Calgary, Canada-based CULTIST has an album called Manic Despair through Awakening Records. The record was taped in 2020 and is seeing release now. The band features a female vocalist.
SODOM will issue a 40th-anniversary self-cover version compilation called 40 Years At War – The Greatest Hell Of Sodom through Steamhammer/SPV on 28.10.2022. The band covers less known tracks from each of its previous records. A new track included is called 1982.
Ottawa, Canada-based duo DEFORMATORY has a demo called Harbinger. The band is compared to HATE ETERNAL. The producer is Topon Das of FUCK THE FACTS.
Slovenia-based ENSANGUINATE has a video for the song Vile Grace, from its debut LP Eldritch Anatomy. Emanzipation Productions is issuing the record this month. The band was founded in 2020.
COATHANGER ABORTION has an album called Plan C through Comatose Music on October 21st. The album contains a cover version of BROKEN HOPE’s Cannibal Crave featuring guest vocals from Damian Leski of that band.
Quebec City, Canada-based UPON YOUR GRAVE has a demo called Gold & Decay. The band was founded in 2009. Christian Donaldson from CRYPTOPSY produced.
Everlasting Spew has issued WRITHING’s Of Earth & Flesh on 23.08.2022.
SERMON OF MOCKERY releases an album named Crippler Crossface Murder Suicide through Comatose Music on October 7th. Back in 2014 vocalist Johnny Paoline (MORTAL DECAY) joined forces with a Ukrainian band that in 2017 would adopt the name of a PYREXIA album. The mini-album was recorded during the naming period and had gone unreleased.
Crawling Chaos will release NACHTS’ tape called Kein Morgen on 30.09.2022. NACHTS is the band of German musician Wiedergaenger (TOTAL NEGATION and ABSOLUTUM) who is already working with the label. ‘Nachts’ means ‘nights’ in German while ‘kein morgen’ translates to ‘no morning.’
USA-based techno-metal band INHALE EXISTENCE has a demo called The Spiral. The band members have experience in acts like A WAR WITHIN, FALLUJAH or THE FACELESS.
Guitarist Dino Cazares has recruited ONCE HUMAN singer Lauren Hart for the DIVINE HERESY side-project. Hart had auditioned by uploading video of herself singing to DIVINE HERESY. The band is looking for a drummer and live bassist as Dino will play bass at the studio.
MACHINE HEAD played a surprise set at this year’s Bloodstock Open Air Festival. The band released its Øf KingdØM And CrØwn concept album through Nuclear Blast on August 26th.
Former MACHINE HEAD and again current VIO-LENCE guitarist Phil Demmel was the fill-in for LAMB OF GOD’s Willie Adler on its European shows in August. Adler refuses to become vaccinated. In a game of musical chairs, VIO-LENCE has picked up guitar-for-hire Ira Black (LIZZY BORDEN, HEATHEN, PROPHESY, VICIOUS RUMORS, DOKKEN, DARK SKY CHOIR, OF GODS & MONSTERS, METAL CHURCH, etc.) to tour in Europe. Black joined BULLETBOYS earlier this year.
The Australia-based metalcore act FALL AND RESIST has a demo called Darkness Of Now. The band was founded by Liam “Frosty” Frost-Camilleri following the break-up of techno-death band INTO RUIN.
Groovy band MAKUNAYBAH has a single called Break The Chains through Electric Funeral Records. Makuna was one of the indigenous peoples that reacted against European colonization of Brazil.
Australia-based SLAVES OF DISSONANCE has a demo called Toxoplasmosis. The band is compared to LAMB OF GOD, DEATH and TOOL.
Described as metalcore, Canada-based AQUILA has released The Great Fire demo, which continues the group’s interest in historical stories of the Roman Empire.
ANTHRAX canceled its concert in Dallas, Texas, USA on August 8th and the following show, which was part of the North American tour with BLACK LABEL SOCIETY and HATEBREED, due to a “medical concern.” The bands subsequently cancelled a Rochester, New York, USA concert due to a faulty stage.
Inspired by KEEL? Denmark-based MACERATION is back and has an album called It Never Ends… this autumn, which features Dan Swanö on vocals. The band’s last album from 1992, A Serenade Of Agony, was re-issued recently. The live line-up is comprised of original members, lead guitarist Jakob Schultz (ex-INVOCATOR) and rhythm guitarist Lars Bangsholt. The new members are bass player Robert Tengs, drummer Rasmus Schmidt (ILLDISPOSED and ex-MYRKUR) and singer Jan Bergmann Jepsen (ex-COR VACANTE).
France-based CAÏNAN DAWN has a track called Apneain advance of the Lagu full-length, which will be released through Osmose Productions on September 30th.
A split 7″ by Japan-based ANATOMIA and Finland-based MORBIFIC is out through Lycanthropic Chants.
Signal Rex and Bestial Burst will release Finland-based HAIL CONJURER’s Earth Penetration album this month.
Australia-based ASYLUM has a demo called Tyrannicide. The band was founded in 2012 and played at the True Thrashfest, alongside Darkness (Germany), S.D.I and Defiled, in Japan in 2017.
The vinyl edition of Outer Reaches, the 2021 EP by California, USA-based death metal band RUDE, was released through Dawnbreed Records and Caligari Records in August.
Death metal quartet BLACK LAVA will release its debut full-length, entitled Soul Furnace, through Season Of Mist on 25.11.2022.
Bassist Dani Fernández of Spain-based thrash metal act HOLYCIDE has left the band and been replaced by his predecessor Vicente J. Payá. HOLYCIDE is playing two concerts in Madrid and Valencia this month to support the Fist To Face album.
Norway-based KAMPFAR has a video for the song Flammen Fra Nord. It is taken from the new full-length Til Klovers Takt, which will be released through Indie Recordings in November.
Origin is the title for the fourth album from Italy-based ANTROPOFAGUS, which will be released through Agonia Records on October 28th. It was recorded at MK2 Recording Studio by the band’s drummer, Davide Billia (ex – HOUR OF PENANCE and BEHEADED).
Amor Fati Productions will release the full-length from Germany-based black metal duo HADOPELAGYAL this month.
TOMB OF FINLAND has an album called Across The Barren Fields through Uprising! Records. It was recorded, mixed and produced by main composer and guitarist Jasse Von Hast.
Germany-based black metal group TIMOR ET TREMOR will release an album, called Realm Of Ashes, through Trollzorn in late October.
Italy-based ABHOR has a full-length called Sex Sex Sex (Ceremonia Daemonis Antichristi) through Iron Bonehead Productions this month.
OBITUARY has released two live albums, namely Slowly We Rot – Live And Rotting and Cause Of Death – Live Infection through Relapse Records.
The 2001 Hell Did Freeze Over demo from Netherlands-based doom/death metal band MYSTIC CHARM was re-released through Personal Records on August 26th and feature the 1993 Lost Empire single of 1993 as well.
Norway-based NORDJEVEL has an album called Gnavhòl through Indie Recordings this month. It was produced by Fredrik Nordström.
Seven Words, the new studio album by XENTRIX, will be released through Listenable Records in November. The band will also tour with VIO-LENCE, WHIPLASH and ARTILLERY then.
Chile-based MAYHEMIC has a compilation of all its recorded material called The Darkest Age through Awakening Records.
Slovenia-based thrash metal group ERUPTION has a new album through From The Vaults and it is named Tellurian Rupture. The band was formed in 2004.
OMEGA DIATRIBE has an EP called My Sphere through Metal Scrap Records. There is a self-cover version of the song Molecular Torsion and a couple of tunes remixed by someone called dOTS.
France-based thrash metal group NO RETURN releases a new album, entitled Requiem, through Mighty Music in October. The album’s cover features a Metallian Towers’ serf.
NOCTEM’s next album is called Credo Certe Ne Cras. It is out through MNRK Heavy on 28.10.2022.
Svart Records will re-release DEMIGOD’s Slumber Of Sullen Eyes 1992 album on gatefold vinyl, CD and cassette tape. It features a new vinyl master from the original source and a booklet with material by Hippo Taatila.
Xtreem Music has released a live album by DÉTENTE on CD and vinyl. Official Live ’86 Bootleg was recorded at the Country Club in Reseda, California, USA on August 29th, 1986. It was the band’s last show with Recognize No Authority line-up.
EXHUMED has an album called To The Dead through Relapse Records in October. There is a video for the song Drained Of Color. The band is touring the USA with HULDER and VITRIOL and later with MOLDER and CASTRATOR this autumn.
Denmark-based ORM is issuing a double-album called Intet • Altet through Indisciplinarian and touring Denmark throughout the autumn.
Target Group’s manager Michael Hvolgaard Andersen is repressing his death metal underground metal scene of 1990 to 1994 book Please Return My Stamps with 12 new chapters. It is available through Emanzipation Productions.
Time To Kill Records shall release MARTYRED’s debut album The Relegation on 20.10.2022. The band was founded in 2003, disbanded in 2010 and like all bands eventually returned, in this case in 2017.
Emanzipation Productions has signed PERRACIDE, the musical project of Perra Karlsson the drummer for BENEDICTION, DESTRÖYER 666 and TOXAEMIA among others. The man opted to form his own act since the bands he is in were not active. A record is due in 2023.
AT THE GATES has recruited Daniel Martinez (ATHEIST) for guitar for the band’s current North American tour performing the entire Slaughter Of The Soul album.
SFEERVERZIEKER will issue a demo called Death Is The Desired Ending on October 28th. This solo project of Sven Post (THE FLESH, GRIM VAN DOOM and BLOOD DIAMOND) was created in early 2022.
Canada-based WHISPERS IN THE MAZE has a demo called Stories Untold: Chapter I. There is a video for the song Poisoning Imagination.
Canada-based black and death metal bands BLACK PESTILENCE and BLOATED PIG are teaming up for a tour of Europe this month. The monicker is Pestilence And Pigs European Tour. The former band had toured Europe in 2016 and 2018 previously, which included a performance at the 10-Year Anniversary Of Death Fest in Bucharest, Romania.
Canada-based thrash metal act TRISKELYON shall release its album, which is entitled Downfall, on Moribund Records on 28.10.2022. The band was founded by Geoff Waye, guitarist for ARTACH and CATEGORY VI, in late 2021 as a studio-only project.