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Australian hard rockers Greystone Canyon have unleashed an explosive take on the legendary Led Zeppelin classic “Immigrant Song,” delivering the iconic anthem with raw power, grit, and unapologetic attitude. The track is taken from the band’s third full-length album, Something Borrowed…Something New, a record that perfectly captures the authentic spirit of Greystone Canyon: loud, direct, … Continue reading Classic Cover: Greystone Canyon – “Immigrant Song” (original by Led Zeppelin)

Progressive metal ensemble Haken is back with its first new music in three years. “In A Fever Dream” single is available for streaming together with a visualizer video.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Violence System Announces New Album The Hollowing Featuring Crushing First Single “Endmother”
Atlanta, Georgia melodic death metal wrecking crew Violence System are preparing to unleash their newest full-length assault, The Hollowing , arriving August 7th on all major streaming platforms.
Leading the charge is the already released first single, “Endmother,” a punishing statement of intent that showcases the band’s evolving sound: razor-sharp precision, suffocating atmosphere, and sheer unrelenting aggression. Combining the brutality of Thy Art Is Murder with the technical ferocity of Decapitated and the dark cinematic scope of Dimmu Borgir , Violence System continue carving out a lane entirely their own.
Since forming in 2015, the Atlanta-based outfit has steadily built a reputation for blending melodic depth with crushing heaviness, creating music that feels both massive and emotionally devastating. With The Hollowing , the band pushes further into darker territory, delivering a record packed with punishing riffs, haunting textures, and apocalyptic intensity.
“Endmother” offers listeners a glimpse into the themes explored throughout the album, touching on decay, existential collapse, and the fragility buried beneath human nature. The track has already begun turning heads among fans of extreme modern metal and signals a bold new chapter for the band.
Known for their explosive sonic production and immersive songwriting, Violence System continue to refine the formula that has earned them a loyal underground following. The Hollowing promises to be their most ambitious and devastating release to date.
Fans can stream “Endmother” now and prepare for the arrival of The Hollowing on August 7th. https://open.spotify.com/artist/4wE9grWmR6adR4mvqjuenS
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One year after the release of Face The End record, Italian thrashers Game Over are back at work, located in Domination Studio where Simone Mularoni and Simone Bertozzi are recording guitars for their next music output.
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Samurai warriors Sabbat (JPN) are pleased to announce that they will return to the ‘old continent’ in October for ‘Black Fire Over Europe’ tour.
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Defiled have never been easy to classify, and that’s precisely the point. Active since 1992 — death metal’s formative era — the Tokyo quartet are neither nostalgists nor revisionists. They do not trade in genre signifiers as aesthetic cosplay. Over nine full-lengths, founding guitarist Yusuke Sumita and his band of warriors have carved out something genuinely singular: a strain of death metal that is technically rigorous without being sterile, rooted in the underground without being beholden to it. Altered State is their latest argument that this approach still has room to surprise — though it’s a more complicated argument than the band’s own framing suggests.

The recent run has been remarkable. Infinite Regress (2020), The Highest Level (2023), and Horror Beyond Horror (2024) formed a three-album hot streak that drew serious attention — Decibel handed that last record an 8/10 and called the band’s output “peak ability, creativity and volatility.” Altered State arrives on the heels of that momentum, and Sumita has cited George Orwell’s 1984 as the lyrical framework. That’s an accurate but incomplete description. “Dazed in Blindness” opens the record with an inventory of Orwellian control mechanisms — doublespeak, propaganda, “stealth manipulation” — and “Zombified” delivers some of the album’s most visceral imagery in explicitly 1984 terms: brainwashed masses in invisible cages, a ragtag mob on the march, rulers who “don’t see or care.” “Necro-Force” distills the Party’s logic to its most brutal reduction: comply and die / death after compliance. These tracks understand Orwell not as a reference point but as a usable grammar for rage.

But “Obsession” operates in an entirely different register. Do what Thou wilt — Aleister Crowley’s central tenet, lifted verbatim — anchors a track about occultists gathering for rites, thelemic force, and psychic flame. “Metamorphosis of Evil” draws on morality play tradition, cataloguing the antagonist, the evil seducer, and the satirical moralist as stock figures running through allegorical metamorphoses. Neither track has anything to do with Orwell. The album’s conceptual layer is, in fact, bifurcated: one half dystopian political horror, one half occult metaphysics. Whether that duality is intentional synthesis or simply two strands that never fully merge is a question Altered State raises without answering.

The production, handled in-house — Sumita producing, Shinichiro Hamada and Keisuke Hamada engineering at Studio Zot in Tokyo, with mixing and mastering by Kenji Kikuchi at Studio Nest in Chiba — is deliberately muted, favoring the midrange and low end over any polished sheen. It’s a choice that gives the record an organic weight, pressing the music through dense earth rather than broadcasting it through clean air. On the album’s strongest tracks, that density feels earned. On its weaker ones, it obscures rather than intensifies.

Opener “Dazed in Blindness” establishes the template: fast-moving riffs, Shinichiro Hamada’s ferocious vocal delivery, Keisuke Hamada’s drumming hitting every metric shift with the precision of someone three decades deep in this craft. “Obsession” is where the album gets genuinely strange — its riff shapeshifts and warps around itself without resolving, a musical analog to the occult practice it’s describing. “Portal,” the lead single, earns that designation: a relatively traditional death metal opening gives way to a series of tempo shifts that feel like the ground dropping out, the band’s technical control most visible precisely because the structure seems on the verge of collapse.

The closing trio — “Prophecies,” “Demolition,” and “Apocalyptic End” — functions as a unified final statement. “Prophecies” is the album’s darkest and most foreboding stretch, its central declaration — prophecies left out a key piece of the puzzle — landing with the weight of something irreversible. “Demolition” snaps back with blunt-force riffing and a lyrical arc of total surrender: sovereignty deprived / dignity dissolved. “Apocalyptic End” closes things on a note of conspiratorial dread — dark forces, pyramidal power, the calcification of the pineal gland — with the dexterous meter-shifting the band has made a signature. As an endgame, it works.

What doesn’t fully work is the album’s midsection. At fourteen tracks, Altered State runs longer than it needs to. The muted production that gives “Obsession” its disorienting weight becomes a liability across tracks like “Zombified” and “Metamorphosis of Evil,” where individual identities erode into textural sameness. Sumita has acknowledged the record may not reveal itself immediately, and that’s fair — but there’s a meaningful distinction between “intentionally challenging” and “insufficiently differentiated,” and Altered State occasionally strays into the latter.

Altered State is not Defiled‘s most fully realized statement — the bloated runtime and blurred midsection see to that. But when this band is operating at their most disorienting and precise, as on “Obsession,” “Portal,” and the closing sequence, they remain unlike anything else working in this space. Nine albums deep, that’s no small claim.

Defiled still sound like a band with something to prove. In 2026, that alone sets them apart.

“Altered State” Track-listing:

1. Dazed in Blindness
2. Altered State
3. Obsession
4. Portal
5. Necro-Force
6. The Degradation
7. Genocidal State
8. Metamorphosis of Evil
9. The Ultra Death
10. Zombified
11. Lunatics
12. Prophecies
13. Demolition
14. Apocalyptic End

Defiled Lineup:

• Shinichiro Hamada – Vocals, Guitar
• Yusuke Sumita – Guitar
• Takachika Nakajima – Bass
• Keisuke Hamada – Drums

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Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/defiledjapan

Bandcamp : https://defiledjapan.bandcamp.com

Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/defiled

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@defiled

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6KDc0SB4ero6zAgrafjVrt

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/defiled/72867298

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/music/player/artists/B001GJ407S/defiled

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The Finland’s Soulgrind have shared a brand new song, “Jylhä Metsämies”, from their upcoming full-length opus Ad Pulchram Mortem.
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Norwegian black metal band Sworn has shared details on their newly announced fifth studio record. Entitled called Null Crowned The Infinite, it will land in stores on September 4th, 2026. Mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren. First single, the title track, will be out June 5th.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MULCIBER Featured By Necromance Following Release Of Crushing New Single “Ashes Of Gehenna”
Cleveland, Ohio death metal destroyers Mulciber continue building momentum toward their upcoming full-length album Of Insidious Essence with a major feature from Spanish extreme metal outlet Necromance, spotlighting the band’s latest single and video “Ashes Of Gehenna.”
Originally released on March 13, 2026, “Ashes Of Gehenna” serves as the first devastating taste of Of Insidious Essence , due out later this year. Necromance praised the band’s savage fusion of early 2000s death metal brutality, modern precision, and old-school riff worship, shining a light on MULCIBER’s unrelenting approach to extreme music.
Forged during the chaos of the 2020 global pandemic, MULCIBER emerged from Cleveland’s underground with a mission to combine multiple eras of death metal into one punishing sonic assault. The band delivers a crushing blend of blast-driven aggression, monstrous riffs, and abyssal vocal fury that hits with both nostalgic brutality and modern intensity.
The current lineup features underground metal veterans Aaron Gall (ex-EMBALMER, ex-LIMBSPLITTER), Dan Gates (ex-TON, VICAR BLOOD, MUTUAL HOSTILITY), alongside Ian Lanney and Bill Long. Following the release of their 2022 EP Misery Of One through Redefining Darkness Records , the band has continued sharpening its sound into something even more vicious and unforgiving.
Drawing influence from legendary acts such as Morbid Angel , Suffocation , Aborted , Blood Red Throne , Vile , and Aeon , MULCIBER’s sound channels the relentless aggression of classic death metal while maintaining a razor-sharp modern edge.
“Ashes Of Gehenna” was produced by Tony Tipton, while the official music video was created by Chris Walter Visuals. The track showcases the band’s most extreme material to date and sets the stage for what promises to be a devastating full-length release with Of Insidious Essence .
With international media support growing and anticipation building around the upcoming album, MULCIBER are proving they are more than ready to carve their name deeper into the modern death metal underground.
Check out the Necromance feature here:
https://necromance.eu/mulciber-estrenan-el-video-de-ashes-of-gehenna-y-anuncian-su-nuevo-album-of-insidious-essence/

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