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Rising screamo revivalists, Knumears, recently joined Run For Cover Records and Summer Shade (the RFC imprint spearheaded by Fury’s

Death metal’s primary function is, or perhaps should be, to whip the listener into a good old-fashioned frenzy with riffs aplenty. On Longing Voracity, their sophomore effort, Germany’s Teratoma zealously commit to and meet this core purpose.

Longing Voracity is, if nothing else, a riffs-based album. And not just rhythmically; the leads, too, are central to its mission. This tenet, this respect for the riff, is hardly rare. That Teratoma embrace it as wholeheartedly as they do while delivering it as melodically as they do is rare enough, though.

There’s something embedded in Teratoma’s approach that feels hypernatural. As a listener, your inclination may be—and I know mine was—to frame Longing Voracity initially in terms of what it is not. It is not clinical. It is not overproduced. It is not grandiose or overly complex. Longing Voracity is, instead, refreshingly direct, rich in the few elements that make great death metal, well, great. Principally, I enjoy this one the same way I enjoyed the more recent Witch Vomit records. Or Tomb Mold’s Planetary Clairvoyance. Or the last Hyperdontia record. Simply put, it crushes.

Longing Voracity’s richness really comes from the distillation of those few elements into nine tightly written songs—songs that are largely devoid of the sort of excess that tends to drag lesser albums. It doesn’t hurt, of course, that the first song (after the intro track) is about four and a half minutes of dense, melodic, and punishing hypnotism.

There’s a purpose, an ethos, in the above-mentioned hypnotism that weaves its way through most of Longing Voracity. That uniformity of purpose—mostly to crush you into an intense state of hypnosis (see, e.g., “Chaotic Bewilderment”)—belies what is at its core a notably diverse death metal album with well-defined and distinguishable songs, searing leads, and a bulldozing pace. In that sense, the aforementioned “Chaotic Bewilderment,” “Festering Realm,” and the title track are emblematic of the Teratoma’s approach here.

Though they may not be the first to make the statement, Teratoma certainly prove with Longing Voracity that new OSDM doesn’t have to be purely reverential to succeed. Sure, there’s an eclectic mix of the elements you’d otherwise find in most OSDM—gutturals, doomier riffs, a generally murky atmosphere and raw production—but the album sits somewhere between Swedish, Finnish, and American tendencies, played by musicians who bring their own individual influences to the table, some of them more modern than others.

Of all the metals, death metal presently sits somewhere near the top, if not at the very top, of the heavy metal hierarchy. And we are direct beneficiaries of its excesses. That in this bountiful period of death metal riches Teratoma’s Longing Voracity stands out amongst its peers is not only commendable but something close to a miracle.

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Bones Hewson, bassist of the darlings of the modern heavy metal scene, Tailgunner, keeps it very simple when asked what he hopes for most: “We wanna be huge,” he tells ClassicRockHistory.com. With a ringing endorsement from K.K Downing, who called Tailgunner “the next big thing,” and a massive response to their first two records, 2023’s Guns for Hire, and 2026’s Midnight Blitz, it does appear that Tailgunner will, in fact, “be huge,” if they aren’t already. The band’s decidedly old-school vibe, which Hewson and his bandmates say comes from their view that when it comes to metal, “that’s just how

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French rock duo Chevreuil release “Ordrus,” the third single from their comeback double album Stadium, out April 24, 2026 via Computer Students™.

An interview with the members of the Swedish old-school thrash band about Demonic Assault, their influences, and their future plans Sweden’s Savage Mania are not trying to rewrite the rulebook of thrash metal — they simply want to channel the raw, instinctive and uncompromising energy that made them fall in love with the genre in […]

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Mid-Michigan melodic alt-rock band Silktail returns with their strongest release to date, A Better Place Than Me. The five-song EP, recorded

Born in the SoCal underground and baptized by chaos, Mad Tab is what punk sounds like when it’s been through

Elegacy announce today the release of ‘Theory of Sin‘, their third studio album, available now on CD and digital via Elevate Records. More than a decade after ‘The Binding Sequence‘ — a work that solidified their reputation in the Italian progressive metal scene, also thanks to the participation of prominent international musicians — the band […]

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Opening with a fat, to quote the band: “faaat, fat” bassline, DFL release their new track “SECOND CHANCES”

Simon Hanes, a leading musician in New York’s downtown scene, has recorded his “Gargantua,” a work for 15 musicians that nods to volcanoes, Rabelais and Dante.