Dutch death metal legends Pestilence announced that Max Blok (Alkaloid, Dark Fortress) has joined their new line-up as their new official guitarist, and are working on their 10th album ‘Portals’, expected to be out in June via Agonia Records.
Catch them live this year at a select amount of festivals, including with our friends of Alcatraz Festival!
New Zealand death metal ensemble Ulcerate will be hitting up 6 cities in the Nordic Region this May ahead of festival appearances at Graveland Festival and Fortress Festival, bringing French extreme sludge band Fange with them!
Leeds based tech death outfit Pravitas announced their upcoming debut ‘The Parasitic Divine’, set for release in March, and dropped the ferocious single and video ‘Defragment’!
UK death metal force Vacuous share the new song ‘Stress Positions’, another track from their upcoming second album, set for release at the end of February via Relapse Records!
The line-up of Brutal Assault 2025 is 70% complete with the addition of over 30 more names with Opeth, Kerry King, Karnivool, Fear Factory, Cult of Luna, Paradise Lost and much more!
Danish death metal/metallic hardcore outfit Lifesick is kicking off the year with a new video for ‘Peace Through Superior Firepower’, a track from their last year released album ‘Loved By None, Hated By All’ out via Metal Blade Records!
Dutch metal/hardcore veterans Zubzero are ready for the world to get to know them, and unleash the single ‘The Essence Of Our Existence’, a track from their upcoming EP ‘Perverserverance’!
UK death metal outfit are making their Relapse Records debut with the upcoming new album ‘In His Blood’, set for release next month, and shared a music video for the title track!
Polish death metal outfit Embrional unveiled the details on their upcoming new album ‘Inherited Tendencies for Self-Destruction’, set for release in March via Agonia Records, and shared a first single with ‘The World Deserves Self-Destruction’!
NOLA’s Brat shared a cover of Heart’s classic ‘Barracuda’ with a video and featuring Sammy Duet from Acid Bath and Goatwhore, out now via Prosthetic Records, approaching 2025 with the same energy as they do everything else: loud and relentless!
Catch them on tour in Europe next month supporting Napalm Death with Crowbar and Full of Hell!
Abscession on the sophomore “Rot of Ages” managed to exhibit new musical grounds of Stockholm death metal.
“Hideous Entity” is a bludgeoning death metal album brought by the methods of the Danish and the Turkish style of death metal.
Massacre’s fourth album “Resurgence” presents a real treat for the fans who had been waiting for the band to revive its classic raw sound.
“The Black Mouth of Sepulchre” delivers unmatched performance from the Danish that will rather bring them to the top echelons of European acts.
Apparition’s unique identity sets new sonic paradoxes that seem untraditional to the style of the death metal trend. And comes as highly recommend for fans of Fetid, Innumerable Forms, and Disembowelment.
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.
Qrixkuor’s full-length album is truly mystifying and full of twists, if you are into bands like Portal, Abyssal, and Teitanblood then check this malicious piece of death metal album out.
Occulsed debut album ‘Crepitation of Phlegethon’ is steeped in cavernous old school death metal putridity.
The sophomore from the Canadian death metal duo Altered Dead brings many influences from the Swedish and the American death metal.
Some of the more intense, crazy progressive metal tunes can be found on Between The Buried And Me’s ‘Colors II’. No easy listening music for the faint hearted.
5 Shades of Black brought blackness and death to Asgaard and we took the pictures…
Two whirlwinds of performances by Venom Prison and Power Trip, followed by a showcasing of modern metal by Trivium!
An evening of crushing melodic death metal and depressing post-black captured on film…
Pictures of the French “end of the summer” underground music festival Fall of Summer 2017!
The MTV Headbanger’s Ball is always a very good show, and this year was no different. If you want to see our photo impression, this is it!
The little Winter brother of the impressive Steelfest Open Air took place for the first time and we were there to get the pure hatred and evil immortalized on pictures!
The visuals of an evening of Finnish pagan inspired metal by the viking warriors of Ensiferum and Crimfall and the wolves of Wolfheart!
The pictures of 4 days of the best the metal and hardcore scene has to offer in the best setting ever that is Brutal Assault!
Kataklysm is coming to Graspop, but watch a preview here from their show in Antwerp!
Arch Enemy came to Helsinki to showcase their latest album “Will to Power” and brought with them Ukrainian powerhouse Jinjer!
