Music News 20251118 (Nov 18, 2025)
featuring INTERCOURSE , Rotten Sound , DENIAL OF LIFE , TRACHEOTOMY , Human Crushing Machine , MALEFIC , NORNES and Monuments in Ruin EP290.
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With the dust still settling following the Brutal Panda Records release of their scathing fourth LP, How I Fell In Love With The Void, Connecticut-based noise rock henchmen INTERCOURSE present a new video for the track “Family Suicide Gun.”
The self-deprecating INTERCOURSE – vocalist Tarek Ahmed, guitarist Sean Prior, drummer Caleb Porter and bassist Pete Stroczkowski – has averaged a release per year since forming in 2013, and has kicked against the pricks, power brokers, and pissants who make America “great” while tempering their outlook with a self-deprecating look inward.
photo by Matt Darcy
Take cover, metalheads. After outrunning the apocalypse on their last long-player, Rotten Sound are back with another destructive burst of politically-charged grindcore. On their upcoming 11th EP, the underground veterans' worldview is more dire than ever. But Mass Extinction lays waste to all that's plaguing our society. The album's lead single, "Brave New World", pushes for unity over division behind a barrage of blast beats and relentless groove.
Photo by © Mika Aalto
Tacoma, Washington-based thrash/crossover crew DENIAL OF LIFE presents an official video for “Sword Of Fire,” the second single from the band’s Witness The Power EP, out next week on Creator-Destructor Records.
DENIAL OF LIFE is a metallic hardcore auditory assault forged in the Pacific Northwest. Channeling the speed and venom of Slayer, the primal fury of Sepultura, and the death-soaked grime of Entombed, they deliver a sound that is merciless, unrelenting, and steeped in darkness. With Brenna Gowin’s searing vocals riding the razor-sharp guitar work of Logan Miller and Dante Zickler, the crushing bass of Brian Bernard, and the pulverizing drums of Nick Cody, the band wages war on false hope and hollow promises.
photo by Liv Margullis
Florida deathcore behemoths TRACHEOTOMY are pleased to drop a new two-song promo -- “Obdurate Enmity” / “Postnatal Parasite” – out now and streaming on 1126 Records!
TRACHEOTOMY isn’t here to make friends — they’re here to split skulls and drag deathcore back to its most savage roots. Constructed in chaos and fueled by hatred for the political oppression, TRACHEOTOMY is a weaponized blast of brutality, stitching together slam, grind, and sheer auditory violence into a sound that feels like getting your lungs torn open. Riffs hit like a crowbar to the temple, their vocals sound like a corpse waking up angry, and their rhythm section pounds harder than a defibrillator on a dead heart. TRACHEOTOMY doesn’t care about trends — they care about destruction.
Photo by Thad Sisneros
London-based metal act Human Crushing Machine, the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Nick Schlesinger, is poised to release its debut single and video for ‘Tunnel Vision’ this month.
For fans of Megadeth, Alice In Chains, Pantera, and Gojira, ‘Tunnel Vision’ delivers an unrelenting blend of modern heaviness and classic metal groove, driven by a fierce social message. Combining pulverising riffs, dark textures, and urgent lyrics to confront the injustices of modern society – from political corruption and gender inequality to domestic abuse and the horrors of war.
Atlanta blackened thrash visionaries MALEFIC have unveiled their first single, "It Haunts", and are set to unleash their debut album, Impermanence, via Terminus Hate City on February 13th, 2026. “It Haunts” introduces the band with their signature intricate harmonies and deft guitar work, dragging the listener deep into the blackened abyss they have carved. Fierce vocals tell a fittingly haunting tale about a mystery of a supernatural nature, and an epic guitar solo commands rapt attention. The song closes with ghostly arpeggios, leaving the listener shrouded in gloom and contemplating the unknowable.
Anticipation is building for the release of NORNES’ debut album "Thou Hast Done Nothing", set to be released on November 28, 2025 via Sleeping Church Records. After unveiling the official album teaser recently, the band now presents their first official single "Oneness", introducing listeners to their unique blend of atmospheric doom and crushing intensity. A lyric video accompanies the song and can be viewed here:
and of course, Monuments in Ruin - Chapter 290 (music podcast)
Welcome to Monuments in Ruin EP290
Graven Landscape and Frozen Desolation
Track List:
00:00 Monuments in Ruin Intro
00:10 Iron Wolves of War by Sölicitör - Enemy in Mirrors (Gates of Hell Records)
05:27 FIRST BREAK
06:07 Mercurial Bloodstreams by Sunniva - Hypostasis (Svart Records)
11:06 In Your Paradise by GREEN CARNATION - A Dark Poem, Part I The Shores of Melancholia (Season of Mist)
18:08 The Bleeding by All Hell - Sunsetter Terminus Hate City)
20:26 just (feat. m sage) by claire rousay - a little death (Thrill Jockey)
23:47 ladder of meaning by Nobukazu Takemura - knot of meanings (Thrill Jockey)
26:43 SECOND BREAK
27:46 The Summoning by THE ANSWER LIES IN THE BLACK VOID - Transcendental (Lay Bare Recordings)
32:21 PR Nightmare by Prayer Group - Strawberry (Reptilian Records)
33:37 Keep Me Down In The Deep by COLTAINE - Brandung (Lay Bare Recordings)
39:09 Formaldehyde by CROP - S.S.R.I (Third House Communications)
45:03 I've sat upon tall thrones (but I'll never learn) by WARCOE - Upon Tall Thrones (Ripple Music)
49:08 THIRD BREAK
50:04 SERPENT by CASTLE RAT - The Bestiary (King Volume Records & Blues Funeral Recordings)
53:22 (Brain) - Geppetto's Song by THE MIST - The Dark Side of the Soul (An Anatomy of the Soul) (Alma Mater Records)
57:04 Of Nomos and Flaming Flint Stone by Ildaruni - Divinum Sanguinem (Black Lion Records)
01:02:33 Family Suicide Gun by Intercourse - How I Fell In Love With The Void (Brutal Panda Records)
01:05:39 Power Thrash by Vulture - Power Thrash (Single) (Independent)
01:09:05 Portrait Without a Face by HOODED MENACE - Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration (Season of Mist)
01:16:14 FOURTH BREAK
01:18:04 By My Will by Dead Heat - Process Of Elimination (Metal Blade Records)
01:20:37 take us home
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