Hailing from Charlotte, North Carolina, prog outfit the Reticent have a history dating back to 2002 with four previous full-lengths under their best. Album number five, “please” attaches a bold thematic step to the band’s Cynic-meets-Alice in Chains-meets-Opeth-meets-Devin Townsend sound. As it should be (and… Read More »Prog Metallers The Reticent Have a Lot to Say About Mental Health/Illness
– December 11th, 2025 – Announce European headlining Tour for March/April 2026! LIK, the modern-day purveyors of classic Swedish death metal, gloriously return to action with a video for “They“, taken from their latest full-length Necro which was released last April. Directed by the band’s… Read More »Swedish Death Metallers LIK Release Video for “They”
A quartet of fresh-faced youths lounging next to a tree in a sunny setting doesn’t exactly scream/growl/wail “extreme Norwegian black metal,” but looks can be (somewhat) deceiving. Sure the lack of corpsepaint is, ahem, a dead giveaway that something is a little different about Fanatisme,… Read More »Full Album Stream: Fanatisme –Tro, håp og kjærlighet
Blackened death thrash conjurors Morbikon return with the third chapter of their animated medieval-fantasy saga — this time for ‘Flames That Bind and Shadows Cast,’ taken from their new full-length Lost Within the Astral Crypts, out now on Tankcrimes. The project — spearheaded by Phil… Read More »Video Premiere: Morbikon – ‘Flames That Bind and Shadows Cast’
– December 10th, 2025 – “Waves Below” Video / Single Now Playing + Pre-Orders Available Photo by Charlotte Clews Under the starry skies of Copenhell 2023, Danish/Faroese progressive metal outfit IOTUNN took the stage by storm with a performance already etched into the festival’s history.… Read More »IOTUNN: Danish/Faroese Progressive Metal Outfit to Release “Waves Over Copenhell” January 9th, 2026 on Metal Blade Records