With Shatter & Bloom, Stellvris dive deep into themes of pain, resilience, and hope. The result is a fierce and emotional collection that showcases their signature mix of power, melody, and honesty.

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It gives me no pleasure to slam a film like this, but Hippo’s Revenge is an absolute shocker. You’d get more entertainment out of watching an actual real-life hippo defecate over and over again.

Today’s single slam features Forlorn, Chairmaker, Withered Land, New Miserable Experience, Märvel, Satan Therapist, The Last Bastion, GHOLD, 601, Port Noir, Blank Atlas, and Distant.

Strange Boutique's new album ‘Let the Lonely Heart Sing’ perfectly celebrates all-of the unique elements that fans know and love about the band. In this interview, we get to know them a little better.

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From violent and vitriolic deathcore, to heavy groove metal, and expansive post and atmosphere, to passionate alternative rock, potent modern metal, and sinful blackened thrash and death, we’ve reviewed some great releases this week, and here’s our weekly reminder of what was covered. All these releases are out now!

There have been Goosebumps games, but good Goosebumps games? Those are rarer and Goosebumps: Terror in Little Creek isn’t changing that.

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In this interview, we had the pleasure of speaking with Smash into Pieces vocalist Chris Adam Hedman Sörbye. Learning more about ArmaHeaven's creative process, the journey to this release that the band has been on, their evolution, AI and its place in music, and so much more.

Who doesn’t love a bit of horror? In this interview we spoke to symphonic metalcore band Venice Revive about all things horror.

This Halloween, blackened metalpunk band Bastard Cröss will unveil the auditory blasphemy that is their forthcoming album, ‘Crossripper’ via Morbid and Miserable.

Directed by Shannon Alexander, It’s Coming is a unique entry in the documentary subgenre of horror as it is a true-life story. Not a ‘based on a true story’ either. Which made for an immediate compelling watch.

Southern California quintet Spite are back with their savage new album, ‘New World Killer’. It arrives October 31st via Rise Records.

Trivium are back! The iconic metal band will release their brand-new EP, ‘Struck Dead’ on October 31st, 2025, via long time label Roadrunner Records.

German band V/Haze Miasma unleash “Praise Me! Erase Me!”, a 2025 album merging atmospheric black metal and deep emotional themes.

Swedish rock heavyweights Smash Into Pieces are set to unleash their most ambitious album to date, ‘ArmaHeaven’, arriving October 31st, 2025.

Ward XVI bring Id3ntity to London’s Cart & Horses with a theatrical show, supported by Them Bloody Kids and Pulverise.

Due for release on October 31, 2025, ‘Angel’ is the new album from German metal outfit Unprocessed.

The Benefactress (an Exposure of Cinematic Freedom), sees filmmaker Guerrilla Metropolitana push boundaries to breaking point, and in doing so, create something daring and potent.

Today’s single slam features Seven Blood and Phoenix Lake. You can read our thoughts about the latest singles from these bands below.

The hype around Mouth Culture seems never-ending, their unique blend of grungey rock with sexy licks is turning heads everywhere they go - and as they embark on their biggest headline tour yet it seems like they're only destined to go up from here.

Manchester’s heavy hardcore punk quintet ‘Going Off’ will release their new EP ‘Kill List II’, out 31st October.

‘Rot’ is the debut album from Eastbourne-based sludge/noise band, Believe in Nothing. It will be released on October 31st via Church Road Records.