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Sinner, featuring Primal Fear bassist / co-founder Mat Sinner, will release their final album, "Boom Bang Goodbye," on July 31 via Reigning Phoenix Music. With this final album, Mat Sinner closes an eventful chapter spanning 40+ years and 19 albums. "Boom Bang Goodbye" unifies a gathering of high-class musicians including Ronnie Romero (Rainbow)… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

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Jannik Sinner took to social media to announce a career move following his difficult loss at the 2026 French Open.

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A lot of bands wouldn’t have recovered. From 2022 to 2025, post-metal visionaries The Ocean lost two-thirds of their members, with the lineup that made fan-favourite albums "Phanerozoic I" (2018), "Phanerozoic II" (2020) and "Holocene" (2023) stripping itself away. After a victorious final bow at Hellfest last year celebrating this lineup that had … Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

New Jersey’s marshlands and hospital waste pits have long concealed one of America’s best death metal acts. Formed in 2000, Funebrarum leaked from the Garden State with a sound steeped in early 90s acts like Incantation and Immolation. Their Beneath the Columns of Abandoned Gods debut was a cavernous, monolithic ode to all things extreme and vile. Though it was crushingly heavy, there was a deft hand at work compositionally that made it all go down like greased tripe. It’s a classic of the death metal genre that, for whatever reason, never seems to get the respect it deserves. After 2009s excellent The Sleep of Morbid Dreams, the band went into a kind of extended hibernation, rising only occasionally to drop splits and EPs every few years, the last of which arrived in 2016. After 16 long years (and 10 of complete inactivity), they finally rise from the grave and deign to release a new full-length upon the world with Beckoning the Void of Eternal Silence. The good news is that multi-instrument wizard Phil Tougas of Worm, First Fragment, EXXÛL, and 50 other bands is on board to provide extra fretboard-busting insanity. After such a lengthy absence, what can one expect from Funebrarum? Will their usual caveman cavern-core antics still feel as terrifying and oppressive in this new age of death? Let’s drag the Jersey swamps for answers and dead mobsters.

After an overlong intro that sounds like it was stolen from a late 90s symphonic black metal album, we get dropped into the title track, which starts out equally moody and ominous before eventually shifting into cavern-core pummeling and blasting. Once this occurs, references to Incantation and Cruciamentum are inevitable, but this is a mellower beast with a lighter vibe to the music, as a classic 90s death metal gallop surfaces again and again amid stretches of doom slog and hyper-blastery. Guttural death vox and crazed blackened screams dot the landscape, and newish axe Sam Osbourne (ex-Undergang) joins Phil Tougas in dropping classic death leads and exploring other melodic spaces when solo time arrives. It’s a convincingly heavy, dense song, and it feels fairly inspired. Some of the momentum gained here is lost during the nearly 7 minutes of follow-up “ša nagba amāru,” which opts for a doomier direction and ends up a bit less convincing and forceful despite some interesting guitar work and appropriately dark moods. A big moment arrives with “Into Dark Domains,” where some of the classic Funebrarum energy sparks into being. It offers nods to classic 90s death platters like Onward to Golgotha, and some pieces even remind me of early grind days Carcass.

“From Rotting Burial Shrouds” delivers an immediately satisfying, few-frills beat down of foaming-at-the-mouth caveman death, and I love it, but it makes me wish for more lead pipe intensity from the rest of the material. And while nothing here could be labeled as wholly bad or filler (minus the short mid-album interlude), not every song puts the pimp hand down and bashes my brain into mind jelly. Penultimate track “Turning the Stones of Torment” is fairly generic and doesn’t do much for me. The nearly 9-minute finale, “The Whispering Cathedral – Epilogue,” is also underwhelming. It has interesting moments and segments, but by the 6th minute, I’m ready to settle my bill and check out. At 49 minutes, Beckoning feels significantly longer, and there’s noticeable bloat on several tracks that weigh things down in unfortunate ways.

There’s a garbage truck full of raw talent involved in the making of this album, even without the contributions from Mr. Tougas. Charles Koryn (Ascended Dead, ex-Ghoulgotha) is an impressive drummer, and he supplies a steady stream of gallops, blasts, rolls, and fills that keep things moving and shaking. Daryl Kahan (ex-Disma) is a true throat terror, shaking the ground with phlegmy, repellent croaks, and harsh screams. He sounds very inhuman and very reanimated. Now add the Tougas factor, and the guitar work goes from wow to WOW. The man can play and play he does. The only criticism I’d make is that some of the fretboard gymnastics make the vibe shift from death metal to melodeath and cause the album to feel less rancid and diseased.

I wasn’t expecting to see another album from Funebraum, and while I’m happy to have it, I’m a bit let down that it doesn’t approach the heights of their established discography. It’s definitely good with very good moments, but after so long in the void of eternal silence, it’s hard not to expect MOAR. I suppose part of the problem is that what they’re doing here has now been done so many times before, so some of the shock and awe has worn off. Still, there are loads of quality noise to be found for the patient death heads. New Jersey still has some disgusting tricks up its sleeve after all, besides Newark. Worth a loud blast, then go and visit their early stuff post-haste.

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Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Pulverized Records
Websites: funebrarum-death-metal.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/funebrarumofficial | instagram.com/funebrarum_official
Releases Worldwide: May 29th, 2026

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Canadian hard rock band Dali Van Gogh are set to release an electrifying new live album, ‘Roadkill‘, a six-track collection capturing the band at their most visceral across stages in Eastern and Central Canada.Rolling out in a waterfall release format beginning May 22nd, ‘Roadkill‘ documents three years of relentless touring, distilling the sweat, grit, and […]

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Knocked Loose will return to the road in North America this fall as part of a co-headlining tour with rapper Denzel Curry. Continue reading…

Well, this is all getting very confusing. Yesterday, the lineup for the Great American State Fair was announced, with acts like Milli Vanilli, Morris Day And The Time, C+C Music Factory, Young MC, Bret Michaels, Flo Rida, and more on the bill to celebrate 250 years of the USA. Shortly after, Morris Day And The Time dropped off, saying he wouldn’t be performing despite the “rumor.” Young MC promptly followed suit. Now, Milli Vanilli reportedly won’t be appearing either, according to a member who is not Fab Morvan.

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Picture it: 26+ degrees of sunshine, a sea of pop-punk elder emos with red, factor-50-defying sunburn, checkerboard Vans everywhere you look, band tees of every era, old friends reunited and new ones made — all soundtracked by the music you discover, relive, and that takes you right back to your youth. Slam Dunk Festival North … Continue reading Festival Review: Slam Dunk North 2026 – Temple Newsham Park, Leeds (24th May 2026)