Russian Death Metallers PYRE are streaming their upcoming third full-length “Where Obscurity Sways” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on January 31, 2025 via Osmose Productions. www.facebook.com/pyredeathmetal
French Black Metallers DECLINE OF THE I have just premiered a lyric video for their new single ‘Éros N’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming new album “Wilhelm”, which will be released on February 14, 2025 via Agonia Records on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digitally. The drums were recorded, mixed and mastered by Francis Caste at Studio Sainte Marthe in 2024. Other instruments were recorded at the band’s personal studios. The artwork was created by Dehn Sora (BLUT AUS NORD, DEATHSPELL OMEGA). The following tracks will be featured on “Wilhelm”: ‘L’ Alliance Des Rats’, ‘Entwined Conundrum’, ‘Diapsalmata’, ‘Éros N’ and ‘The Renouncer’. www.facebook.com/declineofthei
On March 07, 2025 Hells Headbangers will release the fifth full-length from Brazilian Speed Metallers WHIPSTRIKER, “Cry Of Extinction”, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Intro’, ‘Cry Of Extinction’, ‘Six-Eyes Crow Division’, ‘Rush Of Fury’, ‘WWVI’, ‘Heartrippers’, ‘Khaalou’s New World’, ‘Satan’s Vengeance’ (DESTRUCTION cover feat. Daniel Avenger) and ‘Military Scum’. You can already check out the title track over here. WHIPSTRIKER are currently scheduling a full European tour for 2025. www.facebook.com/whipstriker
Polish melodic Death Metallers ACROSS THE SHADE have digitally released their sophomore full-length “Madness” today. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Kamil Sikorski and the cover artwork was created by Nikos Stavridakis. A full album stream is available over here and a video for the song ‘Kingdom’ can be watched at this location. More about ACROSS THE SHADE at www.facebook.com/acrosstheshade
Finnish Death Metallers SEPULCHRAL CURSE will release their third full-length “Crimson Moon Evocations” via Dark Descent Records on February 28, 2025. It was recorded and mixed at Oxroad Studios by Tomi Uusitupa and the cover artwork was created by Mark Erskine. The album’s first single ‘House Of The Black Moon’ can already be checked out at this location. The complete “Crimson Moon Evocations” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Wildfires’, ‘House Of The Black Moon’, ‘The Locust Scar’, ‘Beneath The Dismal Tides’, ‘Empress Of The Dead’, ‘The Currents Of Chaos’ and ‘Crimson Passages’. www.facebook.com/sepulchralcurse
Spanish Thrashers HOLYCIDE have just released their fifth lyric video from their latest full-length “Towards Idiocracy”. You can check out ‘Technophobia’ over here. “Towards Idiocracy” was released in June 2024 via Xtreem Music on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats. www.facebook.com/holycide
Copenhagen, Denmark based one-man Death Metal project ROHAN will release its debut full-length “Suffering With A Smile” today. You can check it out at this location. More about ROHAN at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554030246477
On February 28, 2025 Hells Headbangers will release “Purulent Apocalypse”, the debut full-length from UK based Death Metallers CAUSTIC PHLEGM, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Cadaveric Spasms & Purge Fluid Showers’, ‘The Teratophilist’, ‘Fouled, Infected & Infested’, ‘Flesh Melt Contagion’, ‘Impose To Decompose’, ‘Soft Bones’, ‘Blister Bliss’ and ‘Purulent Apocalypse’. The cover artwork was created by Gorey Corey Tornlimbs. You can already check out the album track ‘Soft Bones’ at this location. More about CAUSTIC PHLEGM at https://causticphlegm.bandcamp.com
Copenhagen, Denmark based Death Metallers PHRENELITH are streaming the track ‘A Husk Wrung Dry’ over here now. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming third full-length “Ashen Womb”, which will be released via Dark Descent Records, in co-operation with Me Saco Un Ojo Records, on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats on February 07, 2025. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Noemata’, ‘Astral Larvae’, ‘A Husk Wrung Dry’, ‘Lithopaedion’, ‘Nebulae’, ‘Stagnated Blood’, ‘Sphageion’, ‘Chrysopoeia’ and ‘Ashen Womb’. www.facebook.com/phrenelith
VLTIMAS have just released a video for ‘Mephisto Manifesto’ at this location. The band will embark on a US tour in early February, supporting SEPTICFLESH. Additional support comes from Canadian symphonic Death Metallers EX DEO. www.facebook.com/vltimas
Portuguese Black Metallers IRAE are streaming their new EP “Promiscuous Fire” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on January 24, 2025 via Signal Rex. The cover artwork was created by Ainul Iblis. IRAE will be supporting MARDUK on their upcoming European tour in February / March. https://irae666.bandcamp.com
On March 21, 2025 Soulseller Records will release “Ordo Diabolicum”, the third full-length of international Black Metallers ARAN ANGMAR, on CD, vinyl LP and digitally. It was mixed and mastered by Psychon (SEPTICFLESH) at Sound Abuse Production and the cover artwork was created by Stefan Todorovic (Khaos Diktator Designs). The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Dungeons Of The Damned’, ‘Aeon Ablaze’, ‘Ordo Diabolicum’, ‘Hêlēl Ben-Šaḥar’, ‘Crown Of The Gods’, ‘Chariots Of Death’, ‘Primordial Fire’ and ‘Vae Victis’. www.facebook.com/aranangmar
New Hampshire based Black Metallers MALACATH have just premiered the track ‘A Hymn For The Harvest’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming fifth full-length “Eternal Roar Of The Thunder And Rain”, which will be released on February 21, 2025 via Eternal Death. The previously revealed ‘Call Of The Specter’ can still be streamed over here. The album’s complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Eternal Roar Of The Thunder And Rain’, ‘Call Of The Specter’, ‘A Hymn For The Harvest’, ‘Blood Of Our Fathers’ and ‘Eleusis’. https://malacath.bandcamp.com
In December of 2024 Polish Black Metallers DESPISED CRUELTY released their sophomore full-length “Niech Zdycha” via Talheim Records on digital format and jewelcase CD. It was recorded by Sławomir Papis at Case Studio and mixed and mastered by Jakub Piotrowski. A full album stream is available at this location now. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/despisedcruelty
On April 19, 2025 Amor Fati Productions, in co-operation with Extraconscious Recordings, will release the self-titled sophomore full-length from European Black Metallers SILVER KNIFE on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Sliver’, ‘Restless Blight’, ‘Techne’, ‘Transfiguration’, ‘Reticent Paroxysm’ and ‘Triumph In Tragedy’. You can already check out ‘Reticent Paroxysm’ over here. For all additional SILVER KNIFE information please visit www.facebook.com/silverknifeband.
“Tidloes Naadesloes”, the fifth full-length from Norwegian Black Metallers NATTVERD, will be released on March 21, 2025 via Soulseller Records on CD, vinyl LP and in digital versions. It was recorded at Caliban Studios and mixed and mastered by Ruben Willem. The album will feature the following tracks: ‘Iskalde Horn’, ‘Doedsfugl’, ‘For Aa Kunne Bli Doedt’, ‘Hvisk Deg Vekk’, ‘Raate Og Raatt’, ‘De Sviande Ord Vaagar Ikje For Sitt Liv’, ‘Udyr’, ‘Med Kniven I Oeyet’, ‘Naar Vi Dolker Guds Hjerte’ (DØDHEIMSGARD cover) and ‘Ens Egen Grav’. www.facebook.com/nattverdofficial
Polish melodic Death Metallers DEATH REAPERS have just released a video for ‘Wear Your Leather Proud’ at this location. The song was entirely recorded by the band and mixed and mastered by Hubert Potomski, DEATH REAPERS’ lead guitarist. www.facebook.com/deathreaperslive
French Black Metallers ARKAIST have just revealed the track ‘Aube Noire’ at this location. It is the title track of their upcoming debut full-length, which will be released on February 24, 2025 via Antiq. The previously revealed ‘Anachorète’ can still be streamed over here. The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Aube Noire’, ‘Ode À La Haine’, ‘Prophète Du Sang’, ‘Terre Ancestrale’, ‘Anachorète’, ‘Linceul D’ether’ and ‘Puer Aeternus’. https://arkaist.bandcamp.com
Phoenix, Arizona based melodic progressive Death Metal project DESSIDERIUM will release its fifth full-length “Keys To The Palace” on CD, gatefold double vinyl LP and digital formats on March 17, 2025 via Willowtip Records. It will feature the following tracks: ‘In The Midst Of May’, ‘Dover Hendrix’, ‘Pollen For The Bees’, ‘A Dream That Wants Me Dead’, ‘Magenta’ and ‘Keys To The Palace’. The album’s first single ‘Dover Hendrix’ can already be streamed at this location. For all additional DESSIDERIUM information check out www.facebook.com/p/dessiderium-100063280476262
On April 11, 2025 Iron Bonehead Productions will release an expanded version of the self-titled debut demo from Australia’s Doom / Death three piece GROTESQUE BLISS, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will additionally feature a cover of MY DYING BRIDE’s ‘I Am The Bloody Earth’. You can check out the track ‘Old Earth’ over here. For more GROTESQUE BLISS music please visit https://grotesquebliss.bandcamp.com
Little Rock, Arkansas based Death Metallers OPEN KASKET have just released ‘Internal Threat (feat. Terminal Nation)’, a first track from their upcoming debut full-length “Trials Of Failure”. You can stream it at this location. The album will be released on February 07, 2025 on digital and cassette tape formats via Barbaric Brutality Records. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Ersatz (Sine Die)’, ‘No Value’, ‘Internal Threat (feat. Terminal Nation)’, ‘Bruised Sprainstein’, ‘Should’, ‘Putrid Existence’, ‘Defective’, ‘Chain Whip (feat. Backbiter)’, ‘Chemical Death (feat. Zashed)’ and ‘Ripped Up’. www.facebook.com/openkaskethc
On March 13, 2025 Darkness Shall Rise Productions will reissue “Canonisation Of The Foul Spirit”, the debut full-length from French Black Metallers HELL MILITIA, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. It will feature a 2024 re-recording of the track ‘Black Arts Of Crime’ as an exclusive bonus track. www.facebook.com/hellmilitiaofficial
Spanish Death / Thrashers EMISSARY will release their new album “Eldritch” on March 01, 2025 via Fetzner Death Records on digipak CD and digitally. It was recorded and produced by Jaume Perna and mixed by Javi Felez at Moontower Studio. The artwork was created by Alex Shadrin of Nether Temple Design and the tracklist reads as follows: ‘Eternity Bound’, ‘Door To The Mystical’, ‘The Shadows Lengthen In Carcosa’, ‘At The Throne Of Chaos’, ‘Hobb’s End’, ‘The Witchfinder Rides Again’, ‘Where The Silent Ones…’ and ‘Ravening For Delight’. You can already check out videos for the songs ‘At The Throne Of Chaos’ and ‘Eternity Bound’ here and here. For more EMISSARY information please visit www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565501303870
Hungarian progressive Death Metallers NEEDLESS will release their third full-length via Inertial Music in the early months of 2025. The first single ‘Derelict’ will be released on February 07, 2025. www.facebook.com/needlesshun
Belgian brutal Death Metallers FACTURED INSANITY have just released a video for ‘Divide And Conquer’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming fifth full-length “Age of Manipulation”, which will be released on February 18, 2025 via Xtreem Music on CD and digital formats. Here’s the album’s complete tracklist: ‘Exaltation Of A Fallen Glory’, ‘Divide And Conquer’, ‘The Hangman’s Lair’, ‘Age Of Manipulation’, ‘Bezoar’, ‘Fear; The Ultimate Weapon’, ‘Divine Honour’, ‘Slumber In The Deep’, ‘Psy-K.O.’ and ‘We All Die In The End’. www.facebook.com/fracturedinsanityofficial
Polish Death Metallers EMBRIONAL will release their fourth full-length “Inherited Tendencies For Self-Destruction” on March 21, 2025 via Agonia Records on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digitally. It was mixed and mastered by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio (BEHEMOTH, AZARATH, PESTILENCE) and the cover artwork was created by Maciej Kamuda. You can already check out the album’s first single ‘The World Deserves Self-Destruction’ at this location. The complete tracklist of “Inherited Tendencies For Self-Destruction” reads as follows: ‘Choirs Of Apocalypse (Intro)’, ‘The World Deserves Self-Destruction’, ‘Inspiration To Slay’, ‘Seduced By The Lies’, ‘Lies Of God’, ‘The Shrine Of Collapse’, ‘Suicide Journey’, ‘Purified By Death’, ‘Sadistic Desire’, ‘Extinction (Outro)’ and ‘Obliteration Rites’. www.facebook.com/embrional
German melodic Death Metal two-piece AEON OF AWARENESS will digitally release its debut full-length “The Embracing Light Of Rarohenga” today. It features the following tracks: ‘Intro’, ‘Lebenslast’, ‘Lysis’, ‘Hine-Nui-Te-Pō’, ‘Te Atua’, ‘Ira Di(e)mensions’, ‘Tūmatauenga’, ‘Fort Forest’ and ‘King Kauri’. www.facebook.com/aoa666
Gothenburg, Sweden based Black / Death Metal solo project DEMOLYN will digitally release a new EP entitled “Slay The Godhead” on February 07, 2025. Physical copies (jewel case CDs) will be available via DEMOLYN’s Bandcamp. The EP features Fabio Alessandrini (ANNIHILATOR, BONFIRE, ENFORCER) on drums and was produced by Theodor Borovski at Slaughtered Studios. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘I Shall Transcend’, ‘Into The Casket’, ‘Warwhores’, ‘Misery, Rain Over Me’ and ‘Slay The Godhead’. www.instagram.com/demolyn.band
Finnish melodic Death Metal five-piece PESTILENT SCARS will release their debut full-length “Meadows Of Misfortune” via Inverse Records today. A full album stream is available over here. The album cover was created by Topi Ilmola. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564947165481
On March 08, 2025 Unjoy – Art & Ritualia will release “This is Not Lifelover”, the debut full-length from Swedish Black Metallers RITUALMORD. The album track ‘Inifrån Och Ut’ can already be streamed at this location. The complete “This is Not Lifelover” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Inandan’, ‘Stonerpop’, ‘Inåtblick’, ‘Spår’, ‘Tjära’, ‘Tid’, ‘Andetag’, ‘Inifrån Och Ut’, ‘Slutna Ögon’, ‘Se Mig’, ‘All Tid Rasar Samman’, ‘Vår Väntan…’ and ‘Totalitär Tomhet’. www.instagram.com/ritualmord.official
California based Grinders MEPHITIC CORPSE will release their debut full-length “Sickness Attracts Sickness” on February 01, 2025 on digital and physical formats. It was recorded and mixed by Ethan Camp at Ethan’s Work between August and September 2023 and mastered by Dan Lowndes at Sound Resonance Studio. The cover artwork was created by the band’s guitarist / vocalist Matt Rose. Extremely Rotten Productions will release the album in Europe, while Headsplit Records (vinyl LP, CD and cassette tape) and 625 Thrashcore (vinyl LP and CD) will release it in the US. The album will feature the following tracks: ‘Obsessive Compulsive Dismemberment’, ‘Blistering Red Corpse Under Max Thermostat’, ‘Grisly Vomit On Self’, ‘Screwgun My Spleen’, ‘Intrusive Thoughts Lead To Impatient Butchering’, ‘Heart In Tinfoil’, ‘Teething On Clots’, ‘Painless’, ‘Rectal Bugs’, ‘Digested From Both Ends’ and ‘Gutpuked Maggot Treatment’. David Mikkelsen (UNDERGANG / SEQUESTRUM) contributed guest vocals on ‘Heart In Tinfoil’. MEPHITIC CORPSE will join Danish Death Metallers UNDERGANG next month as part of the North American Regurgitation tour. https://mephiticcorpse.bandcamp.com
Catalonian Doom / Deathers ONIROPHAGUS are streaming their upcoming third full-length “Revelations From The Void” in its entirety at this location now. The cover artwork was created by Paolo Girardi. The album will be released on January 17, 2025 via Personal Records. www.facebook.com/onirophagus
Spanish Death Metallers UNBOUNDED TERROR will release their fourth full-length “Something Is Rotten In Humanity” on April 01, 2025 via Xtreem Music on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats. You can already check out the first advance single ‘Reviving’ here. The album was recorded in the second half of 2024 and mixed and mastered at MK2 Studios in Ivrea, Italy. The cover artwork has once again been created by Juanjo Castellano. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Fear Of Dying’, ‘Destiny Of Evil’, ‘Demons In Your Mind’, ‘Reviving’, ‘Inside Death’, ‘The Disappointment’, ‘Divine Virtue’, ‘Believing Again’, ‘The Evil Cause (Inst.)’ and ‘I’m A Freak’ (WICKED LADY cover – CD bonus only). www.facebook.com/unboundedterror
Finnish melodic Death Metallers DEFILED SERENITY have just released a video for their Rihanna cover ‘Unfaithful’ (featuring Karisma) at this location. The band will release their debut full-length “Within The Slumber Of The Mind” on February 21, 2025 via Inverse Records. Videos for the album tracks ‘Your Worst Enemy’ and ‘Exiled To Infinity’ are additionally available here and here. For more information please visit www.facebook.com/defiledserenity
New York’s blackened Death Metallers FLESHSPOIL will release their debut full-length “The Beginning Of The End” on March 28, 2025 on digital format. The album was produced and mixed by Brett Portzer. It features the following tracks: ‘Bleed Through This Life’, ‘Skies Turn To Graves’, ‘Fleshspoil’, ‘Walking Dead’, ‘A Frail Demise’ and ‘Born Into Despair’. A first track, ‘A Frail Demise’, was already revealed in December and is available at https://fleshspoilofficial.bandcamp.com.
“Genocidal Upheaval Of Subservient Abrahamic Law”, the debut full-length from Ohio’s Black Metallers GENOCIDAL RITES, will be released on March 14, 2025 via Hells Headbangers on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. You can already check out the track ‘IX Gods / IX Graves’ at this location. Here’s the album’s complete tracklist: ‘Phase 1: Extermination’, ‘Genocidal Upheaval Of Subservient Abhrahamic Law’, ‘Severed Heads Of The Spiritual Rat King’, ‘Ritualistic Invocation Of Blaspheric Annihilation’, ‘IX Gods / IX Graves’, ‘NGAA Incarnate’, ‘Death Howls From The Abyssal Sepulchres’, ‘Nuclear Desecration At The Gates Of Mekka’, ‘Order Of The Most Profane’, ‘Ceremonial Beheading The Sons Of Abraham’, ‘Necrotic Hellhounds Of An Atomic Future’ and ‘Phase 2: Annihilation’. https://genocidalrites.bandcamp.com
London, UK based Death Metallers CORPSING will release their fourth full-length “Viewing The Invisible”on February 07, 2025. It features guest performances from Luc Lemay (GORGUTS) on lead vocals and also a guest guitar solo from Jason Mendonça (AKERCOCKE). www.facebook.com/corpsingmetal
German Death Metallers SCALPTURE just released a lyric video for ‘Landsknecht’ at this location. The track is taken from the band’s upcoming fourth full-length “Landkrieg”, which will be released on March 07, 2025 via Testimony Records. The album’s full tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Fall…’, ‘Into Catastrophe’, ‘Til Jeret Undergang’, ‘Landsknecht’, ‘Wallenstein’, ‘Den Mörka Nattens Lejon’, ‘Of Siege And Besieged’, ‘Schwedentrunk’, ‘Hell’s Choirs Chant’ and ‘Bellum Se Ipsum Alet’. The cover artwork was created by Eliran Kantor. www.facebook.com/scalpture
On March 13, 2025 Darkness Shall Rise Productions will release “Behind The Realms Of The Dark”, a compilation of the first two demos from Swedish Thrashers MERCILESS, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Total Destruction’, ‘Bestial Death’, ‘Satanic Slaughters’, ‘Behind The Black Door’, ‘Realm Of The Dark’, ‘Souls Of The Dead’, ‘Nuclear Attack’ and ‘Dreadful Fate’. You can check out ‘Dreadful Fate’ over here. More MERCILESS information you will find at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063710010604
On March 21, 2025 Antiq will release “Récits D’Automne Et De Chasse”, the debut full-length from French CERCLE DU CHÊNE. The band mixes Black Metal with dungeon synth and epic choirs. The album will feature the following tracks: ‘Dans Le Crystal Du Givre’, ‘Le Trésor Dans L’onde Noire’, ‘Sur Les Toits D’une Tour’, ‘Aux Jours De Chasse’, ‘La Croix Entre Les Bois’, ‘Un Duel De Rois’ and ‘Retour Vers L’aube’. You can already check out a lyric video for ‘Sur Les Toits D’une Tour’ at this location. More about CERCLE DU CHÊNE at https://cercleduchene.bandcamp.com
Italian Death Metallers DARK REFLECTION have just released their debut EP “Under The Sign Of Vlad Țepeș” via Pest Records. A full EP stream is available over here. For all additional DARK REFLECTION information please visit www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571260142135
Finnish Thrashers KAMALA have just released a video for the song ‘Sota Sisällä” (The War Inside)’. You can watch it at this location. All further KAMALA info you will find at www.facebook.com/kamalaband