Ghorot, the acclaimed blackened doom-metal trio formed in Boise, Idaho in 2019, is gearing up for the release of their highly anticipated sophomore full-length album, WOUND. Following the success of their debut, Loss Of Light, which was released in 2021 on Transylvanian…
Prisoner’s Cinema is Merauder on meth, Leviathan off the anti-depressants and your bulldozing soundtrack to society’s collapse. Today sees the release of Prisoner’s Cinema, the long-awaited debut album from American bruisers Burning Tongue out on Aqualamb Records. With chainsaw guitars, pummeling double-bass and a barking prophet preaching an end times message, Burning Tongue is here…
Hailing from Angola, blackened old school death metal unit Porta Magna have unleashed their fierce new single Cult of the Flesh via South Africa’s Mongrel Records. The band was formed by Frink Sanda, Manel Kav, Edson Ferraz, Ariel Ricardo, and Claudio Henriques during the Covid 19 outbreak in Angola. Bored by the restrictive measures…
At its core, Burning Tongue is digestible punk songs that are more concerned with simplicity and brutality than whatever wild scale that incel guitar virtuoso has learned in their mother’s basement. American blackened metallic hardcore band Burning Tongue have released the video for their new single Cult-De-Sac. The track is taken from their upcoming album…
Helsinki based cosmic blackened döömernauts DÖ release their new EP – Black Hole Mass today. The EP is dedicated to the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, who revealed the “darkest secrets of the universe”. Scientists like them provide the band with the inspiration to do what they do. They have already received…
Mongrel Records is proud to present Fangs Volume. 2, a second compilation of heavy music from the smouldering African underground, with a solid focus on the South African scene as it rises hungrily from the debris of 2020. Amongst the 14 varied tracks are established acts such as Facing The Gallows, Scarab, and Vulvodynia, with…
(Photographer Christelle Duvenage) It’s going to be a big year for South African Sludge n Rollers Ruff Majik! The band are very happy to announce their signing to Dutch Label Lay Bare Recordings for new album Tårn, set for release on the 3rd May 2019. Désirée Hanssen from Lay Bare Recordings is excited about the…
January 2018 sees the release of Sidereal Light – Volume One, the highly anticipated second album from Cape Town based atmospheric black metal band Crow Black Sky. This is the first offering in a series, much darker than the bands earlier styles. The lyrical concepts on the album include topics such as the cosmos, time…