Theogonia Records set to unleash the frozen fury of Finnish melodic death metal outfit As The Sun Falls with a new full-length album this spring!

US metal outfit Darkest Hour are gearing up to release their new album ‘Perpetual | Terminal’ via MNRK Heavy next month, and shared another single with ‘Societal Bile’!

Death metal miscreants Aborted are back, paying their very own tribute to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with the new single ‘Death Cult’, part of their upcoming album ‘Vault of Horrors’, set for release in March with Nuclear Blast!

Powerhouse metal band Lutharo unleashed the new single ‘Reaper’s Call’, another look into what to expect from their upcoming album ‘Chasing Euphoria’, set for release in March via Atomic Fire Records!

While we are still regularly looking back at what 2023 brought us, we of course also need to look forward. So here is the first edition of our 2024 series of articles where we bring the editorial team’s most anticipated releases with Escuela Grind, Green Day, The Empire Strikes, Saxon, Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, Static-X, The Gems, Lucifer, Manticora and Hiraes in January!

With Glenn’s selection of his albums of the year, there is a bunch of metalcore, deathcore, djent and some surprising entries with Thy Art Is Murder, Avenged Sevenfold, Within Temptation, Tesseract, Avatar, In Flames, Sleep Token, Periphery, Invent Animate, and Chelsea Grin!

Gates to Hell signed to Nuclear Blast to spread their blend of modern death metal with the hardcore spirit throughout the world, and celebrate with the new single ‘Resurrected’!

Finnish modern metal band Volucrine is releasing their 4th full-length ‘ETNA’ next month via Inverse Records and shared a new single with ‘Riptide’!

Our resident extreme metal reviewer Mazen has a selection of stellar (mostly) black and death metal releases as his favorite of the year with Sulphur Aeon, Varathron, Moonlight Sorcery, Cruciamentum, Suffocation, Dying Fetus, Asphodelus, Marduk, …And Oceans, and Cirith Ungol!

Annet’s favorite albums of the year 2023 involve a mix of punk rock and modern metal, bringing in loads of emotions going from deep and intense, to fun and light with albums from Green Day, Enter Shikari, Hexa Mera, Chris Maragoth, Powerwolf, Nanowar of Steel, Angus McSix, Blink-182, Gloryhammer and Bury Tomorrow!