News Posts

Montreal-based CHÜZO unleash the vengeance of their self-decribed “Aggro-Metal” in their new music video ‘Brand New Cell’, a track from their recently released EP ‘M.T.M.D (Maximum Threshold, Minimum Decay)’! The blend of grindcore, Swedish death metal, thrash and hardcore punk is quite the sonic assault!

Finnish grindcore legends Rotten Sound announced the reissue of ‘Murderworks’, their acclaimed third full-length album, via Time To Kill Records, out early 2025!

Cybergrind band Thotcrime has announced their third album ‘CONNECTION ANXIETY’, set for release in August via Prosthetic Records and shared the lead singles ‘The Wrong Way’ and ‘Behind The Cracks’!

Colorado grindcore outfit Poolside at the Flamingo recently unleashed their sheer, unbridled brutality upon the world with the new EP ‘Accabadora’ and shared a video for the track ‘The Deceiver’ to celebrate!

French extremists Benighted unleashed a brutal anthem of psychedelic horror with the single ‘Nothing Left To Fear’, featuring Oli Peters from Archspire, a track from their upcoming album ‘Ekbom’, set for release in April via Season of Mist!

American grindcore outfit Full of Hell will release their new album ‘Coagulated Bliss’ in April via Closed Casket Activities and shared a first single/video ‘Doors to Mental Agony’!

Finnish grindcrust outfit Unborn Generation released second single ‘Rattus’ from their upcoming album to be released via Inverse Records!

French extremists Benighted shared the video single ‘Scars’ from their upcoming album ‘Ekbom’, set for release in April via Season of Mist!

Italian grindcore trio NEID signed to Time To Kill Records for the release of their upcoming cover EP ‘Still Offensive’ and shared the single ‘Rebels Today…’!

Fast-rising Italian deathgrind outfit Slug Gore have joined forces with Time To Kill Records for the release of their debut full-length ‘They Slime! They Ooze! They Kill!’ in the next few months!

Lists

The first day of the second edition of Hellsinki Metal Festival is filled with an impressive line-up of extreme metal bands, topped off with the musical exelence that is the headliner of tonight. Our editorial team picked out 8 bands that they think you definitely shouldn’t miss out on with Wolfheart, Gutalax, Massacre, Deicide, Terrorizer, Triumph of Death plays Hellhammer, Heaven Shall Burn and Avantasia! What bands are you really looking forward to today? Let us know in the comments!

If you are still looking for a great summer destination, here are 10 festivals that might make Finland the ideal place to go for you with #Horizon23, Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit, Nummirock, Tuska, John Smith Festival, SaariHelvetti, Dark River Festival, Hellsinki Metal Festival and Flow Festival!

Steelchaos is back! If that is not reason enough to get yourself a ticket still, here are 5 reasons why you should still consider to go this weekend, including the exclusive Finland “Black Metal” 40 years anniversary show of Venom Inc.!

This list is not for the faint of heart. A selection of releases that we experienced as being some of the most intense unleashed during 2021.

Last month of 2021, still some releases coming in December that are most anticipated by our team of writers!

Not including these records in my top 2020 was just too painful.

Some good old familiars and a couple of big surprises made it to the albums of the year 2020 for Glenn!

Album Reviews

‘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!

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!

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!

The tenth opus “Terrasite” in Cattle Decapitation’s catalog focuses on the slower melodic trademarks without sacrificing its sonic brutality. This is another high-quality output from these progressive death metal/grindcore maniacs, and I will not be surprised to see it on fans’ top albums of the year. Out via Metal Blade Records!

“Reality Rotten to the Core” sums up the extreme side of the eighties grindcore music, the Japanese quartet FesterDecay managed to deliver a putrid mix of grindcore and death metal that brings a breath of the rotten stench to the mortuary. Out via Everlasting Spew Records.

Full of Hell’s latest outing on Relapse Records: ‘Garden of Burning Apparitions’. Hell never sounded so filthy.

Fuck the Facts is back with ‘Pleine Noirceur’. An album that mixes their trademark grindcore sound with an emotional aspect that really hits home.

Anaal Nathrakh is back with yet another release of their signature blend of several extreme metal genres!

Finland’s Mustasuo deliver an intense and quite memorable experience with their second full-length record, ‘Katharsis’.

Caustic Wound have transformed their debut into a harsh and jarring experience of corrosive grindcore mastery.