Belgian speed/heavy metal band Drakkar have released the lyric video for “666 ‘n’ Rock ‘n’ Roll (Tribute to Them)”, following the release of the single. The track is taken from their album Invasion and is a direct tribute to two figures who defined the sound and attitude of heavy metal: Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy Kilmister.
Founded in 1983, Drakkar built their reputation on the European metal circuit throughout the late 1980s and 1990s. Their 1988 debut albumX-Rated, released through New Musidisc (Paris), earned strong critical recognition and led to support slots on major European tours with Queensrÿche, Metallica, Overkill, and Slayer. The record has since become a touchstone of the Belgian metal scene.
After a period of inactivity, the band reformed in 2011 with a new lineup. X-Rated was remastered and reissued in 2012, produced by Simone Mularoni (DGM), with original vocalist Fab “Leni” Vanbellinghen returning to the fold in 2013. The reformed band recorded Once Upon a Time in Hell in 2014, featuring Jonas Sanders of Pro-Pain on drums, and went on to play over 80 dates across Europe, including the Power, Prog & Metal Festival in Mons. A live album, Once Upon a Time Hellive, followed in 2016.
The band suffered a significant loss when founding member Thierry Del Cane passed away shortly after. They chose to continue in his memory. Subsequent years brought further lineup shifts alongside new recordings, including three singles and a music video released between 2022 and 2025.
Invasion marks a new chapter: Leni Andersen returns on vocals, and founding member Guy Duvy is back on bass. The current lineup is completed by Thomas Vanhorebeek and Nico RR on guitars, and Adrien Delgambe on drums (member since 2015). Adrien is the son of former drummer and founding member Tim Delval, bringing the band back to its roots alongside Guy and Leni, and continuing to deliver their signature furious heavy/speed metal.
Chilean death metal cult icons GODLESS have unveiled their new single, “Numenlagneia”, now streaming exclusively via its premiere hosted by Decibel Magazine.
The track offers a new glimpse into the band’s forthcoming full-length “Adversus Parousia”, due for release on June 6th, 2026 via Nuclear Winter Records. The album will be available in LP, CD and cassette formats, marking the long-awaited return of a foundational force within Chile’s underground death metal scene.
Active since 1997, GODLESS continue to embody a rigorous and uncompromising vision rooted in tradition, precision and atmospheric depth.
Since their inception, GODLESS have operated with an unwavering devotion to the darkest corners of death metal. Long before Chile’s scene garnered international attention, the band forged their path, crafting music of uncompromising intensity. Composed of seasoned veterans, GODLESS have always approached their work with meticulous care, and “Adversus Parousia” is the culmination of years of patient refinement.
The new album demonstrates a rigorous adherence to traditional death metal principles, yet its execution is anything but predictable. Every riff and atmospheric detail is carefully considered, resulting in a sound where weight and nuance coexist in perfect balance. Tracks crawl and coil with a pitch-black intensity, yet subtle dynamics emerge, revealing layers of depth beneath the surface of the oppressive, obsidian-toned compositions. The music exudes a solemnity that only true masters of the craft can orchestrate, commanding attention with its ceremonial gravity.
Following a nine-year silence since their last EP, “Omega Omnipotens”, GODLESS return with a work that challenges both themselves and their listeners. “Adversus Parousia” embodies fidelity to the ethos of death metal, eschewing pretension for a direct confrontation with darkness and dissolution. The album fuses trance-like momentum, fervent aggression and an unwavering sense of transgression, producing an experience that is as merciless as it is mesmerizing.
With “Adversus Parousia”, GODLESS reaffirm their position as architects of Chilean underground death metal, presenting a record that is simultaneously complete, refined and uncompromising. For those attuned to the gravest depths of the genre, this release promises a profound, immersive encounter with the essence of death metal at its most solemn and potent.
Witness the return of pure hostility.
For fans of: Immolation, Morbid Angel, Dead Congregation, Drawn And Quartered
Tracklist:
1. Ingenitus-Ekstasis 2. Omega Omnipotens: Hosanna in Nullificatio 3. Plaga Vobiscum (Et Cum Spiritu Tuo) 4. Pneuma-Khaos 5. Ekstasis-Cosmogravis 6. Numenlagneia 7. Ultraticum Infinita Omnium in Nihilum 8. Et Verbum Nihil Factum Est
ZAN/CODY – the project of Shotgun Messiah’s original singer Zinny Zan (vocals) and Harry Cody (guitars) – return with a new studio album, “Beautiful ‘N Damned”, out on July 24, 2026, via Frontiers Music Srl.
To celebrate the announcement, the band unveil the first single and accompanying video, “Damn”, available below.
Zinny Zan commented: “Damn” is the first single from our upcoming album and a statement of what Zan/Cody is all about. Harry and I feel this track captures the core of who we are as musicians – high-octane rock with attitude and a sharp edge. Lyrically, it taps into the world we’re living in now – where the lines between truth and illusion keep getting blurred. What’s real? What’s fake? The message is simple: don’t take everything at face value. Think for yourself, question what you’re told, and draw your own conclusions. This is Zan/Cody!”
When two of the founding architects of Swedish sleaze hard rock reunite, the result can only be explosive. Zinny Zan (vocals) and Harry Cody (guitars), the original front duo of cult legends Shotgun Messiah, are back together under the banner Zan/Cody, delivering a brand-new album, aptly titled “Beautiful ‘N Damned” that reconnects directly with the genre-defining sound they helped create.
Shotgun Messiah’s self-titled 1989 debut remains a cornerstone of glam and sleaze metal, a record that shaped an entire generation and secured the band’s status as one of the most influential cult acts in Scandinavian hard rock. Now, decades later, Zan and Cody rekindle that chemistry with a record that proudly revives the classic Shotgun Messiah sleaze vibe, while pushing it forward with renewed energy, attitude and modern punch.
At the center of the album is Harry Cody’s unmistakable guitar work – sharp, melodic, gritty and instantly recognizable. Long regarded as one of the most respected guitarists to emerge from the Swedish scene, Cody delivers riffs and solos that are both streetwise and technically refined, perfectly complementing Zinny Zan’s raw, charismatic vocal delivery, steeped in attitude and rock ’n’ roll swagger.
Mixed by Chris Laney (Pretty Maids, Crazy Lixx), the album captures the perfect balance between classic sleaze authenticity and contemporary production power, ensuring the songs hit hard while retaining their dirty, dangerous edge.
With their highly anticipated appearance at Sweden Rock Festival and a new album on the way, the sensation is real: Zan/Cody are not here to rewrite the past, but to carry the Shotgun Messiah legacy into the future. Fans can expect uncompromising sleaze hard rock, undeniable hooks, and the spirit of a band that helped define a scene – reborn, louder and sharper than ever.
“Beautiful ‘N Damned” Tracklist:
1. Sever 2. I Am The Shit 3. Ride Or Die 4. Suffer City 5. She Walks With Violence 6. Damn 7. Let’s Be Heroes 8. Beautiful ‘N Damned 9. Bad Bad Man 10. Tear It All Down
As previously announced, Italian death-grind veterans UNDERTAKERS will release their new album “Global Dominion” on July 10th, 2026 via Time To Kill Records.
In the meantime, the band today presents “United Front”, the first single taken from the record, offering a direct and uncompromising glimpse into the new material. The track highlights the group’s renewed approach, more than ever focused on a burning fusion of death metal, grindcore and hardcore attitude. With this first preview, UNDERTAKERS confirm the foundations of an album set to stand out for its intensity and stylistic coherence.
“’United Front’ is the album’s closing statement of unity and resistance. Blending grindcore intensity with hardcore urgency, the track channels collective strength against division and control. It’s a call to overcome fear and fragmentation, turning individual struggles into a shared force. Direct, anthemic and defiant, the song captures the moment where awareness becomes action and voices merge into one”.
Tracklist:
1. Call To Arms (intro) 2. United Front 3. Global Dominion 4. All Out War 5. Plutocracy Era 6. Iron Regime 7. Collapse Protocol 8. Rise of Resistance 9. Just Keep Fighting 10. Bodies’ Supermarket
“Global Dominion” marks the most mature chapter in the band’s history. It is where everything finally locks into place: grindcore violence, hardcore urgency, death metal weight and sharp black metal edges fused into a modern sound that never betrays its old-school DNA. No nostalgia trip, no trend-chasing—just experience, control, and intent.
The record is built on contrast: precision versus chaos, speed versus crushing mid-tempos, modern production versus a raw, uncompromising attitude. Every track serves a purpose, every riff hits with direction. This is a band that knows exactly who it is and has nothing left to prove.
Lyrically and conceptually, the album is both a denunciation and a reflection. “Global Dominion” is the core statement: a ruthless look at power, control, and submission in contemporary society, but also a mirror held up to human nature itself. This is not abstract politics, it’s about systems we live in, benefit from, and are crushed by at the same time.
Tracks like “Rise of the Resistance”, “Collapse Protocol”, and “Iron Regime” define the first impact: rebellion, systemic failure, and enforced order. “Plutocracy Era” sharpens the focus, exposing a world ruled by wealth and influence, while “Just Keep Fighting” stands as a blunt survival mantra. The album closes with “Global Dominion” and “United Front”, tying the narrative together: awareness without illusions, resistance without rhetoric.
This is a heavy record with something to say. Cold, aggressive, and direct. Modern in form, old-school in spirit. No compromises.
The first single and further details about the album will be revealed soon.
Line-up:
Enrico Giannone – Insults Stefano Casanica – Guitar Marco Mastrobuono – bass Giorgio Cifuni – Guitar Alfonso Mocerino – drums
UNDERTAKERS – Hate Since 1991
Formed in late 1991, UNDERTAKERS are among the longest-running and most uncompromising bands of the Italian extreme underground.
Over the decades, they have shared the stage with an insane number of international acts, including Napalm Death, Suffocation, Malevolent Creation, Vader, Cannibal Corpse, Vital Remains, Fuzztones, Sinister, Dog Eat Dog, Krabathor, Disgorge, Pandemia, Ryker’s and many more far too many to list properly.
The band has completed three European tours and appeared multiple times at major festivals such as Brutal Assault and Dynamo Open Air, building a solid reputation as a relentless and unforgiving live act.
Originally rooted in classic death metal, UNDERTAKERS have constantly evolved their sound into a violent and unmistakable mix of grindcore, brutal death metal and hardcore. The result is a raw and aggressive hybrid best described as pure brutal-core.
UNDERTAKERS were personally selected by 99 Posse as representatives of the Italian extreme scene for a BMG-promoted tribute project celebrating ten years of activity of the Neapolitan collective. This collaboration resulted in a grindcore reworking of the iconic track “Ripetutamente”, a crossover experiment that perfectly reflects the band’s anarchic and uncompromising attitude.
Throughout their career, the band has appeared on numerous compilations, released a 7” produced by Kick Promotion, and featured on Rock TV with performances on Database, Sala Prove and Rock TV Tour.
Their discography includes the split “Chaos in Musica” (Massacro Records) and the experimental release “Revision Distortion X-Version” (Nocturnal Music), an electronic reinterpretation of “Vision Distortion Perversion” blending grind, jungle and techno—clear proof that UNDERTAKERS have never played it safe.
In 2020, the band returned with “Dictatorial Democracy”, released on October 30th by Time To Kill Records in three ultra-limited vinyl editions. The album is a brutal summary of the band’s entire career, featuring new and classic tracks alongside two essential covers: “Fascist Pig” (Suicidal Tendencies) and the grind version of “Ripetutamente”.
In 2024, UNDERTAKERS released a split 7” with Plakkaggio, delivering a death metal reinterpretation of the punk classic “Pet Sematary” by the Ramones once again twisting icons into something far more extreme.
It’s 50 years since punk rock first arose from the streets of London to mortify great swathes of polite British society. 50 years since the Sex Pistols released their debut single, “Anarchy In The UK,” in November 1976. And 50 years since Sid Vicious first hit the headlines, after he threw a glass towards the Damned at the 100 Club Punk Festival, and a female audience member was blinded in one eye when the projectile shattered against a nearby pillar.
Sid never really left those headlines again… not when he joined the Pistols in early 1977; not when he attacked the host of television’s Old Grey Whistle Test with a broken bottle; not when he continued playing his bass as a bunch of angry Texans rained bottles and fists down upon the band. And so on and so forth, until he only needed to be seen walking down the street for someone to alert the media.
By the time Sid died on February 2 1979, while on bail for the alleged murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungeon, he had probably spent longer being hounded by the blood-thirsty English tabloids than he ever spent on stage or in the recording studio.
Thankfully, he did continue performing. His songs on the Pistols’ Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle album, Eddie Cochran’s “C’mon Everybody” and “Something Else,” and that coruscating version of “My Way” were all British Top 10 hits, and the handful of live solo shows he played were jam packed, standing-room-only crushes.
This month’s anniversary selection from Cleopatra Records’ punk archive was captured at one of those shows. Jack Boots & Dirty Looks was recorded live at Sid’s last ever show in England, on August 15, 1978. Shortly after, he headed over to New York City – and never returned home.
It was a hot night, with the temperatures soaring even higher as his band took their places onstage – Rat Scabies (The Damned) on drums; Sid’s predecessor in the Pistols, Glen Matlock on bass and Matlock’s Rich Kids bandmate Steve New on guitar.
Nine songs peel out – Sid’s hits, of course, plus the legendary (and then unreleased) Pistols shocker “Belsen Was A Gas,” a couple of early Pistols tracks that were also included in the Swindle movie, and covers of “I Wanna Be Your Dog” and “Tight Pants” (The Stooges) and “Chatterbox” (Johnny Thunders). It was one helluva show, and reliving it on CD and vinyl brings it all flooding back.
Originally released on bootleg back in 1984, and rereleased in a faithful reproduction of the original eye catching artwork, Jack Boots & Dirty Looks also comes in an individual hand-numbered mini LP wallet.
And that’s not all. With punk rock celebrating its golden anniversary this year, Cleopatra Records joins the party with a catalog brimming with first wave punk rock giants.
From The Damned to Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers, and ex-RunawayCherie Currie to the Dead Boys (whose own latest release, the Down On The Bowery From The Sleaziest Catacombs is released on May 22); from Eater and The Vibrators to The Dickies and The Germs, brilliant new releases and precious archive treasures alike have lit up the shelves, and every month through 2026, Cleopatra Records will be spotlighting a fresh classic from the catalog.
Last time around it was the UK Subs’s farewell concert at the historic 100 Club in London; next month… hmm. Wait and see. But this month, we remember Sid Vicious – still, for many fans, the ultimate British punk rocker. And, for many others, the music’s ultimate martyr.
DVRK, are releasing their new single “Misery Repeat”. With this single, the French deathcore band are leveling up alongside their new vocalist Julian Wilt. Following their debut EP Infinite Reminiscence, a new session begins and this one is heavier than the first.
“Misery Repeat” opens with a VHS-era recording in Ukrainian confirming that the first session of the DVRK program has been completed, and that what follows will be harder, faster and without mercy.
DVRK do not present themselves as a band so much as a system; a global organisation running its subjects through escalating trials, its reach extending across languages and borders. French, Japanese and other tongues will carry future transmissions, each one pulling the listener deeper into a mythology that has no clear center and no visible end. At its core, beneath the architecture of the program, is something altogether more human: a man consumed by a love that has become indistinguishable from ruin, drinking himself numb, unable to surface. The program frames him. The song does not spare him.
“Misery Repeat” was produced by Fabien Letren and Bastien Deleule and recorded by Bastien Deleule at Nalcon Studio. The song was mixed and mastered by Eloi Nicod at Craftline Studio. The artwork was created by Cédric Faullummel.
Don’t miss DVRK when they tour Japan next week with Obscura and Fallujah. The band will also join Obscura next year on a tour of Europe and the UK alongside Pestilence, Cryptic Shift and Thus.
DVRK The Sun Eater 2026 Japan Tour with Obscura and Fallujah
May 20 – Tokyo @ Space Odd May 21 – Tokyo @ Space Odd May 22 – Nagoya @ 3Star Imaike May 23 – Osaka @ Socore Factory May 24 – Hiroshima @ Reed* *No Fallujah
DVRK Shred Fest 2027 Europe & UK Tour with Obscura, Pestilence, Cryptic Shift and Thus
January 20 – Aschaffenburg, DE @ Colos-Saal January 21 – Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg January 22 – Dresden, DE @ Club Puschkin January 23 – Dortmund, DE @ Junkyard January 24 – Berlin, DE @ Lido January 25 – Warsaw, PL @ Proxima January 26 – Ostrava, CZ @ Barrák Music Club January 27 – Vienna, AT @ Szene January 28 – Salzburg, AT @ Rockhouse January 29 – Frauenfeld, CH @ Eisenwerk January 30 – Geneva, CH @ Usine January 31 – Treviso, IT @ New Age 1 February 1 – Rome, IT @ Orion 2 February 2 – Milan, IT @ Legend Club 3 February 3 – Grenoble, FR @ L’Ilyade February 4 – Montpellier, FR @ Victoire 2 February 5 – Barcelona, ES @ Wolf February 6 – Madrid, ES @ Revi Live February 7 – Sevilla, ES @ Sala Custom February 8 – Lisbon, PT @ República da Música February 9 – Porto, PT @ Mouco February 10 – Pamplona, ES @ Totem February 11 – Toulouse, FR @ Le Rex February 12 – Limoges, FR @ CCO John Lennon February 13 – Angers, FR @ Le Chabada February 14 – Paris, FR @ Petit Bain February 15 – Southampton, GB @ Engine Rooms February 16 – Birmingham, GB @ O2 Institute February 17 – Dublin, IE @ Opium February 18 – Glasgow, GB @ Slay February 19 – Manchester, GB @ Rebellion February 20 – London, GB @ The Underworld February 21 – Kortrijk, BE @ DVG Club February 22 – Nancy, FR @ L’Autre Canal February 23 – Leeuwarden, NL @ Neushoorn February 24 – Hamburg, DE @ Uebel & Gefährlich February 25 – Trockau, DE @ Music Center February 26 – Lindau, DE @ Club Vaudeville February 27 – Munich, DE @ Feierwerk
DVRK is a French five-piece operating at the intersection of deathcore, nu-metal, and electronic bass music. Formed in 2019 as a solo project, the band has since expanded into a full ensemble featuring Julian Wilt on vocals, Bastien Deleule and Gérald Audiard on guitars, Fabien Letren on bass, and Vincent Vidal on drums.
From the outset, DVRK has operated less like a conventional band and more like a system—a constructed world with its own logic, language, and escalating narrative. Each release functions as a transmission, drawing listeners deeper into a mythology that frames the project as a global program running its subjects through increasingly demanding sessions. The debut EP, Infinite Reminiscence, released via Season of Mist, established the framework. “Misery Repeat” marks the beginning of what comes next.
Past collaborations include Conquer Divide, Cove Reber, Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, and Hyro the Hero.
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