The brilliant Slagmaur has unleashed a magnificent new video for their latest single, “Huldergeist” — the third song on the upcoming masterpiece, Hulders Ritual. Fans have impatiently awaited the follow-up to Thill Smitts Terror (2017) for years, and, fortunately, it...
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Death metal has remained an extremely interesting genre to monitor over the last decade or so. It would appear to the casual fan that the genre has been divided into two very large camps, each nestled at the far end of the spectrum. There are the polished, neatly...Dissident Aggression: Obsequiae – Aria of Vernal Tombs
The list of metal bands that have attempted to incorporate various elements of folk or classical music is a long, often desolate, highway littered with the corpses of albums gone absolutely haywire. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your view, that list just...Dissident Aggression: Savage Master – Mask of the Devil
The explosion of heavy metal in both quality and quantity in the 1980s caused quite the uproar all up and down the Bible Belt in the U.S. I’m not ashamed to admit that one of the things that first intrigued me about metal music as a child was one of the myriad...Dissident Aggression: Grizzlor/Barren Womb Split 7″
Connecticut and Norway are a pretty long ways off from each other. While the latter has a reputation as a birthing room for some of metal’s most influential babies, the former…well…not so much. However, the reality is that Connecticut (and really...Follow Us
Slagmaur Unleashes a Sublime New Video & Finally Announces a Release Date for ‘Hulders Ritual’
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Mayhem unveil new single “Despair”
Mayhem have unveiled a visualizer for their new single, "Despair." The track is taken from their upcoming album, Liturgy of Death, scheduled to arrive on February 6, 2026. Nearly four decades into their career, Mayhem frame death not as an ending but as an inevitable...
Explore 37 New albums just announced – 12/02/2025
A few weeks have flown since we shared 37 albums recently announced. Since then there’s now 2059 New & Noteworthy metal releases on record this year. In the fast-moving world of new music, missing even a week means missing countless new songs and album...
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New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This New Music Friday sees the return of Alice Cooper, new music from the likes of The Dirty Nil and GWAR, a reworked Bruce Dickinson...
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New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s new music includes albums from the likes of Bush, Daron Malakian And Scars On Broadway, Margarita Witch Cult and Slaughter...
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New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out. The last few weeks (July 11 - June 27) have seen new music from the likes of Fishbone, Dropkick Murphys, Jonathan Richman, Born Of Osirus and Impureza,...