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KAL-EL: new single ‘B.T.D.S.C.’ streaming now

Norway’s heavy rock explorers KAL-EL announce the release of their new album Astral Voyager Vol. 1 this May 16th on Majestic Mountain Records (Europe) and Blues Funeral Recordings (North America), and unleash the fuzz-fueled power of their new single ‘B.T.D.S.C.’ on all streaming platforms. Rising from Stavanger’s frozen wastelands, KAL-EL returns with Astral Voyager Vol. 1, their most mind-expanding expedition yet and the first chapter of an ambitious double-album assault to tear through space and time. Stream new single ‘B.T.D.S.C.’ Summer and fall 2024 saw the crew locked in at Bridge Burner Studios, building on 2021’s Dark Majesty momentum and […]

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MR.BISON: spring UK shows announced

Italy’s heavy psych and prog pillars MR.BISON announce a batch of UK shows around their anticipated Desertfest London performance this May. Their new album Echoes From The Universe is out now on Heavy Psych Sounds. Says the band: “After a year since the release of our new album Echoes From The Universe via Heavy Psych Sounds two great European tours and an incredible experience of the US West Coast tour just finished we are really happy and proud to announce the mini UK tour!” MR.BISON UK shows 2025:15th May – Swansea – Elysium Gallery & Venue16th May – Nottingham The […]

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SONS OF RA: Chicago Progressive/Jazz Fusion Trio To Release Debut LP, Standard Deviation, On Free Electric Sound April 11th; ‘Disintegration (Alabama Revisited)’ Video And Preorders Posted

Two decades have passed since SONS OF RA emerged onto Chicago’s scene with their fusion of heavy prog, jazz, math rock, and elements of avant garde music. Initially a line-blurring experiment, the trio’s most recent work has proven the band’s sound to jazz fusion aficionados, math and progressive rock purists alike while holding their own on bills on the Midwestern heavy music scenes. Formed by guitarist Erik Oldman Vecchione (Mare Crisium, Afrofuturistics), drummer Mike Rataj (Arbogast, Mine Collapse), and saxophonist/bassist Keith Wakefield (Jan King And Medicine Ball, Afrofuturistics), SONS OF RA independently released four EPs since 2016, culminating with the […]

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GLORIOR BELLI: French Black Metal Insurgents Release First Single, ‘Weltschmerz Wield Power’, From Upcoming Self-Titled Album

Dark Empire Records is proud to announce the long-awaited eighth album from Gallic black metal insurgents GLORIOR BELLI, an eponymous assault due out next month via the recently-reformed label. No Clean Singing has graciously premiered the video for the band’s first single ‘Weltschmerz Wield Power’, describing the single and video as such: “True to the roots of black metal, the video has no more use for the trappings of The Cross and its carriers than GLORIOR BELLI has ever had, but instead confronts them with levitating horned lords of Hell and their hooded emissaries (among whom are the band members […]

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FLESHSPOIL (feat. Arsis, The Final Sleep, Illucinus alumni) Releasing Debut Album in March

Troy (NY) – A new force in Blackened Death Metal has emerged to lay waste to 2025! FLESHSPOIL, featuring veteran players from Arsis, The Final Sleep, and Illucinus, will release full-length debut album, The Beginning Of The End, March 28 on digital format. Fans of classic death, black, and doom metal take note! FLESHSPOIL delivers a haunting and aggressive soundscape, and features a lineup of seasoned musicians: Jeff Andrews (guitar/vocals), a veteran of New York’s metal scene, known for his work with The Final Sleep, Armor Column, Hush, Ironweed, Scavengers, and Held Under. Mike Van Dyne (drums), known for his […]

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Album Review: Rats Of Gomorrah – Infectious Vermin

While the members of German death metal entity RATS OF GOMORRAH may not be new to the genre or the frustration that comes with wanting to branch out or explore new horizons within what (to some) is a staunchly policed style, ROG is a new project, born from the ashes of DIVIDE. The trio has trimmed down to a two-piece, and we now are given Infectious Vermin. Wasting no time with the all-too-common trope of the “Intro” track, ‘Swarming Death’ lives up to its name from the first hammering rhythm, the first chop of the guitar, Daniel Stelling’s [guitar/vocals] delivery […]

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RWAKE To Release First New Album In Over 13 Years, The Return Of Magik, On March 14th Via Relapse Records; New Video/Single Now Playing + Preorders Available

After thirteen years of silence, an unsettling sound that is strangely familiar yet somehow even more haunted re-emerges from the Arkansas depths. There is no mistake as to what this is. RWAKE has released a new transmission. The Return Of Magik, set for release on March 14th via Relapse Records, has arrived. Years have now fed into an album that reaches into a swirling, cosmic unknown – RWAKE has grown, and the perspective of the material has shifted accordingly. Overwhelming at its peak and haunting during moments of respite, The Return Of Magik is undeniably RWAKE. Every movement feels like […]

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GREENLEAF: Revolution Rock Deluxe 2xLP announced on Blues Funeral Recordings

Blues Funeral Recordings team up with Swedish heavy rock giants GREENLEAF to present Revolution Rock Deluxe, a special reissue of their first two classic records in one fully remastered and redesigned package to be released on March 28th. Stream a rocking first excerpt with ‘Sold My Lady (Out The Back Of An Oldsmobile)’. Led by guitarist Tommi Holappa of European desert rock icons Dozer, GREENLEAF began as an informal collective of friends making music inspired by their shared love of ’70s riff rock. Having transformed into a proper band in 2013, Greenleaf enters 2025 at the forefront of the global […]

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GUILTLESS: Post-Metal/Sludge Outfit To Release Debut LP, Teeth To Sky, Via Neurot Recordings March 7th; Title Track And Preorders Posted + Prepare The Ground Performance Announced

Stream GUILTLESS’ ‘Teeth To Sky’ Neurot Recordings presents the label’s first release of 2025 with the debut from West Coast US-based quartet GUILTLESS – formed by members of A Storm Of Light, Intronaut, Generation Of Vipers, Battle Of Mice, and more – titled Teeth To Sky. Born from a love of experimental rock, noise rock, early industrial, sludge metal, and doom, GUILTLESS unites drummer Billy Graves, guitarist Dan Hawkins, bassist Sacha Dunable, and guitarist/vocalist Josh Graham, who collectively herald the coming of a heavy music which looks both inwards and out to convey the encompassing mixture of hope, despair and […]

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VACUOUS Announces Relapse Records Debut Album, In His Blood, Out February 28th; New Video/Single Now Playing + Preorders Available

Hailing from the withering depths of the UK, VACUOUS makes their Relapse Records debut with their new album, In His Blood, set for release on February 28th. An overdose of death metal, In His Blood is a compelling mix of blazing speeds, chilling atmospherics, and angular riffing that brings the band into their own unique space. “We’ve talked about having different influences, and it felt like a bit of a dare to push things further,” guitarist Michael Brodsky says. “Back in death metal’s formative days, with bands like Autopsy, Obituary, and Incantation, none of those bands sounded like each other: […]

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