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: 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…

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…

Feeding Frenzy: Complexant – Apex Complexant – Apex Release Date: 31st July 2026||Genre: Blackened Deathcore Metal||Label: Bleeding Art Collective/Blood Blast Distribution Blackened death metal outfit Complexant have arrived at the table with Apex, a debut full-length that wastes absolutely no time in making their intentions clear. Those who followed the…

Ramage Inc., Saħħar, At Their Mercy, Chekhov’s Gun, and Bruxa Join Hordes X 2026 The next round of acts have been announced for Hordes X 2026, with five new bands added to the bill. As September rushes ever closer, the lineup for Scotland’s longest running metal fest is getting mighty…

De Profundis, Cnoc An Tursa, and Owlcrusher Kick Off Hordes X 2026 Lineup Hordes X fest has just announced the first batch of bands appearing at its sixteenth edition!!! Taking place across the stages of Hidden and Music Hall Dundee, the oldest metal fest is Scotland, Hordes X, is back…

Hordes X 2026   The Beast in the East, Scotland’s oldest metal fest, Hordes X, is back for its SIXTEENTH edition!!! Featuring two days of stacked extreme metal and old school bands (plus some curveballs), the influential live platform returns to the twin venues of Hidden and Music Hall Dundee,…

Forked Tongues: Riket 2026 We all love a bit of proper Swedish death metal, and Riket are delivering the latest blast. The long-grinding four-piece just disinterred their first full sonic slab. 2026, this month. Coming through Black Lion Records, it is a beast, we can tell you! (In fact, we…

Feeding Frenzy: Riket – 2026   Riket – 2026 Release date: 10th April, 2026||Genre: Death metal||Label: Black Lion Records Long awaited, the debut full-length from Riket is finally here Proper. Swedish. Death metal. All sung in Swedish. A solid album’s worth of material from Riket may seem well overdue, but,…