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Italian black metal outfit Canticum Diaboli will release their new full-length album Compendium Horribilis on November 11 via Ad Noctem Records. The title translates as horrible collection, which seems fitting for an eight-track assortment of macabre tales from Italian history and folklore. The subject matter ranges from the execution of Giordano Bruno and the 1527…
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Irish death metal outfit Leadbelcher have released a video for Immured In Holy Excrement, serving up a final warning ahead of their debut album With Heaven’s Bloated Corpse. Directed by Raymond Keenaghan, the clip aims for pure unpleasantness, splicing real anatomical dissection footage with slaughterhouse scenes from the 1973 Spanish horror film The Bell from…
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Italian black metal outfit Amthrya return on October 11 with their new album Onnen. Fronted by Kasumi Onryō and working with a revised lineup, the band mix dissonant black metal with Japanese folklore. The record takes its title from the concept of Onnen (a persistent, deep-seated rancour) and treats hatred as an active physical force…
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Extreme metal unit YHWH have released Heavenly Blasphemies, the third single taken from their upcoming EP Baghavat. Where the previous two singles leaned heavily on speed and direct confrontation, Heavenly Blasphemies takes a slower, more ceremonial approach. The emphasis shifts from outright aggression to a suffocating, liturgical atmosphere, with savage riffs giving way to heavier,…
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Belgian ritualists Wyatt E. and UK avant-garde doom outfit Five The Hierophant are dragging their shared obsession with heavy, hypnotic noise back across Europe for another tour. The two bands previously joined forces for the Atonia project at Roadburn before hitting the road together in 2022, so this isn’t their first trip into the darkness…
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Chicago quartet Selenoplexia are back with their second full-length, Beneath the Lunar Tyrant, throwing their brand of progressive blackened death metal straight into full-blown concept album territory. Recorded in the Pocono Mountains with Colin Marston, the 37-minute record unfolds across a prologue and five chapters following a young hero’s battle against an evil sorcerer named…
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Shudder has snapped up the rights to Split Rock, the second supernatural horror feature from director Ryan Glover (The Strings), securing distribution across North America, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Shot on 16mm, the film stars Clark Backo and Drew Ray Tanner as a pair of geologists who head into the badlands to…
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If your idea of a good time involves painting your face, wandering into the woods, and plucking an ancient stringed instrument while screaming about Druids, Fir Bolg have you covered. The band are set to unleash their new album, Triskelion, on November 27 via Schwarzdorn Production. The thirteen-track album draws on Celtic mythology, pagan rituals…
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American indie maverick Henry Jaglom spent much of his career making films that thumbed their noses at Hollywood’s studio system. Now his 1980 mob-robbing road comedy Sitting Ducks is receiving the 4K coat of paint it probably doesn’t deserve, but is getting anyway. The plot is standard pulp absurdity: two small-time crooks steal a limousine…
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There are questions in life that demand answers. Why are we here? Is there a God? What would a nuclear explosion sound like if it was localised in your living room? And where I have always been able to answer those first two questions (beer and no, in case you were wondering) I have never…