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While The Gods Are Sleeping

It takes a talent of considerable size to truly harness and express the pure essence of any of heavy metal's many subgenres. Having the ability to conquer more than one of them is, with all due respect, taking the piss. Arguably best known as guitarist and creative mastermind behind melodic death me...

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Zeit

Everybody needs to see RAMMSTEIN live at least once. The Germans have become so adept at being more over-the-top and viscerally captivating than everyone else, that it is sometimes easy to forget that they make records too. RAMMSTEIN live shows are all about sensory overload, and while it would be s...

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Psychic Jailbreak

The loss of a founding member is always going to sting. In terms of cataclysmic breakups, the departure of co-founding guitarist Scott Middleton from the CANCER BATS ranks last year was a big one. Along with vocalist Liam Cormier, Middleton had helped to steer the band through nearly 20 years of tri...

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I Am The Void

Generally mentioned only as a footnote to the grand history of Scandinavian extreme metal, EUCHARIST released two seriously great albums in the '90s and have scarcely been seen since. 25 years have passed since "Mirrorworlds", an unsung benchmark for blackened, blasphemous melo-death, and band maste...

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HALESTORM Teams Up With Z2 COMICS For Graphic Novel 'Hyde Manor'

This Halloween, Z2 Comics and Grammy-winning rock band HALESTORM will transform the group's barbed riffs and evocative narratives into sequential art for "Hyde Manor", a harrowing descent into one woman's fight with the darkest parts of herself. Twins Brittany and Brianna Winner (the "Twin Soul" ser...

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JUNGLE ROT To Release 'A Call To Arms' Album In May

Death metal veterans JUNGLE ROT will release their new album, "A Call To Arms", on May 13 via Unique Leader. The LP's first single, "Total Extinction", can be streamed below. Once again co-produced by Chris Djuricic and JUNGLE ROT, "A Call To Arms" was mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö. It's the band'...

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CRADLE OF FILTH Releases Music Video For 'How Many Tears To Nurture A Rose?'

Veteran British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH have released the official music video for the song "How Many Tears To Nurture A Rose?" The clip premiered last night as part of CRADLE OF FILTH's "Infernal Vernal Equinox Deadstream", and now fans all across the globe can also bask in its sublime bl...

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SKUNK ANANSIE Releases New Single 'Can't Take You Anywhere'

British rock icons SKUNK ANANSIE have released their brand new single "Can't Take You Anywhere", a deliciously sinister slice of tense drama, powered along by a roaring chorus. Channeling the same dark power as DEPECHE MODE and PLACEBO, with pummeling rhythms, twisted electronics and crystalline gui...

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Call Down The Sun

Barely two years ago, KONVENT released their debut album, "Puritan Masochism", and swiftly established themselves as a band with phenomenal potential. Rooted in death / doom but audibly unconstrained by expectation or formula, the Danes' sound just felt slower and heavier and darker than it had any...

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All That Was Promised

Although located squarely (and proudly) at the dark and progressive end of the death metal world, HATH have clearly been in a state of evolution since releasing their 2019 debut, "Of Rot and Ruin". Just as it probably should be, "All That Was Promised" is rooted in the stormy clangor of NOVEMBERS DO...

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DUB WAR To Release First Album Of New Material In Over 25 Years

Fusion metal pioneers DUB WAR have released their brand new rousing single "Blackkk Man", the first single off of their first album of all-new material in over 25 years, "Westgate Under Fire". Watch the new lyric video here. The track packs a punch with jagged guitar, furious rhythms and tough vocal...

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Let There Be Witchery

Cleveland speed demon Athenar, the one-man force behind the studio recordings released under the name MIDNIGHT, built that name in the decade following its mid-2000's formation by piling layers of sleaze, grime, and filth on top of blackened riffs cribbed from VENOM and MOTORHEAD's playbooks. This f...

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Recollections Of The Insane

The furious midpoint between primitive death metal and caustic thrash has always been one of the most exciting places to bang your head. The full-length follow-up to 2020's utterly murderous "Voices" EP, "Recollections of the Insane" confirms that Belgium's SCHIZOPHRENIA are flying the death / thras...

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VIO-LENCE Releases Official Music Video For 'Let The World Burn'

San Francisco Bay Area thrashers VIO-LENCE have released the official music video for "Let The World Burn", the title track of their upcoming EP. The five-song collection, their first original release since 1993's "Nothing To Gain", will be available worldwide on March 4 via Metal Blade Records. "Le...

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VIO-LENCE Shares Title Track Of Upcoming EP, 'Let The World Burn'

San Francisco Bay Area thrashers VIO-LENCE have returned with "Let The World Burn", their second new song in 29 years. It is the title track of their upcoming EP, "Let The World Burn", their first original release since 1993's "Nothing To Gain". The five-song collection will be available worldwide o...