Eyehategod have set a March 12th, 2021 release date for the band’s first new full-length album in seven years, 'A History of Nomadic Behavior'. The album news arrives with a visualizer for 'High Risk Trigger' a taste of what’s to come on the 12-song album. Lyrically, the song is cryptic and abstract, but it touches on the... Continue Reading →
CD review FUMING MOUTH ‘Beyond the Tomb’
Milford, Massachusetts is the homebase of a trio that debuted in 2019 with an album called ‘The Grand Descent’ – Fuming Mouth. The guys started their metal adventure in 2013 and after a couple of demos and singles, it was Triple-B Records that released the band’s first album. The record and the positive reception created... Continue Reading →
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER announce ‘Yule ‘Em All: A Holiday Variety Extravaganza’ livestream
On Friday December 18th at 4PM PST//7PM EST, The Black Dahlia Murder will kick off their "Yule 'Em All: A Holiday Variety Extravaganza" livestream, featuring live performances, special guests and more! Presented by Night Shift Merch, fans can purchase tickets and merch bundles now at: yuleemall.nightshiftmerch.com - where the stream itself will take place. ***There will be a... Continue Reading →
CD review AUTOPSY ‘Live in Chicago’
If you could choose a running time for a death metal album, what would you go for. I guess that 66 minutes is a pretty good choice. Autopsy's newest strike features death metal hymns, rolled out precisely over one hour and six minutes. Anyhow, the death metal veterans from Oakland, California played a show at... Continue Reading →
CD review VENOM PRISON ‘Primeval’
Is 'Primeval' a new Venom Prison album? Yes and no. 'Primeval' is a retrospective that casts some light on the early days of the band from South Wales. The quintet started in 2014 and it was a few months later that the first delivery waited in line to be released. 'Defy the Tyrant' was the... Continue Reading →
CD review BENEDICTION ‘Scriptures’
Pause, break or hiatus, all just words that might describe the status of Death Metal veterans Benediction over the past years. What’s a fact though is, that the band released with ‘Killing Music’ their so far latest studio album in 2008 and now it's time for new stuff. These kind of 'return-' records always feed... Continue Reading →
CD review ARROGANZ ‘Morsus’
Since 2008 German Arroganz (OK, that sounds a bit weird) evolve their sound and music, built on despair and rage. Also sounding very authentic the trio debuted in 2011 with "Dark and Deathless' and here comes the next avalanche of evil riffs, reaching is from Cottbus, Germany. 'Morsus' is the title of the new Arroganz... Continue Reading →
NECROPHOBIC release a new single, feat. Schmier
Swedish metal command Necrophobic has a stellar new album in the pipeline with a release being scheduled for October 9th, 2020. Today the guys launch with 'Devil's Spawn Attack' an next song, taken 'Dawn of the Damned', feat. no less than Destruction mainman Schmier. And here is the clip: https://youtu.be/8V-UfAzwaMo
CD review KATAKLYSM ‘Unconquered’
Canada-based Metal force Katakylsm release their new longplayer 'Unconquered' as we speak (read). It's their 14th longplayer in the bands long history, a story that started nearly 30 years ago in Montreal, Quebec. 'Unconquered', a well-chosen title for the world we are living in in right now, has an approach of brutality beating filigree. Kataklysm's... Continue Reading →
AUTOPSY announce ‘Live in Chicago’
In difficult times, live albums at least bring a bit of a live feeling to your home. Such a live release is now announced by Autopsy, the band's first live album ever. The Death Metal veterans recorded a how they played on March 7th, 2020, so right ahead of the lockdown, at Reggie's Rock Club... Continue Reading →
CD review MORTA SKULD ‘Suffer For Nothing’
'Suffer For Nothing' is Morta Skuld's second album in their second era. The band that started in the early '90s and added some releases to the books of which 'Surface' marked the ending of the first phase of brute Death Metal. The veterans from Milwaukee re-started their Death Metal engine in 2012 and it took... Continue Reading →
CD review LIK ‘Misanthropic Breed’
Stockholm-based Lik (the Swedish word for "corpse), release with 'Misanthropic Breed' their third album, a longplayer with a title that's very relevant these days in various ways. Lik was founded in 2014, with a debut album that alighted from the moistly soil of Stockholm in 2015. 'Misanthropic Breed' follows 'Carnage' from 2018 and marks a... Continue Reading →
CD review SKELETAL REMAINS ‘The Entombment of Chaos’
Skeletal Remains is a regular guest on the release schedules since 2012 when the guys premiered with 'Beyond the Flesh'. The latest release to date was 'Devouring Mortality' which stepped out of the tomb in 2018. Two years later 'The Entombment of Chaos' adds a next chapter to the books. The first thing you notice... Continue Reading →
CD review UADA ‘Djinn’
Slowly but steady, UADA's fansbase is growing, mainly due to great musical craftsmanship that's so far reflected on two longplayers. UADA was funded in 2014 and debuted two years later with 'Devoid of Light'. 'Cult of a Dying Sun' was the next strike from the Portland-based quartet and sticking to a 'every second year' release... Continue Reading →
CD review MESSIAH ‘Fracmont’
Live shows, something we're all missing these days, have been the kick-start for Swiss Metal veterans Messiah to get together again for working on a next Messiah album - the first one in 26 years. With being hungry again for furious Thrash Metal, the band went at the studio again and what results from the... Continue Reading →