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Dipygus

After a brief pause for the festive season, death metal has swiftly pulled its shit together for 2024. The third DIPYGUS album is warped and murderous: a drugged-out, cryptid-obsessed onslaught of weirdly evolved, caveman brutality, with songs dedicated to an assortment of mythical mutants, and an o...

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Ryujin

One of the most prominent Japanese metal bands of the last decade, GYZE looked hell-bent on world domination when they released their fourth album 2019's "Asian Chaos". Obviously, the world subsequently went mad and we all spent a lot of time indoors, but the Hokkaido trio set about reinventing them...

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ANNIHILATOR To Celebrate 35th Anniversary Of 'Alice In Hell' With Special Concert In June 2024

35 years after releasing the legendary "Alice In Hell" album, ANNIHILATOR will play it all at an exclusive appearance at Topfest 2024 in Slovakia next June. Former ICED EARTH frontman Stu Block will sing the entire "Alice In Hell" record, along with the return of original drummer Ray Hartmann. Ther...

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THE OBSESSED Shares New Song 'Stoned Back To The Bomb Age' From Upcoming 'Gilded Sorrow' Album

U.S. doom metal giants THE OBSESSED have premiered the second single taken from their long-anticipated fifth album "Gilded Sorrow", to be released on February 16, 2024 through Ripple Music. Stream "Stoned Back To The Bomb Age" below. Fronted by legendary guitarist and vocalist Scott "Wino" Weinrich,...

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Obsidian Refractions

CRUCIAMENTUM is one of death metal's most revered, underground, post-2000 bands for "those in the know." Eight years since its proper debut full-length, "Charnel Passages", CRUCIAMENTUM return with what is sure to be one of the year's best death metal albums, its sophomore effort, "Obsidian Refracti...

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Reptilian Warlords

What an astonishing year this has been for death metal. While mainstream metal media outlets continue to froth over all manner of shiny, new things that have virtually fuck all to do with heavy metal on any meaningful level, the genre kick-started by POSSESSED and DEATH all those decades ago continu...

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DAVID ELLEFSON On PANTERA's Return: 'It's The One Thing That People Probably Never Thought They'd Ever See Again'

Former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson has once again weighed in on the fact that PANTERA's surviving members Philip Anselmo (vocals) and Rex Brown (bass) have united with guitarist Zakk Wylde (OZZY OSBOURNE, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY) and drummer Charlie Benante (ANTHRAX) for a world tour under the PANTE...

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Black Mirror

Italy's MORTUARY DRAPE has been driving its occult-obsessed black metal for almost four decades, and its sole original member, Wildness Perversion, continues to carry the spectral torch. Hot on the heels of its first release with the revered English label Peaceville Records, last year's excellent "W...

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MACHINE HEAD And FEAR FACTORY Announce 2024 North American Tour

San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD have announced leg one of their "Slaughter The Martour North America 2024" tour. Forgoing their "An Evening With…" format for the first time in a decade, MACHINE HEAD will have Los Angeles's cyber-metal masters FEAR FACTORY, Sweden's ORBIT CULTURE and Lo...

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MANOWAR: New Album Due In 2025; 40th-Anniversary Version Of 'Sign Of The Hammer' To Arrive In 2024

MANOWAR has announced "The Blood Of Our Enemies" 2025 tour of Europe. The trek will be the band's first in support of MANOWAR's next studio album, which will arrive in early 2025. Earlier today, MANOWAR released the following statement via social media: "Manowarriors! Let it be known that we will un...

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DEVIN TOWNSEND On His Upcoming 'The Moth' Project: 'It's Gonna Be Like An Onslaught'

In a new interview with the "Everblack" podcast, Canadian singer, songwriter and producer Devin Townsend elaborated on his recent comment that he will come off the road for a couple of years after his latest round of touring in order to work on his long-talked-about "The Moth" project. Speaking abou...

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The Path To Righteousness

Glue down the ornaments and strap yourself to the sofa. GROVE STREET have come to smash your windows, flip the furniture and give UK thrash the scare of a lifetime. Named after a location in "Grand Theft Auto", but hailing from the mean streets of Southampton, UK, this band have already earned a rep...

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CRADLE OF FILTH Announces February/March 2024 European Tour with WEDNESDAY 13

Extreme metal icons CRADLE OF FILTH will return to imbue Europe's stages in inescapable darkness, bringing their matchless live presence and musical onslaught to their enormous fanbase in 2024 with their "Necromantic Fantasies" tour. The trek will kick off in Tel Aviv, Israel on February 10, visitin...

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Drudge To The Thicket

Canada's Profound Lore has a knack for sniffing out extreme metal that's unique and exceptional. The label has struck gold once again, this time with the eccentric and jarring Berkeley, California-based death metal unit FABRICANT. The power trio is set to release "Drudge To Thicket", a ten-track ons...

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GRIM REAPER Founder NICK BOWCOTT Collaborates With TIM 'RIPPER' OWENS On New Version Of 'See You In Hell'

One of the finest-ever British metal vocalists, GRIM REAPER frontman Steve Grimmett, tragically passed away on August 15, 2022. He was 62 years young. To celebrate Steve's life, a group of his friends got together and recorded a new version of "See You In Hell". The players are renowned YouTuber Ste...