Extreme Metal

Black Altar and Vulture Lord are well-paired on Dethiah Manifesto

Black Altar and Vulture Lord well-paired on Dethiah Manifesto. Polish Black Metallers Black Altar and Norwegian Black/Thrash Vulture Lord add four tracks each. @blackaltarband #VultureLord @odiumrecords

Kemerov / Anti-Hero is as irresistible as it is brutal

Four years after the release of their debut album FMKD, Greek four-piece Death 'n' Rollers Kemerov are back with another aural assault, Anti-Hero. Anti-Hero is such an in your face and addictive listen it's guaranteed to drop kick you into next week! @kemerov_gr

Brood of Hatred / The Golden Age is a superbly head spinning and enthralling listen

Muhammed MĂŞlki is back with his wonderfully fluid meld of Metal, releasing The Golden Age, a superbly head spinning and enthralling listen. Definitely worth your attention if you enjoy something a little more adventurous in your Metal. @broodofhatred

Burned In Effigy / Bigger, better, Rex Mortem will leave you stunned and impressed

REVIEW: Burned In Effigy weave a sublime meld of classical and progressive elements into their tracks. The result makes their debut full length, Rex Mortem, a stunning and essential listen. @burned_in_effigy

Chaos Perversion / Sensory annihilation of classic South American Extreme Metal style

Chilean Black/Death Metal duo Chaos Perversion are set to unleash their debut EP, Petrified Against the Emanation, upon the unsuspecting world. @sentientruin @death_total

Lawnmower Deth / Blunt Cutters is an album to lift the cobwebs of despair

With no album from "legendary garden machinery obsessed Thrash/Crossover titans" Lawnmower Deth since '93s Billy, all that is about to change with Blunt Cutters @lawnmowerdeth_pete @dissonance_productions

Nihility / Beyond Human Concepts puts the “interesting” back into Death Metal

A lot of bands could learn from this album. @nihility_official

Punk and Extreme Metal / Looking Back on 2021: A Year in Review

2021 may not have been the year we have hoped for, but in terms of quality studio releases, musicians across the genres of Punk and Metal have turned adversity into triumph.

Archspire / One of Death Metal’s most forward-thinking bands

Archspire have released the documentary Bring Back The Danger, a fascinating behind the scenes vision into the making of their critically acclaimed album Bleed The Future. @archspireofficial

Decerebration / Follow The Scars brings delightfully brutal positivity out of adversity

1998 saw the first and only release of new material from Canadian Death Metal outfit Decerebration. Now, just over two decades on, and they are finally back with the new release, Follow The Scars, and it's a delightfully brutal and engaging offering.

Mortuary Drape / Pioneers of Black Metal sign to Peaceville with new album out February

Mortuary Drape, the cult Black Metal band formed in Italy in 1986 by the visionary Wildness Perversion, have signed to Peaceville and will release a five-track mini-album Wisdom – Vibration – Repent in February 2022.

Ethereal Shroud / Trisagion is Black Metal deep enough to drown in

Ethereal Shroud was originally formed back in 2013 by Joseph Hawker as a way to anonymously test the waters with the sound he wished to perfect, his slant on Atmospheric Black Metal,...

Demonstealer / A blindingly good heady meld of Death, Black and Thrash Metal

The man who has made the biggest impact on the Indian Heavy Metal scene is the Metal legend Sahil Makhija, better known as The Demonstealer. He is the mind behind Metal outfit...

Servant / Balancing blackened brutality with subtle symphonics and melody perfectly

Blessed By The Light Of A Thousand Stars, the debut studio release from German Black Metallers Servant, is an album described as “a revelation between rawness and atmosphere.” An apt description. It...

Stillbirth / Strain Of Gods will leave you bruised and bleeding from every orifice

It's time to pull on those board shorts again because those German brutal surf-Death-Metal maniacs Stillbirth are back with another brutal concoction of Death Metal, Grindcore and Deathcore that will leave you...

Astrophobos / Corpus is an engagingly dark Black Metal “cross-disciplinary collaboration”

Swedish Black Metal Band Astrophobos are back with their third full-length studio album Corpus, which goes beyond the idea of just being an album. This time they have created a "cross-disciplinary collaboration...

Mentor / Wolves, Wraiths and Witches and the intersection between occultism and B-horror

Polish Blackened Hardcore Thrashers Mentor return with their third studio album, Wolves, Wraiths and Witches, which, they say, "is a continuation of the fast, hard and uncompromising style delivered on our 2016...
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