MADDER MORTEM: Norwegian Avant Metal collective reveals “Fallow Season” video
“The lyrics of ‘Fallow Season’ deal with how greed and religion, as driving forces behind humanity’s self-destructive behavior, are speeding our progress towards an apocalypse. The song suggests that perhaps this is what is needed: a cataclysm that will reduce our current civilization to rubble, and let nature reclaim some territory.” – Agnete M. Kirkevaag, […]
VOID OMNIA announces December West Coast Tour
Oakland black metal outfit VOID OMNIA has announced the dates for their West Coast North American tour this December. Additionally, the vinyl version of their Dying Light debut LP is now available for preorder via Vendetta Records.
GOROD: tech death strategists issue “The Mystic Triad Of Artistry” video
Last year, French tech death strategists GOROD unleashed the brain-melting bounty of their A Maze Of Recycled Creeds full-length in North America via Unique Leader Records. Centered around unfathomable fantasies created by various secret societies and mystical orders, the critically-adored A Maze Of Recycled Creeds is a near-fifty-minute-long work of diabolic genius spewing forth eleven […]
KAIRON; IRSE! set release date for new Svart Records album
Progressive shoegazing? Music of the outer spheres? An irrevocably mentally unstable Gentle Giant and a severely alcoholic Todd Rundgren having a love child which, after being adopted to Russia, finds himself performing a rock opera in the Ural Mountains? It is typical of the human mind to try and classify things, but when confronted with […]
Calgary Thrashers ILLYRIAN post live video of ‘Round 2: Fight!’
Unleashing their new album ‘Round 2: Fight!’ on October 7th, Calgary thrashers ILLYRIAN have posted live video from their album launch performing the title track. ‘Round 2: Fight!’ was co-produced by the band with Casey Lewis at Echo Base Studios plus mastered by Sacha Laskow (Every Hour Kills, ex-Divinity) at Perfect Fifth Studios and is available on iTunes, Amazon and Bandcamp.
CHILDRENN recording second album with Randall Dunn
Copenhagen-based CHILDRENN, who released the critically acclaimed desperate dark rock debut album “Animale” in march 2016, that received massive critically acclaim – has just entered Black Tornado Studio in Copenhagen, Denmark to record a brand new album.
OCTOBER 31 to release special covers album of “Metal Massacre” compilation songs & reveal first tracks
The eight volumes of Metal Massacre released by Metal Blade Records in the 1980s were massively instrumental in chronicling (and furthering) the burgeoning heavy metal movement, particularly in the United States. Here, the earliest songs of Slayer and Ratt, for example, stood side by side each other as a declaration of intent: that HEAVY METAL […]
COLISEUM & DOOMRIDERS: Magic Bullet Records confirms reissue of long out-of-print DANZIG covers for November release
Magic Bullet Records will reissue the long out-of-print Not Of this World split 7″ from COLISEUM and DOOMRIDERS in November, this week posting preorders and more on the release.