Breaking out of a year-and-a-half hiatus, Portland, Maine-based ZUD will storm back into action this week with a set at the open-air Shadow Woods Metal Fest, with more live and recording actions to follow.  

Pavement Music will release Deep Breath, the debut album from Greek Hard Rockers ONE YEAR DELAY, on October 2.  

Technical Brutal Death Metallers REPULSIVE DISSECTION have released the exclusive of stream of “Apologist (Of Theodicy and Denial)“, a track from upcoming album Church of the Five Precious Wounds.  

Bangalore-based (India) Stoner/Doom Metal quintet BEVAR SEA presents the exclusive premiere of “Bury Me In NOLA” from the band’s forthcoming new album Invoke the Bizarre.  

Motor Sister have launched a brand new lyric video for “This Song Reminds Me of You” from their album Ride!  

Chronicles of Perversion, the new album from KRAANIUM, Norway’s reigning kings of slam, is out now on Comatose Music.  

With the release of Tenebrosum, the impending new long player from New Jersey-based folkloric black metal missionaries, WINDFAERER, now just days away, today they offer up the frosty sounds of fifth hymn, “The Everlasting“, for public scrutiny.  

Creator-Destructor Records is proud to announce the impending release of the brand new, self-titled 12″ EP from one of San Francisco, California’s heaviest and most exciting bands, MOHICANS, as the entire record is made available for streaming early.  

Revocation recently recruited Ash Pearson as their new full time drummer. To showcase Pearson’s talents behind the kit, a new video has been released for “Bound By Desire” from the “Teratogenesis” EP. The deftly shot video will give fans an close look at Pearson’s technique and precision. The video can be seen now at metalblade.com/revocation.  

How do you describe an enigma? In the case of THE GREAT DISCORD, certain words come to the fore: Cinematic. Grandiose. Haunting. Soaring. Devastating. Unique. But still, it is perhaps impossible to paint a vivid picture of the Swedish unit, whose layered, textured music gets under the skin and is as likely to conjure exhilaration or a sense of poignancy in the listener as it is a profound and deep seated unease. September 18th marks the release date for the Echoes EP. Echoes contains edited versions of two tracks that appear on THE GREAT DISCORD‘s most recent full-length, Duende.  

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER‘s devastating new album, Abysmal, serves to once again demonstrate why they are considered one of the most vital bands in contemporary death metal. The group’s first official music video for this album, “Receipt“, can be viewed now exclusively at metalblade.com/tbdm.  

Philadelphia’s hard-hitting power trio ON TOP will release the CD version of new EP Topless September 29 on Toil Records.