Enhancing a next string of live-activities, Swedish dark metallers TRIBULATION will release their “Melancholia” EP on vinyl for the first time on February 15th, 2019 via Century Media Records. The special mini-album contains 7 tracks with an overall playing time of 42 minutes. TRIBULATION – “Melancholia” tracklist SIDE A: Melancholia (album version) (5:18) Melancholia (Steingrim […]

Hexvessel release a new single, “Closing Circles”, from their forthcoming “All Tree” album, to celebrate the Winter Solstice. “All Tree” will be out February 15th, 2019. Mat McNerney says: ” Another solar year begins. Death and rebirth, both physical and metaphorical. As we celebrate Winter Solstice, we offer this symbolic sacrifice for you to partake. […]

For this very special release ICED EARTH’s mastermind Jon Schaffer has teamed up with his old pals in PURGATORY, the band that he originally founded in 1985, then later became ICED EARTH, to record five tracks that were written between 1985 and 1987, now to be released as the “Purgatory” EP today.   Produced and […]

Today Finnish melancholy death-doom metal masters SWALLOW THE SUN are releasing a standalone 14-minutes epic single track called “Lumina Aurea”. According to Juha Raivio “Lumina Aurea” (featuring Wardruna’s Einar Selvik and The Foreshadowing’s Marco I. Benevento) marks the band’s darkest and most sinister piece of music the band has ever released. “‘Lumina Aurea’ is a […]

YOB, who have enjoyed a remarkable 2018, will return to the road next Spring, bringing Voivod and Amenra along for the month-long trek across North America. The news arrives as Our Raw Heart continues to surface on a wide range of best of 2018 lists, nabbing the #1 spot in Decibel Magazine’s extensive year-end issue, […]

Relapse Records is proud to offer our annual FREE label sampler highlighting another year of incredible music from our eclectic roster, featuring the best dark and heavy music from around the globe. With genres ranging from death metal, black metal, doom, sludge, and grindcore to hard rock, electronic, synth, industrial, darkwave, experimental, and more, the […]

Photo Credit: Reid Haithcock Extreme metal quartet FULL OF HELL have finished recording their 4th full-length album with Kurt Ballou at God City (Converge, Nails, High on Fire). The album is expected to be released in Mid-2019. Stay tuned for more updates and music in the near future. FULL OF HELL will perform with INTEGRITY […]

Right before hitting the road again Southern California’s very own melodic hardcore-punk legends, IGNITE, are releasing a brand new video for “Nothing Can Stop Me”, taken from the 2016th released album “A War Against You”, which charted at #12 in Germany. Furthermore the band is working on new music and will enter the studio again […]

Norway’s avant-garde Metallers BORKNAGAR are finally back in the studio in order to record their 11th album, following up 2016’s acclaimed “Winter Thrice” release. The new album will be once again mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studio (Opeth, Kreator, Amon Amarth, etc.) in March 2019 and is expected for a worldwide […]