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Mongolian Folk Metal group Nine Treasures have shared their single ‘Three Years Old Warrior’, taken from their forthcoming ‘best of’ LP, ‘Awakening From Dukkha’, due 19th March. Crushing chords overlaid with the higher sweeter sound of the traditional Mongolian Balalaika and the Morin Khuur instruments. The throat singing adds another exotic layer which simply fits into the …

Cyprus based Cynik Scald are a metal band that blur the lines between Metal/Melodic Metal/PowerMetal/Metalcore. Their debut album ‘Aged Spirit’ was released at the end of 2019. The band have shared the latest track to be taken from the album – ‘City Nemesis’. A groovy intro riff becomes the backbone of the track joined with …

The Progressive/Power Metal Quartet that is Immortal Guardian have shared the video for their third single ‘Clocks’, taken from their forthcoming concept album ‘Psychosomatic’ due 12th February via M Theory Audio. Guitarist/keyboardist Gabriel Guardian says of the new single.  “No matter how hard we try to control our futures, history constantly repeats itself, ‘Clocks’ is a song …

Gyze are a Japanese folk metal band that entwine traditional Japanese instruments with modern. The band have shared the video for track ‘Samurai Metal’ which was written on a Shamisen (Japanese traditional string instrument) and performed in both English and Japanese.  Insane guitar work dominates this track as well as a healthy slice of growling from …

Label Heavy Psych are on their third instalment of their Doom sessions. Volume 3 features -(16)- and Italy’s sludge mongers Grime. With the album due 26th February, 16 have shared a new track – ‘Tear It Down’. “‘Tear it Down’ is a song that’s has been in our live set for a few years and has evolved …

UK label Blackbow Records are set to release a new split LP of pure heaviness from Belfast based, sludge-juggernauts Slomatics alongside the blistering and crushing sounds of Ungraven. With 3 new tracks from each band the split is set for release on 5th March.  First track taken from the album is Ungraven’s – Onwards She …

Estonian metal band Goresoerd offers some solace with their new single, ‘Lein’ which is released by Inverse Records. “Lein”, meaning grief, makes sure that nobody forgets about the fact that everything can still go sideways. Ominous picked guitar starts the track off fairly stately before the drums make a mess of it and the whole track goes …

Swedish heavy metal band Enforcer are proud to present their second live album, Live By Fire II, due 19th March via Nuclear Blast Records. The band have also released a live video for the first single ‘From Beyond’. Olof Wikstrand comments: “‘From Beyond’ has, since the release of that album, become a live favourite both for the band and the …

Ephemerald are a Finnish symphonic death metal band and they are releasing their debut album on February 19th 2021. In preparation the band have shared a single – ‘All There Is’ The track opens as somewhat a surprise for a metal band. It fades in all menacing but becomes more alt-folk with acoustic guitars and …

German heavy rockers Accept have been forced to postpone the release of their new album ‘Too Mean To Die’ from January 15th to January 29th 2021. This is due to COVID-19 related pressing plant closure which has delayed the album finishing. In order to shorten the waiting time for their fans, the band has decided to release their …