News Posts

Dutch brutal death outfit Severe Torture emerges from the depths and reveals ‘The Death of Everything’, the first single from their upcoming album ‘Torn From The Jaws of Death’, set for release in June via Season of Mist!

Brutal death metallers Brodequin greet death on ‘Harbinger of Woe’, the title track of their upcoming album, set for release next week via Season of Mist!

French extremists Benighted unleashed a brutal anthem of psychedelic horror with the single ‘Nothing Left To Fear’, featuring Oli Peters from Archspire, a track from their upcoming album ‘Ekbom’, set for release in April via Season of Mist!

Italian brutal tech-death ensemble Hour Of Penance shared the first single and opening track ‘Devotion for Tyranny’ from their upcoming album ‘Devotion’, set for release in April via Agonia Records!

French extremists Benighted shared the video single ‘Scars’ from their upcoming album ‘Ekbom’, set for release in April via Season of Mist!

Tuska completed their 2024 line-up with the addition of Kerry King and 6 domestic acts with Kaunis Kuolematon, The Abbey, NightStop, Suotana, Malformed and Shereign. The Tuska KVLT bands still need to be announced, though! Get your tickets now!

Death metal outfit Hideous Divinity announced their new full-length album ‘Unextinct’ to be released via Century Media Records in March and shared the single ‘The Numinous One’ with a captivating video!

Brutal death metal outfit Brodequin are returning to wield fresh instruments of torture on upcoming album ‘Harbinger of Woe’, set for release in March via Season of Mist and unleashed a first track with ‘Of Pillars and Trees’!

Brutal death metal and deathcore machine Desolate Tomb is back with its new album ‘Scorned By Misery’ via Rottweiler Records next month, and shared a lyric video for the track ‘Writhing in the Bowels of Hell’!

Finnish technical blackened death metal Ulterror released the first single ‘The Greater Sublimations of Cosmic Panic’, from their upcoming debut album ‘Transcendent Origins’, set for release in March via Inverse Records!

Album Reviews

Vitriol’s second full length album “Suffer & Become” is ultimately bombastic and brutal, the Oregon based quartet has strengthened its ante with weaponized barbaric instrumentation. The album comes highly recommended for fans of Cattle Decapitation, Cephalic Carnage and Anaal Nathrakh, out now via Century Media Records since last Friday, January 26th.

Suffocation’s brutal and technical legacy remains the main attribute of these U.S. veterans, with the 9th album ‘Hymns From The Apocrypha’ guaranteeing a lesson in slamming brutality of the NY death metal style, out now via Nuclear Blast Records.

Canadian brutal/technical death metal collective Cryptopsy showcase a great deal of aggression and brutality on their newest endeavor “As Gomorrah Burns” out now via Nuclear Blast.

The long-awaited comeback album “Make Them Beg For Death” from the U.S. brutal death metal/grindcore Dying Fetus brings the expected top-notch, high caliber quality we all expected. An absolute monster of an album, released on September 8 via Relapse Records!

Besides the grisly cover album, “Blackened Cerebral Riffs”, the third album from Northern New Jersey brutal death metal project Dead And Dripping is one of the best releases from Transcending Obscurity Records and marks a great achievement for the sole member who shows an expected talent in his newest endeavor.

Olkoth’s debut album “At The Eye of Chaos” is a superior death metal record that is highly recommended for the aficionados of extreme and technical music, do not hesitate to tune into the madness, released via Everlasting Spew Records.

Finland’s death metal act Cryptic Hatred has released one of the year’s most brutal death metal albums, ‘Nocturnal Sickness’. If you crave for some old Cannibal Corpse and Suffocation, then this is for you. Out on The Other Records.

“Apexapien” holds like a block of concrete by the cohesive force of the members who excelled in their ability to craft an energetic slab of technique and brutality.

Putrevore’s “Miasmal Monstrosity” is relentlessly brutal and holds true to the band’s musical nature in presenting a putrid and odious quality of brutal death metal.

On their first studio album Diabolizer conveys the traditional dynamics of the late nineties and early 2000s brutal death metal. ‘Khalkedonian Death’ is recommended for fans of Severe Torture, Vomitory and Grave.

Lists

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!

First month of 2022 and there are already a bunch of really cool releases coming! Check out our 13 most anticipated releases of the month!