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Tunisia based progressive metal warriors MYRATH have posted a video
for "SOUL OF MY SOUL" , a track from the bands
anticipated new release "WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS", due to be unleashed
3/27/2026 via EAR MUSIC...
MYRATH, via BANDCAMP, are streaming the bands anticipated new release "KARMA",.
unleashed 2/2/2024 via EAR MUSIC.
MYRATH unleashed "SHEHILI", 5/3/2019 via earMUSIC.
VIDEO BELOW:
MYRATH: NEW TRACK "SOUL OF MY SOUL" (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF MYRATH):
Sweden power metal warriors AMARANTHE have posted a video for "CHAOS THEORY" , a stand alone single unleashed 2/7/2026.
AMARANTHE have posted a video for
"INTERFERENCE", a track from the bands anticipated new release "THE
CATALYST",unleashed 2/23/2024 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS
AMARANTHE have announced vocalist
(growls) MIKAEL SEHLIN can't make the 2024 AUSTRALIAN/NEW ZEALAND tour
as the band has hired a fill in vocalist
VIDEO BELOW: AMARANTHE: NEW TRACK "CHAOS THEORY" (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OFAMARANTHE;):
Icelandic funeral doom metal
warriors DAUDARO and PANTHEIST have posted "NEW WORLDS" , a track from the two bands
collaborative release "AF HOLDI OG MALMI", due to be unleashed
3/13/2026 via MELANCHOLIC REALM PRODUCTIONS.
PANTHEIST, via BANDCAMP, are streaming the bands
anticipated new EP release "KINGS MUST DIE", unleashed
3/8/2024 via MELANCHOLIC REALM PRODUCTIONS,.
PANTHEIST unleashed "CLOSER TO
GOD", 12/3/2021 via MELANCHOLIC REALM PRODUCTIONS.
Icelandic funeral doom metal warriors DAUDARO, via BANDCAMP, are
streaming the bands anticipated new release "SVARTHOL", unleashed
12/1/2024 via BANDCAMP (DIGITAL, SELF RELEASED).
FROM DAUDARO:
New Worlds’ is the second single of the upcoming concept album ‘Af holdi og málmi’ by Dauðaró and Kostas from Pantheïst. You can listen to the full version on YouTube. Album can now be preordered on Bandcamp
Bello, Columbia death metal warriors NO RAZA have posted a video for "CHIEFDOM", a track from the bands anticipated new release "TYRONA", unleashed 5/18/2025 via NOBLE
DEMON.
NO RAZA have posted a video for
"FRATRICIDE", a track from the bands anticipated new release
"TRANSCENDING MATERIAL SINS", unleashed 3/20/2020 via NOBLE
DEMON.
Legendary U.S.A. metal label COMBAT RECORDS is BACK under new ownership not based out of Germany.
FROM MINDSNAP MUSIC:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Combat Records back under new ownership.
Legendary US metal label, Combat Records, is to be relaunched this year under the new ownership of former Eternal Sound Records owner, Robert Dujmusic and Alex Stojak.
Formerly run by Megadeth’s David Ellefson, the iconic record label was responsible for early releases by Megadeth, Exodus and Agnostic Front amongst many others and is considered among the most influential and important of the early US metal labels.
As of January 2026, Combat Records will now be run under the new ownership of independent movie producers Alex Stojak and Robert Dujmusic from its new office in Gottingen, Germany.
Dujmusic, former owner of the now inactive Eternal Sound Records and Heavyspace touring agency, says of the acquisition:
“It is the honour of a lifetime to be able to continue the legacy of such an important part of heavy music history and I’m super excited for what we’ve got coming up. Combat is back!”
To which David Ellefson added:
“It’s good to know that the Combat Records brand has landed into the right hands and will continue to thrive with Christian and Rob at the helm.”
The label has already expanded its infrastructure into distribution, PR, festivals and touring and has already confirmed its first wave of releases including several established bands as well as offering development opportunities to emerging artists. Also on the team is former Eternal Sound partner, Nicole Wendeborn as A&R manager and as US manager, Christian ‘Opus’ Lawrence (ex Cro-Mags drummer and current drummer for Dead by Wednesday, Earth and Tantric).
Updates will be announced on the newly invigorated Combat Records website and social media accounts to be launched soon.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada based death, grind, metal warriors
EGREGORE have posted a video for "STAIR INTO THE VORTEX" , a track from
the bands anticipated new release "IT ECHOES IN THE WILD", due to be unleashed 3/20/2026 via 20 BUCK SPIN.
EGREGORE have posted "EXFILTRATING THE TRIANGLE" , a track from
the bands anticipated debut release "THE WORD OF HIS LAW", unleashed 4/15/2022 via 20 BUCK SPIN.
FROM
EGREGORE
"Here
we find ourselves, among the Canadian miscreants Egregore whereupon
they return from whence the wind howls like a damned choir and the Earth
knows no master, to chart a broader sonic wilderness via ‘It Echoes In
The Wild’. And much as sea-rogues and freebooters sought fortune upon
blackened waters, so too does Egregore venture musically into diabolic
and ungoverned lands.
Presenting
something more expansive, elemental and untamed on ‘It Echoes In The
Wild’, the early occult Black Death Metal lunacy embraces atmospheric
breadth equally alongside primitive force to delve deep into not only
geographic wilds, but the psychological, esoteric and spiritual
hinterlands at the edges of complete madness. Dark invocations and
secret tongues draw forth echoes from forest and fen, cave and cliff,
tempting the temporally tethered to receive the curse, all the while
driven by a primal, unknowable sardonic menace.
Though
the voyage be perilous, to succumb to ‘It Echoes In The Wild’ is to
become ensconced in a lawless dominion of the soul in service of a
higher call. Mirroring nature’s unbridled forces and the hidden echoes
that dwell within, Egregore’s second album takes the band’s mystical
insanity and magickal perversion to the edge of the abyss and plunges
forward."
Swedish black metal warriors NAZGHOR have posted a video for "BATHE IN ASHES", a track from the bands anticipated new release
"THE
WORLD ABLAZE", due to be unleashed 2/20/2026 via SOLISTITIUM RECORDS.
NAZGHOR, via BANDCAMP, are streaming the
bands new release "DEATH'S WITHERED CHANTS", unleashed 3/11/2016 via
SATANATH RECORDS.
VIDEO BELOWN: AZGHOR:;NEW TRACK "BATHE IN ASHES" (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF SOLISTITIUM RECORDS):
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A feature entitled ITP BLAST BACK REVIEWS: A RE RATE of reviews (that year) to see if I over or under rated certain releases. Just the rating, and there's no guarantee that all ratings will change. All ITP REVIEWS are on a BELL CURVE in comparison to previous (band/artist) releases and whatever else is released that year in said genre.
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***** (5 stars)=Awesome, a classic, timeless, unholy
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*** 1/2 (3 1/2 stars)=Good, standard fare, for fans and not new converts
*** (3 stars)=Good, but flawed, no progression here
** 1/2 (2 1/2 stars)=Bordering on mediocrity, band is overrated
** (two stars)=somewhere between mediocre and SUKETH
* 1/2 (1 1/2 stars)= SUKETH (this release SUCKS)
* (one star)=Awful, this CD can only be used as a beer coaster or a Frisbee.
? (No stars)=this band and release blow goats.
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