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Bedsore Sign to Season of Mist
Posted on October 22, 2025Rotting Christ Announce New Blu-Ray
Posted on October 21, 2025After 35 years of evil existence, Rotting Christ still stand the test of time. Sakis Tolis, his brother Themis and their Greek brothers-in-arms have risen from the Athenian underground to become one of the metal world’s most reliable forces, backed by a pantheon discography that has both defined and defied black metal.
Mawiza Win LIT Music Award
Posted on October 21, 2025Backed by their defiant and critically-acclaimed new album, Mawiza continue to serve as a guiding force for indigenous metal. Fresh off a spirited European tour with fellow Chileans Ater, the modern day Mapuche warriors recently received a new medal from the LIT Music Awards. “Mamüll Reke”, the towering single from ÜL, was named the Silver winner in the category for Metal/Hardcore Songwriting.
Bask Win LIT Music Award
Posted on October 20, 2025Ever since they came rumbling down from the Blue Ridge Mountains in 2013, Bask have sounded of their very own time and place. But on their critically-acclaimed new album, the Asheville natives have taken their homebrewed Heavy Americana to a whole new dimension. The LIT Music Awards recently recognized The Turning as the Gold Winner in their category for Best Rock Album.
Abysmal Dawn Return with “Cradle of Affliction”
Posted on October 20, 2025While they hail from the City of Angels, Abysmal Dawn remain one of death metal’s most consistently crushing creative forces. Two decades removed from their very first tour, next month, the L.A. mainstays are hitting the road hard once again with the mighty Krisiun. Only this time, they’ll be raising hell with their first new song since 2022.
CARACH ANGREN Stream Full EP ‘The Cult of Kariba’
Posted on October 16, 2025ENTHRONED Reveal “Ashspawn,” The Title Track From Their Upcoming Full-Length
Posted on October 15, 2025DANHEIM Releases “Yggdrasil II” From Upcoming Album Heimferd
Posted on October 15, 2025Mayhem Releasing 25th Anniversary Edition of ‘Grand Declaration of War’
Posted on October 15, 2025No band embodies the spirit of black metal like Mayhem. In the wake of violence and scandal, the Norwegians set the standard for the genre with their canonical 1994 debut. Other influential acts were quick to follow in their footsteps, but these iconoclasts defied convention by making a truly bold statement on Grand Declaration of War.
WINDSWEPT Expose the Dark Roots of “Investigation”
Posted on October 14, 2025YOUR INLAND EMPIRE Channel Dark Industrial Pop on “Grinding”
Posted on October 13, 2025THE OLD DEAD TREE Release New Single “Feel Alive Again” From Upcoming EP London Sessions
Posted on October 8, 2025Anciients Win Western Canadian Music Award
Posted on October 6, 2025After much soul searching through the Canadian wilderness, last month, Anciients kicked off their first U.S. tour in eight years behind their latest JUNO Award-winning album. Upon returning home from a hard-hitting run through the American West, Southeast and ProgPower USA, the heavy, heady and heartfelt Canucks were greeted with some shiny new hardware. During the annual BreakOut West music festival and conference, The Western Canadian Music Alliance awarded the band Metal & Hard Music Artist of the Year in honor of their latest prog metal opus Beyond the Reach of the Sun.
Hear Hooded Menace’s New Album A Day Early
Posted on October 2, 2025For more than two decades, Hooded Menace have stood as the pillar between two realms of underground metal. The Finnish band are still transfixed by classic horror on their monumental new album. But Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration only goes to show that these stewards of death-doom remain far from stuck in their ways.
Defeated Sanity Release Punishing Drum Playthrough
Posted on October 1, 2025Having dedicated this year to leveling Europe and Latin America behind the sheer brutality of the band’s latest Billboard-busting offering, Defeated Sanity are capping off 2025 with their first U.S. tour for Chronicles of Lunacy.
1349 Announce Winter Mass
Posted on September 30, 2025No one carries the torch for Norwegian black metal with the same fire as 1349.
DANHEIM Releases New Single “Stormdans” From the Upcoming Album Heimferd
Posted on September 29, 2025CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX Announce European ‘Sceaduhelm’ Tour in 2026
Posted on September 25, 2025CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX is set to embark on its Sceaduhelm Tour 2026, bringing the sweeping, melancholic landscapes of its catalogue to venues across Europe. This new leg represents a commitment to live theatre as integral to the band’s identity, a commitment borne from years of evolving performance and atmospheric intensity.