NEWS: Party Cannon! Internal Bleeding! Gutteral Slug! Déjà vu? 2027!

Having completed a European run together earlier this year, Scottish Slamming Death Metal force Party Cannon and New York Death Metal veterans Internal Bleeding will be joining forces for a co-headlining run again next year. This time out  Guttural Slug will be opening the shows which will run from Hoogeveen to Kortrijk as follows:

NEWS: BleedSkin return to the crime scene?

Featuring a guest vocal appearance from Clémence Plapied of Locked Years fame, Belgian Brutal Death Metal trio BleedSkin have celebrated the second anniversary of their album “Homicidal Therapy” with new single “Quiet Compulsion“. Mixed and mastered by Julien Huyssens (InHuman, Neverus, Omnerod) it appears alongside a music video by CM Studio Videography and lands after the

NEWS: Black Spikes speak of demons…

It seems “Ydos” is the gift that keeps giving as Napalm Records signings Black Spikes have returned to their freshly released concept record for a music video for “Senas Demonas“. The Lithuanian avant-garde Metal outfit describe it as a dark fairy tale about human vices which pushes the boundaries of what Progressive Metal means, so

Review: “What We Leave Behind” by The Crawling

“The EP is an acknowledgement that the past is behind us. We spend too long lamenting what has been, rather than being mindful of the present and the joy it can bring. Then, when we finally realise time has slipped away, we begin mourning that as well. The constant mourning of time is a sickness.”

NEWS: Hurakan make it three with disgrace!

A third single from a fourth studio album “Eternal Scars” by French Deathcore brutes Hurakan has surfaced in “Disgrace“. Produced, mixed and mastered by Niko “HK” (Betraying The Martyrs, Sinsaenum, Vented) at Vamacara Studio, the record has a 30th October date against it for release, the band doing so independently. Pre-orders including an incredible looking

Interview: Mortal Sin talk new music with Sense Music Media!

Frontman Mat Maurer from Australian Thrash veterans Mortal Sin is the man sweating under the FBI interrogation lights in this fresh interview with Sense Music Media. The band are celebrating their 40th Anniversary with a tour of their home land with Americans Flotsam & Jetsam and he discusses everything from opening for Metallica in 1989

NEWS: Whiplash ride the bullet train!

New Jersey Thrash Metal institution Whiplash have selected “Bullet Train” as the first single for the masses to hear from their forthcoming album “Roar“. Originally titled “Thrashquake” it was  recorded at Studio Mozart and Concrete Island Studio, produced by Tony Portaro and mixed by Jamie King (Between The Buried And Me, The Contortionist, Dead Man

Playthrough: “Ravage” from Novelists!

You might think that having back to back tours from North America to Europe over the next couple of months would be enough to keep French Progressive Metal band Novelists busy but no. Instead they’re recording guitar playthrough videos like this one for “Ravage” filmed by Charly Teule. The track is of course their first

NEWS: Strega warn of the shape of things to come?

The new line up of Italian Blackened Heavy Metal promising project Strega, who now feature in their ranks musicians known for their work in Ponte Del Diavolo, Hideous Divinity and  Adversam have shared their first single together. Featuring a special guest at keyboards in Regen Graves of the cult Italian Dark Sound band Abysmal Grief the

Bootleg: “Get Rid Of” from Ghost Toast!

Filmed at Grand Café in Szeged, Hungary on 18th October 2025 a live rendition of “Get Rid Of” by instrumental, experimental Post Progressive Metal band Ghost Toast has arrived in Cyberspace. It was filmed by Takács Borisz with sound recording by Bujdosó Zoltán, the show being significant because it was the last one they played