Tag: Heavy Metal


  • Italian Black Metal Outfit Canticum Diaboli Announce New Album: Compendium Horribilis

    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…

  • Leadbelcher Serve Up Slaughterhouse Gore in Video for Immured In Holy Excrement

    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 Heavenโ€™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…

  • Italian Black Metal Unit Amthrya Target Total Ruin on Onnen

    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…

  • YHWH Lean into Ritualistic Noise on New Single Heavenly Blasphemies

    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,…

  • Wyatt E. and Five The Hierophant Join Forces for European Tour

    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 isnโ€™t their first trip into the darkness…

  • Dissonance, Sorcery, and Sludge: Selenoplexia Return With Beneath the Lunar Tyrant

    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 heroโ€™s battle against an evil sorcerer named…

  • Celtic Mythology Meets Black Metal on Fir Bolgโ€™s Triskelion

    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…

  • Review: As Live as Life Gets (EP) by HVRT

    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…

  • Hyperion Announce Second Album Elysia via Willowtip Records

    Stockholm melodic black/death metal outfit Hyperion have announced their long-awaited second album, Elysia, which is set for release on November 6 via Willowtip Records. Arriving a full decade after their 2016 debut Seraphical Euphony, the album sees the Swedish group returning with a sound built around classic Scandinavian black metal and Swedish melodeath, with dense…

  • Ulthima Drop Title Track Ahead of Second Album Midnightโ€™s Call

    Finnish-Mexican melodic death metal outfit Ulthima have released the title track from their upcoming second album, Midnightโ€™s Call, ahead of its release on November 27. Originally formed in Mexico before relocating to Helsinki to rebuild the lineup, the band follow up their 2021 debut Symphony of the Night with a track that goes straight for…