WOLFPACK: 1990s Trilogy Of LPs To Be Reissued Individually And In Box Set Form By Southern Lord; New WOLFBRIGADE Material On The Horizon – Southern Lord will be bringing back the furious early era of WOLFBRIGADE, the band then known as WOLFPACK, in a trilogy of reissues this April. The series will encompass the savage Swedish act’s first three LPs – A New Dawn [Read More …]
DISTRICT 97 Confirms New Dates For 2016 World Tour Including Spring US Shows – Chicago-based alt/prog act DISTRICT 97 has confirmed additional details and dates for their second European tour which will start in the UK in late March, as well as a series of new East Coast and Midwest US dates including several [Read More …]
WAKE Spits Forth “Wretched Tongue” From Sowing The Seeds Of A Worthless Tomorrow LP Via Decibel Magazine – Decibel Magazine takes this day to spit forth a venomous new single from Calgary grindcore faction, WAKE, and their impending Sowing The Seeds Of A Worthless Tomorrow LP, unleashing the album’s “Wretched Tongue” through an exclusive [Read More …]
BORIS Announces US Tour Dates – Japanese drone/stoner/experimental veterans BORIS have announced a run of US tour dates this coming April surrounding Gensho, their new collaborative Relapse release with noise legend MERZBOW. The tour will see the band playing eight shows across the American Southwest and [Read More …]
LAMENT CITYSCAPE: Oakland Experimental Doom Duo Completes Turn Outward Remix Of Debut LP For Digital Release – Oakland’s experimental doom duo LAMENT CITYSCAPE has completed a remix album for release later this month, showcasing the seven tracks from their debut LP, The Torn. Released through Battleground Records in mid-2015 LAMENT CITYSCAPE’s The Torn [Read More …]
GLORIA MORTI: Decibel Premieres “Josef Fritzl” Track From Finnish Death Metal Outfit; Willowtip-Bound Kuebiko LP Due Mid-March – Finnish death metal legion, GLORIA MORTI, will release their fifth album titled Kuebiko on March 18th, their first for Willowtip Records. Decibel Magazine has issued a worldwide premiere of the album’s ripping “Josef Fritzl,” noting of the pulverizing single, “they [Read More …]
SHADOW WOODS METAL FEST Returns To Devastate Central Maryland In September; More Than Twenty Bands Already Confirmed – SHADOW WOODS METAL FEST, the Mid-Atlantic’s open-air camping metal party, will once again terrorize the woodlands of central Maryland this fall with three days of more than thirty bands from diverse metal genres and regions. The 2016 festival runs from [Read More …]
WHORID: Decibel Streaming Bloated Pig Carcass In A Shallow Wake Album From Philly Power Electronics Outfit – Decibel Magazine has volunteered their Deciblog for the ultimately demoralizing task of delivering Philadelphia-based self-harm electronics outfit WHORID’s horrifying Bloated Pig Carcass In A Shallow Wake album through an exclusive stream just days ahead of its [Read More …]
SWEET COBRA: Chicago-Based Package Tour With Bloodiest And Electric Hawk Confirmed For March – Following a few months off the road after their US tour dates with Mutoid Man, SWEET COBRA will take part in a North American Chicago-based package tour, the triad of acts also including Bloodiest and Electric Hawk. The Chicago-based SWEET [Read More …]
ORYX / LANGUISH: Battleground Records Sets April Release Date For Devastating Split LP; New Track Playing At Cvlt Nation – Battleground Records has confirmed April 1st for the release of the devastating split LP from Denver slow burners, ORYX, and Tucson grind rippers, LANGUISH, and today a brand new track from the ORYX side has been let out of the [Read More …]
MANIPULATE: Becoming Madness EP From New York Hardcore Division Streaming In Full At Lambgoat; Release Out NOW On Flatspot Records – Following advance teasers from Revolver Magazine, No Clean Singing, and Invisible Oranges, today the gate keepers at Lambgoat.com offer up Becoming Madness, the latest EP from New York hardcore unit, MANIPULATE, in its venomous entirety. Stream Becoming Madness at THIS [Read More …]
VICTIMS: Tankcrimes To Issue Sirens LP By Stockholm Crust Icons; West Coast North American Tour Dates Confirmed – Tankcrimes will proudly deliver the brand new LP from long-running Stockholm hardcore crust warriors, VICTIMS, with the April release of the band’s sixth album, Sirens. In a coordinated attack with the LP’s impending release, the band will return to North [Read More …]
BLACK WIZARD: Revolver Magazine Streams New Waste In Its Entirety; Record OUT NOW Via Listenable Records – With New Waste, the new full-length offering from Vancouver-based heavy metal/stoner rock conjurers, BLACK WIZARD, now just two days from official release, today Revolver Magazine thrusts forth the record in its towering entirety. Boasting nine raging tracks of red-eyed, retro-riff [Read More …]
DIE CHOKING Begins Grind Is The New Black European Tour This Week; Preorders for III CD Posted – Hypergrind trio DIE CHOKING will begin their first tour of Europe this week, kicking off Grind Is The New Black. The tour also marks the CD release of the band’s debut album III, being co-released between [Read More …]
ARCANA 13: Bloody Disgusting Premieres Harrowing “Dread Ritual” Video From Italian Occult Rock/Doom Alchemists; Danza Macabra Preorders Now Available – ARCANA 13 – the occult rock/doom collective uniting members of Mnemic, The Modern Age Slavery, Void Of Sleep and Stoned Machine – premieres the harrowing visual accompaniment to the track “Dread Ritual” via Bloody Disgusting. The latest slab of [Read More …]
GADGET: MetalSucks Issues “I Don’t Need You-Dead And Gone” From Relapse-Bound The Great Destroyer LP – As Sweden’s decimating grind faction, GADGET, makes a triumphant return with their new album in ten years with the Relapse-bound The Great Destroyer next month, MetalSucks has premiered the album’s latest single, “I Don’t Need You-Dead And [Read More …]
TEN THOUSAND MILES OF ARTERIES: Entire Even Spilled Seed Crawls Toward The Womb Album Streaming At Invisible Oranges – The reawakening of Midwestern power electronics outfit, TEN THOUSAND MILES OF ARTERIES, will take place this Valentine’s Day with the release of the soloist’s proper debut full-length, Even Spilled Seed Crawls Toward The Womb, the album being discharged early through [Read More …]
ZUN: Spin Magazine Premieres “All For Nothing” From Ambient Desert Rock Trio; Band Joins Current And Former Members Of Kyuss, Ides Of Gemini, And Yawning Man – “ZUN is a collaboration of extremely talented friends and my chance to get in the studio and experiment a bit. It has one hand in my other band Yawning Man and the other hand in my love for ’80s gothic [Read More …]
CANNIBAL CORPSE: North American Tour With Obituary, Cryptopsy And Abysmal Dawn Underway; Reissues Classic Albums Butchered At Birth, Eaten Back To Life, The Bleeding, Vile, And Tomb Of The Mutilated On Vinyl – CANNIBAL CORPSE will pillage their way through North America with fellow Floridian death metal progenitors, Obituary, as direct support. The over month-long trek, presented by The Noise, will run from February 12th through March 20th. Additional support will [Read More …]
CHILD BITE: Detroit’s Favorite Musical Misfits Set To Release Negative Noise Full-Length This April; Tour With Poison Idea Underway – Detroit’s favorite musical misfits, CHILD BITE, will unveil their brand new full-length, Negative Noise, this Spring. Having released three full-lengths, as well as a gaggle of EPs and singles since their formation in late 2005, the prolific collective is now [Read More …]
UNBORN SUFFER Releases “Open Defiance” Video From Selfmadegod-Issued Nihilist Album – Polish death/grind trio UNBORN SUFFER has issued an official video from their fifth album, Nihilist, created for the record’s neck-mangling second track, “Open Defiance.” The follow-up to 2012’s Unborn Suffer, and UNBORN SUFFER’s overall fifth full album, Nihilist was recorded [Read More …]
BARDUS: Philadelphia Sludge/Noise Metal Outfit Signs With Solar Flare Records; Stella Porta LP Due In April – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based BARDUS has hooked up with Clermont-Ferrand noisemerchants Solar Flare Records – label home to Pigs, Sofy Major, American Heritage, Fashion Week, The Great Sabatini and more – for the April release of the band’s [Read More …]
LA CHINGA: “Right On” From Vancouver Riff Rockers Playing At The Obelisk; Freewheelin’ To See Release Via Small Stone Next Month – “The song is red eyed look back at our youth in suburban basements, at ‘bush’ parties, food courts and arcades. It is also a call to arms, for the future people…to continue the greasy, rock ‘n’ roll ways for they [Read More …]
EXTERMINATION TEMPLE: No Clean Singing Premieres Opening Track To Lifeless Forms EP By Covert Swedish Death Metal Artist – A caustic slab of gnarled death metal from Swedish outfit, EXTERMINATION TEMPLE, has been thrust bluntly forth into the universal public’s ears today through the dispatching of the opening track to the cryptic outfit’s impending Lifeless Forms 7″ EP. No [Read More …]
MAGIC CIRCLE Books Northeast Tour Dates In Support Of Journey Blind LP – Boston-based traditional/doom metal outfit MAGIC CIRCLE – formed by members of Doomriders, Mind Eraser, Innumerable Forms, Stone Dagger, Battle Ruin, and others – is currently booking a series of Northeastern US tour dates for the Winter [Read More …]
MANTAR: German Metal Duo Premieres “Era Borealis” From Nuclear Blast-Bound Ode To The Flame Album Through Revolver Magazine – In advance of their Nuclear Blast debut, Ode To The Flame, Germany’s extreme metal duo MANTAR releases the first single from the album with an exclusive stream of the malevolent “Era Borealis” through Revolver Magazine. Receive the rapture of MANTAR’s [Read More …]
CULT OF LUNA And JULIE CHRISTMAS To Release Mariner This April Via Indie Recordings; New Track Posted + Preorders Available – “At the end of Vertikal, we stood in the cold harshness of the mechanical city and looked up onto the stars. We lost ourselves in the awe of their grace and thought that maybe the answer [Read More …]
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