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Legatum Mortuorum, the crushing new full-length from blackened doom metal trio DESICCATION, is streaming in its entirety! The premiere comes on the eve of the record’s release, Friday, May 15th through Carbonized Records. Legatum Mortuorum blends wholly non-dual elements: blasting drums and tremolo-picked guitars give way to spacious, slow riffs, and sprawling synths. Lyrically, themes of loss and […]

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Album Guests Fabio Lione (Rhapsody, Angra) and Kristin Starkey (Twilight Force, Temperance) Colorado power metal storytellers Siege Perilous have released the brand‑new lyric video for “Shattered Mirage,” the latest single from their debut full‑length concept album “Becoming the Dragon,” which was released this past March 2026. The track marks one of the album’s darkest and most atmospheric chapters, plunging listeners into […]

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On May 15th internationally, Caligari Records will release Mangled Recrement‘s highly anticipated debut demo on cassette tape format. And today, the Death Metal Promotion YouTube channel streams the demo in its entirety. Hear Mangled Recrement‘s debut demo in its entirety exclusively HERE. Hailing from Poland, Mangled Recrement have been reeking in Lublin basements since 2024, including members from the likes of Leucotome and Toughness. A […]

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Copenhagen grinders MELTIFICATION have arrived with their blistering, self-titled debut album. Reminiscent of the late 80s/early 90s era of Earache Records bands, MELTIFICATION unleash a fast and aggressive breed of grindcore with shares of hardcore punk and thrash metal. Meltification delivers 18 rapid-fire anthems of obliteration aimed right at the throats of old-school fans of extreme metal and grindcore. […]

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In a year in music that is looking more and more like one for the ages, the impending arrival of a new Radio Days album is yet another cause for much excitement. We are now five years removed from the last Radio Days long player, so Off The Record (due out in September) is very high on my list of 2026 albums I’m looking forward to. In advance of the album, the band has treated us to a couple teasers. The latest is digital single “Flying High,” an upbeat, silky-smooth pop song with a big chorus and lots of amazing lead guitar. This tune finds Radio Days in vintage form, embracing melody on top of melody. Dario’s vocals go down easier than lemonade on a hot day in July, and the song could not be any catchier. It’s just a joy to hear one of the best bands to ever do this kind of music, uh, do this kind of music! It’s always a good sign when you get to the end of the song and think, “That went way too fast!” 

When I first heard Automatic Lovers, my instant reaction was, “Hell yeah — we need more bands like this in today’s scene!” The Madrid foursome dropped an absolute smasher of a debut single last year — warming my heart with its raw and aggressive vintage 1977 punk rock sound. The band’s next challenge was to sustain the same quality and energy over a full album, which is something that’s not necessarily easy to do. Sometimes punk rock bands fare better in the short format where they can hit you hard and fast and leave you wanting more. But on their self-titled debut long player (out on Wap Shoo Wap Records and Folc Records), Automatic Lovers prove themselves to be 100% the real deal. 

Over the course of 11 tracks, Automatic Lovers let it rip with force and ferocity — unleashing a heat-seeking missile of a punk rock album. Of course the inspiration for this sound is obvious. The band follows the blueprint of Slaughter and the Dogs, The Vibrators, Eater, The Users, Dead Boys, Menace, Stooges, Pagans, early Damned, etc. with the utmost enthusiasm. But while any band can emulate a style, Automatic Lovers truly have the spirit and power of this classic music coursing through their veins. They tear through these songs with reckless abandon. The drummer sounds like he’s trying to pound his kit into submission. The lead guitars rip wildly. The singer spits fire and fury. You might hear a track like “Wasting Time” and surmise that the band can’t possibly sustain that level of intensity for a full album. But you’d be wrong! And the tunes (complemented by a couple of ace covers) are legit good. This is a killer punk rock album in any year. You hear a record like this and remember the heart-pounding excitement of hearing punk music for the first time — when suddenly everything else in your record collection seemed super-lame by comparison. What a thrill it is to hear such a young band take up this old school punk rock sound and pull it off this brilliantly. If I had heard a band like this in the later ’90s when I was obsessively collecting ’70s punk records, I would have flipped my shit! Wap Shoo Wap Records is quickly becoming one of those labels whose releases you never want to miss.

That run has been booked for October/November.

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Death metal force CARNATION continue their relentless return to pure, unfiltered extremity with the release of their new single “Flesh-Eating Frenzy”, taken from the upcoming album “Symphony In Flesh”, due out October 16th, 2026. Following the release of “Kingdom Of Dreams”, the band now raise the intensity even further; delivering a violent burst of unfiltered death metal that channels CARNATION’s rawest and […]

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Welcome back Todd One.

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Busy on the campaign trail promoting new album Philadelphia’s Been Good To Me, Kurt Vile is the latest guest on The Adam Friedland Show, as well as the latest to perform some songs for TAFS Unplugged. Vile did not make a beat on the spot like RZA, but before sitting down with Friedland, he performed…

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