[Heavy News] PERTURBATOR Shares Menacing New Single 'Mors Ultima Ratio' From New Album ‘Age of Aquarius’.
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[Heavy News] PERTURBATOR Shares Menacing New Single 'Mors Ultima Ratio' From New Album ‘Age of Aquarius’.

Critically acclaimed for both his live show, electronic and other multi-instrumental material, Paris-based James Kent aka Perturbator has teased yet another track off the upcoming LP Age of Aquarius in latest single ‘Mors Ultima Ratio’! Peep this slice of heavy doof, get the scoop on both album and artist details, preorder links, single music videos and more within.

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[Heavy News] SOULFLY Announce New Album CHAMA + Release Lyric Video For New Single 'Storm The Gates'.
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[Heavy News] SOULFLY Announce New Album CHAMA + Release Lyric Video For New Single 'Storm The Gates'.

[Heavy News, Tue 2nd Sept]: SOULFLY Announce New Album CHAMA + Release Lyric Video For New Single 'Storm The Gates'! Brazil’s most metal família keep it tribal with a crushing new single and accompanying kaleidoscopic music vid. You can check out both here, with more details/bio on Chama, artist statement/links, merch/LP preorders and more! Groove on.

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[Heavy News] On The Motion Tracker - Recent/Upcoming Release Info + Mini-Reviews.
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[Heavy News] On The Motion Tracker - Recent/Upcoming Release Info + Mini-Reviews.

[Heavy News, 29.08.25]: Having admittedly been lacking in energy for doing full album reviews of late, I’ve nonetheless been scoping out what’s pinging the motion-tracker on the endless xeno-hunt that is new and upcoming releases. See within for press releases and some mini-review synopses for No Apologies (Aus hardcore), Hexrot (US experimental black/death), The Mansters (Norwegian fast-punk) & Now I’ve Done It (US… WTF-metal)!

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[#MusicMonday 25.08.25] A Curious Trio of Upcoming Albums.
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[#MusicMonday 25.08.25] A Curious Trio of Upcoming Albums.

[Music Monday/ Heavy News - 25.08.25]: Join me in my ongoing spelunking through the immeasurably steep ascent up New Release Mountain with three particularly curious underground LP’s: US-based grunge-doom (CROP - S.S.R.I.) and self-style ‘Castle Metal’ (medieval black metal!) via Morke’s upcoming To Carry On and finally, sludge-laden, raw atmospheric black metal from Wales of all places in incognito-solo-artist The Sorrow Of Being Immaculate’s Suicide Forest. Most curious indeed, old bean!

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#MusicMonday 18.08.25]: Upcoming Release Radar.
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#MusicMonday 18.08.25]: Upcoming Release Radar.

Another Music Monday, another great selection of album releases happening over the next couple of months! See within for artist/album info/links, music videos, preorder links etc for upcoming LPs from: Norwegian post/blackgazers Sundrowned, Australian blackened disso-death brutality via Hebephrenique, UAE/Jordan melodic death-doom collab Falling Leaves, psychedelic blackened US robot-metallers Electromancy and Norwegian hardcore/psych/post-punks Haraball!

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[#MusicMondays 11.08.25]: Top 10 Upcoming Releases [#1] OLD MACHINES - ‘The Cycles of Extinction’ LP
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[#MusicMondays 11.08.25]: Top 10 Upcoming Releases [#1] OLD MACHINES - ‘The Cycles of Extinction’ LP

#MusicMondays, 11.08.2025: In addition to a brief recap of the many things we’ve been up to music-wise on the ISC blog/podcast, I’m trying something different this week - bringing out my top ten recent releases from underground picks across the globe! First up, we have the scoop, links and more for Mass Effect/dystopian sci-fi inspired death metal cosmic warlords Old Machines, via ‘The Cycles of Extinction’ (out 22nd August). Get amongst it!

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[Heavy News] DESPISED ICON Reveal New Album SHADOW WORK, Release Music Video For New Single 'Over My Dead Body'
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[Heavy News] DESPISED ICON Reveal New Album SHADOW WORK, Release Music Video For New Single 'Over My Dead Body'

Heavy News/ Music Monday, 11.08.25: Oh hell yeah dude, I am all about this! Montreal-based deathcore mainstays Despised Icon are back in the saddle with their first album in six years with Shadow Work, via Nuclear Blast. Check the link for crushing new music video for ‘Over My Dead Body’ feat. Matt Honeycutt of Kublai Khan TX, album info, preorder/artist links and more!

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[Podcast] Ep. 55: [Interview] w/ SIMON CALABRESE of DAYSEND, Ahead of The ‘Revisiting Severance’ Tour.
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[Podcast] Ep. 55: [Interview] w/ SIMON CALABRESE of DAYSEND, Ahead of The ‘Revisiting Severance’ Tour.

A massive privilege and honour to have frontman Simon Calabrese of influential Australian melodic death metal legends Daysend, ahead of their upcoming national tour revisiting the massively-acclaimed album Severance. We discuss Simon's thoughts on said tour, stepping back into the band for the first time in 19 years and more! Video/podcast interview link, tour info and ticket/RSVP links contained within - get on it!

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[Heavy News] Finnish Deathgrinders I, CURSED Release Single ‘Nothing From The Ruins’ From Upcoming EP Out September.
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[Heavy News] Finnish Deathgrinders I, CURSED Release Single ‘Nothing From The Ruins’ From Upcoming EP Out September.

[Heavy News, 07.08.25]: Finnish deathgrind underground legends I, Cursed are slated to release a savage EP in Heretical Onslaught on 11.09.2025, via Inverse Records/Meara Music. Check the link for details, latest single ‘Nothing From The Ruins’ music/streaming links, preorder/artist links and more! Suomi madness FFO: Gadget, Nasum, Rotten Sound etc.

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[Heavy News] ELECTRIC SIX Announce March 2026 Greatest Hits Australian Tour
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[Heavy News] ELECTRIC SIX Announce March 2026 Greatest Hits Australian Tour

Adding to the veritable deluge of tour announcements for Australia in the last few days - here’s a slice of funky-punk/metal fun! Electric Six are well-known for a raucous stage show, and they’ve managed to now pull an Aussie tour hat-trick for the 3rd year in a row, thanks to Metropolis Touring. Check the link for tickets, tour info and more!

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[Heavy News] THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN: Australia Braces For The Arrival Of The Greatest Live Band On The Planet!
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[Heavy News] THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN: Australia Braces For The Arrival Of The Greatest Live Band On The Planet!

This ain’t your average promo-piece - and why should it be when such a once-in-a-lifetime run of shows from the briefly-reformed The Dillinger Escape Plan is at stake? Check out a fantastic Q and A with John Howarth on behalf of ThePhoenix.au, plus links to tickets etc - grab those if you haven’t already, BTW! This one cannot be missed!

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[Podcast] Ep. 53: [Interview] with TOMI KOUVISAARI & JAN RECHBERGER of AMORPHIS (FIN).
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[Podcast] Ep. 53: [Interview] with TOMI KOUVISAARI & JAN RECHBERGER of AMORPHIS (FIN).

In our third podcast interview for this week, your host Brady was recently joined by two great dudes in Tomi Kouvisaari (Guitars) & Jan Rechberger of influential metallers Amorphis! We discuss latest album Borderland, touring and much more. See link for video/audio-only versions plus album preorder/info, artist bio/links, latest music videos ‘Bones’/’Light & Shadow’ and more!

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[#HeavyNews] Blackvapor/USBM Duo, HELLIR, Release New Single, "Ishimura"
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[#HeavyNews] Blackvapor/USBM Duo, HELLIR, Release New Single, "Ishimura"

I love it when our topical worlds collide! Inspired by the ill-fated planet-cracking ship of Dead Space fame, US duo Hellir have released the equally eerie black-metal-meets-vaporwave single ‘Ishimura’, from forthcoming EP Hollow Moon: Precursor, which necromorphs unto the public on August 22nd! Grab a plasma cutter and tune in to this frequency, before it’s too late.

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[HEAVY NEWS] Melbourne’s TERMINAL SLEEP Sign To Nuclear Blast Records; Release Music Video For New Single 'They Circle Below'
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[HEAVY NEWS] Melbourne’s TERMINAL SLEEP Sign To Nuclear Blast Records; Release Music Video For New Single 'They Circle Below'

Never one to let a milestone for the local Melburnian hardcore scene go astray, we’re proud to announce as part of our Heavy News coverage that Terminal Sleep have signed to major label Nuclear Blast Records! Peep the article for statements from band/label, links to latest single/music video for ‘They Circle Below’, artist links and more. Up the punx!

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[HEAVY NEWS] Dubbo Metallers WHISPERHEAD Drop ‘STERILISE’ Tour Across Victoria & Queensland
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[HEAVY NEWS] Dubbo Metallers WHISPERHEAD Drop ‘STERILISE’ Tour Across Victoria & Queensland

If you’re on our social media, you’ll note a couple of announcements, including a tribute to The Ozz-Man. Out of respect to the metal Don, we’re protecting literary real estate for Music Mondays. What’s more in the spirit of metal legacy than stoking the fires of regional Australian metal? A rhetorical question, as you’ll find out via Dubbo (NSW) crew Whisperhead.

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[HEAVY NEWS] Buncha Newly-Released/Upcoming Heavy Albums for #MusicMonday.
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[HEAVY NEWS] Buncha Newly-Released/Upcoming Heavy Albums for #MusicMonday.

Featured Image: Bruxis (AU).

And to top off our recent Music Mondays roundup for recently released singles, be sure to also check out artist/album bio, single videos/streams and more for recent/upcoming LP’s from: US thrashers Condition Critical, Greek heavy prog-rockers KOKKINIÀ, Aussie crust/d-beat underground act Bruxis, plus a death-metal duo from Transcending Obscurity Records for Abyssalis and Unaligned!

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