New York death metal titans Immolation announced their upcoming new album ‘Descent’ to be out in April via Nuclear Blast Records and shared first single ‘Adversary’! Catch them on tour in Europe with Mayhem next month, in North America with Behemoth in April and May or this summer at Brutal Assault!
Death metal force Temple Of Void return with their new album ‘The Crawl’ in March, out with Relapse Records and just shared t he title track as a single with a video!
Ukrainian blackened death/doom formation 1914 return to the battlefield with ‘The War That Never Ends’ Europe tour starting in March, and bring along Danish doom lords KATLA, both bands introducing their latest releases to the live crowds!
Sylosis dropped their devastating second single ‘Erased’ from upcoming album ‘The New Flesh’ out next month via Nuclear Blast! Catch them on tour through Europe for the next couple of months!
Brutal Assault reveals massive lineup update for the 2026 edition with Body Count, Primus, Periphery, synthwave titans Perturbator and Carpenter Brut, Cradle of Filth and a bunch more heading to the fortress! Get your tickets!
Australian death doom outfit Mammon’s Throne are set to release their third album ‘My Body to the Worms’ in March via Hammerheart Records and unveiled the first heavy track ‘Elixir’!
Swedish cult death metal band Internal Decay is back with their first new music in 30 years with the EP ‘Fires Of The Forgotten’ out next month via Hammerheart Records and shared the title track to celebrate!
Finnish blackened death metal band Karelian Warcry is set to release their third album this spring with Inverse Records and shared a taste with the single ‘Mielen rutto’!
Masters of gore metal Exhumed announced their new album ‘Red Asphalt’ to be out in February via Relapse Records and shared the single and video ‘Unsafe At Any Speed’!
German death metallers Rise Of Kronos are returning with full force with their new album ‘Slaves Of Time’ in April and just shared a music video for the title track!
The maniacal duo of the Indian black/death metal outfit Tetragrammacide presents one of the best offerings in the extreme metal genre this year. “Typho-Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qur’an” spits venomous fire brought by the mastery of the percussive force. The album was released via Iron Bonehead Productions on November 3rd.
Montréal-based death metal band Phobocosm shows great intellect in blending the modern dissonance with cavernous death doom style. The third album “Foreordained” was released via Dark Descent Records yesterday, December 8th.
Belgian death metal powerhouse Carnation is one of the few bands to tackle its style with the precise sound of Swedish death metal, while maintaining a signature sound and daring to experiment with things from time to time. Their third, and massive album “Cursed Mortality” is out now, via Season of Mist, and one you won’t want to miss out on as one of the best releases of the year in our books!
The international death metal quartet Cruciamentum finally returns with the sophomore “Obsidian Refractions” and delivers a majestic opus of crushing death metal, out via Profound Lore Records, on November 24th.
20 Buck Spin presents the latest split album “Starpath”, unfolding the blissful serene and grim nature of Dream Unending and Worm in a special release, integrating the light side of yin and the dark side of yang in a beautiful symmetry. Out on November 24th.
Richmond, Virginia based-death metal band Left Cross returns with the second offering “Upon Desecrated Altars”. If you’re into bands like early Grave and Bolt Thrower then make sure to give this album a listen, the album is out since last Friday November 10th, via Profound Lore Records.
After embedding their sound in the realms of blackened death/doom, U.K.’s quartet Strigoi returns with a short EP “Bathed in A Black Sun”, presenting fans with exclusive and unreleased tracks out via Season of Mist.
Swedish melodic blackened death metal super group Night Crowned offers a compelling mixture of aggression and modern mixture of Nordic melodies on the third album ‘Tales’ out via Noble Demon Records today!
Death metal supergroup Vastum’s fifth studio album “Inward to Gethsemane” cements the cavernous brutality of the band, out via 20 Buck Spin tomorrow, November 10th.
Carnal Tomb’s third album “Embalmed In Decay” is a must for fans of Entombed, this is a rotten old school death metal record, out via Testimony Records.
Steelchaos day 2 was yet another spectacle, both musically and visually, with shows from Chevalier, Horna, Cadaveric Incubator, Torture Killer, Lord Fist and the epic “Black Metal” anniversary celebration by Venom Inc.!
Steelchaos is always a fantastic event to get to take pictures at, especially with on day 1 shows from Satan’s Fall, Malicious, Flame, Barathrum, Belphegor and Sacramentum!
Swedish melodeath masters Arch Enemy and Polish blackened metal occultists Behemoth are on their European Siege Tour 2022 with special guest Carcass and warm up act Unto Others. While last night they played a killer show at a sold-out Jäähalli in Helsinki, we caught the show earlier at their stop in the Netherlands!
Ultima Ratio Fest has been bringing a proper collection of metal bands around Europe with Moonspell, Insomnium, Borknagar, Wolfheart and Hinayana. Sadly it seemed the crowd was mostly asleep at this stop at Backstage Munich, regardless some great metal music was played this night!
Obscura proved yet again at Backstage Munich that metal can be complex and brutal at the same time with a bombshell of a show. Support came from Disillusion and Persefone.
On a Sunday autumn evening in Finland we saw total Polish death metal takeover of On The Rocks Helsinki with Vader, Hate and Thy Disease at on of the stops on the “Final Declaration Northern Tour 2022”! For a Sunday, there was quite the massacre unleashed in the pit!
Metal mastodons Gojira came, saw and conquered a sold out Jäähalli in Helsinki, Finland with their amazing music and killer visuals back in July, with support from Alien Weaponry and Employed To Serve!
Finally, after all the delays, we got a double serving of the Gojira at 013 Poppodium in Tilburg, Netherlands. With both shows being sold out, they were quite the explosive nights, especially with added to that support acts Alien Weaponry and Employed to Serve!
Pictures of the 2nd day of Tuska 2023 with Oranssi Pazuzu, Reckless Love, VLTIMAS, Stam1na, Blind Channel, Amorphis, Baroness and Mercyful Fate.
Pictures of the first day of Tuska 2023 with Eluveitie, Northern Kings, Lost Society, Perturbator, Beast In Black, Red Fang, Carcass and Heilung
