Rising progressive Latin metal force MANUEL has released the official music video for their latest single, “Native Temple,” featuring a powerful guest performance by vocalist Ryan Reeves. The track is the second glimpse into the band’s highly anticipated EP, Parasite, set to arrive on February 27, 2026, via Wormholedeath Records.
“Native Temple” is a visceral exploration of emotional entropy, masterfully bridging the gap between celestial beauty and the grit of human decay. Featuring a haunting performance by Ryan Reeves, the track serves as a sonic meditation on the “Frostfire”, the paralyzing intersection of burning passion and the cold stasis of a dying connection.
The song gets deep into the pain of drifting apart, using words like “sutures” and “creases” to describe a relationship breaking at the seams. It’s a powerful look at isolation and how being away from someone can change your whole world, leaving you caught between the warmth of the past and the cold truth of the present.
The Evolution of Parasite
While “Native Temple” explores internal landscapes, the upcoming EP Parasite is a fierce outward confrontation of systemic rot. The record boldly challenges the oppressive grip of the wealthy elite, exposing the manipulative tactics used to divide society for corporate and political gain.
“Parasite is more than just a title; it’s a reflection of the parasitic forces at work in our society,” says project founder Manuel Urgiles. “We reject the idea of rulers or masters. This EP serves as a rallying cry to unite against the corrupt systems that exploit us. It’s a call to dismantle their control and build a future rooted in genuine change.”
Fans can experience the fearless evolution of progressive Latin metal by pre-saving the EP now.
MANUEL is: Manuel Urgiles – Lead/Rhythm Guitar Jason Ingalls – Drums Thomas Hiscock – Bass Guitar Ryan Cummings – Rhythm Guitar DJKTF – Keys/Percussion
Polish Pomeranian metal outfit Perpetual enter a new chapter in their career with the release of “Meadows & Mires”, a brand-new stand-alone single that marks the band’s first new material ahead of their upcoming full-length debut.
After a decade of activity and two EPs, Perpetual, featuring members of Pandemic Outbreak, Three Eyes of the Void, among others, are gearing up for what promises to be a breakthrough year. 2026 will be a fresh start for the band, culminating in the release of their first longplay. Before that happens, “Meadows & Mires” serves as a statement of intent — a raw, uncom-promising track that captures the band at their heaviest and most focused.
Musically, Perpetual once again blend thrash metal traditions with modern hardcore influen-ces, creating a groovy, punishing wrecking ball driven by massive riffs, relentless rhythm and a suffocating sense of tension. The track has already become a staple of the band’s live set, pro-ving its impact and immediacy in a concert setting.
Lyrically, “Meadows & Mires” explores themes of buried truths… and buried corpses. The title evokes a place where the condemned are sent — a not-so-metaphorical dumping ground for secrets, wrongdoings, and bodies. The song reflects on the inevitability of truth coming to the surface: the more you try to hide, the more likely it is that the skeletons will fall out of the clo-set. Or crawl back to the surface. All woven into a story of a hidden cemetery, decades old, fil-led with innocent victims of fatal decisions and tragic coincidences.
Single “Meadows & Mires” is available at all popular streaming platforms (here).
With “Meadows & Mires”, Perpetual reaffirm their position within the Polish underground metal scene, delivering a track that is both rooted in tradition and sharpened by contemporary aggression. It is a clear signal of what’s to come — heavier, darker and more uncompromising than ever.
New song „Meadows & Mires” was recorded, mixed and mastered by Mateusz Gorczyński at Blackened Future Productions. Cover artwork was done by Dariusz Formela.
The seventh album by the South German thrash metal institution NUCLEAR WARFARE is ready to go! On March 19, the long-awaited successor to “Lobotomy” (2020) will be released under the title “All Hail To The Liberator.”
Fans of classic German thrash metal from the 80s mixed with Bay Area influences can already mark the date in their calendars, because the band naturally stays true to itself on the new record — while having long since developed its own distinct style over the years.
“All Hail To The Liberator is on the one hand a bit more old-school and harder than the previous albums, but at the same time contains a larger share of melodies,” according to the band’s own assessment. We can be excited. One thing is certain: where Nuclear Warfare is written on it, there is Nuclear Warfare inside!
The 9 new songs were recorded, mixed and mastered at Dual Noise Studio São Paulo by Rogério Wecko, who gave the album exactly the kind of authentic sound that more than lives up to their reputation as a flagship of the genre. More information and first samples soon!
Finnish theatrical metal band Endless Exam returns from couple years of hiatus from releasing new music with a new furious single “Shut up!”.
Vocalist Nina Kuronen tells about the theme of the song “The song is about mental violence. Intentional psychological violence. Belittling, threatening, blaming, manipulation that causes deep psychological wounds. A difficult topic that is often not visible from the outside.”
“The song is the band’s fastest and darkest release to date. The song combines two ideas that fit together perfectly.” Guitarist Jukka Saarinen says.
Endless Exam from southern Finland is a theatrical metal band formed in 2020. The band combines atmospheric melodies with heavy rhythms, led by vocalist Nina Kuronen.
The band’s debut album, “Voice of Passion and Agony,” was released in June 2023 through Inverse Records.
Vocals: Nina Kuronen Guitar: Jukka Saarinen Bass: Tuomas Vartiainen Drums: Joni Kouki
Finnish Death metal band Hautajaisyö are set to release their fifth album ‘Surun paino’ on March 20th 2026 via Inverse Records. The first single ‘Maan nielemä’ is unleashed today, accompanied by a music video available below.
The first single from the new Hautajaisyö album, Surun Paino (Weight of Sorrow), comes with brutality. ‘Maan Nielemä’ (Swallowed by Dirt) showcases the band at their best. It features heavy riffs, violent drums and low-growl vocals. The song is inspired by the year 536, the “Year of Darkness”, when the world was shrouded in darkness and nearly all of humanity perished. Amidst the chaos, a lone gravedigger toils endlessly. The song has a DIY music video which was filmed in one take at the band’s practice venue. This fits well, as the album was recorded by the band themselves using their own equipment.
” ‘Maan Nielemä’ is one of my favourite songs from the new album. It hits like a hammer on hot metal, and you can feel the darkness of the song. Making the video was damn fun. We had a rough idea of what we wanted to do, and we tried to keep the costs down. Then we just ‘hit our heads against the wall’ until we had the finished video.” says vocalist Janne Partanen
–Composed by Janne Partanen, Sami Lustig, Simo Pesonen & Teemu Roth –Lyrics by Janne Partanen –Production, recording & mixing: Sami Lustig –Mastering: Janne Tuikkala –Cover art by Minttu Koskinen –ISRC: FI3FC2654902
Surun paino Track list:
Surun Paino
Maan Nielemä
Kuusi Kantajaa
Kasvoton Kuljettaja
Hetki Viimeinen
Lyhyt Matka Hautaan
Eloton
Haaskalinnut Minut Muistaa
–Composed by Janne Partanen, Sami Lustig, Simo Pesonen & Teemu Roth –Lyrics by Janne Partanen –Production, recording & mixing: Sami Lustig –Mastering: Janne Tuikkala –Cover art by Minttu Koskinen
Line-up: Janne Partanen: vocals Sami Lustig: guitars Simo Pesonen: bass Teemu Roth: drums
While long enshrined amongst the hallowed halls of metal, after nearly three and a half decades, Cryptopsy are as insatiable as ever. After cracking year-end lists at Decibel, Metal Injection andBangerTVwith their latest Billboard-shaking album, An Insatiable Violence, the most vile band in death metal were just crowned headliners of the longest-running heavy metal tour in North America. Now, as they continue to bang heads on their current European tour, the Canadian legends are proud to add another honor to their Hall of Fame career.
Today, Cryptopsy are announcing that An Insatiable Violence is nominated for a 2026 JUNO Award. This is the second time in the past two years that the band have received a nomination for Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year. They previously won the award in 2024 for their eighth album, As Gomorrah Burns. This year, An Insatiable Violence is nominated alongside albums by Counterparts, Despised Icon, Silverstein and Unreqvited.
“We’re beyond proud to announce that our new album, An Insatiable Violence, has been nominated for a 2026 JUNO Award”, Cryptopsy says. “Winning the JUNO for Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year in 2024 for As Gomorrah Burns was a huge milestone in our thirty-year career. We’re honored to stand alongside this year’s fellow nominees. They are all such talented bands, who put out incredible albums that are pushing the limits of heavy music in their own ways. Thank you to our fans, our teams and everyone who continues to support the chaos and craft of extreme metal. Let’s bring this home!”
An Insatiable Violence, plus Blasphemy Made Flesh, None So Vile and other albums from Cryptopsy’s fearsome discography are now available through Season of Mist. Order: https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/cryptopsyall
Catch Cryptopsy on their current tour of Europe and upcoming tour of North America.
The Decibel Magazine Tour 2026, with Cryptopsy (celebrating 30 years of None So Vile), Necrot, Fulci and Blood Monolith
April 30 – Worcester, MA @ Palladium (Upstairs) May 1 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Monarch May 2 – Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage May 3 – Philadelphia, PA @ Decibel Metal & Beer Philly (The Fillmore) May 5 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (Hell) May 7 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall May 8 – Dallas, TX @ The Studio May 9 – Austin, TX @ Come And Take It Live May 12 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent May 13 – San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick May 14 – Berkeley, CA @ Cornerstone May 16 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater May 17 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon May 20 – Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater May 22 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Cafe May 23 – Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge May 24 – Detroit, MI @ Crofoot Ballroom May 25 – Cleveland, OH @ The Grog Shop May 26 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Preserving Underground May 27 – Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace May 28 – Montreal, QC @ Fairmount Theatre
Cryptopsy All So Vile European Tour 2026 with special guests 200 Stab Wounds, Inferi and Corpse Pile
January 30 – Denmark, Copenhagen @ Pumpehuset [LOW TICKETS] January 31 – Germany, Leipzig @ Hellraiser February 1 – Germany, Berlin @ Hole44 February 2 – Poland, Warsaw @ Proxima [LOW TICKETS] February 3 – Czech Republic, Prague @ Rock Cafe February 4 – Austria, Vienna @ Szene February 5 – Hungary, Budapest @ Barba Negra February 6 – Germany, Munich @ Backstage February 7 – Italy, Milan @ Legend Club February 8 – Switzerland, Aarau @ KiFF February 9 – France, Lyon @ Club Transbo February 10 – Spain, Barcelona @ Wolf [LOW TICKETS] February 11 – Spain, Madrid @ Revi Live [LOW TICKETS] February 12 – Spain, Portugalete @ Groove [SOLD OUT] February 13 – France, Toulouse @ Metronum February 14 – France, Nantes @ Le Ferrailleur [LOW TICKETS] February 15 – France, Paris @ Petit Bain [LOW TICKETS]
Tracklist 1. The Nimis Adoration (4:10) 2. Until There’s Nothing Left (3:59) [WATCH] 3. Dead Eyes Replete (3:57) [WATCH] 4. Fools Last Acclaim (3:26) 5. The Art of Emptiness (4:16) 6. Our Great Deception (4:21) 7. Embrace the Nihility (3:50) 8. Malicious Needs (5:52) [WATCH]
More than 30 years into their storied career, Montreal death metal innovators Cryptopsy return with their ninth studio album, An Insatiable Violence, set for release on June 20, 2025 on Season of Mist.
Revered in extreme metal circles for such groundbreaking classics as 1994’s Blasphemy Made Flesh and the 1996 magnum opus None So Vile, Cryptopsy find yet another gear on An Insatiable Violence, which further solidifies the band’s place in the upper echelon of death metal. Coming out of the pandemic, the band dedicated themselves to staying on top of their game more than ever before, with the intention of consistently putting out a new record every two years. That started with 2023’s acclaimed As Gomorrah Burns, and continues 21 months later with An Insatiable Violence.
“We had to write the majority of An Insatiable Violence while on the Death to All tour, which was something we’d never done before”, vocalist Matt McGachy says. “Flo [Mounier, drums] and Chris [Donaldson, guitar] really put their hats on. It was a feat”.
“Ever since COVID our focus is clearer, a lot of work gets done faster, and we push each other to get it done.”, Mounier says.
In addition to featuring some of the fastest passages Cryptopsy has ever recorded – keen listeners will even hear the odd gravity blast from Mounier, a rarity from the virtuoso drummer – the controlled chaos of their signature sound is offset by well-timed passages that ease off the gas pedal enough to allow listeners to come up for some air. That dynamic rage on An Insatiable Violence in turn makes the more aggressive moments hit even harder, which is immediately noticeable on the harrowing “Until There’s Nothing Left” and the chugging closing track “Malicious Needs”. Olivier Pinard anchors “Fools Last Acclaim” with stunning authority (keeping pace with Mounier is an unenviable task) while Donaldson offsets gnarly, atonal riffs with melodic passages throughout the record. “It’s a continuation of As Gomorrah Burns,” McGachy says, “We really wanted to make a groovy record, and we think we’ve done it.”
It seems as though nothing is scarier than real life right now, and An Insatiable Violenceis a commentary on today’s society as though filtered through the transgressive, countercultural perspectives of J.G. Ballard and David Cronenberg.
“It all came to me in a dream in August 2023,” elaborates McGachy. “I woke up, I took my phone, and I wrote down the title of the record. It’s about a person that wakes up every day and fixes a machine. Tinkers with it, tries to make it better all day long, sweating in the sun, and then at night, they strap themself into this machine and the machine tortures them, and they love it. Then they wake up the next day and fix it again to make it more efficient, to keep harnessing it, and then just keep doing it over and over again.
While fantastically twisted, An Insatiable Violence mirrors our toxic relationship with social media. “We’re continuously trying to feed this algorithm of the machine while it’s totally tearing us apart socially and psychologically”, McGachy continues. “’The Nimis Adoration’ is about mukbang, these Korean people that eat too much food on the Internet. Piles and piles of food. A poor girl died on a live cam”.
At the center of the album is the mind-boggling percussion skill of Mounier, arguably the most imposing Canadian drummer not named Peart, who dominates such standout tracks as “Dead Eyes Replete”, “Fools Last Acclaim”, and “Embrace the Nihility”. “I look at Flo as an Olympic athlete,” says McGachy. “I want to push this guy to go a lot faster than Cryptopsy’s previous releases. We have so much more to give, and I wanted just drain it all out of him while he’s still at the top of his game, because he is. He’s crushing.”
“I mix up a lot of a physical activity, like resistance training into the drumming,” Mounier says. “I recently developed new techniques that make it easier to go even faster, so I tried to push that on this album. My focus is now more on dynamics and the touch of the snare, a certain snap of the snare, a rim shot on the snare, the toms, a light touch or a hard touch. Live, I can really let go, you know, give the sound guy a hard time,” he adds with a laugh.
For McGachy, who has always boasted a powerful, guttural death growl, the rigors of touring have enabled him to evolve as a vocalist, and he turns in a revelatory performance on An Insatiable Violence. In addition to ear-scraping screams that rival George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher, McGachy unleashes the deepest, filthiest death growls of his career. “Gomorrah was the first album that I recorded with my full false chord scream, which is something that I’d only just touched on The Book of Suffering: Tome II in little sections,” he says. “We did at least 140 shows since Gomorrah. I exclusively did my false chords during all the songs that we performed on None So Vile and Blasphemy Made Flesh. And then, when we did go into the studio for An Insatiable Violence, Chris would be like, ‘Deeper, you must go deeper!’”
Another fearsome vocalist from Cryptopsy’s lore pops back into the booth on An Insatiable Violence. “When we were recording the vocals for ‘Embrace the Nihility’, Chris had the idea of ending the song with the same vocal pattern as the end of ‘…and Then It Passes’”, McGachy remembers. “We figured if we were going to rip ourselves off, then we may as well get the real thing. We were honored that Mike DiSalvo accepted. We are all huge fans of Cryptopsy’s DiSalvo era. His vocals on this album are an ultra Easter egg for our fans”.
In addition to the effusive praise As Gomorrah Burns received from within the metal scene, the 2023 album achieved a first for Cryptopsy: earning them their first ever JUNO Award in 2024 for Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year. “We had little-to-no expectations of winning” says McGachy. ”We didn’t even go to the ceremonies because we were on tour in Europe with Atheist. On the day we found out that we won, we had a crazy 18-hour drive from Derby to Germany, plus a ferry ride. But we still partied for 48 hours. Flo bought an expensive bottle of champagne”.
Cryptopsy recognize that not every death metal band sticks around long enough to win a Canadian Grammy 30 years into their career. The cover art for An Insatiable Violence was created by the late, great vocalist Martin Lacroix. “The album artwork has got to be one of the most important things to us!”, the band says. “Martin Lacroix was one of our vocalists, one of our great friends and one of the nicest people that anyone could have the privilege to meet. We really wish he was here with us to share this moment. His perfect smile would say it all! Rest in peace brother”.
With Cryptopsy’s latest career renaissance showing no signs of slowing down, the recent accolades are only the beginning. An Insatiable Violence reaches a new peak in a career loaded with them.
Lineup Flo Mounier – Drums Matt McGachy – Vocals Christian Donaldson – Guitar Oli Pinard – Bass
Guest Musicians Mike DiSalvo performs vocals on “Embrace the Nihility”
Recording, Mixing & Mastering Studio Christian Donaldson’s Studio
Production, Sound & Mixing Engineer Christian Donaldson
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