There is one thing I can say unequivocally when it comes to Sylosis — I am never worried they’re going to release a shit album. About 15 years ago, when I first heard 2008’s Conclusion of an Age and 2011’s Edge of the Earth, I Read More …
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Behemoth Descend on Australia with Chant of the Eastern Lands Tour
There are tours that feel routine, and then there are tours that feel like a line being drawn in fire.BEHEMOTH’s Chant of the Eastern Lands Australian run is firmly the latter. Descending on Australia next week, the Polish extreme metal titans have made it clear Read More …
Antim Grahan Interview: Funeral Lament, Goat Legion, and 20 Years of Nepali Black Metal
Emerging from Kathmandu’s underground in the early 2000s, Antim Grahan stand as one of Nepal’s most enduring and influential extreme metal bands. Across more than two decades, shifting line-ups, and a discography that charts the evolution from symphonic black metal into ferocious blackened death, grind, Read More …
Broken by the Scream Sign With Metal Blade Records As Japan’s Kawaii Deathcore Disruptors Prepare to Detonate Europe
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 …
MUNT’s Tim Richmond: The World Is Not Yours, Urban Hellscapes & East Coast Spite Tour
MUNT don’t just play extreme music, they drag you through an urban hellscape and dare you to feel something. On their long-gestating debut full-length The World Is Not Yours, the Melbourne outfit weaponise black metal, death metal, grindcore, hardcore and sludge into a dense, precision-engineered Read More …
Nervosa – Slave Machine Tears Into Control, Brutality and Modern Thrash on Album Six Unleashing April 3rd Via Napalm Records
Brazilian-born thrash institution Nervosa return with Slave Machine, a record that cements the Prika Amaral-fronted era as more than a transitional phase. With the title track now unleashed ahead of the album’s April 3 release via Napalm Records, Nervosa sharpen their attack into their most Read More …
Marianas Rest Interview Jaakko Mäntymaa on Doom Metal, Grief, Survival and The Bereaved
Marianas Rest and the Weight of What Remains Marianas Rest have never felt like a band in a hurry. Since forming in Kotka in 2013, the Finnish death doom outfit have worked at their own pace, allowing songs to breathe, moods to deepen, and ideas Read More …
Crannk Reviews: Carrion Vael – Slay Utterly and the Art of Brutal Storytelling
History and metal collide in a way not heard since the lessons taught by the almighty Iron Maiden on Carrion Vael’s new album, Slay Utterly — a mercilessly vicious anthology of atrocity that explores the more criminally insane side of humanity in all its gory Read More …
MALEFIC Strike With “Blood Of The Throne” — A Ruthless Opening Statement From Impermanence
Atlanta blackened thrash extremists MALEFIC return swinging with “Blood Of The Throne”, a ferocious new single that opens the gates to their long-awaited full-length Impermanence, due out February 13, 2026 via Terminus Hate City. From its first second, “Blood Of The Throne” is not a Read More …
Nefastis Unleash Apocalyptic Fury with Shadow Spell as New Concept Album Looms
Italian symphonic death metal force Nefastis have thrown open the gates to their next era with Shadow Spell, the opening salvo from their forthcoming full length Shadows At The Light Of Dawn, due out March 6, 2026 via Rockshots Records. More than a standalone single, Read More …
FUATH RETURN FROM THE FROST WITH III, A HYPNOTIC AND HOSTILE RITUAL OF SCOTTISH ATMOSPHERIC BLACK METAL
Scottish atmospheric black metal entity Fuath has returned from the frostbitten wilds with its third full length album III, a cold, immersive slab of black metal that feels less like a new release and more like a winter rite finally completed. Out now via Northern Read More …
A monument to despair, a feast of fury — Hooded Menace’s Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration is doom-death at its most devastating | Crannk Reviews
After a long, soul-crushing four years of silence, Hooded Menace have finally returned from the shadows with their brand new album, Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration — and dude, let’s be real, it’s an absolute masterpiece. This isn’t just a comeback; it’s a full-blown, doom-soaked resurrection. Read More …