UK death/doom band The Drowning have just signed to Transcending Obscurity Records and their upcoming full length, The Radiant Dark, promises to be the best one of their career. The release date has not been made known yet but you can check the cover artwork, tracklist and the crushing new track "In Cold Earth" below.

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Belgian doom/death metal band Marche Funèbre have premiered their new song, "A Departing Guest", taken from their impending new EP, entitled Death Wish Woman, which will be co-released by GrimmDistribution (CD) with Cimmerian Shade Recordings (CD and cassette) on October 14th. The band says that the track "shows the more doomy and melancholic side of our anniversary EP". Check out "A Departing Guest" now below.

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The Finnish doom cultists of Hooded Menace have revealed a new line-up which marks the return of their old drummer Pekka Koskelo. Below you can find an extended comment where Hooded Menace enlighten their choice of line-up and the recent decision to stop performing live.

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Swedish melodic black metallers Wormwood have announced that founding member Borka is no longer their bass player. The band were looking for a session bassist earlier this year, but it seems that this didn't work out either since they plan to continue as a quartet. Guitarist Rydsheim will handle the bass duties for the next album and the band will have a session musician for the upcoming gigs. If and when they will fill the spot with a new permanent member is yet unknown.

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Sorrows Path have premiered their new lyric video for the song "My Chosen God", included on the recent Touching Infinity album that was released last year via German label Iron Shield Records. The track features a solo by Thiago Oliveira, the guitarist of the upcoming final album of legendary Warrel Dane that will be out later in 2018.


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Following their release of Támsins likam on Metal Blade Records earlier in the year, and after touring Central Europe extensively, Faroese doom metal act Hamferð will embark on an exclusive tour of Scandinavia. This includes their very first visit to Sweden after 8 years of international touring.

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After revealing the title track of their upcoming third full-length album, entitled Dor, set for release on November 15th, Clouds now premiere another new track. Watch the lyric video of "Forever And A Day" below to get your fix of atmospheric doom metal.

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Callejon have made known that their new album, entitled Hartgeld Im Club, will be released on January 4th, 2019 via Century Media Records. It features cover versions of hits by famous German hip hop acts as well as two newly recorded Callejon tracks. The video for the first single, "Urlaub Fürs Gehirn", features a lot of french kissing between a metalhead and a rapper and was directed by BastiBasti and Harald Schaack.

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On November 23rd, Cattle Decapitation will release their new rarities collection, Medium Rarities, via Metal Blade Records. Featuring six previously unreleased pre-Human Jerky (1999) demos with frontman Travis Ryan on guitar (while also handling vocal duties), plus the long-sought-after To Serve Man (2002) bonus track, "Rotting Children For Remote Viewing" - in addition to other rarities (including the 6 songs from 2005′s split EP with Caninus) - this compilation spans the band's 22-year long career. For a preview of Medium Rarities, "An Exposition Of Insides" (a Japanese bonus track from 2012′s Monolith Of Inhumanity) can be streamed now below.

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With no signs of letting up, heavy metal veterans Saxon continue with the release earlier this year of their latest album, Thunderbolt, and an ongoing world tour that's going from strength to strength. The band is currently touring Europe and just unleashed a video for the track "Predator", featuring Johan Hegg from Amon Amarth, available below.

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Dutch industrial/death metallers The Monolith Deathcult will release on November 30th through Human Detonator Records the second part of the V-trilogy, Vergelding, which picks up where the first in the series, Versvs, left off. It deals with the aftermath of the events that formed the theme of Versvs.

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Icelandic black metallers Carpe Noctem are going to release their sophomore full-length, entitled Vitrun, on October 5th via Code666 Records / Aural Music. It was recorded and produced by Árni Bergur Zoëga and mixed and mastered by Riccardo Pasini. Check out the cover artwork by Stephen Wilson and the song "Hér Hvílir Bölvun" below.

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"Bloodicide" is the first track to be taken from Bloodbath's new album, The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn, set for release on October 26th via Peaceville Records. The song features guests Jeff Walker (Carcass), Karl Willetts (Bolt Thrower) and John Walker (Cancer). Watch the lyric video, animated by Philippe Blain, below.

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Pestilence have announced that Tilen Hudrap, the bassist who played in the band's latest album Hadeon and toured with them during 2018, will be leaving at the end of the year due to scheduling differences. As a result, Pestilence are now looking for a new bass player. Do you think you have what it takes?

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Since their return to the stages of this world in 2016 at the "Frost & Fire" festival in Ventura, CA, Cirith Ungol have also played many successful festival shows in Europe. Due to the incredible demand and enthusiastic reactions from the fans, the band has decided to start writing and rehearsing a new song and now Cirith Ungol proudly unleash their first studio recording since Paradise Lost in 1991! Listen to "Witch's Game" below.

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