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INCANTATION Announces New Album, Unholy Deification, Out August 25th On Relapse Records; ‘Concordat (The Pact) I’ Video Now Playing + Preorders Available

Death metal icons INCANTATION will unleash their new album, Unholy Deification, via Relapse Records on August 25th, today revealing the record’s artwork, track listing, preorders, and first single/video! INCANTATION frontman John McEntee comments, “I’m not interested in playing it safe. I think other people feel that there are limits to what we do. However, I don’t see it that way. If it feels right, then it’s INCANTATION. The songs we write are an honest expression of ourselves. When people hear the new album, I hope they think, ‘Why are these guys so pissed off?!’ Rage gives focus, which is why […]

MARGARITA WITCH CULT: new video ‘The Witchfinder Comes’ streaming

UK doom rockers MARGARITA WITCH CULT present an intoxicatingly heavy second video taken from their awaited self-titled debut album, to be released on April 21st through Heavy Psych Sounds. About new single ‘The Witchfinder Comes’, the band comments: “A macabre tale of an impending witch hunt climaxing with the subject running in fear over the spiraling coda. The slab of bludgeoning ’70s style proto-metal is a stadium-sized version of the song which first appeared on the band’s demo cassette which brought the band to the public eye in 2022.” Watch new video ‘The Witchfinder Comes’ on The Sleeping Shaman Get […]

OBSEQUIAE Releases Multi-Camera Video Of Entire Fire In The Mountains Fest Performance

Medieval/melodic black metal collective OBSEQUIAE presents a new video of their epic performance at last year’s gathering of the annual Fire In The Mountains Fest. OBSEQUIAE’s Fire In The Mountains performance took place July 24th, 2022, at Heart Six Ranch in Moran, Wyoming on the lands of the Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, Tséstho’e (Cheyenne), Arapaho, Titunwan Lakota, and Crow. OBSEQUIAE shared the stage with Wolves In The Throne Room, Yob, Steve Von Till, Eternal Champion, Hexvessel, Emma Ruth Rundle, and many others at the gathering, and the band’s six-member lineup featured primary studio members – […]

SCOTT “WINO” WEINRICH to release official documentary this spring

WINO: The Documentary, the story of SCOTT “WINO” WEINRICH, one of heavy metal’s most iconic underground figureheads and godfather of doom, will be released by New Terms Productions on May 13th digitally and on DVD. WINO: The Documentary is the story of doom rock legend SCOTT “WINO” WEINRICH, known for his many influential bands such as The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Spirit Caravan, The Hidden Hand, Premonition 13, Wino Acoustic, Place of Skulls, Shrinebuilder, Probot, and more. Dive into the outlaw life, epic career, and enduring influence of WINO, in this honest, raw, and often hilarious depiction of the man and […]

HANGING GARDEN: ‘The Fireside’ Music Video

Finnish melodic death/doom/gothic metallers HANGING GARDEN are premiering a music video for the second song to be revealed off the band’s upcoming album, The Garden, set for release on March 24th via Agonia Records. Listen to ‘The Fireside’ and watch the video HERE HANGING GARDEN formed in 2004, starting out as a heavy, doom-oriented project. Roughly two decades, seven albums and a couple of line-up shuffles later, the band shifted to a more melodic, contemporary sound, surrounded by a veil of melancholy. The compositions are dark, atmospheric & emotional, and concomitantly lean towards open-minded and playful musicality. While entrenched in […]

ANTHEM To Release Crimson & Jet Black Full-Length On April 21st Via Reaper Entertainment; First Video/Single Available

Leading Japanese heavy metal act, ANTHEM, will release their brand-new studio album, Crimson & Jet Black, via Reaper Entertainment on April 21st, today unveiling the record’s artwork, track listing, and first single. It’s been four years since the release of the band’s critically acclaimed Nucleus full-length – a re-recording of their classic hits with English lyrics. But ANTHEM used the pandemic downtime wisely. Crimson & Jet Black features eleven tracks, once again performed in English. Comments bassist Naoto Shibata of the band’s first single, ‘Wheels Of Fire’, “Obviously this is the most heavy metal album I have ever made. Experience […]

Chat Pile’s ‘Tropical Beaches, Inc.’ Gets B-Movie Treatment in New Music Video

As CHAT PILE prepare for their upcoming sold out tour with Lingua Ignota in February, the band have released a new music video for God’s Country standout track, ‘Tropical Beaches, Inc.’ Of the song, the band comments, “‘Tropical Beaches, Inc.’ is a favorite among the band, and probably the song that’s the most fun to play live. It has some of the dumbest riffs on the whole album and we gleefully lose a couple brain cells every time we play it.” They continue, “The song itself is about the poisonous quest for endless wealth and status in America as seen […]

SIGH Release New Video For ‘Shoujahitsumetsu’ From Shiki – Their Latest Studio Album

Following the release of Shiki, their new studio album, on Peaceville, the cult Japanese black metal legends SIGH have released a new video for the track ‘Shoujahitsumetsu’. SIGH mainman Mirai Kawashima explains the meaning behind the track “‘Shoujahitsumetsu’ is a word in Buddhism and stands for “Anything that is alive has to die in the end”. I tried to express my fear of death through the album, and this song should be the case in point. This is the most furious track on the album filled with my feat that will never fade away.”WATCH THE VIDEO FOR ‘SHOUJAHITSUMETSU’ SIGH’s recently […]

FAUSTIAN: Lambgoat Premieres Debut Video ‘Birth Of Apparitions’ From Louisiana Death Metal Marauders (ft. members of Barghest, etc.)

Louisiana death metal trio FAUSTIAN — featuring members of Barghest, Kavyk, and others — has premiered its debut music video, ‘Birth Of Apparitions’ via Lambgoat. The band’s self-titled debut EP is out now via Black Lion Records. WATCH THE ‘BIRTH OF APPARITIONS’ “Our goal was to make the video as gritty as the song and subject matter,” says guitarist/vocalist Dallas Smith. “With help from the filmmaker, we were able to incorporate creative visuals that tell the story behind the track. The final product is just as bleak as we hoped it would be.” Directed by Dusty Cooper (Troy Bennett’s Graveyard […]

Atmospheric Black Metal Duo IMPERIUM DEKADENZ Announce New Album, Into Sorrow Evermore

Lords of black metal, IMPERIUM DEKADENZ, raise darkness from the depths of southwestern Germany’s Black Forest once more and proudly announce their new album, Into Sorrow Evermore, to be unleashed on January 20, 2023, via Napalm Records. Immersed in the void, they approach themes of depression, death and desperation, luring the listener into their sorrowful reality of existence. True to the beginnings of the genre, IMPERIUM DEKADENZ stick to their roots and leave their own haunting mark on the genre, claiming their rightful place in the upper echelons of black metal. The first single ‘Memories…A Raging River’ is released along […]