Metal Blade Records has just pulled off one of their sharpest global signings in recent memory, welcoming Tokyo’s Broken by the Scream into the fold. Equal parts extreme metal assault and idol-pop chaos, BBTS have spent nearly a decade smashing genre walls with a volatile Read More …
Blood-soaked riffs and tortured vocals — Adelaide’s Seek Misery have carved a jagged, feral path straight through the monotony of modern heavy and dropped one hell of a debut. Everyone You Love Will Leave isn’t politely knocking on your skull—it’s obliterating the door, dragging you Read More …
Like a bull charging out of the now obliterated gate, Despised Icon are back with their seventh full-length album, Shadow Work. The opening and title track sets the titanic tone for what’s to come — vicious, angry, and utterly rancorous. Shadow Work is explosive from Read More …
Few bands can claim to have shaped the DNA of modern deathcore the way Despised Icon have. For over two decades, the Montreal juggernaut has stood as a benchmark of precision, power, and pure grit — merging technical death metal ferocity with hardcore’s raw pulse Read More …
There’s heavy — and then there’s Immortal Disfigurement heavy. “Hellhole” doesn’t just drop; it detonates, dragging you through a cathedral built from blastbeats and brimstone. CJ McCreery’s return to the mic feels like an exorcism through subwoofers, every guttural a sermon to the damned. This Read More …
There’s something about Paleface Swiss that makes your blood pressure rise before the first note even hits. Maybe it’s the promise of obliteration, maybe it’s that twisted serenity they sneak in right before the breakdowns cave your chest in. Either way—when “Let Me Sleep” dropped, Read More …
Every now and then, I get to sit across from someone who helped build the modern sound of brutality. Despised Icon aren’t just another deathcore band — they’re the reason half the scene even exists. Before the breakdown arms race and the guttural Olympics, there Read More …
The walls are shaking again. Switzerland’s deathcore juggernaut Paleface Swiss just dropped a bomb with hardcore icons Stick To Your Guns, and it’s not just another heavy track—it’s a declaration. “Instrument of War” is a Picasso-inspired rallying cry that turns art into ammunition, fury into Read More …
There are nights where the universe cracks open like a rusted oil drum and out spills the venom — riffs, screams, and sonic violence that shake the ribcage. That’s where I found myself when I hit play on SEEK MISERY’s latest collab “Ground War,” featuring Read More …
Brisbane’s purveyors of cosmic devastation, AVERSIONS CROWN, have clawed their way back from the abyss with a release that is as unrelenting as it is reborn. Out now via Nuclear Blast Records, the three-track EP A Voice From The Outer Dark marks the return of Read More …
Following the unrelenting devastation of their 2024 album Cursed, Paleface Swiss are dragging their visceral, genre-defying deathcore back to Australian shores—and this time, they’re not coming alone. Presented by The Phoenix AU, the Cursed Tour sees Paleface Swiss teaming up with beatdown bruisers NASTY for Read More …
Somewhere between a cyberpunk riot and a traditional Japanese funeral gone nuclear, I got chewed up and spat out by Deviloof’s “Newspeak.” My pupils dilated. My skin tried to crawl off my bones. And I knew — this wasn’t music anymore. This was a full-blown Read More …
