Recenzja Chamber of Unlight „Avernus”

 Chamber of Unlight

„Avernus”

Werewolf Rec. 2026

Debiutancki album Chamber of Unlight przedstawiałem wam niespełna pięć lat temu. Pamiętam, że mimo swojej „wtórności” strasznie przypadł mi do gustu i przesłuchałem go wielokrotnie, a potem jeszcze nie raz do „Realm of the Night” wracałem. Coś czuję, że podobnie będzie z nowym materiałem Finów. Dlaczego? Odpowiedź jest prosta jak konstrukcja młotka. (Czytaj dalej...)

Kolejny cover od AVILSED

 

AVULSED's journey through the darkest roots of Scandinavian Death Metal reaches its 4th chapter with a brutal rendition of "Spawn of Flesh", taken from the demo recorded by Sweden's MACABRE END (pre-GOD MACABRE) in 1990.

You can listen to the song here:

Youtube: https://youtu.be/Lq7c1-ZTu2w

Digitals: https://music.imusician.pro/a/axE3rmvF

Dave Rotten himself comments the following about this song:

"Some of you may be wondering why we chose to cover the Swedish band MACABRE END rather than GOD MACABRE, the name they adopted shortly afterwards. The reason is simple: this album is mainly focused on the demo years, so we wanted to revisit their earliest and rawest material. The "Consumed By Darkness" demo was recorded in 1990 and remixed the following year, with a few keyboard parts added for its 7" EP release, although the recordings themselves remained exactly the same. Just two songs and an intro were enough to make me a devoted fan.

After that, they changed their name to GOD MACABRE and recorded another masterpiece: a seven-track EP that felt more like a full-length album. Shortly afterwards they split up and never recorded any new material again. It wasn't until 2013 that they reunited to play a handful of underground festivals. Fortunately, I've met Per, their vocalist, several times over the years, and I even had the pleasure of having him contribute guest vocals on "Deathgeneration".

Their haunting melodies, incredibly well-crafted songwriting, and above all Per Boder's deep, unmistakable voice, one of my greatest influences as a vocalist, gave the band a unique identity within the Swedish Death Metal scene. It's a shame they never recorded anything else... although, considering how many bands radically changed their style during those years, perhaps it's better that they left behind such a flawless legacy".

A new piece of this dark puzzle will be revealed every friday until September 4th.

NECROCENE zapowiadają debiutancki album

 

On September 18th internationally, Personal Records is proud to present Necrocene's highly anticipated debut album, Scumocracy, on CD format.

There is a crushing weight bearing down on the globe presently, an unbridled destruction that breeds indifference. It is from this bleak reality that Necrocene draw their breath, subverting geological terminology into a grim political statement on the unstoppable, death-driven momentum of modern capitalism. This overarching thematic rot directly shapes the band's sonic architecture. Rejecting modern hyper-technical virtuosity, Necrocene deliver a style of death metal that is deliberately pedantic, abrasive, and deeply rooted in the genre's foundational essence.

Witness the aptly titled Scumocracy, Necrocene's debut album following 2024's well-received Detrimental Paratomy EP. Here, their sound bypasses modern trends to channel a raw, unapologetic tribute to the late '80s / early '90s Florida scene, heavily evoking the legendary aura of the Morrisound Studios era. Driven by the sharp, cutting edge of untamed riffs, uncalculated drumming, and a harsh, primitive vocal delivery, Necrocene capture the defiant, provocative spirit of early Obituary, Death, and Cancer. This uncompromising sonic filth is forged by members who cut their teeth in the trenches of Italy's underground punk and metal scenes, coming together to translate their shared counter-cultural roots into severe musical weight. Balancing sudden shifts in tempo with agonizingly heavy, cadenced downtempos, Scumocracy transforms concepts of social decay and technological obsolescence into a perfect, clear-sighted manifestation of a world careening toward its final, self-inflicted epoch.

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

Tracklisting for Necrocene's Scumocracy

1. (Threshold)

2. Ordinary Enemy

3. Tempestarii

4. Scale of Grey

5. Scumocracy

6. (Stillpoint)

7. Human Lithification

8. Concrete Petrichor

9. Weapons of the Damned

10. The Lust of Us

Nowy ALTARAGE końcem miesiąca

 

Sentient Ruin is proud and excited to announce our renewed partnership with Spanish experimental death metal extreme metal architects Altarage, over a decade after first partnering with them for the release of their debut demo tape. Coming on July 31 2026 will be the band’s seventh full-length album, “Cogwheel”, which will be released on 2LP, CD, and MC formats through Sentient Ruin in the US, and by Doomentia Records in the EU.

The colossal work has now been introduced by Decibel Magazine through an exclusive premiere of the monstrous 15-minute track “Ichor” - you can check out the track HERE.

The Basque experimental death metal behemoths have finally returned to crush the earth under their gargantuan hooves of dissonance. Packing in a staggering one hour and fourteen minutes of tectonic extreme metal upheaval, "Cogwheel" not only represents the longest, and most imposing work in their career, but also their most defiant and visionary. Since 2015, and across six genre-defining full length releases and the spawning of countless imitators, Altarage have brilliantly and mercilessly ploughed through the barriers of convention and tradition, setting in motion one of the most revolutionary ruptures in recent death metal history, and redefining the very architecture of heaviness and of their long standing dual mandate of destruction through transformation, and transformation through destruction. "Cogwheel" reinvents this dismal trajectory once again, representing yet another rift in Altarage's enigmatic and oppressive conquest for innovation. Tempos slow down, forms sprawl, deconstruct and convulse. Abstraction and morphing compositional frameworks expand. Echoes of Swans, Sunn O))), Scott Walker and Godflesh accrete into structural elements while lyrical themes and concepts mirror this process of rehumanization, shifting from the supernatural and the imaginary, to real, blood-pumping societal struggle that embodies the very notion of suffering and anger inside the cogwheel of transactional industry slavery. And at the center of all of this, always them: the riffs. The eternal centerpiece and engine to Altarage's tyrannical decade-long conquest. Colossal, implacable, inescapable uranium-depleted hammers of creation and destruction, demolishing and flattening everything in their wake. Conventions and their vestiges, wiped off the earth. Remnants and dogmas of tradition, flattened and pulverized under the weight of inevitability to create a new ground zero, scorched and sterilized of orthodoxy, and reseeded with the germs of innovation and expressive rebirth through the convergence of human struggle and musical destruction.

“Cogwheel” is set for an imminent July 31 2026 release on 2LP, CD, and MC formats through Sentient Ruin for the US, and Doomentia Records in the EU.

Klip od W.M.D

 

Vancouver (BC) - Canadian Thrashers W.M.D. (When Minds Develop) have launched the official video for "Post Human Predator," a track from the recently released Against All Warnings, the band's second full-length album!

Check out the video at: youtu.be/FvN4q32OUJE

EP-ka ETERNAL MOURN na dniach

 

No Clean Singing hosts the premiere of ETERNAL MOURN’s debut EP, "Winds of Sorrow", out on July 20th, 2026 via Terror From Hell Records.

Hailing from Italy, the band approaches death-doom through a sound deeply connected to the genre’s formative years, recalling the weight, atmosphere and emotional tension of the 1990s while avoiding a purely reverential approach.

Stream "Winds of Sorrow" at THIS LOCATION.

Born from the collaboration between drummer Debla and guitarist/vocalist Gabriel (Black Oath, The Rite, Extirpation), and later completed by guitarist Eros (Extirpation, Funest) and bassist/vocalist Santo (Araphel, Demonomancy), ETERNAL MOURN emerged from a shared desire to channel feelings of melancholy, frustration, inner decay and loss into music steeped in darkness and emotion.

Drawing heavily from the great death-doom tradition of the 1990s, the band pays homage to genre-defining acts such as Paradise Lost, Katatonia and Cemetary while avoiding mere nostalgia. Instead, ETERNAL MOURN reinterpret those influences with remarkable confidence and authenticity, crafting songs that feel complete, memorable and emotionally resonant, without sacrificing the raw and rugged edge that lies at the heart of classic doom/death metal..

Recorded at Spvn Studio in Guanzate, Italy, “Winds of Sorrow” consists of three carefully crafted tracks that capture the essence of the band’s vision: mournful melodies, somber atmospheres and a pervasive sense of desolation intertwined with powerful riffs and heartfelt performances. The result is a debut that balances melancholy and heaviness with natural ease, establishing ETERNAL MOURN as a promising new name within the contemporary death-doom scene.

Tracklist:

01. Falling Tears

02. Embracing Tragedy

03. Winds of Sorrow

Recenzja Hexorcist „Crucificial Imprecations”

 Hexorcist

„Crucificial Imprecations”

Invictus Rec. / Godz ov War 2026

Troszkę wody w rzece upłynęło od chwili wydania bardzo dobrego debiutu Amerykanów. Z drugiej strony, te pięć lat minęło jak z chuja strzelił, i oto mamy następcę „Evil Reaping Death”. W międzyczasie zespół przepoczwarzył się personalnie, a konkretnie na wokalach pojawił się Gienek Palubicki, choć zastanawiam się dlaczego pod nazwiskiem własnym, a nie jako Hexorcist V. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Arkona „Age of Capricorn”

 Arkona

„Age of Capricorn” (re-issue)

Mara Prod. 2026

To nie pierwsza reedycja Arkony popełniona przez tą wytwórnię. Teraz na tapetę Mara wzięła sobie siódmy album tej kapeli, czyli „Age of Capricorn”. Co by tu nie napisać o tej płycie, to i tak Ameryki się nie odkryje, bo większość ludzi przecież zna ten zespół, a muzykuje on już od 1993 roku. (Czytaj dalej...)

Video od CASTLE

 

US/Canadian heavy doom trio Castle have released a lyric video for “Burn the Messenger”, the closing track from the upcoming album “Carrie Chains” – scheduled for release Sept 4th on Hammerheart Records. “Burn the Messenger” is now the third single from the record and follows the quasi-title track “Carry Chains” and the more recent “Truckgrinder”.

Watch “Burn the Messenger” here:

Nowy SERVANT w październiku

 

Today, AOP Records announces October 2nd as the international release date of the highly anticipated fourth album of Germany's Servant, Lux Ex Inferis.

Servant have been unleashing their melodic-yet-furious black metal since 2021, quickly establishing themselves within the underground and beyond. With the release of their first two albums, Blessed by the Light of a Thousand Stars (2021) and Aetas Ascensus (2023), the band built a strong foundation, performing at numerous festivals and shows across Germany.

In 2024, Servant released their critically acclaimed third album, Death Devil Magick, via AOP Records, followed by extensive touring across Western and Eastern Europe in 2024 and 2026. Known for their authentic-yet-modern approach to melodic black metal, the band combines intensity, atmosphere, and passion into a distinctive sound.

Continuing their evolution, Servant are set to release their fourth studio album, Lux Ex Inferis, in October via AOP Records. Expanding on their established style, the new record merges epic structures and haunting melodies, creating a multi-layered sonic landscape where passion meets grandeur.

Balancing tradition and progression, Servant deliver a sound that feels both familiar and forward-thinking—uncompromising, powerful, and darkly captivating. In support of the new album, the band will embark on tour alongside Firtan and Speere, while also appearing at selected festivals and club shows throughout 2026.

In the meantime, see & hear the brand-new video "Tabula Rasa" - featuring vocals by P.G. of Groza - HERE at AOP Records' official YouTube channel. Full list of upcoming tour dates follows after the jump. Cover artwork, courtesy of Misanthropic-Art, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Servant (Germany)'s Lux Ex Inferis

1. In Noctem

2. Tabula Rasa

3. Glorification

4. Thanatos, Embrace of the Night

5. De Profundis

6. Lux Fulget

7. Of Stones, Sleep and Death

8. The Accuser

9. Hypnos I See You

TAAKE pojeżdżą po Europie

 

Having balanced tradition and innovation for over three decades, Taake remains fiercely independent while continually pushing its own creative boundaries. That uncompromising vision finds new expression on the ninth full-length album, En Skog av Nidstang, released on Dark Essence Records on the 31st of July.

Past years of increasing isolation, detached from contemporary trends and largely removed from the influence of other music, the creative drive of songwriter Hoest has only intensified, resulting in four expansive compositions that flow naturally from the inspired mindset behind 2023's critically acclaimed Et Hav av Avstand.

With the release of En Skog av Nidstang, we are proud to announce TAAKE - En Skog av Nidstang European tour, in collaboration with Massive Music.

03.09.2026 – GER – Berlin – Musikbrauerei

04.09.2026 – CZ – Ostrawa – Barrak Music Hrad

05.09.2026 – SK – Bratislava – Randal

06.09.2026 – AUT – Graz – Explosiv

08.09.2026 – SLO – Kranj – Trainstation Subart

09..09.2026 – ITA – Bologna – Alchemica

10.09.2026 – AUT – Innsbruck – Livestage

11.09.2026 – HOL – Deurne – CCD

12.09.2026 – HOL – Amstelveen – P60

13.09.2026 – BEL – Kotrijk – DVG

Further Taake shows

31.07.2026 – DE – Roitzschjora – Full Rewind Festival

06.08.2026 – SE – Göteborg – Monument 031

07.08.2026 – SE – Stockholm – Kollektivet Livet

08.08.2026 – SE – Sundvall – Club Deströyer

12.08.2026 – NO – Borre – Midgardsblot

21.08.2026 – DE – Eisfeld – Wolfszeit Festival

Klip od BOUND TO PREVAIL

 

Following the release of their debut album "Enthroned in Torment" through Lethal Scissor Records this past January, Maltese death metal outfit BOUND TO PREVAIL have unveiled a new lyric video for the album's title track.

Watch the lyric video HERE.

Można słuchać demo ÄXE

 

On July 17th internationally, Caligari Records will release the highly anticipated second demo of the UK's ÄXE, Autogeddon, on cassette tape format. And today, the New Wave of Old School Thrash Metal YouTube channel streams the demo in its entirety. Hear ÄXE's Autogeddon in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Singiel z debiutu DECEPTOR

 

Today, North Carolina deathrashers Deceptor premiere the new track "Street General" at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated debut album, Reign of Terror, set for international release on August 21st via Dying Victims Productions. Hear Deceptor’s "Street General" in its entirety HERE.

Hailing from Raleigh, Deceptor are death / thrash trio driven by the underground movement of 1988-1992. The band’s led by vocalist / bassist Gabriel Earley, who is responsible for writing music and lyrics, graphic design, and production / mixing / mastering. A self-taught musician, Earley started Deceptor in his bedroom, largely crediting the band’s creation to hearing the stories of bands like Anthrax and Metallica getting their start from Jon Zazula’s influence and belief in their potential/success. Jon died shortly before Earley began taking the idea of starting a band more seriously, and eventually, he found some musicians to make that idea come to life. The lineup coalesced when guitarist Preston Lanier joined in June 2022 after Earley approached him at an Exodus show with a copy of Deceptor’s first demo, Bound by Ritual; then, in October of that year, drummer Andrew Harper joined the band after witnessing their performance at a DIY house show. Together, the power-trio released the Bathed in Blood EP in 2023 and, the following year, the “Street General” digital single – both recordings setting the stage for their inevitable debut album.

Titled Reign of Terror, Deceptor’s debut album is tour de force of classic deathrash, firmly (and authentically) situated between those years of 1988 and 1992. With influences ranging from old Sepultura, Whiplash, and Protector on the thrashier end of things to Viogression, Ripping Corpse, and early Gorguts on the deathlier – and then Coroner, squarely in between – Deceptor construct mind-melting labyrinths across the ten-song / 33-minute record. Speed is always front and center here, but effectively shifts gears from gallop to one-two blast to overdrive and plenty more in between. Likewise, the riffing of Lanier spans the blunt & barbarian to technical terror, boosted by a litany of whirlwind solos poised to double your heart rate, effectively instilling both aggression and tension in their surprisingly dynamic songwriting. Earley’s bass work adds especial heft to their skulking breakdowns, which could almost be a record in themselves, so ever-present and compelling as they are. And Harper delivers a performance that his hero Gene Hoglan would’ve loved; one could say his violent acrobatics Leave Scars. Perhaps what’s most salient – beyond the era-authentic songwriting, that is – is the production on Reign of Terror, which sounds both throwback and refreshing, humidly raw and yet exceptionally finessed. Completed by Earley’s ‘91-vintage death-growls – again, just the right amount of reverb here – Deceptor’s first full-length stands as a reverential reinvigoration of archaic powers.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Street General" exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com. Also hear the previously revealed "Whammer" exclusively HERE, courtesy of Deaf Forever magazine. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Deceptor (North Carolina)'s Reign of Terror

1. Red Dawn

2. Human Cavity

3. GI Joe Headstomp

4. Join or Die

5. Combat Patrol

6. Firing Squad

7. Whammer

8. Fog of War

8. Street General

9. Corpse Corps

Recenzja Scordatura „Led Into Oblivion”

 Scordatura

„Led Into Oblivion”

Everlasting Spew Rec. 2026

Z nazwą Scordatura spotykam się po raz pierwszy, a panowie rzeźbią swoje już niemal dwadzieścia lat. W międzyczasie dorobili się trzech dużych płyt i kilku demówek. Sześciu, żeby być dokładnym. Nowy, czwarty, krążek wypuściła chwile temu włoska Everlasting Spew Records, więc postanowiłem sprawdzić, czy dotychczas zespół nie miał najzwyczajniej szczęścia do wydawców, czy po prostu prezentuje lipę. (Czytaj dalej...)