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• STAGES OF DECOMPOSITION Unleashes New Music Video “Drilling Of The Cerebellum” + LA Show Date w/ DEVOURMENT and more!

  Jun 19, 2026 Fistoffreedom 0 Comments

   

  ​Los Angeles death‑grinders Stages of Decomposition have dropped a brand‑new music video for “Drilling Of The Cerebellum”, the opening track from their latest full‑length album "Raptures of Psychopathy," out now via Gore House Productions.

  Since erupting onto the scene with their acclaimed debut "Piles of Rotting Flesh," Stages of Decomposition have carved out a reputation for sadistic, unrelenting brutal death metal and a relentless touring schedule. With "Raptures of Psychopathy," the band pushes deeper into the darkest corners of human depravity, crafting a concept album rooted in horror, psychological distortion, and the grotesque realities of the human mind.
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  The band shares:
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  ​“Raptures of Psychopathy captures the minds of the psychotic, something all humans can relate to in one way or another. We all carry aggression, and for us, music is the release. This album defines the raptures we experience when going through our own psychopathies.”​
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  The album’s opening track, “Drilling Of The Cerebellum,” offers a disturbing glimpse into the mind of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, setting the tone for the album’s descent into psychological horror. The new music video amplifies that narrative with imagery and pacing that mirror the song’s frantic riffs, inhuman drumming, and cavernous gutturals.

  Across the album's eleven tracks, Stages of Decomposition explores a wide spectrum of horror, from serial killers to possession, mob mentality, and human extinction. Each song embodies a specific psychopathic narrative, delivered through frantic riffing, merciless blast beats, and guttural vocal savagery.
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  Recommended for fans of Kraanium, Suffocation, Mortician, and anyone who craves slamming, gore‑soaked brutality.

  "Raptures of Psychopathy" (released February 2, 2024) is available on CD, Cassette, and all digital platforms - https://orcd.co/raptures-of-psychopathy​

  In additional news, Stages of Decomposition will be performing in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 21st at 1720 alongside death metal legends Devourment, Mortiferum, Civerous, and Mortal Wound. Event details at https://www.facebook.com/events/1275326321226596​

  Track Listing:​
  1. Drilling of the Cerebellum - 4:59
  2. What Lies Within - 3:10
  3. Beast of Jersey 2:42
  4. Killing Under Possession - 3:36
  5. Murder by Proxy - 3:26
  6. Skid Row Slasher - 3:36
  7. Carve out the Eyes - 2:37
  8. Fetal Devourment - 3:04
  9. Crawl Space Burial - 3:12
  10. Human Extermination - 3:46
  11. Mass Psychosis - 2:09
  Album Length: 36:19

  More info:

  ​https://gorehouseproductions.com/​

  ​https://www.facebook.com/StagesofDecomposition​

  ​https://www.instagram.com/stagesofdecomposition_official

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• DieveNoire Drops Defiant New Video “IDGAF” + Performing at Rockfest 2026 w/ The Offspring, Halestorm, The Pretty Reckless and more!

  Jun 19, 2026 Fistoffreedom 0 Comments

   

   

  Melodic blues‑heavy rock band DieveNoire has released its boldest visual statement yet with the new music video for “IDGAF,” a track from their debut concept album "The Story of a Gunslinger." The band will also bring their dynamic, theatrical live show to Rock Fest in Cadott, Wisconsin, on August 18, marking their biggest festival appearance to date and sharing the stage with a lineup that includes The Offspring, Halestorm, The Pretty Reckless, Hollywood Undead, and many more! More info available at https://rock-fest.com/.

  Fans attending Rock Fest can expect a performance that goes far beyond simply recreating their album. DieveNoire’s live show is theatrical, high‑energy, and emotionally charged, with Lariyah (Havron, Hessler, Khaotika) delivering vocals with more grit, harshness, and intensity than on the studio recordings. The band’s stage presence transforms each song into a full‑body experience.

  Demonstrating this emotion, the track “IDGAF” erupts unfiltered, born from a night of insomnia, overwhelming stress, and a moment of stark clarity as Lariyah lay in morning grass heavy with petrichor, reflecting on life, humanity, and the weight of her own history. It channels the rawest parts of the human experience, unapologetic, unfiltered, and fiercely honest, standing in sharp contrast to the album’s western narrative and highlighting the band’s ability to shift from cinematic storytelling to deeply personal expression.

  Shaped by Lariyah’s own lived intensity, the song carries the urgency of someone who has survived the unimaginable. After a tragic tour accident that claimed three lives and left her clinically dead before being revived, she approaches every day with uncompromising authenticity.

  “This song is a display of a middle finger to the two‑faced, fake world. If you give me an apple, I’ll give you an orchard. Cut off my finger, and I’ll cut you off from my life. I’m Polish; I’m blunt. You’ll always know exactly what I think.”

  Though separate from the album’s gunslinger storyline, the track can still be interpreted through the lens of the concept, echoing the voice of the woman observing the gunslinger’s journey, a moment of surrender as she realizes she may never be able to follow where he goes.​

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  ​DieveNoire began as a solitary creative spark in Lariyah’s mind: simple beats, tribal textures, and haunting blues‑rock vocals. Over time, the project evolved into a full band featuring world‑touring musicians, guitarists Josh Perrin (Akhlys, Havron) and Lothar Keller (The Skull / Legions of Doom), along with drummer Aaron Esquitin, and the recent addition of Paul McBride (The Reticent) joining post-album release.
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  Their combined backgrounds in black metal, doom, progressive metal, and heavy rock helped transform DieveNoire into a melodic, blues‑driven heavy rock band known for its emotional depth and dynamic arrangements.
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  Their debut album, "The Story of a Gunslinger", inspired by a vivid dream of the old wild west, blends storytelling, grit, and southern‑gothic atmosphere. The album was further shaped by renowned Gothenburg producer Jakob Herrmann (Draconian, Thyrfing, Art Nation), who encouraged the band to push toward heavier textures while preserving their blues‑rock soul.

  
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  Recommended for fans of Clutch, Dorothy, Everybody Loves an Outlaw, Pretty Reckless, and Halestorm, "The Story of a Gunslinger" (released September 5, 2025) is available on all digital platforms.

  Add to your Spotify Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/album/5AaQXA6NbVieLh8YBpo4vH

  ​Bandcamp - https://dievenoire.bandcamp.com/album/the-story-of-a-gunslinger

   

  Show Dates:​
  7/16 - Chicago, IL - Live Wire Lounge
  7/17 - Milwaukee, WI - Shank Hall
  7/18 - Cadott, WI - Rock Fest

  Track Listing:​
  1. Preacher - 3:36
  2. To The Gallows - 3:43
  3. Gunslinger in Black - 2:44
  4. Streets of New Orleans - 5:04
  5. The Graveyard Song - 4:04
  6. Morning Star - 4:00
  7. These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - 3:48
  8. Spell of White Oleander - 4:55
  9. Throughout the Night - 3:28
  10. IDGAF - 4:24
  Album Length: 39:50

  Album Band Line Up:​
  Lariyah Perrin - Vocals
  Lothar Keller - Lead guitars
  Josh Perrin - Rhythm guitars
  Aaron Esquitin - Drums

  Live Band Line Up:​
  Lariyah Perrin - Vocals
  Lothar Keller - Lead Guitars
  Josh Perrin - Rhythm Guitars
  Aaron Esquitin - Drums
  Paul McBride - Bass (joined the band fully after the album release)

  More info:

  ​http://dievenoire.com/​

  ​https://www.facebook.com/dievenoire​

  ​https://www.instagram.com/dievenoire​

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• CONFLUX COLLECTIVE's New Album "In the Wake of Saturn" (ft. members of ex-Augury, ex‑Decrepit Birth, Derelict, Gross Misconduct, Continuum and more!)

  Jun 18, 2026 Fistoffreedom 0 Comments

   

  After years of dormancy, reinvention, and sheer determination, Conflux Collective unleashes its long‑anticipated debut full‑length album, "In the Wake of Saturn", available digitally and on CD and Vinyl on June 19th, 2026.

  And before it officially releases, check out its full stream premiere on BraveWords HERE.
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  Born from a chance reunion between drummer Tommy McKinnon (Derelict, Akurion, ex‑Neuraxis, ex‑Augury) and guitarist Chase Fraser (Continuum, ex‑Decrepit Birth, ex‑Animosity) after a King Diamond show in Montreal, Conflux Collective has always been something different, a project built on spontaneity, collaboration, and the collision of extreme voices.
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  What began as an unexpected jam session years ago has now evolved into a fully realized underground force.

  
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  ​"In the Wake of Saturn" is the culmination of a long creative journey marked by setbacks, reinvention, and unwavering resolve. After the project fell dormant, McKinnon resurrected it from the ground up, writing new material, reconstructing old tracks, recording all bass parts by ear, and crafting lyrics drawn from deeply personal experiences.
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  To bring the album to life, he assembled a powerhouse lineup of vocalists whose performances define the record’s emotional and sonic assault: Jesse Brint (Gross Misconduct), Mallika Sundaramurthy (Emasculator, ex‑Abnormality), Jeffrey Mott (The Monster Factory, Growlers Choir), Eric Burnet (Derelict, Samskaras), Max (Derelict), who also contributes a blistering guitar solo. Each vocalist adds a distinct identity, turning the album into a multi‑dimensional narrative rather than a traditional death‑metal record.
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  Across its eight tracks, "In the Wake of Saturn" channels the raw ferocity of ’90s death metal through the precision and ambition of modern technical death metal, forging a sound McKinnon defines as “progressive, brutal, technical, melodic, uncompromising.” The album moves through themes of loss, fear, survival, and rebirth, unfolding as a transformative listening experience where each song feels like a chapter in a larger narrative. Shifting vocal perspectives, intricate drum work, and a balance of atonal violence and melodic clarity guide the listener through its evolving landscape. As vocalist Jesse Brint put it, “…it’s a journey.”​
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  That journey begins with the ferocious opener “The Antidote”, a blast of brutal energy featuring some of McKinnon’s most demanding drum performances and a searing vocal delivery from Eric Burnet. From there, the album descends into the doom‑leaning weight of “Devouring Light”, a groove‑driven, darkly atmospheric piece crowned by one of Fraser’s most expressive solos. “Reincarnation” follows as a technical, emotionally charged centerpiece that mirrors the rebirth of the project itself. The title track, “In the Wake of Saturn”, delivers the album’s fastest and most direct assault, embodying the transformative force at the heart of the record. Finally, the journey closes with “Desperate Post‑Humanist”, the album’s most layered composition, an expansive and unsettling dialogue between man and machine that ends the record with haunting finality.

  
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  Mixed by Jeanne Comateuse, the album stands as a testament to perseverance and artistic integrity. Despite setbacks, lineup changes, and years of uncertainty, "In the Wake of Saturn" exists because the collective refused to let the vision die.

  “This album is a journey through pain, fear, defeat, survival and finally rebirth… a true underground monster, made for those who appreciate and seek the unusual,” adds McKinnon.

  Recommended for fans of Cryptopsy, Necrophagist, Decrepit Birth, Augury, and Beyond Creation, "In the Wake of Saturn" will be available at the following links:

  Album pre-save - https://confluxcollective.bandcamp.com/​

  Vinyl and CD pre-order - https://elasticstage.com/confluxcollective​

  Merch / Apparel available - https://confluxco-shop.fourthwall.com/​​

  More info:

  ​https://www.facebook.com/confluxcollective​

  ​https://www.instagram.com/confluxco/​

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

  Jun 15, 2026 Fistoffreedom 0 Comments

   

  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.
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  Fans of extreme metal, progressive death metal, and classical‑influenced metal will immediately recognize the ambition and precision behind the single.

  Arriving July 1, 2026, "Deaditation" is the culmination of more than two decades of writing. Brophy began composing the framework on classical guitar in 2003, later expanding the material into a full three‑album arc.
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  The debut album is a story‑driven descent and ascent, moving through spiteful violence, spiralling depression, suicidal ideation,
  confrontation with God, revenge, and finally, redemption.
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  ​“The album is drenched in violence and darkness, but with a hint of light that begins to show itself as the album progresses,” says Brophy.​
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  Musically, the record is dense, chromatic, harmonically lush, and rhythmically punishing. Vocally, all four members contribute in a rapid‑fire call‑and‑response style: Andrew Brophy (drums, lead vocals) with melodic leads and rhythmic anchors, Dustin Smith (bass) brings guttural, ogre‑like lows, Dan Brophy (guitar) adds vicious, rabid‑dog riot vocals and Ruth Guechtal (guitar) exports ripping, high‑screeching screams. The result is a massive, layered vocal machine unlike anything in the Canadian metal landscape.
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  ​METALADIAN formed in Hamilton, Ontario, as the vehicle for Andrew Brophy’s intricate compositions, music that blends thrash, death, progressive, and technical metal with the darker works of classical composers such as Bartók, Penderecki, Mussorgsky, Stravinsky, Beethoven, and Mahler.
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  “Metaladian is my passion, my main source of creativity and catharsis for years,” adds Brophy.
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  Their sound is best described as complex, emotional, heavy, dark, and hypnotizing. The band’s lineup is deeply interconnected: Andrew and guitarist Dan are brothers, Ruth (guitar) is Dan’s wife, and Dustin (bass) is their “metal brother from another mother.”
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  All four also perform in the Hamilton extreme‑theatre metal act 30 Immolated; 16 Returned, and three members hold classical‑music degrees, including two doctorates in composition.
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  Recommended for fans of Strapping Young Lad, Metallica (early), Suffocation, Bela Bartok, and Ludwig Van Beethoven, METALADIAN's "Deaditation" is available for pre-order at https://metaladian.bandcamp.com/​

  Track Listing:​
  1. Left Hand Path – 9:44
  2. Deaditation - 6:21
  3. No Worse Death Than The Loss Of All Hope - (Wondering Why I Wonder Why) - 7:35
  4. Confrontation With God - 11:59
  5. Cure For Judgement - 6:51
  6. Welcome To Your Holy Hell - 8:49
  Album Length: 51:19

  Band Line-up:​
  Andrew Brophy - Lead Vocals - Drums
  Dan Brophy - Vocals - Rhythm, Lead and Classical Guitars
  Ruth Guetchal - Vocals - Rhythm Guitars
  Dustin Smith - Vocals - Bass Guitars

  More info:

  ​https://www.facebook.com/metaladian/​

  ​https://www.instagram.com/metaladian​

  ​https://www.tiktok.com/@metaladian​

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• LEVINIA Sinks Their Teeth Into 2026 With Dracula Inspired Single “Bite”

  Jun 12, 2026 Fistoffreedom 0 Comments

   

  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.
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  “‘Bite’ is for anyone who’s ever felt drained by something or someone that tried to control them. It’s about finding the strength to fight back and become something stronger than what tried to break you,” says Henson.
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  Musically, “Bite” is Levinia at their most aggressive, relentless riffs, cinematic tension, and a vocal performance that swings between haunting restraint and explosive catharsis. Fans of the band’s heavier material, especially tracks like “Push and Pull,” will immediately gravitate toward its intensity.
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  The single’s artwork features a single drop of blood, a minimalist but potent symbol tied directly to the song’s themes. More than a nod to vampiric imagery, the blood represents the shedding of a former self, a transformation born from pain, loss, and the reclaiming of personal power.

  “Bite” continues Levinia’s 2026 collaboration with producer Brandon Friesen, who worked closely with guitarist Alon Mei‑Tal and vocalist Kourt Henson during pre‑production to refine the band’s most ambitious material yet. The partnership has resulted in a sound that is heavier, more cinematic, and more emotionally deliberate than anything in the band’s catalog.
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  This single marks the third chapter in a four‑part release cycle that showcases the full spectrum of Levinia’s identity, from groove‑driven modern metal to atmospheric balladry to the ferocity embodied in “Bite.”

  Recommended for fans of Within Temptation, Amaranthe, Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, and Delain, listen to “Bite” at the following links:

  ​Digital - https://hypeddit.com/levinia/bite612

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  Levinia:​
  Vocals - Kourt Henson
  Guitar - Alon Mei-Tal
  Bass - Liam Alexander
  Drums- Dylan Suierveld

  More info:

  ​https://www.leviniaofficial.com/​

  ​https://instagram.com/leviniaofficial​

  ​https://www.facebook.com/LeviniaOfficial/​

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