Orcrypt – Balrog & Roll 2020
Release: 31 October 2020 Balrog & Roll is the 2nd album from British Fantasy Black Metal trio Orcrypt. After becoming dormant in 2010, following the release of Mercenaries of Mordor, founding member Ugluk reactivated the band in 2018, recruiting new members Sammael on guitars, and J.R.R. Martin on vocals.
Scarlet Rebels – Community LIVE: Made In Sonic One 2020
We really like this brooding yet punchy, confident new one from Welsh melodic rockers Scarlet Rebels. No One Else To Blame will appeal to rock enthusiasts and more mainstream passers-by.
ENTER 1991-Images From Floating Worlds (2020)
Release date: Friday, September 18th 2020 ENTER finally get the wages of their many years of work, even if the days of her active career were a little longer ago. Because now the previously unreleased demo recordings by the Italians are finally being made available to the public and published under the album title “1991 – Images From Floating Worlds”.
Ewigkeit – 23 (2020)
23 September 2020 Ewigkeit’s new short-player is a hazy 70’s trip-rock style homage to the Illuminatus! Trilogy (the legendary psyche-conspiracy adventure novel). It details the cartoonesque plan of the Illuminati to kill all hippies and take over the world by resurrecting a zombie army at Europe’s biggest rock concert. The only people who can stop them are the Discordians, traversing the world in their giant submarine and trading cannabis to fund the war against the coming eschaton.
In Malice’s Wake – The Blindness of Faith 2020
Release: 13 November 2020 Australia’s savage thrash/death veterans In Malice’s Wake proudly announce the release details for their 4th full-length album The Blindness of Faith. The album is scheduled for independent worldwide release on Friday the 13th of November. Presale is now available (see links below).
ANNEXATION – Inherent Brutality 2020
Release date: Friday, September 25th 2020 Annexation was founded in 2015 by Lizard Gonzales a.k.a. Uncle Crocodile. With the intention to play fast and aggressive Thrash Metal, influenced by Bands like Slayer, Exodus, Demolition Hammer, Power Trip and Violator the goal was to bring brute violence in the spotlight.
MOSH-PIT JUSTICE – The Fifth Of Doom 2020
Release date: Friday, August 14th 2020 Now stretched over two different continents (Mariyan now lived in Tampa, FL) Mosh-Pit Justice members were working towards recording their 4th album. This Trans- Atlantic collaboration promised a fresh breath of air in today’s metal scene !!! “Fighting The Poison” (with featuring guest musicians .. Mr. Glen Alvelais (ex-Forbidden/Testament/ Forbidden Evil -leads on “God Wills It” and Mr. Emil Markov (x- Jeff Scott Soto Band) was released on Punishment 18 Records in 2018 and received many praises from the underground critics.
PRÆY – Empyreal Sorrow 2020
Release: 20 November 2020 With humanity more and more acting like a giant swarm of insects controlled by one leading thought, the message within EMPYREAL SORROW’s debut album PRÆY is like a festering branding:
Brotthogg – The Die is Cast 2020
Release: 1 August 2020 Brotthogg deals in melodic thrash metal that owes its allegiance to bands like Emperor’, Old Man’s Child, Symphony X and Dissection. The members are known from bands like Subliritum and Chton. The name Brotthogg is derived from an old forgotten Norwegian word in dialect meaning ”The one who has to take care of the job, the unpleasant one”
STARBLIND – Black Bubbling Ooze 2020
Release date: Friday, July 31st 2020 After two albums, the Swedes in STARBLIND had to cope with a change of vocalist in 2016. But the newly acquired Marcus S. Olkerud did splendid work on the third album. An album that already shows the direction of where the quintet is headed with their fourth work ‘Black Bubbling Ooze’.
KENZINER – The Last Horizon 2020
Release date: Friday, August 28th 2020 Mastermind Jarno Keskinen only played the guitars and left the keyboards to Jukka Karinen. The bass was taken over by JJ Hjelt and the drums were managed by Make Lievonen (EMBASSY OF SILENCE). And finally from now on Markku Kuikka (ex-THAUROROD, STATUS MINOR) was responsible for the vocals.
Accidental President – Accidental President 2020
Release: 1 July 2020 Accidental President is a female-fronted Alt-Rock 3 piece playing their own brand of hard rock mixed heavily with goth and metal influences – with a theatrical flair. The band is set to release their self-titled debut album on Wednesday, 1 July 2020. Today, the band is thrilled to reveal a brand new music video Rotten Child, to offer a taste of what will hit you.
BLACK KNIGHT – Road To Victory 2020
Release date: Friday, June 26th 2020 BLACK KNIGHT reach for the stars again. The formation from Amsterdam, founded in 1981, starts its big comeback this year. After two demos in the 1980s and early 1990s, the classic debut ´Tales From The Darkside´ (1999) and its successor ´The Beast Inside´ (2007) concluded a glorious band phase.