Pentagram to release new album “Curious Volume” in August
U.S. heavy/doom metal band, Pentagram, reunites with Peaceville Records for its new studio album, Curious Volume, to be released on August 28.
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DYING HUMANITY’s Deadened Out Today
Deadened, the new album from Germany’s DYING HUMANITY is out today on Bastardized Recordings.
EXODUS Launch European Headline Tour June 1st in Germany
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.
Theories (Metal Blade) Release Regression 3/24
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.
Lord Mantis – Death Mask Album Review
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…
Forteresse / Chasse-Galerie / Monarque / Csejthe – Légendes Split Review
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…
Possession Anneliese 7″ Review
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.