Formidable new progressive metal group Whom Gods Destroy (featuring illustrious musicians like Derek Sherinian, Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal and Dino Jelusick) revealed the details for debut album ‘Insanium’, set for release in March via InsideOutMusic, and unleashed first single ‘In The Name Of War’!
A selection of Vaim’s best captures of 2023, after a long and grueling process of elimination, with pictures from bands like Battle Beast, Gaerea, Trollheim’s Grott, Avslut, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Amenra, Igorrr, Aesthetic Perfection, HIDE, SKYND, Ice Nine Kills, Utuk Xul, Rancid, Sick Of It All, Stratovarius, Testament, Michael Monroe, Volbeat, Hellacopters, Pensées Nocturnes, Amorphis, Biohazard, Killswitch Engage, Converge, Agnostic Front, Taake, Public Image Ltd, A.A. Williams, Butcher Babies, Clutch, Finntroll, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Gojira, Imperial Triumphant, Lorna shore, The Hu and Urne!
In anticipation of the release of their new album ‘Old Eyes, New Heart’ on January 26, Madder Mortem and Dark Essence Records shared a third track from the album with ‘Unity’!
Finnish atmospheric progressive metal band Alase released their new single ‘Love Crime’, featuring Rioghan on guest vocals! A track from their upcoming ‘Beyond Our Imagination’ EP, set for release in February via Inverse Records!
While we are still regularly looking back at what 2023 brought us, we of course also need to look forward. So here is the first edition of our 2024 series of articles where we bring the editorial team’s most anticipated releases with Escuela Grind, Green Day, The Empire Strikes, Saxon, Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, Static-X, The Gems, Lucifer, Manticora and Hiraes in January!
Portland, Oregon based progressive sludge outfit Lord Dying shared the video single ‘The Universe Is Weeping’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Clandestine Transcendence’, set for release via MNRK Heavy next week Friday!
With Glenn’s selection of his albums of the year, there is a bunch of metalcore, deathcore, djent and some surprising entries with Thy Art Is Murder, Avenged Sevenfold, Within Temptation, Tesseract, Avatar, In Flames, Sleep Token, Periphery, Invent Animate, and Chelsea Grin!
Finnish modern metal band Volucrine is releasing their 4th full-length ‘ETNA’ next month via Inverse Records and shared a new single with ‘Riptide’!
Australian dark folk/blackgaze act Suldusk announces upcoming new album ‘Anthesis’, set for release via Napalm Records in March, and share the title track now with an accompanying video! Fans of Myrkur, Oathbreaker and Chelsea Wolfe, don’t sit on this one!
Australian instrumental outfit Vipassi are gazing into the unknown on their latest single ‘Morningstar’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Lightless’, set for release later this month via Season of Mist!
