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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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!
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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!
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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!
Album Reviews
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.
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Necrot’s third full length album ‘Lifeless Birth’ presents the undiluted formula of the trio. It has paved the way for Necrot to bring its aggressive aspects fully to bear. Released on April 12th via Tankcrimes.
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Portland-Oregon based death metal act Witch Vomit proves to be more than a season band, the third album ‘Funeral Sanctum’ explores new ground by presenting a fresh and raw/melodic death metal songs. Released via 20 Buck Spin on April 5th.
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Japanese death/doom four-piece Coffins return with their most anticipated album “Sinister Oath”, released on March 29th via Relapse Records, and deliver a dark and oppressive piece, highly recommended for fans of Autopsy, Asphyx, and Hooded Menace!
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‘Vault Of Horrors’ is coming in heavy with killer songs and a long, impressive list of guest appearances! Don’t miss out on the 12th full-length release of Aborted, out via Nuclear Blast!
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The fifth installment “Unextinct” from the Italian technical brutal death metal outfit Hideous Divinity delivers plenty of powerful brutality and atmosphere. Hideous Divinity managed to imbue the songs with themes extracted from cinematic art, out via Century Media Records, and comes highly recommended for fans of Vader, Fleshgod Apocalypse, and Hour of Penance.
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Civerous packs the sophomore “Maze Envy” with modulation of black/death metal, there are some nuances of blackened death metal that serve a dreary atmosphere. Out via 20 Buck Spin since last week, March 22nd.
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Knoxville, Tennessee-brutal death metal act Brodequin return with their newest album “Harbinger of Woe”, very reminiscent of the old-school Spanish grind gore bands of the 90s. Out since March 22nd, via Season of Mist Underground Activists.
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Sweden’s Necrophobic returns with a staggering new album, “In Twilight Grey”. The songs here sound heavier, rawer, and more sinister, making them deliver one of their best studio albums of their career. Out via Century Media Records since last Friday!
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Vltimas’ second full length album “Epic” deliver plenty of head-banging moments for fans of Morbid Angel, Mayhem, and Cryptopsy. This is a coherent record that showcases the chemistry between these veterans and takes what they already did expertly on their debut to a whole new level. Out since today via Season of Mist!
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Lists
As every year, we put the heads together of our editorial team to decide on our collective “Albums of the Year”, check it out!
Miele Krieg delivers time after time a fine selection of black and death metal releases that are way off the beaten path…
Maxen delivers us the best of the extreme side of metal year after year and with his albums of the year 2020 it’s no different!
Psychedelic, experimental sounds are not an unfamiliar sight in Davinci’s top list of 2020. Go on a discovery into weird realms…
A mix of doom & gloom, Americana, AOR and death metal… you can’t say that Samoth sticks to one genre only!
Don’t you just hate when that happens? 10 top albums I missed last year that I think you should still check out…
Samoht’s albums of the year 2019 are as usual a combo of doomy stuff, non-metal and heavy as fuck metal!
If you’re looking for some of the best underground black metal albums of the year 2019, you’re at the right address here!
Mazen lists up his favorite releases of 2019 in the black, death and heavy metal scene, check out what he thinks are interesting releases to check out!
Again, 2019 was an incredible year for music. Check out what we think were the albums of the year!
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