Modern Thrash Metal trailblazers HAVOK will make their return to the states with a pair of US tours in the Summer and Fall. The band joins Metalcore titans Darkest Hour on the “Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora” tour in July. Following this run, Havok is thrilled to be a part of the seventh annual “Metal Alliance” tour, which is led this year by Thrash legends Overkill and Crowbar.
ABORTED have unveiled the title track from their forthcoming two-track EP, “Bathos”, due out via CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS on July 7, 2017. A very fine example of ABORTED’s development from a Belgium death metal underground act to one of the most influential and most consistent extreme metal acts today, take a listen to “Bathoss”
Cosmic synth/psych collective Arcadea is calling on fans to join their galactic battle in a new video game launched today by the band at their site http://www.arcadearocks.com/. In the game, fans can play as their favorite space warrior, Brann Dailor (Mastodon), Core Atoms (Zruda) and Raheem Amlani (Withered), and jump past the cosmic green hands as they save the universe from impending doom. Test your skills now at this location. Arcadea’s self-titled album was recently released to mass critical acclaim and is available for purchase and stream from Relapse Records. Purchase/Stream Arcadea: Buy – Relapse: http://bit.ly/Arcadea Buy – iTunes: http://apple.co/2sAVuyK Buy – Amazon: http://amzn.to/2rEtHsj Stream...
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.
