Opensight, Crusaders, Medusa Touch, King Nobody, and Skaith head to Hordes X 2026 Even more outstanding heavy acts step up to the Hordes X plate, including popular returns, first-timers, and a live debut! This update puts us over the halfway mark in revealing this year’s full lineup, and what an…

Feeding Frenzy: Sněť – V bažinách vědomí   Sněť – V bažinách vědomí  Release Date: 10th September 2026||Genre: Death Metal||Label: Me Saco Un Ojo Records / Dark Descent Records Putrid descent into old-school death metal; where suffocating atmosphere meets rotten grooves and blunt-force brutality. Czech death metal outfit Sněť return…

Feeding Frenzy: Azatoth – Carnal Lust of Blasphemy Azatoth – Carnal Lust of Blasphemy Release Date: 21st August 2026||Genre: Death Metal/Black Metal||Label: Extremely Rotten Productions Putrid Finnish death metal, blackened menace and enough gore to wake something ancient. Azatoth’s press release begins with “From the hellish landscapes of southern Finland…”,…

Feeding Frenzy: The Night Eternal – Cold Velvet   The Night Eternal – Cold Velvet (Album) Release Date: 21st August 2026||Genre: Heavy Metal||Label: Metal Blade Records Smoke, classic grandeur and blackened edges — The Night Eternal make heavy metal feel dangerous again. The Night Eternal return with their Metal Blade…

Feeding Frenzy: Black Door – Shadows of a Funerary Gleam   Black Door – Shadows of a Funerary Gleam (Album) Release Date: 28th August 2026||Genre: Black Metal||Label: Wolves of Hades A dark descent into nocturnal mysticism, sepulchral grandeur, and the lingering echoes of aeons. Black Door follow up their 2022…

   Feeding Frenzy: Nephila – Huldra (Album)     Nephila – Huldra Release: 28 August 2026||Genre: Psych, Space Rock, Prog Rock||Label: Mountain Records Against the sodden grain: Nephila transforms Nordic folklore into something haunting, human and utterly captivating. It’s been nearly a decade since Sweden based, masked rock collective Nephila…

  Feeding Frenzy: Kulk – Choosing To Die   Kulk – Choosing To Die Release: 28 August 2026||Genre: Doom, Sludge, Noise Rock, Psych||Label: Church Road Records Grief, love and human fragility – proving that vulnerability can be as heavy as any riff. With Choosing to Die, Norwich doom duo Kulk…

  Feeding Frenzy: Buzzed & Loaded – Medication Nation     Buzzed & Loaded – Medication Nation Release Date: 12th August 2026||Genre: Hard Rock||Label: Bootstrap Records Delivering another cold pint of classic hard rock, homage and humour! With their third studio album, Medication Nation, hard rock trio Buzzed & Loaded…

Skaith – Bleed For You   New Scottish heavy collective, Skaith, have just unleashed their slow-chugging debut track, Bleed For You. The bitter grit of the song is backed by sludge stomp and raking post-black metal. This is the first of two digital singles the band plan to releasefrom their…

Feeding Frenzy: The Absolution Sequence – Dread Cycle   The Absolution Sequence – Dread Cycle Release Date: 14 August 2026||Genre: Blackened Deathcore Metal||Label: Bleeding Art Collective/Blood Blast Distribution Precision without pretension – Dread Cycle is technical death metal with real purpose. Tasmania’s bleak landscapes and dark history seem to bleed…