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Witching Attack

Away from the glossy bombast of modern metal, filth and ignominy reign supreme. Dresden, Germany's LEAD INJECTOR, formed in 2022, are a new and brilliantly threatening force for heavy metal squalor, . Entirely impervious to current trends, these young diehards have dedicated themselves to raising he...

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Red Asphalt

Naturally, death metal and extreme music have branched out considerably since EXHUMED's infamous 1998 Relapse Records debut full-length, "Gore Metal". Tech death has reached dizzying heights, and on the opposite end, INCANTATION and IMMOLATION-worshipping bands — stylized as "cavernous" death metal,...

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Eon Of Obscenity

Like a sudden hammer attack in a pitch-black alleyway, STABBING creep up on you, with brutal, bloody consequences. Four years ago, the Texans emerged from the obscure shadows of the BDM scene armed with a debut album surprising everyone with its sheer ferocity. "Extirpated Mortal Process" was widely...

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EXHUMED Announces New Album 'Red Asphalt'

EXHUMED will release a new album, "Red Asphalt", on February 20 via Relapse Records. The masters of gore metal rev up and prepare for one of 2026's most frenetic, unhinged slabs of sonic obliteration with a new video for lead single "Unsafe At Any Speed". EXHUMED mastermind Matt Harvey comments: "We...

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LEFT TO DIE Has 'Talked About' Writing And Recording Original Music: 'That Would Be Great', Says RICK ROZZ

In a new interview with "Reckless" Rexx Ruger of the Pod Scum podcast, former DEATH/MASSACRE guitarist Frederick "Rick Rozz" DeLillo was asked if there is any chance of his current project, LEFT TO DIE, recording and releasing original music. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I do...

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See Pro-Shot Video Of Former DEATH Members RICK ROZZ And TERRY BUTLER Performing With LEFT TO DIE In Melbourne, Australia

The Riff Crew channel on YouTube has uploaded professionally filmed video of LEFT TO DIE's entire March 9, 2025 concert at the Melbourne Dethfest at Corner Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. Check it out below. LEFT TO DIE is the band featuring classic DEATH members Terry Butler (also formerly of MASSAC...

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Ash Eclipses Flesh

As much as it brings metalheads of a certain disposition immense and lasting joy, the death metal scene's ongoing expansion does have its drawbacks. There are only so many hours in the day that can be reasonably spent exploring the thousands of bands currently out there making a horrible racket, and...

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Shadow Work

There are certain, unavoidable consequences to being a humble, unpretentious band. DESPISED ICON could, if their Canadian identities would allow it, be extremely arrogant about their position in deathcore's unwritten hierarchy. Whether or not they were the first to fully express the genre is a moot...

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Chama

Everybody loves Max Cavalera. For those who didn't get the memo, the Brazilian's contribution to the metal world over the last 40 years has been vast and far-reaching. From his days in SEPULTURA to his relentless metal mission with SOULFLY and an assortment of other noisy bastards, he has consistent...

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To Rid Myself Of Truth

This is increasingly looking like deathcore's year. With stellar releases from WHITECHAPEL and SHADOW OF INTENT, and forthcoming crushers from LORNA SHORE and DESPISED ICON (amongst others),the subgenre that was once widely mocked for its initial descent into cliché has become more powerful than ev...

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Silent Echoes

Since 2014, GRUESOME have been engaged in a noble endeavor. Proudly dedicated to paying tribute to the early works of Chuck Schuldiner's DEATH, this meeting of old-school minds (members of EXHUMED and POSSESSED included),was always about saluting a genius, rather than another lazy delve into old-sc...

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Steel, Rust And Disgust

MIDNIGHT have been a formidable and prolific force over the last two decades. Founder and chief creative force Athenar has never deviated from his love of filthy, speed-fueled heavy metal, and underground diehards love him for it. After two particularly great studio records, last year's "Hellish Exp...

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Extraction

Even at its transformative best, deathcore can seem like a competitive sport. Every band wants to be the heaviest, the fastest, the most brutal, or the most willfully fucked-up. And every deathcore vocalist wants to push their chosen discipline even further into the realms of insanity. On his band's...

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Inverted World

As every student of '90s death metal knows, CANCER were heavyweights. Their first three albums are all revered classics. Things went a bit peculiar as the decade progressed (although 1995's "Black Faith" is far better than often advertised),and fizzled out entirely by 1996. Subsequent reunions have...

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Filmmaker KEVIN SMITH To Host Special Screening And Q&A With GWAR

Smodcastle Cinemas, owned by filmmaker and pop culture icon Kevin Smith, will host a special screening of "This Is Gwar" on Saturday, August 30 in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. This definitive documentary dives into the wild and blood-soaked history of GWAR, the most outrageous band in shock rock,...