Brazil-based thrash metal band DISTRAUGHT has released a new music video for Dehumanized featuring HIBRIA drummer Eduardo Bald in support of its latest album Locked Forever.
FORMICARIUS’ debut full length album, Black Mass Ritual, is out through the band’s new label Schwarzdorn Production.
NECROMUTILATOR new mini-album, Ripping Blasphemy, is out April 1st through Terror From Hell Records.
Season Of Mist is releasing MERRIMACK’s fifth full-length, which bears the title Omegaphilia on June 9th and NECROWRETCH’s Satanic Slavery, which has been scheduled for release on April 14th.
SONS OF FAMINE’s Alcohol And Razorblades EP is out now through Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. The band is compared to AMON AMARTH.
CORPUS DIAVOLIS’s Atra Lumen album is out this month through ATMF. The band’s style is described as black metal.
Belgian black death metal band INSANITY REIGNS SUPREME has a live video for the track By The Blood Of The Beast, which is taken from the latest studio album Unorthodox, which is out now on Shiver Records!
SIGIL will issue its debut album Kingdom Of The Grave on Horror Pain Gore Death Productions on April 7th.
Grindscene Records is issuing BASEMENT TORTURE KILLINGS’ There’s Something About Beryl album. The band is compared to CANNIBAL CORPSE and AVULSED.
Evil Spell Records has issued QUINTESSENZ’s To the Gallows. The Germany-based band is described as black metal.
Martin Burger King is the new BUFFALO GRILLZ album. It was recorded, mixed and mastered at Kick Recording Studio. The band is compared to NASUM and ROTTEN SOUND. The new album was out on March 3rd through Subsound Records.
Poland-based black metal band MORTE has issued a demo called Death Surrounds Us.
The Spanish band NOCTEM has its first headlining tour in Russia presenting the band’s album Haeresis, which was issued through Art Gates Records, this August. The supporting act will be FROM HELL.
ARCH ENEMY will release a new live DVD, called As The Stages Burn!, on March 31st through Century Media. It was recorded at Wacken last year.
HAVOK has a new album called Conformicide. It was released on March 10 through Century Media Records.
As reported here last month a new death metal project was formed by former members of MALEVOLENT CREATION, SUFFOCATION and more. The project has been named FIRE FOR EFFECT. It involves singer Bret Hoffman (MALEVOLENT CREATION), guitarist and songwriter Gio Geraca (MALEVOLENT CREATION), bassist Tony Choy (PESTILENCE) and drummer Mike Smith (SUFFOCATION).
INVERTED MATTER has announced a demo entitled Detach for April. It features Mike Smith from SUFFOCATION on drums.
Poland-based KILLSORROW has an album called Little Something For You To Choke through Art Of The Nights Productions. The band plays thrash metal.
Founding guitarist Anders Björler has quit AT THE GATES citing a lack of interest in the band’s musical style. The band will carry on and is working on a new record.
LUNATIC HOOKER’s debut album Embracing The Filth will be released on April 17th through Black Bow Records.
CULT OF ERINYES’ new album Tiberivs is out this month through Code666.
DEICIDE is touring the USA in May.
Denmark-based “atmospheric black metallers” SUNKEN shall release an album called Departure through Triton’s Orbit on May 26th.
DESTRUCTION, WARBRINGER and JUNGLE ROT are touring Canada and the USA in May and June.
DEMOLITION HAMMER will commomorate the 25th anniversary of its Epidemic Of Violence album by performing it in its entirety June 24 at the Gramercy Theater in New York City, USA.
France-based death metal band ALTERED SHADE has a video for the song The Dark Gift of Life off The Path Of Souls album, which was out on March the 17th through Wormholedeath/Aural Music.
Ukrainine-based band BALFOR will tour across Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia together with DEGORYEN, RAVENTALE and VRANI VOLOSA in May.
HAIL OF BULLETS has thrown in the towel. Singer Martin Van Drunen threw in his own towel in 2015.
No Colours Records, which is known for releasing racist albums, has issued KLADOVEST’s Ignitiate and THEOSOPHY’s Eastland Tales- Part II. The bands hail from Ukraine and Russia respectively.
EPI-DEMIC is back with a new album called Malformed Conscience. Following up on the 2015 split Passages To Lunacy with fellow Canadians SOLANUM, is out through Horror Pain Gore Death Productions.
Chile-based ANIMUS MORTIS’ album The Pilgrimage is out through Behold Barbarity. The band’s style is described as black metal.
TANKARD will release a new album, called One Foot In The Grave, on June 2nd through Nuclear Blast. It is the follow-up to 2014’s R.I.B. (Rest In Beer).
Black/doom metal band THE LOOM OF TIME released an album called NihilReich through ATMF in late 2016.
ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante sat on the drum stool on USA late night program Late Night With Seth Meyers from Monday, March 20th to Thursday, March 23rd.
BELPHEGOR has completed work on a new album called Totenritual. It is due on September 15th through Nuclear Blast.
EYEHATEGOD is back playing shows with singer Mike IX Williams who was sidelined due to illness.
Germany-based SARKRISTA’s album Summoners Of The Serpents Wrath is out now through Purity Through Fire.
Sri Lanka-based PLECTO ALIQUEM CAPITE will release its first DVD. Entitled Third World Psychosis, it is set to be released on June 2017 and will include a CD with older material and cover versions.
CAVERNA ABISMAL RECORDS is issuing the next TOD HUETET UEBEL’s EP, N.A.D.A. It is out in May and comprised of two tracks of twenty minutes’ length.
Sweden-based OF FIRE’s Death Do Us All is out April 14th. The band is comprised of five childhood friends, including the Thunell brothers, who were taken under the wings of producer who recorded their debut demo Carnage Fever at Sunlight Studio.
Greece-based SIMPLEFAST has a new demo called Apocalypse. The band plays “modern” and “thrash” metal.
DIGIR GIDIM’s I Thought There Was the Sun Awaiting My Awakening is out now through ATMF. The band is described as occult avantgarde black metal.
RAVEN, KILL RITUAL and HIRAX are touring Europe together in June.
Sweden-based SINIESTRO’s Revelations In Mayhem is out through Bleeding Heart Nihilist Productions. The band is described as a mix of black, thrash and punk.
FORGOTTEN WOODS’ As The Wolves Gather and Sjel Av Natten releases are now out through ATMF. Both were recorded in 1994.
Final Sacrifice Records has issued COLDBORN’s Lingering Voidwards in December. The black metal act is based in Belgium.
FUNERAL BAPTISM, from Bucharest, Romania has reached an agreement with Loud Rage Music regarding the upcoming release of the band’s debut album, which is scheduled for the second part of this year. It follows the release of the Gate demo.