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The Lurking Fear, the old-school death metal group from Sweden featuring members of At The Gates, Disfear, God Macabre, Skitsystem, Tormented and The Haunted in their illustrious lineup, have released their sophomore album, Death, Madness, Horror, Decay, worldwide via Century Media Records. Consequently, The Lurking Fear are unveiling another of the album’s tracks. Check out “Funeral Abysss” in a lyric video created by Cloud Music Typography, based on the album’s artwork conceived by Stefan Thanneur
Sweden's iconic rock/metal titans, Opeth, have announced that "due to conflict of interests", they have parted ways with drummer Martin "Axe" Axerot.
His replacement for Opeth's upcoming tour with Mastodon will be Therion's Sami Karppinen, who's first show with Opeth is tonight (November 16) in Asheville, NC.
New York death metal pioneers, Suffocation, have released their new live album, Live In North America, via Nuclear Blast Records. In celebration, the band releases the track video for the single, "Infecting The Crypts", which can be seen below.
Terrance Hobbs comments, "'Infecting The Crypts' happens to be one of the earliest Suffocation songs. It stood the test of time for us and our fans, it just seems fitting to highlight this song off this album as it has become a classic Death Metal favorite.
Darkest Hour continue their prolific output with a re-recorded / reimagined version of their 2003 standout single, “Payphones & Pills”.
The band comments, “While working on album ten we thought it would be fun to record a classic jam of ours and press it on something wild, just our way of saying, thank you for your Patreon subscriptions.
Shortly before Swedish death metal legends, Unleashed, release their new studio album, No Sign Of Life (November 12 via Napalm Records), the Einherjar legions of Asgard release their third single, “You Are The Warrior!”, talking about struggles in the life of a true warrior.
This is another musical weapon in trademark Unleashed fashion - true old school death metal, transferring Viking values into modernity.
British grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH have released a music video for the song "Contagion". The clip, which was directed by Marc Nickel and Ljuba Generalova, can be seen below.
NAPALM DEATH frontman Mark "Barney" Greenway stated: "Although we can only hope to provide a snapshot in four minutes, what we wanted to try to illustrate with the 'Contagion' video is how difficult it has been made to do something as fundamental as moving freely as a human being.
Black metal legends Cradle Of Filth have checked in with the following update:
"We have once again teamed up with Rockabilia.com, to release these special limited edition screen printed posters by Australian artist Rhys Cooper (Studio Seppuku).
This is Rhys’ hauntingly beautiful reimaging of the artwork to COF’s second album – 1996’s Dusk And Her Embrace
Polish death metal legends Vader have announced the United Titans Tour 2022 with Marduk for the UK, kicking off on January 6th in London.
The band has issued the following statement:
"Vadermaniax! It's a huge pleasure to announce Umnited Titans Tour 2022 organized together with Massive Music and our friends form Marduk! This time we answer the call of UK and Ireland.
In less than a month, the newest addition to the Hypocrisy catalog, Worship, will be released via Nuclear Blast Records. Today, the band releases the animated music video for the third single, "Children Of The Gray".
Peter Tägtgren comments, "Costin Chioreanu did an amazing job with his drawings. He illustrated my words perfectly. If we don’t take care of this planet, we will lose it to the 'Children Of The Gray'. The music couldn’t be more Hypocrisy epic feeling to it. Enjoy."