News death metal band VAMPIRE launch new track “Revenants” Terry Bunch, March 20, 2017April 23, 2017 VAMPIRE’s way to combine Swedish death metal darkness with the invincible force of Teutonic thrash metal and the nightmarish rapture of Scandinavian black metal is unrivalled. Lugubrious beauty, inscrutable dread and abysmal terrors blended to a concoction most secret and forbidden. “Ghoul Wind” as well as the previously launched rough… Continue Reading
News San Diego brutal death metal band CONDEMNED new album release Terry Bunch, January 20, 2017 San Diego brutal death metalists CONDEMNED make their long-awaited return with their third full-length His Divine Shadow. Set for worldwide release via Unique Leader Records on March 10th, CONDEMNED‘s latest endeavor was recorded and edited by producer John Haddad (Abysmal Dawn, Phobia, Intronaut etc.) at Trench Studios in Santa… Continue Reading
Music Review Metal Life album review – Repulsive Vision – Look Past the Gore and See The Art Amon Crow, January 16, 2017 Repulsive Vision’s “Look Past the Gore and See the Art” begins in panic: the first track is a fever-dream maelstrom of slasher-film samples, urgently warning against the rampant dangers of metal music that encourage “sex abuse, sadism, cannibalism, necrophilia, infanticide, mutilation, molestation, and death.” What follows is an assault of… Continue Reading
News OBITUARY Announce New Self Titled Album Terry Bunch, January 11, 2017 Cover Art: Andreas Marschall Florida death metal legends OBITUARY return with their self-titled, 10th studio album, further cementing their legacy as one of the most important metal bands of all time! Picking up where 2014’s Inked In Blood left off, OBITUARY show no signs of slowing down as they continue to reign as Kings of death metal. Recorded at… Continue Reading
Books CHOOSING DEATH: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore Terry Bunch, December 16, 2016December 16, 2016 CHOOSING DEATH: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore, by Albert Mudrian; Forewords by Scott Carlson of Repulsion & BBC DJ John Peel 400 pages Death-luxe edition softcover Ships with free limited color woven patch. Mudrian’s widely praised blow-by-blow history of metal’s most relentless strains was first published in… Continue Reading
News IMMOLATION release new song and reveal album details Terry Bunch, December 15, 2016December 15, 2016 New York death metal giants IMMOLATION will release their new album Atonement on February 24th via Nuclear Blast Records. Today, the band has launched the first single “Destructive Currents”, via a 360º video, here: Atonement was recorded at Millbrook Sound Studios in Millbrook, NY with longtime producer Paul Orofino, and mixed… Continue Reading