U.S. Heavy Metal powerhouse BENEDICTUM will take the stage on Saturday, June 18th at the Warriors of Metal Open Air Festival IV. The two-day (June 17-18) festival will be held at the Frontier Ranch in Kirksville, OH (about 30 miles east Columbus) and also feature Vindicator, Aska, Widow, Sacred Dawn, Shock Paris, and many others.
Over the past three years, Tech-9 Music has staged well over a hundred shows under the branded monikers Gotham Rocks and No Mercy Metal. On Thursday, July 21, the company will celebrate its third anniversary with a gala event at Irving Plaza featuring seven bands from the New York area. The complete line-up features The August Infinity, Killcode, Charetta, Bound By Substance, Sweet Fix, Woods of Arden and Crush of Empires. The August Infinity and Charetta, alongside Sweet Fix, will be releasing CDs that week.
It’s been four long years, but hardcore heavyweights, Ringworm, have finally resurrected with their fifth assaulting and vicious album Scars, out July 19th. Twenty years after their 1991 birth in Cleveland, Ringworm rises above with the brutal new release to remind fans why they are the pioneering visionaries of the hardcore genre known as “crossover.” The extreme hardcore veterans fiercely knock out the competition with the unleashing of their most heavy-hitting, thrash-inspired metal album yet.