Some time ago, CHVE announced the ‘Kalvarie’ album to be released via Relapse Records on May 31st and shared a teaser of what to expect. Pre-orders available right now!
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News Posts
Inter Arma crush and conquer on forthcoming album ‘New Heaven’, set for release in April via Relapse Records and shared a visualizer for the title track!
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UK sludge trio Iron Monkey return with their highly anticipated new album ‘Spleen & Goad’ set for release in April via Relapse Records and shared the new song and video ‘Misanthropizer’!
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Electro-prog duo Zombi return with their new album ‘Direct Inject’ in March, released via Relapse Records and shared a first track with ‘The Post-Atomic Horror’!
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CHVE signed to Relapse Records for the release of a new solo album in 2024! Stay tuned for more news soon!
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Atmospheric black metal overlords Wolves In The Throne Room share the official video for ‘Twin Mouthed Spring’, one month before the release of the ‘Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge’ EP via Relapse Records!
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Myrkur is back! In October her new album ‘Spine’ will be released via Relapse Records, a record that promises a new range of emotional and sonic contours to discover. And she already unveiled a first track with ‘Like Humans’!
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Death metal overlords Dying Fetus are back with a new album ‘Make Them Beg For Death’, set for release via Relapse Records in September and shared a single with ‘Feast of Ashes’!
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Windhand’s Dorthia Cottrell shares the new single ‘Harvester’ from ‘Death Folk Country’, her upcoming solo album with Relapse Records set for release in April!
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Florida death metal icons Obituary announce their upcoming new album ‘Dying of Everything’ set for release in January 2023 via Relapse Records! Catch them live on their US and Europe tours!
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Album Reviews
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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Washington-based atmospheric black metal outfit Wolves In The Throne Room treat the fans with yet another grim and ambient piece of black metal on the newest EP “Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge” out now via Relapse Records on September 29th.
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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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Incantation has evolved over the past 30 years and “Unholy Deification” is another solid and visceral album from these veterans who have delivered a slab of familiar yet very fresh material for the fans. Out via Relapse Records.
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Pennsylvanian five-piece formation Outer Heaven offers its putrid grotesque themes of cosmic death metal on the newest studio album ‘Infinite Psychic Depths’. This is perhaps the band’s most twisted and putrid record to date. Outer Heaven has mutated into something morbid. Out on Relapse Records on July 21.
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Journey with us to the ‘Death Folk Country’, the sophomore solo album from Dorthia Cottrell, the enigmatic lead singer from doomed heavy hitters Windhand. A bleak journey through a set of sparse, sombre songs that takes little inspiration from doom, but all the more from folk and country. Out via Relapse Records.
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Death metal veterans Obituary’s 11th album offers superior aesthetics for defining the style of Florida’s death metal at its finest. “Dying of Everything” will grind your bones to pieces, out via Relapse Records.
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“劇變 (Jubian)” is an extreme and brutal death metal record that mixes classic grindcore and death metal elements, there are many bands today that seem to bring a form of classic nostalgia but Ripped To Shreds has found the right balance between these elements. Out via Relapse Records.
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Made out of part Eternal Champion and part former Magic Circle comes Sumerlands’ sophomore on Relapse Records ‘Dreamkiller’ which sees these heavy metal warriors take on a more AOR oriented approach. So strap yourself into the Delorean, fire up the flux capacitor and head for the Sumerlands. They don’t have roads there.
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Author & Punisher is back with yet another crushing album filled with inhuman soundscapes that are enhanced by newly found human touches!
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Lists
After the team sent in their top lists at the end of last year, and calculating the results, we got to an interesting “albums of the year 2023” list featuring releases from Marduk, Kludde, Blink-182, Blackbraid, Orbit Culture, Gloryhammer, Ne Obliviscaris, Hypno5e, Periphery, Dying Fetus, Obituary, Avatar, Svalbard, VV and Sleep Token! Do you agree with any of these? What did you have in your top list?
Our resident extreme metal reviewer Mazen has a selection of stellar (mostly) black and death metal releases as his favorite of the year with Sulphur Aeon, Varathron, Moonlight Sorcery, Cruciamentum, Suffocation, Dying Fetus, Asphodelus, Marduk, …And Oceans, and Cirith Ungol!
2023 starts off with quite the bang with new releases from VV, Anti-Flag, Imperium Dekadenz, Turmion Kätilöt, Katatonia, Kiberspassk, …and Oceans, Obituary, Suasion, Dropout Kings and Vėlių Namai!
Another week with amazing releases, check out the 13 singles that caught our attention with Rue Vox, Enter Shikari, …And Oceans, Aphyxion, Dirty Shirt, For I Am King, Hoaxed, Seas On The Moon, Stake, Suicide Silence, VV, Demeted and Tallah!
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!
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!
A selection of “pagan” folk releases from 2020 that our editorial team feels like you really should check out still if you haven’t yet.
