DARKTHRONE have released a brand new song! The new song, titled The Bird People Of Nordland, is taken from the Norwegian metal band’s upcoming new album, It Beckons Us All, which is scheduled to be released tomorrow, via Peaceville Records. Whilst freely admitting the concept for the song “not a very metal subject, sorry!” Fenriz explains “it’s about the Eider bird and Nordland. Many years ago I saw a Norwegian documentary with the symbiotic relationship the coast people of Nordland had with the bird. They watched over the nests and in return could pick the eider for pillow ..read more

PALLBEARER have released a new music video! The new music video, for the track Endless Place, is taken from the American doom metal band’s upcoming new album, Mind Burns Alive, which is scheduled to be released in May this year. The new single, which features the band’s first ever musical collaboration (a saxophone solo from Norman Williamson of AMASA HINES), encapsulates the thematic essence of the album, as described by vocalist/guitarist Brett Campbell. “These are vignettes which tell the stories of people who deal with myriad sicknesses of the spirit. These are illnesses com ..read more

MY DYING BRIDE have released a brand new song! The new song, titled Her Dominion, is taken from the British doom metal band’s brand new album, A Mortal Binding, which was released yesterday. The new song’s accompanying lyric video was created by Tommy Antonini. Speaking about the song, and its accompanying lyric video, guitarist Andrew Craighan says, “the video very closely represents the downward spiral the song itself is portraying. A twisted internal division masquerading as beauty. Enjoy the darkness.” Watch the official lyric video for Her Dominion here:  ..read more

GURT have announced a new album! Titled Satan ETC, the upcoming album from the London-based sludge metal band is the long-awaited follow-up to 2019’s Bongs Of Praise, and is scheduled to be released in June this year, via When Planets Collide. In January 2024, the band took these new songs into Monolith Studios in London and under the watchful eye of Steve Sears, they birthed Satan ETC. This album marks GURT‘s fifth collaboration with Sears. When asked about the influences and inspiration behind this album vocalist Gareth Kelly states “it’s about survival in the very fucked ..read more

RIFFLORD have announced a new album! Titled 39 Serpent Power, the upcoming album from the South Dakota-based doom metal/stoner rock band is the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s 7 Cremation Ground / Meditation, and is scheduled to be released in June this year, via Ripple Music. The upcoming album album was written and recorded in a pre-COVID world and then buried like a time capsule until 2024 to be released. Heavily influenced by the old American West, down-tuned guitars, orchestrated keys and thunderously abrasive drums, the upcoming album intends to leave a mark that bot ..read more

If deliriously dreary doom and gloom be something you wish, then drop on the deck and surrender to MY DYING BRIDE. The death-doom pioneers have been on fiery form since relighting the touchpaper on 2015’s Feel The Misery, and A Mortal Binding presents its case as the outfit’s finest moment since 2009’s For Lies I Sire. Whilst 2020’s The Ghost Of Orion danced with depression dripping through its every note – a darkly despondent album born out of vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe’s daughter’s battle with cancer – A Mortal Binding moves through an 18th century city of dark romanticism to the groove of a ..read more

Although their first EP, Hollowed Socket Nystagmus, may only have been released little over three years ago, WREKTOMB have very quickly established themselves as one of the US’ best new death-doom acts. Through their striking visuals and domineering yet punchy music, the Maryland-based four-piece have managed to set themselves apart from many of their peers in the American underground, not just in terms of their sound, but also their presentation. The band’s anticipated debut album, Bovine Mockeries Of Human Posturing, shows an impressively confident and immersive approach to their songwriting ..read more

DARKTHRONE have released a brand new song! The new song, titled Black Dawn Affiliation, is taken from the iconic Norwegian band’s upcoming new album, It Beckons Us All, which is scheduled to be released later this month. Speaking about the new song, Fenriz says, “Nocturno Culto sculpted Black DAwn Affiliation and as much as I writhe in woe trying to describe riffs I did not make, we are certainly rocking hard and dark around a dungeon of slow KREATOR 1986-era riffs (think Awakening Of The Gods or Take Their Lives from the Flag Of Hate 12″). The song is linearly co ..read more

DOPETHRONE have released a new music video! The new music video, for the track Shlaghammer, is taken from the Canadian sludge metal band’s upcoming new album, Broke sabbath, which is scheduled to be released in May this year. The new music video was first premiered via Cvlt Nation. Watch the official music video for Shlaghammer here:  Speaking about the upcoming album, the band shares, “we went full Volume 4 on this one. The last few years have been thought for the underground, we swam against a tsunami of nonsensical bullshit and still managed not to d ..read more

THOU have announced a new album! Titled Umbilical, the upcoming album from the American/sludge metal band is the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s Magus, and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Sacred Bones. Although the band have released collaborative albums with EMMA RUTH RUNDLE [2020’s May Our Chambers Be Full and 2021’s The Helm Of Sorrow EP] and MIZMOR [2022’s Myopia], the upcoming album will be the band’s first new record of original music since 2018’s effort. Speaking about the upcoming album, the band shares, “they’ve called us anarchist ..read more