Onslaught To Be Inducted Into Metal Hall Of Fame

British Thrash Metal pioneers Onslaught will be Inducted into the 2022 Metal Hall of Fame, during their on-stage performance at Maryland Deathfest, May 28, 2022.

"We are excited to Induct British thrash metal pioneers Onslaught into the 2022 Metal Hall of Fame during their performance on stage at Deathfest Maryland," says Metal Hall of Fame President/CEO Pat Gesualdo. "Thrash Metal is a crucial part of the entire spectrum of Heavy Metal, and also a huge foundation for the Metal Hall of Fame. We are very proud to have Onslaught represent this genre that we all love so much."

Nige Rockett - Onslaught guitarist / founding member comments:
"Wow, What can we say, this has come completely out of the blue!

"We are truly honoured to receive this extremely prestigious recognition and join a list of so many awesome and respected names from the world of metal music.

"This has to be right up there with the best of accolades that this band has ever received in our in our long and illustrious career, it’s a great day for ‘Thrash Metal’ and a great day for the ‘UK Metal scene’. This award could not have arrived at a more perfect time as we celebrate ’40 years of raising hell’, it really is a true validation of ‘Onslaught’ past and present.. This one is for the fans..! Thank you all!" More...

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Malevolence Shares Collaboration With Matt Heafy

Today, Steel City's Malevolence are proud to release their blindsiding new studio album, "Malicious Intent." Dubbed early on as the year's most hotly anticipated metal record, it marks their most singular work to date, staking their place amongst metal's heavyweights.

In celebration, Malevolence have revealed their fourth and final single from the record - a coup de grâce titled "Salvation." The track features Matthew K Heafy, who lent his legendary talents to both vocal and shredding duties.

Malevolence front-man Alex Taylor stated:
"After hundreds of hours of hard work, blood, sweat and tears, our third album ‘Malicious Intent’ is finally here!

"We would like to thank everyone who has pre-ordered a copy of the album a million times over. Your continued support means to the world to us.

"We would also like to thank our team behind the scenes for helping deliver this album, including our family, friends, Nuclear Blast and 5B Management.

"This is a monumental moment on our path to global domination, we hope you enjoy the album!"

*UK fans* tomorrow Saturday 21st May from 1-4pm, Malevolence will be hosting a pop-up shop in Sheffield, at Church - Temple of Fun. Expect exclusive merch, vinyl, food, drinks and good vibes. More...

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Evergrey Releases "Call Out The Dark" Single

Celebrating over 25 years of metal mastery, chart-topping icons Evergrey has unveiled their eagerly longed for, thirteenth full-length, "A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)," today! To commemorate this massive next milestone in the band's history, Gothenburg’s dark metal masters have just released their emotive, mystical new single, "Call Out the Dark" - a heartfelt sonic experience that wanders the realms of prog and melodic metal to combine the best of both worlds into one.

"Call Out the Dark" begins atmospherically with accented keys and suddenly evolves into an intense opus of symphonic and power metal attributes in the blink of an eye. The track goes in line with an enchanting visualizer, underlining the spirit of the band the best way. This one is not to be missed in this breathtaking bunch of new hits!

Evergrey states:
"We are so just so damn proud of this record, guys, and we are just as excited that you will finally get to hear it! We will let the music do the talking and leave you to it, but we can't wait to hear what you feel and think!

"Enjoy!
"Tom, Jonas, Rikard, Johan, Rikard” More...

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Casket Feeder Drops New Music Video

To celebrate the release of their debut album Servants of Violence which is out today, Casket Feeder are dropping a music video for their new single 'Edge of Collapse'. Thematically, this song confronts the stark reality of climate change and the ruinous path humanity is being forced down by the inaction of corporations and governments. It's another home run from one of the most exciting bands in the British underground.

Speaking about the music video, the band say: "Once again we worked closely with our good friend Timfy (Old School Studios) to realise our concept for this video, using some ingenuity along with Timfy and Matt’s combined artistic flair to present a vision of our world in fast decline. We don’t want to give away our secrets too easily, but the more eagle-eyed out there will be able to work out the filming process behind the video." More...

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Interview

Unbowed On New Album, Joseph Campbell & Tour Plans

Friday is always a good day. The working week is over, AEW Rampage is on TV and most importantly, it's new release day! Among the many exciting albums out today, there's one that really stands out for offering different facets of metal music and philosophical viewpoints all rolled into one. Of course, I'm referring to "Colour The Soul," the latest full length from Canadian heavyweights Unbowed and their first in five years.

Five years is of course a long wait for a new album, even with two singles interspersed in between and one might assume that the COVID pandemic played a bit role in the wait, but you know what they say about assuming things.... To find out more about this audible beast, Metal Underground caught up with the band's vocalist Ioan Tetlow and guitarist Alex Snape to discuss all things related to "Colour The Soul," the inspirations and ideas behind it, healthcare, imagery and more. You can read a transcript of the interview below, or watch it in full at the bottom of the page.

Oz: The new album, "Colour The Soul" is out on May 20th. It's an interesting title, it's quite vibrant for such a heavy band.

Ioan Tetlow: It's based off of Carl Jung's philosophies and psychologies sort of thing, so it's like heavily endorsing a vibrant nature, so that was the right wording you used there for sure.

Oz: Obviously it's been five years since your previous album. One would imagine that COVID played a big role in delaying the release and that kind of thing. Was that the only factor in there being such a long gap in between albums?

Ioan: I would say it's probably the least defining factor just because at the time Alex was studying in London, England, so a lot of us were moving back and forth, recording there and then he came back, we recorded here, so there was actually a few different factors. I'm sure Alex has a few more.

Alex Snape: We wrote the album in 2018 and then our drummer ended up leaving shortly after that, so then we kind of had to find a new drummer and finish recording the new record. That was the initial thing, because our drummer left due to a health issue in his hand which is obviously very important when you're a drummer. We were kind of figuring out what to do, because you know, you don't want to kick someone out just because they have a health issue, that's not the kind of people we are. But then, the entire world had a health issue, so it was a little convenient in that regard because people stopped asking us what was taking so long.

Ioan: In reality that was the least defining thing. Eventually we just realised that this is more or less a sign for everyone. I think a lot of people, if there is a silver lining from the pandemic, assessed their situation in life in general and so it was good for that because we were able to sit there and go, "We have a lineup change, we have a sound change relatively." Like, halfway in between we were thinking more along the lines of our own sound I guess. We've always been searching for it but it just kind of found us. Some of the riffs we gutted from the original singles, so the singles "Home" and "The Anthem Of I" came out back in 2019 and we had completely different riffs for both of those songs for a while and then they became what they were. Even now on the re-release, they're completely mixed different as well.

Alex: Yeah everything's kind of evolved really nicely. I think with our previous releases, even different sections of the album kind of have different flavours or sounds, so I think this is the first album where it grew into a cohesive, this is what Unbowed sounds like.

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Septicflesh Unveils "Coming Storm" Lyric Video

Today sees the release of "Modern Primitive", the eleventh studio album from symphonic death metal trailblazers Septicflesh. The band have also released a lyric video for their newest single "Coming Storm", which you can check out below.

The band comments “At last our 11th full length album “Modern Primitive” is released. In order to make a proper celebration, we decided to put to good use Seth’s more than 100 layers of details from the album’s artwork. Enjoy the raging Death Symphonic madness of the single and lyric video of “Coming Storm”. The era of the Modern Primitive is now!” More...

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Interloper Posts New Music Video Online

Progressive heavy metal band Interloper have been keeping busy of late, having recently completed a successful 7-week tour across North America with label mates Obscura, following on from the release of their debut studio album 'Search Party' last year. To keep the momentum going, the band have today released a music video for their new single "My Flame Deadened." Watch the video, featuring footage taken by Sterling Stetar from the band's recent tour, below.

Miles Baker comments:
"We are very happy to release this one. This song was created and written about a tragedy in one of our lives. The focus of this one was to embrace a minimalist approach and force ourselves to be creative with dynamics without losing focus of the song. We hope you love it and look forward to playing it on an upcoming tour this fall!" More...

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Milking The Goatmachine Shares New Lyric Video

An old goat's proverb says that all good things come in eights. On their way to world domination, the Udder brothers settled in Germany 14 years ago. On their 8th album, which will be released on 24.06.22 via Reaper Entertainment, the brothers have put their experiences into music in the language of their 2nd home.

"Nach uns die Grindflut" tells 14 short stories in finest Goatgrind style. As usual, the brothers deliver a mixture of death metal, grind, crust and thrash. Provided with German lyrics and refined pig squeals.

Today the band presents their second digital single "Waddema". The song is now available on all major streaming platforms. The official lyric video can be seen below.

The band comments:
"Ei horchema,

"Here comes for you our second single "Waddema". As you might guess from the title, it's about the topic "waiting". Since we have been living in Germany for a long time now, we have noticed that you actually have to "wait" for everything here. Be it for the train or at the supermarket checkout, at the vet or for the income tax bill. Where you don't have to wait that long anymore is the release of our new album. Until then horchtema and gucktema Waddema :-).

"Cheerio

"Your Udder Brothers, Lazarus Hoof and Steve Shedaway" More...

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Exocrine Premiere New Single & Music Video

French technical death metal outfit Exocrine premiere their second single from the band's impending new album “The Hybrid Suns“. Unique Leader Records will release the outing on June 17th, 2022.

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Bleeding Through Premiere New Track "Rage"

Orange County-based metal band Bleeding Through premiere their new track “Rage” streaming for you via YouTube and Spotify below. The group were in the studio earlier this year working on new songs with the below single being the first to arrive from those sessions.

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Arch Enemy Premiere New Track & Music Video

Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy premiere their new single, “Sunset Over The Empire“, taken from the band’s new studio full-length “Deceivers“, due out on July 29th via Century Media. You can stream the new song via Spotify and YouTube below. A new official music video for the latest adavance track will go live on YouTube as well in about 9 hours from now (as of press time).

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