Swedish death metal stalwarts Vomitory present their new single ‘Wrath Unbound’, another track from their upcoming album ‘In Death Throes’, out in a couple of weeks via Metal Blade Records. Catch them live on tour in Europe with Hypocrisy, Abbath and Vreid starting next week!
Portuguese extreme metal force Okkultist finally returns with a vengeance, unleashing their new single ‘Teeth of the Hydra’, featuring a guest appearance of Fernando Ribeiro of Moonspell, out with Alma Mater Records!
Last week, Master Boot Record and Fulci announced an exclusive co-headlining tour that will take them all over Europe this coming fall, with special guest Arottenbit as support on all dates!
Finnish bestial black/death metal trio Hoc Est Bellum signs with Time To Kill Records for the release of their debut album!
Death metal outfit Cryptopsy announced their “Malicious & Vile Summer 2026” European tour which will take them to festivals like Hellsinki Metal and Brutal Assault and select club shows along the way like with our friends at DVG Club in Belgium!
Arizona death metal outfit Wyrmhaven are unleashing their savage debut album ‘Seasons Of Gloom’ in May and just shared a first track with ‘Morning Star’!
The Troops Of Doom are celebrating 6 years of existence by unleashing their take on the Kiss classic ‘God Of Thunder’, featuring several guest musicians like Chuck Billy, Andria Busic, PJ and Martin Furia!
Mesopotamian metal pioneers Melechesh have unveiled their new single ‘In Shadows, In Light’, another track from their upcoming EP ‘Sentinels Of Shamash’, out next month via Reigning Phoenix Music!
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’!
The old-school death metal vein of Russia’s Pyre will not disappoint fans of early Asphyx and Entombed. Their third album “Where Obscurity Sways” is a must for aficionados of death/doom metal, out via Osmose Productions!
Aeon of Awareness’ new album ‘Rarohenga’, named after the subterranean realm where spirits of the deceased dwell after death, according to Māori tradition, is an excellent result of the band expressing themselves through the music itself and the deeper meaning between the lines. Out independently this Friday!
Molder’s death/thrash savagery is perfected on their third studio album “Catastrophic Reconfiguration”, out via Prosthetic Records since November 8th.
Finnish death metal band Ashen Tomb presents a brutal old school record in their debut full length album “Ecstatic Death Reign”. The quintet delivers brutality, grooves and ferocity in the vein of Entombed with death-doom metal vocals drawing elements from Disma, out via Everlasting Spew Records.
U.S. death metal four-piece Sentient Horror delivers a brutal slab of old school death metal on their fourth studio album “In Service of Dead”. Out via Redefining Darkness Records since October 25th.
The seventh studio album “Chronicles of Lunacy” from the international brutal slam death metal act Defeated Sanity crowning achievement from one of the revered institutions of brutal slam death metal. Out via Season of Mist since last Friday November 22nd.
Sweden’s powerhouse The Crown returns with a solid album “Crown of Thorns”, delivering their trademark of aggressive death/thrash metal, out via Metal Blade Records!
Maul’s second full length album “In The Jaws of Bereavement” is aggressive and brutally unhinged, one of the grittiest modern death metal albums released this year out via 20 Buck Spin since October 4th.
After thirty years Adorior slithers out from the depths of hell to convey its satanic wicked album ‘Bleed On My Teeth’ through the medium of raw fucking metal. Out via Dark Descent Records and comes highly recommended for fans of Slayer, Absu and Angelcorpse!
The tenth studio album ‘The Underworld Awaits Us All’ of the U.S. brutal death metal elite Nile is an epic work that shows the band at the top of its game. Out on Napalm Records.
The Polish black metal institution Batushka brought their unholy sermon to the halls of Helsinki’s Vanha Ylioppilastalo and brought with them the Russian pagans of Arkona, the pretty epic Canadian Aeternam and Latvian vikings of Varang Nord!
On Thursday November 16, Mors Subita made it to Klubi, Tampere for one of their ‘Origin of Fire’ release shows, in good company of Marianas Rest. Nem Agency presented a nice evening of Finnish metal.
Cavalera re-recorded the first two albums of Sepultura (‘Bestial Devastation’ and ‘Morbid Visions’) and are touring the world with them on the “Morbid Devastation” tour! We caught up with them at L’Aéronef in Lille, France, and we saw it was good… Support came from Max’s stepson’s band Incite…
A night of extreme metal blasting in our face with Lorna Shore bringing their ‘The Pain Remains EU tour’ to Finland with the good company of Rivers of Nihil and Ingested.
Pictures of the massive Stam1na show at the Ice Hockey Hall in Helsinki with special guests Diablo, Corroded and Dear Mother!
First edition of the charity festival named Aütfëst, held in Bruay-La-Buissière, France. Profit goes to Autism related organisations. With shows from Overflow Guy, Titans Rage, Death Structure, Kamizol K, Overdrivers, Xaon, and BlackRain!
Last month, Circuit Breaker Bookings with All Out Productions brought grindcore juggernauts Full Of Hell all the way from US to a fully sold out On The Rocks. And with supporting acts Kuvotus and Dome Runner, this was by far one of the most intense nights we have witnessed of late. A night full of blood, sweat and broken glass, with constant moshpits and stagediving!
Infected Rain came back to Belgium a second time this year on their “Heyday tour 2023”, the place to be was DVG Club in Kortrijk, accompanied by warm up act All Hail the Yeti!
This past August, On The Rocks in Helsinki experienced a full on death metal assault by the undeniable legends themselves, Possessed! After canceling shows in Finland over a few years, these Bay Area legends were highly anticipated by Finnish metalheads with a great turnout on a sold out show.
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere with some of the most extreme music around on the Swamp Stage from Serpents Oath, Archspire, Kataklysm and Bloodbath!
Last month of 2021, still some releases coming in December that are most anticipated by our team of writers!
Oktober has many releases again that are some of the most anticipated of the year within our editorial team! Check out the wide range of awesome albums!
August proves to be a highly exciting and surprisingly full month for new releases! Here is a small selection of those that are most anticipated by our editorial staff!
12 of the albums we’re looking forward the most in June, there are more, but these are really at the top of our lists! Check it out!
Some of our most anticipated released for May 2021, warning: there is way more exciting music being released, this is only a small selection…
Noble Demon is a new label that started in 2020 and is quickly on the rise to be one of the more prominent and big players in the scene!
12 more releases of March 2021 we have been looking forward to for a while! Check it out!
Our 9 most anticipated releases of the first half of the month March of 2021… get ready for some real good music coming your way!
Not including these records in my top 2020 was just too painful.
2021 promises to be quite the year again for new music releases! With our team we decided on some of the releases we’re looking forward to the most!
