Sun Of The Suns released a video for ‘On The Last Day Of Earth’, the first single from their upcoming new album ‘Entanglement’, set for release in December by Scarlet Records!
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Spanish extreme metal outfit Dire End shared their debut single ‘Burned To Death’, bringing technical death metal with speed and precision!
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Extreme metal outfit Revocation are unleashing their new album ‘New Gods, New Masters’ in September with Metal Blade Records and unveiled a first sci-fi single with ‘Cronenberged’, featuring Jonny Davy from Job For A Cowboy!
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Aversions Crown announced their new EP ‘A Voice From The Outer Dark’ to be released in August via Nuclear Blast and shared a music video for the title track!
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Finnish blackened tech death metal band Omnivortex released their new single ‘VISITANT’, a taste of the ferociousness of the new music they’re working on!
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New York death metal legends Suffocation are coming to Europe this summer for festival shows at events like Brutal Assault and Alcatraz, but also headline side shows with some great support acts! Don’t miss out!
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Progressive death metal masters Fallujah revealed second single ‘Labyrinth of Stone’, from upcoming album ‘Xenotaph’, set for release in June on Nuclear Blast Records!
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Nuclear death metal quintet Cytotoxin announced their new album ‘Biographyte’ to be out in April via Unique Leader Records! Catch them on tour that same month for some brutal shows around Europe!
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Leeds based tech death outfit Pravitas announced their upcoming debut ‘The Parasitic Divine’, set for release in March, and dropped the ferocious single and video ‘Defragment’!
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Progressive death metal outfit Obscura announced their new studio album ‘A Sonication’ to be released early 2025 via Nuclear Blast, offered a glimpse into the next chapter through the single ‘Silver Linings’ and are set to tour throughout Europe with Rings Of Saturn and Gorod starting in February!
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Album Reviews
Melbourne based death metal brutes Vile Apparition return with the highly anticipated sophomore album ‘Malignity’. The quartet offers a classic aggressive delivery of Australia’s vile and monstrous death metal profanity. Out via Dark Descent Records and Me Saco Un Ojo Records since October 10th.
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Gruesome returns after seven years with a capturing shift in sound, the third studio album “Silent Echoes” proves that no other band can replicate the musical theory of Chuck Schuldiner than Gruesome. Out via Relapse Records on 6th of June.
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Ancient Death’s first album “Ego Dissolution” will thrill you with the contrasting elements of the atmospheric riffs that are cleverly placed with the female vocals. Out via Profound Lore Records since last Friday, April 18th.
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Lithuanian death metal act Crypts of Despair achieves a staggering sense of modern technical death metal and showcase an energetic and brutal amalgamation on their third album ‘We Belong In the Grave’. Out via Transcending Obscurity Records.
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Retromorphosis is a newly spawned technical death metal entity featuring ex-members of Spawn of Possession, Obscura and Decrepit Birth. Their debut album “Psalmus Mortis” is highly recommended for fans of Fleshgod Apocalypse, Gorguts and Nocturnus AD, out since yesterday via Season of Mist!
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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.
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Nocturnus AD returns with a new album ‘Unicursal’ drawing elements from thrash metal and technical death metal wrapped in bizarre cinematic symphonies of alien space. Out on Profound Lore Records.
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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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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.
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Fourth chapter, “The Enduring Spirit” of Toronto-based death metal outfit Tomb Mold offers a spectacular mix of technical/progressive elements in such a visceral and unforgotten performance. Out now digitally via 20 Buck Spin and physically next month!
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Photo Reports
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!
New Zealand’s dissonant death metal giants Ulcerate made their highly anticipated return with their first headline show in Finland at On The Rocks in Helsinki, with support from local tech death band Omnivortex.
In the last week of April, Aborted kicked off their “Slashing Europe”-tour with guests Crypta, The Zenith Passage and Organectomy, with one of the first stops in Ghent to perform at Club Wintercircus, a fantastic new venue with an immersive sound system, hosted by us and our trusted booking partners Return Bookings and BE-sounds! A night that showcased the diversity and sheer intensity of today’s death metal scene!
The legendary Nile dropped by at the Entrepot venue in Bruges, Belgium as part of their “Underworld Europe Tour 2024”, bringing the music of their new album to fans across the continent, and brought along some other excellent death metal bands with Hideous Divinity and Intrepid. Local support came from Pestifer.
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!
