April 16, 2025
On May 02, 2025 international Thrashers SANDFINGER will release a new EP entitled “Minus Illusion” on CD in a cardboard slipcase and as digital download. A visualizer video for the song ‘Welcome’ can already be checked out over here. The EP song ‘It Was Nothing’ can additionally be streamed at this loction https://konvolted.bandcamp.com
“Earthborn” (MCD 1994) and “Lowering Sunset” (Demo 1993), the early works of Finland’s defunct melodic Death Metallers AS SERENITY FADES and “Rosegardens”, the 1993 demo from AUGUST MOON, will be re-released on CD format via Personal Records on June 13, 2025. Dark Symphonies Records released the original collection in 2011 on vinyl only. As a bonus this CD edition has the three tracks from AS SERENITY FADES’ final 1996 demo “Deux” as bonus tracks. www.youtube.com/@augustmoonbase
Greek melodic / technical Death Metallers BLACK PATH have just released a lyric video for a new track entitled ‘Endless Madness’ at this location. The band is currently working on their sophomore full length, which will be released later this year. www.facebook.com/blackpathofficial
US old school Death Metallers GRUESOME will release their third full-length “Silent Echoes” on June 06, 2025 via Relapse Records. Like its two predecessors, “Silent Echoes” was once again produced by Jarrett Pritchard. The album will feature the following tracks: ‘Condemned Identity’, ‘A Darkened Window’, ‘Frailty’, ‘Shards’, ‘Silent Echoes’, ‘Voice Within The Void (Astral Ocean)’, ‘Fragments Of Psyche’ and ‘Reason Denied’. You can already check out a video for ‘A Darkened Window’ over here. For regular updates make sure to follow GRUESOME at www.facebook.com/gruesomedeathmetal
Spanish epic / melancholic Black Metallers MONHELL have just revealed a new lyric video for the song ‘Lotus In The Endless Grey’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full length “A Last Sigh Of Pain”, which will be released on April 25, 2025 via Fetzner Death Records. www.facebook.com/monhell.bm
Finnish blackened Death Metallers PROGENY OF SUN will release their sophomore full length “Prophets Of The Void” in autumn 2025 via Inverse Records. It was mixed by Jaakko Hautamäki and mastered by Jonathan Mazzeo. The cover artwork was created by Joni Kiviniemi and Niko Aromaa. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Swarmspawn’, ‘Penance’, ‘Worldstone’, ‘Decimation’, ‘Colonus’, ‘Lifeless Light’, ‘Sun And Moon’, ‘Circle Of Keres’, ‘Diary Ender’, ‘Deface’, ‘Rain For Discouraged’ and ‘Forsaken Brigade’. A video for the album’s first single ‘Penance’ can already be watched over here. More band information you will find at www.facebook.com/progenyofsun
Candian brutal technical Death Metallers CRYPTOPSY will release their ninth full length “An Insatiable Violence” on June 20, 2025 via Season Of Mist. Here’s the complete tracklist already: ‘The Nimis Adoration’, ‘Until There’s Nothing Left’, ‘Dead Eyes Replete’, ‘Fools Last Acclaim’, ‘The Art Of Emptiness’, ‘Our Great Deception’, ‘Embrace The Nihility’ and ‘Malicious Needs’. You can already watch a video for ‘Until There’s Nothing Left’ at this location. All additional CRYPTOPSY info you will find at www.facebook.com/cryptopsyofficial