In the decade-plus they’ve been a band, the Tucson, Ariz.-based trio NORTH has ebbed and flowed their way into becoming one of the most respected outfits in the underground metal scene. Despite a series of lineup changes and personal setbacks, NORTH has returned stronger and more focused than ever on their debut full-length release for Prosthetic Records, “Light The Way.” One week prior to the album’s March 18 worldwide release,…
Aluk Todolo returned to the studio during May – June 2015 to record their fourth album, entitled Voix (“voice[s]” in French). And now, the album is set for European release on February 5th, 2016 via Norma Evangelium Diaboli (NED) (same date in North America via The Ajna Offensive).
Blood Harvest Records is proud to present the self-titled debut album of Triumvir Foul. Triumvir Foul will be released internationally by Blood Harvest on December 11th for the CD version, while the vinyl LP will follow on February 15th, 2016. Although forming in 2014 and having one demo prior to this debut LP, the trio of Triumvir Foul number two members of the celebrated cult Ash Borer – namely, drummer…
Having just returned from a huge 40-date tour in the US, spirited Melbourne singer songwriter, Shelley Segal has announced the release of her new single, Background Noises. The flirtatious storyteller will hit the road for a string of national dates kicking off in Perth on November 18, moving through Adelaide, on to Victoria to play Dromana, Bennetts Lane and Paynesville, Brisbane, Albury, back to Adelaide and then home to Melbourne…
Polish black metal revelation, BLAZE OF PERDITION, is gearing up for their first tour since the tragic road accident in Austria, back in 2013. Set to start on November 5th in Lublin, the “Days Of No Light” tour will visit ten cities across Poland and include support from fellow black metallers Mord’A’Stigmata and post-metal act, Moanaa.
INSANITY have debuted the title track from upcoming Unspeakable Axe Records release Visions of Apocalypse, the band’s first full-length album in two decades!
Julien Baker premiered her video for “Sprained Ankle” now can be seen via YouTube. The critically acclaimed, 20 year-old singer/songwriter – The New York Times, NPR, Vulture, NYLON (‘Band Crush’), WWD, and Absolute Punk, among others have written about her – was also named one of the site’s ’50 Best New Bands of 2015′ last week. Baker’s debut Daytrotter session is now available, as well as a live session with…
Softrock’s seminal band, The Blue Jean Committee, originated from blue-collar Chicago when the now legendary Clark Honus (Bill Hader) and Gene Allen (Fred Armisen) dropped out of school to create the band of their dreams. With the help of famed music manager Alvin Izoff, the band reinvented their hard Chicago-blues image to instead transcend the laid-back essence of California.
Hailing from The Netherlands, GOLD is a dark rock, post-everything band. Today they are happy to announce details of their forthcoming second album, No Image, due November 6th via Profound Lore Records in North America.
Admirers of such prog rock heavyweights as of Pink Floyd, earlier Genesis, Yes, Renaissance, and Jethro Tull are sure to enjoy the latest release from Giannotti, entitled ‘The Great Unknown.’ The Connecticut-based singer/guitar/flute (multi instrumentalist) has previously appeared on the Jasper Wrath Album, three of Cannata/Cannata-Arc Angel CD’s and the 1997 Jasper Wrath ‘Anthology’ release, before recently issuing his aforementioned solo debut.
North Carolina Trad/Doom Heavy Metallers DOGBANE have released new album When Karma Comes Calling on Heaven and Hell Records. Stream and/or purchase When Karma Comes Calling at this location. Combining traditional/NWOBHM-inspired Heavy Metal with just the right amount of doom, DOGBANE’s new release follows highly acclaimed 2011 debut Residual Alcatraz. When Karma Comes Calling is first and foremost a riff-heavy, hook-laden slab of Metal and the ultimate dedication to the…
Coheed and Cambria have revealed the cover and track list for their forthcoming album, The Color Before The Sun (Oct. 9, 300 Entertainment).
U.S. heavy/doom metal band, Pentagram, reunites with Peaceville Records for its new studio album, Curious Volume, to be released on August 28.
Deadened, the new album from Germany’s DYING HUMANITY is out today on Bastardized Recordings.
EXODUS are set to kick off their upcoming European headline tour on June 1st, 2015. The European dates kick off in Hamburg, Germany at Knust and end in Helinski, Finland on June 26th. The tour includes several festivals, including Sweden Rock Festival, Forta Rock Festival, Copenhell Festival, Metal Frenzy Festival, Graspop Metal Meeting, Hellfest Festival, and Tuska Open Air.
Captured at The Red Room and The Boiler Room with producer/engineer Derek Moree (The Sword, Pelican, Minus The Bear et al) with mixing and mastering conducted by Visceral Sound’s Scott Hull (Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed), Regression flaunts ten vehement tracks of jagged, confrontational, crust-infused death grind centered on the wanton truths of social discontent, economic uncertainty, environmental catastrophes, and the inevitable cycle of decay.
Ugly. That’s the first word that comes to mind when listening to this record. Metal, especially the extreme end of the spectrum, has traditionally been a conventionally ugly form of music. Untrained ears might hear nothing but abrasive noise when listening to an album like Death Mask from Chicago-based blackened doom noise quartet Lord Mantis. They’re often defined popularly as a “sludge” band but their label, Profound Lore, has publicly…
People don’t normally consider Canada to be a hotbed of extreme metal. When talking about the best black or death metal bands, Scandinavia is constantly mentioned, along with a few American bands, German bands and various regional scenes but the Canadian scene is often overlooked which is a shame because some of the bands to come out of the Great White North are some of the best bands metal has…
The term “Norsecore” has been thrown around on the internet for a while and generally refers to bands that ripped off the second-wave Norwegian bands in every possible way from riffs to aesthetics to an extreme over-reliance on blast beats.