Last week, Italian progressive death metal legends Sadist shared the title track of their upcoming album ‘Something To Pierce’ with a grueling music video! The album is set for release on Agonia Records in a couple of weeks!
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UK death metal faction Ingested is introducing a reinvigorated lineup with their savage new standalone single ‘Altar Of Flesh’ out now via Metal Blade Records and just ahead of their North American tour with Aborted starting later this week! For those in Europe, this May and June they will be invading your continent as support for Born Of Osiris, don’t miss out!
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Italian death metallers Sudden Death signed to Time To Kill Records for the release of their upcoming fourth album ‘In Sinner Hate’!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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’!
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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!
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Copenhagen-based death metal quartet Phrenelith has returned to conquer again with third studio album “Ashen Womb”, out via Dark Descent Records and Me Saco Un Ojo since February 7th, essential for fans of Incantation, Convulse, and Spectral Voice.
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Debut album “The Diseased Machine” from London’s death metal quintet Mutagenic Host packs heavy aggression of old-school death metal with spacey themes. Out via Dry Cough Records since January 3rd.
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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!
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Aeon of Awareness’ new album ‘Rarohenga’, named after the subterranean realm where spirits of the deceased dwell after death, according to Māori tradition, is an excellent result of the band expressing themselves through the music itself and the deeper meaning between the lines. Out independently this Friday!
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Molder’s death/thrash savagery is perfected on their third studio album “Catastrophic Reconfiguration”, out via Prosthetic Records since November 8th.
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Finnish death metal band Ashen Tomb presents a brutal old school record in their debut full length album “Ecstatic Death Reign”. The quintet delivers brutality, grooves and ferocity in the vein of Entombed with death-doom metal vocals drawing elements from Disma, out via Everlasting Spew Records.
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U.S. death metal four-piece Sentient Horror delivers a brutal slab of old school death metal on their fourth studio album “In Service of Dead”. Out via Redefining Darkness Records since October 25th.
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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.
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Sweden’s powerhouse The Crown returns with a solid album “Crown of Thorns”, delivering their trademark of aggressive death/thrash metal, out via Metal Blade Records!
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Maul’s second full length album “In The Jaws of Bereavement” is aggressive and brutally unhinged, one of the grittiest modern death metal albums released this year out via 20 Buck Spin since October 4th.
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