Finnish sludge metallers Earthblood unleashed their latest new single ‘Hatchet in Hand’, out now everywhere!
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Finnish deathgrind band Cumbeast unveiled the new video for ‘Spermafrost’, the closing track of their upcoming album ‘Fairytales Of Filth’, out next month!
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Belgian death metal band Carnation returns to their roots with crushing new single ‘Kingdom Of Dreams’, a taste of what is to come with their upcoming album ‘Symphony in Flesh’, set for release in October!
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Finnish death-grind provocateurs Sewer Altar are releasing their debut full-length ‘Fever Dreams of Veneance’ this Friday and earlier unveiled another single with ‘Cryonaut Sludge’!
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Danish death metal powerhouse Baest are hitting the road this fall with their “Colossal European Headline Tour 2026”, bringing their relentless live energy and latest album ‘Colossal’ across mainland Europe, the UK and Ireland!
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Canadian death metal institute Cryptopsy just released an uncensored version of the video for ‘Malicious Needs’, celebrating 3 decades of music! Catch them on their “Malicious & Vile Summer 2026” tour in Europe, including stops at Hellsinki Metal Festival and Brutal Assault!
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US death metal horde Funebrarum announced their new album ‘Beckoning the Void of Eternal Silence’ recently, set to be released in May via Pulverised Records and unveiled a first track with ‘Anhela Odor Mortuorum (The Adepts)’!
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Finnish extreme metal band Saasta unleashed their final single ‘The Coffin’ in anticipation of upcoming album ‘Cesspool’, set to be released next month!
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US black/death metal veterans Aurora Borealis unleashed first single ‘Millisecond Pulsar’ from upcoming album ‘Disillusioned By The Illusion’, set for release later this month with Non Serviam Records!
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Frozen Sould unleashed another crushing single with ‘Invoke War’, featuring Robb Flynn of Machine Head, and another track from their upcoming album ‘No Place of Warmth’, set for release in May via Century Media Records!
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Album Reviews
UK based death metal five-piece Vacuous returns with their sophomore release “In His Blood”, offering a brutal slab of death metal with hints of post-punk and other influences. Undoubtedly one of the strongest releases of 2025, out via Relapse Records!
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Long-running Spanish death metal band Avulsed returns with the eighth studio album “Phoenix Cryptobiosis”. With its absolute decay and cadaverous death metal madness, it’s highly recommended for fans of early Cannibal Corpse and Six Feet Under, out via Xtreem Music.
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Denmark’s death metal band Maceration returns with the third studio album “Serpent Devourment”, a rotten death metal record that will entice fans of Entombed and was released with Emanzipation Productions.
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Swedish cult death metal band Wombbath return with their seventh studio album “Beyond the Abyss”, and is highly recommended for fans of obscure extreme metal, out since yesterday via Pulverised Records.
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Third studio album “Fentanyl” from German blackened doom/death metal quartet Morast is equally dark and misanthropic, out via Ván Records.
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The new album “Revelations from the Void” of the Catalonian death doom sextet Onirophagus is rooted in the style of classic death doom metal. Recommended for fans of Officium Triste, Saturnus, and early My Dying Bride, out via Personal Records.
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Sophomore release “Carnage Gathers” delivers a solid slab of primitivism from the Vancouver, British Colombia-based death metal quartet Grave Infestation. Out via Dark Descent Records on February 28th.
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Retromorphosis is a newly spawned technical death metal entity featuring ex-members of Spawn of Possession, Obscura and Decrepit Birth. Their debut album “Psalmus Mortis” is highly recommended for fans of Fleshgod Apocalypse, Gorguts and Nocturnus AD, out since yesterday via Season of Mist!
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Copenhagen-based death metal quartet Phrenelith has returned to conquer again with third studio album “Ashen Womb”, out via Dark Descent Records and Me Saco Un Ojo since February 7th, essential for fans of Incantation, Convulse, and Spectral Voice.
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Debut album “The Diseased Machine” from London’s death metal quintet Mutagenic Host packs heavy aggression of old-school death metal with spacey themes. Out via Dry Cough Records since January 3rd.
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Lists
The music industry is at it again at full force after the festival season with a massive amount of really cool releases coming out, just look at the number of our most anticipated releases for September have grown into and then we probably could have included more still. With new albums from Blind Guardian, Yungblud, Wolfheart, Slipknot, Starcrawler, Lost Society, The Hu, Vermin Womb, Vermilia, Bloodbath, Slugcrust, Electric Callboy, Innumerable Forms, Tribal Gaze, Gaerea and Graceless, it’ll be quite the month again!
Finnish festival Steelfest is a true celebration of the underground, but it you’re not convinced yet, here are some reasons why you should go
A small grab of what we are looking forward to the most of the many exceptional releases coming our way during May 2022!
The month of April brings us not only Spring in full bloom, but a long list of stellar releases. Here is a selection of those we’re looking forward to the most!
March is one hell of a month! Yet again tons of releases to pick from, so here is a small selection again of what we highly recommend and is most anticipated for us!
This list is not for the faint of heart. A selection of releases that we experienced as being some of the most intense unleashed during 2021.
February 2022 is yet again brimming with great releases, here’s a small selection of our most anticipated ones!
Putting all the favorites of our team of writers and photographers together, we’ve come to a really diverse and interesting overall AOTY list!
The ultimate selection of black and death metal with the right amount of doom infused. Check out Maxen’s AOTY 2021!
14 melodic metal/rock albums from Finland that we still wanted to give some proper attention to and you should check out still too if you haven’t yet!
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