NEWS: Vast Pyre tread the path Gods fear to!

After their self titled record crushed our bones with its psych-doom weigh, Eisenach Germany based Vast Pyre have inked a deal with Argonauta Records imprint label Octopus Rising for a second chapter. The first advanced listen is “Tenebrosity’s Path” a harrowing introduction to the shadow-cloaked journey of suffocating riffs and oppressive atmospheres that defines “Bleak“.

Interview: Revocation talk “New Gods New Masters” with The Metal Tris!

A conversation between David Davidson of Revocation and pretty much anyone is always an interesting one so this deep dive into the technological dystopia of “New Gods, New Masters“, not to mention the possibility of innovating ourselves out of existence and becoming part man, part machine is certainly thought provoking. Your host for the interview

NEWS: Hunt The Dinosaur put on their stetsons!

Filmed, directed and edited by Josiah Baldwin, Taylor Wright and David Parada, a budget blowing music video for “Nefarious Outlaws” by Progressive Deathcore outfit Hunt The Dinosaur that echoes the Texas loving sentiment of “Texas Blood Money” by Upon A Burning Body has surfaced online. An extract from their record “Nefarious”, its all stetson hats,

NEWS: Sterbhaus to return in double brutal style in November!

Featuring in their ranks musicians known for their work in Shining, Elvira Madigan and Ondskapt, Stockholm Extreme Metal outfit Sterbhaus have announced their first album in a decade. There are three singles already streaming in internet land from “Next Akin to Chaos“, the follow up to 2015’s “New Level of Malevolence“, so the band have

NEWS: Corrosion Of Conformity love the fire water!

Does the world need a cover of “Fire and Water” by Free? Southern Sludge Metal Kings Corrosion Of Conformity believe so. They’ve hired the legend that is Mike Holderbeast to produce a music video for their rendition for them with Nuclear Blast distributing their album “Riffissippi Studio Jam Session Vol. 1” from which its taken.

Review: “Abject Cruelty” by Last Retch

Since their 2021 self titled demo first reared its ugly head, Hamilton, Ontario Canadian Old School Death Metal dealers Last Retch have been eating away at the dark corners of our minds with themes of violence, witchcraft and cannibalism running through the veins of all of their cryptic writings. Inspired by the likes of Bolt Thrower,

NEWS: 217 unpause the video?

Their flame may have almost been snuffed out by the great plague years but in June 2024, a new line up of Italian Hardcore band 217 began to write a debut full length album. Feeling refreshed and rejuvenated with a wider sphere of influences and inspirations to draw upon, while their 2019 debut EP “Atheist

NEWS: Black Soul Horde see her ghost in the fog?

A collection of stories about monsters, famous or otherwise that channels the haunting spirit of today’s horror culture into a magma flow of riffs is on the horizon from Athens based Greek Heavy Metal outfit Black Soul Horde with the bands fourth album “Symphony of Chaos“. A 31st October arrival through Vinyl Store, it has been

NEWS: Gutted Souls play the zero sum game!

Having roots that go back more than twenty years leaves vocalist Iron (IncognoscI, ex-Anopsy, ex-Diisgraça) the sole remaining founding member of Brazilian Technical Progressive Death Metal act Gutted Souls. Focused on politically infused lyrics about psychopathy, mediatic manipulation and the corruption of science and religion, the band have made their name sharing stages with the

NEWS: It’s not the way of ashes but the way of acid for Umulamahri!

Volatile, unpredictable and deeply unsettling is how the debut album “Learning the Secrets of Acid” by Umulamahri is being described by those who have heard it in advance of its 1st October release via Ordovician Records. A desire to push the limits of Extreme Metal to new levels of depravity and more corrosive territories seems to