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Metal Blade Records is pleased to welcome Oxnard, California crossover collective DEAD HEAT to its iconic roster.

Forged in 2016 in, DEAD HEAT is known for their high-energy live performances and aggressive sound that draws…

Stream ALTAR OF GORE’s Litanies Of The Unceasing Agonies HERE.

No Clean Singing is hosting an exclusive stream of Litanies Of The Unceasing Agonies, the primitive second album from cult New Jersey death metal act ALTAR OF GORE…

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Stream HELLBUTCHER’s “Hordes Of The Horned God” HERE.

As the frontman of legendary Swedish maniacs Nifelheim, Hellbutcher stands among the most elite figures of the black metal underground, and with his eponymous new band, HELLBUTCHER…

“…this isn’t an album that lends itself to simple genre categorization. There would be a lot of hyphens in any such descriptors now. Whatever you want to call, it, however, it’s relentlessly gripping, moving, and memorable…” – No Clean Singing

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Today, cult US heavy metal unit RIOT (V) unleashes their much-anticipated studio album Mean Streets via Atomic Fire Records! Their first studio album in six years delivers fifty-one minutes of sheer heavy/power metal glory.

Bassist…

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Watch SIX FEET UNDER’s “When The Moon Goes Down In Blood” lyric video HERE.               

SIX FEET UNDER’s Killing For Revenge, their fiery fourteenth studio album, is out today on Metal Blade Records!

In…

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“…a lean, mean melodeath ripper.” – Decibel Magazine

To Conquer Eternal Damnation, the incinerating debut album from Oakland, California melodic death metal outfit DARKNESS EVERYWHERE, is out today on Creator-Destructor Records.

Unstoppable and unflinching…

“GIANT SPIDER are a new trio that consists of New York City/Long Island scene veterans on their latest mission to make heavy and fucked-up music.” – Decibel Magazine

New York’s GIANT SPIDER arrives with their debut two-song EP, premiering…

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WHITE STONES – the brainchild of Opeth bassist Martín Mendéz’ – will release their third studio album, Memoria Viva, on June 28th through Reigning Phoenix Music (RPM).

In advance of the release, today the progressive…

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“This material is some of the heaviest and most savage.” — Kerrang Radio

Today, UK heavyweights of misery, the intense and visceral TURIN (formerly This Is Turin), delivers their new single, “Hopeless Solutions,” from…

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After six years, Finnish-Australian metal quartet THE ETERNAL will release their seventh studio album, Skinwalker, on June 28th via Reigning Phoenix Music (RPM), today unveiling a lyric video for the record’s title track.

Following the…

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“…the new album captures the band in top form…” – Invisible Oranges

As Midwestern post-black metal outfit CHROME WAVES prepares to release their first live album, Lost Horizon – Live 1/5/2024, through Disorder Recordings on…

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“While the music is crafted in such a way that it is intentionally bleak as can be, it is meant to inspire from deep within if you let it.” — Everything Is Noise

Dark ambient funeral…

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Watch/stream PORTRAIT’s “The Blood Covenant” HERE.

For almost two decades, Sweden’s PORTRAIT has delivered their brand of heavy metal darkness to the masses. Following 2021’s critically acclaimed At One With None, the band returns…

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“…a gorgeous and haunting piece that finds Mariel looping her own voice in stunning harmony with itself…” – Treble

Treble is hosting the exclusive premiere of an artistic new video for “Axolotl,” by eclectic New Jersey…

Give It Up or Give It All, and welcome Power Metal warriors UNLEASH THE ARCHERS onboard 70000TONS OF METAL 2025, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise! “C”an you guess what band we will announce next?

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Belgian progressive post-metal quintet HIPPOTRAKTOR has released the single “Renegade,” taken from their forthcoming full-length album Stasis, due for release on June 7th via Berlin-based Pelagic Records.

Consisting of seven compositions written with the full…

Poland’s extreme music label Selfmadegod Records is proud to announce the signing of HATCHEND.

Containing members of well-known extreme underground death metal and grindcore acts such as Deranged, Razorrape, Birdflesh and Deathening, HATCHEND is a Swedish unrelenting thrash metal/ferocious…

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Finnish metal legends AMORPHIS will return to North America this Fall on a co-headlining tour with their comrades in Dark Tranquillity. The journey, which will hit over two dozen cities, will commence on September 3rd in…

“…the trio are readying themselves to delve further into their expansive and mind-altering sonics with their new album Hidden.” – The Sleeping Shaman

The Sleeping Shaman is hosting an exclusive premiere of “Mausoleum,” the new single from Italian psychedelic doom/sludge…