Exploring the contrast between two spiritual worlds: the harmony-centred pagan traditions and the legacy of Abrahamic religions, which often channel humanity’s most violent instincts, “Dreadlands” by Italian Blackened Metal Punks Stygian is a concept album like few others. They’ve let Time To Kill Records issue a second single from that in “Spirit in the Mist”
They say that one good tour announcement deserves another and so following the news that Northern Deathcore brutes Osiah will be opening for To The Grave in August, they’ve announced more shows for November. This time around they’ll be opening for Chernobyl Death Metal heads Cytotoxin with Analepsy and New Jersey heavyweights Cognitive joining the party.
Italian Death Metal quartet Spiritual Deception have unleashed their first new material since their critically acclaimed album “Semitae Mentis“, premiering a music video for a single titled “The Gate Unseen“. Simone Pietroforte (And Hell Followed With, Worm Shepherd, Reflections) at Divergent Studios in Italy then handled the mixing and mastering with the video being directed
Not to be confused with any Gary Oldman character, brothers Lukasz and Mariusz Wołosz have a new project called SiriusC. Having a Kit Kat from their usual Wrocław based projects including HeadUp, Pure Inception and Groth the pair have written and recorded an album together in “Soil” , mixed and mastered at Sound-Online Studio in 2024 by Mariusz Wołosz (Svar, Aterra, Srogość). That will be
What happens when former members of such notable acts as Visceral Bleeding, The Berzerker, Enshrined and Ominous unite in a dark, damp basement torcher chamber hell? They start a German/Swedish Blackened Death Metal band called Shadows and record a debut album titled “Miseria“, proudly presenting nine songs of unrelenting misanthropy as it they were made of
Inverse Records have pushed the button on “Fragments Of Time“, a new single from Finnish Melodic Death Metal purveyors Re-Armed. Staying true to their signature sound, the band delivers a heavy hitting track filled with soaring melodies, crushing riffs with a hint of groove offering something both diverse and atmospheric.
Guadalajara-based Aztec folk metal group Cemican, whose name means “the duality of life and death” in the Aztecan language of Nahuatl (spoken by 2 million people in Central Mexico) and are known to incorporate elements of the legends, mysticism and ideologies of ancient Mexican culture in their sound, have a new album in the works.
A second chapter from the upcoming new album “Lost in Darkness and Distance” by genre-defying heavyweights False Gods has been offered up as a crushing meditation on identity erosion and self-betrayal with suffocating riffs, anguished vocals, and monolithic grooves for a slow-burning descent. Part of the atmosphere of despair, disillusionment and the relentless ache of
It’s crazy how time flies when you’re down by the swamp isn’t it? One minute you’re eyeing up lunch and the next ten months have flown by and you’re wondering just what happened. 2023 saw Lansing Michigan natives Krocophile fulfilled their mission of “Reptilians writing slam for our fellow reptilians“ with their sophomore EP “Slamzilla: The Returning“
Celebrating their 20th Anniversary this year Croatians Defiant unleashed their fifth album “Mammon Mantra” in May via Satanath Records. Evolving from Melodic Death Metal with themes of depression and misery to Blackened Death Metal orientated sounds with themes of death and the supernatural in their later career, they discuss that journey with Get Heavy UK
