In January, as it happens on the regular, we hosted a night with local talents at our Asgaard venue in Gent, Belgium, with Powerstroke, Hudiç, and what ended up being the last show of Beyond Our Sight!

Amaranthe

We caught Amaranthe and Dragonforce on their co-headline European tour at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, Belgium, with special guest Infected Rain for a night of high energy metal music!

US death metal outfit Embryonic Autopsy is back with their second album ‘Origins Of The Deformed’, set for release in June via Massacre Records! Get a first taste through their first single ‘Orgies Of The Inseminated’!

Melodic death metal outfit Darkness Everywhere shared with ‘The Architect Of Misery’ the second single from their debut album ‘To Conquer Eternal Damnation’ set for release in May via Creator-Destructor Records! The track also features guest vocals from Laura Nichol of Light This City!

The fifth installment “Unextinct” from the Italian technical brutal death metal outfit Hideous Divinity delivers plenty of powerful brutality and atmosphere. Hideous Divinity managed to imbue the songs with themes extracted from cinematic art, out via Century Media Records, and comes highly recommended for fans of Vader, Fleshgod Apocalypse, and Hour of Penance.

Metal powerhouse Umbra Vitae, featuring members of Converge, Twitching Tongues, The Red Chord, Uncle Acid and Tsjuder, announced their sophomore album ‘Light of Death’ to be released in June via Deathwish Inc., and shared a first relentless single with ‘Belief Is Obsolete’!

Indigenous death/doom metal act Tzompantli to release their second LP ‘Beating The Drums Of Ancestral Force’ via 20 Buck Spin in May and unleashed a first track with ‘Tlayohualli’!

Colorado melodic tech outfit Allegaeon unleashed a stand-alone single ‘Iridescent’ via Metal Blade Records, accompanied by an unhinged music video!

Melodic death metal outfit Rise To Fall released the intense new single ‘Fire Haze’ at the end of last week via Noble Demon!

Italy’s brutal tech-death masters Hour Of Penance unleashed ‘Birthright Abolished’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Devotion’, set for release next week via Agonia Records!