While all the ‘retro’ thrash bands are trying to sound just like 1988, Skeletonwitch has a different take. Sure, their sound hearkens back to the same time period, but a carbon copy they ain’t. Fusing thrash riffs and rhythms with a distinctly black metal vibe (both musically and vocally) and NWOBHM flavored melodies here an [...]

Exclusive preview track unveiled at http://www.myspace.com/mantricofficial
Prosthetic Records is proud to announce the signing of MANTRIC to the label for a worldwide, multi-album deal. Formed in 2007 in Oslo, Norway from the ashes of metal pioneers Extol, MANTRIC takes the visionary songwriting approach of its founding members to new, epic heights.
Fusing a unique, distinctly Scandinavian take [...]

NEW ALBUM “BREATHING THE FIRE” OUT OCTOBER 13, 2009
Mighty Midwestern metallians SKELETONWITCH have unveiled “Repulsive Salvation,” a new track off of their upcoming full-length “Breathing The Fire” (due October 13 via Prosthetic Records). The song is available via the brand new “Breathing The Fire” widget, available here:
http://prostheticrecords.com/widgets/skeletonwitch/
The widget contains coding to drop it into any [...]

You are mistaken if you are thinking this is the Finnish doom band of the same name so click away now if you were expecting a mournful recollection of misery. Instead is the complete other side of the spectrum, fierce, robust, thrashing metal from a place more likely to be more miserable then Finland, that [...]

Prosthetic Records’ has signed Seattle’s Trap Them. The band’s sound combines elements of old school Swedish death metal, punk, and d-beat and takes influence from bands such as Entombed, Black Flag, Nasum and Tragedy. Trap Them has spent time on the road with Napalm Death, Disfear, Skeletonwitch, Victims, Rotten Sound, Toxic Holocaust, and Coliseum, [...]

As the story goes, when Prosthetic Records asked D.C. – based guitar virtuoso Tosin Abasi to record a solo album based on his performances with his former band Reflux, the artist demurred as such a project would be ‘egotistical’. Here then, is his solo project under the band name, Animals as Leaders, on which [...]

(Los Angeles, CA) April 14, 2009 – The Syracuse, N.Y.-based UNHOLY, who will support Earth Crisis and Walls of Jericho on a national tour next month, have posted the Aeron Alfrey-designed cover art for their Prosthetic Records debut, New Life Behind Closed Eyes, on their MySpace page, http://www.myspace.com/unholy. 
“The cover as well as the interior art [...]

There’s a handful of ‘popular’ and highly acclaimed bands that I simply don’t get or don’t enjoy. At the top of that list is Mastodon and pretty close to the top is Baroness and fellow Georgia act, Kylesa, its and no surprise considering they have (had) a somewhat similar approach to metal.
While Mastodon have continued to allow [...]

To these ears, Houston’s Scale the Summit, ply an instrumental version of soaring, layered metalcore that’s basically like a slightly more progressive, post rock version of Misery Signals, Life In Your way without vocals.
Then why aren’t I enjoying this more?
Maybe of course it because I’m generally not a huge instrumental metal fan as frankly the [...]

Feb. 24, LOS ANGELES – Animals As Leaders, the Washington, D.C.-based instrumental/progressive band that features renowned eight-string guitarist Tosin Abasi (ex-Reflux), has signed with Prosthetic Records. The group’s self-titled debut is slated for an April 28 release, and an advance track, “Tempting Time,” is currently streaming on their MySpace page (www.myspace.com/animalsasleaders).
“Animals As Leaders is a [...]

In “The Art of Dying,” vocalist Joe Duplantier growls, ‘Take no possessions; I would rather travel light’ – but this thunderous, harrowing meditation on death is anything but. That track, arguably the core of The Way of All Flesh, begins with shamanic chants and tribal drumming before puncturing the veil to the other side – [...]

I’ve enjoyed watching Light This City evolve from their rough and ready debut The Hero Cycle in 2003 to through their brilliant third album,  Facing the Thousand , to what is now their swansong, Stormchaser, a mere five years later. The band has evolved from a mere At The Gates worship to a powerful, polished an [...]

While technically stunning, Beneath the Massacre’s transition from deathcore to a more technical death metal band on Mechanics of Dysfunction was a little short on memorability. So here is the follow up and while stylistically the band has continued their batshit insane musical pyrotechnics and uber busy delivery, they have managed to deliver a slightly [...]

While Gojira’s The Way of All Flesh and All That Remains Overcome (and possibly Light This City’s swansong, Stormchaser) are arguably Prosthetic’s bread and butter in 2008, the fact remains; Withered’s Folie Circulaire and now the second album from Seattle’s Book of Black Earth are simply Prosthetics best releases of 2008 so far, and shows Prosthetic as [...]

 So, in lieu of the recent All That Remains disappointment, two records have stepped in to fill the commercial American Metal void somewhat; The Fight Within From Better Left Unsaid and the third album from California’s Antagonist. 
I’m by no mean saying Antagonist is a better band than All That Remains, but as far as comparing [...]

After having a great interview with All That Remains vocalist Phil Labonte a couple of days ago and discovering him to be a super nice dude, and a superb live performer to boot,  it sucks that I then have to turn around write this less than complementary review. Granted, I knew how I felt about [...]

What’s this? A hefty, experimental metal band from France on Prosthetic Records? Is it the new Gojira? Nope, but close. Originally released on Dental Records in 2007, it appears Prosthetic Records has snapped up this Alsace band’s debut in order to whet everyone’s appetite for the upcoming The Way of All Flesh, and good thing [...]

Recently disbanded San Francisco melodic death thrashers LIGHT THIS CITY have confirmed Nov. 11 as the release date for the band’s fourth and final full-length album, entitled ‘Stormchaser,’ as well as the complete tracklisting for the 12-song effort, which will be released through Prosthetic Records. A new track, “Sand And Snow” has also been posted on the [...]

Prosthetic Records is proud to announce the addition of Syracuse N.Y.’s UNHOLY to the Los Angeles-based label’s ranks. Currently writing material for the band’s second full-length record, the forthcoming effort will be the follow-up to the band’s debut, ‘Blood Of The Medusa,’ which saw a June 2007 release through Lambgoat Records.
“We’re really excited to share [...]

Massachusetts’ ALL THAT REMAINS have posted another song, “Two Weeks,” from the band’s forthcoming album, ‘Overcome,’ on the band’s MySpace page. “This is the first time I’ve done a song that has singing from beginning to end,” frontman Phil Labonte says. “It was something I had wanted to do for some time but ATR isn’t [...]

I would be an idiot to say this is a terrible album, but I couldn’t pass up saying this is perhaps Neuraxis’ most pedestrian moment. Where once bombast and sheer power dominated this, one of the most celebrated of the Canadian death metal bands around, now it would seem they prefer a different approach; one [...]

Massachusetts’ ALL THAT REMAINS has unveiled the band’s new video for the track “Chiron,” from the forthcoming album ‘Overcome’ exclusively online as Buzznet.com’s video of the day (http://allthatremains.buzznet.com/user/video/3456391/all-remains-chiron/). The clip was shot earlier this summer while the band was in Los Angeles with director Brian Thompson (As I Lay Dying, Killswitch Engage) and a behind [...]

Despite the fact I’ll never see a show by these guys ‘cos of their moronic fans, the fact is I love their recorded output all the way back to 2002’s … And Life is Very Long.
So now here with their second Prosthetic Records offering and after the slight tangent that The Dead Walk took into [...]

After stealing The Funeral Pyre away from Creator Destructor Records and then re-issuing the band’s impressive second offering, here is the Prosthetic Records debut from California black metal act and there have been some slight changes from The Nature of Betrayal.
The most obvious change is that keyboardist Daniella Jones is no longer in the band, [...]

The debut, Memento Mori, from Atlanta’s Withered was a killer Stockholm sounding Doom/Death effort that got unfairly touted as a Mastodon clone due to the geography of the band. Three years later and Withered have returned with a new label and a slightly tweaked sound. But fear not the tweaking is a blacker, sicker, and [...]