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 [...]
Sep 02, 2010 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: metal, Metalcore, Music Reviews, prosthetic records, the acacia strain | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Sep 02, 2010 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: Cd Reviews, hard rock, metal, Monster Magnet, Riotgod | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Aug 31, 2010 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: Cd Reviews, Horseback, jenks miller, metal, relapse records | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Aug 31, 2010 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: enemy of the sun reissue, metal, Neurosis, neurot recordings | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Aug 27, 2010 | Categories: Show Reviews | Tags: Black Metal, Cardiac Arrest, Concert Reviews, death metal, Destroyer 666, Enthroned, metal, Pathology, Reggies | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Aug 25, 2010 | Categories: Music News | Tags: Black Metal, Cradle of Filth, metal, nuclear blast | Leave A Comment »
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. [...]
Aug 24, 2010 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: doom metal, metal, the body | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Aug 24, 2010 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: Cd Reviews, Coliseum, metal, temporary residence | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Aug 21, 2010 | Categories: Show Reviews | Tags: american carnage tour, Concert Reviews, megadeth, metal, Slayer, Testament, Thrash Metal, UIC Pavilion | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Aug 18, 2010 | Categories: Records, Reviews | Tags: gloom, goth, metal, ragnarok records, record reviews, Records, vinyl, Vulture Industries | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Aug 18, 2010 | Categories: Music News | Tags: earache records, metal, Municipal Waste, music news, saviours, tour dates | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Aug 12, 2010 | Categories: Music News | Tags: Fear Factory, fire!, metal | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Aug 11, 2010 | Categories: Music News | Tags: Behemoth, metal | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Aug 04, 2010 | Categories: Music News | Tags: Behemoth, Black Metal, death metal, metal, metal blade, nuclear blast | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Aug 04, 2010 | Categories: Show Reviews | Tags: Anarbor, andrew wk, Emo, every time I die, Hardcore, metal, pennywise, punk, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Warped Tour | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Aug 02, 2010 | Categories: Show Reviews | Tags: Atreyu, Chimaira, Concert Reviews, Five Finger Death Punch, hatebreed, In This Moment, Korn, Lamb of God, metal, Norma Jean, Rob Zombie, Rockstar Mayhem Fest, Shadows Fall | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Jul 30, 2010 | Categories: Music News | Tags: Autopsy, gore, metal, peaceville | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Jul 29, 2010 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: Cd Reviews, metal, Mose Giganticus, relapse records | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Jul 27, 2010 | Categories: Music News | Tags: Black Metal, Emperor, metal, rock band, xbox | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Jul 27, 2010 | Categories: Music News | Tags: earache records, Hardcore, metal, Municipal Waste | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Jul 19, 2010 | Categories: Music News | Tags: metal, nachtmystium, the atlas moth | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Jul 15, 2010 | Categories: Music News | Tags: metal, metallica, record collecting, vinyl | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Jul 07, 2010 | Categories: Music News | Tags: Dawn of Ashes, metal, metal blade records | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
Jun 29, 2010 | Categories: Reviews | Tags: Cd Reviews, crowbar, Down, hatebreed, kingdom of sorrow, metal | Leave A Comment »




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