Uada announced today they are going to cancel all tour dates for the rest of 2026 for health issues. The band was promoting their last release Interwoven released on April 10th 2026 released by Eisenwald. Read the note of the band below:
FAREWELL TOURING WORLD:
Due to circumstances beyond our control — including family surgery and some minor health issues within our own camp — we have made the difficult decision to temporarily step back from touring.
Canceling all live appearances in 2026 was not a choice we made lightly, but one that felt necessary. Family will always come first.
During this time, we will focus on rebuliding ourselves, caring for our loved ones, and beginning work on new material. We look forward to returning to the stage once the new album is complete.
Thank you for your understanding and continued support.
Tracklist: 01.Partially Devoured 04:27 02.Let This One Be a Demon 01:45 03.Cease to Exist 02:59 04.Body in a Barrel 02:52 05.Horripilation 02:46 06.Mask of Sanity 03:26 07.Black Knife Night 02:55 08.Mount Eerie 03:42 09.Mortuorum Flies 03:12
Cascophonies is the full length of these already European thrash veterans and the album clocks in at only meager 28 minutes with 9 songs but enough time to pass like a hurricane and leave a trail of destruction behind them.
Sounding like a mix of Sepultura, Kreator, Anthrax and Slayer these cats doesn’t spare violence and intricate thrash metal parts as shown in the opener Partially Devoured that comes with the foot to the door, leaving no prisoners, sometimes with “mosh” parts and others in full velocity mode just as the following song Let This One Be a Demon that is crystal clear in its intention to do harm or in the subsequent Cease to Exist that brings thrash to its full blown glory with changes of tempo that only leaves everything more and more violent!
Lopsided riffs and more violence can be sensed in the number Body in a Barrel that is mid-tempo actually but is where the guitarists put all their dexterity into, revealing a complex thrash but soon comes Horripilation that seems to refute the former track by peeling one’s flesh with hard-hitting riffs and drumming from hell, all of them short businesses mind you, but when Mask of Sanity comes it sounds just like Arise from Sepultura in a gratuitous show of savagery that hits one in the freaking face!
The Slayer-infused Black Knife Night is a foregone conclusion to this demented album that Deathstorm lives up to its name just as Mount Eerie that is uncompromising, or the very last track called Mortuorum Flies that maintains the level of ignorance and brutality of the other tracks!
Cascophonies is an album of solid thrash metal that is not overtly nostalgic neither it is modern: a band that is irreprehensible for their effort in keep the thrash metal flame alive with bloodthirstiness and gusto!
Cascophonies is going to be released on Friday, May 22nd on Dying Victims Productions.
Tracklist: 01.Dungeon of Death 03:26 02.Slave to Sin 04:10 03.Death After Life 04:26 04.Close Combat 04:06 05.Storm the Gate 02:47 06.The Bird 03:56
This is the 3rd EP of Sandstorm and they continue to play by the book of the truest 80’s heavy metal, no concessions, no modern bullshit and judging by this EP they will never give up the fight!
Proof of that is the opening title track that brings nostalgia with epic heavy metal riffs that is not speed metal, but hell, this is metal as heck with mid-tempo sound that is only for old-schoolers while the song Slave to Sin has a hell of a chorus and iron will while the power trio distributes their killer guitars sounds, riff and solos and a packed rhythm session that brings fire and metal destruction!
After a brief intro, Death After Life enters with a truest guitar riff of hard/heavy/NWOBHM persuasion that cradles the sung part like no other song and over again solos are great while the song Close Combat comes for the supreme orgasm of oldest of headbangers with a true set of riffs and a refrain that kills.
Storm the Gate commences with a VERY Running Wild riff that is simply irresistible (it makes me smile every time I hear it) and the feelings of vengeance are aplenty here and the last song The Bird, narrates a story of an evil bird that kills innocent villagers in a mid-tempo mode. Does it get truer than that? I think NOT!
This EP is for purists only, and they will never feel deceived or deserted by the power of truest heavy metal that Sandstorm professes! They are the true defenders of the faith!
Dungeon of Death is going to be released on Friday, May 22nd on Dying Victims Productions
Tracklist: 01.Eternal Night 03:48 02.Guillotines 03:00 03.We’re All Gonna Fukking Die 03:47 04.Nail + Burn 05:01 05.Fantastik Fukk 02:06 06.The Day the Whole World Ends 06:48
Shewollf is a band that hails from Belgian with the great vocalist K. Von Shewolff who vomits her way into this debut EP called We’re All Gonna Fukkin’ Die that brings a mix of Black Metal and Post-apocalyptic punk approach (total no future) to their dirty sound.
Playing by the Darkthrone playbook (mainly the albums that goes from The Cult is Alive [2006] to Circle the Wagons [2010]) this EP shows 6 tracks that clocks in at 24 minutes and 30 seconds of purest gritty metal that makes the eardrums bleed as showed in the first track Eternal Night that is gut wrenching and sick with simplest riffs done almost in repetition. While Guillotines brings mid-tempo paranoia with strident guitars all the way.
We’re All Gonna Fukking Die (the track) is more of a headbanger that resembles Bathory and Motörhead and make it a non-stop fun for the fans of the style! Nail + Burn sounds like a Warfare song but with dirtiness times 7! Too grating for the crowd, their black attack resounds nuclear bombs!
Fantastik Fukk is a hell of fantastic title and short song, over again throwing mud at the posers’ face while the last one called The Day the Whole World Ends is a summary of the whole EP.
At the end of the day everything is too dissonant and maybe it is about it and nothing more in their street-black-punk that will please the urban creatures of the night.
We’re All Gonna Fukkin’ Die is going to be out next Friday, May 22th on Dying Victims Productions
Aeternum Mausoleum is one of the most waited releases this year in Latim American black metal underground circles and the waiting is justified: hailing from Brazil the debut album of these purists pay homage – back to back – to the black metal made in Greece: Rotting Christ, Varathron, Necromantia, Cult of Eibon, you name it, because the list is endless and the references are aplenty.
The winds of old school Greek metal comes full blow, when the song Érebos lands but it is in the track Suprema Nereide Atlântica that the sounds of that scene are felt: straight drumming, straight riffs, iterations until the musical apex evokes the aforementioned bands in this review: and that’s just marvelous because when the great majority of the black metal scene try to ape the Scandinavian sound of the 1990’s ipsis literis, Aeternum Mausoleum incarnates the whole Hellenic sound and culture as if they were Greeks themselves…
One of the greatest differences and curiosities from this monumental album is where some of the Aegian bands sometimes sing in their mother tong, this band sings in Brazilian Portuguese and that gives an imponent varnish to this natural-born-classic and some samples of that can be felt in songs like Noctara and mainly in Ode Helênica where the occult fires of the old oracle summon the spirits in the old acropolis: headbanger approach in the rhythm, no-nonsense riffs that are played with gusto and true spellwork on vocals.
The highlight of the album comes with the breathtaking Olhos de Serpente (Thulsa Doom) which makes a clear nod to Conan! They never veer off their resolute path to deliver the purest Hellenic vibes and the outstanding Rei das Sombras is part and parcel of their natural inclination to the culture (and whatnot) of the Olympian lands.
Announcing the end, the track Prometheus Anthropos is not subpar to the other superb anthems of this album draconianly following their muse and the last song is a cover of Varathron sung in Portuguese called Funeral Maldito (the original is Unholy Funeral featuring on Varathron first album His Majesty at the Swamp from 1993.
This album is a pure deference for the black arts of one of the most respected scenes in the world from one continent to another. The music of this disc is going to echo for eternity.
Ecos do Panteão is out now on Brazilian Ritual Records.
Tracklist 01.The Portal 01:24 02.Dweller of the Twilight Void 03:52 03.Trespass the Threshold 04:15 04.The Pact (Sealed in Blood) 03:48 05.Threading the Atom 04:50 06.Visages of Death 03:14 07.Woman of Infernal Beauty 03:59 08.Primordial Evil 03:16 09.Show No Mercy (Slayer cover) 02:57 10.Nefarious Dominion 04:27
Desolus comes to their sophomore album of very aggressive and Kreator-inspired blackened thrash metal that is going to satisfy the thirst for blood of the real headbangers out there that cannot have their zombie desires fulfilled with nowadays poser bands!!!
And Desolus roars back with a rusty take on their mortal thrash metal that thrusts its oxidized blade into the bodies of unsuspecting victims that roams through dangerous and satanic avenues of the post-apocalyptic cities searching for some piece of action!
That’s exactly the sentiment when a track like Dweller of the Twilight Void commences the whole deal mixing Slayer and Kreator (from the first two albums) in a black cauldron of evil and spewing forth gastric juice and the very same can be said of the subsequent tune Trespass the Threshold where monsters seem to appear from everywhere into someone’s insane mind causing schizophrenic hallucinations!
A bedlam of purest maniacal bloodletting lays ahead with violent music that is made to cause eternal earache with corroded attack of guitars and insane played drums with possessed cadaveric desire lust for dismembered corpses: that’s what you’ll hear on track such as Threading the Atom, Woman of Infernal Beauty and the also destructive Primordial Evil.
The album also presents us with a cover from Slayer – Show No Mercy (normally we hear the other songs of this album covered, that one is difficult to listen to…)
This album is for those thrashbangers who are tired of being fucked off and want some real action for a fucking change. This cd translates the fury of it all.
Dwellers of the Twilight Void is out now on CD, LP, TAPE on Hells Headbangers.
Upcoming tour dates 4/25 – Milwaukee, WI @ Sabbatic 4/26 – Bayview, WI @ Sky High Skate shop 5/2 – Drowned Cavern fest day one – Harrisonburg, VA @ the Golden Pony 5/23 – Maryland Deathfest Saturday – Baltimore, MD @ Angels Rock Bar
Tracklist: 01.And on the Economy 0:52 02.British Petroleum 2:38 03.Mortality 3:16 04.Again I Rise 4:45 05.Culling 3:14 06.Tsar 1:59 07.Precipice 4:01 08.Wiring of Violence 3:37 09.Confession – Obsession 3:55 10.Ashes 3:23 11.And Cats! 0:36
On their first record called Descendants from 2023 the band was nominated for Grammis (The Swedish version of Grammys) but it was impossible to fathom the fury that was about to be unleashed in their sophomore album called Wiring of Violence that brings purest thrash metal anarchy with punishing riffs and pit devastators inside it!
The band shows a disposition only known in Slayer, that is evocative of pure violence and the wanting of practicing it while listening to this truly violent gem as proved by the killer sound British Petrolium that opens up the gates of hell while Mortality continues to scourge the victims of thrash metal with savage intent! The band incorporates thrash metal and bleeds it while playing and vomits it on your fucking face!
Next track will send fans into a tailspin with the midtempo controlled chaos of Again I Rise and the ALL-OUT chaos of the deliciously thuggish and warlike Culling and even the shorter song of the album called Tsar where there is no shortage of bullets, bombs, shots, genocides, and the likes as a matter of course!!! DAMN!!!!!
Well this band does not talk about war, they PUT ONE INTO THE FUCKING WAR! The maximum example is the title track where the details exposed in the lyrics make one think: this is it! This is what was missing in true thrash metal war machine. Confession – Obsession follows the same path of extreme extermination.
But it is in the last song Ashes that all hell seriously breaks loose with nuclear energy, velocity at high octane, this is simple the most maniacal the song of the album!!! I simple felt in love with it!
I doubt, (I will repeat) I DOUBT this album will not call the attention of the truest thrashers out there with such a surge of violence and war disturbance! Get Slayer, Sodom, Destruction and even Exodus, put all of this inside a disc and wait for the end of the world… Yeah, it is THIS GOOD.
tracklist: 01.Metallic Rain 03:48 02.Awakening 03:18 03.Dancing on the Ruins 03:02 04.Malleus Maleficarum 03:30 05.Running With the Stars 04:19 06.Dominion 05:12 07.Break the Wave 03:13 08.Himalaya 03:37 09.Wasted Land 04:18 10.Virtual Pain 03:24 11.Heart of Sorrow 05:25
Rexoria is team of heart-bounded musicians who play symphonic power heavy metal that is one the best in the world. Hailing from Sweden (WHERE ELSE????) they conjured up over again to deliver this gem called Fallen Dimension. Their last album until then was Imperial Dawn and it was a great one and let’s see if this album is on par to that one.
With her always potent voice, Frida Ohlin comes ripping with a robust power metal in Metallic Rain with outstanding solos and all the jive and investing heavily on choruses and the song Awakening keeps the party going and if one wants to sing along, this is the album to search.
Dancing on the Ruins escapes from the label “symphonic power metal” for which is a helluva rock n roll song that sounds like Crucified Barbara, full of end-of-the-world attitude whilst on Running With the Stars the lyrics seems to not show this self-assurance attitude but it’s good anyway.
The strongest song in the album, though, is the track Dominion that is tailor made for the world of today, I mean it’s the soundtrack of present if there is such a thing and of course, along with Dancing on the Ruins it is one of the highlights of the album! Himalaya brings hope back to the fore with a strongest refrain (over again!) and great sound but in reality, that’s no surprise coming from the great Rexoria!
Now, it is IMPOSSIBLE to remain passive before the super catchy hymn that is the song Virtual Pain which is sure to be the hit of the album for the nature of it… just listen, come back here and tell me if the song (and the band) DO NOT have the Je ne sais quoi! I dare you!
Okay, the very last tune Heart of Sorrow is a power ballad the suits well to finish this great work of Rexoria which has reached another turning point and I strongly recommend that you listen to this album if you like the style.
Fallen Dimension is out now on Black Lodge Records.
Benediction during Heidelberg Deathfest at Halle02, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany on 2023-03-18, Photo: Sven Mandel
Dave Ingram is leaving Benediction because of his health issues and will play select shows as a way to say goodbye to the fans. To fill in for his place the band will have Dave Hunt (Anaal Nathrakh) (former Benediction vocalist, who sang in albums such as Organized Chaos (2001) and Killing Music (2008). For other dates Spanish vocalist Oscar Rilo will also step in to help the band in other selected dates.
Read the official note from the band:
BENEDICTION STATEMENT.
Further to the recent post regarding the health situation of vocalist Dave Ingram, We have received this statement from the man himself;
“Some sad news ahead. Due to the current state of my arthritis now, I have to withdraw as vocalist for Benediction. The increase in pain, and the frustration it causes from its debilitation, has led me to this disconsolate decision. I will be performing select shows with the band during 2026 as I would like a chance to say farewell and thank you to the fans who have supported us throughout the years, so hope that all attending them will have an awesome time with us. It saddens me greatly, and I hope that friends and fans alike will understand. Thank you, it has truly been a blast!”
Details of which shows Dave will attend will be announced as we get closer to gig day as obviously His health will dictate this.
As you would expect Benediction do not want to cancel ANY shows and have called on a few old friends to fill the inevitable void on centre stage for the gigs Dave will miss in the next few Months
Firstly the band had no hesitation in inviting Oscar Rilo to once again step up and fill the vocalist position for the gigs in Germany on 15 and 16 May.
Oscar has received rave reviews from the media and musicians alike after his superb performances at recent Benediction concerts in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona and the Boys in the band are thrilled He will again take up the hot seat.
Dave Hunt will return to his former position as frontman for Benediction at Iron fest and Mystic, his first appearances for the band since he was himself replaced by Dave Ingram in 2019.
We will hopefully to have some really exciting news for our fans in Latin/South America over the next few weeks so keep an eye open for that!
Benediction would like to wish Dave Ingram well and want to make his remaining shows with the band a real send off so we’ll need all of you guys for that! So Let’s Go!
The band would like to thank you, the fans for your understanding in this unfortunately difficult period.
Thanks for your undying loyalty and relentless support as always. You guys never let us down and we are eternally grateful.
So for now let’s all get behind Oscar Rilo and Dave Hunt for making the next few shows possible (Thanks Fellas!)and let’s make the shows the usual energetic metal chaos you are used to seeing!
More news as we get it but ultimately…The Show Must Go On!!
Tracklist: 01.Rituals of Ignorance 04:08 02.Swarms of the Mindless 03:23 03.Elysium 04:31 04.The Unborn God 04:10 05.Thrones 05:31 06.Fall of Faith 04:25 07.Sun Hammer 03:56 08.The Corinthian 03:37 09.Despoiler 06:07
Over again Devenial Verdict brings over the top dissonant death metal that doesn’t sound like gymnastics in pure berserkr velocity, instead it is almost like an encounter of old school and new school of death metal that sounds really interesting.
For example, in the opener Rituals of Ignorance the band make the effort of producing complex riffs and tempos while at the same time being an almost doom (I said almost!) death metal and the song is totally labyrinthine in a reasonable velocity just like the great song Swarms of the Mindless that somewhat resounds like good old Gorefest, infused with a take that will delight new generations of converted to death metal business.
Elysium is a no-nonsense song that balance the quasi-snail-paced parts with fast ones creating an indeed beguiling momentum while The Unborn God avoid high camp shenanigans by progressing the album into intelligent solutions and great bellows.
It’s clear the band knows the score when a track like Thrones commences with their honed skills apparent in every instrument and they hold sway of their sui generis form of death metal being one of the highlights of the album whilst on Fall of Faith the band rise to the occasion with a headbanger of a dissonant death metal and intricate notes that may or may not be classified as prog death.
Almost in a segue Sun Hammer go in a fast direction with attractive riffs and drum pounding that is great, and The Corinthian is exciting in their take, almost thrash in nature, bona-fide extreme metal vocals and over again convoluted riffs.
Last song called Despoiler can be perceived as a recapitulation of the whole album with all the elements that make this album so cool: change of tempos, complexity in guitars, rousing vocals and the whole enchilada.
This album is captivating one and an exercise in true death metal and over again Devenial Verdict delivers a remarkably cool material.
Old Blood – Fresh Wounds is out now on Transcending Obscurity Records.
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