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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. […]

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Album Review – Shield Of Wings – Unfinished

Alright, first off, it’s not the late ‘90s anymore, or had you not noticed? SHIELD OF WINGS apparently hasn’t. The Illinois fivesome features not one but two female vocalists, so credit for that, as ‘Crushing Hail’ does give a bit of difference from the norm, Mordian and Daye (also on keys) blending to create an interesting melody. Musically, the band is exactly what I expected, and that’s unfortunate, especially when I’d actually been taken back to those early NIGHTWISH / LACUNA COIL / EPICA days for a moment…until the absolute bottom drops out right around the 3 ½ minute mark. […]

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EIGHT BELLS release first single ‘Nadir’, taken from the forthcoming new album, Legacy Of Ruin

EIGHT BELLS are now revealing the volcanic video single ‘Nadir’ taken from their forthcoming new album Legacy Of Ruin, which is slated for release on February 25, 2022. The avant-garde doom project from Portland, Oregon conceived by guitarist and singer Melynda Jackson has also unveiled cover art, tracklist, and further details of their new full-length below. Enter your ‘Nadir’ HERE Pre-Order at THIS LOCATION On further news, EIGHT BELLS will reissue their first two albums The Captain’s Daughter (2013) and Landless (2016) parallel to the release of Legacy Of Ruin. Both full-length recordings will be joined together under the title […]

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Album Review: Ofermod – Mysterium Iniquitatis

OFERMOD are one of the OGs of the Swedish black metal scene, dating all the way back to 1996. Despite that, this new album, their fifth, is the first one I’ve really listened to. Guess I’ll have to look up the back catalog, because Mysterium Iniquitatis is about as pure and classic a Nordic black metal album as I’ve heard this year. These guys hit all the right notes here…everything just sounds pure. It’s not the most extreme sound, but it’s far from commercial – there’s melody, but also brutality – there’s variety, with each song having its own identity. […]

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Deliberate Miscarriage unleash their debut of death metal devastation, Mortuary Melodies, featuring Ingested’s Lyn Jeffs

To celebrate the festive season of 2020 they gave us the Ghost Of Christmas Blast EP and this year DELIBERATE MISCARRIAGE bring the gift of their debut full length album, Mortuary Melodies. The three songs that made up the …Blast EP have spawned a host of virulent, violent offspring, eager to drown your winter nights in blood. Savagery, sickness and relentless force unleashed, DELIBERATE MISCARRIAGE have crafted an album of pure death metal destruction that will carve its name into your cold, dead heart. Since a shared love of the heinous and heavy brought bassist/vocalist Charlie Rogers (ex-Sodomized Cadaver) and […]

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Album Review: Untamed Land – Like Creatures Seeking Their Own Forms

A solo project from Akron, OH’s Patrick Hern, UNTAMED LAND was touted as (no word of a lie) “…the worlds very first metal band incorporating the feral sounds of classic, old western cinematics…” when 2018’s Between The Winds came out, and I laughed about it back then. That this outright falsehood is still being used to promote UL has now reached the point of irritation for me. DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA and ARABOT have injected more of an “old western” feeling from time to time into their music, and they’re from Sweden and Norway. That’s to say nothing of ACROSS TUNDRAS […]

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NEGURĂ BUNGET unveil third single ‘Toacă Din Cer’

NEGURĂ BUNGET have released an edited version of the song ‘Toacă Din Cer’ as the third single taken from the Romanian black metal pioneers’ final album Zău (“Old God”). This release constitutes the band’s swansong and also concludes the “Transylvanian trilogy” as envisioned by the late Gabriel “Negru” Mafa. Zău has been slated for release on November 26. NEGURĂ BUNGET have previously revealed the cover art, tracklist, and more details of the new full-length, which can all be viewed below. Listen to ‘Toacă Din Cer’ at THIS LOCATION Zău is the legacy of drummer and mastermind “Gabriel “Negru” Mafa, who […]

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Album Review: Nocturnal Wanderer – Gift Of The Night

When you think of old school black metal you think of VENOM, BATHORY, MAYHEM, BURZUM…you know. If you were to say to me that NOCTURNAL WANDERER “captures the spirit of beginning days of black metal” I’d be curious, but doubtful. However, this solo project pulls it off. It’s like going back in time. I’m going to be honest, I’ve never heard of NOCTURNAL WANDERER until now, but I like what I hear, which is headbanging goodness – oldschool goodness. Black metal in its infancy, yet not so. Mellowing out here and there gives it a bonus too in my book. […]

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Nechochwen unveil new track, ‘Kanawha Black’

After nearly 8 years since the release of Heart Of Akamon, West Virginia’s Nechochwen return, unveiling the title track from their impending album, Kanawha Black. Fierce melodies and heartfelt composition/riff stylings further cement the rich and powerful legacy that NECHOCHWEN has nurtured since their inception. Kanawha Black is a vibrant mix of uniquely black metal influenced aggression, up against moving classical instrumentation that unlocks an inspiring glimpse into what extreme metal can achieve. Kanawha Black will be released worldwide by Bindrune Recordings in Spring/Summer of 2022. In the meantime, check out ‘Kanawha Black’ at THIS LOCATION NECHOCHWEN Online:Bandcamp Facebook

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Album Review: Apostle Of Solitude – Until The Darkness Goes

Indiana’s APOSTLE OF SOLITUDE, on the outside, ticks all the boxes for what should make a great doom band. Decent cover art (if we forget the abysmal Last Sunrise of 2010 – which I can’t), they’ve been at it for well over ten years, so the lineup should be locked and loaded, and and and the band contains two members of the much-revered THE GATES OF SLUMBER… So, why doesn’t it work? The guitar tone grates from the start, and not in a good way. As a doom worshiper since the mid-late ‘80s, in all its forms, I can take […]

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