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“Hexed”, the second preview tune from Crimson Day‘s upcoming long player Dark Dimension, has premiered online in the form of an official music video, which was directed, filmed en edited by Markus Vähäaho.
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This coming summer, grindcore formation Chepang will embark on a short touring run over Europe. Flyer with confirmed dates and venues is available below.
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Seven years after their debut full-length offering Carnal Confessions, German epic doom metal ensemble Fvneral Fvkk now return from the shadows. The dubious priests have entered the sacred halls of the studio this very day, to conjure the as-yet-unnamed successor to their first sermon. This unholy offering shall be unveiled through Dying Victims Productions, the group’s new label.
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Enemy Inside have launched an official music video for their newly streaming single, “R.I.P.”. The latter was produced and recorded by Evan K at Epsilon Studio. Mix and mastering was handled by Manuel Renner at Überlärm Studios.
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Alright, friends, the world might be going to Hell in a handbasket, but that doesn’t mean you need be deprived of your monthly glimpse into the listening habits of the Last Rites Staff. In other words: It’s time for Staff Infections. Let us rejoice.

Having rejoiced, let us now see which album has seized the cherished prize of album of the month. First, the runners-up, three albums from two bands: A Forest of Stars with both Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes and Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface, and Emperor with the classic Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk. If you know the Last Rites staff like I do, this month’s winner is no surprise. A disappointment, but no surprise. Neurosis has returned (minus one shithead, thankfully) with its first album in a decade, An Undying Love for A Burning World, and I’m sure the band’s fans are thrilled. I am not. However, If you need a second opinion, Craig has a review for you right here.

As usual there is a staff-curated Spotify Playlist for your listening pleasure just below, and we would be pleased if you shared your own playlist in the comments. For our group discussion this month, give us your favorite Neurosis album. I don’t have one. I was a pretty big fan of the group’s recent fallow period. Sadly, all good things must come to an end.

That’ll do for this edition. You all be good to yourselves and each other. If the world is still here next month, I’ll see you all then.

Zach Duvall
Neurosis – An Undying Love for a Burning World
Neurosis – everything else
Twisted Tower Dires – Make it Dark
Egregore – It Echoes In The Wild
Fluisteraars – Dromers
Hällas – Panorama

Andrew Edmunds
Elder / Kadavar – Eldovar
Melting Rot – Infatuation With Premeditation
Black Crowes – Amorica
Emperor – Anthems To Christopher Walken At Dusk
Exodus – Tempo Of The Damned
Paul Chain – Master Of All Times
Van Morrison – Veedon Fleece

Wolf Rambatz
Ectovoid – In Unreality’s Coffin
Bitter Branches – Let’s Give the Land Back to the Animals
Corima – Hunab Ku
DBR – Unbearable
Tomeka Reid – dance! skip! hop!
Xylitol – Blumenfantasie

Danhammer Obstkrieg
Ignobleth – Manor of Primitive Anticreation
Neurosis – An Undying Love for a Burning World
Raw Addict – Compulsion
Lividus – Scarabaeus
Janel Leppin’s Ensemble Volcanic Ash – Pluto in Aquarius
Polygonia – Ceaseless Motion

Captain
Old Man Gloom – Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressionism
Old Man Gloom – Seminar III: Zozobra
Old Man Gloom – Christmas
Neurosis – An Undying Love for a Burning World
A Forest of Stars – Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface
Ben Seretan & John Thayer – Sunbeam of No Illusion

David Fonseca
A Forest of Stars – A Shadowplay for Yesterdays
Archspire – Relentless Mutation
Eternal Champion – Ravening Iron
Emperor – Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Sodom – Tapping the Vein
Cult of Luna – Salvation

Isaac Hams
Callisto – Noir
Slayyyyter – WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA
A Forest of Stars – Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface
A Forest of Stars – Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
An Axis of Perdition – Deleted Scenes From The Transition Hospital

Spencer Hotz
Neurosis – An Undying Love For A Burning World
A Forest Of Stars – Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes
Emperor – In The Nightside Eclipse
Cannibal Corpse – Kill
Sectarian Defacement – Hostile Consuming Rapture
Bekor Qilish – Consecrated Abysses Of Dread

Jeremy Morse
Iommi Watts – VIDETE CΛELVM (Watch the Skies)
Incantation – Unholy Deification
Black Breath – Slaves Beyond Death
Defeated Sanity – Chronicles of Lunacy
Iron Maiden – Somewhere in Time
Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds of Fire

Lone Watie
Jakabol – Leornian
Emperor – Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire & Demise
Deathrow – Deception Ignored
The Marshall Tucker Band – Where We All Belong
Nujabes – Metaphorical Music
Cal Tjader – Soul Sauce

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US hard rockers Iconic will release its sophomore album [album band_id=17027], on July 31st 2026 via Frontiers Music Srl. To taste a first piece of the new music, give a listen to the song called “Cry No More”.
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Wisconsin-based death metal entity Pig’s Blood have debuted “Standing In Depravity”, the newest single and opening track off their soon-to-be-released studio record Destroying The Spirit.
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In September, the Finns Whispered will perform a string of headlining shows in United Kingdom. Direct support on all these shows will come from As The Sun Falls and The Drowning.
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In wake of their upcoming album release The Secret Of Death, death metallers Desecresy now stream a visualizer video for the new track in preview “Crypthymn”.
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