Doom bands seem to be having a boon year, and we have been inundated with several of them as of late. Today’s example, As Heavens Turn To Ash, comes to us from a stalwart of the genre, Warhorse! It’s heavy, dark, thorough, and loooooooong. Strap in, strap up, and strap it on, we are jumping down the Rabbit Hole!
The title doesn’t quite say it all, but it says some of it: A Life Unto Itself is as much the name of STEVE VON TILL‘s fourth solo album as it is the perfect description for the twenty five-plus years he’s spent forging, with his brothers, the incomparable musical force that is Neurosis, not to mention the numerous sonic tapestries he’s woven with Tribes Of Neurot and under his alter ego Harvestman. To be released in May on Neurot Recordings, his breathtaking life will unwind this new record like you’ve never heard before.
Lauded as “one of the best technical death metal bands in the world” (MetalSucks), the Tasmanian group PSYCROPTIC will release their self-titled Prosthetic debut on March 10. Watch their music video for the new song “Cold,” filmed by Wilson Bambrick (Deafheaven, Black Breath, Title Fight), now on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WemwqU2j34E) or streaming above! “Cold” is now available for digital download via iTunes at this location: https://itun.es/i6BN7W9 PSYCROPTIC will next be seen on a headlining jaunt across Australia alongside Goatwhore as well as additional support on select dates from Earth Rot, Disentomb, Ouroboros, label mates I Exist and more! For a full list...
Sol Invictus, Faith No More’s highly anticipated follow-up to Album of the Year, arrives on May 19 via Reclamation Recordings/Ipecac Recordings give lift to the sleeping fallen angel of metal. “What I can say is that I think through our experience as musicians over the years, I think what we’re doing reflects where we’ve gone since we made our last record as Faith No More. I think this kicks things up a notch,” explained Bill Gould in a recent Rolling Stone interview. “And I think there’s parts that are very powerful and there’s parts that have a lot of “space.” Everything we do, with our chemistry, the way we play; it’s always going to sound like us. It’s just...
Los Angeles based hip-hop/metal veterans HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD have announced the release date of their forthcoming studio album, Day of the Dead. The album (the band’s first since 2013’s Notes from the Underground), will be released March 31st on Interscope Records and will feature the current single and title track, “Day of the Dead.” Leading up to the release, the band will be unveiling five new tracks from the album, beginning with “Usual Suspects” on February 17th.
“Hurt Yourself and The Ones You Love” is the title of the new album by Italy’s notorious purveyors of black/doom metal, FORGOTTEN TOMB. The band’s highly anticipated 8th studio opus is scheduled for release via Agonia Records, on April 17th in Europe and April 21st in North America. The new album is a “mix of melancholy, groove and pure malignancy” – as put by the band’s leader, Ferdinando “Herr Morbid” Marchisio. “We kept the sound very organic and natural, kinda old-fashioned but still very fresh. The new songs are heavy as fuck and they feature our classic trademark plus some new elements. I can’t wait for people to listen to it, ’cause...
Southern Arizona stoner rock specialists, POWERED WIG MACHINE, will reintroduce their sophomore album, Supa-Collider, to the public in a deluxe vinyl edition via Battleground Records on February 21st, as the band performs at the awesome Borderland Fuzz Fiesta, an event booked by the members of the band themselves.
