Exhumed share ‘Shovelhead’ music video from upcoming album ‘Red Asphalt’, set for release in February via Relapse Records! Catch them on their EU/UK headline tour with Gruesome in spring!
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News Posts
Masters of gore metal Exhumed announced their new album ‘Red Asphalt’ to be out in February via Relapse Records and shared the single and video ‘Unsafe At Any Speed’!
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Benighted strike with new single ‘The Spineless Freak’, out via Season of Mist and a way for the band to reveal their new drummer Matthias Biechler with a dedicated playthrough video!
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Finnish grindcore vets Rotten Sound are back with their latest single ‘Idealist’, from their upcoming EP ‘Mass Extinction’, set for release next week via Season of Mist!
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Rotten Sound are back with another destructive burst of politically charged grindcore with the ‘Mass Extinction’ EP, out in December via Season of Mist and unleash a first track with ‘Brave New World’!
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Dutch black metal innovators Terzij de Horde released the second new single ‘The All-Consuming Work of the Soul’s Foreclosing’ and video of the upcoming album ‘Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone’, set for release in October with Church Road Records!
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German brutal surf death party metal band Stillbirth are unleashing their new album ‘Survival Protocol’ via Reigning Phoenix Music in October and shared a first single and hilarious video with ‘Baptized In Blood’!
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Finnish deathgrind band I, Cursed unleashed second single ‘Death Pays It All’ from their upcoming yet unnamed EP set for release with Inverse Records and Meara Music soon.
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Full of Hell announced their upcoming new EP ‘Broken Sword, Rotten Shield’ to be released with Closed Casket Activities in May and shared lead single ‘Knight’s Oath’!
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Grindcore force Chepang joins the Relapse Records roster for the release of their new album ‘Jhyappa’, set to be out in May, and shared a first single and music video!
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Album Reviews
New Exhumed album “Red Asphalt” breaks the loop of recycling and extends beyond the loop of death metal mediocrity. Matt Harvey & co showed their craft by excelling in every way and managed to absolutely surprise the fans with a gritty and extreme death metal and bloody gore attitude! Out via Relapse Records since February 20th.
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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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‘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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Mexico’s powerhouse death/grindcore band Brujeria returns with their long-awaited album “Esto Es Brujeria”. The fifth album offers sixteen high-octane death grind songs with tight drumming, a solid release from these unhinged Mexicans out now via Nuclear Blast!
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The long-awaited comeback album “Make Them Beg For Death” from the U.S. brutal death metal/grindcore Dying Fetus brings the expected top-notch, high caliber quality we all expected. An absolute monster of an album, released on September 8 via Relapse Records!
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The tenth opus “Terrasite” in Cattle Decapitation’s catalog focuses on the slower melodic trademarks without sacrificing its sonic brutality. This is another high-quality output from these progressive death metal/grindcore maniacs, and I will not be surprised to see it on fans’ top albums of the year. Out via Metal Blade Records!
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“Reality Rotten to the Core” sums up the extreme side of the eighties grindcore music, the Japanese quartet FesterDecay managed to deliver a putrid mix of grindcore and death metal that brings a breath of the rotten stench to the mortuary. Out via Everlasting Spew Records.
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Full of Hell’s latest outing on Relapse Records: ‘Garden of Burning Apparitions’. Hell never sounded so filthy.
Fuck the Facts is back with ‘Pleine Noirceur’. An album that mixes their trademark grindcore sound with an emotional aspect that really hits home.
Anaal Nathrakh is back with yet another release of their signature blend of several extreme metal genres!
Photo Reports
The final day of Tolminator brought madness till the end. Mordkaul, Brutal Sphincter, Milking the Goatmachine & TLMNTR, captured by our photographer Tom!
The final day of Tolminator hit hard! From Milking the Goatmachine and Psycroptic to Hellripper, D.R.I., Oranssi Pazuzu and Ministry, the Tolminator Stage went out with a bang!
Tolminator isn’t just about the main stage. Dive into the Beach & DIY vibes with shots of Unlocked, Stagewar, Nihilo, Marche Funèbre, Party Cannon, and TLMNTR, all captured by our intern photographer Nox!
Pictures of a brutal night at Chinastraat in Gent with Benighted, Baest and Coffin Feeder!
Pictures of the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2024 with on stage 2 shows from Satyricon, Deicide, Hellhammer, Terrorizer and Deathchain!
Our Benelux and France head of accreditation and most active photographer in that region, Tom VM, made his own selection of favorite pictures he took in 2023, including some new stuff that wasn’t shared on our site before with Biohazard, Bleed From Within, Brutal Sphincter, Brutus, Electric Callboy, Michael Schenker Group, Sepultura, Arion, Blackrain, Overdrivers, Avatar, Winery Dogs, Charlotte Wessels, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Extreme, Ghost, Michael Angelo Batio, Arch Enemy, Doodseskader, Halestorm, I Prevail, Powerwolf and SKYND!
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!
The last day of a long and exhausting weekend of great music and atmosphere was all about the Belgian music scene at La Morgue with Aeveris, Brutal Sphincter, Hexa Mera, Mantah and Reject The Sickness!
Pictures of the Asagraum, Chamber of Unlight, Suicidal Angels, Benighted, Impaled Nazarene and Batushka shows at the first day of Hellsinki Metal Festival 2023!
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