Heilung Release Fifth Episode of The Podcast

Posted on June 1, 2026

On their new podcast, Heilung are inviting longtime converts and newcomers into their sacred realm, where history and spirit converge into a healing ritual. Hosted by founding member, singer and shamanic practitioner Kai Uwe Faust, The Podcast journeys into the lore, traditions and primal forces that shape the world-renowned Nordic collective and their unmistakable Amplified History.

Green Carnation Release New Video for “Loneliness Untold, Loneliness Unfold”

Posted on May 28, 2026

With Part II of their forthcoming album trilogy, Green Carnation have descended into the deepest, darkest and most personal depths of the prog metal band’s storied career. A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis has received an outpouring of praise from Blabbermouth, Loudwire and other major publications.

Wailin Storms Release New Single “You Never Answered”

Posted on May 27, 2026

Recipients of high praise from NPR, The Needle Drop, Brooklyn Vegan, Decibel and Metal Hammer, Wailin Storms have caught fire since migrating to North Carolina in 2014. Now, the Durham natives are fanning the flames even higher with their upcoming fifth album and first for Season of Mist. On The Arsonist, the band deliver a fiery baptism of Southern gothic rock.

Defiled Release Video for New Single “Altered State”

Posted on May 26, 2026

While masters of the vile art known as death metal since the early ‘90s, Defiled aren’t relics or custodians for the old-school. The Japanese legends have shared stages with Morbid Angel, Mayhem and Cannibal Corpse, but, historically, they’ve carved their own singular path through metal’s hallowed crypts. Their upcoming ninth album continues to alter the genre in unthinkable ways. On Altered State, they deliver a dizzying blast of death metal straight from the future.

TEMIC Release “Paradigm (Live at the Boederij 2025)

Posted on May 18, 2026

Even before they officially arrived with their critically-acclaimed debut in 2023, TEMIC had already made a name for themselves in the prog space. The band features current and former members of Devin Townsend, Mike Portnoy’s Shattered Fortress, Neal Morse Band, Haken, SHINING and Maraton. With Terror Management Theory, they lived up to their billing as a supergroup. The album topped the charts in the Netherlands, reached #15 on the iTunes Worldwide Metal chart and was named one of the year’s best albums by The Prog Report, The Progressive Subway and other publications.

The Ghoulstars Premiere ‘The Dark Overlords of the Universe’

Posted on May 14, 2026

Flying saucers, a pet werewolf, Ghostbustin’ proton streams, joyrides in the Cadillac that once belonged to Children of Bodom vocalist and guitarist Alexi “Wildchild” Laiho. Meet The Ghoulstars, a fresh – and frightening blast from pop-culture’s past. Since beaming down onto their native haunt of Finland, these horror punks have tantalized crowds and captured the attention of CNN, Metal Hammer and other international press with their monstrously catchy mash-up of metal, punk and cult classics. Their blockbuster debut album, The Dark Overlords of the Universe, hits shelves tomorrow, Friday, May 15.

Bask Announce U.S. Tour Dates with Elder

Posted on May 13, 2026

Since 2013, when they first came rumbling down from the Blue Ridge Mountains, Bask have sounded like they belong to their very own time and place. On their LIT Music Award-winning, critically-acclaimed new album, the band take their homebrewed Heavy Americana to a new dimension. With The Turning, they pen a heavy, heady and heartfelt ode to their mountain home in the sky.

Mawiza Nominated for 2026 Pulsar Award

Posted on May 7, 2026

Mawiza are pounding the drum for indigenous metal in 2026. The modern day Mapuche warriors rang in the year by visiting Gojira frontman Joe Duplantier’s Silver Cord Studio, performing with Mr. Bungle and Avenged Sevenfold, headlining Pumapu Rock Fest and packing the stands in their hometown of Santiago, Chile.

IMPURE WILHELMINA Share Third Advance Single “Train mort” from Forthcoming Album Le sanglot

Posted on May 6, 2026

https://youtu.be/hvDa5EzOtTA IMPURE WILHELMINA, the Swiss post-metal and progressive dark rock quartet, have shared “Train mort,” the third advance single from their forthcoming album Le sanglot, due May 22nd on Season of Mist. The track is accompanied by an official visualizer and marks the album’s most confrontational moment, arriving ahead of the full ten-track release. Watch “Train mort” now: https://youtu.be/hvDa5EzOtTA “Train mort” opens on an oppressive, industrially-tinged guitar riff that builds slowly before giving way to a moment of desperate stillness, only for the weight to return, head-on, in the final passage. Where the two preceding singles established the melodic and atmospheric range of Le sanglot, this track cuts to something rawer. The lyrics are carried by Michael Schindl’s alternating screamed and whispered vocals, describing a man pushed past the point of return, and observe with cold precision the violence that festers at the far end of endurance. The track is the album’s most abrasive and makes no concessions. “Train mort” features French artist Mütterlein (Marion Leclercq), whose howls of despair are woven throughout the track. The collaboration, the first in Impure Wilhelmina’s history, arose from a natural affinity between Mütterlein’s tormented artistic universe and the atmosphere of the song. She co-wrote the track and, in the band’s own framing, darkened the darkness further. Pre-order & pre-save: https://orcd.co/iwlesanglot