Revocation recently recruited Ash Pearson as their new full time drummer. To showcase Pearson’s talents behind the kit, a new video has been released for “Bound By Desire” from the “Teratogenesis” EP. The deftly shot video will give fans an close look at Pearson’s technique and precision. The video can be seen now at metalblade.com/revocation.
One-man industrial doom magus, Tristan Shone, more commonly known as AUTHOR & PUNISHER, will bring his tectonic-shifting sound conjurings to the stage next month on a lengthy North American headlining tour. The proceedings will commence on September 17th in Los Angeles and crumble the infrastructures of fourteen venues through October 2nd in Boston. From there, Shone will take a brief respite before pillaging another fourteen venues on a second leg of the tour beginning November 3rd in Brooklyn and running through November 21st in San Diego. The trek includes a performance at Philip H. Anselmo’s annual Housecore Horror gala. AUTHOR & PUNISHER will be joined by special guests, atmospheric drone doom duo,...
Depicted as “beautiful sludge” (Toilet ov Hell), the Arizona-based trio NORTH — who just completed a successful month-long national tour that included dates alongside the likes of Primitive Man, Set and Setting, Inter Arma, The Atlas Moth, Bereft and Vattnet Viskar — will showcase material from their recently released digital 7-inch “Through Raven’s Eyes” on a November headlining jaunt across the U.S. Full dates can be found in the above tour admat or listed at the bottom of this page. Filled with “crushing and foreboding riffs” (Heavy Blog is Heavy), “Through Raven’s Eyes” marks the first newly recorded material from the group since signing to Prosthetic Records....
MONO and THE OCEAN. Two bands from very different cultural origins, Japan and Germany, yet spiritually akin and connected by many similarities: a cinematic approach to music, based on lengthy, escalating compositions, the fact that both bands have existed for more than 15 years and released multiple albums since their inception; that they have toured many times around the globe, visiting off-the-beaten-track territories like Siberia, New Zealand, South East Asia and South America; and finally their shared passion for double albums, such as THE OCEAN’s “Heliocentric” / “Anthropocentric“, and MONO’s “The Last Dawn” / “Rays Of Darkness“.
In less than two weeks, after a year-and-a-half hiatus, Portland, Maine’s blackened rock’n’roll outfit, ZUD, will return to the stage, headlining day two of the first Shadow Woods Metal Festival on September 26th – the new mid-Atlantic, open-air, camping-based metal fest — in White Hall Maryland, just north of Baltimore. With the likes of Midnight, Occultation, Wormreich, Dreadlords and Sangharsha, and over two-dozen others at the two-day event, Shadow Woods can be expected to be a game changer in festivals held on the East Coast.
Following their recent North American expedition supporting Superjoint and King Parrot on the successful It Takes Guts tour 2015, and the following Eastbound N’ Down tour with Down, Detroit’s favorite punk/metal/noise rock eccentrics, CHILD BITE, take to the streets again for a twenty-three date tour supporting KEN mode.
