Review: “Beyond Death” by Our Last Crusade

Eight string Metal merchants Our Last Crusade may have seemed quiet since the release of their well received 2023 album “Death Wins” but it’s the quiet ones, as they say, you have to look out for. Hailing from Calgary Alberta Canada, the band have been cutting their own path through the urban jungle since 2010

NEWS: Lago prepare the cannons!

After eight long years of radio silence, the long awaited and highly anticipated follow up to 2018’s “Sea of Duress” from Phoenix Arizona’s Lago is finally on the horizon. A record with themes rooted in isolation and oppression that continues to refine a bleak, forceful brand of dissonant American Death Metal, “Vigil” will arrive on 8th

Bootleg: “In the Event of” from Katatonia!

Courtesy of Iron Serbian for Capital Chaos TV a live rendition of  “In the Event of” by Swedish Metal grand masters Katatonia has arrived in internet land. Recorded at August Hall in San Francisco on Friday 27th February it’s as fresh as it gets. The band are currently in North America with Rivers of Nihil before

Bootleg: Currents Audiotree Session!

Including six live in the studio cuts and an interview hosted by Psalm One, the Audiotree Session from Currents that was recorded on the 21st August last year has finally surfaced online. The songs include “Monsters“, “Better Days” and “Unfamiliar” with the conversation about coping mechanisms, their cemetery music video experience and the creative process

NEWS: Hegeroth let the nail become the hammer!

A third and final advanced listen from the forthcoming sixth studio album “Soaked In Rot“ by Polish Black Metal force Hegeroth has arrived in “The Nails“. The shrink wrap encasing the album will protect artwork from Maciej Kamuda (Blut aus Nord, Nunslaughter, Master) when it lands in our laps on 25th March with lyrics mocking the

NEWS: Catalysis premier “Deathblow”!

The punches simply keep coming from Scottish Metalcore Kings Catalysis with “Deathblow” the latest in a long line of third round knock outs with not so new vocalist Andrew Downie at the helm. The track is their first new material of 2026 and curiously enough shares similar artwork to it’s predecessor “Tremor” so perhaps there

NEWS: Immolation warn of attrition!

Now that Immolation have completed their European tour with Mayhem and Marduk its time for the New York Death Metal titans to turn back to the preparations for the arrival of their twelfth studio album “Descent”. An Affair record, mixed and mastered by Zack Ohren (Machine Head, Fallujah, Warbringer), it has been preceded by a music video

NEWS: Torchia cross into the realm of the dead!

A second piece of the puzzle has emerged from Finnish Extreme Metal force Torchia with a music video for “Nekromanteion”. The track serves as the opening one on their new album “They Are Born Under Rules of the Darkness” which will arrive on 8th May via Rockshots Records with a gothic horror narrative said to be

NEWS: Caustic unveil “Dead Mind Job”!

After eleven years wandering in the wilderness, Spanish Death Metal act Caustic have warned that their fourth studio album “Inner Deflagration” will finally see the cold light of day on 10th April via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. The record serves as an introduction to the fans for new guitarist Ismael Luna (Kreyl, Mercenario, Encadenats)