Released as digital only EP, Warsaw Rising is a stop gap release from this Dutch super group (members of Asphyx, Gorefest, Thanatos) with 2 new songs, a cover song (Twisted Sister’s “Destroyer”) and three live songs (“Red Wolves of Stalin”, “Nachthexen” and “The Crucial Offensive”) from the excellent …Of Frost and War debut. To be […]

Continuing their trend of releasing solid Christian metal in environmentally friendly digipacks (A Hope for Home, Earth From Above, The Great Commission, Hope for the Dying), Facedown Records, subsidiary label, Strikefirst Records has come up with yet another thunderous Christian deathcore outfit akin to Earth From Above. Right, now that 90% of you have left. […]

I’ve been swamped in quality Australian metal of late: Destruktor, Defamer, Futility, Be’lakor, Orpheus, and now my first exposure to Adelaide’s doom metal veterans Mournful Congregation. Despite being around since 1994, this is only the bands 3rd full length album and has certainly delivered a top notch doom effort that will have me seeking out […]

The title, artwork and full tracklisting of French depraved WAY TO END’s forthcoming debut album are finally disclosed. “Desecrated Internal Journey” weaves seven sinuous, disarmingly dissonant spells of elevated-consciousness composition, “Black Metal” the starting point but by no means the end of their journey ! Tracklisting is as follows : 1. Facing The Abyss 2. […]

One of the greatest genre-defining hardcore bands of all time, Agnostic Front, has changed the face of music throughout their 25 year long career. The two records that started it all, United Blood and Victim in Pain, are legendary NYHC releases and some of the most sought after pieces of vinyl for record collectors. Finally, […]

(im•bro•glio) 1. A misunderstanding, disagreement, etc., of a complicated or bitter nature. 2. An intricate and perplexing state of affairs; a complicated or difficult situation. 3. A fittingly named, noisy, Converge inspired band formed in Dayton, OH but now residing in Syracuse, NY. I discovered this band and new, Illinois based label through a sports […]

Starting today August 11th , the new video from New England’s SHADOWS FALL, “Still I Rise,” will be available for viewing exclusively on MySpace. Check out the video HERE  “Still I Rise” is the first video from the band’s upcoming album, Retribution, which streets September 15 on Everblack Industries. The video was shot by longtime […]

We all have those special songs, those riffs or a solo from a certain song that changed us, that effected us personally and emotionally, ingrained into our very being and dare I say? Changed our life.

The heaviest metal band in the world (by sheer mass) has finished their follow up to Total Brutal – get ready for Double Brutal! Not satisfied with the limitations offered by putting out a single disc album, Ahhnold demanded two full cds full of muscle pumping metal! When asked why they needed two discs and […]

EARACHE RECORDS is proud to announce the signing of a young and talented death metal band called AND HELL FOLLOWED WITH. Formed 2 years ago in Detroit, MI, AND HELL FOLLOWED WITH has taken great influence from death metal legends such as DECIDE and co-mingled them with modern touches popularized by the likes of WHITECHAPEL […]

Earache Records, the original home of many of the bands who created the grindcore genre, is set to release a special 118-track, 3-CD compilation called GRIND MADNESS AT THE BBC (THE EARACHE PEEL SESSIONS), featuring some of the first ever grindcore recordings. The tracks are all taken from the legendary JOHN PEEL’s early BBC radio […]

Born Again – the Crucial Blast Records debut from France’s OVERMARS – will see US release September 22nd, 2009.  Born Again descends deep into themes of self-immolation, horror, and rebirth, and becomes a harrowing narrative as it moves through a series of different musical moods. Overmars had already established their atmospheric, electronically-tainted sludge-metal sound on their […]

Detroit war-thrash commando NOCTURNAL FEAR have finished the recording of their fourth and latest album, Metal of Honor. Session vocals were handled by Doomy G. Blackthrash of comrades Sauron, as vocalist Necromodeus (ex-Summon, and the vocalist for last year’s Code of Violence) has since departed the band. Guitarist/founder Chris Slavehunter PhD promises that Metal of […]

I’ll admit, even I have been a bit burnt out on Christian metal of late, and when I initially started listening to the debut from Fargo’s Hands I was pretty unmoved, as the rumbling opener “Hurricanes” didn’t do much for me and I simply classified it as yet another group of uppity noisy Christians spreading […]

Kicking Off October 2nd, High On Fire and Converge Will Tour With Stars of Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse and Grammy® Award Winner, Mastodon During Seven-Week Tour EA’s “Brütal Legend”; to Sponsor Metal Tour. This fall, two of the most popular bands in metal will co-headline a 34-city North American tour as the Grammy® Award-winning Mastodon hits […]

TRACK LIST ANNOUNCED FOR VOLUME TWO of CANDIRIA’S, TOYING WITH THE INSANITIES Artwork Revealed for Volumes One and Two of Four-Volume Set. BROOKLYN, NY – Experimental Metal pioneers, Candiria, have announced the track list for ‘Volume Two’ of their upcoming rarities and remixes collection, Toying With the Insanities, which is due out September 9th on […]

  Reunited Norwegian black metallers IMMORTAL will release their new album, All Shall Fall, in in Europe on September 25, 2009 and North America on October 6, 2009 via Nuclear Blast Records.All Shall Fall was recorded at Grieghallen and Abyss studios in Norway and Sweden, respectively. James Minton of U.K.’s Terrorizer magazine recently posted an […]

The Bay Area metal band Skinlab have posted the artwork and track listing for their forthcoming album entitled The Scars Between Us scheduled to hit shelves on September 15th, 2009. The band has also put out a new online poster for anyone that wants to help support the bands upcoming release. You can also see […]

I’ve kind of dreaded writing this review ever since I gave Evangelion a few spins. Seeing as Behemoth has reached Dismember, Bolt Thrower, Suffocation and Grave levels of consistency and quality, they have arguably surpassed Vader as Poland’s premier metal export and almost certainly should be considered death metal royalty at this point in their […]

World-renowned power trio HIGH ON FIRE will begin work on its long-awaited, fifth studio album and follow-up to 2007’s Death is This Communion this August. The esteemed band will commence pre-production in Los Angeles with producer Greg Fidelman (Metallica, Slayer, Johnny Cash) and the goal of capturing “the ultimate High on Fire experience.” Universally recognized […]

According to the label’s website: “We are proud to inform you that Sickening Horror (Athens, Greece) signed a deal with SFC records to release their second full-length album, which will be out on August 21-st 2009.The band was founded in 2002 and the first stuff has been created under the influence of monsters of the […]

Athens, Ohio’s SKELETONWITCH has unveiled the cover art of their new full length, Breathing the Fire, due out October 13th on Prosthetic Records. The cover, designed by Andrei Bouzikov, who has previously done art for Municipal Waste and many others, can be viewed HERE: http://store.prostheticrecords.com/skeletonwitch/cover.jpg  Scott Hedrick, the band’s guitarist said about the cover, “The […]

Born of Osiris is one of those young popular bands everyone loves to hate (moreso ‘cos of their fans I think) and they along with The Faceless initially got lumped in with the deathcore crowd. However, The Faceless further distances themselves from deathcore and aligned more with technical death metal with last year’s impressive Planetary […]

Black Market Activities proudly reveals its next release: Bishop Kent Manning, the staggering second album by the_Network, out September 15 on BMA.  Produced by Kurt Ballou (Converge, Trap Them) at Godcity Studio and mastered by Nick Zampiello (Torche, Unsane) at New Alliance, Bishop Kent Manning is a concept album that follows the epic story of […]

Reunited New Jersey thrash legends WHIPLASH have five brand new tracks — “Feeding Frenzy,” “Pitbulls In The Playground,” “Fight Or Flight,” “Float Face Down” and “Firewater” — available for all your previewing desires. To hear the new tunes, check out the WHIPLASH E-Card at Pulverised Records’ Official Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/pulverisedrecords. The E-Card will be available […]