German metalcore outfit THROATCUT. return with their heaviest and most uncompromising release yet with the brand new single ‘blasphemous’. Known for their raw energy and unfiltered aggression, the band take things up a notch with this track and showcase a darker, more refined production while staying true to THROATCUT.’s chaotic roots.
Freshly signed metalcore outfit Lost in Hollywood have released a brand new track and video ‘Chasing Dreams’. The song is taken from their upcoming second studio album, which will be released later this year via Arising Empire.
The band offer a symbiosis between emotional vocals, modern urban pop influences and heavy hitting breakdowns with this new single, that catches the ear with huge emphasis on strong contrasts. It tells the story of searching for the final stage of happiness with a person you idolise, just to realise that there is no such thing as infinite bliss and your dream life can’t satisfy you if you’ve not healed from within.
Catch the band live on tour: 24.04.25 Wiesbaden, Schlachthof 25.04.25 Osnabrück, Westwerk 26.04.25 Hamburg, Bahnhof Pauli 08.05.25 Nürnberg, Z-Bau 09.05.25 Munich, Backstage 10.05.25, Karlsruhe, Stadtmitte 16.05.25 Köln, Gebäude 9 17.05.25 Hannover, Lux Club Linden 23.05.25 Leipzig, Moritzbastei 24.05.25 Berlin, Cassiopeia 28.06.25 Feuchtwangen, Maedow Festival 06.09.25 Hamburg, Local Core Festival Markthalle 29.11.25 Bremen, Tower
Wormholedeath Records is thrilled to announce the signing ofHungarian melodic black/death metal powerhouseMORS SILENS for the worldwide release of their upcoming full-length album, “Infernal Legacy,” set to unleash its infernal fury on May 9, 2025.
This partnership marks a pivotal moment for the band as they celebrate their 20th anniversary, continuing their legacy of delivering crushing riffs, haunting melodies, and thought-provoking themes that resonate with listeners across the globe.
“The band was founded in 2005, making this year our 20th anniversary. To celebrate this milestone, we couldn’t be more excited about releasing our new album titled “Infernal Legacy”! The record will be released worldwide under the label WormHoleDeath.”Stated the band.
1. End of Eternity 2. Alastor 3 . Scorn 4 .Scarlet River 5. Chronicles of Devastation 6 . The Room 7 . Nine Circles of Hell 8 . Rise of the Dark One 9. Infernal Legacy 10. Obscurity of Oblivion
This highly anticipated album delivers a profound sonic and lyrical exploration of mental and emotional states, showcasing Mors Silens’ worldview and personal struggles. Comprising ten powerful tracks, “Infernal Legacy” delves into themes of social critique, emotional turmoil, and humanity’s darker aspects. The album’s title reflects the legacy left for future generations—a haunting reminder of suffering, destruction, and societal exclusion. With faster, more intense, and intricately crafted compositions, the band pushes their signature sound to new heights, hoping their message reaches audiences far and wide, inspiring reflection and change.
The album’s premiere track, “Nine Circles of Hell,” serves as its crowning moment—a climactic conclusion that encapsulates the darkness, chaos, and resilience found throughout the record.
Founded in 2005, Mors Silens has built a formidable reputation through relentless creativity and dedication:
2006: Debut demo Promising Redemption 2008: Second demo Doomed to Suffering 2014: EP Mors Certa, Hora Incerta, including videos for Black Pharaoh and Four Horsemen 2016: First full-length album Call of the Nether Realm, featuring Son of the Burning Sky and Collapse 2018: Sophomore album World of Pain, with The Brave and the Coward and Alone with My Demons 2019-2021: Overcame pandemic challenges to release Under the Dark Sun, featuring Buried Sorrow
Through lineup changes, international tours, and high-profile festival appearances alongside Fleshgod Apocalypse, Krisiun, and Kataklysm, the band has remained a pillar of Eastern Europe’s extreme metal scene.
Swabian death metal heroes Necrotted are back and are launching new music into the world. With ‘Deus Ex’, Necrotted release a single that contains everything their fans expect from them and that defines them as a band; heavy blast beat attacks, shredding yet melodic guitar riffs, breakdowns that go straight to the core and inhuman vocals. On the latter, vocalist Fabian is supported by Sven from Aborted and Coffin Feeder – a feature that fits like a glove.
The band comment on the track: “We’re overjoyed that one and a half years after the release of our last album ‘Imperium’ we can finally release new music into the world. With ‘Deus Ex’ we’re releasing a single that contains everything our fans can expect from us and that defines us as a band: heavy blast beat attacks, shredding yet melodic guitar riffs, breakdowns that go straight to the core and inhuman vocals. The fact that Fabian is supported by our buddy Sven is a special pleasure and honor for us. Especially since Aborted is a band that has always inspired and influenced us.“
Thematically, ‘Deus Ex’ deals with the deification of humanity and its sins by humans themselves as well as the resulting negative effects on the world. The band remains true to itself and, as usual, takes a political and socially critical stance.
Necrotted have recently announced brand new EU/UK tour dates for April and May this year, together with Cytotoxin, Gutalax (on selected dates), Acranius and Osiah. A full list of confirmed shows can be found below.
EU dates: 10/04/25 Berlin, DE 11/04/25 Magdeburg, DE 12/04/25 Chemnitz, DE 13/04/25 Hamburg, DE 14/04/25 Hannover, DE 15/04/25 Essen, DE 16/04/25 Chaleroi, BE 17/04/25 Paris, FR 18/04/25 Strasbourg, FR 19/04/25 Aalen, DE 20/04/25 Lindau, DE 21/04/25 Weinheim, DE
Melodies that stay in the ear, with at the same time merciless speed and brutality and always a clear political message – this is what the modern death metal band Necrotted from Southern Germany stands for now more than 15 years.
Founded back in 2008, the band from Abtsgmünd (Baden-Wuerttemberg) has since grown to become a notable force in the scene, constantly thrilling their growing fan base and the music press with both their musical releases and their energetic live shows. In the time of their existence, Necrotted have already released four albums with Anchors Apart (2012), Utopia 2.0 (2014), Worldwide Warfare (2017) and Operation: Mental Castration (2021) and two EPs with Kingdom Of Hades (2010) and Die For Something Worthwhile (2019). In addition, the quintet has played hundreds of live concerts over the years on smaller and bigger stages in various countries.
Their latest album Imperium marks another milestone in the band’s history. The LP is once again designed as a concept album and consistently develops the elaborate storyline of its predecessor in a substantial as well as in a visual way. Also, Necrotted continue to tread experimental parts in a musical way. Their proven recipe of melodic guitar riffs, thundering blast beats and oppressive slams is joined by more and more black metal elements. In the lyrics, which are basically written in English, there are also more and more text passages in the German native language, which are performed as usual in banefully deep growls and strident screams. ‘Imperium’ was released in September 2023 via the label Reaper Entertainment and left a resounding echo in the field of contemporary, diversified death metal.
Necrotted are: Fabian Fink – Vocals Markus Braun – Drums Philipp Fink – Guitars Koray Saglam – Bass Johannes Wolf – Guitars
Progressive black metal duo OBSIDIAN TONGUE are now announcing FRAILTY & SCORN, eight performances of black metal intensity this June alongside WOE. The trek will kick off on June 6 in Long Island City, NY and will make its way throughout the East Coast until the final stop on June 13 in Providence, RI. The tour will not only celebrate the release of OBSIDIAN TONGUE‘s forthcoming opus, ‘Eclipsing Worlds of Scorn,’ due on May 30,2025 via Profound Lore Records, but also will bring both bands back to many cities they have not visited in nearly a decade. Show pre-orders will begin soon as well as local support announcements. The full itinerary can be found below!
To celebrate the recent announcement of their fourth studio album, OBSIDIAN TONGUE has recently unveiled the devastating new single, “Orphaned Spiritual Warrior,” which can be heard at THIS LOCATION.
Comprised of multi-instrumentalist Brendan Hayter (Thrawsunblat/Obsequiae live) and drummer Raymond Capizzo (Falls Of Rauros/Panopticon live), OBSIDIAN TONGUE returned to the all-analog Mystic Valley Studio, where their first two records were made, to print their Covid-era home sessions onto two-inch tape. Mixed and mastered in the analog domain as well by Alex Garcia-Rivera, ‘Eclipsing Worlds of Scorn’ boasts a unique and unmistakable sonic force amidst the modern digital landscape; created with a total absence of click tracks, quantization, or sound replacement of any kind.
Hayter previously commented on the single, “The first track we arranged for ‘Eclipsing Worlds of Scorn’ practically named itself – ‘Orphaned Spiritual Warrior.’ It was clearly an album opener, as complex and chaotic as it is.
“It felt like being dropped into a new world you knew you didn’t belong in – and everyone and everything around you knows it too. You vaguely remember that you came from somewhere else, that you had a dignified purpose there, and that there were people way beyond this place that understood you…but the worst part is you don’t know if they’re looking for you, if they’re trying to get you back. All you know is a sense of abandon and mortal danger…every step is heavy with some sort of impostor syndrome and every movement feels uncoordinated, jagged, and bound for disaster. You once could fight, but in this place it feels like trying to fight off an attacker in a dream and you can’t make contact or move your arm fast enough no matter how hard you try. All there’s left to do is find some sort of shelter, try to find your center, try to unlock the memories, and fight off the strife. ‘Set ablaze this world to pass onto the next.'”
OBSIDIAN TONGUE Tour Dates (Co-headlining w/ WOE):
06/06: Long Island City, NY @ El Bunker del Diablo 06/07: Milton, DE @ Brimming Horn Meadery // Party Like It’s 793 Fest 06/08: Baltimore, MD @ The Depot 06/09: Richmond, VA @ Cobra Cabana 06/10: Raleigh, NC @ The Pour House 06/11: Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie 06/12: Syracuse, NY @ The Jugg on Teal 06/13: Providence, RI @ Fete Music Hall
‘Eclipsing Worlds of Scorn’ can now be pre-ordered HERE.
Tracklisting:
01 – Orphaned Spiritual Warrior 02 – Snakeskin Tunnel Colony 03 – Eclipsing Worlds of Scorn [LISTEN] 04 – To Forgive Oneself 05 – …And Still They Dream… 06 – Theater of Smoke & Wind
Lauded as USBM’s best kept secret, Obsidian Tongue has been on a steadfast artistic journey since their formation in 2009. They’ve never failed to retain the original mission of playing raw and cathartic melodic black metal as they journeyed further into psychedelic and progressive territories with each release following 2012’s self-released debut ‘Subradiant Architecture.’ While their debut won a passionate following for its perfect union of the grimy and the epic sides of black metal, it was 2013’s ‘A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time’ (Hypnotic Dirge Records) and its psychedelic dark metal that established their name more into the scene and showcased their ambitious nature even more.
2015’s 15-minute single ‘The Lakeside Redemption,’ with its progressive, haunting, dreamlike and triumphant elements, set the groundwork for their third full length, which took several years of tireless effort to complete. Released in Jan of 2020, ‘Volume III’ (Bindrune Recordings) was clearly the band’s magnum opus but all plans to support the album on the road became thwarted due to the pandemic. So all there was left to do was write even more music. This gradually led to a creation of not one, but three works: the first being 2024’s much-delayed self-released digital EP ‘The Stone Heart’ and the second being their fourth full-length album ‘Eclipsing Worlds of Scorn’ to be released via Profound Lore Records on May 30, 2025.
In the summer of 2024, Obsidian Tongue, comprised of vocalist/guitarist/bassist Brendan Hayter (Thrawsunblat/Obsequiae live) and drummer Raymond Capizzo (Falls Of Rauros/Panopticon live) returned to the all-analog Mystic Valley Studio, where their first two records were made, to print their Covid-era home sessions onto two-inch tape. Mixed and mastered in the analog domain as well by Alex Garcia-Rivera, ‘Eclipsing Worlds of Scorn’ boasts a unique and unmistakable sonic force amidst the modern digital landscape; created with a total absence of click tracks, quantization, or sound replacement of any kind.
The progressive black metal journey that is ‘Eclipsing Worlds of Scorn’ takes off immediately with the wrathful sounds of “Orphaned Spiritual Warrior” and “Snakeskin Tunnel Colony,” easily the band’s two heaviest tracks to date. These flow directly into the apocalyptic title track, and onto the vulnerable and surreal sounds of “To Forgive Oneself” leading into the acoustic instrumental “…And Still They Dream.” This dream ends with the triumphant “Theater of Smoke & Wind,” a true psychedelic black metal classic that still evokes some of the original feeling found on the band’s ‘Subradiant Architecture’ debut.
Sixteen years into the band’s existence, Obsidian Tongue clearly show no signs of running out of new ways to alter their sound – song by song, album by album.
Legendary southern rock band LYNYRD SKYNYRD has announced the upcoming release of “Celebrating 50 Years – Live At The Ryman” (Frontiers Music SRL) – a live album and DVD capturing Lynyrd Skynyrd’s historic 50th-anniversary concert at Nashville’s legendary venue in 2022. This special release holds profound significance as it features the final performance of founding member Gary Rossington, who passed the following year. The new release will be available everywhere on June 27, 2025. Pre-Order on 2CD/DVD, Blu-Ray or a double LP here: https://ffm.to/lsryman50
The first single and music video, “Tuesday’s Gone” featuring Jelly Roll, are available everywhere today. Watch the video here:
The album showcases the band’s unparalleled energy, their signature blend of blues rock and Southern hard rock swagger and stands as both a heartfelt tribute to Rossington and a celebration of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s lasting legacy in music history. Special guests on the album include Jelly Roll, Marcus King, John Osborne (The Brothers Osborne), Brent Smith (Shinedown), and Donnie Van Zant (Van Zant & .38 Special).
With over 28 million records sold in the U.S. and a sound as iconic as the American culture it celebrates, Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Lynyrd Skynyrd continue to inspire fans of all ages while embodying the very soul of Southern rock. From their humble Jacksonville beginnings, through tragedy, reunion, and redemption, the band has earned its place on Rolling Stone’s list of the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time” – as well as a prominent spot in the hearts of generations.
Originally formed in 1964 as My Backyard, the band evolved into Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1968, with a lineup featuring Ronnie Van Zant (vocals), Gary Rossington (guitar), Allen Collins (guitar), Larry Junstrom (bass), and Bob Burns (drums). Their 1973 debut album introduced the world to their unmistakable blend of blues, country, and hard rock. Hits like “Sweet Home Alabama” and the timeless “Free Bird” cemented their status as pioneers of the genre.
At the peak of their success, in 1977, a devastating plane crash claimed the lives of lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and backup vocalist Cassie Gaines, leaving the music world in shock. Despite the unimaginable loss, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s legacy endured, and their music remained a beacon of Southern rock.
In 1987, the band reformed with Ronnie’s younger brother, Johnny Van Zant, taking over as lead vocalist. Lynyrd Skynyrd continued to tour and record, with guitarist Rickey Medlocke returning to the fold in 1996. Throughout the years, the band has remained a driving force in rock, honoring their roots while bringing their signature sound to new audiences.
Though founding member Gary Rossington’s passing in 2023 marked the end of an era, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s influence remains stronger than ever. Their enduring music, spirit, and legacy will forever stand as a testament to the power of rock and roll.
TRACK LISTING: 1. What’s Your Name 2. Workin’ for MCA (ft. John Osborne) 3. You Got That Right 4. I Know A Little 5. Down South Jukin 6. That Smell 7. Cry for the Bad Man 8. Saturday Night Special (ft. Marcus King) 9. Tuesday’s Gone (ft. Jelly Roll) 10. Red White and Blue (ft. Donnie Van Zant) 11. Simple Man (ft. Brent Smith) 12. Gimme Three Steps 13. Call Me the Breeze 14. Sweet Home Alabama 15. Freebird 16. Celebrating 50 Years of Lynyrd Skynyrd Documentary
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