Progressive death metal progenitors Rivers Of Nihil are releasing their self-titled 5th full-length album via Metal Blade Records in May and shared the new single ‘House of Light’! Catch them on “The Aggressive Progressive Tour” in Europe next month, and North America in May and June!

Spanish death metal veterans Avulsed have dropped their latest single ‘Blood Monolith’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Phoenix Cryptobiosis’, set for release next month via Xtreem Music!

Catch them live this summer at one of our favorite European festivals: Alcatraz!

Belgian melodic death metal outfit Ethereal Darkness returned with ‘On The Edge of the Cliff’, their most intense single yet, and a second taste of their upcoming ‘Echoes’ album!

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In Tom VM’s favorite pictures of the year shows off his captures of bands like Amorphis, Beyond the Black, Bury Tomorrow, Dimmu Borgir, Infected Rain, Lost Society, Opeth, Tarot, Vola, Zeal and Ardor, Amaranthe, Ankor, Beast in Black, Charlotte Wessels, Dark Tranquillity, Dear Mother, Draconian, Dragonforce, Epica, Europe, Feuerschwanz, Gene Simmons Band, Jinjer, Marco Mendoza, Moonspell, Saxon, Testament, Vandenberg and Luna Kills, of which some pictures have never before seen on our site!

Belgian goregrind powerhouse Brutal Sphincter signed to Time To Kill Records, hinting at a new album coming soon! Catch them at this summer’s place to be for a proper metal holiday: Tolminator!

Dutch death metal legends Pestilence announced that Max Blok (Alkaloid, Dark Fortress) has joined their new line-up as their new official guitarist, and are working on their 10th album ‘Portals’, expected to be out in June via Agonia Records.

Catch them live this year at a select amount of festivals, including with our friends of Alcatraz Festival!

New Zealand death metal ensemble Ulcerate will be hitting up 6 cities in the Nordic Region this May ahead of festival appearances at Graveland Festival and Fortress Festival, bringing French extreme sludge band Fange with them!

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’!

The old-school death metal vein of Russia’s Pyre will not disappoint fans of early Asphyx and Entombed. Their third album “Where Obscurity Sways” is a must for aficionados of death/doom metal, out via Osmose Productions!

UK death metal force Vacuous share the new song ‘Stress Positions’, another track from their upcoming second album, set for release at the end of February via Relapse Records!