Cosmic death metal act Ancient Death shared the track ‘Unspoken Oath’, the latest single from their upcoming immersive and deadly debut album ‘Ego Dissolution’, set for release in April on Profound Lore Records!
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NY-based death metal act Morgue Terror continues to show their admiration for the Terrifier franchise with the new track ‘Terror in the Morgue’!
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Belgian goregrind powerhouse Brutal Sphincter is back, unleashing the single ‘Sphinct-Earth Society’, the title track from the upcoming album set for release in May via Time To Kill Records! We can’t wait to party with them at Tolminator and Hellsinki Metal Festival this summer!
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Finnish death metallers Morbific shared the new track ‘Crusading Necrotization’, the second one revealed from the highly anticipated upcoming third album ‘Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh’, set for release in April on Memento Mori and Me Saco Un Ojo Records!
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Dutch death metal veterans AntropomorphiA unleashed ‘Unending Hunt’, another song from their upcoming album ‘Devoid of Light’, set for release in May with Testimony Records!
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German death metal outfit Nightbearer unleashed the single ‘His Dark Materials’, a track from their upcoming album ‘Defiance’, set for release in June via Testimony Records!
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Canadian death metal gladiators Ex Deo have just unveiled a lyric video for ‘Galba’, the ferocious opener for the ‘Year Of The Four Emperors’ EP, released earlier this year with Reigning Phoenix Music!
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Italian black/death metal purveyors Hierophant have signed a record deal with Agonia Records for the release of their upcoming album that is in the works right now and expected to be out next year!
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Portland’s blackened death-mongers Drouth return with the release of their 3rd album ‘The Teeth of Time’ this May with Eternal Warfare Records, and shared the single ‘False Grail’!
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Symphonic black/death metal outfit Wythersake releases the single ‘Bloodlet The Lepers Created’, a track from the upcoming record, out next week with Scarlet Records!
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Album Reviews
Corpus Offal’s self-titled debut offers a flashback to the late ’80s and early ’90s death grind, enter the sonic morgue of gruesome experimentation and horror. Out via 20 Buck Spin since last week Friday, March 21st.
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Spain’s legendary death metal band Unbounded Terror return to embrace its cult identity, their fourth album “Something Is Rotten in Humanity” offers otherworldly melodies and solid brutality. Out via Xtreem Music next week on April 1st.
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The Hungarian duo Rothadàs deliver a crushing monstrosity of cavernous death-doom metal on the sophomore “Töviskert… a kísértés örök érzete… lidércharang”. Out via Pulverised Records and Me Saco un Ojo Records since yesterday, March 21st!
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Philadelphia’s death metal four-piece Pissgrave offers another sick and brutal record for fans of proper extreme metal. The third studio album “Malignant Worthlessness” completes the trilogy that began in 2015 and is out via Profound Lore Records.
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UK based death metal five-piece Vacuous returns with their sophomore release “In His Blood”, offering a brutal slab of death metal with hints of post-punk and other influences. Undoubtedly one of the strongest releases of 2025, out via Relapse Records!
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Long-running Spanish death metal band Avulsed returns with the eighth studio album “Phoenix Cryptobiosis”. With its absolute decay and cadaverous death metal madness, it’s highly recommended for fans of early Cannibal Corpse and Six Feet Under, out via Xtreem Music.
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Denmark’s death metal band Maceration returns with the third studio album “Serpent Devourment”, a rotten death metal record that will entice fans of Entombed and was released with Emanzipation Productions.
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Swedish cult death metal band Wombbath return with their seventh studio album “Beyond the Abyss”, and is highly recommended for fans of obscure extreme metal, out since yesterday via Pulverised Records.
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Third studio album “Fentanyl” from German blackened doom/death metal quartet Morast is equally dark and misanthropic, out via Ván Records.
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The new album “Revelations from the Void” of the Catalonian death doom sextet Onirophagus is rooted in the style of classic death doom metal. Recommended for fans of Officium Triste, Saturnus, and early My Dying Bride, out via Personal Records.
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Photo Reports
Last month, both of our home countries met at a great event with some of the top of the underground metal scene like Unhoped, Rapid, Galvanizer and the very first appearance in Finland of the Belgian speed metallers of Bütcher!
Indian metal straight from New Delhi, India to Trix Antwerp, Belgium: Bloodywood with their ‘Return of The Singh’ tour! And with support from Calva Louise and Demonic Resurrection it was a great night of amazing vibes and music!
Trivium and Bullet for My Valentine celebrated their breakthrough albums on “The Poisoned Ascendancy Tour” throughout Europe, supported by rising stars Orbit Culture! Those who didn’t go to any stop of this tour really missed out on something! Thanks to FKP Scorpio Belgium for the access!
Hellsinki Metal Festival is becoming a permanent fixture in the Finnish summer festival landscape, and after 2 successful editions, the organisation decided they didn’t want to wait for another year. In comes a smaller winter edition of the main event about halfway December 2024, bringing amazing extreme metal bands together like Omnivortex, Batushka, Belphegor and headliners Dark Funeral!
This year’s “Motocultor across Europe Tour” kickoff show was at Poppodium 013 in Tilburg, The Netherlands, headlined by Moldovan favorite Infected Rain and support acts Semblant, Elyose, Miruthan, and Skin On Flesh!
Pictures of a brutal night at Chinastraat in Gent with Benighted, Baest and Coffin Feeder!
40 years – what an anniversary for the Brazilian metal icons SEPULTURA. At the same time, it’s a ’40 Years Farewell Tour – Celebrating Life Through Death’. With 15 albums to their name, puts on a great show, supported by JESUS PIECE, OBITUARY and JINJER. What a goodbye for a legendary band, MHP Arena in Ludwigsburg, Germany literally boiled over!
We checked out the first day of the second edition of Hell’s Balls Belgium festival… With banging names like Triptykon, Primordial, Vltimas, the unofficial inclusion of the “Night Eternal tour” with Dark Tranquillity, Wolfheart and Moonspell, Carpathian Forest, Hellripper, Dead Head and The Monolith Deathcult, it was a true fest for any extreme metal fan!
After an exemplary show at Alcatraz this past summer, Septicflesh graced Belgium again with their presence on their “Modern Primitive European tour”, dropping by the DVG Club in Kortrijk. And with support by Equilibrium, Oceans and Scar of the Sun, it was quite the death metal night of epic proportions!
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.
