Denmark’s metal commando BAEST unveiled their new single and video ‘King Of The Sun’, featuring Jesper Binzer of D-A-D, and another taste of their upcoming album ‘Colossal’, set for release in August via Century Media Records! Catch them live this summer in Europe at festivals like our home away from home Alcatraz about a week before the album release!
Finnish blackened death metal band Progeny of Sun released their second single and music video ‘Decimation’ from the upcoming album ‘Prophets of the Void’, out in September via Inverse Records!
Finnish melodic doom death duo The Bleak Picture are preparing to release their new album ‘Shades Of Life’ with Ardua Music at the end of this month and unveiled the video single ‘Without The I’ recently!
With the new track ‘Tarditas’, Danish titans Svartsot unveiled the first chapter of their ambitious concept album ‘Peregrinus’, set for release in September via Mighty Music!
Impureza are not stopping the Flamenco-death train anytime soon with the release of new single ‘La Orden del Yelmo Negro’, in anticipation of their upcoming album ‘Alcázares’, out in July via Season of Mist!
Tasmanian death metal behemoths Psycroptic signed to Metal Blade Records for their upcoming album release, shared the video single ‘Architects of Extinction’ to celebrate and are about to embark on a tour through Australia in June and Europe taking them to festivals like Tolminator, Brutal Assault and Alcatraz!
Swedish titans Unleashed announced their upcoming 15th studio album ‘Fire Upon Your Lands’, out in August via Napalm Records and take us to the battlefield with crushing new anthem ‘War Comes Again’! Catch them live this summer at select Europe festivals like Hellfest, Brutal Assault and Summer Breeze!
Chicago death metal destroyers Bear Mace unleashed their latest single ‘Drown Them In Their Blood’, a brutal mid-tempo assault from their album ‘Slaves of the Wolf’, out next month!
Belgian death metal experimentalists Wound Collector have joined Wormholedeath for the release of their second full-length album!
Progressive death metal project Changeling release an animated video for the track ‘World? What World?’, a track from their recently with Season of Mist released album of which the Dolby Atmos version is scheduled for release at the end of the week!
Belgian death metal powerhouse Carnation is one of the few bands to tackle its style with the precise sound of Swedish death metal, while maintaining a signature sound and daring to experiment with things from time to time. Their third, and massive album “Cursed Mortality” is out now, via Season of Mist, and one you won’t want to miss out on as one of the best releases of the year in our books!
The international death metal quartet Cruciamentum finally returns with the sophomore “Obsidian Refractions” and delivers a majestic opus of crushing death metal, out via Profound Lore Records, on November 24th.
20 Buck Spin presents the latest split album “Starpath”, unfolding the blissful serene and grim nature of Dream Unending and Worm in a special release, integrating the light side of yin and the dark side of yang in a beautiful symmetry. Out on November 24th.
Richmond, Virginia based-death metal band Left Cross returns with the second offering “Upon Desecrated Altars”. If you’re into bands like early Grave and Bolt Thrower then make sure to give this album a listen, the album is out since last Friday November 10th, via Profound Lore Records.
After embedding their sound in the realms of blackened death/doom, U.K.’s quartet Strigoi returns with a short EP “Bathed in A Black Sun”, presenting fans with exclusive and unreleased tracks out via Season of Mist.
Swedish melodic blackened death metal super group Night Crowned offers a compelling mixture of aggression and modern mixture of Nordic melodies on the third album ‘Tales’ out via Noble Demon Records today!
Death metal supergroup Vastum’s fifth studio album “Inward to Gethsemane” cements the cavernous brutality of the band, out via 20 Buck Spin tomorrow, November 10th.
Carnal Tomb’s third album “Embalmed In Decay” is a must for fans of Entombed, this is a rotten old school death metal record, out via Testimony Records.
Suffocation’s brutal and technical legacy remains the main attribute of these U.S. veterans, with the 9th album ‘Hymns From The Apocrypha’ guaranteeing a lesson in slamming brutality of the NY death metal style, out now via Nuclear Blast Records.
The ninth album “Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts” from old school death metal veterans Autopsy showcases superb musicianship out now, via Peaceville Records since October 27th.
A list consisting of the best honest, true and ball kicking releases of 2018!
End of the year means albums of the year lists, so here is the one we accumulated from what our editorial team likes!
A list of the top albums of 2018, dominated by tech death releases!
A list with a lot of black metal seeping in, but with a rather surprising number 1 spot!
Another year has gone by, so it’s time again to reveal what albums have intrigued me the most last year.
