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NEQUIENT: Chicago Hardcore/Metal Outfit To Release Darker Than Death Or Night LP Via Nefarious Industries In March; ‘First Casualty’ Streaming + Preorders And Tour Dates Posted

Nefarious Industries presents Darker Than Death Or Night, the second full-length from Chicago’s metallic hardcore outfit NEQUIENT. Confirming the album for March release, the label has issued the cover art, track listing, preorders, and the lead single, ‘First Casualty’. NEQUIENT is a four-piece metallic hardcore band from Chicago. Building on a foundation of thrashing d-beat, they draw influences from a broad spectrum of aggressive styles including grindcore, crust, sludge, death metal, black metal, and noise rock. The result is a uniquely punishing sound that emphasizes percussive intensity and razor-sharp hooks. Formed in 2014, NEQUIENT’s first official release was 2015’s Infinite […]

ABRAHAM: Swiss Apocalyptic Metal Act To Release Debris de Mondes Perdus Full-Length February 25th, 2022 Via Pelagic Records; New Track Streaming + Preorders Available

Swiss apocalyptic metal act ABRAHAM will unleash their new full-length, Debris de Mondes Perdus, February 25th via Pelagic Records. ABRAHAM emerged from the flourishing Swiss underground music scene of the past decade. During their now eleven years of existence and through European tours supporting Cult Of Luna and The Ocean, the band have forged their reputation as one of the leading post metal bands in Europe. Their 2018 magnum opus Look, Here Comes The Dark! was a scorching dystopian fiction concept album, divided into four consecutive periods – one for each vinyl record – throughout which the story of the […]

Slob unleash Deepwoods Shack Of Sodomy through Comatose Music on March 4th

Nine years of immersion in the filth that bubbles in the deepest sewers of human society, nine years of desensitization to horror and cruelty, nine years of fashioning the heaviest riffs, the most violent blasts and vocals to scour the insides of your intestines. The result, Deepwoods Shack Of Sodomy – the debut album from the UK’s sole purveyors of “Hillbilly Death Brutality”, SLOB… In 2013 Ross Honour (Guitar) and James Murphy (Guitar/Vocals/Drum Programming) joined forces with the aim of creating the most pulverizing expression of brutal death metal’s twisted and ugly art form. They named their warped child SLOB […]

TWISTED TOWER DIRE: Nameless Grave Records To Release Crest Of The Martyrs Demos From Virginia Heavy Metal Act; ‘Some Other Time, Some Other Place’ Streaming + Preorders Posted

Nameless Grave Records presents Crest Of The Martyrs Demos, an alternate/demo version of TWISTED TOWER DIRE’s adored third album, making the recordings available for the first time. In the days of olde, after classic heavy metal was supplanted by extreme music and before the current reignition of interest that the genre has enjoyed, Northern Virginia’s TWISTED TOWER DIRE tirelessly defended true heavy metal in all forms as they sought to breathe new light into a then largely dead genre. By the time their now-legendary third album Crest Of The Martyrs was written they were on top of the world, having […]

NILE To Begin 2022 US Tour Dates Next Month wsg. Incantation, Sanguisugabogg and I AM

International Death Metal legends NILE are primed to embark on their 2022 U.S. headlining tour next month! Featuring support from Incantation, Sanguisugabogg and I AM, the “Age Of Vile Divinities” tour kicks off on Thursday, February 3rd in Nashville, TN, and will touch down in more than 30 cities before concluding in Spartanburg, South Carolina on March 12th. A complete list of dates on the upcoming trek can be found below! The band’s first tour of 2022 comes after last year’s announcement that they’ve signed a worldwide deal with Napalm Records, and that their highly anticipated tenth studio album is […]

Dark Metal Frontrunners AGATHODAIMON Announce Comeback Album The Seven + Reveal First Single

Nine years after the release of In Darkness, German dark metal frontrunners AGATHODAIMON set the stage for their long-awaited comeback – the bittersweet seventh studio album, The Seven, out March 18, 2022 via Napalm Records. AGATHODAIMON’s exceptional new strike maintains the old-school spirit of its predecessor, but can’t be pigeonholed due to its dynamic and widespread musical styles, evoking a gloomy atmosphere fueled by sharp growls, epic clear vocals and a gripping, exceptional sonic universe. Formed in 1995 and entering the scene with their debut, Blacken The Angel, in 1998, bandleader Sathonys was temporarily forced to put AGATHODAIMON on hold […]

CROWBAR To Release Zero And Below Full-Length March 4th, 2022 Via MNRK Heavy; New Single/Video ‘Chemical Godz’ Now Playing At Revolver + Preorders Available

New Orleans, Louisiana sludge metal pioneers CROWBAR will release their long awaited new full-length, Zero And Below, March 4th, 2022 via MNRK Heavy! In celebration, today the band is pleased to unveil the record’s artwork, track listing, and first single/video, ‘Chemical Godz’, now playing at Revolver. CROWBAR songs are unapologetic emotional outpourings, with a bare-knuckle resolve alongside its soul-searching vulnerability, reliably delivered with crushing heaviness. Zero And Below, which cements the band’s dense catalog exactly one dozen studio albums deep, is the most unforgivably doomy CROWBAR record since their 1998 landmark effort, Odd Fellows Rest. Produced, mixed, and mastered by […]

CATTLE DECAPITATION Readies For Death…At Last Headlining Tour, Set To Begin January 18th

In less than one month, San Diego grinders CATTLE DECAPITATION will kick off their long-anticipated US headlining tour. The Death…At Last Tour runs from January 18th through February 20th. Support will be provided by The Last Ten Seconds Of Life, Creeping Death, and Extinction A.D. Tickets are on sale NOW! See all confirmed dates below. CATTLE DECAPITATION will be touring in support of their critically lauded Death Atlas full-length release via Metal Blade Records. Produced by Dave Otero, Death Atlas was named one of the best records of 2019 by Decibel Magazine, MetalSucks, Metal Injection, and many more, and it […]

NILE Mastermind KARL SANDERS to Release New SAURIAN Solo Project Music, Signs Worldwide Contract with Napalm Records

Just shortly after announcing the signing of almighty death metal icons NILE to Napalm Records, the premier international rock and metal label is pleased to announce the additional signing of the band’s own mastermind KARL SANDERS’ solo project, with plans to release brand new Saurian music next year. Following the first two SAURIAN project albums – Saurian Meditation (2004) and Saurian Exorcisms (2009) – KARL SANDERS is ready to unleash more musical musings from inside his eclectically influenced mind. To date, each Saurian release has explored unique, original compositions of haunting, primarily Middle Eastern inspired music in a cinematic, ambient […]

Czech brutal death heavyweights CUTTERRED FLESH premiere official video via Metal Injection

CUTTERED FLESH from Czech Republic have quickly made a name for themselves for rising above the clichés of brutal death metal and doing a lot more with it. There are plaintive melodies, dissonant parts, raspy vocals, slams, all of that without losing the overall sound. It makes for a fascinating, riveting listen. Metal Injection premiered their official video recently at THIS LOCATION Excerpt:“CUTTERED FLESH is here to completely pound your day into dust with their new single ‘Vibrio Vulnificus’. The single is off the new CUTTERED FLESH record Sharing Is Caring, whose artwork is as gleefully brutal as the music. […]