Michigan metalcore outfit Of Virtue have released their brand new single ‘Death Of The Altar’, out now via Arising Empire!

2025 was another great year of concert photography for Rachel’s neck of the midwest, having covered bands like Nonpoint (first and last band captured in 2025!), Black Stone Cherry, Asking Alexandria, Ivent Animate, Aurorawave, Ayron Jones, Close Enemies, The Plot In You, VCTMS, What Lies Below, Powerman5000, Northlane, and 2 very special local to her bands, Graveyard Daisies and Never Again!

Motionless In White share their brand-new single and video ‘Afraid Of The Dark’, connecting their past, present and future condensed into an anthem that will be beloved by any MIW fan, out with Roadrunner Records!

Finnish purveyors of atmospheric heaviness Harms signed to Time To Kill Records for the release of their 2nd full-length ‘Rebirth of the Cold’!

The Gloom In The Corner erupt with their new single ‘Nope (Hollow Point Elysium)’, another track from the upcoming album ‘Royal Discordance’, out in February via SharpTone Records!

Exhumed share ‘Shovelhead’ music video from upcoming album ‘Red Asphalt’, set for release in February via Relapse Records! Catch them on their EU/UK headline tour with Gruesome in spring!

Progressive act Only Human are releasing their inventive debut album ‘Planned Obsolescence’ in March with Season of Mist and unveiled lead single ‘Automata’!

Irish nu-metalcore outfit Following The signs return with their new single ‘Call To Rise’, taken from their upcoming EP ‘EVOLVE’, set for release in March!

Modern metalcore outfit HEAVEN.EXE released their new song and video ‘There Is No God’! Catch them live in the EU in support of The Browning!

Discovery Through Torment’s latest EP ‘Telesynthetic Rebirth’ will serve both fans that love some brutal black metal but also fans that love deathcore that really slams. An blackened deathcore album that creates the perfect bridge between darkened black metal and brutal breakdowns