Recenzja Witching Hour “Past Midnight”

 Witching Hour

“Past Midnight”

Dying Victims Prod. 2026

 

This is already the fourth album by this German trio, which traces its origins back to the year two thousand and six. At least physically, because mentally, these guys are still stuck in the ’80s. I don’t know, maybe they travelled to our times in some kind of time machine, or, like Godfryd Amaury de Malfête and his squire, they drank a magic potion, because neither their appearance nor the music they create fits in with the present day at all. (Continue reading)

Recenzja Inferno „The Anthropic Sophisms (On the Heights of Despair)”

 Inferno

„The Anthropic Sophisms (On the Heights of Despair)”

Debemur Morti Productions 2026

Ci Czesi tworzą już od 1995 roku, ale jak dotąd i dziwnym trafem nigdy się z nimi nie spotkałem. Podobno mają ugruntowaną pozycję na czeskiej (i nie tylko) scenie więc postanowiłem sprawdzić ich najnowszy, dziewiąty już album, skoro zjawił się w mojej skrzynce pocztowej. To długie, cztery kompozycje, które łącznie trwają czterdzieści minut i zalewają słuchacza szumem kosmosu. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Sallow Moth „Hydrophilous Brood”

 Sallow Moth

„Hydrophilous Brood”

Willowtip (2026)

 

Jeszcze nie minął rok od wydanego w ubiegłym roku „Mossbane Lantern”, a teksański duet Sallow Moth atakuje z nowym, czwartym już pełniakiem. Do tej pory trochę traktowałem ten band z przymrużeniem oka, bo choć prezentował wysoki poziom instrumentalny, to kompozytorsko było tam więcej kunktatorstwa i chaosu niż wartościowej muzyki. (Czytaj dalej...)

Debiut TRENCHWAR we wrześniu

 

TRENCHWAR will release their debut album “Overlords of Cold” on September 18th, 2026 via Time To Kill Records.

Emerging as a unholy convergence of seasoned figures from the Dutch metal and hardcore underground, the band distills decades of experience into a sound that is both ferocious and deeply atmospheric. Their music merges crushing, slow-burning heaviness with raw hardcore urgency, shaped by a collective vision that pushes beyond individual backgrounds into something colder, darker, and more unified.

The album captures this evolution in full force, delivering a punishing listening experience where brutality and bleak introspection collide without compromise or restraint.

The first single "Black Heart" is streaming now:

YouTube: https://youtu.be/4t9-NHmDgRY

Streaming:https://ffm.to/trenchwar-black-heart

Blending the ferocious urgency of Nails and Integrity with the oppressive weight of Crowbar and Eyehategod, the song shifts between explosive aggression, groove-laden riffs and suffocating heaviness. Built around themes of inner darkness, destruction and devotion to death, "Black Heart" channels raw hostility through downtuned guitars, relentless rhythms and a bleak atmosphere that lingers long after the final note.

Tracklist:

​1. Somp Stomp

2. Black Heart

3. Overlords of Cold

4. Dust is Dust Again

5. Solace in Sulfur

6. Dread of Death

7. Funeral Hymn

8. Het Stof Daalt

9. The Center of Infinity

10. Martelaar

Numer z nowego HANTERNOZ

 

On August 7th internationally, Antiq is proud to present Hanternoz's highly anticipated third album, A Hed an Noz, a Noz, a Noz.

This album presents you six songs in the form of six devils of the common Breton folklore: a fairy, a lavad (a night fairy very dangerous), a devil, a corpse, a sort of fiery elf, and the spirit of the woods. Each of the six monsters takes the shape of BOTH a historical fact and a childhood memory to haunt back the storyteller. Of course, all this takes shape at night; that's why songs bear the name of a night moment. Through this crazy night of non-sleep, the demons take many shapes: sadness, amusement, hope, dispair, depression, joy, anger, and so on.

The album cover represents the one character that is never quoted but omnipresent here: an Ankou. Ankou is a scythe-living dead, representing Death itself. Ankou is interesting because the root of the word is Anken (fear) and rooted in German languag : Angst, Anguish, Angoisse. In fact, Ankou is the fear of Death itself and Death at the same time. On the cover art, you may want to watch the man guiding Ankou: a man whose regrets are especially live. This is why he is doomed into a non-life / non-death experience: leading the cart of Ankou. The weather represents a sunset, as they are scarce in Bretagne, but as can sometimes with luck be seen. As the sun is going down, the light of the carriage of the dead goes lit and the poor doomed man leads the ross and the Ankou onto the path to dying men. But as every battle should carry a tiny light of hope, there is in the background a warm house, with an oak and a swing.

Antiq is a label dedicated to the fully coherent concept of making music through sound, image, video, and attitude. They have been putting their entire existence into it since 2009. Over the years, Antiq have been identified as producers of not only perfectly coherent lyrics and themes through music, but also conceptual art and, of course, the manufacturing of beautiful objects. The label tries as much as it can to work with French creators, and if possible, with the smallest and most serious structures.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Jean-du-Feu" HERE at Antiq's official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Hanternoz's A Hed an Noz, a Noz, a Noz

1. Sur le Chemin des fees [11:40]

2. La Lessive des Trépassés [5:47]

3. Le Diable de Quimper-Corentin [7:50]

4. La Peste à Limoges [10:54]

5. Pe trouz War an Douar [3:34]

6. Jean-du-Feu [8:39]

7. Quand j'ai tué le Roi de la Forêt [8:10]

PLEŃ na Metal Kommando

 

Drugi album FILTH we wrześniu

 

On September 11th internationally, Me Saco Un Ojo Records and Rotted are proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Sweden's Filth, Death Exhibition. Me Saco Un Ojo will release the album in Europe on CD and vinyl LP formats, while Rotted Life will release it in the United States on CD and cassette tape formats.

Sweden's Filth have a knack for fitting album covers. The one to last year's celebrated Time to Rot debut album captured its psychedically putrid contents perfectly, and so does the cover to their sophomore full-length, Death Exhibition. Whereas that no-less-weighty debut LP proved Filth were true contenders to old-school death metal barbarity thawed in the present, Death Exhibition sees the power-trio sounding both more finessed and more barbaric. The formula has hardly changed, thankfully, but the foundations of their sound are expanded further here; whether it's the crude, tank-rolling crush of Grave's first two albums (including the dips into doomier territory on You'll Never See...) or the sooty angularity of Immolation's first two (the birth of the "backwards riff" sequence in DM), Filth go the distance in punishing the body and tormenting the mind on Death Exhibition.

Most poignant case in point: the dank crypt of instrumental "...Inhumed...," where flanged-out bass begins the plummet to unfathomable depths, establishing both atmosphere and physical presence of a most intimidating nature, and then carried to its conclusion in companion instrumental "...Exhumed...," where the chasm to (and from) that crypt becomes a hypnotically haunting trudge. Who else is doing such exemplary work with death metal instrumentals?

Naturally, other similarly old-school influences can be spotted - Demilich, Autopsy, Incantation, Finland's Abhorrence - but rest assured that Filth inject their own personality (and just a slight bit of weirdness) into the bubbling cauldron to remain authentic rather than ripping off someone else's past. Add in humid, wholly analog production and you truly have a Death Exhibition worth reckoning.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Mental Butchery" HERE at Me Saco Un Ojo's Bandcamp. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Filth (Sweden)'s Death Exhibition

1. Intro

2. Split Casket

3. Buried Alive

4. Born A Corpse

5. Mental Butchery

6. ...Inhumed...

7. Sadistic Ways

8. Death Exhibition

9. ...Exhumed...

10. Rotted Life

VULGAR MEPHITIS zapowiadają debiut

 

Pittsburgh (PA) - Brutal death metal foursome, Vulgar Mephitis, have joined the Willowtip roster! The band is set to release From Dust, their debut full-length album, on September 11.

The album's first single, "Martyr," is available now on all digital platforms. Check it out at: youtu.be/O73QmwCZ-IA

On From Dust, Vulgar Mephitis follows their 3-track, 2022 self-titled debut EP with a compositionally varied approach that disorients with violent tempo disruption and dissonant riff angularity. The impression left is a lasting, albeit jarring, one.

From Dust will be available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.

Pre-order:

Willowtip Records

vulgarmephitis.bandcamp.com/album/from-dust

Track Listing:

1. From Dust

2. Martyr

3. Exterminating Profane

4. Peer Into The Abyss

5. Scorn Of My Flesh

6. Gorging Greed

7. To Dust

8. Wounds

Klip od INFERNO

 

"The Anthropic Sophisms", the electrifying upcoming 9th full-length from Czech Black Metal pioneers INFERNO, is

layered and compelling extreme music that breathes anew in nighttime hours. These are strange, viscous dimensions where deep space Black Metal, Industrial brutalism, malevolent motorik rhythms, crackling electronics and obscure vocals collide.

Faithful to the album aesthetics, the band now unveils an interdimensional epic as a visual counterpart to its third track: 'With Raving Mouths They Utter Things Mirthless, Unadorned and Unperfumed'.

Watch here:

"The Anthropic Sophisms" will be released on CD, vinyl and digital on July 17th. A specially designed t-shirt and zip-hoodie accompanies the release. Pre-orders are possible via DMP's EU, US and Bandcamp shops.

Wznowienie EP-ki MISERY INDEX

 

Time To Kill Records is proud to announce the vinyl reissue of MISERY INDEX's landmark 2001 debut EP, "Overthrow", arriving on LP for the first time on December 15th, 2026.

A defining release in the early evolution of modern deathgrind, "Overthrow" captured the raw energy and uncompromising vision of a newly formed band destined to become one of the genre's most influential names. Across five relentless tracks including a blistering cover of Terrorizer's "Dead Shall Rise", MISERY INDEX forged a sound that fused death metal, grindcore and hardcore with sharp social commentary and unrelenting intensity.

Originally self-released on CD through the band's own Anarchos Records, the EP has remained a cornerstone of extreme music history for more than two decades. Now, Time To Kill Records proudly brings this essential release back to vinyl, faithfully preserving the ferocity and impact of these historic recordings. The vinyl edition also features 3 bonus tracks recorded by the band a year after the "Overthrow" release (which appeared on the 2002 split with Commit Suicide).

For the first time the recording is also mastered for vinyl by Virtalähde Mastering.

Tracklist:

Side A

1. Manufacturing Greed

2. Your Pain Is Nothing

3. Blood On Their Hands

4. Pulling Out The Nails

5. Dead Shall Rise (Terrorizer cover)

Side B (Bonus Tracks)

1. My Untold Apocalypse

2. Alive?

3. Reality Distortion

Singiel od THE ABSOLUTION SEQUENCE

 

The new video from Tasmanian death metal devils THE ABSOLUTION SEQUENCE is now streaming. "The Nightlight Sigil" is the third single off the band's highly-anticipated full-length album, Dread Cycle.

Vocalist Shawn Wells calls the song the most personal track on Dread Cycle. "The Nightlight Sigil is a tale of family trauma, toxic home environments and the way in which one is treated in the aftermath. Often those who have suffered the most where they are meant to feel protected are shamed and forgotten. The aim of this is to keep the conversation alive, and begin to heal these deep wounds."

Watch the video for "The Nightlight Sigil" at https://youtu.be/e21gFJfEAKM?si=3vAcFOVdY0zBpepb

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.

Stream the videos for the album's first two singles at the links below:

"Idols of Confraternity" - youtu.be/nFbmnakuaPM

"Ghost Mantra" - youtube.com/watch?v=a3MW6H0Socwm

Follow THE ABSOLUTION SEQUENCE on Spotify.

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

Nowy DEMONIC MANIFESTATION we wrześniu

 

On September 4th internationally, Personal Records is proud to present Demonic Manifestation's highly anticipated third album, Grimshrine, on CD format.

Demonic Manifestation are a Mexican death metal band from Colima, formed in 2012 after years of different parallel projects among its members. Driven by a passion for extreme, pure, and honest music, the band found their identity through the influence of the classic Swedish death metal scene and the raw essence of the '90s underground sound.

Inspired by such legendary acts as Dismember, Grave, Entombed, Unleashed, Pestilence, and Crematory, Demonic Manifestation developed a sound rooted in old-school death metal while embracing darker and more decadent atmospheres. Two full-lengths resulted - 2015's World of Horror and 2017's Necrokult - which saw the band blend chaos, horror, and aggression with a strong commitment to authenticity over technical excess. Death metal by maniacs, for maniacs: Demonic Manifestation were truly the real deal.

However, recordings from the band have been sparse this decade; their last-released songs were on a six-way split from 2020. Nevertheless, Demonic Manifestation remained active within the underground and, at long last, are prepared to renew their raw and macabre vision of death metal with Grimshrine. Featuring a new power-trio lineup, Grimshrine absolutely EXPLODES with the dark, melodic magick of early Swedeath. No more but definitely no less, Demonic Manifestation craft death metal of this style with the authenticity, class, and POWER of true disciples - and true masters. Blink and you might think that Grimshrine was a lost relic of 1992, so stout its ancient spell.

Why reinvent the wheel when you can simply CRUSH it? Demonic Manifestation keep it rolling with Grimshrine!

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Kuru: The Laughing Death March" HERE at Personal Records' Bandcamp as well as HERE at Personal Records' official YouTube channel. Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Demonic Manifestation's Grimshrine

1. Cult Of Dominion

2. Ninth Flame Oath

3. Kuru: The Laughing Death March

4. The Horror

5. Spheres Of Death

6. Host

7. Terror Cosmic Gates

8. Phantasma

9. The Evil Lurks

AZELS MOUNTAIN na Metal Kommando

 

Recenzja Finsterforst „Still”

 

Finsterforst

„Still”

AOP Records 2026

 

Finsterforst pochodzi z Niemiec i muzykuje już od 2004 roku. Ten septet kilka płyt ma już na koncie, bo pięć, a „Still” to najnowsza, szósta ich płyta, która ukarze się pod koniec lipca. Teutoni tworzą folk-viking metal, tak przynajmniej określają ich źródła internetowe, ale to duże uproszczenie, ponieważ muzyka tego bandu korzysta z całej gamy gatunków metalowych.  (Czytaj dalej...)

Nowy KROLOK we wrzesniui

 

Today, Osmose Productions announces September 25th as the international release date for Krolok's highly anticipated third album, Hričov-Súľov-Lietava, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

The third long-playing full-length of the immortal Count will take you many centuries back to the glorious times of the mighty Carpathian castles and the mysterious history of Slovakia.

Enhanced by lyrics sung in the native language for the first time, in which the spirits of the ancient past legends are called upon. Become a part of those old tales and listen up to the sound of eerie fanfares in the misty distance…

First track premiere to be revealed on August 31st. Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Krolok's Hričov-Súľov-Lietava

1. Hričov [13:51]

2. Pod skalnou bránou [4:06]

3. Súľov [9:34]

4. Dolu Váhom [2:19]

5. Lietava [7:15]

6. Posledný zárez v čase [3:02]