The death of a close family friend provided the starting point for KALANDRA’s “A Ship Has Left the Shore”. Written from an idea by guitarist and keyboardist Jogeir Daae Mæland, with lyrics developed alongside vocalist Katrine Stenbekk, the song considers how we live with the absence of someone we love. It is the final single […]
Southern California deathcore titans Carnifex have released their new single, “Licking Love From A Knife”. The track is the latest to be taken from the band’s forthcoming album, More Than Misery, arriving November 6th via Sumerian Records.
“Licking Love From A Knife” places one of the album’s most personal subjects at its center: surviving a toxic relationship. Across More Than Misery, vocalist Scott Ian Lewis writes from the perspective of someone who has come through the pain that has always shaped his lyrics. The new single brings that changed perspective into the fallout of a damaging relationship, speaking directly to those who know what it means to make it out. He shares
“”Licking Love From A Knife” is my favorite song on More Than Misery and a song that I hope speaks deeply to our fans that have survived toxic relationships.”
More Than Misery is built around survival. The title carries a deliberate double meaning, expressing the idea that a person’s life can be larger than the misery it contains. Earlier Carnifex records captured Scott Ian Lewis attempting to endure and process pain while he was still living inside it. On the new album, he looks back from the other side, carrying those experiences without allowing them to define the whole of his life.
Musically, Carnifex approached the record with their original 2005 instincts and the tools of 2026. Guitars take the lead, orchestration deepens their impact and every song was built with its live translation in mind. The album brings together the physical directness of first-wave deathcore, the band’s death-metal and black-metal foundations, the symphonic atmosphere of their later work and the stronger lead-guitar identity of the current lineup.
With no fixed delivery date dictating the sessions, Carnifex had more time to write, dismantle and rebuild the material than on any previous album. The record was tracked in Tennessee across approximately five to six weeks with Zach Householder of Whitechapel and mixed by Jeff Dunne.
More Than Misery is Carnifex’s first full-length album for Sumerian Records and follows the previously released singles “Roses & Rotting Corpses” and album title track, “More Than Misery”.
More Than Misery will be released on November 6th via Sumerian Records, and can be pre-order here.
Having just completed a North American tour with All Shall Perish for The Price of Existence 20th anniversary tour, a run of US headline dates and an appearance at Furnace Fest, Carnifex now set their sites on Europe and the UK. The Death Dominion Tour is a monster triple co-headline run with Despised Icon and Suffocation with special guests Gates to Hell. The tour crosses the November 6th release of More Than Misery, with Carnifex performing in Sheffield on release day.
For the full list of upcoming tour dates and to purchase tickets, check here.
With 17 studio albums each featuring metal’s most iconic mascot, Eddie the Head, and sold-out performances in almost 60 countries, Iron Maiden’s rich history is absolutely rammed with five decades’ worth of brain-scrambling trivia.
So, how well do you know the band? Will these 20 questions make you Run to the Hills or will your score be Aces High?
Damir Eskic’s musical ambitions extend beyond the thrash attack of DESTRUCTION. With GOMORRA, the guitarist pursues classic US-style power metal with a raw thrash edge — a combination that drives the Swiss band’s forthcoming third album, “Blood Of The Innocent”. The nine-track record arrives on 13 November 2026 through Noble Demon, following “Divine Judgement” (2020) […]
Los Angeles hard rock band Blacklist Union has released their new single, “Heavy Is the Crown,” available now on all streaming platforms. Centered on perseverance, the song explores the importance of pushing through life’s darkest moments, recognizing that dawn is always on the horizon, and understanding that success comes with responsibility.
“Heavy Is the Crown” delivers a message about resilience and the strength it takes to keep moving forward when the road gets difficult. Its central theme reflects the idea that the challenges we face can ultimately shape who we become and that achieving success brings its own weight, expectations, and responsibilities.
Tony West comments, “‘Heavy is the Crown’ means that ‘shit ain’t easy, but you have to suit up and show up anyway.”
The release comes on the heels of Blacklist Union’s recent six-week European tour alongside rock legends Faster Pussycat and Lorraine Lewis of Femme Fatale. The tour brought the bands across Europe for a run of shows celebrating the enduring spirit of hard rock.
While spending a few days in Paris following the tour, Blacklist Union frontman Tony West made the trip even more unforgettable when he proposed to his girlfriend, Lorraine Lewis, vocalist of Femme Fatale, atop the Eiffel Tower. With the iconic Paris skyline as their backdrop, Lewis said yes, giving the European adventure a memorable romantic finale.
Tony West says, “Everything that is happening right now is like walking through the keyhole to my biggest dreams. I’m here to bring the wow factor and the fire to the firefight… so let’s rock this shit.”
Tony West formed Blacklist Union because he wanted to play music that he wanted to hear. They put out the first Blacklist Union record, After the Mourning, in 2006. The band’s name comes from getting the best musicians in town with the worst reputations. With a shamanistic blend of StoneTemple Pilots, Guns N’ Roses, Warrior Soul, The Cult, and Mother Love Bone… Blacklist Union was born.
Blacklist Union has built a reputation on their explosive live shows and unapologetically bold sound. Their previous record, Letters from the Psych Ward, racked up over two million streams, setting the stage for the band’s new album. The band’s latest release was Slay the Dragon that came out in September 2025.
Frontman Tony West, known for his larger-than-life presence, took time out to dive deep into several transformative ayahuasca journeys in the heart of the Amazon, preparing for this next era of music.
As West put it, “Ayahuasca isn’t a drug—it’s powerful spiritual medicine from another realm. It helped me heal in ways I never thought possible, releasing layers of trauma, heartache, and sorrow. I’m not perfect—not Gandhi or anything—but it changed everything. My entire view of myself, love, the world, people, and my children changed because of those experiences.”
West was raised in the Bronx on The Ramones, Bad Brains, and NYHC. Hearing the call of the wild west, he made his way to Los Angeles at 19 years old. West took a break from L.A. to try out Memphis in 1998. While he was there, he attended the first Saliva gig with Paul Crosby on drums. This marked the beginning of a lifelong friendship between Crosby and West, leading to management, song collaborations, and guest video appearances. West collaborated with guitarist Todd Youth (Murphy’s Law /Danzig) and Malfunkshun, which was kept active by Andy Wood’s brother Kevin Wood. Andy Wood is West’s muse, and he was honored to sing in his hero’s band.
H. P. Lovecraft’s cosmic entity Yog-Sothoth takes centre stage in the latest single from OBBROBRIUS. The Pescara groove/death metal quintet have released “All In One And One In All” with an accompanying lyric video, opening another window into their forthcoming second album, “Usurped”. Dedicated to the fictional being associated with time and space, the song […]
Which kind of lineup do you prefer; one that sticks to the genre/sub-genre or one which offers a lot of variation? Personally, I'm a big believer in variety being the spice of life and when a bill comes along which offers plenty of different metal styles, it's very appealing. Such was the case this Autumn, when industrial metal legends Fear Factory… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
Three years of work and the personal struggles of its creators feed into “ALGOS”, the fourth album from Greek black/death metallers WARHAMMER. Released on 16 October 2026, the eleven-track record is available now on digital platforms. Taking its title from the Greek word «Άλγος», meaning pain, the album examines suffering through the experiences of the […]
Athens, Sparta and Persia provide the backdrop to SPARTAN’s latest portrait of ambition and shifting allegiance. “Alcibiades”, released on 16 October 2026, is the second chapter of the Dutch melodic death metal quintet’s five-track concept EP, The Peloponnesian War. The song casts its historical subject as a commander whose loyalty ultimately belongs to himself. Its […]