Ameriški death/doom metalci Tzompantli so razodeli komad Chichimecatl kot prvi single z drugega studijskega celovečerca Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force, ki ga bodo 17. maja izdali pri založbi 20 Buck Spin. Album obsega te naslove:

Tetzahuitl
Tlayohualli
Tlaloc Icuic
Chichimecatl
Tetzaviztli
Otlica Mictlan
Icnocuicatl

Kanadski heavy/thrash metalci Lutharo predstavljajo še en komad s prihajajočega drugega albuma Chasing Euphoria. Creating a King je tako zadnji single pred izidom ploščka, ki izide 15. marca pri založbi Atomic Fire Records.

Sludge trojec High On Fire, ki je pred enim letom že razkril, da pripravlja material za novo ploščo, zdaj tudi uradno predstavlja nov dolgometražec Cometh The Storm. Album bo izšel 19. aprila pri založbi MNRK Heavy. Tracklista:

Lambsbread
Burning Down
Trismegistus
Cometh the Storm
Karanlık Yol
Sol’s Golden Curse
The Beating
Tough Guy
Lightning Beard
Hunting Shadows
Darker Fleece

Ob 20. obletnici Yearning for the Grotesque, tretjega dolgometzražca legendarnih španskih death metalcev Avulsed, bo band s pomočjo Xtreem Music tega ponovno izdal, in sicer:

na kaseti,
zgoščenki,
»splatter« in črnem vinilu,
in digitalno.

Novi plošček prinaša tri bonus pesmi, live posnetke iz madridskega kluba Copernico Nova iz leta 2005:

Wormeaten
Devourer of the Dead
Pale Red Blood
Sick Sick Sex
Daddy Stew
I Feel Good... Eating Human Flesh
Foetivorous Marriage
Morbid Chef
Cadaver Decapitado
Decrepit Sigh
Amidst the Macabre (live)
Stabwound Orgasm (live)
Exorcismo Vaginal (live)

Ameriški industrialci FleischKrieg s komadom Bloody Prophets II napovedujejo album Still Beating: Herzblut II. Več informacij sledi.

Španski black metalci Dantalion so razkrili single Sound of Bells and Open Scissors s prihajajočega devetega albuma Fatum. Ta bo izšel 8. septembra pri Non Serviam Records na CD-ju, zelenem vinilu in digitalno ter prinesel osem novih komadov:

Great Funeral of Dawn
Abyss Eating Serpent
Qayin Dominor Tumulus
Novena Wake Begins
Hades Visions
Exu King of Souls Omulu
Mortuary Song
Sounds of Bells and Open Scissors

Ameriški doom/death metal band Roots Of The Old Oak je posnel videospot za naslovno skladbo prvenca The Devil and His Wicked Ways, ki bo izšel 15. septembra pri založbi Hammerheart Records. Album prinaša naslednje skladbe:

I Defy Thee
Cheating the Hangman
Forest Dweller
A Ballad of Two Ravens
The Devil and His Wicked Ways
Cosmic Dark Age
Allfather (A Wanderers Tale)
Take the Throne

Organizatorji legendarnega festivala Bang Your Head sporočajo, da se je ta za vedno poslovil. Več podrobnosti lahko preberete v izjavi organizatorja:

THAT WAS IT! Hello friends, it is with a heavy heart that we are writing these lines. But there is no other way. We really gave and did everything we could to finally catch up with celebrating the big BANG YOU HEAD!!! anniversary in 2023, and eagerly anticipated this summer like no other. But: We alone, unfortunately, did not have control over creating the circumstances needed to set up an event of this caliber with the requirement to quality connected to the name BANG YOUR HEAD!!! and actually make it happen. A lot changed in the past three years and not a lot of it was and is good. All in all, it can and must be said: The whole scene changed, and the preconditions for organizing an open-air event in Balingen are completely different in 2023 than they were in 2019 – also from an economic perspective. All in all, we thus come to the conclusion, even if it is incredibly sad, that there are too many factors and forces working against us, and pushing through to organize an event at any cost would cause more losses for us and others involved than putting an end to it now. And this is how it is now: The BANG YOUR HEAD!!! 2023 can and will NOT take place. Due to the abovementioned reasons which we can’t describe in further detail due to reasons that are hopefully understandable, there is no viable path that we can take responsibility for aside from calling off the big anniversary party in Balingen. We hope for your understanding and thank everybody from the bottom of our hearts that supported us, believed in us, and kept their tickets or even bought new ones. Especially for you we tried everything to finally raise the BANG YOUR HEAD!!! flag again over the Swabian Alb, but it seems like it was not meant to be. And to make sure to avoid any potential misunderstandings: There will be no more BANG YOUR HEAD!!! festivals in the future. This was it. Because we know that many of you waited for the BYH!!! this year with immense anticipation, we intensely tried to come up with a way to marginally make up for the cancellation of the event. So, we had an idea for a ticket exchange to the ROCK OF AGES festival 2023 which you can read up on in the detailed statement on www.bang-your-head.de. Of course, we will also reimburse the purchasing price to everybody who would like to return their tickets – irrespective of which of the past years the tickets for 2023 were purchased. We will inform you about the detailed process shortly through our channels. We want to thank you once again for your support at all 24 festivals and we would be thrilled to greet you as part of the LOYAL ONES in Seebronn on 28th June! Stay heavy! Horst and the BANG YOUR HEAD!!!-Team

Danes izide tudi debitantski album finske progresivne doom metal zasedbe The Abbey z naslovom Word of Sin, ki ga založba Season of Mist ponuja v posluh tukaj. Album obsega naslednje naslove:

Rat King
A Thousand Dead Witches
Crystallion
Starless
Desert Temple
Widow’s Will
Queen of Pain
Old Ones: Prequel
Old Ones

Člani The Abbey so Natalie Koskinen (Shape of Despair), Jesse Heikkinen (Henget, Iterum Nata), Vesa Ranta (Sentenced, The Man-Eating Tree) in Janne Markus (The Man-Eating Tree).

Dansko-turški death metalci Hyperdontia so obelodanili komad Deluded s prihajajočega EP-ja Deranged, ki bo 15. marca izšel pri založbah Me Saco un Ojo, Dark Descent in Desiccated Productions. EP prinaša naslednje komade:

Nauseating Hallucinations
Deluded
Gagging in Colvulsion
Degradations of the Flesh

Ameriški death metalci Phobophilic bodo pojutrišnjem pri založbi
Prosthetic Records izdali prvenec Enveloping Absurdity, s katerega na Bandcampu ponujajo v posluh že tri komade. Album ima sicer naslednjo tracklisto:

Enantiodromia
Those Which Stare Back
Nauseating Despair
Cathedrals of Blood (Twilight of the Idols)
Individuation
The Illusion of Self
Survive in Obscurity
Enveloping Absurdity

Megadeth so eni izmed mnogih izvajalcev, ki so v sodelovanju z ArteConcert objavili celoten posnetek nastopa na letošnji različici festivala Hellfest. Zasedba je odigrala sledeče komade:

Hangar 18
Dread And The Fugitive Mind
The Threat Is Real
Angry Again
The Conjuring
Sweating Bullets
Conquer Or Die
Dystopia
A Tout Le Monde
Trust
Symphony Of Destruction
Peace Sells
Holy Wars

Tehnični death metalci The Eating Cave so objavili nov single Aggregate Vanity I: Heretical Hypotheses. Debitantski plošček Ingurgitate bo izšel 10. junija.

Grško-švedski melodični death metalci Nightrage bodo 18. februarja izdali album z naslovom Abyss Rising, ki prinaša naslednje komade:

Abyss Rising
Swallow Me
Nauseating Oblivion
Dance of Cerberus
Falsifying Life
Portal of Dismay (Interlude)
Shadows Embrace Me
9th Circle of Hell
The Divergent
Cursed by the Gift of Sight
False Gods
Pest Ridden Tide
Silence of the Darkened Soul

Band je že objavil video za skladbo Falsifying Life, ki si ga lahko ogledate spodaj.

Medvoški simfonični folk metalci Zaria sporočajo, da so zaključili snemanje najnovejše izdaje, ki bo nosila naslov Tell The Wind. Naslovnica albuma, ki bo izšel 18. februarja, je delo Ane Belčič, seznam skladb pa je naslednji:

Prophecies of Old
Where Adventures Begin
Evermore
Prek meglic preteklosti
Ko vstane jutro
Gea
Dream of a Frozen Dragon
Warlord
To Stealing, Cheating, Fighting and Drinking
V senci Triglava
Tell the Wind
Until that Fateful Day