VARAHA are today premiering a performance of Climax & Exile live at Thalia Hall, via Metal Injection. During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, VARAHA started to campaign for the Save Our Stages cause – filming Climax & Exile at Chicago’s shuttered Thalia Hall in the process. The band and many others stand together in asking Congress to pass the Save Our Stages Act as part of the next COVID relief package to provide critical funding to help independent venues survive.

Australian death metal trio, WEREWOLVES have today released the second single from their upcoming sophomore album, What A Time To Be Alive. Antisocial blasts and grinds at a furious pace with uncompromising extreme metal gusto, taking no prisoners in the process. The three piece, featuring Dave Haley (Psycroptic, Ruins, King), Matt Wilcock, and Sam Bean (both of The Bezerker, The Antichrist Imperium), will be releasing What A Time To Be Alive on January 29, 2021 via Prosthetic Records.

Fraternal Parisian duo, WuW have today premiered a new music video via Distorted Sound Magazine, for Ce Silence Qui Nous Délivre De Tout, taken from their latest album, Rétablir L’Eternité. Filmed by Mille Plateaux Productions, the band sought influence from Jean-Teddy Filippe’s ‘Les Documents Interdits (The Forbidden Files)’, a French series of short films. Of the music video, Guillaume Colin (guitars / percussion / keyboard) comments, “The main principle is that the fantastical and supernatural elements are only suggested instead of visible. Everything lies in the ambiguity of the images”.

Following the runaway success of their debut album, Echoes From Deep November, FIRES IN THE DISTANCE have today released a live performance of The Climb. Ushering in a line-up change with their new drummer, Jordan Rippe, the band got together in early November at Telefunken Studio, CT to film a live performance of the album in its entirety at the studio’s Soundstage. Filmed by Patrick Fallon and produced by Dave Kaminsky, the set itself perfectly captures FIRES IN THE DISTANCE’s blend of melodic death metal and doom atmospherics. The Climb is the first song from the session to be released, with the rest of the performance to be released at a later date.

WOLF KING are back with a new album, titled The Path of Wrath. The follow up to their blistering 2018 release, Loyal To The Soil, confirms the Bay Area blackened heavy metal band have lost none of their bite. The Path of Wrath is a well crafted twelve track opus, set for release via Prosthetic Records on March 5, 2021. The band have today released the album’s lead single, Sanctuary, on streaming services as well as premiering an accompanying music video via Decibel Magazine. Filmed by Vance Valenzuela during their March, 2020 tour with Vale of Pnath.

Irish thrashers, GAMA BOMB, have today released Miami Supercops – the third single to be taken from their upcoming studio album, Sea Savage. Miami Supercops is streaming everywhere now, and has an accompanying video premiering at New Noise Magazine. Sea Savage will set off on it’s maiden voyage and be released via Prosthetic Records on December 4; pre-orders are available now.

DEPTHS OF HATRED return with their new album, Inheritance, their first full length release via Prosthetic Records – due out on March 19, 2021. With a new vocalist, a new sound and a new energy to kick off 2021 – DEPTHS OF HATRED have lost none of the technical edge that made them stand out from the death metal pack. To accompany the album release, lead single Fastidious Imitation is available on all streaming platforms. Inheritance is available to pre-order now.

Less than a year since their debut album, The Dead Are Screaming, WEREWOLVES are back with their sophomore full-length, What A Time To Be Alive – due to be released on January 29, 2021 via Prosthetic Records. The Australian death metal trio – featuring Dave Haley (Psycroptic, Ruins, King), Matt Wilcock, and Sam Bean (both of The Bezerker, The Antichrist Imperium) – have today unveiled the album’s apoplectic lead single, I Don’t Like You, to coincide with the announcement. Listen to I Don’t Like You here.

Rochester, NY’s most revered and blood-splattered death metal sons, UNDEATH, have reached the US and Canadian Billboard charts with their debut album – Lesions Of A Different Kind. Entering the charts at the following positions:

Blackened metal quartet, INFERA BRUO are premiering their new music video for The Breath Of Chaos at Decibel Magazine. Taken from their latest album, Rites Of The Nameless, the video pairs ominous high contrast black and white occult imagery with their trademark blackened metal sound to arresting effect.