Canada-based PROTOSEQUENCE has an album called Bestiary through Lacerated Enemy Records in April.

THY ART IS MURDER, ANGELMAKER, SIGNS OF THE SWARM and SNUFFED ON SIGHT are touring Canada and the USA in April and May.

Spain-based TOTENGOTT has signed with Hammerheart Records and will release an album called Beyond The Veil in July.

DISMEMBER will play at this year’s Maryland Deathfest in May. The group will also play in NYC on August 17th. The band will be performing its debut record Like An Ever Flowing Stream in its entirety, and will be supported by VOMITORY, UNDERGANG, MORPHEUS DESCENDS and MALIGNANCY.

Chile-based INACTION has a video for the song La Experiencia, which is taken from the band’s 2023 demo of the same name.

Memento Mori will release The Continuous Nothing by Chile-based COFFIN CURSE in late April.

Japan-based COFFINS has an album, entitled Sinister Oath, through Relapse Records on 29.03.2024. The band has uploaded a song called Spontaneous Rot.

COFFIN STORM is a new project comprised of DARKTHRONE‘s Fenriz on vocal, Bestial Tormentor (INFERNÖ and LAMENTED SOULS) on guitar and Apollyon (AURA NOIR and LAMENTED SOULS) on drums. The members explain that they all hail from Kolbotn, which is a suburb of Oslo, Norway. Fenriz was the last of the three to join. Apollyon produced the group’s debut recording, Arcana Rising.

KHOLD has a full-length album called Du Dømmes Til Død, which will be released through Soulseller Records in March.

NECROT will release a full-length, called Lifeless Birth, through Tankcrimes on April 12th. The band claims the album is its “most aggressive” and has uploaded an advance song called Cut The Cord.

Australia-based LOST IN DESOLATION has a music video for the 13-minute song Unspoken. It is taken from the Sere album of 2023.

Named after the 1981 film My Bloody Valentine, NECRONOMICON EX MORTIS has a song by that title. It was released for Valentine’s Day.

BENIGHTED will issue a record called Ekbom through Season Of Mist on April 12th. It was recorded at Kohlekeller Studio in Germany.

France-based ALKHEMIA has an album called Abraxas through Malpermesita Records. The band was founded in Lille by singer James Spar and features guitarist Le Prince (EN FINIR), bassist A.S.A (AZZIARD, REDSPHERE and ex-THE NEGATION), guitarist Marbas (MALCUIDANT, (NIRNAETH and LORD KETIL) and drummer Alex Josien. The album “intertwines the theory of the two wolves and George Orwell’s 1984.” It also “addresses the contemporary vision of man and the most sinister industrialization.”

USA-based BRUTALISM will issue its debut album, Solace In Absurdity, through Comatose Music on April 5th.

LILLA VENEDA has issued its Primordial Movements album through Szataniec. It was recorded with Przemysław Nowak at Impressive-Art Studio (ASGAARD, ODRAZA, OUTRE, etc.).

PIG DESTROYER, JARHEAD FERTILIZER, NO/MAS and BANDIT have lined up a mini-tour of the US East Coast for April.

NUCLEAR TOMB’s Labyrinthian Terror album is out through Everlasting Spew Records on the 19th of April. The deathrash band was founded in 2011. The band is compared to VOIVOD.

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions is releasing Destiny, the debut album from Memphis, Tennessee, USA-based sludge metal band MUDSHOW. Destiny is a concept record telling the story of Matt Tremont’s feuds with Atsushi Onita and Rickey Shane Page. It is heavily inspired by A Season In Hell by 19th-Century French poet Arthur Rimbaud.

France-based ONCE UPON THE END will release a new demo “from a post apocalyptic future” called Archive 200 on April 5th. It is the first recording with new vocalist, Ezalyr.

Spain-based death-doom band ORNAMENTOS DEL MIEDO has an album called Escapando A Través De La Tierra through Meuse Music Records and Tragedy Productions in March.

Among The Graves Of The Archetypes is the name for the new album by Poland-based black metal band DEATHLIKE DAWN. It is released by Putrid Cult. The album was recorded at the act’s rehearsal room. The act was founded as a side-project to CHTHONIC CULT.

Svart Records will release a live album by WINTER in April. It will be entitled Live In Brooklyn NY and was recorded on September 2nd, 2012. The band had returned from a mini-tour of California and New York with PELICAN and NOOTHGRUSH. WINTER’s follow-up act GÖDEN will also release an album on Svart Records soon.

Iron Bonehead Productions will release an album by CRUCIFIER in April. It is called Led Astray.

Avantgarde Music has signed Canada-based black metal band BEHOLDER and Portugal-based quintet VØIDWOMB. The bands will release the Dualisme and Spiritual Apotheosis album respectively in April.

INSOMNIUM has lost the services of singer and guitarist Jani Liimatainen. The band reports that he was not communicating for some time and unavailable. The parties have officially gone separate ways now. The band’s North American tour with OMNIUM GATHERUM (which also featured Jani previously) will feature Brandon Ellis (THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER) and Nick Cordle (OMNIUM GATHERUM).

WITHERING SURFACE has uploaded a song called Where Dreamers Die in advance of its upcoming album, entitled Exit Plan, which is out through Mighty Music in June.

Germany-based DEATH IN FICTION has uploaded a song called Centurio’s Whore. The song “reflects the ambivalence that women often face: on the one hand, they sell their bodies for money or fame, while on the other hand they fight against sexualization.”

The band ADON describes itself as a “black/death/thrash project band,” but has a guest playing the flute. The act’s self-titled demo is due in April. It features multiple guests.

LA MENÄCE, the hardcore/metal/crust band created in 2022 by four musicians with experience in KHMER, EL EGO, LEE CANTINAS, DIXPERSIÓN, CANTONA, THE GREAT DESTROYER X, DEYMOS or SUNFAIA, will release the Erebus EP on 4th of March. It is co-released by the band’s own label, 7 Lamentos Records, together with Hombre Montaña and Violence In The Veins. The songs are inspired by Franklin’s lost expedition.

The USA version of MALPHAS has signed to M-Theory Audio for the release of a sophomore album called Portal. The record is the follow-up to the debut, which was called The 39th Spirit, of 2018 and takes place two hundred years prior to the events of its predecessor.

Kydoimos (or ΚΥΔΟΙΜΟΣ) is the newest full-length by veteran Greece-based band KAWIR. It will be released through Soulseller Records in April. There is a video for the song Echetlaeus.

The Indonesian version of EXHUMATION will release a full-length called Master’s Personae through Pulverised Records in April.

MASTER replaced BIERMÄCHT on the Campaign For Musical Destruction tour with NAPALM DEATH and PRIMITIVE MAN in February and March. PRIMITIVE MAN is next touring with AMENRA and SLOW CRUSH.

MEISTER LEONHARDT has an album called Thanatopoeia through Purity Through Fire on March 21st.

Germany-based ARTHOUSE FATSO has issued an album called Sycophantic Seizures: A Double Feature through Horror Pain Gore Death. The act is described as “Deathgrind With Industrial Influences, Neoclassical Soloing And An (sic) At Times Funky Attitude” and “Fueled By Anxiety And A Dissatisfaction With Capitalism And The Current State Of Cinema.”

Rerelease # 85: Dawnbreed Records is rereleasing Lobotomise, the 2017 album of Australia-based death-grind act INCINERATED, on CD. It was available on March 1st.

DEATH cover band DEATH TO ALL and opener CRYPTOPSY are touring Canada and the USA this spring. On multiple occasions DEATH TO ALL will perform two shows in the same city with the first one focusing on the earlier albums and the second on The Sound Of Perseverance album and later material.

DETHKLOK, DRAGONFORCE and NEKROGOBLIKON will conduct the Mutilation On A Spring Night tour of the USA in the spring.

Metalcore band SAILOR HUNTER has an EP, entitled Evolution, through Inverse Records in May. There is a video for the song Ashes.

Sludge act BLACK TUSK has an album called The Way Forward through Season Of Mist on April 26th. Long-time collaborator Chris “Scary” Adams has now joined as an official guitarist alongside new bassist Derek Lynch.

Italy-based death-grinders UNDERTAKERS has uploaded a song called Pet Sematary, which is a RAMONES cover. It features Karim Qqru who is the drummer of THE ZEN CIRCUS.

Personal Records will release The Gods Below, the debut full length from Chicago, USA-based black metal duo OSSILEGIUM in May.

Italy-based death-black metal band HIEROPHANT has a live album called Gateway To The Abyss through Dusktone Records in March. It was recorded at France’s Hellfest in 2023. The band has a string of European concerts this year beginning in April.

It is MAYHEM without Euronymous again: NECROPHAGIA, whose main man and founder Killjoy died in 2018, has signed to Time To Kill Records for the release of a final album called Moribundis Grim. Work on the material left by the band’s last line-up of Killjoy, guitarist and bassist Serge Streltsov, bassist Jake Arnette and drummer Shawn Slusarek was completed with the help of special guests and former band members, John McEntee (INCANTATION), Titta Tani (ex-NECROPHAGIA) and Kawashima Mirai (SIGH).

One year after the release of The Showdown, Italy-based crossover band BROWBEAT is back with a new album called Unbreakable, which will be released through Time To Kill Records on 22.03.2024.

Italy-based OLAMOT will release a full-length album, entitled Path Of Divinity, through Lethal Scissor Records in April. The concept will also be developed through a series of books that are being written by Edoardo Casini. The same narrative will be covered by FICTIO SOLEMNIS’ next albums, which feature the band’s guitarist Daniele Boccali, where the story will be seen from the perspective of the Angel Metatron.

India-based thrash metal group SABOTAGE has a demo called Pishach. Pishach derives its name from the Sanskrit word for ‘evil.’ The release yields to weakness and ethnicity and contains a track with a native Indian instrument called chenda.

UK-based thrash metal band SHRAPNEL has an album called In Gravity through Candlelight Records on May 31st. A video for the song Amber Screams is available now.

SEPULTURA has announced the sudden departure of drummer Eloy Casagrande. The surprise departure came days before the start of the band’s farewell tour. He has been replaced by Greyson Nekrutman (SUICIDAL TENDENCIES).

AS I LAY DYING, CHELSEA GRIN and ENTHEOS have a US summer tour beginning July 9. They will give, “major market performances.”

Former SLAYER guitarist has announced his band and album’s name. KERRY KING will release a debut album called From Hell I Rise through Reigning Phoenix Music in May. The band includes singer Mark Osegueda (DEATH ANGEL), guitarist Phil Demmel (VIO-LENCE and ex-MACHINE HEAD) on lead guitar, bassist Kyle Sanders (HELLYEAH) and drummer Paul Bostaph (SLAYER). KERRY KING is booked for Poland’s Mystic Festival.

LAMB OF GOD, MASTODON are co-headlining the Ashes Of Leviathan tour of North America this summer. KERRY KING and MALEVOLENCE are opening.

As predicted here and elsewhere, SLAYER has reformed and will begin with concerts at Riot Fest and Louder Than Life this September. The line-up is Tom Araya (vocals and bass), Kerry King (guitar), Gary Holt (guitar) and drummer Paul Bostaph. The band’s farewell tour was in 2019.

Self-cover version: Norway-based act TONIC BREED commemorates the tenth anniversary of its Outsold release with a new version of the song Strife. Outsold boasted a full line-up, but the act is now a solo one.

Montréal, Canada-based act KROKMITËN has recruited ORIGIN drummer John Longstreth for its upcoming Theta demo. The drummer replaces Guyot who is busy with his other acts. The recording is due out this summer.

Slovenia-based ENSANGUINATE is touring Europe together with Italy-based BURIAL.

UK-based IRON MONKEY has a new album, entitled Spleen & Goad, through Relapse Records on April 5th.

Guitarist Vogg has officially left MACHINE HEAD in order to focus on his main band DECAPITATED.

1349 is touring Eastern Canada and the U.S. this May. The band is performing at Maryland Deathfest. Joining 1349 on tour are SPECTRAL WOUND, SIEGE MACHINE and SPIRIT POSSESSION.

VORAATH’s debut album Vol 1: The Hymn Of The Hunters is being released through Exitus Stratagem Records on 17.06.2024. “They have created a metal multiverse where they are the characters in this lore of their own making, god-hunters on a dystopian planet… Clad in tactical dystopian armor and alien insect helmets with red glowing eyes, Voraath lives and plays in this nether world. Sci-fi, horror.”

THE ABSENCE has uploaded a song called Communion Carbonized, which is taken from the act’s self-titled album. The release is available through the band’s own Listenable Insanity Records.

SAVAGE LANDS is a band and non-profit entity. Using royalties from their first single, The Last Howl, Dirk Verbeuren (MEGADETH) and musician-turned-activist Sylvain Demercastel purchased an ecological easement of 60,000 square feet of rainforest along the Costa Rican coastline that was going to get chopped down. It covers more than 90% of that endangered area and not a single tree can be cut down thanks to their purchase. A new single is coming soon.

New Heaven, INTER ARMA’s new album is out through Relapse Records on April 26th.

ATROPHY has a new album. entitled Asylum, through Massacre Records on 15.03.2024. A lyric video for the song Punishment For All is available now. ATROPHY’s last album was called Violent By Nature and issued in 1990.

Thrash metal-gone-rock/metal band DUST BOLT has an album called Sound & Fury through AFM Records. The band is in the midst of dates in Germany and will support SUICIDAL ANGELS in the UK in April.

DISILLUSION will re-release the Back To Times Of Splendor album in a 20th Anniversary edition through Metal Blade Records on April 26th. Remastered by Tony Lindgren at Fascination Street Studio, the album includes two bonus live tracks plus the 2002 EP, The Porter, which has never been released on vinyl before.

Japan-based SNAGGLETOOTH has a demo called The Reaper. The band’s last release appeared in 2007.

Poland-based death metal duo DORMANT ORDEAL has signed with Willowtip Records. The band will enter the studio soon to record a full-length, which is the follow-up to 2021’s The Grand Scheme Of Things. That album was released through Selfmadegod Records.

HOUR OF PENANCE will release a full length called Devotion through Agonia Records in April. The album features new drummer, Giacomo Torti.

Memento Mori will release the new album of the Spain-based death metal band DEVOTION, entitled Astral Catacombs, in late April.

ARCHSPIRE Everything’s F#*!@D Tour of North America this spring features ABORTED, Canada-based deathcore act CARCOSA and ALLUVIAL.

UK death metallers INGESTED have a video for the song Pantheon, which is taken from the band’s 2024 full-length, The Tide Of Death And Fractured Dreams. INGESTED will embark on a European headlining tour with FALLUJAH, VULVODYNIA and MÉLANCOLIA.

Italy-based DAEMONIAC will release a full-length called Visions Of The Nightside through Xtreem Music in March. There is a lyric video for False Prophecies.

Poland-based HORNS has released its Oswiecenie album through Putrid Cult.

ABBATH has announced the Dread Reaver North America 2024 tour with openers IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT, BLACK ANVIL and FINAL GASP for May.

TESTAMENT will conduct a European summer tour called The Legacy & The New World Order. Along with concerts with BEHEMOTH and PESTILENCE the band will stop at festivals like Rockstadt Extreme Fest, Wacken Open Air and Brutal Assault Festival.

PESTILENCE has a self-cover version album as well. A release called Levels Of Perception is out through Agonia Records in April. The band is touring Europe as headliners in April.

The Netherlands-based funeral doom metal act ANGMODNES has an album called Rot Of The Soul through Meuse Music Records and Tragedy Productions in March.

Italy-based CANCERVO releases a third LP, simply called III, through Electric Valley Records in March. The trio continues the tradition of chronicling the lore surrounding Monte Cancervo, which is the Bergamo mountain that is the inspiration behind the band’s monicker, as well as the thematic backdrop for its music.

Me Saco Un Ojo Records and Dark Descent Records will release the new full-length of Turkey-based death metallers ENGULFED in April. It is called Unearthly Litanies Of Despair.

NECROPHOBIC guitarists Sebastian Ramstedt and Johan Bergebäck teamed up with Dutch drummer Marco Prij of CRYPTOSIS to form IN APHELION in 2020. The band signed with Century Media Records, which is home to both bands. An album called Reaperdawn is scheduled for this summer.

Canada-based death metallers of BACKSTABBER have a demo called Patterns Of Domination. It follows 2019’s Conspiracy Theorist. The demo is loosely based on James Redfield’s The Celestine Prophecy. Founded as a solo project by Christian Thériault in 2012, the act evolved into a full-fledged band in 2015. Patterns Of Domination was produced by BACKSTABBER vocalist/guitarist Christian M. Thériault and mixed and mastered by Christian Donaldson (CRYPTOPSY).

Belgium-based STORM UPON THE MASSES is back and has a demo called Crusher Of Souls on April 27th. There is a video for the title track and a lyric video for Murderous Exhibition with guest vocals by Julien Truchan of BENIGHTED.

Vancouver, Canada-based techno-death band ATRÆ BILIS will release a sophomore full-length, entitled Aumicide, through 20 Buck Spin. It was engineered, mixed and mastered by Christian Donaldson of CRYPTOPSY.