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Scotland’s melodic Black / Death Metallers WINTER ETERNAL have just revealed the track ‘Born From Winter’s Breath’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming fifth full-length “Unveiled Nighsky”, which will be released later this year via Hells Headbangers. www.facebook.com/wintereternalband
International blackened Death Metallers PLAGUE CURSE have just premiered the track ‘Umbrage Earned’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full-length “Verminous Contempt”, which will be released on October 10, 2025 via Adirondack Black Mass. The previously revealed album track ‘Most Vile’ can still be streamed at this location. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Most Vile’, ‘In The Shadow Of Hate’, ‘Procession Of Dead’, ‘Umbrage Earned’, ‘Of Fornication And Malice’, ‘Nocturnal Cruelty’, ‘Callous Abomination’, ‘Amidst The Devastation’, ‘Reigning In Ruin’ and ‘Oderint Dum Metuant’. https://adirondackblackmass.bandcamp.com
On November 14, 2025 Dying Victims Productions will release “Steel, Fire & Ice”, the debut full-length from Australia’s Epic Metallers FATE’S HAND, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘The Quest Spirit’, ‘Fount Of All Waters’, ‘Woven In Space And Time’, ‘In The Draugr Deeps’, ‘Fire Reigns Once More’, ‘Starforger’, ‘The Cosmic Ash’ and ‘Stallion Of Sky And Seas’. You can already check out ‘Fire Reigns Once More’ at this location. More about FATE’S HAND at https://fateshand.bandcamp.com
Kansas City, Missouri based Death Metallers DAMNED BY THE POPE will release their sophomore full-length “Blasphemy Perpetuated” on October 31, 2025. On the same day the band will also release an EP entitled “Decennium Of Damnation”, which features two older tracks that were reimagined and re-recorded simultaneously alongside the full-length album. The artwork for “Blasphemy Perpetuated” was created by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, the artwork for “Decennium Of Damnation” by Fleshflies. www.facebook.com/damnedbythepope
Wisconsin’s Industrial Death Metallers CRAWL have just released a lyric video for ‘No Way Out’ over here. It is the title track of their third full-length, which was released on June 27, 2025 via THC Music / Virgin Music Group on CD and vinyl LP. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Jason DeJardin at Grave Error Renderings and produced by Crawl. www.facebook.com/crawlbandgb
On October 08, 2025 Amor Fati Productions will release “Ecstatic Kingdom”, the sophomore full-length from Black Metallers AKOLYTH, on CD and vinyl LP formats. You can already check out ‘A Black Torch’ at this location. The complete tracklist reads like this: ‘A Black Torch’, ‘Ecstatic Kingdom’, ‘To Grow, Flourish And Conquer’ and ‘Without Light’. https://akolyth.bandcamp.com
Manchester, UK based Black Metallers WODE have just released the track ‘Under Lanternlight’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming fourth full-length “Uncrossing The Keys”, which will be released on October 03, 2025 via 20 Buck Spin. The album was recorded and mixed by James Atkinson at The Stationhouse and mastered by Magnus Lindberg. The artwork was created by Set33. The following tracks will be featured on “Uncrossing The Keys”: ‘Two Crossed Keys’, ‘Under Lanternlight’, ‘Saturn Shadow’, ‘Transmutation’, ‘Prisoner Of The Moon’, ‘Fiery End’, ‘Lash Of The Tyrant’, ‘Phantom’ and ‘Dashed On The Rocks’. www.facebook.com/wodecult
On September 26, 2025 Werewolf Records will release “Grand Pestilential Flame”, the debut full-length from Finland’s Death Metallers RITUALHAMMER, on CD and vinyl LP formats. A full album stream is available over here. More about RITUALHAMMER at www.facebook.com/ritualhammerband
American Thrashers DARK ANGEL are releasing a behind the scenes series on YouTube, entitled “DARK ANGEL – Resurrection: The Making of ‘Extinction Level Event'”. There will be three episodes, which will be released weekly on DARK ANGEL’s YouTube Channel. The first episode is already available at this location, the second and third will follow on September 15 and 22, 2025. The documentary features exclusive behind the scenes footage from the making of the latest DARK ANGEL record. A trailer for the series you will find over here. You can follow the band at www.facebook.com/darkangelthrashofficial
New Jersey based Thrashers CONDITION CRITICAL have just self-released their third full-length “Degeneration Chamber” on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats. A full stream of it you will find at this location. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/conditioncriticalnj
On September 12, 2025 EAL Productions will release “Providence”, the debut full-length of international Black Metallers DESTRUCTION RITUAL. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Providence’, ‘Pride & Corrupted Dreams’, ‘Gone Days Of Splendor’, ‘Decaying Mask Of Remorse’, ‘Washed Away Sins’ and ‘Closure’. A full stream will be revealed on the day of release. https://destructionritual.bandcamp.com
London, UK based blackened Death Metallers CULT BURIAL have just released their third full-length “Collapse Of Pattern, Reverence Of Dust” on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats. A full stream of it is available at this location now. For more band information please visit www.facebook.com/cultburial
Australian Black Metallers PESTILENTIAL SHADOWS are streaming their eighth full-length “Wretch” in its entirety over here now. It was released via Northern Silence, in co-operation with Brilliant Emperor, yesterday. www.facebook.com/pestilentialshadowsofficial
French Black / Death Metallers BLISS OF FLESH have just released a video for ‘The Awakening’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s fifth full-length “Metempsychosis”, which will be released on October 17, 2025 via Black Lion Records on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats. The album was mixed and mastered by Neb Xort at Drudenhaus Studio in France and the artwork was created by Hungarian artist Balázs Jacsó. BLISS OF FLESH will support Norwegian Black Metallers GORGOROTH on their “33-Year Anniversary Tour 2025 Part II” in Northern Europe from October 16 to October 26, 2025. Additional support comes from CARVED MEMORIES and SHEMHAMFORASH. www.facebook.com/blissofflesh
On October 24, 2025 Austrian blackened Deathgrinders DISTASTE will release their fiffth full-length “Agoniepositur” via F.D.A. Records. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Furunkelmann’, ‘Apex Oppressor’, ‘Last’, ‘Rosstaeuscherei’, ‘Kaligula 2.0’, ‘Endzweck Geschroepf’, ‘Hand Guck In Die Luft’, ‘Nestbeschmutzer’, ‘Der Thronraeuber’, ‘Gottes Geschenk An Die Menschheit’, ‘Das Rudeltier’, ‘Alpinist’, ‘Wind Von Asphalt’ and ‘Agoniepositur’. www.facebook.com/distastegrind
Black Metallers DUNES OF ASH have just revealed the track ‘War Hymn Of The Wounded Star’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full-length “The Fall Of The Seven Sisters”, which will be released on September 26, 2025 via Signal Rex on vinyl LP, CD, cassette tape and digital. The previously revealed album track ‘The Eye Of The Seraphic Void’ can still be streamed over here. The cover artwork was created by Belial Necroarts. The complete tracklist of “The Fall Of The Seven Sisters” reads like this: ‘The Eye Of The Seraphic Void’, ‘Womb Of The Abyssal Dawn’, ‘Sorrow’s Eternal Flame’, ‘Antlers Of The Celestial Stag’, ‘Tempest Of The Forbidden’, ‘War Hymn Of The Wounded Star’ and ‘The Mortal’s Shame’. For more information please visit www.signalrex.com or https://signalrex.bandcamp.com
Finnish blackened Death Metallers PROGENY OF SUN have just released their sophomore full-length “Prophets Of The Void” via Inverse Records. A full album stream is available at this location. Music videos for ‘Penance’, ‘Decimation’ and ‘Forsaken Brigade’ can be watched here, here and here. A lyric video for ‘Swarmspawn’ is available at this location. The cover artwork was created by Joni Kiviniemi and Niko Aromaa. www.facebook.com/progenyofsun
“The Abyssal Terror”, the sophomore full-length from Italy’s Black Metal three-piece ORGREL, will be released via Purity Through Fire on October 31, 2025 on CD and vinyl LP formats. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Infernal Pursuit’, ‘Rituals Of The Abyssal Power’, ‘Nefarious Maw’, ‘Horned Tyrant’, ‘The Enshrinement Of The Triumphant Beast’, ‘Storming Souls’, ‘Conqueror Of Forbidden Cosmos’ and ‘Steel Storm Apocalypse’. You can already stream the album track ‘Horned Tyrant’ over here. More about ORGREL at www.facebook.com/orgrelofficial
Italian progressive, technical Thrash / Death Metallers JESTER MAJESTY will release their debut full-length “Infinite Measure, Finite Existence” via Xtreem Music on December 04, 2025 on CD and digital formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Zero-Point Collapse’, ‘Human Vs. Machine’, ‘Echoes Of Π’, ‘Married To The Masterplan’, ‘The Curse Of Majesty’, ‘When Numbers Speak’, ‘A World In A Single Word’, ‘Masquerade (The Algorithm)’, ‘Amphibian To Chameleon’ and ‘Φinal Jest’. You can already check out a first advance track at this location. All additional band information you will find at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563217256871
Belgian Black Metallers LVTHN are streaming their sophomore full-length “The Devil’s Bridge” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on September 06, 2025 via Amor Fati Productions. www.facebook.com/adversarialism
On October 10, 2025 Me Saco Un Ojo Records, in co-operation with Dark Descent Records, will release “Malignity”, the sophomore full-length from Australian brutal Death Metallers VILE APPARITION, on vinyl LP, CD and cassette tape formats. You can already check out the album track ‘Emulsifying Fleshpress’ over here. The full “Malignity” tracklist reads like this: ‘Siphoning Life’, ‘Bloodletting’, ‘White Room Torture’, ‘A Canvas Of Corpses’, ‘Broken Minds’, ‘Pulverised Dreams’, ‘The Essence Of Malignity’, ‘Castrated Gods’, ‘Thriving On Disease’, ‘Emulsifying Fleshpress’ and ‘Decapitation Rites’. www.facebook.com/vileapparition
On October 31, 2025 Osmose Productions will release “Ónkos”, the third full-length from UK’s old school Death Metallers BINAH, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. The album was once again recorded by the band, engineered by Aort with input from I.R.G. and illustrated by Jaume Mayans. It will feature the two very lengthy tracks ‘Mount Morphine’ and ‘The After Evermath’. www.facebook.com/binahukdm
German Black Metallers SCHREIGARM have just revealed a video for ‘When The Ravens Flow Through My Veins’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming sophomore full-length “Mara Comes And Darkness Shall Reign”, which will be released on September 12, 2025 via Purity Through Fire. A previously revealed video for ‘Whispers Of The Blackened Woods’ can still be watched over here. The album’s complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Darkness Shall Reign’, ‘Winds Of The Ancient Pantheons’, ‘Whispers Of The Blackened Woods’, ‘When The Ravens Flow Through My Veins’, ‘Through Time, Death And The Beast Within’, ‘Nine Days On The Gallows Tree’, ‘Mara Comes’ and ‘Born From The Ashes Of War’. www.facebook.com/schreigarm
North Carolina based Black’n’Rollers VALLETTA will release a new EP entitled “Bitter Lucid Truth” via Lifeforce Records on October 24, 2025 on limited 12″ splatter vinyl, digipak CD, ultra-limited cassette tape and digital formats. It was recorded and mixed by Al Jacob at Warrior Sound Studio in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and mastered by Matt Tuttle at IAS Studios in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The following tracks will be featured: ‘Blood And Jesus’, ‘Cold Death’, ‘Aggressor’, ‘Doing Well’ and ‘Spitting The Word’. The EP’s first single ‘Cold Death’ can already be streamed at this location. More about VALLETTA at www.facebook.com/vallettanc
Dallas, Texas based atmospheric blackened Doom Metallers KRIGSGRAV have just premiered ‘Twilight Fell’, the third single from their upcoming eighth full-length “Stormcaller”, over here. The album will be released via Willowtop Records on September 19, 2025 on CD, gatefold vinyl LP and digital formats. The full “Stormcaller” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Huntress Of The Fire Moon’ (feat. Jens Rydén), ‘Stormcaller’, ‘Twilight Fell’, ‘None Shall Remember Your Name’, ‘Bay Of The Barghest’, ‘The Tonic Of Wilderness’, ‘Ghosts’ and ‘Womb:death:dawn’. The cover artwork was created by Adam Burke of Nightjar Illustration. www.facebook.com/krigsgrav
On October 31, 2025 Osmose Productions will release “Signum”, the sophomore full-length from international Black Metallers HAMMERFILOSOFI, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. It was mastered at Endarker Studio and the artwork was created by Manuel Scapinello. Here’s the full tracklist already: ‘A Dance Above The Abyss’, ‘Falling Monuments’, ‘My Blood Is My Voice’, ‘Centuries’, ‘Funeral Veil’, ‘The Destroyer Of Worlds’, ‘Meta-morphobic (The Infamous Lord Of Shadows)’ and ‘Premonitions Long Forgotten’. www.facebook.com/hammerfilosofi
Polish Black Metallers CZARNA JUCHA will self-release their debut full-length “Zły Duch” on CD, Spotify and Bandcamp on September 23, 2025. The first single ‘Krew Z Krwi’ has been revealed today. You can check it out at this location. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Marcin Rybicki in Fall / Winter 2024 / 2025 and the cover artwork was created by Robert A. von Ritter. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61579772906588
Polish blackened Death Metallers SOTHORIS will release their new album “Domus Omnium Mortuorum” on October 03, 2025 via Fetzner Death Records on CD and cassette tape. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Krzysztof Kostencki at Tetra Wave Studio and the cover artwork was created by Bartosz Szczepaniak and Maksymilian Krasoń. A lyric video for ‘Lawa’ is already available over here. The complete “Domus Omnium Mortuorum” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Wieczornica’, ‘Szkarłat’, ‘Lawa’, ‘Byłem Faustem’, ‘Dzieci Diabła’, ‘Pro Memoria’, ‘Dym’ and ‘Piętno’. www.facebook.com/sothorisband
Kansas based brutal Death Metallers UNMERCIFUL will be supporting Portland’s technical Death Metallers VITRIOL on 15 dates on the upcoming “Liberation Through Punishment” US tour in November / December 2025. New Jersey’s WEEPING will complete the tour line-up. The tour kicks off on November 06, 2025 in Santa Cruz, California and UNMERCIFUL will remain on the tour until November 22, 2025. The band’s latest album “Devouring Darkness” can be streamed in its entirety at this location. It was released on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats via Willowtip Records. www.facebook.com/officialunmerciful
“The Graves And Ghosts Of Yore”, the sophomore full-length from US Black Metallers DEOGEN, will be released on November 14, 2025 via Iron Bonehead Productions on CD and vinyl LP formats. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Pernicious Prayer’, ‘By Torchlight’, ‘Desolation Bestowed’, ‘Nightfall Premonition’, ‘Of Abominations To Come’, ‘Clawing Into Sphere And Sun’, ‘Cataclysm And Deluge’, ‘Spectral Winds Rise’ and ‘Echoes Of Eternity’. You can already check out ‘Spectral Winds Rise’ over here. To coincide with the release of the album, Iron Bonehead will also be reissuing the band’s debut full-length “The Endless Black Shadows Of Abyss”, on CD and vinyl at the same time. www.facebook.com/ironboneheadproductions
On October 31, 2025 Caligari Records will release “Embalming”, the debut full-length from Japanese Swedish style Death Metallers HETEROPSY on CD and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘The Dawning (Intro)’, ‘Pandemonium Alter’, ‘The Sodomizer’, ‘Asphyxia’, ‘Memento Mori’, ‘Seventh Damnation’, ‘Methadone’ and ‘Old Friends’. You can already check out ‘Pandemonium Alter’ at this location. More HETEROPSY music you will find at https://heteropsy.bandcamp.com
“Teufelskult”, the third full-length from Swiss Black Metallers HÄXÄR, will be released via Purity Through Fire on October 31, 2025 on CD and vinyl LP formats. You can already listen to the album track ‘Bastardis’ over here. The complete tracklist of “Teufelskult” reads like this: ‘Dämonenblut’, ‘Teufelskvlt’, ‘Askahex’, ‘Ein Schatten So Kalt’, ‘Bastardis’, ‘Götterdämmerung’ and ‘Prozession Der Wölfe’. https://hxr666.bandcamp.com
“The Fire Brethren”, the sixth full-length from Australia’s Black / Death Metal duo ABOMINATOR, will be released via Hells Headbangers on October 31, 2025 on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. You can already check out the album opener ‘The Templars Curse’ over here. The complete tracklist of “The Fire Brethren” reads as follows: ‘The Templars Curse’, ‘Underworld Vociferations’, ‘Covens For Azmodeus’, ‘Progenitors Of The Insurection Of Satan’, ‘Author Of All Calamity’, ‘Desolation Epoch’, ‘The Fire Brethren’ and ‘Sulphur From The Heavens’. Drummer / vocalist Volcano and guitarist / bass player Undertaker recorded the whole material at multiple locations before deciding on Toyland Studio as the best place for the final sound. The mixing and mastering was done by Adam Calaitzis and the cover artwork was created by Chris Moyen. www.facebook.com/abominatorofficial
Polish blackened Death Metallers SOTHORIS have just premiered a lyric video for ‘Lawa’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming third full-length “Domus Omnium Mortuorum”, which will be released on cassette tape and CD by Fetzner Death Records and ADG Records on October 03, 2025. www.facebook.com/sothorisband
On October 31, 2025 Nuclear War Now! Productions will release the debut full-length from Italian Black Metallers ARAPHEL, “The Endchanter”. You can already stream the title track over here. The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘The Endchanter’, ‘Old Comet Transition’, ‘Elysian Fields Ablaze’, ‘Scentless Epoch’, ‘A Meaning Quest – The Smile Of Sisyphus’, ‘Tempus Edax Rerum’ and ‘The Song Of Araphel’. www.facebook.com/p/araphelofficial-61562871221927
On November 14, 2025 Iron Bonehead Productions will release “Celestial Clear Moonlit”, the sophomore full-length from America’s Black Metal one-man band STORMING, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Cleaved By Heaven’, ‘Starfire’, ‘A Life-Absorbing Path’, ‘Over Horizons’ and ‘From The Heart Of Breath’. You can already check out ‘Over Horizons’ at this location. For all additional information please visit www.facebook.com/ironboneheadproductions
Berlin, Germany based Speed Metal Punks INDIAN NIGHTMARE have just revealed a video for ‘Lucifer’ over here. The track is featured on the band’s current EP “Banished Into Endless Chaos”, which was released earlier this year via High Roller Records. www.facebook.com/indiannightmareband
On September 15, 2025 Chilean Black / Death Metallers CENOTAFIO will release their third full-length “La Escisión Acausal: Por La Vía Inversa Hacia La Descarnación” on limited vinyl LP (200 black copies and 100 brown copies), as well as on limited CD (300 copies) via Demoniac Productions. The label is being run by Luarth, who used to be part of Spain’s BlackSeed Productions from 2002 to 2014. His first release on Demoniac Productions was “Something Near”, the third full-length from US one-man band HAUNT, which came out on vinyl LP and digipak CD in late October 2024. More CENOTAFIO info you will find at www.facebook.com/cenotafiobanda, all further label info at www.facebook.com/demoniacproductions
Swiss Black / Death Metallers ANTIVERSUM have just premiered the title-track of their upcoming sophomore full-length “De Nemesis Omnes Et Omnia” at this location. The album will be released on September 19, 2025 via Amor Fati Productions. The previously revealed album opener ‘Pulsar Feralis’ can still be streamed over here. The complete “De Nemesis Omnes Et Omnia” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Pulsar Feralis’, ‘Scudo-Nero’, ‘De Nemesis Omnes Et Omnia’, ‘QBism’ and ‘Vuoto’. www.facebook.com/antiversum
Seattle, Washington based Progressive Thrashers URSAWRATH have just released their debut full-length “Emergence” on all major streaming platforms. It features the following tracks: ‘Thawed By Hell’s Flames’, ‘Rot’, ‘Thrive In Destruction And Death’, ‘In The Abyss’, ‘Lies’, ‘And The Reckoning’, ‘Echo Chamber’, ‘Glass Tower’, ‘Sentenced To Life’ and ‘Unstoppable’. A full stream is available at this location and a video for the album opener ‘Thawed By Hell’s Flames’ can be watched over here. The album was recorded by USRAWRATH and mixed and mastered by Max Barber of Singular Path Audio. The artwork was created by Riaj Gragoth. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551945290981