There’s a bourbon barrel-aged stout waiting for me to wrap this post up.

• We start with Italian metal outfit HyperioN and their new lyric video for “Rewire, Rebuild”. That’s the second single from Cybergenesis, which is out on January 15th through Fighter Records.
• Finnish garage rockers Sweatmaster are releasing More! on January 30th through Svart Records, and they just unveiled a video for the title track from that one.
• Texas crossover crew Life Cycles unleashed their latest single “The End Still Awaits” through 1126 Records. A video for that one can be found here. They also have some European dates early in 2026 if you’re interested.
• Slayer are releasing a special 40th anniversary of Hell Awaits on May 15th through Metal Blade. That will be available in three physical formats and digitally. Shop your options here. Not gonna lie, they all seem pretty sick.
• Let’s wrap up with some Austrian atmospheric black metal. Ellende will release Zerfall on January 2nd through AOP Records, their sixth studio album. An animated video for their new single, “Wahrheit Teil II”, is below.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb