Recenzja / A review of Cave Dweller „Showing Teeth”

 Cave Dweller

„Showing Teeth”

Aesthetic Death 2026

Unfold, Pando... A na dokładkę Hivemind. Co owe projekty mają ze sobą wspólnego? No, poza sprawą oczywistą, czyli wydawaniem dla tej samej wytwórni, Cave Dweller to kolejne wcielenie Adama Bryanta muzyka odpowiedzialnego za pierwsze z dwóch wymienionych. Idąc tym tropem, wiadomo zatem, że i w Cave Dweller nie tworzy on muzyki lekkiej, łatwej i przyjemnej. (Czytaj dalej... / Read here)

Recenzja Tulus „Morbid Desires”

 Tulus

„Morbid Desires”

Darkness Shall Rise Productions 2026

Minęły trzy latka i powrócili panowie z Tulus, proponując swoim odbiorcom kolejną odsłonę black metalu w autorskim wydaniu. Tym razem to dziewięć numerów, które lecą głównie w średnim tempie, zwalniając niekiedy i przechodząc w nastrojowe wyciszacze czy gniotące siermiężnie walce. Tak naprawdę to nic nowego, bo Norwedzy postępują zgodnie z wypracowanym przez lata działalności szablonem. (Czytaj dalej...)

Można sprawdzać nowy AERDRYK

 

On March 21st internationally, Amor Fati Productions will release Aerdryk's highly anticipated second album, Onzuiver, on ​CD and vinyl LP formats. And today, the Black Metal Promotion YouTube channel streams the album its entirety. Hear Aerdryk's Onzuiver in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Debiut DRAGSHOLM do odsłuchu

 

BLACKENED DEATH METAL BAND ‘DRAGSHOLM’ RELEASE DEBUT FULL-LENGTH ALBUM ‘THE BLOODLINE OF BRAM’

(Listen on Spotify)

Blackened death metal band DRAGSHOLM release debut full-length album ‘THE BLOODLINE OF BRAM.’ The album’s focus on ghastly themes, including Dracula and the occult, are backed by the band’s macabre and morose style of blackened death metal.

The New Jersey based DRAGSHOLM, named after a haunted castle in Denmark, originally began in 2017 as a one-man project from musician Vlad Rituals. In 2023, the project officially became a full band when G.B joined on bass with Schlemi and Gravelord on guitars.

‘FROM THE BLOODLINE OF BRAM,’ is a concept album about Dracula and the occult. The album’s dark story is fully realized through visceral passages of blackened speed and raw, bludgeoning death metal. The album’s harrowing atmosphere is cemented by ghastly vocals and a rhythm machine that can make even the dead headbang.

Kolejny numer od AINZAMKAIT

 

Today, German black metallers Ainzamkait reveal the new track "Im Antliz des Mondes." The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated second album, Fluch des Nachzehrers, set for international release on March 21st via Purity Through Fire. Hear Ainzamkait's "Im Antliz des Mondes" in its entirety HERE at Purity Through Fire's official YouTube channel.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Im Antliz des Mondes" HERE at Purity Through Fire's official YouTube channel. Also hear the previously revealed title track "Flurch des Nachzehrers" HERE, also at Purity Through Fire's official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Ainzamkait's Fluch des Nachzehrer

1. Blutrausch

2. Fluch des Nachzehrers

3. Blut´ges Morgentau (feat. Revenant - Sarkrista/Order of Nosferat)

4. Pestritter

5. Im Antlitz des Mondes

6. Alb der Ewigkeit

7. Was bleibt ist Einsamkeit

8. Solange dein Herz schlägt

Video od AS THE SUN FALLS

 

AS THE SUN FALLS unveils “9 Days Of Sorrow”, a deeply emotional and atmospheric single that dives into themes of grief, loss, and the passage through darkness. Rooted in the band’s signature blend of melodic and atmospheric death metal, the track weaves emotion with haunting melodies, creating a powerful and introspective listening experience.

The video brings the song’s sorrowful narrative to life, reflecting the weight of loss and the slow, lingering journey through mourning. Both musically and visually, “9 Days Of Sorrow” stands as one of the most personal and evocative moments from Songs From The Veil.

With their third full-length album, AS THE SUN FALLS continue to explore Finnish mythology, northern landscapes, and human fragility, crafting a sound that is as vast as it is intimate.

CARDIAC ARREST na trasie po Europie. Dwa koncerty u nas

 

Next month, Chicago death metal institution Cardiac Arrest will tour Europe. Encompassing nine dates and presented by Killtown Bookings, the trek will be the band's first European tour in over eight years; joining them will be fellow Hells Headbangers labelmates Cadaveric Incubator. Confirmed dates and venues as well as poster art are as follows:

17.04: Gdansk, PL - Torpeda

18.04: Lublin, PL - Klub Graffiti / Blast Fest

19.04: Zvolen, SK - Barbar Club

20.04: Zagreb, CR - Vintage Industrial Bar

21.04: TBC

22.04: Leeuwarden, NL - Mukkes

23.04: Hannover, DE - Bei Chez Heinz

24.04: The Hague, NL - Musicon *

25.04: Brussels, BE - Magasin 4 **

* w/ Warp Chamber (us) + Degraved (us)

** w/ Undergang (dk) + Corpus Offal (us) + Warp Chamber (us) + Degraved (us)

Nowy DOMJORD na dniach

 

On March 27th internationally, Vidfare Productions (a division of NoEvDia) will release DomJord's highly anticipated third album, Morgonglöd.

Laus Industria, Cunabula Ardens Exitii - Part I

"If the final collapse is to be man-made, the Industrial Revolution may be deemed the cradle. This is my attempt at its soundtrack." - Daniel Rostén

Full album stream to be revealed the day of release. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for DomJord's Morgonglöd

1. Kol [6:50]

2. Eld [6:16]

3. Masugn [7:16]

4. Rök [6:31]

5. Blåsbälg [8:08]

6. Stål [6:55]

Nowy NECROMORBID w kwietniu

 

NECROMORBID ''Ceremonial Demonslaught'' (Full-length Album)

Releases April 17, 2026 Format: LP • CD • MC • DIGITAL

Genre: Black Death Metal

Country: Italy

Recorded and mixed in December 2024 - January 2025

Check out their first shot, 'Manic Savagery': 👉 https://youtu.be/JtmFkEZNIS8

Tracklist:

01. Ceremonial Initiation

02. Perverted Abhorrence Domain

03. Manic Savagery

04. Evil Angelic Might

05. Into Atrocious Vortex

06. Blasphemous Incantation from Beyond

07. Forbidden Ghastly Curse

08. Inverse Cruxifixiation

09. Final Demonslaught

GAMA BOMB i OWLS WOODS GRAVES dochodzą do składu HELLS BELLS

 

Szczecin, Poland; 19 March 2026: Hells Bells Festival continues its build-up toward 26-27 June 2026 with a dual band announcement and a major logistical expansion.

The festival has confirmed Northern Ireland thrashers Gama Bomb and Polish blackened punks Owls Woods Graves, while also revealing that the event will now span three distinct stages at the Plac Gryfitów site.

Gama Bomb are widely known for their speed, technicality, and fun-filled, high-octane live shows. Fans in Szczecin should prepare for a masterclass in headbanging as the band brings their signature "thrash metal bomb" to the Łasztownia waterfront. The band’s latest release is the EP “Necronomicon Automaton”.

The bill is further bolstered by Owls Woods Graves, a project conceived by The Fall & E.V.T. Their unique sound, self-described as "haunted woods hardcore", blends black metal with raw punk energy and macabre storytelling inspired by witches and the Devil. The band is currently promoting their third album, “Strix”.

Recenzja Transilvania „Magia Posthuma”

 Transilvania

„Magia Posthuma”

Invictus Prod. 2026

Tych herbatników znać raczej powinniście. Zwłaszcza jeśli scenę blackmetalową śledzicie na bieżąco. Austriacy wydali właśnie przed chwilą swój trzeci krążek, ponownie pod banderą Invictus Productions. Znajdziemy na nim kontynuację tego, co panowie prezentowali na „The Night of Nights” i „Of Sleep and Death”. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Feversea „Wormwood in the Veins of the World”

 Feversea

„Wormwood in the Veins of the World” E.P.

Dark Essence Records 2026

Nigdy wcześniej bym nie przypuszczał, że kiedykolwiek i z taką siłą uderzy we mnie post-metalowa produkcja. Tak, właśnie ten gatunek uprawiają członkowie, pochodzącej z Oslo Feversea, która w zeszłym roku wydała swój debiutancki krążek, a szóstego marca wróciła z najnowszymi, czterema kawałkami w postaci tej epki. (Czytaj dalej...)

Nowy numer ATOMIC AGGRESSOR

 

Today, Chilean death metal legends Atomic Aggressor reveal the new track "Dwellers of the Unknown." The track is the first to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated second album, The Occult Forces, which will see release later this spring via Hells Headbangers. Hear Atomic Aggressor's "Dwellers of the Unknown" in its entirety HERE at Hells Headbangers' official YouTube channel.

At ground zero of Chile's still-thriving death metal scene, Atomic Aggressor had a strong hand in shaping that supreme sound back in the late '80s with 1989's influential Bloody Ceremonial demo and 1991's subsequent Resurrection demo. Prematurely, the band broke up but re-formed in 2007 to play a number of national festivals, proving that the ancient hellfire still burned brightly.

With two founding members at the helm, vocalist/bassist Alejandro Díaz and guitarist Enrique Zúñiga, Atomic Aggressor released a well-received split 7" with Death Yell in 2013, further proving that their barbaric deathrash had lost none of its violence & force. But that split was a mere appetizer for the band's long-awaited debut album, Sights of Suffering, which Hells Headbangers released to widespread acclaim at the end of 2014. Some 25 years on from their original formation, Atomic Aggressor continued where they started in the late '80s, but brimmed with a belligerence and bluster that belied their seemingly advanced age. Indeed, old dogs do old tricks! And they did those old tricks again with 2019's Invoking the Primal Chaos EP, continuing that fiery momentum as if five years hadn't passed.

Alas, seven years after that record comes Atomic Aggressor's LONG-awaited second album, The Occult Forces. Once again, time simply does not pass in these Chileans' world, for they pick up exactly where they left off with Invoking the Primal Chaos: pure and total DEATH METAL that's evil and a bit blackened, explosive but finessed. It's almost insane how Atomic Aggressor just don't seem to age, like some metalized portrait of Dorian Gray, and their execution here is sharper than ever, serving their songwriting with malicious intent and maximum overdrive. That The Occult Forces could've been released in 1989, 1999, 2009, or 2019 speaks volumes about the timelessness of the quintet's craft. More than a "throwback," however, Atomic Aggressor show that they're STILL the Real Deal; such songs can only come from those who grew up - and bled - in the 1980s, especially a landscape as lawless as South America. If there's one development here, it's that the characteristically maniacal solos are a bit more reigned in, more diabolical in their classier exposition.

All told, The Occult Forces is as swift as a missile at eight songs in 40 minutes...if it takes Atomic Aggressor another five-plus years to put out another record, it's not for lack of deadly efficiency!

Release date, cover, and tracklisting for The Occult Forces to be revealed shortly. In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Dwellers of the Unknown" HERE at Hells Headbangers' official YouTube channel.

Debiut HAJDUK końcem kwietnia

 

Today, Amor Fati Productions announces April 30th as the international release date for Hajduk's highly anticipated debut album, Хвърковата чета, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

After almost six years of silence, Hajduk return with their first full-length Хвърковата чета (English: "The Flying Band"), centered around the life and death of the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Benkovski and his name-giving cavalry detachment. Six pieces of Bulgarian classical poetry and folk songs, adapted into furious, bloody-raw, and yet hauntingly melodic black metal.

Death to oppression! Honor the blood spilled for a righteous cause! Weep for the mothers, robbed of their children! Weep, for death gets everything!

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Кърваво писмо" HERE at Amor Fati's official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Hajduk's Хвърковата чета

1. Кърваво писмо [4:50]

2. Непобедима [8:30]

3. Ударите [6:27]

4. Дим до бога [4:37]

5. Три бюлбюла [6:31]

6. Черната река [7:58]

TOUGHNESS na Thunderfest

 

Recenzja Doodswens „Doodswens”

 Doodswens

„Doodswens”

Svart Rec. 2026

Zespół, którego nazwę można przetłumaczyć na nasze jako „Życzenie Śmierci”, pochodzi z Holandii, a samozatytułowany krążek, którym delektuję się od dobrych dwóch tygodni, jest ich drugim w biografii pełniakiem. Jedynki nie znam, ale po tym, co to trio prezentuje na najnowszym wydawnictwie, czuję pilną potrzebę nadrobienia zaległości. Zacznijmy od tego, że Doodswens to black metal. I to black metal jak za starych, dobrych lat. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Diatribes „Degenerate”

 Diatribes

„Degenerate”

Brutal Records 2026

Nic bliżej o Diatribes nie wiadomo, poza tym, że pochodzą z Brazylii i dwudziestego marca wydadzą swój debiutancki album. To trzynaście utworów, które można zdefiniować jako thrash-death metal z naciskiem na ten pierwszy człon. To żywiołowa muzyka, która brzmieniem i kostkowaniem nawiązuje do lat osiemdziesiątych i głównie thrashu w ujęciu niemieckim. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Leila Abdul-Rauf „Andros Insidium”

 Leila Abdul-Rauf

„Andros Insidium”

20 Buck Spin (2026)

 

Nie jest czymś niepopularnym, że muzycy metalowych formacji niejednokrotnie próbują sił w graniu innych, często lżejszych gatunków muzyki, sygnując je swoim nazwiskiem, bądź opatrując jakąś skromną kolaborację nową nazwą. Z głośniejszych przykładów przytoczę tylko Karla Sandarsa ze swoimi egipskimi fascynacjami (Czytaj dalej...)

Nowy album CALVANA do odsłuchu

 

Today, Italian black metallers Calvana stream the entirety of their highly anticipated third album, Sub Janus, at the Black Metal Promotion YouTube channel. Set for international release on March 20th via Adirondack Black Mass, hear Calvana's Sub Janus in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Klip od LLOTH

 

From the depths of Hellenic darkness, LLOTH unveil the official video for Acherodas, taken from their latest album Archees Legeones (Ancient Legions)!

Immersed in a cinematic and obscure black metal atmosphere, the video brings the song’s haunting spirit to life through a ritualistic visual narrative of shadow, symbolism, and ancient power. Echoing the dark mythological undertones that run through the album, Acherodas descends into a world where mysticism, death, and rebirth intertwine; an audiovisual journey that captures the raw intensity and epic scope of LLOTH’s sound.

Singiel COGNIZANCE

 

Leeds (UK) - Progressive Death Metallers, COGNIZANCE, have partnered with Metal Injection for the video premiere of "A Game of Proliferation," the second single from forthcoming album, In Light, No Shape. Get in on it at:

metalinjection.net/new-music/cognizance-streams-steamrolling-new-single-a-game-of-proliferation

Following 2024’s critically acclaimed LP Phantazein, COGNIZANCE return with In Light, No Shape May 1 on Willowtip Records!

Four LPs deep and a slew of EPs behind them, COGNIZANCE show no signs of restraining the pace of unrelenting inventive riffs and razor-sharp grooves. In Light, No Shape is a masterful Progressive Death Metal opus, rich in texture and atmospheric detail, delivering everything long-time listeners crave while channeling the mid-90s technical extremity of Death, Extol, and Meshuggah. This time, the band deliberately fractures the conventions of modern extreme production, opting instead for a more organic and visceral mix that sharpens the defining traits of their work.

In Light, No Shape marks the first lineup shift in a decade, as the band sharpen from a quintet to a quartet with founding guitarist Alex Baillie stepping forward as vocalist while retaining guitar duties, following the 2023 departure of founding vocalist Henry “Big Mac” Pryce.

“This record is a defining milestone for us. Taking on vocals has pushed us to re-engineer how we experiment with the blend of elements in our sound, unlocking new creative pathways to compliment the core identity of the band. What you will hear are four dudes all adding their flavours to the melting pot to create a body of work that felt completely natural to us.”

- Alex Baillie (Vocals/Guitar)

Debiut VOMITO MORTUORIO wkrótce w Necroscope Blasphemia

 

Numer z nowego albumu DESECRESY

 

The most dense, dark and disturbing Death Metal force from Finland, DESECRESY, rises once again from the depths to seal a new chapter in their alliance with Xtreem Music. Their 9th album, "The Secret of Death", will be unleashed on May 21st through Xtreem Music on CD, 12"LP, cassette and digital formats.

A new descent into oppressive and mortuary realms where the band reaffirms their monolithic, cavernous and utterly suffocating sound.

Listen to the first advance single here:

Youtube: https://youtu.be/GvABnZV-3R8

All Digital platforms:

https://music.imusician..pro/a/b5y4AbGK

Pre-save album on Spotify & Deezer:

https://music.imusician.pro/a/Kf4jwatV

DESECRESY is the singular vision of Tommi Grönqvist, who has consistently handled all songwriting and instrumentation since the band’s inception. From the fifth album onwards, he also took over vocal duties, pushing the sound into even deeper, more guttural territory. The band’s style remains unmistakable: dark, putrid, mysterious and hypnotic Death Metal infused with Doom-laden atmospheres, evoking the spirit of acts such as BOLT THROWER, INCANTATION, RIPPIKOULU, MYTHIC, ABHORRENCE (Fin) and ROTTREVORE.

With a clear artistic direction and a wealth of material from the very beginning, DESECRESY swiftly entered the studio to record its debut full-length, “Arches of Entropy”, completed in the summer of 2010. The album was immediately sent to Xtreem Music, marking the start of a long-standing collaboration through which DESECRESY has firmly established itself within the lineage of Finnish Death Metal.

A steady stream of albums followed under the same label: “The Doom Skeptron” (2012), “Chasmic Transcendence” (2014), “Stoic Death” (2015), “The Mortal Horizon” (2017), “Towards Nebulae” (2019), “Unveil in the Abyss” (2022) and “Deserted Realms” (2023).

“The Secret of Death” stands as DESECRESY’s ninth full-length release and the fifth crafted entirely by Tommi alone. The album continues the band’s relentless descent into oppressive sonic realms, blending early 90s-inspired brutality with an atmosphere drawn from the darkest layers of the psyche.

DESECRESY represents a fully self-contained entity: music, production and artwork all originate from a single mind. The result is a monolithic and immersive sound rooted in Finnish Death Metal, enriched with Doom influences, deep subterranean vocals, churning riffs and haunting lead guitars, often shifting through unconventional structures and tempos.

Tracklist for "The Secret of Death":

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

Release date for "The Secret of Death" will be May 21st through Xtreem Music on CD, 12"LP, Cassette & Digital formats.

Kolejny numer od HROB

 

Today, Slovakian death metallers Hrob premiere the new track "Zotročený Oheň" at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated debut album, Brána Chladu, set for international release on April 27th: Memento Mori will handle the CD version while Night Terror Records will handle the vinyl and cassette versions. Hear Hrob's "Zotročený Oheň" in its entirety exclusively HERE.

With chillingly sublime cover artwork by Jan Vlášek as the literal icing on the cake, Hrob's Brána Chladu is a morbid celebration of those fertile years of the early-to-mid '90s, when death-doom rose from rotting death metal and each bled b(l)ack into the other, and thus highly recommended for maniacs of equally early Paradise Lost and Septic Flesh as well as DiSEMBOWELMENT, Asphyx, and Gorement!

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Zotročený Oheň" exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com. Also hear the previously revealed "Tiene Stromov" HERE at Memento Mori's official YouTube channel. Aforementioned cover art and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Hrob's Brána Chladu

1. Intro

2. Chrám Prázdnoty

3. Tiene Stromov

4. Genocída Snov

5. Medzihra

6. Zotročený Oheň

7. Brána Chladu

Recenzja Skaphos „The Descent”

 Skaphos

„The Descent”

Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions 2026

Nie rozumiem, nigdy nie rozumiałem, i zapewne w swoim życiu już nie zrozumiem tego typu zabiegów. Jakieś „TheBestOf”-y, albo nagrywanie ponownie starych numerów, bo brzmiały słabo, albo „a może zarobimy po raz drugi” – patrz Cavalera wzorem Modern Talking… Dajcie spokój! Jakiekolwiek by były pobudki, każda płyta zespołu jest jego integralną historią, śladem odciśniętym „tu i teraz”, i poprawianie jej po latach, bo coś nam się w głowie aranżacyjnie udoskonaliło, jest po prostu bezcelowe. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Aurora Disease „Epitaph”

 Aurora Disease

„Epitaph”

Purity Through Fire 2026

Aurora Disease to projekt, który powstał w 2015 roku na terenie Niemiec. Początkowo było to przedsięwzięcie jednego artysty, do którego po czasie dołączyło trzech innych. Niestety przedawkowania, zgony i rozstania spowodowały, że na ten czas, Aurora Disease znów jest jednoosobową kapelą. To co można usłyszeć na „Epitaph”, będącym trzecim albumem tego one-man bandu, jest czymś w rodzaju post-black metalu. (Czytaj dalej...)

Wznowienie debiutu NOXIS

 

Rotted Life (US) and Dawnbreed Records (Europe) announce a new vinyl and CD pressing of “Violence Inherent In The System”, the debut album by Cleveland death metal outfit NOXIS, originally released in 2024, now set for a new reissue on March 27th.

Widely praised within the underground upon its initial release, “Violence Inherent In The System” delivers eleven tracks of ferocious and twisted death metal, blending labyrinthine riffing, suffocating atmospheres and relentless aggression. From the crushing opener “Skullcrushing Defilement” to the bleak closer “Emanations of the Sick,” the album unfolds as a dense and punishing listen, confirming NOXIS as one of the most compelling names in the contemporary underground death metal scene.

FFO: Demigod, early Cryptopsy, Demilich.

The new pressing will be available in the following formats:

LP – regular jacket (300 copies total)

100 copies on black vinyl

200 copies on yellow flame vinyl

CD – jewel case with printed case (300 copies)

Nowy BONG-RA do odsłuchu

Five days before official release, Industrial Metal pioneer Jason Köhnen (THE KILIMANJARO DARKJAZZ ENSEMBLE, THE LOVECRAFT SEXTET) premieres the full stream of "Esoterik", the new album from his primary project BONG-RA, on DMP's YouTube channel. Listen here:

BONG-RA's signature low-frequency weight, cinematic horn arrangements and percussive austerity remain at the core, but on "Esoterik" they are recontextualised, distorted, mechanized and reforged into a denser, more monolithic sound. The result is an album that feels both primal and post-apocalyptic, ritualistic yet modern, symbolic yet physical.

A spiritual successor to 2025's "Black Noise", the record delves deeper into the shadows and luminescence of the occult, expanding the ritualistic atmospheres explored on previous albums "Antediluvian" (2018) and "Meditations" (2022).

Köhnen comments on this fusion:

"I was curious to see the result of the fusion between the styles of the previous albums with the new path taken. Apart from there being a lot of similarities in atmosphere I wanted to be able to also continue the line with the more occult and archaic themes which set a great contrast with the futuristic dystopian atmosphere of (2025 preceding album) "Black Noise". The idea was already born during the creative process of "Black Noise", it was just a matter of patience to put those ideas into fruiting a year or so later."

Klip od ORIA

 

ORIA Unveil Animated Video for “Pirates, Parrots and Parasites” from Acclaimed Album This Future Wants Us Dead

Progressive groove metal band ORIA have released a striking new animated music video for their track “Pirates, Parrots and Parasites”, taken from their sophomore album This Future Wants Us Dead, out now via Theogonia Records.

Watch ORIA’s new video:

https://youtu.be/UWS_0OTJSAI

Recenzja Hrob „Brána Chladu”

 Hrob

„Brána Chladu”

Memento Mori / Night Terrors 2026

Słowacja potentatem na rynku metalowym nie jest. I wyjątki pokroju Malokarpatan czy Goatcraft wcale takiego stanu rzeczy nie zmieniają. Nic zatem dziwnego, że do debiutanckiej płyty Hrob podchodziłem ze sporym sceptycyzmem. Zespół to relatywnie świeży, bo bogaty jedynie w demo, wydane jakieś trzy lata temu. Jako iż nie miałem okazji tamtego materiału sprawdzić, nie za bardzo wiedziałem, czego się spodziewać. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Sparagmos „Error”

 Sparagmos

„Error” (Reissue)

Selfmadegod Records 2026

Sparagmos’a pamiętam przez pryzmat ich splitu z Lastwar i charakterystycznie wydanej kasety, która w tej chwili wala się w jakimś kartonie z innymi taśmami, w piwnicy moich rodziców. Tak naprawdę zupełnie nie mogłem sobie przypomnieć, jak leciała ich muza, bo w tamtych latach specjalnego wrażenia na mnie nie zrobili, a poza tym chyba za bardzo nie mogli wtedy konkurować z kapelami, których nagrania docierały do Polski z Zachodu. (Czytaj dalej...)

Rozpiska dniowa na HELLS BELLS

 

Kawałek od DEMON SPELL

 

Today, Italian dark heavy metallers Demon Spell premiere the new track "Dive the Hellfire" at heavily trafficked web-portal Metal.de. The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated debut album, Blessed Be the Dark, set for international release on April 24th via Dying Victims Productions. Hear Demon Spell's "Dive the Hellifire" in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Zapowiedź demo IGNOBLETH

 

Today, Italian blackened death metallers Ignobleth premiere the new track "Proselyte Pig I" at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated debut album, Manor of Primitive Anticreation, set for international release on April 17th via Caligari Records on CD and cassette tape formats. Hearr Ignobleth's "Proselyte Pig I" in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Formed in 2022 in the plains of northern Italy, Ignobleth are a power-trio currently comprising A.L. on guitar, A.B. on bass and vocals, and M.O. on drums. At the beginning, the band's influences squarely focused on such bestial / war metal pillars as Blasphemy, Archgoat, and Conqueror. Eventually, their sound mutated a bit to include more angular gnarliness like Teitanblood, Kerasphorus, and Antediluvian. In their words, "Our music resides in the cavities and the ravines where death and black metal coexist in (dis)harmony…"

Ignobleth took to the stage in 2023 and released a demo, Rot in the Cave, onto YouTube. The following year came their first EP, Voidspawn Sacrifice, showing a distinctly savage understanding of what's black and white and red all over. Still, massive potential lurked within said cavities and ravines, and they've at last manifested in Manor of Primitive Anticreation.

Ignobleth's full-length debut, Manor of Primitive Anticreation is conspicuously beyond their more idiomatic early work: now, morbid and downtuned kabbalistic death / black metal. While the ideas for this debut album had been forming in their heads since 2023, the desire to do something completely different from the preceding EP intensified as time went on. Grittier in sound and style, Ignobleth here opt for more dissonant riffing, contrasting the low rapturous & fast patterns, with more frenetic drumming and a more twisted compositional style. The song structuring may be seem scattershot at first or at least bewildering, but there's order in chaos within this Manor of Primitive Anticreation: constant changes in pace and atmosphere, with frequent variations in BPM, different sound effects to embellish the tracks, vocal styles ranging from cavernous growls to high screams of anguish, more distorted bass, longer songs, ambient interludes (including a collaboration with Gnaw Their Tongues), occasional guitar harmonies, and plenty more are all threaded together with a delirious sort of magick. Which is all informed by an outlook and lyrics based on Kabbalistic magick, Sumerian mythology, Egyptian mysteries, and Lovecraftian abominations, altogether elevated from their old works, which the band admittedly liken to "Blasphemy and Archgoat worship " - a veritable ouroboros of form and content, art and artlessness, high and low, above and below. Dare you step into Ignobleth's Manor of Primitive Anticreation?

"Reversion to primaeval forms, capable of maddening at sight, erect protuberances filled with phlegm, virgin vulvas vomiting snakes, they sense blood with their forked tongues…"

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Proselyte Pig I" exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com. Also hear the previously revealed "Warped Abyssal Architectures" HERE at Caligari's Bandcamp, where the album can also be preordered. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Ignobleth's Manor of Primitive Anticreation

1. Cults Of The Undead and Profane Necrolatry

2. Obelisk Of Deformity

3. Warped Abyssal Architectures

4. Spores

5. Forked Tongues

6. And The Lunar Mass Shatters

7. Interlude: Lecherous Sex Magick

8. Proselyte Pig I

9. Proselyte Pig II

10. Manor Of Primitive Anticreation

11. Among The Seventy-Two Embalmed Ekpyrotic Gods

Nowy numer FATE UNBURIED

 

Following the first glimpse offered by “Drain”, progressive death metal outfit FATE UNBURIED unveil their new single “Not Allowed,” the second track taken from the upcoming album “Neraspeme”, set for release this October via Time To Kill Records.

The song moves through shadowy atmospheres and underlying tension, exploring the weight of unspoken words and silence as a form of mental confinement. Musically, “Not Allowed” further develops the band’s progressive approach through shifting dynamics, intricate arrangements and emotionally charged passages, culminating in a powerful outro that breaks the accumulated tension and allows a sense of release to emerge.

The single offers another glimpse into the artistic direction of “Neraspeme”, a record where compositional complexity, narrative depth and a persistent melancholic thread coexist within an extreme and strongly atmospheric framework.

Further singles and all album details will be released in the coming months.

Listen to “Not Allowed” now:

YouTube: https://youtu.be/4bT3g-wF4T0

Stream: https://ffm.to/fate-unburied-not-allowed

Drugi singiel od DAEMONIUM REGNI

 

Today, new/old Swedish black metallers Daemonium Regni reveal the new track "Spiritus in Flammo." The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated debut album, Daemonium Regni, set for international release on April 17th via Darkness Shall Rise Productions.

Daemonium Regni not only marks Daemonium Regni's first full-length; as a matter of fact, it is the band's very first sign of existence. Mickael Broberg, its sole member, is anything but a newcomer, though. Mostly known as the singer of Unanimated, he has been involved in various bands and projects throughout the decades. Darkness Shall Rise are very proud to introduce his latest and possibly darkest band, Daemonium Regni. Let the demons enter!

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Spiritus in Flammo" HERE at Darkness Shall Rise's official YouTube channel. Also hear the previously revealed "Mater Daemonium" HERE, also at Darkness Shall Rise's official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Daemonium Regni's Daemonium Regni

1. Mater Daemonium

2. Ascendens Tenebrae

3. Silentium Mors Itinerarum

4. Luna Sanguinea

5. Spiritus In Flammo

6. Sacrificium

7. Magica Cultus

8. Damnationem

SPARAGMOS ujawnia teledysk "Fashioned In Lifetime"

 

Legendarny death/thrashmetalowy SPARAGMOS przedstawia teledysk do utworu Fashioned In Lifetime, pochodzący z długo wyczekiwanego wznowienie drugiego studyjnego albumu Error. Premiera w marcu nakładem Selfmadegod Records.

Error, pierwotnie wydany w 1994 roku wyłącznie na kasecie magnetofonowej nakładem Metal Mind Productions w końcu zyskuje godne XXI wieku wydanie – po raz pierwszy na CD i LP w zremasterowanej wersji. Mastering materiału przeprowadził w 2026 roku Filip Heinrich Hałucha w Heinrich House Studio, nadając klasycznym nagraniom z 1993/1994 roku nowe, znacznie bardziej klarowne i dynamiczne brzmienie, przy jednoczesnym zachowaniu surowej, organicznej duszy lat 90. Wznowienie Error to nie tylko nostalgiczna podróż, to szansa, by materiał, który w latach 90. był niedoceniony i trudno dostępny w związku ze schyłkiem nośnika jakim była kaseta, w końcu zabrzmiał tak, jak zawsze powinien – głośno, wyraźnie i bezkompromisowo.

SPARAGMOS powstał w 1989 roku w Warszawie z inicjatywy gitarzysty Sebastiana Zusina, wokalisty i gitarzysty Łukasza Myszkowskiego oraz perkusisty Artura Grudzińskiego. Ten ostatni wkrótce opuścił formację, a jego miejsce zajął Tomasz Marecki, a w charakterze basisty dołączył Andrzej Rudnicki. Jako kwartet zespół zarejestrował debiutancką demówkę, Mortal Organic Remains (1990), która prezentowała surowy death metal z wyraźnymi wpływami thrashu i szybko zwróciła uwagę środowiska undergroundowego. W lutym 1992 roku kwartet wszedł do stołecznego studia Power Play, aby zarejestrować materiał na swój pierwszy longplay Invitation From Host Of Wrath. Zespół zaczął też pracę nad drugim longplayem, zatytułowanym Error. Materiał nagrany został z nowym perkusistą Krzysztofem Bentkowskim. Płyta wyróżniała się bardziej eksperymentalnym podejściem do ekstremalnego metalu, łącząc death metal i thrash z elementami technicznymi oraz nietypową strukturą utworów. Zespół funkcjonował do 2002 roku. Jego ostatni album Conflict pochodzi z 1999 roku.

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Wznowienie Error ukaże się 27 marca 2026 r. nakładem Selfmadegod Records na CD, LTD CD (limit 100 sztuk, wzbogacony o unikalny element – drukowane w technologii 3D bakteriofagi, mające na nowo zarazić klimatem polskiego death metalu lat 90. i podkreślić wyjątkowość tego wydawnictwa) oraz jako dedykowany merch. Premiera LP planowana jest na wiosnę/lato 2026.

Pre-order dostępny w sklepie internetowym wydawcy.