Metal band Slowpanic have a new single out that was recently on the Milwaukee Style hardcore compilation. It’s a vigorous jam about sinking lower than ever with nowhere left to go. You keep hoping things will change but you never get anywhere. You end up cornered and face your wicked fate. Slowpanic are mean and angry with this one; be
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Thrash metal band Full Shred Ahead released a new EP – their first body of work in five years. It’s frantic, fiery, and possessed by doom. Whether it’s from the punchy dread that barks like a mad dog in “There Might Be A Murder” or through the devious mix of pain and pleasure in “Satisfaction Guaranteed,” Full Shred Ahead live
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Crust metal band To The Dogs dropped a new single this week. With some thrash and black metal components blended in, the song is a brutal jam about death and decay. With a chugging riff, chomping drums and animalistic growls, there’s a damning fury hell-bent on obliteration. It can only be the sign that there’s more to come from To
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Heavy metal band Toxic Ruin are out with the title track to their forthcoming record due this summer. A hellish descension into diabolical riffage, Toxic Ruin continue building on their hybrid sound of old-school death metal with progressive thrash in what they told Metal Temple is their most mature material to date. The song is about betrayal and greed, waging
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Poison Darts combine subgenres for all-out aggression.
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Industrial metal band Lockjaw are out with a new record. The long-running hell rockers recorded this during the desolate quarantine winter, bringing fiery grooves and lava-soaked riffage over six tracks. The first few songs make you feel like you’re getting thrust into a void to the underworld and are perfectly aware of what’s happening, while the title track will make
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Grindcore duo Pineoblastoma have a new album out, recording remotely during quarantine between Milwaukee and Canton, Massachusetts. Gurgling into the void, this record slams right into you with grinding riffage and destructive drumming, accompanied by obfuscated growls. The lyrics across the songs touch on drug addiction, getting violently high, decaying into microorganisms, and PTSD. To add a little comic relief,
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Metalcore band After Hour Animals have a new single and video out this week. The song is about being haunted by pain and worry, and constantly finding ways to numb it. The video thematically translates this into a scene featuring a killer (Armon Hassan) terrorizing a group of people having fun in a winter cabin, taking them out one by
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Goregrind project Gross Load has a new EP out. It’s five tracks of wicked, grinding devastation that whizz by like a hurricane from Hell. Now that you know what you know from listening to this release, you must die. If you’re looking for something absolutely mind-shattering that demolishes everything in its path, look no further than Gross Load. Cassettes will
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Atmospheric black metal band Illusion of Fate dropped a new single this past week. Through guttural screams and a grand soundscape, the song details entering a dark void to confront your sins. There’s no angels in this place -only waste. It’s a brutally melodic and demonically driven tale that takes you straight to a hidden hell. Illusion of Fate have
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Post-prog metal project Arctic Sleep has two new original compositions out, inspired by the Scout Comics series “By the Horns.” The first track, “Blade Through Your Heart,” revolves around being unable to move past painful memories and being tempted to bring everyone down with you, while the second track “Maybe Magic Won’t Die A Horrible Death Today” is more vague
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Velocihamster, the world’s only lap steel metal band, are out with their sophomore album. Entirely instrumental, the nine-track record has fierce attitude and well-oiled vitality. Featuring two covers, “Misirlou” by Dick Dale and “First Tube” by Phish, each tune is akin to elegantly strange imagery but also eccentric fun. With prog and math rock components, Sean Williamson has said that
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Groove metal band Reflection of Flesh have their long-anticipated new EP out. Featuring four studio tracks and three live tracks, the band touches on survival in the face of propaganda and brainwashing. Headbanging riffs and spine-chilling shrieks captivate the sheer tormenting nature of living under tyranny. Giving into the machine is like drinking the poison, as tackled on the EP’s
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Heavy metal band Toxic Ruin’s latest release is the first single off their upcoming record “Nightmare Eclipse.” Terrifying and gnarly, the band shrieks with judgment and thrashes with relentless vigor. It feels like you’re trying to find the way out of a maze in Hell but there’s truly no way to escape the demonic presence within. Toxic Ruin state that
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Thrash metal band Product of Hate has their second full-length record out. With blistering speed and fierce vitality, the band rocks across the sky over twelve tracks that encompass themes of Gods and great battles. Vocalist Adam Gilley expressed on Bandcamp that they feel the record resonates with a lot of what is going on in the world right now.
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Creepy Little Things are a new project that blend punk and metal with gothic horror. They’ve got a new video out to their song “Broken Twisted & Drained” directed by Mystery Music. Lead vocalist Scotty Damned is shown singing in an indigo-lavender tinged room about living in tormenting pain. The quick cuts and close-up shots emphasize the visceral discomfort Scotty
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Symphonic metal group Maledictis have their debut EP out. The name means “doomed” in Latin, which is a keystone theme in their work. As you could imagine, their lyrics heavily touch on human greed and civilization’s gradual decay as a result. Wind instruments such as trumpet, French horn, tuba, clarinet, and flutes accompany cello and viola in addition to conventional
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Mind Gore is an extreme metal project of the experimental collective Fundamentals. They’ve got a new EP of three songs out, and it carries quite the demonic trance. The title track’s riff feels like a relentless onslaught of terror while “Blue Conundrum” is an industrial headbanger and “Madman of the People” feels like opening a portal to Hell. There’s been
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Archiver get extra heavy and theatrical on their new EP.
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Groove and death metal meet hard rock in these compositions, culminating into a chaotic yet cohesive odyssey of personal instability.
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Metalcore band After Hour Animals have a new song out today and it touches heavily on addiction. Vocalists Armon Hassan and Nik Voyn once again conjure a mesmerizing duality of the frantic voice in your head versus the honest and level-headed one, respectively. There’s lyrics about a “final fix” as well as waking up from blackouts. It’s sure to be
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Djent-metalcore band I, Manifest are out with yet another track – their fifth of the year. This song has a brutally low pitched riff that rumbles under vocalist Robert Strauss’ shrieks about money and power. It speaks to living under an oppressive system where money feeds greed and selfishness while others are left to suffer, grasping for a chance at
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Both songs bring a relentlessly tortured, hellish energy from vocalist Tom Olwig.
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Black metal band Archiver is out with their second track from their forthcoming EP.
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Bob Schaab’s black metal project releases it’s first single.
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