Brazilian death metal trio KRISIUN will be returning to North America this fall with technical death metal giants ORIGIN for an extensive co-headlining trek. The tour will also see AEON, ALTERBEAST, SOREPTION, and INGESTED as support, making this a must-see show for all death metal maniacs! See below for upcoming dates:
Akron, Ohio’s MAID MYRIAD will take their wildly infectious progressive/melodic post-hardcore tunes to American audiences everywhere on an extensive US tour this Thursday, April 9th, with a kickoff solo show in Cleveland. Directly following the solo one-off, the trio will sync up with progressive/instrumental metal trio, The Fine Constant, in Erie, Pennsylvania, beginning The Woven In Haste Tour 2015. The massive forty-one city, co-headlining run will encircle the entire country in a clockwise course for six weeks, with the final show taking place May 23rd, in MAID MYRIAD’s hometown.
Sweden has been a fertile ground for metal of all varieties for multiple decades, and there appears to be no sign that this will change anytime soon. The variety and quality of bands is staggering, and Metal Blade Records is prepared to help add The Great Discord to the list of one of Sweden’s finest new groups.
Progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me have released a brand new song from their upcoming highly anticipated, seventh full-length album Coma Ecliptic. Fans can listen to “Memory Palace” now! The upcoming album is also now available for pre-order with special bundles and packages offered, including: CD, LP, two pre-order exclusive t-shirts, an exclusive hour long behind the scenes making-of DVD, and a “Coma Ecliptic” limited edition 27″x40″ movie poster. Coma Ecliptic will be officially released worldwide on July 7th, 2015. Grandiose, dynamic, heavy, melodic, technically challenging and more, this album delivers.
Flaw has announced plans to release a new album, and a return to the road after a decade of being dormant, Chris Volz (Vocals), Jason Daunt (Guitar), Ryan Jurhs (Bass / Backing Vocals) and Corey Sturgill (Drums) are poised to begin the next chapter of the band’s career. Singer Volz shares, “I’m so excited to announce the soon-to-come release of our first full length album in over 10 years!
The English CONAN follows the ideals of their namesake and continue their path without compromises. The second album Blood Eagle is a Doom Drone Metal monument filled with monolithic riffs, hypnotic melodies, brutal drumming and an archaic atmosphere. Blood Eaglewas released last March in North America via Napalm Records. The album can be orderediTunesandAmazon.
The Metal Alliance Tour is proud tocelebrating its 5th year anniversary as being of being one of the most anticipated metal tours of the year. Each year this touring festival assembles a package that celebrates the various genres of Metal. It is with great honor to celebrate this 5 year hallmark than to announce DEICIDE, the pioneers of the death metal as the official Metal Alliance Tour 2015 headliner.
Los Angeles, CA-based hardcore act, Twitching Tongues, have struck a worldwide deal with Metal Blade Records. Since forming in 2009, the band has toured the globe extensively, and released two full length releases: Sleep Therapy (2012), In Love There is No Law (2013), and a live album: World War Live (2014). The unique sound and indisputable gravitas that Twitching Tongues wields on their records, as well as live, has turned the group into one of the underground scene’s most talked about bands.
Launching forth on a nefarious mission dictated specifically by the horned master himself, Satan’s Wrath stubbornly refuse to take their foot off the accelerator on their nightmarish ride to insanity and overload. This brainchild of sulphur-throated multi-instrumentalist Tas Danazoglou, has grown in monstrous stature, unflinching cruelty and sheer bloody-minded intensity over the course of its two full-throttle platters thus far, building an ominous pathway for Die Evil, its third unholy document, which emerges from Stamos’ own 210 Studios in Berlin, unto twilight in intimidating fashion, blasting their blasphemous attack into dimensions of dementia hitherto deemed beyond the pale.
Death Metal has a long and storied past, with some of the most iconic bands of metal belonging to this old school, brutal genre: Cannibal Corpse, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Mortician, Autopsy, Obituary, Entombed… and the almighty father, DEATH. From the ashes of Chuck Schuldiner’s genre forming playing and vision comes today’s review: Savage Land by Gruesome.
