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It’s Wednesday, and you all know what that means!

So, let’s see what’s out there…

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BYZANTINE Charleston, West Virginia metal veterans Byzantine will be releasing their long-awaited new full-length album Harbingers on June 13^th via Metal Blade Records, however, we can now indulge in it a bit early as they have released a track along with its accompanying video, Floating Chrysanthema, which you can head over here to check out right now! And surely you won’t forget to head over here afterwards to place your album pre-order?

AXIOMA Cleveland, Ohio dark metal journeyman Axioma have confirmed a string of summer tour dates! Set to commence on July 10^th in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the trek will make stops in the East, Southeast, South, and back up to the Midwest closing on July 20^th in Indianapolis, Indiana! Head over here right now to secure tickets to a show near you!

BEHEMOTH Are you busy Friday? We hope not because this is a global livestream of the century! This coming Friday, April 25^th, Behemoth are set to make history with their largest ever headline performance, taking place at the prestigious Hala Stulecia in Wroclaw, Poland. With 6000 tickets sold and the event officially sold out, Behemoth will be joined by two titans of black metal, Satyricon and Rotting Christ, for a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of the genre´s elite, and for those who cannot be with them in person, you will still be able to join them live in real time, or stream the show for 48 hours after the event, and to do so all you need to do is click right here for tickets as well as exclusive merch!

RWAKE This June, Rwake will take to the stage on four special shows, including a performance at this year’s edition of Mutants of the Monster Fest on their home turf of Little Rock, Arkansas! More dates will be announced in the weeks to come, but there is nothing that says you can keep your eyes open for those dates and tickets that have already been announced!

ANCIENT DEATH Following up an EP, a split and a few singles, Walpole, Massachusetts death metal unit Ancient Death just dropped their debut full length Ego Dissolution on Profound Lore Records. Check out the album in full here and pick up a copy on CD or cassette. “Worship the true cosmic flow that is… PURE RIPPING DEATH” say the band. Couldn’t have put it better ourselves.

Soon, it will be out…

HAXPROCESS Coming straight at you with heavy, proggy death metal Haxprocess have announced the forthcoming release of their second album Beyond What Eyes Can See on Transcending Obscurity (on July 18th). In the meantime you can melt your brain with the first half of the album here, there are also a ton of different editions, bundles and extra tasty merch you can pre-order from the link above.

STRESS POSITIONS May 16th sees the release of Human Zoo (Three One G), the latest EP from the irrepressible hardcore punk four-piece Stress Positions. Sounding as mad as a shoe box full of hornets that got dropped out of the fifth floor window, you can listen to two preview tracks here, where you can also pre-order two limited, colour vinyl editions.pre-order the album on CD. Meanwhile if you’d like to pre-order the album on vinyl, you can do so here.

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Having to pay gigantic sums for international postage is a real gear grinder. While it’s our default setting to link Bandcamp pages in the case of new and pre-releases, we thought it would be helpful to add some online stores that might provide a useful alternative.

So if you see a release you fancy, but it’s being sold in a far off land and you don’t want to fork out on exorbitant shipping, see if any of the links below can remedy the situation.

Dark Essence (Norway) Dark Essence (US)

Deathwish (EU) Deathwish (US)

Direct Merch (Australia)

eOne Heavy (EU) eOne Heavy (UK) eOne Heavy (US)

Ipecac (EU) Ipecac (US)

Metal Odyssey (EU) Metal Odyssey (US)

Napalm Records (Germany)

Prophecy Productions (Germany) Prophecy Productions (US)

Rough Trade (UK) Rough Trade (US)

Season of Mist (EU) Season of Mist (US)

Southern Lord (EU) Southern Lord (US)

Throne Records (World)