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  • Listening Now : BALTHVS – Inner Heights

    Inner Heights by BALTHVS flows with a hypnotic groove that feels both grounded and expansive. The rhythm locks in early, creating a steady pulse, while the guitar work drifts freely above it, weaving psychedelic textures that feel fluid and alive. There is a natural sense of movement throughout, like a journey that unfolds without urgency but never stands still. The blend of funk and cosmic atmosphere gives it a warm, immersive quality.

    It pulls you in gently, letting the groove do the work, and keeps you there with its effortless, trance like momentum.

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  • SPARTA Announce New Album, Share Single ‘Crater’

    Equal Vision Records, Civilians and Sparta are excited to announce the Friday 29 May release of Cut A Silhouette, the forthcoming album from the celebrated El Paso, TX-based alt-rock band. Produced, engineered and recorded in seven days at Magpie Cage Recording Studio by the iconic J. Robbins, Cut A Silhouette is a collision of past […]
  • Listening Now : Late Bush – Fluxstrata

    Fluxstrata by Late Bush feels like stepping into a system that is constantly mutating in real time. It moves with an unstable momentum, where glitchy textures, fractured rhythms, and processed voices collide in a dense, almost overwhelming flow. There is a strange beauty in the excess, as baroque elements dissolve into hyper modern digital chaos. Nothing stays fixed for long, everything shifts, bends, and reconfigures itself. It feels both organic and artificial, emotional yet distant.

    A bold, disorienting piece that thrives on contrast, pulling you into its layered, ever evolving sonic architecture.

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  • Review GRADE 2 “Talk About It”

    The first time I heard – and saw – Grade 2 was when the band toured with the mighty Social Distortion. That was back in 2022, and the trio’s performance at Barclays Arena was impressive, as they unleashed a tremendous amount of energy. Four years later, the Isle of Wight band returns with “Talk About… Continue Reading →
  • Trelldom Unveils New Visualizer Video “Folding The Mind”

    Trelldom, founded by legendary vocalist Gaahl, has unveiled the visualiser single "Folding The Mind" as the next advance track selected from their forthcoming new full-length: "…By The Word…," which will be released on May 29th. You can check out the song below. Trelldom neither comment on their music nor explain their art. Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
  • HEAVY AUDIO MAG #47 – The Week In Metal

    Listen to the best in new, heavy music every week with HEAVY‘s new weekly HEAVY AUDIO MAG, featuring music from our weekly cover artist plus new premieres, hit predictions, and killer tracks we just know you want to listen to from bands featured over both digimags and some just because we want to put them […]
  • Monolord Announces “Neverending,” Their First New Album In Five Years; Debuts “You Bastard” Video

    Monolord returns with "Neverending," their first full-length album in five years, arriving May 29 via Relapse Records. To create "Neverending," Monolord decamped to Ashland, Oregon to record with legendary producer/engineer Sylvia Massy (Tool, System of a Down, and Johnny Cash). The collaboration began when Massy asked vocalist/guitarist Thomas … Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
  • GOPHER Offer First Taste Of New Album With Single ‘Kupu Kupu Malam’

    GOPHER is party metal/electro fun from Australia and unlike anything you’ve heard before! Originally hailing from Fanny Barks, UK, and forming in 1790, after having arrived on the first fleet to what was known back then as The British Colony of New South Wales, these two rotting, stinking, bubbling corpses that are GOPHER have wasted […]
  • Damnation Festival Announce 2026 Headliners Plus Four More Bands

    The organisers of Britain's Damnation Festival have revealed the headliners for this year's edition of the event. Closing off the Saturday will be Swedish post metal stalwarts Cult Of Luna, while bringing the weekend to a close will be Norwegian black metal veterans Satyricon. In addition to this, English death metal icons Carcass, French experimen… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
  • Defiled To Release New Album “Altered State” In June; Unveils New Music Video “Portal”

    Having been active practitioners since 1992, Defiled are masters of the vile art known as death metal. The Tokyo legends have shared the stage with Morbid Angel, Mayhem, Cannibal Corpse and Incantation. However, these grizzled veterans are neither relics nor custodians for the old-school. Their upcoming new album, "Altered State," unleashes a dizzy… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com