Category: News
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Finnish black thrash metal band Beatrix have shared their self-titled single, the first preview of a full-length concept album that has been in development since the band’s formation in 2019. The new track follows a recent Baltic tour with Jävelin and Night Slasher, where the song was given its first taste of the live environment…
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Prague metallic hardcore band Crippled Fingers have followed Unbroken with Nothing, a new single centred on betrayal, broken trust and the point where repeated lies finally become impossible to overlook. The track combines heavy grooves and sharp riffs with a strong chorus before dropping into a forceful breakdown. Its subject matter follows a similarly direct…
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Melodic black metal band i Helvete will release their third album, Halla, on November 6, following a lengthy delay between completing the material and bringing it to release. The songs were completed in 2024, but lineup changes that same year pushed back both the production process and the album’s eventual release. Additional session musicians were…
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UK progressive metal band Exist Immortal have revealed their new EP, Afterglow, due out on September 11 through Seek & Strike, alongside a new video for the EP’s title track. The five-track record was written during a period of considerable upheaval for Exist Immortal, including a lineup change, personal difficulties and health challenges, with the…
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U.S. black metal outfit Sev Lezu will release their debut album, Blood Conscript, on August 28 through Ordovician Records, with the record arriving on vinyl, cassette and digital formats. Recorded at Artifact Audio by drummer, vocalist, lyricist and producer Sasha Stroud, Blood Conscript draws on dark, ancient mythology, a hateful pantheon and themes of bloody…
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Swedish rockers Besvärjelsen have shared a new music video for Accelerating Hearts, the latest preview of their forthcoming third full-length album, Till Glömskan Ad Oblivionem (Into Oblivion). The track features a guest appearance from Fred Burman of Satan Takes a Holiday, joining vocalist Lea Amling Alazam for a duet that adds another dimension to the…
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There are bad movies, there are good movies, and then there are movies that exist in that glorious little radioactive swamp somewhere between the two. Movies that were never going to win awards, never intended to change the course of cinema and probably had absolutely no business being as much fun as they are. Attack…
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Portuguese technical thrash metal band Shadowmare’s third album, Transfiguration, marks a period of significant change for the four-piece. Several lineup shifts have reshaped the band in recent years, bringing with them a different approach to writing and arranging their material. The new songs are shorter and more intense, while the technical edge that has always…
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UK quartet Lifeswallower have unveiled The Trees Hide Their Bodies, the latest preview of their self-titled debut EP, due out on September 1 through Prog On! Recordings. The band began on England’s south coast as a casual project centred around playing 1990s death metal covers. Those rehearsals eventually developed into something considerably more ambitious, with…
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More than forty years after Sorcery first began carving their name into the Swedish death metal underground, the band are preparing to unleash another full-length with The Immaculate Sin, due out on October 1 through Xtreem Music. Sorcery’s history stretches back to the demo Arrival, followed by two further demos and a rehearsal tape before…