Death metal legends Deicide return to European soil this week to celebrate their 13th studio album ‘Banished By Sin’ properly with their fans! Catch them at select club shows and festivals like Brutal Assault and Hellsinki Metal Festival!
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Belgian death metal act Mordkaul has revealed new details about their upcoming full-length ‘Feeding the Machine’, set for release in September via Massacre Records and unleashed a new video single with ‘They Burn’ a good week ago! Catch these promising up-and-comers at Alcatraz in about 3 weeks, it’s going to be killer!
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German melodic death metal unit Act Of Creation celebrates yesterday’s release of their new album ‘Moments To Remain’ on Massacre Records by unleashing a music video for the song ‘Agonizing Slumber’!
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Album of the Year contenders Dååth reveal their latest video ‘Deserving Of The Grave’, a track from their latest release, and the first in fourteen years, ‘The Deceivers’, out now via Metal Blade Records!
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The Black Dahlia Murder continues its legacy with upcoming new album ‘Servitude’, set for release in September this year via Metal Blade Records, and shared the fiery new single and video ‘Aftermath’ as a first taste. Catch them live in Europe this summer at plenty of legendary festivals!
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Ohio’s death metal misfits of Sanguisugabogg shared the new track ‘Permanently Fucked’ with a NSFW video, as to be expected from them. This first taste of new music since last year’s ‘Homicidal Ecstasy’ is out now via Century Media Records!
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Finnish doom/death metal act Grain Of Pain released its debut full-length album ‘The Moon Lights The Way’ via Noble Demon last Friday, and celebrates with a captivating video for opening track ‘Beneath’!
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Belgian masters of death/doom metal Marche Funèbre signed to Ardua Music for the release of their new album ‘After The Storm’ in September and unleashed a first single with ‘In A Haze’!
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Cleveland death metal outfit 200 Stab Wounds unleashed their latest single ‘Ride The Flatline’, from the upcoming album ‘Manual Manic Procedures’, set for release at the end of this month via Metal Blade Records! Catch them later this year on tour in Europe with Gatecreeper and Enforced!
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Cavalera shared another track from the upcoming re-recording of the legendary Sepultura album ‘Schizophrenia’ with ‘From The Past Comes The Storms’, including an animated video! The re-recording is set for release in a couple of weeks via Nuclear Blast Records!
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Tomorrow it’s again that time of the year: Tuska weekend is upon us! If somehow you weren’t convinced yet that you need to go, here are 10 reasons we believe should be enough motivation to still get a ticket if any are available still! Going from a great line-up, to Tuska KVLT, Tuska Expo expanding further and simply an amazing atmosphere! See you there!
After the team sent in their top lists at the end of last year, and calculating the results, we got to an interesting “albums of the year 2023” list featuring releases from Marduk, Kludde, Blink-182, Blackbraid, Orbit Culture, Gloryhammer, Ne Obliviscaris, Hypno5e, Periphery, Dying Fetus, Obituary, Avatar, Svalbard, VV and Sleep Token! Do you agree with any of these? What did you have in your top list?
Samoht was clearly somewhat inspired by dark Americana and country inspired music looking at his albums of the year 2023 list featuring artists like Dorthia Cottrell, Osi and the Jupiter, Wayfarer and The Coffinshakers, but also massive albums by bands like Frozen Soul, Serpent’s Oath, SLOW, OAK, Smoulder and Bell Witch!
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!
The summer festival season is over, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of exciting fests happening over the next couple of months this autumn/winter in Finland with Helsinki Techfest and Kaamos Metal Cruise already this weekend, HKI SKEPU FEST V, Lost In Music, Steelchaos, Hellsinki Industrial Festival 2023, Fall Fest 2023, Black Box Mikkeli, Melancholy Mass Festival 2023 and Unholy Winter Fest!
For the third and last day of Alcatraz 2023, our team picked out 10 more bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Serpents Oath, Archspire, Psychonaut, Mantah, Gaupa, Stake, Blind Guardian, Brutus, Killswitch Engage, and Holy Moses! Who are you especially looking forward to on the second day of the festival?
For the second day of Alcatraz 2023, our team picked out 13 bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Schizophrenia, Crystal Viper, Brand of Sacrifice, Twilight Force, Gaerea, Predatory Void, Midnight, Tribulation, Belphegor, Biohazard, Godflesh, Exciter and Amorphis! Who are you especially looking forward to on the second day of the festival?
Alcatraz 2023 is getting really close now! This Friday is the first day, and our team picked out 10 bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Eleine, Wind Rose, Frozen Soul, Gnome, Kludde, Svalbard, Gaahls Wyrd, Possessed, I Am Morbid and Mad Sin! Who are you especially looking forward to on the first day of the festival?
With less than 2 weeks to go, we put together 10 reasons why we think you should consider to still get yourself a ticket for Alcatraz 2023 and join in with the fun!
The first Tuska 2023 day is here! In a handful of hours the gates will open and 3 days of heavy music will begin! Besides the headliners and some big names, we’ve picked out about 10 bands and artists we believe you should give a shot while you’re at Tuska this weekend with Vended, Kouta, Foreseen and Miseria Ultima today, A.A. Williams, Orbit Culture, Dirt and Nakkeknækker tomorrow, and Vermilia and URNE on Sunday!
