PAIN have released a new music video! The new music video, for the track Don’t Wake The Dead, synth/industrial-laden metal project helmed by HYPOCRISY‘s Peter Tägtgren‘s brand new album, I Am, which was released earlier this month, via Nuclear Blast Records. Speaking about the song, band mastermind Peter Tägtgren says, “the first time Seb showed me the song I was blown away, from the beginning to the end, so dark, yet so beautiful. After I heard the song I had a panic attack: ‘how do I sing on this? And what?'” Watch the official music video for Don’t Wake The Dea ..read more

Just over a decade and a half into their career, FLUISTERAARS are a well established entity within the world of black metal at this point. Ever since the band’s earliest output first saw the light of day, their incredibly varied and dramatic sound has set them apart from many of their peers, with two of their albums – 2015’s Luwte and 2020’s Bloem – arguably being some of the most impressive black metal records that the genre’s more atmospheric outer reaches have produced in recent memory. The band’s latest, fifth album, Manifestaties Van De Ontworteling, sees their sound shift drastically awa ..read more

HERIOT have released a new music video! The new music video, for the track Siege Lord, is the brand new single from the breakout UK metal band and follows on from their previous single, Soul Chasm, which was released in November last year. The new single was recorded with Josh Middleton [SYLOSIS, ARCHITECTS] and Grammy Award-winning Will Putney [END, FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY, BETTER LOVERS]. Speaking about the new single, the band says, “Siege Lord is a track we feel expands on our previous releases, leaning heavily into the more metallic elements of our sound. It’s a visceral ye ..read more

SMO has released a new music video! The new music video, for the track Crooked Teeth, follows the project’s debut single Real People which was released in November last year and once again blends elements of punk, metal and industrial for a raw and energetic vibe. Speaking about the track, SMO (aka Sammy Urwin of EMPLOYED TO SERVE) comments, “Crooked Teeth is a song of empowerment to those who don’t feel fully comfortable in their own skin. In the age of “baddiecore” and the press shifting focus on to bands that have the “right look”, I wanted to remind people that alternat ..read more

THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT may just be not only one of the most bizarrely overlooked death metal acts to form since the turn of the century, but also one of the genre’s most pioneering. Ever since the band began to shift away from their brutal death metal roots in favour of a sound that blended together their prior extremity with symphonic and electronic elements, their bombastic and strident sound has helped them produce stunning albums that genuinely don’t sound like any other band within extreme metal, with some being modern classics in the genre. The band’s latest, ninth album, The Demon Who M ..read more

Far be it from anyone to accuse WRISTMEETRAZOR of not taking their work seriously. The US metalcore outfit recorded their third album Degeneration in near total seclusion in the woods of New Jersey, apparently allowing themselves only three breaks over 30 days of 12-hour studio sessions. It may all sound a bit much – and perhaps more than you’d think is needed to produce a killer metalcore record given all the stories of legendary albums that were knocked out in a couple of days or so – but ultimately whatever you make of their methods (or indeed their name) matters a lot less when presented w ..read more

If you’re looking for a new metalcore fix this week, then look no further than the new album Hollywood Suicide by German outfit GHØSTKID. With the follow-up to their 2020 self-titled debut album, they’re back and this time they mean business.  From the get go, Hollywood Suicide cranks everything up to eleven as it delivers an all out assault on the senses. First up is the title track which sets the standard for what is to come throughout the rest of the record. Starting with some electro beats that wouldn’t feel amiss in some sort of Cyberpunk setting, the listener is thrown into the fray ..read more

PAIN have announced a new album! Titled I Am, the upcoming album from the synth/industrial-laden metal project helmed by HYPOCRISY‘s Peter Tägtgren is the long-awaited follow-up to 2016’s Coming Home, and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Nuclear Blast Records. Speaking about the upcoming album, Tägtgren says, “the previous record Coming Home came out in 2016 – and of course there was a tour after that. In 2019, I released an album called F & M with RAMMSTEIN singer Till Lindemann, a project I left in 2020. In 2021, it was t ..read more

Formed in Richmond, Virginia in 2012, PRISONER first made their mark with their 2017 debut album Beyond The Infinite, which attracted acclaim thanks to its crushing blend of metallic hardcore and industrial noise. Seven years later and the band are finally ready to release the follow-up Putrid | Obsolete and take that infernal combination of extreme metal and noise to the next level.  Track one Flesh Dirge begins with stabs of distorted industrial rhythm as human (and some possibly inhuman) cries and howls echo in the background, detuned guitars occasionally accompanying the chaos. Two mi ..read more

SKYND have released a new music video! The new music video, for the track Heaven’s Gate, is the brand new single from the industrial-tinged true crime-inspired duo and follows on from their previous single, Bianca Devins, which was released in October last year. Speaking about the new single, SKYND says, “what personality and psychological factors are at play in people who readily submit their lives and wills to cult leaders such as Jim Jones and Marshall Applewhite? How can they not see these people are barking mad? The madness of the cult leader is usually not appare ..read more