Occult death doom ensemble, WOODEN STAKE, rises from their moldy tomb armed with their long-awaited second long player, A Feast Of Virgin Souls. Out now on Razorback Records, the ten-track offering boasts over forty demonic minutes of dark, NWOBHM-infused tracks of lurching brutality led by the possessed banshee vocals of vocalist/bassist Vanessa Nocera.  

What happens when the founding member of one of New York City’s drunkest punk bands decides to hang up his six pack and go sober? Well, feast your eyes and ears on this crushing new 5 song EP and 32 page full color comic book, dual release behemoth, and find out! Now armed with a lead guitar player, the songs that are nothing less than hook drenched, anthemic howls of redemption, bash sonic barriers previously unimagined by these blokes from Brooklyn. And while you’re putting the pieces of your blown brain back into your head, crack open the comic and gaze upon the tumultuous tale of what it was like for the band’s fretful leader to tour across the U.S., a mere 90 days into his recovery from a life... 

Celebrating their 30th year of existence, Brazil’s most esteemed metal band SEPULTURA will be headlining a Metal Injection-sponsored tour that includes German thrashers DESTRUCTION as direct support and American melodic tech-deathsters ARSIS as openers. We can already sense the frenzy in mosh pits across the U.S. and Canada, too.  

GRUESOME is a debilitating death metal faction featuring members of Exhumed, Possessed, Malevolent Creation, and Derketa. Their debut, Savage Land, has dropped and is currently chewing through listeners as we speak!  

Rustblade Records is releasing the 30th Anniversary Edition and definitive release of the iconic horror film soundtrack composed by Claudio Simonetti for Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava’s 1980′s gore classic “Demons”.  

Philadelphia-based stoner/doom band, WIZARD EYE, recently announced its partnership with emerging Philadelphia-area label, Black Monk Records, for the release of its upcoming self-titled album.  

The Other Side of Darkness from Salt Lake City Thrashers DEATHBLOW is out today, and streaming in its complete glory!  

Occult death rock conjurors, ANCIENT VVISDOM, will bring their rituals to the stage on a near month-long live run alongside atmospheric Icelandic metallers, Sólstafir. The ceremonies will commence on April 22nd in Brooklyn and swarm twenty-five cities, the journey coming to a close on May 20th in Richmond.  

Weirdness this way comes! The new album, Graveward, by Japanese weirdmongers Sigh has to be one of the most eclectic and genuinely fun albums I have heard in a while, so click on through and see what Isle of Strange has let rise from the ocean!  

Like a phoenix undead, Brooklyn based black/doom/sludge trio Unearthly Trance has returned! After putting the band on ice in 2012, Darren Verni, Ryan Lipynsky and Jay Newman have decided to resurrect and start playing together once again.  The band is already currently writing new music for what will be their sixth full-length album and fourth for Relapse Records.  

After a record 18 years, The Offspring have returned to Number 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs radio airplay chart with their current single “Coming For You”.  

Dark Clouds and Clarity, the new EP from Midwestern melodic metal/hard rock act ENTROPY O.A.C., is out today on Pavement Entertainment. Modern, catchy, and solid as a rock!