extreme

2018 will go down in the history as an important year for Korpiklaani. The band celebrated its 15th anniversary, released their 10th album “Kulkija” and finally wrapped up the year with a successful North American tour in December.
 

The Missouri-based extreme blackened death trio Nevalra – whose acclaimed 2015 EP, “The Black Flame”, made waves throughout the metal underground – has signed with M-Theory Audio, who will release the group’s full-length debut later this year.

Hailing from the cold, unforgiving wastelands of Hollywood, California, Ashen Horde is a two-piece band that strives to embrace a multitude of extreme metal sub-genres, without being bound to any one of them. Drawing influence from metal’s crème de le extreme, from Enslaved and Devin Townsend to Ihsahn and Opeth, Ashen Horde (aka Trevor Portz and Stevie Boiser [Vale of Phath, Inferi]), may have a sound rooted in death and black metal, but can’t truly be called either.

On February 1st, 2019, the Copenhagen, Denmark based atmospheric black metal band Morild (Danish for “phosphorescence”) will release its debut album entitled:

“Så kom mørket og tog mig på ordet
En sort sky af minder
I afgørende stunder
Frosset fast til mit indre
Jeg håber det forsvinder med lyset
At dø eller blive fri”

In English:
“Thus came the darkness and took me by my word
A dark cloud of memories
In crucial moments

Katechon has already found a notable place in the underground upon churning out two albums. Trondheim, Norway based black/death metallers are now ready to take the wraps of their forthcoming third opus, “Sanger Fra Auschwitz”.

The album is anti-totalitarian in form and a view into the events of the second world war and how it affected the people on both sides.

“Veil” is the first single from Chronoform’s next year’s debut album “From the Void”. And it’s actually the first track the band has ever composed.

Tight and versatile riffs combined with more delicate parts works also as a single as it gives a good cross-section to the material the band is soon to be releasing.
 
Check the music video for “Veil” below.
 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based technical/progressive death metal project Equipoise is proud to officially announce the upcoming release of their debut full-length, “Demiurgus”. The album is set for release on March 8th, 2019, through The Artisan Era.

It is the follow up to the group’s 2016 heavily praised EP, “Birthing Homunculi”, whose material makes it’s way onto “Demiurgus” in a re-worked fashion far beyond their initial form.

BackStabber, from Rouyn-Noranda, in Northern Quebec, Canada is unleashing raw fury with their first full-length album “Conspiracy Theorist”. The 10 track album is a fierce debut encompassing themes of scandals, a critique of mainstream media and conspiracies such as Hollow Earth.

Remaining old school, there are no clean vocals or breakdowns here, just a solid and mature death/thrash metal album, with good flow and clear thought in the tracks and compositions.

Century Media Records are proud to announce a partnership with Wolves In The Throne Room and their own label Artemisia Records to release their upcoming albums in the world outside of North America.

The band from Olympia, Washington just finished an US tour with Behemoth and their new label mates At The Gates and will conquer Europe with the same package in early 2019.

Make no mistake, 2018 has been a fantastic year for metal act The Five Hundred.

Following their signing to Long Branch Records, the furious quintet received high praise in the media upon the release of their debut album “Bleed Red” and took their sound on the road to multiple UK and European festivals.

Now, poised at the edge of a new year filled with opportunity, Nottingham by way of Gibraltar aggressors will be blasting into 2019 with a punishing statement of intent for the future.