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SVARTANATT Unveil New Single ‘Child Of The Devil’

SVARTANATT returns with the new single ‘Child Of The Devil’. Following their 2016 self-titled debut album and 2018’s Starry Eagle Eye, the Swedish classic rock outfit are now set to release their third studio full-length, Last Days On Earth, during the fall of 2023. ‘Child Of The Devil’ offers a first taste of the new album, and delivering melodious guitars, heavy organ, high-energy drums, groovy basslines and unique, sharp vocals. SVARTANATT on the new single: “‘Child Of The Devil’ is the first single from our third upcoming album, Last Days On Earth. The song is about a person who has […]

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Album Review: Mystic Prophecy – Hellriot

Hellriot is the 12th studio album from this German metal institution and I’m hoping this will be the one to get them the attention they deserve. I’m not holding my breath, though, and that’s a shame because when it comes to classic PRIEST/DIO inspired metal with a kick, MYSTIC PROPHECY is hard to beat. This is the kind of record that you’re glad when the band tries nothing new. They don’t really need to. They’ve staked out this territory and dominate it…to me, they should be on the same level as PRIMAL FEAR. Their singer R.D. Liapakis has always been […]

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Wytch Hazel Drops ‘A Thousand Years’ Lyric Video and announces London show with Spell & Parish

Ascending British hard rock sect, WYTCH HAZEL, will release its new album, IV: Sacrament, on June 2 via Bad Omen Records. Recorded with long-time producer Ed Turner (Purson), and tracked in a converted Baptist chapel in rural Wales, the record is a resounding achievement and glittering treasure chest that builds on the momentum of the band’s celebrated 2020 album III: Pentecost, glorified by Under The Radar as “an invocation of rock and roll at its purest and, more specifically, of all that made the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in the late ’70s so special” and compelled Metal Injection […]

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Album Review: Mork – Dypet

MORK is Thomas Eriksen. And if black metal is even in the periphery of your musical world, you are familiar with the name. For nearly two decades Eriksen has been a force of might and misanthropy, even more impressive that he’s churned out now six full-lengths as well as four EPs by his loathsome lonesome all within the past ten years. What sounds like your little brother’s dungeon synth project practicing in his bedroom soon enough is joined by mournful guitars, very near to doom in delivery, and suddenly the synth belongs there, seeming natural and fluid. Set alight and […]

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DUSKWOOD: new single ‘Deathproof’ streaming

Somerset-based up-and-coming heavy and stoner rockers DUSKWOOD release a burning hot third track taken from their sophomore full-length, The Last Voyage, to be issued on May 12th via Ripple Music. Stream DUSKWOOD’s new single ‘Deathproof’ HERE DUSKWOOD don’t do things by halves when it comes to launching their fuel-driven anthems like rockets into outer space, and no prisoner is taken when their wall of razor-sharp riffs hits those amps on top of Liam Tinsley’s gritty and commanding vocals. Think the stadium-worthy power of Wolfmother colliding in the desert dust with Kyuss’ fat sunbaked grooves: fearless and relentless. Don’t wait any […]

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Album Review: Treedeon – New World Hoarder

TREEDEON returns with its all-important third album, the intriguingly titled New World Hoarder. After a five-year absence. Well, I suppose “absence” really isn’t the right word, and with such a bleakly foreboding album as Under the Machineel to follow, the time it took was the time it took, and at least some of those days were dedicated to making thoughtful steps forward. And our first step into the result, ‘Nutcréme Superspreader’, begins with the sound of ocean birds, the tide against the shore, quickly enough joined by fuzzed out, fluid bass/guitar patterns, mangled then cauterized vocal chords over the top, […]

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Norway’s blackened death metallers NEXORUM announce their sophomore album Tongue Of Thorns out on May 19th 2023 via Non Serviam Records

Blackened death metal machine based in Trondheim, Norway NEXORUM proudly announce the new album to follow up their 2020 debut. Perceived as a bombastic, audial onslaught, the band’s debut full length Death Unchained was unleashed upon the masses in February 2020, receiving much praise by fans and reviewers around the globe. NEXORUM’s sophomore album Tongue Of Thorns will be released on May 19th 2023 via Non Serviam Records. Events of the past years led NEXORUM down a much darker path, emphasizing the elements of black metal in the band’s music. As the second horseman of Revelations is currently pushing the […]

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Album Review: Kommand – Death Age

‘Final Virus’ begins, grinding and grisly, that punishing, brutal lurch forward of conflict that all humans have endured since Cain walloped his brother, Abel, with a rock. All the marks are ticked when it comes to influences, and we’ll shoot out a few of them here – BOLT THROWER, HERESIARCH, albeit not as unhinged overall, MALEVOLENT CREATION – but this isn’t some slinging against the wall in hopes a shred of legitimacy sticks. The stringed soldiers keep their tone so blasted low for the most part it’s hard to tell which is which outside of the solos, but it fits […]

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MIDNIGHT: Tickets For The 20 Years Of Hell, Speed, And Sleaze USA Tour 2023 On Sale Now

Cleveland blackened thrash punks MIDNIGHT are celebrating twenty years of sonic debauchery with a massive North American tour later this Spring! Support on The 20 Years Of Hell, Speed, And Sleaze USA Tour will be provided by Spirit Adrift and Spiter from May 1st through May 20th, then Early Moods and Necrofier from June 1st through June 16th. Tickets are on sale now. See all confirmed dates below. MIDNIGHT w/ Spirit Adrift, Spiter: 5/01/2023 The Pyramid Scheme – Grand Rapids, MI 5/02/2023 Mag Bar – Louisville, KY 5/03/2023 The Radio Room – Greenville, SC 5/05/2023 Underbelly – Jacksonville, FL 5/06/2023 […]

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Album Review: Downfall Of Gaia – Silhouettes Of Disgust

Even though Germany’s DOWNFALL OF GAIA have been around for 15 years, this record is my first actual encounter with them. I could have dived into their previous output as research for this here review, but I thought I would go into this from zero. Everything about the band is new to me and I feel my missive should reflect that. This is a hodgepodge of sounds ranging from very fast and aggressive “semi-black” metal to drifting post metal drones to screaming modern hardcore a la CONVERGENCE. It’s all whipped together and sometimes winds up sounding pretty choppy. For example, […]

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