US death metal legends Monstrosity shared the official video for ‘Banished to the Skies’ the opening track of their recently released album ‘Screams From Beneath The Surface’, out on Metal Blade Records! Catch them live in Europe starting in a month or this summer at Brutal Assault!
Swedish death metal outfit Sarcasm has announced their upcoming new album ‘Lifeforce Omnibound’ to be out in May via Hammerheart Records and shared a first track to celebrate with ‘Altering The Perception’!
Extreme metal legends Nunslaughter announced their new album ‘Satanic Chaos Legions’ to be out with BLKIIBLK in June and shared the title track as a first single with a music video!
Death metal powerhouse Rise Of Kronos have released their brand new single ‘Escalate The Rot’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Slaves Of Time’, out next month!
Swedish old school death metallers Demonical posted a live video of the song ‘By Hatred Bound’, getting people ready for their upcoming tour that will bring them to a handful of locations in Europe, including this year’s Steelfest!
A song about the deepest depths of despair – Finnish extreme metal band Saasta releases second single ‘The Envy’ from their upcoming album ‘Cesspool’, set to be out in May with Inverse Records!
Hellsinki Metal Festival has completed its 2026 line-up with the addition of Paradise Lost, Carcass, Cryptopsy, Unleashed, Mawiza, Sanguisugabogg, Omnium Gatherum, Kalmah, Assemble the Chariots, Cyan Kicks, Tungsten, Sepulchral Curse, Orly, Horizon Ignited, Misþyrming, and VREID!
Swedish death metal veterans Vomitory share their new single ‘For Gore And Country’, a track from their upcoming new album ‘In Death Throes’, set for release in the beginning of April via Metal Blade Records! Catch them live with Hypocrisy, Abbath and Vreid the same month!
Frozen Soul shared their new single ‘No Place of Warmth’, featuring Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance, and the title track for their upcoming new album, set for release in May via Century Media!
US death metal icons Monstrosity unleash their latest single ‘The Atrophied’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Screams From Beneath The Surface’, set for release next month via Metal Blade Records!
Death metal and grindcore masters Caustic Wound drop an excellent album with “Grinding Mechanism of Torment”. The album is recommended for fans of Repulsion, Terrorizer and early Napalm Death, out with Profound Lore Records.
Hate’s new album “Bellum Regiis” is another remarkable piece of Slavic aggression that solidifies the style of this Polish institution. Out via Metal Blade Records since last Friday May 2nd.
Greek titans Nightfall display remarkable musicianship on their eleventh studio album “Children of Eve”, out via Season of Mist since yesterday. The songs embrace and recapture the gothic facet of its music with dark atmosphere.
Ancient Death’s first album “Ego Dissolution” will thrill you with the contrasting elements of the atmospheric riffs that are cleverly placed with the female vocals. Out via Profound Lore Records since last Friday, April 18th.
Lithuanian death metal act Crypts of Despair achieves a staggering sense of modern technical death metal and showcase an energetic and brutal amalgamation on their third album ‘We Belong In the Grave’. Out via Transcending Obscurity Records.
The Swedish old school death metal powerhouse LIK imbibe from the rotten sound of bands like Entombed and Dismember. The fourth studio album “Necro” features many headbanging riffs, no fillers and high quality throughout, out via Metal Blade Records tomorrow, April 18th.
British old-school death metal formation Benediction delivers gritty and sinister aggression on their ninth studio album “Ravage of Empires”. Out via Nuclear Blast this Friday April 4th.
Corpus Offal’s self-titled debut offers a flashback to the late ’80s and early ’90s death grind, enter the sonic morgue of gruesome experimentation and horror. Out via 20 Buck Spin since last week Friday, March 21st.
Spain’s legendary death metal band Unbounded Terror return to embrace its cult identity, their fourth album “Something Is Rotten in Humanity” offers otherworldly melodies and solid brutality. Out via Xtreem Music next week on April 1st.
The Hungarian duo Rothadàs deliver a crushing monstrosity of cavernous death-doom metal on the sophomore “Töviskert… a kísértés örök érzete… lidércharang”. Out via Pulverised Records and Me Saco un Ojo Records since yesterday, March 21st!
Hellsinki Metal Festival is becoming a permanent fixture in the Finnish summer festival landscape, and after 2 successful editions, the organisation decided they didn’t want to wait for another year. In comes a smaller winter edition of the main event about halfway December 2024, bringing amazing extreme metal bands together like Omnivortex, Batushka, Belphegor and headliners Dark Funeral!
This year’s “Motocultor across Europe Tour” kickoff show was at Poppodium 013 in Tilburg, The Netherlands, headlined by Moldovan favorite Infected Rain and support acts Semblant, Elyose, Miruthan, and Skin On Flesh!
Pictures of a brutal night at Chinastraat in Gent with Benighted, Baest and Coffin Feeder!
40 years – what an anniversary for the Brazilian metal icons SEPULTURA. At the same time, it’s a ’40 Years Farewell Tour – Celebrating Life Through Death’. With 15 albums to their name, puts on a great show, supported by JESUS PIECE, OBITUARY and JINJER. What a goodbye for a legendary band, MHP Arena in Ludwigsburg, Germany literally boiled over!
We checked out the first day of the second edition of Hell’s Balls Belgium festival… With banging names like Triptykon, Primordial, Vltimas, the unofficial inclusion of the “Night Eternal tour” with Dark Tranquillity, Wolfheart and Moonspell, Carpathian Forest, Hellripper, Dead Head and The Monolith Deathcult, it was a true fest for any extreme metal fan!
After an exemplary show at Alcatraz this past summer, Septicflesh graced Belgium again with their presence on their “Modern Primitive European tour”, dropping by the DVG Club in Kortrijk. And with support by Equilibrium, Oceans and Scar of the Sun, it was quite the death metal night of epic proportions!
The legendary Nile dropped by at the Entrepot venue in Bruges, Belgium as part of their “Underworld Europe Tour 2024”, bringing the music of their new album to fans across the continent, and brought along some other excellent death metal bands with Hideous Divinity and Intrepid. Local support came from Pestifer.
Pictures of the third day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Swamp Stage a serving of extreme metal with Mordkaul, Aborted, Dark Tranquillity and Opeth!
Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Swamp Stage a serving of extreme metal with Fleshgod Apocalypse, Benediction, Lord of the Lost and Watain!
Pictures of the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2024 with on stage 3 shows from Swallow The Sun, Soen, Obscura, and Massacre!
