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Septicflesh has a long track record and many records under their belt. The Greek metal outfit premiered in 1994 and established a symphonic version of death metal, allowing the quintet to enlarge their fanbase. With ‘Modern Primitive’ a new workpiece will see the light of day these days and five years after having let ‘Codex... Continue Reading →
Static Abyss is the brainchild of two death metal pioneers. Chris Reifert and Greg Wilkinson, both members of death metal legend Autopsy, worked on a project called Static Abyss. ‘Labyrinth of Veins’ is the title of the debut album; the duo releases these days. As not expected different, the ten songs on the album reflect... Continue Reading →
Heavy metal stands, amongst other things, for a rebellious spirit and provocation. A band that lives up to these attributes in excellent fashion is Watain. The Swedish black metal powerhouse has started their diabolic journey in 1997 in the greater Stockholm area and has a fanbase all around the globe. As often, the third album... Continue Reading →
German metal duo and recent Metal Blade Records signees, Mantar, will unleash their scathing new full-length, 'Pain Is Forever And This Is The End', on July 15th today unveiling the record's cover art, track listing, and first single! Founded in 2012 by guitarist/vocalist Hanno Klänhardt and drummer/vocalist Erinc Sakarya, Mantar stands among the leading forces... Continue Reading →
Umeå-based metal architects Meshuggah never make it easy for listener to dive into their music and records. Heavy, filigree, fragile and brutal, that is what characterized the sound of the Swedish metal veterans and their newest effort ‘Immutable’ doesn’t change this basic direction. Meshuggah are trailblazers when it comes to complex extreme metal and the... Continue Reading →
Dark Funeral can be regarded as one of the veterans of the Swedish Black Metal. The band, founded in the early ‘90s, belongs to spearhead of black metal and although the track records doesn’t contain countless releases, each of the so far unleashed six longplayers was a powerful ode to black metal. ‘Where Shadows Forever... Continue Reading →
Italy might be the country that one would call the epicenter of death metal. Still there are some bands, being committed to the extreme metal genre. Exceptions prove the rule. One of these bands is Dead Chasm. Founded in 2020 by Lorenza (guitar/vocals), Gigi (bass) and Dave (drums), Dead Chasm worked on a first release,... Continue Reading →
‘Damnum’ is the sixth album of Denver, Colorado based tech death metal outfit Allegaeon. The band, founded in 2008, delivers a musical curveball, combining the relentless heaviness of death metal with layers, known from prog metal bands. A song that shows all aspects of Allegaeon’s sound is ‘Into Ember’. Deep Florida-laden growls, excellent clean vocals... Continue Reading →
Today, Watain launched the second single from their upcoming album ‘The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain’. The song is entitled ‘Serimosa’ and unveils a gloomy and dark mood. E. Danielsson (vocals) comments: "'Serimosa' tells of the electric notion of the coming of a great power. The appearance of cracks in the dam that holds the... Continue Reading →
New York-based Immolation isn’t a band that floods the market with new releases. Their release pattern entails a new longplayer every 3-5 years and considering the fact of ‘Atonement’ having been unveiled in 2017 the time was right in early 2022 to launch a next smashing metal album. Immolation is still driven by the two... Continue Reading →
Italian metal outfit Mortuary Drape might have been ahead of the curve when they started their journey into extreme metal in the mid ‘80s. At least they belong to the pioneers when it comes to European death- and black metal. Driven by main man Wildness Perversion the band premiered in 1994 with ‘All the Witches... Continue Reading →
Hämmerhead was a thrash metal band, hailing from Antwerp, Belgium. The band released two EPs before morphing into Schizophrenia in 2016. After found a new moniker, the quartet launched a first single in 2019, followed by an EP entitled ‘Voices’. The full-length debut was missing to date and the gap will be closed mid-February. ‘Recollection... Continue Reading →
Zeal & Ardor is the brainchild of American-Swiss musician Manuel Gagneux. He started Zeal & Ardor in 2013 in Basel, Switzerland and it is the combination of two totally different genres that made the project to an exciting newcomer in 2016, the year, when Zeal &Ardor unleashed the debut album ‘Devil is Fine’. Gagneux blends... Continue Reading →
‘Resentment is Always Seismic - a final throw of Throes’ is the new mini album by UK-based grindcore pioneers Napalm Death. The eight songs featuring release contains songs from the ‘Throes of Joy in The Jaws Of Defeatism’-session. Already at the time the band purposely recorded these songs with having the release of a mini... Continue Reading →
It feels like Venom Prison being around since a long time and sure, seven years isn’t just yesterday. Still, considering that the band founded in 2014 shows that they are a rather new outfit. With two albums under their belt, of which ‘Samsara’ from 2019 is the latest one, the quintet from South Wales worked... Continue Reading →
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