Premiere: MB Premiere: DEATHSTORM - 'Mount Eerie'
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On May 22nd, 2026, SHEWOLFF, a Belgian metalpunk band formed by K. Von Shewolff, will release their debut mini-album "We're All...
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MB Premiere: DEATHSTORM - 'Mount Eerie'
On May 22nd, 2026, Dying Victims Productions is proud to present the highly anticipated new album of Austria's DEATHSTORM,...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - February 2026
Welcome back to MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month! Feels a bit top-heavy, but there's still some monumental stuff that will...
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SISYPHEAN - Divergence
Modern black metal has come a long way from its tumultuous genesis. Period. In reference to the Second Wave, all the albums that...
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RETORSION - Rosszabb, Mint A Halál...
After Warhammer and Massacred, there's a new face on the block when it comes to these types of tribute bands that seem to relish...
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DØDMOON - Demø MMXXV
Ever since the dawn of metal, Friday the 13th has always been a significant date – remember Black Sabbath’s debut from 1970....
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Candlemass / Solitude Aeturnus with Robert Lowe (vocals)
Epic, solemn, and deeply human, doom metal has always demanded more than casual listening—it asks for immersion. Few voices...
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AT THE GATES - The Ghost Of A Future Dead
I always had a very personal relationship with At The Gates. It was one of the bands I saw at my first metal concert in early...
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EGREGORE - It Echoes In The Wild
In the theosophical tradition, an egregore is a collective thought-form—an entity arising from the accumulation of ideas,...
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Candlemass / Solitude Aeturnus with Robert Lowe (vocals)
Epic, solemn, and deeply human, doom metal has always demanded more than casual listening—it asks for immersion. Few voices...
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IMMOLATION - Descent
While I’ve always felt closer to Incantation among the two most important American death metal bands starting with the letter...
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HELLRIPPER - Coronach
Was "Withering Grim Withered Hags" (why do I always have Haggis in mind when I read about this album title?) more a fox on the...
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Slaughterday with Bernd Reiners (vocals, drums) and Jens Finger (guitar, bass)
Slaughterday don't need big introductions for everybody who is firm with the German OSDM scene, I guess. With "Dread Emperor"...
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BLOODY VALKYRIA - Requiem: Reveries Of The Dying
To die without regrets is the goal; one seldom met and oft relinquished unto a life of transgression, but alas! In those final...
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MB on Spotify - March summary
Greetings, fellow metalheads! Now this one should be fun. Or funny, not necessarily "haha" funny. So if your eyebrows suddenly...
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MEGADETH - Megadeth
This is a fun album that sends the band out on relative style. The songs are heavy enough and have a good deal of potency. “Let...
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ZERRE - Rotting On A Golden Throne
Root vegetables like radishes or carrots thrive particularly well in the shade. This is what they have in common with Zerre, a...
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ALDHEORTE - The Wild Divine
When I first listened to "The Wild Divine" by Californian Aldheorte I instantly fell in love with that second album by the band....
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ARTILLERY - Made In Hell
Is there anybody out there who really likes the EP format? Empirical studies will no doubt soon provide scientific proof that 999...
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TORMENTOR TYRANT - Excessive Escalation Of Cruelty
Here’s a trio that sounds like they’re pouring molten lead onto sauna stones instead of water: Tormentor Tyrant. Newcomers?...
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Digging Through Past
Greetings, MetalBite legion! A brand-new edition of Digging Through Past is live and ready for you to explore. We've unearthed...
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WHITE MANTIS - Arrows At The Sun
Wow. I honestly didn't expect that. White Mantis' debut was already a very solid piece of thrash metal, clearly making me suspect...
269
SIHIR - Nehebkau Metamorphosis
Something that never ceases to amaze me about the global extreme metal scene is the constant influx of new blood emerging from...
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AT THE GATES - The Ghost Of A Future Dead
I always had a very personal relationship with At The Gates. It was one of the bands I saw at my first metal concert in early...
199
METAPHOBIC - Deranged Excruciations
I don’t know about you, but for me, in the endless stream of albums that sound like someone’s stuck on a “Death Metal 101”...
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HEIDNIR - Der Kosmische Tanz
Not long ago, while listening on Spotify, the platform’s algorithm (which I consider quite reliable) introduced me to a band that...
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CHAOS OVER COSMOS - The Hypercosmic Paradox
So, the last time I reviewed something for this project, I left a comment about the metalcore elements for the 2021 album, which...
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VARGRAV - Dimension: Daemonium
“Dimension: Daemonium” is the fourth studio album by Finnish Vargrav, and I have to admit that I was very excited to hear it, as...
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TRIUMPHER - Piercing The Heart Of The World
After the absolute home run that was Spirit Invictus, Greece's own Triumpher might have already secured their place in the...
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DITHEIST Released New Video for 'Nyarlathotep'
Ditheist has returned with a new video for the song 'Nyarlathotep,' spotlighting their upcoming album "Cosmic Liar" and marking a...
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SONS OF HADES - Tombs Of The Blind Dead
Sons Of Hades originate – this is no surprise considering the name – from Greece and they enter the scene with an almost 50...
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SIX FEET UNDER - Next To Die
We all know, at least those of us who get it, that Barnes era Corpse IS Cannibal Corpse. The greatest era of DM, the greatest era...
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CHEMICIDE - Violence Prevails
Chemicide are hard-working men of conviction, at least the two guys who are involved in the band since the first album. From...
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EGREGORE - It Echoes In The Wild
In the theosophical tradition, an egregore is a collective thought-form—an entity arising from the accumulation of ideas,...
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LÖMSK - Act II - Of Iron And Blood
Anyone who knows my taste in music knows I absolutely love the idea of combining black metal with themes of war or history. Bands...
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GLUTTONY - Eulogy To Blasphemy
Gluttony is one of the seven cardinal sins and a Swedish death metal band that has been active since 2009. Now they are back with...
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SECTARIAN DEFACEMENT - Hostile Consuming Rapture
Upon hearing the intro to Sectarian Defacement's forthcoming LP I was impressed, but had no idea what to expect after the doomy,...
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EXODUS - Goliath
It was a very good day when I heard the news that Rob Dukes had left Exodus. The fact that his successor was also his predecessor...
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ERBEET AZHAK - Only The Vile Will Remain
Black Metal is the exploration of chaos and hatred, of darkness and of our innermost humanity. And while the masses scramble to...
502
IMMOLATION - Descent
A time for everything under the Sun… The time for total destruction isn't nigh, it is here and the devastation is being rained...
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Digging Through Past
Greetings, MetalBite legion! A brand-new edition of Digging Through Past is live and ready for you to explore. We've unearthed...
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VOIDSTAR NOCTURNAL - Nexus Teleport Fracture
I really like all three Corpse Garden albums. Especially since each one was one of those albums you don't so much listen to as...
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ALKHEMIA - Häxen
The paradox of beauty and savagery - oil in water - the two can occupy the same space, just never the same form. And so it is too...
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MB Premiere and Review: HELLFUCK - '9 Nails Hammered Into The Flesh Of God' full album stream
Today, in cooperation with Godz Ov War Productions, we are excited to premiere the HELLFUCK's second full-length album "9 Nails...
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Get tickets for HELLRIPPER, SCHIZOPHRENIA and SARCATOR show
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GROND - The Temple
Of all the calamities cooked up by us humans throughout history, it can probably be agreed upon that war is the worst. What good...
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MONSTROSITY - Screams From Beneath The Surface
There was a time when the vision for Death Metal was a morbid one. A time when "Scream Bloody Gore", "Eaten Back to Life" and...
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Words I Can't Stand
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LAMB OF GOD - Into Oblivion
Like it was yesterday… I was 25 years dumb, full of whiskey, Mexican brick weed and lived for what was then known as the NWOAHM....
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NORRSKÖLD - Regentia
This is the first time I've heard of this Swedish melodic death metal band. I haven't heard much new material from Sweden in a...
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SICARIUS - Nex
Thunderbolt, "De Mysteriis" era Mayhem and the earliest days of Behemoth have one thing in common and that is danger. Violence!...
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ASHES - Into The Woodlands
Continuing my journey through the Polish underground scene, I noticed another project that I hadn't heard of before. The newest...
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IMMOLATION - Descent
While I’ve always felt closer to Incantation among the two most important American death metal bands starting with the letter...
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South Of Heaven
South of Heaven has always been a place where we peered into the darkest corners of the Polish extreme metal scene—the real one,...
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Qrixkuor with S (vocals, guitars)
"Womb Of The Word", Qrixkuor's second full-length album appears to be one of the most interesting together with one of the most...
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NAZGHOR - A World Ablaze
Nazghor from Sweden is a quite active band since their founding in 2012 having already released seven full-length albums. Now...
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MB Premiere and Interview: GOD AGAINST HUMANITY - 'The Judgement' full album stream
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FROTHING - Vile And Debased
Frothing as a band has been quite interesting ever since its conception, given that this album was conceived on a jam session and...
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MetalBite's Top 10 Albums of the Month - January 2026
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Digging Through Past
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HELL TREPANNER - The Consecration Of Eternal Impurity
Well, what a difference five years makes. Not that 2021's debut EP Unholy Proclamations Of Death And Darkness was bad, but it...
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FROSTSHOCK - Hibernation's End
That's quite an interesting album that ended up on my figurative desk – not that its enigmatic artwork gives you any hints about...
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HELLRIPPER - Coronach
Was "Withering Grim Withered Hags" (why do I always have Haggis in mind when I read about this album title?) more a fox on the...
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Slaughterday with Bernd Reiners (vocals, drums) and Jens Finger (guitar, bass)
Slaughterday don't need big introductions for everybody who is firm with the German OSDM scene, I guess. With "Dread Emperor"...
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BLOODY VALKYRIA - Requiem: Reveries Of The Dying
To die without regrets is the goal; one seldom met and oft relinquished unto a life of transgression, but alas! In those final...
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MB on Spotify - March summary
Greetings, fellow metalheads! Now this one should be fun. Or funny, not necessarily "haha" funny. So if your eyebrows suddenly...
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MB Premiere: SHEWOLFF - 'We're All Gonna Fukkin' Die'
On May 22nd, 2026, SHEWOLFF, a Belgian metalpunk band formed by K. Von Shewolff, will release their debut mini-album "We're All...
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SOTHORIS - Domus Omnium Mortuorum
One day, there was a concert that was taking place in a relatively close proximity to where I live. Four bands were playing, and...
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Virulence with Chris Defaut (vocals, guitars)
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There is a classical Polish poem that is called, no less than, "Dies Irae", which presents a blasphemous view of the Day of...
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ANZV - Kur
Among many other things, thrash and black metal are different in terms of the local orientation. Thrash bands cannot really exist...
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Revengin with Bruna Rocha (vocals)
With "Dark Dogma Embrace", released in April 2025, Revengin opened a new chapter in its trajectory within Brazilian symphonic...
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ULVEHYRDE - Dødsdømt
Norwegian Ulvehyrde more or less was formed out of the remnants of Urgehal and with "Dødsdømt" (which means "sentenced to death")...
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TEUFELSDOM - Teufelsdom
Black metal is not just a musical style; it's an artistic expression that evokes the darkest and deepest feelings and sensations...
256
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NØKK - Heartless
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TAILGUNNER - Midnight Blitz
Tailgunner comes back with their second offering, the first release from Napalm Records after turning some heads in the...
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IMPERIAL DOMAIN - Portentum
A friend of mine recommended this Swedish melodic death metal band to me, which I had never heard before. And when I finished...
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CRUEL FORCE - Haneda
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Distraught with André Meyer (vocals) and Ricardo Silveira (guitars)
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Digging Through Past
Greetings, MetalBite legion! A brand-new edition of Digging Through Past is live and ready for you to explore. We've unearthed...
602
VOIDHÄMMER - Noxious Emissions
If you like filthy, disgusting death metal that comes with a sheen of sleaze, Voidhämmer of Long Beach is for you. Maybe it’s the...
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AURO - Im Schatten Der Bastion
Together with wolves and ravens, the serpent is one of the most loved animals of black metal fans. Therefore, one cannot deny a...
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HIERON - From The Temple To The Grave
Hieron is a relatively new band from Saxony, from where since the 90s there have always come some quite remarkable black metal...
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