COGNITIVE have released a new music video! The new music video, for the track A Pact Unholy, is taken from the New Jersey-based technical death metal band’s upcoming new album, Abhorrence, which is scheduled to be released in May this year. Speaking about the new song, guitarist Rob Wharton says, “A Pact Unholy kicks off with blistering speeds, guitars are nonstop, and the drums add to the ferocity, all leading into a dissonant, blackened midsection, and a heavy riff exit, with fantasy lyrics speaking about bloodmagic, summoning, and resurrection.” Watch the official music ..read more

200 STAB WOUNDS have announced a new album! Titled Manual Manic Procedures, the upcoming album from the Cleveland, Ohio-based death metal band is the follow-up to 2021’s Slave To The Scalpel, and is scheduled to be released in June this year, via Metal Blade Records. The themes on Manual Manic Procedures run the gamut of classic gore-metal horror subject matter, beloved to the band and their rapidly growing audience. “I’ll feel what kind of vibe the song has, and what topic would fit for that particular song,” vocalist/guitarist Steve Buhl explains. “The last song on the new rec ..read more

FULL OF HELL return triumphantly with their brilliant new album Coagulated Bliss, the follow-up to 2021’s Garden Of Burning Apparitions. It sees the band deliver their most accessible and eclectic album yet whilst not losing one iota of their abrasiveness or heaviness. From the very start, this is a FULL OF HELL album, so it is not for the faint-hearted but even by their own standards, Coagulated Bliss takes them up several notches in terms of songwriting and execution as well as outright sonic brutality. This is a band who are constantly making and embracing new music, whether on their o ..read more

“Our main mission I guess is just to have a good time.” Brenner Moate is far from the first to say that sort of thing about being in a band – even one as nasty and heavy as his – but it does just hit a little different in the case of BRAT. At first glance you may just see a band that operates in that wonderful sweet spot between death metal, grindcore and powerviolence – as their brand new debut album Social Grace demonstrates so impressively – but look a little closer and you’ll find an outfit that samples the likes of VANESSA CARLTON and CASCADA at shows, with a former pageant competitor for ..read more

Let’s begin with a quote, often attributed to the great Albert Einstein: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results“. In musical terms, this can relate to a few things. Finding a formula that works and driving it into the ground so that even longtime fans are sick of it is one seen to occur often. Another version, however, is persisting with an idea that wasn’t even that good in the first place, hoping it elicits a reaction every so often like that clip of Peter Griffin holding his knee. Anyway, in totally unrelated news, DEICIDE have a new album out. This is ..read more

The US is certainly not lacking in impressively technical and blisteringly abrasive death metal bands at the moment, with the extreme metal underground having something of a creative resurgence in the last few years and producing some of the most impressive death metal in recent memory in the process. One of the bands at the forefront of this shift towards stunning musicianship tempered by cacophonous flourishes is New Jersey’s REPLICANT; the band’s first two albums – 2018’s Negative Life and 2021’s Malignant Reality – along with a fantastic split with fellow harsh trailblazers CRYPTIC SHIFT ..read more

Since the release of their debut album Existential Murderer in 2014, Mexico’s SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE have done a great job of being consistently intense and ferocious. As the band have gained experience and traction, however, their sound has noticeably begun to shift away from the sort of dense, raw death metal that was present on their debut, with its follow-up The Night Of Women’s Rites adopting a sharper, focused quality that shed much of the band’s old school sound and style in favour of sharper, more melody-driven compositions, lending their thick, heavy sound a catchy edge that made the ..read more

REPLACIRE have released a brand new song! The new song, titled A Fine Manipulation, is taken from the American technical death metal band’s upcoming new album, The Center That Cannot Hold, which is scheduled to be released in June this year, via Season Of Mist. Speaking about the new song, guitarist Eric Alper says, “during our last tour, we noticed that fans really responded to the parts of our set that are heavier and more crushing. When writing our new album, we tried to come up with more songs like this one. A Fine Manipulation retains that technical density that metal ..read more

Last time we spoke to Henrik and Pontus Levahn the brothers were gearing up to release Lake Drinker – the 2021 sophomore full-length from their self-proclaimed ‘rust metal’ band HORNDAL. It was a killer record they had every right to be excited about, though few could have predicted quite how far things would go for the band in the three years between the release of that record and the follow-up they now present to the world in Head Hammer Man. “For us it was crazy in Sweden,” smiles Henrik. “We ended up on Dagens Nyheter – it’s like The Times or something – on the front page, and that never h ..read more

CRYPTA have announced a European tour! Set to run from June through to August, the tour will see the Brazilian death metal band touring across mainland Europe and the UK in support of their latest studio album, Shades Of Sorrow, which was released in August last year. The tour will see the band perform a series of headline club shows across the European mainland and UK as well as appearances at numerous summer festivals: including Sweden Rock in Sweden, Bloodstock in the UK, Summer Breeze in Germany, Resurrection Fest in Spain, and more. Tour d ..read more