Depicted as “beautiful sludge” (Toilet ov Hell), the Arizona-based trio NORTH — who just completed a successful month-long national tour that included dates alongside the likes of Primitive Man, Set and Setting, Inter Arma, The Atlas Moth, Bereft and Vattnet Viskar — will showcase material from their recently released digital 7-inch “Through Raven’s Eyes” on a November headlining jaunt across the U.S. Full dates can be found in the above tour admat or listed at the bottom of this page. Filled with “crushing and foreboding riffs” (Heavy Blog is Heavy), “Through Raven’s Eyes” marks the first newly recorded material from the group since signing to Prosthetic Records....
MONO and THE OCEAN. Two bands from very different cultural origins, Japan and Germany, yet spiritually akin and connected by many similarities: a cinematic approach to music, based on lengthy, escalating compositions, the fact that both bands have existed for more than 15 years and released multiple albums since their inception; that they have toured many times around the globe, visiting off-the-beaten-track territories like Siberia, New Zealand, South East Asia and South America; and finally their shared passion for double albums, such as THE OCEAN’s “Heliocentric” / “Anthropocentric“, and MONO’s “The Last Dawn” / “Rays Of Darkness“.
Behemoth has launched a brand new video for the title track from “The Satanist” on behemoth.pl. The video, directed by Andrzej Dragan (andrzejdragan.com), is another ambitious and visually striking piece of art from the band that’s known for videos that remain a cut above standard metal music videos.
In less than two weeks, after a year-and-a-half hiatus, Portland, Maine’s blackened rock’n’roll outfit, ZUD, will return to the stage, headlining day two of the first Shadow Woods Metal Festival on September 26th – the new mid-Atlantic, open-air, camping-based metal fest — in White Hall Maryland, just north of Baltimore. With the likes of Midnight, Occultation, Wormreich, Dreadlords and Sangharsha, and over two-dozen others at the two-day event, Shadow Woods can be expected to be a game changer in festivals held on the East Coast.
