HORRENDOUS are so close to heavy metal divinity that they can practically taste its delicious, rotten nectar. After all, they did just grace the cover of Decibel.

You’ve probably noticed, but VOYAGER are on quite a ride. The band started this year with a Top Ten finish at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, thanks to their keytar-charged power ballad “Promise”. Back home, they were treated to a hero’s welcome with a sold-out summer tour of Australia. Earlier this week, they released “Ultraviolet”, which highlighted a darker, more introspective side to to their electro progressive metal.

‘Vid é kek Vannak Idebenn’ came at a strange time for Dávid György Makó.

PROFANATICA just ushered in their sixth album with an unholy leviathan of a new single. Tomorrow, they’re taking up the cross on their first-ever full-length tour of the U.S. They’ll be snaking across the country with Canadian black metal band Panzerfaust, with a headlining set at Heavy Hell IV.

WEEDEATER are loaded up and ready to ride. The sludge-stoned cowboys are blazing the ol’ dusty trail later this summer with 10+ shows across the Northeast and Midwest. Along the way, they’re hitting a couple festivals, including a headlining spot at Slower & Harder Fest.

PSYGNOSIS make a distinctly progressive type of extreme metal. Sure, the French band has two guitarists who grind out plenty of crunching, distorted riffs, and their drummer is by no means shy when it comes to hammering out blast beats. But this extreme metal band doesn’t have a vocalist. Instead, they’ve got a cellist.

New prog metal sensation TEMIC (international band), with members of DEVIN TOWNSEND, THE NEAL MORSE BAND, SHINING and MARATON, have announced the first details of their debut album “Terror Management Theory”! The album will be released on November 17, 2023 via Season of Mist and a first track ‘Count Your Losses’ is now available in the form of a music video HERE. The link may be freely spread throughout your channels.

Hot on the heels of making the grand finale of Eurovision and coming home to a sold-out Australian tour, Voyager are releasing one last advanced track off their highly anticipated new album, which comes out this Friday, July 14.

HORRENDOUS have given us two early glimpses of ‘Ontological Mysterium’. The title track touches down with riffs that churn like an Apache helicopter. while second single “Cult of Shaad’oah” keeps climbing on the backs of duel leads, crashing cymbals and bloody battle cries.

Wormhole are emerging from Baltimore’s underground with a new album. ‘Almost Human’ takes the band’s homemade tech slam to the next level. Riffs screech with more eerie, alien dissonance, while the rhythm section barrels and flips like Samus in her morph ball. They’ve also added new vocalist Julian Kersey, who grunts like a cyber demon on lead single “System Erase”.

Belgian death metal crushers CARNATION are ready to show us their song ‘Maruta’!

Have you seen the lineup for Hell’s Heroes VI? The festival has special sets from Candlemass, Rotting Christ, Doro, Tank Helstar and Queensryche, who are playing all of The Warning. It’s also got Necrofier and Nite!

THEODOR BASTARD have been polishing up their impressive record collection. Over the past year, they’ve reissued two of their most-acclaimed albums, starting with ‘Vetvi’, followed by ‘Oikoumene’, which arrived earlier this month and included three unreleased songs and a re-imagined tracklist.

God is going on vacation. Not only are BLACK TUSK working on a new album, they’re bringing good times and mutilation to eight U.S. cities this fall.

PROFANATICA have a reputation to uphold. They’ve been one of the nastiest bands in America since the early ’90s, when they were playing the backroom of a Chinese restaurant alongside Gorophobia, Immolation and Incantation. Led by drummer Paul Ledney, these heretics have spread sin and spewed bile since the dawn of black metal’s creation. Today, they’re returning from their crypt with a new album that’s so blasphemous, you just might lose your head.

Dark singer-songwriter act THE DEVIL’S TRADE is now releasing the third new track, taken from the upcoming album “Vidékek vannak idebenn” which will be released on July 14, 2023 via Season of Mist.

CLOAK are burning hot and fast. The rising black metal band released their third album at the end of May, and it’s already catching fire. Metal Sucks said ‘Black Flame Eternal’ stays melodic and catchy while hitting harder than the band’s previous albums. New Noise gave the album four stars for bridging the gap between the spirituality of black metal and the abrasiveness of thrash, death metal and hard rock.

WORMHOLE play by their own rules. When they’re not schooling fools at Nintendo or throwing on the odd Saturday morning cartoon, the band are out scrambling brains with a homemade combo slam of brutal, technical death metal. Or, as they call it, tech slam. For the past eight years, they’ve been fine-tuning their signature moves both in and outside of Baltimore. Now, with ‘Almost Human’, they’re ready to erupt from the underground.

ALKALOID are mad scientists. With each album, the extreme metal concocters have poked and prodded at mysterious phenomena both of this world and far beyond. They’ve written a song about what lies beneath the Antarctic crust, as well as an ongoing saga about a galactic civilization that ascends to a god-like-level of domination.

THY CATAFALQUE are streaming their new album on the Season of Mist YouTube channel. Listen to all nine tracks HERE.