Left To Die is unleashing their debut full-length ‘Initium Mortis’ with Relapse next month and unveiled another track with ‘Witch of Hell’! Catch them live this summer at European festivals, including Alcatraz Festival in Belgium!
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BAEST announces fellow Aarhus metal outfit Deadnate as special guests on their upcoming Europe Fall “Colossal tour 2026”, bringing together 2 Danish bands to showcase what their country has to offer for the next generation of heavy music!
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Belgian avantgatde extreme metal band Emptiness recently released the single ‘The Threat’ a second teaser of what is to come on their upcoming album ‘Nowhere Speask’, set for release in July via Season of Mist!
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UK outfit Burner announced their album ‘No One Is Coming To Save Us’ to be released in September with Church Road Records and unveiled single and music video ‘Sunrise, Parabellum’ featuring Matthew K. Heavy of Trivium!
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Supergroup Left To Die signed to Relapse Records to release their debut full-length ‘Initium Mortis’ in July! A band paying proper homage to the brutal beginnings of metal icons Death, now unleashing a first track with ‘Archangel’! Catch them live in Europe this summer at festivals like Alcatraz and Brutal Assault!
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Tokyo death metal legends Defiled unleashed the third and last single from their upcoming album ‘Altered State’ with the title track! The full-length is out next month with Season of Mist!
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Belgian death metal force Carnation unleashed yet another savage new single with ‘Flesh-Eating Frenzy’, from their album ‘Symphony In Flesh’, out in October!
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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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Album Reviews
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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With less than 2 weeks to go, we put together 10 reasons why we think you should consider to still get yourself a ticket for Alcatraz 2023 and join in with the fun!
The first Tuska 2023 day is here! In a handful of hours the gates will open and 3 days of heavy music will begin! Besides the headliners and some big names, we’ve picked out about 10 bands and artists we believe you should give a shot while you’re at Tuska this weekend with Vended, Kouta, Foreseen and Miseria Ultima today, A.A. Williams, Orbit Culture, Dirt and Nakkeknækker tomorrow, and Vermilia and URNE on Sunday!
If you are still looking for a great summer destination, here are 10 festivals that might make Finland the ideal place to go for you with #Horizon23, Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit, Nummirock, Tuska, John Smith Festival, SaariHelvetti, Dark River Festival, Hellsinki Metal Festival and Flow Festival!
Steelfest manages to impress with their line-up and organization every single year, and this year is no different, even after some recent setbacks! We’re amazed with the line-up that celebrates everything that is underground and extreme yet again, and that’s only a part of the reasons why you should still try to make it to the fest this weekend!
As the festival summer is quickly approaching, May sees many great releases yet again. Our team of writers put together a nice selection of those they are looking forward to the most this month with Deathstars, Cattle Decapitation, Veil Of Maya, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Ghost, Thulcandra, Frozen Soul, Sleep Token, Henget, Vomitory, Immortal, Kalmah and Legion Of The Damned!
with a killer line-up featuring stellar acts from the underground with Satanic Warmaster, Ævangelist, Archgoat, Trollheims Grott, Heretic, Blood Chalice, Aesthus, Flame, Malicious, Medico Peste, Mörk Gryning and Avslut to celebrate their 10th anniversary!
February has some great releases again, and we’re looking forward to albums from artists like Memoriam, In Flames, Paramore, dEUS, Mordkaul, Ulthar, Avatar, The Abbey, Insomnium, Host, Gorillaz and Heidevolk!
As usual, Mazen’s top albums are a mix of death metal, black metal and a touch of doom metal, heralding everything that is underground and extreme with bands like Phobophilic, Autopsy, Stormruler, Watain, Shape of Despair, Ars Hmu, Sedimentum, Chaotian, Trolldom and Immolation!
2023 starts off with quite the bang with new releases from VV, Anti-Flag, Imperium Dekadenz, Turmion Kätilöt, Katatonia, Kiberspassk, …and Oceans, Obituary, Suasion, Dropout Kings and Vėlių Namai!
Steelchaos is back! If that is not reason enough to get yourself a ticket still, here are 5 reasons why you should still consider to go this weekend, including the exclusive Finland “Black Metal” 40 years anniversary show of Venom Inc.!
Interviews
We talked to Tom Reynolds of Foul Body Autopsy about his new album, working independently and more. Check it out!
We talked to Tom Reynolds of Foul Body Autopsy about his new album, working independently and more. Check it out!
We talked with Larissa Stupar of Venom Prison about their tour with Trivium, music and her opinion about a bunch of things! Check it out!
We talked with Larissa Stupar of Venom Prison about their tour with Trivium, music and her opinion about a bunch of things! Check it out!
We had a talk with Skeletal Ramains’ vocalist Chris Monroy about their upcoming album, his musical influences and more…
We had a talk with Skeletal Ramains’ vocalist Chris Monroy about their upcoming album, his musical influences and more…
On the 8th of November, Dying Fetus played at JC De Klinker in Aarschot. I got the chance to have a chat with John Gallagher about the new album and being on tour.
Short interview with Jukka and Markus from Omnium Gatherum about their music and tour!
I managed to catch up with the guys from Blood of Angels to talk about their EP, their vision and the general direction the band is going in.
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