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There is a real danger that stalks veteran thrash bands: running out of reasons to keep going. Forty years into a career, the easy path is to coast on the back catalogue, strap on the bullet belt and let the crowd sing the eighties back at you. Exumer have spent their entire second life refusing … Continue reading Album Review: Exumer – Death Mask Messiah

Twenty-eight years separate The Key to the Gates of Apocalypse from the next full-length chapter of MISTIGO VARGGOTH DARKESTRA. The Kharkiv-based experimental project will release Shattered Gates of Apocalypse on September 25, 2026, through Oriana Music. The album will be issued on CD, vinyl and cassette, marking the project’s first full-length collection of new studio […]

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The gates of Tythorin have opened ahead of schedule. Maryland death-thrash band NINTH REALM are streaming their second full-length album, Damnation’s Veil, in its entirety through Decibel. The premiere arrives before the record’s official release on August 28, 2026, via Transcending Obscurity Records. Containing an intro and ten full songs within a compact 37-minute runtime, […]

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Studied, imitated, but never replicated, the Grammy-nominated hardcore legends Hatebreed drop their long-awaited studio album Fatal Paradox on November 6 via new label BLKIIBLK.

Today, they share the title track — an under-three-minute, groove-driven anthem with the kind of breakdown that leads to bloody noses, bruised limbs, and broken teeth in the pit.

Hatebreed have remained a fixture of the hardcore and metal scenes for the better part of three decades. After writing the playbook with their genre-defining releases Under The Knife (1996) and Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire (1997), Hatebreed continued to carry the banner for metallic hardcore with albums like Perseverance (2002), The Rise of Brutality (2003), and Supremacy (2006) dominating charts globally. In recent years, the band’s undisputed offensive continues with modern records The Concrete Confessional (2016) and Weight of the False Self (2020), remaining fixtures on charts globally. The band’s core values of self-actualization, perseverance, and honest living have carried them from backyard and basement shows to festival dominators, selling out shows consistently across the world, effectively practicing what they’ve preached.

Enlisting long-time collaborator Zeuss (Rob Zombie, Accept, Shadows Fall), “Kill Count Increase” is crossover excellence with accelerating speeds, crushing riffage, and frontman Jamey Jasta‘s venomous bark inciting crimson flashes of carnage.

Holding no punches and taking no prisoners, Fatal Paradox sees the Connecticut-born juggernaut operating at full tilt, bludgeoning listeners with a barbarous blend of breakdowns, d-beats, and dogpiles. Whether it’s the thrash stylings of “Kill Count Increase” or “Total Invincible,” capital H hardcore excellence of “The Carrion Choir” and “Truth Is A Lion,” rage remains the unifying spark to blow the keg in glorious flashes of violence.

Fatal Paradox is available to pre-order here.

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In June, Father Dionysios Tabakis announced he was getting ready to play his first-ever live set at Philadelphia’s Making Time fest, which goes down next month. However, the viral Greek Orthodox priest behind the acclaimed drone metal LP Paradise Metal faced backlash after old blog posts of his resurfaced. Two posts from 2024 referred to gay people as “Sodomites” and gay marriage as a “sodomitic monstrosity.” It was also discovered that in 2013 he performed a sanctification at the offices of Golden Dawn, a Greek neo-Nazi organization. He addressed the criticism in a new statement.

The post Drone Metal Priest Father Dionysios Tabakis Addresses Fascism And Homophobia Accusations Ahead Of First-Ever Live Set appeared first on Stereogum.

The calendar says 2026, but WATCHER have turned the clock back to the era of steel, sorcery and unapologetically traditional heavy metal. The Swedish quartet have premiered the official video for “Sorceress,” the opening track from their forthcoming second album, Mistress of Our Time. The song is the third preview of the record, following “2084” […]

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Fairy tales usually promise a path out of darkness. On their next album, ASPHODELIA are more interested in what remains when that promise disappears. Following an extended period of silence, the Italian symphonic metal band will return with Unfairy Tales, due for release on November 13, 2026, through Kraempus Records. The nine-track album contains 46 […]

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The first three are now streaming.

The post Brother’s Keeper Have Re-Recorded 11 Of Their Songs For “You Can’t Kill Me” appeared first on Theprp.com.

The Great Monolith does not crumble. It ruptures. Swiss experimental black metal entity DEATH. VOID. TERROR. will release its third full-length album, To The Great Monolith III: Rifts, on September 25, 2026, through Sentient Ruin Laboratories. Arriving on vinyl, CD, cassette and digital formats, the record marks the group’s first album-length revelation since To The […]

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Imagine a serial killer’s crawlspace with a touch of Sicario. That was the direction guitarist and filmmaker Karl Whinnery gave LIGATURE MARKS before shooting the video for their new single. LIGATURE MARKS have released “Weapons,” the first preview of their forthcoming second full-length album. The song deliberately moves away from the Portland band’s established metalcore […]

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