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AYDRA, pioneers of Italian technical death metal, have released a visualizer video for the song “The Day Of The Wedding,” taken from the CD reissue of the legendary album “Icon of Sin” available from July 24th via Rude Awakening Records. The album comes in a fully remastered version, expanded with four exclusive bonus live tracks. It is also the first limited CD […]

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New York thrash metal titans Anthrax have unleashed “The Edge Of Perfection”, the second single taken from their highly anticipated 12th studio album, Cursum Perficio. Arriving on 18th September 2026 via Nuclear Blast Records (and Megaforce Records in North America), the record marks the band’s first full-length studio release in a decade, following 2016’s critically … Continue reading Anthrax share spectacular cinematic video for new single “The Edge Of Perfection”

IN THIS HELL proudly announce their debut full-length “Bliss“, set for an independent CD / Digital release on October 9th 2026 with distribution support by Trollzorn Records. The trio from Coburg / Germany stand for 80s/90s Death, Thrash and Black Metal at its core, fueled by today’s broad extreme music landscape. Anything goes. No boxes, […]

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Introduce your kid to metal, thinking they’d grow up liking Death Angel, Black Sabbath, or Iron Maiden, but instead, they grew up to like the shit-for-brains sceney-bopper music that has no right passing itself off as metal? Damn, that’s a rough one. Sorry you still have to go to your Metallica gigs alone, and in addition, you also get to see bands like Motionless In White, Bring Me The Horizon, and Bad Omens. Chances are, you’d rather go to a million gigs on your own for the rest of your life than ever step foot in a ‘metalcore’ show again. So, why don’t we offer you a few alternatives to keep your sceney-bopper happy, and off your case?

And next time they ask you to go to a show with them, you can turn to their mom and say, ‘I just bought them a record. You can take them to the show.’ It takes a team to raise a kid with a shit taste in music. My parents traded off gigs for this very reason. So, take a nugget of wisdom from the kid who knows a thing or two about shitty music.

Bring Me The Horizon – Count Your Blessings (Repented)

I’ll never forget my mom walking into my room when I was listening to the original Count Your Blessings back when I was 13, and asking me: “What is that shit?” Well, Mom, I’ll have you know that this ‘shit’ is now one of the most famous modern metal bands at the moment, and decided to rerecord their shitty record from 2006, just to make it less shitty by today’s standards. However, there are enough controversial lyrics on this record to make it one of the less offensive choices on this list – for you, that is.

Pick it up here.

DevilDriver – Strike And Kill

See – this isn’t even a bad record. It’s just been talked about a lot, and we all know scene kids are desperate to be noticed, so why not give them a record people have noticed? Maybe in turn, it’ll make them feel more noticeable? (When in reality, they’re just hopping on a bandwagon they’re too young to fully grasp the splendor of.) Who knows. This might also be a purchase, or rather the only purchase on this list, that you can benefit from. Because you’ll actually enjoy this one.

Get your paws on this one here.

My Chemical Romance – The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys (Deluxe Edition)

Listen, we know we’re ripping on these records quite a bit. But this is the last record you buy on this list – for your own sake. While it may make your shitty teenager slightly less shitty for a day or two, the weeks of listening to this shitty record on their shitty vinyl player may be the straw that breaks your already-strained back. If you opt for this one, you’re either a really crap parent and need the brownie points, or you’re a masochist. But, the two options don’t need to be mutually exclusive either.

We’ve warned you.

The Plot In You – The Plot In You

Who wouldn’t want to buy their teenager a vinyl where three thirds of it have already been out for months, if not years – and it’s one you’ve already heard. Honestly, maybe as masochistic of a choice as My Chemical Romance, this one is closing out the band’s numerous-EP chapter in which they released nothing but EPs. You’ve probably heard all of them at this point. Who knows. All sceney-bopper music sounds the same to you.

Check it out.

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These are some of the longest-running metal bands that have never broken up or gone on hiatus in a way that made the group inactive. Continue reading…

AVULSED continues digging into the roots of Nordic Death Metal with the third advance track from its upcoming covers album “Nordic Embryogenesis“: a sick and twisted reinterpretation of “Abduction of Limbs“, taken from the second demo released by Norway’s OLD FUNERAL in 1990. You can listen to the song here:Youtube: https://youtu.be/Wj3-HKiR8ooDigitals: https://music.imusician.pro/a/N5tsQvlQ Dave Rotten himself comments the following about this song: […]

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(“Fun” is a recurring word in Zoltar’s interview of Mike Borders, and “fun” is the operative word for what the interview will bring you, too. The focus is on Ravaged by the Yeti (Borders‘ band with Rogga Johansson and Jon Rudin), whose new album is being released today by Testimony Records, but it goes in […]

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Five years after the acclaimed “Paradeigma (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity)”, Czech avant-garde black metal pioneers INFERNO return with a new full-length album. Entitled “The Anthropic Sophisms (On the Heights of Despair)”, the record is now available to stream in its entirety via the Debemur Morti Productions YouTube channel ahead of its official release. The band’s […]

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Future is sending us some signals. The long-reigning Atlanta rap star’s new album is called The Real Me, and he only announced it a few weeks ago. The cover is a striking image of Future, new haircut and all, staring down the camera, wearing no shirt and no jewelry. (I guess he’s got an earring on, but he doesn’t have any chains or anything.) Most strikingly, the album has no features, an interesting choice for one of rap’s most prolific collaborators. So this is clearly going to be Future’s most personal, stripped-bare work, right? Well, no. It mostly sounds like a Future album.

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Anthrax Release Second Single ‘The Edge Of Perfection‘

ANTHRAX have today released ‘The Edge Of Perfection‘, the second single from their long-awaited 12th full-length studio album Cursum Perficio out September 18 via via Nuclear Blast Records and Megaforce Records (North America). The new single is highlighted by clean guitar echoes and cymbals that gently shake until a blastbeat blows open the doors. Guitars buzz like a motorboat on the River Styx, making waves through the darkness. In their wake, a crushing rhythm trails the melody of lead singer Joey Belladonna’s lament, “My heart breaks…I’m on the edge…I’m on the edge of perfection.” 
 
For the video, the multi-GRAMMY® Award-nominated New York hard rock titans – Scott Ian (guitar), Charlie Benante (drums), Frank Bello (bass), Joey Belladonna (vocals), and Jonathan Donais (guitar) – teamed up with director and Academy Award-winner Joel Harlow (Star Trek and Alice in Wonderland) to create a spectacular cinematic experience that takes the hero from a dream into an evening of magic where he encounters underworld evil, interspersed with live performance footage. The clip includes appearances from martial artist Wes Scarpias, actress Ashley Edner-Tancharoen, actor Troy James, actor and Academy-Award winning make-up and special effects creator Rick Baker, actor Rod Maxwell and actor Fedor Steer. 

“It’s the apex predator of Anthrax songs,” grins Ian. “I think it’s the best song we’ve ever written and the best thing I’ve ever been a part of creatively. What’s the most powerful emotion that moves me more than anything? Of course, it’s love. Nothing moves me like the deep feeling that I get from my wife and son. I’m living on that edge for the rest of my life. This is mine, but there are a lot of ways to ruin it. I’ve ruined it in past iterations of my life, but it got me to where I am. Love is perfection, and I like being on the edge of it. I don’t want everything to be about all of the same shit. This record has a whole bunch of love, a whole bunch of fun, and a little hate.”
 
Benante adds, “When I think about songs like ‘Only’ and ‘Indians,’ you know that you hit something and you can feel it. That’s the way I felt about ‘The Edge Of Perfection.’”
 
‘The Edge Of Perfection‘ follows Cursum Perficio’s first single and video, ‘It’s For The Kids‘. It’s a classic ANTHRAX ripper locked and loaded with buzzsaw-sharp riffs, explosive drumming, and a howling and head-banging hook. It undoubtedly has all the makings of a future live staple.  Listen HERE and watch the official music video HERE.

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