Italian black metal act Darkend signs to Time to Kill Records and announces to be releasing their fifth album ‘Viaticum’ later this year!

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.

Post-black act Machukha announced their debut album ‘Mochari’ to be released via Consouling Sounds in June and unveiled an intense video for first single ‘Bezpliddya’!

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album ‘Light of Death’ to be released in June via Deathwish Inc., and shared a first relentless single with ‘Belief Is Obsolete’!

US black metal band Akhlys return triumphant with a new album filled with pure black metal terror under the form of ‘House of the Black Geminus’, set for release in July via Debemur Morti Productions. Discover a first taste of it with the track ‘Sister Silence, Brother Sleep’!

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!

Heavy Temple dropped a respectfully tasty nod towards doom giants Candlemass with their catchy new single ‘House of Warship’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Garden of Heathens’, set for release in April via Magnetic Eye Records!

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!