Mighty Music is releasing Daenacteh, the new album by Norway-based melodic death metal band DECEPTION in March. The band is booked for Checkpoint Charlie and Inferno Festival in Norway for this year.
Horror Pain Gore Death will issue GORE MACHINE’s Macerated & Liquified album. The solo act is run by Druesome (guitars for EXTINCTION PROTOCOL).
GRAVE has lost both guitarist Mika Lagrén and bassist Tobias Cristiansson. As such, the band has ceased all activities including concerts in order to reassess its future.
AT THE GATES has cancelled all planned 2024 concerts. A reason was not on offer.
Everlasting Spew Records is releasing WOUNDS’ Ruin album in March. The label has also released ENGULF’s The Dying Planet Weeps and REVULSED’s Cerebral Contamination last month.
Australia-based ENDLESS LOSS will release its debut album Traversing The Mephitic Artery, through Nuclear Winter Records in March.
NACHTS has a full-length called Privileg through Crawling Chaos Records announced for March 2024.
STIRIAH has a full-length album called Portal through Crawling Chaos in February. An advance song for the title track is available now.
Australia-based BESOMORA has a demo called Delusional Monster. Guest musicians are Tobi Morelli of ARCHSPIRE and Joe Haley of PSYCROPTIC. The band and VALHALORE are supporting BLIND GUARDIAN in Sydney in February.
BRODEQUIN will release a full-length called Harbinger Of Woe through Season Of Mist on 22.03.2024.
Horror Pain Gore Death is releasing CORPSEVORE’s Feed The Plague album. CORPSEVORE was formed as the brainchild from the label’s doom band WINTEREVE’s lead guitar player in 2022.
COGNIZANCE’s Phantazein album is out through Willowtip Records.
Italy-based grindcore trio NEID has signed to Time To Kill Records for the release of a cover EP entitled Still Offensive on 15.03.2024. The cover art is by Italian cartoonist Zerocalcare and the band pays homage to the Italian hardcore scene of the 1990s.
Tears Of Creation by Reunion Island-based NOSFERÂ will be released through Music-Records in April.
KAIVS has signed to Time To Kill Records for the release of its debut album, After The Flesh. The band was founded in 2022.
Dublin, Ireland’s THE RISEN DREAD has a video for the song Betrayal. The band is compared to LAMB OF GOD and SEPULTURA.
Poland and Mexico-based thrash metal band TECHNOPHOBIA has a demo called Anti-Human Terror. It was founded as a side-project for Kajetan (guitars) and Barto (bass) while they were still playing in local death/blacksters BUDDAH in April 2023.
Canada-based NOVICHOK has a new demo called Geo-Desiccant. Thrash metal band NOVICHOK got its start as a cover band playing songs from MEGADETH, VOIVOD and SUICIDAL TENDENCIES.
Chile-based ENCHIRIDION MORTIS AETERNAE (EMA) is a quartet from Santiago born in 2022 that has released its first studio work, the Necher Jertet demo. This is a step towards a full-length called The Book Of The Dead.
AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE, featuring Tim Lambesis of AS I LAY DYING, has an album called Quad Brutal through Napalm Records. The crossover band is constantly inspired by the actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. A track inspired by the Terminator film is called Destroy The Machines and available early.
PATHOLOGY, NECROTICGOREBEAST and AETHEREUS are touring the USA from April 17th to May 4th.
NILE was forced to cancel its participation at 70000 Tons Of Metal 2024 as two members contracted COVID-19. MONSTROSITY replaced the band on short notice. DRACONIAN and MARDUK were forced to cancel earlier due to members or crew not obtaining US visas in time.
Former CRYPTOPSY singer Martin Lacroix, who appeared on the group’s None So Live record of 2003, has died. The man worked at a tattoo shop and was a member of ENMITY most recently.
CRYPTOPSY and ATHEIST are conducting The Unquestionable Blasphemy European Tour 2024 with ALMOST DEAD, MONASTERY and 72 LEGIONS.
My Plateau is the name of the new full-length by Norway-based black metal group PROFANE BURIAL. It will be released through Crime Records in March.
PENTAGRAM (Chile/Spain) releases an album called Eternal Life Of Madness through Listenable Records in April. It has been in the works for the last three years.
GRÁ/DARK FUNERAL/HELJARMADR singer Heljarmader has been hospitalised with thrombosis (blood clots) and missed concerts with the first band. GRÁ’s guitarist Niklas Ekwall took the mike for pre-booked concerts.
ORIGIN, DOODSWENS and MARDUK are touring Europe this spring.
DUINDWALER will release its debut full-length, which is entitled In Het Heemskerks Duin, through Void Wanderer Productions/War Productions in March.
I AM MORBID, featuring former MORBID ANGEL singer and bassist David Vincent and drummer Pete Sandoval will perform MORBID ANGEL’s debut album Altars Of Madness of 1989 in its entirety at Milwaukee Metal Fest on Sunday, May 19.
BEHEMOTH’s O Father, O Satan, O Svmmer 2024 European tour of July and August will feature openers TESTAMENT, GAEREA or PESTILENCE depending on the dates and includes stops at Dong Open Air, Rockstadt Extreme Fest and Wacken.
ANTHRAX, KREATOR and TESTAMENT are touring Europe in late autumn.
Devil is the name of the latest demo by Japan-based speed metal band SEX VIRGIN KILLER. It is available through the band’s Lilii Sound Loom imprint.
Cancer Culture Over North America 2024 tour features DECAPITATED and SEPTICFLESH with openers KATAKLYSM and ALLEGAEON in April and May. DECAPITATED’s Cancer Culture album was released in 2022.
Italy-based death/grind band SLUG GORE has signed with Time To Kill Records and will release its debut album, They Slime! They Ooze! They Kill!, in April.
ORBIT CULTURE, which is opening for FEAR FACTORY and MACHINE HEAD in North America, has signed with Century Media.
Led by ex-THY CATAFALQUE guitarist János Juhász, five-piece Hungary-based death metal act DAMNATION will release a full-length called Fátum through Pest Records on 18.02.2024.
BLOOD RED THRONE has a new full-length called Nonagon through Soulseller Records.
Russia-based DRAKON has released an album entitled Thunderdome through Sleaszy Rider on January 18th. It was mixed and mastered by Theodor Borovsky (ALKONOST and DISSECTOR) and the cover artwork was created by Valentina Mustajarvi.
Christian deathcore act DESOLATE TOMB will issue an album entitled Scorned By Misery through Rottweiler Records on February 23rd.
EXHORDER will release a full-length album, entitled Defectum Omnium, through Nuclear Blast Records on March 8th. The band, VIO-LENCE, DECEASED and MORTAL WOUND will tour next.
Australia-based ANCIENT REMAINS has a demo called Burn It All. Unfortunately, the word “groove” is associated with this act.
Regina, Canada-based KELEVRA has a video for the song The Distance, which is from the Oneiric demo. The band is considered both metal and mallcore. New in the line-up is bassist Adrienne Mahoney.
The husband and wife duo that is AZELL has a debut album, entitled Death Control, through Rottweiler Records on March 1st. The style is described as sludge. The two also have a comedy act called TIMŌRĀTUS.
The Switzerland-based THE CROTALS has a new album called Conjure through Argonauta Records and Cold Smoke Records. The band is compared to UNSANE and ENTOMBED.
Denmark-based speed metal act CRUCIBLE has its The Savage Weapon demo released on cassette (limited to 100 copies) and digital format through From The Vaults on January 26th. The band is working on a full-length. Formed by guitarists Thomas Carnell and Jon Brogård and joined by singer Phillip Butler, the group features IMPALERS and PECTORA members.
After 25 years, founding guitarist André Müller has returned to EMBEDDED. Now former guitarist Christian Wösten has moved to bass replacing Daniel Meier who left last year.
Chicago, USA-based OPIUM DEATH has a demo called Genocidal Nemesis.
VADER is continuing to commemorate its 40th anniversary with a European tour from June 13 to July 6. The band will play the Black To The Blind album of 1997 in its entirety. Maurycy Mauser Stefanowicz, who left the band in 2008, will join the act on this tour resulting in three guitarists being on stage.
SPECTRAL VOICE has a full-length called Sparagmos through Dark Descent Records.
Portugal-based death metallers CHAPEL OF SAMHAIN will release a debut album, entitled Black Onyx Cave, through Nuclear Winter Records in March. Black Onyx recruited Phoros into the act. They are also in GROG, VELÓRIO and NETHERMANCY.
Avantgarde Music is issuing FUNERAL ORATION’s Antropomorte full-length and SEVEROTH’s By The Way Of Light.
SHORES OF NULL is booked for 70000 Tons Of Metal, Hellfest and Rock Imperium this year. The act will perform its 38-minute long track Beyond The Shores (On Death And Dying) in its entirety on the cruise.
Coinciding with its 35th anniversary, DEAD HEAD will release a full-length, entitled Shadow Soul, which will be released through Hammerheart Records on 29.03.2024. A song entitled The Age Of Hype is available now.
Gothic rock and rollers ROTTING CHRIST are 35 years old and will issue a new album called ΠΡΟ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ (Pro Xristoy), which translated into ‘Before Christ,’ through Season Of Mist in May.
Finland-based mellow doom metallers THE BLEAK PICTURE, featuring current and ex members of AUTUMNFALL and FALL OF THE LEAFE, will release a debut album called Meaningless through Ardua Music in March.
SATYRICON, BRAINSTORM, TIAMAT (performing a Cloud and Wildhoney set), BAEST, THRESHOLD, BERSÆRK, NECROPHOBIC, TYGERS OF PAN TANG, DEMONICAL, SVARTSOT, UNDERGANG, DEFECTO, EVERDAWN, BLAZING ETERNITY, CENTINEX, RED WARSZAWA, NERVOCHAOS, ADVOCACY, AVARICE and VANIR are among bands performing at Næstved Metalfest in Denmark in August.
TYGERS OF PAN TANG and SONS OF THUNDER will conduct a mini-tour of Italy in March.
Moncton, Canada-based OMNIVIDE’s A Tale of Fire demo is out on 22.03.2024. An advance song called Holy Killer is available now. The band is the follow-up to the OPETH cover act SUNBIRD. This group has keyboards.