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Metallic hardcore band Tooth and Claw announced the impending release debut full-length, titled “Dream of Ascension” on May 21st, 2021, via Good Fight Music. The group also shared the scathing lead single “Your Crucifixion” and the accompanying music video can be seen below.

After recently signing with Napalm Records and Napalm Events, German based melodic death metal unit Hiraes is set to drop its first sonic monster with ultimate strength: Their long-awaited, phenomenal debut offering, Solitary, will be released on June 25th, 2021, via Napalm Records.

Two years after their second album “The Weight of Silence”, Belgium’s Reject The Sickness returns with an album so mercilessly crushing and heavy that you have to experience it to believe it. 2019’s in-between EP “The New Chapter” already indicated that Reject The Sickness were travelling on a new path towards musical maturity. With “While Our World Dissolves” this journey has been completed with astonishing results exceeding the promise of the earlier EP.

Recently, Oceans released their second single “Voices” from the upcoming digital EP “We Are Nøt Okay”, that is due to be released on April 30th, 2021. The third single, “Shark Tooth”, that is out today, once again features a very special guest at the microphone: Christoph Wieczorek of the German Post-Hardcore pioneers ANNISOKAY.

Blacklight Media / Metal Blade Records is proud to welcome Nicolas Cage Fighter to its worldwide roster!

Hailing from Oshawa, Canada, Maitreya will be unleashing their upcoming album “Hyper Reels” this coming June 2021. To date, they have shared two singles “Departed” and “Catalyst”.  

Continuing in lead up to their new record’s release, the band is sharing their American Gods inspired single “Summit” - watch the music video below. Pre-save the new single here.

Luxembourgish Extreme Progressive Metal band Mindpatrol announces their 4th album “Ikaria”, a concept album set in a seemingly perfect future: thanks to an omnipresent mind monitoring mechanism, the city Ikaria is purged of all crime and vile intent, allowing its inhabitants to live a perfectly peaceful life at the cost of their freedom of thoughts. A young woman named Myra finds herself unaffected by this thought monitoring due to her inability to hear.

The UK’s most exciting new talent, fearless alt-metal upstarts Vexed, instantly turned heads and took names with the release of two recent standalone singles – including the fearsome “Elite” featuring Thy Art Is Murder’s CJ McMahon – creating a palpable underground buzz and giving fans a hefty sample of what to expect in the future.

Italy’s Reality Grey has a new album “Beneath This Crown” in the works, with an anticipated release date of May 7th, 2021, through Blood Blast Distribution, powered by Nuclear Blast.