Norwegian black-folk metallers GALAR, whose second full-length album, "Til Alle Heimsens Endar", was released on Dark Essence Records in March of this year, have announced the band's live lineup. Joining founder members M. Kristiansen (screams and rhythm guitar) and A. B. Lauritzen (clean vocals and bassoon) are Specter (GRAVDAL, AETERNUS) on lead guitar and Phobos ...
Vocalist Jay Gordon of ORGY, the "death pop" band from Bakersfield, California, has issued a statement denying his former bandmates' assertion that they have been fired from the group. He says, "This has NOT been about breaking up the original band ORGY. "I owned the name ORGY and licensed it to the band at the ...
MISERY INDEX and DECAPITATED have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Neurotic Deathfest, set to take place April 29-30, 2011 at 013 and MIDI theatre in Tilburg, Holland. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ATHEIST (US) AUTOPSY (US) CARNIVORE DIPROSOPUS (CO) CRIPPLE BASTARDS (IT) DECAPITATED (PL) EXHUMED (US) ...
Drummer Bobby Blotzer of Californian rockers RATT will be a featured guest on "The Jimmy Star Show" radio show on Wednesday, November 3 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. ET. To hear Blotzer live on "The Jimmy Star Show", tune in to W4CY Radio online at www.w4cy.com from anywhere in the world. "The ...
MORBID ANGEL, TAAKE and BELPHEGOR have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Party.San Open Air festival, set to take place August 11-13, 2011 at its new location in Schlotheim/Flugplatz Obermehler, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: BELPHEGOR ENSIFERUM HAIL OF BULLETS MORBID ANGEL NACHTMYSTIUM NEGURA BUNGET TAAKE
WHERE ANGELS SUFFER (W.A.S.), the new band featuring Chris Holmes (guitar; ex-W.A.S.P.), Randy Piper (guitar; ANIMAL, ex-W.A.S.P.), Steve Unger (bass; ex-METAL CHURCH), Rich Lewis (vocals; ANIMAL) and Stet Howland (drums; ex-W.A.S.P.), will take part in a meet-and-greet on Sunday, November 7 at the Borders bookstore in Greensboro, North Carolina from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ...
Fan-filmed video footage of TRIPTYKON — the group formed by former HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST singer, guitarist, and main songwriter Tom Gabriel Warrior — performing on October 11, 2010 at the Wreckroom in Toronto, Ontario, Canada can be viewed below. TRIPTYKON followed its highly acclaimed debut album, "Eparistera Daimones", with the release of "Shatter", an all-new five-track ...
Greek modern metallers INSIDEAD have inked a deal with Massacre Records. The band's debut album, "Chaos Elecdead", will be released at the end of February 2011. The CD was produced by Roberto Dimitri Liapakis at Prophecy and Music Factory studios in Germany, and was mixed and mastered by Liapakis and Christian Schmid (MYSTIC PROPHECY, SUICIDAL ...
Pacific Northwest band AGALLOCH will release its new album, "Marrow Of The Spirit", on November 23 via Profound Lore Records. A track from the CD, "The Watcher's Monolith", is available for streaming at Stereogum.com. Regarding the lyrical theme of "The Watcher's Monolith", AGALLOCH mainman John Haughm told Stereogum.com, "It has a lot to ...
