German melodic death metal band Messmorality unleash ‘Demons’, a powerful new single tackling mental health and inner demons, and the first release featuring new vocalist Cherry Summerfield.
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Brutal death metal rising stars Stabbing unleashed the pummeling title track from their upcoming album ‘Eon Of Obscenity’, which is set for release in January 2026 with Century Media!
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Tuska just delivered an early Christmas gift by confirming 13 more names for the 2026 lineup with acts like Pain, D-A-D, Gatecreeper, The Funeral Portrait, aurorawave and of course a bunch of Finnish names again like Swallow The Sun, Survivors Zero, Kallomäki and more!
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For those who missed it, Finntroll and …And Oceans frontman Mathias “Vreth” Lillmåns released his retrospective album ‘Remains’ at the end of last month! Covering 3 decades of his personal growth as a musican and vocalist, this is a great little piece of metal history to dig into!
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Finnish death metal band Wounded In Forest unleashed their debut EP ‘Antihuman Artist’ yesterday via Inverse Records!
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American death metal unit Malefic Throne reveals new track & lyric video ‘Athirst for Dissonance’ in anticipation of their debut album ‘The Conquering Darkness’ out next week via Agonia Records!
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Worm signed to Century Media Records for the release of their new album ‘Necropalace’ in February 2026 and revealed the short film for the title track, taking us back to the obscure symphonic black metal tapes from the 90s and horror from the same era!
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Dutch concept driven death metal band Black Rabbit is releasing a new EP ‘Warren Of Necrosis’ in December and unveiled the single ‘Initium Finis’ with an official music video as a teaser!
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Last Friday, 1914 released their latest album ‘Viribus Unitis’ with Napalm Records and shared one last crushing single before with ‘1918 Pt 3: ADE (A Duty to Escape)’ featuring Aaron Stainthorpe and with an animated video!
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Texas brutal death metal outfit Stabbing announce new album ‘Eon of Obscenity’ to be out in January 2026 via Century Media Records and unleash video single ‘Inhuman Torture Chamber’ as a first devastating taste of the pummeling that is to come!
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Photo Reports
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
Album Reviews
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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The ninth album “Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts” from old school death metal veterans Autopsy showcases superb musicianship out now, via Peaceville Records since October 27th.
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The fourth dreadful opus “Seven Crowns and Seven Seals” from North Rhine-Westphalia blackened death outfit Sulphur Aeon conveys an otherworldly sense of might to the ancient creatures that lurk beneath the seas out now via Ván Records on October 13th.
Hail Cthulhu!!!
Hail Sulphur Aeon!!!!
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