Vancouver, Canada’s WORMWITCH have today released a new single, Hammer of the Underworld, and an accompanying music video – produced by Chariot of Black Moth. Hammer of the Underworld is the third pre-release single to be taken from the band’s upcoming album, Wolf Hex, due for release via Prosthetic Records on August 27. The high contrast black and white visual flickers and writhes alongside WORMWITCH‘s melting pot of black, death and extreme metal to punishing effect.

Irish thrashers, GAMA BOMB are today premiering their new single, Thunder Over London, and it’s accompanying music video via YouTube. Thunder Over London is the title track from their surprise release three-song digital EP, due out tomorrow (August 6), and sees the band pivot back to their more political roots as they rally against nuclear arms. The music video alternates between the band performing, with beloved band mascot Snowy on drums, and key statistics and thought provoking information on nuclear weapons.

COGNIZANCE are today premiering their latest single, Aeon Sickness, and it’s accompanying music video via Decibel Magazine. Aeon Sickness is the second track to be taken from the Leeds, UK via Graz, Austria based death metal band’s forthcoming sophomore album, Upheaval – due out via Prosthetic Records on September 24. The visual showcases COGNIZANCE‘s continued sonic embrace of speed and technicality alongside groove and hooks.

Rochester, NY’s UNDEATH have today announced their contribution to Decibel Magazine’s Flexi Series. The blood splattered US death metal act’s brand new track, titled Diemented Dissection, is now available via Decibel’s subscription service ahead of their September and October US and Canada tour alongside The Black Dahlia Murder, After The Burial, Carnifex and Rivers of Nihil.

Minneapolis, MN based technical death metal trio REAPING ASMODEIA have today announced their new album, Darkened Infinity, due for release via Prosthetic Records on October 15. Darkened Infinity is the group’s third full length release and sees the band weave together rhythmically complex and acerbic songwriting with a conceptual story of transcendence, consciousness and humanity’s ongoing struggle with the psychological self. Alongside the album announcement, REAPING ASMODEIA have also shared lead single False Awakening and its accompanying music video.

Nottingham, UK based death metal act, BEYOND GRACE are today premiering their new single and accompanying horror inspired music video, Factions Speak Louder Than Herds, via New Noise Magazine. Factions Speak Louder Than Herds is the second single to be taken from their upcoming sophomore album, Our Kingdom Undone, due for release via Prosthetic Records on September 3.

Pre-order Our Kingdom Undone here.

Factions Speak Louder Than Herds is available to listen to via Bandcamp and will be on all streaming platforms on Friday, July 16.

WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR FACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN HERDSVIA NEW NOISE HERE.

Speaking on the new single, Andy Walmsley (vocals) comments: “The title comes from an interview with the writer Si Spurrier – and while I’m sure he’s not the first to use the phrase I still want him to get the credit – about how the loudest, nastiest voices so often drown out any hope of communication or compromise, with the lyrics also touching upon the way that this sort of abuse perpetuates itself, how it poisons and polarises us, and blinds us to the damage we’re doing – both to others and to ourselves.”

Our Kingdom Undone sees BEYOND GRACE refining and redefining their sound into something that’s simultaneously more intricate and more intense than ever before, combining conceptually ambitious songwriting and high octane heaviness in equal measure.

The album’s gestation period took place under a pall of social unrest and political uncertainty the world over, so it’s perhaps no surprise that each of Our Kingdom Undone‘s eight songs is a cathartic scream of raw emotion and primal poetry. Full to the brim with lyrics that rage with unfettered fury and unbound frustration against the rise of isolationism, exploitation, rampant militarism, and religious indoctrination.

Recorded at Stuck On A Name studio by Ian Boult and Bookhouse studio by Tom Hill, before being mixed and mastered by Charles Elliott (Tastemaker Audio / Abysmal Dawn), Our Kingdom Undone is both a crushing statement of intent and a vital reminder that the personal is political, that the ends do not justify the means, and that we must not let our fear divide us and drive us into an age of unreason.

FOUR STROKE BARON have announced their band new album, titled Classics, due for release via Prosthetic Records this October. Mixed by Devin Townsend, Classics

is their third full length studio album, brimming with catchy riffs and unforgettable choruses – in other words, classics. The first single, Friday Knight, is streaming everywhere now, and the accompanying video is premiering exclusively via Revolver. Classics will be released digitally and on physical formats on October 1 – preorders are now live.

WORMWITCH are today premiering a new single, titled The Wolves of Ossory, and its accompanying music video via New Noise. The Wolves of Ossory is the second track to be taken from their upcoming album, Wolf Hex, due for release via Prosthetic Records on August 27. The footage captures the Canadian black metal band performing live and in their element, interspersed with ominous woodland footage.