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!

Louisville, Kentucky blackened melodic death metal band Volcandra announced their new album ‘The Way of Ancients’ to be released next month via Prosthetic Records and shared the lead single ‘Fouled Sanctity’!

Vitriol’s second full length album “Suffer & Become” is ultimately bombastic and brutal, the Oregon based quartet has strengthened its ante with weaponized barbaric instrumentation. The album comes highly recommended for fans of Cattle Decapitation, Cephalic Carnage and Anaal Nathrakh, out now via Century Media Records since last Friday, January 26th.

Legends of the underworld VLTIMAS bring a righteous scorn on ‘Scorcher’, another single from their upcoming sophomore album ‘EPIC*, set for release in March via Season of Mist!

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!

Blackened death metal outfit Noctem unleashes a video for ‘The Pale Moon Rite’ in observance of the winter solstice, a track from their latest release ‘Credo Certe Ne Cras’ released in 2022 via MNRK Heavy!

Finnish technical blackened death metal Ulterror released the first single ‘The Greater Sublimations of Cosmic Panic’, from their upcoming debut album ‘Transcendent Origins’, set for release in March via Inverse Records!

The Wothrosch Collective and Jane Fotour announced the photo exhibition ‘Odium Magno’ to be hosted in Athens, showcasing their latest release ‘Odium’ through the medium of photography!

Polish blackened death outfit Lilla Veneda presented the second song ‘Biomechanic Algorithm’ from their upcoming album ‘Primordial Movements’, set for release in February 2024!

Swedish blackened death metal masters Necrophobic shared the single/video ‘Stormcrow’, a first track from their upcoming album ‘In the Twilight Grey’, set for release in March via Century Media Records!