SCOUR: Extreme Metal Supergroup To Release Gold Full-Length February 21st, 2025 Via Housecore Records/Nuclear Blast; New Video/Single Now Playing + Preorders Available Photo by Malcolm Pugh Watch SCOUR’s “Infusorium” video HERE. SCOUR, the extreme metal collective featuring an impressive lineup of heavy music veterans, including Philip H. Anselmo (Pantera, Down), Derek Engemann (Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals), […]

IN THE WOODS… ink deal with PROPHECY PRODUCTIONS There is no need to introduce the name IN THE WOODS… to any adherent of avant-garde and black metal. Their coordinates within the scene are also well known: The Norwegians were among the bands that have participated in the burgeoning evolution of black metal in the early 90s and have […]

When SCALPTURE came into being in the German city of Bielefeld in 2009, founding guitarist Felix Marbach already had a clear vision: The musical direction was to be death metal without any compromise regarding its roots and values, but at the same time the band aimed to evolve into a singular musical entity with a unique style very much their […]

Watch “Keinen Schritt Zurück” feat. DONOTS HERE HEAVEN SHALL BURN have just released a special new single and video, “Keinen Schritt Zurück,” featuring their longtime friends from the renowned German alternative/punk rock band DONOTS. This marks their first new music since they released a cover of Trivium’s “Pillars Of Serpents” at the end of 2022, […]

  Fresh off a summer festival run, American death metal legends MASSACRE, spearheaded by growl forefather Kam Lee, announce details of their long-awaited fifth studio album, “Necrolution”, set for release on November 8th via Agonia Records. The album’s first single, “The Colour Out Of Space”, is being premiered now in the form of a lyric video, at this address: https://youtu.be/3SKX76h68EA MASSACRE – The Colour Out […]

Forest of Shub Niggurath will be released on September 10th, 2024, via Xtreem Music on CD and digital platforms. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWM5FQM53KQ Veteran Swedish death metal band PAGANIZER has officially signed with Xtreem Music for the release of their new EP, Forest of Shub Niggurath, which will serve as a prelude to their forthcoming album in 2025. The band has also […]

Our very own Frank Rini did an in-depth interview with the excellent Scriptorium Magazine and gives little old Teeth of the Divine some love. Read the article here

Rochester (NY) – Contrarian is recording a new album and guess who’s back? Confirmed by the band via Bandcamp, original members Jim Tasikas and George Kollias have joined forces once again to record Contrarian’s sixth studio album to be entitled Escaping Depravity. The recording process has started in Athens, Greece and with sound engineer Doug White at Watchmen Studios as with previous albums. Contrarian’s last tour […]

HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE Announce Signing & Debut New Single From Upcoming Album Moirae Stream “Fates” HERE Transcending Obscurity is proud to announce the signing of Canadian black metal band HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE. Known for their unique blend of atmospheric black metal and post-metal, HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE delivers an elegant concoction of stirring, throbbing music […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  GOD DETHRONED Release Furious Single & Music Video “Rat Kingdom”. Watch “Rat Kingdom” Here Four long years after the release of their highly acclaimed album “Illuminati,” Dutch black/death metal icons GOD DETHRONED descend from the shoals of silence with their brand new offering, The Judas Paradox, due out on September 6, 2024, through Reigning […]

UK epic doom pagans SOLSTICE are setting their signatures under a multi-album deal with Prophecy Productions on this longest day of the year on the northern half of the globe.SOLSTICE will release their fourth album via the label and have already been confirmed for this year’s edition of Prophecy Fest. SOLSTICE comment: “We are heartened and honoured to be working with Prophecy – a label whose discernible courage […]

Watch “Black Tears (Remaster 2024)” HERE Century Media Records and InsideOutMusic have recently announced the upcoming “First Chapter” of a comprehensive catalog reissue campaign for legendary and groundbreaking Death Metallers EDGE OF SANITY as well as versatile Prog/Hardrock outfit NIGHTINGALE, who were both fronted by Swedish vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and acclaimed metal producer Dan Swanö (OPETH, […]

Body Count, Kerry King, Eluveitie and Thy Art Is Murder will be performing at Finland’s legendary midsummer metal festival, Nummirock! Finland’s most legendary metal festival Nummirock will take place for the 38th time in Kauhajoki, Finland from 19-22 June 2024. This year’s performers from abroad: Body Count (US), Kerry King (US), Thy Art Is Murder (AU), Suffocation […]

Widely regarded as legends in the style, Dutch death/doom metal band Officium Triste have mastered the art of playing emotive yet elegant music and have honed their sound even more on their seventh full length album. ‘Hortus Venenum’ is a special album as it celebrates the band’s 30th year anniversary and it’s remarkable that even […]

XASTHUR release new single ‘Selling Yourself to Die’ taken from forthcoming new album “Disharmonic Variations” XASTHUR ‘Selling Yourself to Die’ taken from the album “Disharmonic Variations” https://youtu.be/iaCb9b2CHlI XASTHUR comment: “Giving too much of yourself, or whatever you have, and receiving very little in return”, mastermind Scott Conner writes. “It means not being able to live any kind of […]

AGALLOCH revealed as first FORTRESS FESTIVAL 2025 headliner This will be a 2025 European exclusive show for Agalloch, and their first in the UK since 2015 Fortress Festival returns on 31 May-1 June 2025 at Scarborough Spa First early bird tickets for Fortress Festival 2025 via https://www.fortressfestival.co.uk/tickets Scarborough, UK; 2.06.24: Agalloch are the first band to be announced for […]

LG (Lars-Göran) Petrov, vocalist of the legendary Entombed, has passed away. The iconic voice behind one of Death Metal’s most influential acts lost his battle to an incurable form of bile duct cancer. The news was confirmed by his Entombed A.D. bandmates. Our hearts go out to his family, bandmates and loved ones, and to […]

One of Heavy Metal’s finest guitar legends, Alexi Laiho (real name Markku Uula Aleksi Laiho) of Children of Bodom and Bodom After Midnight, has passed away at the end of 2020. He was 41 years old. The news of Laiho’s passing was confirmed by his Finnish management on Laiho’s official Facebook-page, also stating that Laiho […]

So 2020 is (thankfully) about to conclude and we figured we’d once again take a well earned break to stuff ourselves with something else than just digital promos. Yes. We’re talking about food. We need it. We deserve it. But worry not, as we’ll be right back with more reviews, more opinions, more everything.

UK Grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH are delighted to announce their upcoming studio album release “Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism”, to be released on September 18th, 2020.

Official statement from OBSCURA: “After a six-year break, legendary German guitarist Christian Münzner (ETERNITY’S END, PARADOX, ALKALOID, ex- NECROPHAGIST, ex- SPAWN OF POSSESSION) has rejoined the German progressive death metallers OBSCURA as a permanent member. Münzner, known for his virtuoso guitar playing in extreme metal, joined OBSCURA in 2008 and recorded the band’s critically acclaimed […]

Times are weird. There’s a new virus, a worldwide pandemic and quarantines. Whole countries are locking down, including pubs and restaurants and toilet paper is the new economy!!!! Could the situation be any more metal???

From the depths of Cleveland’s legendary metal scene emerges Curse of Denial to devour the innards of the weak and unsuspecting. Vicious old school thrash-inspired Blackened Death Metal carnage that will keep your head steadily banging into utter oblivion. A juggernaut of hellfire awaits with Curse of Denial’s 2nd full length album that carries the […]

Redefining Darkness is proud to team up with Teethofthedivine to deliver a filthy, exclusive, one two punch from Virginia’s Appalling; a brand new song “Hot Coals for Branding” from the impending sophomore album Inverted Realm, due out May 3rd. The label also dropped a full album teaser via youtube, with even more of a taste of the death metal furor contained within.

Teethofthedivine’s own Frank Rini is reuniting with Internal Bleeding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   From Internal Bleeding’s Facebook page:   “Internal Bleeding is all about family. And since the beginning we’ve always put great emphasis on taking care of our fans as well as each other. Recently, some important family issues have affected both vocalist Joe Marchese and bassist […]