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NO MALLCORE, NO METAL CORE, NO CORE, NO HIPSTERS.FREEDOM FOR UKRAINE
Promoters for NORTHWEST TERROR FEST 2027, set to take place 5/6th, 7th and 8th, 2027 @ NEUMOS and BARBOZA SEATTLE, WASHINGTON have confirmed NAPALM DEATH, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT, GORGUTS, IMMOLATION and MORE BANDS..
3-Day festival passes are on sale NOW and already entering critical gravitational pull.
TICKET LINK IN BIO!
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE LATEST WAVE:
IMMOLATION · New York’s undisputed masters of pitch-black antitheist death metal.
GORGUTS · Canada’s finest purveyors of progressive and technical death crushed NWTF so hard in 2025 that we just had to invite them back.
IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT · Three masked madmen delivering jazzy and jagged, modern black metal.
FULCI · Italy’s most-in-demand death metal exports performing pure, gore-soaked fun.
COSCRADH · Merciless bestial devastation from Dublin, Ireland.
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They join an already suffocating orbital grid featuring exclusive performances by Napalm Death, SubRosa, Deadguy performing ‘Fixation on a Coworker’ and more!
Norwegian Viking, progressive black metal warriors ENSLAVED have posted a visualizer for "I AM ICE (FEATURING JOHAN SARA JR) ", a track from the bands anticipated new release "MID", unleashed 10/30/2026 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.
ENSLAVED, via BANDCAMP, are streaming the bands anticipated new release "MID", unleashed 10/30/2026 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.
ENSLAVED have posted a visualizer for "TALES OF TREES", a track from the bands anticipated new release "MID", unleashed 10/30/2026 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.
ENSLAVED have announced WINTER 2027 EUROPEAN TOUR DATES WITH SOLSTAFIR, GAAHLS WYRD.
ENSLAVED have announced "MIÐ" ALBUM RELEASE EVENT & SHOWS..
ENSLAVED have posted a video for "SOLAR WILL", a track from the bands anticipated new release "MID", due to be unleashed 10/30/2026 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.
ENSLAVED have posted a visualizer for "SPIRIT HELPER (FEATURING KEVIN KICKING WOMAN)", a stand alone single, unleashed 7/2/2026 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS..
ENSLAVED have posted a lyric video for "FIRE MARENGO", a collaborative single with STORM WEATHER SHANTY CHOIR, unleashed 3/27/2026 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS. .
ENSLAVED, via SPOTIFY, are streaming the bands digital re-issue of "HEIMDAL" (DELUXE VERSION) , due to be unleashed 3/1/2024 via .NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.
ENSLAVED unleashed "HEIMDAL'", 3/3/2023 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.
ENSLAVED unleashed "CARAVANS TO THE OUTER WORLD"(EP),, 10/1/2021 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.
VIDEO BELOW:
ENSLAVED:"I AM ICE (FEATURING JOHAN SARA JR) " (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS):
Tech giant GOOGLE has cut off access to search engines to schools that ban AI (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) ..
ITP V.026 EDITORS NOTE: Lame move via GOOGLE. GOOGLE's AI search engine rollout was a disaster a couple of years ago as it took my FACEBOOK like of articles about a drug dealer and Willie Mays and consolidated it. I'm defiantly NOT a drug dealer nor user. .
FROM THE ATLANTIC:
Google has announced that for schools to opt out of its AI tools, they must cut off students’ access to Google Search. The move follows a familiar Silicon Valley playbook, @willoremus.com writes.
Google has said schools can’t have access to its search engine without AI, even in schools where AI use is being banned. Columnist Jacob Aron says the tech giant shouldn’t be dictating education policy in this way.
Read more: www.newscientist.com/articl...
on top of this, it's pretty clear to me that Google is throttling its regular search feature so you have to rely on the AI. tried to fact check something on Google recently and could not find the right data anywhere in the first few pages; tried DuckDuckGo and it was the top result
Connecticut, U.S.A. hardcore warriors HATEBREED, via SPOTIFY, are streaming the bands anticipated new release "FATAL PARADOX", unleashed 11/6/2026 . via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS..
HATEBREED have posted a video for "THE CARRION CHOIR", a track from the bands anticipated new release "FATAL PARADOX", due to be unleashed 11/6/2026 . via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS..
HATEBREED unleashed "THE CONCRETE CONFESSIONAL", 5/13/2016 via NUCLEAR BLAST
FROM HATEBREED:
Our new single / video is out today!
We have a new single out today. Check out "The Carrion Choir"!
Our new studio album FATAL PARADOX will arrive on November 6.
Trondheim, Norway based black metal warriors NEKYIAN have revealed the art work and info for the bands anticipated debut release "IMPURE STARGAZING" , due to be unleashed 12/9/2026 via TERRATUR POSSESSIONS and AMOR FATI PRODUCTIONS. .
FROM TERRATUR POSSESSIONS:
NEKYIAN - Impure Stargazing CD/LP/SHIRT
-Relentless, scourging and transcendental black metal from Trondheim, Norway, with deep ties to the Terratur Possessions roster. Debut album Impure Stargazing offers unsettling, straight to the point Black Metal, gloves off. For fans of Svest, Abigor, Misotheist and Antaeus.
Copenhagen, Denmark based death doom metal warriors KONVENT, via SPOTIFY, are streaming the bands anticipated new release "FIRESKY", unleashed 11.6.2026 via NAPALM RECORDS.
KONVENT have
posted a lyric video for "HARENA", a track from the bands anticipated new
release "CALL DOWN THE SUN", due to be unleashed 5/11/2022 via NAPALM
RECORDS.
KONVENT unleashed "PURITAN MASOCHISM", 1/24/2020 via
NAPALM RECORDS.
FROM KONVENT:
FIRESKY IS OUT NOW!
The wait is finally over. Our third album, Firesky, is officially out today via Napalm Records !
We’ve poured so much of ourselves into this record, and we’re incredibly proud to finally share it with you. It’s been a long journey of writing, experimenting, and pushing ourselves into new territory, and we couldn’t be happier with how it all came together.
A huge thank you to our producer @jacob.bredahl for helping us bring this album to life, Brad Boatright from Brad Boatright for mastering the record, Felix Havstad Ziska for contributing the beautiful strings, Mai Soon Young Øvlisen for her incredible guest vocals on the title track “Firesky” and our manager Jonathan from beatbreaker.dk
We’re also incredibly grateful to Koda Kultur - for et bæredygtigt og mangfoldigt musikliv for their financial support, which helped make this project possible.
And of course, a massive thank you to everyone who has supported us along the way. It means the world to us
Now it’s yours
Listen to FIRESKY now on all streaming platforms and grab your copy through the link in our bio.
Swedish black metal warriors TROLLDOM have posted the bands anticipated new release "TRONEN", unleashed 10/30/2026 via DEBEMUR MORTI PRODUCTIONS.
TROLLDOM, via BANDCAMP, are streaming both of the bands anticipated new releases "I NATTENS SKEN (GENOM HEMLIGHTETERNAS)" and "AVE GUDARS ATT", unleashed 5/27/2022 via IRON BONEHEAD PRODUCTIONS.
TROLLDOM: NEW RELEASE(VIA BANDCAMP, COURTESY OF DEBEMUR MORTI PRODUCTIONS):
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ITP RATING SYSTEM FOR EXTREME METAL CD REVIEWS:
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.
ITP EXTREME METAL RELEASE REVIEW RATING SYSTEM:
***** (5 stars)=Awesome, a classic, timeless, unholy
**** 1/2 (4 and half stars)=amazing, perhaps this bands best
**** (4 stars)=very good, well worth the purchase
*** 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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