Brutal Records is proud to announce the signing of Finnish old school death metal entity Korpsesoturi for the release of their upcoming album ‘Korplish Sedamon’!
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Cosmic death metal visionaries Blood Incantation announced a series of special cinema screenings across the EU & UK next month for ‘All Gates Open (In Search Of Absolute Elsewhere)’! If you’d rather see them live on stage, catch them at festivals all over Europe like Hellfest, Tuska and Rock Werchter!
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Last Friday Ingested unleashed their new album ‘Denigration’ on Metal Blade Records and shared a lyric video for the track ‘Oaths Betrayed’ to celebrate!
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Swedish death metal outfit Sarcasm shares the last track ‘Plunged Into A Paradox’ before the release of their upcoming album ‘Lifeforce Omnibound’, out by the end of this month via Hammerheart Records!
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Gutrectomy release another new song and video with ‘Eating 6 Humans by Daylight’ in anticipation of the release of their upcoming EP ‘Slamdown is not a phase, Mom’!
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Death metal band Fleshcrawl presents their new single ‘Embers of Wrath’, a track from their upcoming tenth full-length ‘Epitome of Carnage’, out next month via Distortion Music Group!
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Danish death/metallic hardcore outfit Lifesick strike back with their brand new single ‘Die With Me’, out now with Metal Blade Records!
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Italian death metal outfit Into Darkness shared their new track ‘Jupiter’, a taste of their upcoming debut album ‘Route to the Other Side’, set for release in July with Dying Victims Productions!
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Finnish bestial black/death metal trio Hoc Est Bellum are getting ready to unleash their debut album ‘Filth Majesty’ next month with Time To Kill Records and unveiled a first single with ‘Nightside Necromancy’!
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Belgian extreme music apparition Emptiness announced its new album ‘Nowhere Speaks’ to be out in July via Season of Mist!
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Album Reviews
Seventh studio album “Screams from Beneath the Surface” sees Floridian vanguards Monstrosity at their rawest, full of characteristic dynamics and brutality in the purest form of death metal. Out via Metal Blade Records since last month!
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Michigan four-piece death-doom act Temple of Void returns with the fifth studio album “The Crawl”, showing signs of progress and an expansion of sound to encapsulate different forms of metal. This album is recommended for fans of Type O Negative and Hooded Menace and out via Relapse Records since yesterday.
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New Exhumed album “Red Asphalt” breaks the loop of recycling and extends beyond the loop of death metal mediocrity. Matt Harvey & co showed their craft by excelling in every way and managed to absolutely surprise the fans with a gritty and extreme death metal and bloody gore attitude! Out via Relapse Records since February 20th.
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On the fourth studio album “Necropalace”, Worm welcomes the listener to the nightmarish limbo of dread and fantasia where the floating spectral phantoms reside in starry realms guarded by mythical creatures and dragons that surround an imperial palace. Out via Century Media Records since February 13th.
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The second album “Advent of Wounds” of the Brazilian duo Fossilization, is ominously dark and resonates with sinister fury. The band returns after three years only to crush and prosper. Out since February 13, via Everlasting Spew Records.
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Poland’s extreme blackened death metal band Shine delivers a raw and aggressive metallic force on its debut album “Wrathcult”. The album is recommended for fans of Azarath and Vader, out via Dark Descent Records since January 30th.
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Canada is giving us Deadwood that blend death and black metal into ‘The Rituals Of A Dying Light’, out today with Innerstrength Records!
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The latest full-length album “Gateway” of Montreal’s death metal formation Phobocosm conjure an eldritch and cavernous style of death metal. Out via Dark Descent Records since November 28th.
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The fourth studio album “Viribus Unitis” of the Ukrainian war brigade 1914 continues with the conceptual theme of World War I. 1914 integrate powerful elements of blackened death, doom, and atmospheric textures. Out since November 14th, via Napalm Records.
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Costa Rican death doom outfit Perishing delivers a prime example of guttural death doom on their debut ‘Malicious Acropolis Unveiled’. Out via Transcending Obscurity.
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From the amazing line-up of Tolminator 2025 we picked 10 acts we believe deserves your attention and time for you to check out at the festival if you’re there or at home if you’re not. A couple of them already played yesterday, like Vulvarine, High Parasite and Ghost Bath, but there is still plenty to discover and see with bands like Midnight, Cro-mags, Me And That Man, Party Cannon, Insanity Alert, Dopethrone and Mimi Barks!
Tolminator is already a quite unique and exceptional experience on its own, but they always seem to keep a keen eye on the scenes of different countries and know to pic some of the most promising acts for their line-ups. And this year, we get to welcome our friends of Marche Funèbre, Mordkaul and Brutal Sphincter to be part of the “Belgian Invasion”, but also 2 stellar acts from Finland with melodeath icons Omnium Gatherum and psychedelic black metal collective Oranssi Pazuzu!
On the first full day of Alcatraz 2025, 3 out of 4 stages will be opened by some Belgian gems, some banging heavy metal from Room13, atmospheric and melancholic doom with Splendidula and brutal death with a wink and a grin from Coffin Feeder!
As every year is the case, Alcatraz Festival has plenty of space and attention for the local Belgian scene and we’re not the only ones happy about that. On the newly expanded Thursday warm-up night you’ll get to enjoy cover/tribute bands like Mr. Lipstick and the Lost Traces, Motörheads and BelgianQuoBand, the popular thrash/speed metallers of Evil Invaders and a stage filled with more underground like Sister May, Kerker, Stung, Violent Sin and Ancient Rites!
Brutal Assault is a proper celebration of everything that is metal and/or extreme and there is something great to be found at any time of the day! We picked out 8 bands that you should go see on the first day of this year’s edition, with Frayle, RUÏM, Orange Goblin, Crystal Lake, Oranssi Pazuzu, 3 Inches of Blood, Sigh, and Brutally Deceased, because they’ll be more than worth your time!
Brutal Assault should be on your list of musts to go to at least once in your existence as metalhead, here are 10 reasons why we think you should consider making this true metal pilgrimage maybe this summer already!
In less than a week, 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 and join us there!
If you are still looking for a great summer destination, our homecountry of Belgium has some great events to offer, so here are 7 festivals that might make it a great place to go for you this year with the very last Wildfest this weekend, dunk!festival, Graspop Metal Meeting, Litha Fest, Lokerse Feesten, Rock Werchter and Alcatraz!
If you are still looking for a great summer destination, here are 12 festivals that might make Finland the ideal place to go for you this year with Sonic Rites this weekend, Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit, Nummirock, Tuska, John Smith Festival, SaariHelvetti, Dark River Festival, Hellsinki Metal Festival, the CoolHead Live concert series, Sastamalan Torijuhlat and Hevipäivät!
In 10 days, Kortrijk in Belgium, will turn the heavy up again with Hell’s Balls Belgium, just like they do every summer with Alcatraz festival. In case you weren’t sure yet why you should go, here are what we think are valid reasons for you to be there…
What are you the most excited about of this year’s editions of the festival? Let us know in the comments!
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