THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER will kick off their US co-headlining trek with grind icons Napalm Death tonight in Farmington, New Mexico. Set to run through November 21st, the Abysmal Predator tour features Metal Blade labelmates ABNORMALITY as well as Pig Destroyer, Misery Index, and Power Trip as support on select dates.
NEW YEARS DAY are about to embark on the “Retrograde” tour with Crown The Empire and Blessthefall, which kicks off tomorrow (11/1) in Phoenix, AZ at the Nile Theater. The month long North American trek will see the band supporting their latest release, Malevolence and will be their first tour in the US since May of this year. A complete list of dates can be found below.
Century Media Records is very proud to announce the worldwide signing of French death/black metal band SVART CROWN. SVART CROWN’s previously released albums Ages Of Decay (2008), Witnessing The Fall (2010) and especially Profane (2013) have gained the band a lot of attention as being one of the most interesting and most diverse extreme metal bands rising from the French scene. Impressive musicianship, intricate song-writing and excellent live shows solidified SVART CROWN’s reputation as trailblazers of a new breed of blackened death metal.
It was roughly two years ago that Saor became a landmark band in the underground scene. Blending atmospheric black metal with a heavy amount of orchestrated folk metal, Saor was the topic of discussion after releasing 2014’s Aura. The studio-only project briefly took a turn to playing live, but has since returned to its original status, allowing founder and composer Andy Marshall to focus heavily on songwriting. Thus, we are given Guardians, the project’s third album that builds off of everything that came before it, and delightfully so as it is shaping up to be a bigger album than its two predecessors.
Is it just me, or is death metal just stupidly great this year? The underground scene for death metal seems to be in full effect this year, and with it bands are bringing this extra degree of darkness to the mix, creating something really awesome atmospheres, pummeling riffs, and quality albums from start to finish. With plenty of music in the genre being released this year, let’s take note of some of the best the genre has offered in the past ten months.
Halloween is one of the more metal holidays in the year: the emphasis on horror, the dark decorations, and the self-destruction through candy consumption is where everything tends to line up between the music and the festivities. Unquestionably, if you wanna get in the mood for the holiday, or have the ultimate metal-esque horror house soundtrack, here’s some starting points to make the process easier.
20 Buck Spin and Osmose Productions present the debut LP by harrowing Portuguese death metal sect, THE OMINIOUS CIRCLE, having slated Appalling Ascension for release in January. As an early glimpse into the album’s top-level musicianship and decimating delivery, a stream of the track “From Endless Chasms” has been hosted.
