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WOLFHEART Releases Official Music Video for New Track ‘Hail Of Steel’

Finnish heavy melodic death metal unit WOLFHEART recently announced the upcoming release of their new full-length Winter War epic, Wolves Of Karelia, out April 10, 2020 via Napalm Records. Today, WOLFHEART has revealed another fantastic offering cut from Wolves Of Karelia, entitled ‘Hail Of Steel’. The track signals oncoming war with an ocean-like wave of rhythm and hair-raising guitars, cascading into an extreme, melodic wall of blastbeats and symphonics. Accented by piercing clean vocal harmonics and pummeling double bass, the track sets the grand stage for the entire album. The new music video is equally as searing – a fiery […]

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COME TO GRIEF: Legendary Sludge Offshoot Release New EP + Announce New Bassist

New England-based sludge legends COME TO GRIEF are pleased to announce the release of their second EP Pray For The End, out now via Grievance Records, as well as the addition of bassist Randy Larsen (ex-Cable, ex-Isis). Formed in 1991 by Disrupt guitarist Terry Savastano, GRIEF’s style of “extreme doom” was seminal to all things slow, doom, and sludge to follow. For more than a decade, GRIEF would release several albums, EPs, splits and compilations before calling it quits in 2001, despite a couple of reunion attempts. Fast-forward to 2014, Terry’s new version of the band (including former drummer Chuck […]

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FUNERAL LEECH: New York City Death/Doom Bringers To Release Death Meditation Full-Length Via Carbonized April 17th; New Track Streaming + Preorders Available

Stream / Share FUNERAL LEECH’s ‘Statues’ At THIS LOCATION New York City-based death/doom bringers FUNERAL LEECH will unleash their debut full-length, Death Meditation, this April via Carbonized Records. Death Meditation spews forty-five soul-crushing minutes of death/doom darkness mired in contemplation of our mortal fragility. Recorded and mixed at Chapel Black Studios in Brooklyn, New York by Travis Bacon (White Widows Pact, Black Anvil, Hogwasche) and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Tomb Mold), through the putrid resonance of Death Meditation, FUNERAL LEECH believes that death is a new beginning! Death Meditation will be released on LP and digital formats via […]

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Death metal band MONOLITH (South Africa) release new single

Port Elizabeth’s MONOLITH have just released their stunning new single ‘Black Earth’s Gate’. The song is from their upcoming album The Lord Conspirator, which will be released in April via MMD Records. The band commented, “‘Black Earth’s Gate’ is our first single from the forthcoming album, The Lord Conspirator. It’s a menacing track, which achieves its sense of gritty heaviness by stripping away the speed. Punctuated by soaring melodies and steady grooves, the track appears halfway through the album, and represents a change in mood that sets the scene for the album’s final chapter.” Listen to the song HERE MONOLITH […]

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RITUAL DICTATES reveal third single from forthcoming ARTOFFACT debut

It is a big day for RITUAL DICTATES, as they release their new single ‘Extinction’ – LISTEN HERE Singer Justin Hagberg comments, “We can’t wait to perform Give In To Despair live! It’s been a while since RITUAL DICTATES has performed, so we’re very excited to dust away the cobwebs and return with a killer live band and a batch of new tunes.” Over the past month, RITUAL DICTATES has released music for ‘Terror Of Time’ and ‘Given To Despair’, which was also made into a lyric video and premiered with BraveWords.com. Watch the lyric video for ‘Given To Despair’ […]

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Germany’s HORN set release date for new IRON BONEHEAD album, reveal new video

Iron Bonehead Productions sets May 15th as the international release date for the highly anticipated eighth album of Germany’s HORN, Mohngang, on CD and vinyl LP formats. Since 2017, with the release of the album Turm am Gang and then the Retrograd mini-album a year later, HORN have aligned forces with Iron Bonehead, resulting in a refreshed taste of German steel. The Horn saga began in 2002, and throughout those many years, mainman Nerrath has been steadily perfecting a classicist, almost-medieval style of black metal bound to pagan roots. Staunchly solitary to the present day, the initial drive behind HORN […]

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PLAGUE YEARS: Michigan Crossover Death Thrashers To Unleash Circle Of Darkness Full-Length Via Entertainment One May 22nd

View / Share PLAGUE YEARS’ ‘Play The Victim’ Video At THIS LOCATION Michigan-based crossover death thrashers PLAGUE YEARS will unleash their punishing Circle Of Darkness full-length via Entertainment One on May 22nd. Like an icepick to the face, PLAGUE YEARS arrives with an electric surge of sudden pain. An unrelenting end of the world assault of the cataclysmic convergence of thrash and hardcore, with bits of blackened death and midtempo madness to spare, the Detroit master blasters are here to crash the crossover party. Summoning the primitive spirit of the singular moment when the heaviest of metal first smashed into […]

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Monolord singer/guitarist Thomas V. Jäger announces solo debut, shares title track via Consequence of Sound

“The hazy atmosphere and production echo MONOLORD’s aesthetics, with Jäger applying the underlying sonic principles of the band to his solo material. Consider the track ‘A Solitary Plan’ to be Jäger’s ‘Planet Caravan’ – even the heaviest and doomiest need to keep it chill sometime.” – Consequence Of Sound MONOLORD singer/guitarist Thomas V. Jäger announces his debut solo album, sharing the title track, ‘A Solitary Plan’ via Consequence Of Sound. Hear and share ‘A Solitary Plan’ HERE Thomas V. Jäger is best known as the vocalist/guitarist in MONOLORD, the hottest, most crushing melodic doom band in the world. So, releasing […]

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UK True Metallers DARK FOREST Return in April with Oak, Ash & Thorn / New Single Streaming

Venerable British true metallers DARK FOREST return with nine songs of epic metal heroics and monumental storytelling on Oak, Ash & Thorn. The album will be released on CD, Vinyl, and Digital formats April 24 on Cruz Del Sur Music. New song ‘The Midnight Folk’ is streaming now HERE With their first studio offering in four years, DARK FOREST marries traditional metal glory with tales from the heart of England’s long and storied past. DARK FOREST founding member, guitarist and songwriter Christian Horton was halfway through the creation of the band’s fifth studio album when he came across a copy […]

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