Revelation Records is now just over a week from releasing Low In The Dust, the debut LP from Southern California’s FELL TO LOW. Meshing noisy post-hardcore and angular indie rock influences, the young band bridges the courage of the pioneering acts of said musical scenes with modern sensibilities into a caustic yet calming and fully engaging delivery.
Following its sordid inaugural booking last year, Portland, Oregon-based anti-fest dubbed FESTICIDE makes its revolting return this year, bigger and badder than before. From August 21st – 23rd, the melee will see nine shows invading nine venues across the city, with a total of thirty bands set to play, including AERIAL RUIN, DANAVA, DRUNK DAD, EPHEMEROS, GAYTHEIST, MUSCLE AND MARROW, RABBITS, and many others. Eolian Empire has once again joined forces with local DIY bookers Chris Control, Robert Komets, and David Rose to throw another FESTICIDE. Since last year’s event, the yuppie/yuccie invasion of the town has (coincidentally?) coincided with the shutdown of more than a half dozen underground venues across...
Finland’s belligerent crossover quintet, FORESEEN HKI, is on their way across the Atlantic, on their way to the US to embark on Helsinki Savagery Over America — the band’s maiden stateside trek — which gets underway at This Is Hardcore in Philadelphia this week. FORESEEN HKI‘s relentless debut LP, Helsinki Savagery, saw worldwide release through 20 Buck Spin last November, the album’s brutally raw aggression impacting upon the masses like a full-scale nuclear attack. With a dark and callous punk/hardcore edge, the clearly Finnish rawness and hostility of the record thundered with a vengeful and streetwise sound that’s largely vacant within the modern thrash scene. Recorded...
Progressive metal act Redemption have completed recording a new album and signed with Metal Blade Records! The band is helmed by Nick van Dyk (guitars, keyboards), and includes legendary prog vocalist Ray Alder (Fates Warning, Engine), bassist Sean Andrews and drummer Chris Quirarte, as well as guitarist Bernie Versailles, who is presently on a medical leave of absence from the band.
Ohio grinding progressive death engineers, LOCUSTA, are packing up their weaponry for the Primordial Death Summer Tour. Set to commence tomorrow, July 23rd, in Lexington, Ketucky, the tour will raze sixteen cities, coming full circle and drawing to a close on August 8th in Covington, Kentucky. The band will be joined by fellow Buckeye State death metallers, Faithxtractor, for a bulk of the journey as well an assortment of brutalizers throughout the tour including Mutant Supremacy, Noisem, and Tombstalker.
Canadian cult metal act Anvil is back. After years of record labels being between them and their fans, Anvil now want to directly connect with the fans during the making of their new record, and they have chosen PledgeMusic to make that happen. The new record will have no concessions to short-lived trends and no modern frills. It will have traditional metal with lots of classic rock elements – just what Anvil fans will love.
After weeks of auditions, reactivated southern doom bringers, SERPENTS OF SECRECY – featuring ex-Sixty Watt Shaman members, bassist Rev. Jim Forrester (Foghound), drummer Chuck Dukehart III (Foghound), and guitarist Todd Ingram (King Giant) — are very pleased to welcome current Gypsy Chief Goliaths/former Mighty Nimbus frontman, Al Yeti Bones, to the mic.
When monsters ruled the Marvel Universe, the wildly imaginative brain and pencil of Jack Kirby brought dozens upon dozens of these creatures to life. Monster comics may be a thing of the past, but Marvel is celebrating their legacy this October with over twenty-five KIRBY MONSTER VARIANTS coming to some of Marvel’s biggest new titles! Featuring some of the industry’s most legendary and iconic artists, witness the inimitable imagination of Jack Kirby brought to life by Geof Darrow, Paul Pope, Art Adams, Eric Powell, Simon Bisley, Cliff Chiang and many, many more!
