Recenzja / A review of Hekatoxen „Obsidian Majesty”

 Hekatoxen

„Obsidian Majesty”

Nuclear Winter Rec. 2026

I jeszcze jedna pozycja z październikowego miotu Nuclear Winter Records. Po bardzo dobrych albumach Morbid Stench i Deconsekrated, Hekatoxen jest już chyba tylko strzałem na dobicie, bo ja się po trzech rundkach z tym krążkiem nie mogę posprzątać z podłogi. Gdybyście zastanawiali się co to za gentlemani, i skąd pochodzą, to w zasadzie kilkanaście pierwszych sekund otwierającego całość „Lost Souls Epitome” rozwiewa wszelkie wątpliwości. (Czytaj dalej... / Read here)

Trzeci krążek KORPSESOTURI w listopadzie

 

Brutal Records is proud to welcome Finnish death metal Nordic country band KORPSESOTURI to its international roster.

The band will release its new full-length album, KORPLISH SEDAMON, worldwide on November 27, 2026, on digital and physical formats.

Coming from the Finnish underground, KORPSESOTURI has been keeping its focus on what death metal is supposed to be: heavy, dark, aggressive, and uncompromising. There is no attempt here to make the music cleaner or more accessible than it needs to be. The band's sound is firmly rooted in old school death metal, with crushing guitar work, powerful drums, deep vocals, and a dark atmosphere that runs through the entire record.

KORPLISH SEDAMON is the next step in a journey that began in 2014. Over the years, KORPSESOTURI has built a reputation within the underground through a series of releases that have stayed true to the band's musical direction. Their approach has remained consistent—play death metal on their own terms and let the music speak for itself.

The album will be available in digital and physical formats.For longtime followers of Finnish death metal, this is another release to put on the radar. For anyone discovering KORPSESOTURI for the first time, KORPLISH SEDAMON is a good place to start.

LUDGAR prezentują nowy numer

 

Today, Austrian dungeon metallers Ludgar premiere the new track "Serpents Poison" at heavily trafficked web-portal InvisibleOranges.com. The track is the third to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated debut album, Violent Visions, set for international release on September 25th via Dying Victims Productions. Hear Ludgar’s "Serpents Poison" in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Nowy ATOMIC AGGRESSOR do odsłuchu

 

Today, Chilean death metallers Atomic Aggressor stream the entirety of their highly anticipated second album, The Occult Forces, at the Death Metal Promotion YouTube channel. Set for international release on August 28th via Hells Headbangers, hear Atomic Aggressor's The Occult Forces in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Nowy WHIPLASH w listopadzie

 

Time To Kill Records is proud to announce the signing of WHIPLASH, welcoming one of American thrash metal's most enduring underground forces to its roster. Led by true underground warrior Tony Portaro, the New Jersey veterans have spent more than four decades keeping the raw spirit of thrash metal alive, inspiring generations of musicians and fans who still believe in the power of riffs, sweat and genuine passion.

The partnership will see WHIPLASH release their new album, "ROAR", on November 27th, 2026. Recorded at Studio Mozart and Concrete Island Studio, produced by Tony Portaro and mixed by Jamie King Audio, the album delivers ten explosive tracks that capture the raw energy of the band's live performances while reflecting Portaro's continued evolution as a songwriter and musician.

Songs such as "Sonic Asylum", "Bullet Train" and "Who Stole My Whiskey" hit with full-force precision: this is thrash crafted for the mosh pit, not the algorithm. "ROAR" offers exactly what one should expect from WHIPLASH: real metal built around riffs, songs and attitude, with no interest in unnecessary embellishment or whatever fashionable nonsense happens to be circulating outside the pit.

The album was initially made available in a strictly limited form during WHIPLASH's European "Campaign for Musical Destruction Tour" with Napalm Death. A small number of CD promos were distributed independently during the tour under the original title "THRASHQUAKE".

The album now receives its official worldwide release through Time To Kill Records, with a new title, brand-new artwork by legendary illustrator Ed Repka, and a global campaign befitting its status.

For Time To Kill Records, bringing WHIPLASH into the fold is a genuine pleasure: few bands embody the idea of uncompromising underground metal quite like Portaro's long-running institution.

Tracklist:

1. Thrashquake

2. Bullet Train

3. Can’t Take Back a Bullet

4. Sword Meet Skull

5. Who Stole My Whiskey

6. When the Deadman Calls

7. Red Tape Riot

8. Mother’s Kill Club

9. Sonic Asylum

10. Graveyard of Good and Evil

BARREN: pierwszy singiel i wideo z nowej płyty

 

Belgijski grind/deathowy BARREN przedstawia Depraved - pierwszy singiel i teledysk z najnowszej płyty Verderf. Następca debiutanckiego I ukaże się we wrześniu nakładem Selfmadegod Records. Szczegóły poniżej.

Utworzony w 2017 roku BARREN to belgijski zespół grindcore’owy, którego skład tworzą obecni i byli członkowie Agathocles, Aborted, Emeth oraz Suppository.

Określając swoją muzykę mianem „chainsaw grind”, zespół czerpie z

charakterystycznego brzmienia przesteru HM-2, kojarzonego ze szwedzkim death metalem, tworząc gęstą i miażdżącą ścianę gitar oraz basu. Bezlitosne blastbeaty i szaleńcze riffy przeplatają się z wybuchami brutalności w średnich tempach oraz ostrymi, nieprzewidywalnymi zmianami tempa.

W 2020 roku BARREN nagrał swój pierwszy materiał w Chainsaw Laboratory, zmiksowany i zmasterowany w Hearse Studios. W 2021 roku zespół własnym sumptem wydał demo oraz dwie EP-ki. Materiał szybko zwrócił uwagę Esagoya Records (JPN), które wydało te nagrania na CD. W tym samym roku Grand Vomit Productions (USA) wydało split z zespołem Berated. Następnie BARREN podpisał kontrakt z Grindhead Records (AUS), co zaowocowało wydaniem debiutanckiego albumu I.

W 2023 roku BARREN pojawił się na kilku znaczących kompilacjach, między innymi Good Guys Go Grind Vol. 2 oraz Noxious Ruin Magazine Vol. 8. Pod wrażeniem wkładu zespołu Noxious Ruin zlecił mu nagranie splitu z niemieckim Vomitspell.

W 2024 roku Selfmadegod Records wydało split BARREN ze szwedzkim grindcore’owym zespołem Sickrecy, który spotkał się z dużym wsparciem międzynarodowej społeczności grindcore’owej. BARREN kontynuował tę passę w 2025 roku, wydając 10" split z Lesser Animal, a później 7" split z Distaste.

Pierwszym zwiastunem Verderf jest teledysk do utworu Depraved. Obejrzyj tutaj

Klip od WATCHER

 

Today, Swedish heavy metallers Watcher premiere the new video "Sorceress" at the New Wave of Old School Traditional Metal (NWOTHM) YouTube channel. The track is the third to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated second album, Mistress of Our Time, set for international release on September 25th via Dying Victims Productions. See & hear Watcher’s "Sorceress" video in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Ováte zapowiadają nowy materiał

 

After years of silence and dedication, Ováte return from the abyss with their new offering Rúin, forged by Aindiachaí (Gorgoroth) on guitars/bass and Brodd (ex-Taake) on drums. Eight years have passed since the band’s self-titled debut, and Rúin now reopens the wound; deeper, colder, and more deliberate. The new album will be out on 6th November via Soulseller Records.

Pre-orders, album info and the first single 'Kutsumus' will drop on 4th September.

Rúin is here. Not to be understood, but to be endured, an arcane, insidiously pernicious incursion beyond the veil.

A defining hallmark of Ováte’s sound remains intact: once again, every track is a collaboration with a different guest vocalist, turning the album into a shifting procession of voices and maledictions. Each performance adds a new layer to the record’s blackened craft, while the core duo keeps the blade steady. Sharp riffs, ritualistic momentum, and a trance-like pull that feels both predatory and strangely ceremonial.

On Rúin, Ováte list an exceptional cast from the Norwegian and wider extreme metal underground: Spellgoth (Horna), H’grimmr (Helheim), Thomas S. Øvstedal (Cor Scorpii), Sanrabb (Gehenna), Ødemark (The Last Eon / The Third Attempt) and Hoest (Taake). The result is a record that moves with relentless intent, yet rich in atmosphere, with each track carrying its own curse.

MUCOSAL szykują EP-kę

 

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the EP from Minnesota's old school Death Metal band Mucosal. Amalgamated States is up now for pre-order and will be released September 25th on CD and Digital formats along with merch.

Mucosal features members of Violently Vomit, Rottenness, Maniacal Force, Apothic and Dissident Clone.

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcome Mucosal to the roster with the debut EP Amalgamated States! Mucosal are an old school Death Metal band featuring members of To Violently Vomit, Rottenness, Maniacal Force, Apothic and Dissident Clone. Amalgamated States unleashes six tracks of pummeling Death Metal with hints of Grind and Punk, themed around the horrors of war and injustices of modern society..

Listen to the single "Denied, Defiled, Disposed" at youtu.be/2lzoZRAQiI8

TRACKLISTING:

1. Denied, Defiled, Disposed

2. Egregore

3. Programmer Crashed Race

4. The Old Hate

5. Amalgamated States

Recenzja Hadopelagyal „Zelmathic Necroichorion”

 Hadopelagyal

„Zelmathic Necroichorion”

Amor Fati 2026

Dopiero co zdążyłem zakupić sobie ostatni album Hadopelagyal (dość nietypowe swoją drogą jak na winyl wydanie), odsłuchać go dosłownie z dwa razy, a tu Hekla i Augur wypluwają z siebie kolejne dwadzieścia minut gruzu, szlamu i wszelakich nieczystości.  Cztery nowe numery, mili państwo, dokładnie tyle składa się na „Zelmathic Necroichorion”. (Czytaj dalej...)

Nowy NINTH REALM do odsłuchu

 

Decibel has premiered Damnation's Veil, the forthcoming album from Maryland-based Death/Thrash crew, Ninth Realm!

Stream the album ahead of Friday's official release at:

decibelmagazine.com/2026/08/25/full-album-stream-ninth-realm-damnations-veil/

Track Listing:

1. Valigeth

2. Damnation’s Veil

3. Cohorts of the Abyss

4. Imbued in Hellfire

5. Rituals in Thar’amath

6. Orphaned Throne

7. Wyrd of Strideborne

8. Beyond the Void

9. Vengeance Unto Rot

10. All Hail Treachery

11. Twilight’s Blade

Trzeci album DEATH. VOID. TERROR. za miesiąc

 

Sentient Ruin is proud and honored to announce that Death. Void. Terror. continue their marvelous aural transfiguration. "To The Great Monolith III: Rifts" is the band's first full-length utterance of the Monolith in five years, and its most shattering revelation yet.

The mesmerizing upcoming new album follows the recent precursor EP "To The Great Monolith 2.5" released just last month, and has now been anticipated by expert extreme metal outlet No Clean Singing, who in premiering the closing track "V. (-- ---) Daphnyr" have remarked how the work is "a kaleidoscopic experience, a shapeshifter in itself that continues to reveal the metamorphosis of the band’s music since their last album" - you can check out the feature and listen to the song HERE.

"To The Great Monolith III: Rifts" is a seismic convergence of primordial trance and awakened consciousness, tearing open the boundaries of improvisation to expose the essence of catharsis. The rift is both metaphor and confession: a fracture in doctrine, a deliberate wound inflicted upon orthodoxy by the practitioners themselves, as conscious composition enters the sacred architecture for the first time, insurgent and unapologetic. Pulsing bass lines consciously sculpted, and around them, the instinctual maelstrom, constructing vortices of the inner chaos. A perceived heresy that in truth signals only deeper initiation. What pours through the rift is devastating. Abyssal, chaos-wielding atmospheric black/death metal mutated into ecstatic occult rock and tribal hallucinatory sprawl. The specter of the ancient ones running through gorges and dissolving into monolithic darkness, transfigured beyond recognition yet more itself than ever. Vocals conjured in no known tongue, surrendered without will to the Monolith in liturgical precision. A sonic entity shedding skin, growing new flesh, irrigated by ritual and animated by an internal battle between instinct and will, trance and reflection, doctrine and heresy. On its surface, a rift captured and made literal. In its depths, an existential fracture splitting open five years of metamorphosis and unleashing its monstrous sonic deluge. The Great Monolith does not crumble, it ruptures, expands, and devours anew. DVT's most monumental and revelatory work to date.

"To The Great Monolith III: Rifts" is slated for a September 25 2026 release on LP, CD, cassette and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, all of which are now pre-orderable via all our channels.

Nowy album URNA w październiku

 

Italian architects of esoteric extreme metal URNA will release their new album, "The Great Jihad", on October 16th, 2026 via ATMF, the label that has supported the band since their landmark full-length "Sepulcrum"..

The first single "Second of Three" is streaming HERE.

More poisonous and tense than its predecessors, "The Great Jihad" retains the crushing atmosphere and funeral doom connection that have long defined URNA, while pushing their faster passages towards a harsher, more abrasive form of black metal. Amid the weight and aggression, vast, sideral melodies emerge from the darkness, adding a solemn dimension to an album steeped in occult and esoteric atmospheres. The result is a work that feels both familiar and renewed, balancing oppressive density with moments of stark, otherworldly beauty.

For the first time, URNA present an album with lyrics entirely in English. With the exception of their 2003 debut "Justa Funebria", originally performed in Italian, the band's releases have traditionally employed Latin. The conceptual framework once again expands RM's personal spiritual journey through Hermetism, approaching the notion of duality from an esoteric perspective and exploring its many manifestations..

"The Great Jihad" also introduces new collaborators to the lineup, with Sibilans (Anamnesi, Simulacro) on drums and T (Sangue Nero) on bass. The album was recorded through multiple sessions between 2014 and 2025, across Italy and the United Kingdom, before being mixed and mastered at MZ's 322 Studio in early 2026. The artwork was created by Francesco Gemelli.

Tracklist:

Creator

01. First of Three

02. Second of Three

03. Third of Three

Created

04. The Great Jihad

05. Dream Death, Towards Rebirth

06. Four Levels of Infinite Splendour

Singiel od ISKALD

 

Norwegian melodic black metal veterans ISKALD have unveiled the second official teaser for their upcoming sixth full-length album, "Curse of the Mind", due out on September 25th via Dusktone. Following the first preview, this new teaser offers another glimpse into the album's dark and expansive atmosphere, bringing together further excerpts from across the record. Rather than revealing a single composition in isolation, the teaser highlights the different shades that shape "Curse of the Mind", from its melodic black metal foundations to its more imposing and atmospheric passages, offering a broader taste of what ISKALD have prepared for their return.

Listen to the new teaser HERE.

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