Category: Music
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Belgian death metallers Carnation are back, trading standard-issue gore tropes for a bit of existential dread with their new single, Boundless Pathways. Serving as the gateway track to their upcoming full-length Symphony in Flesh, the new song acts as a sonic blueprint for the record while dragging lyrical themes into heavier philosophical territory. Instead of…
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Swiss death metallers Nihilo have spent over two decades quietly putting in the hard yards. Spearheaded by vocalist Ragulan Vivekananthan, the band have churned out a steady stream of EPs, four full-length records, and last year’s live outing Chaos Unleashed without ever chasing fleeting trends or pretending to reinvent the wheel. Now, theyโve joined forces…
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If youโve been paying attention to the German underground over the last decade and a half, youโll know Hamburg trio Shakhtyor don’t do things in a hurry. Formed back in 2009, theyโve spent the best part of sixteen years systematically ignoring the unwritten rules of instrumental doom, throwing black metal outbursts, spacey synth textures, and…
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If you thought UK sludge-doom outfit Sea Bastard were dead and buried, you’d almost have been right. Formed back in 2011, the band dropped their self-titled debut in 2012, followed hot on its heels by 2013โs Scabrous, earned their stripes touring alongside the likes of Primitive Man and Witchsorrow, and then vanished into the void…
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Cuban-formed, Swiss-based death-doom outfit Sectarium have released their second studio album, Mud Teeth. Originating in Cubaโs underground extreme metal scene in the early 1990s before relocating to Switzerland, the band is led by founding member Oliva alongside vocalist and guitarist Doomslayer. Across nine tracks, the record delivers an organic brand of death-doom that entirely bypasses…
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Norwegian death metal outfit Oskaal have released a lyric video for Refused, taken from their album (A)live, out now via Wormholedeath. The track deals with violence, isolation and exploitation, focusing on the lasting damage caused by abuse and the alienation that follows. Musically, Oskaal pair technical death metal with a more measured, unsettling approach, letting…
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Dallas atmospheric black metal quartet Wyrm Chasm will release their self-titled debut album on October 23, bringing a decade of work together on their first full-length. Formed in 2015 by guitarist Eric Carrasco and bassist and vocalist Stephen Jeter, the band have spent the past ten years developing a sound built around raw, desolate atmospheres,…
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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 Heavenโs 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 Onryล 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…