Recenzja Hekatomb „Apokrypha Archives vol.1 & 2”

 Hekatomb

„Apokrypha Archives vol.1 & 2”

Independent 2026

Wydany nieco ponad dwa lata temu debiutancki album Hekatomb „Kotosta” bardzo mocno mną pozamiatał, a chłopaki otworzyli nim z kopa drzwi do najwyższej klasy krajowego black metalu, i to z wyraźnymi aspiracjami na szybką podróż w kierunku czuba tabeli. Bardzo mocno zastanawiałem się zatem, jaki będzie kolejny krok zespołu, a przede wszystkim, czy podołają bardzo wysoko postawionym przeze mnie, wymaganiom. (Czytaj dalej...)

Pojawiła się koncertówka YFEL 1710

 

YFEL1710...

Piewcy drugiej fali black metalu. Po debiutanckim krążku „Willa Wisielców”, wydanym w 2020 roku przez Malignant Voices, nadszedł czas na album „Zlatują się Ćmy”, który ukazał się w listopadzie 2022 pod banderą Pagan Records. Trzeci pełny album zespołu - "Black Metal Gnosis" - został wydany we wrześniu 2025 nakładem SOCIETAS.

W międzyczasie zespół pojawił się też na dwóch splitach - "Kali Yuga Boys" (2022) wraz z Martwą Aurą, oraz "Zakon Nienawiści" (2025), wraz z Dominance.

Najnowsze wydawnictwo - "Live 2026 a.y.p.s" to zapis koncertu, który odbył się w Łodzi w styczniu 2026.

Lista utworów / tracklist:

1. Witchcraft Commandment

2. Klatka na Ludzi (Human Cage)

3. Walka ludzi z człowiekiem, ilości z jakością (Struggle between people and human, between quality and quantity)

4. Zakon Nienawisci (The Order of Hatred)

5. Black Metal Gnosis

6. Barczewskie Noce II (Barczewo Nights, part II)

7. Brama Czaszek - Ostatni Pacjent Zakładu (Skull Gate - Last patient of the Asylum)

8. Wszystko co sprawi, że będzie was mniej (Anything that makes there be fewer of you)

9. Warszawska 107

10. Zbieracz Ciał (Body Collector)

Nowy SALLOW MOTH w lipcu

 

Dallas (TX) - Progressive Death Metal duo, Sallow Moth, will release new album, Hydrophilous Brood July 24 on Willowtip Records!

Hydrophilous Brood takes place in Pamugara, a dimensional nest immersed in a lush world where organisms are rematerialized into new hybrid species after passing through a powerful portal, a highly unpredictable artifact known as the ‘Mossbane Lantern’. Each song has a thematic connection to various artifacts on the previous album (Mossbane Lantern), extrapolating the characteristics and aftereffects of those artifacts within this temperamental environment of a planet.

Musically, Sallow Moth goes hand in hand with the aforementioned lyrical themes of transformation in that the continuous evolution of the project has become a signature feature with each album. This album retains a portion of the genre-shifting approach of previous works, but deliberately exhibits more focus on the intersection of technical death metal and brutal death metal, especially with the addition of a highly skilled drummer in Allen Gingerich. Notable influences on Hydrophilous Brood include Mortal Decay, Wormed, Deeds of Flesh, Cephalic Carnage, and Cynic.

"Distended in Panglacial Advent," the album's first single, is available at:

youtu.be/_azXm-LU2ho

Track Listing:

1. Nebulous Appendages of Vacillant Seafoam

2. Distended in Panglacial Advent

3. Driftmoth Vivisector

4. Biohybrid Virulence

5. Arcane Benthic Umbilicus

6. Polymorphic Gnaw

7. Hydrophilous Brood

8. Serene Aqueous Leech

COFFIN HUNTERS wracają z nową płytą

 

Santa Rosa (CA) - Strap in for an inter-dimensional journey through space and time, fueled by catchy riffs and heavy metal melodies! Coffin Hunters are back! The band is set to release their third full-length album, Cosmic Dawn, on July 17 via Bitter End Records.

A lyric video for the album's first single, "Skeleton Key," is available now at:

youtu.be/duaor2P9aY8

The song is also available on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music.

Known for passionate and energetic live performances and songwriting, Coffin Hunters draw inspiration from traditional heavy metal, science fiction and fantasy. On Cosmic Dawn, the band explores themes of death, existentialism, and mythology. Blending classic Rock and Roll hooks and melodies with Heavy Metal energy and attitude Coffin Hunters are ready to take you from the depths of the grave to the the pinnacles of the cosmos.

Cosmic Dawn will be available on limited edition vinyl LP (250) and CD (500), as well as on digital format.

Track Listing:

1 - Isle of the Dead

2 - Skeleton Key

3 - Last Nail in the Coffin

4 - Cosmic Dawn

5 - Give Up the Ghost

6 - Red Horizon

7 - Blood Moon

8 - Nightmare Mass

Nowy kawałek CRIPPLE BASTARDS

 

As previously announced, CRIPPLE BASTARDS will return on June 12th, 2026 with their new EP "La tua foto sul marmo", set for release via F.O.A.D. Records.

Ahead of the release, the band has unveiled the new single "L’era della dispersione", a new excerpt that once again underlines the unmistakable identity of the group, long regarded as a benchmark for relentless, uncompromising grindcore.

The EP further demonstrates the ability of CRIPPLE BASTARDS to remain true to their sonic core while expanding their approach with new dynamic solutions and a more layered songwriting style, adding depth without sacrificing the violence and immediacy that have always defined the band.

Stream "L’era della dispersione" HERE.

Recenzja Ysigim „Ain Soph Or”

 Ysigim

„Ain Soph Or”

Black Flame Rebellion 2026 (Re-issue)

Na przestrzeni ostatnich lat wiele razy wyrażałem swoją opinię na temat wykopywanych z przeszłości, rzekomych “diamentów”. Niektóre faktycznie zasługiwały na takie miano, jednak większość było zwykłymi przeciętniakami, wciskanymi publice na siłę przy pomocy wyniosłych haseł. Warszawski Ysigim, w chwili kiedy wydawał debiutancki album, tez wydawał mi się średniakiem. Może dlatego, że wówczas nie ogarniałem ich twórczości, tudzież wydawała mi się ona zbyt… „dziwna”. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Astriferous „Atavistic Unraveling”

 Astriferous

„Atavistic Unraveling”

Pulverised Records (2026)

Do tej pory uważałem Astriferous za jeden z bardziej intrygujących, młodych bandów z kręgu nowego, starego metalu śmierci. Choć nie był nigdy to zespół z absolutnego topu to odnajdywałem w jego twórczości ten metafizyczny, niedopowiedziany pierwiastek, który trochę budował aurę wokół tych klasycznie deathmetalowych, osadzonych gdzieś na pograniczu Morbid Angel a Timeghoul dźwięków. (Czytaj dalej...)

Klip od THE ABSOLUTION SEQUENCE

 

Tasmanian devils THE ABSOLUTION SEQUENCE have posted the video for "Idols of Confraternity," the second single off the band's highly-anticipated full-length album, Dread Cycle.

"'Idols of Confraternity' is focused on our innate ability in putting horrible people on a pedestal," says vocalist Shawn Wells. "These being celebrities, politicians, influencers and leaders of faith. We worship them as deities, follow their trends, watch their every move in the hope that we may find some form of familiarity. All to crumble in the wake of our self-proclaimed 'unique' display of infatuation."

Watch the video for "Idols of Confraternity" at youtu.be/nFbmnakuaPM

Following a string of EPs and singles, the album promises to be the band's most incendiary work yet. Slated for release via Bleeding Art Collective, with distribution by Blood Blast Distribution, Dread Cycle is set to solidify the band’s position as a premier name in contemporary technical death metal.

Dread Cycle is due out on August 14.

Watch the video for the album's first single, "Ghost Mantra" now at this location.

Tracklisting: 

1) Despotic Ruin (Diet of Worms)

2) Idols of Confraternity

3) Ghost Mantra

4) The Sordid Miasma

5) The Nightlight Sigil

6) Promethean Pilferage

7) A Mire Caked in Nativity

8) Grinding the Sphere

9) The Diary of the Emaciated

Debiut COMPLEXANT w lipcu

 

Blackened death machine COMPLEXANT has arrived. These Australian extremists are poised to unleash their first-ever full-length album, Apex.

The album boasts 10 tracks of brilliantly violent riffing fueled by percussive intensity and unearthly vocals. Following a collection of critically-acclaimed singles and 2023's A Rite of Passage EP, COMPLEXANT is set to cement their status in the global metal community with Apex.

The band has launched the video for the album's first single, "No Angels Weep."

“A tale of vengeance, revenge and killing the false friends who scheme against you, when paranoia turns into reality," says vocalist Dan Greigsy about the song. "Murdered one by one with an old gardening tool, then buried in the backyard. You have freed yourself from your living burden, but you are now haunted by a rotting garden sprouting from your sins”

Watch the video for "No Angels Weep" at youtu.be/GcuHJj4bgoQ

Apex is due out on July 31 via Bleeding Art Collective in partnership with Blood Blast Distribution.

Stream more from COMPEXANT on Spotify and Apple Music.

Tracklisting: 

1) Apex

2) No Angels Weep

3) Afterlife

4) Swing Myself To Sleep

5) Critical Mass

6) Heretical Supremacy

7) Cyclops

8) Eye For An Eye

9) No Hope For Humanity

10) No Hope For Sanctuary

Zapowiedź czwartego krążka LITOSTH

 

On July 24th internationally, Personal Records is proud to present Litosth's highly anticipated fourth album, Dreaming, on CD format.

Some records arrive as answers. Dreaming is not one of them.

The fourth album from Litosth—the duo formed by multi-instrumentalist Maicon Ristow and lyricist Wendel Siota—offers no comfort, no resolution, no redemption. What it offers is something more disturbing and necessary: the complete architecture of collapse. Eight tracks that do not describe the fall—they are the fall.

If 2024’s Personal-released Cesariana was a cry of revolt against the magic formula for happiness, Dreaming goes deeper—and deeper here is not a metaphor. It is literal. The album descends layer by layer through what remains when everything that was imposed is stripped away: faith, morality, purpose, and the illusion of ascent. What remains is not liberation. It is only ashes, emptiness, and silence.

Sonically, Litosth continue to refuse any label—brutality in dialogue with philosophical density and arrangements that move between the colossal and the surgical. Dreaming carries an even more suffocating cohesion than its predecessors. The eight tracks function as acts of a single ritual of dispossession: "Defy," "Ruin," "Eclipse," "Abyss," "Monolith," "Iconoclast," "Nadir," and "Gólgota" are a map of a collective sentence—one inherent to mankind as a species.

Dreaming is not a record about dreaming. It is about finally ceasing to do so. And it was never just music...

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Gólgota" HERE at Personal Records' Bandcamp. Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover artwork and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Litosth's Dreaming

1. Defy

2. Ruin

3. Eclipse

4. Abyss

5. Monolith

6. Iconoclast

7. Nadir

8. Golgota

Recenzja Vomito Mortuorio „Dentro del Sarcofago”

 Vomito Mortuorio

„Dentro del Sarcofago”

Necroscope Blasphemia 2026

 

Jeśli zespół nazywa się Pośmiertne Wymioty, a w tytule debiutu ma „Sarcofago”, to już na starcie ma u mnie wielkiego plusa. Jak jeszcze pochodzi z Salwadoru, to zyskuje dodatkowo, bo wiadomo że tamte zakątki świata niejednokrotnie rodzą metal śmierci najwyższej jakości, a scenę tworzą prawdziwi maniacy. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Desolus „Dwellers of the Twilight Void”

 Desolus

„Dwellers of the Twilight Void”

Hells Headbangers 2026

Niedawno, bo piętnastego maja, swoją drugą płytę wydali amerykańscy specjaliści od niemieckiego thrashu. Panowie kontynuują na nim swoje szaleństwo, z którego wieje Kreatorem i momentami innym Exumerem. Dziesięć numerów, które hołdują batożeniu w stylu lat osiemdziesiątych. (Czytaj dalej...)

Premiera FINALSELF - Liturgy of the Final Self

 

Death metalowy ansambl FinalSelf z Tarnowa debiutuje płytą "Liturgy of the Final Self". Album będzie miał premierę 8 czerwca 2026 roku w portalu Nieczyste Śpiewanie (NO CLEAN SINGING) i od tego dnia będzie go można również nabyć na srebrnym dysku w standardowym jewel case.

Muzykę i teksty napisał Eveq, który nagrał linie wszystkich gitar. W przeszłości a nawet teraźniejszości związany z takimi bandami jak Ingenium, Breath the Void czy Eutanor. W realizacji płyty wsparli go ataman Tolovy (Turin Turambar, Genius Ultor, Mrome czy Stillborn) na wokalu oraz najbardziej chyba zapracowany w krajowej niszy napierdalania bębniarz Krzysztof Klingbein (Totenmesse, Vader, Blephegor).

Nagrania zawierają osiem utworów:The Inheritance of Flame

The Paradox of Eternal Becoming God

Liturgy of the Final Self

Veil of Fractured Reveries [singiel]

Shadows Beyond Redemption

Forlorn Forever Forgotten

Consumed by the Thought Sower

The Sunset

Veil of Fractured Reveries - VIDEO

Jako utwór paradujący przed szeregiem zespół wybrał Veil of Fractured Reveries, który w postaci oficjalnego video można obejrzeć na YT:

Stylistycznie grupa czerpie z klasyki gatunku, najbliżej jej do prototechnicznej odmiany Death Metalu, czyli z okresu, kiedy za techniczne granie nie zabrali się jeszcze cyrkowcy, a chęć gry skomplikowanej osadzona była na solidnej podwalinie ostrego napierdolu. Słowa zaś to konceptualna podróż przez kresy ludzkiej ewolucji w kierunku boskości.

"Liturgy of the Final Self" na kompakcie będzie można nabyć za pośrednictwem profilu bandcamp: finalself.bandcamp.com

FINSTERFORST zapowiadają nowy album

 

Today, AOP Records announces July 31st as the international release date for Finsterforst's highly anticipated sixth album, Still.

For more than two decades, Finsterforst have been shaping their own distinctive voice within extreme metal, continuously evolving both musically and lyrically without ever losing their core identity. Their sound merges elements from a wide spectrum of heavy music—from black and folk-inspired roots to epic, atmospheric, and post-metal influences—forming a style they refer to as "Black Forest Metal": a blend that feels both deeply rooted and entirely its own.

Rather than fitting into a single label, Finsterforst's music thrives on contrast and fusion: crushing heaviness meets vast, cinematic atmospheres; raw aggression unfolds into melancholic, emotional depth; and monumental arrangements carry a sense of both intimacy and scale. While often described in broader terms as epic, atmospheric, or post-influenced extreme metal, Finsterforst deliberately transcend genre boundaries.

The result is a sound that is brutally powerful yet richly layered, where sadness, rage, triumph, and grandeur coexist within expansive compositions. Driven by constant progression and a refusal to stand still, Finsterforst continue to refine a vision that is as immersive as it is unmistakable.

The latest proof is Still, the band's first full-length in seven years and sixth overall. The preceding Jenseits mini-album, from 2023, showed Finsterforst at their most ambitious: a nearly 40-minute track broken up into four suites. On the nine-track / 78-minute Still, the Germans return to relatively more approachable song lengths, and the effect is immediate. As powerful and poignant as ever, their characteristic contrasts take their fullest flight yet, laying forth a landscape that's tinged with darkness and dreams, wanderlust and wonder, crystalline coloring and crushing heaviness. Compounding that power & poignancy are frequent excursions into folky, acoustic-led territory, further heightening the drama & dramatics central to their sound. And while their lyrics are largely still in their native tongue, one need not speak German to feel Still in their soul; drink deeply and Finsterforst's elixir is intoxicating, now more than ever. But, those who thrilled to Jenseits will surely want to drown in the 25-minute "Leere" here...and two surprise covers close the album, both done in the band's inimitable fashion.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Stille Nacht" HERE at AOP Records' official YouTube channel. Cover artwork, courtesy of Yaroslav Gerzhedovich, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Finsterforst's Still

1. Obduktion

2. Herbstwanderung

3. Knie nieder

4. Im Wind

5. Stille Nacht

6. Fels

7. Leere

8. Beyond the North Waves

9. Another Brick in the Wall

Nowy DESECRESY już dostępny

 

Track list:

01. Gorge of the Dead

02. It Appears in a Dream

03. By the Slowing Vortex of Time

04. Crypthymn

05. Ancient Timbre of Demise

06. Rotting Ghouls

07. Summoned With Necrolunar Telepathy

08. Vanishing Existence

9th album by this finnish band that plays a crushingly heavy type of Death Metal with Doom hints and a dark, cryptic & eerie atmosphere inspired by bands like BOLT THROWER, INCANTATION, RIPPIKOULU, MYTHIC, ABHORRENCE (fin), ROTTREVORE...