Portland, Oregon based progressive sludge outfit Lord Dying shared the video single ‘The Universe Is Weeping’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Clandestine Transcendence’, set for release via MNRK Heavy next week Friday!

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!

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

Australian dark folk/blackgaze act Suldusk announces upcoming new album ‘Anthesis’, set for release via Napalm Records in March, and share the title track now with an accompanying video! Fans of Myrkur, Oathbreaker and Chelsea Wolfe, don’t sit on this one!

Australian instrumental outfit Vipassi are gazing into the unknown on their latest single ‘Morningstar’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Lightless’, set for release later this month via Season of Mist!

In anticipation of the release via Mighty Music later this month, the Danes of Manticora unleashed a video for the title track of their upcoming album ‘Mycelium’!

Best Of 2023 Tom VM

Our Benelux and France head of accreditation and most active photographer in that region, Tom VM, made his own selection of favorite pictures he took in 2023, including some new stuff that wasn’t shared on our site before with Biohazard, Bleed From Within, Brutal Sphincter, Brutus, Electric Callboy, Michael Schenker Group, Sepultura, Arion, Blackrain, Overdrivers, Avatar, Winery Dogs, Charlotte Wessels, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Extreme, Ghost, Michael Angelo Batio, Arch Enemy, Doodseskader, Halestorm, I Prevail, Powerwolf and SKYND!

New Belgian metal band Throne of Thorns released the first single and music video ‘Underworld’, a track from their upcoming debut album ‘Converging Parallel Worlds’, set for release in 2024 via Rock of Angels Records!

French metal collective No Terror in the Bang revealed the new track ‘Retch’ from their upcoming album ‘Heal’, set for release next month via Klonosphere Records/Season of Mist!