For decades, Jeff Becerra has been one of death metal’s most resilient figures — surviving paralysis, rebuilding his career, and keeping Possessed alive on the global stage. But in recent months, the band’s touring presence in the U.S. and Canada has become a noticeable question mark. While Latin American dates […]
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DIAMOND HEAD, RAVEN, TANK And PRAYING MANTIS Members Form New Supergroup LORDS OF NWOBHM
Members of Diamond Head, Raven, Tank, Praying Mantis unite for NWOBHM celebration What happens when five legends of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal get together and say, “Hey, let’s just play all the good stuff from the late ‘70s and early ‘80s”? You get LORDS OF NWOBHM, the […]
Watch MYSTIC CIRCLE “Ghost Of Whitechapel” Music Video! ‘Hexenbrand 1486’ Album Details Revealed
German black/death metal duo Mystic Circle are back with another dose of evil, theatrical flair, historical horror, and synth-drenched darkness. Their upcoming tenth studio album, Hexenbrand 1486, drops October 31 via ROAR, which feels appropriately timed — because who doesn’t want to celebrate Halloween with plague-era misogyny and extreme metal? […]
IMPERISHABLE Announce Debut Album “Revelation In Purity,” Featuring Members of Nile, Hate Eternal, and Malevolent Creation
Ever wonder what happens when you combine members of some of the most brutal death metal bands on the planet and ask them to make something even more unrelenting? You get IMPERISHABLE, the new death metal superproject that doesn’t care about your feelings — or your polished production. Featuring Brian […]
BAEST Drop New Single “Stormbringer” – Death Metal with a Rock ‘n’ Roll Forecast
🌩️ New Album Colossal Coming August 15 via Century Media Denmark’s finest death metal wrecking crew, BAEST, have unleashed the storm—literally—with their brand-new single “Stormbringer”, the opening track from their upcoming album Colossal, due August 15 via Century Media Records. The track arrives with a tour-powered music video filled with […]
CASTRATOR Unleash “Fragments Of Defiance” – New Single From Upcoming Album ‘Coronation Of The Grotesque’
💥 Brutal, Righteous, and Very, Very Loud If you thought Castrator were going to quietly follow up their debut Defiled in Oblivion, think again. The New York-based death metal warriors are back with “Fragments Of Defiance”, the second single from their upcoming sophomore album, Coronation Of The Grotesque, and let’s […]
MYSTHICON Resurfaces from the Dukla Forest With New Album “Bieśń”
🖤 Black Metal Meets Folklore, Hurdy-Gurdy and All After five long years of radio silence—and possibly meditating under a mossy rock in the Dukla woods—Poland’s mysterious black metal collective MYSTHICON has returned. Their new album, Bieśń, drops September 23, 2025, and promises six tracks of icy, forest-drenched black metal infused […]
INTERNAL BLEEDING Return to Settle Some Scores – New Album Drops in October
💀 New Single “Crown of Insignificance” Aims Low… and Hits Hard Long Island’s slam-death pioneers Internal Bleeding are back—and they’ve got some unfinished business to take care of. The band has officially announced their seventh studio album, titled Settle All Scores, due out October 17th via Maggot Stomp, and if […]
HERETOIR Face the Collapse of the Modern World (Again) With New Album “Solastalgia”
New Single “The Ashen Falls” Now Streaming—Try Not to Cry Too Loudly Germany’s atmospheric blackgaze melancholists HERETOIR have returned with another poetic punch to the soul. The band’s fourth album, Solastalgia, drops September 19th via AOP Records, and promises to be their most “vulnerable and accessible” work yet—which in Heretoir […]
CHRIST AGONY, Cezary ‘Cezar’ Augustynowicz interview: “Music is not a race but a journey to be enjoyed at every stage”
This September, after a nine-year discography pause, CHRIST AGONY return with their ninth full-length album, Anthems. According to the press release, this “work that can compete with the trilogy of albums considered by many to be the pinnacle of the black metal pioneers’ earlier career: Unholyunion (1993), Daemoonseth Act II […]