Hailing from Chile, Deathwards' debut album Realms of Sin is Death Metal in it's earliest and most uncompromising form. Born from the violent mutation of Thrash and Speed Metal, it recalls a time when this music still felt dangerous and every riff carried the smell of underground conviction. Inspired by the savage spirit of the late 80´ies, Deathwards resurrect the primal aggression, sinister atmosphere and relentless songwriting that defined the genre's inception 40 years ago. Razor-sharp riffs, venomous vocals, untamed solos and a performance so authentic, it could have been unearthed from a forgotten 1987 master tape. Realms Of Sin is not a mere tribute to the past. It is the real spirit brought back to life. UPC: 4251267799848Label: High Roller RecordsRelease Date: 11.13.26Format: Vinyl
Tracklist:
Ascent
Gauntlet of Solitude
Dogs Can Grow Beards All Over
And the Sentence Trails Off
Rosemary Had An Accident
Redemption
Swords Dragons ; Diet Coke
Who Speaks Spanish Colon Quesadilla
Texas Is South
Modeify the Pronunciation
Salvation
UPC: 4099964264142Label: Rise RecordsRelease Date: 10.23.26Format: Vinyl
NOTE: FOR THE VINYL - IT IS JUST A 1 LP SET BUT THE COLOUR THAT IS IN THE SLEEVE IS RANDOM DURING MANUFACTURE. COLOUR WAY WILL BE AN EcoMix Blue LIKE SHOWN. Over the years, DISTANT has firmly established itself as one of the defining forces in the European deathcore scene. The Dutch/Slovakian outfit not only maintains an unrelenting touring schedule but continuously pushes its creative boundaries, refining and evolving its sound with each release. For “Into Despair”, guitarist Nouri Yetgin took an ambitious step forward by expanding his role—educating himself in production and engineering, and ultimately overseeing much of the creative process. Supported by fellow Dutch producer Roelof Klop, the band embraced a fully hands-on approach. “After months of reinventing our songwriting approach, we built a brand-new digital guitar amp from scratch and handled the entire mix and master ourselves to push our sound to the absolute extreme,” they explain. The result is a record that feels visceral and unfiltered—raw, crushing, and uncompromising. “It’s a perfect vessel for lyrics that channel our rage against the corruption, greed, and systemic misconduct poisoning this world. It’s pure passion and aggression, captured in its most unfiltered form.”Following the conceptual, fantasy-driven themes of their previous album, DISTANT now turns its gaze toward the stark realities of the modern world. “Into Despair” confronts deeply human struggles—our fear of death, the weight of personal loss, and the grief that shapes our existence—while also dissecting broader societal illusions, such as the false sense of freedom fostered by the digital age.
Tracklist:
The World
Nothing Left To Hate
Into Despair
Spirit feat. Tyler Beam of The Last Ten Seconds Of Life
Circle of Vultures
The Shallow Gaze
Veil of Paranoia
Desolation
All Will Be (N)One feat. Ricky Myers of Suffocation
Rat Torture
Flesh and Nails
The Shared Grief
Iron Knee
UPC: 199584726014Label: Century MediaRelease Date: 11.6.26Format: Vinyl
GRAMMY-nominated extreme power metal pioneers DRAGONFORCE will release their tenth studio album, DragonForce, on March 19, 2027 viaNapalm Records. The album marks a major new chapter in the history of the band: with Alissa White-Gluz as their new frontwoman and AlessioGaravello as their second permanent vocalist, DRAGONFORCE feature two full-time singers for the first time. White-Gluz, known as the formerfrontwoman of Arch Enemy and currently as the vocalist of Blue Medusa, brings not only her signature intensity, but also her songwriting experience tothe band. The two vocalists are joining founding members and guitar virtuosos Herman Li and Sam Totman, alongside bassist Alicia Vigil and drummerGee Anzalone. Since their formation in 1999, DRAGONFORCE have set the benchmark for high-speed power metal worldwide. Their platinum-sellinghit “Through the Fire and Flames” became a global phenomenon through Guitar Hero III, while Inhuman Rampage achieved Gold status and spent 23weeks on the Billboard 200.
“Hunger Of The Beast” kicks off this new chapter with rapid-fire guitars, driving drums, infectious melodies and the combined energy of the twoexceptional vocalists. The track blends classic DRAGONFORCE elements with White-Gluz’s more extreme vocals and Garavello’s classic power metalapproach, immediately showcasing the new dynamic at the heart of the album. “Neverending Nightmare” continues the high-speed assault withcaptivating melodies and virtuosic guitar work, while “The White Wolf” reveals another facet of the new material, combining DRAGONFORCE’smelodic power metal foundation with explosive instrumentation and monumental guitar work. Across DragonForce, the band consciously brings backsome of the raw energy and intensity of their early records while pushing those elements forward through their new lineup. The result is fast, heavy,catchy and driven by the uncompromising musicianship that has always defined DRAGONFORCE.
For Herman Li and Sam Totman, the tenth album is far more than a milestone: it represents the next major step in the band’s evolution, bringing morethan two decades of experience into a record that refuses to simply repeat the past. Producer Jens Bogren, who recorded the album together withDRAGONFORCE and also produced, mixed and mastered it, adds further energy, clarity and precision to the new material. The cover artwork wascreated by Mark Riddick. With their new lineup, DRAGONFORCE will take the new album around the world, with the first concerts and festivalappearances already announced, and more dates to follow.
With Alissa White-Gluz on vocals, DRAGONFORCE unlock a completely new range of musical possibilities. As the band themselves put it, this is analbum “unlike any DragonForce album you've ever heard” – a new version of the band that takes it to another level. UPC: 810221170723Label: NapalmRelease Date: 3.19.27Format: Vinyl
GRAMMY-nominated extreme power metal pioneers DRAGONFORCE will release their tenth studio album, DragonForce, on March 19, 2027 viaNapalm Records. The album marks a major new chapter in the history of the band: with Alissa White-Gluz as their new frontwoman and AlessioGaravello as their second permanent vocalist, DRAGONFORCE feature two full-time singers for the first time. White-Gluz, known as the formerfrontwoman of Arch Enemy and currently as the vocalist of Blue Medusa, brings not only her signature intensity, but also her songwriting experience tothe band. The two vocalists are joining founding members and guitar virtuosos Herman Li and Sam Totman, alongside bassist Alicia Vigil and drummerGee Anzalone. Since their formation in 1999, DRAGONFORCE have set the benchmark for high-speed power metal worldwide. Their platinum-sellinghit “Through the Fire and Flames” became a global phenomenon through Guitar Hero III, while Inhuman Rampage achieved Gold status and spent 23weeks on the Billboard 200.
“Hunger Of The Beast” kicks off this new chapter with rapid-fire guitars, driving drums, infectious melodies and the combined energy of the twoexceptional vocalists. The track blends classic DRAGONFORCE elements with White-Gluz’s more extreme vocals and Garavello’s classic power metalapproach, immediately showcasing the new dynamic at the heart of the album. “Neverending Nightmare” continues the high-speed assault withcaptivating melodies and virtuosic guitar work, while “The White Wolf” reveals another facet of the new material, combining DRAGONFORCE’smelodic power metal foundation with explosive instrumentation and monumental guitar work. Across DragonForce, the band consciously brings backsome of the raw energy and intensity of their early records while pushing those elements forward through their new lineup. The result is fast, heavy,catchy and driven by the uncompromising musicianship that has always defined DRAGONFORCE.
For Herman Li and Sam Totman, the tenth album is far more than a milestone: it represents the next major step in the band’s evolution, bringing morethan two decades of experience into a record that refuses to simply repeat the past. Producer Jens Bogren, who recorded the album together withDRAGONFORCE and also produced, mixed and mastered it, adds further energy, clarity and precision to the new material. The cover artwork wascreated by Mark Riddick. With their new lineup, DRAGONFORCE will take the new album around the world, with the first concerts and festivalappearances already announced, and more dates to follow.
With Alissa White-Gluz on vocals, DRAGONFORCE unlock a completely new range of musical possibilities. As the band themselves put it, this is analbum “unlike any DragonForce album you've ever heard” – a new version of the band that takes it to another level. *** Indie Exclusive ***UPC: 810221170785Label: NapalmRelease Date: 3.19.27Format: Vinyl
After five years of silence and meticulous work Dungeon Serpent returns with their second album Lamentations of the Shadowkingdoms. Having already constructed a standout style of death metal with World of Sorrows sharply focused upon fusing morbid and romantic strains of extreme metal from before metal's turn-of-the-century involution, Dungeon Serpent now boldly looks to a future of their own creation and stretches their limbs to new horizons, breathing new life into the ruined world presented in the first album. Thus this new album is a work of grand ambition and unbowed passion, not content to merely fine-tune and repeat what has already been done in a bygone age. Yet with this expansion, Lamentations of the Shadowkingdoms presents a work united as a great whole. Each of the six pieces are tonally distinct but thematically bound and flow into a monolithic singular entity. This vision is executed with greater clarity, enhanced skill, focus and the addition of new members to the horde, such as drummer Bhraonáin (Fake Dust). The music is now played with a speed and ferocity well beyond what was achieved on the first album, and the technique of the core instrumentation is more eclectic, drawing more freely from black metal, brutal death metal, and even as far as jazz and grind, as well as a sharper mix courtesy of Subterranean Watchtower Studios that allows elements such as agile basslines to be heard with much more clarity. The music cleanly flows between this ferocity and an almost cosmic sense of orchestral grandiosity, owing to the expanded instrumentation within the songs, chiefly mystical keyboards in the Hellenic tradition and violins provided by string player and contemporary composer Anju Singh (The Nausea), as well as many other adventurous atmospheric and textural flourishes. Lamentations of the Shadowkingdoms is a work that expresses both the untempered rawness and ferocity but also the latent musical potential within the truest essence of death metal in one breath, realized and entwined as extensions of one and the same principle. UPC: 840526515417Label: Profound LoreRelease Date: 10.30.26Format: Vinyl
Art is regularly born from strong emotions. Metal and related genres often thrive on the darker side of the human experience. Both commonplace truths apply to E-L-R's third album "Atropa". "Atropa" was shaped by a period of profound transformation and illness, leading to an artistic exploration of survival, endurance, and irreversible change. Stylistically, the Swiss duo effortlessly balance doomgaze and post-metal with something that is darker and harsher, which is also harder to put a tag on. E-L-R refer to their sound as something that drifts between weight and dissolution, beauty and poison. Lyrically, the songs on "Atropa" pass through stages of grief, delirium, obsessive love, and resilience. The poetic lyrics linger in a liminal space where yearning, loss, and transformation become indistinguishable. E-L-R are the brainchild of bass-player I.R. and guitarist S.M., who also share vocal duties and founded the band in the Swiss city of Bern in 2016. They were soon after joined by drummer M.K., whose emotive style was a perfect fit. In the early stages of the creation of "Atropa", M.K. was sadly forced to leave the band due to health issues. Following a difficult and at times painful recording process, E-L-R present their most complete album yet that takes it's listeners on an emotional rollercoaster ride that burns with passion. "Atropa" inhabits the threshold where the irreversible begins - when the arrow is loosed, and the world can no longer remain the same. Now and always, we are all bound to follow the trajectory of such an arrow. Tracklist: 1. Oaken Reaper 2. Archeress 3. Cobalt Wound 4. Solace Tracery 5. Saltwinds 6. Echo Space UPC: 884388898790Label: ProphecyRelease Date: 11.6.26Format: Vinyl
Elements of the past, present, and future coalesce within the spell cast by Early Moods. The Los Angeles band channel the sludge-born spirits of seminal doom metal and beckon them to attack even faster with a jolt of NWOBHM guitar-craft and a twist of thrash attitude. The quintet-Alberto Alcaraz [vocals, keys], Oscar Hernandez [guitar], Eddie Andrade [guitar], Elix Felciano [bass], and Chris Flores [drums]-transfix with otherworldly transmissions of cosmic and catchy heaviness. "Our sound is more honed," notes Elix. "We've found our identity. I think it takes a couple of albums for most bands. This record isn't too far removed from what we've done in the past, but the songwriting has certainly matured. You can hear the chemistry. You can feel the mood changes in specific songs and all of the dynamics. It's really alive."Originally formed by Alberto and Eddie, the musicians unlocked an uncanny balance between heavy and hypnotic on the self-titled Early Moods in 2022. The sound further crystallized on A Sinner's Past [2024]. Along the way, they incited the applause of Angry Metal Guy, The Obelisk, and more. Hitting the road, the group shared stages with the likes of High On Fire, Candlemass, Pentagram, Coven, Lucifer, Pagan Altar, and more in addition to joining the bill of Desertfest. During 2026, they recorded Ready For The Grave at Cyan Sound Studio with producer Toshi Kasai [Melvins, Tool]. He invariably inspired them to level up.Ultimately, Early Moods deliver a body of work befitting of their energy on stage. It's powerful enough you'll feel like they're in the room with you. UPC: 679065076918Label: Riding EasyRelease Date: 9.25.26Format: Vinyl
For nearly a decade, fans have become familiar with Entheos through the unmistakable chemistry and creative vision of vocalist Chaney Crabb and her musical and life partner, multi-instrumentalist, Navene Koperweis. Whether through Crabb’s viral vocal performances and unbelievable range or Koperweis’ boundary-pushing musicianship and songwriting, the duo has established Entheos as one of the most forward-thinking acts in modern metal. On the band’s latest album, Empty on the Inside, they are joined by guitarists Scott Carstairs (Fallujah) and Michael Stancel (Allegeon) along with longtime contributor and former bandmate Evan Brewer, creating the most fully realized incarnation of the band to date.
Tracklist:
Hell Is A Part of Me
Empty on the Inside
Hollow
Call My Name
Golden Crown
Undone
Tomblight
Pale Faith
Never Let Me Go
The Earth Will Move
UPC: 039841620962Label: Metal BladeRelease Date: 10.23.26Format: Vinyl