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Upcoming Heavy Metal Releases for July 2020

The titles bolded in red shall eventually air on Shredding Metal Beasts, Sinister Death and Hard Rock Madness. All dates and music subject to change without notice.   July 3, 2020 Aleah Starbridge – Aleah (Svart) Awake The Mutes – Eyes (Bastardized) Balance Breach – Dead End Diaries (Out Of Line) Black Altar/Kirkebrann – Deus Inversus Split (Odium) Black Funeral – Scourge…


DEVANGELIC “Ersetu” Press Release

DEVANGELIC are back with their third full-length album Ersetu.   Named after the Akkadian term for “Mesopotamian Underworld / Realm of the Dead,” Ersetu is a concept album based on the Annunaki’s myth “Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came.” The myth explores the theory of creation through the alien DNA, human slavery and the legend of the great…


Sxuperion “Omniscient Pulse” Press Release

XUPERION will release a new album of Deep-Space Atmospheric, Irreligious Death Metal called OSmniscient Pulse on June 15.   Album track “Betrothed Catacombs” SXUPERION is the solo project of Matthew (drummer for Valdur, Weverin, etc.) Omniscient Pulse is based on how this current reality is just a deep-sleep dream, and when one dies in this life, you awaken on a different world in…


Voices of Ruin Press Release

Melodic Death Metal Powerhouse VOICES OF RUIN Conquer Wacken Festival In New Music Video Logan Mader-produced M-Theory Audio debut ‘Path To Immortality’ due May 15   After putting the metal world on notice with the fierce new track “I Am God” and then making additional waves with their striking music video for “Carved Out” (a song praised by Decibel Magazine as…


Northern Crown “In A Pallid Shadow” Press Release

In the cracks between the genres of Doom, Prog, and Rock n’ Roll, NORTHERN CROWN find a unique fit, as exemplified by forthcoming album In A Pallid Shadow. The band’s third full-length album will be self-released on July 3.   Closing track “Observing” is streaming now: https://soundcloud.com/northern-crown-doom/observing/s-ZhUzhCEH8Kw   In A Pallid Shadow is everything that a real adventure should…


Ice War Signs with Fighter Record Press Release

  Canada’s speed/heavy metal project ICE WAR has inked a deal with Fighter Records for the release of its 4th album “Defender, Destroyer”, which will be released on July 21st, 2020 on CD & 12″LP formats.   Listen to the title-track and first advance single right here:   ICE WAR is formed solely by Jo Capitalicide (also…


Torrefy “Life is Bad” Press Release

Black Speed Death Thrash! That’s what Canada’s Torrefy offer on forthcoming album Life is Bad, set to be self-released on July 1.   The official video for the album’s first single, the aptly titled album-closer “Plague of Empires,” is available at: Purchase/stream “Plague of Empires” https://torrefy.bandcamp.com/track/plague-of-empires   Torrefy issued the following statement concerning Life is Bad and the progression of the…


Defeated Sanity “The Sanguinary Impetus” Press Release

Progressive/Brutal Death Metal luminaries DEFEATED SANITY return July 24 with The Sanguinary Impetus on Willowtip Records. Album cut “Propelled into Sacrilege” is streaming at: The Sanguinary Impetus is perhaps the ultimate expression of DEFEATED SANITY’s signature blend of the brutal with the technical, performed in a manner largely unparalleled in the world of extreme metal. At once comfortably recognizable and awe-inspiring, the forthcoming…


The Hallowed Catharsis “Killowner” Press Release

Canada’s THE HALLOWED CATHARSIS (THC) will release new EP Killowner on June 2 via Lacerated Enemy Records. You can check out the official video for album track “Breeding Pits” at: THC plays a unique style of unhinged progressive death metal. Tired of generic tech-death flooding the scene, THC works to be unpredictable, brutal, and technical, while staying catchy. This attitude carries through to…


Misanthropic Rituals “A Path Through Absent Places” Press Release

US Black Metal band, Misanthropic Rituals, announces the release of their second full-length album “A Path Through Absent Places”, a follow up of the 2017 debut “Human Dirt”. The album is set to be released on May 25th, 2020!   Track-listing are as follows: The Violation of Paradise Dweller in Nocturnes Beset with Shroud of Pitch At the Gyre of…