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Feature: B.F. Raid Tell Boston’s Overlooked Stories on ‘Combat Zone’

Guitarist and co-founder Bruce Owens discusses the memories behind the album, Boston’s early metal scene, and four decades of making heavy music. By Seth Metoyer, MetalCrawlspace.com For Bruce Owens, guitarist and co-founder of B.F. Raid (Boston’s Final Raid), one of the defining moments behind Combat Zone happened while looking out a recording studio window. During an earlier session at The Record Co. in Boston, the activity along the Massachusetts Avenue corridor caught the

Prevailer to Release Debut Album 'Convalescent'

MetalCrawlspace.com - New Jersey progressive metalcore outfit Prevailer will release their long-awaited debut full-length, Convalescent, on August 28, 2026 through Rottweiler Records. Formed in 2015, Prevailer first surfaced with their self-titled EP in 2016 before spending the ensuing years releasing singles and developing the lineup and sound that ultimately shaped Convalescent. The new album features eight tracks built around crushing metalcore, progressive twists, melodic

Dead Tree Seeds Put 2020 Album 'Push The Button' Back Into Circulation

MetalCrawlspace.com - French thrash metal outfit Dead Tree Seeds have brought their 2020 album Push The Button back into circulation with a new digital re-release, available now across streaming platforms and Bandcamp. The release continues the band’s recent trip back through its catalogue following the reissues of the Back To The Seeds EP and Toxic Thoughts. Originally released in 2020, Push The Button catches Dead Tree Seeds firing on the classic thrash-metal cylinders: sha

Review: ADVERSAM - 'Daimon'

By Seth Metoyer, MetalCrawlspace.com - Italian black metal veterans ADVERSAM returned on March 28, 2026, with Daimon, their fourth full-length album and their first in eleven years. For a band whose history reaches back to the mid-1990s, there is surprisingly little dust hanging over the record. Daimon sounds focused, aggressive and remarkably alive. The first thing that stood out to me was the production. This is a strong-sounding black metal record. The guitars retain that

Symphony of Heaven Unveil 'The Ballad of Nicolaus Farel', Launching New Chapter of Ordo Aurum Lore

MetalCrawlspace.com - Symphony of Heaven have unveiled their next chapter with “The Ballad of Nicolaus Farel”, a new six-and-a-half-minute slab of melodic blackened death metal arriving this September 4th. The track marks the band’s first new release since 2024’s Ordo Aurum Archeia and dives deeper into the elaborate pseudo-historical mythology that has increasingly become part of the Symphony of Heaven universe. At the center stands Grandmaster Nicolaus Farel, a figure with

SICKSENSE Confront Loss and Faith on Haunting New Single 'A Moment of Violence'

MetalCrawlspace.com - SICKSENSE have released “A Moment of Violence,” the latest track from their forthcoming EP, Funerals, due September 25, 2026. The song centers on grief, mortality, and the spiritual friction that follows the loss of someone close. According to the band, the track wrestles directly with questions of suffering, faith, and the difficulty of reconciling belief in a loving higher power with sudden death. Musically, “A Moment of Violence” closes Funerals on a

EMBERS OF DAWN Unleash 'The Only Gods (Remix)' Ahead of Debut Album Infernal Culture

MetalCrawlspace.com - EMBERS OF DAWN have released “The Only Gods (Remix),” a reworked version of their 2023 track ahead of the arrival of their debut full-length, Infernal Culture, on September 18, 2026. The industrial metal quartet pushes the track further into mechanical territory with expanded electronics, abrasive textures, and a heavier cyber-industrial edge. Guitarist Cliff Ross describes the song as an attack on the modern systems people elevate into objects of worshi

The Infernal Sound of Light Descend ‘Into The Bowels Of Light’ on New EP

MetalCrawlspace.com - Northern Germany’s The Infernal Sound of Light will return October 30 with Into The Bowels Of Light, a new EP that pushes the post-metal trio deeper into the abrasive and experimental terrain they have carved out for themselves. Built around a collision of crushing heaviness, improvisation, dissonant noise and fractured melody, Into The Bowels Of Light finds the band stretching its mournful avant-garde sound into increasingly unpredictable shapes. Broken

FOG WALL are set to release debut album, Gloomweaver

MetalCrawlspace.com - Gloomweaver from FOG WALL brings together some of Tolkien’s most chilling tales alongside the nightmarish worlds crafted by FromSoftware, the Japanese video game studio. Within its pages lurk haunted fortresses, monstrous arachnid demons bent on devouring the world, and the grim imprisonment of humans inside glass jars. FOG WALL is the brainchild of lifelong friends Zak Brady and Alex Malmquist, who draw from their shared love of dark fantasy and horror.

Who Killed the Metal Journalist, and What Should We Do with the Body?

Metal media is shrinking, writers are disappearing, and audiences increasingly get their news from personalities instead of publications. I’m starting to wonder whether the metal journalist is actually dying, or simply turning into something else.

KEYODIS Turns Theology, Chaos and Metalcore Into 'Enemy Skulls'

Keyodis returns with Enemy Skulls, a 14-track full-length built from metalcore chaos, mathcore turns, post-hardcore tension and a surprisingly cinematic sense of scale.

HKSPK Drag Listeners Into Darkness With New Album ‘Heimkehr'

Artwork by Steffen Schmolke MetalCrawlspace.com - HKSPK return on September 11 with their second full-length album, “Heimkehr,” a compact 25-minute descent through black metal atmosphere, death metal brutality, doom, melody and flashes of punk-driven aggression. Across eight tracks, the Brandenburg band builds an album around war, exhaustion, revenge, fractured homecomings and the kind of darkness that follows people long after the event itself ends. “Prelude” bleeds directl

ALPHA DESTROYER Reworks KISS Classic “God of Thunder” From the Ground Up

MetalCrawlspace.com - ALPHA DESTROYER have released a special-edition cover of the KISS classic “God of Thunder” through Necromantic Press Records, taking an unexpected route by building their version around Paul Stanley’s original demo rather than the familiar Bob Ezrin-produced recording. The difference matters. Stanley’s early version carried a quicker pulse, 16th-note hi-hats and a noticeably more pop-oriented vocal approach. ALPHA DESTROYER kept pieces of that DNA while

Latter Day Exploits Unveil 'Going Home' EP

MetalCrawlspace.com - Latter Day Exploits will release their new EP, Going Home, on Friday, August 14 through The Charon Collective, bringing together four tracks shaped by doom metal, spiritual struggle, political disillusionment, personal experience and the hope of redemption. Along with the EP announcement, the band has revealed the cover artwork for Going Home, created by Seth Metoyer, representing the story of the Prodigal Son, the wandering child returns home to find hi

Brutal Records Announces GODFROST – 'Hanging Doll' EP

MetalCrawlspace.com - Brutal Records is proud to announce the worldwide release of Hanging Doll, the new EP from Tokyo-based industrial metal project GODFROST, arriving on September 18th, 2026 in both digital and physical formats. The release will be distributed globally across all major platforms and supported by a coordinated promotional campaign through Haulix and international media outlets. This signing marks a significant expansion of GODFROST’s international presence a

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Founded and edited by Seth Metoyer, Metal Crawlspace approaches metal from a journalistic perspective while keeping one foot firmly planted in the culture itself. Seth brings more than 25 years of experience in the music industry, including Grammy Award-winning work as part of the Provident Music Group/Sony Music team. He is an alum of Metal Digest and currently serves as Assistant Editor of Heaven’s Metal Magazine.

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