Italijanski temačni doom/death metalci In Autumn predstavljajo drugi single Focus s prihajajočega tretjega albuma What’s Done Is Done. Album izide 16. februarja in bo zajemal te komade:

What’s Done Is Done
Focus
Lucid Dream
Inside My Soul
Despised by Life
Breathing in the Void
The Illusion of Reality
Block
Strange Thoughts
I See You

Nizozemski downtempo/deathcore band Distant je objavil video za pesem Human Scum.

Zasedbo si lahko ogledate 11. novembra v Orto Baru, kjer bo nastopila kot predvozač zasedbama Decapitated in Despised Icon.

Kultni češki festival Brutal Assault, katerega 25. edicija se bo odvijala med 10. in 14. avgustom, ponuja nov seznam nastopajočih:

1914 – ABBATH – THE AGONIST – ALCEST – PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS – ARCTURUS – AS I LAY DYING – ASPHYX – ATARI TEENAGE RIOT – AUTHOR & PUNISHER – BAEST – BELL WITCH – BENIGHTED – BEYOND CREATION – BLOOD INCANTATION – BLOODBATH – BUTCHER BABIES – CATTLE DECAPITATION – CRADLE OF FILTH – DARK FUNERAL – DARKEST HOUR – DENIAL OF GOD – DESPISED ICON – DEVIN TOWNSEND – DRACONIS INFERNUM – EVOKEN - EXCREMENTORY GRINDFUCKERS – EXHORDER – EXHUMED – FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE – FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY – FRONTIERER – FUELED BY FIRE – GAAHLS WYRD – GATECREEPER – GOD MOTHER – HAVOK – HENTAI CORPORATION – IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT – KATATONIA – LEPROUS – LIFE OF AGONY – LOST SOCIETY – M.O.D. – MALEVOLENCE – MASS INFECTION – MAYHEM – ME AND THAT MAN – MELT-BANANA – MERCYFUL FATE – MUNICIPAL WASTE – MYRKUR – MYSTICUM – NAILED TO OBSCURITY – NECROPHOBIC – NECROT – NOCTURNUS AD – OTTONE PESANTE – PARADISE LOST – PENSEÉS NOCTURNES – PENTAGRAM – PSYCROPTIC – PSYKUP – RAZOR – RINGS OF SATURN – SACRED REICH – SHADOW OF INTENT – SIGH – SLAGMAUR – SOEN – SOREPTION – STATIC X – STRIGOI – SUFFOCATION – TERROR – TOXIC HOLOCAUST – UADA – VALKYRJA – VENOM – VITRIOL – VOICES – VOLA – WHILE SHE SLEEPS – WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM

Vstopnice lahko kupite na tej povezavi.

Organizatorji festivala Brutal Assault, ki bo med 5. in 8. avgustom 2020 brutaliziral Jaromer na Češkem, so razkrili nov paket nastopajočih skupin:
Baest, Birds In Row, Brutus, Gatecreeper, God Mother, Lost Society, Vitriol, Vola in Wolves In The Throne Room.

Vse potrjene skupine do sedaj:
1914, THE AGONIST, ALCEST, ARCTURUS, AS I LAY DYING, ASPHYX, ATARI TEENAGE RIOT, AUTHOR & PUNISHER, BAEST, BENIGHTED, BEYOND CREATION, BIRDS IN ROW, BLOOD INCANTATION, BLOODBATH, BRUTUS, BUTCHER BABIES, CATTLE DECAPITATION, CRADLE OF FILTH, DARK FUNERAL, DARKEST HOUR, DENIAL OF GOD, DESPISED ICON, DEVIN TOWNSEND, DRACONIS INFERNUM, EVOKEN, EXCREMENTORY GRINDFUCKERS, EXHORDER, EXHUMED, FEVER 333, FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, FRONTIERER, FUELED BY FIRE, GATECREEPER, GOD MOTHER, HAVOK, HENTAI CORPORATION, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT, KATATONIA, KVELERTAK, LIFE OF AGONY, LOST SOCIETY, MANES, MASS INFECTION, MAYHEM, ME AND THAT MAN, MELT-BANANA, MERCYFUL FATE, M.O.D., MUNICIPAL WASTE, MYRKUR, MYSTICUM, NAILED TO OBSCURITY, NECROPHOBIC, NECROT, NOCTURNUS AD, OBITUARY, OTTONE PESANTE, PARADISE LOST, PENSÉES NOCTURNES, PENTAGRAM, PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS PERFORMING A VULGAR DISPLAY OF PANTERA, PSYKUP, RAZOR, RED FANG, RING OF SATURN, SACRED REICH, SHADOW OF INTENT, SIGH, SOEN, SOREPTION, STATIC–X, STRIGOI, SUFFOCATION, TERROR, TOXIC HOLOCAUST, UADA, VADER, VALKYRJA, VENOM, VITRIOL, VOLA, WHILE SHE SLEEPS, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM in WORMROT.

Organizatorji festivala MetalDays sporočajo, da je v prodaji še zadnjih 3000 festivalskih vstopnic in da bo verjetno zmanjkalo tudi eno- in tridnevnih vstopnic.

Poleg tega so v zadnjem paketu na novo potrjenih izvajalcev Devin Townsend, Green Carnation, Oceans of Slumber, Cypecore in MØL.

Poleg omenjenih so do zdaj potrjeni tudi: 1914, Amon Amarth, Anthrax, As I Lay Dying, Asphyx, At The Gates, Benediction, Beyond Creation, Cattle Decapitation, Clutch, Convictive, Dark Fortress, Decaying Days, Desaster, Despised Icon, Eternal Delyria, Havok, Jinjer, Katla, Malevolent Creation, Napalm Death, Orbit Culture, Paradise Lost, Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals, Razor, Rome, Rotting Christ, Signs of Algorithm, Testament, The Privateer, Voices, Vulture Industries, Warkings, Wormrot, Wolves in the Throne Room in Year of the Goat. 

Despised Icon so objavili videospot za skladbo Snake In The Grass s prihajajočega studijskega albuma z naslovom Purgatory, ki bo izšel 15. novembra pri založbi Nuclear Blast Records.

Organizatorji festivala Metaldays so razkrili 5 novih bandov, ki bodo zatresli tolminske odre prihodnje leto. Trenutnemu seznamu nastopajočih so se pridružili Rotting Christ, ki so bili za mnoge zmagovalci letošnje edicije festivala, Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals (ki so letošnji nastop odpovedali), ekstremneži Wormrot, black metalci Wolves In The Throne Room in pionirji deathcora Despised Icon. Za prihodnje leto je prodanih že skoraj 7000 kart, zato hitro poskrbite za svojo!

Kanadski deathcorovci Despised Icon predstavljajo videospot za naslovno skladbo prihajajočega šestega studijskega albuma Purgatory, ki bo izšel 15. novembra pri založbi Nuclear Blast Records.

Ameriški metalcore veterani All Out War predstavljajo skladbo Judas Always Crawls z novega studijskega albuma Crawl Among The Filth, ki bo izšel 26. julija pri založbi Unbeaten Records.

Crawl Among The Filth prinaša naslednje skladbe:
Devine Isolation
Judas Always Crawls
What Was Becomes Undone
Contempt Be Thy Faith
Drink the Plague
Suffocate and Subjugate
Gehenna Lights Eternal
Septic Infestation
Hanging On The WireDespised Regime 

Ameriška death metal zasedba Serpent Of Gnosis, v kateri sodelujejo vokalist Jonny Davy (Job For A Cowboy), kitarista Al Glassman (Job For A Cowboy, Goratory, ex-Despised Icon) in Tony Sannicandro (Job For A Cowboy), bassist Max Lavelle (The Black Dahlia Murder, ex-Despised Icon) ter bobnar Darren Cesca (Goratory, ex-Deeds Of Flesh, ex-Arsis), predstavlja videospot za skladbo Paroxysmal Dance z debitantskega albuma As I Drink From The Infinite Well Of Inebriation, ki bo izšel 14. junija pri 1126 Records.

Kanadska metalcore zasedba Obey The Brave, v kateri sodelujejo tudi vokalist Alex Erian (Despised Icon), kitarist John Campbell (ex-Blind Witness) in basist Miguel Lepage (ex-Blind Witness), predstavlja videospot za skladbo Mad Season z aktualnega istoimenskega albuma.

Johansson & Speckmann sta objavila skladbo You’ve Stepped On A Dime s tretjega studijskega albuma z naslovom Edge Of The Abyss, ki bo izšel 16. septembra pri založbi Soulseller Records. Tracklista je sledeča:
Perpetuate The Lie
You’ve Stepped On A Dime
Misanthropy
Turn It Around
The Last Witness Is Barely Alive
The One They All Despised
The Edge Of The Abyss
A Concept
Already In Disguise

Despised Icon so objavili novi videospot za skladbo Bad Vibes z najnovejšega albuma z naslovom Beast, ki izide ta petek pri založbi Nuclear Blast Records.

Despised Icon predstavljajo videospot za skladbo The Aftermath, drugi single s prihajajočega albuma z naslovom Beast, ki bo izšel 22. julija pri založbi Nuclear Blast Records.

Despised Icon so objavili videospot za naslovno skladbo prihajajočega albuma Beast, ki bo izšel 22. julija pri založbi Nuclear Blast Records.