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Rotten Blasphemy ’s Worshippers Of Chaös Featured in Decibel Magazine ’s “Five For Friday” New Releases
February 2026
Metal Devastation PR is proud to announce that Rotten Blasphemy’s latest album, Worshippers Of Chaös , has been spotlighted in Decibel Magazine ’s “Five For Friday” section, highlighting the most essential new metal releases of the week. The magazine praised the album:
“Meanwhile. Here’s a band that belongs at a secret basement show on a Tuesday. Definitely required listening for fans of Aura Noir, Nifelheim and Nunslaughter. I also can’t help but smile at the song title ‘Rise and Sin.’ Likewise, this catchy, unholy masterwork is a great way to start the day!”
Released February 21, 2026, via Witches Brew Records in CD and digital formats, Worshippers Of Chaös delivers a ferocious blend of Satanic Black Death, thrash intensity, and raw Black n Roll energy. Rooted in the tradition of vintage extreme metal and steeped in occult themes, the album establishes Rotten Blasphemy as a commanding force in the international underground metal scene.
The feature in Decibel Magazine further cements the album’s impact, placing it among the week’s most talked-about extreme metal releases and highlighting Rotten Blasphemy’s unrelenting approach to modern blackened death metal.
Experience Worshippers Of Chaös here:
https://witchesbrewthrashes.bandcamp.com/album/worshippers-of-cha-s
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There’s no “real world”

That’s a contradiction in terms

There’s just a skadenfreude ployed Hall of mirrors

Charm School have returned with Schadenfreude Ploy, the follow-up to 2025’s Debt Forever, and if you were hoping they’d mellow out, maybe brew a cuppa herbal tea, for you have badly misjudged the situation. Andrew Sellers and his Louisville-to-LA cadre: Matt Filip, Drew English, Brian Vega – are still operating like men who found the control panel and immediately started pressing every red button.

The EP chews on humanity’s collective cracked psyche and spits out a grin full of broken enamel. AI hovers over everything like an unpaid intern with godlike powers. Manipulation traps snap shut in every direction—financial, romantic, algorithmic. Sellers’ manic delivery paces the room, waving a printout of your browsing history and laughing at the absurdity of it all.

The title track, Schadenfreude Ploy, barrels forward with a No Wave twitch, guitars scraping against each other. It skewers the myth of the “real world,” calls the whole enterprise a hall of mirrors that hands you a bill for the privilege of existence. There’s a sense that ownership itself has been outlawed—everything leased, licensed, or floating somewhere in the cloud—while corporations hover like digital landlords, extracting rent from data, memory, even your own reflection. You don’t hold anything anymore; you stream it, sync it, subscribe to it. Nobody remembers agreeing to the terms, yet the charges keep arriving, neat and automatic. The band leans into that discomfort, tightening the screws with clipped riffs and a rhythm section that feels wired and faintly volatile, like it might repossess your hard drive mid-chorus.

Scene Queen takes a more personal tactic, unloading on a social climber who treats friendship like a stock portfolio. The lyrics bite. Backstabbing, shapeshifting, Faustian bargains, influence peddling…it’s all there, delivered with the kind of relish that suggests Sellers has the receipts. The groove struts in jagged steps, part art-school brawl, part basement sermon. You can practically see the eye roll.

Disgrace revs like a motorcycle idling outside a condemned building, channeling the swagger of Suicide and the detachment of Thurston Moore. The beat churns, manic and motorik, while spoken-word passages slide across the top with a wiry tension. It feels reckless in a controlled way, the band grinning as they lean into the skid.

Then Prime Mover Unmoved pulls the curtain back and reveals the philosopher under the hood. Aristotelian references in a punk record? Sure, why not. Love becomes the engine of existence, the first cause and final effect. Sellers lists the world as he channels his best Mark E Smith: rings, rivers, frost, debt, roses, until the self dissolves into the inventory. It’s grand, a little ridiculous, and somehow sincere.

Charm School’s job is to infiltrate, radiate, negate and fascinate. With this ferocious EP they torch the place and leave the smoke alarm ringing. Hope and joy may be out there somewhere. Charm School are busy poking the bear -all the while cackling at the bear’s lawyer.

Listen to Schadenfreude Ploy below and order the single here. You can purchase the EP on cassette here.

TOUR DATES:

• 2/22 LA – The Offbeat w/ The Hazards & Noir Dalis
• 2/28 LA – The Monty Bar w/ Duderella & Spooky Marvin

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• Spotify

The post “It’s all a Masquerade” — Charm School Skewers Our Shared Unreality With “Schadenfreude Ploy” EP appeared first on Post-Punk.com.

I’m waiting for you

Till the dawn is coming

While the night is still here

Isolation is a rented room with thin walls and a louder mind. You pace. You bargain with doubt. You count cracks in the ceiling and call it philosophy. Night stretches, elastic and merciless, until the first thin blade of morning cuts through the curtains. Clarity never arrives like a parade; it seeps in, practical and pale. You make do, you endure, and you wait for restored meaning in the morning light.

That suspended hour before sunrise — when thought grows louder than traffic, and longing outlasts logic — is precisely the terrain The Beauty of Gemina has long claimed as their own. The band’s allure resides in their music’s “dark elegance,” primarily embodied by songwriter and vocalist Michael Sele. He approaches the microphone with an air of acceptance of gravity, as if at peace with it. His voice evokes approaching fronts and pressure systems, and on the hypnotic new single “Endless Ever,” this climate turns intimate.

Endless Ever lands as a teaser for the Veil Of Rain Tour 2026, the first new cut since Songs Of Homecoming 2024. It’s an intense meditation on waiting, longing, and timeless connection. The guitars circle in minor chord arcs, then tilt toward a brief lift — that old exchange between dusk and daybreak. A repetitive beat ticks like a clock you can’t shut off. Sele stands at the center, steady, letting the tension breathe.

In the song, a voice lingers through the night, waiting for a loved one as dawn approaches. In stillness and silence, they call out, holding onto hope like a fading light against darkness. Time stretches painfully, each second heavy with longing. The repeated sense of eternity underscores devotion, isolation, and the ache of waiting without certainty of return. It’s the kind of theme that could drown in its own perfume; here, it walks a straight line.

Sele spells it out: “Endless Ever is about waiting as a state of being – about a love or hope that is greater than time. Night represents doubt, dawn represents the promise that everything will eventually resolve itself. I wanted to capture that feeling when seconds hurt because you miss someone, time loses its meaning, and in the end all that remains is the endless clinging to hope.” He’s talking about the long haul, about faith without fireworks.

The video, realized by Spanish artist Ruben Nox and produced by TBOG Moving Pictures, keeps its distance. A woman wanders city streets late at night, pensive, alone in a crowd that might as well be mannequins. Subways pass. Faces blur. She watches life move and never quite steps into it. That’s the hook: isolation in public, doubt under streetlights, hope held like a match cupped in both hands. By the time dawn breaks, Endless Ever hasn’t solved anything. It has endured — and sometimes that’s the only clarity you get.

Watch below:

Founded in 2006 after the end of Nuuk, the band has logged 250 shows across 25 countries, supporting The Smashing Pumpkins and appearing at Wave-Gotik-Treffen and M’era Luna. That mileage shows. The arrangements move with purpose. Electronic rock, metal hues, even a classical tint — Mozart by way of midnight — slide into place without ceremony.

Listen to Endless Ever below and order the single here.

The Beauty of Gemina – Veil Of Rain Tour

• 26 February – Augsburg, DE – Spectrum
• 27 February – Köln, DE – Groove Bar
• 28 February – Frankfurt, DE – Das Bett
• 6 March – Stuttgart, DE – Im Wizemann Studio
• 7 March – Oberhausen, DE – Kulttempel
• 20 March – Hannover, DE – LUX
• 21 March – Hamburg, DE – Bahnhof Pauli
• 22 March – Berlin, DE – Badehaus
• 27 March – Leipzig, DE – Moritzbastei
• 28 March – Tuttlingen, DE – Stadthalle Tuttlingen
• 18 April – Mels, CH – Altes Kino (Trio+)
• 3 May – Hamburg, DE – St. Pauli Theater (w/ Katharina Thalbach)
• 25 May – Leipzig, DE – WGT Festival (Trio+)
• 5 July – Basel, CH – Festival Augusta Raurica
• 19 September – Saarbrücken, DE – Theater (w/ Katharina Thalbach)
• 27 September – Herford, DE – Theater (w/ Katharina Thalbach)
• 31 October – Fürth, DE – Theater (w/ Katharina Thalbach)
• 6 November – Wolfenbüttel, DE – Lessing Theater (w/ Katharina Thalbach)
• 7 November – Wolfenbüttel, DE – Lessing Theater (w/ Katharina Thalbach)
• 18 December – Zürich, CH – Sihlfeld (Trio+)
• 19 December – Zürich, CH – Sihlfeld (Trio+)

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The post “Till the Dawn is Coming” — Swiss Darkwavers The Beauty of Gemina Share Video for Liminal Nocturne “Endless Ever” appeared first on Post-Punk.com.

Words and photos by: Courtney Stark 202666 is proving to be a sinfully stacked year for heavy metal bands of various subgenres making the pilgrimage to the land down under, and not without an ounce of coincidence, to defrost their cold bones from the frozen European and Scandinavian winter, where at best, it’s as hot […]

Thundermother .

The post Thundermother share video for track “Hellevator” from upcoming live record ‘Live’N’Alive’ first appeared on Sleaze Roxx.

Spanish melodic heavy metal band Dünedain will arrive in Murcia on February 28 as part of their highly anticipated national run, the “Érase Tour 2026”, in support of their latest album Érase.

The concert will take place at Garaje Beat Club, one of the city’s key live music venues in Murcia, and is expected to be one of the season’s standout metal events in the region.

Following successful opening shows across Spain, Dünedain embark on this tour at one of the strongest moments of their career. The setlist will combine songs from their new era(marked by a more mature and epic sound) alongside essential classics from their previous releases, in a performance that usually runs well over 90 minutes.

Over the years, the Salamanca-based band has established itself as one of the most relevant contemporary heavy metal acts in Spain, blending melody, power and highly sing-along choruses that connect strongly with audiences in a live setting.

Tickets are currently available in advance through the official online ticketing platform:

https://woutick.com/es/entradas/dunedain-murcia

Listen to Dünedain:

• Dünedain
• Garaje Beat Club
• Calle Underground

The post Dünedain to Perform in Murcia on the “Érase Tour 2026” first appeared on FemMetal – Goddesses of Metal.

Crashdïet .

The post Crashdïet drop new single “Sick Enough For Me” first appeared on Sleaze Roxx.

From Marta Gabriel Facebook:

LEATHERWITCH, new Heavy Metal band formed by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Marta Gabriel, signed a multiple record deal with Listenable Records. The very first video and single, “Beast Inside”, will have its premiere on March 5, 2026. It has been mixed by Olof Wikstrand (ENFORCER), and features special guest, guitarist Giuseppe Taormina (ELLENDE, ex-CRYSTAL VIPER).

Pre-save the single: https://bfan.link/LEATHERWITCH-beast-inside

Marta Gabriel disbanded her band CRYSTAL VIPER in the fall of 2025. The band toured in more than 20 countries, conquered the stages of major festivals such as Wacken Open Air, Hellfest and Keep It True, and left a legacy of 9 studio albums. CRYSTAL VIPER’s farewell live album titled “The Live Quest”, came out last June.

In the Spring of 2025 Gabriel toured with the Japanese Heavy Metal act METALUCIFER, as a bassist on their “Heavy Metal Anniversary” Tour in Europe, and flew to Tokyo, Japan, for two exclusive live shows as a solo artist.

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Metal Devastation PR Client Rotten Blasphemy Featured by Metal Injection for New Album Worshippers Of Chaös
February 20th 2026
Metal Devastation PR is proud to announce that our clients Rotten Blasphemy have been featured in Metal Injection’s Weekly Injection of New Releases for their latest full-length album, Worshippers Of Chaös , out now via Witches Brew Records .
Landing alongside major names such as Exhumed , Sylosis , Abstracted , Worm Shepherd , and Dissentience , the inclusion marks a powerful moment for the Colombian extreme metal force and a strong testament to the album’s impact within the global underground.
Released on February 21, 2026 in CD and digital formats, Worshippers Of Chaös is a relentless invocation of Satanic Black Death, infused with thrash intensity and a raw Black n Roll edge. Drawing from the spirit of vintage extreme metal and steeped in occult philosophy, the album stands as a fierce declaration of uncompromising chaos.
With this latest recognition from one of metal’s most respected online publications, Rotten Blasphemy continues to solidify its place among the new generation of bands carrying the torch of true underground extremity.
Experience Worshippers Of Chaös here:
https://witchesbrewthrashes.bandcamp.com/album/worshippers-of-cha-s
For interviews, review copies, or additional information, contact:
zach@metaldevastationradio.com
Check out the feature here: https://metalinjection.net/upcoming-releases/heavy-new-releases/the-weekly-injection-new-releases-from-exhumed-sylosis-more-out-this-week-2-20

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Bassist Mike Leon announces his departure from CKY, pointing to “toxicity” and internal issues tied to frontman Chad I Ginsburg.

The post MIKE LEON Quits CKY: "I Have Never Experienced This Level Of Toxicity From An Individual" appeared first on Metal Injection.