News Posts

Earlier this week, Metal Blade Records announced the worldwide signing of the popular Swedish melodic death/black metallers Kvaen!

Greek black/death metal force is set to captivate the metal world with their latest offering ‘Gods’ Demise’!

Post Pulse is set on changing the sound of Finnish death metal with their fresh take on the genre on ‘Return to the Halls’, out via Inverse Records in May! The latest single ‘Taste of Freedom’ is out now!

French symphonic melodic death metallers Aephanemer are kicking off their European tour tomorrow with a first show in Italy! Make sure you catch them live near you, including at our very own Asgaard venue!

British death/doom legends My Dying Bride shared the new single & video ‘The 2nd Of Three Bells’, another track from their upcoming 15th studio album ‘A Mortal Binding’, set for release in April via Nuclear Blast!

Progressive death metal outfit DÅÅTH has emerged from its thirteen year hiatus with a first new album in 14 years: ‘The Deceivers’! Set for release in May via Metal Blade Records, they now also unveiled the single ‘Hex Unending’!

Six Feet Under will unleash their fourteenth studio album ‘Killing For Revenge’ via Metal Blade Records in May and unveiled a first track last week with ‘Know-Nothing Ingrate’!

Florida based Sci-Fi death metal icons Nocturnus AD have announced their new album ‘Unicursal’ to be set for release in May via Profound Lore Records and shared first single ‘CephaloGod’!

Brazilian death/thrash supergroup The Troops Of Doom is back with a 2nd full-length album ‘A Mass To The Grotesque’, set for release in May via Alma Mater Records!

New Zealand death metal trio Ulcerate are back with another highly-anticipated new album ‘Cutting the Throat of God’ set for release in June via Debemur Morti Productions and unleashed a first song with ‘The Dawn is Hollow’!

Album Reviews

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.

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.