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THE GREAT OBSERVER set release date for BLACKSEED debut, reveal first track – features members of DEMONOMANCY, THULSA DOOM, VULTURES VENGEANCE+++
On April 30th internationally, BlackSeed Productions is proud to present The Great Observer‘s striking debut album, Loss of Transcendence, on CD and vinyl LP formats. Driven by a shared longing for boundless expression, Daniele Z. (guitar and vocals, ex-Night Gaunt) and Luca E. (drums and vocals, ex-Demonomancy and ex-Thulsa Doom) came together in a rehearsal room in Rome in […] -
Harrowed – The Eternal Hunger Review
I’ve kicked off this year with a good old-fashioned death binge. My putrid immersion has taken me around the world so far: first to Chile, then across the Pacific to Australia, and now back across continents to Sweden. Next up is Stockholm-based duo Harrowed. Consisting of dual-threat drummer and vocalist Adam Lindmark (ex-Morbus Chron) and guitarist/bassist Tobias Alpadie (VAK and former live guitarist for Tribulation), the pair linked up through a past project to pay homage to the SweDeath sounds of olde. With only a demo and a split to their name, their debut album, The Eternal Hunger, unleashes Harrowed’s fetid disposition upon the world with a fresh edge, proving these Swedes are more than just HM-2 clones.But rest easy—no HM-2 pedals were harmed in the making of The Eternal Hunger. Instead, Harrowed delivers enough primitive-drenched filth to satisfy any SweDeath devotee craving the crunch. Alpadie’s serrated tremolos and lacerating riffs cut like rotary blades, while Lindmark’s feverish blasts and tribal tom rolls drench highlights like “Blood Covenant” and “The Cold of A Thousand Snows” in a heavy layer of cavernous abrasion, tearing through the speakers with surgical precision. The Stockholm sound’s hardcore punk DNA is also front and center, as the duo rips through tracks like “Ultra Terrene Phantasmagoria,” “Bayonet,” and “The Reins” with high-octane skank beats and wailing dirges. Lindmark’s vocals are a caustic mix of barbaric regurgitations, adding formaldehyde-infused dressing on Harrowed’s cadaver sandwich. Tied together by a punchy production that preserves the weight of the muddy sound of yore while also maintaining a modern, nimble edge, every disgusting note on The Eternal Hunger lands with maximum impact.
The Eternal Hunger channels the spirit of ’90s-era Entombed, yet Harrowed also weaponizes influences from far beyond Swedish borders. The duo frequently abandons standard old-school formulas to explore a diverse palette of unbridled savagery. On “Blood Covenant,” Lindmark’s stampeding, guttural-punctuated rhythms and turbulent transitions coalesce with Alpadie’s blazing fretwork, leaning closer to classic thrash than typical SweDeath. Pivoting from there, “Ultra Terrene Phantasmagoria” and “The Cold of A Thousand Snows” embrace a blackened speed identity where icy tremolos, demented double-bass attacks, and progressive ride patterns imbue a sinister edge outside typical HM-2 purism. Harrowed also pulls from the American scene. “The Eternal Hunger” mirrors the swampy, gore-soaked roots of early Autopsy and Death, while the haunting, clean arpeggios driving the title track and “The Haunter” resurrect Slayer’s “Seasons in the Abyss.” Strategic moments of suspense, where the duo strips away the distorted crust in favor of suspenseful intros and bridges, only make the final blows feel more devastating as hammering half-time grooves (“Blood Covenant”) and esoteric patterns (“Formaldehyde Dreaming,” “The Reins”) work well to keep the listener off-balance.
While Harrowed’s varied songwriting is largely airtight, certain songs reveal minor cracks. “The Reins” suffers from a disjointed bridge that briefly stalls the track’s momentum, though Lindmark’s technical drumming and visceral vocal attack do well to anchor the chaos. There are also occasional moments when tracks feel like retreads, suggesting Harrowed may have hit the bottom of their bag of tricks. “Formaldehyde Dreaming,” for instance, relies on a riff set strikingly similar to those found in “Bayonet” and “The Cold of A Thousand Snows,” while the clean intro of “The Eternal Hunger” echoes “The Haunter.” Furthermore, the title track’s brooding build-up fails to deliver a proportional payoff, indicating the track would have benefited from more editing. Despite these slip-ups, however, The Eternal Hunger remains 36 minutes of grime-soaked efficiency that favors memorable songwriting over high-concept filler.Harrowed successfully pays homage to the Swedish spirit without merely exhuming its grave. By channeling a wide-reaching spectrum of influences and pushing them through a modern SweDeath filter, they’ve created a record that is easy to like and refuses to grow stale. Much of The Eternal Hunger’s success stems from Harrowed’s balanced and varied songwriting, with Lindmark and Alpadie both pulling their weight equally to flex their creative muscle and produce material that sounds both familiar and surprisingly fresh. A debut with this much power is impressive, especially coming from only two people. If this is what the new wave of SweDeath sounds like, I’m on board—and you should be too.
Rating: Very Good!
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Dying Victims Productions
Websites: dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/album/the-eternal-hunger | facebook.com/harroweddeathmetal
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Psycroptic Digitally Release Their Cover Of Little River Band’s “Falling”
The song was previously a hidden bonus track on the Australian CD release of “As The Kingdom Drowns”.
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THE MOON AND THE NIGHTSPIRIT drop new single ‘Odyssey Limen’
THE MOON AND THE NIGHTSPIRIT reveal the new track ‘Odyssey Limen‘ as the next advance single taken from their forthcoming album. “Seed of the Formless” has been chalked up for release on April 17, 2026. Pre-sale link: https://spkr.store/collections/the-moon-and-the-nightspirit THE MOON AND THE NIGHTSPIRIT comment: “The song ‘Odyssey Limen’ represents our new album’s most intense and dynamic peak – a relentless, metallic journey that mirrors the ultimate spiritual […] -
White Zombie Reunion? Rob Zombie Finally Addresses The Rumors
Is Rob Zombie Reuniting White Zombie?
No — Rob Zombie has made it clear that a White Zombie reunion is not happening, despite revisiting the band’s material live.
TL;DR
- Rob Zombie says White Zombie will not reunite
- He revisited Astro-Creep: 2000 during a special anniversary set last year
- Internal tension and personality conflicts led to the band’s 1998 breakup
- Zombie says he moved on intentionally when forming his solo band
- He will only retire when he can’t deliver shows at the level fans expect
There are reunion rumors that never die.
White Zombie is one of them.
Nearly three decades after the band imploded, Rob Zombie is once again shutting the door — and this time it doesn’t sound like a marketing tease.
It sounds final.
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The Astro-Creep Anniversary Didn’t Mean What Fans Thought
When Zombie performed Astro-Creep: 2000 in full at Louder Than Life last year — backed by his current solo band — it reignited hope.
That record, released in 1995 at the height of industrial metal’s mainstream explosion, remains White Zombie’s defining statement. Double multi-platinum. Cultural timestamp. The soundtrack to a specific era.
But behind the scenes, the band was already fracturing while making it.
Zombie admitted he knew during the recording process that it would likely be the final album. Personality conflicts and internal strain were eroding everything.
“I knew as we were making that record that it would most likely be the last one,” he said in a recent talk with Revolver. “The band was falling apart.”
That context changes how you hear that album.
It wasn’t a triumphant peak.
It was a controlled detonation.
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Why The Breakup Stayed Permanent
White Zombie officially dissolved in 1998.
And unlike most legacy acts from the ‘90s, they never circled back for a cash-in run. No festival reunion. No anniversary tour. No “one last time.”
That’s not accidental.
Zombie made it clear that when he built his solo band — starting with 1998’s Hellbilly Deluxe — he did so with intention.
No internal drama. No ego wars. No chaos.
He specifically chose collaborators he could trust long-term, including Mike Riggs and Blasko, saying those tours were the best time he’d ever had on the road.
That’s a pointed comparison.
When someone finds a better situation, they rarely go back to a worse one.
Nostalgia Doesn’t Override Reality
Zombie still performs White Zombie staples live.
He respects the music. He’s proud of Astro-Creep: 2000. He calls it a strong record to end on.
But he also says he’s moved on.
And that’s the part fans don’t want to hear.
There’s a difference between honoring your past and resurrecting it.
White Zombie belongs to a very specific chapter in his life — and by his own admission, not one he’s eager to revisit structurally.
When Will Rob Zombie Retire?
Interestingly, Zombie was far more open about stepping away from the stage entirely than about reuniting his old band.
He says he thinks about it often.
But the decision won’t be driven by age or nostalgia — it will be driven by standards.
“If I don’t think we’re capable of delivering the show at the level it should be delivered… I will just walk away.”
That’s the line.
He won’t fade out.
He won’t coast.
He’ll exit when he feels the energy is gone.
Until then, the curtain stays up.
Just don’t expect White Zombie to rise with it.
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FAQ
Is White Zombie reuniting?
No. Rob Zombie has made it clear that a reunion is not happening.Did Rob Zombie perform Astro-Creep: 2000 live recently?
Yes. He performed the album during a special anniversary set backed by his solo band.Why did White Zombie break up?
Internal tension, personality conflicts, and strained relationships led to the band’s dissolution in 1998.Is Rob Zombie planning to retire?
Not currently. He says he will step away only if he feels he can’t deliver high-level live performances anymore.Band Bio
White Zombie formed in 1985 and became one of the defining industrial metal acts of the 1990s, culminating in the double multi-platinum success of Astro-Creep: 2000. The band disbanded in 1998. Rob Zombie launched his solo career the same year with Hellbilly Deluxe, which established him as a long-term force in heavy music and later film.
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SPACE CHASER sign deal with Testimony Records
Testimony Records proudly announce that SPACE CHASER have signed with the label. We gladly welcome these Berlin thrash metal maniacs to our roster! SPACE CHASER will release their fourth studio album via Testimony Records in the near future. SPACE CHASER comment: “We are very happy to join forces with such a respected and well-established label, and we can hardly wait to unleash […] -
High. – “George” (Feat. sweet93)
The bleary, gritty, shoegazey New Jersey rockers High. are a Stereogum Band To Watch, and songs like “George” are a reason why. The group’s new single out today is a collaboration with sweet93, aka Chloe Kohanski, fka chloe mk, who may be the only former The Voice contestant to ever appear on a shoegaze track.…
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Death metal car crashes, proggy space voyages and motorcycle sleaze: This month’s highlights from the underground
So, 2026 is off to a heavy, extreme and violent start. And there’s been a load of new noise bubbling up from the underground. The start of the Year Of The Fire Horse finds a delivery of nasty death, some far-out space voyages, and some greasy, knife-wielding biker-psych.
There’s also a load of car-based carrion, thanks to California death metal legends Exhumed and the aptly-titled Red Asphalt. Named after a series of traumatising driver’s ed films that aimed to teach road safety by showing the gory outcome of driving like a dick, it finds them setting their frenzied onslaught to tales of life and death on the road, zombie bike gangs, cars used as weapons, and basically ending your journey covered in blood. This being Exhumed, there’s a punked-up, reckless energy to Unsafe At Any Speed and Crawling From The Wreckage that turns the whole thing into a total riot. In a car or not, whiplash is very likely.
There was a pleasant surprise earlier this week when Belgian diabolists Possession dropped The Mother Of Darkness out of nowhere. Nine years since 2017’s excellent Exorkizein full-length, and seven since they last put out anything at all, it’s a return as welcome as it is (appropriately enough) possessed. If anything, the absence has only made the heart more evil, and a morbid, ecstatic violence hangs in the atmosphere. Everything in their satanic death attack sounds even more charged with demonic energy than before, sounding like it was recorded in a crypt, particularly during the wild blasts of Exhulted Hearts and The Black Chapel. Cry-Shine-Die starts all mid-paced and atmosphere building, until it kicks in halfway through and it feels like catching fire. A very welcome return from one of the finest bands in the metal underground.
There’s been some talk about Cryptic Shift over the past couple of years. The Leeds band’s sci-fi obsessed prog-death got them noticed with 2020’s Visitations From Enceladus debut, and with Overspace & Supertime there’s a weight of expectation. Fans of Voivod’s futurism and Blood Incantation’s space-death will dig just how nakedly they go into big ’70s prog jazz-outs among the heaviness, but theirs is done in a way all of their own, often quite suffocating and prone to atonal oddness rather than gazing at the wonder of infinite stars. In fact, good as they are with a surge of metal speed, it’s the side-quests into this strangeness that prove most engaging here, a musical maze in which to spend decent time getting lost and misplacing your mind.
At the other end of the death scale, Brazilian cult Fossilization’s second album Advent Of Wounds finds them digging into murky atmospheres. Time on the road with U.S. deathsters Father Befouled has by their own admission rubbed off on them, and here they’ve brought in that ossuary-lurking sense of dread, as well as crushing, doomy touches of early Anathema and Paradise Lost. You can never have too much of this stuff, as exemplified by Dead Congregation, Krypts, Incantation or Grave Miasma, and here Fossilization prove they’re worthy of standing among such esteemed company.
For those wanting some good, ’90s-styled brutality that recalls the likes of Malevolent Creation or earlier Immolation, then Posthumous Imprecation, the debut from St Petersburg quartet Void Monuments will do you right. There’s a purity to The Devilish Prophecies and Decapitate The Saints that will stir something in fans of the very core of death metal, with a classic guitar crunch and Morrisound-ish production, but isn’t a simple homage, either. This isn’t studied, it’s just imprinted from a clear obsession with this stuff.
Staying in the void, we have LA trio Voidhämmer and their Noxious Emissions demo. If that title doesn’t give you an icky taste of what to expect, tracks called Rotting In Excrement and Coffin Leakage will. They play that wonderfully sewery and squidgy stripe of death metal that shits in the same bowl as Autopsy. The no frills production that gives the bass plenty of room to swing gives it a nasty energy, as does a burst of punk on the fantastically-named Cadaveric Bloat. Noxious, indeed, but you’ll want to take a huff.
The approach of Canadian one-man black metal outfit Sanctvs couldn’t be more different. On his second album De l’Abîme au Plérôme (From The Abyss To The Plemora), Xavier ‘Mortheos’ Berthiaume delivers six tracks of high-minded black metal that’s even more imposing when you consider he plays every instrument himself. Describing it, he says it’s “an elegy to our own mortality, a dirge to the passing of time and the changes it inevitably brings”. These reflections are carried out with all the dignity and gravitas such a weighty topic deserves, to both chilling and inspiring effect.
Finally, we have The Ecstasy Of Möld by Canadian instrumental stoner sleazeballs The Death Wheelers. This time around, they’ve added a little bit of ’80s metal tang to their grubby sound. Fans of Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Electric Wizard and Church Of Misery will dig the sense of seedy, B‑movie wrongness that hangs over the whole thing, while titles like Blood, Bikes And Barbiturates, Homicycle Maniacs and Get Laid… To Rest add to the tone in the absence of lyrics. There’s a lot of greasy rock’n’roll, some dirty psych, and on The Heretic Rites Of Count Choppula, a dollop of spaced out, shark-infested surf guitar. Wheely good stuff.
Posted on February 27th 2026, 5:15p.m.
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Spite’s New In-Studio Session For Audiotree Live Released
Californian deathcore crew Spite appear in the newly released episode of Audiotree Live“. The band delivered an in-studio performance in Chicago, IL on November 13th of last year for this set, which features the following six songs: “New World Killer““Caved In““Lights Out““Shallow““Shedding Skin““Dedication To Flesh“ You can watch that set below. Audio of this performance…
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DØDMOON set release date for SIGNAL REX debut demo – streaming in full now
Today, Signal Rex announces March 13th as the international release date for Dødmoon‘s striking debut demo, Demo MMXXV, on CD and cassette tape formats. Dødmoon are a brand-new entity from Finland. However, one listen to their debut Demo MMXXV and you’ll surely know they’re old souls. To summarize them as “just” Finnish black metal is something of a disservice: while their sound undoubtedly has […]