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Bunker 66 - Portraits Of Dismay / Italian black speed/thrash - this 18 track compilation featuring their splits from 2012 til 2023. The Italian three-piece is known as a prolific work horse, clocking... more

Boundless Chaos - Sinister Upheaval - This debut album is a ravaging onslaught of uncompromising death/thrash. - Hailing from Germany, BOUNDLESS CHAOS' debut album, Sinister Upheaval is a ravaging... more

Kontact began broadcasting obscure and ancient signalz throughout the underground in the great dying of 2020AD, influenced by the mythic teachingz of Manilla Road, Accept, Master's Hammer, and... more

Armagh - Exclamation Po!nt / Poland's hard-hitting blackened HEAVY METAL act Armagh is back with the 3rd album. FIRST WAVE ONLY! - ARMAGH from Poland mix classic heavy metal from the '70s and '80s... more

Two of these flawlessly executed tracks are from a 24-track recording session, and the rest of the album are early, atmospheric versions of songs that were later re-recorded on Judgement of the Dead.... more

Originally recorded in 1982 during the NWOBHM movement, Pagan Altar's debut album, Judgement of the Dead, is a timeless classic of macabre heavy/doom metal centered around magic, witchcraft, and the... more

Hailing from Switzerland, Megaton Sword are ever aptly monikered: theirs is a nuclear-powered style of true-as-steel HEAVY METAL drunk on high fantasy and the enduring themes of conquest and valor,... more

Honest rock music played on real instruments: this is Midnight Prey! In a feral-yet-atmospheric way, this German three-piece play an honest and powerful old-school kind of sound, anchored in the... more

Galaxy is a band from Melbourne, Australia. Galaxy tip their hats to the speed metal and traditional heavy metal acts of the 1980s with their untamed and spirited Mini-Album, Lost From the Start. A... more

Forged in the fires of the early '80s, Iron Curtain's sound set forth a smorgasboard of grit and gleam equally, largely nodding to the eternal Motörhead as well as Tank, but also Exciter to cult... more

Hailing from Detroit, Midas are a four-piece band of hard rock warriors. Theirs is an ancient, time-lost sound, recalling rock 'n' roll's first transitions into proto-metal during the '70s. But,... more

Warlust joined the ranks of founding fathers Desaster, Deströyer 666 and Aura Noir. While the debut LP was still tethered to more traditional-style blackthrash, with Unearthing Shattered Philosophies... more

Hailing from Vancouver, Sandstorm formed during the winter 2017 and were inspired by '80s Swedish underground metal, the original NWOBHM movement, and "Rob Halford's Instagram account." While knowing... more

"Cemetery sounds" is what the band called their music, but that only told half the story. Wild and wily, Hexenbrett unloaded a dizzying payload of sounds both traditional and unorthodox, dumping into... more

Hexenbrett is an entity that provides cemetery sounds exclusively. The first invocation, fittingly entitled Erste Beschwörung, is a sample of what will follow in the future. Roaming ancient dungeons... more

Rough and rustic but brimming with an authentically ancient fire, Under the Influence is moody metallic majesty: dark 'n' mysterious riffs, portentously galloping rhythms, epic-yet-direct... more

Without doubt, the spectre of classic Kreator looms large over Deathstorm still - and why should it not, when you're doing deathtrash this devastating' - but with For Dread Shall Reign, the band... more

Soulcaster erect towers of fantastical heavy metal might, evincing a stout grasp of epic-yet-punchy songwriting and a whole host of unique contrasts which render this recording advanced beyond the... more

Hexecutor weren't trying to reinvent speed and thrash with their debut album; but now they return with an even bolder 2nd record Beyond Any Human Conception of Knowledge. It's still Hexecutor but... more

Hailing from Germany, Blackevil have been forging fire since 2013. Now Blackevil's breakout moment arrives with their long-awaited second album, Forever Baptised in Eternal Fire. Never betraying... more

Hailing from Los Angeles, Early Moods' goal has been simple yet sturdy: to pay homage to such classic bands as Candlemass, Witchfinder General, Pentagram, Trouble, and the almighty Black Sabbath.... more