Satans Sun“-EP erstmals auf sich aufmerksam machten, sind im Mai dieses Jahres zu Folter Records gestoßen. Wir sind stolz, nun mit „Unchained“ das verdammt großartige neue Album dieser Band aus NRW präsentieren zu können, die sich die Ehrung und Bewahrung traditionellen Black Metals auf die Fahnen geschrieben hat!
„Unchained“ besticht in seiner Kompromisslosigkeit, den Geist der Vergangenheit ins Heute zu transferieren. Es existieren keine symphonischen oder überbetont progressiven Ansätze auf „Unchained“ – es ist stattdessen eine pure, radikale, spielerisch äußerst geschickte Umsetzung dessen, was einst den nordischen Second-Wave-Black Metal ausmachte, angereichert mit einer subtilen melodischen Tiefe.
Dabei erzeugen FROSTED UNDERGROWTH in ihren oft rasenden, von abartig frostigen Vocals geprägten Kompositionen eine kalte und so abweisende wie – für die richtigen Leute – anziehende Intensität, die der eines wegweisenden Werkes wie Setherials „Nord“ gleichkommt.
FROSTED UNDERGROWTH ist für alle Beteiligten nicht allein eine Band, sondern auch eine Überzeugung, eine Lebenseinstellung. Zu ihren wichtigen Einflüssen zählen die frühen Celtic Frost, Pest (Swe), Gorgoroth, Nargaroth und Taake. Der Bandname symbolisiert dabei eine verborgene, dunkle Kraft, die den Wald sterben lässt, aber zugleich nährt. Er spielt damit auf das Böse und Zerstörerische im Menschen an, welches das Leben zerfrisst, aus dem aber gleichzeitig Kraft geschöpft werden kann.
Raise the Banner of Pure Black Metal!
Tracklist
1. Bloodshed in the Name of God - 6:05
2. Glacier on Permafrost - 4:55
3. Master's Dominion - 6:42
4. Mist of Plague - 5:52
5. Raven Pt. III - 4:54
6. Raise the Banner - 4:38
7. Nightsky Above the Dark Absence – 7:33
Total: 40:39
Line-up
White Wolf: Bass, Vocals (backing)
Deathroned: Vocals, Guitars
Melkor: Drums
Undead: Guitars
Kompositionen und Texte:
Frosted Undergrowth
Aufnahme, Mix und Master: Deathroned Production.
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Missouri metal band DEGRAVE are threatening the status quo with the release of their new album, METALITHIC. The band's fourth and most maniacal album boasts 9 unyielding tracks of pure, bullshit-free metal.
For fans of : Anthrax, D.R.I., Exodus, Motorhead, Municipal Waste, Obituary, Overkill, Pantera, Slayer, and Toxic Holocaust
Order the CD at https://degrave.bigcartel.com/
DEGRAVE will mark the release of Metalithic with a CD Release show at Rose Music Hall in Columbia, MO on Saturday, September 27. Support will come from Orphan Source and Soul Terminus. For tickets, visit https://rosemusichall.com/
Check out the official music video for the album's lead single, "Every Fucking Day." Watch now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czTuDBWILJ8
Tracklist:1) Usurper of Flame
2) Sing the Body Electric
3) Every Fucking Day
4) Lockdown
5) Abort the Court
6) Living In A Smokescreen
7) Ignis Accendere
8) Burn Up the Sky
9) Death Is
Metalithic was produced by Chad Brown and DEGRAVE. The album was recorded by Conrad Hildebrand at Five Turn Production Studios, and mixed and mastered by John Breeden of Johnny DCat Entertainment.
Formed in 2016, DEGRAVE is an intense four-piece metal act schooled by metal masters of the past. The band showcases a highly-crafted musical skill with originality, and not accompanied by any pretentious attitude. Thrash or be thrashed!
Line-Up:
Clyde Daniels - Guitars, Vocals
Dylan Volmert - Guitars, Vocals
Isaiah "Cliff" Curtis - Bass
Caleb Bethel - Drums
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Seattle (WA) - Having recently released its explosive debut, HIGH RISK, HYPERSTRIKE is pleased to present the official video for album track, "LEAVING YOU AGAIN."
Click the following link to watch and listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuLjvIJyz8w
A high-octane collision of anthemic clean vocals, bone-crushing riffs, punk-fueled drum fire, and the razor edge of melodic death metal, Hyperstrike deliver danger with every track. This is metal built like an action movie soundtrack: explosive, relentless, and larger than life.
Purchase/Stream High Risk:
https://hyperstrikeband.bandcamp.com/album/high-risk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSfVWWbHNyQ
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/hyperstrike1/high-risk
Explosive. Relentless. Unstoppable. This is the soundtrack to chaos.
“Meltdown” — the core goes critical, and the blast is unstoppable.
“Leaving You Again” — love is a weapon… and heartbreak is the trigger.
“High Risk” — play the game, roll the dice… win it all, or lose your life.
“Shadowbound” — where the darkness hunts… and only the cursed survive.
“Warning Shot” — one bullet in the chamber… and mania in his eyes.
“Slug City” — neon streets, blood on the asphalt… nobody gets out alive.
“Steel Heart” — forged in fire, unbreakable, unstoppable.
“Slowman” — you can’t outrun fate… when death walks at your speed.
“King of the Slain” — one battlefield, one crown… and a throne of bones.
“Savage Sword” — sharpened for vengeance, raised for the final strike.
As if that weren't enough, Hyperstrike has released the demo for the official Hyperstrike video game! Play the game demo here https://hyperstrike.itch.io/hyperstrike-game-demo
while anticipating the album, just over the horizon.
High Risk.
No Risk. No Reward.
Track
Listing:1. Meltdown
2. Leaving You Again
3. High Risk
4. Shadowbound
5. Warning Shot
6. Slug City
7. Steel Heart
8. Slowman
9. King of the Slain
10. Savage Sword
Credits:
Cover art - Mark Richards (Heavy Hand)
Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Ben “Chop Daddy” Bennett
Lyrics and music by Hyperstrike.
Logo by Dipayandas Arts.
Line-Up:
Ben (Chop Daddy) Bennett - Speed Chopper Bass
Adon (Brain Lord) Fanion - Maniacal Pyro Vocals
Ilya (Siberian Claw) Ignatov - Elite Assassin Shred Guitar
Josh (Goblin Hammer) Hoffman - Master Drum Blaster
Bio:
Born in the Blade, forged in chaos—Hyperstrike is Seattle's action metal war machine. Founded in 2024 by bass-slapping juggernaut Ben "Chop Daddy" Bennett, this band doesn’t play music; they drop sonic bombs. With a shadowy past tearing through thrash titans Warbringer and Bonded by Blood, and reigning as the "Lord of the Low End" in sci-fi shredders Xoth, Bennett knew exactly what kind of beast he was building. First, he wrangled in Ilya, the shredder known as "The Claw," an assassin with riffs sharper than steel. Then came Adon, the "Brain Lord"—a maniacal force spitting venomous truths, carrying the fire from his days in Ghost Ship Octavius and the twisted depths of Spiritual Suicide. Together, they built a soundtrack for the end of the world: songs about nuclear meltdowns, cage fighters, and kings of the slain.
The final weapon in their arsenal? Josh, a drum-detonating powerhouse known as "Goblin Hammer," whose percussive assault forged their chaos into a relentless onslaught. Hyperstrike is a raw, unfiltered force with hearts of steel and a taste for mania. No apologies. No survivors. Just unrelenting aggression. Brace for impact—because once the trigger drops, nothing will ever be the same.
Devoted Art Propaganda will handle the EU release of the debut full-length album from new experimental black metal entity, CAŁ●. Titled “LUDZIE BŁĄDZĄCY W NOCY”, the album is set for a casette release on 31 October 2025. Fiadh Productions will take care of the US version.
The band introduces a new and uncompromising voice while the album explores dark and unsettling sounds. Can the band's ethos be captured with the words: “In rapture, against unity, before the guards, it drips inwards, CAŁ●”?
Ahead of the album’s release, the band has unveiled two advance tracks from the album.
Listen to “Kole” i “Za nim” : https://callo.bandcamp.com/ https://youtu.be/XPImrz7KMyI
Tracklist:
1 Zanim Się stało
2 Poza granice
3 Niesen
4 Zanim Było
5 Ogrom Bytu
6 Kole
7 Za Nim
8 Na dnie popiołu
9 W Wszechbycie
https://fiadh.bandcamp.com/music
https://d-a-p.org/
https://callo.bandcamp.com/
Montreal (QC) - Canadian bruisers, DEADWOOD, have signed to Innerstrength Records! The band is set to release new EP, RITUALS OF A DYING LIGHT, on January 6, 2026.
A music video for the EP's first single,"Heretic," is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd3b7p4zTug
Deadwood uniquely blends death metal and hardcore to create a modern deathcore sound. Known for their heavy music and dark lyrics, their motto is "Make Deathcore Angry Again." The band aims to evoke terror and fear through their music, ensuring their performances are unforgettable.
Most importantly, the music of Deadwood caters to enthusiastic metalheads who crave pure brutality and violence.
The EP's second single, "Tales of Masscacre," is set to be unleashed with lethal intent on October 17.
Track
Listing:1. Tales of Massacre
2. Heretic
3. Thirst for Blood
4. Whispers of Death
5. Echoes of the Fallen
Music and lyrics by Deadwood.
Recorded at EMNT studio January 2025.
Produced by Fred Element.
Mix and mastering by Fred Element.
Formed in the shadow of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Deadwood quickly carved out a place in the heavy scene with their dark, unrelenting sound. The lineup unites seasoned veterans: guitarist Fred (ex-The Plasmarifle, ex-Ion Dissonance), guitarist Stéphane (ex-Nova Spei, Iron Maiden tribute), drummer Charles (ex-Dismayd, Discovrey Through Tourment), and vocalist Derek, reuniting with Fred after a decade since their days in Malaga.
Drawing from the ferocity of Meshuggah, the brutality of Whitechapel, and the groove-driven power of Pantera, Deadwood delivers crushing riffs and haunting atmospheres steeped in true dark histories—from the Salem witch trials to the reign of Jack the Ripper.
Their catalog includes the EP Nemesis (2022), EP Inhuman (2023), and standout singles “Straightblade” (June 2023), “Djinn Pitts” (March 2024), and “Heretic” (April 2025). Known for their commanding live presence, Deadwood has toured Japan with Humanity's Last Breath and DVRK, stormed U.S. stages in 2025, opened twice for Born of Osiris in Montréal, and shook the grounds of Inkcarceration Festival 2025.
Currently on tour across Québec, Ontario, and New Brunswick, Deadwood is gearing up for their first European run in 2026 — bringing their brand of dark, murky heaviness to stages worldwide.
Line-up:
Fred Element - Guitars
Stephane Filion - Lead Guitars
Charles Etienne Lafrance - Drums
Derek Heynekemp - Vocals*
*Note: Vocals on the EP by Martin Demontigny.
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Wormholedeath
Records proudly welcomes CREMATE, the legendary Athens-based
death/thrash metal act, to their roster. The band is set to release their
much-anticipated EP READY TO FIGHT on November 7, 2025, marking
a fierce return that bridges their cult 1990s roots with a fresh, modern sonic
assault.Formed in 1991 in Alimos, Athens by high school friends Christos (guitar/vocals) and Leonidas (drums), CREMATE quickly carved out a raw and aggressive niche blending death and thrash metal—drawing inspiration from titans like Kreator and Sodom. Their 1993 demo End of Time garnered international acclaim through critical reviews, radio play, and devoted underground support.
Following lineup changes and relentless live shows praised by Metal Hammer and other media, CREMATE released the 7" EP Enchanting Black Recess in 1995 via Dark Side Records. However, a full-length album never materialized as the band disbanded soon after.
In 2021, founder Christos reignited CREMATE alongside drummer George and longtime collaborator Akis Pastras (Dexter Ward, Damon Systema, Nightfall). Revisiting their seminal demo, Christos re-envisioned the material by infusing dark synthesized atmospheres, samples, and new arrangements that intensify the band’s signature 90s death/thrash fury.
The result is Ready To Fight, a 4-track EP embodying raw energy through a contemporary production lens. It features three reworked classics—“Another Pain Born” reborn as “Human,” “Die as You Lived” enhanced with haunting violin by Lusty Apricot—and the brand-new title track showcasing a blistering solo from Marios Iliopoulos (Nightrage). Recorded and mixed by Akis Pastras and mastered by George Nerantzis (Abbath, Rotting Christ, Gus G.), the EP delivers an uncompromising fusion of vintage aggression and modern dark textures.
Ready To Fight symbolizes CREMATE’s powerful rebirth, honoring their 1993 cult demo while boldly pushing forward. The EP is a must-listen for fans of authentic death/thrash metal with an atmospheric edge—heavy, relentless, and uniquely dynamic.
Tracklist
1. Die As You Lived
2. Human
3. Cerebral Pain
4. Ready To Fight
Line up:
Chris C: Vocals/Bass
Akis Pastras: Rhythm/Lead Guitars
The Goat: Drums
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Pre-save Ready to Fight: https://orcd.co/rtfep
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present TYRANN’S amazing two album, DJÄVULENS MUSIK & BESATT, on CD format. Vinyl editions were released by Electric Assault Records.
The Swedish supergroup TYRANN is currently working on their third album, but in the meantime, both of their killer albums are finally available on cd! 2021 Djävulens Musik started their powergrab of the old school heavy metal scene and sophomore album Besatt (2023) cemented their position. Add selected, highly energetic live shows and you know why headbangers from far and away love this band. Extremely catchy, traditional heavy metal, always to the point rather than loosing themselves in too long song structures.
Line-up:Jakob Ljungberg - Drums
Tobias Lindqvist - Vocals, Bass
Joseph Tholl - Guitars
From Stockholm, Sweden
Release date:
21st November
Release info:
CD with sticker and obi.
Tracklist
1 Djävulens Musik
2 DMFOOHMP
3 Brinn Med Mig
4 Den Andra Siden
5 Satanisk Majestat
6 Sodom
7 Undergang
8 Tyrann
9 Transylvanien
10 Face the Tyrant
11 Varje Sekund Och Andetag
12 Besatt
13 Omen
14 Knytna¨ve Fran Underjorden
15 Ingen Tid For Oss
16 Ra Energi
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https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
DE PROFUNDIS – “THE GOSPEL OF ROT” (EP)
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: october 1st 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Death | Morbid Angel | Immolation | Nocturnus
How we have fallen, how our empire has crumbled…our values and learning trampled into the dust as we kneel before altars to idiocy and greed. We offer prayers to the war machine, no longer abhorring the taking of life, but raging in our ignorance we fervently debate which lives are suitable for sacrifice and which children deserve no future. Truth has become a malleable property, no longer a definable absolute and manipulation is now an applauded art form. Our gods cradle missiles while we twitch in nervous anxiety, awaiting the latest incarnation of the hand held devices that consume our identity, our reason and our morality. We are naught but rot…
“The Gospel Of Rot is both a warning and a weapon – a sonic rebellion against the forces that seek to silence and subjugate. De Profundis offers not salvation but a wake-up call…”- De Profundis
Celebrating 20 years of death dealing and devastation, De Profundis have returned with a rejuvenated line-up and a brand new EP of stunning power and intensity. The Gospel Of Rot brings together four tracks of furious death metal and masterful musicianship into a manifesto of resistance against the empty vessels that rule us, dragging our civilisation into a mire of degradation. Beginning with ‘I: Corruption’ we are hit by a torrent of classic death metal that makes incursions into the realms of thrash and black metal, thriving in the fluid boundaries between the genres. New vocalist Stefano Bassi immediately makes his mark with deep, guttural tones of depth and substance and second new addition to the ranks, bassist Simon McAuliffe, is immediately noticeable too, punching through the mix, an intrinsic part of this new chapter for De Profundis. Despite the remarkable work this band have produced over the years, by the midpoint of second song, ‘II: Deception’ it’s a struggle not to immediately embrace The Gospel Of Rot as their finest work to date. On one level it’s direct, hard-hitting and straight between the eyes – on another there are so many subtle shifts, touches and nuances that set it apart from the rest of the field. The vocal delivery in ‘III: Indoctrination’ is imperious, the drumming overwhelming, the lead playing simply brilliant. Every progression, every passage, every scuttling spider-legged scale and formidable blast on this EP is just right, crafted to perfection. The Gospel Of Rot concludes with a raging cover of Sepultura’s classic ‘Subtraction’ and De Profundis have made it their own; sublimely executed it slots into place as an integral part of a magnificently engineered death metal machine. With incredible performances and incredible songs, De Profundis are back at the very top of their game.
Mixed and mastered by Matt Jones at Capsaarx Studios (Fury, Vanitas, Dakesis etc) The Gospel Of Rot sounds magnificent, with exquisite tones and a perfect balance between clarity and power. The final hallmarks of quality have been applied with the wonderful artwork of Pierre-Alain D. of 3mmi Design (Necrodeath, Scar Symmetry, The Crawling etc) and it’s hard to see how The Gospel Of Rot could have been any better. The fight back begins on October 1st!
“…the rot is everywhere — and it’s time to tear it down.”- De Profundis
Line-up:
Stefano Bassi - Vocals
Shoi Sen - Guitars
Paul Nazarkardeh - Guitars
Simon McAuliffe - Bass
Tom Atherton - Drums
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Finnish black metal -group MOURNIATY has already pricked ears with their first two single releases, Kyynelten Virta & All Your Lies, sung respectively in Finnish and English.
On the third and final single preceding the MUSTA MAA -debut album (to be released on 7th of November through Inverse Records), the band yet again refuses to bow down before anyone building places of worship, but will rather see them fall with their shrines.
Listen to 'Shrines' on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/mourniaty-shrines
"The song is about the downfall of different religions without singling out any specific one, song writer Karulainen states.
So you better watch the skies at nighttime, since the stars will shine like the eyes of the serpentine!"
Biography:
When you get fed up with Christianity and Paganism starts to arouse your interest, interesting things are often created. Sometimes this process needs an accelerant, which is exactly what happened when Karulainen and Metällinen found themselves to be merged in the same family tree. Now, what else would fresh, Finnish relatives do but make aggressive noises together? This gave an outlet for the music Karulainen had already been writing.
Finnish Mourniaty began its life as a smoldering project already in 2015. It burst into raging fire five years later, when situations in life permitted concentrating on music full-time. When bass player Tenho joined the group in 2022, Mourniaty finally became a real band instead of two men with backing tracks.
Karulainen describes Mourniaty’s music as black metal, which combines mid-tempo grooves and even symphonic arrangements combined with lyrics sung in both Finnish and English, which revolve around themes of Paganism and Anti-Christianity. The debut album, “Musta maa” (Black Earth), will be released thru Inverse records on digital platforms and in cd-format in November of 2025. What a perfect soundtrack for the darkest season of the year.
Listen to the first single 'Kyynelten virta': https://push.fm/fl/mourniaty-kyynelten-virta
Listen to the second single 'All Your Lies': https://push.fm/fl/mourniaty-lies
Mourniaty - Musta maa (Album 2025)
Track list:
01. Ajan saattama
02. Musta maa
03. All Your Lies
04. Aika Roudan
05. Shrines
06. Kyynelten virta
07. Seventh Seal
08. A Son of the Plague
09. Sodomia
10. Pyhä on valani
Line-up:
Metällinen - drums
Tenho - bass
Liekkiö - guitar
Karulainen - vocals & guitar
Mixed by Karulainen & Joona Rinne / Deep Noise Studios
Mastered by Saku Moilanen / Deep Noise Studios
Album cover by Karulainen
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Watch the video for "Hanging Tree": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2tYvYekTnw
According to Kathodos, “Hanging Tree” is the catchiest song on Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus. The track features a hidden lyrical concept meant to be discovered by only the most astute listeners. The idea was to create a surreal, dream-like atmosphere that brings the listener back to ancient times. The music video features the explosive second half of ‘Hanging Tree’. Some of the imagery in the video is taken from ‘La Vie et la Passion de Jesus Christ’, a French silent film from 1903. The film’s colors and religious nature fit the song perfectly. I am featured in the video to portray the lyrical orator while Lavinia enhanced it with her sultry dancing.”
Kathodos previously released a music video for the track “A Memory Dwindles…” (Spotify), which is a song about a person haunted by a horrifying memory of seeing a child falling off a rooftop and features footage from the 1920 silent film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
“Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” is meant to be experienced as a sequence of strange dreams. It comprises a listening journey of confusing, dark, beautiful, scary, comical, twisted, psychotic, and bizarre dreams. The album takes the listener on a dark and sometimes terrifying journey of strange voices, bizarre sounds, beautiful moments, maddening architecture, and intricate instrumentation. It is highly unique, making use of hypnotising drones, occult rituals, odd lyrics, and hidden meanings. Listeners will hear something new each time they play the album.
Kathodos, the man behind the project, conceptualised the band in 2019 as an "experiment in darkness". Having previously performed as a rock musician, he sought to create something darker. The album's atmosphere was conjured from the best fragments of his dreams and the worst fragments of his nightmares. The entire album was composed in the spring of 2021 after lying dormant for nearly two years. Following another period of latency, most of the instrumentation and vocals were recorded in the spring of 2022. A difficult period in late 2022 delayed the project until 2023, when the rest of the album was finally recorded. Lavinia was recruited in late 2023 to provide soprano, spoken word vocals, and guitar on a few tracks. Kathodos also produced, mixed, and mastered the album in late 2023 and early 2024. After gaining a strong following from the few people who happened upon the initial release, Kathodos signed with Rune Serpent Europa in 2025 to reach a wider audience.
Kathodos is a studio-only project and does not perform live. A second album is currently in the works. The band has also appeared on two official compilations released by Rune Serpent Europa: Laibach Tribut - Schlecht Und Ironisch, for which Kathodos covered the Laibach song "White Law" and Saturno Butto tribute “The Five Senses”, contributing the track "Death & Rebirth".
Pre-order the CD version of “Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” via The Circle Music (worldwide distributor for this release): https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/distributed-stuff/?filter_artist-name=kathodos
Kathodos’ “Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” is recommended for fans of Nurse With Wound, Coil and Current 93.
Tracklist: 1. Phantom of the Throne Room
2. A Memory Dwindles…
3. …Window
4. The Dark Priests
5. Hanging Tree
6. Message Sent to Earth
Kathodos are:
Kathodos – all instrumentation, vocals, lyrics, sounds, composition, production, mixing and mastering
except:
Lavinia - soprano, spoken word and guitar
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Hi
everybody,Petr from PARAT PRODUCTIONS, Czech Republic, here. On Tuesday, September 23, we commemorated the sad anniversary of the passing of
René Krystyn, known as Fusaty, founder, guitarist, and singer of Czech
death/doom legend DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY, who left this world
involuntarily in 2013 at the age of only 39.After the death of my great friend, I am trying to keep his musical legacy "alive" and spread it to music collectors around the world by re-releasing his band's recordings.
Symbolically, on the occasion of this sad anniversary, I am bringing news to the metal world that on January 30, 2026, Pařát Productions will release a vinyl version of DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY's last studio song from 2010. "ZLODEJSKÁ SVETELKA" was first released on a separate CD on May 11 this year, so as a fan and collector, I see the LP version as another (necessary) step.
The CD "Zlodejska svetelka" can still be ordered from the Pařátshop . Over 3/4 of the print run has already been sold out. The bigotry CD "Step To The Grave", released in April 2023 on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the band's recording, which preceded the formation of DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY, is nearing complete sell-out. Approximately 20 copies remain in stock. It can be ordered at Pařátshop .
What will the LP "Zlodějská světélka" look like? Why the symbolic date of January 30, 2026? And what other DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY re-edition will be released by Pařát Productions on that day? We'll talk about that in November .
Listen to the recording on YouTube channel Pařát Productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJKrFppXUrk
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The
Brazilian Heavy Metal band, MORTTICIA, has released the
single "MISTAKES", the first power ballad of their
career, bringing deep reflections on the mistakes we make throughout life and
how they shape our path toward the inevitable end, giving meaning and purpose
to existence. "After all, if from birth to death everything went right and
we only did what was expected of us, our life would be nothing more than the
flight of a bird with the predictable trajectory from the nest to the
grave," highlights the band.Listen to "Mistakes" on all streaming platforms or via the link below: https://open.spotify.com/intl-pt/track/6jtLp2GtJpI7TPMvfNUf9J?si=ffa3e84bc4a141a8
About the composition, the band also comments: "It is a song in which we carefully worked on the melodies to create one of those addictive ballads like those of Helloween or Angra. For the first time, we worked with an arranger for the keyboards, and this elevated the instrumental to another level."
Founded in 2010 in the Brazilian city of Alegrete-RS, Mortticia moved in 2012 to Porto Alegre-RS and became one of the Brazilian exponents of the New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal (N.W.O.T.H.M.), a movement that has been gaining strength on the global scene by revitalizing the classic sound of the genre with a more modern and sophisticated approach, without straying from its essence. The band’s discography includes several singles, an EP released physically on CD and cassette tape by labels in Romania and Brazil, and now they are preparing to present their long-awaited debut album.
The current lineup of Mortticia features Lucas Zawacki on vocals, Lucio Brenner on rhythm guitar, Gustavo Galho on lead guitar, Guilherme Hoppen on bass, and Doug Mansur on drums.
"Mistakes" was produced by renowned music producer Renato Osorio, former member of Hibria, and features the participation of Rafael Kurai in the keyboard arrangements. The cover art, signed by artist Gus Bringel, visually translates the essence of the song by bringing together elements such as the bird, the cemetery, and the figure of Mortticia, in a composition marked by colors and strokes reminiscent of the classic albums of the 80s and 90s. The promotional photography is by José Florêncio.
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
http://www.linktr.ee/mortticia.metal
Augustus Omnipotens is a conceptual journey through the rise of Octavian, later Augustus, the first Emperor of Rome. Each track captures a key moment in his path: from avenging Julius Caesar’s death, through political alliances and brutal battles, to the final triumph of peace under the Pax Romana. The lyrics weave together history, mythology, and personal legacy, portraying Augustus not only as a ruler but as a symbol of transformation, from civil war and betrayal to order and empire. It’s an album about power, fate, and the price of immortality.
Driven by a visceral blend of blackened death metal, the music amplifies the narrative’s intensity: ferocious riffs embody the chaos of war, thunderous drums echo the march of legions, and sinister growls summon the weight of fate and bloodshed. In Augustus Omnipotens, music and lyrics merge into a monumental opus, where history is not only told but felt.
Tracklist01 – In Aeternam
02 – Octavianus
03 – Caesar Divi Filius
04 – Gladium Stringere
05 – Triuvirat
06 – Dura Lex Sed Lex
07 – Mortem Proditorum
08 – Mylae Invicta
09 – Dedecus Magni Lepidi
10 – Ultimum Bellum
11 – Pax Romana
About DEOS:
Formed in 2014 by Fabio Battistella, Jack Graved, and Loïc Depauwe, DEOS have built a reputation for combining the ferocity of extreme metal with a passion for Ancient Rome that extends through their lyrics, artwork, and stagecraft. Their debut Ghosts of the Empire arrived in 2015, followed by In Nomine Romae in 2017 and extensive touring across France, Switzerland, and beyond. In 2021 they began work on their third record Furor Belli, mastered by J.-F. Dagenais (Kataklysm, Ex Deo) and released in 2022 via Wormholedeath, which led to the North Imperial Tour MMXXII. Over the past years they have continued to spread their vision of Roman metal across Europe, including London’s legendary Cart & Horses.
Now, with Augustus Omnipotens, DEOS take their concept further than ever before. Recorded between autumn 2024 and spring 2025 and once again mastered by Dagenais, the album is both a celebration of Rome’s past and a declaration of the band’s future.
DEOS are:
Jack “Janus” Graved (bass, vocals)
Fabio Battistella (guitar, backing vocals)
Cédric “Cedd” Boehm (guitar, backing vocals)
Loïc Depauwe (drums).
www.youtube.com/@deos-official9793/
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SPEEDCLAW are a Croatian metal band that have been delivering raw heavy metal since 2015. First came the aptly titled Iron Speed EP in 2016, and the Beast in the Mist EP followed the next year. Between the two short-lengths, SPEEDCLAW wielded exuberant-yet-reverent steel of early ‘80s vintage, an era when the NWOBHM was in full steam and speed metal was in its nascent days. The uptick in professionalism and POWER from one EP to the next certainly heightened expectations for what the Croatians could do on a full-length.
At last here, Stardust is that full-length, and SPEEDCLAW show everything – and MORE – they’re capable of. Taking all the electricity and excitement of those two EPs and amplifying ‘em with a certain starpower, Stardust is indeed aptly titled. That aforementioned uptick in power & professionalism play out to its fullest extent across this eight-song / 33-minute stick of dynamite, all whilst retaining SPEEDCLAW’s early edge. Stardust is actually a semi-conceptual album: four of the eight tracks are thematically connected, forming a narrative, while the remaining songs stand independently. The conceptual “Night Side” features four songs that tell a story inspired by the band’s life on the road and everything that comes with it.
Keeping their original sound but just ramping it up – truly, you can imagine the band slaying huge stages to this – on Stardust do SPEEDCLAW dependably deliver melodic, bursting-at-the-seams riffs and an authentically old-school flair, still heavily rooted in classic heavy metal traditions but with a raw edge that reflects their own identity. Just clear enough, never overdriven by crunch, and with an ancient earthiness, Stardust was recorded at the GIS studio in Croatia by none other than Let 3's Matej Zec, a well-established Croatian musician. Mixing and mastering were done by Enforcer's Olof Wikstrand, who also makes an appearance on one of the songs on the album. Get showered in Stardust and prepare to be ensnared by SPEEDCLAW!
Line-up:
Dorian Perušic - Drums
Luka Hrelja - Guitars
Luka Jurišic - Guitars
Silvano Cosic - Vocals, Bass
From Rijeka, Croatia
Artwork:
Velio Josto
Release date:
21st November
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on blue vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi
Tracklist1 Tonight
2 Allnighter
3 Queen of the Night
4 Nightwatch
5 Fly Hight
6 Crystal Light
7 White Town Rider
8 The Curse Never Dies
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
IRREPARABLE-„ THE FATE OF ALL LIFE”
Melbourne, Australia-based IRREPARABLE are set to release their new album, “The Fate Of All Life”, on October 17th via These Hands Melt. This introspective and emotional musical canvas sees the band weaving together industrial black metal, goth and darkwave to create a sound that is both haunting and cathartic.
The album is a monument to the reality of the human condition, exploring themes of cyclical suffering and death. IRREPARABLE has expertly laid the foundations of a personal apocalypse, aptly titled “The Fate Of All Life”, which is reflected in their poignant quote: “We rise to the sky from the sea, only to come pouring down”.
The new album will be available as a limited edition CD Digipack and a limited Vinyl LP (150 copies) in red transparent, as well as on all major digital platforms.
In support of the album, the band released a lyric video to the track "Failure to Thrive" with a music video for the lead single "Forever Remain" coming on 1 October. The band will celebrate the release of the “The Fate Of All Life” at The Leadbeater, Richmond, VIC (Australia) with Burden Man, The Nihilistic Front and Nighteyes on November 29th.
Tracklist:1. Revelations
2. Upon Malignant Shores
3. Forever Remain
4. Exposed
5. Failure to Thrive
6. 140283
7. Death in a Time Capsule
IRREPARABLE are:
D.B. - Guitar, Electronics
N.M. - Vocals
M.B. - Bass
Album credits:
All Music by D.B.
All Lyrics by N.M.
Guest vocals on “Exposed” & “Death In A Time Capsule”
by Carline Van Roos
Violin on “Forever Remain” written and performed by Hayley Anderson
Additional vocal harmonies on “Death In A Time Capsule” by D.B.
Recorded and mixed by D.B.
Mastered by Dav Byrne at Iridium Audio
Artwork by Promathiart
Design and Layout by Tryfar x These Hands Melt
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Horror Pain Gore Death Productions is set to release the new album from Wyoming's vicious Death Metal/Grindcore/Thrash act VIOLENT TESTIMONY. AGGRAVATE is now available for pre-order and will be released on October 17th in CD and Digital formats, along with merchandise.
For fans of: Napalm Death, Insect Warfare, Terrorizer, Wormrot, Blood Duster, Exhumed, Extreme Noise Terror, Nails, Birdflesh and Impaled Nazarene
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcomes Violent Testimony to the roster with the new album Aggravate! Residing in the barren wastelands of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Violent Testimony has brought a devastating combination of Grind/Death/Thrash to the Rocky Mountain region since 2022. Aggravate is all gas and no breaks, ripping through 21 crushing tracks in less than 26 minutes and delivering the aggressive, rowdy energy Violent Testimony has become known for in their scene.
Listen to the single "Psychotic Episode" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZh8Np4LGyY
Tracklisting:1. God Complex Massacre
2. Piss Vomit Acid Corrosion
3. Isolation Torture
4. Perpetual Self-Execution
5. Cognitive Behavioral Restructuring
6. Flashbang Celebration
7. Mass Hysteria
8. Coercive Doctrines
9. Psychotic Episode
10. Left To Rot
11. Death Sentence Serenade
12. Insectual Penetration
13. Rider In The Night
14. Counterfeit
15. Obligatory Manifestation Of Infinite Grind
16. Aggravating Circumstances
17. Algorithmic Witch Hunt
18. Idiocracy Of Daily Life
19. S.O.W.
20. DrinkFightFuck (Blood Duster Cover)
21. Hit N' Run
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It was but 2021 when FATE’S HAND quietly emerged with their self-titled debut EP. Downplaying their membership, the Australians nevertheless possessed a wealth of veteran experience, with members hailing from such heavyweights as StarGazer and Mongrels Cross among others. As FATE’S HAND, they deftly drew from the primordial well of Northern lore and attacked in a savage foray of traditionalist heavy metal. In a word, Fate’s Hand was both old and new, surprising and unsurpassed.
Now flexing those same muscles across a full-length, FATE’S HAND at last arrive with their debut album, almost-too-perfectly titled Steel, Fire and Ice. With swords drawn and teeth bared, on Steel, Fire and Ice do FATE’S HAND sing an ode to victories on the physical and metaphysical battlefield. Whereas the Aussies’ debut EP totaled four songs, their debut album doubles that; as such, it more boldly and brazenly displays the full fathom of their powers and prowess. And like that EP, on Steel, Fire and Ice does visceral melody grasp tightly on the spear of classic heavy metal, hearkening to the genre’s progenitors and – in the same breath – taunting, daring the very same gods. Bloodied but unbowed, FATE’S HAND’s songwriting goes to more epic lengths whilst remaining urgent and impassioned, stoicism and bravado colliding headlong for a timeless sturm and drang that engages ever more as the album plays on to its penultimate conclusion. High drama as heavy metal, still surprising and unsurpassed!
FATE’S HAND keep the torch lit for fans of Judas Priest, King Diamond, Destruction, and Bathory. Turn the lights down and play it loud – glory to the brave with Steel, Fire and Ice!
Line-up:
Denimal - Battle Hymns
Gjoll - Iron Age Axe
Conscripts:
Artillery - Jarl Earl.
Additional sorcery and spellcasting - Rotten
From Australia
Tracklist01 THE QUEST SPIRIT
02 FOUNT OF ALL WATERS
03 WOVEN IN SPACE AND TIME
404 IN THE DRAUGR DEEPS
05 FIRE REIGNS ONCE MORE
06 STARFORGER
07 THE COSMIC ASH
08 STALLION OF SKY AND SEAS
Artwork:
Paolo Girardi
Release date:
21st November
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on grey vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Label: Apocalyptic WitchcraftRelease date: november 28th 2025
Genre: Occult Black Metal
For fans of: Akercocke | Shining | Acherontas | Forgotten Tomb
It seems that every step you have taken, every choice you have made has led you to this place. You have fled from it, appalled by what you can sense within, but no matter where you run you find it waiting…an impossibility that can never be found, yet never left behind. In resignation…or is that anticipation now, lurking in the blackest corners of your heart…you turn and walk towards the crimson door, beneath his heavy gaze.
Formed in 2012 in the UK’s West Midlands, Suffering are exponents of occult black metal, conjurers of fevered nightmares and invokers of darkness and madness. Their music draws upon the oppressive weight of soul crushing doom and the violent fervour of the blackest metal, bringing them together in an elixir of spirit staining, mind warping venom. Their first arcane offering was the 2018 album, 11, which was followed by two EPs – Temen-Ni-Gru (11:11) in 2022 and last year’s Symphonies: Diabolis. Now, newly signed to Apocalyptic Witchcraft – a label which band front man Sturmgeist Fornicator Insultus describes as one that “…supports, encourages and thrives on pushing the boundaries within extreme music…” – they are ready to unveil their second full length album, their most enthralling and disturbing work to date, Things Seen But Always Hidden.
Notes of dread, enticement and sorrow emerge from the storm and lead you away from all you know and all you understand as first track, ‘The House With The Red Door’ begins. And once your disorientation and dislocation is complete it erupts into furious violence and intimidating domination. Walls of haunting, unnerving blackness close around you, fear rises from the gloom like mist and shadowed shapes seem to move within the enveloping sound. Each track bleeds into the next as Things Seen But Always Hidden progresses, an unbroken journey into the unknown. ‘The Chamber Of Breathtaking Delights’ ensnares you in a conflict of desolation and ecstasy, a dying of conscience and birthing of consuming depravation. Dark, doomed riffs providing a funeral procession for the self you once knew. Songs rise like unholy entities from the album’s fever dream torrent…the aching ritual, ineffable darkness and oppressive weight of ‘Consorting With The Devil’, ‘Apocrypha Through The Keyhole’s ragged, bloody conjuration – dust in the mouth and rust on the blade, its inescapable atmosphere a lament and glorification entwined. At the last, ‘Behind The Green Door’ brings together intensity and power, insistent rhythms, dread pronouncements and desolate melodies. Monolithic marches and ritualistic immolation, agony and remaking before a final release into an eternal screaming nightmare…
“The darkness and truth that lies within is far beyond what we had imagined possible. But remember, things are not always what they seem and some things are right in front of your face.”- Suffering
The way to Things Seen But Always Hidden will be revealed by Apocalyptic Witchcraft on November 28th. But remember, once you have set foot on this path there is no way back…
Line-up:
Sturmgeist Fornicator Insultus - Vocals
Aýdlig - Guitars
Malleus - Drums
Inquinatus - Bass
https://apocalypticwitchcraft.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/apocalypticwitchcraftrecordings
https://www.facebook.com/Suffering.ukmetal/
Excerpt - "undeniably fast and violent, but it’s also both monstrously alien and wickedly addictive"
DEMIURGON - “MIASMATIC DEATHLESS CHAMBER”
Genre: Death metal with
brutal and tech elementsFor fans of: Hate Eternal, Origin, Depravity, Carnophage, Diabolizer, Unmerciful, Hideous Divinity,
Arborescence of Wrath
Demiurgon whip up a storm almost literally with their kind of ferocious, unbridled death metal. Hurtling towards the listener at ridiculous speeds, it stirs up a variety of emotions usually of the violent kind. Mostly though, there is sheer trepidation listening to the forceful nature of their music, and strangely, at the same time an innate sense of awe witnessing the control they have over the entire catastrophic event. Having over a decade of experience, they have cultivated the art of channeling the raw energy into writing satisfyingly long compositions marked with numerous variations and coming with up incessantly buzzing, catchy and memorable albeit inevitably head-imploding riffs. After all, this is pure death metal on steroids, fanned by brutal and technical doses to attain monstrous proportions. It's the kind of music a death metal fan can't dislike - it's simply dialled up to a fiery level here, backed by years of songwriting expertise and delivered like a punch to the face.
Line up
Stefano Borciani - Voice
Emanuele Otani - Guitars
Dani Benincasa - Guitars
Riccardo Benedini - Bass
Riccardo Valent - Drums
Artwork by Giannis Nakos / Remedy Art Design
Track listing
1. Worldwide Grave
2. The Era of Defiance
3. Aspiring to Omnipotence
4. Miasmatic Deathless Chamber
5. Flashforward to the End
6. Throne of Derangement
7. Apoptosi
Release date - September 19th, 2025
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Thanks a lot for your support everyone! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
DAWN
OF A DARK AGE are
finally ready to unveil some of the main aspects of their new album "VER
SACRUM". It will be released on December 12th, via My Kingdom
Music in digipakCD, LP and deluxe edition and here we present the amazing cover
artwork created by Norwegian photographer Kjetil Karlsen - https://www.instagram.com/kjetil.karlsen.fotoHere is the complete tracklist with the titles of the 4 jewels present in "Ver Sacrum":
1. Il Voto Infranto (L'Ira Di Mamerte)
2. Il Consiglio Degli Anziani (L'Oracolo)
3. Il Rito Della Consacrazione
4. Venti Anni Dopo: La Partenza (Nascita Della Nazione Sannita)
The album sees the presence of a new singer, Ignazio Cuga, aka Brusiòre, of the Sardinian Folkish Black Metal band KRE'U and this will permit the album to be brought on stage for the first time for the band with exclusive live shows programmed for December.
Musically, it is even darker and more sinister, with truly ancient atmospheres that leave an indelible mark on this work.
The theme once again harks back to the Samnites, and in particular to the so-called Sacred Spring (Ver Sacrum in Latin), a social and religious ritual common in pre-Roman times.
So, we just have to wait; extreme music, folk music and jazz will once again blend together in a balance, capable of telling stories of times gone by in an absolutely unique and precious way.
Pre-order: Dawn Of A Dark Age -"Ver Sacrum" at: https://t.ly/N8-LW
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Greek
melodic death metal force FLAMECORE presents the
official music video for “ONLY WASTE REMAINS”, taken
from their forthcoming self-titled debut album, FLAMECORE,
due for release on October 24th, 2025 through Wormholedeath.Dark, heavy, and straight to the point, “Only Waste Remains” shows Flamecore at full force. The track blends speed and precision with a crushing breakdown and raw, aggressive vocals—creating a wall of sound that feels both epic and unrelenting. Lyrically, it explores ruin, time, and defiance: a portrait of empires collapsing and voices fading into dust.
About:
Formed by Stathis Lianos and Leonidas Viglakis, the Greek melodic death metal band Flamecore emerged from a collaborative spark between Chania and Athens. Their journey began with a single riff, which grew into the track "Plains of Nameck."
This initial creative success led to their self-titled debut album, released in February 2025. With a lineup solidified by the additions of Panagiotis Tsopelas and Akis Blazakis, Flamecore brought their vision of extreme, melodic metal to life. Following the album's release and a series of live shows, the band is now focused on promoting their work with new bassist Panagiotis Mousouras while composing their next chapter.
Pre-save Flamecore: https://orcd.co/flamecore
Planes of Nameck: https://youtu.be/k2UZLvR4r74
Line-up
Akis Mplazakis – Vocals
Stathis Lianos – Rhythm and lead guitars
Panagiotis Tsopelas – Rhythm guitars
Panagiotis Mousouras – Bass
Leonidas Viglakis – Drums
www.youtube.com/@Flamecoreband
www.facebook.com/Flamecoreband
Label:
Independent
ReleaseRelease date: october 2nd 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Bolt Thrower | Sodom | Slayer | Obituary
Formed in Hyderabad, Telangana, India in 2017 Warmarshal bring together the malevolent sounds of the early death metal masters and the furious adrenaline of the darkest extremes of thrash to produce a heady, high impact cocktail of extreme metal. Their debut release, the formidable …To Regain Lost Glory EP was unleashed by Slaytanic Records in 2018, a war torn collection of songs that brought the band to the attention of respected webzines like VM-Underground and saw them perform internationally in Sri Lanka in 2019, Dubai in 2024 and locally at Death over Decaan - an event organized by DethFest which has hosted international acts like Fountainhead and top Indian extreme metal acts like Gutslit and Kill The King. A single, ‘Shell-Shocked’, followed in 2024 and now the band a ready to release a new two-track single, that highlights their ever increasing power and sonic intensity – ‘The Diseased’!
After opening in a barrage of huge chords like rumbling heavy artillery ‘The Diseased’ delivers a furious attack, like a virulent poison burning through your veins. Vicious riffs are delivered with sniper-like precision over wild vocals that howl on the cusp of madness, while an overwhelming drum battery, a force of nature, decimates and devastates all in its path. The blend of raw, rampaging chaos and accomplished musicianship proves an explosive mixture and gives Warmarshal the character and unique identity to escape the long shadows of their influences and inspirations. Lyrically, ‘The Diseased’ is an excoriating assault on the hypocrisy of organised religion and the weaponizing of people’s faith and fears. Warmarshal take a stand against the rising tide of extremism and open fire on the manipulators and despots who engender division and inflame hatred for their own personal gain.
‘The Diseased’ is backed by an instrumental version of the same song and despite the strength of the lyrical message it really works – providing a rewarding listen. Full of different parts and shifting tempos, along with a melodic and superbly constructed solo, ‘The Diseased’ hits hard even without the primal violence of the vocal parts. Multifaceted and ferociously intense this song, in both its incarnations, shows all too clearly the monstrous force and venom that Warmarshal now possess.
Mixed and mastered by renowned German guitarist Tom ‘Fountainhead’ Geldschläger, who has performed with the likes of Belphegor, Defeated Sanity and Obscura, ‘The Diseased’ sounds absolutely incendiary. Accompanied by a superb video the single will be released on October 2nd and the name of Warmarshal will spread through the metal underground like wildfire.
Current Line up:
Akaash Kishore - Drums
Tahan Chen aka Hubert - Bass
Soumick Chakraborty - Guitars/Vocals
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRNs6WEUa8iB_gYiVe8gE1A
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Das Thüringer Urgestein XIV DARK CENTURIES
haben sich neben ihren langjährigen Weggefährten „Einheit Produktionen“ nun
noch die im Taunus ansässige Metalschmiede „Schwarzdorn Production“ mit an Bord
geholt, welche sich neben den Digitalen Vertrieb auch um den offiziellen
Laden-Vertrieb über EDEL kümmern werden. Das neue Werk „AUS URALTER ZEIT“
wird zum Julfest als limitierte Box (CD+Tape), Digi-CD & auf Vinyl
erscheinen.
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https://www.facebook.com/xivdarkcenturies
Es war 10 Jahre still um den „Mozart des Black Metal“ von SORGSVART. Nach dem tragischen Tod des Bassisten Ingar „A.“ des Nebenprojektes VINDAR (Nor. für Wind) hat Mastermind Sorg neue Energie geschöpft & ist vom Bruderlabel “Einheit Produktionen“ kaum noch zu bremsen: 2 volle Werke stehen kurz vor der Veröffentlichung. Erst einmal soll „GARDAR OG GRENDE „ (GÄRTEN UND DÖRFER) noch im Herbst dieses Jahres das Licht der Welt erblicken, nachdem der richtige Norwegische Vertriebspartner gefunden wurde.
Die Sachsenkrieger von SAXORIOR feilen immer noch am Mammutwerk „EWIGHAID“ mit über 140 Minuten Neuinterpretationen ihrer Klassiker, welche auf einer schmucken Digi-2-CD auf nur 500 Exemplaren limitierten Auflage erscheinen soll. Ob es eine Vinyl-Box dazu geben wird, steht noch in den Sternen. Grobe Richtlinie für die Veröffentlichung ist Frühling 2026.
https://www.facebook.com/saxorior
„Einheit Produktionen“ ist „fast aus allen Wolken gefallen“ nach Erhalt des Demos zu „WHAT THE MISTS OF TIME FOREVER CLOAK“, dem 2. Werk der Britisch-Deutschen Band HERNE: „Dark Thrones „Panzerfaust“ trifft auf hymnischen Pagan Black Metal“ könnte man meinen. Das Label ist bereits mit einem befreundeten Label im Gespräch & visiert eine auf nur 300 Stück limitierte Digi-CD für ca. Mitte 2026 an.
https://herne.bandcamp.com/album/face-of-the-hunter
www.einheit-produktionen.de
“Female-fronted” before it was cool – ausgefeilter Oldschool-Extremismus ohne Kompromisse . Ja, VICTIMS OF CLASSWAR gibt es schon eine ganze Weile. Und nein, sie sind nicht tot: mit „INVITATION TO A FUNERAL“ kommt endlich das lange überfällige LP-Debüt, das neun Stücke zu einem kompromisslosen
Statement in Sachen apokalyptischer Blackmetal mit Thrash- und Crustsprengseln vereint, mit dem sich die Sächs*innen eindrucksvoll zurück in die Grenzgebiete des internationalen Undergrounds ballern. Lasst euch vom Namen nicht täuschen: Hier gibt es keinen ordinären Punk – nur wem Mayhem noch zu sauber und Holy Moses zu nett sind, sollte diese Einladung annehmen!
Biografie
Erwachsen 2011 aus der Crustpunkszene im sächsischen Hinterland erobern VICTIMS OF CLASSWAR bald vor allem auch jede Menge Metalherzen und erspielen sich mit unerbittlichem Livedrang und einer brutal mitreißenden Bühnenenergie in Rekordzeit einen hervorragenden Ruf, der sie über Szenegrenzen hinaus bis auf andere Kontinente trägt, bevor sie überhaupt Zeit hatten, ein komplettes Album einzuspielen.
Nach zwei Split-Veröffentlichungen und diversen Touren durch Großbritannien, Belarus, Skandinavien, das Baltikum und sogar Nahost dann der Einbruch dank Pandemie samt Umzügen von Sängerin/Bassistin Klára und Gitarrist Arne sowie Line-Up-Problemen am Drumhocker, die dann endlich mit Chris (bekannt von Nuctemeron, Diabolic Night, JT Ripper u. a.) beendet wurden. Mit ihm ging es 2023 dann sofort ins Studio zu Anton Hoyer (Deathrite) für die Aufnahmen zu „Invitation to a Funeral“, das brandneue Stücke bis zu Material aus Anfangstagen zu einem lange überfälligen Statement zusammenfügt, mit dem sich VICTIMS OF CLASSWAR eindrucksvoll zurück in die Metalpunklandschaft ballern.
Das Album kommt offiziell am 19. September 2025, es folgt eine Releaseshow am 27. September in Störnstein (Bayern) – die LP ist ab sofort vorbestellbar bei Bleeding Heart Nihilist Productions und Angry Voice Records!
Diskographie
2013: Split with Partiya - 12" Vinyl
2014: Split with W.H.A.T. - digital
2025: "Invitation to a Funeral" - Vinyl-LP-Album
Youtube-Hörprobe und Bandinfo: https://bleedingheartnihilist.de/music/de/group/music-roster/b-victims
Die ersten Europa-Termine sind weiter unten aufgeführt. Weitere Festival-Headline-Shows werden parallel auf https://www.ironmaiden.com/ und von den Festivals selbst bekannt gegeben. Es wird ein arbeitsreiches Jahr werden und daher in der Folge 2027 keine Maiden-Konzerte geben.
In Deutschland können sich Fans auf eine exklusive Headline-Show in der Heinz von Heiden Arena in Hannover freuen. Dort werden die britischen Heavy-Metal-Legenden vor 45.000 Zuschauern ihr 50-jähriges Bandjubiläum auf der nächsten Etappe einer Tour feiern, die schon jetzt als ihre spektakulärste jemals gilt.
Präsentiert wird die Show von EMP, Metal Hammer und Radio21.
Steve Harris betont:
„Wir alle lieben diese RUN FOR YOUR LIVES TOUR. Die Fans sind fantastisch, die Setlist ist perfekt für das 50-jährige Jubiläum, die Show ist wohl unsere beste aller Zeiten und die Nachfrage nach Tickets war unglaublich, sodass die Tour fast überall ausverkauft war und über eine Million Fans dabei waren. Deshalb dachten wir alle, wir sollten noch ein paar weitere Shows in Europa spielen, bevor wir später im Jahr in andere Teile der Welt aufbrechen.
Natürlich wird Simon Dawson wieder am Schlagzeug sitzen und sowohl er als auch die gesamte Band möchten sich bei unseren Fans für den großartigen Empfang bedanken, den ihr ihm auf der ersten Etappe dieser Tour bereitet habt.
Wir haben es schon immer genossen, auf Festivals zu spielen, vor allem, weil wir dort vor Menschen auftreten können, die nicht nur wegen uns da sind – und wir lieben diese Herausforderung! Deshalb haben wir beschlossen, in dieser Zeit so viele großartige Metal-Festivals wie möglich (wieder) zu besuchen. Außerdem werden wir in Stadien in Griechenland, Rumänien, der Slowakei und Bulgarien spielen, wo wir dieses Jahr noch nicht waren und wo wir es immer geliebt haben, vor den leidenschaftlichen Fans aufzutreten.”
Manager Rod Smallwood erklärt: „Wir waren absolut überwältigt von der unglaublich positiven Resonanz unserer Fans und der Mainstream-Medien auf den ersten Teil unserer RUN FOR YOUR LIVES TOUR. Wir wussten, dass wir eine besondere Show geschaffen hatten, aber die Energie all unserer Fans bei jedem einzelnen Konzert wurde von der Band aufgegriffen, und ich glaube, wir alle haben etwas wirklich Unvergessliches und unsere wohl beste Tour aller Zeiten erlebt. Während unserer gesamten Karriere spielten Festivals eine große Rolle, angefangen natürlich mit Rock in Rio 1985, da sie es uns ermöglichten, vor neuen Fans zu spielen und sie hoffentlich zu Maiden-Fans zu machen, was in Ermangelung von Radio oder Mainstream-Medien enorm dazu beitrug, unsere Fangemeinde zu vergrößern. Diese Tournee, die sich auf die meisten der bedeutenden Metal-Festivals Europas konzentriert, ist also auch ein großes Dankeschön an genau diese Festivals, die eine so wichtige Rolle in der fünfzigjährigen … und weiter laufenden … Geschichte von Iron Maiden gespielt haben.
Neben Osteuropa werden wir auch einige Stadionkonzerte in Regionen spielen, die wir bisher noch nicht besucht haben, darunter Hannover in Deutschland, Lyon-Décines in Frankreich und Mailand in Italien. In Mailand werden wir im legendären San Siro Stadion auftreten, der Heimat von AC und Inter Mailand, und werden, wie mir gesagt wurde, die erste Metal-Band sein, die dort jemals gespielt hat. Es ist immer toll, weitere neue Wege zu beschreiten – selbst nach all den Jahren!
Ihr werdet feststellen, dass im unten stehenden Tourplan für den 11. Juli nur 'UK SHOW' steht, und dafür gibt es einen guten Grund! Wir arbeiten an etwas Besonderem für unsere treuen Fans in UK, darunter eine Erweiterung unseres Eddie’s Dive Bar-Konzepts, das wir im letzten Jahr eingeführt haben ... also behaltet diesen Termin im Auge!
Fans werden auch bemerken, dass wir am Montag, 22. Juni, erneut in der Paris La Défense Arena auftreten werden, nachdem wir dort dieses Jahr bereits zwei ausverkaufte Konzerte vor 75.000 Fans gespielt haben... aber auch dafür gibt es einen guten Grund!
Ja, wir wissen, dass ihr danach gefragt habt, also werden wir diese besondere Show für euch und für die Nachwelt filmen! Wir haben uns für eine Indoor-Arena entschieden, um die Produktion optimal zur Geltung zu bringen und weil wir wissen, dass das Publikum in Paris für uns großartig ist und stets war. Deshalb haben wir uns entschlossen, nach Paris zurückzukehren und hoffen, dass die Fans dort uns noch immer sehen wollen! Es wird unsere 31. Show in Paris sein – und seit unserem ersten Besuch dort mit KISS im Jahr 1980 war es immer etwas Besonderes!
Ferner war es wirklich etwas ganz Besonderes, zu sehen, dass die überwiegende Mehrheit unserer Fans unsere Bitte, die Nutzung ihrer Handys bei unseren Konzerten stark einzuschränken, verstand und respektierte, sodass sie im Idealfall ihre Handys die ganze Zeit über in der Tasche ließen – insbesondere jene Fans mit Stehplätzen direkt vor der Bühne. Leider gab es bei einigen Konzerten Ausnahmen, aber insgesamt haben das Verständnis und das Miteinander unserer Fans einen enormen Unterschied für die Atmosphäre jeder Show gemacht und den Spaß für die Band und das gesamte Publikum gleichermaßen enorm gesteigert.
Während wir unsere Fans bitten, dies auch bei allen unseren Shows im Jahr 2026 beizubehalten, insbesondere in Paris, werden wir mit dem Unternehmen Yondr zusammenarbeiten, das handyfreie Räume schafft, in denen Fans eine sichere, verschließbare Tasche erhalten, in der sie ihr Handy jederzeit bei sich behalten können. Sie werden den ganzen Prozess im Endeffekt auch zum Vorteil von euch, unseren wunderbaren Fans, vereinfachen, denn ich bin mir sicher, dass ihr, genauso wie wir alle, nicht einen fertigen Konzertfilm sehen möchtet, in dem nur reihenweise Handybildschirme zu sehen sind. Daher werden wir, um unserem Filmteam zu helfen, den riesigen Saal in La Défense vollständig Yondr-handyfrei gestalten, um sicherzustellen, dass die Show – und natürlich auch ihr alle im Publikum – vor der Kamera so phänomenal wie möglich aussehen!
In der restlichen Venue bitten wir die Fans einmal mehr, ihre Handys in der Tasche zu lassen und die Show ‘im Moment’ zu genießen, anstatt ihre Handys in die Luft zu halten, um Teile davon zu filmen und damit alle um sich herum zu stören. Wenn also ein sogenannter Fan in eurer Nähe sich für etwas Besonderes hält und selbstsüchtig filmt, was er will, bittet ihn doch einfach – natürlich sehr höflich –, sich sein Handy irgendwo hin zu stecken, wo die Sonne nicht scheint!
Und, wie ich bereits erwähnt habe: Wir haben unsere Fans außerhalb Europas keineswegs vergessen und haben für euch noch ein paar große Ankündigungen für 2026 in petto. Seid versichert, dass wir nächstes Jahr so viele wie möglich von euch besuchen werden, bevor die Band 2027 eine wohlverdiente Tour-Pause einlegt.”
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES EUROPEAN TOUR DATES 2026
Mai 2026
23 Athen, GRIECHENLAND – OAKA
26 Sofia, BULGARIEN – Vasil Levski Stadium
28 Bucharest, RUMÄNIEN – Arena Națională
30 Bratislava, SLOWAKEI – Národný Futbalový Štadión
Juni 2026
02 Hannover, DEUTSCHLAND – Heinz von Heiden Arena
10 Amsterdam, NIEDERLANDE– Ziggo Dome
17 Mailand, ITALIEN – San Siro Stadium
22 Paris, FRANKREICH – Paris La Défense Arena
28 Lyon - Décines, FRANKREICH – Groupama Stadium
Juli 2026
07 Lissabon, PORTUGAL – Estádio da Luz
11 UK Headline-Show – Details folgen
Außerdem werden wir aufgrund der großen Beliebtheit der inklusiven, frei zugänglichen Eddie’s Official Pop-Up Dive Bars dieses Konzept in möglichst vielen Konzertstädten weiter ausbauen, um einen einzigartigen Rahmen für Fans zu schaffen, sich vor und nach dem Konzert zu treffen. Dort werden Trooper Beer und “Darkest Red”-Wein serviert; außerdem gibt es Essen, exklusive Merchandise-Artikel und weitere Specials.
Der Ticketverkauf für die bisher veröffentlichten Termine startet in der Woche ab dem 22. September.
Karten für die exklusive Hannover-Show gibt es ab Dienstag, 23. September, um 10:00 Uhr im Fanclub Presale, ab Mittwoch, 24. September, um 10 Uhr im Eventim Presale sowie im Anschluss im regulären VVK ab Samstag, 27. September, um 10 Uhr.
Zur Vorfreude können sich Fans mit der kürzlich veröffentlichten Dokumentation Behind The Scenes von EMP einen Blick hinter die Kulissen der Mega-Produktion verschaffen. Entstanden ist die Doku im Rahmen des Konzertes von IRON MAIDEN im Juli dieses Jahres in der VELTINS-Arena in Gelsenkirchen.
Von der Planung über den Aufbau bis hin zu dem Moment, wenn die Lichter angehen – ein einzigartiger Blick hinter die Kulissen einer legendären Band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Nujzo29dM
https://ironmaiden.com
Progressive
heavy metal band SPIRAL FRACTURE has released
their first single, “SOUL ALLEGIANCE”, alongside an official
music video, marking the first glimpse into their highly anticipated
debut album, GRACE IN DECAY, set for release on January 23,
2026, via Wormholedeath.
With “Soul Allegiance”, Spiral Fracture delivers a storm of raw emotion and heavy riff-driven catharsis. A dark, introspective dive into inner conflict, betrayal, and fractured identity, this is metal with meaning — unfiltered and unapologetic.
Stream the single here: https://orcd.co/sasingle
The band’s upcoming album, Grace in Decay, promises a dynamic exploration of the human condition through progressive and extreme metal influences.
Pre-save "Grace in Decay": https://orcd.co/graceindecay
About Spiral Fracture
Spiral Fracture is a progressive metal band that bridges the past and future of the genre. Their sound combines thunderous drums, soul-shaking bass, and atmospheric guitar work with a soaring alto vocalist, weaving primal emotion into a precise, genre-defying tapestry. Inspired by the Fibonacci spiral, their music reflects the fractures of modern society through a fusion of prog, rock, death, black, and power metal. With intricate guitar from David Givens, ferocious drumming from Brian Fisher, dynamic bass from Brian Tanner, and the melodic clarity of classically trained jazz vocalist Javier Ramos, the band is a magnetic force live. Now with Extreme Management Group, Spiral Fracture aims to connect with listeners and heal divides, one note at a time.
https://www.youtube.com/@spiralfracture
https://www.spiralfracturemetal.com
https://www.facebook.com/spiralfracturemusic
Stormcaller is available on CD, gatefold vinyl LP, and digital formats!
Krigsgrav released the following statement about Stormcaller:
"When we started writing the songs that would make up Stormcaller, our intention was to create the most complete Krigsgrav album that took something from every era of the band, while still pushing our sound forward. A culmination of the blackest hues, doomiest of dirges, and most soaring of lead guitars. We think we achieved that, but we also wrote the best album of our career thus far. We trust that when you hear it, you'll agree."
Track
Listing:
1. Huntress of the Fire Moon (feat. Jens Rydén)
2. Stormcaller
3. Twilight Fell
4. None Shall Remember Your Name
5. Bay of the Barghest
6. The Tonic of Wilderness
7. Ghosts
8. Womb:Death:Dawn
Album Credits:
All songs written, produced, and arranged by Krigsgrav.
Drums recorded by Sam Paquette at S.A.M. Studios.
Mixed and Mastered by Owe Inborr at Wolfthrone Studios.
Additional Engineering by Cody Daniels.
Cover Art by Adam Burke at Nightjar Illustration.
Guest Vocals on "Huntress of the Fire Moon" by Jens Rydén.
Album Layout and Design by Randi Matejowsky.
Line-up:
Justin Coleman - Guitar/Harsh Vocals
David Sikora - Drums/Clean Vocals
Wes Radvansky - Bass
Cody Daniels - Lead Guitar
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/krigsgrav
FORGOTTEN
PATHWAYS – “ SHROUDED IN MYSTERY”
• Noble Jewelcase Edition
• Limited Edition
• For the first time on CD format
One of the most important german dungeon synth artists from the 90's was without exception FORGOTTEN PATHWAYS The well known classic album Shrouded In Mystery was originally released on tape format in 1998. We are very pleased to present you the release for the first time on noble CD format. The booklet includes all infos and original scans/artwork. Oldschool Dungeon Synth from Germany.
Info
Salvaged from the depths of time, out of the cellars and dungeons, of the deadwood of vast forests and the ruins of castles long razed and deserted, DUNKELHEIT PRODUKTIONEN is proud to announce the re-release of FORGOTTEN PATHWAYS' first demo tape Shrouded In Mystery from 1998! Almost exactly 20 years after it was originally published on tape, it is now for the first time released exclusively as noble CD edition and several other fine details. The dark and haunting magic of this classic Dungeon Synth gem will entrance your soul and lead you on forgotten pathways through misty woods, to hidden places of the past and trap you in times long gone by. The spirit of 90s intros/interludes and of early Medieval Ambient becomes alive again!
This re-release includes the original artwork taken from the '98 demo tape, along with exclusive unreleased photos from the Shrouded In Mystery-Era. It features the full original track list, while also including unreleased bonus tracks from the late 90s.
https://dunkelheitprod.bandcamp.com/album/shrouded-in-mystery
https://www.dunkelheit-shop.com
7.11.2025 – 8.11.2025 Heerlen “Nieuwe Nor” NL
After two accomplished dark rituals in the region of Limburg, we are pleased to inform you that the black energies have united to present you the invocation of darkness by Rituals Over Limburg III. Dunkelheit Produktionen will bring you exclusively the gems and respected acts from Ritual Industrial, esoterics and occult path in general. The evocation of the darkest energies to call will take place on 7th & 8th November 2025. Once again, we promise to present to you the absolute pinnacle of that kind. On these sacred dates we are pleased to present you for the first time exclusively the dark spell not only from the north of europe, but from latin america. We are looking forward to see you on the event of the year...
Delve into the dark subconscious and reach for deathless light, as you participate in this two day event in Limburg, Holland, situated only a few minutes from the German border. As was the case before, we expect a large amount of guests from all over the world and tickets are limited - so be quick and place your order now!
TEATRO SATANICO (ITA)
SYSSELMANN (NOR)
HOR-CHERET (GER)
ENS IMPERFECTISSIMUM (MEX)
TEHOM (CRO)
OCCULT ODYSSEY (MEX)
APOPTOSE (GER)
EMME YA (COL)
RAISON D' ETRE (SWE)
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/852072210174008
Tickets: https://www.dunkelheit-shop.com
VEILBURNER - “LONGING FOR TRIUMPH, REEKING OF TRAGEDY”
Genre - Avantgarde
Death/Black Metal
For fans of - Blut aus Nord, Imperial Triumphant, Deathspell Omega, Hexrot, Oranssi Pazuzu, Akhyls, Akercocke
"Only a year after the release of their critically acclaimed "The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom" album, Veilburner are returning with their eighth full-length album, titled "Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy."
In the spirit of striking while the iron is hot, this eighth evolution of the Veilburner story capitalizes on momentum while simultaneously achieving new heights in their song-crafting and story-telling. It leads their characters on a journey in which they cannot recognize triumph without tragedy, and sees them residing somewhere between the abyss and their devotion to mortal re-occurrence, that which seems to attract death. They face not just any death, but the kind in which they are bound to an infinite loop of reincarnation and destined to repeat the same traumas and failures as before. They continue to suffer like two dragons consuming one another in a serpentine-like fashion until one can no longer consume the other, frozen in the shape of infinity (∞) and numerologically represented by the digit eight (8). Samael (the "poison of god" and the eighth sphere of the Qlippoth), as well as Choronzon (the dweller of the threshold) and the Ouroboros all correlate with this symbol of infinity and exist in Veilburner’s lore as the antagonistic and immutable eternity, which if confronted can lead to self-destruction and the finality of manifestation, permenantly breaking the loop.
Mephisto’s discordant cacophony of dripping notes and riff-filled rot remain foul as ever, yet undeniably addictive. The music twists and turns on itself in an auditory embodiment of the album's theme and takes the listener on a snaking, bending musical roller coaster that seemingly ends at the precipice of where it began, endlessly inviting another listen. Chrisom Infernium acts as a medium, casting shadows of hiss filled hymns that harken to the past call to the present channeling the chatter of choired cataclysms, creating doppelgängers of sonic dispersions which leave the listener to contemplate if they are willing to confront the thing they fear most, the true version of themselves."
Line up
Mephisto Deleterio - Music and production
Chrisom Infernium - Vocals, lyrics, and album design
Cover artwork by Luciana Nedelea
Track listing
1. Longing for Triumph...
2. Pestilent Niche
3. Rigor & Wraith
4. That Which Crypts Howls Grandeur
5. Da'ath Ye Shadow Portrait
6. Ouroboreal Whorl
7. Matter o' the Most Awful of Martyrs
8. ...Reeking of Tragedy
Official release date - November 14th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/veilburner
Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
Label: Fighter Records
Release date: october 7th 2025
Genre: Heavy/Speed Metal
For fans of: Judas Priest | Skullfist | Annihilator | Striker
It’s late 2015 in Québec City, Canada and guitarists Criss Raptör and Steve Force are discussing ideas for a new band with drummer Rick Wild. The beers are flowing and references are made to German speed metal, US power metal, fantasy, sci-fi and comic books. And then Rick Wild says “what if the band is called Ültra Raptör and we have a song that sings about Cadillacs and dinosaurs?” Cadillacs and dinosaurs? Was this a clever allusion to the nascent band’s blend of primeval speed and savagery with meticulous, precision playing? The meshing of ancient influences and modern power? Or was it just an outburst of alcohol fuelled metal madness? Whatever the thought, or lack of it, behind that fateful statement it set another great Canadian metal band on their way! Steve Force and the inspirational Rick Wild took their leave of Ültra Raptör after 2018s self titled EP, but Criss Raptör is still there and the band are going from strength to strength. Debut album Tyrants really announced the heavy/speed metal strike force to the world in the winter of 2021 and now the Cadillac driving dinosaurs are back with album number two – the incendiary Fossilized!
Fossilized begins with its title track and Ültra Raptör immediately lay down the blue print for all that is to follow – ripping, melodic speed metal riffs, crisp, punching drums, magnificent choruses and blinding solos that scythe through the heart of the song. It’s a breathless beginning, a massive adrenaline injection and rush of excitement. ‘Spinosaurus’ and ‘Hard ‘n Fast’ follow in quick succession, lead by Phil T. Lung’s incredible high pitched screams and characterful vocals, delivering hooks and melodies to die for. The classic metal sounds of these songs make them feel like old friends after a single listen. They’re not derivative; it’s just that Ültra Raptör seem to have a direct line to the pure essence of metal. Songs like ‘Ptero-Ranger’ make you want to headbang and air guitar like you did in the days before you became jaded and cynical - Ültra Raptör make the magic of metal new again! The quality of Fossilized stays in the stratosphere right to the end with the thundering drums and twisting, turning riffs of ‘Down The Drain’ and the uplifting metal anthem that is ‘Face The Challenge’ with its wonderful chorus. So many great riffs…so many brilliant solos…so many sensational choruses and melodies…Fossilized is the epitome of energized, exhilarating metal. Ültra Raptör have delivered a classic!
Recorded, mixed and mastered by David Lizotte (Saccage, Warning Sign etc) Fossilized has the perfect balance between raw and raging energy and clarity and definition of sound. When you add to that the insane artwork of Mario E. Lopez M (Evil Invaders, Crystal Viper, Heavy Load etc) then you have everything a metal hungry headbanger could ask for. Fighter Records will release Fossilized on October 7th on CD, 12"LP, Cassette & Digital formats and the impact on the metal scene will be seismic! The Raptör is back!
Line-up:
Phil T. Lung - vocals
Criss Raptör – lead guitar
Zoltan Saurus – rhythm guitar
Dick Van Heuß – bass
Tony Bronco – drums
http://www.fighter-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/UltraRaptor
The first single from GOAD'S new album "DUSKETHA" is "DAISY' ROCK", a wonderful piece of Progressive Rock between dream, magic, poetry, and unique melodies.
The song is available at https://youtu.be/rTOYfi2wnl8 and of course on all the digital platforms.
"Daisy' Rock" is taken from "Dusketha", GOAD's new album, out on October 10th as a double CD and digital format, and represents a twilight journey composed by the soul of the band, Maurilio Rossi, once again inspired by the great voices of Anglo-American poetry: Keats, Poe, Lovecraft, Masters, Graham.
The album features 18 tracks for nearly two hours of pure art and it's the voice of shadows that think, the breath of lost poems, every note is a fragment of eternity, and the analog tape used for the recordings preserves its magic.
After over 50 years of career, GOAD continue to surprise us, and they do so in the most sublime way possible.
GOAD, the history of Italian Prog!
This is the tracklist of "Dusketha" the double CD by GOAD:
Disc 1
1. Yes It Was Love (Message From A Cathedral)
2. One Of These Days (Is There Still Day)
3. Alone Man In Empty Room
4. Poor Skull (Reverend Brothers)
5. Daisy' Rock
6. To An After Time My Harmonies
7. And Still We'll Dance Into The Light Of Heaven
8. My Feet In The Breaking Wave Sundown
9. Give It Not A Tear
Disc 2
1. Stop And Consider Life Is But A Day
2. While I Kiss To The Melody (Night Sleepy Eyes)
3. Hush My Love (Lullaby For A Woman)
4. The Speed Of My Nightmares
5. Let Out Song
6. Finally Remembering I'm Dead
7. Garden With Spectral Gleams
8. Foxsteps On My Nylon Guitar
9. The Woodkeeper, A Collar Of Red (bonus track)
"Dusketha" is available in PRE-ORDER at: https://t.ly/BkVeb
This is what Maurilio wanted to tell us about the journey that led to the birth of this new creation:
"Dusketha" for me represents a sort of sonorous ritual between poetry and shadow, the sound of an inner twilight, where poetry merges with unconventional harmonies and sometimes visionary arrangements.
The primordial idea for this album is the product of a journey that began in 1993... With it, I tried to give a sound to the original texts of John Keats, Edgar Lee Masters, H.P. Lovecraft, E.A. Poe, Jorie Graham, and others, and to do so, I searched for a warm, vibrant sound. After various experiments, aided by Max Cirone and his vast experience, we came to the conclusion that we needed to return to the use of "old" instruments and production methods, such as the Maxell UD 25-120 magnetic tape and the Akai GX4000D recorder, as well as the use of "tape bounce" to give the whole thing a "vintage" aesthetic. I must admit that the result was surprising, and I'm convinced that whoever listens to it will be transported into a deep and immersive experience like rarely happens."
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/MaurilioRossiGoad
Oradea,
Romania-based Grindcore veterans SPIRITUAL RAVISHMENT have
announced the long-awaited release of their second full-length album, "EXIT
HUMANITY", in collaboration with Loud Rage Music.
Originally recorded in 2015 at Postanalog Studio (Oradea) and Consonance Studio (Timișoara), the album was mixed by Andrei Jumugă and Tudor Scânteie, then mastered by Jumugă in 2016. Despite being scheduled for release nearly a decade ago, unforeseen circumstances forced the record into indefinite limbo... until now.
Earlier this year, the band re-emerged with two singles, "Harbringer" (watch here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK347OQY5jA and "Enemy Mine" (watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TkfWcXEJrk, building anticipation for "Exit Humanity".
At last, the official release date has been set for October 18th, 2025, which also marks the return of SPIRITUAL RAVISHMENT to the live stage.
Pre-order "Exit Humanity" here: https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-ravishment-exit-humanity
In preparation for the album launch and live comeback, the band has also unveiled its refreshed line-up, featuring long-time friend and collaborator Cosmin Purge on vocals.
SPIRITUAL RAVISHMENT 2025 line-up:
Cosmin Purge – vocals
Stancu Sebastian – vocals, bass
Andrei Bejușca – guitars
Andrei Jumugă – drums
To further raise the stakes, a brand-new single from "Exit Humanity" has just been released as a lyric video, "GRINDIMUS PRIME": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYb59jqhg5A
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/SpiritualRavishment/
SOUL
GRINDER – “FROZEN HALLS”
Release: 16. October 2025
With “Frozen Halls,” the Bremen-based death metal band SOUL GRINDER presents its third full-length album—and a real heavyweight at that. In recent years, the band has established itself as a fixture in the German death metal scene, not least through countless club and festival shows, and has been more than just an “insider tip” since its previous album, if not before.
With their latest album, the trio picks up exactly where they left off with “Anthems From The Abyss”: uncompromising death metal, from blast speed attacks and groovy steamrollers to mystical hymns.
https://www.facebook.com/soulgrindermetal
https://www.facebook.com/MDDShop
The fifth single 'REMEMBRANCE' is out today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/def-remembrance
The band comments:
"Remembrance" is a piece about awakening to the present moment and the inner transformation between eras. It invites us to pause, look back at the past, and recognize its impact on the present and the future. The piece weaves together regret and hope. It is, in a way, a journey toward meaning and renewal."
Biography:
Dead End Finland is a melodic metal band from Helsinki founded in 2007. The lineup, which has remained unchanged since the beginning, has enabled the band's sound to develop into its current rich form. Dead End Finland is difficult to place into any specific genre, and in the songs you can hear tones from classical music to death metal. During the years, the band's style has become even more bombastic and melodic. The compositions have gained more depth and insight. The upcoming sixth album takes the band in a more modern direction, although Dead End Finland's recognizable sound and basic elements are still easily heard.
Line-up:
Mikko Virtanen - Vocals
Santtu Rosén - Guitars & Bass
Miska Rajasuo - Drums
Jarno Hänninen - Keys
http://www.deadendfinland.com
http://facebook.com/deadendfinland
"Horizonless" will be available everywhere on September 19.
After completing the final objective and rising from the ashes of the recently self-immolated GRIDLINK,
Takafumi Matsubara and Bryan Fajardo now set mission coordinates towards BARREN PATH.
Recruiting Maruta/Shock Withdrawal vocalist Mitchell Luna and re-enlisting grindcore commandos Mauro Cordoba and Rory Kobzina from the Coronet Juniper sessions, this operation requires relinquishing high tech weaponry. Only use of rudimentary blades, precision blast strikes, and amplified guttural attacks is allowed.
BARREN PATH elevate the flailing savagery of their genre through mincing, precise volleys of melodic and dissonant passages that rip and tear like a swarm of shurikens.
By turns cruelly effective and strangely vulnerable, Grieving is a statement release by a new standard-bearer in grindcore.
This is music for a vicious, unforgiving world.
Grieving will be released on CD, vinyl LP, and digital formats on October 31 via Willowtip Records.
Pre-order:
https://metalinjection.net/new-music/barren-path-gridlink-maruta-streams-devastating-single-horizonless
https://barrenpath.bandcamp.com/album/grieving
Track
Listing:
1. Whimpering Echo
2. Subversion record
3. Primordial Black
4. No Geneva
5. Isolation Wound
6. The Insufferable Weight
7. Relinquish
8. The Unreliable Narrator
9. Celestial Bleeding
10. Lunar Tear
11. Horizonless
12. In the End… The Gift is Death
Credits:
Vocals recorded by Phil Vera (DESPISE YOU, CROM) at Veracuda studios, Los Angeles, CA.
Drums and guitar tracked by Irving Lopez (COGNIZANT, TRUCIDO) at Anomalous Mind Recordings, Dallas, TX.
Mixed by Irving Lopez at Anomalous Mind Recordings, Dallas, TX.
Mastered by Leon Del Muerte (IMPALED, EXHUMED, MURDER CONSTRUCT) at Beastman Audio, Portland, OR.
Line-up:
Takafumi Matsubara : Guitar
Bryan Fajardo : Drums
Mitchell Luna: Vocals
Rory Kobzina : Guitar
Mauro Cordoba: Bass
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/people/Barren-Path/61579110541664/
Melodic
death-metal outfit SELIAS has unveiled their
brand-new single and video “BULLETS”, the first strike from
their upcoming album KILLKARMA, set for release on November
7, 2025.
"Bullets" hits like a metallic gut punch — no filler, just pure force. Inspired by the unforgiving grind of fight culture, it's a double-edged title: both literal and psychological. BULLETS dives into the fighter’s mindset — the kill-or-be-killed mentality, the hunger to dominate, to take what’s yours. It’s not just powerful. It’s purposeful. Ruthless. Respected.
Stream “Bullets”: https://orcd.co/bulletssingle
With Killkarma, SELIAS pushes further into melodic brutality and atmospheric depth, drawing inspiration from In Flames, Soilwork, Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, and Orbit Culture. Their 2025 live shows are already showcasing the new material with full-scale performances of sound, light, and intensity.
Pre-save the album Killkarma: https://orcd.co/killkarma
About SELIAS
Formed in 2020 by guitarist Steve Elias, SELIAS fuses aggression with atmosphere, precision, and emotion. Rounded out by Guilliaume Pascal (vocals/keys), Daniel Bouwman (drums), and Jeff Hyde (bass), the band delivers a cinematic metal experience that bridges classic death metal ferocity with modern melodic edge.
www.youtube.com/@seliasmetal
www.facebook.com/seliasmetal
FUNERAL VOMIT – “UPHEAVAL OF NECROMANCY”
Label: Xtreem Music
Release date: december 19th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Autopsy | Grave | Mortician | Grave Desecrator
In the grand mausoleums of the world, in the forgotten plague pits and paupers’ graves, in the country churchyards and on the ancient battlefields where bones and steel lie submerged in time and mud…there is a stirring. Whispered words of summoning beyond the range of human hearing or understanding follow the worms into remains long still and silent. Powers from far deeper than the oldest grave are calling, calling for the forgotten to awake…
“He’s dead? Not anymore…” - Herbert West, Reanimator
Formed in the time of the global pandemic, Colombia’s Funeral Vomit have been spewing forth their particular brand of death metal sickness since 2020. They joined Xtreem Music in 2023 for the release of their debut full length album, Monumental Putrescence, which was followed in 2024 by an expanded reissue of their 2022 self titled EP. Now it’s time for the second album from Funeral Vomit, the second tome of monstrosities and malignancy – Upheaval Of Necromancy!
‘Intro (The Disentombment)’ leads you with beckoning claw and dire imprecations into the subterranean world of Funeral Vomit, where nothing is quite as dead as it seems – and from that atmospheric beginning all hell is unleashed! Title track, ‘Upheaval Of Necromancy’ erupts from the darkness with immense, cavernous vocals and guitars dusted in the last remains of the long, long dead. This is fetid death metal from the grave, a classic invocation of the ancient arts of death. There is no let up from the claustrophobic horror as ‘Sulphuric Regurgitation’, a rumbling war machine of unspeakably malicious intent gouges deep grooves into your flesh and the primitive horror of ‘Hematophagia’ pursues you through lightless catacombs, hungry for blood. Even ‘Interlude (Mortuary Ecstasy)’ is less a respite and more a promise of far, far worse to come...like ‘Cryptic Miasma Stench’, a monumental piece of soul devouring death metal, with screaming leads and crushing weight. After the scouring guitar riffs and colossal, bludgeoning bass and drums of ‘Rancid Insorcism’, ‘Outro (Effluvia Of The Mass Grave)’ settles into your mind, letting you know that while you may have reached the conclusion of Upheaval Of Necromancy, the Funeral Vomit nightmare will never end.
Xtreem Music will release Upheaval Of Necromancy on December 19th, the same fateful date on which Monumental Putrescence was exhumed, three years ago. Available on CD, 12” LP, Cassette and Digital formats, there will be no escaping this call from the grave!
Line-up:
Y. Lopez – Guitar
C. Monsalve - Guitar/ Vocals
H. Montaño - Bass guitar
J. Carvajal – Drums
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/funeral.vomit
Watch the lyric video for "Old Man Abaddon" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_erC9pq4eQ
For fans of monstrous riffs, horror-inspired visuals, and genre-bending metal.
False Prophets is set for release on October 29.
Fully formed in 2024, PRECIOUS BLOOD brings together three veterans of the NYC scene - AJ – guitar, vocals (Jesus Knevil, Snake Canyon), Dave Kramer – bass, vocals (Blood Feast, Suaka, Stanley), and Grace Perez – drums, vocals (The Wickedexorcist). The band’s shared love of doom and underground metal is expressed in an unholy concoction of rum-soaked riffs, brutal lyrics, and mystical tribal sounds.
With a signature sound best described as Blackened Caribbean Doom, PRECIOUS BLOOD delivers a unique blend of doom and thrash metal influenced tone, mixed with lyrical themes that draw profound inspiration from the enduring spirit of the Caribbean, shaped by brutal history of colonization, unwavering resilience of its people, and exploration of the darker aspects of human existence, including death, contemplation of mortality and the complexities of human suffering.
Tracklist:
1) False Prophets
2) Bludgeoned & Charred
3) Footsteps of Babylon
4) Shadow of the Cross
5) Cemetery Burn
6) Old Man Abaddon
7) El Muerte
8) Whore’s Grave
False Prophets was recorded and mixed by Joe Hogan at Captain’s Cove Catskills Studios with mastering and additional engineering by AJ Tissian (The Wave Lab). The album was produced by Joe Hogan and PRECIOUS BLOOD. Album cover photo by Mia. Cover layout by PRECIOUS BLOOD.
Line-Up:
AJ -Guitar, Vocals
Grace Perez - Drums, Backing Vocals
Dave Kramer - Bass, Backing Vocals
https://linktr.ee/preciousbloodband
The
Finnish black metal band VERILEHTO is set to release
their second album AARNIHAUTA on November 28th 2025 via Inverse
Records.
The first single and music video also titled AARNIHAUTA is unleashed today: https://push.fm/fl/verilehto-aarnihauta
"After joining Verilehto, the first song I took on was Aarnihauta. I immediately knew what kind of playing I wanted for that song and built the bass sound for the album somewhat in the spirit of Testament's Practice what You Preach album. Aarnihauta song like the whole album, features some playing from me that deviates a bit from the usual black metal style, but it remains to be seen how listeners will receive it. The overall sound is definitely our "style," meaning rough but beautiful." Says Markus Räipiö
Biography:
The Finnish melodic black metal band Verilehto is back with a new album, Aarnihauta. The album title translates as 'hidden grave in the forest', which is a fitting description of the band's second album.
Verilehto plays Finnish 90s-style black metal, characterised by melodic and aggressive riffs, raw vocals, and an eerie overall tone. The Finnish folklore-inspired lyrics fit well with the band's versatile riffs, and the songs vary from fast blastbeats to slower storytelling elements.
This album also sees a change in Verilehto's line-up, with Markus Räppiö from Kaira joining the crew. With Markus on bass, Janne Partanen (Hautajaisyö, Alfa Pentatonik, Marraskuun Lapset, Paavalin Harhat) on vocals, and Janne Tuikkala (Muria & Dawn of Everwinter) on guitars, drums and synth, the band is stronger than ever.
'Aarnihauta' sees the band continuing to evolve from their debut album 'Kuoleman Siipien Havina' by focusing on their own sound and style. The album is not overly polished, and has a good raw quality to the production, but this is not the main focus. It was recorded by the band themselves in 2024–25.
The album artwork was created by the talented Awinita Alm, and the single artwork was created by the band. The "Aarnihauta" video was filmed in 2024 and edited by Janne Tuikkala and Markus Räppiö.
Track list:
01. Surutta Tapettu
02. Nälänhätä
03. Aarnihauta
04. Kalman Sotajuokko
05. Tuhkaverho
06. Syöjätär
07. Virvatulet
Artwork by Awinita Alm
Line-up:
Janne Tuikkala - Guitars, Drums, Synths
Janne Partanen - Vocals
Markus Räipiö - Bass & Backing Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/verilehto
Technical
extreme metal band VANGUARDIAN releases its
experimental final single "DEAD SPACE" from
the upcoming album III: INHUMANITY.
Tracklist
01. Gathering Momentum
02. Peripherals
03. ..In Humanity
04. LI-2 XA-1
05. Dead Space
06. Lost In Endeavour
07. Demolition Hour
08. Electric Sorrow
09. Inner Sanctum
All tracks:
Composers: Mikko Saviranta, Tino Jäntti, Markus Martinmäki, Sakari Soisalo
Lyricist: Markus Martinmäki
Arrangement: Vanguardian
Producer: Vanguardian
In the song, the schizophrenic android "LI-2 XA-1" who gained consciousness earlier in the album, flies through space toward the first habitable planet with the intention of conquering it for the human race.
Dead Space depicts loneliness and a journey into the unknown. The song's story has been influenced by Arthur C. Clarke, E. Schrödinger, D. Simmons, and others. The song was produced by Vanguardian.
Jami Honkala was responsible for mixing and mastering.
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, Bandcamp, YouTube etc.): https://push.fm/fl/vanguardian-deadspace
Vanguardian is:
Markus Martinmäki – Vocals
Tino Jäntti – Drums
Mikko Saviranta – Guitar
Sakari Soisalo - Bass
https://www.facebook.com/vanguardianofficial
Death
metal outfit UMULAMAHRI will unleash its debut album - LEARNING
THE SECRETS OF ACID - this fall on Ordovician Records.
Pushing the limits of extreme music into stranger and more corrosive territories, UMULAMAHRI is comprised of a formidable lineup of underground innovators. The band features Andrew Hawkins of Baring Teeth and Doug Moore of Pyrrhon, Seputus, Glorious Depravity, and Weeping Sores. Session drummer Kevin Paradis adds his trademark percussive firepower to the band's sound.
Learning the Secrets of Acid is a densely cerebral excursion into warped riffs, fractured rhythms, and unyielding intensity. The album redefines the framework of death metal, crafting something volatile, unpredictable, and deeply unsettling.
Ordovician Records will release Learning the Secrets of Acid on digital and vinyl formats on October 1. Pre-order at https://ordovicianrecords.bandcamp.com/
Tracklist:
1) Rot Shall Rule The Oily Voids
2) Bursting With Life's True Fruit
3) VVVVRMS
4) Orifice Invocation
5) Leaked Photo Of Heaven
https://umulamahri.bandcamp.com/album/learning-the-secrets-of-acid-2
Check out the "Emmett" video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSnNXK0m6nY
"Emmett" will be available September 19 on all streaming platforms.
The
critical response to the band's previous album, Woe, was nothing short
of phenomenal! Black Metal Daily called it "An absolutely fucking
herculean masterstroke" (10/10), while Metal-Only minced no words in
dubbing it a "Masterpiece" (10/10). As such, the anticipation for the
epic follow-up, The Sleeping City, has been sky high!
The Sleeping City, AN ABSTRACT ILLUSION’s third full-length album, utilizes their unique blend of progressive death metal and black metal with arpeggiating synths, wistful drones and vast soundscapes, harkening back to the era of 80’s sci-fi soundtracks. Being the band’s most atmospheric and heavy work to date, the album explores the depths of the human psyche and suffering. A decrepit yet monumental landmark, the sleeping city awaits ahead. Will you enter?
The band comments on the forthcoming album:
“When we compose an album we don't want it to just be a collection of random songs, we want a holistic theme coursing through the album's veins. When writing The Sleeping City we wanted to explore what the soundtrack to a dystopian sci-fi film, such as Blade Runner or Terminator, would sound like if it were written by a death metal band.
For The Sleeping City, we took inspiration from acts such as Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine, Kite, Ólafur Arnalds and Boards of Canada, pushing us to expand and refine our sound palette. Going from the long-song format of Woe, it was a fun challenge to once again write self-contained songs with a clear beginning and end.
During the creation of this album we worked with a great team of collaborators. Produced by the band’s own Karl Westerlund, The Sleeping City was once again mixed and mastered by Robin Leijon. Drums were recorded and produced by Jakob Herrmann (Devin Townsend, Evergrey, VOLA, Vildhjärta) at the legendary Top Floor Studios in Gothenburg, who has captured some of our all-time favorite drum tones. The gorgeous artwork, a homage to early black metal's painted artworks, was done by Alex Eckman-Lawn (Horrendous, Afterbirth, Woe, Nero Di Marte). We also worked with amazing musicians who provided us with beautiful strings and vocals.
With The Sleeping City we truly feel we’ve elevated our craft beyond anything we’ve done before and can’t wait for its release. Thank you all for your continued support!”
Willowtip will release The Sleeping City on October 17. The album will be available on CD, Limited Longbox CD, 2xLP vinyl, and digital formats.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/tsc-willowtip
https://anabstractillusion.bandcamp.com/album/the-sleeping-city
Track Listing:
1. Blackmurmur
2. No Dreams Beyond Empty Horizons
3. Like A Geyser Ever Erupting
4. Frost Flower
5. Emmett
6. Silverfields
7. The Sleeping City
Line-up:
Christian Berglönn - Lead Vocals
Robert Stenvall - Keyboards, Vocals
Karl Westerlund - Guitars, Bass
Isak Nilsson - Drums, Background Vocals
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://linktr.ee/AnAbstractIllusion
Avant-garde metal band NOW I'VE DONE IT has made history with the release of the world's first analog lyric video. The video for the band's newest single, "PANACHE," was entirely hand-written and filmed in one take. No edits and no AI.
Watch for yourself at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-zmb-WXgYw
Drummer Dan Reynolds comments on the song, which features Tyler Fedeli, lead singer of prog-power metal band Lör, on trumpets, "We've assembled all the ingredients of the past and the future to put this song firmly in the Now. The lyric video is the result of countless hours of practice to achieve a flawlessly executed hand-written product."
"Panache" is the second single off the band's forthcoming debut album, AN ILL GUEST. The album is set for release on October 17. Pre-order the album at https://nowivedoneit.bandcamp.com/album/an-ill-guest
What, or who, is NOW I’VE DONE IT? Four words. One way to live.
NOW: The present. Be the Now.
I’VE: I. Have. Contract. Take ownership. Seize the Now.
DONE: What’s done is done, and what hasn’t been will become done. What has become done has become the present… which is Now.
IT: What is It? It is Everything. It is Now.
Track
list:
1. Disillusion
2. Dilly-Dally
3. Offering
4. Ruffled
5. Panache
6. Collywobbles
7. Muddled
8. Splinter
9. Jim-Jams
10. Kindling
Artwork painted by Eliran Kantor.
An Ill Guest was produced, mixed, mastered, and engineered by Peter Hraur.
Bio:
NOW I’VE DONE IT (stylized as NiDi) began in 2010 by high school friends, multi-instrumentalist Peter Hraur, and drummer Dan Reynolds. The two set out to create music that was a unique reflection of what they love about music: high energy but heavy, fun but dramatic, and funny without being a joke. With a rebellious DIY attitude, they scraped together whatever cheap recording equipment they could afford and put together their first demo of three avant-garde inspired metal tracks, aptly titled Rigamarole. The band would go on to spend years playing in the greater Philadelphia region, offering a theatrical, energetic, yet earnest live show, performing with such acts as Parius, Alustrium, Polkadot Cadaver, and more.
Peter and Dan took a "say yes" attitude while crafting An Ill Guest, resulting in 10 tracks filled to the brim with the kind of personality that can only result when two lifelong friends disregard convention and have a little too much fun in the writing room. Over the years of performing, the band has received phenomenal feedback, being described as "the most fun I've had at a live show," and inspiring listeners to dive into their own art with renewed energy.
The band’s hope is for this release to act as a radar to all those who want something a little different. It's bold and risk-taking, heavy and dramatic, but fun and extravagant. It's weird music for weird people.
https://www.facebook.com/nowivedoneitofficial
The Finnish death metal band WOUNDED IN FOREST is set to unleash their debut EP 'ANTIHUMAN ARTIST' on December 5th 2025 via Inverse Records.
The first single 'GODSPEED FILTHY WARRIOR' is released today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/wounded-in-forest-godspeed
“ Godspeed Filthy Warrior’ marks the antihero’s return home from war — not to peace, but to settle a violent score with his own family. Haunted by the whispers of his inner demons, he carries the weight of the battlefield into his own bloodline. The song captures that moment when revenge has become inevitable, and morality has long since rotted away. Every word in the lyrics drips with resentment and bittersweet triumph, and the outro’s spoken monologue reveals his fractured reasoning — part justification, part confession. It’s the sound of a man consumed by violence, standing at the point of no return.”-Joni Moisanen
“Musically, ‘Godspeed Filthy Warrior’ is one of the most straight-ahead tracks on the EP, following a verse–chorus–verse structure at a steady 180bpm. The chorus blends double bass drumming with blast beats under a surprisingly melodic guitar riff, leaning toward a more modern or melodic death metal sound. That contrast — the violence in the drums and the melody in the guitars — mirrors the clash between rage and twisted self-reflection in the story. The outro is one of my favorite moments on the record: the antihero’s voice shifts to an almost theatrical monologue, justifying his actions through a storm of conflicting emotions.”-Jussi Tuomisto
Biography:
Wounded In Forest is a death metal band from Oulu, Finland, born from tragedy and reborn with a sharpened edge. Formed in 2023 following the death of the drummer from a previous project that had lasted over 15 years, the surviving members regrouped with a stripped-down, more direct musical vision. Every member took on a new role or instrument to forge something raw and uncompromising — an outlet for grief, rage, and reflection.
Musically rooted in old school death metal, Wounded in Forest blends the primal ferocity of early ’90s death metal with a conceptual storytelling approach. Their lyrics, written in English, revolve around one fictional narrative per release, each grounded in a real event or period from Finnish history. Themes of violence, war, trauma, and moral decay are explored with unflinching intensity.
The band’s upcoming debut EP, Antihuman Artist, is set during the Great Wrath in the early 1700s — a time of Russian occupation and widespread atrocities in Finland. The EP tells the disturbing story of an individual shaped by violence — born into abuse, sent to war, and ultimately transformed into a serial killer who expresses himself by creating grotesque art from the remains of his victims.
Wounded in Forest’s dual-vocalist setup deepens their storytelling Joni Moisanen delivers classic low-end death metal growls, while Miikka Pyykkönen unleashes high-pitched shrieks more akin to black metal. This contrast creates a dynamic narrative texture, with each voice representing different facets of the characters and their descent into darkness.
Musically, the band combines relentless blast beats, simple but sinister riffing, and shifting rhythmic patterns that keep listeners on edge. Guitarists Joni Moisanen and Joonas Kokkoniemi mix chugging riffs, open-picked chords, and black metal-style tremolo passages with the occasional technical flourish. Drummer Jussi Tuomisto drives the chaos with aggressive blasts and constantly evolving grooves that mirror the tension in each story.
For fans of old school Death Metal with a conceptual twist, Wounded In Forest offers stories carved from something raw and real. These are stories steeped in blood, rooted in Finnish soil, and delivered straight from the heart of the forest.
Track
list:
1. The Growth
2. Take the Son of a Bitch
3. Virent Carnes
4. Godspeed Filthy Warrior
5. Altar of Needles
6. The Last Leg
Music, lyrics & arrangements by Jussi Tuomisto
Artwork by Jussi Tuomisto
Line-up:
Joni Moisanen (guitar, vox)
Miikka Pyykkönen (bass, vox)
Joonas Kokkoniemi (guitar)
Jussi Tuomisto (drums)
https://woundedinforest.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/woundedinforest
Psycosmic
Death Grinders, NEFAS (featuring members of Cryptic
Gallbladder Splatter, Bedlam of Cacophony, Teeth, and Wax
People), have released a lyric video for "SPIRAL DEGRADATION,"
a track from recently released debut EP, OBLATION OV OBLITERATION.
FFO: Earlier works of Cephalic Carnage, Intronaut, and Gojira.
Check it out at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMJ5e-4FUAY
With seasoned experience across the technical, dissonant, and mathematical landscapes of metal, the band's sonic statement of malicious intent, Oblation ov Obliteration, is a unique offering composed of churning death metal inspired riffs; ever shifting grooves; monstrous howls, shrieks, and yells; and the sonic representations of the undoing of reality.
Track Listing:
1. Xenomorphic
2. Spiral Degradation
3. Mindstream Transference
Credits:
Produced, engineered, and edited by Samur Khouja at Seahorse Sound Studios in Los Angeles, California.
Mixed and mastered by Erol Ulug at Bright Lights Studio.
All album art and layout: Moonroot Art.
Line-up:
Erik Burkhead-Fernandez - Vocals
Rusty Kennedy - Bass
Rajan Davis - Guitar
Alejandro Aranda - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/nefasmusic
Wormholedeath is proud to announce the release of “JE SUIS ZAT”, the explosive new music video from Belgian electro-fun-metal project BOUM PATAT. The track is taken from the band’s upcoming debut album MA BELGITUDE, set for release 31 October 2025.
“Je Suis Zat” is BOUM PATAT’s wild, bilingual anthem about the highs and hangovers of party life. Driven by pounding riffs, infectious chants, and sharp lyrics, it’s a cheeky yet honest take on booze, ego, and morning-after regrets. Equal parts chaotic and clever, the song captures both the reckless thrill of letting go and the sobering clarity that follows.
Pre-save "Ma Belgitude": https://orcd.co/mabelgitude
Line up:
Olivier Wittenberg – vocals, songwriter, composer, producer, instruments
Jérémie Vasile – guitar
About:
BOUM PATAT is the new electro fun metal project by Belgian musician Olivier Wittenberg, former drummer-composer of Manic Movement. In the 2000s, he toured Europe with bands like Kreator, Moonspell, and Psychotic Waltz, and played major festivals such as Graspop Metal Meeting.
After a long break, he returns with Ma Belgitude, a self-produced solo debut that blends heavy metal, Belgian humor, and old-school electronic sounds. BOUM PATAT breaks metal’s usual codes—serious and absurd at once, mixing groove, industrial, and electronic punch with offbeat themes and playful visuals.
Live, the project becomes a trio with Laurent Soulasse (bass) and Maxime Demulder (drums).
www.facebook.com/BOUMPATAT
Sentient
Ruin is proud to announce that after over a decade, we can finally
release "...TOWARDS DOOM...", the debut album
by Vancouver's bestial black metal punks DEATHWINDS on
vinyl and digital formats (after the CD and tape formats were released earlier
this year by Headsplit Records).
"...Towards Doom..." reopens the gates to an unholy dominion of chaos cleansed in nuclear vice. Casting the listener back to a dark age of primitivism and savagery, on the long-awaited debut long player the Canadian war-punk horde invoke the legend of bands like Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Discharge, Doom, Black Witchery
and Blasphemy to summon an apocalyptic twilight of destruction. The original core lineup of Bestial Desolator on drums (Encoffinate, Radioactive Vomit, Temple of Abandonment) and of Nocturnal Black on guitars and vocals (Ceremonial Bloodbath, Nightfucker, Radioactive Vomit) is joined on bass by Nuclear Hammer Throne
(Ahna, Ceremonial Bloodbath, Encoffinate, Grave Infestation, Temple of Abandonment, The Nausea), replacing original bassist Filth Destroyer, to embody the band’s most sanguinary incarnation yet and christen its most pestilent abomination. Wielded like a war mace in a post-nuclear new neolithic age, these eleven songs bludgeon with merciless cruelty and barbarity as the hands of time are rolled back to re-embody black metal and punk’s most primeval instincts of destruction. Discharge's, Hellhammer’s and Celtic Frost’s iconic chainsawing guitars reincarnate into a new weapon of annihilation, instigated into absolute chaos and carnage by a thunderous onslaught of barbaric hammer beats, merciless blasting and disemboweled screams. A dense, death-bearing atmosphere of lead and toxic fumes overhangs the blasted plains and scorched dominion, underpinning the album's foul aura of belligerence and evoking visions of end-time turmoil and of a collapsing society being sent back to a feral age ruled only by lawlessness and cruelty. Bloodbath, Nightfucker, Radioactive Vomit) is joined on bass by Nuclear Hammer Throne (Ahna, Ceremonial Bloodbath, Encoffinate, Grave Infestation, Temple of Abandonment, The Nausea), replacing original bassist Filth Destroyer, to embody the band’s most sanguinary incarnation yet and christen its most pestilent abomination. Wielded like a war mace in a post-nuclear new neolithic age, these eleven songs bludgeon with merciless cruelty and barbarity as the hands of time are rolled back to re-embody black metal and punk’s most primeval instincts of destruction. Discharge's, Hellhammer’s and Celtic Frost’s iconic chainsawing guitars reincarnate into a new weapon of annihilation, instigated into absolute chaos and carnage by a thunderous onslaught of barbaric hammer beats, merciless blasting and disemboweled screams. A dense, death-bearing atmosphere of lead and toxic fumes overhangs the blasted plains and scorched dominion, underpinning the album's foul aura of belligerence and evoking visions of end-time turmoil and of a collapsing society being sent back to a feral age ruled only by lawlessness and cruelty.
"...Towards Doom..." will finally see its release on vinyl and digital via Sentient Ruin worldwide on October 3 2025, with all formats now pre-orderable via all our channels.
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases.Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/deathwinds-towards-doom
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/deathwinds
Label: Road To Masochist
Release date: october 3rd 2025
Genre: Necrotic Death
For fans of: Bolt Thrower | Entombed | Deviated Instinct | Abstracter
Tomb walker, waste eater, plague bearer…with your dusty imprecations of evil crawling from your dry and tattered throat. You drag your broken body from your lead-lined nest and fix me with an eyeless stare. Bone fingers reach for my throat as I gaze, mesmerized, into those dirt rimed sockets. I am falling into eternity, into an emptiness unending. And with a determined strength that belies your rotten, ragged frame, your fleshless hands tighten about my throat; but all I see are your dark secrets and all I hear are your whispered curses…
Bristol’s Plague Pit only formed in 2024, but already they are set to unleash their skull-crushing debut EP – the dank and cavernous A Whispered Curse. Their earliest expulsions of noise saw them treading a blackened hardcore path for first demo ‘Give In To Death’, but ferocious live shows alongside the likes of Coffin Mulch and Thou began to lead them into bleaker, bitter and altogether more dangerous territories…which ultimately resulted in the rampaging, harrowing horror of A Whispered Curse. The EP begins with ‘The Seventh Bell’, darkly majestic and rife with dread portent before it breaks out into a feral attack of encrusted death metal fervour. ‘Womb Of Orchids’ follows in a miasma of jarring distortion, rot, rust and devastation, switching between crust punk violence and pounding, monolithic beats before bleeding out into a dark ambient ending – which is shattered in turn by the onslaught of the death driven ‘The Weeping God’. Collapsing pace, measured melancholy, melodic guitar lines and howls of feedback… into the brilliant bass intro of ‘A Whispered Curse’ with its monstrous riffs and graveyard mystery, monolithic stature and cold mist atmosphere. An ending in damp soil and broken teeth, old blood and stained promises. A Whispered Curse is shocking, thrilling, haunting and addictive…an incredible welcome to the dubious pleasures of the Plague Pit.
Plague Pit have joined the ranks of pilgrims on the Road To Masochist and the fast rising label will release A Whispered Curse on 10” transparent red vinyl on October 3rd, with Eggy Tapes providing a cassette alternative, or addition. Stare into the void and sell your soul for a copy of this beast from the black.
Line-up:
W.B. - Vocals
J.H. - Drums
L.E. - Guitar
J.H. - Guitar
W.P. - Bass
https://roadtomasochist.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/plaguepitviolence
Norwegian
Death Thrashers, SOVEREIGN, will embark on THE
CORROSIVE REALITIES EUROPEAN TOUR next month with
countrymen, RUUN.
Tour Dates are as follows:
Oct. 9, NL - Leeuwarden, MUKKES
Oct. 10, BE - Brussels, MAGASIN 4
Oct. 11, DE - Saarbrücken, COMMUNE
Oct. 12, CH - Basel, VALHALLA
Oct. 14, DE - Augsburg, KRAETZWERK
Oct. 15, CZ - Ostrava, ROCK HILL
Oct. 16, CZ - Prague, KLUB 007 STRAHOV
Oct. 17, DE - Wolfsburg, SICK FEAST/SAUNA
Oct. 18, DE - Oldenburg, WITCH SABBATH FEST
SOVEREIGN released debut album ALTERED REALITIES via Dark Descent Records last year on CD, vinyl, cassette and digital formats.
For fans of : Nekromantheon, early Sepultura, Pestilence, Dark Angel, Demolition Hammer…
Stream the album at https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/altered-realities
Order Altered Realities at:
https://www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop/
https://ddmsuo.eu/
Formed in Oslo in 2018 AD, the band has three releases under their belts: Iron Cast (single 2018), Sovereign (demo, 2019), and Neurotic (EP, 2020). Three years in the making, the time has finally come to complete the set with debut album Altered Realities. The album stands out as a monstrous masterwork of old-school extreme metal ecstasy.
“Altered Realities is a product of an ever-evolving journey we have taken as a band, from our start in 2018 and culminating in the album’s recording in early 2022,” reflects lead guitarist Tommy Jacobsen. He is joined in the band by former Nocturnal Breed band-mate Vidar Fineidet (guitar), alongside drummer Cato Syversrud, and bassist/vocalist Gravskjender.
“We strive to push ourselves, both in terms of speed and technicality, whilst still keeping a groove and dynamic. Our approach to death/thrash is an interplay between fast-paced aggression and a slower, more groove-oriented feel. The lyrical themes of the album mirror events and unrest that happened during the time of writing and is in itself a journey.”
Sovereign is:
Vidar Fineidet - Rhythm Guitars
Cato Syversrud - Drums
Tommy Jacobsen - Lead/Rhythm Guitars
Simen Roher Grong - Bass/Vocals
www.darkdescentrecords.com
www.facebook.com/sovereignnorway
Excerpt –"draws from different wellsprings of death metal, creating a heady concoction that’s viciously demented, technically virtuosic, eerily unearthly, brutally bludgeoning, and as brilliantly glittering as the cover art"
ABYSSALIS - „ADAPTATION“
Genre - Death metal with
technical/brutal elements
For fans of - Soreption, Eschaton, Fleshbore, Decapitated, Demon King
Abyssalis imbibe various elements of contemporary death metal to concoct music that is at once technical, groovy, and riff-driven. Their previous EP "The Mountain" drew a good deal of attention for doing just that and they've taken things up a notch on their latest release. The songs are carefully structured - they are fast but not rushing through all the time, just so that they can embed themselves in the minds of the listeners. The riffs are catchy and fleshed out, ensuring that they remain memorable, and the delivery is brisk yet impactful. Mac Smith, fresh from his stint in Eschaton, once again does a stellar job doing vocals matching the tone and mood of the music, varying his deep growls with acidic rasps especially in moments of the blackened influences seeping through. "Adaptation" is a solid, enjoyable EP and coupled with their previous material as bonus, the definitive release serves as a fine introduction for this unheralded band that is poised for bigger things in the future.
Line up
Josh Steverson - Guitars
Mac Smith (Eschaton, Apogean) - Vocals and lyrics
Jack Blackburn (Unaligned, Killitorous) - Drums
Cole Daniels (Fleshbore, Unaligned) - Bass
Artwork by Justin Abraham (Inanimate Existence, Equipoise, Arkaik)
Track listing
1. Adaptation
2. Indomitable
3. Pandemonium
4. Senescence
5. Valholl
Release date - September 19th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/abyssalis.official
Thanks a lot for your support everyone! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
LES BÂTARDS DU ROI - "LES CHEMINS DE L’EXIL"
Release
date :
October 10, 2025
Genre : Melodic Black Metal
Origin: France
Duration: 46min50
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Tracklist:
1. La Forêt
2. L’Âme sans repos
3. Vers l’Étoile solitaire
4. Le Chevalier au corbeau
5. Ord Vil Merdos
6. Le Val Dormant
7. Les Chemins de l’exil
8. La Chevauchée cadavérique
9. Sous la Couronne de l’Éternité
LES BÂTARDS DU ROI line-up :
Regicide – Founder / Rhythm Guitarist and Lead Singer
Æni – Lead Guitarist and Clean Vocalist
Dæmonicus – Drummer
LES BÂTARDS DU ROI unveil the artwork for *"Les Chemins de l'Exil"*, the band's second album, set to be released on October 10th via Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions !
Formed in Orleans in 2022, Les Bâtards du Roi is a melodic black metal band evolving in a medieval framework. Set in a devastated world, this project tells the story of the brothers who committed regicide, the act that plunged the kingdom into decay and torment. From this initial situation, the protagonists embark on a spiritual journey of self-examination in a tortured landscape. This is the story of the beginning of their exile.
With this new album, Les Bâtards du Roi deliver a work as ambitious as it is heart-wrenching, woven with contrasts and tension. Between raw violence and symphonic flights, this record is an exile: a journey through darkness, solitude, and the outer limits of the soul.
At the crossroads of the spiritual and the carnal, between shadow and light, this new album is an offering: raw, mystical, timeless.
Here, Les Bâtards du Roi assert a powerful identity—where medieval breath meets the modern chaos, and where every note echoes like one more step into the unknown.
Formed in Orleans in 2022, Les Bâtards du Roi is a melodic black metal band evolving in a medieval framework. Set in a devastated world, this project tells the story of the brothers who committed regicide, the act that plunged the kingdom into decay and torment. From this initial situation, the protagonists embark on a spiritual journey of self-examination in a tortured landscape. This is the story of the beginning of their exile.
To wander. To search. To flee. To get lost. And to be reborn.
With this new album, Les Bâtards du Roi deliver a work as ambitious as it is heart-wrenching, woven with contrasts and tension. Between raw violence and symphonic flights, this record is an exile: a journey through darkness, solitude, and the outer limits of the soul.
Driven by evocative titles such as “La Forêt”, “L’Âme sans repos”, “Le Val dormant”, and the striking chapter “Ord vil merdos”, the album unfolds a sonic fresco of rare richness. Melodic black metal becomes a language of wandering, opening itself to a wide range of influences: atmospheric passages, dark orchestrations, haunting melodic bursts, and searing fury.
Each track is a fragment of wandering, an echo of lost souls, a cry of despair or a whisper of hope. The album delves into inner landscapes and forgotten realms, haunted by a single quest: for meaning, for origin, or perhaps simply for shelter.
At the crossroads of the spiritual and the carnal, between shadow and light, this new album is an offering: raw, mystical, timeless.
Here, Les Bâtards du Roi assert a powerful identity—where medieval breath meets the modern chaos, and where every note echoes like one more step into the unknown.
Preorders : https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/preorders
https://www.youtube.com/@lesbatardsduroi
https://linktr.ee/lesbatardsduroi
The
new NIHILI LOCUS single from the upcoming album "SEMPER" is "IL
TUO SANGUE PER I MIEI MAIALI" (TR. "YOUR BLOOD FOR MY
PIGS") and we present it with a lyric video on the label YouTube
channel. It is available at: https://youtu.be/R0hyk9EM2cE
Their dark music characterized by a melancholic pathos embodied in an obscure sonorous extremism finds here its highest and most definitive expression with a violent mix of oppressive Doom melodies and cold Blackish structures.
The Doomish Black Metal cult act NIHILI LOCUS, thus gives birth to a new chapter from "Semper", an album that more and more is expected to be one of "the next big things" within the Italian Metal scene thanks to a band that has managed to transform the irreparable ravages of time into pure art, making their music simply immortal.
NIHILI LOCUS is coming back!
A name, a cult, the history of Italian extreme music.
"Semper" will be released on September 26th.
You can PRE-ORDER it as LP, CD, Tape, Box at: https://t.ly/VLgvZ
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/nihililocus
WAR GRAVE – “FREE WILL”
Label: Independent Release
Release date: september 26th 2025
Genre: Heavy Metal
For fans of: Iron Maiden | Judas Priest | Helloween | Primal Fear
With a thousand cuts to our spirit and dignity they attempt to bleed us dry. Their titanic hunger for power and wealth and dominance in all its repugnant forms is never satisfied. While we teach our children to live with honour and integrity they plunder, rape and murder, grasping desperately for more food than they could ever eat, more money than they could ever spend; broken souls sating their every sordid desire and indulging every perversion their vicious little minds can imagine. But we are many and they are few. Never despair and never surrender, never abandon your beliefs and never relinquish the power of your free will!
Free Will is the magnificent debut album from the UK’s War Grave, following boldly in the wake of their critically acclaimed, self titled 2024 EP. Every promise made by that exciting first collection has been fulfilled and every standard surpassed. Beginning with the introductory ‘The Foreshadowing’, which builds atmosphere and anticipation, layer by layer, Free Will then explodes into its title track and an incredible metal ride begins. Fierce energy, superb, soaring vocals, dynamic riffs and rhythms and outstanding solos are unleashed in a glorious celebratory torrent. War Grave are stepping forward as new standard bearers for British metal! From the savage riffs of ‘Night Hunter’ and the uplifting power metal anthem, first single ‘Break These Chains’, to the accomplished, vital and vibrant ‘Only Here And Now’ the consistency of quality that runs throughout Free Will is remarkable. There is not a song on this characterful yet cohesive album that doesn’t deserve holding up for praise. ‘Light ‘Em Up’ is a tragic tale of the old west where the melancholy imagery bleeds through into the music, while ‘Rise Of The Titans’ is a metal colossus that sums up everything that is so appealing and impressive about War Grave. And the guitar solos…throughout the album the lead work is absolutely exemplary, up there with the metal greats. Free Will is a stunning debut album that establishes War Grave as one of the most exciting young bands around today. Watch them fly!
Charlie Wilson Jnr. (Torchbearer, Graven Image etc) at London’s Monolith Studios was once again in charge of capturing the War Grave sound – and Free Will is imbued with all the effervescent energy of the first EP, but with added depth and texture, reflecting the quality and maturity of these new songs. Complete with detailed and intriguing artwork from long term collaborator Heribertus M Miftakhuddin, aka Speedwhore (Dead House, Sunsetter etc), Free Will be released on September 26th…and with new warriors like War Grave stepping into the battle lines, heavy metal will never be defeated!
Line-up:
Roman Kantoch - Vocals
Rich McLean - Bass
Trent Powell - Guitar
Stuart Layne – Guitar/Backing Vocals
Steve Brill - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/wargraveofficial/
Label: Rottweiler Records
Release date: september 26th 2025
Genre: Metalcore
For fans of: Neck Of The Woods | Tundra | Bleeding Through | My Place Was Taken
Line up: Christopher Adam – all music, vocals and production/engineering
Solo artist and multi-instrumentalist Christopher Adam joined Rottweiler Records in early 2025 with his Refiner project – a fusion of brutal metalcore, electronics and ambience with Adam’s diverse vocals and unique creative approach. We were promised two EPs and then a full-length album and after February’s Return To Dust EP and May’s Mistake EP it’s now time to bring all Refiner’s output together in one, self-titled album – with a few additional surprises as well…
A brand new introduction, ‘All Aboard’, welcomes the listener to the wild ride that is Refiner – ramping up the tension and excitement before the big, rumbling riffs of ‘Not The End’ come thundering from the speakers. This call for resilience and courage that made such a powerful impact on the Return To Dust EP seems to take on an extra depth in this new setting, as is the case for all these songs. ‘upside uʍop’ from Mistake follows with its brooding electronics, slinky grooves and deep bass punch before ‘Return To Dust’ brings bulldozing heaviness and irresistible melodic choruses together, in a heartfelt call for a return to simple, uncluttered living. A second new piece, ‘Selfish Days’ is up next, full of Adam’s trademark collisions between weight and wistfulness, melody and muscle. It’s perhaps the most memorable song on this entire collection and a great addition to the Refiner canon. The defiantly different and individual ‘Mistake’ closes what will be the digital version of the Refiner album and the first half of the CD. What follows, for the physical issue only, are instrumental versions of every preceding song, each demonstrating their strength and ability to stand proud even without Christopher Adam’s dynamic vocal performances. Rounding things off are a radio edit of ‘Return To Dust’ and ‘God Doesn’t Make Mistakes’, a previously unheard remix of ‘Mistake’. Refiner is an album that is collectively far more than its individual parts, the songs feeding from each other and taking on new and exciting dimensions.
Refiner the album will be available on Rottweiler Records from September 26th and whether it will be your introduction to Christopher Adam’s music, or the culmination of your sonic journey in his company throughout the year, this is essential listening.
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/refinermetal
Format: Digital EP-CD (the physical CD version will be released on 12-12-2025)
Label: Independent Release
For fans of : Hatebreed, Lamb Of God, Caliban and so on……
Behind Bars is a heavy mixture of groovy and thrash metal performed in an explosive and energetic way.
The band formed in late 2015 in Belgium. During the years that followed, the band stood on many national and international stages. Going from small youth club stages to massive ones like Wacken Open Air (Germany).
They can handle every stage and will use every square inch of it!
After a demo (2016), an EP (2017) and a first full-album (2019), the band released their second full-album ‘All in Due Time’ in march 2023 with great reviews and high scores!
Even after almost 10 years they’re still hungry for more and ready to destroy any stage crossing their path.
Definitely worth checking out these guys but be aware, standing still will not be an option!
Line-Up:
Steven Vandermosten: Guitar
Andy Philips: Bassguitar
Bjorn Van Olmen: Drums
Ian Huyskens: Vocals
Tracklist:
01. P.A.I.N.
02. As I Wait For Death
03. Spiral
04. Where Truth Lies
05. Anthem
https://www.facebook.com/behindbars.be
Austin,
TX – Metal outfit LIKE SORROW emerges from the shadows with its
devastating new single “MY STAR OF JOY.” Blending the haunting
bleakness of black metal with the crushing intensity of death metal, this track
strikes at the heart of love, nostalgia, and despair.
Through raw lyricism and suffocating soundscapes, “My Star of Joy” takes listeners into a realm where fleeting happiness collides with inevitable decay. Themes of fading passion, fractured memories, and drowning in regret ripple throughout the song, pulling the listener deep into its dark emotional gravity.
Originally born as a solo project, Like Sorrow channels vulnerability and intensity into a work that is both personal and universal—an echo of every soul that has ever reached for light, only to watch it dim into darkness.
With relentless riffs, mournful atmospheres, and an unflinching vocal delivery, “My Star of Joy” is not just a song—it is an experience, a lament, and a ritual for those who find beauty in sorrow.
Fans of : Behemoth, Dark Funeral, and Opeth will find themselves at home in the shadows cast by Like Sorrow’s latest release.
Biography
Emerging from the depths of Austin, Texas, Like Sorrow is the latest chapter in Melodic Black Metal, forged by the visionary Marc Williams. What began as a side project in 2023 has grown into something far greater—an exploration of pure Black Metal, infused with Marc’s signature melodic touch. The result echoes the haunting atmospheres of early Throes of Dawn, Agathodaimon, and hints of Naglfar, weaving together spectral tales, infernal realms, and deep-seated melancholy.
Like Sorrow made its debut in 2023 with the Realm of Despair EP, released digitally and on cassette via Rotting Sun Records. This was followed by four singles throughout late 2023 and 2024, culminating in A Collection of Despair (2023-2024), released on January 22, 2025.
While the project's early tracks strip away the prominent keyboards found in Marc’s other works, this is set to evolve. Future releases will expand upon Like Sorrow’s intense, sorrowful essence, blending bleak, soul-staining darkness with the evocative melodies that define its sound. A harrowing yet captivating journey awaits—one that lingers in the shadows, calling to those who embrace the void.
https://www.facebook.com/likesorrow
For Fans of: Fear Factory, Devin Townsend, Starset, Tesseract, Katatonia, Industrial Metal, Groove Metal, Progressive Metal, Modern Metalcore, Djent, Tech Metal, Death Metal, Alternative Metal
Formed in 1992 in Perm, Russia, GRENOUER are celebrated pioneers of Russian extreme metal and progressive heavy music. Starting with a potent blend of death metal, death’n’roll, black metal, and thrash metal, they have evolved over three decades into a versatile, forward-thinking force that seamlessly fuses crushing riffs, polyrhythmic grooves, complex time signatures, melodic atmospheres, and industrial soundscapes.
Their early demos and EPs like Death of a Bite (1993) and Fiery Swans (1996) quickly established them as underground legends within the ex-USSR and European metal scenes. The 2000s brought a shift toward more experimental and groove-driven sounds, highlighted by breakthrough albums Try (2007) and Lifelong Days (2008), produced by platinum-selling Anssi Kippo (Children of Bodom, Ensiferum). These releases introduced math metal, industrial metal, groove metal, and progressive metalcore elements that broadened their sonic palette.
From 2013 onwards, GRENOUER embraced a modern melodic metal and progressive rock fusion, releasing critically acclaimed albums Blood on the Face (2013), Unwanted Today (2015)—which scored a perfect 10/10 in Powerplay Magazine—and Ambition 999 (2019). The latter featured the viral hit “Alone in the Dark,” amassing over 30 million YouTube views and solidifying their global presence. Their music has been licensed for video games, featured in major metal publications such as Metal Hammer and Rock Hard, and referenced in comic books and dark fantasy literature, underscoring their cross-media impact.
In 2021, side project Grenouer Inc. celebrated their early death metal roots, while the main band continued to innovate by integrating virtuoso guitar work, shredding solos, soaring clean and harsh vocals, tight rhythm sections, industrial electronics, and complex progressive songwriting.
Now proudly signed to premier American metal label Brutal Records, GRENOUER’s tenth studio album, Downtown Dream, heralds a new chapter of artistic growth and worldwide exposure. This album will resonate strongly with fans of djent, tech metal, industrial grooves, melodic death metal, progressive metalcore, and alternative metal.
Available Worldwide November 21, 2025 | Brutal Records / Digital via The Orchard
Tracklist:
A New Word
Downtown Dream
Private Contravention
Twilight Knots
Wrapped In A Shroud
Synthetic Mutagen
Destiny Rust
We Are The World We Deserve
A Foe Within
White Lies
The Intersection
Fronted by charismatic vocalist Andrey Ind, GRENOUER deliver powerful live performances characterized by dynamic intensity, stylistic versatility, and magnetic stage presence. Their extensive touring history across Russia and Europe, combined with their ability to blend groove, industrial, tech, progressive, melodic metal, and atmospheric rock elements, makes them a sought-after act for metal festivals, underground venues, and international heavy music circuits.
Downtown Dream is not just an album it’s a testament to GRENOUER’s relentless evolution and dedication to pushing the boundaries of modern metal.
https://www.brutalrecords.com/
http://www.grenouer.com/
Chicago (IL) - Long-running Blackened Melodic Death Metal quartet, WITHERING SOUL, are set to release their fifth album, PASSAGE OF THE ARCANE, November 14 on Liminal Dread Productions!
FFO: Dark Fortress, Windir, Hypocrisy, Dissection, God Dethroned.
Passage of the Arcane is a convergence of blackened atmospheres and sweeping song structures. A mystifying journey that exceeds boundaries while remaining fun and exciting. The overall theme of the album involves human experiences traversing into cursed oblivion. Each song explores its own story, ranging from unexplained disappearances to the supernatural. While variation is abundant within the soundscapes, it is with a cohesive direction. Each chapter takes on its own "passage" through channels of cursed lore and harrowing experiences of the past. A seamless balance of crushingly heavy riffs and chilling melodies.
The album's first single, "Attrition Horizon," is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PG2Ul77B_A
The song can also be streamed on : https://witheringsoul.bandcamp.com/track/attrition-horizon
Pre-order Passage of the Arcane: https://witheringsoul.bandcamp.com/album/passage-of-the-arcane
Track
Listing:
1. Intro
2. Attrition Horizon
3. Grievance Eludes the Light
4. The Monolith Embodied
5. Gallery of the End
6. Trajectory
7. Among Covetous Eyes
8. Burden of the Valiant
Credits:
Guitars, Vocals - Christopher
Bass Guitar - Joel
Drums - Rick
Guest guitar solo on "Trajectory" by Nick "Exhul" Morgan.
Drums recorded and engineered by Vince Ippolito at Swift Road Studios.
Album mixed and mastered by Dennis Israel at Clintworks Audio.
Cover art by Adam Burke / Nightjar Illustration.
Line-up:
Christopher - Vocals, Guitar
Frank G. - Guitar
Joel - Bass Guitar
Rick - Drums
Bio:
A manifestation in the form of chilling soundscapes, foreboding atmospheres, contagious melodies and tortured chants echoing above an onslaught of calculated percussion. Withering Soul creates a musical elegy that is both majestic and haunting.
Conjured into existence by founding members Christopher (guitars and vocals) and Mykil (former lead vocalist) with the release of their debut album Apparitions of the Surreal in 2004, the band was later featured on "ReUnation - A Tribute to Running Wild" with a cover of "Firebreather" via Germany's Remedy Records earning "Best Song on the Album" by WeRock (SWE). A few years later saw the release of their follow-up album, No Closure via Mortal Music (MVD Distribution). The album promptly landed a spot on Apoch's Metal Review: "Top 50 Albums of 2011."
The band eventually recruited Rick Hernandez on drums and Joel Miller on bass guitar. Following an array of live shows brought the release of their third full length album Adverse Portrait (2015). It was later labeled “Album of the Month” by Metalreviews.com. The band made a few festival appearances such as Full Terror Assault III and Artifact Metal Fest in 2018.
Over the course of the 2020 world shutdown the band resolved to continue forward with Christopher on vocals and released its fourth full length effort Last Contact. The album reached an unprecedented level of acclaim not limited to earning the 3rd spot in World of Metal's top albums of 2021. The band immediately followed up with a busy live schedule both locally and out-of-state including a performance at Legion ov the Order festival in Tacoma, WA, Merciless Metalfest in Nova Scotia, Canada and Desecration Rituals VI and VII in Fort Wayne, IN.
Withering Soul has just recently finished its 5th album to be released at the end of 2025 and plans to continue transcending the boundaries of metal‘s darker genres while maintaining its own distinctive sound and leave its audiences spellbound for more.
https://www.facebook.com/liminaldreadproductions
https://www.youtube.com/user/WITHERINGSOUL
https://www.facebook.com/witheringsoulband
Watch “A Kiss of Death” teaser: https://youtube.com/shorts/K8m8ol9YHyE?feature=share
"Wine For a Tormented Soul" features eight tracks, including the band's previously released singles "Carry Me Home" (Spotify, YouTube), "Heaven Tonight" (Spotify, YouTube) and "Love n Death" (Spotify, YouTube).
Pierre Törnkvist from Scheitan shared the inspiration behind the album, "I am very much looking forward to presenting the new Scheitan album to the audience. The title 'Wine For a Tormented Soul' comes from what music can mean to people that run into hardship in life. Music is my therapy, it is my best friend in dark times. The last 10 years have been a bumpy road with one of my best friends passing away too early as well as my father leaving us from one day to another. Some of the songs have been presented to people as singles, with the upcoming album you can hear them in the context of an album, and also listen to them in a non-digital format such as vinyl which I think is the best way to do it. We will try to come out and play these new songs for you as much as we can."
PRE-ORDER "Wine For a Tormented Soul" via The Circle Music: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=scheitan
Tracklisting:
1. A Kiss of Death
2. Heaven Tonight
3. Döden är helt underbar
4. Love n Death
5. Every Little Thing
6. Out of Here
7. Carry Me Home
8. Dream Away
"Wine For a Tormented Soul" follows Scheitan's 2024 album "Songs for the Gothic People" (The Circle Music) and their return after a 24-year hiatus. Having formed in 1996 by Pierre Törnkvist, Scheitan began with black metal roots but evolved to define their current gothic rock sound and continue to build on their sound. Their previous albums, including 1999's "Nemesis" (Century Media) have garnered a reputation as hidden gems within the genre.
https://thecirclemusic.gr/
https://www.facebook.com/The-Circle-Music-109161897443413/
https://www.scheitan.se/
https://www.facebook.com/scheitanofficial
From
The Blade of Seattle, HYPERSTRIKE erupts with today's
release of debut album, HIGH RISK!
A high-octane collision of anthemic clean vocals, bone-crushing riffs, punk-fueled drum fire, and the razor edge of melodic death metal, Hyperstrike deliver danger with every track. This is metal built like an action movie soundtrack: explosive, relentless, and larger than life.
Explosive. Relentless. Unstoppable. This is the soundtrack to chaos.
“Meltdown” — the core goes critical, and the blast is unstoppable.
“Leaving You Again” — love is a weapon… and heartbreak is the trigger.
“High Risk” — play the game, roll the dice… win it all, or lose your life.
“Shadowbound” — where the darkness hunts… and only the cursed survive.
“Warning Shot” — one bullet in the chamber… and mania in his eyes.
“Slug City” — neon streets, blood on the asphalt… nobody gets out alive.
“Steel Heart” — forged in fire, unbreakable, unstoppable.
“Slowman” — you can’t outrun fate… when death walks at your speed.
“King of the Slain” — one battlefield, one crown… and a throne of bones.
“Savage Sword” — sharpened for vengeance, raised for the final strike.
As if that weren't enough, Hyperstrike has released the demo for the official Hyperstrike video game! Play the game demo here while anticipating the album, just over the horizon. https://hyperstrike.itch.io/hyperstrike-game-demo
Track Listing:
1. Meltdown
2. Leaving You Again
3. High Risk
4. Shadowbound
5. Warning Shot
6. Slug City
7. Steel Heart
8. Slowman
9. King of the Slain
10. Savage Sword
Credits:
Cover art - Mark Richards (Heavy Hand)
Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Ben “Chop Daddy” Bennett
Lyrics and music by Hyperstrike.
Logo by Dipayandas Arts.
Line-Up:
Ben (Chop Daddy) Bennett - Speed Chopper Bass
Adon (Brain Lord) Fanion - Maniacal Pyro Vocals
Ilya (Siberian Claw) Ignatov - Elite Assassin Shred Guitar
Josh (Goblin Hammer) Hoffman - Master Drum Blaster
Bio:
Born in the Blade, forged in chaos—Hyperstrike is Seattle's action metal war machine. Founded in 2024 by bass-slapping juggernaut Ben "Chop Daddy" Bennett, this band doesn’t play music; they drop sonic bombs. With a shadowy past tearing through thrash titans Warbringer and Bonded by Blood, and reigning as the "Lord of the Low End" in sci-fi shredders Xoth, Bennett knew exactly what kind of beast he was building. First, he wrangled in Ilya, the shredder known as "The Claw," an assassin with riffs sharper than steel. Then came Adon, the "Brain Lord"—a maniacal force spitting venomous truths, carrying the fire from his days in Ghost Ship Octavius and the twisted depths of Spiritual Suicide. Together, they built a soundtrack for the end of the world: songs about nuclear meltdowns, cage fighters, and kings of the slain.
The final weapon in their arsenal? Josh, a drum-detonating powerhouse known as "Goblin Hammer," whose percussive assault forged their chaos into a relentless onslaught. Hyperstrike is a raw, unfiltered force with hearts of steel and a taste for mania. No apologies. No survivors. Just unrelenting aggression. Brace for impact—because once the trigger drops, nothing will ever be the same.
https://www.youtube.com/@HyperstrikeBandOfficial
https://www.facebook.com/hyperstrikeband
Birmingham (AL) - Ten years after its initial release and in honored celebration of the band’s fifteenth anniversary of existence, Boris Records is proud to announce today's exclusive vinyl reissue of ECTOVOID’S long out of print sophomore full-length album, DARK ABSTRACTION. The limited reissue comes in two versions – plain black and marbled purple.
Purchase/Stream: https://borisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dark-abstraction-reissue
The band’s most recent full length recording and tragically the last to feature the band’s late founding guitarist Michael Stewart, Dark Abstraction, was originally released in 2015 on CD by Polish label Hellthrasher Productions and LP by Swedish label Blood Harvest Records. A massive step forward in every way from the outfit’s well regarded if unpolished debut album, Dark Abstraction represented an energetic, riff-focused, and creative spin on the cavernous blackened death metal sound that was flooding the scene in copious amounts in the mid-2010’s. With eight varied and memorable tracks, a greatly improved production, and an ever-advancing sense of expression and craftsmanship from all instruments, this was the sound of a young band stepping out of their formative beginnings and emerging confidently as the established and respected outfit they are known as today.
Boris Records is excited to bring this under-appreciated work of death metal darkness back to the public consciousness - Ectovoid’s exhumation from the forgotten graves is long overdue.
Track
Listing:
1. Obscure Altars
2. Visions of Reflective Decay
3. Mental Netherworlds
4. Precipice of Absolute Chaos
5. Rituals of Hallucination
6. The Expanse Between Slumber and Death
7. A Prisoner of Paradox
8. Spawned from Unending Mystery
Credits:
Recorded in Autumn 2014 by Joshua Freemon at Dead Sound Studios.
Mixed by Joshua Freemon.
Mastered by Damian Herring at Subturranean Watchtower Studios.
Cover art by Bartlomiej Kurzok.
Line up
C.B. – Bass/Vocals
M.S. – Guitar
C.M. – Drums
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https://www.facebook.com/ectovoid/
Label: H-Music
Release date: october 17th 2025
Genre: Symphonic Metal
For fans of: Epica | Leaves’ Eyes | After Forever | Sirenia
My past is a place of shadows, of formative monsters that I have tried to run from but never left behind. They have shaped me and I have allowed them to. They gave me a structure, a framework and a shield. But you have unlocked each door that I have closed about my heart and let the light shine upon a version of myself I had almost forgotten. And I must make him stronger. I must draw him from the dark until he can stand beside you and let the monsters crumble into dust and become lost upon the wind. I must heal this broken mind…
After the powerful impact of their In this Silence EP, released in the summer, innovative Hungarian symphonic metal troupe Meteora are now set to unveil the second part in a previously announced trilogy of EPs – Broken Mind. While Atanathos webzine hailed In this Silence for setting “a new standard for contemporary symphonic metal”, Broken Mind manages to surpass that intriguing release, sounding even more accomplished, assured and supremely confident. Meteora are ready to lead us further into their kingdom of romance, magic, tragedy and hope.
Devil dancing keys over dark and storm-tossed riffs, fierce energy and grand drama usher in Broken Mind’s first single and opening, title track. Composer and keyboard player Atilla Király describes the song as having “a really special place in all of our hearts” and its wonderful melodies and powerfully contrasting vocal styles make for a dynamic and thrilling beginning to this new collection of songs. ‘Morningstar’ follows, slipping from enchanting melodies to driving, heavy sections with rampant guttural vocals, the sublimely managed shifts in mood and tempo epitomising the Meteora sound. There is so much happening in these songs that they feel like true symphonies, with surprises and secrets revealed keeping you on the edge of your seat. ‘Elysion’ seems to step from the pages of history with its lilting melody, transportative and emotive and Atilla Király takes the vocal lead on this darkly hued power metal piece, his rich, smooth tones working to exemplary affect. Broken Mind’s crowning glory however comes with its final, epic track. A drama worthy of a stage play, ‘In My Name’ evolves into ever more splendid forms, layers of sound are added, layer upon layer and all three vocalists are at their superlative best. Featuring some truly excellent riffs and a sense of real depth and substance, ‘In My Name’ is surely one of Meteora’s greatest ever songs. Broken Mind is an immensely satisfying and rewarding sonic experience that leaves the listener with a feeling of incredible anticipation for what the final part of this trilogy of EPs may bring…
Working with recording engineer Balázs Pálfi (Türböwitch etc) and utilising the mixing and mastering skills of Nino Helfrich (Thrash Cult, Traces Of A Life etc), Dmitry Kim (Khors, Arhat etc) and Joel Wanasek (Machine Head, Carnation, Dååth etc) Meteora have captured the perfect sound for Broken Mind – textured, powerful and resonant – while the impactful EP cover art was brought to life by Dronicon Films (Swallow The Sun, Katatonia, October Tide etc). The ‘Broken Mind’ single is available now, accompanied by a video created in association with Kill Monday Management and the full EP will arrive on October 17th via H-Music Hungary.
Line-up:
Noémi Holló – vocals
Máté Fülöp – bass, growls
Gábor Kása – drums
Dániel Baranya – guitars
Dániel Schreiber – guitars
Atilla Király – keys, vocals
Backing vocals from the Meteora choir – assembled and conducted by Ádám Attila Kurucz
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https://www.facebook.com/meteorabandhungary
New single from BILL CLOVE ("LOOMING AGAINST WAVERING LIGHT" out from "THROUGH SHADOW TO FIRE" album) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKDk3OAWzWM
Emerging from the rolling plains of Iowa, United States, Bill Clove is a one‑man symphonic death metal project that blends relentless aggression with sweeping orchestral grandeur. In 2022 he unveiled Perilous Passage, an album forged from a lifelong love of metal, classical composition, and cinematic soundtracks. Though he first picked up a guitar in a church youth group hammering out surf rock riffs, Bill quickly gravitated toward heavier, more complex music.
Drawing inspiration from genre‑defining acts such as Shadow of Intent, Inferi, and Aephanemer, he weaves baroque and neoclassical virtuosity into a wall of crushing guitars and drums.
Balancing a career as a dentist and family life, Bill remains a relentless creator, constantly composing new material for his next release. Stay tuned for upcoming songs, videos, and behind‑the‑scenes glimpses of his creative process on Bandcamp, Facebook, and YouTube.
https://youtube.com/@clovewilliam
https://facebook.com/billclovemusic
ARS ONIRICA – “2.5 NIGHTTIME” (EP)
Label: Ardua Music
Release date: october 24th 2025
Genre: Melodic Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Anathema | The Gathering | Tiamat | Ghostheart Nebula
Line-up: Alessandro Sforza – All music and vocals
As the sky shifts through its kaleidoscope of colours, gradually slipping into darker hues and the stars emerge from hiding, a dusting of distant diamonds across the velvet canopy, I sink down into the welcoming arms of sleep. I cross the bridge of dreams beneath the watching eyes of the moon and a journey, forgotten in daylight hours, begins anew…
Briefly existing as a full band in the early 2000s, producing one demo, Utopia: A Winternight’s Traveller in 2004, Ars Onirica was reborn as the solo project of Alessandro Sforza in 2018. Two superbly crafted albums of melodic doom/death – I: Cold and II: Lost – have established Ars Onirica as a name synonymous with imaginative, enthralling music and now the next chapter in this story of enchantment and revelation is about to begin. Despite, as its title suggests, being an interlude between albums, 2.5 Nighttime is a sublime work, rich in wonders and overflowing with magic, that is destined to become a treasured part of Ars Onirica’s unfolding discography. Opening track, ‘Dusk (An Ode To The Stars)’ entwines gently emotive vocals and guitars like whispered incantations to transport the listener to the deeply dreaming world of Ars Onirica, opening the gateway to the remarkable three part title track which forms the heart of this EP. ‘Nighttime Part I’ blossoms around you, all enveloping and lifts you, weightless, to the stars before the momentous weight and power of ‘Nighttime Part II (Your Silence Around Me) is unveiled. With vast chords and cascading notes leading into fiercely emotive harsh vocals alongside quiet, yet equally compelling clean vocals, the dream walks the boundaries between light and dark. ‘…Part III’ brings a sense of urgency and an almost blackened aura, but always juxtaposed with the warmth and beauty that run through this EP like unifying threads of gold. The contrasts and dynamics are stunning, yet smoothly blended, the shifts of scene as perfect as the changing scenarios of a dream. And finally, ‘Dawn’ provides a sweetly languorous awakening, the experiences of the hours of darkness drifting apart like gossamer threads as the sun rises, delivering a perfectly formed sense of conclusion and completeness. 2.5 Nighttime is a remarkable, immersive creation to be savoured and experienced again and again.
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Blue Ocean Recording Studio by Alessandro Sforza in partnership with Lorenzo Carlini of Black Therapy and Invernoir, who also worked on I:Cold and II: Lost, every nuance of 2.5 Nighttime’s layered and textured compositions can be fully appreciated. And with Disturbing Grace Design supplying one of those rare pieces of cover art that perfectly captures the spirit and soul of the music within, every contributing element has combined to make this release something truly special. Ardua Music will unveil 2.5 Nighttime on October 24th and the dream will begin once more.
https://www.arduamusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ArsOnirica/
The Dark Americana outfit :SKULL & DAWN: will release their second full-length album, “THE HARVEST”, on 17 October 2025 through The Circle Music.
The upcoming album “The Harvest” dives deep into a mysterious world of Southern Gothic horror, featuring songs about dead lovers, serial killers, lone cowboys, and lost souls. The album blends the band's neofolk past with a true Americana sound and a Southern Gothic atmosphere.
The Circle Music said:
“Although at first glance the style of :Skull & dawn: might seem out of step with The Circle's previous releases, for some inexplicable yet undeniable reason, The Harvest felt destined (from the moment of its creation) to be released by us.
“It’s not just the fact that :Skull & dawn: have shared the stage with several of The Circle’s artists during live performances; it’s the very atmosphere of the album itself. From the very first listen, we all had the same instinctive reaction: The Harvest had to be released by us. There was simply no other way.”
“The Harvest” will be released in digital and CD formats, with the CD version including two bonus tracks: "Kingdom of the Corn (Live)" and "St. James Infirmary (Live)". A limited edition black LP (250 copies) and a limited edition gold LP (250 copies) with a printed insert will also be available.
Guests on the album include Okoi Thierry Jones (Bölzer), Perikis Tikof (Opened Paradise), Ioanna Noir Zacharopoulou (Glitter Grotesque) and Vasso Jism.
Founded in 1999 under a different name as a trio in Athens, Greece, the band started by creating industrial noise music using hammers and electric screwdrivers. From 2002 to 2009, they embraced the heritage of Old Europe and folk instruments under the name Défilé des Âmes. They released the full-length LP Lust & Stone, a split EP, and several DIY EPs. They also collaborated with notable artists like Sieben.
The band reformed in 2009 as :Skull & dawn:, shifting their sound to be influenced by the American South. Their debut album, Zombie Horses (2016), fused their industrial roots with American folklore, creating a sound inspired by artists like The Bad Seeds and Hank 3. They have maintained a strong live presence over the years, performing with a wide range of artists, including Jarboe, Chelsea Wolfe and Psychic TV.
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Wormholedeath is proud to announce the signing of Swedish melodic death metal icons IMPERIAL DOMAIN to its global roster. The band’s highly anticipated new full-length album, PORTENTUM, will see the light of day on 14 November 2025, ushering in a bold new era for this seasoned force from Uppsala.
To mark this milestone, Imperial Domain has unleashed their crushing new single “HISTORY REPEATING”, accompanied by a striking official music video that captures the band’s trademark mix of aggression, atmosphere, and melodic depth.
Stream “History Repeating”: https://orcd.co/hrsingle
“We are proud to announce that we have signed with Wormholedeath! This marks an exciting new chapter for the band, and we are thrilled to join forces with a label that shares our passion and vision for our music,” the band states. “Our upcoming album Portentum explores dark historical and contemporary themes—from ancient omens to modern dystopias. It’s a record born from reflection, unrest, and unrelenting creative fire. We can’t wait to share this body of work with you all and begin this new era together with Wormholedeath.”
With Portentum, Imperial Domain delve deep into humanity’s cyclical nature. From the ominous tension of the title track to the brutal realism of “History Repeating” and the bleak futurism of “New World Order,” the band carves a sonic path through the ruins of civilization—past, present, and speculative.
About Imperial Domain
Founded in the mid-90s, Imperial Domain quickly made waves in the Swedish death metal underground with their debut demo The Final Chapter (1995), followed by In the Ashes of the Fallen (1996)—a release that earned them national acclaim. Their full-length debut In the Ashes of the Fallen (1998) on Pulverised Records marked the band as a rising force, followed by the critically acclaimed The Ordeal (2003) via Konqueror Records.
After a brief hiatus and the tragic loss of vocalist Tobias Heideman in 2014, the band reemerged stronger than ever with The Deluge (2016), reaffirming their place in the melodic death metal pantheon. Now, Imperial Domain return with Portentum—an album that’s as uncompromising as it is thought-provoking.
Line-Up
Peter Laitinen Sundström – Guitar
Philip Borg – Guitar
Andreas Öman – Vocals
Mattias Hansson – Bass
Alvaro Svanerö – Drums
Tracklist
01 History Repeating
02 The Die Is Cast
03 The Legacy
04 New World Order
05 Fragment Of A Dream
06 Portentum
07 Retribution
08 Into Oblivion
Pre-save "Portentum": https://orcd.co/portentum
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www.imperialdomain.se
This highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2024 debut, Lightning Spawn, promises a darker and more mature sound, showcasing the band's evolving artistry and the addition of a second guitar player to
their lineup.
Comprised
of seasoned musicians from notable acts such as Adarrak, Killing
Darlings, Embers of Oblivion, Epinikion, and Primal Charge,
their unique blend of heavy, stoner, and doom metal has resonated with fans
worldwide, setting the stage for Spiritual Chains to be a significant
release.
Spiritual Chains was recorded across various studios in North America and Europe, a testament to Thorndale's commitment to sonic excellence. Jeff Henson (Duel) lends his talent to the album, featuring a guest solo on the track "Exiles and Masters”. The album was mixed and mastered by Rickard Bengtsson and Stafan Karlsson at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden (Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars).
“If you hear a touch of the familiar here and there, that’s exactly what it is. Hints, reminders that there were Giants of Metal long ago, and that the fire of those forebears continues to burn bright in talented musicians today from the scene." - Billy Goate (Doomed & Stoned)
Track Listing:
1 - Veins of the Phoenix
2 - Battles Fought in Vain
3 - Gods of Pain
4 - Twenty Thousand Souls
5 - Spiritual Chains
6 - Exiles and Masters
Album Credits:
Cover Art - Costin Chioreanu.
Jeff Henson - guest guitar on "Exiles and Masters".
All music by Thorndale.
All lyrics by Gustavo Valderrama and Zigor Munoz.
Produced by Thorndale.
Recorded locally in Austin, Texas; Scarborough, Ontario and Haarlem and Den Haag, Netherlands across 2024 and 2025.
Mixed and mastered by Rickard Bengtsson and Stafan Karlsson at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden.
Line-Up:
Gustavo Valderrama - Vocals
Peter Shannon - Guitars
Maarten Jungschläger - Guitars
Zigor Munoz - Bass
Guest musician: Rob Stone - Drums
Bio:
Thorndale is a stoner/doom metal band from The Netherlands, formed by experienced musicians from the European and North American metal scenes. Known for their powerful sound, Thorndale has quickly established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the heavy music landscape. Members include Gustavo Valderrama (Killing Darlings, Headcrusher, Adarrak), Peter Shannon (Primal Charge), Maarten Jungschläger (Embers of Oblivion, Epinikion), and Zigor Munoz (Adarrak, Ferkaad).
https://www.youtube.com/@thorndalemusic
https://thorndalelegions.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thorndaleofficial
NEWS 12.9.2025
Das Thüringer Urgestein XIV DARK CENTURIES
haben sich neben ihren langjährigen Weggefährten „Einheit Produktionen“ nun
noch die im Taunus ansässige Metalschmiede „Schwarzdorn Production“ mit an Bord
geholt, welche sich neben den Digitalen Vertrieb auch um den offiziellen
Laden-Vertrieb über EDEL kümmern werden. Das neue Werk „AUS URALTER ZEIT“
wird zum Julfest als limitierte Box (CD+Tape), Digi-CD & auf Vinyl
erscheinen.https://www.facebook.com/schwarzdornproduction
https://www.facebook.com/xivdarkcenturies
Es war 10 Jahre still um den „Mozart des Black Metal“ von SORGSVART. Nach dem tragischen Tod des Bassisten Ingar „A.“ des Nebenprojektes VINDAR (Nor. für Wind) hat Mastermind Sorg neue Energie geschöpft & ist vom Bruderlabel “Einheit Produktionen“ kaum noch zu bremsen: 2 volle Werke stehen kurz vor der Veröffentlichung. Erst einmal soll „GARDAR OG GRENDE „ (GÄRTEN UND DÖRFER) noch im Herbst dieses Jahres das Licht der Welt erblicken, nachdem der richtige Norwegische Vertriebspartner gefunden wurde.
Die Sachsenkrieger von SAXORIOR feilen immer noch am Mammutwerk „EWIGHAID“ mit über 140 Minuten Neuinterpretationen ihrer Klassiker, welche auf einer schmucken Digi-2-CD auf nur 500 Exemplaren limitierten Auflage erscheinen soll. Ob es eine Vinyl-Box dazu geben wird, steht noch in den Sternen. Grobe Richtlinie für die Veröffentlichung ist Frühling 2026.
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„Einheit Produktionen“ ist „fast aus allen Wolken gefallen“ nach Erhalt des Demos zu „WHAT THE MISTS OF TIME FOREVER CLOAK“, dem 2. Werk der Britisch-Deutschen Band HERNE: „Dark Thrones „Panzerfaust“ trifft auf hymnischen Pagan Black Metal“ könnte man meinen. Das Label ist bereits mit einem befreundeten Label im Gespräch & visiert eine auf nur 300 Stück limitierte Digi-CD für ca. Mitte 2026 an.
https://herne.bandcamp.com/album/face-of-the-hunter
www.einheit-produktionen.de
“Female-fronted” before it was cool – ausgefeilter Oldschool-Extremismus ohne Kompromisse . Ja, VICTIMS OF CLASSWAR gibt es schon eine ganze Weile. Und nein, sie sind nicht tot: mit „INVITATION TO A FUNERAL“ kommt endlich das lange überfällige LP-Debüt, das neun Stücke zu einem kompromisslosen
Statement in Sachen apokalyptischer Blackmetal mit Thrash- und Crustsprengseln vereint, mit dem sich die Sächs*innen eindrucksvoll zurück in die Grenzgebiete des internationalen Undergrounds ballern. Lasst euch vom Namen nicht täuschen: Hier gibt es keinen ordinären Punk – nur wem Mayhem noch zu sauber und Holy Moses zu nett sind, sollte diese Einladung annehmen!
BiografieErwachsen 2011 aus der Crustpunkszene im sächsischen Hinterland erobern VICTIMS OF CLASSWAR bald vor allem auch jede Menge Metalherzen und erspielen sich mit unerbittlichem Livedrang und einer brutal mitreißenden Bühnenenergie in Rekordzeit einen hervorragenden Ruf, der sie über Szenegrenzen hinaus bis auf andere Kontinente trägt, bevor sie überhaupt Zeit hatten, ein komplettes Album einzuspielen.
Nach zwei Split-Veröffentlichungen und diversen Touren durch Großbritannien, Belarus, Skandinavien, das Baltikum und sogar Nahost dann der Einbruch dank Pandemie samt Umzügen von Sängerin/Bassistin Klára und Gitarrist Arne sowie Line-Up-Problemen am Drumhocker, die dann endlich mit Chris (bekannt von Nuctemeron, Diabolic Night, JT Ripper u. a.) beendet wurden. Mit ihm ging es 2023 dann sofort ins Studio zu Anton Hoyer (Deathrite) für die Aufnahmen zu „Invitation to a Funeral“, das brandneue Stücke bis zu Material aus Anfangstagen zu einem lange überfälligen Statement zusammenfügt, mit dem sich VICTIMS OF CLASSWAR eindrucksvoll zurück in die Metalpunklandschaft ballern.
Das Album kommt offiziell am 19. September 2025, es folgt eine Releaseshow am 27. September in Störnstein (Bayern) – die LP ist ab sofort vorbestellbar bei Bleeding Heart Nihilist Productions und Angry Voice Records!
Diskographie
2013: Split with Partiya - 12" Vinyl
2014: Split with W.H.A.T. - digital
2025: "Invitation to a Funeral" - Vinyl-LP-Album
Youtube-Hörprobe und Bandinfo: https://bleedingheartnihilist.de/music/de/group/music-roster/b-victims
Die ersten Europa-Termine sind weiter unten aufgeführt. Weitere Festival-Headline-Shows werden parallel auf https://www.ironmaiden.com/ und von den Festivals selbst bekannt gegeben. Es wird ein arbeitsreiches Jahr werden und daher in der Folge 2027 keine Maiden-Konzerte geben.
In Deutschland können sich Fans auf eine exklusive Headline-Show in der Heinz von Heiden Arena in Hannover freuen. Dort werden die britischen Heavy-Metal-Legenden vor 45.000 Zuschauern ihr 50-jähriges Bandjubiläum auf der nächsten Etappe einer Tour feiern, die schon jetzt als ihre spektakulärste jemals gilt.
Präsentiert wird die Show von EMP, Metal Hammer und Radio21.
Steve Harris betont: „Wir alle lieben diese RUN FOR YOUR LIVES TOUR. Die Fans sind fantastisch, die Setlist ist perfekt für das 50-jährige Jubiläum, die Show ist wohl unsere beste aller Zeiten und die Nachfrage nach Tickets war unglaublich, sodass die Tour fast überall ausverkauft war und über eine Million Fans dabei waren. Deshalb dachten wir alle, wir sollten noch ein paar weitere Shows in Europa spielen, bevor wir später im Jahr in andere Teile der Welt aufbrechen.
Natürlich wird Simon Dawson wieder am Schlagzeug sitzen und sowohl er als auch die gesamte Band möchten sich bei unseren Fans für den großartigen Empfang bedanken, den ihr ihm auf der ersten Etappe dieser Tour bereitet habt.
Wir haben es schon immer genossen, auf Festivals zu spielen, vor allem, weil wir dort vor Menschen auftreten können, die nicht nur wegen uns da sind – und wir lieben diese Herausforderung! Deshalb haben wir beschlossen, in dieser Zeit so viele großartige Metal-Festivals wie möglich (wieder) zu besuchen. Außerdem werden wir in Stadien in Griechenland, Rumänien, der Slowakei und Bulgarien spielen, wo wir dieses Jahr noch nicht waren und wo wir es immer geliebt haben, vor den leidenschaftlichen Fans aufzutreten.”
Manager Rod Smallwood erklärt: „Wir waren absolut überwältigt von der unglaublich positiven Resonanz unserer Fans und der Mainstream-Medien auf den ersten Teil unserer RUN FOR YOUR LIVES TOUR. Wir wussten, dass wir eine besondere Show geschaffen hatten, aber die Energie all unserer Fans bei jedem einzelnen Konzert wurde von der Band aufgegriffen, und ich glaube, wir alle haben etwas wirklich Unvergessliches und unsere wohl beste Tour aller Zeiten erlebt. Während unserer gesamten Karriere spielten Festivals eine große Rolle, angefangen natürlich mit Rock in Rio 1985, da sie es uns ermöglichten, vor neuen Fans zu spielen und sie hoffentlich zu Maiden-Fans zu machen, was in Ermangelung von Radio oder Mainstream-Medien enorm dazu beitrug, unsere Fangemeinde zu vergrößern. Diese Tournee, die sich auf die meisten der bedeutenden Metal-Festivals Europas konzentriert, ist also auch ein großes Dankeschön an genau diese Festivals, die eine so wichtige Rolle in der fünfzigjährigen … und weiter laufenden … Geschichte von Iron Maiden gespielt haben.
Neben Osteuropa werden wir auch einige Stadionkonzerte in Regionen spielen, die wir bisher noch nicht besucht haben, darunter Hannover in Deutschland, Lyon-Décines in Frankreich und Mailand in Italien. In Mailand werden wir im legendären San Siro Stadion auftreten, der Heimat von AC und Inter Mailand, und werden, wie mir gesagt wurde, die erste Metal-Band sein, die dort jemals gespielt hat. Es ist immer toll, weitere neue Wege zu beschreiten – selbst nach all den Jahren!
Ihr werdet feststellen, dass im unten stehenden Tourplan für den 11. Juli nur 'UK SHOW' steht, und dafür gibt es einen guten Grund! Wir arbeiten an etwas Besonderem für unsere treuen Fans in UK, darunter eine Erweiterung unseres Eddie’s Dive Bar-Konzepts, das wir im letzten Jahr eingeführt haben ... also behaltet diesen Termin im Auge!
Fans werden auch bemerken, dass wir am Montag, 22. Juni, erneut in der Paris La Défense Arena auftreten werden, nachdem wir dort dieses Jahr bereits zwei ausverkaufte Konzerte vor 75.000 Fans gespielt haben... aber auch dafür gibt es einen guten Grund!
Ja, wir wissen, dass ihr danach gefragt habt, also werden wir diese besondere Show für euch und für die Nachwelt filmen! Wir haben uns für eine Indoor-Arena entschieden, um die Produktion optimal zur Geltung zu bringen und weil wir wissen, dass das Publikum in Paris für uns großartig ist und stets war. Deshalb haben wir uns entschlossen, nach Paris zurückzukehren und hoffen, dass die Fans dort uns noch immer sehen wollen! Es wird unsere 31. Show in Paris sein – und seit unserem ersten Besuch dort mit KISS im Jahr 1980 war es immer etwas Besonderes!
Ferner war es wirklich etwas ganz Besonderes, zu sehen, dass die überwiegende Mehrheit unserer Fans unsere Bitte, die Nutzung ihrer Handys bei unseren Konzerten stark einzuschränken, verstand und respektierte, sodass sie im Idealfall ihre Handys die ganze Zeit über in der Tasche ließen – insbesondere jene Fans mit Stehplätzen direkt vor der Bühne. Leider gab es bei einigen Konzerten Ausnahmen, aber insgesamt haben das Verständnis und das Miteinander unserer Fans einen enormen Unterschied für die Atmosphäre jeder Show gemacht und den Spaß für die Band und das gesamte Publikum gleichermaßen enorm gesteigert.
Während wir unsere Fans bitten, dies auch bei allen unseren Shows im Jahr 2026 beizubehalten, insbesondere in Paris, werden wir mit dem Unternehmen Yondr zusammenarbeiten, das handyfreie Räume schafft, in denen Fans eine sichere, verschließbare Tasche erhalten, in der sie ihr Handy jederzeit bei sich behalten können. Sie werden den ganzen Prozess im Endeffekt auch zum Vorteil von euch, unseren wunderbaren Fans, vereinfachen, denn ich bin mir sicher, dass ihr, genauso wie wir alle, nicht einen fertigen Konzertfilm sehen möchtet, in dem nur reihenweise Handybildschirme zu sehen sind. Daher werden wir, um unserem Filmteam zu helfen, den riesigen Saal in La Défense vollständig Yondr-handyfrei gestalten, um sicherzustellen, dass die Show – und natürlich auch ihr alle im Publikum – vor der Kamera so phänomenal wie möglich aussehen!
In der restlichen Venue bitten wir die Fans einmal mehr, ihre Handys in der Tasche zu lassen und die Show ‘im Moment’ zu genießen, anstatt ihre Handys in die Luft zu halten, um Teile davon zu filmen und damit alle um sich herum zu stören. Wenn also ein sogenannter Fan in eurer Nähe sich für etwas Besonderes hält und selbstsüchtig filmt, was er will, bittet ihn doch einfach – natürlich sehr höflich –, sich sein Handy irgendwo hin zu stecken, wo die Sonne nicht scheint!
Und, wie ich bereits erwähnt habe: Wir haben unsere Fans außerhalb Europas keineswegs vergessen und haben für euch noch ein paar große Ankündigungen für 2026 in petto. Seid versichert, dass wir nächstes Jahr so viele wie möglich von euch besuchen werden, bevor die Band 2027 eine wohlverdiente Tour-Pause einlegt.”
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES EUROPEAN TOUR DATES 2026
Mai 2026
23 Athen, GRIECHENLAND – OAKA
26 Sofia, BULGARIEN – Vasil Levski Stadium
28 Bucharest, RUMÄNIEN – Arena Națională
30 Bratislava, SLOWAKEI – Národný Futbalový Štadión
Juni 2026
02 Hannover, DEUTSCHLAND – Heinz von Heiden Arena
10 Amsterdam, NIEDERLANDE– Ziggo Dome
17 Mailand, ITALIEN – San Siro Stadium
22 Paris, FRANKREICH – Paris La Défense Arena
28 Lyon - Décines, FRANKREICH – Groupama Stadium
Juli 2026
07 Lissabon, PORTUGAL – Estádio da Luz
11 UK Headline-Show – Details folgen
Außerdem werden wir aufgrund der großen Beliebtheit der inklusiven, frei zugänglichen Eddie’s Official Pop-Up Dive Bars dieses Konzept in möglichst vielen Konzertstädten weiter ausbauen, um einen einzigartigen Rahmen für Fans zu schaffen, sich vor und nach dem Konzert zu treffen. Dort werden Trooper Beer und “Darkest Red”-Wein serviert; außerdem gibt es Essen, exklusive Merchandise-Artikel und weitere Specials.
Der Ticketverkauf für die bisher veröffentlichten Termine startet in der Woche ab dem 22. September.
Karten für die exklusive Hannover-Show gibt es ab Dienstag, 23. September, um 10:00 Uhr im Fanclub Presale, ab Mittwoch, 24. September, um 10 Uhr im Eventim Presale sowie im Anschluss im regulären VVK ab Samstag, 27. September, um 10 Uhr.
Zur Vorfreude können sich Fans mit der kürzlich veröffentlichten Dokumentation Behind The Scenes von EMP einen Blick hinter die Kulissen der Mega-Produktion verschaffen. Entstanden ist die Doku im Rahmen des Konzertes von IRON MAIDEN im Juli dieses Jahres in der VELTINS-Arena in Gelsenkirchen.
Von der Planung über den Aufbau bis hin zu dem Moment, wenn die Lichter angehen – ein einzigartiger Blick hinter die Kulissen einer legendären Band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Nujzo29dM
https://ironmaiden.com
Progressive
heavy metal band SPIRAL FRACTURE has released
their first single, “SOUL ALLEGIANCE”, alongside an official
music video, marking the first glimpse into their highly anticipated
debut album, GRACE IN DECAY, set for release on January 23,
2026, via Wormholedeath.With “Soul Allegiance”, Spiral Fracture delivers a storm of raw emotion and heavy riff-driven catharsis. A dark, introspective dive into inner conflict, betrayal, and fractured identity, this is metal with meaning — unfiltered and unapologetic.
Stream the single here: https://orcd.co/sasingle
The band’s upcoming album, Grace in Decay, promises a dynamic exploration of the human condition through progressive and extreme metal influences.
Pre-save "Grace in Decay": https://orcd.co/graceindecay
About Spiral Fracture
Spiral Fracture is a progressive metal band that bridges the past and future of the genre. Their sound combines thunderous drums, soul-shaking bass, and atmospheric guitar work with a soaring alto vocalist, weaving primal emotion into a precise, genre-defying tapestry. Inspired by the Fibonacci spiral, their music reflects the fractures of modern society through a fusion of prog, rock, death, black, and power metal. With intricate guitar from David Givens, ferocious drumming from Brian Fisher, dynamic bass from Brian Tanner, and the melodic clarity of classically trained jazz vocalist Javier Ramos, the band is a magnetic force live. Now with Extreme Management Group, Spiral Fracture aims to connect with listeners and heal divides, one note at a time.
https://www.youtube.com/@spiralfracture
https://www.spiralfracturemetal.com
https://www.facebook.com/spiralfracturemusic
Stormcaller is available on CD, gatefold vinyl LP, and digital formats!
Krigsgrav released the following statement about Stormcaller:
"When we started writing the songs that would make up Stormcaller, our intention was to create the most complete Krigsgrav album that took something from every era of the band, while still pushing our sound forward. A culmination of the blackest hues, doomiest of dirges, and most soaring of lead guitars. We think we achieved that, but we also wrote the best album of our career thus far. We trust that when you hear it, you'll agree."
Track
Listing:1. Huntress of the Fire Moon (feat. Jens Rydén)
2. Stormcaller
3. Twilight Fell
4. None Shall Remember Your Name
5. Bay of the Barghest
6. The Tonic of Wilderness
7. Ghosts
8. Womb:Death:Dawn
Album Credits:
All songs written, produced, and arranged by Krigsgrav.
Drums recorded by Sam Paquette at S.A.M. Studios.
Mixed and Mastered by Owe Inborr at Wolfthrone Studios.
Additional Engineering by Cody Daniels.
Cover Art by Adam Burke at Nightjar Illustration.
Guest Vocals on "Huntress of the Fire Moon" by Jens Rydén.
Album Layout and Design by Randi Matejowsky.
Line-up:
Justin Coleman - Guitar/Harsh Vocals
David Sikora - Drums/Clean Vocals
Wes Radvansky - Bass
Cody Daniels - Lead Guitar
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/krigsgrav
FORGOTTEN
PATHWAYS – “ SHROUDED IN MYSTERY”• Noble Jewelcase Edition
• Limited Edition
• For the first time on CD format
One of the most important german dungeon synth artists from the 90's was without exception FORGOTTEN PATHWAYS The well known classic album Shrouded In Mystery was originally released on tape format in 1998. We are very pleased to present you the release for the first time on noble CD format. The booklet includes all infos and original scans/artwork. Oldschool Dungeon Synth from Germany.
Info
Salvaged from the depths of time, out of the cellars and dungeons, of the deadwood of vast forests and the ruins of castles long razed and deserted, DUNKELHEIT PRODUKTIONEN is proud to announce the re-release of FORGOTTEN PATHWAYS' first demo tape Shrouded In Mystery from 1998! Almost exactly 20 years after it was originally published on tape, it is now for the first time released exclusively as noble CD edition and several other fine details. The dark and haunting magic of this classic Dungeon Synth gem will entrance your soul and lead you on forgotten pathways through misty woods, to hidden places of the past and trap you in times long gone by. The spirit of 90s intros/interludes and of early Medieval Ambient becomes alive again!
This re-release includes the original artwork taken from the '98 demo tape, along with exclusive unreleased photos from the Shrouded In Mystery-Era. It features the full original track list, while also including unreleased bonus tracks from the late 90s.
https://dunkelheitprod.bandcamp.com/album/shrouded-in-mystery
https://www.dunkelheit-shop.com
7.11.2025 – 8.11.2025 Heerlen “Nieuwe Nor” NL
After two accomplished dark rituals in the region of Limburg, we are pleased to inform you that the black energies have united to present you the invocation of darkness by Rituals Over Limburg III. Dunkelheit Produktionen will bring you exclusively the gems and respected acts from Ritual Industrial, esoterics and occult path in general. The evocation of the darkest energies to call will take place on 7th & 8th November 2025. Once again, we promise to present to you the absolute pinnacle of that kind. On these sacred dates we are pleased to present you for the first time exclusively the dark spell not only from the north of europe, but from latin america. We are looking forward to see you on the event of the year...
Delve into the dark subconscious and reach for deathless light, as you participate in this two day event in Limburg, Holland, situated only a few minutes from the German border. As was the case before, we expect a large amount of guests from all over the world and tickets are limited - so be quick and place your order now!
TEATRO SATANICO (ITA)
SYSSELMANN (NOR)
HOR-CHERET (GER)
ENS IMPERFECTISSIMUM (MEX)
TEHOM (CRO)
OCCULT ODYSSEY (MEX)
APOPTOSE (GER)
EMME YA (COL)
RAISON D' ETRE (SWE)
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/852072210174008
Tickets: https://www.dunkelheit-shop.com
VEILBURNER - “LONGING FOR TRIUMPH, REEKING OF TRAGEDY”
Genre - Avantgarde
Death/Black MetalFor fans of - Blut aus Nord, Imperial Triumphant, Deathspell Omega, Hexrot, Oranssi Pazuzu, Akhyls, Akercocke
"Only a year after the release of their critically acclaimed "The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom" album, Veilburner are returning with their eighth full-length album, titled "Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy."
In the spirit of striking while the iron is hot, this eighth evolution of the Veilburner story capitalizes on momentum while simultaneously achieving new heights in their song-crafting and story-telling. It leads their characters on a journey in which they cannot recognize triumph without tragedy, and sees them residing somewhere between the abyss and their devotion to mortal re-occurrence, that which seems to attract death. They face not just any death, but the kind in which they are bound to an infinite loop of reincarnation and destined to repeat the same traumas and failures as before. They continue to suffer like two dragons consuming one another in a serpentine-like fashion until one can no longer consume the other, frozen in the shape of infinity (∞) and numerologically represented by the digit eight (8). Samael (the "poison of god" and the eighth sphere of the Qlippoth), as well as Choronzon (the dweller of the threshold) and the Ouroboros all correlate with this symbol of infinity and exist in Veilburner’s lore as the antagonistic and immutable eternity, which if confronted can lead to self-destruction and the finality of manifestation, permenantly breaking the loop.
Mephisto’s discordant cacophony of dripping notes and riff-filled rot remain foul as ever, yet undeniably addictive. The music twists and turns on itself in an auditory embodiment of the album's theme and takes the listener on a snaking, bending musical roller coaster that seemingly ends at the precipice of where it began, endlessly inviting another listen. Chrisom Infernium acts as a medium, casting shadows of hiss filled hymns that harken to the past call to the present channeling the chatter of choired cataclysms, creating doppelgängers of sonic dispersions which leave the listener to contemplate if they are willing to confront the thing they fear most, the true version of themselves."
Line up
Mephisto Deleterio - Music and production
Chrisom Infernium - Vocals, lyrics, and album design
Cover artwork by Luciana Nedelea
Track listing
1. Longing for Triumph...
2. Pestilent Niche
3. Rigor & Wraith
4. That Which Crypts Howls Grandeur
5. Da'ath Ye Shadow Portrait
6. Ouroboreal Whorl
7. Matter o' the Most Awful of Martyrs
8. ...Reeking of Tragedy
Official release date - November 14th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/veilburner
Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
Label: Fighter RecordsRelease date: october 7th 2025
Genre: Heavy/Speed Metal
For fans of: Judas Priest | Skullfist | Annihilator | Striker
It’s late 2015 in Québec City, Canada and guitarists Criss Raptör and Steve Force are discussing ideas for a new band with drummer Rick Wild. The beers are flowing and references are made to German speed metal, US power metal, fantasy, sci-fi and comic books. And then Rick Wild says “what if the band is called Ültra Raptör and we have a song that sings about Cadillacs and dinosaurs?” Cadillacs and dinosaurs? Was this a clever allusion to the nascent band’s blend of primeval speed and savagery with meticulous, precision playing? The meshing of ancient influences and modern power? Or was it just an outburst of alcohol fuelled metal madness? Whatever the thought, or lack of it, behind that fateful statement it set another great Canadian metal band on their way! Steve Force and the inspirational Rick Wild took their leave of Ültra Raptör after 2018s self titled EP, but Criss Raptör is still there and the band are going from strength to strength. Debut album Tyrants really announced the heavy/speed metal strike force to the world in the winter of 2021 and now the Cadillac driving dinosaurs are back with album number two – the incendiary Fossilized!
Fossilized begins with its title track and Ültra Raptör immediately lay down the blue print for all that is to follow – ripping, melodic speed metal riffs, crisp, punching drums, magnificent choruses and blinding solos that scythe through the heart of the song. It’s a breathless beginning, a massive adrenaline injection and rush of excitement. ‘Spinosaurus’ and ‘Hard ‘n Fast’ follow in quick succession, lead by Phil T. Lung’s incredible high pitched screams and characterful vocals, delivering hooks and melodies to die for. The classic metal sounds of these songs make them feel like old friends after a single listen. They’re not derivative; it’s just that Ültra Raptör seem to have a direct line to the pure essence of metal. Songs like ‘Ptero-Ranger’ make you want to headbang and air guitar like you did in the days before you became jaded and cynical - Ültra Raptör make the magic of metal new again! The quality of Fossilized stays in the stratosphere right to the end with the thundering drums and twisting, turning riffs of ‘Down The Drain’ and the uplifting metal anthem that is ‘Face The Challenge’ with its wonderful chorus. So many great riffs…so many brilliant solos…so many sensational choruses and melodies…Fossilized is the epitome of energized, exhilarating metal. Ültra Raptör have delivered a classic!
Recorded, mixed and mastered by David Lizotte (Saccage, Warning Sign etc) Fossilized has the perfect balance between raw and raging energy and clarity and definition of sound. When you add to that the insane artwork of Mario E. Lopez M (Evil Invaders, Crystal Viper, Heavy Load etc) then you have everything a metal hungry headbanger could ask for. Fighter Records will release Fossilized on October 7th on CD, 12"LP, Cassette & Digital formats and the impact on the metal scene will be seismic! The Raptör is back!
Line-up:
Phil T. Lung - vocals
Criss Raptör – lead guitar
Zoltan Saurus – rhythm guitar
Dick Van Heuß – bass
Tony Bronco – drums
http://www.fighter-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/UltraRaptor
The first single from GOAD'S new album "DUSKETHA" is "DAISY' ROCK", a wonderful piece of Progressive Rock between dream, magic, poetry, and unique melodies.
The song is available at https://youtu.be/rTOYfi2wnl8 and of course on all the digital platforms.
"Daisy' Rock" is taken from "Dusketha", GOAD's new album, out on October 10th as a double CD and digital format, and represents a twilight journey composed by the soul of the band, Maurilio Rossi, once again inspired by the great voices of Anglo-American poetry: Keats, Poe, Lovecraft, Masters, Graham.
The album features 18 tracks for nearly two hours of pure art and it's the voice of shadows that think, the breath of lost poems, every note is a fragment of eternity, and the analog tape used for the recordings preserves its magic.
After over 50 years of career, GOAD continue to surprise us, and they do so in the most sublime way possible.
GOAD, the history of Italian Prog!
This is the tracklist of "Dusketha" the double CD by GOAD:Disc 1
1. Yes It Was Love (Message From A Cathedral)
2. One Of These Days (Is There Still Day)
3. Alone Man In Empty Room
4. Poor Skull (Reverend Brothers)
5. Daisy' Rock
6. To An After Time My Harmonies
7. And Still We'll Dance Into The Light Of Heaven
8. My Feet In The Breaking Wave Sundown
9. Give It Not A Tear
Disc 2
1. Stop And Consider Life Is But A Day
2. While I Kiss To The Melody (Night Sleepy Eyes)
3. Hush My Love (Lullaby For A Woman)
4. The Speed Of My Nightmares
5. Let Out Song
6. Finally Remembering I'm Dead
7. Garden With Spectral Gleams
8. Foxsteps On My Nylon Guitar
9. The Woodkeeper, A Collar Of Red (bonus track)
"Dusketha" is available in PRE-ORDER at: https://t.ly/BkVeb
This is what Maurilio wanted to tell us about the journey that led to the birth of this new creation:
"Dusketha" for me represents a sort of sonorous ritual between poetry and shadow, the sound of an inner twilight, where poetry merges with unconventional harmonies and sometimes visionary arrangements.
The primordial idea for this album is the product of a journey that began in 1993... With it, I tried to give a sound to the original texts of John Keats, Edgar Lee Masters, H.P. Lovecraft, E.A. Poe, Jorie Graham, and others, and to do so, I searched for a warm, vibrant sound. After various experiments, aided by Max Cirone and his vast experience, we came to the conclusion that we needed to return to the use of "old" instruments and production methods, such as the Maxell UD 25-120 magnetic tape and the Akai GX4000D recorder, as well as the use of "tape bounce" to give the whole thing a "vintage" aesthetic. I must admit that the result was surprising, and I'm convinced that whoever listens to it will be transported into a deep and immersive experience like rarely happens."
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/MaurilioRossiGoad
Oradea,
Romania-based Grindcore veterans SPIRITUAL RAVISHMENT have
announced the long-awaited release of their second full-length album, "EXIT
HUMANITY", in collaboration with Loud Rage Music.Originally recorded in 2015 at Postanalog Studio (Oradea) and Consonance Studio (Timișoara), the album was mixed by Andrei Jumugă and Tudor Scânteie, then mastered by Jumugă in 2016. Despite being scheduled for release nearly a decade ago, unforeseen circumstances forced the record into indefinite limbo... until now.
Earlier this year, the band re-emerged with two singles, "Harbringer" (watch here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK347OQY5jA and "Enemy Mine" (watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TkfWcXEJrk, building anticipation for "Exit Humanity".
At last, the official release date has been set for October 18th, 2025, which also marks the return of SPIRITUAL RAVISHMENT to the live stage.
Pre-order "Exit Humanity" here: https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-ravishment-exit-humanity
In preparation for the album launch and live comeback, the band has also unveiled its refreshed line-up, featuring long-time friend and collaborator Cosmin Purge on vocals.
SPIRITUAL RAVISHMENT 2025 line-up:
Cosmin Purge – vocals
Stancu Sebastian – vocals, bass
Andrei Bejușca – guitars
Andrei Jumugă – drums
To further raise the stakes, a brand-new single from "Exit Humanity" has just been released as a lyric video, "GRINDIMUS PRIME": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYb59jqhg5A
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/SpiritualRavishment/
SOUL
GRINDER – “FROZEN HALLS”Release: 16. October 2025
With “Frozen Halls,” the Bremen-based death metal band SOUL GRINDER presents its third full-length album—and a real heavyweight at that. In recent years, the band has established itself as a fixture in the German death metal scene, not least through countless club and festival shows, and has been more than just an “insider tip” since its previous album, if not before.
With their latest album, the trio picks up exactly where they left off with “Anthems From The Abyss”: uncompromising death metal, from blast speed attacks and groovy steamrollers to mystical hymns.
https://www.facebook.com/soulgrindermetal
https://www.facebook.com/MDDShop
The fifth single 'REMEMBRANCE' is out today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/def-remembrance
The band comments:"Remembrance" is a piece about awakening to the present moment and the inner transformation between eras. It invites us to pause, look back at the past, and recognize its impact on the present and the future. The piece weaves together regret and hope. It is, in a way, a journey toward meaning and renewal."
Biography:
Dead End Finland is a melodic metal band from Helsinki founded in 2007. The lineup, which has remained unchanged since the beginning, has enabled the band's sound to develop into its current rich form. Dead End Finland is difficult to place into any specific genre, and in the songs you can hear tones from classical music to death metal. During the years, the band's style has become even more bombastic and melodic. The compositions have gained more depth and insight. The upcoming sixth album takes the band in a more modern direction, although Dead End Finland's recognizable sound and basic elements are still easily heard.
Line-up:
Mikko Virtanen - Vocals
Santtu Rosén - Guitars & Bass
Miska Rajasuo - Drums
Jarno Hänninen - Keys
http://www.deadendfinland.com
http://facebook.com/deadendfinland
"Horizonless" will be available everywhere on September 19.
After completing the final objective and rising from the ashes of the recently self-immolated GRIDLINK,
Takafumi Matsubara and Bryan Fajardo now set mission coordinates towards BARREN PATH.
Recruiting Maruta/Shock Withdrawal vocalist Mitchell Luna and re-enlisting grindcore commandos Mauro Cordoba and Rory Kobzina from the Coronet Juniper sessions, this operation requires relinquishing high tech weaponry. Only use of rudimentary blades, precision blast strikes, and amplified guttural attacks is allowed.
BARREN PATH elevate the flailing savagery of their genre through mincing, precise volleys of melodic and dissonant passages that rip and tear like a swarm of shurikens.
By turns cruelly effective and strangely vulnerable, Grieving is a statement release by a new standard-bearer in grindcore.
This is music for a vicious, unforgiving world.
Grieving will be released on CD, vinyl LP, and digital formats on October 31 via Willowtip Records.
Pre-order:
https://metalinjection.net/new-music/barren-path-gridlink-maruta-streams-devastating-single-horizonless
https://barrenpath.bandcamp.com/album/grieving
Track
Listing:1. Whimpering Echo
2. Subversion record
3. Primordial Black
4. No Geneva
5. Isolation Wound
6. The Insufferable Weight
7. Relinquish
8. The Unreliable Narrator
9. Celestial Bleeding
10. Lunar Tear
11. Horizonless
12. In the End… The Gift is Death
Credits:
Vocals recorded by Phil Vera (DESPISE YOU, CROM) at Veracuda studios, Los Angeles, CA.
Drums and guitar tracked by Irving Lopez (COGNIZANT, TRUCIDO) at Anomalous Mind Recordings, Dallas, TX.
Mixed by Irving Lopez at Anomalous Mind Recordings, Dallas, TX.
Mastered by Leon Del Muerte (IMPALED, EXHUMED, MURDER CONSTRUCT) at Beastman Audio, Portland, OR.
Line-up:
Takafumi Matsubara : Guitar
Bryan Fajardo : Drums
Mitchell Luna: Vocals
Rory Kobzina : Guitar
Mauro Cordoba: Bass
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/people/Barren-Path/61579110541664/
Melodic
death-metal outfit SELIAS has unveiled their
brand-new single and video “BULLETS”, the first strike from
their upcoming album KILLKARMA, set for release on November
7, 2025."Bullets" hits like a metallic gut punch — no filler, just pure force. Inspired by the unforgiving grind of fight culture, it's a double-edged title: both literal and psychological. BULLETS dives into the fighter’s mindset — the kill-or-be-killed mentality, the hunger to dominate, to take what’s yours. It’s not just powerful. It’s purposeful. Ruthless. Respected.
Stream “Bullets”: https://orcd.co/bulletssingle
With Killkarma, SELIAS pushes further into melodic brutality and atmospheric depth, drawing inspiration from In Flames, Soilwork, Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, and Orbit Culture. Their 2025 live shows are already showcasing the new material with full-scale performances of sound, light, and intensity.
Pre-save the album Killkarma: https://orcd.co/killkarma
About SELIAS
Formed in 2020 by guitarist Steve Elias, SELIAS fuses aggression with atmosphere, precision, and emotion. Rounded out by Guilliaume Pascal (vocals/keys), Daniel Bouwman (drums), and Jeff Hyde (bass), the band delivers a cinematic metal experience that bridges classic death metal ferocity with modern melodic edge.
www.youtube.com/@seliasmetal
www.facebook.com/seliasmetal
FUNERAL VOMIT – “UPHEAVAL OF NECROMANCY”
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease date: december 19th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Autopsy | Grave | Mortician | Grave Desecrator
In the grand mausoleums of the world, in the forgotten plague pits and paupers’ graves, in the country churchyards and on the ancient battlefields where bones and steel lie submerged in time and mud…there is a stirring. Whispered words of summoning beyond the range of human hearing or understanding follow the worms into remains long still and silent. Powers from far deeper than the oldest grave are calling, calling for the forgotten to awake…
“He’s dead? Not anymore…” - Herbert West, Reanimator
Formed in the time of the global pandemic, Colombia’s Funeral Vomit have been spewing forth their particular brand of death metal sickness since 2020. They joined Xtreem Music in 2023 for the release of their debut full length album, Monumental Putrescence, which was followed in 2024 by an expanded reissue of their 2022 self titled EP. Now it’s time for the second album from Funeral Vomit, the second tome of monstrosities and malignancy – Upheaval Of Necromancy!
‘Intro (The Disentombment)’ leads you with beckoning claw and dire imprecations into the subterranean world of Funeral Vomit, where nothing is quite as dead as it seems – and from that atmospheric beginning all hell is unleashed! Title track, ‘Upheaval Of Necromancy’ erupts from the darkness with immense, cavernous vocals and guitars dusted in the last remains of the long, long dead. This is fetid death metal from the grave, a classic invocation of the ancient arts of death. There is no let up from the claustrophobic horror as ‘Sulphuric Regurgitation’, a rumbling war machine of unspeakably malicious intent gouges deep grooves into your flesh and the primitive horror of ‘Hematophagia’ pursues you through lightless catacombs, hungry for blood. Even ‘Interlude (Mortuary Ecstasy)’ is less a respite and more a promise of far, far worse to come...like ‘Cryptic Miasma Stench’, a monumental piece of soul devouring death metal, with screaming leads and crushing weight. After the scouring guitar riffs and colossal, bludgeoning bass and drums of ‘Rancid Insorcism’, ‘Outro (Effluvia Of The Mass Grave)’ settles into your mind, letting you know that while you may have reached the conclusion of Upheaval Of Necromancy, the Funeral Vomit nightmare will never end.
Xtreem Music will release Upheaval Of Necromancy on December 19th, the same fateful date on which Monumental Putrescence was exhumed, three years ago. Available on CD, 12” LP, Cassette and Digital formats, there will be no escaping this call from the grave!
Line-up:
Y. Lopez – Guitar
C. Monsalve - Guitar/ Vocals
H. Montaño - Bass guitar
J. Carvajal – Drums
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/funeral.vomit
Watch the lyric video for "Old Man Abaddon" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_erC9pq4eQ
For fans of monstrous riffs, horror-inspired visuals, and genre-bending metal.
False Prophets is set for release on October 29.
Fully formed in 2024, PRECIOUS BLOOD brings together three veterans of the NYC scene - AJ – guitar, vocals (Jesus Knevil, Snake Canyon), Dave Kramer – bass, vocals (Blood Feast, Suaka, Stanley), and Grace Perez – drums, vocals (The Wickedexorcist). The band’s shared love of doom and underground metal is expressed in an unholy concoction of rum-soaked riffs, brutal lyrics, and mystical tribal sounds.
With a signature sound best described as Blackened Caribbean Doom, PRECIOUS BLOOD delivers a unique blend of doom and thrash metal influenced tone, mixed with lyrical themes that draw profound inspiration from the enduring spirit of the Caribbean, shaped by brutal history of colonization, unwavering resilience of its people, and exploration of the darker aspects of human existence, including death, contemplation of mortality and the complexities of human suffering.
Tracklist:1) False Prophets
2) Bludgeoned & Charred
3) Footsteps of Babylon
4) Shadow of the Cross
5) Cemetery Burn
6) Old Man Abaddon
7) El Muerte
8) Whore’s Grave
False Prophets was recorded and mixed by Joe Hogan at Captain’s Cove Catskills Studios with mastering and additional engineering by AJ Tissian (The Wave Lab). The album was produced by Joe Hogan and PRECIOUS BLOOD. Album cover photo by Mia. Cover layout by PRECIOUS BLOOD.
Line-Up:
AJ -Guitar, Vocals
Grace Perez - Drums, Backing Vocals
Dave Kramer - Bass, Backing Vocals
https://linktr.ee/preciousbloodband
The
Finnish black metal band VERILEHTO is set to release
their second album AARNIHAUTA on November 28th 2025 via Inverse
Records. The first single and music video also titled AARNIHAUTA is unleashed today: https://push.fm/fl/verilehto-aarnihauta
"After joining Verilehto, the first song I took on was Aarnihauta. I immediately knew what kind of playing I wanted for that song and built the bass sound for the album somewhat in the spirit of Testament's Practice what You Preach album. Aarnihauta song like the whole album, features some playing from me that deviates a bit from the usual black metal style, but it remains to be seen how listeners will receive it. The overall sound is definitely our "style," meaning rough but beautiful." Says Markus Räipiö
Biography:
The Finnish melodic black metal band Verilehto is back with a new album, Aarnihauta. The album title translates as 'hidden grave in the forest', which is a fitting description of the band's second album.
Verilehto plays Finnish 90s-style black metal, characterised by melodic and aggressive riffs, raw vocals, and an eerie overall tone. The Finnish folklore-inspired lyrics fit well with the band's versatile riffs, and the songs vary from fast blastbeats to slower storytelling elements.
This album also sees a change in Verilehto's line-up, with Markus Räppiö from Kaira joining the crew. With Markus on bass, Janne Partanen (Hautajaisyö, Alfa Pentatonik, Marraskuun Lapset, Paavalin Harhat) on vocals, and Janne Tuikkala (Muria & Dawn of Everwinter) on guitars, drums and synth, the band is stronger than ever.
'Aarnihauta' sees the band continuing to evolve from their debut album 'Kuoleman Siipien Havina' by focusing on their own sound and style. The album is not overly polished, and has a good raw quality to the production, but this is not the main focus. It was recorded by the band themselves in 2024–25.
The album artwork was created by the talented Awinita Alm, and the single artwork was created by the band. The "Aarnihauta" video was filmed in 2024 and edited by Janne Tuikkala and Markus Räppiö.
Track list:
01. Surutta Tapettu
02. Nälänhätä
03. Aarnihauta
04. Kalman Sotajuokko
05. Tuhkaverho
06. Syöjätär
07. Virvatulet
Artwork by Awinita Alm
Line-up:
Janne Tuikkala - Guitars, Drums, Synths
Janne Partanen - Vocals
Markus Räipiö - Bass & Backing Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/verilehto
Technical
extreme metal band VANGUARDIAN releases its
experimental final single "DEAD SPACE" from
the upcoming album III: INHUMANITY.Tracklist
01. Gathering Momentum
02. Peripherals
03. ..In Humanity
04. LI-2 XA-1
05. Dead Space
06. Lost In Endeavour
07. Demolition Hour
08. Electric Sorrow
09. Inner Sanctum
All tracks:
Composers: Mikko Saviranta, Tino Jäntti, Markus Martinmäki, Sakari Soisalo
Lyricist: Markus Martinmäki
Arrangement: Vanguardian
Producer: Vanguardian
In the song, the schizophrenic android "LI-2 XA-1" who gained consciousness earlier in the album, flies through space toward the first habitable planet with the intention of conquering it for the human race.
Dead Space depicts loneliness and a journey into the unknown. The song's story has been influenced by Arthur C. Clarke, E. Schrödinger, D. Simmons, and others. The song was produced by Vanguardian.
Jami Honkala was responsible for mixing and mastering.
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, Bandcamp, YouTube etc.): https://push.fm/fl/vanguardian-deadspace
Vanguardian is:
Markus Martinmäki – Vocals
Tino Jäntti – Drums
Mikko Saviranta – Guitar
Sakari Soisalo - Bass
https://www.facebook.com/vanguardianofficial
Death
metal outfit UMULAMAHRI will unleash its debut album - LEARNING
THE SECRETS OF ACID - this fall on Ordovician Records.Pushing the limits of extreme music into stranger and more corrosive territories, UMULAMAHRI is comprised of a formidable lineup of underground innovators. The band features Andrew Hawkins of Baring Teeth and Doug Moore of Pyrrhon, Seputus, Glorious Depravity, and Weeping Sores. Session drummer Kevin Paradis adds his trademark percussive firepower to the band's sound.
Learning the Secrets of Acid is a densely cerebral excursion into warped riffs, fractured rhythms, and unyielding intensity. The album redefines the framework of death metal, crafting something volatile, unpredictable, and deeply unsettling.
Ordovician Records will release Learning the Secrets of Acid on digital and vinyl formats on October 1. Pre-order at https://ordovicianrecords.bandcamp.com/
Tracklist:
1) Rot Shall Rule The Oily Voids
2) Bursting With Life's True Fruit
3) VVVVRMS
4) Orifice Invocation
5) Leaked Photo Of Heaven
https://umulamahri.bandcamp.com/album/learning-the-secrets-of-acid-2
Check out the "Emmett" video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSnNXK0m6nY
"Emmett" will be available September 19 on all streaming platforms.
The
critical response to the band's previous album, Woe, was nothing short
of phenomenal! Black Metal Daily called it "An absolutely fucking
herculean masterstroke" (10/10), while Metal-Only minced no words in
dubbing it a "Masterpiece" (10/10). As such, the anticipation for the
epic follow-up, The Sleeping City, has been sky high!The Sleeping City, AN ABSTRACT ILLUSION’s third full-length album, utilizes their unique blend of progressive death metal and black metal with arpeggiating synths, wistful drones and vast soundscapes, harkening back to the era of 80’s sci-fi soundtracks. Being the band’s most atmospheric and heavy work to date, the album explores the depths of the human psyche and suffering. A decrepit yet monumental landmark, the sleeping city awaits ahead. Will you enter?
The band comments on the forthcoming album:
“When we compose an album we don't want it to just be a collection of random songs, we want a holistic theme coursing through the album's veins. When writing The Sleeping City we wanted to explore what the soundtrack to a dystopian sci-fi film, such as Blade Runner or Terminator, would sound like if it were written by a death metal band.
For The Sleeping City, we took inspiration from acts such as Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine, Kite, Ólafur Arnalds and Boards of Canada, pushing us to expand and refine our sound palette. Going from the long-song format of Woe, it was a fun challenge to once again write self-contained songs with a clear beginning and end.
During the creation of this album we worked with a great team of collaborators. Produced by the band’s own Karl Westerlund, The Sleeping City was once again mixed and mastered by Robin Leijon. Drums were recorded and produced by Jakob Herrmann (Devin Townsend, Evergrey, VOLA, Vildhjärta) at the legendary Top Floor Studios in Gothenburg, who has captured some of our all-time favorite drum tones. The gorgeous artwork, a homage to early black metal's painted artworks, was done by Alex Eckman-Lawn (Horrendous, Afterbirth, Woe, Nero Di Marte). We also worked with amazing musicians who provided us with beautiful strings and vocals.
With The Sleeping City we truly feel we’ve elevated our craft beyond anything we’ve done before and can’t wait for its release. Thank you all for your continued support!”
Willowtip will release The Sleeping City on October 17. The album will be available on CD, Limited Longbox CD, 2xLP vinyl, and digital formats.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/tsc-willowtip
https://anabstractillusion.bandcamp.com/album/the-sleeping-city
Track Listing:
1. Blackmurmur
2. No Dreams Beyond Empty Horizons
3. Like A Geyser Ever Erupting
4. Frost Flower
5. Emmett
6. Silverfields
7. The Sleeping City
Line-up:
Christian Berglönn - Lead Vocals
Robert Stenvall - Keyboards, Vocals
Karl Westerlund - Guitars, Bass
Isak Nilsson - Drums, Background Vocals
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://linktr.ee/AnAbstractIllusion
Avant-garde metal band NOW I'VE DONE IT has made history with the release of the world's first analog lyric video. The video for the band's newest single, "PANACHE," was entirely hand-written and filmed in one take. No edits and no AI.
Watch for yourself at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-zmb-WXgYw
Drummer Dan Reynolds comments on the song, which features Tyler Fedeli, lead singer of prog-power metal band Lör, on trumpets, "We've assembled all the ingredients of the past and the future to put this song firmly in the Now. The lyric video is the result of countless hours of practice to achieve a flawlessly executed hand-written product."
"Panache" is the second single off the band's forthcoming debut album, AN ILL GUEST. The album is set for release on October 17. Pre-order the album at https://nowivedoneit.bandcamp.com/album/an-ill-guest
What, or who, is NOW I’VE DONE IT? Four words. One way to live.
NOW: The present. Be the Now.
I’VE: I. Have. Contract. Take ownership. Seize the Now.
DONE: What’s done is done, and what hasn’t been will become done. What has become done has become the present… which is Now.
IT: What is It? It is Everything. It is Now.
Track
list:1. Disillusion
2. Dilly-Dally
3. Offering
4. Ruffled
5. Panache
6. Collywobbles
7. Muddled
8. Splinter
9. Jim-Jams
10. Kindling
Artwork painted by Eliran Kantor.
An Ill Guest was produced, mixed, mastered, and engineered by Peter Hraur.
Bio:
NOW I’VE DONE IT (stylized as NiDi) began in 2010 by high school friends, multi-instrumentalist Peter Hraur, and drummer Dan Reynolds. The two set out to create music that was a unique reflection of what they love about music: high energy but heavy, fun but dramatic, and funny without being a joke. With a rebellious DIY attitude, they scraped together whatever cheap recording equipment they could afford and put together their first demo of three avant-garde inspired metal tracks, aptly titled Rigamarole. The band would go on to spend years playing in the greater Philadelphia region, offering a theatrical, energetic, yet earnest live show, performing with such acts as Parius, Alustrium, Polkadot Cadaver, and more.
Peter and Dan took a "say yes" attitude while crafting An Ill Guest, resulting in 10 tracks filled to the brim with the kind of personality that can only result when two lifelong friends disregard convention and have a little too much fun in the writing room. Over the years of performing, the band has received phenomenal feedback, being described as "the most fun I've had at a live show," and inspiring listeners to dive into their own art with renewed energy.
The band’s hope is for this release to act as a radar to all those who want something a little different. It's bold and risk-taking, heavy and dramatic, but fun and extravagant. It's weird music for weird people.
https://www.facebook.com/nowivedoneitofficial
The Finnish death metal band WOUNDED IN FOREST is set to unleash their debut EP 'ANTIHUMAN ARTIST' on December 5th 2025 via Inverse Records.
The first single 'GODSPEED FILTHY WARRIOR' is released today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/wounded-in-forest-godspeed
“ Godspeed Filthy Warrior’ marks the antihero’s return home from war — not to peace, but to settle a violent score with his own family. Haunted by the whispers of his inner demons, he carries the weight of the battlefield into his own bloodline. The song captures that moment when revenge has become inevitable, and morality has long since rotted away. Every word in the lyrics drips with resentment and bittersweet triumph, and the outro’s spoken monologue reveals his fractured reasoning — part justification, part confession. It’s the sound of a man consumed by violence, standing at the point of no return.”-Joni Moisanen
“Musically, ‘Godspeed Filthy Warrior’ is one of the most straight-ahead tracks on the EP, following a verse–chorus–verse structure at a steady 180bpm. The chorus blends double bass drumming with blast beats under a surprisingly melodic guitar riff, leaning toward a more modern or melodic death metal sound. That contrast — the violence in the drums and the melody in the guitars — mirrors the clash between rage and twisted self-reflection in the story. The outro is one of my favorite moments on the record: the antihero’s voice shifts to an almost theatrical monologue, justifying his actions through a storm of conflicting emotions.”-Jussi Tuomisto
Biography:
Wounded In Forest is a death metal band from Oulu, Finland, born from tragedy and reborn with a sharpened edge. Formed in 2023 following the death of the drummer from a previous project that had lasted over 15 years, the surviving members regrouped with a stripped-down, more direct musical vision. Every member took on a new role or instrument to forge something raw and uncompromising — an outlet for grief, rage, and reflection.
Musically rooted in old school death metal, Wounded in Forest blends the primal ferocity of early ’90s death metal with a conceptual storytelling approach. Their lyrics, written in English, revolve around one fictional narrative per release, each grounded in a real event or period from Finnish history. Themes of violence, war, trauma, and moral decay are explored with unflinching intensity.
The band’s upcoming debut EP, Antihuman Artist, is set during the Great Wrath in the early 1700s — a time of Russian occupation and widespread atrocities in Finland. The EP tells the disturbing story of an individual shaped by violence — born into abuse, sent to war, and ultimately transformed into a serial killer who expresses himself by creating grotesque art from the remains of his victims.
Wounded in Forest’s dual-vocalist setup deepens their storytelling Joni Moisanen delivers classic low-end death metal growls, while Miikka Pyykkönen unleashes high-pitched shrieks more akin to black metal. This contrast creates a dynamic narrative texture, with each voice representing different facets of the characters and their descent into darkness.
Musically, the band combines relentless blast beats, simple but sinister riffing, and shifting rhythmic patterns that keep listeners on edge. Guitarists Joni Moisanen and Joonas Kokkoniemi mix chugging riffs, open-picked chords, and black metal-style tremolo passages with the occasional technical flourish. Drummer Jussi Tuomisto drives the chaos with aggressive blasts and constantly evolving grooves that mirror the tension in each story.
For fans of old school Death Metal with a conceptual twist, Wounded In Forest offers stories carved from something raw and real. These are stories steeped in blood, rooted in Finnish soil, and delivered straight from the heart of the forest.
Track
list:1. The Growth
2. Take the Son of a Bitch
3. Virent Carnes
4. Godspeed Filthy Warrior
5. Altar of Needles
6. The Last Leg
Music, lyrics & arrangements by Jussi Tuomisto
Artwork by Jussi Tuomisto
Line-up:
Joni Moisanen (guitar, vox)
Miikka Pyykkönen (bass, vox)
Joonas Kokkoniemi (guitar)
Jussi Tuomisto (drums)
https://woundedinforest.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/woundedinforest
Psycosmic
Death Grinders, NEFAS (featuring members of Cryptic
Gallbladder Splatter, Bedlam of Cacophony, Teeth, and Wax
People), have released a lyric video for "SPIRAL DEGRADATION,"
a track from recently released debut EP, OBLATION OV OBLITERATION.FFO: Earlier works of Cephalic Carnage, Intronaut, and Gojira.
Check it out at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMJ5e-4FUAY
With seasoned experience across the technical, dissonant, and mathematical landscapes of metal, the band's sonic statement of malicious intent, Oblation ov Obliteration, is a unique offering composed of churning death metal inspired riffs; ever shifting grooves; monstrous howls, shrieks, and yells; and the sonic representations of the undoing of reality.
Track Listing:
1. Xenomorphic
2. Spiral Degradation
3. Mindstream Transference
Credits:
Produced, engineered, and edited by Samur Khouja at Seahorse Sound Studios in Los Angeles, California.
Mixed and mastered by Erol Ulug at Bright Lights Studio.
All album art and layout: Moonroot Art.
Line-up:
Erik Burkhead-Fernandez - Vocals
Rusty Kennedy - Bass
Rajan Davis - Guitar
Alejandro Aranda - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/nefasmusic
Wormholedeath is proud to announce the release of “JE SUIS ZAT”, the explosive new music video from Belgian electro-fun-metal project BOUM PATAT. The track is taken from the band’s upcoming debut album MA BELGITUDE, set for release 31 October 2025.
“Je Suis Zat” is BOUM PATAT’s wild, bilingual anthem about the highs and hangovers of party life. Driven by pounding riffs, infectious chants, and sharp lyrics, it’s a cheeky yet honest take on booze, ego, and morning-after regrets. Equal parts chaotic and clever, the song captures both the reckless thrill of letting go and the sobering clarity that follows.
Pre-save "Ma Belgitude": https://orcd.co/mabelgitude
Line up:
Olivier Wittenberg – vocals, songwriter, composer, producer, instruments
Jérémie Vasile – guitar
About:
BOUM PATAT is the new electro fun metal project by Belgian musician Olivier Wittenberg, former drummer-composer of Manic Movement. In the 2000s, he toured Europe with bands like Kreator, Moonspell, and Psychotic Waltz, and played major festivals such as Graspop Metal Meeting.
After a long break, he returns with Ma Belgitude, a self-produced solo debut that blends heavy metal, Belgian humor, and old-school electronic sounds. BOUM PATAT breaks metal’s usual codes—serious and absurd at once, mixing groove, industrial, and electronic punch with offbeat themes and playful visuals.
Live, the project becomes a trio with Laurent Soulasse (bass) and Maxime Demulder (drums).
www.facebook.com/BOUMPATAT
Sentient
Ruin is proud to announce that after over a decade, we can finally
release "...TOWARDS DOOM...", the debut album
by Vancouver's bestial black metal punks DEATHWINDS on
vinyl and digital formats (after the CD and tape formats were released earlier
this year by Headsplit Records)."...Towards Doom..." reopens the gates to an unholy dominion of chaos cleansed in nuclear vice. Casting the listener back to a dark age of primitivism and savagery, on the long-awaited debut long player the Canadian war-punk horde invoke the legend of bands like Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Discharge, Doom, Black Witchery
and Blasphemy to summon an apocalyptic twilight of destruction. The original core lineup of Bestial Desolator on drums (Encoffinate, Radioactive Vomit, Temple of Abandonment) and of Nocturnal Black on guitars and vocals (Ceremonial Bloodbath, Nightfucker, Radioactive Vomit) is joined on bass by Nuclear Hammer Throne
(Ahna, Ceremonial Bloodbath, Encoffinate, Grave Infestation, Temple of Abandonment, The Nausea), replacing original bassist Filth Destroyer, to embody the band’s most sanguinary incarnation yet and christen its most pestilent abomination. Wielded like a war mace in a post-nuclear new neolithic age, these eleven songs bludgeon with merciless cruelty and barbarity as the hands of time are rolled back to re-embody black metal and punk’s most primeval instincts of destruction. Discharge's, Hellhammer’s and Celtic Frost’s iconic chainsawing guitars reincarnate into a new weapon of annihilation, instigated into absolute chaos and carnage by a thunderous onslaught of barbaric hammer beats, merciless blasting and disemboweled screams. A dense, death-bearing atmosphere of lead and toxic fumes overhangs the blasted plains and scorched dominion, underpinning the album's foul aura of belligerence and evoking visions of end-time turmoil and of a collapsing society being sent back to a feral age ruled only by lawlessness and cruelty. Bloodbath, Nightfucker, Radioactive Vomit) is joined on bass by Nuclear Hammer Throne (Ahna, Ceremonial Bloodbath, Encoffinate, Grave Infestation, Temple of Abandonment, The Nausea), replacing original bassist Filth Destroyer, to embody the band’s most sanguinary incarnation yet and christen its most pestilent abomination. Wielded like a war mace in a post-nuclear new neolithic age, these eleven songs bludgeon with merciless cruelty and barbarity as the hands of time are rolled back to re-embody black metal and punk’s most primeval instincts of destruction. Discharge's, Hellhammer’s and Celtic Frost’s iconic chainsawing guitars reincarnate into a new weapon of annihilation, instigated into absolute chaos and carnage by a thunderous onslaught of barbaric hammer beats, merciless blasting and disemboweled screams. A dense, death-bearing atmosphere of lead and toxic fumes overhangs the blasted plains and scorched dominion, underpinning the album's foul aura of belligerence and evoking visions of end-time turmoil and of a collapsing society being sent back to a feral age ruled only by lawlessness and cruelty.
"...Towards Doom..." will finally see its release on vinyl and digital via Sentient Ruin worldwide on October 3 2025, with all formats now pre-orderable via all our channels.
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases.Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/deathwinds-towards-doom
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/deathwinds
Label: Road To MasochistRelease date: october 3rd 2025
Genre: Necrotic Death
For fans of: Bolt Thrower | Entombed | Deviated Instinct | Abstracter
Tomb walker, waste eater, plague bearer…with your dusty imprecations of evil crawling from your dry and tattered throat. You drag your broken body from your lead-lined nest and fix me with an eyeless stare. Bone fingers reach for my throat as I gaze, mesmerized, into those dirt rimed sockets. I am falling into eternity, into an emptiness unending. And with a determined strength that belies your rotten, ragged frame, your fleshless hands tighten about my throat; but all I see are your dark secrets and all I hear are your whispered curses…
Bristol’s Plague Pit only formed in 2024, but already they are set to unleash their skull-crushing debut EP – the dank and cavernous A Whispered Curse. Their earliest expulsions of noise saw them treading a blackened hardcore path for first demo ‘Give In To Death’, but ferocious live shows alongside the likes of Coffin Mulch and Thou began to lead them into bleaker, bitter and altogether more dangerous territories…which ultimately resulted in the rampaging, harrowing horror of A Whispered Curse. The EP begins with ‘The Seventh Bell’, darkly majestic and rife with dread portent before it breaks out into a feral attack of encrusted death metal fervour. ‘Womb Of Orchids’ follows in a miasma of jarring distortion, rot, rust and devastation, switching between crust punk violence and pounding, monolithic beats before bleeding out into a dark ambient ending – which is shattered in turn by the onslaught of the death driven ‘The Weeping God’. Collapsing pace, measured melancholy, melodic guitar lines and howls of feedback… into the brilliant bass intro of ‘A Whispered Curse’ with its monstrous riffs and graveyard mystery, monolithic stature and cold mist atmosphere. An ending in damp soil and broken teeth, old blood and stained promises. A Whispered Curse is shocking, thrilling, haunting and addictive…an incredible welcome to the dubious pleasures of the Plague Pit.
Plague Pit have joined the ranks of pilgrims on the Road To Masochist and the fast rising label will release A Whispered Curse on 10” transparent red vinyl on October 3rd, with Eggy Tapes providing a cassette alternative, or addition. Stare into the void and sell your soul for a copy of this beast from the black.
Line-up:
W.B. - Vocals
J.H. - Drums
L.E. - Guitar
J.H. - Guitar
W.P. - Bass
https://roadtomasochist.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/plaguepitviolence
Norwegian
Death Thrashers, SOVEREIGN, will embark on THE
CORROSIVE REALITIES EUROPEAN TOUR next month with
countrymen, RUUN.Tour Dates are as follows:
Oct. 9, NL - Leeuwarden, MUKKES
Oct. 10, BE - Brussels, MAGASIN 4
Oct. 11, DE - Saarbrücken, COMMUNE
Oct. 12, CH - Basel, VALHALLA
Oct. 14, DE - Augsburg, KRAETZWERK
Oct. 15, CZ - Ostrava, ROCK HILL
Oct. 16, CZ - Prague, KLUB 007 STRAHOV
Oct. 17, DE - Wolfsburg, SICK FEAST/SAUNA
Oct. 18, DE - Oldenburg, WITCH SABBATH FEST
SOVEREIGN released debut album ALTERED REALITIES via Dark Descent Records last year on CD, vinyl, cassette and digital formats.
For fans of : Nekromantheon, early Sepultura, Pestilence, Dark Angel, Demolition Hammer…
Stream the album at https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/altered-realities
Order Altered Realities at:
https://www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop/
https://ddmsuo.eu/
Formed in Oslo in 2018 AD, the band has three releases under their belts: Iron Cast (single 2018), Sovereign (demo, 2019), and Neurotic (EP, 2020). Three years in the making, the time has finally come to complete the set with debut album Altered Realities. The album stands out as a monstrous masterwork of old-school extreme metal ecstasy.
“Altered Realities is a product of an ever-evolving journey we have taken as a band, from our start in 2018 and culminating in the album’s recording in early 2022,” reflects lead guitarist Tommy Jacobsen. He is joined in the band by former Nocturnal Breed band-mate Vidar Fineidet (guitar), alongside drummer Cato Syversrud, and bassist/vocalist Gravskjender.
“We strive to push ourselves, both in terms of speed and technicality, whilst still keeping a groove and dynamic. Our approach to death/thrash is an interplay between fast-paced aggression and a slower, more groove-oriented feel. The lyrical themes of the album mirror events and unrest that happened during the time of writing and is in itself a journey.”
Sovereign is:
Vidar Fineidet - Rhythm Guitars
Cato Syversrud - Drums
Tommy Jacobsen - Lead/Rhythm Guitars
Simen Roher Grong - Bass/Vocals
www.darkdescentrecords.com
www.facebook.com/sovereignnorway
Excerpt –"draws from different wellsprings of death metal, creating a heady concoction that’s viciously demented, technically virtuosic, eerily unearthly, brutally bludgeoning, and as brilliantly glittering as the cover art"
ABYSSALIS - „ADAPTATION“
Genre - Death metal with
technical/brutal elementsFor fans of - Soreption, Eschaton, Fleshbore, Decapitated, Demon King
Abyssalis imbibe various elements of contemporary death metal to concoct music that is at once technical, groovy, and riff-driven. Their previous EP "The Mountain" drew a good deal of attention for doing just that and they've taken things up a notch on their latest release. The songs are carefully structured - they are fast but not rushing through all the time, just so that they can embed themselves in the minds of the listeners. The riffs are catchy and fleshed out, ensuring that they remain memorable, and the delivery is brisk yet impactful. Mac Smith, fresh from his stint in Eschaton, once again does a stellar job doing vocals matching the tone and mood of the music, varying his deep growls with acidic rasps especially in moments of the blackened influences seeping through. "Adaptation" is a solid, enjoyable EP and coupled with their previous material as bonus, the definitive release serves as a fine introduction for this unheralded band that is poised for bigger things in the future.
Line up
Josh Steverson - Guitars
Mac Smith (Eschaton, Apogean) - Vocals and lyrics
Jack Blackburn (Unaligned, Killitorous) - Drums
Cole Daniels (Fleshbore, Unaligned) - Bass
Artwork by Justin Abraham (Inanimate Existence, Equipoise, Arkaik)
Track listing
1. Adaptation
2. Indomitable
3. Pandemonium
4. Senescence
5. Valholl
Release date - September 19th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/abyssalis.official
Thanks a lot for your support everyone! Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
LES BÂTARDS DU ROI - "LES CHEMINS DE L’EXIL"
Release
date :
October 10, 2025Genre : Melodic Black Metal
Origin: France
Duration: 46min50
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Tracklist:
1. La Forêt
2. L’Âme sans repos
3. Vers l’Étoile solitaire
4. Le Chevalier au corbeau
5. Ord Vil Merdos
6. Le Val Dormant
7. Les Chemins de l’exil
8. La Chevauchée cadavérique
9. Sous la Couronne de l’Éternité
LES BÂTARDS DU ROI line-up :
Regicide – Founder / Rhythm Guitarist and Lead Singer
Æni – Lead Guitarist and Clean Vocalist
Dæmonicus – Drummer
LES BÂTARDS DU ROI unveil the artwork for *"Les Chemins de l'Exil"*, the band's second album, set to be released on October 10th via Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions !
Formed in Orleans in 2022, Les Bâtards du Roi is a melodic black metal band evolving in a medieval framework. Set in a devastated world, this project tells the story of the brothers who committed regicide, the act that plunged the kingdom into decay and torment. From this initial situation, the protagonists embark on a spiritual journey of self-examination in a tortured landscape. This is the story of the beginning of their exile.
With this new album, Les Bâtards du Roi deliver a work as ambitious as it is heart-wrenching, woven with contrasts and tension. Between raw violence and symphonic flights, this record is an exile: a journey through darkness, solitude, and the outer limits of the soul.
At the crossroads of the spiritual and the carnal, between shadow and light, this new album is an offering: raw, mystical, timeless.
Here, Les Bâtards du Roi assert a powerful identity—where medieval breath meets the modern chaos, and where every note echoes like one more step into the unknown.
Formed in Orleans in 2022, Les Bâtards du Roi is a melodic black metal band evolving in a medieval framework. Set in a devastated world, this project tells the story of the brothers who committed regicide, the act that plunged the kingdom into decay and torment. From this initial situation, the protagonists embark on a spiritual journey of self-examination in a tortured landscape. This is the story of the beginning of their exile.
To wander. To search. To flee. To get lost. And to be reborn.
With this new album, Les Bâtards du Roi deliver a work as ambitious as it is heart-wrenching, woven with contrasts and tension. Between raw violence and symphonic flights, this record is an exile: a journey through darkness, solitude, and the outer limits of the soul.
Driven by evocative titles such as “La Forêt”, “L’Âme sans repos”, “Le Val dormant”, and the striking chapter “Ord vil merdos”, the album unfolds a sonic fresco of rare richness. Melodic black metal becomes a language of wandering, opening itself to a wide range of influences: atmospheric passages, dark orchestrations, haunting melodic bursts, and searing fury.
Each track is a fragment of wandering, an echo of lost souls, a cry of despair or a whisper of hope. The album delves into inner landscapes and forgotten realms, haunted by a single quest: for meaning, for origin, or perhaps simply for shelter.
At the crossroads of the spiritual and the carnal, between shadow and light, this new album is an offering: raw, mystical, timeless.
Here, Les Bâtards du Roi assert a powerful identity—where medieval breath meets the modern chaos, and where every note echoes like one more step into the unknown.
Preorders : https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/preorders
https://www.youtube.com/@lesbatardsduroi
https://linktr.ee/lesbatardsduroi
The
new NIHILI LOCUS single from the upcoming album "SEMPER" is "IL
TUO SANGUE PER I MIEI MAIALI" (TR. "YOUR BLOOD FOR MY
PIGS") and we present it with a lyric video on the label YouTube
channel. It is available at: https://youtu.be/R0hyk9EM2cETheir dark music characterized by a melancholic pathos embodied in an obscure sonorous extremism finds here its highest and most definitive expression with a violent mix of oppressive Doom melodies and cold Blackish structures.
The Doomish Black Metal cult act NIHILI LOCUS, thus gives birth to a new chapter from "Semper", an album that more and more is expected to be one of "the next big things" within the Italian Metal scene thanks to a band that has managed to transform the irreparable ravages of time into pure art, making their music simply immortal.
NIHILI LOCUS is coming back!
A name, a cult, the history of Italian extreme music.
"Semper" will be released on September 26th.
You can PRE-ORDER it as LP, CD, Tape, Box at: https://t.ly/VLgvZ
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/nihililocus
WAR GRAVE – “FREE WILL”
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: september 26th 2025
Genre: Heavy Metal
For fans of: Iron Maiden | Judas Priest | Helloween | Primal Fear
With a thousand cuts to our spirit and dignity they attempt to bleed us dry. Their titanic hunger for power and wealth and dominance in all its repugnant forms is never satisfied. While we teach our children to live with honour and integrity they plunder, rape and murder, grasping desperately for more food than they could ever eat, more money than they could ever spend; broken souls sating their every sordid desire and indulging every perversion their vicious little minds can imagine. But we are many and they are few. Never despair and never surrender, never abandon your beliefs and never relinquish the power of your free will!
Free Will is the magnificent debut album from the UK’s War Grave, following boldly in the wake of their critically acclaimed, self titled 2024 EP. Every promise made by that exciting first collection has been fulfilled and every standard surpassed. Beginning with the introductory ‘The Foreshadowing’, which builds atmosphere and anticipation, layer by layer, Free Will then explodes into its title track and an incredible metal ride begins. Fierce energy, superb, soaring vocals, dynamic riffs and rhythms and outstanding solos are unleashed in a glorious celebratory torrent. War Grave are stepping forward as new standard bearers for British metal! From the savage riffs of ‘Night Hunter’ and the uplifting power metal anthem, first single ‘Break These Chains’, to the accomplished, vital and vibrant ‘Only Here And Now’ the consistency of quality that runs throughout Free Will is remarkable. There is not a song on this characterful yet cohesive album that doesn’t deserve holding up for praise. ‘Light ‘Em Up’ is a tragic tale of the old west where the melancholy imagery bleeds through into the music, while ‘Rise Of The Titans’ is a metal colossus that sums up everything that is so appealing and impressive about War Grave. And the guitar solos…throughout the album the lead work is absolutely exemplary, up there with the metal greats. Free Will is a stunning debut album that establishes War Grave as one of the most exciting young bands around today. Watch them fly!
Charlie Wilson Jnr. (Torchbearer, Graven Image etc) at London’s Monolith Studios was once again in charge of capturing the War Grave sound – and Free Will is imbued with all the effervescent energy of the first EP, but with added depth and texture, reflecting the quality and maturity of these new songs. Complete with detailed and intriguing artwork from long term collaborator Heribertus M Miftakhuddin, aka Speedwhore (Dead House, Sunsetter etc), Free Will be released on September 26th…and with new warriors like War Grave stepping into the battle lines, heavy metal will never be defeated!
Line-up:
Roman Kantoch - Vocals
Rich McLean - Bass
Trent Powell - Guitar
Stuart Layne – Guitar/Backing Vocals
Steve Brill - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/wargraveofficial/
Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease date: september 26th 2025
Genre: Metalcore
For fans of: Neck Of The Woods | Tundra | Bleeding Through | My Place Was Taken
Line up: Christopher Adam – all music, vocals and production/engineering
Solo artist and multi-instrumentalist Christopher Adam joined Rottweiler Records in early 2025 with his Refiner project – a fusion of brutal metalcore, electronics and ambience with Adam’s diverse vocals and unique creative approach. We were promised two EPs and then a full-length album and after February’s Return To Dust EP and May’s Mistake EP it’s now time to bring all Refiner’s output together in one, self-titled album – with a few additional surprises as well…
A brand new introduction, ‘All Aboard’, welcomes the listener to the wild ride that is Refiner – ramping up the tension and excitement before the big, rumbling riffs of ‘Not The End’ come thundering from the speakers. This call for resilience and courage that made such a powerful impact on the Return To Dust EP seems to take on an extra depth in this new setting, as is the case for all these songs. ‘upside uʍop’ from Mistake follows with its brooding electronics, slinky grooves and deep bass punch before ‘Return To Dust’ brings bulldozing heaviness and irresistible melodic choruses together, in a heartfelt call for a return to simple, uncluttered living. A second new piece, ‘Selfish Days’ is up next, full of Adam’s trademark collisions between weight and wistfulness, melody and muscle. It’s perhaps the most memorable song on this entire collection and a great addition to the Refiner canon. The defiantly different and individual ‘Mistake’ closes what will be the digital version of the Refiner album and the first half of the CD. What follows, for the physical issue only, are instrumental versions of every preceding song, each demonstrating their strength and ability to stand proud even without Christopher Adam’s dynamic vocal performances. Rounding things off are a radio edit of ‘Return To Dust’ and ‘God Doesn’t Make Mistakes’, a previously unheard remix of ‘Mistake’. Refiner is an album that is collectively far more than its individual parts, the songs feeding from each other and taking on new and exciting dimensions.
Refiner the album will be available on Rottweiler Records from September 26th and whether it will be your introduction to Christopher Adam’s music, or the culmination of your sonic journey in his company throughout the year, this is essential listening.
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/refinermetal
Format: Digital EP-CD (the physical CD version will be released on 12-12-2025)
Label: Independent Release
For fans of : Hatebreed, Lamb Of God, Caliban and so on……
Behind Bars is a heavy mixture of groovy and thrash metal performed in an explosive and energetic way.
The band formed in late 2015 in Belgium. During the years that followed, the band stood on many national and international stages. Going from small youth club stages to massive ones like Wacken Open Air (Germany).
They can handle every stage and will use every square inch of it!
After a demo (2016), an EP (2017) and a first full-album (2019), the band released their second full-album ‘All in Due Time’ in march 2023 with great reviews and high scores!
Even after almost 10 years they’re still hungry for more and ready to destroy any stage crossing their path.
Definitely worth checking out these guys but be aware, standing still will not be an option!
Line-Up:
Steven Vandermosten: Guitar
Andy Philips: Bassguitar
Bjorn Van Olmen: Drums
Ian Huyskens: Vocals
Tracklist:
01. P.A.I.N.
02. As I Wait For Death
03. Spiral
04. Where Truth Lies
05. Anthem
https://www.facebook.com/behindbars.be
Austin,
TX – Metal outfit LIKE SORROW emerges from the shadows with its
devastating new single “MY STAR OF JOY.” Blending the haunting
bleakness of black metal with the crushing intensity of death metal, this track
strikes at the heart of love, nostalgia, and despair.Through raw lyricism and suffocating soundscapes, “My Star of Joy” takes listeners into a realm where fleeting happiness collides with inevitable decay. Themes of fading passion, fractured memories, and drowning in regret ripple throughout the song, pulling the listener deep into its dark emotional gravity.
Originally born as a solo project, Like Sorrow channels vulnerability and intensity into a work that is both personal and universal—an echo of every soul that has ever reached for light, only to watch it dim into darkness.
With relentless riffs, mournful atmospheres, and an unflinching vocal delivery, “My Star of Joy” is not just a song—it is an experience, a lament, and a ritual for those who find beauty in sorrow.
Fans of : Behemoth, Dark Funeral, and Opeth will find themselves at home in the shadows cast by Like Sorrow’s latest release.
Biography
Emerging from the depths of Austin, Texas, Like Sorrow is the latest chapter in Melodic Black Metal, forged by the visionary Marc Williams. What began as a side project in 2023 has grown into something far greater—an exploration of pure Black Metal, infused with Marc’s signature melodic touch. The result echoes the haunting atmospheres of early Throes of Dawn, Agathodaimon, and hints of Naglfar, weaving together spectral tales, infernal realms, and deep-seated melancholy.
Like Sorrow made its debut in 2023 with the Realm of Despair EP, released digitally and on cassette via Rotting Sun Records. This was followed by four singles throughout late 2023 and 2024, culminating in A Collection of Despair (2023-2024), released on January 22, 2025.
While the project's early tracks strip away the prominent keyboards found in Marc’s other works, this is set to evolve. Future releases will expand upon Like Sorrow’s intense, sorrowful essence, blending bleak, soul-staining darkness with the evocative melodies that define its sound. A harrowing yet captivating journey awaits—one that lingers in the shadows, calling to those who embrace the void.
https://www.facebook.com/likesorrow
For Fans of: Fear Factory, Devin Townsend, Starset, Tesseract, Katatonia, Industrial Metal, Groove Metal, Progressive Metal, Modern Metalcore, Djent, Tech Metal, Death Metal, Alternative Metal
Formed in 1992 in Perm, Russia, GRENOUER are celebrated pioneers of Russian extreme metal and progressive heavy music. Starting with a potent blend of death metal, death’n’roll, black metal, and thrash metal, they have evolved over three decades into a versatile, forward-thinking force that seamlessly fuses crushing riffs, polyrhythmic grooves, complex time signatures, melodic atmospheres, and industrial soundscapes.
Their early demos and EPs like Death of a Bite (1993) and Fiery Swans (1996) quickly established them as underground legends within the ex-USSR and European metal scenes. The 2000s brought a shift toward more experimental and groove-driven sounds, highlighted by breakthrough albums Try (2007) and Lifelong Days (2008), produced by platinum-selling Anssi Kippo (Children of Bodom, Ensiferum). These releases introduced math metal, industrial metal, groove metal, and progressive metalcore elements that broadened their sonic palette.
From 2013 onwards, GRENOUER embraced a modern melodic metal and progressive rock fusion, releasing critically acclaimed albums Blood on the Face (2013), Unwanted Today (2015)—which scored a perfect 10/10 in Powerplay Magazine—and Ambition 999 (2019). The latter featured the viral hit “Alone in the Dark,” amassing over 30 million YouTube views and solidifying their global presence. Their music has been licensed for video games, featured in major metal publications such as Metal Hammer and Rock Hard, and referenced in comic books and dark fantasy literature, underscoring their cross-media impact.
In 2021, side project Grenouer Inc. celebrated their early death metal roots, while the main band continued to innovate by integrating virtuoso guitar work, shredding solos, soaring clean and harsh vocals, tight rhythm sections, industrial electronics, and complex progressive songwriting.
Now proudly signed to premier American metal label Brutal Records, GRENOUER’s tenth studio album, Downtown Dream, heralds a new chapter of artistic growth and worldwide exposure. This album will resonate strongly with fans of djent, tech metal, industrial grooves, melodic death metal, progressive metalcore, and alternative metal.
Available Worldwide November 21, 2025 | Brutal Records / Digital via The Orchard
Tracklist:A New Word
Downtown Dream
Private Contravention
Twilight Knots
Wrapped In A Shroud
Synthetic Mutagen
Destiny Rust
We Are The World We Deserve
A Foe Within
White Lies
The Intersection
Fronted by charismatic vocalist Andrey Ind, GRENOUER deliver powerful live performances characterized by dynamic intensity, stylistic versatility, and magnetic stage presence. Their extensive touring history across Russia and Europe, combined with their ability to blend groove, industrial, tech, progressive, melodic metal, and atmospheric rock elements, makes them a sought-after act for metal festivals, underground venues, and international heavy music circuits.
Downtown Dream is not just an album it’s a testament to GRENOUER’s relentless evolution and dedication to pushing the boundaries of modern metal.
https://www.brutalrecords.com/
http://www.grenouer.com/
Chicago (IL) - Long-running Blackened Melodic Death Metal quartet, WITHERING SOUL, are set to release their fifth album, PASSAGE OF THE ARCANE, November 14 on Liminal Dread Productions!
FFO: Dark Fortress, Windir, Hypocrisy, Dissection, God Dethroned.
Passage of the Arcane is a convergence of blackened atmospheres and sweeping song structures. A mystifying journey that exceeds boundaries while remaining fun and exciting. The overall theme of the album involves human experiences traversing into cursed oblivion. Each song explores its own story, ranging from unexplained disappearances to the supernatural. While variation is abundant within the soundscapes, it is with a cohesive direction. Each chapter takes on its own "passage" through channels of cursed lore and harrowing experiences of the past. A seamless balance of crushingly heavy riffs and chilling melodies.
The album's first single, "Attrition Horizon," is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PG2Ul77B_A
The song can also be streamed on : https://witheringsoul.bandcamp.com/track/attrition-horizon
Pre-order Passage of the Arcane: https://witheringsoul.bandcamp.com/album/passage-of-the-arcane
Track
Listing:1. Intro
2. Attrition Horizon
3. Grievance Eludes the Light
4. The Monolith Embodied
5. Gallery of the End
6. Trajectory
7. Among Covetous Eyes
8. Burden of the Valiant
Credits:
Guitars, Vocals - Christopher
Bass Guitar - Joel
Drums - Rick
Guest guitar solo on "Trajectory" by Nick "Exhul" Morgan.
Drums recorded and engineered by Vince Ippolito at Swift Road Studios.
Album mixed and mastered by Dennis Israel at Clintworks Audio.
Cover art by Adam Burke / Nightjar Illustration.
Line-up:
Christopher - Vocals, Guitar
Frank G. - Guitar
Joel - Bass Guitar
Rick - Drums
Bio:
A manifestation in the form of chilling soundscapes, foreboding atmospheres, contagious melodies and tortured chants echoing above an onslaught of calculated percussion. Withering Soul creates a musical elegy that is both majestic and haunting.
Conjured into existence by founding members Christopher (guitars and vocals) and Mykil (former lead vocalist) with the release of their debut album Apparitions of the Surreal in 2004, the band was later featured on "ReUnation - A Tribute to Running Wild" with a cover of "Firebreather" via Germany's Remedy Records earning "Best Song on the Album" by WeRock (SWE). A few years later saw the release of their follow-up album, No Closure via Mortal Music (MVD Distribution). The album promptly landed a spot on Apoch's Metal Review: "Top 50 Albums of 2011."
The band eventually recruited Rick Hernandez on drums and Joel Miller on bass guitar. Following an array of live shows brought the release of their third full length album Adverse Portrait (2015). It was later labeled “Album of the Month” by Metalreviews.com. The band made a few festival appearances such as Full Terror Assault III and Artifact Metal Fest in 2018.
Over the course of the 2020 world shutdown the band resolved to continue forward with Christopher on vocals and released its fourth full length effort Last Contact. The album reached an unprecedented level of acclaim not limited to earning the 3rd spot in World of Metal's top albums of 2021. The band immediately followed up with a busy live schedule both locally and out-of-state including a performance at Legion ov the Order festival in Tacoma, WA, Merciless Metalfest in Nova Scotia, Canada and Desecration Rituals VI and VII in Fort Wayne, IN.
Withering Soul has just recently finished its 5th album to be released at the end of 2025 and plans to continue transcending the boundaries of metal‘s darker genres while maintaining its own distinctive sound and leave its audiences spellbound for more.
https://www.facebook.com/liminaldreadproductions
https://www.youtube.com/user/WITHERINGSOUL
https://www.facebook.com/witheringsoulband
Watch “A Kiss of Death” teaser: https://youtube.com/shorts/K8m8ol9YHyE?feature=share
"Wine For a Tormented Soul" features eight tracks, including the band's previously released singles "Carry Me Home" (Spotify, YouTube), "Heaven Tonight" (Spotify, YouTube) and "Love n Death" (Spotify, YouTube).
Pierre Törnkvist from Scheitan shared the inspiration behind the album, "I am very much looking forward to presenting the new Scheitan album to the audience. The title 'Wine For a Tormented Soul' comes from what music can mean to people that run into hardship in life. Music is my therapy, it is my best friend in dark times. The last 10 years have been a bumpy road with one of my best friends passing away too early as well as my father leaving us from one day to another. Some of the songs have been presented to people as singles, with the upcoming album you can hear them in the context of an album, and also listen to them in a non-digital format such as vinyl which I think is the best way to do it. We will try to come out and play these new songs for you as much as we can."
PRE-ORDER "Wine For a Tormented Soul" via The Circle Music: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=scheitan
Tracklisting:1. A Kiss of Death
2. Heaven Tonight
3. Döden är helt underbar
4. Love n Death
5. Every Little Thing
6. Out of Here
7. Carry Me Home
8. Dream Away
"Wine For a Tormented Soul" follows Scheitan's 2024 album "Songs for the Gothic People" (The Circle Music) and their return after a 24-year hiatus. Having formed in 1996 by Pierre Törnkvist, Scheitan began with black metal roots but evolved to define their current gothic rock sound and continue to build on their sound. Their previous albums, including 1999's "Nemesis" (Century Media) have garnered a reputation as hidden gems within the genre.
https://thecirclemusic.gr/
https://www.facebook.com/The-Circle-Music-109161897443413/
https://www.scheitan.se/
https://www.facebook.com/scheitanofficial
From
The Blade of Seattle, HYPERSTRIKE erupts with today's
release of debut album, HIGH RISK!A high-octane collision of anthemic clean vocals, bone-crushing riffs, punk-fueled drum fire, and the razor edge of melodic death metal, Hyperstrike deliver danger with every track. This is metal built like an action movie soundtrack: explosive, relentless, and larger than life.
Explosive. Relentless. Unstoppable. This is the soundtrack to chaos.
“Meltdown” — the core goes critical, and the blast is unstoppable.
“Leaving You Again” — love is a weapon… and heartbreak is the trigger.
“High Risk” — play the game, roll the dice… win it all, or lose your life.
“Shadowbound” — where the darkness hunts… and only the cursed survive.
“Warning Shot” — one bullet in the chamber… and mania in his eyes.
“Slug City” — neon streets, blood on the asphalt… nobody gets out alive.
“Steel Heart” — forged in fire, unbreakable, unstoppable.
“Slowman” — you can’t outrun fate… when death walks at your speed.
“King of the Slain” — one battlefield, one crown… and a throne of bones.
“Savage Sword” — sharpened for vengeance, raised for the final strike.
As if that weren't enough, Hyperstrike has released the demo for the official Hyperstrike video game! Play the game demo here while anticipating the album, just over the horizon. https://hyperstrike.itch.io/hyperstrike-game-demo
Track Listing:
1. Meltdown
2. Leaving You Again
3. High Risk
4. Shadowbound
5. Warning Shot
6. Slug City
7. Steel Heart
8. Slowman
9. King of the Slain
10. Savage Sword
Credits:
Cover art - Mark Richards (Heavy Hand)
Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Ben “Chop Daddy” Bennett
Lyrics and music by Hyperstrike.
Logo by Dipayandas Arts.
Line-Up:
Ben (Chop Daddy) Bennett - Speed Chopper Bass
Adon (Brain Lord) Fanion - Maniacal Pyro Vocals
Ilya (Siberian Claw) Ignatov - Elite Assassin Shred Guitar
Josh (Goblin Hammer) Hoffman - Master Drum Blaster
Bio:
Born in the Blade, forged in chaos—Hyperstrike is Seattle's action metal war machine. Founded in 2024 by bass-slapping juggernaut Ben "Chop Daddy" Bennett, this band doesn’t play music; they drop sonic bombs. With a shadowy past tearing through thrash titans Warbringer and Bonded by Blood, and reigning as the "Lord of the Low End" in sci-fi shredders Xoth, Bennett knew exactly what kind of beast he was building. First, he wrangled in Ilya, the shredder known as "The Claw," an assassin with riffs sharper than steel. Then came Adon, the "Brain Lord"—a maniacal force spitting venomous truths, carrying the fire from his days in Ghost Ship Octavius and the twisted depths of Spiritual Suicide. Together, they built a soundtrack for the end of the world: songs about nuclear meltdowns, cage fighters, and kings of the slain.
The final weapon in their arsenal? Josh, a drum-detonating powerhouse known as "Goblin Hammer," whose percussive assault forged their chaos into a relentless onslaught. Hyperstrike is a raw, unfiltered force with hearts of steel and a taste for mania. No apologies. No survivors. Just unrelenting aggression. Brace for impact—because once the trigger drops, nothing will ever be the same.
https://www.youtube.com/@HyperstrikeBandOfficial
https://www.facebook.com/hyperstrikeband
Birmingham (AL) - Ten years after its initial release and in honored celebration of the band’s fifteenth anniversary of existence, Boris Records is proud to announce today's exclusive vinyl reissue of ECTOVOID’S long out of print sophomore full-length album, DARK ABSTRACTION. The limited reissue comes in two versions – plain black and marbled purple.
Purchase/Stream: https://borisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dark-abstraction-reissue
The band’s most recent full length recording and tragically the last to feature the band’s late founding guitarist Michael Stewart, Dark Abstraction, was originally released in 2015 on CD by Polish label Hellthrasher Productions and LP by Swedish label Blood Harvest Records. A massive step forward in every way from the outfit’s well regarded if unpolished debut album, Dark Abstraction represented an energetic, riff-focused, and creative spin on the cavernous blackened death metal sound that was flooding the scene in copious amounts in the mid-2010’s. With eight varied and memorable tracks, a greatly improved production, and an ever-advancing sense of expression and craftsmanship from all instruments, this was the sound of a young band stepping out of their formative beginnings and emerging confidently as the established and respected outfit they are known as today.
Boris Records is excited to bring this under-appreciated work of death metal darkness back to the public consciousness - Ectovoid’s exhumation from the forgotten graves is long overdue.
Track
Listing:1. Obscure Altars
2. Visions of Reflective Decay
3. Mental Netherworlds
4. Precipice of Absolute Chaos
5. Rituals of Hallucination
6. The Expanse Between Slumber and Death
7. A Prisoner of Paradox
8. Spawned from Unending Mystery
Credits:
Recorded in Autumn 2014 by Joshua Freemon at Dead Sound Studios.
Mixed by Joshua Freemon.
Mastered by Damian Herring at Subturranean Watchtower Studios.
Cover art by Bartlomiej Kurzok.
Line up
C.B. – Bass/Vocals
M.S. – Guitar
C.M. – Drums
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Label: H-MusicRelease date: october 17th 2025
Genre: Symphonic Metal
For fans of: Epica | Leaves’ Eyes | After Forever | Sirenia
My past is a place of shadows, of formative monsters that I have tried to run from but never left behind. They have shaped me and I have allowed them to. They gave me a structure, a framework and a shield. But you have unlocked each door that I have closed about my heart and let the light shine upon a version of myself I had almost forgotten. And I must make him stronger. I must draw him from the dark until he can stand beside you and let the monsters crumble into dust and become lost upon the wind. I must heal this broken mind…
After the powerful impact of their In this Silence EP, released in the summer, innovative Hungarian symphonic metal troupe Meteora are now set to unveil the second part in a previously announced trilogy of EPs – Broken Mind. While Atanathos webzine hailed In this Silence for setting “a new standard for contemporary symphonic metal”, Broken Mind manages to surpass that intriguing release, sounding even more accomplished, assured and supremely confident. Meteora are ready to lead us further into their kingdom of romance, magic, tragedy and hope.
Devil dancing keys over dark and storm-tossed riffs, fierce energy and grand drama usher in Broken Mind’s first single and opening, title track. Composer and keyboard player Atilla Király describes the song as having “a really special place in all of our hearts” and its wonderful melodies and powerfully contrasting vocal styles make for a dynamic and thrilling beginning to this new collection of songs. ‘Morningstar’ follows, slipping from enchanting melodies to driving, heavy sections with rampant guttural vocals, the sublimely managed shifts in mood and tempo epitomising the Meteora sound. There is so much happening in these songs that they feel like true symphonies, with surprises and secrets revealed keeping you on the edge of your seat. ‘Elysion’ seems to step from the pages of history with its lilting melody, transportative and emotive and Atilla Király takes the vocal lead on this darkly hued power metal piece, his rich, smooth tones working to exemplary affect. Broken Mind’s crowning glory however comes with its final, epic track. A drama worthy of a stage play, ‘In My Name’ evolves into ever more splendid forms, layers of sound are added, layer upon layer and all three vocalists are at their superlative best. Featuring some truly excellent riffs and a sense of real depth and substance, ‘In My Name’ is surely one of Meteora’s greatest ever songs. Broken Mind is an immensely satisfying and rewarding sonic experience that leaves the listener with a feeling of incredible anticipation for what the final part of this trilogy of EPs may bring…
Working with recording engineer Balázs Pálfi (Türböwitch etc) and utilising the mixing and mastering skills of Nino Helfrich (Thrash Cult, Traces Of A Life etc), Dmitry Kim (Khors, Arhat etc) and Joel Wanasek (Machine Head, Carnation, Dååth etc) Meteora have captured the perfect sound for Broken Mind – textured, powerful and resonant – while the impactful EP cover art was brought to life by Dronicon Films (Swallow The Sun, Katatonia, October Tide etc). The ‘Broken Mind’ single is available now, accompanied by a video created in association with Kill Monday Management and the full EP will arrive on October 17th via H-Music Hungary.
Line-up:
Noémi Holló – vocals
Máté Fülöp – bass, growls
Gábor Kása – drums
Dániel Baranya – guitars
Dániel Schreiber – guitars
Atilla Király – keys, vocals
Backing vocals from the Meteora choir – assembled and conducted by Ádám Attila Kurucz
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New single from BILL CLOVE ("LOOMING AGAINST WAVERING LIGHT" out from "THROUGH SHADOW TO FIRE" album) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKDk3OAWzWM
Emerging from the rolling plains of Iowa, United States, Bill Clove is a one‑man symphonic death metal project that blends relentless aggression with sweeping orchestral grandeur. In 2022 he unveiled Perilous Passage, an album forged from a lifelong love of metal, classical composition, and cinematic soundtracks. Though he first picked up a guitar in a church youth group hammering out surf rock riffs, Bill quickly gravitated toward heavier, more complex music.
Drawing inspiration from genre‑defining acts such as Shadow of Intent, Inferi, and Aephanemer, he weaves baroque and neoclassical virtuosity into a wall of crushing guitars and drums.
Balancing a career as a dentist and family life, Bill remains a relentless creator, constantly composing new material for his next release. Stay tuned for upcoming songs, videos, and behind‑the‑scenes glimpses of his creative process on Bandcamp, Facebook, and YouTube.
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ARS ONIRICA – “2.5 NIGHTTIME” (EP)
Label: Ardua MusicRelease date: october 24th 2025
Genre: Melodic Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Anathema | The Gathering | Tiamat | Ghostheart Nebula
Line-up: Alessandro Sforza – All music and vocals
As the sky shifts through its kaleidoscope of colours, gradually slipping into darker hues and the stars emerge from hiding, a dusting of distant diamonds across the velvet canopy, I sink down into the welcoming arms of sleep. I cross the bridge of dreams beneath the watching eyes of the moon and a journey, forgotten in daylight hours, begins anew…
Briefly existing as a full band in the early 2000s, producing one demo, Utopia: A Winternight’s Traveller in 2004, Ars Onirica was reborn as the solo project of Alessandro Sforza in 2018. Two superbly crafted albums of melodic doom/death – I: Cold and II: Lost – have established Ars Onirica as a name synonymous with imaginative, enthralling music and now the next chapter in this story of enchantment and revelation is about to begin. Despite, as its title suggests, being an interlude between albums, 2.5 Nighttime is a sublime work, rich in wonders and overflowing with magic, that is destined to become a treasured part of Ars Onirica’s unfolding discography. Opening track, ‘Dusk (An Ode To The Stars)’ entwines gently emotive vocals and guitars like whispered incantations to transport the listener to the deeply dreaming world of Ars Onirica, opening the gateway to the remarkable three part title track which forms the heart of this EP. ‘Nighttime Part I’ blossoms around you, all enveloping and lifts you, weightless, to the stars before the momentous weight and power of ‘Nighttime Part II (Your Silence Around Me) is unveiled. With vast chords and cascading notes leading into fiercely emotive harsh vocals alongside quiet, yet equally compelling clean vocals, the dream walks the boundaries between light and dark. ‘…Part III’ brings a sense of urgency and an almost blackened aura, but always juxtaposed with the warmth and beauty that run through this EP like unifying threads of gold. The contrasts and dynamics are stunning, yet smoothly blended, the shifts of scene as perfect as the changing scenarios of a dream. And finally, ‘Dawn’ provides a sweetly languorous awakening, the experiences of the hours of darkness drifting apart like gossamer threads as the sun rises, delivering a perfectly formed sense of conclusion and completeness. 2.5 Nighttime is a remarkable, immersive creation to be savoured and experienced again and again.
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Blue Ocean Recording Studio by Alessandro Sforza in partnership with Lorenzo Carlini of Black Therapy and Invernoir, who also worked on I:Cold and II: Lost, every nuance of 2.5 Nighttime’s layered and textured compositions can be fully appreciated. And with Disturbing Grace Design supplying one of those rare pieces of cover art that perfectly captures the spirit and soul of the music within, every contributing element has combined to make this release something truly special. Ardua Music will unveil 2.5 Nighttime on October 24th and the dream will begin once more.
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The Dark Americana outfit :SKULL & DAWN: will release their second full-length album, “THE HARVEST”, on 17 October 2025 through The Circle Music.
The upcoming album “The Harvest” dives deep into a mysterious world of Southern Gothic horror, featuring songs about dead lovers, serial killers, lone cowboys, and lost souls. The album blends the band's neofolk past with a true Americana sound and a Southern Gothic atmosphere.
The Circle Music said: “Although at first glance the style of :Skull & dawn: might seem out of step with The Circle's previous releases, for some inexplicable yet undeniable reason, The Harvest felt destined (from the moment of its creation) to be released by us.
“It’s not just the fact that :Skull & dawn: have shared the stage with several of The Circle’s artists during live performances; it’s the very atmosphere of the album itself. From the very first listen, we all had the same instinctive reaction: The Harvest had to be released by us. There was simply no other way.”
“The Harvest” will be released in digital and CD formats, with the CD version including two bonus tracks: "Kingdom of the Corn (Live)" and "St. James Infirmary (Live)". A limited edition black LP (250 copies) and a limited edition gold LP (250 copies) with a printed insert will also be available.
Guests on the album include Okoi Thierry Jones (Bölzer), Perikis Tikof (Opened Paradise), Ioanna Noir Zacharopoulou (Glitter Grotesque) and Vasso Jism.
Founded in 1999 under a different name as a trio in Athens, Greece, the band started by creating industrial noise music using hammers and electric screwdrivers. From 2002 to 2009, they embraced the heritage of Old Europe and folk instruments under the name Défilé des Âmes. They released the full-length LP Lust & Stone, a split EP, and several DIY EPs. They also collaborated with notable artists like Sieben.
The band reformed in 2009 as :Skull & dawn:, shifting their sound to be influenced by the American South. Their debut album, Zombie Horses (2016), fused their industrial roots with American folklore, creating a sound inspired by artists like The Bad Seeds and Hank 3. They have maintained a strong live presence over the years, performing with a wide range of artists, including Jarboe, Chelsea Wolfe and Psychic TV.
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Wormholedeath is proud to announce the signing of Swedish melodic death metal icons IMPERIAL DOMAIN to its global roster. The band’s highly anticipated new full-length album, PORTENTUM, will see the light of day on 14 November 2025, ushering in a bold new era for this seasoned force from Uppsala.
To mark this milestone, Imperial Domain has unleashed their crushing new single “HISTORY REPEATING”, accompanied by a striking official music video that captures the band’s trademark mix of aggression, atmosphere, and melodic depth.
Stream “History Repeating”: https://orcd.co/hrsingle
“We are proud to announce that we have signed with Wormholedeath! This marks an exciting new chapter for the band, and we are thrilled to join forces with a label that shares our passion and vision for our music,” the band states. “Our upcoming album Portentum explores dark historical and contemporary themes—from ancient omens to modern dystopias. It’s a record born from reflection, unrest, and unrelenting creative fire. We can’t wait to share this body of work with you all and begin this new era together with Wormholedeath.”
With Portentum, Imperial Domain delve deep into humanity’s cyclical nature. From the ominous tension of the title track to the brutal realism of “History Repeating” and the bleak futurism of “New World Order,” the band carves a sonic path through the ruins of civilization—past, present, and speculative.
About Imperial Domain
Founded in the mid-90s, Imperial Domain quickly made waves in the Swedish death metal underground with their debut demo The Final Chapter (1995), followed by In the Ashes of the Fallen (1996)—a release that earned them national acclaim. Their full-length debut In the Ashes of the Fallen (1998) on Pulverised Records marked the band as a rising force, followed by the critically acclaimed The Ordeal (2003) via Konqueror Records.
After a brief hiatus and the tragic loss of vocalist Tobias Heideman in 2014, the band reemerged stronger than ever with The Deluge (2016), reaffirming their place in the melodic death metal pantheon. Now, Imperial Domain return with Portentum—an album that’s as uncompromising as it is thought-provoking.
Line-Up
Peter Laitinen Sundström – Guitar
Philip Borg – Guitar
Andreas Öman – Vocals
Mattias Hansson – Bass
Alvaro Svanerö – Drums
Tracklist
01 History Repeating
02 The Die Is Cast
03 The Legacy
04 New World Order
05 Fragment Of A Dream
06 Portentum
07 Retribution
08 Into Oblivion
Pre-save "Portentum": https://orcd.co/portentum
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This highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2024 debut, Lightning Spawn, promises a darker and more mature sound, showcasing the band's evolving artistry and the addition of a second guitar player to
their lineup.
Comprised
of seasoned musicians from notable acts such as Adarrak, Killing
Darlings, Embers of Oblivion, Epinikion, and Primal Charge,
their unique blend of heavy, stoner, and doom metal has resonated with fans
worldwide, setting the stage for Spiritual Chains to be a significant
release.Spiritual Chains was recorded across various studios in North America and Europe, a testament to Thorndale's commitment to sonic excellence. Jeff Henson (Duel) lends his talent to the album, featuring a guest solo on the track "Exiles and Masters”. The album was mixed and mastered by Rickard Bengtsson and Stafan Karlsson at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden (Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars).
“If you hear a touch of the familiar here and there, that’s exactly what it is. Hints, reminders that there were Giants of Metal long ago, and that the fire of those forebears continues to burn bright in talented musicians today from the scene." - Billy Goate (Doomed & Stoned)
Track Listing:
1 - Veins of the Phoenix
2 - Battles Fought in Vain
3 - Gods of Pain
4 - Twenty Thousand Souls
5 - Spiritual Chains
6 - Exiles and Masters
Album Credits:
Cover Art - Costin Chioreanu.
Jeff Henson - guest guitar on "Exiles and Masters".
All music by Thorndale.
All lyrics by Gustavo Valderrama and Zigor Munoz.
Produced by Thorndale.
Recorded locally in Austin, Texas; Scarborough, Ontario and Haarlem and Den Haag, Netherlands across 2024 and 2025.
Mixed and mastered by Rickard Bengtsson and Stafan Karlsson at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden.
Line-Up:
Gustavo Valderrama - Vocals
Peter Shannon - Guitars
Maarten Jungschläger - Guitars
Zigor Munoz - Bass
Guest musician: Rob Stone - Drums
Bio:
Thorndale is a stoner/doom metal band from The Netherlands, formed by experienced musicians from the European and North American metal scenes. Known for their powerful sound, Thorndale has quickly established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the heavy music landscape. Members include Gustavo Valderrama (Killing Darlings, Headcrusher, Adarrak), Peter Shannon (Primal Charge), Maarten Jungschläger (Embers of Oblivion, Epinikion), and Zigor Munoz (Adarrak, Ferkaad).
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Hier ist das neue und offizielle DARKNESS Video
zum Album "DEATH SQUAD CHRONICLES, welches am 26.09.2025 im
Handel sein wird. https://youtu.be/2-XYGKhnCnE?si=gz5NkHyBB-QACWQ6
Mit dem Video lädt Euch die Band ein, an der "40. Jahre Darkness Geburtstagsfeier" teilzuhaben. Aber nicht vergessen "Last Round Is On Us" .Danke und liebe Grüße .
Veröffentlichung Am 31. Oktober vierzehn der besten Punk-Bands der Welt covern ihre Lieblingssongs von Motörhead, darunter Rancid, Pennywise, The Bronx, GBH, Fear
Plus: Eine bisher unveröffentlichte Kollaboration von Motӧrhead & The Damned zu deren Klassiker "Neat, neat, neat"
Das neue Video zu "Neat, Neat, Neat" ansehen und das Album hier vorbestellen – https://motorhead.lnk.to/killedbydeaf
Heavy Metal und Punkrock! Man kann mit Fug und Recht behaupten, dass diese beiden lauten Tribes mittlerweile viel gemeinsam haben – oft verschmelzen sie miteinander, sind kaum noch voneinander zu unterscheiden und bringen ihre eigenen Bastard-Nachkommen hervor. Aber das war nicht immer so. Es gab tatsächlich eine Zeit, in der eher mit den Fäusten geprügelt als gegrüßt wurde und Bier eher geworfen als geteilt wurde – außer wenn es um Motörhead ging. Das war die einzige Band, auf die wir uns alle einigen konnten. Die einzige Band, die wirklich uns gehörte!
Aber während Motörheads Auswirkung auf den Metal schon lange anerkannt ist, sollte ihr Einfluss auf den Punk, insbesondere auf die zweite Welle nach den Sex Pistols, nicht unterschätzt werden. Ursache und Wirkung: So einfach ist das. Und so verhält es sich auch mit Hunderten, Tausenden anderen Bands, die alle durch Motörhead schneller, dreckiger, lauter und besser geworden sind. Nirgendwo ist das so deutlich wie im Punkrock. Und das liegt daran, dass Motörhead im Grunde genommen eine Punkrock-Band waren.
Lemmy sagte einmal: “Die Punks liebten uns. Der einzige Grund, warum wir nicht zu ihnen gehörten, war, dass wir lange Haare hatten, also mussten wir natürlich Heavy Metal sein. So war die Denkweise. Aber viele Kids hörten uns ohne ein Bild zu sehen und dachten daher, wir seien eine Punkband.”
Auf den vierzehn Tracks dieses Albums mit dem cleveren Titel “Killed By Deaf” hört man eine liebevolle Hommage an Motörhead von einigen der größten und angesehensten Punkrock-Bands. Größen wie Rancid, Pennywise, Lagwagon, GBH, The Bronx und FEAR steuern allesamt raue Versionen ihrer Lieblingssongs von Motörhead bei... und auch aufstrebende Newcomer wie Slaughterhouse sind dabei, denn seien wir ehrlich: Motörhead haben immer die Underdogs geliebt und unterstützt.
Lemmy und Motörhead werden nicht umsonst mit einem eigenen Bereich im Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas geehrt. Lange bevor sie “God Save The Queen” von den Sex Pistols auf “We Are Motörhead” coverten und lange bevor sie “R.A.M.O.N.E.S” für das Album “1916” als Hommage an New Yorks Elite schrieben, teilten Motörhead die Bühne mit Bands wie The Damned, wie sie es im Laufe der Jahre noch viele Male tun sollten. Verdammt, Lemmy schloss sich sogar The Damned an (als sie noch The Doomed hießen), wenn auch nur für kurze Zeit, spielte einige mittlerweile berüchtigte Konzerte und übernahm den Bass auf einigen Studiotracks. Da passt es nur zu gut, dass der einzige Nicht-Motörhead-Song auf diesem Album aus der Zeit stammt, als er sich 2002 erneut mit ihnen zusammentat, um eine bisher unveröffentlichte und mitreißende Version des Klassikers “Neat Neat Neat” von The Damned aufzunehmen.
„Killed By Deaf – A Punk Tribute To Motörhead’ erscheint am 31. Oktober 2025 als LP, CD und in digitaler Form. Die vollständige Trackliste findet sich unten. Aktuelle Neuigkeiten und Updates gibt es auf www.iMotorhead.com
Trackliste
1. Pennywise – Ace Of Spades
2. Rancid – Sex & Death
3. The Bronx – Over The Top
4. Lagwagon – Rock ‘N’ Roll
5. FEAR – The Chase Is Better Than The Catch
6. GBH – Bomber
7. Murphy’s Law – Stay Clean
8. Slaughterhouse – Love Me Like A Reptile
9. The Casualties – The Hammer
10. Anti-Nowhere League – Born To Raise Hell
11. Love Canal – Voices In The Sky
12. Soldiers Of Destruction – Overkill
13. Wisdom In Chains – Iron Fist
14. Motӧrhead & The Damned – Neat, Neat, Neat
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Växjö,
Sweden – September 2025 – Swedish heavy metal force A.Y.M proudly
presents the release of their brand-new EP ARE YOU READY, now
available worldwide on all digital platforms.
Formed in Växjö in 2023, A.Y.M brings together five seasoned musicians from the Swedish hard rock and heavy metal circuit: Alex Vince (vocals), Oskar Hollingsworth (guitar), Tony Pettersson (guitar), Christoffer Elofsson (bass), and Johan Svensson (drums).
With many shows under their belts across Sweden, Europe, and beyond, the members of A.Y.M have united under one mission: to prove that heavy metal is very much alive. Their sound blends powerful riffs, thunderous rhythms, and undeniable hooks—crafted to make audiences bang their heads and sing along in unison.
"Are You Ready" EP captures the raw energy of the band’s live presence while delivering sharp songwriting and anthemic choruses. Featuring tracks like “We Wear the Crown” and the title track “Are You Ready”, the record embodies everything fans crave from modern heavy metal: power, passion, and authenticity.
Watch the videos:
“We Wear The Crown” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK_9iYYBvqw
“Are You Ready” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyWxUqHNQ5o
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The neoclassical melodic death force BURNED IN EFFIGY has released the official music video for "MASQUERADE," the second single off their forthcoming new album, TYRANNUS AETERNUM.
The band comments on the concept behind the song.
"This quick-paced track is themed by lyrics inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's Masque of the Red Death, in which nobles host a masquerade in a secluded abbey, hoping to avoid a plague that is decimating the general population. Musically, this is one of our fastest and most melodic songs on the new album. The music video, made by Alex Zarek, encompasses a romantic demise while dancing with death."
BURNED IN EFFIGY has tapped Slam Worldwide for the exclusive world premiere of "Masquerade." Watch the video now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPbKriPrHeE
Rising from the heart of the Midwest metal scene, this Chicago-based quintet has announced a fall release for their much-anticipated second full-length, Tyrannus Aeternum. Following the 2022 release of their debut album, Rex Mortem, BURNED IN EFFIGY has sharpened their sound to a lethal edge. The result is an 11-track onslaught that blends the band’s skillful musicianship and technicality with volcanic brutality.
Tyrannus Aeternum is set for release on October 31. Pre-orders the album now at https://burnedineffigy.bandcamp.com/album/tyrannus-aeternum
Tracklist:
1) Befouled Benefaction
2) Retribution
3) Masquerade
4) Procession
5) Wage of Exile
6) Sacrificial Seance
7) Monstrosity Reborn
8) Gallows Hymn
9) The Racking
10) Crown Crusher
11) Citadel
Tyrannus Aeternum was recorded at Beal Audio and Bricktop Recording, with production, engineering and mixing by Jordan Beal. Orchestration and keyboards on the album were provided by Graham Southern. Album artwork by Timon Kokott.
Bio:
BURNED IN EFFIGY’s roots date back to 2017. In January 2022, the band independently released its debut album Rex Mortem, which was highly acclaimed by leading heavy music media and led to the band sharing the stage with iconic acts such as ORBIT CULTURE, OBSCURA, and REVOCATION.
A must for listeners of acts such as THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER and INFERI, with the band’s attention to virtuosity and intensity in equal measure, the effort and accomplishment of the band’s debut led to being talent scouted. With work on the band's sophomore album complete, BURNED IN EFFIGY aims to take its signature melodic death metal sound across the US, and in time, the world. The search for total conquest continues.
Line-up:
Mark “Smedy” Smedbron - Vocals
Steve Bacakos - Guitar
Mike Hisson - Guitar
Matt Watkins - Bass
Eddie Dec - Drums
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Athens, Greece; 11 September 2025: THE MAGUS, the Luciferian project helmed by Necromantia co-founder and ex-Rotting Christ musician The Magus, has revealed the first details about the second album, “DAEMONOSOPHIA”.
The
new album, which will be released in early 2026, promises a more
aggressive
and dynamic sound compared to the previous album,
“ΒΥΣΣΟΔΟΜΩΝΤΑΣ”,
while
keeping the devouring dark atmosphere the project’s music is
known for. The
album's sound has some unexpected and diabolically diverse moments that
will
make listeners feel uneasy.
For the album cover art, The Magus collaborated with Mexican artist Nestor Avalos, known for his work with numerous bands, including Exodus, Deicide and Rotting Christ. The artwork is an Infernal Triptych that portrays six infernal entities: Lucifer/Samael, Leviathan/Tiamat, and Belial/Satan. Nestor created a majestic painting of infernal wisdom and occult meanings, giving prominence to the Luciferian tradition and the music of the album.
Read The Magus’ statement in full:
“Disciples, we are revealing to you the cover, title and track-list of our second opus: Daemonosophia! An album that proves that pure truth and infinite wisdom is to be found NOT above but below…..
“Musically, it is more edgy and vengeful than our first album. More aggressive and dynamic, but at the same time retaining the devouring dark atmosphere our music always has. Of course, there are some diabolically diverse moments that will surprise and will make you feel uneasy, but this is the beauty of making intelligent art… The Era of Satan Rising ……or The Era of Lucifer Rising……
“For the cover, we decided to work with the notoriously talented artist from Mexico, Mr Nestor Avalos, known for his work with EXODUS, DEICIDE, NECROMANTIA, MELECHESH, ROTTING CHRIST, VARATHRON, KREATOR, DARK FUNERAL, SACRAMENTUM etc.
“It is an Infernal Triptychon. Portraying six (yes) infernal entities: Lucifer / Samael in the centre, Leviathan / Tiamat to the left and Belial / Satan to the right. Each of them portraying its qualities and all the six in three lead to one. We were working for months together to achieve the perfect result in the finest detail. Nestor himself is involved in the occult arts so he understood perfectly what we wanted, and indeed, he created a majestic painting of infernal wisdom and occult meanings, giving prominence to the Luciferian tradition and the music of the album!
“You will be able to discover all the available versions of the album and the first samples of our music in a few weeks…until then….WE RISE FROM THE DEPTHS”
Tracklist:
1. Pseudoprophetae
2. Daemonosophia
3. Magia Obscura
4. The Era of Lucifer Rising
5. Amelia
6. The six in three is all One
7. The Pact
8. The Chapel of Iniquities
9. La Llorona Negra
The Magus was formed in 2022, following the dissolution of the legendary Greek black metal band Necromantia, which The Magus co-founded. He decided to end Necromantia after the death of his bandmate Baron Blood in 2019, releasing a final album, “To the Depths We Descend”, in 2021 as a tribute. For this new project, The Magus brought in long-time collaborators El on guitars and Maelstrom on drums.
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LEFT
HAND BLACK – “ LEFT HAND BLACK 3: DEATH CAN'T KEEP US APART”
The Circle Music have signed the electrifying Swedish horrorpunk band Left Hand Black. Hailing from Gothenburg, this quartet, consisting of veterans of the local music scene, will release their third full-length album, "Left Hand Black 3: Death Can't Keep Us Apart", in September.
Formed in the spring of 2019 on an island just outside Gothenburg, Left Hand Black brings together the formidable talents of Hans Hagström and Jonathan Jansson (formerly of The Dead Next Door) with Johan Hansson and Anton Zachrisson (from Overdrive Solution). Their sound is a potent brew of old-school melodic horror punk and rock, drawing inspiration from iconic bands such as Misfits, Ramones and Bad Religion.
Johan Hansson of Left Hand Black said: “I have followed Maria and The Circle Music since the first release, and with her passion for the music and what she does for the bands, this is a dream come true. We are super excited to be part of the TCM family.”
Left Hand Black have carved a reputation with their previous releases: their self-titled debut in 2020 via Wolverine Records and their 2022 follow-up, "Lower Than Satan" through Sunny Bastard Records/Sick Taste Records. Now, with "Left Hand Black 3: Death Can't Keep Us Apart" they aim to solidify their position as purveyors of infectious horror-infused punk anthems. As the band have declared: "We prove that we can write hits and are an insanely good live band that takes no prisoners and celebrates a hellish party with you in the graveyard."
"Left Hand Black 3: Death Can't Keep Us Apart" was recorded at Welfare Sounds studios in March 2024 by Per Stålberg and Kalle Lilja, who also produced the album alongside the band. The mixing was done by Per Stålberg, Kalle Lilja, and Mario Dahmen, and mastered by Mario Dahmen at Liquid Aether Audio. The album boasts guest appearances from Nim Vind, who lends his vocals and lead guitar prowess to the title track, "Death Can't Keep Us Apart" and Per Stålberg, who contributes guest vocals on "Why Do I Kill Everything I Love". Adding an eerie touch is Mario Dahmen on the organ for "Doomed Romance On A Summer Night".
The striking visual elements of the album are brought to life with layout design by Bernd Gunwald, the cover art by Frank Walls, and atmospheric band photos captured by Ola Åkerborn with assistance from Kyra Fiedler Wretmarks Foto.
The band said: “We’re very proud of this album. We think we’ve succeeded in creating something new with the songs while still maintaining the same red thread as in our previous records. All the guys in the band make outstanding contributions, each leaving their unique mark on the songs. Hans sings better than ever. Anton's rhythmic drumming makes even the dead want to dance, Johan holds the foundation like the pillars of the Brooklyn Bridge, and Jonathan flutters on his guitar like a never-before-seen bird species from the depths of the Amazon.”
Tracklist:
1. Murder on my mind again
2. I walk the city
3. Death can´t keep us apart
4. Damned love
5. Wolf's eye
6. Breeding ground for the lost souls
7. Doomed romance on a summer night
8. In the center of my heart
9. All these monsters
10. Six feet under ground
11. Each dawn I die
12. Divided by the pain
13. Why do I kill everything I love
14. Octopussy From Outer Space (Bonus Track)
https://www.facebook.com/Lefthandblackhorrorpunk/
AUTUMN
TEARS – “CROWN OF THE CLAIRVOYANT”
Neoclassical and darkwave veterans Autumn Tears will release their new album, “Crown of the Clairvoyant”, on 22 September via The Circle Music. This new work is a continuation of the concept started with their 2023 album, “Guardian of the Pale”.
“Crown of the Clairvoyant” features a fully orchestrated classical ensemble and full choir. The album includes contributions from original Autumn Tears composer, pianist, and lyricist Ted Tringo, classical and opera duet Caroline Joy Clarke and Darren Clarke (Trovatori), singer-songwriter Tamar Singer (Zeresh, Cruel Wonders, Necromishka), and violinist and violist Sanja Smileska. The album also features a guest appearance by Francesca Nicoli from the Italian neoclassical band Ataraxia.
The album will be available as a digital download, a limited CD jewel case package with a CD-exclusive bonus track, and a limited vinyl package which includes a 12-page illustrated lyric book and a vinyl-exclusive bonus track.
Ted Tringo of Autumn Tears commented on the upcoming release: "This album represents a significant undertaking for us, expanding on themes from our previous work with a broader musical palette. We are grateful for the contributions of all the musicians and vocalists involved, and we look forward to sharing 'Crown of the Clairvoyant' with our listeners."
https://www.facebook.com/TheTrueAutumnTears/
Finally, more LYCANTHROPIC CHANTS label activities; don’t miss Sick Feast 2025 this October; catch CRYPTIC BROOD on their upcoming European tour plus, come to our local shows in Wolfsburg (Germany)! Exciting times ahead - stay tuned for more via www.lycanthropic.de
Let's enter the dungeon:
HALLUCINATE
/ JADE SPLIT-7"
out now!
Dive into the abyss with HALLUCINATE, whose raw, suffocating death metal claws through the earth’s bowels, summoning visions of cosmic horror and existential decay. Following their critically acclaimed “From The Bowels Of The Earth” (Caligari Records), they return with a relentless sonic assault—unfiltered, unholy, and utterly consuming.
On the flip side, JADE weaves a spell of haunting elegance, blending blackened doom with dreamlike melancholy. Fresh from the enigmatic “Mysteries Of A Flowery Dream” (Pulverised Records), their ethereal riffs and spectral whispers transport you to realms where beauty and despair intertwine.
Limited to 300 copies, this split 7″ vinyl is a must-have for those who crave the darkest corners of extreme music. Two bands, one nightmare – order now before it vanishes into the void.
Both vinyl variants are housed in black poly-lined inner sleeves and a 350gsm fold out flip-side cover, incl. download:
150 copies on shroud-coloured vinyl
150 copies on golden vinyl
Available from our shop: https://lycanthropic.de/shop/hallucinate-jade-heavens-gate-the-hidden-crypt-split-7
Full EP stream on our YouTube-channel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P--HE7_fJq4
https://www.facebook.com/Hallucinatedeath
SICK FEAST 2025
Let’s celebrate extreme underground musick at Sick Feast 2025. Lycanthropic Chants will present an ugly composition of madness that reeks of death’s breath in Wolfsburg (Germany) at s.v Jugendhaus Ost on 18th October 2025. And everyone who can’t get enough gore spilled is invited to join the warm-up show in Wolfsburg at Sauna-Klub the day before, 17th October 2025.
Tickets are available from this location. There are two ticket options:
2-day ticket (main fest at s.v. Jugendhaus Ost on Saturday, 18th October 2025 plus warm-up show at Sauna-Klub on Friday, 17th October 2025)
main fest only ticket
CRYPTIC BROOD – “CREEPING CRYPTIC CONTAGION” TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT
The brood creeps on! Following the devastating first wave of shows earlier this year, Lycanthropic Chants presents the CRYPTIC BROOD – “Creeping Cryptic Contagion” tour: a descent into rotting flesh and radioactive nightmares. The band will flood stages of Western Europe with their own toxic blend of death metal, grind and doom, straight from the decaying heart of their latest album “Necrotic Flesh Bacteria”.
This is the route so far. Please reach out to us with your ideas for the open date:
2025.11.12 BEL/Ghent @ Omgekeerde Kruis
2025.11.13 FRA/Rennes @ Á l'Uzine
2025.11.14 FRA/Bordeaux @ Le RedCat
2025.11.15 ESP/Unquera @ Los Bancos
2025.11.16 PRT/Porto @ Woodstock 69
2025.11.17 AVAILABLE!
2025.11.18 ESP/Saragossa @ Pub Utopía
2025.11.19 ESP/Barcelona @ Sala Lennon’s
2025.11.20 FRA/Montpellier @ Le KJBI
2025.11.21 FRA/Lyon @ Rock N Eat
2025.11.22 FRA/Strasbourg @ Le Local
https://www.facebook.com/CrypticBrood
UPCOMING LOCAL SHOWS IN WOLFSBURG (GERMANY)
Am Dienstag, den 16. September 2025 im s.v. Jugendhaus Ost in Wolfsburg:
NECROPSY ODOR (Death Metal/Grindcore / USA, San Luis Obispo)
PULMONARY FIBROSIS (Goregrind / FRA, Yzeures-sur-Creuse)
REPULSIVE FEAST (Death Metal/Grindcore / GER, Wolfsburg)
Tür öffnet 19:30 Uhr
Bands beginnen 20:00 Uhr
Abendkasse kostet 18 EUR
Freier Eintritt für Personen die jünger als 18 Jahre sind.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1252559876278633/
Am Donnerstag, den 18. September 2025 im s.v. Jugendhaus Ost in Wolfsburg:
JADE (Atmospheric Death Metal / ESP, Catalonia)
TOTENGOTT (Doom/Black/Thrash Metal / ESP, Asturias)
HALLUCINATE (Progressive Death Metal / GER, Oldenburg)
Tür öffnet 19:30 Uhr
Bands beginnen 20:00 Uhr
Abendkasse kostet 18 EUR
Freier Eintritt für Personen die jünger als 18 Jahre sind.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1267247345062953/
Am Dienstag, den 4. November 2025 im s.v. Jugendhaus Ost in Wolfsburg:
ARTIFICIAL BRAIN (Technical/Progressive Death Metal / USA, Richmond)
SUFFERING HOUR (Avant-garde Black/Death Metal / USA, Forest Lake)
CRYPTIC BROOD (Death Metal / GER, Wolfsburg)
Tür öffnet 19:30 Uhr
Bands beginnen 20:00 Uhr
Vorverkauf 18 EUR (+Gebühren)
Abendkasse 22 EUR
Freier Eintritt für Personen die jünger als 18 Jahre sind.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1271652014190728/
FURTHER DATES, MARK YOUR CALENDARS
2025.11.28 @ s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: EARTHBONG (GER) + GAGAMAN (GER) + GAYA’S DEMISE (GER)
2025.12.06 @ s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: ABHORRENT EXECRATION (FRA) + DUNGEON KEEPER (GER) + more
2026.01.07 @ s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: HEXENBRETT (INT) + KARLOFF (GER
Finland's I, CURSED, who combine angry and furious death metal and grindcore, released their new HERETICAL ONSLAUGHT EP on September 11th 2025. The EP is released in cooperation with Finnish record labels Inverse Records & Meara Music which is also an agency and event producer based in Ulvila.
Listen to Heretical Onslaught EP: https://push.fm/fl/i-cursed-heretical
I, Cursed's previous EP, Death Holograms, was a bleak and cold affair in terms of production. The new EP, Heretical Onslaught, is bleak like its predecessor, but a bit warmer, though still closer to a circulatory arrest and collapse. I, Cursed has also undergone some line up changes. Nico Brander, who played guitar on the new EP, has stepped aside. Bassist and the band's main composer and lyricist Ville-Veikko Laaksonen has taken over on guitar. Joni Suodenjärvi, a familiar face from bands such as Cannibal Accident, Hateform, Mors Principium Est, and others, has been recruited as the band's new bassist. I, Cursed will be touring Finland extensively throughout the fall with their new EP.
Watch music video of first single 'Disfigurement': https://youtu.be/NlR4xJvdzlg
Watch music video of second single 'Death Pays It All': https://youtu.be/DlpcScU6zSg
Track
list:
1. Malignant
2. Impure
3. Nothing From The Ruins
4. Disfigurement
5. Funerary
6. Loss
7. Swarm
8. Death Pays It All
-Music & lyrics composed & written by Ville-Veikko Laaksonen
-Produced & arranged by I, Cursed
-Engineered by Ville-Veikko Laaksonen, Nico Brander & Jesse Simola
-Recorded at Firefield Avenue & Soft Neon Audiovisual Studio Mixed & mastered by Jerkka Perälä
EP cover by Jerkka Perälä
Line-up on EP:
Eero Haula - Vocals (Oceanwake)
Ville-Veikko Laaksonen - Bass & guitar (Atlases, Marto)
Nico Brander - Guitar (Blood Service, Marto)
Arttu Leppänen - Drums (Atlases, Marto)
Discography:
I, Cursed / Blood Service S/T Split EP 2023 (Meara Music)
Bloodsoaked / Storm Parade Double Single 2023 (Meara Music)
Blades Single 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Sorrower Single 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Death Holograms Single & EP 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Disfigurement Single 2025 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Death Pays It All Single 2025 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Nothing From The Ruins Single 2025 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Heretical Onslaught Album 2025 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
https://icursed.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/I.Cursed.Grind
Stream "Guilded Abyss" at: https://bloodymountainrecords.bandcamp.com/track/guilded-abyss-3
Seven years since the release of their last full-length album, Valdur return October 3 with Guilded Abyss on Bloody Mountain Records.
Valdur is a distortion guild of the riff; musical merchants of the deep.
Obscure music for mellifluous minds.
The individuals of this abyssal congregation need only the desire to assemble and create the vibrations of aural alchemy for your aural pleasure.
Guilded Abyss will be available on digital, CD, cassette, and vinyl formats.
Note: Red-logo version of the album cover on CD only (pictured below).
Track
Listing:
1. Hailing Molten Meteors
2. Mangled and Rotting (Spiritus Mortuus)
3. Guilded Abyss
4. Doomed Pt.II
5. Drinking from the Chalice of Banishment
6. Stars of Belial
7. Waves of Boiling Water/Molten Meteors Part II (Bonus Track)
Credits:
Recorded at the Bloody Mountain Bunker 2023-2025.
Mixed / mastered by Matthew at Canyon Lodge Studios.
Cover illustration by devilisyourmaster.
Layout by BMR.
Produced by Matthew and BMR.
Dragon logo by: farronloathing.
Old Valdur logo by Valdur.
Nature photos by James Holland.
Line-up:
Vuke - Guitar
William - Bass
Jackson - Vocals
Matthew - Drums
https://bloodymountainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/guilded-abyss
http://www.bloodymountainrecords.com/
What began as a farewell has become a resurrection. LOST AND AMSTERDAMNED, the debut EP from the Netherlands' one-man Black/Death Metal project, EL MUERTO, is set for release on November 21!
FFO: Opeth, Immortal, Emperor, Mgla, Death
The official video for the EP's first single, "Enthroned in the Tower of Shadows (The Witch)," is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph10tr-6LYk
The song is also available on https://elmuerto2.bandcamp.com/track/enthroned-in-the-tower-of-shadows-the-witch
El Muerto was born in the depths of personal crisis, a raw and unflinching document of depression, trauma, and the desire to disappear. Conceived as a final message from an artist who had lost the will to live, each track captures a chapter of that darkness. But this record is no longer a goodbye. It’s proof that even in the shadows, something can still survive.
El Muerto is the alter ego of a multi-instrumentalist whose journey spans continents, from the underground metal scene of Mexico (Sekhmet) to experimental projects in Australia (Conscious Comma), now anchored in the Dutch landscape. With Lost and Amsterdamned, he delivers a fiercely collaborative black/death metal EP shaped by the frostbitten influence of Immortal, the grim atmosphere of Darkthrone and Mgła, and the progressive shadows of Opeth and Emperor.
Driven by guitar-forward compositions and visceral vocals, the record balances old-school extremity with cinematic vision. Each track is both a personal exorcism and a descent into archetypal horror, as described by below by El Muerto.
"A Song for Ran" – A melancholic invocation of the Norse sea goddess, casting despair into the sea’s cold embrace. Melodic and mournful, it drifts between surrender and transcendence beneath crashing waves and whispered death. Where the final rest in the most peaceful as well.
"Enthroned in the Tower of Shadows (The Witch)" – A theatrical black metal tale of the witch-queen reigning from a tower of obsidian. Ritualistic, grand, and venomously lyrical, it reads like folklore soaked in blood and fire. Betrayal, treason and lies.
"Lich King" – A blighted anthem of death’s dominion. With imagery of skeletal monarchs and ruined worlds, it’s a march into the void, full of oppressive riffing and funereal dread.
"Blood Crypt" – The EP’s most venomous moment: a burial rite soaked in bile and loathing. A brutal poem of closure through decay, it turns memory into rot, laying ghosts to rest in a cathedral of scorn.
"Ghosts of Torment" – An inner war against unseen forces. This track is a descent into madness where haunting spirits represent trauma, anxiety, and mental illness. Dissonant and despairing, it’s a song about being torn from within—and haunted from without.
"Wolves of Den Haag" – Inspired by the real-life cannibalistic murder of Dutch statesman Johan de Witt in 1672, this track uses historical horror to reflect modern betrayal and societal rage. Gnarled riffs and spectral tension echo through The Hague’s ghost-soaked streets.
Each song speaks in the language of metal, but beneath the corpse paint and distortion lies something deeply human—anguish, defiance, and ultimately, release.
Each of these songs reflects personal trauma through the lens of myth, horror, and metal’s harshest language turning lived experience into sonic ritual. Lost and Amsterdamned no longer marks an ending. It is a violent testament of survival, memory, and transformation. A cathartic howl from the pit—and the sound of someone crawling out of it.
The album's rhythm section features guest musicians from international metal acts, such as downunder's Norse and Europe's Adarrak.
Mixed by the legendary Tomas Skogsberg of Sunlight Studios in Sweden and mastered by Ricardo Botello. Recorded in studios across the Netherlands.
Pre-order: https://elmuerto2.bandcamp.com/album/lost-and-amsterdamned
Track
Listing:
1. A Song for Ran
2. Enthroned in the Tower of Shadows (The Witch)
3. Lich King
4. Blood Crypt
5. Ghosts of Torment
6. Wolves of Den Haag
Credits:
Produced by Ricardo Botello
Mixed by Tomas Skogsberg in Sunlight Studios, Stockholm, Sweden.
Mastered by Ricardo Botello in Draal Studios, Amersfoort, Netherlands.
All artwork created by Francisco Torres Beltrán (Tobelart)
Line-up:
Ricardo Botello - Guitars, Vocals, Piano
Zigor Munoz - Bass (except "Ghosts of Torment")
Tommaso Tani - Bass on "Ghosts of Torment"
Robin Stone - Drums
Bio:
El Muerto is the alter ego of a multi-instrumentalist, Ricardo Botello, who has made the Dutch landscape his creative home for the past years. His musical journey spans continents, from his work with the Mexican project Sekhmet to time spent with Australia’s Conscious Comma.
Now unveiling his debut EP, Lost in Amsterdamned, El Muerto presents a collaborative effort that features a dynamic cast of guest musicians.
https://www.youtube.com/@rbb04
https://elmuerto2.bandcamp.com/album/lost-and-amsterdamned
Melbourne’s
crust-death metal assault unit KÜNTSQUÄD has dropped
their brand-new video for “OMINOUS”, taken from their
acclaimed album SATANS COCK, out now via Wormholedeath.
With blast-beaten fury and apocalyptic riffs, “Ominous” captures a world on fire—an existential nightmare where a rising zombie virus collides with the looming collapse of a ravaged, pillaged planet. The result is a sonic and visual assault as relentless as it is uncompromising.
Stream the album: https://orcd.co/scalbum
Previous videos:
https://youtu.be/Nso_kHVv3oI
https://youtu.be/xeeiwOvpmr4
https://youtu.be/26xpIfMKKhE
"Satans Cock" The Album
Following their 2022 self-titled debut, which sold out multiple pressings and carved a cult following across the underground, KÜNTSQUÄD (pronounced Kountskard) double down on everything grotesque, unholy, and deliberately absurd. There are no genre walls here—only a relentless descent into sonic madness.
With the album “Satans Cock”, the band delivers a grotesque yet calculated assault—layering blast-beaten fury, apocalyptic riffs, and sneering satire into a weaponized soundscape for the damned.
About KÜNTSQUÄD:
KÜNTSQUÄD (pron. Kountskard) is a crusty death metal band from Melbourne blending guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and blackened chaos. Their 2022 self-titled debut on Wormholedeath Records earned global acclaim and sold-out pressings. Raw, extreme, and satirically twisted—this is metal with no genre boundaries.
www.youtube.com/@Kuntsquad666
www.facebook.com/kuntsquad666
Format: Digital CD /
Physical CD
Label: Independent Release
For fans of : Testament, Kreator, Xentrix, Suicidal Angels, Angelus Apatrida and the like….
Tracklist:
01. Only Madness Remains
02. Measure Of Guilt
03. When The Sharp Things Come
04. Sanity’s Rage
05. Blood Calls For Blood
06. Nothing Sacred Will Hold
07. The Dead Don’t Run
08. The Final Exhibit Of Pain
09. Reeducate The Masses
10. Sanity Lies In Ruin
Firmly rooted in the past, with a contemporary sound. Versatile, yet without compromise in aggression and technical level. Founded in 2002, when Thrash Metal bands were very few and other, more extreme genres had taken over the scene In Belgium, Sanity’s Rage came together as a band with a shared passion for catchy songwriting, raw energy and emotion, brought with technical skill.
The band has played renowned venues and festivals in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and The United Kingdom, alongside top acts such as After All, Agent Steel, Bonded By Blood, Cyclone, Destructor, Evil Invaders, Gama Bomb, Holy Moses, Huntress, Hyades, James Rivera, Laaz Rockit, Liar, Onslaught, Reign Of Fury, Savage Messiah, Skyclad, Saxon, Testament and many others. Some of the highlights being Beermageddon (UK) in 2014 and 2024 and Alcatraz Metal Fest (BE) in 2009 and 2024.
Their debut EP ‘The Rage Of One’ was well received by the international press, the follow-up CD ‘You Are What You Swallow’ proved they weren’t just a one trick pony and took them up a level. Now, in 2025, Sanity’s Rage is back with a new album ‘The Dead Don’t Run’, and continue the story of pure fucking thrash. Over 10 years after the last release, with a complete lineup change, bringing back most of the original band members who started the story 20 years ago.
‘The Dead Don't Run’ will be available worldwide on all major streaming platforms starting October 15th, 2025. A physical digipack (€15.00) and digital CD download (€9.99) will already be available on October 1st, 2025!
Line-Up:
Tim de Bruyne: guitar
Tim de Bisschop: bassguitar / backing vocals
Kenny Molly: vocals
Sam Stoelzaet: drums
Kenny Claes: guitar
https://www.facebook.com/SanitysRage
Two
weeks before the premiere of their new album, “GORZKIE PLONY”
("BITTER HARVEST"), NARRENWIND present "I-II-I-II",
a powerful cover of the unforgettable Maanam track. This is more than just a
tribute to a classic; it's an homage to one of the most significant Polish
alternative bands of the 80s.
The timeless lyrics of Olga “Kora” Sipowicz have been re-imagined within Narrenwind's blackened heavy metal sound, which draws heavily from 80s and 90s metal classics and is inspired by legends like Bathory, Armia and Kat. The entire piece is imbued with the spirit of Polish poetry and a deep appreciation for the original.
Watch and listen to the video for "I-II-I-II": https://youtu.be/GiKakNIb3gA
The band added: “And remember, big sunglasses are very important, always big sunglasses!"
"Gorzkie Plony" will be unleashed on 22 September 2025 via Pagan Records. Pre-order the album (CD/VINYL/MERCH): https://tinyurl.com/2j535tdw
The track follows the release of the singles “Koniugacja”) and “Nikt Nie Wie” .
The band described "Gorzkie Plony" as "a return to the spirit of our inaugural work". The album was mixed and mastered by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio. The artwork was completed by JRMR. The album also includes session drums by Anti-Christian (Doedsvangr, Beaten to Death, ex-Tsjuder).
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/paganrecords
https://narrenwind.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/narrenwind
FFO: Slayer, Demolition Hammer, Vio-lence, Kreator, Exodus,Devastation, Pestilence
Unapologetically true to their roots, the new album pushes the band’s sound to new extremes. It is heavier, faster, slower, and more technically unrelenting. Every track is sharpened for maximum impact, delivering a refined yet feral evolution of their signature thrash assault.
This is not just another record, it’s the definitive Condition Critical statement: uncompromising, chaotic, and forged in pure aggression.
Track
Listing:
1. Wretched Aggression
2. Deconstructive Horrors
3. Cranial Dissolution
4. Hydroponic Mutation
5. Postmortal Simulation
6. Psychological Epidemic
7. Incubation Disposal
8. Cryonic Intestinal Preservation
9. Excarnation
Credits:
Mixed & Mastered by Mike Low.
Guitars & Bass engineered by Tony Barhoum.
Drums engineered by James Suprenant & Big Goon Studios.
Vocals engineered by Apollo.
Artwork by Andrei Bouzikov.
CD Layout design by Tom Martin.
All music written and produced by Condition Critical.
Line-Up:
Ryan Taylor – Vocals / Guitar
Tony Barhoum – Lead Guitar
Mike Dreher – Bass
Ryan Donato – Drums
Bio:
Formed in 2010, Condition Critical delivers high-intensity, no-bullshit thrash metal in the tradition of the genre’s most violent pioneers. Described as “a literal war of sound that attacks you with deadly perfection” (New Wave of Thrash Zine), they’ve built a reputation on relentless riffage, vicious stage presence, and tours across the U.S., Europe, and Russia.
They’ve shared stages with notable acts such as Obituary, Demolition Hammer, Napalm Death, Morbid Saint, Revocation, and Havok.
https://www.facebook.com/ConditionCriticalNJ/
JESTER MAJESTY – “INFINITE MEASURE, FINITE EXISTENCE”
Label: Xtreem Music
Release date: december 4th 2025
Genre: Progressive Death/Thrash Metal
For fans of: Death | Anacrusis | Coroner | Watchtower
One more voyage of exploration, one more combination of chemicals, one more step into the forbidden darkness…one more ‘immoral’ experiment. There is no right or wrong here on this frontier, there is only the light of knowledge, the thrill of discovery and the grasping of power. Warnings are just challenges to courage and laws only bind those too weak to break them. Is the essence of our humanity really so great a price to pay when the reward is the ultimate understanding of everything? Is it not time to transcend the natural order, the chains of conscience that have bound us and leave this world behind…in ruins if that is what must be…
A union of two prodigious talents - Alessandro Gargivolo and Erymanthon Seth – Jester Majesty create music to fire the imagination and astound the senses. Formed in early 2024 by Alessandro Gargivolo when his musical ambitions began to extend into territories beyond the remit of his band, thrashers Alchemist, a first EP Plains Of Heaven appeared later that year. Erymanthon Seth (Apocalypse) contributed to the Plains Of Heaven EP and a full partnership with Alessandro Gargivolo soon developed. Now the breathtaking results of that partnership can be revealed; a majestic concept album of stunning progressive metal that deals with mankind’s insatiable thirst for knowledge and ongoing battle against the limitations that restrain him – Infinite Measure, Finite Existence…
The heavy, insistent and rhythmic introduction of ‘Zero-Point Collapse’ opens the door to an album that defies any attempt to provide a simple summation of its contents. The huge, shifting riffs and elaborate leads of ‘Echoes Of π’ sublimely illustrate the blend of outstanding musicianship and songcraft which lies at the heart of the Jester Majesty sound. The individual abilities at play open up vast possibilities for the songs, creating music that is limited only by the scope of the imagination. Each song is unique within itself and yet they are all intrinsically connected – working wonderfully as individual pieces but staggeringly so as a collective whole. It’s an exhilarating experience to ride the storm-tossed seas of ‘Married To The Masterplan’, with so much to absorb, so much to hear, layer upon layer of sound, with the powerful chorus an anchor in the tumult. Infinite Measure, Finite Existence is constantly evolving and changing forms and the individual songs are microcosms of that process, metamorphosising as they progress, pools mirroring the tides of an ocean. Each musical element of Jester Majesty is of the highest quality, from the superb vocals to the mesmerising guitar work to the overwhelming drums and ‘φinal Jest’ is the perfect ending to an album of superlative accomplishment. It leaves you with a hunger to revisit the many paths of Infinite Measure…, a feeling that you could uncover a whole new experience by listening with a slightly different focus. There are near limitless secrets to be found in the realms of this indisputable masterpiece of progressive metal.
Mixed and mastered by Nikola Zanev (Other Night Fears, Mudcrab) to allow every facet of this intricate musical jewel to shine and adorned in the powerful artwork of Vini Vhummel (Kairos, Entormus etc), Infinite Measure, Finite Existence will be released by Xtreem Music, on CD and digital formats, on December 4th. This is one album that simply cannot be ignored.
Line-up:
Alessandro Gargivolo - Guitars/Bass/Vocals
Erymanthon Seth – Lead Guitar/Keyboards
*composition credit to Emiliano Ostertag on ‘φinal Jest’
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563217256871
Glorious Depravity have also announced a US tour for the promotion of their new album
Nov 15 - (TBA)
Nov 16 - Grand Rapids MI, Morning Ritual
Nov 17 - Chicago IL, Sleeping Village
Nov 18 - Indianapolis IN, Black Circle
Nov 19 - Louisville KY, Mag Bar
Nov 20 - Asheville NC, The Odd
Nov 21 - Raleigh NC, Chapel of Bones
Nov 22 - Richmond VA, Fuzzy Cactus
All shows with Wretched Blessing
GLORIOUS DEPRAVITY – “DEATH NEVER SLEEPS”
Genre - Death metal with thrash metal touches
For fans of - Cannibal Corpse, Monstrosity, Vader, Deicide, Sinister, Decapitated, Power Trip
With an illustrious lineup featuring members of Pyrrhon, Gravesend, Woe, Scarcity and more, one can safely presume that Glorious Depravity would know their way around extreme metal music. And they deliver in spades; they have come up with an album that showcases the best elements of death metal, even with its roots in the old school sound and the music tinged with thrash metal influences. In comparison to their debut, they have refined and upgraded their music and have left no stone unturned for this one. The meticulously written music is more impactful and powerful than ever before and they seem to have found more of their identity on this one. With recording and mixing done by Joe Cincotta (Suffocation, Obituary) and mastering by Ryan Williams (The Black Dahlia Murder), the album sounds tremendous and is an absolute delight to listen to - being clear, resonant, and robust. To top things off, a painting of the legendary artist Dan Seagrave adorns this release. A death metal fan could die happy right now. "Death Never Sleeps" is undoubtedly a significant release in the style, one that will be remembered for a long time for being a top-tier, near-flawless, invigorating death metal album.
Line up
Doug Moore (Pyrrhon, Scarcity, Seputus) - Vocals
Matt Mewton (Woe) - Guitars
George Paul (Gravesend) - Guitars
John McKinney (Woe) - Bass
Chris Grigg (Woe) - Drums
Recorded and mixed by Joe Cincotta (Suffocation, Obituary) at Full Force Recording
Mastered by Ryan Williams (The Black Dahlia Murder)
Artwork by Dan Seagrave (Morbid Angel, Malevolent Creation)
Track listing
1. Slaughter the Gerontocrats
2. Stripmined Flesh Extractor view
3. Freshkills Poltergeist view
4. Sulphrous Winds (Howling Through Christendom)
5. Scourged by the Wings of the Fell Destroyer
6. The Devouring Dust
7. Carnage at the Margins
8. Necrobotic Enslavement
9. Death Never Sleeps
Official release date - November 7th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/gloriousdepravity
FROM
THE CRYPT – “BORN IN THE GRAVE”
For fans of: Bolt Thrower • Autopsy • Benediction • early Grave
Dutch death/grind act From The Crypt will release their debut album, Born in the Grave, on 26 September. The band features former members of acclaimed underground outfits Inhume and Cliteater, bringing together years of experience in crafting uncompromising extreme music.
Across six tracks, Born in the Grave blends old-school death metal sensibilities with grinding intensity, bone-heavy riffs, and deep guttural vocals. The result is a record that draws on classic influences while delivering a raw and contemporary edge
https://www.facebook.com/rawskullrecordz/
https://www.facebook.com/FromTheCryptDeathMetal
Listen to “Emanation of Chaos”: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/08/an-ncs-premiere-achathras-emanation-of-chaos/
“Emanation of Chaos” follows the previously released singles "Anointed With Moonfire" and "The Despiser Triumphant” and showcases the project's embrace of the genre's golden era: the early to late-90s European black metal sound.
While many newer bands claim to draw upon "true" and "old school" black metal, this often involves recycling the template set by the same three or four early 90s Norwegian acts. With “A Darkness of the Ancient Past”, Achathras instead offer a much broader embrace of those glory years, resurrecting the values of the early to late 1990s European black metal scene, a period when aggressive riffs, atmospheric songwriting, caustic vocals, and otherworldly synth work provided an alternative to the mainstream.
The band's debut album can be described as epic and, at times, melodic. The songwriting recalls acts such as early Gehenna, Odium, Emperor, Hecate Enthroned, Obtained Enslavement, Taake, Old Man’s Child, Ancient, Dimmu Borgir, Abigor, Covenant, Forefather and Mork Gryning.
Achathras features anonymous musicians from acclaimed and long-running black metal acts.
"A Darkness of the Ancient Past" is available to pre-order now via Cult Never Dies
Achathras are:
Eidolon Drakh - Guitars, Bass, Keyboards & Effects
Malefic Orator - Voice
Vorthol - Drums
Tracklisting:
1. The Weaving Of The Worlds
2. Anointed With Moonfire
3. A Cerement Of Flame
4. Emanation Of Chaos
5. Melancholy Wanderer
6. The Curse Of Supremacy
7. The Despiser Triumphant
8. A Lamenting Presence
9. The Uttermost Cold
https://www.cultneverdies.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576909640662
"ACCIDIA / BELFAGOR" is the first single taken
from "VII VITIUM" the debut album that the
Italian Occult, Dark & Heavy project VII VITIUM will
release on October 31st, 2025
A video is available at https://youtu.be/7E-6r1YlRdk
The pillars of this project, namely Daniele Laurenti (Kryuhm), Giampi Tomezzoli (Kryuhm, Epitaph) and Daniele Pedrollo (Kayleth), are accompanied in this episode by Joe Ferraro of Cultus Sanguine on vocals, Luca Gregori on second vocals and Dario Vicariotto on lead guitar.
The project aims to explore the world of sin, distancing itself from Christian teachings and offering a personal vision of the seven deadly sins, giving voice to their Demons.
Musically, VII VITIUM explores unconstrained territories. They range from the Dark Occult sound of DEATH SS and PAUL CHAIN, to European Doom, from Italian Progressive Rock to independent Rock, and finally to 1980s Darkwave.
VII VITIUM are ready to welcome you into their sinful world
Pre-order LP and deluxe edition now at: https://t.ly/TGN78
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/VIIVITIUM
Release date: 03.10.2025
Location: Germany/France
FFO: Cradle Of Filth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Behemoth
Bio:
Lycantrophilia, summoned from the nocturnal vaults, prowls the frontier where Melodic Death entwines with Black Metal. Forged in the solitude of the studio, each song is a ritual of ravenous guitars, abyssal screams and spectral keys – a cathedral of shadows where only the abyss endures.
https://www.facebook.com/ironcladmetalpr/
https://lycantrophilia.bandcamp.com
ETERNAL RETURNS – „LET THERE BE SIN “
Let There Be Sin – Eternal Returns is the crushing new album from India’s unstoppable Death/Thrash Metal force. Brutal Records proudly presents this release, featuring nine relentless tracks of brutal riffs, technical precision, and dark melodic death metal. Fans worldwide can experience this intense musical journey. Moreover, the album fuses aggression, melody, and philosophy into one unforgettable experience.
Release Date: September 05, 2025
Available Worldwide – Digital via The Orchard & Physical Formats
About Eternal Returns – India’s Extreme Metal Pioneers:
Formed in 2010 in Thane (Mumbai), India, Eternal Returns has been a defining presence in the Indian metal scene for over a decade. Their music draws inspiration from the ancient philosophical concept of the eternal cycle of life, death, and rebirth. As a result, their songs reflect existence, spirituality, and human struggle.
The band is known for combining raw aggression with technical mastery. Consequently, their sound is both crushing and immersive. Their lyrics explore mythology, existentialism, and the quest for liberation. Therefore, each album is not just music—it is an introspective journey for listeners.
Over the years, Eternal Returns has toured extensively across India, sharing stages with international acts and building a reputation for high-energy, precise live performances. This experience has strengthened their signature sound and global appeal.
Musical Influences & Style: Eternal Returns draws from a wide range of metal influences. They combine the technical precision of death metal with thrash’s raw aggression. Moreover, groove-oriented rhythms give their music a dynamic edge.
The Sound of Eternal Returns’ Let There Be Sin: Eternal Returns blends thrash metal aggression with melodic death metal intricacies. Their intricate riffs, pounding rhythms, and soaring leads create a soundscape that immerses listeners into darkness and reflection. In addition, they merge groove metal, metalcore, thrash, and melodic death elements, transcending traditional genre boundaries.
Fans of Sepultura, Arch Enemy, Kreator, and Lamb of God will recognize familiar energy. However, Eternal Returns adds a unique Indian cultural and spiritual perspective, setting them apart in the global metal scene. Moreover, the band balances brutal heaviness with melodic passages that enhance the album’s emotional impact.
The Concept Behind Let There Be SinLet There Be Sin is more than an album—it is a narrative exploring humanity’s inner battles. Each track represents one of the seven deadly sins, brought to life through intricate artwork:
Crown – Pride
Star (Baphomet) – Sloth
Pig Head – Gluttony
Eye with Dollar – Greed
Dagger – Envy
Heart – Lust
Nuclear Symbol – Wrath
At the heart of the artwork lies a diamond encircled by a serpent, symbolizing Eternal Returns itself: raw, unyielding, and eternal. Additionally, this motif reinforces the philosophical themes of the album: confronting darkness to find strength and clarity.
Tracklist:
1. Birth - Life - Death
2. Sloth
3. Lust
4. Envy
5. Greed
6. Gluttony
7. Wrath
8. Pride
9. Emasculator
From the crushing grooves of thrash to the soaring melodies of death metal, Eternal Returns transcends boundaries and redefines the limits of heavy music. Their sonic alchemy merges melodic death, metalcore, thrash, and groove into a singular, awe-inspiring force.
Experience the Sins Within
Follow Eternal Returns on their journey and join the revolution. The cycle begins anew. Will you dare to enter?
https://brutalrecords.com/release/let-there-be-sin/
Mit dem Video lädt Euch die Band ein, an der "40. Jahre Darkness Geburtstagsfeier" teilzuhaben. Aber nicht vergessen "Last Round Is On Us" .Danke und liebe Grüße .
Veröffentlichung Am 31. Oktober vierzehn der besten Punk-Bands der Welt covern ihre Lieblingssongs von Motörhead, darunter Rancid, Pennywise, The Bronx, GBH, Fear
Plus: Eine bisher unveröffentlichte Kollaboration von Motӧrhead & The Damned zu deren Klassiker "Neat, neat, neat"
Das neue Video zu "Neat, Neat, Neat" ansehen und das Album hier vorbestellen – https://motorhead.lnk.to/killedbydeaf
Heavy Metal und Punkrock! Man kann mit Fug und Recht behaupten, dass diese beiden lauten Tribes mittlerweile viel gemeinsam haben – oft verschmelzen sie miteinander, sind kaum noch voneinander zu unterscheiden und bringen ihre eigenen Bastard-Nachkommen hervor. Aber das war nicht immer so. Es gab tatsächlich eine Zeit, in der eher mit den Fäusten geprügelt als gegrüßt wurde und Bier eher geworfen als geteilt wurde – außer wenn es um Motörhead ging. Das war die einzige Band, auf die wir uns alle einigen konnten. Die einzige Band, die wirklich uns gehörte!
Aber während Motörheads Auswirkung auf den Metal schon lange anerkannt ist, sollte ihr Einfluss auf den Punk, insbesondere auf die zweite Welle nach den Sex Pistols, nicht unterschätzt werden. Ursache und Wirkung: So einfach ist das. Und so verhält es sich auch mit Hunderten, Tausenden anderen Bands, die alle durch Motörhead schneller, dreckiger, lauter und besser geworden sind. Nirgendwo ist das so deutlich wie im Punkrock. Und das liegt daran, dass Motörhead im Grunde genommen eine Punkrock-Band waren.
Lemmy sagte einmal: “Die Punks liebten uns. Der einzige Grund, warum wir nicht zu ihnen gehörten, war, dass wir lange Haare hatten, also mussten wir natürlich Heavy Metal sein. So war die Denkweise. Aber viele Kids hörten uns ohne ein Bild zu sehen und dachten daher, wir seien eine Punkband.”
Auf den vierzehn Tracks dieses Albums mit dem cleveren Titel “Killed By Deaf” hört man eine liebevolle Hommage an Motörhead von einigen der größten und angesehensten Punkrock-Bands. Größen wie Rancid, Pennywise, Lagwagon, GBH, The Bronx und FEAR steuern allesamt raue Versionen ihrer Lieblingssongs von Motörhead bei... und auch aufstrebende Newcomer wie Slaughterhouse sind dabei, denn seien wir ehrlich: Motörhead haben immer die Underdogs geliebt und unterstützt.
Lemmy und Motörhead werden nicht umsonst mit einem eigenen Bereich im Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas geehrt. Lange bevor sie “God Save The Queen” von den Sex Pistols auf “We Are Motörhead” coverten und lange bevor sie “R.A.M.O.N.E.S” für das Album “1916” als Hommage an New Yorks Elite schrieben, teilten Motörhead die Bühne mit Bands wie The Damned, wie sie es im Laufe der Jahre noch viele Male tun sollten. Verdammt, Lemmy schloss sich sogar The Damned an (als sie noch The Doomed hießen), wenn auch nur für kurze Zeit, spielte einige mittlerweile berüchtigte Konzerte und übernahm den Bass auf einigen Studiotracks. Da passt es nur zu gut, dass der einzige Nicht-Motörhead-Song auf diesem Album aus der Zeit stammt, als er sich 2002 erneut mit ihnen zusammentat, um eine bisher unveröffentlichte und mitreißende Version des Klassikers “Neat Neat Neat” von The Damned aufzunehmen.
„Killed By Deaf – A Punk Tribute To Motörhead’ erscheint am 31. Oktober 2025 als LP, CD und in digitaler Form. Die vollständige Trackliste findet sich unten. Aktuelle Neuigkeiten und Updates gibt es auf www.iMotorhead.com
Trackliste1. Pennywise – Ace Of Spades
2. Rancid – Sex & Death
3. The Bronx – Over The Top
4. Lagwagon – Rock ‘N’ Roll
5. FEAR – The Chase Is Better Than The Catch
6. GBH – Bomber
7. Murphy’s Law – Stay Clean
8. Slaughterhouse – Love Me Like A Reptile
9. The Casualties – The Hammer
10. Anti-Nowhere League – Born To Raise Hell
11. Love Canal – Voices In The Sky
12. Soldiers Of Destruction – Overkill
13. Wisdom In Chains – Iron Fist
14. Motӧrhead & The Damned – Neat, Neat, Neat
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPCDmtTU-W4SdA8abZtWpA
https://imotorhead.com/
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMotorhead/
Växjö,
Sweden – September 2025 – Swedish heavy metal force A.Y.M proudly
presents the release of their brand-new EP ARE YOU READY, now
available worldwide on all digital platforms.Formed in Växjö in 2023, A.Y.M brings together five seasoned musicians from the Swedish hard rock and heavy metal circuit: Alex Vince (vocals), Oskar Hollingsworth (guitar), Tony Pettersson (guitar), Christoffer Elofsson (bass), and Johan Svensson (drums).
With many shows under their belts across Sweden, Europe, and beyond, the members of A.Y.M have united under one mission: to prove that heavy metal is very much alive. Their sound blends powerful riffs, thunderous rhythms, and undeniable hooks—crafted to make audiences bang their heads and sing along in unison.
"Are You Ready" EP captures the raw energy of the band’s live presence while delivering sharp songwriting and anthemic choruses. Featuring tracks like “We Wear the Crown” and the title track “Are You Ready”, the record embodies everything fans crave from modern heavy metal: power, passion, and authenticity.
Watch the videos:
“We Wear The Crown” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK_9iYYBvqw
“Are You Ready” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyWxUqHNQ5o
https://www.youtube.com/@A.Y.MOfficial
https://aym-band.bandcamp.com/
The neoclassical melodic death force BURNED IN EFFIGY has released the official music video for "MASQUERADE," the second single off their forthcoming new album, TYRANNUS AETERNUM.
The band comments on the concept behind the song.
"This quick-paced track is themed by lyrics inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's Masque of the Red Death, in which nobles host a masquerade in a secluded abbey, hoping to avoid a plague that is decimating the general population. Musically, this is one of our fastest and most melodic songs on the new album. The music video, made by Alex Zarek, encompasses a romantic demise while dancing with death."
BURNED IN EFFIGY has tapped Slam Worldwide for the exclusive world premiere of "Masquerade." Watch the video now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPbKriPrHeE
Rising from the heart of the Midwest metal scene, this Chicago-based quintet has announced a fall release for their much-anticipated second full-length, Tyrannus Aeternum. Following the 2022 release of their debut album, Rex Mortem, BURNED IN EFFIGY has sharpened their sound to a lethal edge. The result is an 11-track onslaught that blends the band’s skillful musicianship and technicality with volcanic brutality.
Tyrannus Aeternum is set for release on October 31. Pre-orders the album now at https://burnedineffigy.bandcamp.com/album/tyrannus-aeternum
Tracklist:1) Befouled Benefaction
2) Retribution
3) Masquerade
4) Procession
5) Wage of Exile
6) Sacrificial Seance
7) Monstrosity Reborn
8) Gallows Hymn
9) The Racking
10) Crown Crusher
11) Citadel
Tyrannus Aeternum was recorded at Beal Audio and Bricktop Recording, with production, engineering and mixing by Jordan Beal. Orchestration and keyboards on the album were provided by Graham Southern. Album artwork by Timon Kokott.
Bio:
BURNED IN EFFIGY’s roots date back to 2017. In January 2022, the band independently released its debut album Rex Mortem, which was highly acclaimed by leading heavy music media and led to the band sharing the stage with iconic acts such as ORBIT CULTURE, OBSCURA, and REVOCATION.
A must for listeners of acts such as THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER and INFERI, with the band’s attention to virtuosity and intensity in equal measure, the effort and accomplishment of the band’s debut led to being talent scouted. With work on the band's sophomore album complete, BURNED IN EFFIGY aims to take its signature melodic death metal sound across the US, and in time, the world. The search for total conquest continues.
Line-up:
Mark “Smedy” Smedbron - Vocals
Steve Bacakos - Guitar
Mike Hisson - Guitar
Matt Watkins - Bass
Eddie Dec - Drums
https://www.youtube.com/@BurnedinEffigy
https://www.facebook.com/burnedineffigyofficial
Athens, Greece; 11 September 2025: THE MAGUS, the Luciferian project helmed by Necromantia co-founder and ex-Rotting Christ musician The Magus, has revealed the first details about the second album, “DAEMONOSOPHIA”.
The
new album, which will be released in early 2026, promises a more
aggressive
and dynamic sound compared to the previous album,
“ΒΥΣΣΟΔΟΜΩΝΤΑΣ”,
while
keeping the devouring dark atmosphere the project’s music is
known for. The
album's sound has some unexpected and diabolically diverse moments that
will
make listeners feel uneasy.For the album cover art, The Magus collaborated with Mexican artist Nestor Avalos, known for his work with numerous bands, including Exodus, Deicide and Rotting Christ. The artwork is an Infernal Triptych that portrays six infernal entities: Lucifer/Samael, Leviathan/Tiamat, and Belial/Satan. Nestor created a majestic painting of infernal wisdom and occult meanings, giving prominence to the Luciferian tradition and the music of the album.
Read The Magus’ statement in full:
“Disciples, we are revealing to you the cover, title and track-list of our second opus: Daemonosophia! An album that proves that pure truth and infinite wisdom is to be found NOT above but below…..
“Musically, it is more edgy and vengeful than our first album. More aggressive and dynamic, but at the same time retaining the devouring dark atmosphere our music always has. Of course, there are some diabolically diverse moments that will surprise and will make you feel uneasy, but this is the beauty of making intelligent art… The Era of Satan Rising ……or The Era of Lucifer Rising……
“For the cover, we decided to work with the notoriously talented artist from Mexico, Mr Nestor Avalos, known for his work with EXODUS, DEICIDE, NECROMANTIA, MELECHESH, ROTTING CHRIST, VARATHRON, KREATOR, DARK FUNERAL, SACRAMENTUM etc.
“It is an Infernal Triptychon. Portraying six (yes) infernal entities: Lucifer / Samael in the centre, Leviathan / Tiamat to the left and Belial / Satan to the right. Each of them portraying its qualities and all the six in three lead to one. We were working for months together to achieve the perfect result in the finest detail. Nestor himself is involved in the occult arts so he understood perfectly what we wanted, and indeed, he created a majestic painting of infernal wisdom and occult meanings, giving prominence to the Luciferian tradition and the music of the album!
“You will be able to discover all the available versions of the album and the first samples of our music in a few weeks…until then….WE RISE FROM THE DEPTHS”
Tracklist:
1. Pseudoprophetae
2. Daemonosophia
3. Magia Obscura
4. The Era of Lucifer Rising
5. Amelia
6. The six in three is all One
7. The Pact
8. The Chapel of Iniquities
9. La Llorona Negra
The Magus was formed in 2022, following the dissolution of the legendary Greek black metal band Necromantia, which The Magus co-founded. He decided to end Necromantia after the death of his bandmate Baron Blood in 2019, releasing a final album, “To the Depths We Descend”, in 2021 as a tribute. For this new project, The Magus brought in long-time collaborators El on guitars and Maelstrom on drums.
https://thecirclemusic.gr/
https://www.facebook.com/The-Circle-Music-109161897443413/
https://www.themagus666.com/
https://www.facebook.com/themagus666
LEFT
HAND BLACK – “ LEFT HAND BLACK 3: DEATH CAN'T KEEP US APART”The Circle Music have signed the electrifying Swedish horrorpunk band Left Hand Black. Hailing from Gothenburg, this quartet, consisting of veterans of the local music scene, will release their third full-length album, "Left Hand Black 3: Death Can't Keep Us Apart", in September.
Formed in the spring of 2019 on an island just outside Gothenburg, Left Hand Black brings together the formidable talents of Hans Hagström and Jonathan Jansson (formerly of The Dead Next Door) with Johan Hansson and Anton Zachrisson (from Overdrive Solution). Their sound is a potent brew of old-school melodic horror punk and rock, drawing inspiration from iconic bands such as Misfits, Ramones and Bad Religion.
Johan Hansson of Left Hand Black said: “I have followed Maria and The Circle Music since the first release, and with her passion for the music and what she does for the bands, this is a dream come true. We are super excited to be part of the TCM family.”
Left Hand Black have carved a reputation with their previous releases: their self-titled debut in 2020 via Wolverine Records and their 2022 follow-up, "Lower Than Satan" through Sunny Bastard Records/Sick Taste Records. Now, with "Left Hand Black 3: Death Can't Keep Us Apart" they aim to solidify their position as purveyors of infectious horror-infused punk anthems. As the band have declared: "We prove that we can write hits and are an insanely good live band that takes no prisoners and celebrates a hellish party with you in the graveyard."
"Left Hand Black 3: Death Can't Keep Us Apart" was recorded at Welfare Sounds studios in March 2024 by Per Stålberg and Kalle Lilja, who also produced the album alongside the band. The mixing was done by Per Stålberg, Kalle Lilja, and Mario Dahmen, and mastered by Mario Dahmen at Liquid Aether Audio. The album boasts guest appearances from Nim Vind, who lends his vocals and lead guitar prowess to the title track, "Death Can't Keep Us Apart" and Per Stålberg, who contributes guest vocals on "Why Do I Kill Everything I Love". Adding an eerie touch is Mario Dahmen on the organ for "Doomed Romance On A Summer Night".
The striking visual elements of the album are brought to life with layout design by Bernd Gunwald, the cover art by Frank Walls, and atmospheric band photos captured by Ola Åkerborn with assistance from Kyra Fiedler Wretmarks Foto.
The band said: “We’re very proud of this album. We think we’ve succeeded in creating something new with the songs while still maintaining the same red thread as in our previous records. All the guys in the band make outstanding contributions, each leaving their unique mark on the songs. Hans sings better than ever. Anton's rhythmic drumming makes even the dead want to dance, Johan holds the foundation like the pillars of the Brooklyn Bridge, and Jonathan flutters on his guitar like a never-before-seen bird species from the depths of the Amazon.”
Tracklist:
1. Murder on my mind again
2. I walk the city
3. Death can´t keep us apart
4. Damned love
5. Wolf's eye
6. Breeding ground for the lost souls
7. Doomed romance on a summer night
8. In the center of my heart
9. All these monsters
10. Six feet under ground
11. Each dawn I die
12. Divided by the pain
13. Why do I kill everything I love
14. Octopussy From Outer Space (Bonus Track)
https://www.facebook.com/Lefthandblackhorrorpunk/
AUTUMN
TEARS – “CROWN OF THE CLAIRVOYANT”Neoclassical and darkwave veterans Autumn Tears will release their new album, “Crown of the Clairvoyant”, on 22 September via The Circle Music. This new work is a continuation of the concept started with their 2023 album, “Guardian of the Pale”.
“Crown of the Clairvoyant” features a fully orchestrated classical ensemble and full choir. The album includes contributions from original Autumn Tears composer, pianist, and lyricist Ted Tringo, classical and opera duet Caroline Joy Clarke and Darren Clarke (Trovatori), singer-songwriter Tamar Singer (Zeresh, Cruel Wonders, Necromishka), and violinist and violist Sanja Smileska. The album also features a guest appearance by Francesca Nicoli from the Italian neoclassical band Ataraxia.
The album will be available as a digital download, a limited CD jewel case package with a CD-exclusive bonus track, and a limited vinyl package which includes a 12-page illustrated lyric book and a vinyl-exclusive bonus track.
Ted Tringo of Autumn Tears commented on the upcoming release: "This album represents a significant undertaking for us, expanding on themes from our previous work with a broader musical palette. We are grateful for the contributions of all the musicians and vocalists involved, and we look forward to sharing 'Crown of the Clairvoyant' with our listeners."
https://www.facebook.com/TheTrueAutumnTears/
Finally, more LYCANTHROPIC CHANTS label activities; don’t miss Sick Feast 2025 this October; catch CRYPTIC BROOD on their upcoming European tour plus, come to our local shows in Wolfsburg (Germany)! Exciting times ahead - stay tuned for more via www.lycanthropic.de
Let's enter the dungeon:
HALLUCINATE
/ JADE SPLIT-7"
out now!Dive into the abyss with HALLUCINATE, whose raw, suffocating death metal claws through the earth’s bowels, summoning visions of cosmic horror and existential decay. Following their critically acclaimed “From The Bowels Of The Earth” (Caligari Records), they return with a relentless sonic assault—unfiltered, unholy, and utterly consuming.
On the flip side, JADE weaves a spell of haunting elegance, blending blackened doom with dreamlike melancholy. Fresh from the enigmatic “Mysteries Of A Flowery Dream” (Pulverised Records), their ethereal riffs and spectral whispers transport you to realms where beauty and despair intertwine.
Limited to 300 copies, this split 7″ vinyl is a must-have for those who crave the darkest corners of extreme music. Two bands, one nightmare – order now before it vanishes into the void.
Both vinyl variants are housed in black poly-lined inner sleeves and a 350gsm fold out flip-side cover, incl. download:
150 copies on shroud-coloured vinyl
150 copies on golden vinyl
Available from our shop: https://lycanthropic.de/shop/hallucinate-jade-heavens-gate-the-hidden-crypt-split-7
Full EP stream on our YouTube-channel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P--HE7_fJq4
https://www.facebook.com/Hallucinatedeath
SICK FEAST 2025
Let’s celebrate extreme underground musick at Sick Feast 2025. Lycanthropic Chants will present an ugly composition of madness that reeks of death’s breath in Wolfsburg (Germany) at s.v Jugendhaus Ost on 18th October 2025. And everyone who can’t get enough gore spilled is invited to join the warm-up show in Wolfsburg at Sauna-Klub the day before, 17th October 2025.
Tickets are available from this location. There are two ticket options:
2-day ticket (main fest at s.v. Jugendhaus Ost on Saturday, 18th October 2025 plus warm-up show at Sauna-Klub on Friday, 17th October 2025)
main fest only ticket
CRYPTIC BROOD – “CREEPING CRYPTIC CONTAGION” TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT
The brood creeps on! Following the devastating first wave of shows earlier this year, Lycanthropic Chants presents the CRYPTIC BROOD – “Creeping Cryptic Contagion” tour: a descent into rotting flesh and radioactive nightmares. The band will flood stages of Western Europe with their own toxic blend of death metal, grind and doom, straight from the decaying heart of their latest album “Necrotic Flesh Bacteria”.
This is the route so far. Please reach out to us with your ideas for the open date:
2025.11.12 BEL/Ghent @ Omgekeerde Kruis
2025.11.13 FRA/Rennes @ Á l'Uzine
2025.11.14 FRA/Bordeaux @ Le RedCat
2025.11.15 ESP/Unquera @ Los Bancos
2025.11.16 PRT/Porto @ Woodstock 69
2025.11.17 AVAILABLE!
2025.11.18 ESP/Saragossa @ Pub Utopía
2025.11.19 ESP/Barcelona @ Sala Lennon’s
2025.11.20 FRA/Montpellier @ Le KJBI
2025.11.21 FRA/Lyon @ Rock N Eat
2025.11.22 FRA/Strasbourg @ Le Local
https://www.facebook.com/CrypticBrood
UPCOMING LOCAL SHOWS IN WOLFSBURG (GERMANY)
Am Dienstag, den 16. September 2025 im s.v. Jugendhaus Ost in Wolfsburg:
NECROPSY ODOR (Death Metal/Grindcore / USA, San Luis Obispo)
PULMONARY FIBROSIS (Goregrind / FRA, Yzeures-sur-Creuse)
REPULSIVE FEAST (Death Metal/Grindcore / GER, Wolfsburg)
Tür öffnet 19:30 Uhr
Bands beginnen 20:00 Uhr
Abendkasse kostet 18 EUR
Freier Eintritt für Personen die jünger als 18 Jahre sind.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1252559876278633/
Am Donnerstag, den 18. September 2025 im s.v. Jugendhaus Ost in Wolfsburg:
JADE (Atmospheric Death Metal / ESP, Catalonia)
TOTENGOTT (Doom/Black/Thrash Metal / ESP, Asturias)
HALLUCINATE (Progressive Death Metal / GER, Oldenburg)
Tür öffnet 19:30 Uhr
Bands beginnen 20:00 Uhr
Abendkasse kostet 18 EUR
Freier Eintritt für Personen die jünger als 18 Jahre sind.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1267247345062953/
Am Dienstag, den 4. November 2025 im s.v. Jugendhaus Ost in Wolfsburg:
ARTIFICIAL BRAIN (Technical/Progressive Death Metal / USA, Richmond)
SUFFERING HOUR (Avant-garde Black/Death Metal / USA, Forest Lake)
CRYPTIC BROOD (Death Metal / GER, Wolfsburg)
Tür öffnet 19:30 Uhr
Bands beginnen 20:00 Uhr
Vorverkauf 18 EUR (+Gebühren)
Abendkasse 22 EUR
Freier Eintritt für Personen die jünger als 18 Jahre sind.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1271652014190728/
FURTHER DATES, MARK YOUR CALENDARS
2025.11.28 @ s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: EARTHBONG (GER) + GAGAMAN (GER) + GAYA’S DEMISE (GER)
2025.12.06 @ s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: ABHORRENT EXECRATION (FRA) + DUNGEON KEEPER (GER) + more
2026.01.07 @ s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: HEXENBRETT (INT) + KARLOFF (GER
Finland's I, CURSED, who combine angry and furious death metal and grindcore, released their new HERETICAL ONSLAUGHT EP on September 11th 2025. The EP is released in cooperation with Finnish record labels Inverse Records & Meara Music which is also an agency and event producer based in Ulvila.
Listen to Heretical Onslaught EP: https://push.fm/fl/i-cursed-heretical
I, Cursed's previous EP, Death Holograms, was a bleak and cold affair in terms of production. The new EP, Heretical Onslaught, is bleak like its predecessor, but a bit warmer, though still closer to a circulatory arrest and collapse. I, Cursed has also undergone some line up changes. Nico Brander, who played guitar on the new EP, has stepped aside. Bassist and the band's main composer and lyricist Ville-Veikko Laaksonen has taken over on guitar. Joni Suodenjärvi, a familiar face from bands such as Cannibal Accident, Hateform, Mors Principium Est, and others, has been recruited as the band's new bassist. I, Cursed will be touring Finland extensively throughout the fall with their new EP.
Watch music video of first single 'Disfigurement': https://youtu.be/NlR4xJvdzlg
Watch music video of second single 'Death Pays It All': https://youtu.be/DlpcScU6zSg
Track
list:1. Malignant
2. Impure
3. Nothing From The Ruins
4. Disfigurement
5. Funerary
6. Loss
7. Swarm
8. Death Pays It All
-Music & lyrics composed & written by Ville-Veikko Laaksonen
-Produced & arranged by I, Cursed
-Engineered by Ville-Veikko Laaksonen, Nico Brander & Jesse Simola
-Recorded at Firefield Avenue & Soft Neon Audiovisual Studio Mixed & mastered by Jerkka Perälä
EP cover by Jerkka Perälä
Line-up on EP:
Eero Haula - Vocals (Oceanwake)
Ville-Veikko Laaksonen - Bass & guitar (Atlases, Marto)
Nico Brander - Guitar (Blood Service, Marto)
Arttu Leppänen - Drums (Atlases, Marto)
Discography:
I, Cursed / Blood Service S/T Split EP 2023 (Meara Music)
Bloodsoaked / Storm Parade Double Single 2023 (Meara Music)
Blades Single 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Sorrower Single 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Death Holograms Single & EP 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Disfigurement Single 2025 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Death Pays It All Single 2025 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Nothing From The Ruins Single 2025 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Heretical Onslaught Album 2025 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
https://icursed.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/I.Cursed.Grind
Stream "Guilded Abyss" at: https://bloodymountainrecords.bandcamp.com/track/guilded-abyss-3
Seven years since the release of their last full-length album, Valdur return October 3 with Guilded Abyss on Bloody Mountain Records.
Valdur is a distortion guild of the riff; musical merchants of the deep.
Obscure music for mellifluous minds.
The individuals of this abyssal congregation need only the desire to assemble and create the vibrations of aural alchemy for your aural pleasure.
Guilded Abyss will be available on digital, CD, cassette, and vinyl formats.
Note: Red-logo version of the album cover on CD only (pictured below).
Track
Listing:1. Hailing Molten Meteors
2. Mangled and Rotting (Spiritus Mortuus)
3. Guilded Abyss
4. Doomed Pt.II
5. Drinking from the Chalice of Banishment
6. Stars of Belial
7. Waves of Boiling Water/Molten Meteors Part II (Bonus Track)
Credits:
Recorded at the Bloody Mountain Bunker 2023-2025.
Mixed / mastered by Matthew at Canyon Lodge Studios.
Cover illustration by devilisyourmaster.
Layout by BMR.
Produced by Matthew and BMR.
Dragon logo by: farronloathing.
Old Valdur logo by Valdur.
Nature photos by James Holland.
Line-up:
Vuke - Guitar
William - Bass
Jackson - Vocals
Matthew - Drums
https://bloodymountainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/guilded-abyss
http://www.bloodymountainrecords.com/
What began as a farewell has become a resurrection. LOST AND AMSTERDAMNED, the debut EP from the Netherlands' one-man Black/Death Metal project, EL MUERTO, is set for release on November 21!
FFO: Opeth, Immortal, Emperor, Mgla, Death
The official video for the EP's first single, "Enthroned in the Tower of Shadows (The Witch)," is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph10tr-6LYk
The song is also available on https://elmuerto2.bandcamp.com/track/enthroned-in-the-tower-of-shadows-the-witch
El Muerto was born in the depths of personal crisis, a raw and unflinching document of depression, trauma, and the desire to disappear. Conceived as a final message from an artist who had lost the will to live, each track captures a chapter of that darkness. But this record is no longer a goodbye. It’s proof that even in the shadows, something can still survive.
El Muerto is the alter ego of a multi-instrumentalist whose journey spans continents, from the underground metal scene of Mexico (Sekhmet) to experimental projects in Australia (Conscious Comma), now anchored in the Dutch landscape. With Lost and Amsterdamned, he delivers a fiercely collaborative black/death metal EP shaped by the frostbitten influence of Immortal, the grim atmosphere of Darkthrone and Mgła, and the progressive shadows of Opeth and Emperor.
Driven by guitar-forward compositions and visceral vocals, the record balances old-school extremity with cinematic vision. Each track is both a personal exorcism and a descent into archetypal horror, as described by below by El Muerto.
"A Song for Ran" – A melancholic invocation of the Norse sea goddess, casting despair into the sea’s cold embrace. Melodic and mournful, it drifts between surrender and transcendence beneath crashing waves and whispered death. Where the final rest in the most peaceful as well.
"Enthroned in the Tower of Shadows (The Witch)" – A theatrical black metal tale of the witch-queen reigning from a tower of obsidian. Ritualistic, grand, and venomously lyrical, it reads like folklore soaked in blood and fire. Betrayal, treason and lies.
"Lich King" – A blighted anthem of death’s dominion. With imagery of skeletal monarchs and ruined worlds, it’s a march into the void, full of oppressive riffing and funereal dread.
"Blood Crypt" – The EP’s most venomous moment: a burial rite soaked in bile and loathing. A brutal poem of closure through decay, it turns memory into rot, laying ghosts to rest in a cathedral of scorn.
"Ghosts of Torment" – An inner war against unseen forces. This track is a descent into madness where haunting spirits represent trauma, anxiety, and mental illness. Dissonant and despairing, it’s a song about being torn from within—and haunted from without.
"Wolves of Den Haag" – Inspired by the real-life cannibalistic murder of Dutch statesman Johan de Witt in 1672, this track uses historical horror to reflect modern betrayal and societal rage. Gnarled riffs and spectral tension echo through The Hague’s ghost-soaked streets.
Each song speaks in the language of metal, but beneath the corpse paint and distortion lies something deeply human—anguish, defiance, and ultimately, release.
Each of these songs reflects personal trauma through the lens of myth, horror, and metal’s harshest language turning lived experience into sonic ritual. Lost and Amsterdamned no longer marks an ending. It is a violent testament of survival, memory, and transformation. A cathartic howl from the pit—and the sound of someone crawling out of it.
The album's rhythm section features guest musicians from international metal acts, such as downunder's Norse and Europe's Adarrak.
Mixed by the legendary Tomas Skogsberg of Sunlight Studios in Sweden and mastered by Ricardo Botello. Recorded in studios across the Netherlands.
Pre-order: https://elmuerto2.bandcamp.com/album/lost-and-amsterdamned
Track
Listing:1. A Song for Ran
2. Enthroned in the Tower of Shadows (The Witch)
3. Lich King
4. Blood Crypt
5. Ghosts of Torment
6. Wolves of Den Haag
Credits:
Produced by Ricardo Botello
Mixed by Tomas Skogsberg in Sunlight Studios, Stockholm, Sweden.
Mastered by Ricardo Botello in Draal Studios, Amersfoort, Netherlands.
All artwork created by Francisco Torres Beltrán (Tobelart)
Line-up:
Ricardo Botello - Guitars, Vocals, Piano
Zigor Munoz - Bass (except "Ghosts of Torment")
Tommaso Tani - Bass on "Ghosts of Torment"
Robin Stone - Drums
Bio:
El Muerto is the alter ego of a multi-instrumentalist, Ricardo Botello, who has made the Dutch landscape his creative home for the past years. His musical journey spans continents, from his work with the Mexican project Sekhmet to time spent with Australia’s Conscious Comma.
Now unveiling his debut EP, Lost in Amsterdamned, El Muerto presents a collaborative effort that features a dynamic cast of guest musicians.
https://www.youtube.com/@rbb04
https://elmuerto2.bandcamp.com/album/lost-and-amsterdamned
Melbourne’s
crust-death metal assault unit KÜNTSQUÄD has dropped
their brand-new video for “OMINOUS”, taken from their
acclaimed album SATANS COCK, out now via Wormholedeath.With blast-beaten fury and apocalyptic riffs, “Ominous” captures a world on fire—an existential nightmare where a rising zombie virus collides with the looming collapse of a ravaged, pillaged planet. The result is a sonic and visual assault as relentless as it is uncompromising.
Stream the album: https://orcd.co/scalbum
Previous videos:
https://youtu.be/Nso_kHVv3oI
https://youtu.be/xeeiwOvpmr4
https://youtu.be/26xpIfMKKhE
"Satans Cock" The Album
Following their 2022 self-titled debut, which sold out multiple pressings and carved a cult following across the underground, KÜNTSQUÄD (pronounced Kountskard) double down on everything grotesque, unholy, and deliberately absurd. There are no genre walls here—only a relentless descent into sonic madness.
With the album “Satans Cock”, the band delivers a grotesque yet calculated assault—layering blast-beaten fury, apocalyptic riffs, and sneering satire into a weaponized soundscape for the damned.
About KÜNTSQUÄD:
KÜNTSQUÄD (pron. Kountskard) is a crusty death metal band from Melbourne blending guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and blackened chaos. Their 2022 self-titled debut on Wormholedeath Records earned global acclaim and sold-out pressings. Raw, extreme, and satirically twisted—this is metal with no genre boundaries.
www.youtube.com/@Kuntsquad666
www.facebook.com/kuntsquad666
Format: Digital CD /
Physical CDLabel: Independent Release
For fans of : Testament, Kreator, Xentrix, Suicidal Angels, Angelus Apatrida and the like….
Tracklist:
01. Only Madness Remains
02. Measure Of Guilt
03. When The Sharp Things Come
04. Sanity’s Rage
05. Blood Calls For Blood
06. Nothing Sacred Will Hold
07. The Dead Don’t Run
08. The Final Exhibit Of Pain
09. Reeducate The Masses
10. Sanity Lies In Ruin
Firmly rooted in the past, with a contemporary sound. Versatile, yet without compromise in aggression and technical level. Founded in 2002, when Thrash Metal bands were very few and other, more extreme genres had taken over the scene In Belgium, Sanity’s Rage came together as a band with a shared passion for catchy songwriting, raw energy and emotion, brought with technical skill.
The band has played renowned venues and festivals in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and The United Kingdom, alongside top acts such as After All, Agent Steel, Bonded By Blood, Cyclone, Destructor, Evil Invaders, Gama Bomb, Holy Moses, Huntress, Hyades, James Rivera, Laaz Rockit, Liar, Onslaught, Reign Of Fury, Savage Messiah, Skyclad, Saxon, Testament and many others. Some of the highlights being Beermageddon (UK) in 2014 and 2024 and Alcatraz Metal Fest (BE) in 2009 and 2024.
Their debut EP ‘The Rage Of One’ was well received by the international press, the follow-up CD ‘You Are What You Swallow’ proved they weren’t just a one trick pony and took them up a level. Now, in 2025, Sanity’s Rage is back with a new album ‘The Dead Don’t Run’, and continue the story of pure fucking thrash. Over 10 years after the last release, with a complete lineup change, bringing back most of the original band members who started the story 20 years ago.
‘The Dead Don't Run’ will be available worldwide on all major streaming platforms starting October 15th, 2025. A physical digipack (€15.00) and digital CD download (€9.99) will already be available on October 1st, 2025!
Line-Up:
Tim de Bruyne: guitar
Tim de Bisschop: bassguitar / backing vocals
Kenny Molly: vocals
Sam Stoelzaet: drums
Kenny Claes: guitar
https://www.facebook.com/SanitysRage
Two
weeks before the premiere of their new album, “GORZKIE PLONY”
("BITTER HARVEST"), NARRENWIND present "I-II-I-II",
a powerful cover of the unforgettable Maanam track. This is more than just a
tribute to a classic; it's an homage to one of the most significant Polish
alternative bands of the 80s.The timeless lyrics of Olga “Kora” Sipowicz have been re-imagined within Narrenwind's blackened heavy metal sound, which draws heavily from 80s and 90s metal classics and is inspired by legends like Bathory, Armia and Kat. The entire piece is imbued with the spirit of Polish poetry and a deep appreciation for the original.
Watch and listen to the video for "I-II-I-II": https://youtu.be/GiKakNIb3gA
The band added: “And remember, big sunglasses are very important, always big sunglasses!"
"Gorzkie Plony" will be unleashed on 22 September 2025 via Pagan Records. Pre-order the album (CD/VINYL/MERCH): https://tinyurl.com/2j535tdw
The track follows the release of the singles “Koniugacja”) and “Nikt Nie Wie” .
The band described "Gorzkie Plony" as "a return to the spirit of our inaugural work". The album was mixed and mastered by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio. The artwork was completed by JRMR. The album also includes session drums by Anti-Christian (Doedsvangr, Beaten to Death, ex-Tsjuder).
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/paganrecords
https://narrenwind.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/narrenwind
FFO: Slayer, Demolition Hammer, Vio-lence, Kreator, Exodus,Devastation, Pestilence
Unapologetically true to their roots, the new album pushes the band’s sound to new extremes. It is heavier, faster, slower, and more technically unrelenting. Every track is sharpened for maximum impact, delivering a refined yet feral evolution of their signature thrash assault.
This is not just another record, it’s the definitive Condition Critical statement: uncompromising, chaotic, and forged in pure aggression.
Track
Listing:1. Wretched Aggression
2. Deconstructive Horrors
3. Cranial Dissolution
4. Hydroponic Mutation
5. Postmortal Simulation
6. Psychological Epidemic
7. Incubation Disposal
8. Cryonic Intestinal Preservation
9. Excarnation
Credits:
Mixed & Mastered by Mike Low.
Guitars & Bass engineered by Tony Barhoum.
Drums engineered by James Suprenant & Big Goon Studios.
Vocals engineered by Apollo.
Artwork by Andrei Bouzikov.
CD Layout design by Tom Martin.
All music written and produced by Condition Critical.
Line-Up:
Ryan Taylor – Vocals / Guitar
Tony Barhoum – Lead Guitar
Mike Dreher – Bass
Ryan Donato – Drums
Bio:
Formed in 2010, Condition Critical delivers high-intensity, no-bullshit thrash metal in the tradition of the genre’s most violent pioneers. Described as “a literal war of sound that attacks you with deadly perfection” (New Wave of Thrash Zine), they’ve built a reputation on relentless riffage, vicious stage presence, and tours across the U.S., Europe, and Russia.
They’ve shared stages with notable acts such as Obituary, Demolition Hammer, Napalm Death, Morbid Saint, Revocation, and Havok.
https://www.facebook.com/ConditionCriticalNJ/
JESTER MAJESTY – “INFINITE MEASURE, FINITE EXISTENCE”
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease date: december 4th 2025
Genre: Progressive Death/Thrash Metal
For fans of: Death | Anacrusis | Coroner | Watchtower
One more voyage of exploration, one more combination of chemicals, one more step into the forbidden darkness…one more ‘immoral’ experiment. There is no right or wrong here on this frontier, there is only the light of knowledge, the thrill of discovery and the grasping of power. Warnings are just challenges to courage and laws only bind those too weak to break them. Is the essence of our humanity really so great a price to pay when the reward is the ultimate understanding of everything? Is it not time to transcend the natural order, the chains of conscience that have bound us and leave this world behind…in ruins if that is what must be…
A union of two prodigious talents - Alessandro Gargivolo and Erymanthon Seth – Jester Majesty create music to fire the imagination and astound the senses. Formed in early 2024 by Alessandro Gargivolo when his musical ambitions began to extend into territories beyond the remit of his band, thrashers Alchemist, a first EP Plains Of Heaven appeared later that year. Erymanthon Seth (Apocalypse) contributed to the Plains Of Heaven EP and a full partnership with Alessandro Gargivolo soon developed. Now the breathtaking results of that partnership can be revealed; a majestic concept album of stunning progressive metal that deals with mankind’s insatiable thirst for knowledge and ongoing battle against the limitations that restrain him – Infinite Measure, Finite Existence…
The heavy, insistent and rhythmic introduction of ‘Zero-Point Collapse’ opens the door to an album that defies any attempt to provide a simple summation of its contents. The huge, shifting riffs and elaborate leads of ‘Echoes Of π’ sublimely illustrate the blend of outstanding musicianship and songcraft which lies at the heart of the Jester Majesty sound. The individual abilities at play open up vast possibilities for the songs, creating music that is limited only by the scope of the imagination. Each song is unique within itself and yet they are all intrinsically connected – working wonderfully as individual pieces but staggeringly so as a collective whole. It’s an exhilarating experience to ride the storm-tossed seas of ‘Married To The Masterplan’, with so much to absorb, so much to hear, layer upon layer of sound, with the powerful chorus an anchor in the tumult. Infinite Measure, Finite Existence is constantly evolving and changing forms and the individual songs are microcosms of that process, metamorphosising as they progress, pools mirroring the tides of an ocean. Each musical element of Jester Majesty is of the highest quality, from the superb vocals to the mesmerising guitar work to the overwhelming drums and ‘φinal Jest’ is the perfect ending to an album of superlative accomplishment. It leaves you with a hunger to revisit the many paths of Infinite Measure…, a feeling that you could uncover a whole new experience by listening with a slightly different focus. There are near limitless secrets to be found in the realms of this indisputable masterpiece of progressive metal.
Mixed and mastered by Nikola Zanev (Other Night Fears, Mudcrab) to allow every facet of this intricate musical jewel to shine and adorned in the powerful artwork of Vini Vhummel (Kairos, Entormus etc), Infinite Measure, Finite Existence will be released by Xtreem Music, on CD and digital formats, on December 4th. This is one album that simply cannot be ignored.
Line-up:
Alessandro Gargivolo - Guitars/Bass/Vocals
Erymanthon Seth – Lead Guitar/Keyboards
*composition credit to Emiliano Ostertag on ‘φinal Jest’
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563217256871
Glorious Depravity have also announced a US tour for the promotion of their new album
Nov 15 - (TBA)
Nov 16 - Grand Rapids MI, Morning Ritual
Nov 17 - Chicago IL, Sleeping Village
Nov 18 - Indianapolis IN, Black Circle
Nov 19 - Louisville KY, Mag Bar
Nov 20 - Asheville NC, The Odd
Nov 21 - Raleigh NC, Chapel of Bones
Nov 22 - Richmond VA, Fuzzy Cactus
All shows with Wretched Blessing
GLORIOUS DEPRAVITY – “DEATH NEVER SLEEPS”
Genre - Death metal with thrash metal touchesFor fans of - Cannibal Corpse, Monstrosity, Vader, Deicide, Sinister, Decapitated, Power Trip
With an illustrious lineup featuring members of Pyrrhon, Gravesend, Woe, Scarcity and more, one can safely presume that Glorious Depravity would know their way around extreme metal music. And they deliver in spades; they have come up with an album that showcases the best elements of death metal, even with its roots in the old school sound and the music tinged with thrash metal influences. In comparison to their debut, they have refined and upgraded their music and have left no stone unturned for this one. The meticulously written music is more impactful and powerful than ever before and they seem to have found more of their identity on this one. With recording and mixing done by Joe Cincotta (Suffocation, Obituary) and mastering by Ryan Williams (The Black Dahlia Murder), the album sounds tremendous and is an absolute delight to listen to - being clear, resonant, and robust. To top things off, a painting of the legendary artist Dan Seagrave adorns this release. A death metal fan could die happy right now. "Death Never Sleeps" is undoubtedly a significant release in the style, one that will be remembered for a long time for being a top-tier, near-flawless, invigorating death metal album.
Line up
Doug Moore (Pyrrhon, Scarcity, Seputus) - Vocals
Matt Mewton (Woe) - Guitars
George Paul (Gravesend) - Guitars
John McKinney (Woe) - Bass
Chris Grigg (Woe) - Drums
Recorded and mixed by Joe Cincotta (Suffocation, Obituary) at Full Force Recording
Mastered by Ryan Williams (The Black Dahlia Murder)
Artwork by Dan Seagrave (Morbid Angel, Malevolent Creation)
Track listing
1. Slaughter the Gerontocrats
2. Stripmined Flesh Extractor view
3. Freshkills Poltergeist view
4. Sulphrous Winds (Howling Through Christendom)
5. Scourged by the Wings of the Fell Destroyer
6. The Devouring Dust
7. Carnage at the Margins
8. Necrobotic Enslavement
9. Death Never Sleeps
Official release date - November 7th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/gloriousdepravity
FROM
THE CRYPT – “BORN IN THE GRAVE”For fans of: Bolt Thrower • Autopsy • Benediction • early Grave
Dutch death/grind act From The Crypt will release their debut album, Born in the Grave, on 26 September. The band features former members of acclaimed underground outfits Inhume and Cliteater, bringing together years of experience in crafting uncompromising extreme music.
Across six tracks, Born in the Grave blends old-school death metal sensibilities with grinding intensity, bone-heavy riffs, and deep guttural vocals. The result is a record that draws on classic influences while delivering a raw and contemporary edge
https://www.facebook.com/rawskullrecordz/
https://www.facebook.com/FromTheCryptDeathMetal
Listen to “Emanation of Chaos”: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/08/an-ncs-premiere-achathras-emanation-of-chaos/
“Emanation of Chaos” follows the previously released singles "Anointed With Moonfire" and "The Despiser Triumphant” and showcases the project's embrace of the genre's golden era: the early to late-90s European black metal sound.
While many newer bands claim to draw upon "true" and "old school" black metal, this often involves recycling the template set by the same three or four early 90s Norwegian acts. With “A Darkness of the Ancient Past”, Achathras instead offer a much broader embrace of those glory years, resurrecting the values of the early to late 1990s European black metal scene, a period when aggressive riffs, atmospheric songwriting, caustic vocals, and otherworldly synth work provided an alternative to the mainstream.
The band's debut album can be described as epic and, at times, melodic. The songwriting recalls acts such as early Gehenna, Odium, Emperor, Hecate Enthroned, Obtained Enslavement, Taake, Old Man’s Child, Ancient, Dimmu Borgir, Abigor, Covenant, Forefather and Mork Gryning.
Achathras features anonymous musicians from acclaimed and long-running black metal acts.
"A Darkness of the Ancient Past" is available to pre-order now via Cult Never Dies
Achathras are:
Eidolon Drakh - Guitars, Bass, Keyboards & Effects
Malefic Orator - Voice
Vorthol - Drums
Tracklisting:1. The Weaving Of The Worlds
2. Anointed With Moonfire
3. A Cerement Of Flame
4. Emanation Of Chaos
5. Melancholy Wanderer
6. The Curse Of Supremacy
7. The Despiser Triumphant
8. A Lamenting Presence
9. The Uttermost Cold
https://www.cultneverdies.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576909640662
"ACCIDIA / BELFAGOR" is the first single taken
from "VII VITIUM" the debut album that the
Italian Occult, Dark & Heavy project VII VITIUM will
release on October 31st, 2025A video is available at https://youtu.be/7E-6r1YlRdk
The pillars of this project, namely Daniele Laurenti (Kryuhm), Giampi Tomezzoli (Kryuhm, Epitaph) and Daniele Pedrollo (Kayleth), are accompanied in this episode by Joe Ferraro of Cultus Sanguine on vocals, Luca Gregori on second vocals and Dario Vicariotto on lead guitar.
The project aims to explore the world of sin, distancing itself from Christian teachings and offering a personal vision of the seven deadly sins, giving voice to their Demons.
Musically, VII VITIUM explores unconstrained territories. They range from the Dark Occult sound of DEATH SS and PAUL CHAIN, to European Doom, from Italian Progressive Rock to independent Rock, and finally to 1980s Darkwave.
VII VITIUM are ready to welcome you into their sinful world
Pre-order LP and deluxe edition now at: https://t.ly/TGN78
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/VIIVITIUM
Release date: 03.10.2025
Location: Germany/France
FFO: Cradle Of Filth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Behemoth
Bio:
Lycantrophilia, summoned from the nocturnal vaults, prowls the frontier where Melodic Death entwines with Black Metal. Forged in the solitude of the studio, each song is a ritual of ravenous guitars, abyssal screams and spectral keys – a cathedral of shadows where only the abyss endures.
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https://lycantrophilia.bandcamp.com
ETERNAL RETURNS – „LET THERE BE SIN “
Let There Be Sin – Eternal Returns is the crushing new album from India’s unstoppable Death/Thrash Metal force. Brutal Records proudly presents this release, featuring nine relentless tracks of brutal riffs, technical precision, and dark melodic death metal. Fans worldwide can experience this intense musical journey. Moreover, the album fuses aggression, melody, and philosophy into one unforgettable experience.
Release Date: September 05, 2025
Available Worldwide – Digital via The Orchard & Physical Formats
About Eternal Returns – India’s Extreme Metal Pioneers:
Formed in 2010 in Thane (Mumbai), India, Eternal Returns has been a defining presence in the Indian metal scene for over a decade. Their music draws inspiration from the ancient philosophical concept of the eternal cycle of life, death, and rebirth. As a result, their songs reflect existence, spirituality, and human struggle.
The band is known for combining raw aggression with technical mastery. Consequently, their sound is both crushing and immersive. Their lyrics explore mythology, existentialism, and the quest for liberation. Therefore, each album is not just music—it is an introspective journey for listeners.
Over the years, Eternal Returns has toured extensively across India, sharing stages with international acts and building a reputation for high-energy, precise live performances. This experience has strengthened their signature sound and global appeal.
Musical Influences & Style: Eternal Returns draws from a wide range of metal influences. They combine the technical precision of death metal with thrash’s raw aggression. Moreover, groove-oriented rhythms give their music a dynamic edge.
The Sound of Eternal Returns’ Let There Be Sin: Eternal Returns blends thrash metal aggression with melodic death metal intricacies. Their intricate riffs, pounding rhythms, and soaring leads create a soundscape that immerses listeners into darkness and reflection. In addition, they merge groove metal, metalcore, thrash, and melodic death elements, transcending traditional genre boundaries.
Fans of Sepultura, Arch Enemy, Kreator, and Lamb of God will recognize familiar energy. However, Eternal Returns adds a unique Indian cultural and spiritual perspective, setting them apart in the global metal scene. Moreover, the band balances brutal heaviness with melodic passages that enhance the album’s emotional impact.
The Concept Behind Let There Be SinLet There Be Sin is more than an album—it is a narrative exploring humanity’s inner battles. Each track represents one of the seven deadly sins, brought to life through intricate artwork:
Crown – Pride
Star (Baphomet) – Sloth
Pig Head – Gluttony
Eye with Dollar – Greed
Dagger – Envy
Heart – Lust
Nuclear Symbol – Wrath
At the heart of the artwork lies a diamond encircled by a serpent, symbolizing Eternal Returns itself: raw, unyielding, and eternal. Additionally, this motif reinforces the philosophical themes of the album: confronting darkness to find strength and clarity.
Tracklist:1. Birth - Life - Death
2. Sloth
3. Lust
4. Envy
5. Greed
6. Gluttony
7. Wrath
8. Pride
9. Emasculator
From the crushing grooves of thrash to the soaring melodies of death metal, Eternal Returns transcends boundaries and redefines the limits of heavy music. Their sonic alchemy merges melodic death, metalcore, thrash, and groove into a singular, awe-inspiring force.
Experience the Sins Within
Follow Eternal Returns on their journey and join the revolution. The cycle begins anew. Will you dare to enter?
https://brutalrecords.com/release/let-there-be-sin/
NEWS 7.9.2025
WINGS
OF STEEL – “WINDS OF TIME”
Vö: 17.10.2025
Label: Wings of Steel
Noch ziemlich berauscht vom krassen Erfolg der ersten Albumsingle “Winds of Time”, enthüllen Wings of Steel nun erneut eine wahre Perle des Old-School-Heavy-Metal, bei der sie ihre einzigartige Fähigkeit beweisen, sowohl das klangliche als auch das ästhetische Metal-Flair der späten 70er und frühen 80er Jahre authentisch einzufangen.
Begleitet von einem Musikvideo, das uns in die glorreiche Zeit von MTV zurückbringt, liefert “We Rise” großen Sound und eine kraftvolle Aussage – zusammengeschmiedet, um Herz und Seele eines jeden Classic-Metal-Fans tief zu berühren.
Die Band selbst sagt über ihr neues Video: “Das Stück ist die klangliche und visuelle Repräsentation unserer alltäglichen Gedanken, denn es bezieht sich darauf, Frieden und Stärke durch Verbundenheit zu erreichen. Diese Message und unser moderner und doch zugleich traditioneller Sound nehmen euch mit auf eine epische Arena-Rock-Reise der alten Schule, die eure Stimmung in echter Rock’n’Roll-Manier erheben wird.”
“We Rise” ist die zweite Single des von Fans heiß erwarteten zweiten Studioalbums “Winds of Time”, welches am 17. Oktober 2025 weltweit erscheinen wird. Die Scheibe ist bereits auf CD und Vinyl vorbestellbar, in den Vereinigten Staaten direkt über die Website der Band und in Europa bei High Roller Records.
Tracklist
Winds of Time
Saints and Sinners
Crying
To Die in Holy War
Lights Go Out
We Rise (Focustrack)
Flight of the Eagle
Über Wings of Steel
Wings of Steel ist eine Heavy-Metal/Hardrock-Band aus Los Angeles, die 2019 von Sänger Leo Unnermark und Gitarrist Parker Halub gegründet wurde.
Der Sound der Band ist primär im Old-School-Stil des Hardrock und Heavy Metal der 70er und 80er Jahre verwurzelt und lässt sich als epische sowie einzigartige Mischung dieser klassischen Stile beschreiben. Unnermarks bluesiger Touch und sein dynamisch-kraftvolles Stimmregister, gepaart mit Halubs bombastischen Riffs und ausdrucksstarken Soli, vereinen sich zu einem unverwechselbaren und kraftvollen Sound, auf den Fans von Hardrock und Heavy Metal gewartet haben.
2022 veröffentlichte die Band ihre Debüt-EP “Wings of Steel”, die sie schnell zu einer ernstzunehmenden Größe in der Underground-Heavy-Metal-Szene machte. Aufbauend auf diesem Erfolg veröffentlichte die Band im darauffolgenden Jahr ihr erstes Album “Gates of Twilight” (2023), das von vielen als eines der besten Heavy-Metal-Alben der letzten Jahre angesehen wird.
Wings of Steel starteten im Frühjahr 2024 ihre erste Europatournee, auf der sie für ihre energiegeladenen Live-Auftritte auf dem gleichen hohen Niveau wie auf ihren Studioveröffentlichungen gelobt wurden. Die Energie ihrer Live-Shows wurde auf ihrem Live-Album “Live in France” (2024) eingefangen und hervorgehoben.
Am 13. Juni 2025 enthüllte die Band “Winds of Time”, ihre bislang ambitionierteste Single und ihr anspruchsvollstes Projekt. “Winds of Time” ist ein gigantischer Track mit einem über 10-minütigen Musikvideo. Mit dieser Single demonstriert die Band ihre einzigartige Stellung sowie ihren unverwechselbaren Sound in der aktuellen Heavy-Metal-Szene.
Bis heute haben Wings of Steel über ein Dutzend Shows in den USA und Europa gespielt, darunter Auftritte bei renommierten Festivals und an legendären Veranstaltungsorten wie dem Heavy Week-end, dem Rock Hard Festival, dem Whisky-A-Go-Go, dem Keep It True Festival, dem Up the Hammers Festival und mehr.
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N.Y.C. – “BUILT TO DESTROY”
Release
date:
november 14th, 2025
Label: Adrenalizing Media
Wie würde es klingen, wenn AC/DC sich in einer Gasse mit Judas Priest prügelten, während Motörhead daneben eine Harley aufheulen ließen? So klingen N.Y.C. mit ihrem Debütalbum “Built To Destroy” (VÖ: 14.11.). Die Platte wurde von Tommy Bolan produziert und wird von ADRENALIZING MEDIA NETWORK (Executive Producer) veröffentlicht. Aufgenommen wurde sie in den Deep End Music Studios (abgemischt von Kenny Meriedeth) und gemastert von Robert Vosgien (Los Angeles/USA). Auf dem Album ist außerdem der Grammy-Preisträger und Hollywood-Komponist Vince DiCola (Rocky IV, Transformers The Movie) mit einem Gastbeitrag vertreten. “Built To Destroy” ist heavy, laut, ziemlich angefressen – und hat definitiv nicht das Ziel, Freunde zu finden.
Tracklist
Heavy As Hell
Twisted
United
Tired Of Smiling
Lyin Eyes
Lets Roll (40 Brave)
Central Park
Fight
Full Tilt
Highway To Nowhere
Gasoline
244
Built To Destroy
Gegründet von Sänger/Gitarrist Tommy Bolan, dem in Queens, NY geborenen und aufgewachsenen Sechs-Saiten-Shredder hinter Warlocks Platinum-Album “Triumph & Agony”, gehören zur Band auch die Metal-Legenden Stet Howland (W.A.S.P., Metal Church) an den Drums und Steve Unger (Metal Church) am Bass. Gemeinsam verkörpern sie den Sound von New York City – laut, unruhig, wütend und bereit, sich aus der Gosse zu erheben.
Mit der bahnbrechenden Single “Heavy As Hell” (VÖ: 05.09.), liefern N.Y.C. eine atemberaubende Ode an ausverkaufte Konzerthallen und das Spielen auf der eigenen Bühne des Lebens mit all der Intensität, nach der wir uns alle sehnen. Die Single, die mehr Gitarren enthält als der Hobbyraum deines liebsten Nachbarn, ist genauso rau und aggressiv wie das dazugehörige Video.
“Ich wollte Songs schreiben, die für mich echt sind,” sagt Bolan, der jeden Track geschrieben, produziert und mit viel Herzblut versehen hat. “Mit unseren Songs können wir unsere Aggressionen rauslassen und gleichzeitig die Dämonen unseres Wahnsinns exorzieren. Ich bin der Typ an der New Yorker Straßenecke, der wegen allem rumschreit und diese Intensität spürt man auch bei unseren Live-Shows.”
Das Album ist ein echter klanglicher Wutanfall, die Feierlichkeiten vor dem Release laufen auf Hochtouren. Die Veröffentlichung von Bolans eigenen Gitarrensaiten (über Optima Strings) ist in vollem Gange, flankiert von – im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes – epischen und beeindruckenden Videos mit VFX-Veteran Walter Schulz (Emmy- & Oscar-Preisträger und Hollywood VFX Director). Schulz und das Team von Adrenalizing Media Network haben mit Unreal Engine und all ihren neuesten Technologien gearbeitet und keine Mühen gescheut, um bislang nie realisierte neue Anwendungsfälle aus den herausragenden Fähigkeiten der neuesten Gaming-Technologie herauszuholen. “Walter ist ein Meister seines Fachs und passt perfekt zu uns“, erklärt Bolan. “Die visuelle Welt, die er geschaffen hat, fängt die Intensität von N.Y.C. ein.“
Außerdem stehen spannende Werbeaktionen und Werbegeschenke von Schecter, Peavey, Morley, Optima Strings, Tascam, EHX, Gator und Levy’s an sowie die Veröffentlichung vom N.Y.C.-eigenen Wein & Wodka.
‘Built To Destroy’ ist im Grunde der Wendepunkt für jeden, um all den Mist hinter sich lassen, der ihm in seinem Leben angetan wurde”, fügt Bolan hinzu. “All der Wahnsinn, die Lügen und die durch Dritte erzwungene Selbstaufopferung von Körper, Geist und Seele sollen nun umgedreht werden. Wie mein Song sagt: ‘I am Tired of Smiling’. All das hat mich zu der Mischung aus Mensch und Maschine gemacht, die ihr vor euch seht. Ich bin zurückgekehrt, um meine Dämonen freizulassen und die Einschränkung durch andere nicht länger zu tolerieren.”
“Built To Destroy” ist nicht nur ein Album. Es ist eine akustische 10-Tonnen-Atombombe, die auf deine Stereoanlage zusteuert – also anschnallen und festhalten!
RIVETSKULL – “ABSENCE OF TIME”
Release
date:
september 10th, 2025
Label: RivetSkull
Das Heavy-Metal-Powerhouse aus Seattle, RIVETSKULL, enthüllt begeistert die brandneue Single “The Hammer Falls”, eine politisch aufgeladene Hymne, die aus den Turbulenzen der heutigen Zeit hervorgegangen ist. Der neue Song wird begleitet vom unten aufgeführten Lyric-Video.
Sänger Chad McMurray kommentiert "The Hammer Falls" wie folgt: “Der Song ist von unserer gegenwärtigen politischen Situation und all dem Scheiß, der gerade passiert, inspiriert. Man kann nur entweder etwas dagegen unternehmen oder alles hinnehmen… ‘is it time to burn?’
Wir mögen diese Passage hier ganz besonders: ‘a fragile sphere out of control, lost the message somewhere, can’t tell demons and angels apart. (Übers.: Eine zerbrechliche Sphäre außer Kontrolle, die Botschaft irgendwo verloren, kann Dämonen und Engel nicht mehr unterscheiden.)’”
Chad fährt fort: “Zum ersten Mal live gespielt haben wir das Stück auf dem Masters of Rock in der Tschechischen Republik. Wir haben die Hoffnung, dass die Menschen die Intensität und das Gefühl der Dringlichkeit spüren.”
Tracklist
Hellbound
Isolation
Not Gonna Run
My Darkest Hour
Eyes of a Fallen Angel
The King is Dead
Swimming in Mortality
Time Will Tell
Über RivetSkull
2009 in Seattle gegründet, wurden RIVETSKULL ursprünglich durch die gemeinsame Verbindung zur Musik Ronnie James Dios zusammengeführt. Heute formen sie ihren ganz eigenen Weg, während sie ihren frühen Wurzeln treu bleiben. Mit ihrem Debütalbum “Trail of Souls: Samsara” (2023) und dem Nachfolger “Absence of Time” konnten sie sich als eindrucksvolle Stimme im Heavy Metal etablieren.
Mit Chad McMurray (Gesang), Mark Plog (Gitarre), Michael Robson (Drums) und Johnny Massey (Bass) liefern RIVETSKULL einen Sound, der von der Tradition des Classic Metal, einer intensiven Energie und roher Leidenschaft durchdrungen ist. Ihre elektrisierenden Auftritte verbinden eigene Musik mit der Zelebrierung von Dios zeitloser Brillanz und bieten Fans so eine wahre Heavy-Metal-Erfahrung
RivetSkull sind:
Chad McMurray – Gesang
Mark Plog – Gitarre
Michael Robson – Drums
Johnny Massey – Bass
https://www.facebook.com/RivetSkull
Nach unserem Debüt My Whole Wrath (2023) beschreiten wir mit The Unholy Veil of Silence einen konsequenteren Weg: zwischen orchestraler Wucht, zerstörerischem Blackened Death Metal und einer Atmosphäre, die das Ende heraufbeschwört.
Fans von Septicflesh, Dimmu Borgir oder Behemoth werden Anknüpfungspunkte finden – doch unser neues Werk bringt erzählerische Tiefe und eine eigene Handschrift mit.
Die Veröffentlichung feiern wir mit einer exklusiven Release-Show am 4. Oktober 2025 im Turock in Essen.
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FRANTIC AGGRESSOR – “EXTINCTION”
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 17.10.2025
Sechs Jahre nach ihrem Debüt »Land Mine Logic« lassen FRANTIC AGGRESSOR aus Ost-Berlin unter dem Banner des Nihilistic Black Metal eine noch heftigere Salve los!
Auf »Extinction« schwingt nicht, wie bei vielen anderen, eine dunkle Romantik mit, und es gibt keine Sehnsucht nach einer wie auch immer gearteten mystischen Erfahrung als Gott-Ersatz. Stattdessen verströmen die neuen Tracks oft das Flair eines Beschusses auf offenem, kargen Gelände.
Das ist abermals ein Lehrstück in Sachen musikalischer Militanz und die erneute Verkündung einer Metaphysik des Nichts. Dabei befasst sich jeder Song mit einem anderen Thema der menschlichen Existenz und ihrem Verschwinden, seien es Aspekte der Geschichte, der Religion, Philosophie, Technologie oder das uns umgebende Universum. – »All it takes is a little push to let Atlas lose balance. What if you cut a leg off, or slice up the arms?«
Ausgehend von dieser Idee der Fragilität des menschlichen Überlebens propagiert das Trio aus Discrimination, Humiliation und Contempt den reinen Nihilismus und feiert das Ende der Zivilisation. – Onward to the extinction of all!
Tracklist
1. Morals - Across
2. Metaphysics – Beyond
3. Religion - Insurrection of the Lesser
4. Revolution - Death of all Masks
5.Technology – Harvest
6. History – Empire
7. Cosmos - Lightless Skies
Total: 39.20
Line-up
Discrimination: git & voc
Humiliation: bass
Contempt: drums
Aufgenommen im November 2024 von Henker. Gemixt und gemastert in den Kalthallen Studios.
https://www.facebook.com/FolterRecordsGermany
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My
Kingdom Music is delighted to announce that the Funeral and Depressive Doom
Metal force CHALICE OF SUFFERING from Minneapolis (US)
have been signed for the release of their new album titled "THE
RAVEN CRIES ONE LAST TIME" out on March 2026.
The band states:
"We are excited to join the killer label My Kingdom Music. This partnership marks a powerful new chapter in our journey, and we couldn’t be happier to work with a label that shares our passion for atmospheric, soul-stirring Funeral Doom. My Kingdom Music has long been a home for artists who push boundaries and embrace the darker beauty of sound—and we're honored to be part of that legacy!".
With "The Raven Cries One Last Time" CHALICE OF SUFFERING introduces us into a world of depression, sadness and grief, into a very atmospheric, emotional and at the same time extreme universe full of pain, but painted with tinges totally rich in melancholy and despair. They convey emotions of loss rather than just heaviness, to crafting a deeply intense and bleak musical experience that explores the depths of human desperation through their distinctive Funeral Doom Metal sound with Death vibes incorporating instruments like bagpipes, flutes and keyboards and employing a mix of deep death growls and grim spoken word passages.
We are proud of what we are going to present and we can't wait to share all of this with you all. "The Raven Cries One Last Time" will be released next March on My Kingdom Music and it is absolutely ready to aim high for the genre throne in terms of intensity, personality and emotion.
The suffering continues!!!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/ChaliceOfSuffering
Release
date :
05 September 2025
Genre : French Black Metal
Origin: Toulouse/France
Duration: 13:16
Label: Battlesk’rs Productions
Network Distributor: Ars Longa Vita Brevis
Tracklist:
01. You Want It Darker
02. To Those Who Forged
MALHKEBRE. There is no symbolism here - only faith wielded as fire. Since 2002, MALHKEBRE has stood as one of France’s most fervent bearers of black metal. This is no aesthetic exercise but an uncompromising manifestation of conviction and wrath.
Their path is marked by scarcity and intent: the searing "Prostration" EP, a harrowing split with AOSOTH, the full-length debut "Revelation", then in 2019 "Satanic Resistance", a declaration against the modern world in His name. Each offering is sharpened, deliberate, and free of trend.
Today, after years of seclusion, the Apostles of Ignominy unveil "To Those Who Forged Us", an EP that serves as a prelude to a full-length album slated for late 2025!
Recorded and mixed at Heldscalla Studios, and mastered at Drudenhaus Studio, the EP — released via Battlesk'rs Productions — features cover artwork by Roy de Rat. “This cover was created by Cäme Roy de Rat and perfectly illustrates what we were looking for in this work, which is intended to be unique in our discography. It is an honor to be able to work with talented artists who understand exactly what we want. We are grateful to him..”
Brace yourselves — there will be no escape, only confrontation.
A word that’s overused today in a Black Metal scene where some elements seem to have lost the sense of the values that once made this genre more than just a style of music.
A word that can, however, continue to be associated with a handful of honest bands, for whom Black Metal is not simply music but also a religious exaltation. Among them, MALHKEBRE is a name that needs no introduction. Active since 2002, the band is a spiritual vehicle for its singer/founder Eklezjas’Tik Berzerk, accompanied by his acolytes Shamaanik B. (drums) and S. Evangelista (guitars/bass).
After making their mark on the underground with their first two albums, « Revelation » (2014) and « Satanic Resistance » (2019), MALHKEBRE reawakened in 2023 with a tape featuring two tracks announcing a future album. As a prelude to this opus announced for the end of 2025, the EP “To Those Who Forged Us” is released, which presents a new side of MALHKEBRE: heavier, darker, more ritualistic and declamatory, “To Those Who Forged Us” is not only the announcement of a new era for the band, but a tribute to those who contributed to fueling the fire that burns in the heart and mind of MALHKEBRE. On the B-side, the judicious choice of a cover of “You Want It Darker” by Canadian poet Leonard Cohen is also a declaration of war in the face of those who had buried MALHKEBRE too soon.
Bearers of a Sacred Word made of pain, violence and resistance, MALHKEBRE is preparing to travel the European roads for the first time in a decade: “To Those Who Forged Us” sounds like the clamor of a tocsin calling the faithful to gather to listen, then to spread the Word. And thus allow the dark flame of MALHKEBRE to once again consume the souls of those who hear His call.
Laurent LIGNON
Orders: https://www.arslongavitabrevis.org
https://www.facebook.com/malhkebre
With razor-edged guitars, relentless drums, and guttural vocals torn between torment and transcendence, “Savaged By Blood” is more than a song—it’s a ritual in sound. The lyrics carve through despair, shame, and fury, weaving a story of death, decay, and dark rebirth. Every scream, every riff, every blast beat is a step deeper into the unforgiving Crimson Hallows universe.
This track doesn’t just mark a new chapter for Screams Of Tranquility—it heralds a new era of extreme metal. Darker, heavier, and more uncompromising than ever before, “Savaged By Blood” cements the band’s place among the most feral voices in metalcore and death metal today.
Succumb to the hunter’s heir. Enter the Crimson Hallows.
Biography
"Screams Of Tranquility" stands as the dynamic brainchild led by the gifted Marc P. Prohaska, a 29-year-old musician based in the idyllic foothills of the Austrian Alps in Upper Austria. This captivating project delves deep into the narratives of a society marred by excess, laying bare its hypocrisies, collective folly, and the gradual erosion of humanity.
Marc's musical palette is a vibrant fusion of influences, melding Scandinavian melodic death, American thrash, and hints of black metal. With deft craftsmanship, he intertwines pulsating rhythms and intricate orchestrations, weaving a spellbinding tapestry of sound.
From his beginnings as a musician at the age of 18, Marc has explored diverse musical avenues, ranging from pop-punk to rock and metal cover bands. However, it was through the emergence of Screams Of Tranquility that his artistic vision truly blossomed. In 2019, Marc graduated as a recording, mixing, and mastering engineer from HOFA College, now operating his own successful mixing and mastering business as a freelancer.
While Screams Of Tranquility is a solo endeavor, questions about the absence of additional band members only underscore Marc's proficiency and the effectiveness of his approach to "running SOT as if it were a fully occupied band." His unwavering dedication and skill shine through in every aspect of his work.
For those in search of authentic, meticulously crafted music that transcends the confines of mainstream melodic death metal, replete with searing leads, impassioned vocals, and profound thematic depth, Screams Of Tranquility stands as a beacon of artistic excellence worthy of exploration.
https://www.facebook.com/ScreamsOfTranquility
The video for "Promise Me" is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKPSpW-EPA0
FFO: In Flames, Soilwork, Killswitch Engage, and Gojira.
Nothingman, Age of Ruin’s forthcoming album, is a collection of 10 songs that cuts a path to the heart with harmony and angst that others would be naïve not to mimic. The band sacrificed blood and sweat for two years to expel Nothingman. Age of Ruin began the recording process in October of 2023, and after nine months of tracking on location in Richmond, VA, at the Bakery Studio, in Washington, DC, at Ivakota Studio, and at the Riff Dojo in Takoma Park, MD, (the record was produced by Mike Schleibaum of Darkest Hour), Nothingman was complete. This is the biggest, most richly woven tapestry from the band yet, and the time to unleash it is near.
In 2023 and 2024, Age of Ruin did some precursory promotion of Nothingman’s material, traveling up and down the east coast, dousing nonbelievers with their fire, with such acts as Black Flag, Madball, Jimmy’s Chicken Shack, and Anvil. Yes, that Anvil.
Ripping guitars, unforgivably brutal drums, bass sounds that have shaken the underworld, and screeching vocals are just the beginning of this incarnation of a true headbanger's incantation. What we saw unearthed back in 1998 has now grown. The road worn warriors of the AoRmy have forced enough breakdowns to overwhelm any AAA mechanic, with miles on the highway ahead.
Their punk and metal roots hold firm, and their thrash tendencies are on full display as this towering presence of a band branches out over new tonal terrain and soundscape; reminding all who fall under its shadow, that the light shining through is a new dawn in the Age of Ruin. Nothingman will be celebrated in all formats and on all streaming platforms on October 17.
Track
Listing:
1. The Fixation
2. Heavy is the Crown
3. Lost in Shadows
4. The Traveler
5. Nothingman
6. An Awakening
7. The Ghosts We Carry
8. Promise Me
9. Bleed for Better Days
10. Lovesong
Credits:
Produced by Mike Schleibaum / The Riff Dojo.
Mixed and mastered by Will Beasley / The Bakery.
Original artwork, Oil on Canvas titled "Forest Mother" by Zack Dunn.
Line-up:
Benjamin Swan - vocals
Christopher Fleming - bass
Daniel Fleming - guitar
Hendrik Osinga - drums
Casey Flanagan - guitar
Bio:
The exact location of the dawn of man has been a constant subject of debate. Some say it was Prometheus delivering fire, some say it was Franklin discovering electricity, most people say it’s when Lars met James…but everyone agrees: those were simply precursors. Throughout the age of enlightenment, the renaissance, the reformation era and beyond, mortals have tried to make sense of mankind's meaning on earth.
Most archaeologists believe that in the late 90's, a surge of lightning fast riffs, guttural screams, devastatingly bass tones, and the relentless pulverizing rhythm of drums unearthed a crucial piece of this puzzle...this ushered in what would be known as The Age of Ruin. Those who heard it, really dug it. But those who dug it found there is much more than the surface layers. Music filled with textures, themes, and tunings that go deeper than a James Cameron film unbound by budgets.
For over 20 years, Age of Ruin has been firing off a relentless string of releases. Even the busiest trash compactors could not keep up with the amount of crushing that Age of Ruin crams into a single album, and this is so…with Nothingman. They have consistently delivered a brutal barrage of the heaviest hits metal has heard. Why stop At the Gates, when you can break down the whole house with your music? Why get Entombed when you can breathe new life into the scene? Why let the years waste away when the Age of Ruin can answer all of these questions?
Age of Ruin has definitely paid their dues, earning every ounce of the heaviest crown one band could carry. Naturally, the tonal tenure of the AoRmy servicemen is not something that can be held onto forever...the constant axe-wielding and riff hurling has required numerous changing of the guard over the years; however, the core horsemen of the Age of Ruin (Benjamin Swan, and Daniel and Christopher Fleming) remain, along with Casey Flanagan and Hendrik Osinga, forging an amalgamation of devastation which would conjure a collection of songs that few, if any, houses could harness. Fortunately, under the tutelage and production of Sound-Sensei Mike Schleibaum (Darkest Hour), Age of Ruin would hone their tone in Mike's Riff Dojo, creating an undeniable masterpiece of metal.
https://www.youtube.com/@thisistheageofruin
https://www.facebook.com/thisistheageofruin
Benefactor Decease was formed in 2007 by a group of old-school thrashers, by Zissis "Coroner" (Guitarz), Apollo "The Parafiliak" (Bass), Xara "Nasty Vocals", and Andrew (Drums).
In 2008 the 1st demo "Ferocity Of The Dismorphed" was released with a cover by Alex "Polonos" Ststigklier, and after 6 months the 1st EP "Massive Spreads Of Death" by Anger Of Metal (Germany), in a 100 die hard LP limited edition, with Xanthi on vocals replacing Xara.
After several lives, in 2009 the split with Serbian Thrashers "NadimaC" was released by Infernal Kaos records (Seoul), titled "Authorization:Legal Offence", with Xara returning on vocals. Due to some personal problems and lack of time in 2010-2012 the band disbanded to be reactivated in 2012 with Baggo "Pgc Coca Colas" Drums - Nick "Chainsaw Murders" (2nd Guitarz) and Panagiotis "Cut-Throat" Toyfexidis on vocals, releasing Anatomy Of Angel by XTREEM Music (Spain) with a cover by Andrei Buzikov in 2015. Due to disagreements, serious family problems and lack of time there was a long inactivity with an immediate return in 2020 when the recordings for Abnormal Attachments began, with Joni "Moas" drums -Kostas "Sarcastic" (2nd guitar) and Dimitris "Deathlike Silencer" (bass). Relatively immediately Kostas "Sarcastic" left the band to focus mainly on his personal project and Apollonas "The Parafiliak" (2nd guitar) returned and he also took over the production of the album.
In 2025, Abnormal Attachments was released by XTREEM music (Spain) with a cover by Andrei Buzikov again.
An EP is planned as well as a new album.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100034751722147
Finnish blackened death metal band PROGENY OF SUN released their second album 'PROPHETS OF THE VOID' on September 5th 2025 via Inverse Records. The album contains 12 tracks that have taken on more aggressive, darker, and more beautiful forms compared to the previous album. The genre binding the album's tracks together is Death Metal, but true to the band's style, the album will feature nuanced and surprising cross-genre atmospherics.
Listen to the album: https://push.fm/fl/progeny-of-sun-prophets
Biography:
In the beginning, Progeny of Sun was a two-man band formed by Jaakko Hautamäki and Niko Aromaa. Jaakko was responsible for the instrumentals, mixing, and mastering, while Niko handled the vocals, lyrics, visuals, etc.
The songs Jaakko introduced were very versatile. Some had speed, some were slow, some painted a picture with their atmosphere, and some were more straightforward bangers. Despite the diversity in style, everything worked exceptionally well in tandem, and from this premise, the band started to develop and pave its own way forward.
To start with, Progeny of Sun created a 6-song self-titled EP and discovered that their music was met with great reception. The duo behind the band did all the mixing, mastering, videos, and artwork themselves. The project as a whole was very fun and rewarding to work on.
After the EP release, Jaakko and Niko began to think that something more was still needed. They still had a burning desire to spread their music around the world, but with just two people, it would have been impossible.
Subsequently, Jaakko found two local musicians from the Seinäjoki area: Joni Kiviniemi (guitar) and Juha Peura (drums). Joni and Juha were initially brought on board just to offer their vision and play their assigned instruments for new material. Soon, however, it began to feel like they were part of the family, and so it was decided that they would become full-fledged members of the squad and a part of the band's story. Not long after, Tuomo Tolkki (bass) was also welcomed to join, and in a matter of a few months, the full lineup was formed.
The first release with the full lineup, a 3-track EP 'Dark Wanderer', was released in 2021. Next in line were the single releases ‘Worthless’ and ‘Anguish’, which were released in 2022. Thanks to the aforementioned experimental phase, Progeny of Sun has gained self-confidence and started to understand its own identity. The band worked hard on the debut album ‘Throne of Desolation’, which was released at the end of 2023. Progeny of Sun's second album 'Prophets of the Void' is released on September 5th 2025. Following their debut album, the band has identified their strengths, which are utilized and showcased even more prominently on the second album.
Watch Penance music video: https://youtu.be/RYQIPCZ1Q-8
Watch Decimation music video: https://youtu.be/wkHkjAk8a3E
Watch Forsaken Brigade music video: https://youtu.be/3j5SU5A9DWk
Watch Swarmspawn lyric video: https://youtu.be/gZ4tDF3vT7M
Track
list:
1. Swarmspawn
2. Penance
3. Worldstone
4. Decimation
5. Colonus
6. Lifeless Light
7. Sun and Moon
8. Circle of Keres
9. Diary Ender
10. Deface
11. Rain for Discouraged
12. Forsaken Brigade
Mixed by Jaakko Hautamäki
Mastered by Jonathan Mazzeo
Album cover by Joni Kiviniemi & Niko Aromaa
Line-up:
Niko Aromaa - Vocals
Jaakko Hautamäki - Guitar
Joni Kiviniemi - Guitar
Tuomo Tolkki - Bass
Juha Peura – Drums
https://www.facebook.com/Progenyofsun
Label: Road To Masochist
Release date: september 26th 2025
Genre: D-beat Hardcore Thrash Punk
For fans of: Broken Bones | D.R.I. | Extreme Noise Terror | Cyness
In your world of manicured lawns and polite conversation, of averted gazes, upturned noses and disdain for those without a matching silver spoon, I am the vermin in your cellar. I am the blood on your ball gown. I am the screaming, spitting rat that will not toe the line, that will never bend the knee or bow my head in shame…
Blasting out of Leicester, UK Feral State are an adrenaline infused speedball of rage, defiance, attitude and riffs. Having previously fired out a string of split releases and a self titled debut album which had Louder Than War declaring “this is how hardcore punk should sound”, it’s time for album number two – II. If anyone was expecting an easing up on the pace, a gentler, more welcoming sound or diversions into jazzy, prog rock territories then you clearly haven’t been listening… A more than appropriate air raid siren welcomes us to II, which kicks off with first single ‘Concrete’ - and ‘kicks off’ is definitely the appropriate phrase here. A gritty guitar sound, a furious vocal attack, breathless, head-caving drums…this is Feral State but even better than before! The tracks come at you fast and hard, ‘Constant Terror’ demanding movement and delivering an incredible rush, ‘Slow Decay’ with its brief guitar solo like a snarl of barbed wire, ‘Scab’, incandescent with rage and fury, ‘Nuclear’ which opens with an absolutely savage riff before simply exploding…utterly blistering, so adrenalized your heart could burst. What Feral State have delivered with II is more than how hardcore punk should sound…it’s so right, so defining, it's dirt under the fingernails, blood in the mouth, life affirming power. It’s the exhilarating, cathartic thrill of the pit captured forever. When the thrashing rage of ‘Survival Game’ is unleashed you’ll either be destroying everything around you in a blissful berserker state, or be pinned back in your chair grinning through the violent velocity. II is an album that burns with the spirit of the past, but never sounds anything less than vital, vibrant and rampantly relevant.
With a sound so raw, real and untamed it could sink its stained and broken teeth into your face, thanks to the recording, mixing and mastering of Ian Boult (Shrykull, Mage, Foul Body Autopsy etc) and some stunning cover art from the brilliant Stonegeist that captures the essence of this incendiary band, II will be released by Road To Masochist on September 26th, on vinyl and digital formats. You cannot afford to miss this one.
Line-up:
Joe Lander - Vocals
Marcus Green - Drums
Christian Nurse - Guitar
Fran Fearon - Bass
https://www.facebook.com/roadtomascochist/
https://www.facebook.com/FeralState666
Progressive death metal band APOCALYPTIC SOCIETY will release their crushing full-length debut album INSTINCTUAL SELF-SLAUGHTER on September 5th, delivering an unrelenting blend of technical brutality, searing melodies and raw intensity.
Drawing influence from legends such as Death, Cynic, Hypocrisy, Iron Maiden and Metallica the US-based five-piece have forged their own apocalyptic sound, merging progressive metal intricacy with thrash aggression and old-school death metal ferocity.
From chaotic impromptu performances in fast-food parking lots to commanding packed stages across Pennsylvania, APOCALYPTIC SOCIETY have built an intensely loyal following through their high-energy, no-compromise live shows. The release of Instinctual Self-Slaughter marks the beginning of their next chapter, supported by a string of local performances before a United States multi-state tour in March 2026.
Watch the official lyric video for “Uncured” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY6FK1RJga8
Packed with dueling guitar harmonies, odd-time grooves, crushing bass lines, and versatile growls, Instinctual Self-Slaughter delivers a modern yet uncompromising death metal experience. The album captures the band’s ability to balance technicality with emotional weight, resonating with fans who demand substance alongside heaviness.
Since their formation in 2015, APOCALYPTIC SOCIETY have shared stages with killer acts including Dying Fetus, Incantation, Sadistic Vision, and Hellwitch. Known for unleashing frenzied pits, pure adrenaline, and an uncompromising stage presence.
Tracklist:
1.Dawn of Execution
2.Distorted
3.Uncured
4.Quiet Room
5.Judgement Call
6.Instinctual Self-Slaughter
7.Coffin Full of Spiders
8.The Silent Extinction
APOCALYPTIC SOCIETY are:
Michael Beers – Vocals
Zach Kuhn – Guitar
Alex Rogers – Guitar
Ron Sowal – Bass
Dan Lineaweaver – Drums
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRWTm-1-Y84fjrT5Z-u__4A
https://apocalypticsociety.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ApocalypticSociety
London (UK) - Blackened Death Metallers, CULT BURIAL, have released COLLAPSE OF PATTERN, REVERENCE OF DUST, the band's third full-length album! The album is available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
Purchase/Stream:
Blastbeats Vinyl is the exclusive U.S. distributor for the vinyl LP variants of Collapse of Pattern, Reverence of Dust!
Collapse of Pattern, Reverence of Dust is a record about erosion — of structures, of certainty, of meaning. Across eight tracks, Cult Burial tears through the frameworks we cling to, carving out something that sits between aggression and despair, weight and absence. The music is dense and layered, yet unafraid of space; at times claustrophobic, at others stripped to bare wire and exposed edge.
Cult Burial's music is a confluence of black, death, and doom metal, characterized by dissonant guitar work, relentless drumming, and guttural vocals. Their compositions often explore themes of existentialism, decay, and the human psyche, creating a soundscape that is both oppressive and thought-provoking.
Despite being a relatively new entity, Cult Burial has garnered attention from various metal publications and blogs, earning praise for their authentic approach to extreme metal and their ability to evoke a profound emotional response through their music.
Following two highly regarded albums, Cult Burial's third release is unquestionably its finest work to date.
Track
Listing:
1. Vincula
2. Collapse
3. Aether
4. Mire
5, Enthrall
6. Beseech
7. Vestige
8. Seethe
Credits:
Mixed by Greg Dawson at BWC Studios.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Artwork by Legerdemain.
Line-up:
Simon Langford - Music
César Moreira - Vocals
Bio:
Cult Burial is a blackened death metal band hailing from London, UK. Formed in 2020, the band has rapidly established itself as a formidable presence in the extreme metal scene, delivering a sound that melds the ferocity of death metal with the bleak atmospheres of doom and
black metal.
Discography:
Cult Burial (2020)
Reverie of the Malignant (2022)
Stream "Twilight Fell" ahead of Friday's official release at:
https://metalinjection.net/new-music/krigsgrav-streams-perfectly-blackened-new-single-twilight-fell
A storm is brewing. Having just signed to Willowtip Records last year, Krigsgrav is now ready to release Stormcaller, their first album for the label and eighth full-length overall.
Krigsgrav released the following statement about Stormcaller:
"When we started writing the songs that would make up Stormcaller, our intention was to create the most complete Krigsgrav album that took something from every era of the band, while still pushing our sound forward. A culmination of the blackest hues, doomiest of dirges, and most soaring of lead guitars. We think we achieved that, but we also wrote the best album of our career thus far. We trust that when you hear it, you'll agree."
Willowtip will release Stormcaller September 19 on CD, gatefold vinyl LP, and digital formats!
Pre-order at the following links:
https://www.willowtip.com/bands/details/krigsgrav.aspx
https://krigsgrav.bandcamp.com/album/stormcaller
Track
Listing:
1. Huntress of the Fire Moon (feat. Jens Rydén)
2. Stormcaller
3. Twilight Fell
4. None Shall Remember Your Name
5. Bay of the Barghest
6. The Tonic of Wilderness
7. Ghosts
8. Womb:Death:Dawn
Album Credits:
All songs written, produced, and arranged by Krigsgrav.
Drums recorded by Sam Paquette at S.A.M. Studios.
Mixed and Mastered by Owe Inborr at Wolfthrone Studios.
Additional Engineering by Cody Daniels.
Cover Art by Adam Burke at Nightjar Illustration.
Guest Vocals on "Huntress of the Fire Moon" by Jens Rydén.
Album Layout and Design by Randi Matejowsky.
Line-up:
Justin Coleman - Guitar/Harsh Vocals
David Sikora - Drums/Clean Vocals
Wes Radvansky - Bass
Cody Daniels - Lead Guitar
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip
Finnish melodic death/doom metal band SERPENT GOD is set to release their debut album 'DENIAL' on October 10th 2025 via Inverse Records.
The fourth single 'keyhole' is released today and it's available on most streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/serpent-god-keyhole
The band comments:”So close to the answer, so far again”
"One of the most down-tempo songs of the album with crying tremolo guitars. Doomy from start to finish. You can taste the hopelessness and desperation. Slowly but surely the darkness is cradling us all into oblivion. Melancholic piano is the last thing you will ever hear. We all die alone, hiding behind our self-built thrones. “Mechanism in pitting corrosion, I carved my kingdom inside.”
Track
list:
1. denial
2. beneath
3. repent
4. revelation
5. alive
6. sermon
7. oblivion
8. keyhole
9. void
Album cover by Heidi Hyvärinen
Biography:
Serpent God is a band formed 2023 in Iisalmi, Finland. The birth is heavily related to Se, josta ei puhuta -band’s writing process; lots of material were created that didn’t fit in the spectrum of Se, josta ei puhuta. In general, the material was more slow-paced and more eerie. However, the mentioned material was also way too good to be deleted, so therefore another output was needed, so Serpent God was born. Different branches grow from a tree with strong roots. Serpent God has its foundation in extreme metal, but there are also heavy influences from post-rock, doom and smaller splashes of more avantgarde sounds.
Listen to the first single 'repent': https://push.fm/fl/serpent-god-repent
Listen to the second single 'oblivion': https://push.fm/fl/serpent-god-oblivion
Listen to the third single 'sermon': https://push.fm/fl/serpent-god-sermon
Line-up:
Samu Männikkö - Vocals, guitars and keyboards
Juho-Pekka Lappalainen - Bass
Jimi Myöhänen - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/serpentgodband
NIGHT
ATTACK - "NECROMANCER" (EP)
Formed in the darkest pits of North Carolina’s underground, NIGHT ATTACK unleash a raw and relentless EP that echoes the venom of early Death, Sepultura, Possessed, and Kreator, while thrashing forward with a fury worthy of Megadeth. Necromancer marks the band's third official release — a searing, four-piece assault featuring blistering technical riffs, venom-soaked vocals, hell-summoning solos, and punishing drums across every track.Featuring members of Vesterian and Ancestral Blood, NIGHT ATTACK masterfully channel the chaos and urgency of late ’80s blackened death thrash into a sound that’s both feral and refined — thanks to a crushing mix and razor-sharp production that finally does their vicious craft justice.
The digital EP's release date is 19 September 2025.
Pre-save "Necromancer": https://orcd.co/necromancer
Tracklist
1. Necromancer
2. Blitzkrieg
3. Sektor B
4. Mosh and Thrash
https://www.facebook.com/NIGHTATTACKBAND
Raleigh (NC) - U.S. Black 'N Rollers, VALLETTA, recently signed to Lifeforce Records are set to release new EP, BITTER LUCID TRUTH, on October 24.
There’s a palpable sense of urgency in Bitter Lucid Truth.
Valletta’s second
proper release embraces what guitarist and singer Keenan
Carroll describes as “anger, repulsion and intolerance toward the current
political landscape.” But for all its confrontational inspiration, it’s also
one of the year’s most thrilling metal releases.
With Bitter Lucid Truth, the Raleigh, N.C. quartet of Carroll, drummer Justin Valletta, bassist Cody Rogers, and guitarist/backing vocalist Will Goodyear, churn negative emotions into forceful, dynamic and “just genuinely pissed-off” outbursts that are equally searing and soaring.
This should come as no surprise from the veteran troupe, whose collective resume spans a heavy spectrum from sludge to prog to black metal, in bands including Lord Almighty, Barishi, Mo’ynoq, Prayer for Cleansing, and Between the Buried And Me. And, indeed, Valletta’s 2024 debut, Summer (Forcefield Records), defined a compelling hybrid of anthemic melody and bitter vitriol. But while Summer slung big riffs and even bigger hooks, Bitter Lucid Truth wields them like weapons.
“Aggressor” and “Cold Death” fuses the melodic impulses that have drawn comparisons to Tribulation and Kvelertak with a harsher, more belligerent approach more akin to Tragedy’s bold and defiantly melodic neo-crust. This is perhaps most apparent in the EP’s closing salvo, “Spitting the Word,” which answers “Doing Well"'s comparatively reflective tone with a vicious exclamation point. Of the song’s intent, Carroll says, “It’s time to speak your mind. No more thought paralysis.”
It’s fitting, then, that the EP was produced much more quickly than its predecessor. Where Summer evolved over a two-year gestation, Bitter Lucid Truth was written and recorded all in the first months of 2025. Recorded and mixed by Al Jacob (He Is Legend, Wailin Storms) at Warrior Sound Studioin Chapel Hill, N.C. — this time with production input from the band and TJ Childers of Inter Arma — and mastered by Matt Tuttle (Codeseven) at IAS Studios in Winston-Salem, NC, Valletta was able to capture the full and explosive sound the new songs’ dynamic volatility demands.
Managing to capture a boiling rage with a more dynamic and expansive approach to songwriting, Bitter Lucid Truth is a massive leap forward for the already ascendant band. Expect to see these vicious anthems take on a new life when Valletta brings them to the stage.
U.S. tours are planned for October of this year, surrounding the EP’s October release. In 2026, Valletta will accompany a European tour with a re-release of Summer also expected through Lifeforce Records.
The EP's first single, "Cold Death," is available now at: https://orcd.co/valletta_colddeath
Pre-Order / Pre-Save Bitter Lucid Truth here: https://orcd.co/valletta_blt
Track Listing:
1. Blood and Jesus
2. Cold Death
3. Aggressor
4. Doing Well
5. Spitting the Word
Line-Up
Justin Valletta - Drums
Cody Rogers - Bass
Keenan Carroll - Guitar / Lead Vocals
Will Goodyear - Guitar / Backing Vocals
https://vallettalfr.bandcamp.com/album/bitter-lucid-truth
Minneapolis (MN) - Progressive/extreme metal outfit, KOSTNATĚNÍ, are set to release new album, PŘÍLIŠNOST (EXCESS), November 7 on Willowtip!
Přílišnost (Excess), the third album by KOSTNATĚNÍ, thoroughly destroys any remaining comparisons to the band’s contemporaries. Following up on 2023’s critically-acclaimed Úpal and its blend of technical black metal with Middle Eastern folk, KOSTNATĚNÍ has packed into this bizarre base an even stranger array of influences that must be heard to be believed. The band’s signature “highbrow” progressive riffs, now played on a uniquely alt-tuned guitar, cleverly interweave with a mix of “lowbrow” metal genres and moody synthesizers to create the band’s heaviest, most compact and violent songs to date. Continuing with the band’s introspective themes, Přílišnost (Excess) is dedicated to the suffocating, destructive pursuit of self-perfection. Lyrically and musically, it pushes beyond all limits.
The album's first single, "Samotář (Loner)," has been premiered by our friends at No Clean Singing. Click to stream below!
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/03/an-ncs-premiere-kostnateni-samotar-loner/
The single will be available digitally everywhere on September 5. Album pre-orders will be available on the same day.
Track Listing (titles in Czech and English):
1. Dokonalé křišťálové město (Perfect Crystal City)
2. Křehký bůh (Fragile God)
3. Kostely byly mrakodrapy (Churches Were the Skyscrapers)
4. Zpět ke kmenům (Back to the Tribes)
5. Mrtvola Jupitera (Corpse of Jupiter)
6. Samotář (Loner)
7. Čelist utlačovatele k obrubníku (Jaw of the Oppressor to the Curb)
8. Znal jsem tě (I Knew You)
9. Dále zvenčí (Further from Outside)
10. Přílišnost (Excess)
Credits:
Kostnatění is D.L.
Drums by Joe Goldwater.
Additional vocal contributions by Mack.
Written and recorded from 2021-2024.
Mixed and mastered by D.L.
Drums recorded at Signaturetone by Adam Tucker.
Cover art and layout by Metastazis.
Thanks to the many voices that brought life to this work, especially Mack, The RIM, Tapekvlt, and Nat.
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip/
"Echoes of Eternal Night" comprises a haunting narrative, continuing the story of the girl from the previous album who bid farewell to her parents at a desolate lakeside. As she navigates harsh landscapes, her journey for enlightenment and belonging is a metaphor for the human search for meaning. The album explores the complexities and uncertainties of contemporary society, delving into death not merely as an end, but as a spiritual awakening, a pivotal moment in human evolution, between ascension and eternal darkness.
With their distinctive doom-laden sound, When Nothing Remains creates an experience on this new album that aligns with the theme of eternal night. The album’s haunting melodies and powerful lyrics capture the despair and hope, creating a reflective and cathartic experience. The album's artwork complements the narrative depth, depicting the girl's progression from light into an inescapable darkness, symbolising the challenging path of self-discovery and the lingering shadows in our lives. "Echoes of Eternal Night" is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of uncertainty, challenging listeners to confront their fears and find meaning within the void.
When Nothing Remains was formed in 2010 by Jan Sallander and Peter Laustsen from the former band Nox Aurea. The band was created to allow Jan and Peter complete creative freedom. The current lineup includes Jan Sallander (Rhythm Guitar, Vocals), Peter Laustsen (Lead Guitar), Dimitri Jungi (Drums), and Kim Liljedahl (Session Bass). The band stated that they waited some years after the release of "In Memoriam" to find the right label with the right vision, ultimately choosing The Circle Music as their new home.
The band unveiled the single and music video for "The Grim Reaper's Tears", offering a first glimpse into the album's darker musical direction. The track explores the intricate emotions and internal conflict of Death personified as the Grim Reaper, portraying him as empathetic despite his role as the harbinger of death.
"Echoes of Eternal Night" will be available digitally, on CD, and on vinyl. Pre-order via The Circle Music: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=when-nothing-remains
Digital pre-save: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/EchoesOfEternalNight
Tracklist:
1. The Grim Reaper's Tears
2. A Glimmer of Hope
3. Everything Ends
4. A Ceaseless Rain
5. In the Woods of Darkest Despair
6. Our Final Hours
7. Behind the Clouds
8. Gospel of Apostasy
Line-up
Peter Laustsen: Guitar, Lead guitar, Bass, Recording, Mixing and Mastering
Jan Sallander: All Vocals, Keyboards and Lyrics
All songs written by Peter Laustsen except In the Woods of Darkest Despair and Our Final Hours, which are written by Jan Sallander.
A Ceaseless Rain vocals by Gogo Melone.
A Glimmer of Hope drums by Jonas Toxen.
All songs mixed and Mastered by Peter Laustsen in Massive Assault Studios.
Artwork: Jan Sallander, Johan
https://thecirclemusic.gr/
https://www.facebook.com/The-Circle-Music-109161897443413/
https://www.facebook.com/whennothingremainsofficial/
DE PROFUNDIS – “THE GOSPEL OF ROT” (EP)
Label: Independent Release
Release date: october 1st 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Death | Morbid Angel | Immolation | Nocturnus
How we have fallen, how our empire has crumbled…our values and learning trampled into the dust as we kneel before altars to idiocy and greed. We offer prayers to the war machine, no longer abhorring the taking of life, but raging in our ignorance we fervently debate which lives are suitable for sacrifice and which children deserve no future. Truth has become a malleable property, no longer a definable absolute and manipulation is now an applauded art form. Our gods cradle missiles while we twitch in nervous anxiety, awaiting the latest incarnation of the hand held devices that consume our identity, our reason and our morality. We are naught but rot…
“The Gospel Of Rot is both a warning and a weapon – a sonic rebellion against the forces that seek to silence and subjugate. De Profundis offers not salvation but a wake-up call…”- De Profundis
Celebrating 20 years of death dealing and devastation, De Profundis have returned with a rejuvenated line-up and a brand new EP of stunning power and intensity. The Gospel Of Rot brings together four tracks of furious death metal and masterful musicianship into a manifesto of resistance against the empty vessels that rule us, dragging our civilisation into a mire of degradation. Beginning with ‘I: Corruption’ we are hit by a torrent of classic death metal that makes incursions into the realms of thrash and black metal, thriving in the fluid boundaries between the genres. New vocalist Stefano Bassi immediately makes his mark with deep, guttural tones of depth and substance and second new addition to the ranks, bassist Simon McAuliffe, is immediately noticeable too, punching through the mix, an intrinsic part of this new chapter for De Profundis. Despite the remarkable work this band have produced over the years, by the midpoint of second song, ‘II: Deception’ it’s a struggle not to immediately embrace The Gospel Of Rot as their finest work to date. On one level it’s direct, hard-hitting and straight between the eyes – on another there are so many subtle shifts, touches and nuances that set it apart from the rest of the field. The vocal delivery in ‘III: Indoctrination’ is imperious, the drumming overwhelming, the lead playing simply brilliant. Every progression, every passage, every scuttling spider-legged scale and formidable blast on this EP is just right, crafted to perfection. The Gospel Of Rot concludes with a raging cover of Sepultura’s classic ‘Subtraction’ and De Profundis have made it their own; sublimely executed it slots into place as an integral part of a magnificently engineered death metal machine. With incredible performances and incredible songs, De Profundis are back at the very top of their game.
Mixed and mastered by Matt Jones at Capsaarx Studios (Fury, Vanitas, Dakesis etc) The Gospel Of Rot sounds magnificent, with exquisite tones and a perfect balance between clarity and power. The final hallmarks of quality have been applied with the wonderful artwork of Pierre-Alain D. of 3mmi Design (Necrodeath, Scar Symmetry, The Crawling etc) and it’s hard to see how The Gospel Of Rot could have been any better. The fight back begins on October 1st!
“…the rot is everywhere — and it’s time to tear it down.”- De Profundis
Line-up:
Stefano Bassi - Vocals
Shoi Sen - Guitars
Paul Nazarkardeh - Guitars
Simon McAuliffe - Bass
Tom Atherton – Drums
https://www.deprofundistheband.com/
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: november 7th 2025
Genre: Brutal/Slam Death Metal
For fans of: Putrid Pile | Internal Bleeding | Guttural Secrete | Pyrexia
Wrapped tight and immobile inside the blackened shell of despair, entangled in the thorn covered vines of bitter acceptance, I bleed out my weakness and my excuses for it, along with a pitiful selection of laughable hopes and insipid dreams. The time has come for metamorphosis, for transformation through rage, violence and a hunger for wanton destruction. The imprisoning cocoon tears beneath my new found claws and I emerge, a beast reborn, from my shattered dejection chrysalis…
Ten years since their last full length album, Fragments, Dysentery have finally re-emerged into the light, carrying with them a new album of heaviness beyond comprehension; spine-splitting slams and deep grooves like scars in the surface of the Earth. Dejection Chrysalis is the fourth album to bear the Dysentery name and if it takes a decade to carve out a bludgeoning monstrosity like this, then so be it. Instrumental opener, ‘Transference’, is so much more than a simple intro. As its title infers, it is a crossing point from normality to the world of Dysentery, a passage of mutation, configuring your mind and body for the shocking impact to come. And then you’re there, in the grip of ‘Enslavement For The Obedient, Agony For The Wayward’, utterly consumed in an instant by the thick, powerful guitars, the ultra guttural vocals and the rhythms that speak to your flesh on a primal, bestial level. ‘Exhausted Bliss Of Self Loathing’ brings furious blast beats, precision tempo shifts, riffs like heavy machinery and a guest vocal appearance from Josh Welshman of Defeated Sanity, while listening to ‘A Bestial Omen’ is like being the plaything of an oblivious giant – your limbs twisted into impossible positions, through agonizing angles as the gargantuan hands manipulate your fragile form – this is ogre music! And as the album progresses you realise just what Dysentery have achieved with Dejection Chrysalis, why it was worth waiting every moment of those ten years for. They make this music their own; with an aura of power, of untouchable force and presence. This is how you deliver brutal, slam death metal and make it meaningful and beyond devastating. From the electrifying barrage of ‘Fratricidium’ to the elite level brutality of ‘Ascend This Harrowing Dream’ there are so many great touches from the guitars, the drums, the vocals that just lift Dysentery to a level above the surrounding pack. Dynamic beyond all expectations, Dejection Chrysalis is a masterpiece of musical extremity.
Mixed and mastered by Randy LeBoeuf at Graphic Nature Audio (Kublai Khan TX, The Acacia Strain, Vomit Forth etc) Dejection Chrysalis is sonically formidable and the accompanying visual impact is supplied by the artwork of Hidris (Anhedonic, Reign Of Erebus, Snakepit etc). With added variants of vocal violence supplied by guest appearances from Josh Welshman (Defeated Sanity), Jared Weed (Concrete, Futility) and JT Knight (Invoke Thy Wrath) Dejection Chrysalis is essential. Coming your way on Comatose Music on November 7th – be ready for the return of Dysentery!
Line-up:
Eric Taranto - Drums
Peter Spinazola - Guitar
Scott Savaria - Vocals
John Cook - Bass
Guest vocals on ‘Exhausted Bliss Of Self Loathing’ by Josh Welshman
Guest vocals on ‘Shackled By Idolatry’ by Jared Weed
Guest vocals on ‘Fratricidium’ by JT Knight
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Label: Independent Release
Release date: october 17th 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Exodus | Testament | Machine Head | Forbidden
The cards are laid before us – The Tower, Three Of Swords, Five Of Pentacles, Ten Of Swords, Death and The Devil – each one presaging disaster, a final black chapter in our bloody story. Our ending is written in the stars, inescapable and now there is only a choice of pathways to our ultimate destruction. Greed, lust and ignorance, cowardice, cruelty and selfishness – they have all played their parts in our blinkered march to the grave. Now it just remains to select the manner of our dying; to step from our bleak, black present to a choice of darker fates.
Manchester’s Hellbearer leapt into the frontline trenches of thrash metal in 2022 and haven’t paused for breath since. They quickly released their fiery debut album, For Those About To Bear Hell and since then have shared the stage with the likes of 3 Inches Of Blood and the legendary Abaddon of Venom. They delivered a ferocious set at Thrashchester 2023 and went on to give a memorable performance at Bloodstock, inciting record crowd surfing numbers with their adrenalin infused riff attack. Now attention turns to their second album, Darker Fates, which sees the band striding effortlessly into the vanguard of UK thrash.
Scene setting intro, ‘Pull The Card’ leads directly into the classic thrash of ‘The Witch’, with its circling riffs and powerful vocals adorned with searing, exhilarating lead work. The Hellbearer sound is rooted in the ‘80s thrash explosion, but each song is delivered with a venomous fury and a vital, vibrant enthusiasm which makes it more than just relevant – rather an essential new blood infusion for the genre. From the gritty, grinding riffs and menacing, pit inducing aggression of ‘Absolution’ to the hard hitting, foreboding darkness of ‘The Mantra’; the measured, methodical annihilation of new single ‘Counting Seconds’ with its slow burning riff and twisted solo, to the jagged and dangerous ‘Through An Orphan’s Eyes’ – musically, Darker Fates is a powerful addition to the atomic arsenal of thrash metal. Lyrically the band have raised the bar too, striving to match the ambitious, creative nature of their new music with tales of dystopian futures and reflections on our fractured times. Incisive, powerful and metal to the bone, Hellbearer have surpassed all expectations with their latest creation.
With a sound so raw and real it could draw blood, Darker Fates will be unleashed on October 17th. This is British thrash, armed to the teeth, harder and heavier than ever!
Line-up:
Ash Allen - Vocals/Rhythm Guitar
Sam Hatt - Drums
Matthew Robinson - Lead Guitar
Kieran Brooks - Bass
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UNALIGNED – “A FORM BEYOND”
Genre - Blackened
technical/progressive death metal
For fans of - Demon King, Withered Throne, Inferi, Enfold Darkness, Warforged, Vale of Pnath
After astounding tech death releases from Fleshbore and Eschaton on the label this year, there's the eagerly anticipated debut full length from Unaligned to look forward to. Once again boasting of a celebrated lineup featuring members of Withered Throne, Demon King, Fleshbore and others, Unaligned offer a blackened and comparatively more atmospheric take on the technical death metal style. Meticulously written and impeccably executed, their music has an epic flair which goes hand-in-hand with their undulating pattern showcasing the brilliant contrast between the faster, scathing parts and the smoother, melodic breaks. The alternating vocal delivery here too is fitting without being overpowering in any way. The songs are able to traverse multiple realms and subjects while remaining focused and impactful. There's a compelling, pulsating rhythm throughout, keeping things brisk and intense while also retaining a sense of groove. Sharp, taut and yet catchy, Unaligned have come up with an exemplary blackened tech death album in "A Form Beyond", and it only gets better with more listens.
Line up
Taylor Tidwell (Withered Throne) - Guitars
Shane Dreher (Nightspake) - Guitars
Cole Daniels (Demon King, Fleshbore) - Bass
Andrew Guia (Withered Throne) - Vocals
Jack Blackburn (Killitorous, ex-Inferi) - Drums
Mike Low - Mixing/Mastering
Erik Johnson - Editing/Mixing
Video by Arnua Gates
Artwork by Adam Burke
Track listing
1. Entities of Ash
2. Unbecoming of I
3. Ruins of Lunacy
4. A Form Beyond
5. Essence Erased
6. Spirit Dysmorphia
7. Death Entwines Us All
8. Dreaming in Decay
Release date - September 12th, 2025
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NEWS 30.8.2025Vö: 17.10.2025Label: Wings of Steel
Noch ziemlich berauscht vom krassen Erfolg der ersten Albumsingle “Winds of Time”, enthüllen Wings of Steel nun erneut eine wahre Perle des Old-School-Heavy-Metal, bei der sie ihre einzigartige Fähigkeit beweisen, sowohl das klangliche als auch das ästhetische Metal-Flair der späten 70er und frühen 80er Jahre authentisch einzufangen.
Begleitet von einem Musikvideo, das uns in die glorreiche Zeit von MTV zurückbringt, liefert “We Rise” großen Sound und eine kraftvolle Aussage – zusammengeschmiedet, um Herz und Seele eines jeden Classic-Metal-Fans tief zu berühren.
Die Band selbst sagt über ihr neues Video: “Das Stück ist die klangliche und visuelle Repräsentation unserer alltäglichen Gedanken, denn es bezieht sich darauf, Frieden und Stärke durch Verbundenheit zu erreichen. Diese Message und unser moderner und doch zugleich traditioneller Sound nehmen euch mit auf eine epische Arena-Rock-Reise der alten Schule, die eure Stimmung in echter Rock’n’Roll-Manier erheben wird.”
“We Rise” ist die zweite Single des von Fans heiß erwarteten zweiten Studioalbums “Winds of Time”, welches am 17. Oktober 2025 weltweit erscheinen wird. Die Scheibe ist bereits auf CD und Vinyl vorbestellbar, in den Vereinigten Staaten direkt über die Website der Band und in Europa bei High Roller Records.
Tracklist
Winds of Time
Saints and Sinners
Crying
To Die in Holy War
Lights Go Out
We Rise (Focustrack)
Flight of the Eagle
Über Wings of Steel
Wings of Steel ist eine Heavy-Metal/Hardrock-Band aus Los Angeles, die 2019 von Sänger Leo Unnermark und Gitarrist Parker Halub gegründet wurde.
Der Sound der Band ist primär im Old-School-Stil des Hardrock und Heavy Metal der 70er und 80er Jahre verwurzelt und lässt sich als epische sowie einzigartige Mischung dieser klassischen Stile beschreiben. Unnermarks bluesiger Touch und sein dynamisch-kraftvolles Stimmregister, gepaart mit Halubs bombastischen Riffs und ausdrucksstarken Soli, vereinen sich zu einem unverwechselbaren und kraftvollen Sound, auf den Fans von Hardrock und Heavy Metal gewartet haben.
2022 veröffentlichte die Band ihre Debüt-EP “Wings of Steel”, die sie schnell zu einer ernstzunehmenden Größe in der Underground-Heavy-Metal-Szene machte. Aufbauend auf diesem Erfolg veröffentlichte die Band im darauffolgenden Jahr ihr erstes Album “Gates of Twilight” (2023), das von vielen als eines der besten Heavy-Metal-Alben der letzten Jahre angesehen wird.
Wings of Steel starteten im Frühjahr 2024 ihre erste Europatournee, auf der sie für ihre energiegeladenen Live-Auftritte auf dem gleichen hohen Niveau wie auf ihren Studioveröffentlichungen gelobt wurden. Die Energie ihrer Live-Shows wurde auf ihrem Live-Album “Live in France” (2024) eingefangen und hervorgehoben.
Am 13. Juni 2025 enthüllte die Band “Winds of Time”, ihre bislang ambitionierteste Single und ihr anspruchsvollstes Projekt. “Winds of Time” ist ein gigantischer Track mit einem über 10-minütigen Musikvideo. Mit dieser Single demonstriert die Band ihre einzigartige Stellung sowie ihren unverwechselbaren Sound in der aktuellen Heavy-Metal-Szene.
Bis heute haben Wings of Steel über ein Dutzend Shows in den USA und Europa gespielt, darunter Auftritte bei renommierten Festivals und an legendären Veranstaltungsorten wie dem Heavy Week-end, dem Rock Hard Festival, dem Whisky-A-Go-Go, dem Keep It True Festival, dem Up the Hammers Festival und mehr.
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N.Y.C. – “BUILT TO DESTROY”
Release
date:
november 14th, 2025Label: Adrenalizing Media
Wie würde es klingen, wenn AC/DC sich in einer Gasse mit Judas Priest prügelten, während Motörhead daneben eine Harley aufheulen ließen? So klingen N.Y.C. mit ihrem Debütalbum “Built To Destroy” (VÖ: 14.11.). Die Platte wurde von Tommy Bolan produziert und wird von ADRENALIZING MEDIA NETWORK (Executive Producer) veröffentlicht. Aufgenommen wurde sie in den Deep End Music Studios (abgemischt von Kenny Meriedeth) und gemastert von Robert Vosgien (Los Angeles/USA). Auf dem Album ist außerdem der Grammy-Preisträger und Hollywood-Komponist Vince DiCola (Rocky IV, Transformers The Movie) mit einem Gastbeitrag vertreten. “Built To Destroy” ist heavy, laut, ziemlich angefressen – und hat definitiv nicht das Ziel, Freunde zu finden.
Tracklist
Heavy As Hell
Twisted
United
Tired Of Smiling
Lyin Eyes
Lets Roll (40 Brave)
Central Park
Fight
Full Tilt
Highway To Nowhere
Gasoline
244
Built To Destroy
Gegründet von Sänger/Gitarrist Tommy Bolan, dem in Queens, NY geborenen und aufgewachsenen Sechs-Saiten-Shredder hinter Warlocks Platinum-Album “Triumph & Agony”, gehören zur Band auch die Metal-Legenden Stet Howland (W.A.S.P., Metal Church) an den Drums und Steve Unger (Metal Church) am Bass. Gemeinsam verkörpern sie den Sound von New York City – laut, unruhig, wütend und bereit, sich aus der Gosse zu erheben.
Mit der bahnbrechenden Single “Heavy As Hell” (VÖ: 05.09.), liefern N.Y.C. eine atemberaubende Ode an ausverkaufte Konzerthallen und das Spielen auf der eigenen Bühne des Lebens mit all der Intensität, nach der wir uns alle sehnen. Die Single, die mehr Gitarren enthält als der Hobbyraum deines liebsten Nachbarn, ist genauso rau und aggressiv wie das dazugehörige Video.
“Ich wollte Songs schreiben, die für mich echt sind,” sagt Bolan, der jeden Track geschrieben, produziert und mit viel Herzblut versehen hat. “Mit unseren Songs können wir unsere Aggressionen rauslassen und gleichzeitig die Dämonen unseres Wahnsinns exorzieren. Ich bin der Typ an der New Yorker Straßenecke, der wegen allem rumschreit und diese Intensität spürt man auch bei unseren Live-Shows.”
Das Album ist ein echter klanglicher Wutanfall, die Feierlichkeiten vor dem Release laufen auf Hochtouren. Die Veröffentlichung von Bolans eigenen Gitarrensaiten (über Optima Strings) ist in vollem Gange, flankiert von – im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes – epischen und beeindruckenden Videos mit VFX-Veteran Walter Schulz (Emmy- & Oscar-Preisträger und Hollywood VFX Director). Schulz und das Team von Adrenalizing Media Network haben mit Unreal Engine und all ihren neuesten Technologien gearbeitet und keine Mühen gescheut, um bislang nie realisierte neue Anwendungsfälle aus den herausragenden Fähigkeiten der neuesten Gaming-Technologie herauszuholen. “Walter ist ein Meister seines Fachs und passt perfekt zu uns“, erklärt Bolan. “Die visuelle Welt, die er geschaffen hat, fängt die Intensität von N.Y.C. ein.“
Außerdem stehen spannende Werbeaktionen und Werbegeschenke von Schecter, Peavey, Morley, Optima Strings, Tascam, EHX, Gator und Levy’s an sowie die Veröffentlichung vom N.Y.C.-eigenen Wein & Wodka.
‘Built To Destroy’ ist im Grunde der Wendepunkt für jeden, um all den Mist hinter sich lassen, der ihm in seinem Leben angetan wurde”, fügt Bolan hinzu. “All der Wahnsinn, die Lügen und die durch Dritte erzwungene Selbstaufopferung von Körper, Geist und Seele sollen nun umgedreht werden. Wie mein Song sagt: ‘I am Tired of Smiling’. All das hat mich zu der Mischung aus Mensch und Maschine gemacht, die ihr vor euch seht. Ich bin zurückgekehrt, um meine Dämonen freizulassen und die Einschränkung durch andere nicht länger zu tolerieren.”
“Built To Destroy” ist nicht nur ein Album. Es ist eine akustische 10-Tonnen-Atombombe, die auf deine Stereoanlage zusteuert – also anschnallen und festhalten!
RIVETSKULL – “ABSENCE OF TIME”
Release
date:
september 10th, 2025Label: RivetSkull
Das Heavy-Metal-Powerhouse aus Seattle, RIVETSKULL, enthüllt begeistert die brandneue Single “The Hammer Falls”, eine politisch aufgeladene Hymne, die aus den Turbulenzen der heutigen Zeit hervorgegangen ist. Der neue Song wird begleitet vom unten aufgeführten Lyric-Video.
Sänger Chad McMurray kommentiert "The Hammer Falls" wie folgt: “Der Song ist von unserer gegenwärtigen politischen Situation und all dem Scheiß, der gerade passiert, inspiriert. Man kann nur entweder etwas dagegen unternehmen oder alles hinnehmen… ‘is it time to burn?’
Wir mögen diese Passage hier ganz besonders: ‘a fragile sphere out of control, lost the message somewhere, can’t tell demons and angels apart. (Übers.: Eine zerbrechliche Sphäre außer Kontrolle, die Botschaft irgendwo verloren, kann Dämonen und Engel nicht mehr unterscheiden.)’”
Chad fährt fort: “Zum ersten Mal live gespielt haben wir das Stück auf dem Masters of Rock in der Tschechischen Republik. Wir haben die Hoffnung, dass die Menschen die Intensität und das Gefühl der Dringlichkeit spüren.”
Tracklist
Hellbound
Isolation
Not Gonna Run
My Darkest Hour
Eyes of a Fallen Angel
The King is Dead
Swimming in Mortality
Time Will Tell
Über RivetSkull
2009 in Seattle gegründet, wurden RIVETSKULL ursprünglich durch die gemeinsame Verbindung zur Musik Ronnie James Dios zusammengeführt. Heute formen sie ihren ganz eigenen Weg, während sie ihren frühen Wurzeln treu bleiben. Mit ihrem Debütalbum “Trail of Souls: Samsara” (2023) und dem Nachfolger “Absence of Time” konnten sie sich als eindrucksvolle Stimme im Heavy Metal etablieren.
Mit Chad McMurray (Gesang), Mark Plog (Gitarre), Michael Robson (Drums) und Johnny Massey (Bass) liefern RIVETSKULL einen Sound, der von der Tradition des Classic Metal, einer intensiven Energie und roher Leidenschaft durchdrungen ist. Ihre elektrisierenden Auftritte verbinden eigene Musik mit der Zelebrierung von Dios zeitloser Brillanz und bieten Fans so eine wahre Heavy-Metal-Erfahrung
RivetSkull sind:
Chad McMurray – Gesang
Mark Plog – Gitarre
Michael Robson – Drums
Johnny Massey – Bass
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Nach unserem Debüt My Whole Wrath (2023) beschreiten wir mit The Unholy Veil of Silence einen konsequenteren Weg: zwischen orchestraler Wucht, zerstörerischem Blackened Death Metal und einer Atmosphäre, die das Ende heraufbeschwört.
Fans von Septicflesh, Dimmu Borgir oder Behemoth werden Anknüpfungspunkte finden – doch unser neues Werk bringt erzählerische Tiefe und eine eigene Handschrift mit.
Die Veröffentlichung feiern wir mit einer exklusiven Release-Show am 4. Oktober 2025 im Turock in Essen.
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FRANTIC AGGRESSOR – “EXTINCTION”
Genre: Black MetalLabel: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 17.10.2025
Sechs Jahre nach ihrem Debüt »Land Mine Logic« lassen FRANTIC AGGRESSOR aus Ost-Berlin unter dem Banner des Nihilistic Black Metal eine noch heftigere Salve los!
Auf »Extinction« schwingt nicht, wie bei vielen anderen, eine dunkle Romantik mit, und es gibt keine Sehnsucht nach einer wie auch immer gearteten mystischen Erfahrung als Gott-Ersatz. Stattdessen verströmen die neuen Tracks oft das Flair eines Beschusses auf offenem, kargen Gelände.
Das ist abermals ein Lehrstück in Sachen musikalischer Militanz und die erneute Verkündung einer Metaphysik des Nichts. Dabei befasst sich jeder Song mit einem anderen Thema der menschlichen Existenz und ihrem Verschwinden, seien es Aspekte der Geschichte, der Religion, Philosophie, Technologie oder das uns umgebende Universum. – »All it takes is a little push to let Atlas lose balance. What if you cut a leg off, or slice up the arms?«
Ausgehend von dieser Idee der Fragilität des menschlichen Überlebens propagiert das Trio aus Discrimination, Humiliation und Contempt den reinen Nihilismus und feiert das Ende der Zivilisation. – Onward to the extinction of all!
Tracklist
1. Morals - Across
2. Metaphysics – Beyond
3. Religion - Insurrection of the Lesser
4. Revolution - Death of all Masks
5.Technology – Harvest
6. History – Empire
7. Cosmos - Lightless Skies
Total: 39.20
Line-up
Discrimination: git & voc
Humiliation: bass
Contempt: drums
Aufgenommen im November 2024 von Henker. Gemixt und gemastert in den Kalthallen Studios.
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My
Kingdom Music is delighted to announce that the Funeral and Depressive Doom
Metal force CHALICE OF SUFFERING from Minneapolis (US)
have been signed for the release of their new album titled "THE
RAVEN CRIES ONE LAST TIME" out on March 2026.The band states:
"We are excited to join the killer label My Kingdom Music. This partnership marks a powerful new chapter in our journey, and we couldn’t be happier to work with a label that shares our passion for atmospheric, soul-stirring Funeral Doom. My Kingdom Music has long been a home for artists who push boundaries and embrace the darker beauty of sound—and we're honored to be part of that legacy!".
With "The Raven Cries One Last Time" CHALICE OF SUFFERING introduces us into a world of depression, sadness and grief, into a very atmospheric, emotional and at the same time extreme universe full of pain, but painted with tinges totally rich in melancholy and despair. They convey emotions of loss rather than just heaviness, to crafting a deeply intense and bleak musical experience that explores the depths of human desperation through their distinctive Funeral Doom Metal sound with Death vibes incorporating instruments like bagpipes, flutes and keyboards and employing a mix of deep death growls and grim spoken word passages.
We are proud of what we are going to present and we can't wait to share all of this with you all. "The Raven Cries One Last Time" will be released next March on My Kingdom Music and it is absolutely ready to aim high for the genre throne in terms of intensity, personality and emotion.
The suffering continues!!!
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Release
date :
05 September 2025Genre : French Black Metal
Origin: Toulouse/France
Duration: 13:16
Label: Battlesk’rs Productions
Network Distributor: Ars Longa Vita Brevis
Tracklist:
01. You Want It Darker
02. To Those Who Forged
MALHKEBRE. There is no symbolism here - only faith wielded as fire. Since 2002, MALHKEBRE has stood as one of France’s most fervent bearers of black metal. This is no aesthetic exercise but an uncompromising manifestation of conviction and wrath.
Their path is marked by scarcity and intent: the searing "Prostration" EP, a harrowing split with AOSOTH, the full-length debut "Revelation", then in 2019 "Satanic Resistance", a declaration against the modern world in His name. Each offering is sharpened, deliberate, and free of trend.
Today, after years of seclusion, the Apostles of Ignominy unveil "To Those Who Forged Us", an EP that serves as a prelude to a full-length album slated for late 2025!
Recorded and mixed at Heldscalla Studios, and mastered at Drudenhaus Studio, the EP — released via Battlesk'rs Productions — features cover artwork by Roy de Rat. “This cover was created by Cäme Roy de Rat and perfectly illustrates what we were looking for in this work, which is intended to be unique in our discography. It is an honor to be able to work with talented artists who understand exactly what we want. We are grateful to him..”
Brace yourselves — there will be no escape, only confrontation.
A word that’s overused today in a Black Metal scene where some elements seem to have lost the sense of the values that once made this genre more than just a style of music.
A word that can, however, continue to be associated with a handful of honest bands, for whom Black Metal is not simply music but also a religious exaltation. Among them, MALHKEBRE is a name that needs no introduction. Active since 2002, the band is a spiritual vehicle for its singer/founder Eklezjas’Tik Berzerk, accompanied by his acolytes Shamaanik B. (drums) and S. Evangelista (guitars/bass).
After making their mark on the underground with their first two albums, « Revelation » (2014) and « Satanic Resistance » (2019), MALHKEBRE reawakened in 2023 with a tape featuring two tracks announcing a future album. As a prelude to this opus announced for the end of 2025, the EP “To Those Who Forged Us” is released, which presents a new side of MALHKEBRE: heavier, darker, more ritualistic and declamatory, “To Those Who Forged Us” is not only the announcement of a new era for the band, but a tribute to those who contributed to fueling the fire that burns in the heart and mind of MALHKEBRE. On the B-side, the judicious choice of a cover of “You Want It Darker” by Canadian poet Leonard Cohen is also a declaration of war in the face of those who had buried MALHKEBRE too soon.
Bearers of a Sacred Word made of pain, violence and resistance, MALHKEBRE is preparing to travel the European roads for the first time in a decade: “To Those Who Forged Us” sounds like the clamor of a tocsin calling the faithful to gather to listen, then to spread the Word. And thus allow the dark flame of MALHKEBRE to once again consume the souls of those who hear His call.
Laurent LIGNON
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With razor-edged guitars, relentless drums, and guttural vocals torn between torment and transcendence, “Savaged By Blood” is more than a song—it’s a ritual in sound. The lyrics carve through despair, shame, and fury, weaving a story of death, decay, and dark rebirth. Every scream, every riff, every blast beat is a step deeper into the unforgiving Crimson Hallows universe.
This track doesn’t just mark a new chapter for Screams Of Tranquility—it heralds a new era of extreme metal. Darker, heavier, and more uncompromising than ever before, “Savaged By Blood” cements the band’s place among the most feral voices in metalcore and death metal today.
Succumb to the hunter’s heir. Enter the Crimson Hallows.
Biography"Screams Of Tranquility" stands as the dynamic brainchild led by the gifted Marc P. Prohaska, a 29-year-old musician based in the idyllic foothills of the Austrian Alps in Upper Austria. This captivating project delves deep into the narratives of a society marred by excess, laying bare its hypocrisies, collective folly, and the gradual erosion of humanity.
Marc's musical palette is a vibrant fusion of influences, melding Scandinavian melodic death, American thrash, and hints of black metal. With deft craftsmanship, he intertwines pulsating rhythms and intricate orchestrations, weaving a spellbinding tapestry of sound.
From his beginnings as a musician at the age of 18, Marc has explored diverse musical avenues, ranging from pop-punk to rock and metal cover bands. However, it was through the emergence of Screams Of Tranquility that his artistic vision truly blossomed. In 2019, Marc graduated as a recording, mixing, and mastering engineer from HOFA College, now operating his own successful mixing and mastering business as a freelancer.
While Screams Of Tranquility is a solo endeavor, questions about the absence of additional band members only underscore Marc's proficiency and the effectiveness of his approach to "running SOT as if it were a fully occupied band." His unwavering dedication and skill shine through in every aspect of his work.
For those in search of authentic, meticulously crafted music that transcends the confines of mainstream melodic death metal, replete with searing leads, impassioned vocals, and profound thematic depth, Screams Of Tranquility stands as a beacon of artistic excellence worthy of exploration.
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The video for "Promise Me" is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKPSpW-EPA0
FFO: In Flames, Soilwork, Killswitch Engage, and Gojira.
Nothingman, Age of Ruin’s forthcoming album, is a collection of 10 songs that cuts a path to the heart with harmony and angst that others would be naïve not to mimic. The band sacrificed blood and sweat for two years to expel Nothingman. Age of Ruin began the recording process in October of 2023, and after nine months of tracking on location in Richmond, VA, at the Bakery Studio, in Washington, DC, at Ivakota Studio, and at the Riff Dojo in Takoma Park, MD, (the record was produced by Mike Schleibaum of Darkest Hour), Nothingman was complete. This is the biggest, most richly woven tapestry from the band yet, and the time to unleash it is near.
In 2023 and 2024, Age of Ruin did some precursory promotion of Nothingman’s material, traveling up and down the east coast, dousing nonbelievers with their fire, with such acts as Black Flag, Madball, Jimmy’s Chicken Shack, and Anvil. Yes, that Anvil.
Ripping guitars, unforgivably brutal drums, bass sounds that have shaken the underworld, and screeching vocals are just the beginning of this incarnation of a true headbanger's incantation. What we saw unearthed back in 1998 has now grown. The road worn warriors of the AoRmy have forced enough breakdowns to overwhelm any AAA mechanic, with miles on the highway ahead.
Their punk and metal roots hold firm, and their thrash tendencies are on full display as this towering presence of a band branches out over new tonal terrain and soundscape; reminding all who fall under its shadow, that the light shining through is a new dawn in the Age of Ruin. Nothingman will be celebrated in all formats and on all streaming platforms on October 17.
Track
Listing:1. The Fixation
2. Heavy is the Crown
3. Lost in Shadows
4. The Traveler
5. Nothingman
6. An Awakening
7. The Ghosts We Carry
8. Promise Me
9. Bleed for Better Days
10. Lovesong
Credits:
Produced by Mike Schleibaum / The Riff Dojo.
Mixed and mastered by Will Beasley / The Bakery.
Original artwork, Oil on Canvas titled "Forest Mother" by Zack Dunn.
Line-up:
Benjamin Swan - vocals
Christopher Fleming - bass
Daniel Fleming - guitar
Hendrik Osinga - drums
Casey Flanagan - guitar
Bio:
The exact location of the dawn of man has been a constant subject of debate. Some say it was Prometheus delivering fire, some say it was Franklin discovering electricity, most people say it’s when Lars met James…but everyone agrees: those were simply precursors. Throughout the age of enlightenment, the renaissance, the reformation era and beyond, mortals have tried to make sense of mankind's meaning on earth.
Most archaeologists believe that in the late 90's, a surge of lightning fast riffs, guttural screams, devastatingly bass tones, and the relentless pulverizing rhythm of drums unearthed a crucial piece of this puzzle...this ushered in what would be known as The Age of Ruin. Those who heard it, really dug it. But those who dug it found there is much more than the surface layers. Music filled with textures, themes, and tunings that go deeper than a James Cameron film unbound by budgets.
For over 20 years, Age of Ruin has been firing off a relentless string of releases. Even the busiest trash compactors could not keep up with the amount of crushing that Age of Ruin crams into a single album, and this is so…with Nothingman. They have consistently delivered a brutal barrage of the heaviest hits metal has heard. Why stop At the Gates, when you can break down the whole house with your music? Why get Entombed when you can breathe new life into the scene? Why let the years waste away when the Age of Ruin can answer all of these questions?
Age of Ruin has definitely paid their dues, earning every ounce of the heaviest crown one band could carry. Naturally, the tonal tenure of the AoRmy servicemen is not something that can be held onto forever...the constant axe-wielding and riff hurling has required numerous changing of the guard over the years; however, the core horsemen of the Age of Ruin (Benjamin Swan, and Daniel and Christopher Fleming) remain, along with Casey Flanagan and Hendrik Osinga, forging an amalgamation of devastation which would conjure a collection of songs that few, if any, houses could harness. Fortunately, under the tutelage and production of Sound-Sensei Mike Schleibaum (Darkest Hour), Age of Ruin would hone their tone in Mike's Riff Dojo, creating an undeniable masterpiece of metal.
https://www.youtube.com/@thisistheageofruin
https://www.facebook.com/thisistheageofruin
Benefactor Decease was formed in 2007 by a group of old-school thrashers, by Zissis "Coroner" (Guitarz), Apollo "The Parafiliak" (Bass), Xara "Nasty Vocals", and Andrew (Drums).
In 2008 the 1st demo "Ferocity Of The Dismorphed" was released with a cover by Alex "Polonos" Ststigklier, and after 6 months the 1st EP "Massive Spreads Of Death" by Anger Of Metal (Germany), in a 100 die hard LP limited edition, with Xanthi on vocals replacing Xara.
After several lives, in 2009 the split with Serbian Thrashers "NadimaC" was released by Infernal Kaos records (Seoul), titled "Authorization:Legal Offence", with Xara returning on vocals. Due to some personal problems and lack of time in 2010-2012 the band disbanded to be reactivated in 2012 with Baggo "Pgc Coca Colas" Drums - Nick "Chainsaw Murders" (2nd Guitarz) and Panagiotis "Cut-Throat" Toyfexidis on vocals, releasing Anatomy Of Angel by XTREEM Music (Spain) with a cover by Andrei Buzikov in 2015. Due to disagreements, serious family problems and lack of time there was a long inactivity with an immediate return in 2020 when the recordings for Abnormal Attachments began, with Joni "Moas" drums -Kostas "Sarcastic" (2nd guitar) and Dimitris "Deathlike Silencer" (bass). Relatively immediately Kostas "Sarcastic" left the band to focus mainly on his personal project and Apollonas "The Parafiliak" (2nd guitar) returned and he also took over the production of the album.
In 2025, Abnormal Attachments was released by XTREEM music (Spain) with a cover by Andrei Buzikov again.
An EP is planned as well as a new album.
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Finnish blackened death metal band PROGENY OF SUN released their second album 'PROPHETS OF THE VOID' on September 5th 2025 via Inverse Records. The album contains 12 tracks that have taken on more aggressive, darker, and more beautiful forms compared to the previous album. The genre binding the album's tracks together is Death Metal, but true to the band's style, the album will feature nuanced and surprising cross-genre atmospherics.
Listen to the album: https://push.fm/fl/progeny-of-sun-prophets
Biography:
In the beginning, Progeny of Sun was a two-man band formed by Jaakko Hautamäki and Niko Aromaa. Jaakko was responsible for the instrumentals, mixing, and mastering, while Niko handled the vocals, lyrics, visuals, etc.
The songs Jaakko introduced were very versatile. Some had speed, some were slow, some painted a picture with their atmosphere, and some were more straightforward bangers. Despite the diversity in style, everything worked exceptionally well in tandem, and from this premise, the band started to develop and pave its own way forward.
To start with, Progeny of Sun created a 6-song self-titled EP and discovered that their music was met with great reception. The duo behind the band did all the mixing, mastering, videos, and artwork themselves. The project as a whole was very fun and rewarding to work on.
After the EP release, Jaakko and Niko began to think that something more was still needed. They still had a burning desire to spread their music around the world, but with just two people, it would have been impossible.
Subsequently, Jaakko found two local musicians from the Seinäjoki area: Joni Kiviniemi (guitar) and Juha Peura (drums). Joni and Juha were initially brought on board just to offer their vision and play their assigned instruments for new material. Soon, however, it began to feel like they were part of the family, and so it was decided that they would become full-fledged members of the squad and a part of the band's story. Not long after, Tuomo Tolkki (bass) was also welcomed to join, and in a matter of a few months, the full lineup was formed.
The first release with the full lineup, a 3-track EP 'Dark Wanderer', was released in 2021. Next in line were the single releases ‘Worthless’ and ‘Anguish’, which were released in 2022. Thanks to the aforementioned experimental phase, Progeny of Sun has gained self-confidence and started to understand its own identity. The band worked hard on the debut album ‘Throne of Desolation’, which was released at the end of 2023. Progeny of Sun's second album 'Prophets of the Void' is released on September 5th 2025. Following their debut album, the band has identified their strengths, which are utilized and showcased even more prominently on the second album.
Watch Penance music video: https://youtu.be/RYQIPCZ1Q-8
Watch Decimation music video: https://youtu.be/wkHkjAk8a3E
Watch Forsaken Brigade music video: https://youtu.be/3j5SU5A9DWk
Watch Swarmspawn lyric video: https://youtu.be/gZ4tDF3vT7M
Track
list:1. Swarmspawn
2. Penance
3. Worldstone
4. Decimation
5. Colonus
6. Lifeless Light
7. Sun and Moon
8. Circle of Keres
9. Diary Ender
10. Deface
11. Rain for Discouraged
12. Forsaken Brigade
Mixed by Jaakko Hautamäki
Mastered by Jonathan Mazzeo
Album cover by Joni Kiviniemi & Niko Aromaa
Line-up:
Niko Aromaa - Vocals
Jaakko Hautamäki - Guitar
Joni Kiviniemi - Guitar
Tuomo Tolkki - Bass
Juha Peura – Drums
https://www.facebook.com/Progenyofsun
Label: Road To MasochistRelease date: september 26th 2025
Genre: D-beat Hardcore Thrash Punk
For fans of: Broken Bones | D.R.I. | Extreme Noise Terror | Cyness
In your world of manicured lawns and polite conversation, of averted gazes, upturned noses and disdain for those without a matching silver spoon, I am the vermin in your cellar. I am the blood on your ball gown. I am the screaming, spitting rat that will not toe the line, that will never bend the knee or bow my head in shame…
Blasting out of Leicester, UK Feral State are an adrenaline infused speedball of rage, defiance, attitude and riffs. Having previously fired out a string of split releases and a self titled debut album which had Louder Than War declaring “this is how hardcore punk should sound”, it’s time for album number two – II. If anyone was expecting an easing up on the pace, a gentler, more welcoming sound or diversions into jazzy, prog rock territories then you clearly haven’t been listening… A more than appropriate air raid siren welcomes us to II, which kicks off with first single ‘Concrete’ - and ‘kicks off’ is definitely the appropriate phrase here. A gritty guitar sound, a furious vocal attack, breathless, head-caving drums…this is Feral State but even better than before! The tracks come at you fast and hard, ‘Constant Terror’ demanding movement and delivering an incredible rush, ‘Slow Decay’ with its brief guitar solo like a snarl of barbed wire, ‘Scab’, incandescent with rage and fury, ‘Nuclear’ which opens with an absolutely savage riff before simply exploding…utterly blistering, so adrenalized your heart could burst. What Feral State have delivered with II is more than how hardcore punk should sound…it’s so right, so defining, it's dirt under the fingernails, blood in the mouth, life affirming power. It’s the exhilarating, cathartic thrill of the pit captured forever. When the thrashing rage of ‘Survival Game’ is unleashed you’ll either be destroying everything around you in a blissful berserker state, or be pinned back in your chair grinning through the violent velocity. II is an album that burns with the spirit of the past, but never sounds anything less than vital, vibrant and rampantly relevant.
With a sound so raw, real and untamed it could sink its stained and broken teeth into your face, thanks to the recording, mixing and mastering of Ian Boult (Shrykull, Mage, Foul Body Autopsy etc) and some stunning cover art from the brilliant Stonegeist that captures the essence of this incendiary band, II will be released by Road To Masochist on September 26th, on vinyl and digital formats. You cannot afford to miss this one.
Line-up:
Joe Lander - Vocals
Marcus Green - Drums
Christian Nurse - Guitar
Fran Fearon - Bass
https://www.facebook.com/roadtomascochist/
https://www.facebook.com/FeralState666
Progressive death metal band APOCALYPTIC SOCIETY will release their crushing full-length debut album INSTINCTUAL SELF-SLAUGHTER on September 5th, delivering an unrelenting blend of technical brutality, searing melodies and raw intensity.
Drawing influence from legends such as Death, Cynic, Hypocrisy, Iron Maiden and Metallica the US-based five-piece have forged their own apocalyptic sound, merging progressive metal intricacy with thrash aggression and old-school death metal ferocity.
From chaotic impromptu performances in fast-food parking lots to commanding packed stages across Pennsylvania, APOCALYPTIC SOCIETY have built an intensely loyal following through their high-energy, no-compromise live shows. The release of Instinctual Self-Slaughter marks the beginning of their next chapter, supported by a string of local performances before a United States multi-state tour in March 2026.
Watch the official lyric video for “Uncured” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY6FK1RJga8
Packed with dueling guitar harmonies, odd-time grooves, crushing bass lines, and versatile growls, Instinctual Self-Slaughter delivers a modern yet uncompromising death metal experience. The album captures the band’s ability to balance technicality with emotional weight, resonating with fans who demand substance alongside heaviness.
Since their formation in 2015, APOCALYPTIC SOCIETY have shared stages with killer acts including Dying Fetus, Incantation, Sadistic Vision, and Hellwitch. Known for unleashing frenzied pits, pure adrenaline, and an uncompromising stage presence.
Tracklist:1.Dawn of Execution
2.Distorted
3.Uncured
4.Quiet Room
5.Judgement Call
6.Instinctual Self-Slaughter
7.Coffin Full of Spiders
8.The Silent Extinction
APOCALYPTIC SOCIETY are:
Michael Beers – Vocals
Zach Kuhn – Guitar
Alex Rogers – Guitar
Ron Sowal – Bass
Dan Lineaweaver – Drums
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRWTm-1-Y84fjrT5Z-u__4A
https://apocalypticsociety.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ApocalypticSociety
London (UK) - Blackened Death Metallers, CULT BURIAL, have released COLLAPSE OF PATTERN, REVERENCE OF DUST, the band's third full-length album! The album is available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
Purchase/Stream:
Blastbeats Vinyl is the exclusive U.S. distributor for the vinyl LP variants of Collapse of Pattern, Reverence of Dust!
Collapse of Pattern, Reverence of Dust is a record about erosion — of structures, of certainty, of meaning. Across eight tracks, Cult Burial tears through the frameworks we cling to, carving out something that sits between aggression and despair, weight and absence. The music is dense and layered, yet unafraid of space; at times claustrophobic, at others stripped to bare wire and exposed edge.
Cult Burial's music is a confluence of black, death, and doom metal, characterized by dissonant guitar work, relentless drumming, and guttural vocals. Their compositions often explore themes of existentialism, decay, and the human psyche, creating a soundscape that is both oppressive and thought-provoking.
Despite being a relatively new entity, Cult Burial has garnered attention from various metal publications and blogs, earning praise for their authentic approach to extreme metal and their ability to evoke a profound emotional response through their music.
Following two highly regarded albums, Cult Burial's third release is unquestionably its finest work to date.
Track
Listing:1. Vincula
2. Collapse
3. Aether
4. Mire
5, Enthrall
6. Beseech
7. Vestige
8. Seethe
Credits:
Mixed by Greg Dawson at BWC Studios.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Artwork by Legerdemain.
Line-up:
Simon Langford - Music
César Moreira - Vocals
Bio:
Cult Burial is a blackened death metal band hailing from London, UK. Formed in 2020, the band has rapidly established itself as a formidable presence in the extreme metal scene, delivering a sound that melds the ferocity of death metal with the bleak atmospheres of doom and
black metal.
Discography:
Cult Burial (2020)
Reverie of the Malignant (2022)
Stream "Twilight Fell" ahead of Friday's official release at:
https://metalinjection.net/new-music/krigsgrav-streams-perfectly-blackened-new-single-twilight-fell
A storm is brewing. Having just signed to Willowtip Records last year, Krigsgrav is now ready to release Stormcaller, their first album for the label and eighth full-length overall.
Krigsgrav released the following statement about Stormcaller:
"When we started writing the songs that would make up Stormcaller, our intention was to create the most complete Krigsgrav album that took something from every era of the band, while still pushing our sound forward. A culmination of the blackest hues, doomiest of dirges, and most soaring of lead guitars. We think we achieved that, but we also wrote the best album of our career thus far. We trust that when you hear it, you'll agree."
Willowtip will release Stormcaller September 19 on CD, gatefold vinyl LP, and digital formats!
Pre-order at the following links:
https://www.willowtip.com/bands/details/krigsgrav.aspx
https://krigsgrav.bandcamp.com/album/stormcaller
Track
Listing:1. Huntress of the Fire Moon (feat. Jens Rydén)
2. Stormcaller
3. Twilight Fell
4. None Shall Remember Your Name
5. Bay of the Barghest
6. The Tonic of Wilderness
7. Ghosts
8. Womb:Death:Dawn
Album Credits:
All songs written, produced, and arranged by Krigsgrav.
Drums recorded by Sam Paquette at S.A.M. Studios.
Mixed and Mastered by Owe Inborr at Wolfthrone Studios.
Additional Engineering by Cody Daniels.
Cover Art by Adam Burke at Nightjar Illustration.
Guest Vocals on "Huntress of the Fire Moon" by Jens Rydén.
Album Layout and Design by Randi Matejowsky.
Line-up:
Justin Coleman - Guitar/Harsh Vocals
David Sikora - Drums/Clean Vocals
Wes Radvansky - Bass
Cody Daniels - Lead Guitar
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Finnish melodic death/doom metal band SERPENT GOD is set to release their debut album 'DENIAL' on October 10th 2025 via Inverse Records.
The fourth single 'keyhole' is released today and it's available on most streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/serpent-god-keyhole
The band comments:”So close to the answer, so far again”
"One of the most down-tempo songs of the album with crying tremolo guitars. Doomy from start to finish. You can taste the hopelessness and desperation. Slowly but surely the darkness is cradling us all into oblivion. Melancholic piano is the last thing you will ever hear. We all die alone, hiding behind our self-built thrones. “Mechanism in pitting corrosion, I carved my kingdom inside.”
Track
list:1. denial
2. beneath
3. repent
4. revelation
5. alive
6. sermon
7. oblivion
8. keyhole
9. void
Album cover by Heidi Hyvärinen
Biography:
Serpent God is a band formed 2023 in Iisalmi, Finland. The birth is heavily related to Se, josta ei puhuta -band’s writing process; lots of material were created that didn’t fit in the spectrum of Se, josta ei puhuta. In general, the material was more slow-paced and more eerie. However, the mentioned material was also way too good to be deleted, so therefore another output was needed, so Serpent God was born. Different branches grow from a tree with strong roots. Serpent God has its foundation in extreme metal, but there are also heavy influences from post-rock, doom and smaller splashes of more avantgarde sounds.
Listen to the first single 'repent': https://push.fm/fl/serpent-god-repent
Listen to the second single 'oblivion': https://push.fm/fl/serpent-god-oblivion
Listen to the third single 'sermon': https://push.fm/fl/serpent-god-sermon
Line-up:
Samu Männikkö - Vocals, guitars and keyboards
Juho-Pekka Lappalainen - Bass
Jimi Myöhänen - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/serpentgodband
NIGHT
ATTACK - "NECROMANCER" (EP)Formed in the darkest pits of North Carolina’s underground, NIGHT ATTACK unleash a raw and relentless EP that echoes the venom of early Death, Sepultura, Possessed, and Kreator, while thrashing forward with a fury worthy of Megadeth. Necromancer marks the band's third official release — a searing, four-piece assault featuring blistering technical riffs, venom-soaked vocals, hell-summoning solos, and punishing drums across every track.Featuring members of Vesterian and Ancestral Blood, NIGHT ATTACK masterfully channel the chaos and urgency of late ’80s blackened death thrash into a sound that’s both feral and refined — thanks to a crushing mix and razor-sharp production that finally does their vicious craft justice.
The digital EP's release date is 19 September 2025.
Pre-save "Necromancer": https://orcd.co/necromancer
Tracklist
1. Necromancer
2. Blitzkrieg
3. Sektor B
4. Mosh and Thrash
https://www.facebook.com/NIGHTATTACKBAND
Raleigh (NC) - U.S. Black 'N Rollers, VALLETTA, recently signed to Lifeforce Records are set to release new EP, BITTER LUCID TRUTH, on October 24.
There’s a palpable sense of urgency in Bitter Lucid Truth.
Valletta’s second
proper release embraces what guitarist and singer Keenan
Carroll describes as “anger, repulsion and intolerance toward the current
political landscape.” But for all its confrontational inspiration, it’s also
one of the year’s most thrilling metal releases.With Bitter Lucid Truth, the Raleigh, N.C. quartet of Carroll, drummer Justin Valletta, bassist Cody Rogers, and guitarist/backing vocalist Will Goodyear, churn negative emotions into forceful, dynamic and “just genuinely pissed-off” outbursts that are equally searing and soaring.
This should come as no surprise from the veteran troupe, whose collective resume spans a heavy spectrum from sludge to prog to black metal, in bands including Lord Almighty, Barishi, Mo’ynoq, Prayer for Cleansing, and Between the Buried And Me. And, indeed, Valletta’s 2024 debut, Summer (Forcefield Records), defined a compelling hybrid of anthemic melody and bitter vitriol. But while Summer slung big riffs and even bigger hooks, Bitter Lucid Truth wields them like weapons.
“Aggressor” and “Cold Death” fuses the melodic impulses that have drawn comparisons to Tribulation and Kvelertak with a harsher, more belligerent approach more akin to Tragedy’s bold and defiantly melodic neo-crust. This is perhaps most apparent in the EP’s closing salvo, “Spitting the Word,” which answers “Doing Well"'s comparatively reflective tone with a vicious exclamation point. Of the song’s intent, Carroll says, “It’s time to speak your mind. No more thought paralysis.”
It’s fitting, then, that the EP was produced much more quickly than its predecessor. Where Summer evolved over a two-year gestation, Bitter Lucid Truth was written and recorded all in the first months of 2025. Recorded and mixed by Al Jacob (He Is Legend, Wailin Storms) at Warrior Sound Studioin Chapel Hill, N.C. — this time with production input from the band and TJ Childers of Inter Arma — and mastered by Matt Tuttle (Codeseven) at IAS Studios in Winston-Salem, NC, Valletta was able to capture the full and explosive sound the new songs’ dynamic volatility demands.
Managing to capture a boiling rage with a more dynamic and expansive approach to songwriting, Bitter Lucid Truth is a massive leap forward for the already ascendant band. Expect to see these vicious anthems take on a new life when Valletta brings them to the stage.
U.S. tours are planned for October of this year, surrounding the EP’s October release. In 2026, Valletta will accompany a European tour with a re-release of Summer also expected through Lifeforce Records.
The EP's first single, "Cold Death," is available now at: https://orcd.co/valletta_colddeath
Pre-Order / Pre-Save Bitter Lucid Truth here: https://orcd.co/valletta_blt
Track Listing:
1. Blood and Jesus
2. Cold Death
3. Aggressor
4. Doing Well
5. Spitting the Word
Line-Up
Justin Valletta - Drums
Cody Rogers - Bass
Keenan Carroll - Guitar / Lead Vocals
Will Goodyear - Guitar / Backing Vocals
https://vallettalfr.bandcamp.com/album/bitter-lucid-truth
Minneapolis (MN) - Progressive/extreme metal outfit, KOSTNATĚNÍ, are set to release new album, PŘÍLIŠNOST (EXCESS), November 7 on Willowtip!
Přílišnost (Excess), the third album by KOSTNATĚNÍ, thoroughly destroys any remaining comparisons to the band’s contemporaries. Following up on 2023’s critically-acclaimed Úpal and its blend of technical black metal with Middle Eastern folk, KOSTNATĚNÍ has packed into this bizarre base an even stranger array of influences that must be heard to be believed. The band’s signature “highbrow” progressive riffs, now played on a uniquely alt-tuned guitar, cleverly interweave with a mix of “lowbrow” metal genres and moody synthesizers to create the band’s heaviest, most compact and violent songs to date. Continuing with the band’s introspective themes, Přílišnost (Excess) is dedicated to the suffocating, destructive pursuit of self-perfection. Lyrically and musically, it pushes beyond all limits.
The album's first single, "Samotář (Loner)," has been premiered by our friends at No Clean Singing. Click to stream below!
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/09/03/an-ncs-premiere-kostnateni-samotar-loner/
The single will be available digitally everywhere on September 5. Album pre-orders will be available on the same day.
Track Listing (titles in Czech and English):
1. Dokonalé křišťálové město (Perfect Crystal City)
2. Křehký bůh (Fragile God)
3. Kostely byly mrakodrapy (Churches Were the Skyscrapers)
4. Zpět ke kmenům (Back to the Tribes)
5. Mrtvola Jupitera (Corpse of Jupiter)
6. Samotář (Loner)
7. Čelist utlačovatele k obrubníku (Jaw of the Oppressor to the Curb)
8. Znal jsem tě (I Knew You)
9. Dále zvenčí (Further from Outside)
10. Přílišnost (Excess)
Credits:
Kostnatění is D.L.
Drums by Joe Goldwater.
Additional vocal contributions by Mack.
Written and recorded from 2021-2024.
Mixed and mastered by D.L.
Drums recorded at Signaturetone by Adam Tucker.
Cover art and layout by Metastazis.
Thanks to the many voices that brought life to this work, especially Mack, The RIM, Tapekvlt, and Nat.
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip/
"Echoes of Eternal Night" comprises a haunting narrative, continuing the story of the girl from the previous album who bid farewell to her parents at a desolate lakeside. As she navigates harsh landscapes, her journey for enlightenment and belonging is a metaphor for the human search for meaning. The album explores the complexities and uncertainties of contemporary society, delving into death not merely as an end, but as a spiritual awakening, a pivotal moment in human evolution, between ascension and eternal darkness.
With their distinctive doom-laden sound, When Nothing Remains creates an experience on this new album that aligns with the theme of eternal night. The album’s haunting melodies and powerful lyrics capture the despair and hope, creating a reflective and cathartic experience. The album's artwork complements the narrative depth, depicting the girl's progression from light into an inescapable darkness, symbolising the challenging path of self-discovery and the lingering shadows in our lives. "Echoes of Eternal Night" is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of uncertainty, challenging listeners to confront their fears and find meaning within the void.
When Nothing Remains was formed in 2010 by Jan Sallander and Peter Laustsen from the former band Nox Aurea. The band was created to allow Jan and Peter complete creative freedom. The current lineup includes Jan Sallander (Rhythm Guitar, Vocals), Peter Laustsen (Lead Guitar), Dimitri Jungi (Drums), and Kim Liljedahl (Session Bass). The band stated that they waited some years after the release of "In Memoriam" to find the right label with the right vision, ultimately choosing The Circle Music as their new home.
The band unveiled the single and music video for "The Grim Reaper's Tears", offering a first glimpse into the album's darker musical direction. The track explores the intricate emotions and internal conflict of Death personified as the Grim Reaper, portraying him as empathetic despite his role as the harbinger of death.
"Echoes of Eternal Night" will be available digitally, on CD, and on vinyl. Pre-order via The Circle Music: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=when-nothing-remains
Digital pre-save: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/EchoesOfEternalNight
Tracklist:1. The Grim Reaper's Tears
2. A Glimmer of Hope
3. Everything Ends
4. A Ceaseless Rain
5. In the Woods of Darkest Despair
6. Our Final Hours
7. Behind the Clouds
8. Gospel of Apostasy
Line-up
Peter Laustsen: Guitar, Lead guitar, Bass, Recording, Mixing and Mastering
Jan Sallander: All Vocals, Keyboards and Lyrics
All songs written by Peter Laustsen except In the Woods of Darkest Despair and Our Final Hours, which are written by Jan Sallander.
A Ceaseless Rain vocals by Gogo Melone.
A Glimmer of Hope drums by Jonas Toxen.
All songs mixed and Mastered by Peter Laustsen in Massive Assault Studios.
Artwork: Jan Sallander, Johan
https://thecirclemusic.gr/
https://www.facebook.com/The-Circle-Music-109161897443413/
https://www.facebook.com/whennothingremainsofficial/
DE PROFUNDIS – “THE GOSPEL OF ROT” (EP)
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: october 1st 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Death | Morbid Angel | Immolation | Nocturnus
How we have fallen, how our empire has crumbled…our values and learning trampled into the dust as we kneel before altars to idiocy and greed. We offer prayers to the war machine, no longer abhorring the taking of life, but raging in our ignorance we fervently debate which lives are suitable for sacrifice and which children deserve no future. Truth has become a malleable property, no longer a definable absolute and manipulation is now an applauded art form. Our gods cradle missiles while we twitch in nervous anxiety, awaiting the latest incarnation of the hand held devices that consume our identity, our reason and our morality. We are naught but rot…
“The Gospel Of Rot is both a warning and a weapon – a sonic rebellion against the forces that seek to silence and subjugate. De Profundis offers not salvation but a wake-up call…”- De Profundis
Celebrating 20 years of death dealing and devastation, De Profundis have returned with a rejuvenated line-up and a brand new EP of stunning power and intensity. The Gospel Of Rot brings together four tracks of furious death metal and masterful musicianship into a manifesto of resistance against the empty vessels that rule us, dragging our civilisation into a mire of degradation. Beginning with ‘I: Corruption’ we are hit by a torrent of classic death metal that makes incursions into the realms of thrash and black metal, thriving in the fluid boundaries between the genres. New vocalist Stefano Bassi immediately makes his mark with deep, guttural tones of depth and substance and second new addition to the ranks, bassist Simon McAuliffe, is immediately noticeable too, punching through the mix, an intrinsic part of this new chapter for De Profundis. Despite the remarkable work this band have produced over the years, by the midpoint of second song, ‘II: Deception’ it’s a struggle not to immediately embrace The Gospel Of Rot as their finest work to date. On one level it’s direct, hard-hitting and straight between the eyes – on another there are so many subtle shifts, touches and nuances that set it apart from the rest of the field. The vocal delivery in ‘III: Indoctrination’ is imperious, the drumming overwhelming, the lead playing simply brilliant. Every progression, every passage, every scuttling spider-legged scale and formidable blast on this EP is just right, crafted to perfection. The Gospel Of Rot concludes with a raging cover of Sepultura’s classic ‘Subtraction’ and De Profundis have made it their own; sublimely executed it slots into place as an integral part of a magnificently engineered death metal machine. With incredible performances and incredible songs, De Profundis are back at the very top of their game.
Mixed and mastered by Matt Jones at Capsaarx Studios (Fury, Vanitas, Dakesis etc) The Gospel Of Rot sounds magnificent, with exquisite tones and a perfect balance between clarity and power. The final hallmarks of quality have been applied with the wonderful artwork of Pierre-Alain D. of 3mmi Design (Necrodeath, Scar Symmetry, The Crawling etc) and it’s hard to see how The Gospel Of Rot could have been any better. The fight back begins on October 1st!
“…the rot is everywhere — and it’s time to tear it down.”- De Profundis
Line-up:
Stefano Bassi - Vocals
Shoi Sen - Guitars
Paul Nazarkardeh - Guitars
Simon McAuliffe - Bass
Tom Atherton – Drums
https://www.deprofundistheband.com/
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: november 7th 2025
Genre: Brutal/Slam Death Metal
For fans of: Putrid Pile | Internal Bleeding | Guttural Secrete | Pyrexia
Wrapped tight and immobile inside the blackened shell of despair, entangled in the thorn covered vines of bitter acceptance, I bleed out my weakness and my excuses for it, along with a pitiful selection of laughable hopes and insipid dreams. The time has come for metamorphosis, for transformation through rage, violence and a hunger for wanton destruction. The imprisoning cocoon tears beneath my new found claws and I emerge, a beast reborn, from my shattered dejection chrysalis…
Ten years since their last full length album, Fragments, Dysentery have finally re-emerged into the light, carrying with them a new album of heaviness beyond comprehension; spine-splitting slams and deep grooves like scars in the surface of the Earth. Dejection Chrysalis is the fourth album to bear the Dysentery name and if it takes a decade to carve out a bludgeoning monstrosity like this, then so be it. Instrumental opener, ‘Transference’, is so much more than a simple intro. As its title infers, it is a crossing point from normality to the world of Dysentery, a passage of mutation, configuring your mind and body for the shocking impact to come. And then you’re there, in the grip of ‘Enslavement For The Obedient, Agony For The Wayward’, utterly consumed in an instant by the thick, powerful guitars, the ultra guttural vocals and the rhythms that speak to your flesh on a primal, bestial level. ‘Exhausted Bliss Of Self Loathing’ brings furious blast beats, precision tempo shifts, riffs like heavy machinery and a guest vocal appearance from Josh Welshman of Defeated Sanity, while listening to ‘A Bestial Omen’ is like being the plaything of an oblivious giant – your limbs twisted into impossible positions, through agonizing angles as the gargantuan hands manipulate your fragile form – this is ogre music! And as the album progresses you realise just what Dysentery have achieved with Dejection Chrysalis, why it was worth waiting every moment of those ten years for. They make this music their own; with an aura of power, of untouchable force and presence. This is how you deliver brutal, slam death metal and make it meaningful and beyond devastating. From the electrifying barrage of ‘Fratricidium’ to the elite level brutality of ‘Ascend This Harrowing Dream’ there are so many great touches from the guitars, the drums, the vocals that just lift Dysentery to a level above the surrounding pack. Dynamic beyond all expectations, Dejection Chrysalis is a masterpiece of musical extremity.
Mixed and mastered by Randy LeBoeuf at Graphic Nature Audio (Kublai Khan TX, The Acacia Strain, Vomit Forth etc) Dejection Chrysalis is sonically formidable and the accompanying visual impact is supplied by the artwork of Hidris (Anhedonic, Reign Of Erebus, Snakepit etc). With added variants of vocal violence supplied by guest appearances from Josh Welshman (Defeated Sanity), Jared Weed (Concrete, Futility) and JT Knight (Invoke Thy Wrath) Dejection Chrysalis is essential. Coming your way on Comatose Music on November 7th – be ready for the return of Dysentery!
Line-up:
Eric Taranto - Drums
Peter Spinazola - Guitar
Scott Savaria - Vocals
John Cook - Bass
Guest vocals on ‘Exhausted Bliss Of Self Loathing’ by Josh Welshman
Guest vocals on ‘Shackled By Idolatry’ by Jared Weed
Guest vocals on ‘Fratricidium’ by JT Knight
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
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Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: october 17th 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Exodus | Testament | Machine Head | Forbidden
The cards are laid before us – The Tower, Three Of Swords, Five Of Pentacles, Ten Of Swords, Death and The Devil – each one presaging disaster, a final black chapter in our bloody story. Our ending is written in the stars, inescapable and now there is only a choice of pathways to our ultimate destruction. Greed, lust and ignorance, cowardice, cruelty and selfishness – they have all played their parts in our blinkered march to the grave. Now it just remains to select the manner of our dying; to step from our bleak, black present to a choice of darker fates.
Manchester’s Hellbearer leapt into the frontline trenches of thrash metal in 2022 and haven’t paused for breath since. They quickly released their fiery debut album, For Those About To Bear Hell and since then have shared the stage with the likes of 3 Inches Of Blood and the legendary Abaddon of Venom. They delivered a ferocious set at Thrashchester 2023 and went on to give a memorable performance at Bloodstock, inciting record crowd surfing numbers with their adrenalin infused riff attack. Now attention turns to their second album, Darker Fates, which sees the band striding effortlessly into the vanguard of UK thrash.
Scene setting intro, ‘Pull The Card’ leads directly into the classic thrash of ‘The Witch’, with its circling riffs and powerful vocals adorned with searing, exhilarating lead work. The Hellbearer sound is rooted in the ‘80s thrash explosion, but each song is delivered with a venomous fury and a vital, vibrant enthusiasm which makes it more than just relevant – rather an essential new blood infusion for the genre. From the gritty, grinding riffs and menacing, pit inducing aggression of ‘Absolution’ to the hard hitting, foreboding darkness of ‘The Mantra’; the measured, methodical annihilation of new single ‘Counting Seconds’ with its slow burning riff and twisted solo, to the jagged and dangerous ‘Through An Orphan’s Eyes’ – musically, Darker Fates is a powerful addition to the atomic arsenal of thrash metal. Lyrically the band have raised the bar too, striving to match the ambitious, creative nature of their new music with tales of dystopian futures and reflections on our fractured times. Incisive, powerful and metal to the bone, Hellbearer have surpassed all expectations with their latest creation.
With a sound so raw and real it could draw blood, Darker Fates will be unleashed on October 17th. This is British thrash, armed to the teeth, harder and heavier than ever!
Line-up:
Ash Allen - Vocals/Rhythm Guitar
Sam Hatt - Drums
Matthew Robinson - Lead Guitar
Kieran Brooks - Bass
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UNALIGNED – “A FORM BEYOND”
Genre - Blackened
technical/progressive death metalFor fans of - Demon King, Withered Throne, Inferi, Enfold Darkness, Warforged, Vale of Pnath
After astounding tech death releases from Fleshbore and Eschaton on the label this year, there's the eagerly anticipated debut full length from Unaligned to look forward to. Once again boasting of a celebrated lineup featuring members of Withered Throne, Demon King, Fleshbore and others, Unaligned offer a blackened and comparatively more atmospheric take on the technical death metal style. Meticulously written and impeccably executed, their music has an epic flair which goes hand-in-hand with their undulating pattern showcasing the brilliant contrast between the faster, scathing parts and the smoother, melodic breaks. The alternating vocal delivery here too is fitting without being overpowering in any way. The songs are able to traverse multiple realms and subjects while remaining focused and impactful. There's a compelling, pulsating rhythm throughout, keeping things brisk and intense while also retaining a sense of groove. Sharp, taut and yet catchy, Unaligned have come up with an exemplary blackened tech death album in "A Form Beyond", and it only gets better with more listens.
Line up
Taylor Tidwell (Withered Throne) - Guitars
Shane Dreher (Nightspake) - Guitars
Cole Daniels (Demon King, Fleshbore) - Bass
Andrew Guia (Withered Throne) - Vocals
Jack Blackburn (Killitorous, ex-Inferi) - Drums
Mike Low - Mixing/Mastering
Erik Johnson - Editing/Mixing
Video by Arnua Gates
Artwork by Adam Burke
Track listing
1. Entities of Ash
2. Unbecoming of I
3. Ruins of Lunacy
4. A Form Beyond
5. Essence Erased
6. Spirit Dysmorphia
7. Death Entwines Us All
8. Dreaming in Decay
Release date - September 12th, 2025
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https://www.facebook.com/UnalignedOfficial
Immer
mal wieder gibt es doch ein paar wenige Veröffentlichungen, welche doch irgendwie
aus der breiten Masse herausstechen, einen im gewissen Sinne überraschen und
sich nicht wirklich irgendeinem Trend anbiedern. Zwei davon haben wir uns jetzt
nun endlich auch mal akustisch einverleibt ,um Euch da draußen eventuell auf
den Geschmack zu bringen .
HROSSHARSGRANI 1998-2001 – „EINE LETZTE REISE ZURÜCK ZUM PFADE“
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Mit „UNENDLICHKEIT“ entfachen XIV DARK CENTURIES das erste Feuer ihres kommenden Opus „AUS URALTER ZEIT“ – ein kraftvolles musikalisches Zeugnis, das die Schatten der Vergangenheit heraufbeschwört. Inspiriert von Genregrößen wie Dimmu Borgir, Enslaved oder Immortal, entfaltet die Band ein intensives Klangbild mit jener unverkennbaren eigenen Handschrift, die XIV Dark Centuries seit jeher auszeichnet. Aber es ist mehr als ein bloßes Echo aus den 90ern – es ist eine Beschwörung des Eigenen: ein mitreißender Strom aus rasenden Rhythmen, düsterer Atmosphäre und kraftvollem, deutschen Gesang, durchdrungen von der unverkennbaren Seele der Band.
Die Produktion ist wuchtig, aber doch transparent – sie trägt das Lied wie ein Kelch das Feuer. Jeder Ton, jeder Akkord ist getränkt mit Leidenschaft und mit Herzblut, als wäre es eine rituelle Handlung – ein Opfer auf dem Altar der Kunst. Auch lyrisch wendet sich die Band jenen großen Mysterien zu, die den Menschen seit jeher umtreiben: Leben, Tod und das, was jenseits liegt. Es sind Verse, die flüstern und raunen, wie Stimmen aus einer anderen Zeit, Gesänge für die, die noch hören, wenn die Nebel steigen und das Rad der Zeit sich langsam dreht. „Unendlichkeit“ ist also mehr als nur ein Lied – es ist der Vorbote eines Albums, das Großes erwarten lässt. Wer Ohren hat für die alten Lieder, der höre – und harre auf das, was aus uralter Zeit bald heraufsteigt.
Der Song „Unendlichkeit“ erscheint auf allen gängigen Streaming Portalen und auf der Bandcamp Seite der Band am Freitag dem 29.08.2025. Dazu wird am selben Tag um 17 Uhr ein entsprechendes Lyrik Video auf youtube veröffentlicht. https://youtu.be/uDr9B7j6VYk
Das zugehörige neue Album „Aus uralter Zeit“ wird als Digi-Pack-CD, LP und als Download am 05.12.2025 veröffentlicht. Außerdem wird eine limitierte Auflage der CD in einer sehr, sehr aufwendigen Spezial Box Edition mit einigen Extras erhältlich sein. Lasst euch überraschen, dazu gibt es später mehr.
Tracklist
Album:
01 Aus den Nebeln der...
02 Unendlichkeit
03 Aura der Dunkelheit
04 Rachelust der Ewigkeit
05 Das Portal
06 Aus eiskaltem Nebel
07 Wo Flüche leis' geflüstert
08 In kalten Hallen
09 Was ewig liegt
10 Nahab
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https://www.xivdarkcenturies.de/
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Nach dem Erfolg ihrer gerade erst veröffentlichten Single “CHOKE ON YOUR MISTAKES”, in der sie offen und knallhart die heutige Cancel Culture kritisieren, liefern DARKNESS SURROUNDING nun einen weiteren eindrucksvollen Vorgeschmack auf ihr kommendes Album “IS THERE SALVATION?” (VÖ: 19.09.): “Achromatica” (VÖ: 29.08.). Mit “ACHROMATICA” bringt das Wuppertaler Quintett zwischen Melodic Death und Metalcore einen weiteren vielschichtigen Track, begleitet von einem kreativen und symbolträchtigen Singlevideo, wodurch sowohl musikalisch als auch visuell der Zustand einer zunehmend polarisierten Welt eingefangen wird.
Achromatica’ handelt von immer ausgeprägterem Schwarz-Weiß-Denken sowie der Unfähigkeit, das große Ganze zu betrachten und Zwischentöne wahrzunehmen”, erklärt die Band. Der Song reflektiert damit ein gesellschaftliches Klima, das derart von Reizüberflutung und algorithmischer Vereinfachung geprägt ist, dass Zwischentöne verloren gehen, während die gemeinsame Mitte immer unerreichbarer scheint. Das dazugehörige Musikvideo spielt mit Kontrasten, Abstraktion und Isolation und übersetzt dieses Gefühl in eine kraftvolle Bildsprache.
Musikalisch eröffnet “Achromatica” mit einem treibenden Intro, das sofort Spannung aufbaut und den Hörer in seinen Bann zieht, wobei energetische, melodische Riffs dem Track eine kraftvolle Grundstimmung verleihen. Im Verlauf des Songs entfaltet sich ein dynamisches Wechselspiel aus cleanen Vocals und tiefen Growls, das sich wie ein roter Faden durch das gesamte Stück zieht und für emotionale Tiefe sowie aggressive Intensität sorgt. Der einprägsame Chorus bleibt im Ohr und ein technisch anspruchsvolles Gitarrensolo rundet den Song ab und demonstriert das musikalische Können von Darkness Surrounding einmal mehr auf eindrucksvolle Weise.
Achromatica" auf YouTube ansehen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRHr3IeAW90
Am 19. September bringen Darkness Surrounding ihr neues Album “Is There Salvation?” raus. In ihren Songs thematisiert die Band gesellschaftliche Spannungsfelder, innere Krisen sowie das Streben nach Lichtblicken und verbindet aggressive Klänge mit kritischer Reflexion. Musikalisch entfaltet sich das Werk in einer dynamischen Mischung aus harten Rhythmen, düsteren Klängen, rauen Growls, melodischen Passagen und eindrucksvollen Soloparts. Mit ihrem eindringlichen Mix aus moderner Klangästhetik und inhaltlicher Tiefe demonstrieren Darkness Surrounding eine kreative und kraftvolle Präsenz in der Metalszene, die mehr als bereit ist, richtig durchzustarten.
Tracklist
1. Is There…
2. Old Minds Go Blind
3. Choke On Your Mistakes
4. Achromatica
5. Virtue’s End
6. Chained Eternally
7. Through History’s Lens
8. Portrait Of Solitude
9. Lethargy
10. …Salvation?
Darkness There Salvation?" Pre-Save: https://orcd.co/istheresalvation
Am 20. September laden Darkness Surrounding zu einer besonderen Release-Show in der börse in Wuppertal ein, um ihr neues Album gebührend zu präsentieren. In entspannter Atmosphäre haben Gäste die Gelegenheit, bei Getränken und Snacks mit der Band ins Gespräch zu kommen. Ab 21:30 Uhr performt die Band das komplette Album “Is There Salvation?” live und eine Aftershow-Party rundet das musikalische Highlight stilvoll ab.
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https://darkness-surrounding.de
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HAPPY RELEASE DAY! Es war der 13.01.2024 und das Live
Music Center in Hinte bei Emden ist mit über 800 Besuchern fast ausverkauft.
RAVENSTINE sind im Rahmen des "KUHZIFEST" zum ersten Mal zu Gast in
Ostfriesland und generell erst zum fünften Mal überhaupt auf der Bühne.
Einen Tag vor dem Auftritt erschien das damals neue und heute immer noch aktuelle Studio Album "2024“, welches in den farbigen Versionen bereits zum Release ausverkauft war.
Insgesamt 6 der 8 Songs von "2024" wurden zum Besten gebracht und die Stimmung war einmalig. Bei "Live" handelt es sich um einen Mitschnitt vom Soundboard, ohne das es Richtmikrofone im Publikum gab und dennoch spiegelt diese Tonaufnahme den Abend sehr gut wieder.
RAVENSTINE Kopf Martin Sosna: "Es war nicht nur das fünfte Konzert, welches wir als Band spielten, sondern ich selbst stand erst zum fünften Mal auf der Bühne. Ich hatte schon im Vorfeld Joshua Steinweg (Sohn von Ex-SODOM Gitarrist Grave Violator und Hausmixer von THE NIGHT ETERNAL) engagiert, da er mir mehr als Kompetent erschien. Die Entscheidung hat sich als richtig herausgestellt.“
"Live" hat Charme und spiegelt die Band so wider, wie sie nun mal nach der fünften Show geklungen hat. Ob es eigenartige Ansagen oder Timingschwankungen sind: nicht ist geschönt, keine Tricks, kein doppelter Boden. Live und rau ...
"Live" ist ein Album für Liebhaber und Sammler. Es erscheint limitiert als Vinyl in einer 300er Auflage, die in zwei verschiedene Vinylfarben unterteilt ist: 150 x "White/Black Marbled" und 150 x "Eala Frya Fresena“. Letztere Farbe ist eine Verneigung vor dem ostfriesischen Publikum mit den Landesfarben rot, schwarz und blau. Weiterhin wird es das Album als CD in limitierter Version von 300 Stück im Digipack geben. Eine Veröffentlichung via Spotify, YouTube oder andere digitale Plattformen ist nicht vorgesehen:
Martin Sosna: "Da unser Vertrag mit Massacre Records aufgelöst ist, haben wir die Aufnahme im Plattenbau Schermbeck Besitzer Heinz Bernd Toens vorgespielt, der mir erzählte, dass er schon immer gerne selbst ein Album rausbringen wollte. Da wir im Plattenbau Schermbeck über 230 Tonträger von unserem Album verkaufen konnten, erschien ein gemeinsamer Weg für diese Veröffentlichung Sinn zu machen. Beide Seiten waren unisono der Meinung, dass digitale Plattformen nicht bedient werden sollten, da die digitalen Plattformen das Werk als Sammler-/Liebhaberstück ent- und nicht aufwerten würden“.
Das Livealbum und die eindrucksvollen Livequalitäten von RAVENSTINE werden im Rahmen diesen Shows präsentiert:
29.08.2025 Oberhausen (GER) - Kulttempel
30.08.2025 Lingen (GER) - Kanu Camp (Open Air CAMP CRYSTAL ROCK 2025)
02.10.2025 Emden (GER) - Live Music Center
03.10.2025 Lünen (GER) - Lükaz
"Live" kann hier bestellt werden: https://sektor12shop.de/
Australia’s melodic death metal force EVOCATUS has unleashed their latest album INEVITABLE DEATH, out today via Wormholedeath.
INEVITABLE DEATH is a crushing ode to fate, warfare, and the end that awaits us all. Recorded with Ryan Huthnance at Emissary Studios, the album fuses melodic death and thrash metal with orchestral power, channeling influences from Kreator, Amon Amarth, and Machine Head into their heaviest work yet.
Stream Inevitable
Death now: https://orcd.co/inevitabledeath
EVOCATUS are:
Nich Shields – Vocals
Vaughan Jones – Guitars
Callan Douchkov – Guitars
Brad Delforce – Bass
Adam Watts – Drums
About:
Evocatus are a 5-piece Battle metal / Melodeath from NSW, Australia.
Hailing from the desolate craterfields of Australia’s Hunter Valley, Evocatus are a 5-piece melodic death metal band, crafting epic tales with crushing riffs, blistering solos, and haunting melodies. A potent blend of thrash, death, folk, and symphonic elements, Evocatus has been leaving a trail of sonic destruction across the Australian metalscape.
Tracklist
1. Into Everlasting Night
2. Serpent of Chaos
3. The River Styx
4. ...and Die in my Name
5. In Graves Unknown
6. For Death and Glory
7. Devoted to Inevitable Death
8. The Sirens Call
9. To Live by the Sword
10. A Fate Worse than Death
https://www.youtube.com/@evocatusband2795
https://www.facebook.com/EvocatusBand
With Emergence, this Seattle-based quartet blends intricate song structure with unbridled aggression for an album that makes one simple statement – URSAWRATH has arrived.
Watch the official music video for album opener “Thawed by Hell’s Flames” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ICs8eZZ7DA
Track
List:
1. Thawed By Hell’s Flames
2. Rot
3. Thrive in Destruction and Death
4. In the Abyss
5. Lies
6. And the Reckoning
7. Echo Chamber
8. Glass Tower
9. Sentenced to Life
10. Unstoppable
Emergence was recorded by USRAWRATH, and mixed and mastered by Max Barber of Singular Path Audio. Artwork by Riaj Gragoth (www.luciferiumwargraphics.com).
URSAWRATH was founded by vocalist and bassist Adam Schaefer in September 2023 after relocating to Seattle to pursue music and form a new band. To recruit members, Schaefer recorded a four-song demo featuring early versions of “Thawed by Hell's Flames,” “In the Abyss,” “Echo Chamber,” and “Sentenced to Life.” Shortly after, guitarists DJ and Lucas Robertson joined the fold, and the trio began rehearsing and refining material. Drummer Maximilian Onsager completed the lineup in spring 2024.
With the full band in place, URSAWRATH began writing new material and reworking the demo tracks, adding guitar solos, updated arrangements, and new drum parts. They started performing live around Seattle in May 2024 to establish themselves in the local scene. By October, the band entered the studio to self-record their debut album Emergence, which features reimagined versions of the original demo songs alongside new tracks written collaboratively. With Emergence complete, URSAWRATH returned to the stage, continuing to build momentum as one of the most exciting new voices in progressive thrash.
Line-Up:
Adam Schaefer – Vocals / Bass
DJ - Guitars
Lucas Robertson - Guitars
Maximilian Onsager - Drums
www.ursawrath.com
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German/Swedish Blackened Death Metal band, SHADOWS, have released debut album, MISERIA. Featuring former members of such notable acts as Visceral Bleeding, The Berzerker, Enshrined and Ominous, the quartet now proudly presents nine songs of unrelenting misanthropy.
Miseria aims to explore the vast uncaring nothingness and explore the dread of our futile existence. If you are looking for release or redemption you won’t find them here. The album is unmistakably rooted in the Scandinavian black and death metal but delivers it with its own signature. It is crushing and suffocating but also melodic and solemn.
Purchase/Stream Miseria:
https://shadows-official-cult.bandcamp.com/album/miseria
https://shadows-official-cult.bandcamp.com/album/miseria
Track Listing:
1. As Above So Below
2. Lamia
3. Delivered From Sin
4. Nadir (No Consent)
5. Spring Sleepwalker
6. A Seance
7. Mässa XCIV
8. Cycles
9. Unnamed Sorrow
Album Credits:
Recorded by Dejan Milenkovits & Filip Gäddnäs.
Mixed and produced by Dejan Milenkovits & Mathias Lodmalm.
Mastered by Dejan Milenkovits & Mathias Lodmalm.
Session drums by Filip Gäddnäs.
Additional vocals by Mathias Lodmalm.
Guest solo on “Lamia” by Robert Ahrling.
Guest solo on “Delivered From Sin” by Andreas Hedberg.
Album Artwork: Fernando Rojas B. (Abismo Black Arts).
Line-up:
Dejan Milenkovits - Vocals & Guitars
Martin Bermheden - Guitars
Andreas Holm - Bass
Joél Cirera – Drums
Bio:
Shadows is a blackened death metal band comprising members from both Germany and Sweden. Despite being a new addition to the music scene, the band features former members from notable acts such as Visceral Bleeding, The Berzerker, Enshrined and Ominous.
Shadows was established in 2021 by guitarist and vocalist Dejan Milenkovits as a solo project during the pandemic lockdown. What began as a recording of a handful of songs released in early 2022 quickly grew beyond its original intent. Consequently, Finnish session drummer Filip Gäddnäs was recruited to track drums and long-time friend and collaborator Mathias Lodmalm (Cemetary, Sundown) was invited to co-produce a full album.
The album was subsequently recorded during 2024. As the album continued to take shape, it became clear that Shadows had outgrown the confines of a solo project.
In early 2025, the band was expanded to include drummer Joél Cirera and guitarist Martin Bermheden, both of whom were former band members with Dejan Milenkovits from the disbanded death metal band Enshrined. The trio was finally joined by Andreas Holm on bass, completing the permanent lineup.
https://www.youtube.com/@shadows_official_cult
https://shadows-official.com/
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Release
date :
19 September 2025
Genre : old school Black Metal
Origin: Switzerland
Duration: 42min50
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Swiss black metal act VÍGLJÓS have returned with a ferocious new single, "CLAVICEPS", offering the first taste of their highly anticipated sophomore album, "TOME II - IGNIS SACER".
VÍGLJÓS sheds light on the track, commenting: "The story of humanity and Claviceps is one of creativity and pain. It reaches back to medieval times and possibly beyond. Various kinds of early psychedelic artists deliberately poisoned themselves with the Claviceps fungus to expand their minds and alter their reality.
On this new record we want to honour the impact that Claviceps, and later LSD had and still has on art, music, society, our self-image and medicine, as well as the terror and depravity it brought upon us."
"Claviceps" is available on all streaming platforms and as a premiere on Black Metal Promotion.
A new and ominous chapter is set to unfold from the heart of Switzerland, as Black Metal quartet VÍGLJÓS are poised to release their second studio album "Tome II - ignis sacer" on September 19, 2025 via Les Acteurs de L'Ombre Productions.
Emerging from Basel in 2022, VÍGLJÓS (Old Norse for "the light which is just bright enough to be able to kill a man") has since solidified its ranks into a potent four-piece, featuring members from both Germany and Switzerland. With their lineup now wielding guitar, drums, mellotron, and vocals, the band recently laid down their second album at Marc Obrist’s (Zeal & Ardor) Hutch Sounds in Oberwil, BL. Obrist's meticulous work on recording, mixing, and mastering promises a production that will undoubtedly capture the band's intense vision, complemented by striking artwork from Adrian Smith and layout by Luca Piazzalonga.
While VÍGLJÓS openly acknowledges the profound influence of Norwegian Second Wave Black Metal titans like Darkthrone, Immortal and Burzum (to name just a few), their sound is far from a mere homage. They skillfully weave the raw, frigid essence of '90s Black Metal with unexpected layers of synth, intricate tremolo picking, and even light infusions of rock'n'roll riffs and beats. These elements are all underpinned by hauntingly atmospheric mellotron tracks, adding a unique depth to their dark canvas. For those who've experienced VÍGLJÓS live, the word is out: expect an "auditive, visual and olfactory experience" that lingers long after the final note.
Thematically, "Tome II - ignis sacer" delves deep into the phenomenon of ergotism - the voluntary or involuntary poisoning by ingesting the claviceps fungus that grows on wheat. This ancient affliction, which fueled historical phases of civil unrest, witch crazes, and societal meltdowns when climate favored its growth on essential food sources, is a central inspiration.
The band states, "On this new record, we want to honor the impact that Claviceps (and later LSD) and drugs in general had and still have on art, music, society, our self-image and medicine, as well as the terror and depravity they brought upon us."
"Tome II - ignis sacer" will be coming out on September 19 via Les Acteurs de L'Ombre Productions in CD/LP and DIGITAL formats and is now available for pre-order : https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/preorders
VÍGLJÓS will be on tour starting in September.
VÍGLJÓS are:
J – Drums
L – Vocals
N – Guitar
Mellotron by Aorrta as Guest Musician
Tracklist:
I: Sowing
II: A Seed of Aberration
III: The Rot
IV: Claviceps
V: Dellusions of Grandeur
VI: Decadency and Degeneration
VII: Harvest
VIII: Fallow - A new Cycle begins
https://www.facebook.com/vigljos
Italian
symphonic power metal outfit JUST REBORN have released the
official music video for “Alter Ego”, one of the standout tracks from
their debut album FORMAE MENTIS.
The song explores the concept of the Alter Ego, the shadowy counterpart we all inevitably face. This is the underlying madness hidden in the depths of the human psyche; for some, it surfaces and takes control, while for others, it remains "latent" and suppressed, allowing equilibrium to triumph. Two sides of the same identity.
Formae Mentis: A Masterpiece of Symphonic Power Metal
Just Reborn’s debut full-length Formae Mentis is a concept album that navigates the labyrinth of the human mind—exploring emotions, mental health, and the daunting rise of artificial intelligence. The band’s signature blend of soaring vocals, epic orchestrations, and thunderous metal riffs creates a sonic landscape as introspective as it is exhilarating.
Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/formaementis
Order the CD: https://www.auralwebstore.com/
www.justreborn.band
www.facebook.com/Just-Reborn
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present DET’S highly anticipated debut album, DESTRUCTIVE ELITE TERROR, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Hailing from Helsinki, Finland’s DET are a speed / death metal band formed in 2022. A power-trio from the very beginning, DET feature members who do or have done time in such bands as Excuse, Asphodelus, Ranger, and Cryogenic among others. Right away, they released the demo Death Night, which was followed a year later by the Vengeance demo and a split with fellow countrymen Kruisfoitu. Meanwhile, they played live in several countries such as Armenia, Georgia, Germany, and the UK and received praising reviews for their performances.
If there was ever any mystery about the acronym to their moniker, DET now deliver their debut album, spelling it out in no uncertain terms: Destructive Elite Terror. Truly titled, Destructive Elite Terror rushes forward with a fury that cannot be contained. While DET will never win any faster-than-thou contests, their use of speed is a measured one, going from hypnotic cruise to Bathorian bang to even an early Sarcofago surge – and every step of the way, energy is maintained and maximized. As such, Destructive Elite Terror offers a refreshing amount of variety in its deceptively breathless 36-minute runtime, and the trio's riffing similarly exudes a keen sense of space and moody melody to ensure it’s not just straight-ahead bulldoze all the time. Simple but never simplistic, this is authentically old school without pandering to tired tropes.
Somewhere between the crudest early speed metal, contemporaneous proto-black metal, and the very earliest death metal lies Destructive Elite Terror: DET are coming for you!
Tracklist
1 Intro
2 Annihilation
3 Catacomb
4 Strike
5 Nosferatu
6 Impaler
7 Sinister
8 Vengeance
9 Bloodshed
10 Cruel
11 Possessor
12 Serpentine
13 Destructive Elite Terror
Line-up:
Atte - Bass
Miikka - Drums, Vocals
Jari - Guitars, Vocals
From Helsinki, Finland
Artwork:
Goatprayer
Release date:
17th October
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on neon yellow vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Watch out, the legend of the New York underground scene PRIME EVIL is back with a ruthless new song entitled “PLAGUEBORN,” marking the return to business of one of the most respected bands in the underground metal scene.
If you were already familiar with the band's unique sound, combining the ferocity of death metal with the speed of thrash metal, get ready for something even darker, more diabolical, and even more powerful and disturbing....
A new track and a new lineup prove that the beast from NYC is still hungry and ready to strike!
All the details: https://www.roughtimes.net/news/track-premiere-prime-evil-plagueborn-new-exclusive-song-after-ten-years
Sentient Ruin is proud to announce that deranged Canadian
goregrind sociopath BONE FETISH will soon bring
forth its first full-length perversion, a career-spanning self-titled
compilation atrocity containing all of the project's recordings up to this
date, including 2021's "Buried" demo, 2022's "Convergence" demo,
2024's "Mummified" demo, and five more brand new and never
before released aberrations, all remastered and resequenced by Will
Killingsworth into a cohesive and gut-wrenching monstrosity of utter
nihilism and destruction.
The twenty five-minute, seventeen-track gore-infested death and grind onslaught is a deep dive into a deranged mind slipping off the edge and being consumed by its most inverse and unutterable delusions, ranging from hallucinatory corpse-fucking fantasies, to rotten-flesh eating impulses, all the way to violent sodomy, necrophilia, and self-dismemberment idealization. A harrowing sonic depiction of an unfortunate human mind erratically coded and wired on the completely wrong values and interests, resulting in some of the most vile and inhuman deviancies conceivable. Shreds of early Carcass, Impetigo, Haemorrhage, Pathologist, Disgorge and Necronist reverberate throughout the torture dungeons, the entrails spattered sewers and the desecrated sepulchers, unfolding a rabid and frantic assault of cruelty and perversions that is attempting to violently destroy itself just as fast as it can destroy every other breathing thing around it in the most inefficient, sadistic, and irrational way possible.
The debut full-length self-titled Bone Fetish release can now be streamed in full and pre-ordered via all our channels and is scheduled for a September 12 2025 release on LP, CD, cassette and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, along with an exclusive label-only offering of on-demand merch.
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases. Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/bone-fetish-bone-fetish
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/bone-fetish
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present ARMOURED KNIGHT’S highly anticipated debut album, THE QUEST FOR THE SACRED MELODY, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Formed in 2009, Chile’s AMOURED KNIGHT are a speed metal band who draw inspiration from such legendary / cult '80s bands as Helloween, Savage Grace, Not Fragile, Viper, and Pokolgép. After several attempts to solidify their lineup, they released their debut EP, Prophecy of Tomorrow, in 2013, standing out with their epic, fast, and melodic style. The band’s membership includes such bands as HELLISH, HEMISFERIO, Mortal Whisper, Slicer, Deathsvn, Espada, and ex-Mayhemic.
Over the years, ARMOURED KNIGHT have undergone various lineup changes but have always maintained their essence and passion for classic metal. After a hiatus in 2014, they reunited in 2017 with a new formation and released the EP Ashes of Glory and then the EP The Sacred Flame in 2020. Now, with that lineup – Cristian (guitar), Mario Vera (drums), Christopher Falk (bass), and José Tapia (vocals) – they are finally gearing up to release their debut album. Titled The Quest for the Sacred Melody, ARMOURED KNIGHT’s first full-length promises to establish them as one of the freshest and most powerful forces in contemporary classic metal. Totaling eight songs in 35 minutes, this new work marks an evolution in their sound, preserving their essence while embracing a more mature, faster, and more energetic approach. Indeed, when ARMOURED KNIGHT get going, they really get going – truly, this is SPEED METAL of a most mid-‘80s vintage – but even when cruising at such unsafe speeds, there’s a bright & dynamic melodicism at the core of their sound, with bountiful, equally bright & dynamic leads stacked healthily atop; the latter can be attributed to a more pronounced power metal influence, namely early Blind Guardian. As such, The Quest of the Sacred Melody is truly titled; the songwriting runs the gamut of heroic to melancholic, but everything’s streamlined for maximum power, all whilst sounding like the same band. What’s more, the gleaming and yet just-rough-enough production truly nails that vintage vibe, especially setting the night on fire when ARMOURED KNIGHT decelerate to a mid-tempo, such as on the moody & marching “Endless Light.” The time is NOW to begin The Quest for the Sacred Melody!
Line-up:
Cristian León - Guitars
Christopher Falk - Bass
José Tapia - Vocals
Mario Vera - Drums
From Peñaflor, Chile
Artwork:
José Tapia
Release date:
17th October
Tracklist
1 Wielders of Dark Wisdom
2 Age of Speeches
3 Endless Light
4 Forgotten Grace
5 Run from here
6 Oath of the Sacred Melody
7 Behind the Mask
8 Guardians of the Stargates
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on white vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Blending crushing heaviness with searing melodic passages, Flamecore channels the spirit of modern melodic death metal with a sound that nods to giants like In Flames, Slipknot, and Gojira—while forging their own unmistakable identity.
The band’s journey began when Leonidas Viglakis shared an early riff with Stathis Lianos, a moment that kicked off their creative partnership and led to their first track, ‘Plains of Nameck.’ With the subsequent creation of "Only Waste Remains", their vision quickly expanded. After assembling a full lineup with Panagiotis Tsopelas and Akis Blazakis, Flamecore came into full form—recording their debut across two cities and solidifying their intense DIY spirit.
With Leonidas handling drums and vocals in Chania and Stathis recording guitars and bass in Athens, the album was brought to life and perfected by John Mor at Apex Soundworks, whose mix delivers both raw power and clarity. The result is an album brimming with thunderous double-kick assaults, harmonized leads, and vocals that rage between guttural aggression and desperate cries.
Lyrically, Flamecore delves into inner conflict, identity struggles, and social disintegration, offering a cathartic experience for fans of emotionally driven extreme metal.
Since their debut, the band has taken to the stage with Iasonas Stefanou joining for live duties, and with new bassist Panagiotis Mousouras now onboard, Flamecore is actively performing and working on new material—staying true to their mission of delivering honest, intense, and uncompromising metal.
Tracklist
1. Planes of Nameck
2. Only Waste Remains
3. Flamecore
4. Projected Reality
5. Death Awaits
6. From the Shadows
7. Celebrate Yourself
8. Hunger for Life
www.youtube.com/@Flamecoreband
www.facebook.com/Flamecoreband
“Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” is meant to be experienced as a sequence of strange dreams. It comprises a listening journey of confusing, dark, beautiful, scary, comical, twisted, psychotic, and bizarre dreams. The album takes the listener on a dark and sometimes terrifying journey of strange voices, bizarre sounds, beautiful moments, maddening architecture, and intricate instrumentation. It is highly unique, making use of hypnotizing drones, occult rituals, odd lyrics, and hidden meanings. Listeners will hear something new each time they play the album.
Kathodos, the man behind the project, conceptualised the band in 2019 as an "experiment in darkness". Having previously performed as a rock musician, he sought to create something darker. The album's atmosphere was conjured from the best fragments of his dreams and the worst fragments of his nightmares. The entire album was composed in the spring of 2021 after lying dormant for nearly two years. Following another period of latency, most of the instrumentation and vocals were recorded in the spring of 2022. A difficult period in late 2022 delayed the project until 2023, when the rest of the album was finally recorded. Lavinia was recruited in late 2023 to provide soprano, spoken word vocals, and guitar on a few tracks. Kathodos also produced, mixed, and mastered the album in late 2023 and early 2024. After gaining a strong following from the few people who happened upon the initial release, Kathodos signed with Rune Serpent Europa in 2025 to reach a wider audience.
Kathodos is a studio-only project and does not perform live. A second album is currently in the works. The band has also appeared on two official compilations released by Rune Serpent Europa: "Laibach Tribut - Schlecht Und Ironisch", for which Kathodos covered the Laibach song "White Law" and Saturno Butto tribute “The Five Senses”, contributing the track "Death & Rebirth".
Pre-order: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product/kathodos-parasomnia-pavor-nocturnus-new-album-cd/
Tracklist:
1. Phantom of the Throne Room
2. A Memory Dwindles…
3. …Window
4. The Dark Priests
5. Hanging Tree
6. Message Sent to Earth
Kathodos are:
Kathodos – all instrumentation, vocals, lyrics, sounds, composition, production, mixing and mastering
except:
Lavinia - soprano, spoken word and guitar
https://runeserpenteuropa.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559439269587
Finno-American blackened death metal force PROSCRIPTION has unleashed the title track off their new album, DESOLATE DIVINE. Listen to "Desolate Divine" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijjugZxMBxQ
The band's highly-anticipated second album, Desolate Divine merges primal repugnancy with hypnotic songcraft, balancing a calculated, multi-layered offensive with the chaos of a bloodthirsty berserker charge.
Dark Descent Records will unleash Desolate Divine on August 29. Pre-orders for the CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital editions of the album are available at:
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
www.ddmsuo.eu
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/
Tracklist:
1. Gleam of the Morningstar
2. Bleed the Whore Again
3. Entreaty of the Very End
4. The Midnight God
5. Behold a Phosphorescent Dawn
6. Heave Ho Ye Igneous Leviathan
7. Desolate Divine
8. The Great Deceiver
9. Not but Dust
PROSCRIPTION’s completed line-up is a formidable force, boasting members from such deathly acts as Maveth and Lantern, among many others. Said collective experience is instantly evident on Desolate Divine, showcasing exceptional musicianship and relentless, professional execution.
As with their debut, visual artist Sam Araya was summoned to translate the album’s sonic despair into a visual hellscape. “I had a long-time theme of some devout soul who presumably ascends to the heavens, only to find not but dust. No gates, no choirs, not even ruins or a war-torn paradise … just desolation and cold nothingness. The cover is this Behemoth of woe, in a sense, residing in this bleak sandstorm where perhaps the heavens may have been. And a single flame to attract these wandering souls who, once they touch its warmth, become the very dust that feeds the sandstorm.”
True to Christbutcher’s prolific output since his relocation to Finland, Desolate Divine was recorded by Kalle Laanto (Cryptborn, Tramalizer) at Sonic Violence studio in Varkaus; then mixed and mastered by Dave Otero at Denver’s Flatline Studios. Artwork by Artem Grigoriev (vinyl) and Samuel Araya (CD).
*Artwork depicted above is of the vinyl artwork.
PROSCRIPTION is:
ChristButcher - Guitar/Vocals
Cruciatus - Lead Guitar
Apep - Bass/Vocals
M.K. - Drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/ProscriptionHorde/
This
Fall… your speakers aren’t safe. From The Blade of Seattle, HYPERSTRIKE erupts
with their debut album HIGH RISK.
“Meltdown” — the core goes critical, and the blast is unstoppable.
“Leaving You Again” — love is a weapon… and heartbreak is the trigger.
“High Risk” — play the game, roll the dice… win it all, or lose your life.
“Shadowbound” — where the darkness hunts… and only the cursed survive.
“Warning Shot” — one bullet in the chamber… and mania in his eyes.
“Slug City” — neon streets, blood on the asphalt… nobody gets out alive.
“Steel Heart” — forged in fire, unbreakable, unstoppable.
“Slowman” — you can’t outrun fate… when death walks at your speed.
“King of the Slain” — one battlefield, one crown… and a throne of bones.
“Savage Sword” — sharpened for vengeance, raised for the final strike.
Having previously released debut single "Warning Shot," followed by "Savage Sword," Hyperstrike has now released the title track, "High Risk." Click to stream below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvELWuGuW6M
https://hyperstrikeband.bandcamp.com/track/high-risk
Explosive. Relentless. Unstoppable. This is the soundtrack to chaos.
As if that weren't enough, Hyperstrike has just released the demo for the official Hyperstrike video game!
Play the game demo here : https://hyperstrike.itch.io/hyperstrike-game-demo
while anticipating the album, just over the horizon.
High Risk.
No Risk. No Reward.
“There are a bunch of passages where I feel I could have written which is cool!” - Dan Swanö
High Risk will be released on September 12. Pre-order at: https://hyperstrikeband.bandcamp.com/album/high-risk
Track Listing:
1. Meltdown
2. Leaving You Again
3. High Risk
4. Shadowbound
5. Warning Shot
6. Slug City
7. Steel Heart
8. Slowman
9. King of the Slain
10. Savage Sword
Credits:
Cover art - Mark Richards (Heavy Hand)
Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Ben “Chop Daddy” Bennett
Lyrics and music by Hyperstrike.
Logo by Dipayandas Arts.
Line-Up:
Ben (Chop Daddy) Bennett - Speed Chopper Bass
Adon (Brain Lord) Fanion - Maniacal Pyro Vocals
Ilya (Siberian Claw) Ignatov - Elite Assassin Shred Guitar
Josh (Goblin Hammer) Hoffman - Master Drum Blaster
Bio:
Born in the Blade, forged in chaos—Hyperstrike is Seattle's action metal war machine. Founded in 2024 by bass-slapping juggernaut Ben "Chop Daddy" Bennett, this band doesn’t play music; they drop sonic bombs. With a shadowy past tearing through thrash titans Warbringer and Bonded by Blood, and reigning as the "Lord of the Low End" in sci-fi shredders Xoth, Bennett knew exactly what kind of beast he was building. First, he wrangled in Ilya, the shredder known as "The Claw," an assassin with riffs sharper than steel. Then came Adon, the "Brain Lord"—a maniacal force spitting venomous truths, carrying the fire from his days in Ghost Ship Octavius and the twisted depths of Spiritual Suicide. Together, they built a soundtrack for the end of the world: songs about nuclear meltdowns, cage fighters, and kings of the slain.
The final weapon in their arsenal? Josh, a drum-detonating powerhouse known as "Goblin Hammer," whose percussive assault forged their chaos into a relentless onslaught. Hyperstrike is a raw, unfiltered force with hearts of steel and a taste for mania. No apologies. No survivors. Just unrelenting aggression. Brace for impact—because once the trigger drops, nothing will ever be the same.
https://www.youtube.com/@HyperstrikeBandOfficial
https://www.facebook.com/hyperstrikeband
HEXROT – “FORMLESS RUIN OF OBLIVION”
Genre : avantgarde
death/black/thrash metal
For fans of: Felgrave, Construct of Lethe, Deathspell Omega, Blut aus Nord, Death, Ulcerate, Veilburner
"Formless Ruin of Oblivion is the second release from Massachusetts duo Hexrot, combining a dense stylistic mélange of death, black, and thrash metal with inventive electronic experimentation and a keen sense of structure. The 35-minute piece flows continuously across 7 tracks, maintaining a constant tension between the harmony and dissonance of its ever-shifting web of musical ideas. Seamlessly interwoven, a bed of modular synthesizer and other digital flourishes run the gamut from clangorous and industrial to warm and ethereal. The immediacy of a live studio recording gives its performances authenticity and power, but careful production ensures you’ll still be discovering new things multiple listens in. To our most fully realized expression to date, we bid you welcome."
Line up
Arkain - Guitars, bass, vocals
Melmoth - Drums, vocals, electronics
Mastered by Colin Marston at Menegroth, the Thousand Caves
Logo by Nat Lacuna @newjunkaesthetic
Album art from “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymous Bosch
Track listing
1. What Lies Veiled
2. Heavenward
3. Consecrating Luminous Conflagration
4. Ghostly Retrograde I
5. Clandestine Haunt
6. Ghostly Retrograde II
7. Formless Ruin of Oblivion
Release date - August 29nd, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/hexrot
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to unleash the new, and final album from Philadelpia's Death Metal destroyers PERCUSSOR. REMNANTS OF HORROR: THE FINAL CUT is up now for pre-order and will be released September 26th on CD and Digital formats along with merch.
Old school Death Metal for fans of : Bolt Thrower, Celtic Frost, Death, Deicide, Destruction, Morbid Angel, Obituary, Possessed, Slayer, Sodom, Venom and Voivod.
Percussor returns to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions one last time, unleashing Remnants Of Horror: The Final Cut! Originally released in 2017 on a different label, the initial version didn’t quite capture the true feelings and atmosphere that was originally intended by the band. With the help of Mike Usifer (Prime Evil), Percussor has reopened this recording to bring the true vision and concept the third release truly deserved, and completing the full discography on HPGD.
Tracklisting:
1. Derided By Defeat
2. Relinquished Vitality
3. Rejoicing Your Death
4. Thriving On Misery
5. Remnants Of Horror
6. Whores Of Deceit
7. Execrate
8. Vile Aggression
9. Fuck Your Opinion
10. Diseased Breeder (bonus track)
Listen to the single "Derided By Defeat" at https://youtu.be/xX9HwPdcxbI
Pre-order the CD for only $10 at https://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com/products/percussor-remnants-of-horror-the-final-cut-cd
Pre-order the Digital Download for only $6.66 at https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/album/remnants-of-horror-the-final-cut
Pre-order the T-Shirt + CD Bundle for only $23 at https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/merch/percussor-remnants-of-horror-the-final-cut-t-shirt-cd-bundle
Ferocious,
uncompromising, and carved straight from the steel heart of classic
thrash—BASTARD SKULL has officially inked a deal with
WormHoleDeath, marking the start of a new chapter for the East Coast-based
metal juggernaut.
The band’s self-titled debut album, ‘Bastard Skull,’ will be unleashed as a deluxe physical CD edition including three tracks from the ‘More Dread’ EP. Classic thrash purists and new fans alike can also experience digital streaming with standalone releases:
‘Bastard Skull’ LP drops on October 17, 2025
‘More Dread’ EP follows on November 11, 2025
CD Deluxe Edition - TBA
Born from a chance reunion at a Mercyful Fate show in Brooklyn on November 13, 2022, Bastard Skull unites a crew of seasoned veterans with deep roots in the thrash underground. The spontaneous spark between John Blicharz (Annunanki, Blood Feast, Dusk) and Tom Lorenzo (Blood Feast, Without End) lit the fuse. Joined shortly after by George Kostadimas and Mark Mari (Sneak Attack), Bastard Skull formed like a sonic supernova, driven by decades of pure metal instinct.
The band tracked both the LP and EP at Band Mother Recording with none other than Michael Sabatini (Attacker) behind the board. The final mastering touch came courtesy of legendary engineer Alan Douches (West West Side Music), whose resume reads like a metal hall of fame: Aerosmith, Obituary, Nile, The Ramones, Dying Fetus, and beyond.
Bastard Skull and WormHoleDeath now stand united in a shared mission: to tear through boundaries and bring unfiltered thrash metal to fans around the globe. Get ready.
Tracklist
1. Bastard Skull
2. After The Plague
3. Time is the Destroyer
4. Beyond The Fray
5. Iconoclast
6. The Last Death
7. Catch Kill Release
8. Chaos Order
Bonus Tracks:
9. More Dread
10. Impalement
11. Raw Nerve
Pre-save "Bastard Skull": https://orcd.co/bastardskull
Pre-save "More Dread" EP: https://orcd.co/moredread
www.facebook.com/people/BastardSkull
Formed in 2002, Colombia’s REVENGE have been keeping it true – and consistently – for a very long time now. While their home country continues to have a true metal renaissance, REVENGE have been there from the very beginning, pioneering the resurgence of classic metal sounds over the course of their sizable discography and steady touring across South America and even the United States. In fact, in 2018, REVENGE became the only South American band invited to the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise festival.
Like clockwork, every couple years do REVENGE return to the full-length front, and they now present a
worldwide edition of Night Danger. The Colombians’ tenth(!) album to date, Night Danger rips and races with class and craft – the kind that REVENGE have been forging in steel for time eternal. On the whole, Night Danger is a speed metal record, but one imbued with a prominent sense of classic heavy metal. Put another way, think of how bands like Judas Priest, Riot, and Manowar – and then Running Wild, Helloween, and Razor right after – took traditional metal and juiced it up just enough to make it truly METAL and sometimes speed metal, and there in that rarefied territory will you find REVENGE. Of course, if you want galloping, adrenaline-pumping TRUE speed metal, Night Danger is about as paradigmatic as it comes: completely classic and also contemporary. This is the ultimate REVENGE!
Line-up:
Esteban "Hellfire" Mejía - Vocals, Guitars
Hell Avenger - Drums
HROSSHARSGRANI 1998-2001 – „EINE LETZTE REISE ZURÜCK ZUM PFADE“
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Mit „UNENDLICHKEIT“ entfachen XIV DARK CENTURIES das erste Feuer ihres kommenden Opus „AUS URALTER ZEIT“ – ein kraftvolles musikalisches Zeugnis, das die Schatten der Vergangenheit heraufbeschwört. Inspiriert von Genregrößen wie Dimmu Borgir, Enslaved oder Immortal, entfaltet die Band ein intensives Klangbild mit jener unverkennbaren eigenen Handschrift, die XIV Dark Centuries seit jeher auszeichnet. Aber es ist mehr als ein bloßes Echo aus den 90ern – es ist eine Beschwörung des Eigenen: ein mitreißender Strom aus rasenden Rhythmen, düsterer Atmosphäre und kraftvollem, deutschen Gesang, durchdrungen von der unverkennbaren Seele der Band.
Die Produktion ist wuchtig, aber doch transparent – sie trägt das Lied wie ein Kelch das Feuer. Jeder Ton, jeder Akkord ist getränkt mit Leidenschaft und mit Herzblut, als wäre es eine rituelle Handlung – ein Opfer auf dem Altar der Kunst. Auch lyrisch wendet sich die Band jenen großen Mysterien zu, die den Menschen seit jeher umtreiben: Leben, Tod und das, was jenseits liegt. Es sind Verse, die flüstern und raunen, wie Stimmen aus einer anderen Zeit, Gesänge für die, die noch hören, wenn die Nebel steigen und das Rad der Zeit sich langsam dreht. „Unendlichkeit“ ist also mehr als nur ein Lied – es ist der Vorbote eines Albums, das Großes erwarten lässt. Wer Ohren hat für die alten Lieder, der höre – und harre auf das, was aus uralter Zeit bald heraufsteigt.
Der Song „Unendlichkeit“ erscheint auf allen gängigen Streaming Portalen und auf der Bandcamp Seite der Band am Freitag dem 29.08.2025. Dazu wird am selben Tag um 17 Uhr ein entsprechendes Lyrik Video auf youtube veröffentlicht. https://youtu.be/uDr9B7j6VYk
Das zugehörige neue Album „Aus uralter Zeit“ wird als Digi-Pack-CD, LP und als Download am 05.12.2025 veröffentlicht. Außerdem wird eine limitierte Auflage der CD in einer sehr, sehr aufwendigen Spezial Box Edition mit einigen Extras erhältlich sein. Lasst euch überraschen, dazu gibt es später mehr.
Tracklist
Album:01 Aus den Nebeln der...
02 Unendlichkeit
03 Aura der Dunkelheit
04 Rachelust der Ewigkeit
05 Das Portal
06 Aus eiskaltem Nebel
07 Wo Flüche leis' geflüstert
08 In kalten Hallen
09 Was ewig liegt
10 Nahab
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Nach dem Erfolg ihrer gerade erst veröffentlichten Single “CHOKE ON YOUR MISTAKES”, in der sie offen und knallhart die heutige Cancel Culture kritisieren, liefern DARKNESS SURROUNDING nun einen weiteren eindrucksvollen Vorgeschmack auf ihr kommendes Album “IS THERE SALVATION?” (VÖ: 19.09.): “Achromatica” (VÖ: 29.08.). Mit “ACHROMATICA” bringt das Wuppertaler Quintett zwischen Melodic Death und Metalcore einen weiteren vielschichtigen Track, begleitet von einem kreativen und symbolträchtigen Singlevideo, wodurch sowohl musikalisch als auch visuell der Zustand einer zunehmend polarisierten Welt eingefangen wird.
Achromatica’ handelt von immer ausgeprägterem Schwarz-Weiß-Denken sowie der Unfähigkeit, das große Ganze zu betrachten und Zwischentöne wahrzunehmen”, erklärt die Band. Der Song reflektiert damit ein gesellschaftliches Klima, das derart von Reizüberflutung und algorithmischer Vereinfachung geprägt ist, dass Zwischentöne verloren gehen, während die gemeinsame Mitte immer unerreichbarer scheint. Das dazugehörige Musikvideo spielt mit Kontrasten, Abstraktion und Isolation und übersetzt dieses Gefühl in eine kraftvolle Bildsprache.
Musikalisch eröffnet “Achromatica” mit einem treibenden Intro, das sofort Spannung aufbaut und den Hörer in seinen Bann zieht, wobei energetische, melodische Riffs dem Track eine kraftvolle Grundstimmung verleihen. Im Verlauf des Songs entfaltet sich ein dynamisches Wechselspiel aus cleanen Vocals und tiefen Growls, das sich wie ein roter Faden durch das gesamte Stück zieht und für emotionale Tiefe sowie aggressive Intensität sorgt. Der einprägsame Chorus bleibt im Ohr und ein technisch anspruchsvolles Gitarrensolo rundet den Song ab und demonstriert das musikalische Können von Darkness Surrounding einmal mehr auf eindrucksvolle Weise.
Achromatica" auf YouTube ansehen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRHr3IeAW90
Am 19. September bringen Darkness Surrounding ihr neues Album “Is There Salvation?” raus. In ihren Songs thematisiert die Band gesellschaftliche Spannungsfelder, innere Krisen sowie das Streben nach Lichtblicken und verbindet aggressive Klänge mit kritischer Reflexion. Musikalisch entfaltet sich das Werk in einer dynamischen Mischung aus harten Rhythmen, düsteren Klängen, rauen Growls, melodischen Passagen und eindrucksvollen Soloparts. Mit ihrem eindringlichen Mix aus moderner Klangästhetik und inhaltlicher Tiefe demonstrieren Darkness Surrounding eine kreative und kraftvolle Präsenz in der Metalszene, die mehr als bereit ist, richtig durchzustarten.
Tracklist
1. Is There…
2. Old Minds Go Blind
3. Choke On Your Mistakes
4. Achromatica
5. Virtue’s End
6. Chained Eternally
7. Through History’s Lens
8. Portrait Of Solitude
9. Lethargy
10. …Salvation?
Darkness There Salvation?" Pre-Save: https://orcd.co/istheresalvation
Am 20. September laden Darkness Surrounding zu einer besonderen Release-Show in der börse in Wuppertal ein, um ihr neues Album gebührend zu präsentieren. In entspannter Atmosphäre haben Gäste die Gelegenheit, bei Getränken und Snacks mit der Band ins Gespräch zu kommen. Ab 21:30 Uhr performt die Band das komplette Album “Is There Salvation?” live und eine Aftershow-Party rundet das musikalische Highlight stilvoll ab.
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HAPPY RELEASE DAY! Es war der 13.01.2024 und das Live
Music Center in Hinte bei Emden ist mit über 800 Besuchern fast ausverkauft.
RAVENSTINE sind im Rahmen des "KUHZIFEST" zum ersten Mal zu Gast in
Ostfriesland und generell erst zum fünften Mal überhaupt auf der Bühne. Einen Tag vor dem Auftritt erschien das damals neue und heute immer noch aktuelle Studio Album "2024“, welches in den farbigen Versionen bereits zum Release ausverkauft war.
Insgesamt 6 der 8 Songs von "2024" wurden zum Besten gebracht und die Stimmung war einmalig. Bei "Live" handelt es sich um einen Mitschnitt vom Soundboard, ohne das es Richtmikrofone im Publikum gab und dennoch spiegelt diese Tonaufnahme den Abend sehr gut wieder.
RAVENSTINE Kopf Martin Sosna: "Es war nicht nur das fünfte Konzert, welches wir als Band spielten, sondern ich selbst stand erst zum fünften Mal auf der Bühne. Ich hatte schon im Vorfeld Joshua Steinweg (Sohn von Ex-SODOM Gitarrist Grave Violator und Hausmixer von THE NIGHT ETERNAL) engagiert, da er mir mehr als Kompetent erschien. Die Entscheidung hat sich als richtig herausgestellt.“
"Live" hat Charme und spiegelt die Band so wider, wie sie nun mal nach der fünften Show geklungen hat. Ob es eigenartige Ansagen oder Timingschwankungen sind: nicht ist geschönt, keine Tricks, kein doppelter Boden. Live und rau ...
"Live" ist ein Album für Liebhaber und Sammler. Es erscheint limitiert als Vinyl in einer 300er Auflage, die in zwei verschiedene Vinylfarben unterteilt ist: 150 x "White/Black Marbled" und 150 x "Eala Frya Fresena“. Letztere Farbe ist eine Verneigung vor dem ostfriesischen Publikum mit den Landesfarben rot, schwarz und blau. Weiterhin wird es das Album als CD in limitierter Version von 300 Stück im Digipack geben. Eine Veröffentlichung via Spotify, YouTube oder andere digitale Plattformen ist nicht vorgesehen:
Martin Sosna: "Da unser Vertrag mit Massacre Records aufgelöst ist, haben wir die Aufnahme im Plattenbau Schermbeck Besitzer Heinz Bernd Toens vorgespielt, der mir erzählte, dass er schon immer gerne selbst ein Album rausbringen wollte. Da wir im Plattenbau Schermbeck über 230 Tonträger von unserem Album verkaufen konnten, erschien ein gemeinsamer Weg für diese Veröffentlichung Sinn zu machen. Beide Seiten waren unisono der Meinung, dass digitale Plattformen nicht bedient werden sollten, da die digitalen Plattformen das Werk als Sammler-/Liebhaberstück ent- und nicht aufwerten würden“.
Das Livealbum und die eindrucksvollen Livequalitäten von RAVENSTINE werden im Rahmen diesen Shows präsentiert:
29.08.2025 Oberhausen (GER) - Kulttempel
30.08.2025 Lingen (GER) - Kanu Camp (Open Air CAMP CRYSTAL ROCK 2025)
02.10.2025 Emden (GER) - Live Music Center
03.10.2025 Lünen (GER) - Lükaz
"Live" kann hier bestellt werden: https://sektor12shop.de/
Australia’s melodic death metal force EVOCATUS has unleashed their latest album INEVITABLE DEATH, out today via Wormholedeath.
INEVITABLE DEATH is a crushing ode to fate, warfare, and the end that awaits us all. Recorded with Ryan Huthnance at Emissary Studios, the album fuses melodic death and thrash metal with orchestral power, channeling influences from Kreator, Amon Amarth, and Machine Head into their heaviest work yet.
Stream Inevitable
Death now: https://orcd.co/inevitabledeathEVOCATUS are:
Nich Shields – Vocals
Vaughan Jones – Guitars
Callan Douchkov – Guitars
Brad Delforce – Bass
Adam Watts – Drums
About:
Evocatus are a 5-piece Battle metal / Melodeath from NSW, Australia.
Hailing from the desolate craterfields of Australia’s Hunter Valley, Evocatus are a 5-piece melodic death metal band, crafting epic tales with crushing riffs, blistering solos, and haunting melodies. A potent blend of thrash, death, folk, and symphonic elements, Evocatus has been leaving a trail of sonic destruction across the Australian metalscape.
Tracklist
1. Into Everlasting Night
2. Serpent of Chaos
3. The River Styx
4. ...and Die in my Name
5. In Graves Unknown
6. For Death and Glory
7. Devoted to Inevitable Death
8. The Sirens Call
9. To Live by the Sword
10. A Fate Worse than Death
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https://www.facebook.com/EvocatusBand
With Emergence, this Seattle-based quartet blends intricate song structure with unbridled aggression for an album that makes one simple statement – URSAWRATH has arrived.
Watch the official music video for album opener “Thawed by Hell’s Flames” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ICs8eZZ7DA
Track
List:1. Thawed By Hell’s Flames
2. Rot
3. Thrive in Destruction and Death
4. In the Abyss
5. Lies
6. And the Reckoning
7. Echo Chamber
8. Glass Tower
9. Sentenced to Life
10. Unstoppable
Emergence was recorded by USRAWRATH, and mixed and mastered by Max Barber of Singular Path Audio. Artwork by Riaj Gragoth (www.luciferiumwargraphics.com).
URSAWRATH was founded by vocalist and bassist Adam Schaefer in September 2023 after relocating to Seattle to pursue music and form a new band. To recruit members, Schaefer recorded a four-song demo featuring early versions of “Thawed by Hell's Flames,” “In the Abyss,” “Echo Chamber,” and “Sentenced to Life.” Shortly after, guitarists DJ and Lucas Robertson joined the fold, and the trio began rehearsing and refining material. Drummer Maximilian Onsager completed the lineup in spring 2024.
With the full band in place, URSAWRATH began writing new material and reworking the demo tracks, adding guitar solos, updated arrangements, and new drum parts. They started performing live around Seattle in May 2024 to establish themselves in the local scene. By October, the band entered the studio to self-record their debut album Emergence, which features reimagined versions of the original demo songs alongside new tracks written collaboratively. With Emergence complete, URSAWRATH returned to the stage, continuing to build momentum as one of the most exciting new voices in progressive thrash.
Line-Up:
Adam Schaefer – Vocals / Bass
DJ - Guitars
Lucas Robertson - Guitars
Maximilian Onsager - Drums
www.ursawrath.com
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German/Swedish Blackened Death Metal band, SHADOWS, have released debut album, MISERIA. Featuring former members of such notable acts as Visceral Bleeding, The Berzerker, Enshrined and Ominous, the quartet now proudly presents nine songs of unrelenting misanthropy.
Miseria aims to explore the vast uncaring nothingness and explore the dread of our futile existence. If you are looking for release or redemption you won’t find them here. The album is unmistakably rooted in the Scandinavian black and death metal but delivers it with its own signature. It is crushing and suffocating but also melodic and solemn.
Purchase/Stream Miseria:
https://shadows-official-cult.bandcamp.com/album/miseria
https://shadows-official-cult.bandcamp.com/album/miseria
Track Listing:
1. As Above So Below
2. Lamia
3. Delivered From Sin
4. Nadir (No Consent)
5. Spring Sleepwalker
6. A Seance
7. Mässa XCIV
8. Cycles
9. Unnamed Sorrow
Album Credits:
Recorded by Dejan Milenkovits & Filip Gäddnäs.
Mixed and produced by Dejan Milenkovits & Mathias Lodmalm.
Mastered by Dejan Milenkovits & Mathias Lodmalm.
Session drums by Filip Gäddnäs.
Additional vocals by Mathias Lodmalm.
Guest solo on “Lamia” by Robert Ahrling.
Guest solo on “Delivered From Sin” by Andreas Hedberg.
Album Artwork: Fernando Rojas B. (Abismo Black Arts).
Line-up:
Dejan Milenkovits - Vocals & Guitars
Martin Bermheden - Guitars
Andreas Holm - Bass
Joél Cirera – Drums
Bio:
Shadows is a blackened death metal band comprising members from both Germany and Sweden. Despite being a new addition to the music scene, the band features former members from notable acts such as Visceral Bleeding, The Berzerker, Enshrined and Ominous.
Shadows was established in 2021 by guitarist and vocalist Dejan Milenkovits as a solo project during the pandemic lockdown. What began as a recording of a handful of songs released in early 2022 quickly grew beyond its original intent. Consequently, Finnish session drummer Filip Gäddnäs was recruited to track drums and long-time friend and collaborator Mathias Lodmalm (Cemetary, Sundown) was invited to co-produce a full album.
The album was subsequently recorded during 2024. As the album continued to take shape, it became clear that Shadows had outgrown the confines of a solo project.
In early 2025, the band was expanded to include drummer Joél Cirera and guitarist Martin Bermheden, both of whom were former band members with Dejan Milenkovits from the disbanded death metal band Enshrined. The trio was finally joined by Andreas Holm on bass, completing the permanent lineup.
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Release
date :
19 September 2025Genre : old school Black Metal
Origin: Switzerland
Duration: 42min50
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Swiss black metal act VÍGLJÓS have returned with a ferocious new single, "CLAVICEPS", offering the first taste of their highly anticipated sophomore album, "TOME II - IGNIS SACER".
VÍGLJÓS sheds light on the track, commenting: "The story of humanity and Claviceps is one of creativity and pain. It reaches back to medieval times and possibly beyond. Various kinds of early psychedelic artists deliberately poisoned themselves with the Claviceps fungus to expand their minds and alter their reality.
On this new record we want to honour the impact that Claviceps, and later LSD had and still has on art, music, society, our self-image and medicine, as well as the terror and depravity it brought upon us."
"Claviceps" is available on all streaming platforms and as a premiere on Black Metal Promotion.
A new and ominous chapter is set to unfold from the heart of Switzerland, as Black Metal quartet VÍGLJÓS are poised to release their second studio album "Tome II - ignis sacer" on September 19, 2025 via Les Acteurs de L'Ombre Productions.
Emerging from Basel in 2022, VÍGLJÓS (Old Norse for "the light which is just bright enough to be able to kill a man") has since solidified its ranks into a potent four-piece, featuring members from both Germany and Switzerland. With their lineup now wielding guitar, drums, mellotron, and vocals, the band recently laid down their second album at Marc Obrist’s (Zeal & Ardor) Hutch Sounds in Oberwil, BL. Obrist's meticulous work on recording, mixing, and mastering promises a production that will undoubtedly capture the band's intense vision, complemented by striking artwork from Adrian Smith and layout by Luca Piazzalonga.
While VÍGLJÓS openly acknowledges the profound influence of Norwegian Second Wave Black Metal titans like Darkthrone, Immortal and Burzum (to name just a few), their sound is far from a mere homage. They skillfully weave the raw, frigid essence of '90s Black Metal with unexpected layers of synth, intricate tremolo picking, and even light infusions of rock'n'roll riffs and beats. These elements are all underpinned by hauntingly atmospheric mellotron tracks, adding a unique depth to their dark canvas. For those who've experienced VÍGLJÓS live, the word is out: expect an "auditive, visual and olfactory experience" that lingers long after the final note.
Thematically, "Tome II - ignis sacer" delves deep into the phenomenon of ergotism - the voluntary or involuntary poisoning by ingesting the claviceps fungus that grows on wheat. This ancient affliction, which fueled historical phases of civil unrest, witch crazes, and societal meltdowns when climate favored its growth on essential food sources, is a central inspiration.
The band states, "On this new record, we want to honor the impact that Claviceps (and later LSD) and drugs in general had and still have on art, music, society, our self-image and medicine, as well as the terror and depravity they brought upon us."
"Tome II - ignis sacer" will be coming out on September 19 via Les Acteurs de L'Ombre Productions in CD/LP and DIGITAL formats and is now available for pre-order : https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/preorders
VÍGLJÓS will be on tour starting in September.
VÍGLJÓS are:
J – Drums
L – Vocals
N – Guitar
Mellotron by Aorrta as Guest Musician
Tracklist:
I: Sowing
II: A Seed of Aberration
III: The Rot
IV: Claviceps
V: Dellusions of Grandeur
VI: Decadency and Degeneration
VII: Harvest
VIII: Fallow - A new Cycle begins
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Italian
symphonic power metal outfit JUST REBORN have released the
official music video for “Alter Ego”, one of the standout tracks from
their debut album FORMAE MENTIS.The song explores the concept of the Alter Ego, the shadowy counterpart we all inevitably face. This is the underlying madness hidden in the depths of the human psyche; for some, it surfaces and takes control, while for others, it remains "latent" and suppressed, allowing equilibrium to triumph. Two sides of the same identity.
Formae Mentis: A Masterpiece of Symphonic Power Metal
Just Reborn’s debut full-length Formae Mentis is a concept album that navigates the labyrinth of the human mind—exploring emotions, mental health, and the daunting rise of artificial intelligence. The band’s signature blend of soaring vocals, epic orchestrations, and thunderous metal riffs creates a sonic landscape as introspective as it is exhilarating.
Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/formaementis
Order the CD: https://www.auralwebstore.com/
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DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present DET’S highly anticipated debut album, DESTRUCTIVE ELITE TERROR, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Hailing from Helsinki, Finland’s DET are a speed / death metal band formed in 2022. A power-trio from the very beginning, DET feature members who do or have done time in such bands as Excuse, Asphodelus, Ranger, and Cryogenic among others. Right away, they released the demo Death Night, which was followed a year later by the Vengeance demo and a split with fellow countrymen Kruisfoitu. Meanwhile, they played live in several countries such as Armenia, Georgia, Germany, and the UK and received praising reviews for their performances.
If there was ever any mystery about the acronym to their moniker, DET now deliver their debut album, spelling it out in no uncertain terms: Destructive Elite Terror. Truly titled, Destructive Elite Terror rushes forward with a fury that cannot be contained. While DET will never win any faster-than-thou contests, their use of speed is a measured one, going from hypnotic cruise to Bathorian bang to even an early Sarcofago surge – and every step of the way, energy is maintained and maximized. As such, Destructive Elite Terror offers a refreshing amount of variety in its deceptively breathless 36-minute runtime, and the trio's riffing similarly exudes a keen sense of space and moody melody to ensure it’s not just straight-ahead bulldoze all the time. Simple but never simplistic, this is authentically old school without pandering to tired tropes.
Somewhere between the crudest early speed metal, contemporaneous proto-black metal, and the very earliest death metal lies Destructive Elite Terror: DET are coming for you!
Tracklist1 Intro
2 Annihilation
3 Catacomb
4 Strike
5 Nosferatu
6 Impaler
7 Sinister
8 Vengeance
9 Bloodshed
10 Cruel
11 Possessor
12 Serpentine
13 Destructive Elite Terror
Line-up:
Atte - Bass
Miikka - Drums, Vocals
Jari - Guitars, Vocals
From Helsinki, Finland
Artwork:
Goatprayer
Release date:
17th October
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on neon yellow vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Watch out, the legend of the New York underground scene PRIME EVIL is back with a ruthless new song entitled “PLAGUEBORN,” marking the return to business of one of the most respected bands in the underground metal scene.
If you were already familiar with the band's unique sound, combining the ferocity of death metal with the speed of thrash metal, get ready for something even darker, more diabolical, and even more powerful and disturbing....
A new track and a new lineup prove that the beast from NYC is still hungry and ready to strike!
All the details: https://www.roughtimes.net/news/track-premiere-prime-evil-plagueborn-new-exclusive-song-after-ten-years
Sentient Ruin is proud to announce that deranged Canadian
goregrind sociopath BONE FETISH will soon bring
forth its first full-length perversion, a career-spanning self-titled
compilation atrocity containing all of the project's recordings up to this
date, including 2021's "Buried" demo, 2022's "Convergence" demo,
2024's "Mummified" demo, and five more brand new and never
before released aberrations, all remastered and resequenced by Will
Killingsworth into a cohesive and gut-wrenching monstrosity of utter
nihilism and destruction.The twenty five-minute, seventeen-track gore-infested death and grind onslaught is a deep dive into a deranged mind slipping off the edge and being consumed by its most inverse and unutterable delusions, ranging from hallucinatory corpse-fucking fantasies, to rotten-flesh eating impulses, all the way to violent sodomy, necrophilia, and self-dismemberment idealization. A harrowing sonic depiction of an unfortunate human mind erratically coded and wired on the completely wrong values and interests, resulting in some of the most vile and inhuman deviancies conceivable. Shreds of early Carcass, Impetigo, Haemorrhage, Pathologist, Disgorge and Necronist reverberate throughout the torture dungeons, the entrails spattered sewers and the desecrated sepulchers, unfolding a rabid and frantic assault of cruelty and perversions that is attempting to violently destroy itself just as fast as it can destroy every other breathing thing around it in the most inefficient, sadistic, and irrational way possible.
The debut full-length self-titled Bone Fetish release can now be streamed in full and pre-ordered via all our channels and is scheduled for a September 12 2025 release on LP, CD, cassette and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, along with an exclusive label-only offering of on-demand merch.
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases. Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
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https://sentientruin.com/bands#/bone-fetish
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present ARMOURED KNIGHT’S highly anticipated debut album, THE QUEST FOR THE SACRED MELODY, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Formed in 2009, Chile’s AMOURED KNIGHT are a speed metal band who draw inspiration from such legendary / cult '80s bands as Helloween, Savage Grace, Not Fragile, Viper, and Pokolgép. After several attempts to solidify their lineup, they released their debut EP, Prophecy of Tomorrow, in 2013, standing out with their epic, fast, and melodic style. The band’s membership includes such bands as HELLISH, HEMISFERIO, Mortal Whisper, Slicer, Deathsvn, Espada, and ex-Mayhemic.
Over the years, ARMOURED KNIGHT have undergone various lineup changes but have always maintained their essence and passion for classic metal. After a hiatus in 2014, they reunited in 2017 with a new formation and released the EP Ashes of Glory and then the EP The Sacred Flame in 2020. Now, with that lineup – Cristian (guitar), Mario Vera (drums), Christopher Falk (bass), and José Tapia (vocals) – they are finally gearing up to release their debut album. Titled The Quest for the Sacred Melody, ARMOURED KNIGHT’s first full-length promises to establish them as one of the freshest and most powerful forces in contemporary classic metal. Totaling eight songs in 35 minutes, this new work marks an evolution in their sound, preserving their essence while embracing a more mature, faster, and more energetic approach. Indeed, when ARMOURED KNIGHT get going, they really get going – truly, this is SPEED METAL of a most mid-‘80s vintage – but even when cruising at such unsafe speeds, there’s a bright & dynamic melodicism at the core of their sound, with bountiful, equally bright & dynamic leads stacked healthily atop; the latter can be attributed to a more pronounced power metal influence, namely early Blind Guardian. As such, The Quest of the Sacred Melody is truly titled; the songwriting runs the gamut of heroic to melancholic, but everything’s streamlined for maximum power, all whilst sounding like the same band. What’s more, the gleaming and yet just-rough-enough production truly nails that vintage vibe, especially setting the night on fire when ARMOURED KNIGHT decelerate to a mid-tempo, such as on the moody & marching “Endless Light.” The time is NOW to begin The Quest for the Sacred Melody!
Line-up:
Cristian León - Guitars
Christopher Falk - Bass
José Tapia - Vocals
Mario Vera - Drums
From Peñaflor, Chile
Artwork:
José Tapia
Release date:
17th October
Tracklist1 Wielders of Dark Wisdom
2 Age of Speeches
3 Endless Light
4 Forgotten Grace
5 Run from here
6 Oath of the Sacred Melody
7 Behind the Mask
8 Guardians of the Stargates
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on white vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Blending crushing heaviness with searing melodic passages, Flamecore channels the spirit of modern melodic death metal with a sound that nods to giants like In Flames, Slipknot, and Gojira—while forging their own unmistakable identity.
The band’s journey began when Leonidas Viglakis shared an early riff with Stathis Lianos, a moment that kicked off their creative partnership and led to their first track, ‘Plains of Nameck.’ With the subsequent creation of "Only Waste Remains", their vision quickly expanded. After assembling a full lineup with Panagiotis Tsopelas and Akis Blazakis, Flamecore came into full form—recording their debut across two cities and solidifying their intense DIY spirit.
With Leonidas handling drums and vocals in Chania and Stathis recording guitars and bass in Athens, the album was brought to life and perfected by John Mor at Apex Soundworks, whose mix delivers both raw power and clarity. The result is an album brimming with thunderous double-kick assaults, harmonized leads, and vocals that rage between guttural aggression and desperate cries.
Lyrically, Flamecore delves into inner conflict, identity struggles, and social disintegration, offering a cathartic experience for fans of emotionally driven extreme metal.
Since their debut, the band has taken to the stage with Iasonas Stefanou joining for live duties, and with new bassist Panagiotis Mousouras now onboard, Flamecore is actively performing and working on new material—staying true to their mission of delivering honest, intense, and uncompromising metal.
Tracklist
1. Planes of Nameck
2. Only Waste Remains
3. Flamecore
4. Projected Reality
5. Death Awaits
6. From the Shadows
7. Celebrate Yourself
8. Hunger for Life
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“Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus” is meant to be experienced as a sequence of strange dreams. It comprises a listening journey of confusing, dark, beautiful, scary, comical, twisted, psychotic, and bizarre dreams. The album takes the listener on a dark and sometimes terrifying journey of strange voices, bizarre sounds, beautiful moments, maddening architecture, and intricate instrumentation. It is highly unique, making use of hypnotizing drones, occult rituals, odd lyrics, and hidden meanings. Listeners will hear something new each time they play the album.
Kathodos, the man behind the project, conceptualised the band in 2019 as an "experiment in darkness". Having previously performed as a rock musician, he sought to create something darker. The album's atmosphere was conjured from the best fragments of his dreams and the worst fragments of his nightmares. The entire album was composed in the spring of 2021 after lying dormant for nearly two years. Following another period of latency, most of the instrumentation and vocals were recorded in the spring of 2022. A difficult period in late 2022 delayed the project until 2023, when the rest of the album was finally recorded. Lavinia was recruited in late 2023 to provide soprano, spoken word vocals, and guitar on a few tracks. Kathodos also produced, mixed, and mastered the album in late 2023 and early 2024. After gaining a strong following from the few people who happened upon the initial release, Kathodos signed with Rune Serpent Europa in 2025 to reach a wider audience.
Kathodos is a studio-only project and does not perform live. A second album is currently in the works. The band has also appeared on two official compilations released by Rune Serpent Europa: "Laibach Tribut - Schlecht Und Ironisch", for which Kathodos covered the Laibach song "White Law" and Saturno Butto tribute “The Five Senses”, contributing the track "Death & Rebirth".
Pre-order: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product/kathodos-parasomnia-pavor-nocturnus-new-album-cd/Tracklist:
1. Phantom of the Throne Room
2. A Memory Dwindles…
3. …Window
4. The Dark Priests
5. Hanging Tree
6. Message Sent to Earth
Kathodos are:
Kathodos – all instrumentation, vocals, lyrics, sounds, composition, production, mixing and mastering
except:
Lavinia - soprano, spoken word and guitar
https://runeserpenteuropa.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559439269587
Finno-American blackened death metal force PROSCRIPTION has unleashed the title track off their new album, DESOLATE DIVINE. Listen to "Desolate Divine" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijjugZxMBxQ
The band's highly-anticipated second album, Desolate Divine merges primal repugnancy with hypnotic songcraft, balancing a calculated, multi-layered offensive with the chaos of a bloodthirsty berserker charge.
Dark Descent Records will unleash Desolate Divine on August 29. Pre-orders for the CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital editions of the album are available at:
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
www.ddmsuo.eu
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/
Tracklist:1. Gleam of the Morningstar
2. Bleed the Whore Again
3. Entreaty of the Very End
4. The Midnight God
5. Behold a Phosphorescent Dawn
6. Heave Ho Ye Igneous Leviathan
7. Desolate Divine
8. The Great Deceiver
9. Not but Dust
PROSCRIPTION’s completed line-up is a formidable force, boasting members from such deathly acts as Maveth and Lantern, among many others. Said collective experience is instantly evident on Desolate Divine, showcasing exceptional musicianship and relentless, professional execution.
As with their debut, visual artist Sam Araya was summoned to translate the album’s sonic despair into a visual hellscape. “I had a long-time theme of some devout soul who presumably ascends to the heavens, only to find not but dust. No gates, no choirs, not even ruins or a war-torn paradise … just desolation and cold nothingness. The cover is this Behemoth of woe, in a sense, residing in this bleak sandstorm where perhaps the heavens may have been. And a single flame to attract these wandering souls who, once they touch its warmth, become the very dust that feeds the sandstorm.”
True to Christbutcher’s prolific output since his relocation to Finland, Desolate Divine was recorded by Kalle Laanto (Cryptborn, Tramalizer) at Sonic Violence studio in Varkaus; then mixed and mastered by Dave Otero at Denver’s Flatline Studios. Artwork by Artem Grigoriev (vinyl) and Samuel Araya (CD).
*Artwork depicted above is of the vinyl artwork.
PROSCRIPTION is:
ChristButcher - Guitar/Vocals
Cruciatus - Lead Guitar
Apep - Bass/Vocals
M.K. - Drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/ProscriptionHorde/
This
Fall… your speakers aren’t safe. From The Blade of Seattle, HYPERSTRIKE erupts
with their debut album HIGH RISK.“Meltdown” — the core goes critical, and the blast is unstoppable.
“Leaving You Again” — love is a weapon… and heartbreak is the trigger.
“High Risk” — play the game, roll the dice… win it all, or lose your life.
“Shadowbound” — where the darkness hunts… and only the cursed survive.
“Warning Shot” — one bullet in the chamber… and mania in his eyes.
“Slug City” — neon streets, blood on the asphalt… nobody gets out alive.
“Steel Heart” — forged in fire, unbreakable, unstoppable.
“Slowman” — you can’t outrun fate… when death walks at your speed.
“King of the Slain” — one battlefield, one crown… and a throne of bones.
“Savage Sword” — sharpened for vengeance, raised for the final strike.
Having previously released debut single "Warning Shot," followed by "Savage Sword," Hyperstrike has now released the title track, "High Risk." Click to stream below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvELWuGuW6M
https://hyperstrikeband.bandcamp.com/track/high-risk
Explosive. Relentless. Unstoppable. This is the soundtrack to chaos.
As if that weren't enough, Hyperstrike has just released the demo for the official Hyperstrike video game!
Play the game demo here : https://hyperstrike.itch.io/hyperstrike-game-demo
while anticipating the album, just over the horizon.
High Risk.
No Risk. No Reward.
“There are a bunch of passages where I feel I could have written which is cool!” - Dan Swanö
High Risk will be released on September 12. Pre-order at: https://hyperstrikeband.bandcamp.com/album/high-risk
Track Listing:
1. Meltdown
2. Leaving You Again
3. High Risk
4. Shadowbound
5. Warning Shot
6. Slug City
7. Steel Heart
8. Slowman
9. King of the Slain
10. Savage Sword
Credits:
Cover art - Mark Richards (Heavy Hand)
Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Ben “Chop Daddy” Bennett
Lyrics and music by Hyperstrike.
Logo by Dipayandas Arts.
Line-Up:
Ben (Chop Daddy) Bennett - Speed Chopper Bass
Adon (Brain Lord) Fanion - Maniacal Pyro Vocals
Ilya (Siberian Claw) Ignatov - Elite Assassin Shred Guitar
Josh (Goblin Hammer) Hoffman - Master Drum Blaster
Bio:
Born in the Blade, forged in chaos—Hyperstrike is Seattle's action metal war machine. Founded in 2024 by bass-slapping juggernaut Ben "Chop Daddy" Bennett, this band doesn’t play music; they drop sonic bombs. With a shadowy past tearing through thrash titans Warbringer and Bonded by Blood, and reigning as the "Lord of the Low End" in sci-fi shredders Xoth, Bennett knew exactly what kind of beast he was building. First, he wrangled in Ilya, the shredder known as "The Claw," an assassin with riffs sharper than steel. Then came Adon, the "Brain Lord"—a maniacal force spitting venomous truths, carrying the fire from his days in Ghost Ship Octavius and the twisted depths of Spiritual Suicide. Together, they built a soundtrack for the end of the world: songs about nuclear meltdowns, cage fighters, and kings of the slain.
The final weapon in their arsenal? Josh, a drum-detonating powerhouse known as "Goblin Hammer," whose percussive assault forged their chaos into a relentless onslaught. Hyperstrike is a raw, unfiltered force with hearts of steel and a taste for mania. No apologies. No survivors. Just unrelenting aggression. Brace for impact—because once the trigger drops, nothing will ever be the same.
https://www.youtube.com/@HyperstrikeBandOfficial
https://www.facebook.com/hyperstrikeband
HEXROT – “FORMLESS RUIN OF OBLIVION”
Genre : avantgarde
death/black/thrash metalFor fans of: Felgrave, Construct of Lethe, Deathspell Omega, Blut aus Nord, Death, Ulcerate, Veilburner
"Formless Ruin of Oblivion is the second release from Massachusetts duo Hexrot, combining a dense stylistic mélange of death, black, and thrash metal with inventive electronic experimentation and a keen sense of structure. The 35-minute piece flows continuously across 7 tracks, maintaining a constant tension between the harmony and dissonance of its ever-shifting web of musical ideas. Seamlessly interwoven, a bed of modular synthesizer and other digital flourishes run the gamut from clangorous and industrial to warm and ethereal. The immediacy of a live studio recording gives its performances authenticity and power, but careful production ensures you’ll still be discovering new things multiple listens in. To our most fully realized expression to date, we bid you welcome."
Line up
Arkain - Guitars, bass, vocals
Melmoth - Drums, vocals, electronics
Mastered by Colin Marston at Menegroth, the Thousand Caves
Logo by Nat Lacuna @newjunkaesthetic
Album art from “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymous Bosch
Track listing
1. What Lies Veiled
2. Heavenward
3. Consecrating Luminous Conflagration
4. Ghostly Retrograde I
5. Clandestine Haunt
6. Ghostly Retrograde II
7. Formless Ruin of Oblivion
Release date - August 29nd, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/hexrot
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to unleash the new, and final album from Philadelpia's Death Metal destroyers PERCUSSOR. REMNANTS OF HORROR: THE FINAL CUT is up now for pre-order and will be released September 26th on CD and Digital formats along with merch.
Old school Death Metal for fans of : Bolt Thrower, Celtic Frost, Death, Deicide, Destruction, Morbid Angel, Obituary, Possessed, Slayer, Sodom, Venom and Voivod.
Percussor returns to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions one last time, unleashing Remnants Of Horror: The Final Cut! Originally released in 2017 on a different label, the initial version didn’t quite capture the true feelings and atmosphere that was originally intended by the band. With the help of Mike Usifer (Prime Evil), Percussor has reopened this recording to bring the true vision and concept the third release truly deserved, and completing the full discography on HPGD.
Tracklisting:1. Derided By Defeat
2. Relinquished Vitality
3. Rejoicing Your Death
4. Thriving On Misery
5. Remnants Of Horror
6. Whores Of Deceit
7. Execrate
8. Vile Aggression
9. Fuck Your Opinion
10. Diseased Breeder (bonus track)
Listen to the single "Derided By Defeat" at https://youtu.be/xX9HwPdcxbI
Pre-order the CD for only $10 at https://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com/products/percussor-remnants-of-horror-the-final-cut-cd
Pre-order the Digital Download for only $6.66 at https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/album/remnants-of-horror-the-final-cut
Pre-order the T-Shirt + CD Bundle for only $23 at https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/merch/percussor-remnants-of-horror-the-final-cut-t-shirt-cd-bundle
Ferocious,
uncompromising, and carved straight from the steel heart of classic
thrash—BASTARD SKULL has officially inked a deal with
WormHoleDeath, marking the start of a new chapter for the East Coast-based
metal juggernaut.The band’s self-titled debut album, ‘Bastard Skull,’ will be unleashed as a deluxe physical CD edition including three tracks from the ‘More Dread’ EP. Classic thrash purists and new fans alike can also experience digital streaming with standalone releases:
‘Bastard Skull’ LP drops on October 17, 2025
‘More Dread’ EP follows on November 11, 2025
CD Deluxe Edition - TBA
Born from a chance reunion at a Mercyful Fate show in Brooklyn on November 13, 2022, Bastard Skull unites a crew of seasoned veterans with deep roots in the thrash underground. The spontaneous spark between John Blicharz (Annunanki, Blood Feast, Dusk) and Tom Lorenzo (Blood Feast, Without End) lit the fuse. Joined shortly after by George Kostadimas and Mark Mari (Sneak Attack), Bastard Skull formed like a sonic supernova, driven by decades of pure metal instinct.
The band tracked both the LP and EP at Band Mother Recording with none other than Michael Sabatini (Attacker) behind the board. The final mastering touch came courtesy of legendary engineer Alan Douches (West West Side Music), whose resume reads like a metal hall of fame: Aerosmith, Obituary, Nile, The Ramones, Dying Fetus, and beyond.
Bastard Skull and WormHoleDeath now stand united in a shared mission: to tear through boundaries and bring unfiltered thrash metal to fans around the globe. Get ready.
Tracklist
1. Bastard Skull
2. After The Plague
3. Time is the Destroyer
4. Beyond The Fray
5. Iconoclast
6. The Last Death
7. Catch Kill Release
8. Chaos Order
Bonus Tracks:
9. More Dread
10. Impalement
11. Raw Nerve
Pre-save "Bastard Skull": https://orcd.co/bastardskull
Pre-save "More Dread" EP: https://orcd.co/moredread
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Formed in 2002, Colombia’s REVENGE have been keeping it true – and consistently – for a very long time now. While their home country continues to have a true metal renaissance, REVENGE have been there from the very beginning, pioneering the resurgence of classic metal sounds over the course of their sizable discography and steady touring across South America and even the United States. In fact, in 2018, REVENGE became the only South American band invited to the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise festival.
Like clockwork, every couple years do REVENGE return to the full-length front, and they now present a
worldwide edition of Night Danger. The Colombians’ tenth(!) album to date, Night Danger rips and races with class and craft – the kind that REVENGE have been forging in steel for time eternal. On the whole, Night Danger is a speed metal record, but one imbued with a prominent sense of classic heavy metal. Put another way, think of how bands like Judas Priest, Riot, and Manowar – and then Running Wild, Helloween, and Razor right after – took traditional metal and juiced it up just enough to make it truly METAL and sometimes speed metal, and there in that rarefied territory will you find REVENGE. Of course, if you want galloping, adrenaline-pumping TRUE speed metal, Night Danger is about as paradigmatic as it comes: completely classic and also contemporary. This is the ultimate REVENGE!
Line-up:
Esteban "Hellfire" Mejía - Vocals, Guitars
Hell Avenger - Drums