Raven Black announced their upcoming new album ‘Black Sonata’ to be out in September and shared the single and music video ‘FxCK YOU’ to celebrate the pre-orders being open!
News Posts
Phoenix-based groovers and thrashers Incite are back with their explosive new stand-alone single ‘Just A Rat’, the first release with Reigning Phoenix Music, and a glimpse on what’s to come next!
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Atlanta’s blackened metal titans Tómarúm released their new single ‘Shallow Ecstasy’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Beyond Obsidian Euphoria’, out in April via Prosthetic Records!
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After 13 years of silence, Rwake has re-emerged to release new album ‘The Return of Magik’, set for release next month via Relapse Records, and has recently shared new song ‘You Swore We’d Always Be Together’!
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Dying Wish are blowing the door off 2025’s hinges with the explosive video and standalone single ‘I Brought You My Soul (Your World Brought Me Despair)’, out via SharpTone Records and a first glance on the band’s future direction!
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Blackened heavy metal band NITE glisten amidst the dark on new single ‘The Mystic’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Cult of the Serpent Sun’, set for release next week via Season of Mist!
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Maryland deathcore group Thus Spoke Zarathustra announce their new album ‘I’m Done With Self Care, It’s Time For Others’ Harm’ to be out in May via Prosthetic Records, and unveil a first single with ‘I Can’t Save You’, featuring Matt McDougall from Boundaries!
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New York thrashers Quemasantos released their first ever non-Spanish track with ‘Stalking Sharks’, featuring special guest Marco Cusato from Warpath and Somberwind with a guitar solo!
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Texan black metallers Hexella revealed the new track ‘Black Earth’, the first from their highly anticipated debut album, set for release during the first half of this year via Hells Headbangers!
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Blackened progressive metal band Dawn Of Ouroboros shared ‘Slipping Burgundy’, their latest single on which they blend jazz parts with ferocious atmospheric black, getting us properly excited about their upcoming new album ‘Bioluminescence’, set for release in March via Prosthetic Records!
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Album Reviews
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.
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U.S. death metal four-piece Sentient Horror delivers a brutal slab of old school death metal on their fourth studio album “In Service of Dead”. Out via Redefining Darkness Records since October 25th.
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Here is the seventh piece of resistance in the history of Fit For An Autopsy called ‘The Nothing That Is’, another masterpiece and their magnus epos (for now), out via Nuclear Blast! Catch them on their EU/UK tour that started yesterday, you won’t want to sit this one out!
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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.
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Know, oh prince, that in the years following their self-titled debut, there was an age undreamed of for Stygian Crown. Hither came ‘Funeral for a King’, their sophomore record, heavy riffed, soaringly vocaled. Fists in the air, with gigantic melodies and gigantic doom, to tread the beer-drenched stages of your summer festivals under their sandaled feet. Taken from the Cruz del Sur Chronicles.
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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.
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Dipygus self-titled third album brings treats fans of old school death metal with something fresh, raw and disgusting, out now via Memento Mori.
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Hulder on its second full length album “Verses In Oath” presents an enthralling mixture of pagan/folk black metal with many unforgettable epic moments, out via 20 Buck Spin today, February 9th.
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Cincinnati, Ohio based melodic black metal outfit Valdrin is back with a bombastic symphonic offering inspired by fictional magical realms and magic. “Throne Of The Lunar Soul” is out now via Blood Harvest.
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Black Stone Cherry have their eighth studio album, ‘Screamin’ At The Sky’, set for release on Friday 29th September via Mascot Records. After a rather not so hard and heavy styled album, we are happy to say that they’re back with 12 hard, heavy, blues-rock infused songs, the BSC we all fell in love with in the past!
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Photo Reports
The Convalescence stirred things up with a healthy serving of deathcore on a Sunday night at Piere’s in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and the help of support Mantra of Morta, Nailed Casket and Discard the Body!
A couple of weeks ago, MOTIONLESS IN WHITE took over LKA Longhorn in Stuttgart, Germany on their ‘Touring the End of the World’ tour. They brought along Canadian deathcore stars BRAND OF SACRIFICE and Texan ensemble FIT FOR A KING. The venue filled to the absolute max got a fantastic US stage production in the beloved club atmosphere. An early big concert highlight in 2025! Still on tour, we can’t wait to welcome them at Helsinki Jäähalli in Finland this Tuesday!
This year, all Thrash Metal fans in Europe received a special treat, an early Christmas present: KREATOR & ANTHRAX feat. TESTAMENT. All three bands were in a class of their own that evening – there was no support, only headliners. This evening will be remembered by all thrashers for a long time.
Pop Evil and Bad Wolves joined forces on the “Animal Instinct Tour” touring through the US, bringing along Sierra Pilot and ONI for the ride! We caught them at their Thanksgiving eve show at Pierre’s in Ft. Wayne in Indiana!
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!
Time to celebrate 35 years of psychedelic stoner rock: we caught MONSTER MAGNET at one of their stops on their anniversary tour, bringing us together with support DAILY THOMPSON a night full of psychedelic infused Stoner-Rock at LKA Longhorn in Stuttgart, Germany! And they showed that they’re still an excellent live band and still the benchmark against which established and upcoming bands must measure themselves.
Hed pe is a veteran band with 30 years under their belt and are well known for their eclectic blend of nu-metal, reggae, hip-hop and punk rock. They have really created and sustained a unique niche in the industry and it’s not surprising they continue to show up for their loyal fans, who in turn made the night at The Eclectic Room in Angola, IN great!
Between their festival summer dates in Europe, CLUTCH have given a few club shows called the “New World Samurai Tour 2024”. On one of the hottest days of German summer 2024 they turned up the heat some degrees more with an outstanding gig at Substage in Karlsruhe. Supported by Green Lung, a great night of blues and stoner infused rock and some notes of classic NWOBHM left a happy crowd.
While on the road supporting In This Moment and Ice Nine Kills on tour in the USA, the Swedish metallers of Avatar came to bring their “Great Metal Circus” to the Clyde Theatre in Ft Wayne, Indiana. One of the few headlining stops they’re doing, providing people the chance to get the full experience and freakshow treatment that usually comes with the band, providing a night to remember for many there! Support came from locals Mantra of Morta!
Fans were definitely ready to “FACE IT”, the show with Nothing More, Veil Of Maya and Of Virtue, that is! Concert-goers were lined down the sidewalk and around the block in anticipation of the concert at Kemba Live in Columbus, Ohio. And what a fantastic night it became!
