Finnish progressive death metal outfit BARREN EARTH, now reinforced by Faroese native lead singer Jón Aldará, have just launched the title track of their highly awaited upcoming third full-length. The album will be entitled “On Lonely Towers” and will be released via Century Media Records on March 30th, 2015 in Europe and March 24th, 2015 in North America.    Bassist Olli-Pekka Laine comments: “During the writing process of the album, we did many things from a totally new perspective. If there ever was a certain pattern in a basic Barren Earth song, this time we consciously tried to think things differently. Many other things changed too, some of them unintentionally, some of them willfully.... 

Behemoth: Devil’s Conquistadors by Lukasz Dunaj serves as the definitive Behemoth biography. This book, officially blessed, or rather damned, by Behemoth, serves as an in depth look at the history of the events that materially influenced the band.  

Swedish death metal masters DEMONICAL have recently went into the studio to record what will be the band’s brand new EP. The material is scheduled for a spring release via Agonia Records.  

Philadelphia/Brooklyn grinders UNREST have debuted new track “Quit” from upcoming album Grindcore.  

French noise rock specialists, Solar Flare Records, have confirmed the impending Winter release of the new LP from long-running NYC-based power trio, FASHION WEEK. Entitled Prêt-à-Porter the album will be unveiled on digital and vinyl formats on February 23rd.  

Austin, Texas metallers DEAD EARTH POLITICS are nearing completion on their upcoming Men Become Gods EP. The EP is second in a series of three that began with last year’s acclaimed The Queen of Steel, and is scheduled release on March 14.  

It’s that time of the month, when the EOLIAN mob unleashes its antagonistic impulses on the public for their own amusement.  

Pomona, California’s unstoppable XIBALBA will release their third studio full-length, Tierra Y Libertad, TODAY, once again through Southern Lord Recordings.  

UK dark avant sound contortionists, VOICES, will release their sophomore full-length, London, in North America next month. Tracked at Hackney Studios, the offering delivers fourteen bastardized tracks of progressive blackened psychedelic melancholia centered on the forgotten and diseased underbelly of England’s capital city. Featuring former members of Akercocke and My Dying Bride, VOICES manifests perfectly imperfect sounds to welcome the end of creation, the extinction of the human, the collapse of music as we once knew…  

Dubai death/thrash collective, NERVECELL, will reissue their critically adored Psychogenocide full-length via Unique Leader TODAY.  

Scottish melancholic post-metallers, FALLOCH, will unveil their long anticipated new full-length via Candlelight Records next month. Titled This Island, Our Funeral, the follow up to 2011’s Where Distant Spirits Remain was tracked at London’s Orgone Studios by Jaime Gomez Arellanu (Ghost, Cathedral, Ulver), and delivers nearly an hour’s worth of dark, chilling odes of atmospheric beauty.  

Columbia South Carolina-based quartet, DISCOURSE, has hooked up with Troy, New York-based hardcore label, Closed Casket Activities, for the release of their first LP, Sanity Decays.