The time has come again to enjoy the one holiday that celebrates metal culture and its power, the International Day of Slayer.
17 CommentsTags: death metal, international day of slayer, National Day of Slayer, slayer, Speed Metal, Thrash
Desecresy – The Secret of Death (2026)
Desecresy return with more keyboards and something closer to their original approach, which seems to finely-refined jazz technique applied to ambient death metal, creating a sense of free descent in an ocean cave of ambiguity.
48 CommentsTags: death metal, desecresy
Aurora Borealis – Disillusioned by the Illusion (2026)
Over the last few years, death metal has been steadily invaded by speed metal and late hardcore just like black metal because these genres are easy to produce so everyone can participate, but Aurora Borealis pushes back against this trend with an album full of roaring old-school riffs and speed thrills.
5 CommentsTags: aurora borealis, death metal
Mortuary – Great Black Earth (2026)
Almost no one understands what made speed metal great, looking from the outside-in as any time after the era tends to do, nor what made those transitional bands like Slayer, Rigor Mortis, and Destruction so powerful.
8 CommentsTags: death metal, Mortuary
Metal Cosmos (#6)
Black metal is its own religion: Darwinism + naturalism + consequentialism + transcendence. You will recognize this as the formula that most ancient societies used because it worked for tens of thousands of years.
14 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, Grindcore, metal cosmos, radio, War Metal
Fleshcrawl Epitome of Carnage Out June 12
Fleshcrawl, which is basically original member Bastian Herzog with a new batch of musicians, continues its path of making melodic but intense death metal within the older style with some modern hints to the rhythm.
18 CommentsTags: death metal, fleshcrawl
Desecresy The Secret of Death Out May 21
New release from Finnish ambient doom-death squad Desecresy, The Secret of Death, drops on May 21st. Sounds to be like a hybrid between the last two albums, hitting trademark Desecresy techniques and themes with more old school grinding vibe.
4 CommentsTags: death metal, desecresy
At the Gates – The Red in the Sky Is Ours Reissued
Legendary Swedish progressive death metal band At the Gates, fresh on the heels of passing on to the dark realm of vocalist Tomas Lindberg, has commissioned faithful re-issues of its first three albums.
20 CommentsTags: At the Gates, death metal
Diabolus – Diabolical Procession (2026)
From the early days of death metal, a hybrid of Sarcofago and Deicide adds its own flavor through a modern death metal style internal dialogue of riffs producing moments of great clarity from seemingly random visions of darkness.
7 CommentsTags: death metal, diabolus
Temora – Demo 2025 (2025)
There comes to us a release showing us that the old art is not dead. A group of friends gets together in a rehearsal room to put together intricate riffs that carry a narrative. They test the rhythms back to back, a structure emerges that sustains and modulates energy. There is articulation in its diction, as there should be in writing or in speaking. Well-made music grows as a living vine, with heaves and breathing rhythms, that even in the midst of the putrefaction and desolation they are meant to evoke, produce psychic and infectious life, the destiny of which is to lodge itself into your brain. That parasite, which can indeed grow monstrous and insidious, is what the long-time death metal listener knows as pure enjoyment of this music of death.
85 CommentsTags: 2025 demo, czechia, death metal, temora
