Sometimes you just can’t catch a break. SMBH has one of the most pain in the ass names to have to repeatedly type, and I’ll probably say it several times. The new album, “shortly” titled Calculations of the Ancients, was just released this past April 29th, and has started to decimate ear tubes across the world.  

After a two-year hiatus, Ohio technical grinding death metal peddlers LOCUSTA will be embarking on a live takeover through the East Coast this Spring! Slated to commence on May 13th in Raleigh, North Caroline, LOCUSTA will rape faces through Columbia, Knoxville, Columbus, Washington DC, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Providence, Portland, Philadelphia, Harrisonburg and Richmond with additional incursions to be announced in the coming weeks. The band will be joined by drummer Alex Tomlin (Battlemaster, Arsis, Withered et al).  

Following an extensive eight-year gap since their last full-length album, Polish death metal veterans, INCARNATED, are back with their decimating third album, now nearing release this Spring via Selfmadegod Records.  

USX violinist, Meghan Mulhearn‘s heady solo outing, DIVINE CIRCLES, is currently spreading their ethereal Appalachian dark folk across the US on a short run of live rituals alongside Elisa Faires.  

Reading, Pennsylvania natives, RIVERS OF NIHIL, continue their ascent of the death metal ladder with a brand new music video. “Birth Of The Omnisavior” is a sleek and dark video that captures visually what this band does so well sonically: play emboldened, deftly-executed death metal at a level far beyond their years. Watch “Birth Of The Omnisavior” from latest album, The Conscious Seed Of Light  

Originally released in 1991 by Rise Above Records, Shadow Kingdom Records has given worldwide release to a true Doom Metal classic. Salvation’s Answer, from Baltimore doom expansionists REVELATION is officially available on digital and CD formats.on April 29.  

Vienna’s unfathomably pliable, ceaselessly entertaining, pigeonhole-avoiding riff and rhythm crusading trio BULBUL has created their finest and freakiest works yet, closing a six-year gap since their last album with their incoming Hirn Fein Hacken.  

Minotauro Records has released the new album from Canadian Experimental Metalists SUPER MASSIVE BLACK HOLES as a digital download. With the release of the physical CD coming on May 10, fans can stream and download Calculations of the Ancients now at minotaurorecords.bandcamp.com.  

Excitement has been growing since WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM announced the unexpected release of Celestite, an instrumental, experimental companion record to 2011’s Celestial Lineage.  

Following a signing announcement at the beginning of 2014, followed by crushing waves of subsequent touring, California’s OBLITERATIONS has finished tracking their debut LP for Southern Lord. A day after returning from their Southwest US Tour in March, OBLITERATIONS recorded sixteen tracks with producer Chris Owens (Lords, Coliseum, Young Widows) at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in only three days. The record taps into the groundwork the band has laid on its two previous EPs, but sheds light on a much more expansive, dark, brutal and bleak sound. Mixing will take place throughout May, with a Fall 2014 release through Southern Lord in sight. The LP’s release will be joined by major US and European tour actions.... 

The members of Auckland, New Zealand’s demoralizing trio, ULCERATE, are currently headed stateside, as their return to North America embarks this week with the Vermis North America MMXIV tour, beginning this Thursday, May 1st.  

UK bulldozers TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE have released their long-awaited debut full-length, A New Code of Morality, today on Comatose Music.