ide.bandcamp.com/”>domesticgenocide.bandcamp.comFeedback-sodden, instrumental bass and drum duo, BLACK TAR PROPHET, rattles the teeth right out of your face with the band’s fittingly titled Deafen full-length, set for release via Domestic Genocide Records later this month. A brazenly raw bombardment of sludgy, tar-thick bass riffing, battering drum work and fuzzy, noise-strewn, distortion meant to be played at strategically loud volumes, Deafen’s nine tracks were recorded live with Max Otworth (Lysura, Venality) at Sonic Hex Recording Compound and are guaranteed to cause major structural damage to your dwelling upon first listen.  

Kaotoxin Records is proud to announce the inking of a multi-album deal with French Deathcore masters DEEP IN HATE.  

Eyehategod, the long-awaited self-titled full-length from New Orleans’ legendary volume assassins, is now available for preorder in North America via iTunes. Sixth track, “Worthless Rescue,” will be available for download immediately, with the rest of the album delivered digitally on May 27th.  

Philly-based rock gods in the making MACH22 have released a lyric video for the track “One Trick Pony” off of their forthcoming debut album, Sweet Talk Intervention.  

The decision to leave RAGNAROK, has been an extremely hard one to make. Jontho and Brigge brought me in to the horde in 2005, and this still stands as my biggest achievement as a musician.  Personal circumstances have made it so that I will not be able to dedicate myself to RAGNAROK, as much as it requires.  It is with a heavy heart  that we have come  to an agreement, and I am pulling out of the band.  

Ah, Record Store Day! When all things vinyl are sought after on near fanatical levels, by people ranging from aficionados to merely the curious. Where one might walk in with next to no knowledge, and just by being in the room and being a keen listener, might glean enough knowledge from just passing conversations to be considered a pro.  

Boris Records has released the self-titled debut EP from Atlanta rockers GUNPOWDER GRAY. Released Saturday to commemorate Record Store Day, the first 100 copies of the vinyl edition of the EP are available on purple vinyl. All copies after will come in standard black vinyl. The EP is also available as a digital download.  

UK-based masters of everything heavy, depressive and oppressive, EYE OF SOLITUDE, have just announced a string of live dates with country-mates The Drowning and Netherlands’ Faal. The tour will take place from June 4 – 9 and will see the party come to the UK, Netherlands and Belgium.  

Following its initial CD and digital release in October, THEOLOGIAN‘s latest full-length, Some Things Have To Be Endured, will receive a deluxe vinyl release from Crucial Blast on July 22nd, 2014. This new LP edition of the album will come in gatefold packaging and feature completely different artwork from the CD version previously released by Crucial Blast, using the evocative and disturbing images of NY photographer Gretchen Heinel. The vinyl will be pressed on blood-red wax in an edition of five hundred copies, and will include a digital download of the album.  

The decimating metal/sludge duo that is BLACK COBRA has crawled out of the shadows with their first shows since two one-off cross-continental gigs in January, proclaiming an upcoming May decimation of the West Coast!  

In celebration of its unveiling this week, the face-beaters at Tankcrimes bring you a stream of FINAL CONFLICT‘s renowned Ashes To Ashes full-length in its entirety.  

Metal Machine recently went to the viewing of Photos of legendary Nirvana Frontman Kurt Cobain by photographer Jesse Frohman.