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The Metal Mayan Mixtape - 19 Jan, 2026
Edenbridge - Set The Dark On Fire (Steamhammer), out now While winter has covered most of the northern hemisphere in snow and ice this month, Austrian symphonic power metal quintet Edenbridge have come to turn the heat up with their twelfth album, Set The Dark On Fire. Wasting no time in kicking off an epic musical journey, "The Ghostship Diaries" immerses listeners in a world of magic and mystery with vocalist extraordinaire, Sabine Edelsbacher, serving as both guide and na

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The Metal Mayan Mixtape - 03 February, 2025
Jinjer - Duél (Napalm Records) Out February 07 Far and away one of the most in demand bands of the last decade, the years since 2021's...

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Feb 2, 2025


The Metal Mayan Mixtape 24 May, 2024
Poolside At The Flamingo - Accabadora (Blood Blast Distribution) "Four devastating tracks straight from the death-grind war machine." For...

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May 24, 2024


The Metal Mayan Mixtape 19 April, 2024
Folterkammer - Weibermacht (Century Media Records) "A blackened sun rising over the realm of extreme metal - behold the future that is...

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Apr 19, 2024


Fellahin Fall - Urbana (Independent)
It's surprising how, in a city where the lights never go off and the streets are shared with 8.8 million people, one can feel so alone....

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Nov 19, 2023


Autopsy - Ashes, Organs, Blood And Crypts (Peaceville Records)
Chances are, when the cover art of your debut album is so controversial that is outright banned beyond its first pressing, yours is a...

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Oct 31, 2023


Ringworm - Seeing Through Fire (Nuclear Blast)
When a career of shouting into a microphone spans over 30 years, there sometimes comes a day when the steam starts to thin - the punch...

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Aug 9, 2023


Xasthur - Inevitably Dark (Lupus Lounge)
There are few bands that garner the same respect and reverence among extreme metal fans like Xasthur (pronounced 'Zass-thurr'). Like...

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Jun 21, 2023


Gloryhammer - Return to the Kingdom of Fife (Napalm Records)
With a legacy dating back over forty five years, the genre of power metal is nearly synonymous with tales of fantastic lands, beasts,...

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Jun 6, 2023


Woe Unto Me - Along The Meandering Ordeals, Reshape The Pivot Of Harmony (M-Theory Audio)
One of the most radical branches in the world of extreme music, few sub-genres push the limits quite like funeral doom metal. Often times...

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Mar 25, 2023


Enslaved - Heimdal (Nuclear Blast)
As the old adage goes, with age comes wisdom and with experience comes new possibilities. Few bands have demonstrated this quite like...

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Feb 21, 2023


Imha Tarikat - Hearts Unchained – At War with a Passionless World (Lupus Lounge)
Since its inception, black metal has long been a style meant to take the listener to a different plain of existence. Sometimes it's to...

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Nov 25, 2022
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