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INSOMNIAC: US tour with Howling Giant announced

Atlanta-based transcendental doom unit INSOMNIAC just announced an extensive spring US tour in support of Nashville progressive metallers Howling Giant this spring. The band recently released their debut album, Om Moksha Ritam, on Blues Funeral Recordings. Atlanta’s INSOMNIAC coalesce onto our plane like a third eye opening into the beyond. On Om Moksha Ritam, they deliver a brooding, heavy, and psychedelic journey, both physical and abstract, towering and transcendent. INSOMNIAC drifts between this world and the next, hovering at the periphery of consciousness. REZN, King Buffalo and Dead Meadow are names that arise if trying to fit them into familiar […]

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Album Review: 1914 – Viribus Unitis

There were times when I wondered if 1914 would ever release a new album. There were times when I wondered if they were even still alive or able to record. These doubts arise when your country is at war and fighting for its life. Thankfully, the Ukrainians are still in action and have found time to bless us with another outstanding album, Viribus Unitis. This band are metal’s premier chroniclers of the horrors of war. On the most obvious level, they write about the wrenching events of World War 1. But now that their own country is in a life […]

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PROFANE ELEGY Announces New Single, ‘And Then We Are Gone’, From Forthcoming Album Herezjarcha

Independent black metal band PROFANE ELEGY has released their newest single, ‘And Then We Are Gone’, a haunting and doom-oriented meditation on the fleeting nature of human existence. The track represents a notable shift for the band, featuring predominantly clean singing and a somber, crushing atmosphere. “This song was a fun switch up for us in that it is mostly clean singing and very doom oriented,” the band explains. “It’s essentially a comment on how we’re here one minute and gone the next and the world keeps turning. All we do and build in life snuffed out in a second […]

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Album Review: Olde Outlier – From Shallow Lives To Shallow Graves

From the shadowed back-alleys, fog-enfolded streets, and ramshackle buildings glaring down in geometric absurdity that is Innsmouth and was INNSMOUTH cometh death and slouching blackness. Less a continuation than a convoluted spawn of ancestral anti-cosmology held tenuously within the same universe, the Australian foursome that is OLDE OUTLIER, here to bring us From Shallow Lives To Shallow Graves… Exploding in orgiastic glee, ‘The Revellers’ wastes no time, ascending/descending riffs being battered by war drums, a surprisingly clear and loping bass heard throughout, vocalist Appleton’s unbridled howl from 2:41-2:53 letting us know it’s about the emotion here. That gut-born and gut-wrenching […]

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Amon Amarth Announce UK + EU 2026 Tour Dates, Tease New Album

Ready your oars as the Allfather Awakens! Sweden’s Viking metal titans AMON AMARTH are pleased to share a huge string of live dates that’ll see them splitting oceans and rowing their way through the UK and EU in Autumn 2026. The all-Swede invasion includes ransacking support from modern death metal up and comers Orbit Culture and classic melodic death metallers Soilwork on The Allfather Awakens tour. Hot off the back of a busy summer across the tumultuous high seas supporting Slayer in Cardiff and London and their U.S. live takeover with Pantera, these upcoming dates will see AMON AMARTH bringing […]

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Album Review: Coroner – Dissonance Theory

The last CORONER album, Grin, came out in 1993. The world has changed so much since then (and not for the better, which only an idiot would dispute) that there are hardly words fit to describe the gulf. Yet in 2025, CORONER has returned. Have they also changed beyond recognition? Dissonance Theory will go down as one of the best “comeback” albums ever released. This is everything CORONER was in 1993 but better, more refined. Grin was hardly a great album in my book. In every way, Dissonance Theory is superior. This is progressive thrash metal at its highest level. […]

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DISSENTIENCE Unleashes ‘Chaos Absolute’, A Frantic Descent into Power and Destruction

Progressive death-thrash band DISSENTIENCE has announced the release of ‘Chaos Absolute’, the second single from their forthcoming concept EP, Kaiju, due out February 20, 2026. Fall into ‘Chaos Absolute’ Kicking off with a high-tension, syncopated intro, ‘Chaos Absolute’ roars into life with a massive groove that is both ferocious and unexpectedly infectious. True to DISSENTIENCE’s trademark blend of precision and chaos, the track fuses dissonant harmonies, razor-sharp riffs, and relentlessly driving drums into a controlled sonic detonation. Exploring the human element behind cataclysmic destruction, ‘Chaos Absolute’ shifts focus from the towering monsters of Kaiju to the turmoil unfolding in the […]

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Album Review: Morbikon – Lost Within The Astral Crypts

Composed of members of bands as often intolerable as MUNICIPAL WASTE and UADA, yet also as underappreciated as GOATGOR and as forward-thinking as …AND OCEANS, MORBIKON either has a lot going for it or is an accident waiting to happen on its second, Lost Within The Astral Crypts. While 2022’s Ov Mournful Twilight was solid “enough” patch of sonic real estate , ’25 finds the lineup shifting, Dave “I’ve been in every band under the sun” Witte relinquishing his drum throne to Pierce Williams of the aforementioned UADA, Toby Swope being replaced by GOATGOR’s Blake Hibberd, lineup scattered hither and […]

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DEMONS MY FRIENDS: new video for ‘Ghosts Of You’ available

Austin, TX heavy rock powerhouse DEMONS MY FRIENDS unleash a stirring new video to celebrate the special LP and CD reissue of their debut album, Demons Seem To Gather, available on January 16th through Ripple Music. Get spellbound by their new video ‘Ghosts of You’ Initially released in 2023, DEMONS MY FRIENDS’ debut full-length, Demons Seem To Gather, is a powerhouse blend of drop-tuned grunge riffs, doom structures, soaring melodies, groove-laden rhythms and psychedelic harmonies. Sonic touchstones include Monolord, King Buffalo, All Them Witches and Soundgarden, while their musicianship brilliantly transcends most genre trappings. The album was recorded at Red […]

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Album Review: Pupil Slicer – Fleshwork

Cards on the table, I’m a complete dunderhead when it comes to mathematics. A rube. Anything over short division, and I am not only not to be trusted, but avoided like the plague. Hence, I despise “mathcore”, “math rock”, and the majority of jazz, simply because it’s too wonky and up its own arse to be bothered with. Grab your slide rules, kids, it’s time to rock the fuck out to some 29/16 time signatures! I’m looking at you, THE MARS VOLTA. And don’t even get me started on MESHUGGAH post-None. I hadn’t torn an album a new rectum in […]

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