Paris-based dark and oppressive modern death metal masters DEEP IN HATE have been announced as the main support act for the French leg of ARCH ENEMY‘s upcoming European tour. The dates come just in time for release of the band’s upcoming third full-length, Chronicles of Oblivion, due out June 3 on Kaotoxin Records.
Swe-death lunatics ENDING QUEST have finished recording their debut album, The Summoning, and have announced a June 20 release date through FDA Rekotz. Featuring members of DESOLATOR, ENDING QUEST deliver pure old-school death metal with the same passion and fury heard from the likes of ENTOMBED and GRAVE.
Candlelight Records today confirms June 10th as the North American release date of ORANGE GOBLIN‘s Healing Through Fire. Produced by Mark Daghorn, the reissue includes two live bonus tracks taken from the band’s studio performance at BBC’s famous Maida Vale studio in London for the Radio One Rock Show in August 2007. The album will be available for preorder via iTunes beginning May 20th and is available for physical preorder now via Candlelight’s official web store.
Another great drop this week, in the vein of traditional metal or even New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), The Cult of the Vestal Claret, by the titular Vestal Claret, is repping the old school styles pretty hard. You have great base to build off, and they have that old rocking metal sound, with a doom and gloom message about that old tyme religion, devil worship. Fuzzy, dirty, and easy to remember. What’s not to love?!
You can wade through as many WO FAT press quotes about being “Texas-sized” as you want or see how many top-whatever lists the band has made since the Dallas trio began raging in 2003, but none of that is going to be the same as staring down their swampadelic fuzz groove for yourself. If you want to know the monster, shake its hand.
Detroit metal squad BATTLECROSS just launched three new live bootlegs! POV Recordings recently shot and edited live videos of “Flesh & Bone,” “Never Coming Back” and “Kaleb” from the band’s show at the Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina. The videos can be seen on the Metal Blade Records, BATTLECROSS, and POV Recordings YouTube channels.

