Italian Prog Thrash Metal band REAPTER launched new lyric video
Reapter, brand new lyric video for single “The Alchemist” from the album “Cymatics”. 119
Brazil Black Metal CREPTUM cover DEPECHE MODE’s “Black Celebration” & new EP out! “Reborn In Flames”
Brazilian black metallers CREPTUM have posted a cover version of Depeche Mode’s classic “Black Celebration”, which is one of two tracks on the band’s recently released EP “Reborn in Flames” to follow their 2016 album “Of Lies, Curses and Blood” unleashed on Mutilation Records. 114
Quebec City Folk Metal NORDHEIM unleash “RapThor” an album about bacon and dinosaurs
NORDHEIM’s philosophy is a simple one, to make fun folk metal, which is evident in their previous releases “Refill” (2013), “Lost In The North” (2010) plus being Wacken Metal Battle Canada finalists in 2015. Returning in 2017, this quartet of dungeon and dragons enthusiasts is unleashing their latest offering “RapThor”, now available as of November […]
VARATHRON reveal first video from “Patriarchs Of Evil” recording sessions
Legendary Greek black metallers VARATHRON are working on their sixth studio album “Patriarchs Of Evil” and today they have released the first video from the recording sessions. Watch drummer Haris record drums at Infinite Loop Music Studio in Ioannina (Greece) and hear fragments of new pre-production songs below. 102
AMTHRYA publish lyrics video
Kasumi Onryo, frontgirl of the band AMTHRYA, as known as Abigail Dianaria (OPERA IX vocalist) invites you to see their new lyrics video. In few month they’ll release new album and. 141
Shemonic Metal ANARCHEON posts new video “Etherous Claws” & new EP out now! “Stratusfear”
Formed in 2015, ANARCHEON features vocalist Kaija Kinney, founder of Metalocalypstick Fest, the BC metal fest celebrating women in metal, along with guitarist Clayton Bach, bassist Sylvain Maltais and drummer Steve “Machine” Richardo (ex-Messiah, ex-Green Jellÿ). With a band name playing off the word Anarchy, ANARCHEON is more of a Frankenstein of their various influences […]
BILLY BOY IN POISON – interview with the band
Billy Boy in Poison offers an unique take on death metal with a modern, razor-sharp sound. The sophomore album Invoker is stuffed with aggressive and heavy songwriting. The wide varied vocals of Hjalte Sejr gives the band a blackened edge, which you don’t hear much in the Danish scene. The album is produced by Jacob […]
THREAT SIGNAL stream new album “Disconnect” in full
Canadian melodic, progressive thrash metal/melodeath act THREAT SIGNAL release advance stream of their fourth studio album “Disconnect”, which will be officially released tomorrow, November 10th worldwide via Agonia Records. Listen to the album below. 115
CIEN “Fate” new release via Old Temple
The second album is a musical and lyrical continuation of the glorification of nihilism and misanthropy. Six tracks of cold and gloomy black metal full of melancholic, depressive atmosphere. Sounds which are carving dark tunnels filled with words of disillusionment for the sense of mankind’s existence. No colours of life, no helpful hand reaching out, […]
THE ANIMA EFFECT – interview with the band
Progressive Metal is quite abundant these days, with a lot of modern bands opting this particular style to achieve insane melody and punishing aggression. One such band is The Anima Effect. This Progressive Metalcore/Deathcore band is all set to release their album early on this month. Ahead of the release, I was fortunate enough to […]
Know more about DREAMGRAVE – Progressive Neoclassical Metal band
“You’re being uploaded, transformed and processed: about the tendency of vaporizing uniformization of the individual, displayed by an EP series of the path that ultimately leads to chosen compulsion to conform.” 175
SAMADHI SITARAM present videoclip for track “Shangri La”
Russian deathcore band SamadhiSitaram launched new videoclip, entitled “Shangri La”, 8th track taken from the album – “KaliYuga Babalon”, released on July 14 via Sliptrick records. 77
FALL HAS COME single & video for ‘Believe’ – out
Italian alternative rock band Fall Has Come contain many rock elements within their sound and take inspiration from their own personal issues and life experiences. Their lyrics are about the feelings of the human soul: passions, dreams, love, hopes, illusions…! Believe is the first single from their upcoming album, Nowhere. 120
LUNA released “Swallow Me Leaden Sky”
Luna is back with their new third full-length album. And this return is really crushing! Developing the ideas of instrumental symphonic music based on the combination of funeral doom metal and doom death metal, the musician again creates the soundtrack to a non-existent movie with two monumental tracks about the darkness of the night, the grandeur […]
Old Temple released DOOMSTER REICH “Drug Magick”
DOOMSTER REICH is back with their second album called ‘Drug Magick’. Recorded at Radio Lodz concert studio, it pays homage to the raw sound of late 60s/early 70s. Music were recorded live, in one take! Their hybrid of doom metal, psychedelia and krautrock will take their listeners into hypnotic, drug-fueled trance of Devil worship. The […]
Toronto Grunge Psych Rock THE REED EFFECT new EP “A Strange Curiosity” out & new video “No Way Out of Here”
If Nirvana and The Doors had a love child, who was then raised in the desert taking hits of acid with Frank Zappa, you’d likely end up with a band that sounds as oddly unique as The Reed Effect. 104
Know more about SERENADE
The band was formed in 2009. In 2012, its debut with the album “Wandering Through Sorrow” for Revalve Records, entirely written by former guitarist. Strongly wanting to change the sound, with a new lineup, the band has gone from a gothic symphonic to a heavier metal with post-thrash, progressive and gothic influences. 201
This is JUGGERNAUT
After touring extensively through Europe along with his guitar, and leading his former band for more than 15 years, Daniel Millán (ex-#Gauntlet) comes back to create an unique, huge and monstrous creature. With musical pieces ranging from rock to extreme metal, without losing sight of the melody and compositional quality, Juggernaut matches his name at […]
Denver black metal trio SAR ISATUM have their debut album “Shurpu” ready to be unleashed digitally on November 17th and on CD December 22nd
Two things always contribute to creating epic original black metal…. 170
Rockshots Records is thrilled to announce the release of the Christian metal opera ENZO AND THE GLORY ENSEMBLE
“In The Name Of The Son” is the sophomore album of Enzo Donnarumma’s project and confirms the stellar line-up “THE GLORY ENSEMBLE” of the first record, including Marty Friedman, Kobi Farhi (Orphaned Land), Ralf Scheepers (Primal Fear), Mark Zonder (Fates Warning, Warlord, Graham Bonnet Band), Gary Wehrkamp & Brian Ashland (Shadow Gallery), David Brown (Metatrone) […]
THE GREAT KAT’s “Worship Me Or Die!” album released on Nov. 2, 1987 on Roadrunner Records now available
Legendary Thrash album released on NOV. 2, 1987 on Roadrunner Records is available on Warner Music. 125
Meet THE JOKER VIOLIN PROJECT
THE JOKER VIOLIN PROJECT is a completely unique project that has hit the Danish metal scene with full force. The project brings a hell of a lot of WTF-factor, which only a few Danish musicians can surpass. The man behind the project is violinist and multi-instrumentalist Christian Hjort Lauritzen (Siamese, Stream City). The music is […]
SOCIAL CRASH “Burn Out”
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BLAZE OF PERDITION stream new album “Conscious Darkness”
Polish black metallers BLAZE OF PERDITION are streming their new album “Conscious Darkness” ahead of its November 3rd release on Agonia Records. The release will be followed by a European tour with New Zealand’s Ulcerate on November 7th and mini-tour with Ars Veneficium on November 24th. Listen to the band’s new album early here: 118
Ukrainian Black Metal band BERGRIZEN released album: Der Unsterbliche Geist (via Purity Through Fire) in November 1, 2017
Info Release: A5 Digipak is limited to 99; Jewelcase CD unlimited; Tapeversion together Worship Tapes; LP will be released in December 2017. 169
ABSQUE COR reveals debut album details
Godz Ov War Productions is proud to present the debut release of the one-man black metal project ABSQUE COR, set up by the vocalist and guitarist Vos. The album, titled ‘Wędrówkę Haniebnie Zakończyć’ (English translation: ‘To End This Journey Disgracefully’), contains only four tracks but 30 plus minutes of nihilistic black metal, and it is […]
EXHUMED – interview with the band
EXHUMED’s sixth full-length sees them tread into ambitious new territory with their first concept album: a musical melodrama in thirteen parts based on shocking true events. Death Revenge takes place in the late 1820s in Edinburgh, Scotland and tells the macabre tale of a series of brutal murders where the victims’ cadavers were sold to […]
English ARMORTURA to release debut album in January
Armortura are a melodic thrash metal band based in North East England and although the music is loosely based on old school thrash, there are lots of modern and melodic influences that can be heard from the tight, harmonised guitars coupled with pounding bass lines and powerful vocals. 109