Norwegian black metal icons MAYHEM will embark on the second leg of their European live takeover this fall. The Purgatorium Europæ – Pars Duorum tour will commence September 29th in Berlin, Germany and ravage its way through twelve countries and nineteen cities, drawing to a close on October 27th in Gothenburg, Sweden.
NOTHING MORE premiere the official music video for their new single, “Go To War” today via Monster Energy Aftershock. Directed by Wayne Isham, the video evokes the burning aggression of the track’s lyrics through a passionate bar fight between lovers. Watch it on the festival’s site HERE. “I remember being invited to the Roxy because I ‘had to’ see this band from Texas many years ago. They were the first of 5. I had no expectations. And I was blown away. I immediately came back to the office and told the team this is a band that the company needs to get behind. They had their breakthrough moment at Monster Energy Aftershock 2013 and its only fitting to premiere ‘Go To War’ from their upcoming sophomore...
Los Angeles-based Electronic Rock outfit 9ELECTRIC are pleased to share that they will be joining on for the remaining dates of Otep’s “Resistance” World Tour here in the states. The band’s first date on the tour is today (June 27th) in St. Paul, MN, with the tour concluding in Mesa, AZ at Club Red on July 5th. These new shows will see 9Electric continue to support their latest studio album, The Damaged Ones, which came out last summer on Another Century Records.
I wrote last year that Death Fortress’ Deathless March of the Unyielding in very high regard. From diverse songwriting to a nice balance of traditional black metal vocals exchanged tastefully with death growls, Death Fortress had something special with that album, and even though there were other great black metal releases last year, the band stood out among the rest because they didn’t waste a single moment of their time. So what do you do when you’ve got some high expectations to meet? Make another album and disregard everyone else.
It seems like everyone’s releasing new songs today. Yet, one can’t complain about that, since that’s just enough to end the week on a high note. Brendan Small, best known for being the mad genius behind Dethklok and the co-existing show, Metalocalypse, is back again after some years of absence in trying to bring Dethklok back, yet he’s bringing his solo project back to the forefront.
One of the long-standiing New Wave of American Heavy Metal (NWOAHM for short, I guess) bands, Chimaira, called it quits in 2014 amidst constantly rotating members, save for lead vocalist Mark Hunter. Marking 2013’s Crown of Phantoms as their swan song, Chimaira ceased to be. That’s changing, if for at least one show.
Multi-genre artist/producer Celldweller will release “Offworld,” his fourth vocal-based studio album on July 28th, 2017 via his independently owned/operated label FiXT. “Offworld” departs from Celldweller’s signature sound of aggressive guitars, blasting beats and ass-kicking intensity and delivers a journey of sentimental feels and emotionally gripping tracks, showcasing the intimate song-writing side of project mastermind, Klayton. The album is available for digital, CD, and vinyl pre-order now. The album’s 11 tracks range from the soul searching “How Little I Must Know,” to the modern shoegazer “Echoes,” the somber a cappella “Mother’s Arms,”...
Lesser Gods is pleased to announce the official release of My Riot: Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts & Glory – a memoir written by Agnostic Front vocalist Roger Miret with Jon Wiederhorn (also known for his book entitled Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal and his contributions to Rolling Stone, Loudwire, and Vice’s Noisey, among many more).
