FUMING MOUTH
"LAST DAY OF SUN"
Death Metal
Year:03.11.2023
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

FUMING MOUTH returns triumphant after lead singer, guitarist, and founder Mark Whelan successfully battled Acute Myeloid Leukemia. What initially began as a full-on, fictional concept album underwent a profound transformation into a concept-reality hybrid, largely influenced by Whelan's harrowing conflict with his health and a near brush with death. Death metal / hardcore for the deep thinker. Produced by Kurt Ballou (Converge, Nails).The recording sessions began in October 2022, with Grammy Award winning Kurt Ballou of Converge at his studio, God City, in Salem, Massachusetts. Ballou reached out to Whelan after his battle with cancer and encouraged him to get back to their previously scheduled recording session. Working closely with Ballou in both engineering and production, the band...

ANGRA
"CYCLES OF PAIN"
Power Progressive Heavy Metal
Year:03.11.2023
(ATOMIC FIRE)

Brazilian power/progressive metal icons ANGRA are back with a new album!It's been five long years since iconic Brazilian power metal kings ANGRA released their latest album, "Ømni". Finally the band is back now with new music, proving once again to be one of the most unique bands of the genre. ANGRA's signature sound - merging classic virtuosic power metal with progressive elements and rhythms - is on full display here and makes "Cycles Of Pain" a highlight for every fan of sophisticated first-class metal. The band's long-running line-up (founded in 1991) is joined by former Rhapsody of Fire vocalist Fabio Lione since 2013, who once again delivers an incredible performance. Guest appearances by multiple Latin Grammy winner Lenine (on the partly Portuguese so...

NYT TLAND
"TOREM"
Folk Metal
Year:06.10.2023
(NAPALM RECORDS)

The new masterpiece by Siberian dark folk duo NYTT LAND invites fans of HEILUNG and beyond into a spiritual, cosmic world!"Formed by shamanic couple Natasha “Baba Yaga” and Anatoly Pakhalenko in 2013, NYTT LAND is one of the most captivating and haunting acts the dark folk music scene has to offer. This fall, on October 6, 2023, the Siberian duo returns with its ninth epos, titled Torem, via Napalm Records.Torem invites listeners into a mystic world of ancient percussive instrumentation and mesmerizing vocal spheres. The album takes you on a unique sonic experience and journey of the band's new trilogy, dedicated to the three worlds in the cosmology of their land. Torem is sung in old languages Khanty (Siberian Native Tribe) and Old Norse (Old Icelandic), and its title, in...

TRIUMPH OF DEATH
"RESURRECTION OF THE FLESH"
Thrash Metal
Year:10.11.2023
(ADA - Alternative Distribution Alliance)

Hellhammer existed for a mere two years, from May 1982 to May 1984. During this time, the band wrote material for three demos, one 12" EP (Apocalyptic Raids), and the legendary Death Metal compilation album, along with a number of unrecorded songs. In light of Hellhammer's now mythically iconic status in the global metal scene, it is almost inconceivable that most of this music had never been performed live for almost four decades. Hellhammer's successor group, Celtic Frost, formed by ex-Hellhammer members Tom Gabriel Warrior and Martin Eric Ain, initially played two of Hellhammer's songs but eventually abandoned this habit due to the band rapidly developing its own material. Tom Gabriel Warrior's Triptykon, founded in 2008, have played the occasional rare Hellhammer so...

DORO
"CONQUERESS - FOREVER STRONG AND PROUD"
True Heavy Metal
Year:27.10.2023
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

The fitting soundtrack for the big anniversary of the metal queen!"Conqueress - Forever Strong And Proud" is a big, bold heavy metal album. And it has long been a good tradition that DORO can win legendary heroes of rock for herself and her works. From Lemmy Kilmister, to Pete Steele of Type O Negative and Johan Hegg of Amon Amarth to Slash of Guns N' Roses - they all (and many more) have rocked on Doro albums. And now - for the anniversary album of the Metal Queen - Metal God Rob Halford of JUDAS PRIEST gave DORO himself the honor to record the immortal Judas Priest classic 'Living After Midnight' as a duet with her!"Conqueress - Forever Strong And Proud" also surprises with the ultra-catchy, absolutely hit radio rocker 'Bond Unending', a duet with Sammy Amara fro...

VISIONS OF ATLANTIS
"A PIRATES SYMPHONY"
Symphonic Female Heavy Metal
Year:01.12.2023
(NAPALM RECORDS)

Symphonic metal pirates VISIONS OF ATLANTIS embark to the high seas once again! After hitting the Top 20 on the German album charts with their most confident and honest full length so far, Pirates, the fulminant release of their third live album, Pirates Over Wacken, earlier this year, and extensive touring throughout the US and Europe, the multinational five piece doesn’t stop to rest. On December 1, 2023, they’ll release an exclusive orchestral-only version of their successful album, Pirates, under the title of A Pirate’s Symphony, via Napalm Records. The band invites listeners to join them on a marvelous ride through intriguing soundscapes and hauntingly beautiful melodies, along with symphonic heaviness. But this time, this is done without vocals, without drums - and ...

WITHIN TEMPTATION
"BLEED OUT"
Symphonic Female Heavy Metal
Year:20.10.2023
(ADA - Alternative Distribution Alliance)

Within Temptation, the renowned Dutch symphonic metal band, is set to captivate fans with their 8th studio album Bleed Out on October 20, 2023. This record signifies a bold leap forward for the band - from djenty riffs to melodies displaying our symphonic metal roots, with Bleed Out Within Temptation have created a sonic journey that delivers a fusion of diverse musical styles and thought-provoking themes.Reflecting the tumultuous state of the world, the Dutch metallers have drawn inspiration from events such as the murder of Mahsa Amini in Iran and the war in Ukraine. Sharon: “The war in Ukraine has influenced us a lot. As artists we are inspired by the world, and we have this platform. We are storytellers, and I think as human beings, these are things we should be talking about.&rd...

GO AHEAD AND DIE
"UNHEALTHY MECHANISMS"
Thrash/ Speed Metal
Year:20.10.2023
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

Metal legend Max Cavalera (Soulfly, Killer Be Killed, ex-Sepultura) and his multi-talented son Igor return with the second album that will cause some serious riots within the pits and living rooms of the scene. Their crust/death/thrash sound is the soundtrack for the rebellious youth of today's dangerous, chaotic and messed-up environment.

CD/ LP:

1. Desert Carnage
2. Split Scalp
3. Tumors
4. Drug-O-Cop
5. No Easy Way Out

6. M.D.A. (Most Dangerous Animal)
7. Chasm
8. Cyber Slavery
9. Blast Zone
10. Unhealthy Mechanisms

OBSCURA
"A CELEBRATION I - LIVE IN NORTH AMERICA"
Technical Death Metal
Year:27.10.2023
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

„A Celebration I - Live in North America“ is the new live album from metal band OBSCURA. Recorded in the USA, Canada, and Mexico between 2022 and 2023 as part of the band's "A Valediction World Tour," the album takes listeners on a journey through Obscura’s discography, featuring fan favourites from albums like "Cosmogenesis", "Omnivium", "Akroasis”, “Diluvium”, and the chart breaking “A Valediction”.„A Celebration I“ was mixed & mastered by Fredrik Nordström at Fredman Studio, where the band’s mastermind Steffen Kummerer worked with him to select the perfect set list to share with fans.Steffen Kummerer comments: “A Celebration I - Live in North America covers a selection of concerts we performed in the U...

CARNIFEX
"NECROMANTEUM"
Death Metal
Year:06.10.2023
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

"Necromanteum" is a musical journey through the darkness to speak with death itself. With it's blast beats, blackened riffage, heavy breakdowns and epic orchestral arrangments, it's a visceral experience that only CARNIFEX can deliver. What secrets will you uncover in the "Necromanteum"?

CD/ LP:

1. Torn In Two
2. Death's Forgotten Children
3. Necromanteum
4. Crowned In Everblack
5. The Pathless Forest

6. How The Knife Gets Twisted
7. Architect Of Misanthropy
8. Infinite Night Terror
9. Bleed More
10. Heaven And Hell All At Once

SVALBARD
"THE WEIGHT OF THE MASK"
Post Black Metal
Year:06.10.2023
(NUCLEAR BLAST)

British Alternative Metal quartet SVALBARD return with their new album „The Weight Of The Mask“, the follow-up album to the critically acclaimed „When I Die, Will I Get Better?“ which featured in both Kerrang and Metal Hammer’s top 10 albums of 2020.Formed in 2011 SVALBARD have gained the momentum of a runaway freight train - releasing 3 albums whilst continuing to refine their vast array of musical influences; black metal, hardcore and post-metal, drawing from video game soundtracks, even grindcore and dream pop, all buried within a distorted yet dynamic sound. Throughout this, SVALBARD succinctly articulate the reality of mental illness and the impact that depression has on your relationships and ability to communicate.With „The Weight Of The Mask&ldqu...

PRIMORDIAL
"HOW IT ENDS"
Pagan Folk Metal
Year:29.09.2023
(METAL BLADE RECORDS)

Primordial really do have nothing to prove. Having lasted 32 years and now returning with their tenth devastating fulllength, the Irish band have made it clear they are a primal force who consistently lay it all on the line. The follow up to 2018’s Exile Amongst The Ruins, How It Ends sees them delivering more of their seminal blend of Celtic and black metal, with an extra added urgency, and staring down the apocalypse.Working alongside founding members Pól MacAmlaigh (bass) and Ciáran MacUilliam (guitar) and longtime drummer Simon O’Laoghaire, the band started writing in earnest in the Fall of 2022, having lit a fire under themselves to work hastily and productively. PRIMORDIAL never plans out a record beforehand, letting them come together naturally, though Nemt...

ON THORNS I LAY
"ON THORNS I LAY"
Death Metal
Year:13.10.2023
(SEASON OF MIST)

ON THORNS I LAY are Greek titans. Where their peers in Rotting Christ, Septic Flesh, Nightfall were swayed more by symphonic and black metal, this Athens band went for a taste of the gothic on their 1994 debut. Which makes sense; after all, they are named after a Shakespearean sonnet.ON THORNS I LAY have released 9 albums so far such as Orama, Crystal Tears, Aegean Sorrow and Threnos gaining great reviews in (Scream Norway, album of the month, Inferno Finland 5/5, Metal Storm Top 5 albums of 2020 and many others…). The have shared the stage with great bands such as Dream Theater, In Flames, Anathema, Amorphis, Katatonia, Rotting Christ, Tiamat, The Gathering, Satyricon, Septic Flesh and many more…Their music style is pure atmospheric melodic doom death metal!The band’s ...

AMORPHIS
"QUEEN OF TIME - LIVE AT TAVASTIA 2021"
Folk Metal
Year:13.10.2023
(ATOMIC FIRE)

AMORPHIS return with an intense live album!During the difficult years of the pandemic, Finland's dark metal masters AMORPHIS seized their time at home to record this energetic live album "Queen Of Time (Live At Tavastia 2021)" – available in several audio formats and Blu-ray, the album includes the full tracklist of the band’s hit album “Queen Of Time” featuring "The Bee" or "Amongst Stars".CD:1. The Bee2. Message in the Amber3. Daughter of Hate4. The Golden Elk5. Wrong Direction6. Heart of the Giant7. We Accursed8. Grain of Sand9. Amongst Stars10. Pyres on the CoastBlu-ray:1. The Bee2. Message in the Amber3. Daughter of Hate4. The Golden Elk5. Wrong Direction6. Heart of the Giant7. We Accursed8. Grain of Sand9. Amongst Stars10. Pyres on the CoastAMORPHIS are:T...

KKs PRIEST
"ТHE SINNER RIDES AGAIN"
Heavy Metal
Year:29.09.2023
(NAPALM RECORDS)

Iconic former Judas Priest members K.K. Downing and Tim "Ripper" Owens present nine new tracks of sinful heavy metal fury with their sophomore attack!On the blazing heels of their highly lauded 2021 debut album, Sermons Of The Sinner - which debuted within the Top 20 on charts in the United States, the UK, Germany, Sweden, Finland and more - KK’S PRIEST return to sin again with their savage sophomore offering, The Sinner Rides Again, out September 29, 2023 via Napalm Records. The powerhouse heavy metal amalgamation of iconic Judas Priest alum and GRAMMY Award winning/nominated musicians K.K. Downing (guitar) and Tim “Ripper” Owens (vocals), along with A.J. Mills (guitar), Tony Newton (bass) and Sean Elg (drums), double down on the ripping melodic force of their debut - wh...