“L’Eterno Maligno Silenzio“, the third album from enigmatic Italian Illuminates TENEBRAE IN PERPETUUM, is being streamed in its entirety at the following location : http://www.debemur-morti.com/ecards/DMP0058. Recorded & mixed at Necropalace Studio and mastered at 322 Studio, “L’Eterno Maligno Silenzio” will be released on October 30th via Debemur Morti Productions. The limited digipack edition is currently […]

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 […]

One could argue that in the space of just three full length albums , Liv Kristine and her spectacular cleavage , err I mean voice, have become Gothic metal’s premier act. The formula they ply has been done amply by the likes of Nighwish, Epica, Stream of Passion and a host of other boobie fronted […]

In advance of its October 27th release, all eight tracks of PELICAN’s upcoming Southern Lord debut album What We All Come To Need is now streaming on the band’s Myspace page! Stop by and check it out today: http://www.myspace.com/pelican. PELICAN is out on a full US tour with label mates Black Cobra now through mid-December. […]

Candlelight Records today confirms the upcoming release of a special deluxe version of ABSU’s popular self-titled album. Set for American release January 26, the limited edition format will include a bonus live DVD that was filmed in Montreal amidst the band’s first stateside tour in nearly eight years. The band recently kicked off a European […]

Ugh. I feel queasy. While not overly impressed with the last offering from this Netherlands madman who goes by the name of Mories, there’s something about this album that literally hooks me, reels me in an gives me a tangible sense of disgust and self loathing. Maybe it’s the more perverse, sexually depraved nature of […]

The last couple of years has been spectacular for old school classic Swedish styled death metal; you’ve had albums from the likes of veterans such as Bloodbath, Séance, Necrovation, Evocation, Dismember as well as new blood from Hail of Bullets, DeathEvocation and Fatalist just to name a few. Heck, even Entombed returned from the land of suck on 2007s Serpent Saints. What was missing was a big name reunion- a glorious name from the past, the return of a legend (Séance doesn’t quite count). And that happened earlier this year (at least here in the US) when Ibex Moon Records released Death …the Brutal Way from Dutch death metal legends, Asphyx. Complete with the duo that was mostly responsible for the legendary The Rack, suddenly busy vocalist Martin Van Drunen, founding member Rob Bagchus returned to the fray in spectacular fashion and I caught up with Mr. Bagchus to find out how this legendary comeback came about and other things….

Reactivated Swedish atmospheric black metallers ALGAION have set Exthros (“enemy” in Greek) as the title of their third album, to be released via Pulverised Records. Exthros was recorded at Helltower Studio by ALGAION live/studio drummer Robert Eng (Corporation 187) and mastered by Simon Söderberg at Mayfire Studio. Exthros track listing: 01. “Alpha” 02. “That Time […]

As when I heard the re-issue of Marduk’s Dark Endless last year, I had no idea that the current iteration of one of Sweden’s more respected second tier black/death metal acts, Necrophobic was so different from their more recognized, current sound. Like Marduk, Necrophobic’s first sound was one rooted in early Swedish death metal, namely […]

 Candlelight Records today confirms two limited edition versions of ABIGAIL WILLIAMS’ popular debut album, In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns. Set for release January 12, the special formats will kick off the band’s first tour of 2010, their fifth in support of the album. The deluxe edition will feature a bonus disc containing five […]

You’d expect competent Opeth worship to come from Sweden and such, but not necessarily from the US, however as bands like Daylight Dies, Iron Thrones and Gwynbleidd showed on 2006 excellent Amaranthine EP back in 2006, Opeth worship can come from anywhere. In the case of Gwynbleidd, the depths of Brooklyn, NY (albeit by way […]

My only real knowledge or experience with Boston’s Doomriders is that they feature Converge bassist Nate Newton and Cave In Drummer JR Conners, two bands I like but aren’t awfully obsessed with, so when I gathered that this outfit was a more rock based band to boot, my hopes weren’t extremely high. That all changed […]

Though plying the same basic musical style and shtick as the relatively enjoyable 2008 debut, Total Brutal, Tim Lambesis’s (As I Lay Dying) Arnold Schwarzenegger themed metal act has grown somewhat. First off, professional Arnold impersonator Josh Robert Thompson (The Howard Stern Show, The Late Late Show) now provides the excellent and amusing Arnold quips […]

Blackened death metallers ACHERON have signed with Ibex Moon Records for the US release of The Final Conflict: Last Days Of God. Founding bassist / vocalist Vincent Crowley had this to say about the signing: “We (ACHERON) have really been wanting to have someone license our new album The Final Conflict: Last Days of God […]

Second new Saattue song Taakka has been made available for listen at Saattue myspace (http://www.myspace.com/saattue). The song is taken from Saattue’s second album Vuoroveri. The album will be released on October 21st. Vuoroveri will include eight works of doomy, heavy, dark and multidimensional saatto metal. Saattue is signed to Spikefarm Records. Vuoroveri (Tide of Blood) […]

FREE DOWNLOAD OF PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SONG “FROZEN” All That Remains will debut their video for their latest single “Forever in Your Hands” exclusively on MySpace.com at http://www.myspace.com/metal starting on October 7th. The video will also air on an episode of MTV2’s Headbangers Ball hosted by the band on the morning of October 18th at 2:00 […]

Death metal is full of brilliant, legendary songs. Songs that helped shape the genre, define a band or create a classic album. These are songs that every death metal fan knows by heart or can name at the mere hearing of a single note or chord; “Left Hand Path”, “Override of the Overture”, “Black Winter Day”, “Unas, Slayer of Gods”, “You’ll Never See”, “Infecting the Crypts”, “Hammer Smashed Face”, “Chopped In Half”, “Leprosy”, “Corporeal Jigsaw Quandary”, “Chapel of Ghouls” – “Victory March”- the list goes on and on. But what about those other songs that fleshed out albums both classic and overlooked? Songs by bands revered and unheard of that simply never caught the ear of the public, the fans or the critics?

Swedish Black metal tyrants WATAIN have – during and since their 111 date long “Fuck the World Tour” – been working in silence in secrecy on what is to become the band’s fourth full-length album. The band states: “We can now reveal the long awaited first live performance to break the silence. WATAIN will return […]

A new Dying Fetus album isn’t quite the event is once was as since the bands crowning moment, 2000s Destroying the Opposition a revolving line up has kept John Gallagher from attainting perfect chemistry that was achieved with the classic Netherton, Voyles (who of course left after Destroy the Opposition to form Misery Index) and […]

Gaza has revealed “Windowless House,” a scathing new track off its forthcoming second album, He Is Never Coming Back.“Windowless House,” described by BrooklynVegan.com as a “gnashing, antisocial beast,” is available here: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/10/gaza_debuts_new.html Hailing from the religious hotbed that is Salt Lake City, Gaza takes on religious delusions as its target on He Is Never Coming […]

Recently reformed Texas death metal veterans DIVINE EVE have issued the following update. “As writhing flames whisper to the darkness, winds of chaos fade into the abyss… DIVINE EVE is very eager to declare the 4 song E.P. is in its final stages of completion. The title Vengeful and Obstinate is a fitting banner to […]

Bogota, Colombia-based symphonic black metal band NEPHESH will release their debut album, “Inter Armas Silent Leges“, on October 15th via Nokternal Hemizphear (USA – http://www.nhmetal.com). The CD was recorded, mixed and mastered at Tempus Ater Studios. The track listing is as follows:  01. Vae Victus 02. Sangre Inmortal 03. Tormentor of Sin 04. Death I […]

“Confess”, the new video of Dutch progressive metallers THE SIN COMMITTEE, can be viewed here. The clip is the title track of their recently released EP “Confess“, which was produced by Erwin Hermsen (Mangled, Collision). The EP can be listened to in its entirety at the band’s website: http://www.thesincommittee.com.   “Confess” track listing:  01. Confess 02. […]

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 […]

Finally given a proper label release (and a nifty new cover) after a self released push from band members (notably the wonderful Jackie Perez Gratz) and friends earlier this year, Giant Squid’s second offering should finally get the attention it deserved before the tragic death of the band’s publicist, Adrian Bromley. And Translation Loss is […]