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REDEMPTOR: Polish Death Metal Band With Current/Ex-Members Of Decapitated, Vader, Hate, Banisher, And More To Release Agonia Through Selfmadegod Records; ‘Potion Of The Skies’ Video Playing

Selfmadegod Records presents Agonia, the destructive new album from Krakow, Poland-based death metal outfit REDEMPTOR – uniting current and former members of Decapitated, Vader, Hate, Sceptic, Sothoth, Banisher, Deivos, and more – now confirmed for early December release. The album’s cover art, track listing, preorders, and more have been issued, including a video for the lead single, ‘Potion Of The Skies’. REDEMPTOR is back with their first new full-length in four years, the successor to their well-received Arthaneum album. Agonia delivers nine new tracks of technical, heavy, and atmospheric death metal heavily influenced by Gorguts, Morbid Angel, Immolation, and Death. […]

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Album Review: HATE – Rugia

Poland’s HATE has been at it for over three decades now, in many incarnations, but always helmed by Adam “The First Sinner” Buszko, so, to put it bluntly, the praise or blame has always rested on his shoulders when it comes to the quality of the death/black outfit. For myself, HATE has sort of just been “there”, no great opinion one way or the other, in that I can see why someone may enjoy it, but I’ve also never been in the mood for the band specifically. Featuring a new rhythm section (again), and joined once more by Domin, who’s […]

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THY WORSHIPER return with Bajki o Staruchu

Originating from Poland, Dublin-based pagan black folk metal act THY WORSHIPER will release their fifth studio album Bajki o Staruchu (translates to “Fairytales About An Old Man” from Polish) via Pagan Records on 17 November 2021. Ahead of the album’s release, a music video to the track ‘Baba Jaga’ is available to watch at the locations below: Nine Circles (USA) Musick Magazine (PL) Friedhof Magazine (ESP) Rocking (GR) Coming six years after the release of Klechdy, Bajki o Staruchu is a concept with eight new tracks based on fairy tales that are held together by the main character of the […]

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Album Review: KK’S Priest – Sermons Of The Sinner

I probably don’t need to go over K.K. Downing’s history for anybody reading this review. Chances are you know just as much as I do, although it’s worth noting that K.K.’s history with JUDAS PRIEST goes all the way back to 1969. I’m sure you also know that, with Glenn Tipton, he was part of the guitar duo that revolutionized the concept of heavy metal and set the bar for just about every other band in the genre. It’s already been 10 years since Ken left PRIEST. I’d imagine the metal fire has been smoldering in him for most of […]

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Seattle Death Grinders RAT KING Releasing Santa Hipocresía EP December 10

Seattle (WA) – Seattle Death/Grind vermin RAT KING return with a new EP, Santa Hipocresía (translation: Holy Hypocrisy), December 10 on digital and cassette formats via Within The Mind Records. The official video for album track ‘False Prophet’ is available at THIS LOCATION Following up their 2020 full-length album Vicious Inhumanity, the new EP sees the band continue down the path of breakneck speed and death in delivery of its unique brand of death metal and grindcore. For fans of Napalm Death, Hypocrisy, Morbid Angel, Sepultura. Pre-order (cassette/digital) HERE Track Listing: SANTA HIPOCRESÍA MALDICIÓN DEL ALMA FALSE PROPHET MORBOSO KILLING […]

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Album Review: Wormwitch – Wolf Hex

WORMWITCH has been at it awhile, and now returns for the all-important third album. Reviews have been kind to the Vancouver quartet thus far, so all that remains is the question “Did the band deliver?”. After the intro of ‘Lunar Maniac’ wanders about aimlessly for 1:00 (as most intros are wont to do), the laughably-titled ‘Canadian Denim Mountain Attack’, which manages in one clumsy, fell swoop to poorly appropriate both DARKTHRONE’s ‘Canadian Metal’ and ‘Hiking Metal Punks’, both of which leave a bag of reindeer shit on WORMWITCH’s suburbanite doorstep. And if you thought the song was any better, it’s […]

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SVARTSOT signs to Mighty Music, New album in 2022

Although it is now quite a while since SVARTSOT has released new material, the band is still very much alive and kicking. In the interim since 2015’s Vældet, the beer-soaked folk metallers have been active on the live scene in Denmark and abroad, including appearances at various major festivals as well as at the prestigious 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise in 2019. After a change of bassist and the decision to shelve an album’s worth of material in 2017/18, the idea of releasing a collection of traditional folk songs that have inspired the band, reworked in SVARTSOT’s characteristic style, was […]

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Album Review: High Desert Queen – Secrets Of The Black Moon

From the get-go with ‘Heads Will Roll’, we are treated to some fine riffing, and a voice so smooth you wonder if the spicy lettuce has kicked in already. Feel that rolling and nodding your head? Yes, let it overtake you. That bass so crisp tickling your taste buds like a fine steak stone-cooked in the desert. This was just what I needed to hear tonight. What a pick me up! HIGH DESERT QUEEN is what you would get if THE SWORD and GOATWHORE had a baby, and I love this baby. I would adopt it and care for it […]

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Norwegian Extremists SARKE Streaming New Song, ‘Grim Awakening’

Pioneering extreme Norwegian metal act SARKE have released ‘Grim Awakening’ the third single from forthcoming album Allsighr. ‘Grim Awakening’ is a driving and rousing track that displays a natural attraction to darkness, finished off by the cruel vocals of Nocturno Culto. Stream the beast at THIS LOCATION SARKE will release their long awaited 7th full-length album, Allsighr, November 5 on CD, digital, and gatefold vinyl formats via Soulseller Records. Pre-orders:Americas World SARKE previously released a visualizer video for second single ‘Beheading of the Circus Director’, which is available HERE The forthcoming album’s first single, ‘Bleak Reflections’, was released previously and […]

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Album Review: ROTHADÁS – Kopár hant… az alvilág felé

Hungarians ROTHADÁS arrive with their first long player, after 2019’s two-song self-titled release. Taking a page from the DARKTHRONE playbook, one might easily assume the duo to follow their ancestors’ now well-trodden paths to the past, but not so. Whereas the former relies these days on breaking down metal/punk/doom to its most stark, Messrs. Ledeczy and Hanyi don’t seem blind to taking ROTHADÁS death/doom down unexpected trails. In truth, what first drew me to Kopár hant…az alvilág felé was the cover art of four Victorian-era pallbearers transporting a coffin towards an inner-lit crypt amid a grey (I envision), rain-drizzled night. […]

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