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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.


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Vancouver, Canada-based IRON KINGDOM has a new demo in November, which is called The Blood Of Creation. It follows 2019's On The Hunt. The line-up contains a new drummer, Max Friesen (ex-OPHELIA FALLING).

Former DISQUALIA singer IBUKI shall release an album called My Life through Setsuzoku Records in November.

Drummer Jun has left THE SHEGLAPES. Original drummer Hal been playing with the act live recently.

Denmark-based STEEL INFERNO has an album called Evil Reign through From The Vaults. It features new singer Chris Rostoff.

To celebrate the second and third anniversary of its farewell announcement KROKUS will play a concert outside St. Ursus Cathedral in Solothurn, Switzerland on September 10th. The band has also announced more shows for 2023.

MEGADETH is touring the USA as openers for FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH.

Calgary, Canada-based SYRYN has a new demo called Heads Or Tails. The band played a hometown release show alongside THE ASTRAL PROPHET and OWLS & Eagles last month.

ROCK GODDESS has retired from concerts after a member contracted COVID-19 and the act cancelled its Barcelona RockFest show. The band was originally created and managed by the sisters’ father and was founded in 1977.

ALESTORM has an album called Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum through Napalm Records. The title references IRON MAIDEN’s Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son record'.

Osaka-based VALHALLA cancelled a concert recently owing to singer Yuzz contracting COVID-19.

Singer Shal of THE UNCROWNED has died due to cancer. She died on August 5th.

Denmark-based heavy rock group STATEMENT will release a new album, entitled Dreams From The Darkest Side, through Mighty Music in October. The vinyl version is postponed to January.

Spain-based AGRESIVA has issued a vinyl version of its latest record, Pánico Escénico.

BIWO, whose line-up features a singer and guitarist named Sven Biwo, has a demo called Life And Death. The band is devoted to traditional heavy metal since formation in 2020. However, activities quickly ground to a halt due to the pandemic and the recording was completed this summer.

IRON MAIDEN has been booked to headline Wacken festival in Germany in 2023.

THE QUIREBOYS will release a new album, entitled The Band Rolls On..., through Off Yer Rocka in December. Since the firing of singer Spike guitarist Guy Griffin has taken over the microphone as well.

CANDLEMASS will release a new album, entitled Sweet Evil Sun, through Napalm Records in November. There is a video for the song Scandinavian Gods.

IRON ALLIES, another project featuring former ACCEPT members Herman Frank and David Reece, has christened its debut album Blood In Blood Out and will have it released through AFM Records on 21.10.2022. There is a video for the song Full Of Surprises.

ACCEPT and NARCOTIC WASTELAND are touring the USA at the end of September and in October. The latter band has uploaded a song called Morality And The Wasp ahead of an upcoming third album.

White metal band TOURNIQUET’s drummer Ted Kirkpatrick has died due to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis on August 19th at age 62. The traditional GoFundMe is up and running.

Slovenia-based doom metal act MIST commemorates its tenth anniversary with the release of its first music video. It is for the song Altar Of You, which is taken from the 2018 album Free Me Of The Sun. It was issued through Soulseller Records.

WOLFSBANE guitarist Jason "Jase" Edwards has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma. The cancer is not curable, but can be kept in remission. WOLFSBANE has been touring in support of its Genius album of late.

Denmark-based doom/pop/goth band EMPIRE DROWNS is ready with the release of its debut album Nothing through Uprising Records, which follows the 2013 EP Bridges.

Tierra Segrada Rockfest at Tech Port Arena in Texas, USA on September 24th features headliners LEGS DIAMOND, MOXY, LITA FORD, KINGDOM COME, JACK RUSSELL'S GREAT WHITE and JESSIKILL. KINGDOM COME has lost drummer James Kottak likely due to his erratic performance. Sitting on the stool is Blas Elias of SLAUGHTER fame.

The projects keep coming fast: FATES WARNING guitarist Jim Matheos and FM singer Steve Overland have a new project, Kings Of Mercia. Session bassist Joey Vera (FATES WARNING, ARMORED SAINT, etc.) and drummer Simon Philips are in the AOR act too. The band has uploaded a song called Wrecking Ball and a full-length is out this month through Metal Blade.

Mascot will issue JOE LYNN TURNER’s Belly Of The Beast album on October 28th. Peter Tägtgren (HYPOCRISY) produces. The two men met during a private performance at the birthday party of Turner’s brother. Turner dropped his wig for his publicity photographs for the first time. He has suffered from alopecia areata, which is a type of hair loss, since his teenage years. The singer joined the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra at the Vienna State Opera in Vienna, Austria in August for an event called Rock The Opera.

USA-based doom and rock band HARVEST OF ASH has an album called Ache And Impulse through Horror Pain Gore Death.

MASTODON has released The Making Of Hushed And Grim, which is a full-length documentary on the group's referenced album. The record was somewhat influenced by the death of manager Nick John (also GOJIRA) who died in 2018. The album was recorded at West End Sound, which is located at the rehearsal studio Ember City in Atlanta, Georgia, USA that the band manages.

To support its Order Of The Black Flame demo, tattooed trash models NAMELESS KINGS have a video for the song Amalgamated King. The band is based in Vancouver and is true to death metal, heavy metal, thrash metal, melody, brutality, deathcore, hardcore and of course prog.

STRANGLE WIRE releases its full-length debut album Shaped By Human Frailty through Grindscene on Sept 30th.

DESOLATION ANGELS has a new album. Burning Black is released by Skol Records of Poland. Second guitarist Richie Yeates (STEVE GRIMMETT) joined last year.

GRIM REAPER singer Steve Grimmett has died in his sleep unexpectedly. However, he had had his right leg amputated in 2017.

LOUDNESS is releasing a 30th Anniversary edition of its self-titled album from 1992, which featured ex-EZO singer Masaki Yamada and ex-X JAPAN bassist Taiji Sawada. The album is remixed by Jacob Hansen and contains bonus material.

STRYPER, which is issuing it’s the Final Battle album through Frontiers in October, has postponed its September USA concerts due to “economic” and other reasons. The band will regroup to play concerts next spring.

Former CRADLE OF FILTH and BASTARDSUN guitarist Stuart Ansti died age 48 on 21st August. Dani Filth of CRADLE OF FILTH is still in collaboration with pop musician Ed Sheeran to write a song the pair hopes to co-release.

SAMSON/MAMMOTH singer Nicky Moore died due to Parkinson’s disease last month. He was 75.

The MOONSPELL, SWALLOW THE SUN and WITHERFALL North American tour that was to be underway now was cancelled by MOONSPELL due to logistical and transportation problems. MOONSPELL is still booked for the Candelabrum festival in Mexico this month.

IN FLAMES will embark on a European tour with AT THE GATES, IMMINENCE and ORBIT CULTURE this November and December.

MÖTLEY CRÜE/SIXX:A.M bassist Nikki Sixx has co-Written the theme song for The Retaliators movie. James Michael of SIXX:A.M is a co-writer. The horror film is out this month.

Denmark-based METAL CROSS has a video for the song Soul Ripper, which is the title-track for the band’s album through Target Group. The band was founded in 1983, split up in 1989 after playing a show in its hometown on December 16th and returned in 2014.

Occasional CHASTAIN singer and solo artist LEATHER LEONE will release a new album, entitled We Are The Chosen, through Steamhammer/SPV on 25.11.2022.

Another covers’ album. Drummer Tom Hunting (EXODUS) has released a first solo EP, Hunting Party.

KATATONIA will tour Canada and the USA this November and December. The trek will also feature THE OCEAN COLLECTIVE and CELLAR DARLING.

Manny (Manuel) Charlton, former guitarist for NAZARETH, died in July at age 80. He was visiting the USA at the time of his death.

Italy-based EVEN FLOW will release a five-track demo called Mediterraneo on October 3rd. Formed in the late ‘90s by guitarist Pietro Paolo Lunesu and his brother, drummer Giorgio Lunesu, the act progressive music with rock and pop.

Japan-based all-girl hard rockers HAGANE have a full-length demo called Code ; 9021.

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