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Darkest Hour have completed their eleventh studio album, with the record now mixed, mastered, and delivered.
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Headliners include High On Fire, Monolord and Whores..

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DevilDriver have always occupied a unique space within modern metal. Formed in 2002 following the dissolution of Coal Chamber, frontman Dez Fafara built the band around groove, aggression and relentless momentum rather than chasing trends. Across ten studio albums, the Californian outfit has shifted between groove metal, melodic death metal and thrash influences while always … Continue reading Album Review: DevilDriver – Strike and Kill

The closing chapter of a trilogy written in solitude: nine tracks forged from grief, landscape and hard-won light “[…] an earth-spanning and heavenly pageant.” — No Clean Singing TODOMAL, the Anglo-Spanish atmospheric doom metal duo, share the full album stream of Graveyards of Joy via the Season of Mist YouTube channel. Stream Graveyards of Joy: https://youtu.be/ZLg3UVVRtac Graveyards of Joy spans nine tracks […]

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Today, Norwegian death metallers Horrifier premiere the new track “Body Hoarder” at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The track is the third to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated second album, Revelations of Gore, set for international release on August 7th via Personal Records. Hear Horrifier‘s “Body Hoarder” in its entirety exclusively HERE. Hailing from Norway, Horrifier have been vomiting pure, old-school brutality straight from the underground since 2022. Drawing […]

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“All Will Be (N)One” is a bleak, atmospheric track that explores humanity’s fear of death and the inevitability of time’s collapse”, says the band about the song. “Blending crushing riffs with relentless rhythms, the song builds a sense of slow-burning dread before erupting into moments of raw confrontation. Lyrically, it shifts the perspective from resistance to […]

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Living Weapon came crashing into the Boston metalcore scene with their 2021 Paradise EP. Now the band — which is fronted by Vein.fm bassist/backing vocalist Jonathan Lhaubouet — is announcing their full-length debut, Death In The Family.

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Sixteen more artists have been announced for next year’s fest.

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Today, Norwegian progressive trailblazers Enslaved are honoured to reveal ‘Spirit Helper‘, a unique and deeply powerful collaboration with Kevin Kicking Woman, an Elder of the Blackfeet Nation. ‘Spirit Helper‘ has arisen partly from a relationship with Fire In The Mountains, which takes place each year within the Blackfeet Nation, Montana. Enslaved will be returning to the festival later this month to perform. Ivar Bjørnson from Enslaved and Kevin Kicking Woman explain the concept behind […]

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Japanese metal pioneers Sigh are back today with news of their new album Goh-ka; a new highlight of atmosphere, technical mastery, and meticulously arranged epics of metallic grandeur. Main-man Mirai Kawashima notes this as being as equally personal an album as Shiki, both musically and lyrically.

From a musical perspective, if you were to place the main ingredients of Celtic Frost, Voivod, Black Sabbath, horror movies and Japan into a cauldron and stir it, you will get Goh-ka. Numerous additional spices such as psychedelic rock, prog rock and classical music are also evident over the album’s close to one-hour duration.

The album title Goh-ka has a triple meaning, being: 業火 infernal fire scorching sinners, 劫火 a huge fire that burns down the world at the end of time, and 業果 karma. The primary theme permeating the album is Kuso-zu; a series of Buddhist paintings or illustrations depicting the nine stages of a human body’s decomposition after death, created to encourage meditation on the impermanence of life, the inevitability of death, and the detachment from physical beauty and worldly attachment. It openly shows the harsh reality that no matter how beautiful you are, you’ll be dead and rot sooner or later. And Kuso-shi is a poem based on these paintings. The artworks on the cover and in the booklet of Goh-ka are therefore Kuso-zu themselves.

Joining Mirai Kawashima and Dr Mikannibal, along with guitarist Nozomu Wakai, are Frédéric Leclercq (Kreator) on bass, plus renowned US drummer Mike Heller.

Among the additional contributors to the album, Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth notably delivers a special guest guitar solo on the track “Unputenpu”.

Goh-ka was recorded across multiple studios, and once again mixed and mastered by Lasse Lammert at LSD Studios in Germany. Pre-orders of the album from the Peaceville store and band store will come with the free Legacy of Horrors 10-track Sigh sampler.

Japanese metal pioneers Sigh formed in 1989/1990. Their genre-classic Black Metal debut Scorn Defeat arrived in 1993, with a subsequent journey through the strange and the psychedelic, incorporating a whole eclectic mix of genre styles & ideas throughout their career. Sigh has remained a vital creative force in the avantgarde field whilst maintaining their old school roots, as witnessed on the 2022 album (and first for Peaceville Records), Shiki. This was followed by the remaking of their ‘Hangman’s Hymn’ album as part of the band’s 35th anniversary celebrations, in the shape of ‘I Saw the World’s End: Hangman’s Hymn MMXXV’ (2025).

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