Month: October 2016

DATURA4 new sophomore album Hairy Mountain out October 28th via Alive Naturalsound Records

Rock ‘n’ Roll fans – please welcome Hairy Mountain – the second album from West Australia’s Datura4. Building upon the “guitars-to-infinity” approach of Datura4’s acclaimed debut LP Demon Blues, Hairy Mountain is ten solid tracks celebrating an unbridled joy for rock ‘n’ roll, with a nod to the spiritual presence of their hairy Oz Rock […]

INSULTERS set release date for new Unholy Prophecies album & reveal first track

Unholy Prophecies, in conspiracy with Equinox Discos, sets January 1st, 2017 as the international release date for Insulters’ highly anticipated second album, Metal Still Means Danger. Aptly fucking titled, Metal Still Means Danger is a literal statement of intent from these rude ‘n’ crude Catalonian bastards. Unrepentantly ugly since the beginning (and to the bitter end, […]

CONDENADOS set release date for new Shadow Kingdom Records album & reveal first track

t’s been five long years since Condenados’ cult debut album for Shadow Kingdom Records, A Painful Journey Into Nihil, but at long last, the wait is over: on January 13th, 2017, the Chilean doom-lords return with their highly anticipated second album, The Tree of Death! For over a decade now, Condenados have been expertly crafting ancient, ’80s-style […]

INIRE – new album ‘Cauchemar’ out Nov 18th

INIRE’s hard knocking 13 track album ‘Cauchemar’ produced by Chris Bonavia continues the band’s reputation of delivering energetic anthems that have garnered them a loyal following in the Ontario and Quebec scenes.  Since debuting their blend of northern groove and stoner metal with a tinge of hardcore energy on their 2007 self-titled EP to 2009’s full length ‘Born The Wicked, The Fallen, The Damned’, the […]

Ottawa Symphonic Black Death Metal ENDEMISE streaming new track ‘Come Serene Dark’

Ottawa, ON symphonic black / death metal band ENDEMISE are streaming their latest track ‘Come Serene Dark’ from their upcoming album ‘Anathema’ due out on October 28th. The album follows their 2013 debut album ‘Far From The Light’ released on Maple Metal Records and their 2012 self-titled EP. The album was produced by ENDEMISE guitarist Dale Sauve along with Ken Sorceron (Abigail Williams) […]

ACCEPT – to unleash live Blu-ray/DVD+2CD “Restless And Live” on January 13th, 2017, ‘Stampede’ live clip launched

Ever-raging metal institution, ACCEPT, are returning with a bang! After three studio albums and several tours around the globe since their reunion in 2010, the time has come for the band to unleash a brand-new live document titled »Restless And Live«. This package will include the entire show ACCEPT played at Bang Your Head!!! Festival […]

THE RETICENT release behind the scenes video: “The Story of Funeral for a Firefly”

Progressive Metal band THE RETICENT have released “The Story of Funeral for a Firefly,” a behind-the-scenes video concerning the song “Funeral for a Firefly” from new album On The Eve of a Goodbye. The video documents the first time front man Chris Hathcock has talked about it on camera. Producer Jamie King also describes the experience of recording […]

MADDER MORTEM: Norwegian Avant Metal collective reveals “Fallow Season” video

“The lyrics of ‘Fallow Season’ deal with how greed and religion, as driving forces behind humanity’s self-destructive behavior, are speeding our progress towards an apocalypse. The song suggests that perhaps this is what is needed: a cataclysm that will reduce our current civilization to rubble, and let nature reclaim some territory.” – Agnete M. Kirkevaag, […]

GOROD: tech death strategists issue “The Mystic Triad Of Artistry” video

Last year, French tech death strategists GOROD unleashed the brain-melting bounty of their A Maze Of Recycled Creeds full-length in North America via Unique Leader Records. Centered around unfathomable fantasies created by various secret societies and mystical orders, the critically-adored A Maze Of Recycled Creeds is a near-fifty-minute-long work of diabolic genius spewing forth eleven […]

KAIRON; IRSE! set release date for new Svart Records album

Progressive shoegazing? Music of the outer spheres? An irrevocably mentally unstable Gentle Giant and a severely alcoholic Todd Rundgren having a love child which, after being adopted to Russia, finds himself performing a rock opera in the Ural Mountains? It is typical of the human mind to try and classify things, but when confronted with […]

Calgary Thrashers ILLYRIAN post live video of ‘Round 2: Fight!’

Unleashing their new album ‘Round 2: Fight!’ on October 7th, Calgary thrashers ILLYRIAN have posted live video from their album launch performing the title track. ‘Round 2: Fight!’ was co-produced by the band with Casey Lewis at Echo Base Studios plus mastered by Sacha Laskow (Every Hour Kills, ex-Divinity) at Perfect Fifth Studios and is available on iTunes, Amazon and Bandcamp.

OCTOBER 31 to release special covers album of “Metal Massacre” compilation songs & reveal first tracks

The eight volumes of Metal Massacre released by Metal Blade Records in the 1980s were massively instrumental in chronicling (and furthering) the burgeoning heavy metal movement, particularly in the United States. Here, the earliest songs of Slayer and Ratt, for example, stood side by side each other as a declaration of intent: that HEAVY METAL […]

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