“This EP is heavier and more progressive than anything we’ve released before. There are doomier riffs, more atmosphere and more space in the songs, but the core of it is still melody and emotional impact. It feels like a natural evolution, just darker and more fully realised.” ~ Solothurn
Having brought Technical Death Metal to the masses as Bloodstock, Tech-Fest and Mammothfest over the past thirteen years, not to mention opening for such household names as Decapitated, The Black Dahlia Murder and Suffocation, the reputation of Bristol natives Embodiment precedes them. It has been six long years since the events of their sophomore album
“‘Cyst Megalith’ is our first proper foray into a faster tempo of muck and aural detritus. It results in our shortest non-instrumental song to date, a stark contrast when paired with the longest and darkest song thus far on this EP. ‘Cyst’ expresses the growing mound of mental trauma that manifests into a growth encompassing
The Finnish Progressive Folk infused Black Metal duo Jotungrav have unveiled the first of four compositions to grace their approaching fourty one minute debut album “Elegi” in “Återfödd“. A 20th August via Inverse Records release, it finds vocalist and multi instrumentalist Matias Stenman joined by drummer Matias Rokio with Sargassus guitarist Teemu Leskinen mixing, mastering and
Los Angeles, Tokyo and Orlando are just three places that Long Island New York Hardcore crew Pain Of Truth will be visiting in the not too distant future as they plot a course between festival appearances and club shows while preparing for the grand unveiling of their sophomore album. Having Grammy Award winning producer Will Putney
There is ambition… and then there is deciding to embark on a five album saga with a concept arc around themes of self‑destruction, trauma and sonic decay. The catastrophic final chapter of that from Canadian Sludge Metal force Destroy My Brain will arrive on 14th August in “WILT“, the four prior albums spelling the word.
A conceptual journey through mysticism, transformation and inner transmutation, “In Darkness All Shadows Gone” was developed by Colombian Blackened Melodic Death Metal band Eshtadur over a four year period. Adding symphonic arrangements, layered vocals, Tuvan throat singing and atmospheric passages recorded with the Caldas Symphonic Orchestra it finds the band expanding their horizons as first single
Following European shows and the recording of their third album with Joe Clayton (Desert Storm, Pupil Slicer, Conjurer) at Nø Studio, Nottingham Black Metal band Underdark have announced a run of shows for October and November. Joining them will be Bloodstock survivors and Sheffield’s finest Blackened Post-Metal act Ba’al.
How many advanced singles does it take to sink a battleship? That’s the question that Napalm Records are asking as they give us a fourth from Lithuanian Avant-garde Metal heads Black Spikes upcoming new album “Ydos” in “Zelvar“. Thematically the song portrays greed and thereby expands the record’s concept – an exploration of humanity’s vices with
Italian Death Metal duo Gorge have unveiled “Without Inheritance“, a second single taken from their forthcoming debut album “Deeds of Horror“. Uniting Edoardo Nicoloso (Fulci, Jorelia, TV-Crimes) and Roberto Sava (Jorelia) the project have a groovy yet ferocious sound built on Death Metal foundations with a gritty Hardcore sensibility. You can hear what they have
