Japonska ženska heavy metal/hard rock zasedba Paradoxx bo 14. februarja pri Flying Cat Records izdala prvenec 逆説のSingularity, predstavljajo pa že video za istoimenski komad 逆説のSingularity.

Domači progresivni death metalci Morost sporočajo, da so podpisali z založbo TeufelsZeug Records. Spodaj lahko v celoti preberete uradno sporočilo banda:

»It is with great honor and joy that I inform you that Morost has signed a contract with the German metal label TeufelsZeug Records.

We first met at Kaltenbach Open Air 2022, where a windy storm got us all in a bit of trouble. Seeing T-shirts flying around the merch stand, we helped each other out and a few hours later we were already talking over beer. Some meetings and calls later, we can finally announce the signing of a contract.«

Avstrijski old school thrash death metalci Enmity bodo kmalu, natančneje 23. septembra, na CD-ju, kaseti in digitalno izdali album Demagoguery. Tracklista:

My enemy
The bullet that kills you
The enemy below
Preventable genocide
Flying fortress
Resistance
Demagoguery

Izraelci Stormbound predstavljajo video za skladbo Flying High s prihajajočega prvenca z naslovom December, ki bo izšel 5. avgusta.

Nemška enočlanska melodična symphonic/folk/gothic metal zasedba Black Ground Project najavlja album Blood & Violence. Ta bo izšel 17. decembra pri Wormholedeath in bo vseboval naslednje komade:

Blood & Violence
Overtaken Soul
Flying Evil
Evil Comes Over Me
Dark Dragon Rider
The Battle Against the Dark Rider

Francoska heavy rock/70s proto-doom zasedba Psych-Out, v kateri sodeluje vokalistka Béatrice Descamps (Flying Fortress, ex-Mylidian) na svojem Bandcampu v posluh ponuja samonaslovleni debitantski EP, ki je luč sveta ugledal pretekli vikend. Skupino iz Normandije sestavljajo Julien Planquois na kitari, Gregory Dufils na bobnih, Béatrice Descamps na vokalu in Pierre Vezier na basu.

Spisek skladb je sledeč:
Mourning Land
Invisible Writers
Wandering Scholar
Lost Alchemists
Corrupted Seer

Kalifornijska stoner rock zasedba King Chiefs je v začetku tega tedna pri založbi Roosevelt Row Records izdala svoj tretji dolgometražni album z naslovom Flying Into Void, ki mu lahko v celoti prisluhnete spodaj.

Khemmis so posneli priredbo Alice In Chains klasike Down In A Hole za tribute album Dirt (Redux), ki bo izšel 18. septembra pri Magnetic Eye Records/Redux Records. Za kompilacijo Dirt (Redux) so svoje priredbe prispevali tudi High Priest, -(16)-, Forming The Void, Thou, Backwoods Payback in drugi.

Tracklista je sledeča:
Thou - Them Bones
Low Flying Hawks - Dam That River
High Priest - Rain When I Die
Khemmis - Down In A Hole
These Beasts - Sickman
Howling Giant - Rooster
Forming The Void - Junkhead
Somnuri - Dirt
Backwoods Payback - God Smack
Black Electric - Iron Gland
-(16)- - Hate To Feel
Vokonis - Angry Chair
The Otolith - Would?

The Neptune Power Federation so posneli videospot za skladbo Bound For Hell s prihajajočega studijskega albuma Memoirs Of A Rat Queen, ki bo izšel 27. septembra pri založbi Cruz Del Sur Music.

Memoirs Of A Rat Queen ponuja sledeče skladbe:
Can You Dig?
Watch Our Masters Bleed
Flying Incendiary Club For Subjugating Demons
Rat Queen
Bound For Hell
I'll Make A Man Out Of You
Pagan Inclinations
The Reaper Comes For Thee
Killed By Death (Bonus Track)
I'll Be Your Sister (Bonus Track)

Legendarni ameriški tehnični thrasherji Aftermath bodo prihodnji petek dočakali tudi fizično verzijo svojega najnovejšega albuma There Is Something Wrong, ki je sicer v digitalni obliki izšel že marca letos. Album lahko v celoti preverite na tej povezavi.

Tracklista je sledeča:
Can You Feel It?
False Flag Flying
Diethanasia
Scientists And Priest
Smash Reset Control
Gaslight
A Handful Of Dynamite
Temptation Overthrown
Pseudocide
There Is Something Wrong
Expulsion

Ameriška sludge/doom zasedba Low Flying Hawks, v kateri sodelujeta tudi Dale Crover (Melvins, Altamont, Shrinebuilder) in Trevor Dunn (Fantômas, ex-Mr. Bungle, ex-Melvins), je prejšnji teden izdala novi EP z naslovom Anxious Ghosts, katerega lahko preverite spodaj.

Lucifer sporočajo, da bo aktualna kompilacija Lucifer & Friends, ki je nedavno izšla pri založbi Century Media Records, na njihovih nastopih to poletje na stojnici z merchom na voljo brezplačno. Kompilacija poleg Lucifer vsebuje še skupine Backyard Babies, Death Alley, Radio Moscow, Grave Pleasures in druge, ki so prispevale tudi nekaj do sedaj še neobjavljenih posnetkov.

Lucifer & Friends ponuja naslednje skladbe:
Lucifer – California Son
Backyard Babies – 44 Undead
Radio Moscow – Driftin'
The Picturebooks – Electric Nights
Dead Lord – Kill Them All
Grave Pleasures – Joy Through Death
Horisont – Electrical
Bombus – Deadweight
Motorowl – Infinite Logbook
The Alligator Wine - The Flying Carousel
Death Alley – Seven Sevens
Horisont – A Fools Heart
Grave Pleasures – Violence Of Night
Dead Lord – Burnin' For You (priredba Blue Öyster Cult)
Lucifer - Evening Wind (priredba Scorpions)

Okultni rockerji bodo v sklopu poletne turneje 22. julija nastopili tudi na festivalu MetalDays v Tolminu.

Ameriški doom metal trio Black Lung, v katerem so moči združili nekdanji člani The Flying Eyes, bo 8. marca pri založbi Ripple Music izdal novi album z naslovom Ancients. Tukaj je na voljo tudi dražilnik za prihajajoči album.

Tracklista je sledeča:
Mother Of The Sun
Ancients
The Seeker
Voices
Gone
Badlands
Vultures
Dead Man Blues

Dobro leto pred 40. obletnico izida enajstega albuma Pink Floyd bo izšla kompilacija s priredbami skladb z albuma The Wall, ki so jih med drugim prispevali Yawning Man, Mars Red Sky in The Melvins. Na Bandcampu je že objavljena skladba When the Tigers Broke Free v izvedbi Year of the Cobra, revija Revolver pa je na svoji strani delila pesem Run Like Hell, ki so jo priredili Pallbearer. Kompilacija, naslovljena The Wall [Redux], bo izšla 9. novembra pri založbi Magnetic Eye, priredbe pa so prispevali naslednji izvajalci:

Stran A

In the Flesh? – The Melvins 
The Thin Ice – Low Flying Hawks 
Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1 – Ghastly Sound 
Happiest Days of Our Lives – Sergeant Thunderhoof 
Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 – Sasquatch 
Mother – ASG

Stran B

Goodbye Blue Sky – Mos Generator 
Empty Spaces – Domkraft 
Young Lust – The Slim Kings 
One of My Turns – Worshipper 
Don't Leave Me Now – Spaceslug 
When the Tigers Broke Free – Year of the Cobra 
Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3 / Goodbye Cruel World – Greenleaf

Stran C

Hey You – Summoner 
Is There Anybody Out There? – Scott Reeder 
Nobody Home – Mark Lanegan 
Vera – Ruby the Hatchet 
Bring the Boys Back Home – Sunflo'er 
Comfortably Numb – Mars Red Sky

Stran D

The Show Must Go On – Open Hand 
In the Flesh – Solace 
Run Like Hell – Pallbearer 
Waiting for the Worms – WhiteNails 
Stop – Blue Heron 
The Trial – Church of The Cosmic Skull 
Outside the Wall – Yawning Man

Black metal dvojec Inquisition je objavil skladbo Vortex From The Celestial Flying Throne Of Storms s prihajajočega albuma Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar Beyond The Celestial Zenith, ki 26. avgusta izide pri založbi Season Of Mist in prinaša naslednje komade:

Intro: The Force Before Darkness
From Chaos They Came
Wings of Anu
Vortex from the Celestial Flying Throne of Storms
A Black Aeon Shall Cleanse
The Flames of Infinite Blackness Before Creation
Mystical Blood
Through the Divine Spirit of Satan a Glorious Universe Is Known
Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith
Power from the Center of the Cosmic Black Spiral
A Magnificent Crypt of Stars
Outro: The Invocation of the Absolute, the All, the Satan
Coda: Hymn to the Cosmic Zenith