Inspired by their huge win on Monday's Death Metal World Cup match, it's time to enjoy some proper stomping from Obituary.

https://obituary.bandcamp.com/album/inked-in-blood-deluxe-version

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Eluveitie to Tour Europe This Winter with Pain and Wolfheart

https://www.metalsucks.net/2026/02/04/eluveitie-to-tour-europe-this-winter-with-pain-and-wolfheart/

#Eluveitie #TourEuropeThisWinter #deathmetal #melodicdeathmetal #industrialmetal #tour #announcement #MetalSucks #metal #music

Next up we have two big hitters. #DeathMetalWorldCup #DeathMetal #Metal https://metalhead.club/@HailsandAles/116007784450032783

❗ Un bon petit EP, du death moderne efficace et solide: fait son entrée 𝗧𝗼𝗼 𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝘁 avec "[S]HIT BACK"...

https://www.coreandco.fr/chroniques/too-old-for-this-shit-shit-back-10742.html

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Morning noise. https://afdoed.bandcamp.com/album/grotesque-preservation

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Atoll Release Live Staple “Ripped Apart By Test Tube Monkeys” as Their New Single

https://www.metalsucks.net/2026/02/03/atoll-release-live-staple-ripped-apart-by-test-tube-monkeys-as-their-new-single/

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SCARAB unleashes a ritual death metal onslaught with Transmutation of Fate, igniting a new era of 🇪🇬Egyptian extreme metal🤘

https://brutalrecords.com/release/scarab-transmutation-of-fate/

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NecroticGoreBeast / Atoll / Carrion Vael

X-Ray Arcade, Tuesday, April 28 at 06:30 PM CDT

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NECROTICGOREBEAST
NecroticGoreBeast is a slamming brutal death metal band from Quebec, Canada, known for their unrelenting heaviness, guttural precision, and bone-crushing breakdowns. Since forming in 2017, the band has been delivering ultra-violent slam death metal with a modern edge, earning a reputation for their raw intensity and live ferocity.

ATOLL
Aggressive Slam Death Metal from Phoenix, AZ.

CARRION VAEL
Carrion Vael execute skilfully crafted melodic death/thrash and draw lyrical influences from famous serial killers and mass murders in history. Their brutal force is heavily influenced by technical, melodic and traditional death metal, incorporating aspects of slam and old school death with razor-cut precision.

https://mkeshows.com/event/necroticgorebeast-atoll-carrion-vael

I don’t want to influence anyone but if Death go out in round 1 then I might cancel the whole thing 😂 #DeathMetalWorldCup #DeathMetal #Metal #DeathMetal

RE: https://metalhead.club/@HailsandAles/116002162270275267

So Obituary win with possibly the biggest margin so far. Next up we’ve got a big one!

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The C60 Mixtape Show 3rd February 2026
First broadcast on Hard Rock Hell Radio on 3rd Feb 2026. From hard rock to alt rock, funk metal to
https://hardrockhellradio.com/2026/02/03/697fc3e44b1113c2c876c9d9/
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❗ Retour sur "Transmogrification" le dernier EP de 𝗦𝗸𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗹 dans lequel leur death old school est moins lourd et moins gras mais aussi plus incisif et plus direct...

https://www.coreandco.fr/chroniques/skelethal-transmogrification-10691.html

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Donnerstag es wird Episch, Dunkel, mit Atmosphärischer Gewalt ab 19.30 Uhr

Songschnipsel: Skull & Crossbones - The Illusionist

https://laut.fm/crosstime

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p98y1qH7TOs&list=OLAK5uy_ldYwjjw6WGwms2su1J_dgtFWjZkCAnbi8

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OMNIUM GATHERUM Vocalist JUKKA PELKONEN Diagnosed With Lymphoma; Replacement Announced For Upcoming European Tour

https://bravewords.com/news/omnium-gatherum-vocalist-jukka-pelkonen-diagnosed-with-lymphoma-replacement-announced-for-upcoming-european-tour/

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For #TuneTuesday and #SignOfTheCross, 'Crosses Disintegration' by Goatblood

https://youtu.be/Y8rNgXJrlqo

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As this new year has gotten off to a right proper, lunacy-fueled start, I scoured the sump pit in search of something to pen my first review of 2026 on. As I poked through the pickens, slim as they were, I spied one of my favorite tags: ‘Steel says review,’ sitting unclaimed. Self-described as ‘free form death-jazz,’ Umeå, Sweden’s Backengrillen play music that is a paean to chaos and destruction. The basic idea is to take a death/doom metal, or noiserock riff and play it until it loses meaning and then break it apart like a ravenous cat would a tiny forest mouse. Okay, I thought, I’ll bite. Formed primarily from the ashes of the now twice-dead Swedish post-hardcore legends Refused, vocalist Dennis Lyxzén, bassist Magnus Flagge, and drummer David Sandström have partnered with composer and saxophonist Mats Gustafsson to release Backengrillen, their eponymous debut album on Svart Records. Backengrillen cull inspiration from The Cramps and Little Richard to Entombed, Misfits, and Can. With such an eclectic cadre of performers to draw muse from, I was thoroughly intrigued to dive into Backengrillen and discover what I had gotten myself into.

Experimentally chaotic yet at times catchy and compelling, Backengrillen reaps seeds first sown on Refused’s initial 1998 swan song, The Shape of Punk to Come. Where TSoPtC only dabbled outside traditional punk and hardcore tropes, though, Backengrillen embeds those fringe elements of ambiance, electronics, and jazzy instrumentation as the spine of its soundscape, with Gustafsson carrying most of the weird load. His role as frenetic flautist, huffing, puffing, and grunting violently over his flute’s embouchure like some deranged Ian Anderson (“Dör för långsamt”), and psychotic saxophonist, skronking, squawking, and swooning (“Backengrillen”), counterbalances Backengrillen’s more alt-punk style, homogenizing the whole into something akin to Morphine on meth.

Backengrillen by Backengrillen

Written during Backengrillen’s first rehearsal, performed live the next day, then recorded the day after that, Backengrillen is a gutsy shot in the dark. As off-the-cuff as it is, there are moments on Backengrillen that came off way more methodical than the nature of their origin would suggest. Launching from a simple, keyed melody, “A Hate Inferior” builds slowly as layers of drums, bass, and smarmy sax eventually coalesce into a scorched-earth sludge bomb that hits around the three-minute mark, and is topped off by Lyxzén’s nuclear scream, whose vocals sound like a mix of Zach de la Rocha and Jello Biafra. From that point on, the track had me rocking a slow and steady stank-faced head bob. Then there’s, at least for me, the humorously titled “Repeater II,” which is the shortest and most traditionally structured of the bunch—clocking in at a brisk six minutes forty-three seconds. A rompy, punk-fueled ditty that sounds like a mix of The Cramps, Dead Kennedys, and Nirvana, with a bit of sax thrown in for good measure, and Lyxzén, at his most Biafra-like, shouting the infectious chorus, ‘Hey, repeat it, repeat it again,’ over and over.

Whipped up quicker than a batch of Mom’s Rice Krispies treats, Backengrillen suffers most from impoverished improvisation. Despite the churlish charm present on the tracks mentioned above, the rest of this five-song, fifty-three-minute monster isn’t nearly as engaging or easy to listen to. “Dör för långsamt,” for example, is just over thirteen minutes of Gustaffson’s squawky, dying-animal sax playing entwined with a bevy of Lyxzén’s screeches, screams, grunts, and queasy, drunken-sounding chorus lines layered over a plodding, tribal bass and drum beat. “Backengrillen” fares no better, eleven minutes of sluggish drum and bass holding up Gustaffson’s breathy, trilly flute and barely tuned saxophone alongside another Lyxzén performance made up of pitchy, swaying chants and lots of grunting screams. And on every play through, by the time “Socialism or Barbarism” rolled around, I was checked out and ready to move on. This made slogging through the tracks’ first three minutes of electronic noise that much harder to digest, let alone the remaining 7.5 minutes.

Had this been recorded as one continuous, fully improvised live set in some Västerbotten County dive-bar, complete with sparse crowd reactions, by four musicians who’d never played one note together, it might have hit different.1 As it stands, my greatest takeaway from this experience was discovering Refused, which I actually had a lot of fun listening to during my prep. And for those wondering, why no puns, here you go. Ultimately, there isn’t enough meat grillen here to get me to come Backen.

Rating: 2.5/5.0
DR: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Svart Records
Websites: Bandcamp
Releases Worldwide: January 23, 2026