Metal News for April 21, 2025
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6 news articles posted on this day.
Gutalax Shares New Live Video
Czech goregrind legends Gutalax have posted an official summer live video for the track "Vaginapocalypse," from the album "Shitpendables." The video recorded and edited by Frodys - Audiovisual Weird Arts, and filmed live at Metalgate Czech Death Fest 2024, Basinfirefest 2024, Obscene Extreme Festival 2024 and Barrak Music Hrad 2024) More...
Ahamkara Returns After Ten Years of Silence
Following ten years of silence after the release of their debut album The Embers of the Stars and the untimely death of vocalist Steven, UK-based atmospheric black metal trio AHAMKARA returns with a new lineup and new album "The Harrow of the Lost," an unflinching exploration of the transformative nature of grief. Below is an upload of "Our Scars Shall Abide in the Thaw." More...
Ossuary Releasing New Album In May
You find yourself two thousand meters below the Earth’s surface surrounded by overwhelming darkness. Cold and wet, the path has collapsed behind you. You have nowhere to go, but still you scream. You scream, and scream, echoing into the darkness, dissolving your throat like acid. It’s no use. There’s no way out. You die here. OSSUARY has made this cave for you.
"Abhorrent Worship" is a relentless, pummeling assault from the Italian occult metal band. Six tracks in 37 minutes of cacophonous, suffocating evil punctuated with distorted, droning atmospheres. Hissing and dripping wet with bile, vocals incant beneath monstrous searing, chugging guitars and thunderous, pounding drums & bass at a primordial pace executed with precision and finesse. More...
Samtar Releases Debut Album
Genre-bending one-man band SAMTAR is set to return with "The Bog of Cosmic Delusions." The seventh full-length album by the multi-instrumentalist and songwriter comes fresh off the heels of the acoustic-centric A Second Chapter Made of Wood.
"The Bog of Cosmic Delusions" stands out as SAMTAR's heaviest album to date. With loud and crushing sounds, psychedelic influences, melodic guitars, and grand soaring vocals, this album is sure to satisfy rock and metal listeners alike. "The Bog of Cosmic Delusions" will be available on digital and limited-edition CD on April 11th. Below is an upload of "The Mire" from the album. More...
Matraque Unleashing Debut Album
Raw, atmospheric, and crushing, "Nature Morte," the debut album from Belarusian Sludge/Doom/Death quartet, Matraque, will be unleashed May 1 on Lithuania's Ashen Tree Records, Sonically, Matraque sits somewhere between Grief, Meth Drinker, and Primitive Man. All lyrics are sung in Belarusian. All music is scarring.
Minsk combo Matraque are unleashing their debut "Nature Mort" on May 1st. Just as over time, anger and aggression transition into despair, disappointment, and depression, the band, without losing loudness and intensity, chooses corresponding forms and nuances of sound to convey their perception of reality. More...
Cytotoxin Releases Full Length Album
German radiation squad CYTOTOXIN underlines their instrumental skills as well as vocal variety and demonstrates convincingly that technical death metal can indeed be melodic and catchy. "CONDEMNESIA," the official video we debuted for you here previously, sheds light on the victims of the Chernobyl incident who suffered from acute radiation sickness and describes the desperate and hopeless situation for affected individuals and physicians in the Soviet hospitals.
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