Belgian goregrind powerhouse Brutal Sphincter unleashed their savage new single ‘Beatdown Syndrome’, the latest one from their upcoming album ‘Sphinct-Earth Society’, set for release in May via Time To Kill Records! Another good prep for this summer’s party that their shows at Tolminator and Hellsinki Metal Festival will be like!
News Posts
Danish metal band Galge unleashed the new video single ‘Brosten’ from their upcoming sophomore album ‘Dødelig’. Catch them on tour right now with Neckbreakker!
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UK death metal outfit Celestial Sanctuary drops a video for ‘Choking on the Rotten Seed’, a track from their recently by Metal Blade Records reissued EP ‘Visions Of Stagnant Blood’!
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Gruesome is to return with ‘Silent Echoes’, their new album set for release in June via Relapse Records. First single and video ‘A Darkened Window’ is out now!
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After releasing their new album ‘Necro’ with Metal Blade Records last Friday, now LIK unleashed their new video for the track ‘Deceased’!
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Full of Hell announced their upcoming new EP ‘Broken Sword, Rotten Shield’ to be released with Closed Casket Activities in May and shared lead single ‘Knight’s Oath’!
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Finnish Cumbeast are back with the album ‘Fairytales Of Filth’ in May, out with Morbid Generation Records and shared the first single ‘Captain Cock’ featuring Sami Perttula from Korpiklaani and John Puig from Phrymerial!
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Finnish death metal act Refusal announced t heir new album ‘Venomous Human Concept’ to be out in June via Time To Kill Records and shared the title track with a video!
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Australian brutal death metal outfit Monoliyth unleashed the official video for their first single ‘Excised Unborn’ from upcoming album ‘He Who Kills’, to be released with newly signed label Wormholedeath!
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Canadian black/death metal demons GraveMass, featuring members from Zimmers Hole, The Golers, Punch Drunk, 3 Inches of Blood and Revocation, unleashed their new single and video ‘Fallen’, another preview of their debut full-length!
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Photo Reports
Canadian black metal giants Spectral Wound took over a sold out On The Rocks in Helsinki during their “BLOOD. MIRE. DEATH. tour”, bringing their unique raw, uncompromising black metal assault with the support from Finland’s own death metal outfit Ashen Tomb! An event by Nem Agency.
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!
Album Reviews
Ancient Death’s first album “Ego Dissolution” will thrill you with the contrasting elements of the atmospheric riffs that are cleverly placed with the female vocals. Out via Profound Lore Records since last Friday, April 18th.
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Lithuanian death metal act Crypts of Despair achieves a staggering sense of modern technical death metal and showcase an energetic and brutal amalgamation on their third album ‘We Belong In the Grave’. Out via Transcending Obscurity Records.
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The Swedish old school death metal powerhouse LIK imbibe from the rotten sound of bands like Entombed and Dismember. The fourth studio album “Necro” features many headbanging riffs, no fillers and high quality throughout, out via Metal Blade Records tomorrow, April 18th.
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British old-school death metal formation Benediction delivers gritty and sinister aggression on their ninth studio album “Ravage of Empires”. Out via Nuclear Blast this Friday April 4th.
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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.
