Music News 20251209 (Dec 9, 2025)
featuring KING ULTRAMEGA , PUPIL SLICER , Lamb of God , HERIOT , On Your Inland Empire , EF , Black Rabbit and Monuments in Ruin EP293
To commemorate the induction of the legendary SOUNDGARDEN into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, alternative rock collective KING ULTRAMEGA have unleashed a powerful new rendition of "The Day I Tried To Live", featuring SOUNDGARDEN's Kim Thayil, with Alissa White-Gluz of ARCH ENEMY, Mark Menghi of METAL ALLEGIANCE, and Charlie Benante of ANTHRAX. "The Day I Tried To Live" is also featured on a 2-song LP release that also features KING ULTRAMEGA's rendition of the SOUNDGARDEN classic "Rusty Cage". KING ULTRAMEGA crafted this single in loving memory of legendary vocalist Chris Cornell, while raising funds and awareness for MusiCares, which is the Recording Academy’s nonprofit that provides mental health, addiction recovery, and emergency services to those in the music community.
Fleshwork, the crushing new full-length from UK mathcore trio PUPIL SLICER, is out now and streaming on Prosthetic Records!
Describing Fleshwork as “conceptual” but specifically not a concept album, PUPIL SLICER leans into creating an all-encompassing industrial hellscape; a perfect setting to explore the societal machinations that dehumanize and devalue the poor, disabled, queer, and people of color for political and financial gain. Drawing on personal experience, vocalist and guitarist Kate Davies details the disconnect and discomfort of navigating this life, and the substantial human, day-to-day cost of doing so.
Photo by Derek Bremner
Lamb of God, who recently released their first new music in three years with the single “Sepsis,” have shared a riveting live video capturing the song’s explosive debut in front of tens of thousands of fans at Aftershock Festival.
Directed by Sam Shapiro and Kevin Garcia, the performance took place just one day after the song’s release. Before launching into the three-and-a-half-minute track, Randy Blythe introduced it, saying, “This song is about a national sickness,” as John Campbell, Mark Morton, Willie Adler, and Art Cruz, joined in as the crowd erupted.
Photo credit: Travis Shinn
The UK's most exciting new heavy band, HERIOT, have released their new single 'Commander of Pain'.
Debbie Gough (vocals/guitar) comments: "'Commander of Pain' is an ode to 90's death metal. This is a song born of the inspiration we’ve gained from playing live alongside many different genres of metal bands. We wanted to write a track paying tribute to our favourite aspects of heavy music.'"
Photo Credit: Harry Steel
From the ashes of Crown, rises a dark new wave of industrial rock. On Your Inland Empire, the duo of Stéphane Azam and David Husser take the heavy electronics that they first donned on Crown’s last album a step further into a dark night of the soul.
Your Inland Empire are released “Edge of Perfection” as the third advanced single off their upcoming debut album. With cutting riffs and breakneck beats, the song blurs the thin line between total destruction and pure bliss.
Watch the video for “Edge of Perfection” on the Season of Mist YouTube channel.
Photo by © Jennifer Brachet Photography
Swedish post-rock masters EF today reveal 'Ett', another glimpse of their re-recorded version of their now classic debut album, Give Me Beauty… or Give Me Death!.
Photo Credit: Jakob Ekvall
Dutch concept driven deathmetal band Black Rabbit is back with new EP. This new EP, Warren Of Necrosis, Drops December 10, 2025 !! New Single, “Initium Finis”, Unveiled. Watch the Official Music Video HERE!
A twisted retelling of Genesis where creation is born from darkness, not divinity. Light becomes a weapon of deceit, innocence withers, and chaos reigns as the world is shaped by corruption—marking the true beginning of the end.
Photo Credit: Sven Scholten
and of course, Monuments in Ruin - Chapter 293 (music podcast)
Monuments in Ruin EP293
Track List:
00:00 Monuments in Ruin Intro
00:10 The Death of The Crows by Giöbia - X-ÆON (Heavy Psych Sounds)
03:18 first break
03:53 March of the Pigs by SANDRIDER - The Downward Spiral Redux (Magnetic Eye Records)
07:14 Black Birds Beneath Your Sky by Sun of the Dying - A Throne of Ashes (AOP Records)
12:13 Eyehatesociety by STONE NOMADS - Empires of Stone (Ripple Music)
17:36 Calice dei Fantasmi by THE CYCLIST CONSPIRACY - Back to Hermetics and Martial Arts Vol.1 (Subsound Records)
22:31 second break
23:26 Sleep Paralysis by Basaltic Plateau - Dead Dinosaurs Echoes (Electric Valley Records)
27:39 The Depths of Lividity by Fessus - Subcutaneous Tomb (Darkness Shall Rise)
32:38 Turs by Skogskult - Skogskult (Bonebag Records)
38:41 The Endchanter by Araphel - The Endchanter (Nuclear War Now!)
45:58 third break
46:50 The Forest and the Arrival by Hyver - Shaâtaunoâr (Antiq)
49:13 The Builder by MOONEXUS - I (Independent)
56:16 Dreams of Arrakis by Spectral Sorcery - Hyperspace Odyssey (Psalmodist Records)
01:03:21 The Seer by Greet - I Know How to Die (Fiadh Productions)
01:08:49 Vidare by Norrsinnt - Djupt inni skoga (Obygd Produktion)
01:12:25 fourth break
01:14:08 Nefarious Tongues by Ingested - Nefarious Tongues (Single) (Metal Blade)
01:17:51 take me home
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