THE GENERALS „Stand Up Straight”
Ever the fount of metallic goodness, this year Sweden gives us The Generals: four musical tough guys (one of thems named a very Viking Hednar) whose sound straddles thrash metals intensity and the peculiar death n roll subgenre. Kicking the door down on this oddly named Stand Up Straight debut is the no-bullshit opener Blessing In Disguise that introduces the listener to the bands penchant for solid riffs and battering percussion corsetted in melody.
MINDLAG PROJECT „Mindlag Project”
After 3 EPs and ten years of existence, these Frenchmen have released their homonymous debut album, influenced, in their own words, by earlier thrash and death metal works. To me, this is quite in the mood of the recent French Extreme Metal Wave (I just thought up that thing right now), which includes acts such as Gojira and Eryn Non Dae.
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New albums produced by Panda Music
ASGARD – Zlověstné Časy (Fateful Times) A dark epic story written by Jiří “Big Boss” Valter on the background of Asgard's hypnotic music.
DEFEATED – V bahnech – Asgard's guitarist Pačess…
DE PROFUNDIS „A Bleak Reflection”
I noticed, that in the United Kingdom still come into being the bands playing the slowest kind of metal – doom metal. Practically in the West Europe and especially in the UK there is the cradle of the heavy kind of doom metal.
BANSHEE!!! „Movie”
Veronica (Ashley Bates) and her childhood friends embark on a camping trip. These friends picked the wrong Connecticut forest to roast weenies and sing “Kumbayah. Before the hormone-ridden co-eds can even remove a bra or crack open a beer, a creature begins to pick them off, one by one.
BANSHEE!!! „Movie”
Veronica (Ashley Bates) and her childhood friends embark on a camping trip. These friends picked the wrong Connecticut forest to roast weenies and sing “Kumbayah. Before the hormone-ridden co-eds can even remove a bra or crack open a beer, a creature begins to pick them off, one by one.
BEHEMOTH frontman facing prison after onstage antics
Polish BEHEMOTH frontman Adam 'Nergal' Darski could be doing time after offending Catholics in his home country after dubbing the religion “the most murderous cult on the planet” before tearing…
CHILDREN OF BODOM begin work on new album
Finnish legends CHILDREN OF BODOM are set to enter the studio this summer to record the follow-up to 2008's “Blooddrunk” in the hope of having something new to release next…
IMPIETY and SETHERIAL touring Europe
IMPIETY will be touring Europe together with Setherial from the 10th of April to the 1st of May 2010. …
ZOROASTER zooms into studio
Critically acclaimed psych metal band ZOROASTER has entered Atlantas Living Room Studios (Mastodon, The Black Lips) to begin the recording of its hotly anticipated new album, Matador. A July release…
FINNTROLL Completes Album and Plans North American Tour
FINNTROLL have returned with their highly anticipated new slab of folk-rooted metal hymns entitled “Nifelvind” that is now available everywhere. It was recorded at Sonic Pump Studios (Apocalyptica, Amorphis, Ensiferum)…
THE RUINS OF BEVERAST Official North American Release Date
Germany's Ván Records is proud to announces the unleashing of “Foulest Semen Of A Sheltered Elite”, the third full-length from THE RUINS OF BEVERAST, to North American audiences this spring….
EMBRYONIC DEVOURMENT posts new tracks
California technical death/grind four-piece EMBRYONIC DEVOURMENT recently posted two brand new tracks from their upcoming full-length, Vivid Enterpretations Of The Void. Check out “Militarized Reptoids” and “Darken Thy Fluids” here:…
ALESTORM – Drummer leaves the band
Drummer Ian Wilson left Scotish ALESTORM this week. Here's his official statement:
“So aye, I quit Alestorm earlier this week because I'd basically just had enough of all the bullshit…
Earsplit Announces New Band ORWELL
ORWELL: Pure Midwestern American Metal
Wisconsin's given birth to a potent and proud young metal beast which answers to the name ORWELL. Escaping current “for the moment” musical trends,…
STYGIAN to play the Philadelphia Flyers Game
Philadelphia's heavy rockers STYGIAN are set to rock the NHL once again! On March 11th, when the Philadelphia Flyers host the Boston Bruins at Wachovia Center, STYGIAN will be performing…