FULL OF HELL have released a new music video! The new music video, for the track Fractured Bonds To Mecca, is taken from the American grindcore band’s brand new album, Coagulated Bliss, which is released today. The new music video’s concept was co-written by the band’s multi-instrumentalist Sam DiGristine who says the video is “...about an endless cycle of struggle, trying to find your way in a familiar place yet still feeling lost. Alienated by your loved ones and giving it all for a chance at salvation. Inspired by films such as The Incredible Melting Man, The Holy M ..read more

Cast your minds back to the early 2000s, the world was rife with an onslaught of high calibre bands melding together genres such as death metal, hardcore and other such destructive subtypes causing a seismic shift in the landscape of metal. One of the bands cutting their teeth in that hotly contested battleground was Manchester slam connoisseurs INGESTED. Whilst some bands from that era have fallen by the wayside, frontman Jason Evans and company have continued to smash through every obstacle presented to them. “We feel like we’ve always had a point to prove. When we started we always felt lik ..read more

Slam metal – invented (probably) when a grindcore band thought ‘let’s add some brutally quick death metal to this, making sure to go over the top on blast beats‘. All joking aside, the genre – which exists on the very extreme end of the metal spectrum – has a fervent following that can’t get enough of the squealing guitars and vocals so guttural the word ‘disgusting’ becomes a compliment. However, as is universally known, metal is often a very silly music, and Scottish loons PARTY CANNON are slam’s undisputed court jesters. Where most bands have logos so unreadable that even black metal t ..read more

With an EP and a debut album under their belts, TOMBSTONER are back with their own brand of disgusting death metal with sophomore effort Rot Stink Rip. A filthy blend of old school death metal stylings, thrash and grindcore make up the DNA of the groove-laden TOMBSTONER sound. The four-piece made a definite mark for themselves with 2021’s Victims Of Vile Torture and Rot Stink Rip has all the hallmarks of a classic extreme metal album. Things are going to get very nasty. The album opens with a deep, brooding introduction courtesy of Execution Bell. While this sort of thematically sinister sound ..read more

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