Braunschweig, Germany-based metal/hardcore act FOREVER IT SHALL BE will release its sophomore album, "Sonic Death Squad", on March 5 via Maintain Records. The 12-song CD was recorded at Rape of Harmonies studio (HEAVEN SHALL BURN, MAROON) in Triptis, Germany and will feature cover artwork (see below) by Justin Osbourne of Slasher Design. "Sonic Death Squad" ...
Posted in: News
GOJIRA, CATAMENIA and MONSTROSITY have been confirmed for the 15-year-anniversary edition of the Brutal Assault festival, set to take place August 12-14, 2010 in Josefov, Czech Republic. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: CANNIBAL CORPSE CATAMENIA CONVERGE DEMONIC RESURRECTION DESPISED ICON DEVIN TOWNSEND DEVOURMENT DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA DYING FETUS GOJIRA GRAVEWORM GOJIRA GWAR ...
Posted in: News
New York extreme metal legends SUFFOCATION will perform on the Nuclear Blast label night during this year's installment of the Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 19-21, 2010 in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. The Nuclear Blast night will take place on Wednesday, August 18 at the Party Tent and will feature additional appearances by UNLEASHED, ...
Posted in: News
MAN MUST DIE has replaced NOX on the billing of this year's edition of the Neurotic Deathfest, set to take place April 30 - May 1, 2010 at 013 in Tilburg, Holland. The following bands are scheduled to appear at the event: ABORTED ABYSMAL TORMENT ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY ANTIGAMA AS YOU DROWN BEHEADED BENEATH ...
Posted in: News
Former/current members of BLIND GUARDIAN, RHAPSODY OF FIRE and REBELLION have joined forces in a brand new Germany-based project called BRUTAL GODZ. According to a press release, BRUTAL GODZ' "musical concept is based on energy, cruelty in its purest form without any boundaries." BRUTAL GODZ members: Uwe Lulis (REBELLION) - Guitar Alex Holzwarth (RHAPSODY OF ...
Posted in: News
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, AGNOSTIC FRONT, HEAVEN SHALL BURN, END OF GREEN, RAISED FIST, MACABRE, WATAIN and UNDERTOW have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 19-21, 2010 in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: 1349 AGNOSTIC FRONT AHAB ANATHEMA ANNOTATIONS OF ...
Posted in: News
Long-running Italian extreme metallers NECRODEATH will celebrate their 25th anniversary by releasing a covers album, entitled "Old Skull". The CD, which is due later in the year, will feature guest appearances by members of influential Italian thrashers BULLDOZER and former members of SCHIZO. An Italian tour in support of the CD will kick off in ...
Posted in: News
THE MAN-EATING TREE, the new atmospheric metal band featuring former SENTENCED drummer Vesa Ranta alongside current/former members of POISONBLACK, REFLEXION and EMBRAZE, has entered Mastervox Studio in Oulu, Finland to begin recording its debut album with producer Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, SENTENCED, AMORPHIS). Songtitles set to appear on the CD include: * Lathing A Good Man ...
Posted in: News
NAPALM DEATH, GWAR and THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER have been confirmed for the 15-year-anniversary edition of the Brutal Assault festival, set to take place August 12-14, 2010 in Josefov, Czech Republic. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: CANNIBAL CORPSE CHILDREN OF BODOM CONVERGE DEMONIC RESURRECTION DESPISED ICON DEVIN TOWNSEND DEVOURMENT DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA ...
Posted in: News
Baltimore, Maryland's MISERY INDEX entered Wright Way Studios (DYING FETUS, SLIPKNOT, MOS DEF) on January 2 with engineer Steve Wright to begin recording its new album, tentatively titled "Heirs To Thievery", for a May release via Relapse Records. Regarding the recording process, MISERY INDEX drummer Adam Jarvis told SickDrummerMagazine.com, "As always, we started ...
Posted in: News
UNLEASHED, RAGE, EQUILIBRIUM, SUICIDAL ANGELS, ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY and MILKING THE GOATMACHINE will perform on the Nuclear Blast label night during this year's installment of the Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 19-21, 2010 in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. The Nuclear Blast night will take place on Wednesday, August 18 at the Party Tent. ...
Posted in: News
BENEDICTION and MALIGNANCY are the last two bands to be confirmed for this year's edition of the Neurotic Deathfest, set to take place April 30 - May 1, 2010 at 013 in Tilburg, Holland. The festival billing is now as follows: ABORTED ABYSMAL TORMENT ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY ANTIGAMA AS YOU DROWN BEHEADED BENEATH THE ...
Posted in: News
SEPULTURA, SARKE and TRAIL OF TEARS have been confirmed for the 15-year-anniversary edition of the Brutal Assault festival, set to take place August 12-14, 2010 in Josefov, Czech Republic. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: CANNIBAL CORPSE CHILDREN OF BODOM CONVERGE DEMONIC RESURRECTION DESPISED ICON DEVIN TOWNSEND DEVOURMENT DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA DYING FETUS ...
Posted in: News
PHOBIA, GRAVES OF VALOR and CARDIAC ARREST are the final three bands to be confirmed for this year's edition of the Central Illinois Metalfest, set to take place July 23-24, 2010 at the Canopy Club in Urbana, Illinois. The festival billing is now as follows: * ACHERON (OH) * AMAGORTIS (Switzerland) * ATROCIOUS ABNORMALITY (NC) ...
Posted in: News
Baltimore, Maryland's MISERY INDEX entered Wright Way Studios (DYING FETUS, SLIPKNOT, MOS DEF) on Saturday (January 2) with engineer Steve Wright to begin recording its new album, tentatively titled "Heirs To Thievery", for a May release via Relapse Records. An exclusive in-studio written/pictoral blog documenting the making of the CD can be found at
Posted in: News
"Your Treachery Will Die With You", the new video from Maryland-based extreme metallers DYING FETUS, can be viewed below. The clip was filmed in New York with director Kevin Custer (HATEBREED, TESTAMENT, SOULJA BOY, KINGDOM OF SORROW), who previously worked with the band on the "Shepherd's Commandment" video. "Your Treachery Will Die With You" comes ...
Posted in: News
Baltimore, Maryland's MISERY INDEX entered Wright Way Studios (DYING FETUS, SLIPKNOT, MOS DEF) on Saturday (January 2) with engineer Steve Wright to begin recording its new album, tentatively titled "Heirs To Thievery", for a May release via Relapse Records. According to the band, "Adam [Jarvis, drums] has eight songs of eleven completed. [We are] finishing ...
Posted in: News
THE 69 EYES, HACRIDE and FEJD have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 19-21, 2010 in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: 1349 AHAB ANATHEMA ASPHYX BARREN EARTH BEHEMOTH CALLISTO CANNIBAL CORPSE CHILDREN OF BODOM CUMULO NIMBUS DARK FUNERAL DARK TRANQUILLITY ...
Posted in: News
INCANTATION, ORIGIN, ACHERON, REGURGITATION, INFERNAL REVULSION and SEPTYCAL GORGE have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Central Illinois Metalfest, set to take place July 23-24, 2010 at the Canopy Club in Urbana, Illinois. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: * ACHERON (OH) (exclusive "Rites Of The Black Mass" set with full ...
Posted in: News
Baltimore, Maryland's MISERY INDEX will enter Wright Way Studios (DYING FETUS, SLIPKNOT, MOS DEF) this Saturday (January 2) with engineer Steve Wright to begin recording its new album, tentatively titled "Heirs To Thievery", for a May 2010 release via Relapse Records. According to the band, "all day Saturday will be set aside for tweaking drums ...
Posted in: News
Rome, Italy-based death metallers ADE will release their debut album, "Prooemium Sanguine", in January 2010 via Copro Records/Casket Music. The LP is described in a press release as "a perfect mix of ancient Roman/Greek music and furious death metal." Its concept is said to be "about the pre-imperial mithology of the Roman empire." ADE was ...
Posted in: News
NECROPHAGIST, KYPCK and KYLESA have been confirmed for the 15-year-anniversary edition of the Brutal Assault festival, set to take place August 12-14, 2010 in Josefov, Czech Republic. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: CANNIBAL CORPSE CHILDREN OF BODOM CONVERGE DEMONIC RESURRECTION DESPISED ICON DEVIN TOWNSEND DEVOURMENT DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA DYING FETUS GRAVEWORM HYPNOS ...
Posted in: News
Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 19-21, 2010 in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: 1349 AHAB ANATHEMA ASPHYX BARREN EARTH BEHEMOTH CALLISTO CANNIBAL CORPSE CHILDREN OF BODOM CUMULO NIMBUS DARK FUNERAL DARK TRANQUILLITY DESPISED ...
Posted in: News
GWAR and PANTHEON I have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 19-21, 2010 in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: 1349 AHAB ANATHEMA ASPHYX BARREN EARTH BEHEMOTH CALLISTO CANNIBAL CORPSE CUMULO NIMBUS DARK FUNERAL DARK TRANQUILLITY DESPISED ICON DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER ...
Posted in: News
Norwegian black metallers GORGOROTH have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 19-21, 2010 in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: 1349 AHAB ANATHEMA ASPHYX BARREN EARTH BEHEMOTH CALLISTO CANNIBAL CORPSE CUMULO NIMBUS DARK FUNERAL DARK TRANQUILLITY DESPISED ICON DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER ...
Posted in: News
Baltimore, Maryland's MISERY INDEX will enter Wright Way Studios (DYING FETUS, SLIPKNOT, MOS DEF) with engineer Steve Wright to begin recording its new album, tentatively titled "Heirs To Thievery", for a May 2010 release via Relapse Records. Songtitles set to appear on the follow-up to 2008's "Traitors" include "Embracing Extinction", "Heirs To Thievery", "Fed To ...
Posted in: News
Finnish folk metallers ENSIFERUM have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 19-21, 2010 in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: 1349 AHAB ANATHEMA ASPHYX BARREN EARTH BEHEMOTH CALLISTO CANNIBAL CORPSE CUMULO NIMBUS DARK FUNERAL DARK TRANQUILLITY DESPISED ICON DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER ...
Posted in: News
Florida-based death metallers CANNIBAL CORPSE have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 19-21, 2010 in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: 1349 AHAB ANATHEMA ASPHYX BARREN EARTH BEHEMOTH CALLISTO CANNIBAL CORPSE CUMULO NIMBUS DARK FUNERAL DARK TRANQUILLITY DESPISED ICON DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN ...
Posted in: News
SWALLOW THE SUN and WAR FROM A HARLOTS MOUTH have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 19-21, 2010 in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: 1349 AHAB ANATHEMA ASPHYX BARREN EARTH BEHEMOTH CALLISTO CUMULO NIMBUS DARK FUNERAL DARK TRANQUILLITY DESPISED ICON ...
Posted in: News
"Dismantle The Dictator", the new video from Boston's REVOCATION, can be viewed at Ultimate-Guitar.tv. The clip was lensed just outside of Boston with director Dave Brodsky (THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, SUICIDE SILENCE, WARBRINGER, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD). REVOCATION will take part in the Japanese Extreme The Dojo Vol. 23 tour in April along with ...
Posted in: News
