LACASTA RELEASE "OLIBANVM"

 

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Band: laCasta

Album: Olibanvm

Release Date: May 8, 2026

Country: Italy

Genre: Black Metal

Label: Argonauta Records

Italian blackened crust force laCasta return with “Olibanvm”, their most focused and oppressive work to date. Blending Crust Hardcore urgency with the austerity of Black Metal, the album delivers a suffocating and ritualistic sonic assault built on saturated riffs, hammering rhythms and dissonant atmospheres.

Conceptually, “Olibanvm” revolves around the true incense, a substance embodying a powerful symbolic triad: ancient as Egypt, red as blood, precious as gold. Extracted through deliberate wounds inflicted on the Boswellia sacra using the Manqaf blade, it represents a ritual of suffering transformed into transcendence. From ancient pagan rites to modern funeral ceremonies, its smoke symbolizes the passage between the earthly and the divine.

Formed in 2013 in Puglia, Italy, laCasta have carved a distinct identity within the extreme underground through a violent fusion of dark Hardcore and Black Metal. Following their debut “Encyclia” and the acclaimed “In Æternvm” released via Argonauta Records, the band now pushes further into darker and more suffocating territories.

For fans of: Dark Funeral, Marduk, Wiegedood, Mgła

No compromise. No redemption.

Tracklist:

1-Manqaf

2-Melma

3-Feast For Parasites

4-Gallows Throne

5-A Grave Makes No Distinction

6-Dogma

7-Overdose

8-Harrowing Silence

9-Eradication

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NECROMONGER RELEASE "EMANATION OF THE DYING PERCEPTIONS"

 

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NECROMONGER – EMANATION OF THE DYING PERCEPTIONS

LABEL: XTREEM MUSIC

RELEASE DATE: JULY 9th 2025

There is nothing behind those eyes - no humanity to appeal to, no shared emotions to draw on, no innate sense of mercy to plead to - there is only hunger and a spark of malignant glee. The inevitability of the end is overwhelming; the strangely shocking realisation that you were never the centre of the universe, it was never your story, you were just a bit part player after all. The world will keep on turning long after this…thing…has reduced your ideas and emotions, worries and cares to a shapeless mess of flesh and liquid. It’s enough to make you weep…but there’s no more time for that.

Formed in 2021 by members of Fecal Body Incorporated, Cocklush and Concrete, Bulgarian gore obsessives Necromonger are devoted to the sound of rotting, repugnant death metal; undiluted, uncompromising and bone crushing. Eschewing the pursuit of high velocity blasting, Necromonger take their time over each kill, revelling in choking, claustrophobic atmosphere and sinister, crawling heaviness. A miasma of fear and desperation hangs over each song that they shape from their warped dreams of bruised flesh and congealed blood – and after years of immersion in their fetid fantasies they have emerged with a debut album to bring a shudder to the soul of all but the most hardened disciples of disgust. Emanation Of The Dying Perceptions has arrived…

The grotesque theatre of Emanation Of The Dying Perceptions opens with ‘Beyond The Pleasure Principle’, gradually submerging its victims into a world of terror before the razor-edged atmosphere gives way to snarling guitars underpinned by a thuggish bass. Brutalizing vocals bring an aura of warped sickness to the methodical process of dismemberment and there’s a seething morass of vicious unpleasantness boiling beneath the slow-motion bludgeoning. From here there is no escape, no let up in the degradation and destruction – this album is chilling in its soulless inhumanity. The songs switch from the murderous heat of tracks like ‘Born In Grave Wax’, a lumbering tribal dance of destruction, with the bass sounding as if the strings must be hanging from the instrument like loosely draped entrails, to cold, fear-infused nightmares like ‘Confessions Of A Dead Poet’, making for a disorientating melange of horror. The riffs are thick and suffocating, like wading through offal and the band deliver wound after wound, ghastly, shocking injuries. Listening to Emanation Of The Dying Perceptions is a mind warping experience that will take you from shock and disgust, through fear and madness to total desensitisation…and finally to a lust for depravity. Final track and first advance single, ‘Slaughter To The Bones’, is perhaps Necromonger’s greatest work on this, their first release. Its monstrous guitars and hellish vocals seem to be accompanied by a sense of sinister revelation, as if the meaning behind all the preceding savagery and slaughter is laid bare in this insidious, creeping conclusion.

Emanation Of The Dying Perceptions will be prised from its coffin by Xtreem Music on July 19th and released on CD, 12” LP, cassette and digital formats. The CD will feature the bonus track, ‘Necromonger’ – an epic instrumental combining atmosphere and brutality in a wildly effective, bilious cocktail – while the cassette will feature the additional delights of ‘Necrocannibal Pollution’, a feast of molten riffs that makes a more than fitting addition to the album’s core of carnage. With Emanation Of The Dying Perceptions Necromonger have written a love letter to the dismantling of the human form. Expect no mercy.

Tracklist:

01. Beyond the Pleasure Principle 

02. Born in Grave Wax

03. Dissection of Consciosness

04. Meconium Eater

05. Confessions of a Dead Poet 

06. Clite Skinner

07. Extract of Rotting Fetus

08. Bloody Picasso 

09. Autophagous Erection 

10. Slaughter to the Bones

11. Necromonger (inst.) *CD bonus

12. Necrocannibal Pollution *CASS bonus

Line-up:

Pigman – Vocals

Agrogrinder – Guitars/Bass

Quill Rat – Drums

Genre: Death/Gore Metal

For fans of: Autopsy | Gorevent | Impetigo | Haemorrhage

Further Information:

https://www.facebook.com/goredeathmadness

https://www.xtreemmusic.com/

NUCLEAR TOMB RELEASE "EPOCH INHUMANE"

 

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Baltimore, MD's weirdo thrash stalwarts, Nuclear Tomb, are back and as twisted and vicious as ever with their new full-length album Epoch Inhumane, out June 12th on Rotted Life Records!

The official video for the album's first single, "Falling Out The World of Lies," has been premiered at No Clean Singing! Check it out at:

nocleansinging.com/2026/04/03/an-ncs-video-premiere-nuclear-tomb-falling-out-of-the-world-of-lies/

Nuclear Tomb's unique fusion of tight thrash riffing, noisy punk aggression, progressive rock ambition, and classic heavy metal grandeur has brought comparisons to trailblazing metal mavericks such as Voivod, Pestilence, and Coroner.

Refusing to rest on their laurels, the band spent the last two years crafting new material, which they introduced and refined in front of audiences at gigs ranging as far as Texas to Quebec. With Epoch Inhumane, Nuclear Tomb are looking to up the ante: faster speeds, deeper hooks, and even more dynamic twists than their fans have already come to expect. Songs that fearlessly rip and tear through warped tales of real world society's impending collapse. Be prepared for the horror... Mind Thrashing Sonic Nightmares.

FFO: Voivod, Pestilence, Coroner, Atheist

Track Listing:

1. Watch The Skies

2. Falling Out The World of Lies

3. Unbowed & Averse 

4. Faithless Continuum

5. Broken Promise, Barren Essence 

6. Lifeless Transformation 

7. Butcher’s Lament 

8. Terminally Emboldened 

9. The Coward’s Curse

10. Epoch Inhumane

Credits:

Album engineered and mixed by: Matt Michel at Viva Studio VA. 

Mastered by: Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.

Additional lead guitar by Demir Soyer. 

Album art by Brad Moore.

Photo Credit: Travis Stone

Line-Up:

Michael Brown - Guitar/Vocals

Matt Ibach - Guitar

Amelia Morris - Bass

JD Lookabill - Drums 

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TASKFORCE TOXICATOR RELEASE NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO: "DIE ALONE"

 

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Old school thrash metal band TASKFORCE TOXICATOR release new single

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far way, Taskforce Toxicator went on their way, to experience insane space adventures. After their debut album ‘Laser Samurai‘ and the recent single ‘The Necromancer‘, the band strikes back with ‘Die Alone‘, another head-ripping thrash metal anthem.

Fast guitar riffs and pounding drumbeats meet catchy hooks and melodic guitar leads in this hurricane of a song. “Die Alone” shows that the band took the time since their debut to refine their songwriting, while also raising up their technical versatility. And this is just the beginning. The band has already recorded their next album, which will be revealed later in 2026. “Die Alone” is a taste of what’s to come.

Watch the music video for “Die Alone”:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUuwc8_JMwA

Guitarist Dominik Rothe comments: ‘After “The Necromancer”, “Die Alone” is our second outing in 2026. It’s a real thrash metal anthem that people can sing along to and will be a regular in our live set going forward. It’s not as dark as our previous single and has more of the crossover thrash vibe that we’re known for. It’s fast, it’s aggressive and it’s meant to be played as loud as possible’.

Listen to ‘Die Alone’ – Now available everywhere! https://li.sten.to/m45se0bh

‘Die Alone developed in a very organic way’, Dominik tells about the creation process. ‘When I started with the composition my goal was to create a fast song that still has a lot of melody in it. And I wanted to avoid the fast strumming on the open E string that you find so often in thrash metal songs. Not to say that it’s a bad thing, we do it all the time, haha. But for “Die Alone” I wanted to try out something different, to give it a feeling that we didn’t have in any of our older songs. It’s a quite unique track for us, while still maintaining all our musical trademarks’.

The lyrics are full of social commentary, as playing thrash metal demands, explains Dominik: ‘A lot of people nowadays say stuff like ‘Keep politics out of metal‘ or ‘Metal is apolitical.‘ We absolutely do not agree with this sentiment. Metal, and especially thrash metal, has always been political. Just listen to “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath or “Disposable Heroes” by Metallica, two anti-war songs, that take a clear stand against the insanity of war. ‘Die Alone‘ is about people who exploit and abuse others for their own benefit. They destroy everything around them, with no regards to the consequences of their actions. And in our song, they are finally punished for this, since they die in pain and they Die Alone ‘.

Taskforce Toxicator are:

Fabian Koch – Vocals

Dominik Rothe – Guitar

Lars Wenning – Guitar

Hendrik Klahold – Bass

Bela Schlieper – Drums

Credits:

Recorded by Cornelius Rambadt and Dominik Rothe

Produced and mixed by Cornelius Rambadt at Rambado Recordings

Co-Produced by Milan Steinbach of Pointbreak Recordings

Mastered by Dennis Koehne

Artwork by Timon Kokott

Music video by Janis Prögler

Fotos by Marvin Brauer

Bio

Taskforce Toxicator started out in 2017 to bring their vision of old school thrash metal to life. In their songs, a group of out-of-space mercenaries tells their adventurous tales. Abduction by aliens, battles in space, laser katanas – Taskforce Toxicator will draw you into a universe of crazed characters. Serving as a memento of our society, this dystopian vision does not hold back on criticism on current global political affairs.

Since they started out in 2017, Taskforce Toxicator released multiple EPs as well as their critically acclaimed debut album “Laser Samurai” in 2023. They also played shows supporting Sodom, Tankard and Destruction among other well-known bands. For 2026 the band plans to release their second album and will go on tour with german speed metal legends Warrant and Knife.

For fans of: Metallica, Testament, Death Angel, Municipal Waste, Kreator

Discography

Laser Samurai (Album – 2023)

Skull Splitting Force (Compilation – 2023)

Live Oppression (Livealbum – 2022)

Reborn In Thrash (EP – 2021)

Taskforce Toxicator (EP – 2018)

 

Check out Taskforce Toxicator online:

Homepage  https://taskforce-toxicator.de/

Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/taskforcetoxicatormetal/

Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/taskforce_toxicator/

YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAmtZjcMsuBb1ZlyoFKDNbA

Bandcamp  https://taskforcetoxicator.bandcamp.com/

LOCUS NOIR RELEASE NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO: "CEMETERY YOUTH"

 

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The lyric video for “Cemetery Youth” is a glorious tribute to the dark aesthetic of the 1990s, reflecting the song’s youthful yet fatalistic spirit. This track features Ben Christo, guitarist of the iconic post-punk band The Sisters of Mercy, as well as Swiss singer Celine Bart (Exess). 

Watch the lyric video HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk9JK-bH3hM&feature=youtu.be

 

"Following the exciting recent reformation of SYBREED, its singer Ben Dominet returns with a solo album under the name LOCUS NOIR. Here, he pays homage to his gothic rock and metal Idols (TYPE O NEGATIVE, SISTERS OF MERCY, PARADISE LOST...) making Shadow Sun a superb dark opus... It just goes to show that one often returns to one's first loves... (RAIN already possessed these gothic influences that later gave birth to SYBREED)"

ORDER 'Shadow Sun' HERE  https://shop-listenable.net/en/1175_locus-noir

Available in Limited edition Marble vinyl & Limited Edition digipack with 2 bonus tracks

FACEBOOK  https://www.facebook.com/locus.noir

INSTAGRAM  https://www.instagram.com/locus_noir

SCHATTENVALD RELEASE VIDEO FOR "DÄMMERTAGE"

 

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German Epic Black Metallers "Schattenvald", active since 1998, release their new video to the song "Dämmertage".

Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME6trF6Q75g

"Dämmertage" is the opening track of the band´s new album "Alle Hernach" that will be released through Solistitium Records on April 26th. 

"Alle Hernach" tracklist:

1.Dämmertage 04:28

2.Auf alten Pfaden 04:43

3.Die alte Mühl' im wilden Wald 07:16

4.Der Nachtwanderer 07:52

5.Im Nachtenschein 06:38

6.Wenn dereinst der Berg rief 08:43

7.Winterland / Alle Hernach 06:54

The 'Alle Hernach' album by SCHATTENVALD is the first professionally recorded album by the band. It is not an utterly new one but puts old songs upon the right level. Re-arrangements, high quality recording, mixing and mastering shows what it was always meant to be.

SCHATTENVALD recording line-up:

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Nachtsturm - Guitars, Drums, Synths

Iskharian - Vocals

Tyrann - Bass

recorded, mixed and mastered at Nightside Audio studio

cover artwork by Benjamin König/Sperber Illustrationen

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GODIVA RELEASE VIDEO FOR "BLACK MIRROR (LIVE WITH ORCHESTRA AT VAGOS METAL FEST)"

 

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Portuguese symphonic death metal band Godiva present “Black Mirror (Live with Orchestra at Vagos Metal Fest)”, the final video of the Hubris era. 

Filmed during their monumental performance at Vagos Metal Fest alongside The Purgatory Orchestra, this special performance captures one of the most ambitious moments in the band’s history, merging crushing metal with powerful orchestral arrangements in a dark and cinematic live experience.

The concert served as a special preview of the Hubris album before the pandemic, marking the second show presenting the new material, and becoming a historic milestone for the band.

With this video, Godiva close the visual chapter of Hubris and take the first step toward a new era, with a new album and a new lineup to be revealed soon.

Special thanks to former members Arcelio Sampaio (bass), Eduardo Sinatra (drums) and Pedro Faria (vocals) for their contribution during the Hubris era.

Expect the unexpected. 

You can watch the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x828bRl8ysA

OFFICIAL LINKS

https://www.godivaofficial.com/

https://www.facebook.com/godivaofficial/

https://www.instagram.com/godiva.official/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCqTsx6cKjVizdd-hcMQ7rw

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0EWhw4c6P69wnocTFLc79N

https://godivaofficial.bandcamp.com/

WEAK & MORTAL RELEASE "THE DARKEST PLACES ON THE EARTH"

 

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After CORTEGE went on hiatus in early 2025, Sebastian Bartek and Kamil Szuszkiewicz decided to continue their musical activities under the name WEAK AND MORTAL. The duo remained within the death metal genre, but the musicians decided to open themselves up to other sounds, which resulted with progressive structures of the songs in the introduction of electronics and samples into their music.

After unsuccessfully searching for new band members, Sebastian and Kamil decided to record their debut material independently.

In December 2025, the duo entered the Czech DiGaZ Recording Studio in Karviná, where they recorded their debut EP, "The Darkest Places on the Earth." Tom "Digaz" Pletnický (Inferno, Thenemis) was behind the console, significantly influencing the final shape of the music. Cover artwork was done by Kamil Szuszkiewicz.

WEAK AND MORTAL's debut EP contains four tracks, comprising nearly twenty-five minutes of dark, heavy, unconventional, and at times downright anthemic music. 

EP was released on March 31, 2026 by German label A.D.G Records (mailorder: adg.militia@gmail.com). We invite you to listen to the entire EP on the Forever Misanthropia Youtube channel.

Stream "The Darkest Places On The Earth" at Forever Misanthropia

https://youtu.be/u8NUGX4BOYk

TRACKLIST:

01. Human-infested

02. Begging for death

03. Blood communion

04. The bad source

BAND SOCIAL MEDIA

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GROND RELEASE "THE TEMPLE"

 

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GROND – THE TEMPLE

LABEL: XTREEM MUSIC

RELEASE DATE: APRIL 30th 2026

“Neither age nor submersion has corroded the pristine grandeur of this awful fane—for fane indeed it must be—and today after thousands of years it rests untarnished and inviolate in the endless night and silence of an ocean chasm.”

-The Temple – H.P. Lovecraft

Titanic Russian death metal force, Grond, have returned and are ready, once again, to take us down to the depths of the ocean, beyond the reach of light. An ambitious and imaginative concept album entwining the story of decorated First World War German U-boat commander, Otto Eduard Weddigen, with H.P. Lovecraft’s chilling tale of subaquatic madness from which the album takes its name, The Temple is a heavyweight masterpiece of atmosphere and devastating death metal. It’s been ten long years since the last Grond album, Worship The Kraken’, with only the 2019 split release with Graceless – Endless Spiral Of Terror – to break the silence of a decade; but The Temple has been more than worth the wait and will have fans welcoming the band home like the proverbial prodigal sons.

‘Rotten Himmel’ begins the process of submersion, immediately drawing the listener into the darkness beneath the waves and introducing the superb lead guitar work which plays such a pivotal role throughout the album to come. From this opening sequence Grond’s grip upon us is unbreakable and there is no turning back, no escape until the final desolate tones of ‘Dark Solitude Of The Sea’. Everything about this album feels huge – from the towering riffs to the earthshaking drums and the bass infused with the weight of worlds. And then there is the colossal voice of founder member, Kist; each reverberating roar seeming to emit from the throat of an ancient monstrosity of staggering scale. Between the gargantuan vocal exhortations and the intimidating riffs the lead guitar works its magic, conjuring claustrophobic horror in ‘Pour Le Merite’, bringing a haunting madness to ‘U29’ with its strange, liquid melodies and screaming through the smoke and fire of ‘Dreadnought’… The Temple just gets better and better as it progresses, with ‘Radiant Fury’ bringing you to your knees before the power of ancient gods, helpless before their grotesque majesty, as elemental, vertiginous chaos resolves into irresistible, utterly satisfying riffs and chord sequences. Title track, ‘The Temple’, is a sanity destroying, lurching monstrosity – both regal and shockingly violent – while ‘Dark Solitude Of The Sea’ is a superb conclusion, bringing together all the dark secrets, howling madness, desperation and death that has come before in great, seething riffs, enticing melodies and an atmosphere to drown in…

Xtreem Music will release The Temple on April 30th, on CD and digital formats, featuring stunning artwork created by Daemorph (Aborted Fetus, Avulsed, Holycide etc). Follow Grond into the black, to discover the unseen mysteries that lie in the stygian gloom of the ocean floor.

Line-up:

Void - Guitar

Kist - Vocals

Sarghas - Bass

Kadath - Drums

Genre: Death Metal

For fans of: Bolt Thrower | Morbid Angel | Asphyx | Sulphur Aeon

Further Information:

https://www.facebook.com/grondrus

https://www.xtreemmusic.com/

https://www.facebook.com/xtreemmusic666

http://grond.bandcamp.com/

ABANDON AGONY RELEASE NEW SINGLE "WRITING ON THE WALL"

 

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Swedish melodic death metal band ABANDON AGONY have set May 22, 2026, as the international release date for their highly anticipated debut full-length album Endbringer. Following the release of their debut EP “Dark Matter” in 2024, now reissued as part of their ongoing cycle, all tracks from the EP will also appear on the upcoming album.

"Endbringer is a reflection of everything we’ve built as a band so far – darker, heavier, and more focused. The album moves through themes of inner conflict, collapse, transformation and rebirth, both on a personal level and in a broader sense.

We all come from slightly different musical backgrounds, which naturally shapes the way we write and approach our sound. While melodic death metal is the closest way to describe it, we’ve never aimed to stay within strict boundaries – it’s more about capturing a certain intensity and atmosphere than fitting into a specific genre." - says the band

The first single from the album, “Writing on the Wall”, is now available alongside a music video, marking a new chapter for the band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iygyTbW3XN4

Band comments on the single:

"Writing on the Wall represents the core of our sound – melodic but aggressive, with a strong sense of urgency and atmosphere. It was one of the tracks where everything really clicked in terms of direction.

Lyrically, it revolves around inevitability and being forced to confront something you can’t escape. Musically, it balances melody and intensity in a way that feels very natural for us, and it became a defining track for how the album came together."

The band will follow up with the next single, “Polar Shift”, scheduled for release on April 24.

TRACKLIST

1. The Truth

2. Dissolved

3. Blind Intentions

4. Entropy

5. Sunrise

6. Lunarstorm

7. Rise from the Ashes

8. Writing on the Wall

9. Polar Shift

10. My Redemption

Recorded at Eternal Studios, Vänersborg (March 29 – May 6, 2025)

Mixed and mastered by Robin Leijon

Emerging from the Swedish west coast, Abandon Agony is quickly establishing itself as a rising force within melodic death metal. Formed in 2023, the band delivers a powerful blend of aggressive riffs, melodic hooks and high-energy performances rooted in the legacy of the Gothenburg sound.

Drawing inspiration from bands such as In Flames, Dark Tranquillity and Arch Enemy, Abandon Agony combines classic Swedish melodic death metal with a modern edge, creating a sound that is both familiar and forward-driving.

With growing momentum and an expanding audience, Abandon Agony continues to make an impact both online and on stage. The band is confirmed to perform at Sweden Rock Festival this summer, bringing their sound to one of Europe’s most recognized rock and metal festivals.

Known for their intense live shows and tight musicianship, Abandon Agony delivers a raw and energetic experience that resonates with fans of modern melodic death metal.

Meet the Band:

Johan Hedström – Vocals

Tobias Järvelä – Guitar

Jonathan Wagerland – Bass

Robin Toresson – Drums

For fans of melodic death metal with a strong Swedish identity and modern production, Abandon Agony is a band to watch in 2026.

For more info:

https://abandonagony.com/

https://www.facebook.com/abandonagony

https://www.instagram.com/abandonagony/