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Track Premiere: Hideous Divinity – ‘Sub Specie Aeternitatis’
April 6, 2017 Emily Bellino
Hideous Divinity reflect on the power of music on “Sub Specie Aeternitatis.”
Track Premiere: Condemned – ‘Legion’
February 9, 2017 Emily Bellino
Condemned faced a number of lineup changes, but His Divine Shadow has a fuller, more improved sound that can be heard on songs like “Legion.”
Video Premiere: Beheaded – ‘Beast Incarnate’
December 6, 2016 Emily Bellino
The new Beheaded album looks for a combination of sounds throughout the band’s career, including accompanying visuals that suit the music.
Video Premiere: So This Is Suffering – ‘Dreameater’
November 30, 2016 Emily Bellino
So This Is Suffering drop the first single from their new record, Palace Of The Pessimist.
Video Premiere: Wrvth – ‘Cease to Exist’
November 23, 2016 Emily Bellino
WRVTH release an experimental music video to go with their song “Cease to Exist.”
Video Premiere: Invoking the Abstract – ‘The Summit’
November 1, 2016 Emily Bellino
Invoking the Abstract plays instrumental technical death metal. This is a video of Invoking the Abstract playing instrumental technical death metal.
Track Premiere: Cognitive – “Birthing the Deformity”
September 15, 2016 Emily Bellino
Cognitive was formed with two ideas in mind: heaviness and intense technicality. On the first taste of their Unique Leader debut, they prove those ideas are still at the forefront of the band.
Track Premiere: Inanimate Existence Take the ‘Pulse of the Mountain’s Heart’
August 31, 2016 Emily Bellino
Inanimate Existence deliver another taste of their upcoming album, Calling From a Dream.
Dawn of Demise Premiere Song from New Album
July 21, 2016 Emily Bellino
“Deride the Wretch” is the first single from Dawn of Demise‘s new album, The Suffering. The album will be out in late August on Unique Leader Records.
Deeds of Flesh’s Craig Peters Debuts Track from Destroying the Devoid Project
July 13, 2016 Albert Mudrian
Destroying the Devoid — featuring Deeds of Flesh’s Craig Peters — are your new favorite atmospheric, progressive, melodic, technical death metal one-man side-project.
Unmerciful Unmercifully Premiere “Unmerciful”
June 16, 2016 Albert Mudrian
Brutal death metallers Unmerciful premiere their opus eponymous.
Italian Tech-Deathsters Deceptionist Find Themsleves with “Quest for Identity”
May 16, 2016 Albert Mudrian
Deceptionist (which autocorrects to “Receptionist”) answers Italy’s call more for technical death metal.
Live From Dubai: Exclusive Nervecell Video Premiere!
January 23, 2015 Shawn Macomber
Next week Unique Leader is set to reissue Psychogenocide — the 2011 sophomore LP from uber-brutal Dubai-based death metallers Nervecell — and to get both our visual and aural learners hyped for it Decibel has got the exclusive premiere of the band’s video for “Amok Doctrine” below. Preorder Psychogenocide here.
Internal Bleeding: Carnival Of Death Recap
November 17, 2014 Justin Norton
Internal Bleeding recently finished a 30-date North American tour. Guitarist Chris Pervelis shared this funny roundup from his time on the road. You can connect with the band on Facebook and get their new album Imperium from Unique Leader. — Thirty shows — across both America and Canada. That’s quite a test of human endurance…
Exclusive Video Premiere: Hideous Divinity’s “Sinister and Demented”
September 5, 2014 Shawn Macomber
Looking for some authentic Italian you can’t get at Olive Garden? Try this uber-brutal, churning platter of tech-y death metal courtesy Rome’s Hideous Divinity. Aptly dubbed “Sinister and Demented,” the track is off the band’s upcoming Herzog-inspired sophomore effort Cobra Verde, out next month. (Preorder here.) Bon appétit!
A “Festering” Ear Worm: Exclusive Acrania Premiere!
July 7, 2014 Shawn Macomber
Thanks to Acrania the world shall soon no longer need wonder what it would sound like if George Orwell served as spiritual advisor to a uber-brutal modern death metal band — these London slammers’ kinetic, oppressive, appropriately-titled debut full-length Totalitarian Dystopia will answer that question in fairly definitive fashion at the end of next month….