Canada-based veterans AGGRESSION will release a full-length called From Hell With Hate through Xtreem Music this month. A song called Return Of The Frozen Aggressor is available first.
Edmonton, Canada-based trio RISING SUN will issue a demo called Quest For Absolution in 2023. A song called Archons Of Death is available now. The act came together in 2018.
Black/death metal trio IMPERIAL EXECRATION releases its debut album, Commanding Satan’s Crusades, through Comatose Music on December 9th.
Colombia-based death metal act CASKET GRINDER issued the Sepulchral Trip album through Awakening Records on 31.10.
Canada-based BORN DIVIDED has a video for Human Masquerade, which is off the Impending Doom demo. BORN DIVIDED comes from the remains of BLINDED BY FAITH when Tommy Demers decided to pick up the bass instead of staying solely on vocal. He brought in guitarist Michael Beaudoin, also from BLINDED BY FAITH; guitarist Fred Bedard; drummer Lucas Biron and Maxim Levesque on vocals.
ABORTED has signed a record deal with Nuclear Blast. Guitarist Dan Konradsson (OPHIDIAN I, UNE MISÈRE) has replaced Harrison Patuto in the band. ABORTED, LORNA SHORE, INGESTED, ANGELMAKER and OV SULFUR are touring North America.
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions is issuing SNIPERS OF BABEL new album Gabriel. Hailing from Maryland, USA SNIPERS OF BABEL was conceived in 2016 and is the brainchild of Mike Bossier (MORBIUS and OBLIVION). It goes without saying that Kevin Talley (DYING FETUS, MISERY INDEX, SUFFOCATION, et cetra) is on drums.
Guitarist Anders Björler is back in AT THE GATES after an absence of five years. The band is playing at UK’s Damnation festival and touring with IN FLAMES. The mallcore band IN FLAMES has an album called Foregone through Nuclear Blast in February.
Emanzipation is issuing NERVOCHAOS’ Chthonic Wrath record in January.
DEFLESHED has a full-length, called Grind Over Matter, through Metal Blade Records and a video for the track Heavy Haul. This is the band’s first record in 17 years and follows the act’s reformation in 2021.
Denmark-based black metal band LOTAN has a self-titled debut record through Uprising Records in March.
France-based black metal group IFFERNET has an album called Silences this month. A summary of the list of ‘labels’ involved goes something like this: Vendetta Records, Rope Or Guillotine, Bad Moon Rising, Breathe Plastic Records and La Harelle. The band was founded in 2018 and appeared at Roadburn Festival’s off-program and Icelandic Nordanpaunk Festival.
VARGSHEIM’s, also known for live work with IMPERIUM DEKADENZ, has a new album called In The Tower Of Ivory through Crawling Chaos this month.
STABBING has a full-length debut album, called Extirpated Mortal Process, through Comatose Music on December 9th. The band was founded in 2021.
Citing logistical difficulties following a series of stand-in members VIO-LENCE has parted ways with guitarist Bobby Gustafson.
Thrash and groovy band ELEMENT has signed with No Reentry Records and issued a single entitled Anepsi, which is taken from the album 2198 Secondi Di Odio. The album is to be released on December 15th.
Louisiana, USA-based GAMERRA has a demo called Couillon Death Squad.
CELESTIAL SCOURGE has signed to Time To Kill Records for the release of its debut EP Dimensions Unfurled. CELESTIAL SCOURGE is a death metal band from Norway founded by Stian Gundersen during the pandemic. The band features members from BLOOD RED THRONE, DECEPTION, RUUN and ARVAS. The line-up is Eirik Waadeland – vocals, Hans Jakob Bjørheim and Sindre Wathne Johnsen – guitars, Stian Gundersen – bass and drummer Kristoffer Lunden. The EP’s recording line-up was Eirik Waadeland, Stian Gundersen, Kristoffer Lunden and Sanjay Kumar on session guitars.
DEICIDE is working on and recording a new album that is due in 2023. It is the follow-up to 2018’s Overtures Of Blasphemy.
PYRE released a vinyl edition of its 2014 debut album Human Hecatomb through Dawnbreed Records and Nuclear Winter Records in October.
Deron Miller of WORLD UNDER BLOOD has joined MALEVOLENT CREATION as its newest singer. The band has gone through half a dozen singers. MALEVOLENT CREATION is working on a new album.
Flowing Downward is issuing TRHÄ’s Endlhëtonëg, NOSTALGHIA’s Au Milieu De L’hiver and MOURNING BY MORNING’s A Step Away From Light; A Step Into Abyss.
THE WOLVES OF AVALON releases Y Gododdin through Godreah Records on November 25th. The band is described as pagan metal and founded by vocalist and lyricist Metatron (THE MEADS OF ASPHODEL) in 2009.
DARKTHRONE released a new album, entitled Astral Fortress, through Peaceville Records. There is a lyric video for the song Caravan Of Broken Ghosts, which was filmed by DARKTHRONE’s Gylve “Fenriz” Nagel.
Bassist David Napier departed from white metal act SYMPHONY OF HEAVEN “after much prayer and consideration” in the summer. The band has been working on material since Napier’s departure. The band announced the introduction of Tyler “Onyx” Brown, formerly of FORTHRIGHT. Brown had previously filled in for the band when Napier was unable to perform due to a medical condition. The group is continuing to work on a next release to be released through the newly acquired Rottweiler Records.
Austria-based crossover formation INSANITY ALERT is re-issuing its second full length Moshburger from 2016 on vinyl and CD through Season Of Mist. There is also a live video for the track Desinfektor, which was shot during the performance at Wacken Open Air in August 2022.
The Netherlands-based duo KNEKELPUT has issued a demo called Teloorgang. The act reports that the members have been playing with one another for two decades and the material stems from 2007.
UK-based HELLFEKTED releases a single called Death Of Iron on November 4th. The band is working on a new full-length.
Spirit Coffin Publishing presents The Waves Have Teeth, the debut demo by Sweden-based death metal act FLOATING, on CD and MC format. The CD version will be released on November 11th, while the tape version will follow on December 16th. FLOATING was founded by Arvid Sjödin and Andreas Hörmark, two Uppsala-based musicians who had met in their formative years as members of death metal band MORBID ILLUSION, in 2021. The two were also in the krautrock project TRÄSKFEBER.
FLESHGORE will release a full-length called Carnival Of Flesh through Xtreem Music on December 20th. A song called Distorted Lights is available now.
Sweden-based grindcore group SICKRECY, featuring members from BIRDFLESH, GENERAL SURGERY and WORLD IN RUINS, issued its debut full-length Salvation Through Tyranny through Selfmadegod Records last month. Eight additional bonus tracks included cover version of INGRON HUTLÖS and D.T.A.L., as well as six tracks from the First World Anxiety EP.
FALL OF SERAPHS has a full-length called From Dust To Creation through Memento Mori.
Spain-based BLEEDING DARKNESS has a demo called Rise Of The Tyrants. After three years of inactivity, the band was resurrected in 2019.
BLACK BEAST has uploaded a song called Night Of The Arctic Darkness. It is from the Arctic Darkness album, which will be released through Primitive Reaction this month.
DEMONICAL has a video for the song Wrathspawn. The song is on the band’s Mass Destroyer album, which is out through Agonia Records
THY CATAFALQUE has a Blu-ray, containing its first live show, which took place at the Fekete Zaj festival in Budapest, Hungary in August 2021. The performance shall be released through Season Of Mist on November 25th.
MYCELIUM has a song called Rosecomb Marauder from its upcoming Mycoticism (Disseminating The Propagules) album, which will be released through Blood Harvest Records this month.
IMMORTAL will release a new album, entitled War Against All, through Nuclear Blast Records in early 2023. The band is promising no surprises.
Norway-based ABYSSIC has a full-length called Brought Forth In Iniquity through Osmose Productions.
Saudi Arabia-based IMMORTAL PAIN played at Comic Con Arabia in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Friday October 21st. Such a performance is considered novel in the country.
Florida, USA-based HIBERNUS MORTIS is back with a song called Enshrined In Spiritual Atrophy. It is taken from The Monoliths Of Cursed Slumber album, which will be released through Blood Harvest Records this month.
Rude Awakening Records is re-releasing Singapore-based EIBON’s 1995 demo, The Garden Of Theophrastus. The band’s 2003 Ineffable Prodigious Odyssey demo is added as a bonus.
Romania-based WARHYMN will release the Cult Of Primordials EP through Loud Rage Music this year. The band was founded as a one-man act by Shavy in 2019, but sports a full line-up now. The EP contains a concept about a civilization.
Ukraine-based REABILITATOR has a lyric video for Holy Lies. The song is on the band’s Mentally Defected album, which will be released through Xtreem Music this month. A song called Deadly Infection was uploaded in advance.
DEIMOS’ DAWN, featuring Marc Grewe (ex – MORGOTH and INSIDIOUS DISEASE) on vocals, has signed a deal with MDD. The band’s debut full-length is due next spring. A lyric video for the track Deathstar Spangled Banner is available now.
Denmark’s Næstved Metalfest will take place in August 2023 and so far GRAVE, ILLDISPOSED and CABAL are among acts appearing.
France-based band EXOCRINE has signed with Season Of Mist. The act was on Unique Leader most recently.
Former CANDLEMASS singer Messiah Marcolin and CANDLEMASS guitarist Mats “Mappe” Björkman joined ANVIL on stage at the Slaktkyrkan venue in Stockholm, Sweden to perform the ANVIL song Metal On Metal last month.
BLOOD OF THE WOLF IV: The Declaration Of War Eternal will be issued through Horror Pain Gore Death this month. The band is compared to BELPHEGOR and VADER.
REBEL SOULS’ Dawn Of Depravity demo is called Blood Fire Death. This death metal band was originally founded in Germany in 2000, but re-formed in Málaga, Spain in 2013.
Japan-based extreme band CHARLOTTE THE HARLOT has an album called Soaks In Curse through Zero Dimensional Records.
Finland-based LOST SOCEITY has an album called If The Sky Came Down through Nuclear Blast.
DISILLUSION has an album called Ayam through Prophecy this month. The act features two new members.
I AM MORBID has parted ways with guitarist Kelly McLauchlin and replaced him with Richie Brown (EXMORTUS and TRIVIUM). The line-up made its debut in Colombia at Grita Fest on 16.102022.
Canada-based NIHILIST DEATH CULT has a demo called Death To All Tyrants in December. Formed by Nick Sagias (TRIBE OF PAZUZU, SOULSTORM, OVERTHROW and ex-PESTILENCE) on bass and vocals and his brother John Sagias on drums (SOULSTORM and ABYSS), the act added guitarist Ethan Bolduc (JAWW and ABYSS). The group has added guitarist Rick Kowalski (SOULSTORM and BOUND BY DEFIANCE) since the recording. The band’s sound is described as “hardcore death punk” and the demo was recorded and mixed by Scott Middleton (ex-CANCER BATS).