Recenzja / A review of Umus „Voidlit”

 Umus

„Voidlit”

Ksenza Rec/ Aesthetic Death 2026

O Umus w sumie wiadomo niewiele. To nowy twór na metalowej mapie, ale nawet wydawca podaje na jego temat lakoniczne informacje. Biorąc jednak pod uwagę, że Ksenza Records to label z Syberii, strzelam, że zespół, przynajmniej częściowo, pochodzi zza naszej wschodniej granicy. Mniejsza jednak o domysły, zajmijmy się muzyką. Tu już domniemywań żadnych nie ma. „Voidlit” to pięć długich funeral doomowych walców. Nie jest to jednak funeral doom jeden z wielu. (Czytaj dalej... / Read here)

Recenzja Deathwards „Realms of Sin”

 Deathwards

„Realms of Sin”

Sepulchral Voice Records 2026

Niedawno, bo chyba jakoś na wiosnę, Sepulchral Voice wypuściło składankę, złożoną z dwóch, pierwszych wydawnictw tych Chilijczyków, a już mamy debiutancką płytę. W sumienie stało się to aż tak szybko, ponieważ wspomniana kompilacja zawiera nagrania z lat 2017-2019 więc parę lat Deathwards zajęło, nagranie albumu. (Czytaj dalej...)

Nowy CONTRARIAN w listopadzie

 

Rochester (NY) - Underground death metal philosophers Contrarian are back with their sixth studio release, Escaping Depravity! The bar has been raised yet again on this ambitious, musically enthralling album!

In this 30-minute, single track opus, the band returns to its roots with founding members Jim Tasikas and George Kollias, delivering an intricate and relentless exploration of progressive death metal. True to their signature sound, Escaping Depravity weaves together technical complexity, philosophical introspection, and theological themes, all while pushing the boundaries of death metal’s brutal and cerebral qualities.

A visualizer for the "Escaping Depravity" single, consisting of parts 1-4 of the album, is available now at: youtu.be/1jZEsnlxtN4

The single is also available on all streaming platforms.

Escaping Depravity is One Continuous Track:

Part 1 - 3:22

Part 2 - 2:49

Part 3 - 6:21

Part 4 - 2:46

Part 5 - 1:24

Part 6 - 8:43

Part 7 - 4:48

Full Uninterrupted - 30:16

Escaping Depravity is out November 27 on vinyl, CD, and digital formats through Willowtip Records.

PERPETUA zapowiadają EP-kę

 

Scotland's PERPETUA are set to unleash their newest EP, Saviour To None. Featuring four tracks of high-caliber modern metal, this release marks the emergence of one the UK's heaviest new acts onto the global scene.

The band has launched the official music video for the EP's lead single, "Veil Of Deception."

"This song is a big fuck you to those who have wronged us & who have malevolently cast any form of hurt in a bid to satisfy their own self," comments the band. "It speaks to the underlying & unfortunate truth about how many people can wear a mask to a create a deceptive but convincing impression on those around them. Manipulative, narcissistic & arrogant - these people are polluting modern society."

Check out "Veil Of Deception" now at this location.

PERPETUA will release Saviour To None via Bleeding Art Collective on November 6.

Track listing:

1) Saviour to None

2) Veil of Deception

3) Descend

4) Fallen Sons

ZØRZA za niecałe dwa tygodnie w Toruniu

 

15 października (czwartek) zapraszamy do toruńskiego klubu NRD na koncert ZØRZA, promujący ich najnowszy album: „Twilight of the Golden Star”!

ZØRZA (black metal / post-black metal, Grodzisk Wielkopolski) – zespół od samego początku postawił sobie za cel granie black metalu, który często wykracza daleko poza czarne kanony gatunku. Muzyka, teksty i motywy inspirowane śmiercią, naturą, magią, fantastyką i ludzkimi emocjami tworzą opowieści, które mają za cel przenosić do innego, odległego świata. W czerwcu tego roku premierę miała ich druga płyta: „Twilight of the Golden Star”, na której gościnnie wystąpił wokalista Harakiri for the Sky – Michael „J.J.” Kogler.

Tego wieczoru wystąpią również:

GAROTA (black metal / black thrash, Szczecin/Świnoujście)

FUNERAL MASS (black metal, Gdańsk)

Bilety: przedsprzedaż online – 74 zł (stage24.pl); 90 zł – na bramce w dniu koncertu.

Recenzja / A review of Worm Altar “Pillars of Eternal Dusk”

 Worm Altar

“Pillars of Eternal Dusk”

Dawnbreed Rec. / Gurgling Gore 2026

Komu gruzu, komu, bo idę do domu! Mi koniecznie, bo takiego grania nigdy nie mam dość. Worm Altar to nowinka ze Stanów. Chłopaki zawiązali się jakieś cztery lata wstecz, i, jak przykazania oldskulowego metalu nakazują, zarejestrowali dotychczas dwie demówki oraz EP-kę. Za tak obraną ścieżkę już mają u mnie ogromnego plusa. Nadszedł jednak czas na debiut w pełnym wymiarze, za którego zyskują plusa jeszcze większego. (Czytaj dalej... / Read here)

Recenzja In Obscurity Revealed „Caustic Maelstrom”

 In Obscurity Revealed

„Caustic Maelstrom”

Personal Records (2026)

 

Dobrego metalu śmierci nigdy za wiele. Pochodzący z Meksyku In Obscurity Revealed niewątpliwie do tej grupy się zalicza, ale nie sądzę, żeby grono osób pamiętających ich debiut sprzed ośmiu lat było zbyt duże. Ja o istnieniu tej grupy dowiedziałem się dopiero przy okazji anonsowania „Caustic Maelstrom”, ale jako, że lubię meksykańską scenę deathmetalową, to i przesłuchać to wydawnictwo wypadało. (Czytaj dalej...)

Singiel od RISE ABOVE DEAD

 

Milan, Italy-based post-metal veterans RISE ABOVE DEAD have unveiled "Drowning Slowly", the first single and official video taken from their forthcoming new album "Voidmass", due out November 27, 2026 via Argonauta Records.

Watch "Drowning Slowly" at THIS LOCATION.

With "Voidmass", RISE ABOVE DEAD open a new chapter in their story, bringing together the crushing weight, atmospheric depth and cinematic dimension that have shaped their music over the years with renewed vocal intensity following the return of original singer Andrea Rondanini.

The accompanying video further expands the song's dark and immersive character, introducing listeners to the visual world surrounding the band's new album.

"Voidmass" features six tracks that move through crushing riffs, expansive atmospheres and emotionally charged passages, balancing the band's heavier instincts with a more vocal-driven approach. From the opening impact of "Annihilation/Rebirth" to the closing "Through Zenith", the album unfolds as a continuous journey through darkness, transformation and emotional disintegration.

The album marks the band's first release with Argonauta Records and represents a significant new step for RISE ABOVE DEAD, reconnecting the band's early intensity with the expansive sonic language developed throughout their later work.

Tracklist:

1. Annihilation/Rebirth

2. Drowning Slowly

3. Voices Fade Away

4. Fragile Ground

5. Event Horizon

6. Through Zenith (Feat. Emtu)

Nowy kawałek CURSEBINDER

 

Split NEKUS / BLOODSOAKED NECROVOID do odsłuchu

 

On October 16th internationally, Caligari Records and Seed of Doom Records will release Funerary Rites of Ancient Doom, a special split album between Nekus and Bloodsoaked Necrovoid, on vinyl LP format. And today, the entirety of the split album is streaming in advance of its release date. Hear Funerary Rites of Ancient Doom in its entirety HERE at Caligari's Bandcamp.

Zapowiedź nowego LIMINAL SPIRIT

 

Milwaukee (WI) - Avant-garde Cinematic Doom outfit, Liminal Spirit, returns with new album, Forfeiture Hymns, on November 6, unveiling the next chapter in the project's ever-expanding conceptual mythology.

The project combines the melodic sensibilities developed through years in extreme metal with a microtonal guitar blended with a cinematic doom, industrial, and drone-driven framework.

This fourth studio recording and second full-length, Forfeiture Hymns represents Liminal Spirit's most ambitious and extreme work to date. While previous releases explored hypnotic drone-based environments, the new album pushes further into a musical language informed by death metal, industrial music, electronic textures, and psychologically charged storytelling.

At the center of Forfeiture Hymns is the continuation of the narrative introduced on the acclaimed previous album, Unwell. While Unwell chronicled the final days of the troubled character Phillip Hastings within the confines of a nursing home, the new album broadens the scope dramatically by tracing his life from birth onward.

Doomed & Stoned has premiered "The Initiate," the album's first single! The track follows Tommy Pearson, a young boy desperate to join a group of children led by Phillip. What begins as a seemingly innocent initiation ritual spirals into tragedy, mirrored musically through a progression that moves from playful, childlike melodies into frantic and increasingly chaotic territory.

Stream "The Initiate" at:

doomedandstoned.com/post/829279040085049344/liminalspirit

Track Listing:

1. A Mother’s Instinct (Catherine Hastings, d. 9/24/1937)

2. Unwanted (Phillip Hastings Sr., d. 6/12/1938)

3. The Initiate (Tommy Pearson, d. 3/03/1951)

4. Three (Marianne Tierney, d. 4/19/1953)

5. Apoptosis (Elizabeth and Christopher Collins, d. 11/20/1963)

6. Ensnarer’s Lament (Detective Michael Thornton, 6/01/1978)

7. Two (Francine Hastings, d. 10/24/1981)

8. Do No Harm (Alice Weaver, 2/17/2015)

9. Sins of the Father (Johnathon Hastings, d. 2/20/2015)

10. The Parting Glass (Madeline Hastings-Everett, d. 12/5/2025)

11. Four (Constance Greene, b. 8/28/2026)

Czwarta płyta NECROMUTILATOR pod koniec listopada

 

Today, Osmose Productions announces November 27th as the international release date for Necromutilator's highly anticipated fourth album, The Annihilation Chalice, on CD and vinyl LP.

Necromutilator's fourth full-length is spawned now by the roaring pits of the black abyss. It comes in wrathful chaos, masticating flesh in the name of Satan for the ultimate retaliation and revenge against the universe. Riffs of infernal death melted in skull-crushing, hammering war drums, guided by demonic, possessed vocals. Eight tracks of violent torture plus a Sarcófago cover to seal up the opera in vomit and blood.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Siege Diabolicum" HERE at Osmose's official YouTube channel. Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover artwork, courtesy of Chris Moyen, and tracklisting are as follows:

 

Tracklisting for Necromutilator's The Annihilation Chalice

1. Bloodred Teeth of Iblys [4:56]

2. Burning Holocaust Winds [4:04]

3. Flies on God Shreds [4:22]

4. Hammer of Defilement [3:49]

5. Siege Diabolicum [4:24]

6. Fullmoon Vomitprayer [6:00]

7. Psalm of the Black Torture [4:42]

8. Infernal Omega Storm [2:40]

9. Deathrash (Sarcófago cover) [1:33]

Singiel od NOOTHGRUSH

 

Today, Bay Area doom / sludge legends Noothgrush premiere the "new" track "Useless" at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The track is the third to be revealed from the special compilation Man is His Own Tormentor, set for international release on October 30th via Nespithe Records on CD format. Hear Noothgrush's "Useless" in its entirety HERE.

Noothgrush are the very definition of a CULT band. Formed in 1994 and originally existing until 2001, the Oakland, California collective promptly - and PROLIFICALLY - released a slew of split recordings for such essential '90s labels as Slap A Ham, Pessimiser, Deep Six, Bovine, Satan's Pimp, Reservoir, and many more. Through it all, they never released a full-length, and yet their sound was unmistakable and incredibly influential during their initial run: arguably next to Grief, Noothgrush brought sludge and doom to the wider hardcore-punk underground in the 1990s, which then sowed its influence into the next millennium. During that millennium, the band would re-form and be active again during 2011-2018, releasing splits with the equally cult Suppression and Coffins as well as an EP, and of course returning to the stage, perhaps the penultimate place to experience Noothgrush's tortured, utterly crushing waves of bleakness and despair.

Despite the lack of an album, Noothgrush kept a high profile in that underground, and it was 1996 where they released perhaps their most pivotal recordings. In the last four months of that year, Noothgrush appeared on their first four records: Embraced by the Anti Self 7" EP, the Cry Now, Cry Later Vol. 4 double-7" compilation, the Accidental Decapitation Through Masturbation! six-way split 7", and the Useless split 7" with Agents of Satan. The band also recorded a live set earlier that year on the campus radio station at Stanford University, playing songs that wouldn't otherwise see release until several years later. This live set was dubbed onto old used cassettes which were duplicated and distributed through the global tape-trading network of the 90's, and titled Live on KZSU May 1, 1996. While some of these tracks would variously appear on posthumous compilations of Noothgrush's scattered work, never before have they been collected together in their entirety. As such, not only is the 73-minute Man is His Own Tormentor vital for archival completism, more so does it serve as the most complete, eternally compelling snapshot of the band at their creative peak. As a bonus, the compilation concludes with a live song from a February 9th, 1996 show, for the first time on CD.

In the meantime, hear the old track "Useless" HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com. Also hear the previously revealed tracks "Stasis" and "Dianoga (Live on KZSU, May 1, 1996) HERE at Nespithe Records' Bandcamp, where the compilation can be preordered. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Noothgrush's Man is His Own Tormentor

1. Stasis

2. Dianoga

3. Gage

4. DPS

5. Useless

6. Imperial March Alderaan

7. Sith

8. Gage

9. Dianoga

10. DPS

11. Evazan

12. Erode The Person

13. Jundland Wastes

14. Procreation of the Wicked [Celtic Frost cover]

15. Friends of Mine BONUS

Recenzja Wolfbrigade „Howl from Underground”

 Wolfbrigade

„Howl from Underground”

Metal Blade Rec. 2026

Mają chłopaki zdrowie. Dwa lata temu ukazał się „Life Knife Death”, dziewiąty, jak dobrze liczę, album Wolfbrigade, w zeszłym roku poszła koncertówka, a teraz szwedzcy crust punkowcy serwują kolejny pełnowymiarowy materiał. Trzydzieści dwie minuty intensywnego szaleństwa z którego słyną. I zanim jeszcze ktoś zapyta, czy na tej płycie jest coś nowego, powiem: nie ma! (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Deathcult „Cult of the Dog”

 Deathcult

„Cult of the Dog”

Soulseller Records 2026

Po niemalże dziesięcioletniej przerwie, na horyzoncie pojawili się Norwedzy z Deathcult. Targają ze sobą najnowszy, trzeci krążek, który fanatyków black metalu jaki gra się w tym kraju od lat dziewięćdziesiątych, zawieść nie powinien. Panowie cały czas komponują w tradycyjnym duchu i nie zamierzają zbaczać z obranej ścieżki. (Czytaj dalej...)