News Posts

Nuclear death metal quintet Cytotoxin announced their new album ‘Biographyte’ to be out in April via Unique Leader Records! Catch them on tour that same month for some brutal shows around Europe!

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!

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!

Italian death metallers Sudden Death signed to Time To Kill Records for the release of their upcoming fourth album ‘In Sinner Hate’!

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 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’!

Album Reviews

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!

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.

After thirty years Adorior slithers out from the depths of hell to convey its satanic wicked album ‘Bleed On My Teeth’ through the medium of raw fucking metal. Out via Dark Descent Records and comes highly recommended for fans of Slayer, Absu and Angelcorpse!

The tenth studio album ‘The Underworld Awaits Us All’ of the U.S. brutal death metal elite Nile is an epic work that shows the band at the top of its game. Out on Napalm Records.

Necrot’s third full length album ‘Lifeless Birth’ presents the undiluted formula of the trio. It has paved the way for Necrot to bring its aggressive aspects fully to bear. Released on April 12th via Tankcrimes.

Portland-Oregon based death metal act Witch Vomit proves to be more than a season band, the third album ‘Funeral Sanctum’ explores new ground by presenting a fresh and raw/melodic death metal songs. Released via 20 Buck Spin on April 5th.

Japanese death/doom four-piece Coffins return with their most anticipated album “Sinister Oath”, released on March 29th via Relapse Records, and deliver a dark and oppressive piece, highly recommended for fans of Autopsy, Asphyx, and Hooded Menace!

‘Vault Of Horrors’ is coming in heavy with killer songs and a long, impressive list of guest appearances! Don’t miss out on the 12th full-length release of Aborted, out via Nuclear Blast!

The fifth installment “Unextinct” from the Italian technical brutal death metal outfit Hideous Divinity delivers plenty of powerful brutality and atmosphere. Hideous Divinity managed to imbue the songs with themes extracted from cinematic art, out via Century Media Records, and comes highly recommended for fans of Vader, Fleshgod Apocalypse, and Hour of Penance.

Civerous packs the sophomore “Maze Envy” with modulation of black/death metal, there are some nuances of blackened death metal that serve a dreary atmosphere. Out via 20 Buck Spin since last week, March 22nd.