The Acacia Strain – Wormwood
Punishing metalcore with super heavy down-tuned guitars. A non-stop crushing attack on the senses. Rating: The Acacia Strain – Wormwood Prosthetic Records MA natives, The Acacia Strain return with their fifth full-length album as they are heading into the end of their first decade as a band. The band has gone through a few lineup [...]
Riotgod – CD
Side project from two members of Monster Magnet who mix up hard rock, space-rock, and stoner-rock into a solid debut album. Rating: Riotgod – CD Metalville Riotgod is a new project that was started by Bob Pantella and Jim Baglino, both of whom play in stoner-rock legends Monster Magnet. They planted the seeds for Riotgod three [...]
Horseback – The Invisible Mountain
A combination of Earth inspired drone and Om flavored doom with lots of other elements thrown in resulting in a very interesting and enjoyable ride. Rating: Horseback – The Invisible Mountain Relapse Records Horseback is a project by a man named Jenks Miller who plays nearly every instrument known to man sans-horns to create these [...]
Neurosis – Enemy of the Sun reissue
Neurosis – Enemy of the Sun reissue CD Neurot Recordings When Neurosis released Souls At Zero in 1992 they went from being a rather mediocre hardcore band to something awesome that defied description. When I spun that LP for the first time I was floored and never heard anything like it at that time. I [...]
Enthroned 8/25/10 at Reggies
Wednesday night was a big night of Metal at Reggies as bands from all across the globe converged for a show. Enthroned made their long-awaited return to headline a four-band bill. A local band named Cardiac Arrest opened the show. They played some really speedy death metal with thrashing guitars and guttural vocals. They were [...]
Cradle of Filth reveals new album artwork and details
Long-time black metal superstars, Cradle of Filth, have released the details and artwork for their forthcoming album on Nuclear Blast Records. The album, titled Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa, is their ninth full-length studio album and fittingly enough will be released on the ninth of November. The artwork for the record frontman Dani Filth calls, “without [...]
The Body – All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood
The Body – All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood At a Loss Recordings The opening track on this album starts off with seven minutes of really mellow choir singing and just when you start to get complacent with it being background music that’s soothing, it changes into this crushing low-end doom metal. [...]
Coliseum – House with a Curse
Coliseum – House with a Curse CD Temporary Residence For their third full-length album, Coliseum has changed drummers, producers, and labels, and even their sound. That’s a lot of change in a short amount of time and House with a Curse is the final result of all of it. Coliseum play melodic metal/post-metal that is [...]
Slayer, Megadeth, Testament 8/20/10 at UIC Pavilion
Last night was the biggest night of metal that Chicago has seen in years as the American Carnage Tour made a stop here in the Windy City at the UIC Pavilion. The tour was like a trip back to 1990 with Slayer, Megadeth, and Testament sharing the stage. Three heavyweight metal legends all in one [...]
Vulture Industries – The Dystopia Journals
Vulture Industries – The Dystopia Journals LP Ragnarok Records Vulture Industries is a gloomy/gothic metal band from Norway that formed in 2002. It took them five years before releasing a full album though, which only now sees a U.S. release on the correct format of vinyl. The Dystopia Journals is quite an epic album, especially [...]
Municipal Waste to tour Europe in December
Municipal Waste have booked a new tour of Europe to commence this December. You Europeans couldn’t ask for a better Xmas as they are touring with Saviours and Ramming Speed. Municipal Waste drummer Dave Witte comments: “I can’t wait to get back to the UK/Europe in December. We have some killer bands coming with us. Saviours [...]
Fear Factory escape bus fire
Late last week Fear Factorys narrowly escaped fire that quickly engulfed their tour bus while in route to London. The fire reportedly stemmed from a back wheel tire before spreading throughout the double-decker coach. BBC News confirms the fire closed down two lanes of the southbound M1 as Northamptonshire fire officials battled the blaze. Guitarist Dino [...]
Behemoth forced to cancel tour due to illness
Behemoth were forced to cancel their upcoming tour due to an illness that has stricken frontman, Nergal. He had this to say on the matter: “Dear All, I’d like to announce that Behemoth won’t be able to tour for the foreseeable future. I don’t wanna bore you with details here, but I’m sick and am [...]
Behemoth to release DVD and tour this fall
Blackened death metal heavyweights, Behemoth, are returning to the United States this fall for a big tour to promote their upcoming DVD. The DVD will be titled Evangelia Heretikaand will see a release date sometime this fall via Metal Blade Records here in the States, Nuclear Blast in Europe, and Mystic Records (not the Doug [...]
Van’s Warped Tour 2010 7/31 at First Midwest Bank Amphitheater part one
The crew at the First Midwest Bank Amphitheater must have been putting in a lot of overtime last weekend because the very next day after hosting the Rockstar Mayhem Festival, they held the annual Vans Warped Tour. It must have taken a huge crew to tear down the first show, clean up and then set [...]
Rockstar Mayhem Fest 7/30/10 at First Midwest Bank Amphitheater
On Friday legions of metal fans converged at the First Midwest Bank Amphitheater in Tinley Park for this year’s Rockstar Mayhem Festival. This year’s show featured a completely different lineup than the one last year and had a pretty nice lineup of bands to fill up the day. The show drew a very large crowd [...]
Autopsy to release a new EP in September
Here’s a blast from the past, gore metal band, Autopsy, have completed the recording of their first tracks since officially reforming last year. The Tomb Within EP was recorded in mid-July 2010 at Fantasy Studios with Adam Munoz. ‘The Tomb Within’ unites the original trio of Chris Reifert, Danny Coralles, and Eric Cutler, joined on [...]
Mose Giganticus – Gift Horse
Mose Giganticus – Gift Horse Relapse Records Mose Giganticus is a band that has been around for a few years now and this is their second full-length album. The band is from Philadelphia, PA. The band starts with a mid-tempo hard rock/metal foundation and incorporates elements of older punk rock and spices things up with [...]
Emperor songs added to Rock Band network
Black Metal has finally found its way to the Rock Band series of games. Two Emperor songs, “Curse You All Men (Live)” and “Inno A Satana (Live)” are now available for download via Rock Band 2 for Xbox 360. Both songs are taken from Emperor’s 2009 double-live album, Live Inferno. The songs represent UK-based Candlelight Records’ first to appear via [...]
Municipal Waste cancel European tour
Municipal Waste announced last week that due to an emergency they had to cancel their upcoming European Tour. The band has released the following statement regarding the matter: “We regret having to cancel our recent European dates, but an unforeseen family emergency prevented us from being able to make these shows. We apologize to all the fans [...]
Nachtmystium to headline fall tour
Chicago’s metal superstars, Nachtmystium, must really love it out on the road because they have spent a good portion of this year out there already and now they are planning on leaving again. The band embarks on its next tour, this time a headlining one, in September with the truly amazing The Atlas Moth as [...]
Metallica Kill ‘em All limited edition red vinyl now available
Those of you who are record collectors and fans of Metallica (the real Metallica back when they ruled) should find this of great interest. Warner Bros. Records just released a limited edition red vinyl version of Kill ‘em All and is offering it for sale on their website. The record is a 2x180gm record that [...]
Metal Blade launches Dawn of Ashes page
In honor of extreme metal act Dawn of Ashes’ upcoming release Genocide Chapters, Metal Blade Records has launched a web page where fans can go to check out a video teaser for the upcoming release, music, album artwork, and the specially low-priced preorder packages for the album. The first single, “Conjuration of the Maskim’s Black [...]
Kingdom of Sorrow – Behind the Blackest Tears
Kingdom of Sorrow – Behind the Blackest Tears Relapse Records Kingdom of Sorrow is the side project of Kirk Windstein (Down/Crowbar) and Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed). The pair formed the band a few years ago and this is their second release, one that took them the better part of two years to put together. The band’s [...]
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