Following the previously announced run of shows with Clutch in late December, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY will be playing a one-off show at the Orange Peel in Asheville, North Carolina on January 22. The special performance will coincide with a screening of Slow Southern Steel, the long-anticipated southern metal documentary produced by Rwake vocalist, CT. Hail! Hornet will also appear on the bill.
Melbourne, Australia’s avant-garde post-doom quartet HEIRS will unleash their newest release stateside next week, in the form of the Hunter EP. Picking up where their 2010-released Fowl full-length left off, the new three-song mini-release takes it’s time permeating your psyche with nearly 25 minutes of even more mellow and somber passages, leading off with two original tracks and closing out the release with an extensive Sisters of Mercy cover track.
Australian funeral doom deities MOURNFUL CONGREGATION will embark on their first American tour today in Seattle, with support from Aldebaran and Anhedonist on all dates! The tour will wind down the West Coast over the next two weeks, making stops in Oregon, California, Arizona and Texas, including a headlining performance at the upcoming Rites Of Darkness III festival alongside Zemial, Stargazer, Cruciamentum, Pallbearer, Pagan Altar, Weapon and many more.
MAJESTIC DOWNFALL, the one-man doom metal project from multi-instrumentalist and composer Jacobo Córdova (also of Zombiefication), will release sophomore full-length, The Blood Dance, on January 9th through Chaos Records in Mexico and the Americas. The new album contains seven sorrowful songs with an even darker edge than debut album Temple of Guilt. Production wise the sound is thicker and more mature. The album also features a guest guitar solo from Roberto Granados (Denial, The Suffering). The artwork was created by Robert Hoyem (Shining, Iskald, Remembrance).
Hailing from Minneapolis, Minnesota, ZEBULON PIKE is an instrumental prog-doom metal band formed in late 2002. Inspired in equal parts by heavy sounds of the ’70s (Mountain, Pentagram, Captain Beyond, early Judas Priest), progressive rock (King Crimson, Rush), and 20th century classical (Bela Bartok, Arvo Part, and many others), ZEBULON PIKE combine the impact of metal with the calculated approach of “art” music. The result is a refined, muted aggression necessary for inciting the slow motion apocalypse.
LIVING SACRIFICE, who have been thrashing for over twenty years, return with a brand new DVD. “In Finite Live” features a professionally shot and recorded multi-camera performance filmed in Pomona, Southern California. The band’s set list spans their impressive catalog. The band counts members of bands as diverse as LAMB OF GOD, AS I LAY DYING and DEMON HUNTER among their fans.
