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10/05/2026

Metal Epidemic. 🔥

Metal Epidemic DEATH. VOID. TERROR - To the Great Monolith III: Rifts Album Reviews

10/04/2026

Head-Banger Reviews. 🔥

Just when you think you’ve already come before a group that has exceeded your expectations, it feels like a truly divine reward to see them come back in such a form that feels somehow larger …

10/03/2026

Meat Mead Metal. 🔥

For some reason when it gets around my birthday, my mood sours, and I feel about as bad as I do all year. It’s not the aging. I’d rather age than not, even if everything is spiraling out of control…

09/29/2026

🔥 RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT / TRACK PREMIERE / PREORDERS 🔥

Toronto’s berserk terror-crust raiders ⚔️Last Agony⚔️ return with their incinerating sophomore album, “Death Wave”. In its pulverizing twenty minutes “Death Wave” discharges an ear-splitting assault of blown-out raw hardcore punk and speed metal destruction doused in nuclear vice and ablaze with visions of a polluted, dark and violent world headed straight Into doom.

Check out the title track premiered at No Echo today:

► noecho.net  [or link in story]

Releases officially October 23 2026 on LP/CD/MC/digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin - find all formats + stream here:

► sentientruin.bandcamp.com​ [or link in story/profile]
[EU vinyl here - sentientruin.bandcamp.com/policies for shipping infos - or link in profile]

► sentientruin.com/releases  [or link in profile]

Japanese noise-punk, Scandinavian crust, UK d-beat and anarcho-punk, and various declinations of grind and speed metal, consumed by a raw and caustic production pushed to its limits. Carpetbombing blasts and d-beats, chainsawing riffs and blood-vomiting vocals entrenched into an apocalyptic maelstrom of noise, speed and distortion in which the only law reigning is that of anarchy, chaos, and of no law at all. Fans of Doom, Anti-Cimex, Extreme Noise Terror and Na**lm Death will instantly be drawn into the madness and destruction of Last Agony’s lawless assault, but this is far from just a mere throwback exercise. This is the sound of a broken world gone deaf, dumb and insane, and disintegrating into the wake of its own greed, failures and self-destruction. 🔥 🔥 🔥

09/27/2026

"RAHATY is really PA VESH EN from the dreary steppes of Belarus. Yes, it’s another one man band. Or in this case, a one beast band. Apparently the dingy sounds of PA VESH EN were not abhorrent enough, so RAHATY makes that sound like BTS. When you cross the crustiest grindcore with the most goat-worshipping aspects of black metal, you get blackened war metal, which is the sound of RAHATY. This is ugly ultra-aggressive horror, conjuring up memories of ARCHGOAT, BLASPHEMY and France’s extremely underrated TEMPLE OF BAAL."

Wormwood Chronicles. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘

Full review:

RAHATY “Bestial Lustmord” By Dr. Abner Mality Sometimes you just need the filth. Screw the technicality, screw the “emotional resonance”, screw crystal clear production. For such times, the Sentient Ruin label is usually there to help. And this time, they’ve come up with a doozy. If Hell h...

09/25/2026

🔥 OFFICIALLY OUT NOW 🔥

DEATH. VOID. TERROR.’s marvelous sonic transfiguration. “To The Great Monolith III: Rifts” is the band’s first full-length utterance of the Monolith in five years, and its most shattering revelation yet!

Released today September 25 2026 on LP/CD/MC/digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin - find all formats + stream here:

► sentientruin.bandcamp.com​​​​ [EU vinyl here - sentientruin.bandcamp.com/policies for shipping infos - or link in profile]

► sentientruin.com/releases [or link in profile]

“To The Great Monolith III: Rifts” is a seismic convergence of primordial trance and awakened consciousness, tearing open the boundaries of improvisation to expose the essence of catharsis. Pulsing bass lines consciously sculpted, and around them, the instinctual maelstrom, constructing vortices of the inner chaos. What pours through the rift is devastating. Abyssal, chaos-wielding atmospheric black/death metal mutated into ecstatic occult rock and tribal hallucinatory sprawl. The specter of the ancient ones running through gorges and dissolving into monolithic darkness, transfigured beyond recognition yet more itself than ever. Vocals conjured in no known tongue, surrendered without will to the Monolith in liturgical precision. A sonic entity shedding skin, growing new flesh, irrigated by ritual and animated by an internal battle between instinct and will, trance and reflection, doctrine and heresy. On its surface, a rift captured and made literal. In its depths, an existential fracture splitting open five years of metamorphosis and unleashing its monstrous sonic deluge. The Great Monolith does not crumble, it ruptures, expands, and devours anew. DVT’s most monumental and revelatory work to date. 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

09/24/2026

🔥 FULL ALBUM PREMIERE 🔥

“Post-punk, doom, black metal, ritual folk, and neolithic tribalism all seem to converge toward a singular form of audial ecstasy, without ever revealing a clear origin, intent or design. It’s just the band’s own personal voyage towards the Monolith. An entity perpetually testing the limits of their imagination and calling them to challenge their skills and instinctual musical improvisors to see how far it can stretch and transform.”

reveals the full immensity of DEATH. VOID. TERROR.’s “To the Great Monolith III: Rifts”! Check out the album in full here:

► cvltnation.com [or link in story]

DVT’s first new full-length album in six years. Releases tomorrow September 25 2026!

09/24/2026

🔥 FULL ALBUM PREMIERE 🔥

"Post-punk, doom, black metal, ritual folk, and neolithic tribalism all seem to converge toward a singular form of audial ecstasy, without ever revealing a clear origin, intent or design. It’s just the band’s own personal voyage towards the Monolith. An entity perpetually testing the limits of their imagination and calling them to challenge their skills and instinctual musical improvisors to see how far it can stretch and transform."

CVLT Nation reveals the full immensity of DEATH. VOID. TERROR.'s "To the Great Monolith III: Rifts"! Check out the album in full here:

► https://cvltnation.com/monolithic-experimental-black-metal-trance-death-void-terror-to-the-great-monolith-iii-rifts/

Releases tomorrow September 25 2026!

We had anticipated it, promised it, waited for it. And now it’s here. Six years after their last full-length utterance, Swiss experimental black metal titans DEATH. VOID. TERROR. re-emerge from the shadows with their third full-length venture toward the monolith, and once again reinvent themselves...

09/10/2026

DVT exclusive song premiere from Doomed Nation - check out the newly revered song "I. (-- -- - -- -) Gözdyrey" right here:

Zürich, Switzerland based experimental black/doom metal duo Death. Void. Terror. premiere the second single »I. (-- -- - -- -) Gözdyrey« taken from their upcoming full-length album, »To The Great Monolith III: Rifts«, due out

09/05/2026

The Metal Crypt. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

The Metal Crypt - Review of Horns of Abomination - Horns of Abomination