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Earlier this year, Fractal Universe released their new full-length, “Rhizomes of Insanity”, via Metal Blade Records, and toured across Europe in support of it.

During their album release show at Le Gueulard+ in Nilvange, France, on April 19th, 2019, the band recorded their performance, where they played “Rhizomes of Insanity” in its entirety, along with some fan favorites.

Watch the first video from this set, “Fundamental Dividing Principle”, below.

Today, Nuclear Blast is pleased to announce the signing of Germany’s finest progressive death metal band, Obscura. Founded in 2002, the group have established their reputation by releasing 5 studio albums which have been highly acclaimed by fans and press alike, accompanied by playing support tours (w/ Sepultura, Children Of Bodom, Cannibal Corpse among others) as well as their own headline shows all around the globe.

With All Hallows’ Eve and the Day of the Dead fast approaching, the L.A.-based thrash/death/shred quartet Exmortus have unveiled a visualizer for the title track for their just-released horror-themed EP “Legions of the Undead”.

Check out the clip – which was designed by Wayne Joyner (Dream Theater, Devin Townsend), below.

Enterprise Earth have released a new music video today for “We Are Immortal”. Directed by Burke Cullinane, this is the fourth music video the band has released from their latest full length, “Luciferous”. 

Vocalist Dan Watson comments: “Alone we’ll die in the fallout, but together We Are Immortal”.

Bay Area natives Aenimus are proud to present drummer Cody Pulliam’s new playthrough for the song “Between Iron and Silver”, taken from their sophomore album “Dreamcatcher”. Watch the video below.

Later this month, Allegaeon will head back out on tour, headlining the “Apoptosis Tour Pt II” across the USA with Inferi and Paladin.

In anticipation of this trek, Allegaeon has now launched a new video for “Metaphobia” - taken from their latest album, “Apoptosis”.

Directed and filmed by Matthew Zinke, “Metaphobia” can be viewed below.

After an already standout 2019 thus far for The Artisan Era with worldwide praised albums from Warforged, Equipoise, Inferi, Inanimate Existence, and Flub, the Nashville-based label continues to look towards the future through continually expanding their roster. Fresh off the recent signing of California seasoned tech-death veterans Arkaik, The Artisan Era is excited to announce the signing of Stockton, California-based symphonic technical death metal outfit Symbolik, who will release their debut full-length through the label in 2020.

Record label Extreme Metal Music and Ancient Roman metal pioneers ADE are thrilled to open the curtain of the new album “Rise of the Empire”!

The new album purpose is to get the listener even more involved into the ancient history of Rome, specifically into Caesar’s age.

Infected Dead made a grand impression with their Lovecraftian cosmic horror debut “Archaic Malevolence” and have left fans salivating for more ever since. Today the band proudly reveal details of a blistering new single and video to sate those in wait, a track entitled “The Rache”, which shall be unveiled on September 27th, 2019, via Hostile Media.

In honor of Friday the 13th, the death/thrash/shred quartet Exmortus have unveiled an animated music video for their “Evil Dead”-inspired song “Swallow Your Soul”, one of two new original tracks on their forthcoming Halloween/horror-themed EP, “Legions of the Undead”.

The clip, which was designed by Wayne Joyner (Dream Theater, Devin Townsend), can be seen below.