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Imperial Triumphant announce Merkurius Gilded— a powerful new graphic novel experience

A 96-page, full color book written by guitarist Zachary Ezrin and illustrated by Halil Mete Incoming December 5, 2025 on Vile Luxe Press [Pre-Order] New York City Avant-death trio IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT have announced Merkurius Gilded, a 96-page softcover graphic novel that explores the band’s themes, lyrics and artwork. Written by Imperial Triumphant’s Zachary Ezrin and illustrated by Halil Mete, the book will be released December 5th on the band’s own Vile Luxe Press and is available for pre-order here. All preorders will come with an exclusive Caduceus gold patch in addition to the book. IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT’s Zachary Ezrin comments: “This […]

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NEMOROUS Announce New Album – What Remains When Hope Has Failed

The wait for the full-length follow-up to the promising debut EP from England’s NEMOROUS is nearly over! Four years after the debut EP, the band has finally returned with a six-track atmospheric black metal experience titled What Remains When Hope Has Failed. Listen to the album teaser HERE Bindrune Records will release What Remains When Hope Has Failed on CD, vinyl and digital formats on November 21. What Remains When Hope Has Failed Tracklist: 1) The Wyrm at World’s End 2) This Rotten Bough 3) Sky Avalanche 4) Quiescence 5) Bereft Part 2 6) What Remains When Hope Has Failed […]

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PILE OF KNIVES: No Clean Singing Premieres Pummeling ‘Laceration’ Video From Eastern Pennsylvania Death Metal/Slam Outfit; Second EP, Driven By The Blade, Nears October 31st Release

“The slamming grooves are primitive but also the stuff of modern mechanized weaponry.” – No Clean Singing No Clean Singing is hosting the exclusive video premiere for ‘Laceration’, from Eastern Pennsylvania-based brutal death metal faction PILE OF KNIVES, preceding the Halloween release of the band’s second EP, Driven By The Blade. PILE OF KNIVES’ Driven By The Blade takes the band’s calculated viciousness to further levels of intensity, delivering four new tracks of simply merciless, slamming death. Recorded, mixed, mastered, and produced by Shaun Werle – with the drums recorded at Soundmine Recording Studio – Driven By The Blade was […]

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WOLFTOOTH: new anthem ‘Darkened Path’ available

US heavy metal mavens WOLFTOOTH release their fierce and blistering new single ‘Darkened Path’, taken from their anticipated fourth studio album, Wizard’s Light, on Ripple Music. About ‘Darkened Path’, guitarist and vocalist Chris Sullivan explains: “‘Darkened Path’ is somewhat of a departure from our mythical past. This song delves deeper into my personal life. One subject I rarely write about for various reasons. This departure wasn’t a conscious one, this song just felt right for these words. The song is loosely based on my mother, who has always had my best intentions in mind. I feel she has helped to […]

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Actor/Horror Icon COURTNEY GAINS Announces New Single – ‘Fear The Boogie’

Musician, actor, and celebrated horror icon COURTNEY GAINS, most known for his role as Malachai in the 1984 horror classic Children Of The Corn, will release a brand new song this Halloween. A hook-laden heavy rock horror anthem, ‘Fear The Boogie’ is a collaboration between Gains and Peruvian guitarist/producer Wal. The song was written for the soundtrack to Barn III, an upcoming horror film starring Gains and Kelly Maroney (Fast Times Tt Ridgemont High). Drums on the track were recorded by Toni Mateos (www.tonimateos.com), an accomplished session drummer with credits spanning rock, pop, and film music. Gains and Wal previously […]

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Dark Folk Act GREET To Unveil I Know How To Die, Music video for ‘The Leather Knight’ out now

I Know How To Die is the debut full-length album from Leeds, UK, based songsmith GREET (aka Matthew Broadley). The enchanting dark folk sound evokes the dynamic, awe-inspiring and untamable landscape found in surrounding county of Yorkshire. GREET blurs the lines of traditional folk and drone, diving further into the worlds between reality and fantasy. Through this is created a wonderfully unique cinematic and doom laden atmosphere. I know how to die,Yet I am here still, battle worn,My purpose not fulfilled.A song is calling and still,I am here Watch ‘The Leather Knight’ I Know How To Die was written and […]

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Ragana + Drowse reveal Ash Souvenir title track from upcoming collaborative release

The forthcoming collaborative album from RAGANA and DROWSE – Ash Souvenir – combines the former’s heavy, emotionally charged metal with the latter’s textural approach to sound. Across four long-form pieces, their voices and instruments move between stark intimacy and overwhelming intensity. During the writing process, Maria (RAGANA) and Kyle (DROWSE) were both in a painful, transitional period, moving back to the Pacific Northwest to be closer to struggling loved ones. This return home and the emotions it stirred echoed in Noel’s (RAGANA) own inherited history. Maria laments on the album’s title track, “‘Ash Souvenir’ is a song dedicated to my […]

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Bloody Mountain Records Brings You VALDUR’s Guilded Abyss

Mammoth Lakes (CA) – Seven years since the release of their last full-length album, the Black/Death Metal swarm that is VALDUR have released Guilded Abyss on Bloody Mountain Records. VALDUR is a distortion guild of the riff; musical merchants of the deep. Obscure music for mellifluous minds. The individuals of this abyssal congregation need only the desire to assemble and create the vibrations of aural alchemy for your aural pleasure. Guilded Abyss Track Listing: Hailing Molten Meteors Mangled And Rotting (Spiritus Mortuus) Guilded Abyss Doomed Pt.II Drinking From The Chalice Of Banishment Stars Of Belial Waves Of Boiling Water/Molten Meteors […]

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NEST To Join Goblin Legacy On US Fall Tour This November; Tickets On Sale Now

St. Louis metal trio NEST, spearheaded by Scour and Agoraphobic Nosebleed bassist John Jarvis, will join Goblin Legacy for a special two-week run of live dates this November. Goblin Legacy is an Italian progressive rock band renowned for their haunting and atmospheric film scores, particularly in the horror genre. Formed in the early 1970s, they gained international acclaim through collaborations with director Dario Argento, scoring cult classics like Profondo Rosso (1975) and Suspiria (1977). Their eerie, synth-heavy compositions became synonymous with Italian cinema and influenced horror soundtracks for decades. Known for their feral intensity and genre-defying heaviness, NEST is dragging […]

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FIMBUL WINTER: Former Amon Amarth Members Announce Debut EP, What Once Was

Swedish melodeath torchbearers FIMBUL WINTER, featuring three former members of Amon Amarth, have announced their debut EP What Once Was, due out November 14 via the band. Carrying the weight of history and the force of unfinished business, What Once Was delivers five tracks of cold, uncompromising death metal steeped in the spirit of Sweden’s early scene. Recorded by Sverker Widgrin (Mörk Gryning, Wormwood) and Shaun Farrugia, and mixed and mastered by Marko Tervonen (The Crown, Sarcator), the band’s debut also features session bass from Tobias Cristiansson (Necrophobic, Dismember, etc.) Built on rediscovered riffs from the early days of Amon […]

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