As their third LP, Black Ocean Waves, nears release this Summer, Northern Virginia’s KING GIANT has confirmed an advance local listening party for the album. Scheduled to take place this Friday, May 8th, the band will host a public listening event at Fair Winds Brewing Company in Lorton, Virginia, where the upcoming album will be blasting from start to finish, with the band in full attendance for press and fan interaction, the event co-sponsored by DCHeavyMetal.com.
While they take some time off from the stage this year, Germany`s leading gothic metal band CREMATORYhavedecided to release their entire Wacken show as a DVD titled “Live W:O:A 2014”. The DVD includes private backstage footage, detailed interviews, footage from their rehearsal room and three video clips from “Antiserum”!
Aggressive, meticulous, passionate, righteous – all distinguishing traits that have come to symbolize the fundamentals of metal/hardcore pioneers PRO-PAIN. Since their crushing 1992 NAIRD nominated debut album Foul Taste Of Freedom, PRO-PAIN have become a staple in the diets of heavy music listeners around the globe. Their successful and enviable career has perpetually prospered throughout its course, and yet they still manage to find room to improve, and more importantly, impress. Each and every PRO-PAIN album is a paragon of intensity, inspiration, honesty and unwillingness to compromise. Their latest (and 15th) studio effort entitled Voice Of Rebellion is a testament to those very same qualities.
Today, NEUROSIS confirms the band’s invitation to perform at this year’s upcoming installment of the massive Heavy Montréal Festival, in Montréal, Quebec. NEUROSIS is one of the latest acts to be confirmed for Heavy Montréal, having just been announced alongside the likes of The Devin Townsend Project, Sanctuary, Obscura, Cattle Decapitation, Revocation, and more, joining the roster of artists already confirmed to play at this year’s event, including Slipnot, Faith No More, Korn, Lamb Of God, Iggy Pop, NOFX, Mastodon, Meshuggah, Testament, Nuclear Assault, and countless others. The open air Heavy Montréal gala will overthrow Quebec’s largest metropolis on August 7th – 9th, and NEUROSIS...
