Finnish metal quintet MORS SUBITA will release its debut album, "Human Waste Compression", this summer via an as-yet-undetermined record label. According to a press release, the CD will contain "11 tracks of d aggressive, melodic and groovy metal." A video for the album's opening track, "The Sermon", can be viewed below. The clip was directed ...
Video footage of PHILM the Los Angeles-based experimental post-hardcore triumvirate featuring drummer Dave Lombardo (SLAYER), guitarist/vocalist Gerry Nestler (CIVIL DEFIANCE), and bassist Pancho Tomaselli (WAR) performing on May 29 at the Roxy in West Hollywood, California can be viewed below (courtesy of Metal Assault). While there are elements of metal detected throughout PHILM's ...
Canadian thrash metal legends SACRIFICE have been confirmed for the 11th edition of the Trois-Rivires Metalfest, set to take place Friday, October 14 and Saturday, October 15, 2011 at the Btisse Industrielle (1760 av. Gilles-Villeneuve) in Trois-Rivires, Quebec, Canada. Also scheduled to appear are CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, NAPALM DEATH BENEATH THE MASSACRE (Montreal), LESPRIT DU CLAN ...
Fan-filmed video footage of MORBID ANGEL's two Australian shows May 27 at The HiFi in Melbourne and May 28 at The Manning Bar in Sydney and May 28 at The Manning Bar in Sydney can be viewed below. MORBID ANGEL's new album, "Illud Divinum Insanus", will be released on June 7 (one day earlier internationally) ...
Jarkko Ahola of the Finnish metal groups TERSBETONI and NORTHERN KINGS sang in front of 20,000 ice hockey fans in Oulu, Finland on May 25. The event honored and celebrated the ice hockey players from Oulu area, who played in the national team which recently won the world championship. The atmosphere was great and the ...
The first in a series of webisodes featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the recording sessions for the sophomore album from YOTANGOR, the brand symphonic metal French band featuring female singer Yngrid Yotangor, can be viewed below. Tentatively titled "Enslaved", the CD is being laid down at frontman Jean-Guy Pichoustre's Laboratory Metal studio in at Toulouse. In ...
ARCH ENEMY's front-of-house engineer, Clem Bennett, has posted the second in a series of webisodes documenting the band and its crew on the road in 2011. In this episode we meet a few of the touring party. Be amazed as Eddie sets up Chris Amott's guitar. Thrill to vision of the trailer being loaded at ...
Norway's TRISTANIA has issued the following update: "For the first time in the band's history, TRISTANIA is going touring in Asia. The historic events will happen in the end of July 2011, starting off in Beijing on July 22nd and including all in all five shows in China and Taiwan. "The band is extremely thankful ...
Swedish death metallers SOULDRAINER have inked a deal with ViciSolum Productions. The band's second full-length album will be released in the fall. Commented the group in a statement: "We are very excited to work with ViciSolum Productions, which is a Swedish label. We've had contact with them for a couple of months now and we ...
Saturday, July 2 will see the premiere of heavy metal at Societetshuset in the summer resort town Marstrand (north of Gothenburg), Sweden. This venue is now run by vocalist Joacim Cans of HAMMERFALL. On this particular night, Joacim will share the stage with Jeff Scott Soto (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, JOURNEY, TALISMAN). This will mark the first ...
