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06/16/2026

Цар Стангра Announces New Album Химните на разрушените светове (Hymns of the Broken Worlds) Out July 1, 2026 via GLOBMETAL PROMOTIONS !

Québec City-based Bulgarian folk and black metal band TSAR STANGRA will release their new full-length album, Химните на разрушените светове (Hymns of the Broken Worlds), on July 1, 2026 via GLOBMETAL PROMOTIONS.

Created over the course of nearly a decade, Химните на разрушените светове is the band’s most ambitious work to date. The album explores Bulgarian history, folklore, pagan ritual, exile, language, and cultural memory through a collision of black metal aggression, Balkan melody, ceremonial atmosphere, tambura, orchestration, and lyrics written in Bulgarian.

Founded by vocalist Stanislav Stefanovski, TSAR STANGRA was built around the mission of preserving Bulgarian heritage through extreme metal. On Химните на разрушените светове, that mission expands into a larger meditation on identity, displacement, and the meeting of worlds. Written largely in Québec by musicians from different cultural and musical backgrounds, the record carries a natural tension between Bulgarian folk tradition and Western black metal, between pagan symbolism and literary sources shaped by Christian Bulgarian poets, between ancestral memory and life far from the homeland.

06/15/2026

06/15/2026

MetaladianUnleashes Ferocious Title‑Track Single “Deaditation” Ahead of Debut Album Out On Canada Day!

Hamilton, Ontario, extreme‑metal outfit METALADIAN erupt with the release of “Deaditation,” the ferocious and hypnotic title‑track single from their upcoming debut album out on Canada Day, July 1st, 2026. After more than twenty years of composing, refining, and shaping the band’s sound, composer, lead vocalist, and drummer Andrew Brophy finally unveils the first official chapter of METALADIAN’s long‑awaited recorded legacy.
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​“Deaditation” is METALADIAN’s most aggressive and unrelenting work, a dizzying, chromatic, multi‑vocal assault built on a three‑stage structure: plateau, ascension, descent. Each time the cycle restarts, the tempo subtly increases, dragging listeners deeper into a spiralling frenzy.
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​“The interplay between vocalists is quick, dizzying and hypnotizing… the music is incrementally and constantly gaining momentum, driving the track to a spiralling frenzy by the final descent,” adds Brophy.
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Lyrically, the single paints a blackened world where victims reclaim power through a psychic retaliation, a Deaditation, forcing abusers to feel the pain they inflicted “100,000 fold.” Musically, it opens with riotous crowd samples, chromatic bass lines, droning harmonies, ripping feedback, and a tribal drum solo that launches the track into its relentless progression.

06/14/2026

🔥 Kerry King Music– FROM HELL I RISE: EXTENDED DELUXE EDITION
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The flames rise higher. The riffs get sharper. Kerry King unleashes the Extended Deluxe Edition of From Hell I Rise, a blistering assault forged in pure thrash fury.
We’re hosting the full album premiere, so prepare for an unrelenting onslaught from start to finish.

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06/13/2026

🔥 Eternal Recurrence – Eternal Recurrence [EP]
📅 Release: 19 June 2026
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A new wave of intensity is about to break. Eternal Recurrence unleash their self‑titled EP — a surge of atmosphere, aggression, and deep emotional weight forged into pure sonic force.
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06/13/2026

Emerald Rage promote their new album with the title track single “The Eyes Of The Dragon”

Emerald Rage is a four-piece power/speed metal band from Akron, Ohio, USA,formed in 2017 by lead vocalist Jacob Wherley, guitarist Patrick Kern, and drummer Tyson McCauley.Inspired by bands such as Blind Guardian, Running Wild, and Metallica, Emerald Rage delivers a melodic, crushing, metal sound with a melodic and
folkier approach, capturing the bard-like storytelling style of the band’s lyrics.

Joining forces with current bassist/vocalist Erik Curry in 2019, the band established itself in the Midwestern US metal scene as a force to be reckon with debuting its first album “High King” in 2021 on Stormspell records and earning itself a place on “Legions of Metal Fest” in Chicago alongside NWOTHM legends Raven.
Sophomore effort “Valkyrie” followed in 2023, bringing the band to its highly anticipated third album “The Eyes of the Dragon” available May 29 th 2026 on Stormspell, shortly before
the group makes its European debut in July at “Headbangers Open Air” in Germany.

06/12/2026

LA Symphonic Metal Levinia Sinks Their Teeth Into 2026 With Dracula Inspired Single “Bite”.

Los Angeles cinematic‑metal outfit Levinia returns with the third installment of their 2026 four‑single cycle, releasing their heaviest and most visceral track yet: “Bite.” The single and accompanying music video arrive as the follow‑up to the band’s recent releases “Silver Tongues” and “The Thorn,” continuing the group’s evolution into a darker, sharper, and more emotionally charged era.
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​“Bite,” like all four upcoming singles, is produced by Brandon Friesen (Halestorm, Nickelback, The Hu, Papa Roach), whose cinematic approach and modern metal sensibilities have helped elevate Levinia’s sound into its most refined form to date.
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Drawing inspiration from Dracula, specifically the character of Mina Murray/Harker, “Bite” reimagines the classic Gothic arc of vulnerability transformed into strength. Vocalist Kourt Henson channels Mina’s evolution from prey to force of will, weaving a narrative of emotional reclamation, toxic entanglement, and the quiet power of survival.

06/12/2026

Eternal Drak Returns With Blackened Thrash‑Fueled Single “The Unborn Paths Rot”.

Eternal Drak unleashes their second single, “The Unborn Paths Rot,” a violent, thrash‑driven strike that deepens the conceptual and sonic identity of their upcoming album "The Violence of Time," due out on July 17th, 2026 via Canadian label FirstWave. Following the May release of the first single, "We Force It To Speak," this new track sharpens the band’s attack, fusing the aggression of classic thrash with the bleak philosophical weight that defines the record.
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​“The Unborn Paths Rot” explores the collapse of possibility itself. The band describes the song as a reflection on futures that die before they ever become real, paths that flicker into existence only long enough to fail. Its lyrics confront the tension between fate and free will, questioning whether we truly shape our future or whether the weight of past decisions already narrows our choices. Musically, the single reconnects with Eternal Drak’s thrash foundations: razor‑edged riffs, relentless rhythmic force, and a sense of urgency that bridges the band’s early identity with their evolved 2026 sound.