Experimental metal trio LOCRIAN are a prophetic voice of decline and a pioneering force in the world of metal. LOCRIAN’s sonic tapestry weaves elements of black metal, ambient, and experimental music, creating a genre-defying experience that pushes the boundaries of conventional metal norms. Their new album “End Terrain” set for release on April 05 (pre-order HERE), is the proper follow-up to 2015’s “Infinite Dissolution” (Relapse Records) and continues in the vein of LOCRIAN’s distinguishable sonic blueprint brought forth from said release along with such albums as “Return To Annihilation” and “The Clearing/The Final Epoch”.

“End Terrain” is the group’s…

California death metal force APPARITION will release their new album “Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State” on March 22.  The follow-up to 2021’s lauded “Feel” sees the band traverse further into the realms of otherworldly doomy progressive dark death metal.  Pre-orders live HERE.

Since the conception of the band, APPARITION has been about creating an individualized version of death metal, all the while paying homage to its ancestors. “Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State” offers a dynamic range, from the brutal to the beautiful. A still expanding glimpse into the APPARITION cannon. A lathe of infinite death…

The new album from American doomed dark metal veterans GREY SKIES FALLEN “Molded By Broken Hands” will see its release on March 8th, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the band’s debut album “The Fate of Angels”.  Pre-orders, new single/video HERE.

“Molded By Broken Hands” will see the long-running contingent deliver their most triumphant work yet and is an album that carries that feeling of the underappreciated and underrated dark metal scene that was culminating in the US during the late ‘90s), an era where GREY SKIES FALLEN grew from, while helping to signal a new resurgence of…

THEOPHONOS (ex-Serpent Column) and Profound Lore Records present “Ashes in the Huron River” to be released on LP/CD/Digital on Feb 9 and can be pre-ordered HERE.  The new LP is named in honor of the local woods and riverlands that continue to inspire the studio project. This record is an account of a life spent in the rotten heartlands of neoliberal capitalism and a tribute to the vibrant underground music cultures that thrived before the second half of the last decade.

Expanding on the directness of “Nightmare Visions”, “Ashes” is grander in scope, and is internally regarded as…

LOCRIAN have announced the release of a new EP, “Solar Lodge” now available to stream everywhere and procured digitally HERE. The EP consists of LOCRIAN’s reimagination of Coil’s “Solar Lodge” along with remixes of LOCRIAN’s version of the track by Paul Riedl (Blood Incantation), TV-CRIMES, and Jonathan Canady (Deathpile/Shadow Structure). Check it out below, along with the EP’s tracklist and cover art.

André Foisy of LOCRIAN commented:

“In 2022, we started looking back to the roots of our project, specifically our mutual interest in experimental, avant-garde, and ambient music. This examination of our foundation as a group led us…

The new CRUCIAMENTUM album “Obsidian Refractions” is out now and can be streamed everywhere as well as being obtainable on all formats HERE.  The long-awaited follow-up to the band’s “Charnel Passages” debut, eight years in the making, “Obsidian Refractions” sees CRUCIAMENTUM at their most commanding and towering.  Powerful abyssic dark death metal majesty unparalleled.

The crushing and pummelling new album from RVA’s death metal cavalry LEFT CROSS is out now and available to stream and smash on your preferred format HERE.  “Upon Desecrated Altars” is a crescendo of death metal conquest, forging through infernal commands as LEFT CROSS declares VICTORY while marching onward.

The new and most accomplished WAYFARER album “American Gothic” is out now and can be streamed everywhere and procured on all formats HERE. The pre-eminent Western American metal band, “American Gothic” is a defining statement of Western heavy music that explores the dark soul of the nation and serves as a funeral for the American dream. Caked in dust, and buried deep in blood and gunpowder, this is “American Gothic”.

The new KRIEG album “Ruiner” is out now and available to stream everywhere and obtain physically HERE.  The first KRIEG full-length since 2014’s “Transient”, “Ruiner” is unrepentant and remorseless black metal in the reflective manner KRIEG and mastermind N. Jameson have always been known for. Most-notably that of the savage and unhinged aura of cult KRIEG works while maintaining that harsh, sorrowful and cold-blooded melancholic aura.