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Stitched Up Heart Premiere New Music Video For “Ex-Termination”
Stitched Up Heart have premiered the music video for “Ex-Termination”, streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below. The gothic/alternative metal band’s vocalist, Alecia “Mixi” Demner, directed the clip, while the song appears on their latest album, “MEDUSA“. Released this past June, the guest-laden record features appearances from membe… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com -
MUTATION drag death metal back to its primal roots on Esoteric Order of Debauchery
There is little interest in refinement on Esoteric Order of Debauchery. Swedish death metal band MUTATION have built their debut album around the genre’s most primitive instincts — raw riffs, blastbeats, feedback and an intentionally unpolished sense of violence. Released on 9 October through HELLS HEADBANGERS, the eight-track record is now available to hear in […] -
After a long silence, FORGOTTEN TALES return with Other Times
Years away from the spotlight have not pulled FORGOTTEN TALES away from their power metal roots. The Quebec band will release Other Times on 12 February 2027 through ROCKSHOTS RECORDS, reconnecting with the melodic foundations of their earlier work while moving towards a more direct, guitar-driven sound. The first glimpse of that return comes through […] -
Ignite Premiere Two Tracks From Upcoming Album “Still Wide Awake”
Ignite are gearing up to release their new studio album, “Still Wide Awake“, on January 15th. The Californian melodic hardcore veterans have now unveiled the title track and another cut, “Guilty Wounds“, as a double single accompanied by a music video. The latter clip was filmed at The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas, NV, by Brett Rasmussen. … Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com -
AZELS MOUNTAIN head to South America for the first time with “Pieśń Wrony” video
Polish black metal band AZELS MOUNTAIN will make their first South American appearances in March 2027, with three Colombian shows scheduled in Bogotá, Armenia and Ibagué. Alongside the tour announcement, the band have unveiled a new video for “Pieśń Wrony”, taken from their third album Echa Krwi. Created by Zaćma Visual Studio, which handled the […] -
Folk horror and death metal collide on CELESTIAL SANCTUARY’s Cradle Of The Rotten, Shrine To Those Most Foul
Kings pierced and beheaded, spectral black dogs, witch trials, murder and sunken bells all feed into the world of CELESTIAL SANCTUARY’s next album. Rather than looking outward for a grand fantasy setting, the UK death metal band have turned towards the darker history and folklore surrounding Bury St Edmunds for Cradle Of The Rotten, Shrine […] -
A long-planned collaboration becomes real as ORBIT CULTURE enlist Tina Guo on “The Path I Walk”
A collaboration first joked about nearly a decade ago has finally become reality for ORBIT CULTURE. The Swedish metal band have joined forces with renowned cellist Tina Guo for a new version of “The Path I Walk”, accompanied by a video created by their longtime visual partners Riivata Visuals. The track appears on Death Above […] -
Viral collapse opens KILLED BY SORROW’s Empire of Excess on “The End Is Near”
Civilisation has already fallen by the time Empire of Excess begins. On opening track “The End Is Near”, KILLED BY SORROW imagine a viral outbreak that transforms the infected into hunters and reduces the world to a struggle for survival. The song is the third single from the Montreal South Shore band’s second album, due […] -
Rotten rebirths and surgical horror: GRAVE HEX open a new chapter with “Sewer Embalmment”
Self-disembowelment, ritual surgery and being eaten alive are among the routes to transformation explored on Domain of Foul Rebirths, the new EP from Helsinki death metal quartet GRAVE HEX. Due on 30 October, the five-track release takes the rotten foundations of last year’s Vermian Death and pushes them into stranger, more elaborate territory. The first […] -
ABSOLUTE DARKNESS put power without consequences under fire on “Above The Law”
What happens when someone becomes convinced that rules no longer apply to them? That sense of absolute immunity drives “Above The Law”, the new single from Bay Area death/thrash metal band ABSOLUTE DARKNESS. The track is the third preview of second album Witness To A Dying World, due on 23 October, following “Attritional Warfare” and […]