Progressive metal and Egyptology. Not perhaps the most obvious pairing, but one that Australian band Black Sea of Trees have dived head first into with their new, second, album Cult of the Sun, the follow up to 2023’s The Spiritual Beast.
Dragged Into Sunlight start a short run of shows in Manchester before hitting Incineration Festival. Vacuous and Plague Pit are in support.
A harrowing descent into some of the most grotesque and atmospheric death metal ever crafted as Hrob unleash their debut album.
India’s Fleshcrave crash on the death metal radar with a debut EP steeped in unvarnished death metal ferocity.
Thirty years in and Six Feet Under return with refocused, groove power assault that pushes back against recent criticism.
Some farewells are written in fire, others in blood, but this one from At The Gates…this one is carved into the very fabric of melodic death metal itself.
Teratoma return with a hulking slab of bone‑grinding death metal that stalks with irresistible groove and merciless weight.
Bay Area death metal vets Exhumed continue their UK/EU jaunt with Gruesome, in Manchester.
Suffocation have their first three albums repackaged through Dissonance Records; a period of time where they really led the way on the death metal front.
German thrash titans Kreator arrive in Manchester on their Krushers Of The World tour with a stacked bill of classic bands.
Spawned in 2025 in the shadows of Budweis, Czechia’s Temora vomit forth a rotten blend of old-school death and decaying new wave filth.
Rising from the fetid ghouls of the 1990s rancid death metal underbelly, Indiana’s malignant horde, Protrusion, unleash a near on perfect homage to those halcyon gruesome days.
Bristolian Death Metal degenerates Cryptworm vomit forth their third full-length into the underground with a nauseating amount of proficiency.
No frills, no trends, just brutal, direct death metal as Kataklysm, Vader and Blood Red Throne showcase death metal at its best.
Sanguisugabogg brutalise Glasgow as they continue to blast through Europe with a bill stacked to the hilt with brutal death metal.
