After playing at this year’s Headbangers Open Air in Germany, which marked the group’s European live debut with new vocalist Joseph Michael, SANCTUARY have returned to the studio in Germany between their live shows to work on songs for the new, untitled album. SANCTUARY’s fourth studio album will be released in the second half of 2020 and include songs such as “We are the Fallen“, “Not of the Living” and ‘Blind’. The songs are neither a throwback, nor a stark departure from the classic SANCTUARY sound.
Ceremony hit us with their new track “Presaging The End”. Of the single, lyricist and frontman Ross Farrar notes, “Change is a hard topic to unravel. In one version, people don’t like it much because it tampers with original design. But on the other hand, change is something that is a necessity and also absolutely inevitable, so it’s one of those things we have to embrace by default.”
Metal Blade Records is proud to welcome Angel Witch to its worldwide roster! Angel Witch‘s 1980 eponymous debut on Bronze records created shockwaves that would resonate throughout the nascent realm of thrash, doom and death metal. Now, nearly four decades later, the band remain custodians of a style that transcends era and archetype. Their current line-up first formed eleven years ago, delivering 2012’s critically acclaimed album, As Above, So Below. The long-awaited follow-up to this record will finally arrive in winter 2019 via Metal Blade Records.
Following their tour with Slayer, Lamb Of God, and Amon Amarth this past spring, CANNIBAL CORPSE is ready to return to the road for a North American headlining trek this fall featuring support from Thy Art Is Murder and Perdition Temple. The tour runs from October 20th through November 27th. See all confirmed dates below.
Motionless In White have announced plans for a major U.S. headline tour. The new dates begin September 29th at Jacksonville, NC’s Tarheel and then travel into late October (see itinerary below). Support throughout comes from special guests We Came As Romans, After The Burial, and Twiztid. Limited VIP packages for the upcoming dates will be available beginning Tuesday, August 6th at 11am ET.
By popular demand, seminal rock bands +LIVE+ and BUSH are adding fall dates to their acclaimed ALT-IMATE Tour, which Billboard raved about as a night when the two bands “roar through the classics.” The high-powered co-headline run sees these two iconic acts celebrating the 25th anniversary of their respective landmark albums Throwing Copper and Sixteen Stone.
OBSIDIAN KINGDOM are about to hit the studio again this summer to produce their third full-length album, which promises to be an intense collection of angst-ridden yet sanguine songs. The experimental Barcelonian outfit will spend the next month at Ax Studio in their hometown (the same place where their debut “Mantiis” was recorded,) resolved to create what will be their guttiest work to date.
