These sure are sparse these days, huh? Well, so is the inbox. ‘Tis the season!

• How about we open up with some atmospheric black metal (that’s technically a few days old but whatever). Ukraine’s Labyrinthus Stellarum unveiled the new single “Lost in the Void” (yo, same). Scoop that up through Bandcamp.
• Mutagenic Host are streaming The Diseased Machine in its entirety through Death Metal Promotion ahead of its Friday release through Gurgling Gore, Dry Cough Records, and Memento Mori. More to come on this album in the very near future.
• Melodic death thrash band Midjungards dropped the new single “Ermesinda”. That’s the first single from their upcoming third album Ravens And Eagles which is coming out… eventually!
• Next up, a signing announcement from Wormholedeath: Plague of Stars. The gothic/black/doom metal crew out of Minneapolis are releasing Extinction on January 31st and you can check out a teaser for “Gods of Old” here.
• To end Monday (and maybe end Canto for 2024?) we have a new video from Crawling Chaos for “Nails of Fate”. The Italian melodic death metal crew are releasing Wyrd on March 28th through Time To Kill Records.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb