You Or Me' is the latest single from American heavy metal icons CORROSION OF CONFORMITY. The crushing new track comes off the band’s mammoth new double album, Good God / Baad Man, set for release on April 3rd via Nuclear Blast and is accompanied by a video created by acclaimed visual arts icon Costin Chioreanu with additional footage filmed by Mike Holderbeast.

Three decades into a storied career, GREEN CARNATION continue to stand the test of time. Just last year, the Norwegian prog bards reached crushing new highs during the grand and gloomy opening chapter of their long-awaited album trilogy. Now, as the band descend into deeper, darker and more personal depths on Part II of A Dark Poem, they are breaking past the surface with the album’s emotional peak.

Bleeding Art Collective is very proud to present the debut EP 'Sulphur' by Australian nu-hardcore destroyers Pyrokinesis.

Modern Metalcore powerhouse THE NARRATOR have released a video for their brand new single 'Two Lives' from their upcoming sophomore album, Phosphor.

Sydney, Australia, Evilean releases “Lost Cause,” the first single from the forthcoming EP Exhumation Evilean, with the full EP is set to released on Good Friday April 3rd!. The single is accompanied by an official music video, released alongside the track.

Swedish melodic metal force THE HALO EFFECT have officially launched their highly anticipated European tour alongside HEAVEN SHALL BURN and THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, which was kicking off on February 27th. To mark the tour’s opening night, the bands treated fans to a special gift: the release of a brand-new single, 'Lest We Fall'.

On May 22nd internationally, Dying Victims Productions and Electric Assault Records will release the highly anticipated third album of Sweden's Tyrann, Tyrann Forever: Dying Victims will handle the CD version while Electric Assault will handle the vinyl version.

The Spanish Death Metal band DEIMLER has released the new video for “The Jersey Devil“. The song is featured on the band's new album “Darkness Falls,“ which will be released on March 20th on CD and digitally via Awakening Records.

The time has come. Dark cabaret metal act TARDIGRADE INFERNO has officially released their newest album, Hush.

Luxembourg-based melodic black/death metal band ÆoniK is proud to announce that their new album “The Roamer of Heaven and Hell” will be released on April 30th via Fetzner Death Records.

Australian death/thrash duo BATTLEGRAVE are set to return with their third and most devastating full-length release to date.

Australian death/thrash unit IN MALICE'S WAKE have shared the first single off their long-awaited fifth studio album, The Profound Darkness.

Heavy metal band IMAGO IMPERII has released a music video for the song “Warmonger,” taken from the album “Century,” released on February 20th via Metal Zone Italia. “Century” features 9 brand-new tracks for over 37 minutes of musical experience and it is available as CD and on the main digital streaming platforms.

Shortly after announcing their fifteenth (!!!) studio album, Architects Of A New Weave, set for release on June 5, 2026 via Napalm Records, EVERGREY unveil their new single and manifest of beautiful darkness, “Architects Of The New Weave”, alongside a visually-striking animated video. Once again, Gothenburg’s finest export proves its unmatched ability to craft timeless melodies, powerful riffs, and gripping lyrics, while continuing to surprise their devoted fans with an innovative approach, even after more than 30 years of existence.

Cheyenne, WY – Melodic doom metal trio Fell Harvest returns with their latest release, Way of the Scythe , a five-track EP that melds blackened death metal ferocity with crushing doom atmospheres, arrived March 6, 2026 via DI Records.

German black metallers Antrisch reveal the new track "Hidalgo infernal - Der baskische Wolf." The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated second album, Expedition III: Renitenzpfad, set for international release on March 27th via AOP Records.

Amor Fati Productions in conspiracy with Feral Heart Productions announce April 30th as the international release date for Oldowan Gash's highly anticipated second album, 1000 Dreams of War. Amor Fati will handle the CD and vinyl versions while Feral Heart will handle the cassette version.

Metal heroines NERVOSA unleash a new single from their upcoming album, Slave Machine, out on April 3, 2026 via Napalm Records. “Ghost Notes” lets loose a storm of heavy, yet easily recognizable riffs, driven by impelling drums and the ever-so-furious vocals of Prika Amaral. Culminating in a powerful guitar solo, “Ghost Notes” shows yet another side of the versatile Brazilian thrash band. Once again working with producer Martin Furia of German legends DESTRUCTION for their upcoming release, the women bridge the gap between old-school power and critical modernity. NERVOSA are ready for a fierce new era!

Having ridden into their latest battle with their eleventh epic full-length Field Of Swords, Swedish power metal warriors BLOODBOUND have released another video single from the album. “The Nine Crusades” is another historically themed anthem, retelling the titular events in typical BLOODBOUND style: a sweeping blend of melodic and heavy power metal. Joining their conquest is powerhouse vocalist Brittney Slayes of Canadian band UNLEASH THE ARCHERS, dueting with Patrik J. Selleby in a glorious mid-tempo anthem. Not only is “The Nine Crusades” the perfect album closer, but also a powerful herald of what’s to come.

"This time we entered the studio with the clear intention of creating a landmark album for the band." It's a noble and challenging mission statement from Hellenic black metal troop YOTH IRIA, and one that has amply succeeded in the form of Gone With The Devil, the Attica quartet's stellar third album, set for worldwide release May 8th on Metal Blade Records.

Houston, Texas-based black metal alchemists NECROFIER are pleased to present their new video for “Fires Of The Apocalypse, Light My Path I.” The track comes by way of the band's Transcend Into Oblivion full-length, released February 27th on Metal Blade Records.

Finnish sludge metal band Earthblood is back with a new single 'Ape Warriors'. The single is released via Finnish record label Inverse Records

After drawing closer and closer to the edge over the past decade, UNVERKALT are plunging into the darkness that’s always awaited below. The post-metal luminaries are still possessed by a cinematic vision, but their new album— the first for Season of Mist—throws back the velvet curtain in favour of a blackened veil. While wrestling with the weight of our accursed histories, Héréditaire now stands as their heaviest and most heartfelt offering.

Kuopio-based death/thrash metal metallers SKULL ALTAR have released a visualizer video for the song “War Crimes (Disclosure Act),” taken from the band’s upcoming album “Diabolical” out on March 20th.

Evil teachers, a pet werewolf, cutting class for joyrides in the Cadillac that once belonged to late, great Children of Bodom vocalist and guitarist Alexi “Wildchild” Laiho. Meet THE GHOULSTARS, a fresh - and frightening - blast from the past. Since rising from beyond the pop-culture graveyard in 2021, this skeletal group of horror punks have captivated press and tantalized crowds in their native haunt of Finland without releasing a single bloody track. Until now!

Rouen-based death metal band TRAGOS is proud of giving to the masses “Sanguinolent,” the last single from the upcoming album “Bellicum,” set for release on March 13th on Fetzner Death Records.

Intent To Harm from Brisbane, Australia, release their debut single, “Drained Of Life”. Available everywhere now via Vicious Instinct Records. - Featuring some familiar faces from the Australian underground, including members of Internal Devour, Splatterpuss and Body Prison, this new act is built on the foundations of proper old-school brutality: filthy riffs and knuckle-dragging grooves.

Texas-based black metal warlords SARDONIC WITCHERY announce their latest sonic assault, Under The Sign Of The Trident , a fully re-recorded compilation that reignites the flame of raw, underground black thrash metal. This release stands as both a tribute to their decade-spanning catalog and a sharpened weapon aimed straight at the future of the cult.

Norwegian black metallers Tulus reveal the new track "Tulus." The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated eighth album, Morbid Desires, set for international release on March 27th via Darkness Shall Rise Productions.

Wrocław, Poland — February 27, 2026 — Lilla Veneda, the darkly poetic metal force from Lower Silesia, are stepping into new sonic territory today with the release of two singles, Beyond the Lucid Passage and Biomechanical Algorithm (Synthwave Version) . Both tracks serve as fresh extensions of their critically acclaimed 2024 album Primordial Movements , and mark a bold evolution in the band’s sound.

Ruoska, a long-standing Finnish industrial metal band, breaks boundaries with their new album Kade. The album features new musical approach for Ruoska, and some of the songs even strive for a progressive outcome. The band, which has never been a victim of a single music genre, takes things even further this time around.

Hailing from the heart of Finland, the masters of melodic death metal, Noumena, are making their long-awaited return. Their new single, "Kuolemankello" (The Deathwatch Beetle), is an intense, atmospheric, and catchy strike that sets the stage for the band’s upcoming seventh studio album.

Vancouver based hypnotic heavy metal outfit Spell, will release its new LP, 'Wretched Heart', on May 1 via Bad Omen Records. A shadow-drenched journey through desperation, passion and defiance, ‘Wretched Heart’ sees Spell transform heavy metal into something urgent and human — gothic, cinematic and hypnotic. Not only Spell's strongest record to date but also a thunderous celebration of eccentricity which stalks its nocturnal realm with both savage finesse and beguiling charm. 'Wretched Heart' is the follow-up to Spell's 2022 LP, 'Tragic Magic', an album hailed as a celebration of "the mystique and darkness within hard rock and heavy metal".

Greek symphonic extreme metal practitioners W.E.B. are pleased to present their live video of "Morphine For Saints” from Darkness Alive, their first ever live album, released last week via Metal Blade Records.

In any serious conversation about death metal, VOMITORY’s name is a must-mention. Formed in 1989, the Swedish band unleashed eight blistering albums between 1996 and 2011, cementing their status as genre titans before parting ways in 2013. However, their retirement was short-lived, as they returned to the stage in 2019 to mark their 30th anniversary. Now, three years after the release of their critically acclaimed 2023 comeback album All Heads Are Gonna Roll, VOMITORY are back with their latest beast, In Death Throes.

“The Atrophied” is the latest single from US death metal loyalists MONSTROSITY. The uncompromising track comes off the band’s Screams From Beneath The Surface full-length, set to drop on March 13th on Metal Blade Records.

Metalcore/groove metal outfit Buried Shallow unleash their latest single, “Rise I the Martyr,” a deeply personal and crushing track that confronts the reality of life without music—and the unbearable weight of imagining it gone.

As the curtain falls on an extraordinary career spanning more than four decades, SEPULTURA are preparing to close their final chapter at the end of this year. With over 40 years of band history, 14 gold records, and performances across more than 80 countries, SEPULTURA stand as Brazil’s uncompromising emissary to the global stage and one of today’s most influential metal bands.

Melbourne's The Gloom In The Corner ascend into a brand new era with the release of their hotly-anticipated new studio album Royal Discordance, out now via SharpTone Records. A record that could readily soundtrack an Anime epic, a Netflix smash series, or a sprawling open-world game, Royal Discordance is certainly not your average metalcore album.

Hailing from Sweden, Venthiax are a speed / thrash metal band that was formed in March 2021 with the goal of becoming the loudest and most ruthless metal band in the region of Huskvarna / Jönköping. The band consists of bass-player Wendy Juneström, who also creates and distributes the old-school thrash metal fanzine Black Pages since 2019; guitarist Viggo Heinonen, who also played in the black metal band Pyrrha; and drummer Emil Borg, who is recognized as the roaring percussionist, embracing the true old-school spirit when whipping the toms. Thus armed, Venthiax let free a flurry of releases, including a first demo, EP, and not one, but two live albums.

UNVERKALT have always been drawn to the edge. Since emerging from Greece’s underground catacombs in 2017, the five-piece post-metal band have balanced boundless atmosphere with suffocating heaviness. But now, on their upcoming third album and first for Season of Mist, they are plunging into the darkness that’s always waited for them below. While wrestling with the weight of our accursed history, Héréditaire now stands as their heaviest and most heartfelt offering.

Finnish extreme metal band Saasta has released the second single "The Envy" from their upcoming album "Cesspool" to be released on May 8th 2026.

With “Echoes In The After”, UK black metal legends WINTERFYLLETH unveil the second single from their upcoming album, The Unyielding Season, out March 27, 2026 via Napalm Records. Inspired by the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, a landmark near Hadrian’s Wall, and adapted from a poem from Sir Philip Sidney’s 16th-century epic “The Countess Of Pembroke’s Arcadia”, “Echoes In The After” is a powerful atmospheric black metal lament to nature and social commentary in one. It comes with an official new music video, visually underlining the lyricism and transforming it into something that's visually tangible too.

Ancient storms gather once more as MELECHESH unveils their new single, ‘Raptors of Anzu,’ accompanied by a striking lyric video that channels mythic devastation and divine revelation. The track is the first offering from the band’s forthcoming digital EP, Sentinels of Shamash, set for release on April 10th via new label home Reigning Phoenix Music!

WAGE WAR — Briton Bond [lead vocals], Cody Quistad [rhythm guitar, clean vocals], Seth Blake [lead guitar], Chris Gaylord [bass], and Stephen Kluesener [drums] — are thrilled to announce their forthcoming EP, titled It Calls Me By Name. The band will unleash the latest beastly addition to its catalog on April 17 via Fearless Records.

Grindcore cult Melting Rot reveal the new track "Blinded. Beaten. Stabbed." The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated second album, Infatuation With Premeditation, set for international release on March 27th via Hells Headbangers.

Just weeks after the release of their brand-new, critically acclaimed EP Celestial on January 16 via Reigning Phoenix Music, Australian-Finnish dark metal act THE ETERNAL keep the momentum going. The band has now unveiled a lyric video for the haunting track ‘Bleeding Into Light,’ further expanding on the EP’s emotional weight and atmospheric depth.

With the release of ‘Scarlet Beast – Leviathan,’ BELPHEGOR return at their most menacing and deliberate, delivering a track that moves with the force of an advancing colossus. Built upon lumbering, monolithic riffs and a suffocating sense of inevitability, the single embodies a towering presence, vast, unrelenting, and absolute.

Hailing from the Mikkeli–Jyväskylä–Helsinki axis, this four-piece melodic death metal powerhouse, Deadvoid Inc., are set to release their debut album 'Chapters' on March 13th 2026 via Inverse Records.

Italian progressive extreme metal quartet SYK present a new drum playthrough video for “the Cross,” taken from their fourth full-length album eartHFlesh. The track, originally released as part of the band’s Season of Mist debut, stands as the shortest composition on the record yet one of its most concentrated displays of technical control and dynamic evolution.

Evermore has released “Ravens At The Gates”, second single taken from the new album “Mournbraid” to be released on March 20 by Scarlet Records. - “Ravens At The Gates” is both a song that touches on historical problems in human society as well as a call-to-arms kind of rallying cry for those who choose to stand defiant against the injustice. The song opposes ideals or it may address the result of fearing your fellow man because they are different. In the end, the song may convey either a burning desire for defiance and change or a feeling of unity and uprising.

Via Doloris presents “Un Franc Soleil”, the second single drawn from the forthcoming debut album ‘Guerre et Paix’. Standing among the record’s most luminous moments, the track captures a fleeting sensation of release after prolonged inner unrest. Conceived as an atmospheric depiction of an illusion glimpsed from afar, it evokes the distant promise of a life freed from struggle, a vision radiant yet never fully attained.

August Burns Red — Jake Luhrs (vocals); JB Brubaker (guitar); Brent Rambler (guitar); Dustin Davidson (bass); and Matt Grenier (drums) — need no introduction. For over two decades, the Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based act has been crafting its own unique brand of metalcore that has established ABR as one of the foremost acts in the genre.

Emerging from the unholy metal grounds of the Norwegian west coast, EVIG NATT proudly announces the worldwide release of their cinematic new masterpiece, Vaketimen, out today.

Today marks a monumental chapter in fantasy metal as Darklore release their highly anticipated new studio album, The Great Elven War, alongside the thunderous new single Wrath of the High Heavens.

While the world remains being a restless place, metal commando PRIMAL FEAR is among the most reliable constants in these insecure times. Supporting their 2025 success album “Domination” on stages worldwide with a second European leg kicking off in London, UK on March 11, the band warm-up their engines with a new track called ‘One’ today. The straight-forward anthem calls upon mankind to stand together instead of feuding each other, and was recorded during the “Domination” sessions. Combining hard-hitting riffs and the group’s melodic trademark approach masterfully, the single is in no way inferior to PRIMAL FEAR’s celebrated current opus!

This is what a reset actually sounds like. - With Reinvention, The Veer Union return sharper, louder and more focused than ever. The album doesn’t feel like a comeback — it feels like a band reconnecting with its core and pushing forward at the same time. Heavy, melodic and emotionally charged, Reinvention captures everything The Veer Union have built over years in the scene, refined into their most confident statement yet.

EXODUS have unleashed the colossal title track from their new album, Goliath, out March 20, 2026 via Napalm Records! Revealed today with an accompanying music video, “Goliath” simmers the tempo down with winding, malevolent leads, towering drums and ominous string work from violinist Katie Jacoby, coupled with intricate guitars by the legendary Gary Holt.

Finnish melodic death metal band Crowen released a new EP 'Through the Dying Mist' on February 20th 2026 via Inverse Records.

Milwaukee, WI – Milwaukee’s own melodic metal powerhouse Reflection of Flesh return with their latest single, “Souls Reign Fire,” now streaming on all major platforms via Golden Robot Records .

On April 24th internationally, Dominance of Darkness Records is proud to present Wrang's highly anticipated third album, Verwording, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Mystfall has released “Embers Of A Dying World”, second single taken from the eponymous new album to be released on March 20 by Scarlet Records.

Metal United Down Under returns on Saturday, May 23, 2026, uniting heavy music fans across the country for one massive night of live, loud, and local metal.

ONLY HUMAN are fresh to the prog space. But the Danish upstarts are already on the brink of a major discovery with their debut album. Planned Obsolescence invents an existential form of prog metal that speaks to our not-too-distant dystopia.

On April 24th internationally, Dominance of Darkness Records is proud to present the long-awaited debut album of Germany's Werwolf, Satanic Terror, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

True to black metal’s fiercely individual spirit, upon moving to Norway at the end of the 2000s, Roman V. started BIZARREKULT as a lone wolf. Much like Roman’s previous two retreats into the studio, his upcoming third album emerged from a deeply personal crisis. Only on Alt Som Finnes, he’s not alone in confronting all there.

HEGEROTH is a band playing broadly understood black metal, open to influences outside the genre, diversity, a wide spectrum of means of expression, and unconventional solutions... all while maintaining energy, speed, and 100% metal in metal.

Memento Mori in conspiracy with Me Saco Un Ojo Records announce April 27th as the international release date for Candarian's highly anticipated debut album, Trepanación. Memento Mori will handle the CD version while Me Saco Un Ojo will handle the vinyl and cassette versions.

Last month, Melbourne progressive-death outfit Growth emerged with their first new music in over half a decade with the blistering, Remember Me As Fire, the first new music from the long-awaited second chapter of their planned trilogy, Under The Under due for release on March 27 via Wild Thing Records.

Modern death metal act Nocturnal Ceremony is set to make a massive impact with their forthcoming album “Obsidian” , dropping on March 4th, 2026 . Independent, uncompromising, and visceral, this release takes listeners deep into the shadows, offering an intense and cathartic experience for fans of Orbit Culture , Humanity’s Last Breath , and Slaughter to Prevail

On April 24th internationally, Dominance of Darkness Records is proud to present Asenheim's highly anticipated tenth album, Elbenblut, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Memento Mori in conspiracy with Night Terror Records announce April 27th as the international release date for Hrob's highly anticipated debut album, Brána Chladu. Memento Mori will handle the CD version while Night Terror will handle the vinyl and cassette versions.

Perth based melodic death metallers VANTA are set to release their debut full-length album, ‘Perpetual Selection’ on March 13th. The album is an emotional journey that offers catchy, melodic passages and ferocious moments with an engaging, atmospheric approach. With a wide spectrum of influences and modern production, ‘Perpetual Selection’ pushes the genre forward while honouring its roots.

Wacken Open Air is one of the most recognisable names in heavy music anywhere on the planet. Now in its 35th year, the legendary German festival has become a global meeting point for metal fans, bands and industry alike. A place where the underground and the established stand shoulder to shoulder.

On April 24th internationally, Dominance of Darkness Records is proud to present Blood Countess' highly anticipated second album, Imperatrix Sanguinis, on CD and vinyl LP formats. - For nearly a decade now, the UK's Blood Countess has waged a war on weakness and mediocrity with a black metal sound strikingly authentic: nothing but the coldest, most merciless of the mid-to-late '90s. Think the likes of classic Enthroned, Lord Belial, and Thy Primordial and you're well within Blood Countess' headspace - and in their target.

Formed in 2022 in the Spanish Balearic Islands by a group of seasoned and experienced musicians, SolNegre’s music is something that comes directly from the band members’ hearts.

Shadowspawn hails from the greater Copenhagen area in Denmark and has existed since 2013. They released several critically acclaimed records ("Ashes of Sorrow" (EP, 2015), "Hope Lies Dormant" (2017), "The Biology of Disbelief" (2021), "Blasphemica" (2023)) and established themselves as a powerful force on the Danish metal scene. They are known for their uncompromising blend of groove, black, and old-school death metal, Shadowspawn masterfully balances brutality, heaviness, and technicality!

Modern Metalcore outfit THE NARRATOR have announced the release of their sophomore album, Phosphor, on May 8th, 2026 via Nuclear Blast Records. The follow-up to their acclaimed debut album Lore offers ten smashing songs that respond to the global crisis with inner exhaustion and shows how close hope and self-destruction are to each other.

West Coast Canada — Black metal wrecking crew Gravemass have officially unleashed their debut album title track “This Is The Way,” out now via End Game Records Inc..

Ohio metalcore favourites MISS MAY I are thrilled to share the first taste of new music for 2026 and they drop the video for new single Die on the Vine, which is full of galloping guitars, plate-shifting breakdowns, and memorable melodies.

HEADBANGERS AUSTRALIA LAUNCHES DIGITAL METAL MAGAZINE "BENEATH THE SURFACE" - Issue One marks the expansion of Headbangers Australia as a digital media platform — introducing Beneath The Surface as our official publication and extending our support of underground and emerging metal worldwide.

Caligari Records announces April 17th as the international release date for Ignobleth's highly anticipated debut album, Manor of Primitive Anticreation, on CD and cassette tape formats.

The band commented: “In less than four weeks, on March 6th, our new album will be released. Summoning delivers an epic, dark and relentlessly intense listening experience. Exploring themes of despair, death, hopelessness and mythology, it leaves no room for filler or downtime. Pre-orders starting from February 20th on Bandcamp.”

Kuopio-based death/thrash metal merchants SKULL ALTAR are excited to announce that their new album “Diabolical” will be released as CD and digital on March 20th!

EVERGREY, Gothenburg’s masterminds of melancholia, offer up another outburst of beautiful darkness and turn their inner fire into something unstoppable: their intense fifteenth album, Architects Of A New Weave, will be released on June 5, 2026 via Napalm Records, just days before the band takes the stage as special guest to the undisputed kings of heavy metal, Iron Maiden, for two shows on their Run For Your Lives World Tour.

De Venom Natura is the forthcoming full-length from Italy’s PONTE DEL DIAVOLO. Expanding on the foundation laid by their debut Fire Blades from the Tomb, the band refine their self-defined blackened post-punk aesthetic into a darker, more immersive statement.

Hailing from Wroclaw in Poland, thrash beast Abuser first appeared on the scene in 2018, releasing their fierce and feral demo the following year. The search for a new drummer then had to be navigated – impeding the band’s progress for longer than they would have desired – but by 2023 they were back to full strength and ready for action. Throughout 2025 Abuser worked furiously, honing their skills and crafting a set of songs that they knew could make their mark upon the world in bloody and brutal fashion. Renowned Spanish label Xtreem Music agreed, signing the band to their impressive roster of extreme metal talent – and now the time has come for Abuser’s raw, uncompromising thrash metal debut album to be unleashed upon the world…Blood Marks is here!

Toronto’s melodic death-metal force SELIAS has released the official video for “Abducted”, a track from their latest album Killkarma, out now via Wormholedeath Records.

Legendary New York hardcore juggernauts PRO-PAIN are starting a new era by signing with Napalm Records. With the new partnership comes a new release: their sixteenth studio album, Stone Cold Anger, will be out on May 15, 2026. The band’s first release in eleven years showcases their explosive energy in its purest form: Stone Cold Anger unfolds heavy, angry, and ready as ever—proving PRO-PAIN haven’t lost even an ounce of strength. An exceptionally catchy offering, the new album fortifies its groovy melodies and stirring guitar riffs with furious and inciting, anthemic vocals, turning the ten new songs into worthy follow-ups to their 3.5M-stream hit “Voice Of Rebellion” (2015).

After taking the world by storm last year with their new album ÜL, Mawiza are beating the drum for indigenous metal even louder in 2026. The modern day Mapuche warriors paid a visit to Gojira frontman Joe Duplantier’s Silver Chord Studio and performed to a packed house in Santiago before taking the stage alongside Mr. Bungle and Avenged Sevenfold.

MUDSLINGER is a breath of fresh air on the Polish metal scene. The group was formed by the Sacharczuk brothers (Cezary – vocals/guitar, Jakub – drums) based in the Warmian-Masurian town of Susz. The duo was completed by Michał Kwaśniak (guitar) and Łukasz Kleszczyński (bass). From the very beginning, the band had a clear goal: powerful sound, honest songs, and playing live without regard for current trends. They combine massive riffs, expressive rhythm, and uncompromising energy, creating music that works equally well on stage and in speakers.

American heavy metal legends CORROSION OF CONFORMITY will release their long-awaited new double album, Good God / Baad Man, on April 3rd via Nuclear Blast.

Ukrainian metalcore band SPACE OF VARIATIONS shares another single. “PARALLEL REALITIES” showcases the duality of their diverse style: cleverly combining soft melodic desperation and neck-snapping breakdowns, musically embodying the track’s namesake. Poisoned Art will be out now via Napalm Records.

LORD OF THE LOST extend their latest journey with yet another innovative collaboration, coming in the shining form of “I’m A Diamond”. For the latest single leading up to OPVS NOIR Vol. 3, which releases on April 10, 2026 via Napalm Records, the genre-defying band teams up with German medieval metal torchbearers SALTATIO MORTIS. Featuring singer Alea, LORD OF THE LOST present a catchy song reminding us of our own worth and encouraging everyone to live true to themselves. Although the finale of OPVS NOIR is the most out of the box of the trilogy, the Hamburg-based band sticks to their core values: “Don’t change yourself to fit the system.”

UK progressive death metal outfit CRYPTIC SHIFT will release their Overspace & Supertime full-length on February 27th through Metal Blade Records. - While not commonly known as an extraterrestrial hotspot, Leeds faced an encounter of another kind in 2015 when vocalist/guitarist Alexander Bradley and drummer Ryan Sheperson set out to accomplish a project embodying their joint passion for the art of science fiction and heavy metal music. With CRYPTIC SHIFT taking form as a crossover between the worlds of technical thrash/death metal and all things sci-fi, the two set out to spread their influence across the UK and soon ventured across the globe.

Los Angeles, CA — Progressive heavy metal outfit FREYCUS has just dropped their brand new collaborative single and music video, “Justice Miscarried,” a fierce and emotionally charged track featuring powerhouse vocalist PEEKAY (Pranati Khanna). The release marks another bold chapter for the band as they continue to push their sound into darker, more politically and socially charged territory.

Australian Heavy Metal heavy weights Wicked Smile officially release their brand-new album titled When Night Falls Worldwide via No Dust Records (Netherlands).

Ever since they emerged from Greece’s underground catacombs, UNVERKALT have been drawn to the edge. On their upcoming third album, the post-metal luminaries finally plunge into the darkness that’s always waited for them below. While wrestling with the weight of our accursed history, Héréditaire now stands as the band’s heaviest and most heartfelt offering.

French death metal band TRAGOS has announced their comeback, two years after the EP “MMXXIV”. The new work is called “Bellicum” and it is slated for release on March 13th via Fetzner Death Records.

Brandon Bordman’s one-man progressive death metal powerhouse, The Grand Myth, unleashes the latest single and official lyric video “Killer Whale” on February 5, setting the stage for the highly anticipated full-length concept album Of Vultures and Dragons arriving February 24, 2026. Famed for merging intricate technicality with cinematic storytelling, Bordman continues to redefine what a metal experience can be.