DETHFX Unleash Debut Album “Antiutopia”, Out Now

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After nearly three years in the making, Orlando-based metal juggernaut DETHFX proudly unleashes their debut album, Antiutopia. Out now on all major platforms, the record delivers seven tracks of unrelenting groove, razor-sharp riffs, and pure sonic devastation.

Most of the album was tracked at The 1885 in Cincinnati, OH—a historic church-turned-studio helmed by Jasen Wilson, who also mixed and produced the record. The result is an album that blends crushing heaviness with a larger-than-life atmosphere, capturing the raw intensity of DETHFX’s live sound.

“We poured everything into this record. It’s heavy, it’s chaotic, and it’s 100% us,” says the band. “This is the beginning of our world. Welcome to Antiutopia.”

With seven punishing tracks, Antiutopia takes listeners through a sonic apocalypse. Relentless grooves collide with thrash aggression and modern heaviness, all wrapped in a crystal-clear production that refuses to compromise.

The band extends massive gratitude to those that supported us, such as Max Norman, Bill Hudson, Mike Lepond, Johnnie G at Sound Exchange, and especially Jasen Wilson, whose vision and dedication helped bring Antiutopia to life.

Antiutopia is available worldwide on all streaming platforms.
 Listen, follow, and shop merch at: https://www.dethfx.com/

Tracklisting:

  1. Recycled Souls
  2. Unnatural Reign
  3. War Morality
  4. Microbe
  5. Nomads of the Damned
  6. Infirma Mente
  7. Antiutopia

Formed in Orlando, Florida in 2021, DETHFX quickly earned a reputation as “Death’s Favorite Band,” delivering a sound that hits like a dump truck driving 100 miles an hour off a cliff.

The lineup—Brett Kaffenberger (bass), Rob Tetro (drums), Rod Mariani (lead guitar), and Raul Salas (guitar/vocals)—draws influence from metal titans Slayer, Pantera, Black Sabbath, and Iron Maiden, while injecting a fresh, aggressive energy that redefines modern metal.

Live, DETHFX is an onslaught—dynamic changes, tight harmonies, and infectious grooves executed with surgical precision and raw intensity. Every show is an event: aggressive, technical, and unforgettable.

In 2025, DETHFX dropped their debut single “Recycled Souls”, setting the stage for Antiutopia and daring listeners to survive the ride.

For More Information Please Visit: Official Website – Facebook – Instagram – YouTube

MARTRÖÐ Ink Deal with DMP & Announce Debut Full-Length Album “Draumsýnir eldsins”

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Icelandic/US Black Metal entity MARTRÖРwas birthed in 2015 by a group of established artists wishing to see what emerges when singular wills become a shared vision. The first output from this collective – based around core members A.P. (SKÁPHE) and H.V. Lyngdal (WORMLUST) – was the acclaimed 2016 EP “Transmutation of Wounds“, a dark descent into layered and intense sound as a mirror of existential fracture.

After a long period of silence – MARTRÖРonly “speak” when there is something of significance to share – a new iteration of the project now arises in 2025 to unveil their stunning first full-length, “Draumsýnir eldsins” (“Dream Visions of the Fire“).

The band comments:

“MARTRÖРremains what it has always been: a convergence of ideas and visions. While the outer circle has changed over the years, the two principal songwriters, A.P. and H.V., have remained constant, with the addition of Jack Blackburn, Magnús Halldór Pálsson, and a number of collaborators carrying the project’s essence forward. What ultimately defined “Draumsýnir eldsins” was time itself, not as a neutral container, but as an active force. The album emerged slowly, fragment by fragment, over nearly a decade. Its framing draws on the medieval tradition of the dream vision: the idea that through dreams we process what reason cannot grasp, and that within the surreal and fleeting there lies a higher truth.“

To propagate their ominous vision, MARTRÖРhas entered a pact with Debemur Morti Productions to issue the entity’s debut full-length on December 12th. A foretaste of what’s to come will be revealed on October 23rd, accompanied by pre-orders.

Concerning “Draumsýnir eldsins“, MARTRÖРstate:

“We are exploring the fragility of creation, thought experiments like the mortality of gods, and ultimately the dissolution of form, the waking nightmare. Our work is an exploration of collapse: angels constructed from broken remnants, divinity suspended in endless death, and reality revealed as a dream on the verge of vanishing. The darkness we try to channel is a portrait of being itself, a confrontation with nothingness until the dream ends.“

Follow the collective’s work on Facebook and Instagram.

MARTRÖРbegan in 2015 not as a band, but as an experiment in convergence. It was never about the individual, but about what emerges when singular wills dissolve into a shared vision. In this sense, MARTRÖРfunctions as both seed and symptom: the impulse that later unfolded into Mystískaos, but also a form of collective dreaming in its own right.

The first articulation of this came with the “Transmutation of Wounds” EP in 2016, a work that did not seek catharsis but rather confrontation, a descent into layered sound as a mirror of existential fracture. After this, MARTRÖРentered a long period of gestation. What now emerges years later is not a continuation but a transformation: the full-length “Draumsýnir eldsins“, a cycle of dream-visions where humanity dreams its own apocalypse, angels are stitched from remnants, divinity is suspended in endless death, and creation collapses as the dreamer stirs awake.

MARTRÖРhas remained intentionally outside the categories of stage, permanence, or identity. It exists in the unwaking hours, in the liminal space where visions take form. Its essence is the alignment of forces that briefly converge to give voice to dissolution, not performance, but invocation; not continuity, but the persistence of a nightmare that survives only through its recording.

FRAYLE Drop Scary Good Doom Anthem ‘Boo’ with Official Video

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In celebration of this Friday’s release of their new album, Heretics & Lullabies (October 10 / Napalm Records), as well as their upcoming USA tour supporting occult rockers Dogma, Cleveland based doom unit FRAYLE have revealed their final pre-album single, the airy, crushing “Boo”. The track features a guest contribution from metal vocalist Jason Popson.

Accompanied by another one of the band’s trademark high production, beautifully macabre music videos, “Boo” injects mid-tempo flavor and multifaceted vocal balance into the album as crushing weight lands alongside each hook, with bending guitar tone and dark, sparkling atmosphere swirling around pounding percussion.

FRAYLE says about “Boo”:
“’Boo’ was inspired by an incident in Germany, when Gwyn, walking alone on a dark street, startled a woman traveling with her companions. She screamed, and the entire group hurried to the other side of the road. The song is a tongue-in-cheek response to moments like these—because for some of us, every day is Halloween.”

FRAYLE has been lauded as one of the fastest-rising, most haunting currently active modern doom metal outfits of late, infusing their sound with eclectic elements and now reinventing their trademark spectral sonic profile. Merging the heaviness of occult-driven doom and blackgaze with frontwoman Gwyn Strang’s distinctively eerie vocal stylings and the crushing guitars of Sean Bilovecky, the band has fully realized their “lullabies of chaos” musical vision with Heretics & Lullabies.

Recorded by FRAYLE and produced, mixed and mastered by Aaron Chaparian at Iron Audio (Bleeding Through, Harms Way), Heretics & Lullabies is a must-listen for any fan of doom, post-metal or atmosphere-heavy alt-rock, but also a pristinely phantomic journey for any heavy music fan as it maintains its accessible edge throughout. 

The album kicks off with first single “Walking Wounded”, a whispering wall-of-sound that crushes with spine-tingling stacks of harmony. The deeply punishing atmosphere continues into second track “Summertime Sadness”, an entirely reworked doom-laden cover of the Lana Del Rey hit. Mid-album cuts such as “Demons” and “Glass Blown Heart” flirt with threateningly macabre lyrical poetry and otherworldly melody, while glacially-paced anthems “Souvenirs Of Your Betrayal” – described as a deeply personal look at the depths of despair after a painful deception – and “Run” double down on the aggressive, suffocatingly beautiful ambience and Gwyn Strang’s shimmering, beckoning vocal timbre. Hair-raising “Hymn For The Living” and standout single “Heretic” inject heavy rock edge and arena-ready drums into the mix, before the album concludes with droning melodic masterpiece “Only Just Once” – an unforgettable closer to this colossal modern doom compendium. Heretics and hypocrites beware – Heretics & Lullabies will perpetually etch itself into the darkest corners of your psyche, taking deeper hold with each spin.

Pre-Order Heretics & Lullabies HERE

Heretics & Lullabies track listing:
1. Walking Wounded
2. Summertime Sadness
3. Boo
4. Demons
5. Souvenirs Of Your Betrayal
6. Glass Blown Heart
7. Hymn For The Living
8. Run
9. Heretic
10. Only Just Once

FRAYLE have revealed a slew of brand new live dates, supporting occult rockers Dogma on their fast-approaching headline tour of the USA. FRAYLE will appear on the tour from October 23 through November 8, starting in Anaheim, CA. Don’t miss your chance to catch FRAYLE as they unleash their new album onto the world!

FRAYLE supporting Dogma in the USA:
10/23/25: Anaheim, CA @ Parrish (House of Blues)
10/24/25: Reno, NV @ The Alpine
10/26/25: Las Vegas, NV @ B-Side (House of Blues)
10/28/25: Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
10/30/25: Dallas, TX @ Trees
10/31/25: Lubbock, TX @ Jake’s Sports Cafe
11/02/25: Houston, TX @ Scout Bar
11/04/25: Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
11/05/25: Orlando, FL @ Conduit
11/06/25: Pompano Beach, FL @ Piper’s Pub
11/08/25: Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade (Purgatory)

FRAYLE is:
Gwyn Strang: Vocals
Sean Bilovecky: Guitar

FRAYLE online:
WEBSITE
FACEBOOK
INSTAGRAM
NAPALM RECORDS

POKUTA Released Song ‘Mortal Coil’ from Upcoming Debut Album “Metanoia”

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POKUTA came to life in Rzeszów (PL) in 2024 as a studio project. Three personalities, with inspirations that exceed far beyond typical black metal. Honest and without compromises exploring depths of own minds. POKUTA means atonement/expiation in English.

Debut album is titled “Metanoia” and is an attempt to respond to the transformations taking place in each of our value systems. 

“Drawing from our own experiences, we share our reflections in these six pieces” – band comments.

Music for upcoming debut album titled “Metanoia” was composed by Mateusz Jakubski and recorded in 2025 at Warhouse and Lunar Studio. All was mixed and mastered by HW. Cover artwork and layout design was done by Mateusz Jakubski. Band photo by Sara Nowak.

Release date is set up on October 31, 2025 and will be released digitally and on CD by the Polish label Via Nocturna. CD could be purchased at official webstore (here).

Listen to the “Mortal Coil“:

TRACKLIST:

01. Mortal Coil
02. Eternal Illusion
03. Immoral
04. Metanoia
05. Desire
06. The Chosen One

LINE-UP:

Mateusz Jakubski – guitars, bass, keyboard, backing vocals
Adam Kanas – vocals
Kacper “WeTh” Bąk – drums (session) 

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GLASYA Release New Video ‘Hunt Of The Haunted’

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photo by Soraia Martins, Flávio Almeida, Ricardo Gil

Glasya has released a video for “Hunt Of The Haunted”, third single taken from the new album “Fear” to be released on October 24 by Scarlet Records.

The spooky voices that tormented Sarah (the main charachter of the “Fear” story/concept) suddenly become personified and begin to chase and hunt her. They try to trap the girl, while she tries to free herself and escape. A haunting song with some modern and very catchy arrangements.

video by Soraia Martins & Flávio Almeida (Dream & Drama Productions)

“Fear”:

  • produced by Fernando Matias at The Pentagon Audio Manufacturers (Sinistro) and mastered by Jaime Gomez Arellano at Orgone Studios (Ghost, Behemoth, Paradise Lost);
  • featuring Fernando Ribeiro (Moonspell) on vocals on the songs “Fear” and “In Debris”;
  • featuring Michele Guaitoli (Visions Of Atlantis) on vocals on the song “Glimpse Of Memory”;
  • featuring Sara Leitão (Dark Oath) on vocals on the song “Rising Wildfire”;
  • artwork by Phobos Anomaly Design;
  • FFO: Epica, Nightwish, Beyond The Black, Visions Of Atlantis, Moonspell, Hans Zimmer;

“Fear” tracklist:

01 Fear (featuring Fernando Ribeiro)
02 Hunt Of The Haunted
03 In Debris (featuring Fernando Ribeiro)
04 Stuck In A Cobweb
05 Glimpse Of Memory (featuring Michele Guaitoli)
06 Rising Wildfire (featuring Sara Leitão)
07 In A Flooding Room
08 The Cold Of Dark
09 Rescue (featuring tenor Filipe de Moura)
10 The Confrontation
11 In Your Haven
12 The Ultimate Challenge
13 Overcoming
14 No Teu Abrigo

Total running time – 64:77

artwork by Phobos Anomaly Design

Lead by the magnificent voice and imposing presence of Eduarda Soeiro (officially part of the current Moonspell live band), Glasya keeps marrying cinematic heavy metal and a bright storytelling vein.

Three years after the excellent “Attarghan” concept album, “Fear” displays a more modern symphonic metal sound with strong grooves, catchy chorus and several honorable special guests (Moonspell’s Fernando Ribeiro, Visions Of Atlantis’ Michele Guaitoli, Dark Oath’s Sarah Leitão).

“Fear” tells the quest of a woman who finds herself confronted with her own fears and gains the courage to overcome them. The listener will be walking in the shoes of the protagonist and feel her trepidation, her convictions, her achievements and the confidence that she develops in herself to help a close one.

During the course of the compelling story, she will fully reveal her weaknesses and how they can finally become her strengths – a real triumph over adversity.

Glasya:
Eduarda Soeiro – vocals
Davon Van Dave – keyboards
Hugo Esteves – guitar
Bruno Prates – guitar
Ivan Santos – bass
Pedro Correia – drums

ERADICATOR to Release Live Album “Alive In The Dead Eye Of The Vortex” on November 21st

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ERADICATOR’s live album ‘Alive In The Dead Eye Of The Vortex’ will be released on 21 November 2025. The CD and Vinyl versions will be available exclusively from the band’s shop and digitally worldwide via Metalville.

A rainy Saturday afternoon in 2004: a wild bunch of teenagers meet in their rehearsal room, a small chamber in a barn in the tranquil Sauerland region. Wearing Kreator, Judas Priest and Metallica shirts, the newly formed band covers the classics of their heroes – the foundation for ERADICATOR is laid!

Twenty years later, the thrashers celebrate their anniversary with a special home game. Together with “Vortex Club” in Siegen, they launched the ‘Evil Twisted Metal Feast’ in October 2024. Six bands, 250 fans, an unforgettable evening and the decision to capture this moment.

With ‘Alive In The Dead Eye Of The Vortex’, ERADICATOR is now releasing an 11-song live album that thrashes through the band’s entire history. Four tracks from the current LP ‘The Paradox’ are also included. With ‘Evil Twisted Mind’, the song that gave the concert its name, one of their oldest songs returns, which was already featured on their first release, the demo ‘Back To The Roots’ (2007). History also repeats itself behind the controls: producer Jörn Michutta, who was already responsible for the demo, has shaped the live tracks into a dynamically thunderous mix that perfectly captures the energy and atmosphere of the evening.

Sebastian Jerke is responsible for the cover design, which ensures a galactic reunion with the plaque bringer.

Anyone familiar with ERADICATOR knows that they make no compromises when it comes to live performances. And now everyone else can experience this first-hand on record!

SETLIST

1. Possessed By The Devil
2. Of Ashes And Sand
3. Beyond The Shadows Void
4. Jackals To Chains
5. Into Oblivion
6. Perpetual Sacrifice
7. Evil Twisted Mind
8. Kill Cloud
9. Baptized In Blood
10.The Paradox
11.Read Between The Lies

Line-Up

Sebastian “Seba” Stöber – guitar/vocals
Robert “Robb” Wied – guitar
Sebastian Zoppe – bass
Jan-Peter “Pitti” Stöber – drums

TOURDATES

18.10.2025 DE Siegen Evil Twisted Metal Feast Vol. II
07.11.2025 DE Hamburg Thrash Feast Hamburg
08.11.2025 DE Berlin Berlin Freshfest
27.12.2025 DE Andernach Jugendzentrum Andernach

https://eradicator.de/
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https://www.instagram.com/eradicator_thrash/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ERADICATORThrash
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