Seemingly taking inspiration from the art of the surprise released album (see: “The Spark That Moves” by Canadian Hardcore Punks Cancer Bats), Reading Progressive Death Metal trio Mercury’s Well have decided to take the path less traveled when it comes to this year’s eighth incarnation of their annual Hawaiian themed beach party one day festival
German Progressive Death Metal masters Obscura have announced they’ll be celebrating their 25th anniversary with the most ambitious European and United Kingdom tour of their career with Shred Fest 2027. It will see them dragging Pestilence, Cryptic Shift, Thus and Dvrk kicking and screaming across the continent…
A music video filmed by Alex Nasla (Edge of Paradise, Witherfall) for “My Favorite Cage” from Southern Californian Heavy Metal outfit Anubis has been shared in celebration of the arrival of the bands second album “Anthromorphicide” via M-Theory Audio. The track features a guest vocal appearance from Zhariah as the band explore themes of internal entrapment
Adorned by artwork from Sami Romppainen (Grey Sky Bleed) and given the title “Defying Gravity“ a fifth studio album from Finnish Melodic Metal act Dyecrest has been unveiled for your listening pleasure by Art Gates Records. Mixed at Matalapaine Studios by Miitri Aaltonen who handled their 2018 record “Are You Not Entertained?” and mastered at Finnvox
Featuring guitar solos from Patricio Vergara (Infernal Bloodshed, Remiso, Maligner), Swedish Thrash trio Deep Sleep have unveiled a second single in “Children Of The Blade” from their 26th June releasing EP “Repulsion“. Inspired by the biblical myth in which two mothers fighting over a baby led to King Solomon ordering the child to be sliced into two parts,
In 2024 debut EP “Alchemia Prophetica” arose from the crypt of a Traditional Heavy Metal band hailing from Helsinki Finland going by the name of Sulphur And Mercury, drawing from the spirit of late 80’s Heavy Metal with occult themes and Frostian like apocalyptic Doom. That might not seem all that important on the surface but when
A live performance captured at Armstrong Metal Festival 2025 has been repurposed as a music video for “I skogens djup” (or “In the depths of the forest“) from Canadian Melodic Death Metal force Atavistia. It’s another advanced listen from their upcoming album “Old Gods Awaken” which is set for a 15th May arrival via Blood Blast Distribution
Here begins a very short and yet sickly sweet history lesson. Back in 1989 the merging of two projects in Pestilence and Butchery led to the formation of the now legendary Mexican Death Thrash purveyors Mortuary, a band who would go on to open for Slayer in Mexico City in 1994. They were on the crest of a tidal
Having already announced that they will be spending much of 2026 on the road with a European Festival run including Rock Im Park, Rock Am Ring, Download Festival and Jera on Air to follow a North American tour with The Amity Affliction and August Burns Red it comes as no surprise that Boundaries have announced a new album.
As their fourth studio album “The Earth Is Breathing Beneath Me” arrives via Church Road Records, American Sludge Metal quartet Armed For Apocalypse have shared a music video from “Lurk” in celebration. A bleak offering of dissonance and aggression, it serves as a monument to everything the four piece have been through during their seventeen
