The Black Dahlia Murder continues its legacy with upcoming new album ‘Servitude’, set for release in September this year via Metal Blade Records, and shared the fiery new single and video ‘Aftermath’ as a first taste. Catch them live in Europe this summer at plenty of legendary festivals!
Ohio’s death metal misfits of Sanguisugabogg shared the new track ‘Permanently Fucked’ with a NSFW video, as to be expected from them. This first taste of new music since last year’s ‘Homicidal Ecstasy’ is out now via Century Media Records!
Finnish doom/death metal act Grain Of Pain released its debut full-length album ‘The Moon Lights The Way’ via Noble Demon last Friday, and celebrates with a captivating video for opening track ‘Beneath’!
Belgian masters of death/doom metal Marche Funèbre signed to Ardua Music for the release of their new album ‘After The Storm’ in September and unleashed a first single with ‘In A Haze’!
Cleveland death metal outfit 200 Stab Wounds unleashed their latest single ‘Ride The Flatline’, from the upcoming album ‘Manual Manic Procedures’, set for release at the end of this month via Metal Blade Records! Catch them later this year on tour in Europe with Gatecreeper and Enforced!
Cavalera shared another track from the upcoming re-recording of the legendary Sepultura album ‘Schizophrenia’ with ‘From The Past Comes The Storms’, including an animated video! The re-recording is set for release in a couple of weeks via Nuclear Blast Records!
Progressive death metal duo Entheos unleashed their new single ‘Life In Slow Motion’, a song about seeing life through the eyes of drug addiction, and a precursor to more music coming later this year via Metal Blade Records!
American death metal icons Nile return with 10th album ‘The Underworld Awaits Us All’, set for release in August via Napalm Records and unleash the single ‘Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake’!
Seattle death metal squad Noroth issued ‘Adorned In Rotting Flesh’ video, a track from their upcoming ‘Sacrificial Solace’ album, set for release in a couple of weeks via Carbonized Records!
New Zealand death metal ensemble announced their extensive “Eclipse Death” 2024 European tour starting in October with support from French sludge band Fange and Latin American black metal band Selbst on select dates!
The fourth dreadful opus “Seven Crowns and Seven Seals” from North Rhine-Westphalia blackened death outfit Sulphur Aeon conveys an otherworldly sense of might to the ancient creatures that lurk beneath the seas out now via Ván Records on October 13th.
Hail Cthulhu!!!
Hail Sulphur Aeon!!!!
On their full-length debut album “Mass Grave Horizon” Portland, Oregan quartet Excarnated Entity delivers am oppressive slab of crushing death/doom metal. The album was released on September 8th, via Nuclear Winter Records.
Mexican death metal four-piece Reverence to Paroxysm on their debut full-length album “Lux Morte” constantly traumatize your soul with crushing brutality and sludgy doom metal riffs! The album was released on Me Saco Un Ojo Records and Dark Descent Records on August 31st.
Fourth chapter, “The Enduring Spirit” of Toronto-based death metal outfit Tomb Mold offers a spectacular mix of technical/progressive elements in such a visceral and unforgotten performance. Out now digitally via 20 Buck Spin and physically next month!
Mexico’s powerhouse death/grindcore band Brujeria returns with their long-awaited album “Esto Es Brujeria”. The fifth album offers sixteen high-octane death grind songs with tight drumming, a solid release from these unhinged Mexicans out now via Nuclear Blast!
Canadian brutal/technical death metal collective Cryptopsy showcase a great deal of aggression and brutality on their newest endeavor “As Gomorrah Burns” out now via Nuclear Blast.
Florida’s death metal titans Cannibal Corpse bounce back with their sixteenth album “Chaos Horrific” fulfilling their legacy as they once again fortify the ante. With Erik Rutan making his second appearance, Cannibal Corpse deliver some brutal material to their fans yet again. Out on September 22nd via Metal Blade Records!
Ageless Summoning’s debut album “Corrupting the Entempled Plane” fits into the category of atmospheric death metal and comes highly recommended for fans of Morbid Angel and Demigod. Released via Dark Descent Records.
From Albion’s shores hails ‘The Devil and his Wicked Ways’, the debut album from Roots of the Old Oak’, treating you to some undistilled death doom straight from the nineties. Out on September 15 via Hammerheart Records.
The long-awaited comeback album “Make Them Beg For Death” from the U.S. brutal death metal/grindcore Dying Fetus brings the expected top-notch, high caliber quality we all expected. An absolute monster of an album, released on September 8 via Relapse Records!
Trivium and Heaven Shall Burn resulted in an amazing night of modern heavy metal at Kulttuuritalo Helsinki with the help of Obituary and Malevolence!
Swedish melodeath legends In Flames filled Jäähalli in Helsinki with a massive crowd, along with fellow melodeath instigators At The Gates and up-and-comers Imminence and Orbit Culture to warm us up!
Co-Headliners Eluveitie and Amorphis shared the stage with special guest Dark Tranquillity and warm-up act Nailed to Obscurity on their European tour and we caught them at l’Aéronef in Lille, France!
Grilling season was figuratively and quite literally opened when The European Siege tour starring Unto Others, Carcass, Behemoth and Arch Enemy hit Jäähalli in Helsinki with their first sold out show of the tour.
Ex-Spoil Engine’s guitarist Bart Vandeportaele’s new band Mantah released their first Album ‘Evoke’ with a release show in Club de B in Torhout, Belgium while (also ex-Spoil Engine) Iris’ new band Three Times Royal warms up the crowd right after opener Secondhand Saints!
Steelchaos day 2 was yet another spectacle, both musically and visually, with shows from Chevalier, Horna, Cadaveric Incubator, Torture Killer, Lord Fist and the epic “Black Metal” anniversary celebration by Venom Inc.!
Steelchaos is always a fantastic event to get to take pictures at, especially with on day 1 shows from Satan’s Fall, Malicious, Flame, Barathrum, Belphegor and Sacramentum!
Swedish melodeath masters Arch Enemy and Polish blackened metal occultists Behemoth are on their European Siege Tour 2022 with special guest Carcass and warm up act Unto Others. While last night they played a killer show at a sold-out Jäähalli in Helsinki, we caught the show earlier at their stop in the Netherlands!
Ultima Ratio Fest has been bringing a proper collection of metal bands around Europe with Moonspell, Insomnium, Borknagar, Wolfheart and Hinayana. Sadly it seemed the crowd was mostly asleep at this stop at Backstage Munich, regardless some great metal music was played this night!
Our 9 most anticipated releases of the first half of the month March of 2021… get ready for some real good music coming your way!
Not including these records in my top 2020 was just too painful.
2021 promises to be quite the year again for new music releases! With our team we decided on some of the releases we’re looking forward to the most!
As every year, we put the heads together of our editorial team to decide on our collective “Albums of the Year”, check it out!
Miele Krieg delivers time after time a fine selection of black and death metal releases that are way off the beaten path…
Maxen delivers us the best of the extreme side of metal year after year and with his albums of the year 2020 it’s no different!
Psychedelic, experimental sounds are not an unfamiliar sight in Davinci’s top list of 2020. Go on a discovery into weird realms…
A mix of doom & gloom, Americana, AOR and death metal… you can’t say that Samoth sticks to one genre only!
Don’t you just hate when that happens? 10 top albums I missed last year that I think you should still check out…
Samoht’s albums of the year 2019 are as usual a combo of doomy stuff, non-metal and heavy as fuck metal!
