Canada-based thrash metal band SACRIFICE will release a new album, called Volume Six, through Cursed Blessings/High Roller Records in January, 2025.
SARKASM will release a full-length called Carnival Of Atrocities through Xtreem Music in January. The album was recorded at House Of Gain Studio with producer Maxime Lacroix.
Italy-based FERAL FORMS has an album called Through Demonic Spell through Everlasting Spew Records on 29.11.2024.
Avantgarde Records has three new releases. They are Italy-based black metal duo EARD’s album, Melancholia, followed by VRAZORTH debut studio record, Emergence, which is compared to MYSTICUM and DARKSPACE, and the sophomore effort by England-based WOLVENCROWN, namely Celestial Lands.
Metal Blade Records has signed UK-based death metal band CELESTIAL SANCTUARY. The band is touring Europe with KRUELTY and SLIMELORD.
Solo act PARUSIGHT’s debut album Deathly Pale is available through Wulfhere Productions now. The act by Oliver Groves (BLASFEME) is influenced by BURZUM.
UK-based death/grind band SHRYKULL has an album called Beyond Subconscious Realms through Road To Masochist Records/Eggy Tapes on November 8th.
Avantgarde is issuing MESARTHIM’s Anthropic Bias/Departure, which is a combination of the act’s two singles, and TODESTRIEB’s Corona Tenebra. Both bands profess to black metal.
GHOULHOUSE’s Fresh Out Of Flesh is available through Horror Pain Gore Death on December 6th. The band’s sound is compared to REPULSION and COFFINS.
DETEST’s A World Drowning In Detest album is out through Emanzipation in December.
Featuring singer and guitarist Michael Poulsen of VOLBEAT, ASINHELL, the death metal side-project of the man, has a video for the song Impii Hora, which is the title track for the album of the same name. The album was issued by Metal Blade in 2023.
After the experimental Shadows Without Light trilogy and the aggressive Crucifix Dreams, Tom Reynolds’ FOUL BODY AUTOPSY has a single called The Discovery Of Witches. It is inspired by the witch trials of the main man’s hometown of Leicester. Dirk Verbeuren (MEGADETH) is on drums and Linus Klausenitzer (ALKALOID and ex-OBSCURA, etc) is on guitar and bass.
Costa Rica-based death metal act NECROFERUM has a debut EP, entitled Visions From The Necrorealm, through Nuclear Winter Records on November 4th 2024. NECROFERUM was established by Juan Salas and Justin Sanchez, both of MORTUAL, in 2023 and the line-up was completed with the addition of drummer Juan José Fernandez, who introduced bassist Kevin Venegas to the group.
Mexico-based STENCHED has a debut full-length, Purulence Gushing From The Coffin, which will be released through Me Saco Un Ojo Records on 26.11.2024.
Brucia Records presents Res Ipsa Loquitur, the second full-length release from US-based death/doom metal act POSSESSIVE on November 7th 2024.
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions shall release CHAINED TO THE DEAD’s Only Hunger Remains mini-album on October 25th. The band is compared to PUNGENT STENCH or CARCASS and features cover versions of PUNGENT STENCH and BLOOD DUSTER as well as originals.
Death Metal band INFESTED ANGEL has released a single, entitled Euphony Of Dismay, from its forthcoming album Threnodies To Eternal Despair which will be released through Art Gates Records on 17.01.2025.
Lethal Scissor Records has signed death metal band INFERNAL HOSTILITY. A 4-track Promosick EP is first (the band’s demo basically) and a full-length album, to be called The Eternal Punishment, is to follow sometime in 2025.
Greece-based CAELESTIA has signed with Wormholedeath for the CD release of its Infernalia EP. The line-up features former DESTRUCTION man Marc Reign. The word ‘Infernalia’ is an antonym of Caelestia.
Hungary-based MONASTERY has a video for its song Strangled In Torture. The band has an upcoming album on Art Gates Records.
RETROMORPHOSIS has signed with Season Of Mist. The line-up features two founding members of SPAWN OF POSSESSION. Jonas Bryssling (guitar) and Dennis Röndum (vocals) are joined by their old band-mates Erlend Caperson (bass) and Christian Muenzner (guitar), who’s also a former member of OBSCURA and NECROPHAGIST. All four members played together on SPAWN OF POSSESSION’S Incurso album.
BECERUS has an album called Troglodyte through Everlasting Spew Records on 20 December 2024. The trio’s line-up has remained the same.
Inspired by revelations about aliens, UFOs and other astronomical phenomena, the Mexico-based death metal band MYSTIFICATION has a single entitled Declassified Truth. The band is working on a full-length for 2025.
Techno-death metal band with science fiction influences EXUVIAL has a debut concept album The Hive Mind Chronicles Part I: Parasitica on November 22, 2024. There is a video for the song Autonomic Awakening.
Canada-based IMMORTAL FORCE has an album called Mystic Seance Unrealities through Horror Pain Gore Death on November 22nd. The band is compared to PESTILENCE and DEMILICH.
USA-based death metal trio, PRIMAL CODE, which was founded in 2021, has signed to Relapse Records and will issue its debut full-length Opaque Fixation this month. Featuring former members of ABIGAIL WILLIAMS and INDIAN, the band has a music video for the song Anapsid.
Finland-based DIMMAN will release a full-length, entitled Consciousness through Inverse Records on February 28, 2025. There is a video for the song The First Daylight.
Phil Veluz the singer for DARK COLONY and DAMNATION CALL died in September.
Germany-based MINDREAPER has a video for the song The God I Am. It is in advance of the Withering Shine (…Into Oblivion) album that will be issued through Death Age Records in December.
Listenable Records has signed a multi-album deal with Costa Rica-based CHEMICIDE for the band’s next recordings and is also reissuing the band’s previous albums. An album called Violence Prevails will be released in early 2025.
RIVERS OF NIHIL will reissue its Hierarchy demo from 2010 through Metal Blade Records on November 8th. The band has completed a 2025 album featuring two self-cover versions, The Sub-Orbital Blues and Criminals. RIVERS OF NIHIL, CYNIC, DAATH and BEYOND CREATION are part of The Aggressive Progressive Tour in Europe in the new year.
ARCH ENEMY will release an album, called Blood Dynasty, through Century Media Records on 28.03.2025.
Hardcore/metalcore band FREYA’s drummer Ethan Henry has an independent movie called Severance Mountain streaming on several mainstream outlets. Henry wrote, produced, scored and directed the film.
France-based H.P. Lovecraft devotees THE GREAT OLD ONES have a new album called Kadath through Season Of Mist in January.
Barcelona, Spain-based thrash metal band EMISSARY has a video for the song At The Throne Of Chaos, which is taken from the debut album Eldritch, which is out through Fetzner Death Records in 2025. It is inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dreams In The Witch House. Phillip Graves (REDSHARK and INVERTED CROSS) joined EMISSARY as a guitarist in April.
Metalcore act UNDER EXILE has a video for the song Meira. “We (sic) proud to be part of the growing community of Native American heavy music and musicians, and are also proud to be a representation of the Dinè/Navajo Nation along with other bands like HEART MUSEUM, TRIBUS, HELLTHRONE, GRAVES OF THE MONUMENTS and BORN OF WINTER to name a few,” states the band.
Folk/extreme band PATRIARKH (formerly BATUSHKA) has a concept album, called ПРОРОК ИЛИЯ, through Napalm Records on January 3rd. The concept narrates the story of Eliasz Klimowicz, the Prophet Ilja.
Belgium-based funeral doom group UNTIL DEATH OVERTAKES ME will release a new album, called Diagenesis, through Aesthetic Death on 06.12.2024. Most of the band’s music since 1999 has been issued independently including through the act’s Null imprint.
Sweden-based death metal group DISRUPTED will release an album, entitled Striking Death, through Trust No One Recordings on January 24, 2025.
Chile-based groove metal band DIAMETRAL has a single called I Am The Truth from its The Roots Of Modern Sins release. As a first chapter, I Am The Truth addresses the sin of pride. Its lyrics and graphic novel were inspired by various stories of messianic leaders and their followers such as Charles Manson.
AGALLOCH (and the act’s JOHN HAUGHM as a solo artist), BRAINOIL, COKE BUST, CROSSSPITTER, DARK MEDITATION, DECEASED, DREADNOUGHT, GLACIAL TOMB, GORGUTS, DEMOLITION HAMMER, HIRAX, THE KEENING, MANY BLESSINGS, PERSEKUTOR, SONJA, TERRORIZER L.A. (performing the World Downfall album), VERMIN WOMB, VICIOUS BLADE, WEALD & WOE, WITCHING, XOTH and more are booked for Northwest Terror Fest 2025 in May.
Finland-based death metal act SERPENT FIRE has a debut EP called Pathways through Inverse Records.
Indonesia-based death metal act VULTURES has a debut EP called Divine Retribution Unleashed through Death In Pieces Records.
Black/death metal band, THY LEGION, has a video for the song Dark Mother from the upcoming album Grand Cosmic Funeral, which will be released through Art Gates Records on November 29th, 2024.
GHOST BATH has re-signed with Nuclear Blast for a deal that for the first time encompasses worldwide rights. The band finished a 10-day US tour with DARK FUNERAL and will embark on a 23-date European Tour with UADA. A full North American tour and a new album are due in 2025.
MORBID ANGEL has dropped off the headlining position of the Devastation On The Nation tour suddenly and been replaced by I AM MORBID featuring two of its former members. Also on the bill are SUFFOCATION, UADA, MORTIFERUM, FULCI and KNOLL.
Finland-based GRAVE WITH A VIEW will release a new album, Raw Illumination, through Dusktone on November 29th.
Desecration Of The Archangels is an EP by CRUCIFIXION RITUAL, which is available through Invictus Productions now.
Sweden-based death metal group REVOLTING will release a new full-length, entitled Night Of The Horrid, through Xtreem Music in December.
DEFILED SERENITY, formed by BEFORE THE DAWN singer Paavo Laapotti in 2021, has a music video for the song Your Worst Enemy from the debut album, Within The Slumber Of The Mind, which will be issued by Inverse Records on February 21st, 2025.
Germany-based death metal duo RATS OF GOMORRAH will release a full-length called Infectious Vermin through Testimony Records on January 17, 2025. There is a video for the song Swarming Death available now.
Germany-based trio CRYPTIC BROOD will release a full-length, entitled Necrotic Flesh Bacteria, through War Anthem Records this month.
Sweden-based thrash metal band SARCATOR has a full-length, called Swarming Angels & Flies, through Century Media Records in January 2025.
Germany-based thrash metal trio WARFIELD has signed to Napalm Records. The band is booked for Ohmkrach Festival in January and 30 Jahre Café Central Festival in June.
Rottweiler Records is re-issuing CRIMSON THORN’s 1990s’ album Unearthed once more, remixed and remastered by Charles Powell of Battlefrost Productions with new artwork and band logo. The label is also digitally re-issuing other works by the band. The members’ other act THE HEAD OF GOLIATH has ceased activity and this band is taking the lead.
Germany-based black metal band APOSTASIE has a debut full-length called Non Est Deus through Trollzorn Records. There is a lyric video for the song Pein, Pest.
Finland-based ADMIRE THE GRIM will release its debut full-length album, entitled Resist, through Inverse Records on January 31st, 2025. The group was founded in 2021.
France-based NOIRSUAIRE has an EP called Black Flame Of Unholy Tradition through Khaoszophy Productions. The act reports that the drums were recorded at the rehearsal room, the other instruments in the musician’s attic and that the release is a precursor to a full-length.
Italy-based crossover band URAL has a visualizer video for the MUNICIPAL WASTE cover version Unleash The Bastards. The song features a guest appearance by BULLDOZER guitarist Andy Bull Panigada. It is taken from the band’s Psychoverse album, which was released through Xtreem Music.
SYLOSIS has a new EP, entitled The Path, in advance of its co-headlining tour with FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY. The video for its title track features Debbie Gough of HERIOT who will be joining the band as support in Europe.
Must be from an area with McDonalds locations. USA-based “brutal gruesome food porn” band A LA CARTE will release a new demo called Born To Entertain on November 12, 2024.
Sweden-based thrash metal act NIGHTBORN has a demo called Impenitent Ones. Guitarist Arda used a one-of-a-kind Ken Lawrence Explorer guitar to record. Simon McKay (ex-THE AGONIST) performed the drum parts, while Hubert Wiecek (Ex-DECAPITATED, DIETH and BANISHER) handled the bass.
THREE SIXES has a lyric video for the song Welcome To The New World Order. “It’s a fierce declaration of rebellion in a world on the brink.”
Portugal-based speed metal band FILII NIGRANTIUM INFERNALIUM has an album called Pérfida Contracção Do Aço, which will be released through Osmose Productions on 29.11.2024.
Bulgaria-based groove band GRIMAZE, which is being compared to PANTERA and GOJIRA, has a demo called The Heart Of A Collapsing Star. It reflects on the relationship between the micro and macro cosmos.
Australia-based DESTRUKTOR has a full-length called Indomitable through Hells Headbangers Records.
Latest trend alert! Here comes another “cinematic” release: Australia-based SARCOPHAGUM will release its “cinematic” debut full-length, The Grand Arc Of Madness, through Nuclear Winter Records on December 6th 2024. The band features GOLGOTHAN REMAINS members and is a studio-only act.
UK-based OLD FOREST has a new full-length, called Graveside, which will be released through Soulseller Records in December.
Frontiers has launched a new imprint called BLKIIBLK and announced it to be dedicated to “pushing the boundaries of heavy music” and aiming “to bring a fresh perspective…” The first signing was BIOHAZARD, a band that was founded in 1987. A new album is due in 2025. BIOHAZARD and LIFE OF AGONY are touring Europe as co-headliners in the winter.
Gothic and keyboard damaged acts GENUS ORDINIS DEI (back from a long hiatus), XANDRIA and SIRENIA are touring Europe this November.
Since everything is “classic”: CREMATORY has signed a new deal with ROAR. The band is currently working on finalising their new studio album, Destination, which is scheduled for release on May 2, 2025. “Fans can expect a return to the classic gothic metal style with lots of catchy hits. The album release will follow with an extensive tour of Germany,” says the press release.
Original idea! Play other people’s songs and sell it to your fans!!! HAVOK has a new EP called New Eyes. The four-track EP features two originals and two cover versions.
THEM’s The Goblin Sessions is the band’s first since the release of the Fear City album in 2022. It includes the obligatory cover version, this time a song by GOBLIN.
In tandem with everyone else in the scene, SYMPHONY OF HEAVEN does not have keyboards. They have “orchestration”. The white metal act has a demo called Ordo Aurum Archeia.
SUIDAKRA will release a full-length called DarkanakraD through MDD Records this month.It was recorded and mixed by Arkadius at his own GHA Studio in Würzburg, Germany and mastered by Dan Swanö.
Canada-based BORNBROKEN is supporting its new demo, which is called Am I Invisible, with several concerts in Central Canada.
Canada-based thrash metal group MUTANK is back with a new release after seven years since releasing the W.H.A.T.S.T.H.A.T. EP through Boonsdale Records in 2017. Entitled Think Before You Think, the album will be released once again on Boonsdale Records on November 29th, 2024.