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Morbid Evils "Deceases" Drops 25 August 2017

"When producing these tracks I paid special attention on making things as heavy and suffocating as possible, to emphasize the deadly seriousness of the world this music is taking us to."

New Decrepit Birth Album Out Now!!!

Decrepit Birth Unleashes "Axis Mundi" on Nuclear Blast

Subservience "Forest Of The Impaled" 11 August 2017

“Death Metal does not get any better than this - 5/5” - Brutalism.com “Utterly mesmerizing - -10/10” - Blackenedhorde.com RIYL: Entombed, Deicide, Bolt Thrower

BAD KARMA (U.S.) Death Has No Calling Card Out Today 23 June 2017

Infused with the true-as-steel spirit of the American thrash and speed metal scenes of the '80s.

TEMPLE OF VOID Lords of Death (CD, LP, TAPE) 28 July 2017

TEMPLE OF VOID is an uncompromising collaboration from the depths of Detroit, Michigan.

Groove Thrash Metal From Argentina: Granada

GRANADA is back again with a new album. 4th album "Sincronizado", arrays a violent sound that amalgams old school speed and modern, aggressive thrash metal with hard groove influences and bipolar aggressive singing.

New Goatwhore out Today!!!

Vengeful Acension the new LP from Goatwhore is available today!

Legendary ORIGIN joining Summer Slaughter 2017

For 20 years, Origin has engaged a full-blown sensory assault of tight, taut, and technical death metal amplified by flashes of grindcore and groove.

POWER METALLISTS PHEAR RETURN WITH NEW EP, ‘THE CURSE LIVES ON’

If you long for the sounds of vintage power and thrash metal with a prog twist, then there is a fast-rising band that perfectly fits this description - Phear.

Milwaukee's Khazaddum Releasing 'Plagues Upon Arda' August 19

Returning with their signature Dwarven Death Metal assault, KHAZADDUM has taken the Tolkien concept to another level.

Limbonic Art are back with "Spectre Abysm" Out July 7, 2017

Following a seven year gap after the release of their last album, the band have returned.

OUT NOW: CARACH ANGREN "Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten"

Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten, the epic new album from horror metal masters CARACH ANGREN, revolves around the haunting of a young girl who has an unhealthy fixation with a Ouija board

DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT Release Lyric Video for "Offer Your Light" Devin Named "Riff Lord" at Metal Hammer Golden Gods

The DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT have been on the road for the majority of 2017 thus far as they continue to support the group's latest album Transcendence.