Music News 20250826 (Aug 26, 2025)
featuring WODE , BARREN PATH , EVOKEN , Sölicitör , Anciients , NICOLAS CAGE FIGHTER , THE ANSWER LIES IN THE BLACK VOID , BURNING WITCHES , PRAYER GROUP , COLTAINE and Monuments in Ruin EP278
Manchester’s savage sons WODE return with their fourth album, Uncrossing The Keys, marking a confident expansion of their already formidable sound built upon a shadowy foundation of feral black metal and ironclad heavy metal heft. Having evolved from the more straightforward methodology of the debut album, WODE has continuously added elements from various dark corners of the underground across its discography, with songwriting that has grown leaner yet more intricate, focused and melodic than ever.
Uncrossing The Keys will be released October 3rd, on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats via 20 Buck Spin.
photo by Stephen Fletcher
After completing the final objective and rising from the ashes of the recently self-immolated GRIDLINK, Takafumi Matsubara and Bryan Fajardo now set mission coordinates towards BARREN PATH.
Grieving will be released on CD, vinyl LP, and digital formats on October 31 via Willowtip Records
The most prominent and significant American death/funeral doom emissaries, EVOKEN, succeed their 2018 landmark album 'Hypnagogia' with their seventh full-length opus, 'Mendacium'. Set for release on October 17 via Profound Lore Records, the new work promises to be one of the darkest and most oppressive albums in the band's unparalleled repertoire.
Photo by Eva Tusquets
Seattle (WA) - Sölicitör are bringing forth their sophomore studio album of classic 80s style speed metal fury! Enemy in Mirrors is ten songs of haunting, powerful and destructive metal mania.
Gates of Hell Records will release Enemy in Mirrors September 19 on CD, vinyl, and
digital formats.
After almost a decade of soul searching through the Canadian wilderness, Anciients are finally returning to the U.S. Starting next week, the heavy, heady and heartfelt Canucks will guide neighboring metal legions through the many peaks of their latest JUNO Award-winning album Beyond the Reach of the Sun. During this month-long trek, the band will blaze across both coasts and the Southwest with special stops down south around ProgPower USA.
“The Executioner” is the latest video/single from Australia’s NICOLAS CAGE FIGHTER. The scathing new hymn comes by way of the band’s I Watched You Burn full-length set for release on September 12th via Bleeding Art Collective and Blood Blast Distribution (Nuclear Blast Records/Believe).
Photo by Jessy Holtfreter
THE ANSWER LIES IN THE BLACK VOID, the alchemical collaboration between vocalist Martina Horváth (Thy Catafalque) and composer/multi-instrumentalist Jason Köhnen (Celestial Season, Bong-Ra, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble), have announced their third full-length album, "Transcendental", set for release on September 26, 2025 via Lay Bare Recordings.
Photo by Peter Palotas
Swiss heavy metal frontrunners BURNING WITCHES celebrate the release of their much-awaited new studio album, entitled Inquisition, out via Napalm Records!
Lambgoat is hosted the premiere for “PR Nightmare,” the succinct yet riotous new video/single from Richmond, Virginia noisemongers PRAYER GROUP. The band is set to release the gnarled new Strawberry 10” MLP through Reptilian Records at the end of this week.
PRAYER GROUP utilized the same team as on their prior album Michael Dose for Strawberry, with drums and some bass tracked with Ricky Olson at The Ward (Enforced, Prisoner, Bleach Everything), all other instrumentation recorded by guitarist Nate Dominy at Room 2B, the mixing handled by Chris Compton (Hold Tight!, Sea Of Storms, Basmati), mastering completed by Brad Boatwright at Audiosiege (Deadguy, Full Of Hell, Nø Man), completed with cover art by Luke LaMarca. Fans of Pissed Jeans, The Jesus Lizard, Big Black, Drive Like Jehu, Breather Resist, Blacklisters, Buildings, USA Nails, Fucked Up, join the PRAYER GROUP.
German post-metal act COLTAINE is set to release their new album, 'Brandung', on September 5 via Lay Bare Recordings. The album’s first single, "Keep Me Down In The Deep", is out now, offering a first glimpse into the band's cinematic sound.
and of course, Monuments in Ruin - Chapter 278 (music podcast)
Welcome to Monuments in Ruin EP278
Cleansing our souls with the waters of time reborn
Track List:
00:00 Monuments in Ruin Intro
00:10 Steg för steg by Linnea Hjertén - Steg för steg (Nordvis Produktion)
02:42 first break
03:22 The Bane by DOMKRAFT - Domkraft (Magnetic Eye Records)
10:45 Leave The Flesh Behind by Ashen - Leave the Flesh Behind (Redefining Darkness Records)
14:42 Collapse by Cult Burial - Collapse of Pattern, Reverence of Dust (Independent)
19:43 Cryonic Intestinal Preservation by Condition Critical - Degeneration Chamber (Independent)
23:13 second break
24:05 Tarantula by APPALOOZA - The Emperor of Loss (Ripple Music)
28:50 Machine is the Master by BORRACHO - Ouroboros (Ripple Music)
35:27 Death Crushes Hope by DUSTED ANGEL - This Side Of The Dirt (Heavy Psych Sounds)
41:46 Bon Nou-煩悩 by HEBI KATANA - Imperfection (Ripple Music)
44:26 Black Witch Mountain by SUPERNAUGHTY - Apocalypso (Ripple Music)
49:15 third break
50:49 Cold Peace Abundance (featuring OORA) by The Mountain King - Vegetation (Void Key Recordings)
57:41 take us home
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