The masked menaces in GHOUL today offer up a bloody bits of info of their forthcoming Hang Ten EP. A gore-splattered surf orgy of sound, the limited edition six-song (mostly) instrumental 10″ features guest vocals from Tony Foresta (Municipal Waste, Iron Reagan) as Henchman #1 and the inimitable R.A. MacLean (ex-Deadbolt) as Kreeg, alongside Digestor, Cremator, Fermentor, Dissector and The Moron Cavern-Shackled Choir.
Portland punk metal day-ruiners, TOXIC HOLOCAUST, will join forces with Savannah, Georgia sludge warriors/labelmates, Black Tusk, for a European campaign of live destruction this Summer. The mayhem begins in Denmark where the trio will systematically devastate Copenhagen before joining team Black Tusk, along with Hamburg doom-sludge quartet Downfall Of Gaia, to ravage eight cities through Germany, Belgium and France including an appearance at this year’s Hellfest.
The California Groove Machine known as DEVILDRIVER have confirmed that they will be touring North America this summer, alongside co-headliners Whitechapel. Support on the tour will come from Revocation, Carnifex, Rivers of Nihil and Fit For An Autopsy. Frontman Dez Fafara cannot wait for this tour start: “You all thought winter was over? Well WINTER KILLS continues. We are pumped to tour the USA in further support of WINTER KILLS. It’s an insane line up of great bands and great friends. Come on out.”
Portland doom miscreants, GRAVES AT SEA, will embark upon a European live incursion later this month with fellow riff worshippers, Sourvein. Set to initiate with what’s bound to be a cataclysmic performance at this year’s Roadburn Fest in Tilburg, the band will punish twenty-four locales with the trek coming to a ceremonious close at Heavy Days In Doomtown in Denmark.
Pennsylvania instrumental bass and drum trio, KING DEAD, are very pleased to announce the release of their debut EP. Recorded live in their practice/performance space, The Living Room, in Stroudsburg by Dave Reiser of Rock Hard Studios, the self-titled offering features five organic movements of ethereal, desert-styled Spaghetti Western psychedelia that seethe under the bulk of their own swirling, glassy-eyed heaviness. Relays The Obelisk, “At thirty-three minutes, the self-titled and self-released debut from Pennsylvania instrumentalists KING DEAD sits right between an EP and a full-length outing. The trio’s sound is similarly nebulous, hovering between psychedelic post-rock, heavier amplified push and Morricone-via-Earth...
GOATWHORE‘s forthcoming new full-length, Constricting Rage Of The Merciless, is scheduled for release in North America on July 8th via Metal Blade Records. Fans who catch GOATWHORE live on the road as part of the Metal Alliance tour, set to commence later this week, will get the opportunity to reserve their copy of the CD at the band’s merch booth. Those preorders will include a special limited edition album laminate and exclusive T-shirt. The laminates come with unique preorder codes to be entered online to have the album shipped to the buyer upon release!
The Used have released their highly anticipated sixth studio release, Imaginary Enemy, today, April 1st. Stream the entire album on Youtube here: http://bit.ly/1h20ICk.You can purchase Imaginary Enemy on iTunes here: http://bit.ly/1k9DKwD. A limited amount of “Imaginary Enemy” Deluxe Editions, including a bonus track and expanded artwork, are available for purchase exclusively at Best Buy and Target. The Used are currently on the road for a co-headlining tour of U.S. and Canada with Taking Back Sunday, featuring special guests Tonight Alive and Sleepwave. The tour is almost completely sold out, with tickets to only 4 dates still available for purchase. For up-to-date information, please visit: http://theused.net.
West Palm Beach, Florida punk/hardcore outfit, CENTURIES, is about to undertake a new US tour, taking their live show to new sectors of the country. Still touring on their Southern Lord-released Taedium Vitae debut LP, the band will embark westward out of their home state on a twenty-two date tour on April 9th, the trek running out to and up the West Coast US before cutting back down through the Midwest back to their home turf with a closing show in Orlando on May 1st with Of Feather and Bone
The ninth wonder of the unnatural world, Sweden’s technically intoxicating extreme metal quintet MESHUGGAH, are returning to North America this summer to celebrate their 25th year of musical deviance with festival appearances, Canadian dates, and clubs that will fill to capacity. Opening for them (on all but the two festival dates) will be North Carolina’s Between The Buried And Me.
American horde, ABIGAIL WILLIAMS, is currently crusading through the Eastern half of the country on tour now. Having already killed towns through the Midwest and into upstate New York, the band will storm Brooklyn tonight, continuing to inundate the rest of the East Coast and through the Gulf Coast states through April 12th.
