From Blabbermouth.net: David Gold, a founding member of the Ontario, Canada-based black and doom metal band WOODS OF YPRES, was killed last night (Thursday, December 22) in an accident near Barrie, Ontario. He was 31 years old. A memorial service is tentatively scheduled to be held in Gold‘s hometown of Sault Ste. Marie on December […]
Willowtip has officially signed Sydney, Australia atmospheric death metal band Beyond Terror Beyond Grace. The label will release the band’s newest album, Nadir, on April 3rd, 2012. Recorded and mixed by Joel Taylor (The Abandonment, Encircling Sea) at Three Phase Studios in Melbourne, Australia over only two weeks in May 2011, Nadir captures a band […]
Folk metalers TURISAS will be heading back to North America this spring for “PaganFest: America Part III”, their first-ever US headlining run! Joining the Finnish sextet on their triumphant return to the States is a gathering of bands from across the world: Scotland’s ALESTORM, Rome’s EX DEO, Russia’s ARKONA, and the US’s very own […]
After various splits, demos and EPs it’s finally time for the first full length from obscure death metal masters OMINOUS CRUCIFIX! Hailing from the crypts of Mexico, OMINOUS CRUCIFIX offers the world The Spell of Damnation, eight new tracks of crawling, rancid and occult death metal that will tear the ribs out of your putrid […]
ENTHRONED has two full-length releases on the horizon after signing a deal with Agonia Records. The black metal combo recently finished recording their follow-up album to Pentagrammaton (out on Regain Records in 2010). It is expected for an early 2012 release and entitled Obsidium. Located in Brussels (Belgium), band’s current line-up is: Nornagest – […]
IRON SAVIOR, currently one of the most popular German heavy/power metal bands return with their new album this January. Following their acclaimed Megatropolis album over four years ago, the Hamburg-based are ready to douse fans with their scorching classic metal thunder once again with the release of their new opus, The Landing, with a confirmed […]
Milwaukee’s ENABLER have announced plans to record a new album in January, 2012. The band will hit Howl Street Studios as well as Fuck City, with Greg Thomas (With Honor, Shai Hulud) producing. The record will be called “All Hail the Void“, and will be the first ENABLER record to feature the band’s three newest […]
Swedish deathcrust ensemble BOMBS OF HADES are the latest addition to the ever-pummeling Pulverised Records roster! Spawned in 2002 as a crustpunk act, BOMBS OF HADES quickly mutated into a gristly old-school Swedish death metal direction, while still retaining a strong d-beat/crust vibe. Fronted by Jonas Stålhammar (ex-God Macabre, ex-Utumno, etc), who recently served briefly […]
Atlanta-based sludge miscreants SONS OF TONATIUH (pronounced “tahn-ah-tea-ah”) have been slowly building steam since 2008. The band — drummer Tim Genius, guitarist/vocalist Dan Caycedo and bassist/vocalist Mike Tunno — released their debut via Michigan’s Hyodro-Phonic Records in early 2011 and are currently putting the finishing touches on the follow-up. The as-yet-untitled second full-length, recorded by Kyle Spence […]
FDA Rekotz is pleased to announce the addition of Spanish zombies GRUESOME STUFF RELISH to their roster. FDA Rekotz has plans to release the band’s next full-length album on CD and vinyl in the Spring of 2012. GRUESOME STUFF RELISH is one of the most intense death/grind bands to ever emerge from Spain’s metal scene. […]
The second half of Seattle drone icons EARTH‘s Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light is being prepared for release on Southern Lord in North America this February 14th on CD, LP and digital download formats. Recorded in the same two week session as 2011’s lauded Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I by Stuart Hallerman […]
After taking a trip back in time with the Draconian Times MMXI DVD/live album (the London legacy show of their classic album from 1995) and also Gregor Mackintosh’s return to his crusty doom/death metal roots with VALLENFYRE (alongside his mates from MY DYING BRIDE, DOOM, and AT THE GATES), it’s now time for PARADISE LOST’s 13th studio […]
Bringing two energetic but diversified contemporary hardcore acts together in one pure and primal slab of wax, NAILS and SKIN LIKE IRON will collaboratively self-release a split 7” EP this January. San Francisco’s SKIN LIKE IRON have already become a well-known entity in modern hardcore with nearly ten releases on such admirable dissident hardcore labels […]
Formerly Italian, currently US based band EPHEL DUATH, known as a modern mixture of avant-garde metal and progressive rock with jazz-fusion and hardcore punk elements, has inked a worldwide deal with Agonia Records for the release of an EP and two full-length albums. Under the leading role of talented guitarist and songwriter Davide Tiso, the […]
As death metal legends Incantation are currently writing new material to be released next year, drummer Kyle Severn wanted to pass this on to fans as something to look forward to. “The new material we have been writing with new members Alex (Bouks also of Goreaphobia) and Chuck (Sherwood also of Bloodstorm) is beyond brutal, […]
Mexican extreme metal label Chaos Records has announced a December 5th release date for BLOOD MORTIZED‘s Bestial EP. This is old style, dirty-rotten-unpolished Swedish Death Metal the way it was truly meant! Bestial is a 4 track EP of supreme crushing Swedish death metal with collaboration with members and ex-members of CRYPT OF KERBEROS, AMON […]
The Netherlands’ FOURTEEN TWENTYSIX has announced that they will release their new album In Halflight Our Soul Glows in January 2012. Featuring 16 songs, the new album sees the ‘solo act’ develop in a complete band; Jeroen Dirrix, Jelle Goossens, Tom van Nuenen and Martijn Jorissen have joined originator Chris van der Linden in the […]
German traditional death metal machine LIFELESS has recently signed with FDA Rekotz for the release of the as-of-yet-untitled follow up to Beyond The Threshold of Death, which was released in 2010 on Ibex Moon Records. The album is currently slated for a spring 2012 release. Imagine the Swedish mother named Dismember begets a child with […]
Guitarist Cory Smoot, better known as Flattus Maximus, was found dead this morning. His body was found by his bandmates as they were about to cross the Canadian border. GWAR frontman David Brockie, aka Oderus Urungus, gave the following statement to Metal Sucks: “It is with a sense of profound loss and tragedy that the […]
Today, NAPALM RECORDS confirms that ARKONA will be touring North America for the first time, first as headliners and then as direct support to Nuclear Blast recording artists Korpiklaani. Supporting their brand-new (and critically acclaimed) NAPALM album “Slovo,” the renowned Russian pagan/folk metallers will begin a string of headlining Canadian dates on November 11th and […]
Following six years of unsettled silence, French aural terrorists HAEMOTH return with seven singeing psalms of uncompromising Satanik supplication. They have used that time well, to hone and harness their untrammeled, indiscriminate hatred into an irresistible force. Their resolve heightened, HAEMOTH delivers a devastating statement of destructive defiance and vitriolic vehemence. Corrupted by the glorious, […]
American black metal outfit ABIGAIL WILLIAMS are in the final stages of mixing for their anticipated full-length album right now. The title of the forthcoming opus is now confirmed as Becoming, confirmed by Candlelight Records for release in North America on January 24, 2012, marking ABIGAIL WILLIAMS’ third full-length release for the label. Becoming was […]
Dark Descent Records will release the highly anticipated CD follow-up to the twice-pressed Sweet Blasphemies cassette from the East Coast’s favorite sons of filth HORRENDOUS. Entitled The Chills, the new EP is targeted for a late November/early December release and defines the kind of mucked up, motoring, and morbid Swedish/American death metal that HORRENDOUS has […]
Mexican corpse-walkers ZOMBIEFICATION are set to unleash their new EP Reaper’s Consecration via Pulverised Records in conjunction with Chaos Records later this year. Having risen from the grave in 2009 following the release of their debut, Midnight Stench, ZOMBIEFICATION wasted no time in concocting a venomous brew that makes up Reaper’s Consecration. Offering up their […]
According to blabbermouth.net, veteran Swedish death metallers Dismember have called it a day in a statement issued by bassist Tobias Cristiansson; “After 23 years, DISMEMBER have now decided to quit. We wish to thank all our fans for your support.” Dismember, one of the founding fathers of the Swedish death metal scene, have been one […]