News Posts

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!

New Swiss masters of tech death Adelon unveil debut EP ‘Resurgence’ to be released on June 21st and shared the track ‘Crimson Luminescence’!

Technical death metal outfit Cognitive to release ‘Abhorrence’ full-length in May via Metal Blade Records and unleashed the title track as a first taste!

Colorado melodic tech outfit Allegaeon unleashed a stand-alone single ‘Iridescent’ via Metal Blade Records, accompanied by an unhinged music video!

New Zealand death metal trio Ulcerate are back with another highly-anticipated new album ‘Cutting the Throat of God’ set for release in June via Debemur Morti Productions and unleashed a first song with ‘The Dawn is Hollow’!

Italian brutal tech-death ensemble Hour Of Penance shared the first single and opening track ‘Devotion for Tyranny’ from their upcoming album ‘Devotion’, set for release in April via Agonia Records!

Toronto blackened technical death metal collective Apogean shares their new video single ‘Bluelight Sonata’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Cyberstrictive’, set for release next month via The Artisan Era!

Tuska completed their 2024 line-up with the addition of Kerry King and 6 domestic acts with Kaunis Kuolematon, The Abbey, NightStop, Suotana, Malformed and Shereign. The Tuska KVLT bands still need to be announced, though! Get your tickets now!

Tech death outfit Allegaeon is set to enter the studio to record their seventh full-length with original vocalist Ezra Haynes! Catch them on the road with Decapitated, SepticFlesh and Kataklysm on the “Cancer Culture Over North America Tour 2024”!

Death metal outfit Hideous Divinity announced their new full-length album ‘Unextinct’ to be released via Century Media Records in March and shared the single ‘The Numinous One’ with a captivating video!

Album Reviews

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Canadian brutal/technical death metal collective Cryptopsy showcase a great deal of aggression and brutality on their newest endeavor “As Gomorrah Burns” out now via Nuclear Blast.

Lunar Chamber is one of the most unique bands in the subgenre of progressive technical death metal. Their debut EP “Shambhallic Vibrations” is such a mind-boggling record full of sophisticated riffing and a bizarre ethereal atmosphere, released via 20 Buck Spin.

Abysmal Dawn on the latest EP “Nightmare Frontier” has added some spicy ingredients to the composition which effortlessly explores the melodic direction.

“Apexapien” holds like a block of concrete by the cohesive force of the members who excelled in their ability to craft an energetic slab of technique and brutality.

‘Mokvání V Okovech’ incorporates an inspiring fusion of American and European death metal style.

Photo Reports

Black and white back-of-venue shot of the band Nile with 1 guest vocalist from their 2024 gig at Entrepot, Bruges, BE

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!

Lists

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!

A list of the top albums of 2018, dominated by tech death releases!