Brat announced their new album ‘Manslayer’ to be out in September with Prosthetic Records and shared first single ‘Manslayer (Hell Hath No Fury)’! Catch them live in Europe on tour with Napalm Death starting November!
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News Posts
Flamenco death metal outfit Impureza shared “Una mañana con Impureza”, a full live video of their performance at Hellfest earlier this year, marking the anniversary of their third album ‘Alcázares’, released last year with Season of Mist!
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Death metal supergroup Left To Die shared ‘Legion Of Doom’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Initium Mortis’, out on July 17th with Relapse Records! Catch them on tour this summer where besides headline shows they’ll bring death to festivals like Alcatraz, Brutal Assault and Dynamo Metal Fest’s pre-party!
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Metal and hardcore powerhouse Fuming Mouth shared their new single & video ‘Cheat Death’ recently, another taste of their upcoming album ‘The Ringing Bell’, out July 17th via Triple B Records!
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German death metal horde Endseeker have released their farewell EP ‘Coffin Born’ via Metal Blade Records last month and now recently unleashed a special cover and video of their take on David Hasselhoff’s ‘True Survivor’, featuring Lord Of The Lost!
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Brazilian death metal band Ereboros shared their new single ‘In the Depths of Misery’, first track unveiled from their upcoming album ‘From Oblivion to the Grave’, out in October!
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Brazilian extreme metal outfit NervoChaos are releasing their new album ‘Chaosmongers’ in September via Black Lion Records!
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Tech death magicians Allegaeon dropped a dark new music video for the track ‘Dark Matter Dynamics’ from their latest album ‘The Ossuary Lens’, out with Metal Blade Records!
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Progressive symphonic extreme metal force Tómarúm signed with Vesperian, the beginning of what promises to be an exciting new chapter!
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Black/death metal force Belphegor announced the “Praise The Beast European Tour 2026” to take place in October this year with the support of Krisiun, Asagraum and a 4th yet to be announced band! You won’t want to miss out on this night of brutality!
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Interviews
Making a deal with the deal turns out to be healthy! Well, sort of anyway. What was the deal? an interview with Sisters of Suffocation. The price? find out in the article!
We talked with Espoo, Finland based brewery Fat Lizard Brewing Co. and Children Of Bodom about their collab craftbeer “Lake Bodom pre-prohibition lager”!
We talked with Espoo, Finland based brewery Fat Lizard Brewing Co. and Children Of Bodom about their collab craftbeer “Lake Bodom pre-prohibition lager”!
It is a post apocalyptic world where the Midgard Warriors fight for survival and their way of life. A talk with Johnny Hedlund about the latest Unleashed album…
It is a post apocalyptic world where the Midgard Warriors fight for survival and their way of life. A talk with Johnny Hedlund about the latest Unleashed album…
We had a chat with one of the driving forces behind Tomb Mold, who delivered one of the best death metal releases of the year!
With so much hype surrounding the release of the new album I was honored to have a small chat with the band.
Now that Finnish Melodic death metal band Mors Subita released their third full lenght. we couldn’t help but to send them some questions regarding the new album as well as some other stuff. check it out.
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The second edition of Hellsinki Metal promises to be again absolutely great! Just in case you weren’t convinced enough yet, here are our reasons why we believe you should get a ticket still for the 2024 edition if you haven’t yet! With a massive line-up, added features and an overall excellent festival experience promised, you won’t want to sit this one out!
With about a week to go, we put together 10 reasons why we think you should consider to still get yourself a ticket for Alcatraz 2024 and join in with the fun! With a stellar line-up, including some of the best the Belgian scene has to offer and a great organization trying to improve your festival experience year after year, it’s promising to be one hell of a weekend again!
Tomorrow it’s again that time of the year: 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 if any are available still! Going from a great line-up, to Tuska KVLT, Tuska Expo expanding further and simply an amazing atmosphere! See you there!
After the team sent in their top lists at the end of last year, and calculating the results, we got to an interesting “albums of the year 2023” list featuring releases from Marduk, Kludde, Blink-182, Blackbraid, Orbit Culture, Gloryhammer, Ne Obliviscaris, Hypno5e, Periphery, Dying Fetus, Obituary, Avatar, Svalbard, VV and Sleep Token! Do you agree with any of these? What did you have in your top list?
Samoht was clearly somewhat inspired by dark Americana and country inspired music looking at his albums of the year 2023 list featuring artists like Dorthia Cottrell, Osi and the Jupiter, Wayfarer and The Coffinshakers, but also massive albums by bands like Frozen Soul, Serpent’s Oath, SLOW, OAK, Smoulder and Bell Witch!
Our resident extreme metal reviewer Mazen has a selection of stellar (mostly) black and death metal releases as his favorite of the year with Sulphur Aeon, Varathron, Moonlight Sorcery, Cruciamentum, Suffocation, Dying Fetus, Asphodelus, Marduk, …And Oceans, and Cirith Ungol!
The summer festival season is over, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of exciting fests happening over the next couple of months this autumn/winter in Finland with Helsinki Techfest and Kaamos Metal Cruise already this weekend, HKI SKEPU FEST V, Lost In Music, Steelchaos, Hellsinki Industrial Festival 2023, Fall Fest 2023, Black Box Mikkeli, Melancholy Mass Festival 2023 and Unholy Winter Fest!
For the third and last day of Alcatraz 2023, our team picked out 10 more bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Serpents Oath, Archspire, Psychonaut, Mantah, Gaupa, Stake, Blind Guardian, Brutus, Killswitch Engage, and Holy Moses! Who are you especially looking forward to on the second day of the festival?
For the second day of Alcatraz 2023, our team picked out 13 bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Schizophrenia, Crystal Viper, Brand of Sacrifice, Twilight Force, Gaerea, Predatory Void, Midnight, Tribulation, Belphegor, Biohazard, Godflesh, Exciter and Amorphis! Who are you especially looking forward to on the second day of the festival?
Alcatraz 2023 is getting really close now! This Friday is the first day, and our team picked out 10 bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Eleine, Wind Rose, Frozen Soul, Gnome, Kludde, Svalbard, Gaahls Wyrd, Possessed, I Am Morbid and Mad Sin! Who are you especially looking forward to on the first day of the festival?
Album Reviews
Grand Cadaver’s ‘The Rot Beneath’ is what you get when a bunch of veterans from the Swedish death metal scene celebrate their love for the old school. Out via Majestic Mountain Records.
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Unleashed on its fifteenth studio album “Fire Upon Your Lands” offers top-notch precision, raw aggression and raw ferocity of its Viking themed death metal style. Out now via Napalm Records since August 15th.
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Helsinki-based death metal four-piece Malformed unleashes a solid and brutal record with ‘Confinement of Flesh”, tailored to meet the cadaverous old school style of Finnish bands. Out via Dark Descent Records.
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Canada’s death metal quartet Disembodiment returns with a gory death metal record. Their first full-length album “Spiral Crypts” is inspired by rotten death metal bands. Out via Everlasting Spew Records since July 11th.
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Fire up your FTL drives and prepare to descend into the insane maelstrom of progressive death metal that is Haxprocess’ sophomore album ‘Beyond What Eyes Can See’. Out since today via Transcending Obscurity Records.
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“Lord of Two Horns” is full of crushing grooves, and a furious eruption of superfast drumming. Drawn and Quartered takes a brutal and often death doom flow that will make you bow down to those masters. One of the top death metal releases of this year, out since June 27th via Nuclear Winter Records.
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Swedish death metal four-piece Puteraeon delivers an epic and raw kind of death metal on their fifth studio album “Mountains of Madness”. Out via Emanzipation Productions since last month, May 30th.
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Gruesome returns after seven years with a capturing shift in sound, the third studio album “Silent Echoes” proves that no other band can replicate the musical theory of Chuck Schuldiner than Gruesome. Out via Relapse Records on 6th of June.
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Ossuary’s full-length album “Abhorrent Worship” drags you to hell and prepares you to journey across the subterranean realms of the underworld. Out via Me Saco Uno Ojo Records and Darkness Shall Rise Productions since May 23rd.
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Polish death metal band Toughness delivers one of the best albums in the style of Finnish and technical death metal bands. “Black Respite of Oblivion” is a classic release, out since February 28th via Godz ov War Productions.
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