News Posts

Killswitch Engage announced a massive headline tour that will bring them back to the UK and mainland Europe during fall and winter later this year, bringing along Hatebreed, Fit For An Autopsy, Decapitated and Employed To Serve for the ride!

Very well deserved, Metal Blade Records have welcomed the innovative Danish metal act Gradience to their roster, joining to spread the bold fusion of black metal, deathcore, metalcore and rap through the world!

Germany’s rising metal force The Night Eternal signed to Metal Blade Records for the next chapter of their journey! Catch them live throughout Germany, but also festivals like Hellfest and Alcatraz this summer!

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’!

After releasing their new album ‘Necro’ with Metal Blade Records last Friday, now LIK unleashed their new video for the track ‘Deceased’!

Rivers of Nihil presents yet another single with ‘Water & Time’ in anticipation of next month’s release of their self-titled new album via Metal Blade Records! People in Europe, if you missed them on their recently wrapped up “Aggressive Progressive” tour, you’ll have another shot during festival summer at events like Alcatraz festival!

Last week, Igorrr unveiled their new album ‘Amen’ to be out in September with Metal Blade Records and shared a first track with the single ‘ADHD’!

Last week, Midnight announced to be unleashing ‘Steel, Rust and Disgust’ covers album via Metal Blade Records in May and unveiled one of the few original tracks with ‘Cleveland Metal’!

Whitechapel expanded their summer 2025 appearances at festivals like Graspop and Tuska with a proper co-headline tour with Australian metalcore giants Northlane, something you won’t want to miss out on!

Slavic black/death metal institution Hate are releasing their new album ‘Bellum Regiis’ in May on Metal Blade Records and share first single and video ‘Iphigenia’!

Album Reviews

Hate’s new album “Bellum Regiis” is another remarkable piece of Slavic aggression that solidifies the style of this Polish institution. Out via Metal Blade Records since last Friday May 2nd.

Whitechapel is back and they brought chaos with them. Hail to the godfathers of deathcore that have brought the chaos back in our lives! Their latest album ‘Hymns In Dissonance’ is out via Metal Blade Records. We can’t wait to see them rip up the stage at Tuska this summer!

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.

Prep yourself for one of the most interesting acts in the left field of the Alcatraz 2025 lineup with the fourth full length from Italian purveyors of scarlet doom, Messa. ‘The Spin’, a collection of exquisite songs is out now on Metal Blade Records and might mean a big break for these talented people!

25 years and 8 albums later, Killswitch Engage delivers a full on metalcore album called ‘This Consequence’, out with Metal Blade Records. No surprises, just full on high-quality Killswitch Engage with their signature mix of emotion and brutality.

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!

4 years in the making and it was worth the wait. Ensiferum does a throw to album of the year where epic, gloomy, atmospheric, and melodic are some of the words to describe this journey that is ‘Winter Storm’, out via Metal Blade Records on October 18!

Kvaen’s third studio album ‘The Formless Fires’ captures the early years of Swedish melodic black metal. The album is highly recommended for fans of Dissection, The Moaning and A Canorous Quintet. Out on Metal Blade Records.

The sixth studio album ‘Host’ by the Swedish heavy metal powerhouse Portrait, channels 80s speed metal and NWOBHM on its fourteen new tracks. Out on Metal Blade records.

Per “Hellbutcher” Gustavsson incarnates the old school satanic black/thrash on his new project band Hellbutcher. The self-titled debut presents a high quality of classic raw metal that would remind fans of the glorious era of 80s. Out on Metal Blade Records.