[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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[#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] 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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[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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[Heavy News] PARADISE LOST Announce ‘ASCENSION’ LP Out SEP 19th; First Single 'Silence Like The Grave' Streaming Now
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[Heavy News] PARADISE LOST Announce ‘ASCENSION’ LP Out SEP 19th; First Single 'Silence Like The Grave' Streaming Now

It’s shaping up to be a very busy week for today’s #MusicMondays / Heavy News features. Of the lucky few making the cut for today are gothic-doom icons Paradise Lost. These venerable stalwarts are slated to release 17th LP Ascension 19/09/25 via Nuclear Blast. Check link for preorder, full album details, video/stream links for first single ‘Silence Like The Grave’ and much more.

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[Heavy News] Avant-garde Death/Black Band FELGRAVE Premiere New Song at No Clean Singing.
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[Heavy News] Avant-garde Death/Black Band FELGRAVE Premiere New Song at No Clean Singing.

M.J Lupe, otherwise known in this auspice as Felgrave, has unleashed an absolute monster of dizzying, crushing avant-garde death/black metal with release of the 18-minute beast that is title track from upcoming LP Otherlike Darkness, out April 25th. A crushing sample of extreme metal’s exploratory periphery, you can check full details of the album, preorder link, artist links and more alongside the music video in this post!

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[Heavy News] MALEVOLENCE Announce New Album WHERE ONLY THE TRUTH IS SPOKEN + Release Music Video For 'If It's All The Same To You'.
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[Heavy News] MALEVOLENCE Announce New Album WHERE ONLY THE TRUTH IS SPOKEN + Release Music Video For 'If It's All The Same To You'.

[Heavy News, 19.03.25]: Steel City beatdown-lords Malevolence have only gone from strength to strength recently. To prove their mettle, you can check out both details, pre-order/pre-save links etc for Where Only The Truth is Spoken LP, music video/stream links for singles ‘If It’s All The Same To You’ & ‘Trenches’ - and even go catch them live [recommended!] during their massive Australian national tour. Ticket links inside!

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[Heavy News] Jazzgrind band BYONOISEGENERATOR come up with hugely-awaited new album ‘SUBNORMAL DIVES’!
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[Heavy News] Jazzgrind band BYONOISEGENERATOR come up with hugely-awaited new album ‘SUBNORMAL DIVES’!

[Heavy News] Transcending Obscurity Records reinforce the diversity of their extreme metal roster with this fantastically-bizarre (conceptually, visually and musically!) release in Subnormal Dives by jazz/math-death-grinders BYONOISEGENERATOR. With some stellar artwork by Dmitry Rogatnev, you can also find links to new singles, album preorder, artist links, album into and more right here!

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[Heavy News] NY Act TOWER Announce Heaviest Album Yet In ‘LET THERE BE DARK’, Out April 11th.
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[Heavy News] NY Act TOWER Announce Heaviest Album Yet In ‘LET THERE BE DARK’, Out April 11th.

Ah. Nothing warms my frozen metal heart on a cold Music Monday like some Heavy News that an act is planning to make things even more metal! And, judging from latest single ‘Under The Chapel’ released alongside news of NY (US) act Tower’s descent into metal darkness with latest LP ‘Let There Be Dark’. Check out the link for album preorder/artist links, latest music video, album details and more!

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[Heavy News] SLEEP TOKEN Ascends : Announces New LP ‘EVEN IN ARCADIA’ + New Offering ‘EMERGENCE’.
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[Heavy News] SLEEP TOKEN Ascends : Announces New LP ‘EVEN IN ARCADIA’ + New Offering ‘EMERGENCE’.

[ Heavy News / Music Monday ]: Sleep Token returns with Even In Arcadia, their fourth offering and first under RCA Records / Sony Music Australia, set to release on May 9th, shortly followed by their Saturday headline slot at Download Festival, on June 13th. Check out the link for album preorder, ‘Emergence’ single streaming/,music video link, track list, artist/album details and more!

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[Heavy News] FLESHSPOIL's 'The Beginning of the End' LP Releases March 28th.
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[Heavy News] FLESHSPOIL's 'The Beginning of the End' LP Releases March 28th.

Troy (NY) - A new force in Blackened Death Metal has emerged to lay waste to 2025! FLESHSPOIL, featuring veteran players from Arsis, The Final Sleep, and Illucinus, will release full-length debut album, The Beginning of the End, March 28 on digital format! For more info, as well as Bandcamp artist link/album preorder, check out our Heavy News coverage right here on the ISC blog for Music Mondays.


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[Heavy News] ELUVEITIE Release Brand New Single 'Awen' + New Album ÀNV Is Out On April 25th
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[Heavy News] ELUVEITIE Release Brand New Single 'Awen' + New Album ÀNV Is Out On April 25th

ISC Heavy News/ Music Monday, 10.03: As the release of ELUVEITIEs new album ÀNV approaches the band release today their uplifting new single 'Awen'. The track sees the bands more traditional instrumentation at the forefront, shining a spot light on the Celtic roots buried within ELUVEITIEs core. The new album Ànv, will be released on April 25th, 2025 via Nuclear Blast Records.

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[Heavy News] #MusicMonday: Post-Bandcamp Friday Roundup!
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[Heavy News] #MusicMonday: Post-Bandcamp Friday Roundup!

Dap your record label pals up, as well as the good folks over at Bandcamp! With Bandcamp Friday just gone, it’s never too late to scope out some fantastic heavy/alternative artists that were featured. For Music Monday, we’ve corralled a heap of different goodies for you - from the doomy post-black of Ter Ziele, the out-there prog heaviness of Novarupta and March of Scylla through to Fell Omen’s dungeon-synth weird and Collapse’s Italian take on crossover thrash, there’s HEAPS for your ears to munch on!

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[Heavy News] Trans-Atlantic Metal Project GREY MOUNTAIN Release Debut Album!
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[Heavy News] Trans-Atlantic Metal Project GREY MOUNTAIN Release Debut Album!

Heavy News: New Trans-Atlantic Metal Project GREY MOUNTAIN (feat. members of MonsterworksBull ElephantConstruct of LetheBlack Harvest) have released their self-titled debut album via Eat Lead and Die Music! The album is available digitally on Bandcamp (including 24-bit full dynamic range vinyl master in side A/B format) and at new platform Ampwall. Check link for preorder, full album stream and more.

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[Heavy News] ESCHATON: Tech-Death Feat. current/former members of OBSCURA, NECROPHAGIST, RETROMORPHOSIS, INANIMATE EXISTENCE
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[Heavy News] ESCHATON: Tech-Death Feat. current/former members of OBSCURA, NECROPHAGIST, RETROMORPHOSIS, INANIMATE EXISTENCE

One of many Heavy News greats for your Music Monday and beyond here at ISC - technical death metal all-star supergroup Eschaton, who have a new LP releasing May via Transcending Obscurity Records! Featuring members of Necrophagist, Inanimate Existence, Obscura and Retromorphosis, this skilled troupe have album info, preorder link, tracklist, merch, music videos for singles ‘Blood of The People’ and ‘Antimatter’ via the link!

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