From the wreckage of fractured minds and collapsing certainties, A Forest of Stars emerged with “Ascension of the Clowns”, a lyric video single that had opened the gates to their forthcoming album “Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface”, which had been scheduled for release on 8 May 2026 via...

20–21 February 2026 was set in stone for Rift of Hades. The second edition of the festival organised by Romanian Thrash Metal Club once again took place at Quantic in Bucharest, Romania, thawing the audience both literally and figuratively. Heavy metal was delivered by the book, death and thrash...

“Older than time From the dawn of oblivion Cloaked in decay In his name the world shall fall!” – Slaughterday No more silence in the astral realm, nor in our space; “Dread Emperor” has arrived! In full. Without mercy, as Slaughterday have accustomed us to since their early beginnings,...

Steel resonates. Flesh trembles. Romanian thrash/death metal trio Decease have returned from a near-decade silence with their new single, “Sculpted into Servitude”, accompanied by an official music video. The track, released on 16 February 2026, will appear on the band’s forthcoming self-titled mini-EP, scheduled for release in the coming...

Silence dismantled. Bones set to shatter. Greek heavy prog quartet Calyces have introduced the official video for “Boneshatter”, taken from their latest album, “Fleshy Waves of Probability”, released under the umbrella of Dry Clean Records. If 2025 marked the year of the band’s most widely discussed release to date,...

Time for some carnage set into the astral sphere! German deathers Slaughterday are back with a new single, giving our ears and souls another foretaste of what awaits us on 13 February 2026. Entitled “Astral Carnage”, the track stands as the latest advance strike from the forthcoming album “Dread...

The pagan folk metal band Natural Spirit returned in force on 15 January 2026 with a new visualiser for the track “Swamp”. Through “Swamp”, which was released on 22 August 2025, the Ukrainians set out to depict a hostile, ancient force that consumes patiently, erases memory, and leaves no...

The year 2026 is shaping up to be a particularly compelling one for Gaerea. With the promise of a new album designed to break boundaries and to resist confinement within any single genre or subgenre, a busy live schedule already taking form, and a clear intention to probe the...

31 January 2026 finally brought Gaerea to a Romanian stage, a band whose path has been defined by constant experimentation across black metal, post-black metal, and even hardcore. The Portuguese shared the Quantic stage in Bucharest with Морок, one of the projects of the Ukranian Illia Rafalskyi, centred on...