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Founded in 2011, Cryptic Shift may not yet be widely known beyond the underground scene. This could change with the release of their second studio album, “Overspace & Supertime”. Hailing from Leeds, England, the four-piece first gained recognition with their debut album, “Visitations from Enceladus”, released in 2020. This album caught the attention of Metal… Continue Reading →

Milano Flash’s Is It Arrivederci (Or Is It Adieu)? feels like a neon postcard from a glamorous life already fading at the edges. It shimmers with vintage drum machines and sleek synth textures — hints of Italo-disco decadence brushing against colder, darker undertones. Beneath the designer references and Riviera imagery runs something more existential: love, money, excess, faith, violence — all colliding in a late-night confession wrapped in gloss.

There’s a seductive tension between romance and reckoning here. The groove is smooth, almost effortless, yet emotionally charged, as if dancing through farewell without fully deciding which language to say it in. Is it goodbye for now — or forever? Milano Flash leaves the question hanging in the glow.

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Polygraph’s Afterglow doesn’t rush — it pulls you in slowly, deliberately, like a pulse you suddenly realize you’ve been following all along. This is a darker shade of melodic techno, where atmosphere does the heavy lifting and tension lingers in the spaces between beats. The groove is deep and hypnotic, understated but insistent, wrapping itself around subtle harmonic shifts that bloom almost imperceptibly.

There’s a seductive restraint here — no explosive drop for the sake of it, just a gradual immersion into shadow-lit textures and emotional undercurrents. Afterglow feels less like a peak-time anthem and more like the moment after — when the lights dim, the crowd thins, and the music starts speaking directly to you.

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Ozzy Osbourne and his family knew he didn’t have long to live – yet he insisted on performing at epic farewell show

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EYEHATEGOD & THUNDERCHIEF HEAT THINGS UP: NEW THUNDERCHIEF PRESSING AND “KILL YOUR SAUCE” HOT SAUCE DROP
Richmond’s two-man sonic wrecking crew THUNDERCHIEF aren’t done wreaking havoc. After tearing up the East Coast/Midwest with Telekinetic Yeti , they’re keeping the fire alive with a 2nd pressing of their ferocious full-length No Sufferance For Thy Fools —originally unleashed May 15, 2020. The first batch vanished fast, and now it’s back for anyone who missed it.
Listen and order here:
https://thethunderchief.bandcamp.com/album/no-sufferance-for-thy-fools
Adding extra heat to the mix, THUNDERCHIEF have teamed up with EYEHATEGOD for the ultimate collab: Kill Your Sauce , a fermented firestorm of Red Savina, Moruga, and Scotch Bonnet peppers, with carrot, garlic, cilantro, and pineapple juice. It’s available now at https://armadamerch.com/collections/eyehategod and will hit the road with EYEHATEGOD on their upcoming tour with New Orleans legends Crowbar .
Details on the tour here: https://lambgoat.com/news/47873/crowbar-and-eyehategod-announce-co-headlining-tour/
Record revived. Tour fired up. Sauce that bites back. THUNDERCHIEF are back, louder, hotter, and ready to demolish everything in their path.


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The time has come for us to accept that modernity has died. The notion of universal, absolute, and objective “truth” has died because we realize that other people simply “game” our symbols and manipulate us to destruction.

Instead we embrace the darkness of the ancients: ambiguity, cause-effect reasoning, and mystical symbolism. To that end, we have cooked up a radio show of ambient metal to show how old school metal was far ahead of the contemporary trash.

Hipsters now say metal needs shoegaze, indie, core, and other influences. The grim fact remains that we always had better versions of these things, but that most now have forgotten. Join me in remembering.

Tracklist:
Fleshcrawl – Inevitable End
Ancient – Nattens Skjonnhet
Von – Watain
Entombed – Crawl
Demoncy – Opening the Lunar Floodgate
Cemetary – Sidereal Passing
The Abyss – Tjanare af Besten
Summoning – Kotirion Among The Trees
Sarcofago – The Black Vomit
Immortal – As The Eternity Opens
Desecresy – Endless Swamp
Slayer – Necrophiliac

Metal Cosmos (#5) (download, 50mb)

About a decade ago, I designed a personal pipe tobacco blend. It used a lot of dark fired Kentucky Burley, layered Virginias favoring the blonde variant, mucho dark burley, a pinch of cigar leaf, and a dusting of Latakia.

In this way, my mixing anticipated the current trend, which is to mix everything together in idiosyncratic ratios so that you get a flavor which is a kaleidoscope of distractions, except that this blend has more focus.

Instead, this blend moderates the dark fired Kentucky Burley with Virginia sweetness, and then twists that to be more depth of flavor than intensity of flavor. The result is balanced but irrational, like the winds of mayhem.

So, you wanted an ideal summer beer. This comes very close. Tasting like a hybrid between 1980s Miller and Coors, it is an American adjunct beer which favors the barley flavor but keeps the easy drinking sweet soft texture of Murkan beer.

This may baffle many because Karbach is known for biting indie hipster IPAs that taste more like grapefruit than fermented sugar. In this case, the wizards at the longbeard establishment simply designed an easy-drinking beer intended to be consumed cold.

Will I ever consume this again? Unlikely: I prefer the bitter intense beers. However, if I am inviting a dozen people over to watch the next war on cable television, this is the best beer for a group or for mere relaxation.

Out 27 February, 2026 Via Metal Blade Records Words by: Courtney Stark Texas is home to many things — American barbecue, country music, and the ever-repeated adage that ‘everything is bigger in Texas.’ It is also home to Necrofier — a black metal quartet formed in 2018 who have taken that Lone Star defiance, engrained […]

The Dear Hunter have revealed details on the next album, Sunya, continuing the story from their last concept album Antimai. The new album will be available for purchase and shipping as of March 20th. You can pre-save the album here: https://vyd.co/Sunya.

The band said this about the release, “The road to this point has been long, but without the growth that time has offered us as human beings and creators, this record would not exist. There is so much I would love to discuss about every facet of this album, but I’d rather not taint your experience of it. What we can say is that we love this record. We are so grateful for your support as we continue to expand the world of the Indigo Child. Thank you for your grace as we continue to explore our creativity.”

The band shared the first single from the album titled “The Glass Desert I – Giants” and you can see the lyric video here:

SUNYA tracklisting:
The Wasteland – 7:16
Marauders – 3:26
The Bazaareteria 5:01
The Glass Desert I – Giants 5:18
The Glass Desert II – Cliffs and Stormlands 7:27
The Glass Desert III – The Plains 5:42
Sunya – 8:03

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