New York-based black metal crew, BLACK ANVIL, is pleased to announce the long-anticipated release of their third full-length. Blowing minds and eardrums since forming in 2007, BLACK ANVIL‘s aptly titled Hail Death is their most epic and fully realized album to date.  

Jack Flanagan, manager of GWAR has issued this official statement:  

Depressive doom/death metal quintet DECEMBRE NOIR have announced the May 9 release of their long-awaited full-length debut, A Discouraged Believer, on FDA Rekotz. Melancholic, outstanding and incredible emotional Death/ Doom Metal from Thuringia, Germany. FDA Rekotz is proud to present DECEMBRE NOIR‘s A Discouraged Believer. There’s something special in their music that would appeal to every metal fan. The album features seven entrancing compositions that will draw you into their spell and was produced, mixed and mastered by Alex Dietz (Heaven Shall Burn) & Eike Freese Project Mayhem. The official music video for album track “Resurrection” is now playing HERE. DECEMBRE NOIR comes highly... 

Sweden’s d-beat crust purveyors, MARTYRDÖD, have once again entered the infamous Studio Fredman (At The Gates, Amon Amarth, Opeth) to record their fifth full-length, entitled Elddop. The follow-up to 2012’s Paranoia LP will, as with its predecessor, be released via Southern Lord. Additional details on Elddop will be announced upon the completion of the recording sessions in the coming weeks.  

Southern California’s terrorizing death metal cult, SKINFATHER, will release its debut LP this Spring via Streetcleaner Records.  

The fifth installment in Relapse’s exhaustive reissue campaign of DEATH’s immensely influential catalog is Leprosy, the band’s titanic second album. Originally released in 1988 Leprosy was a pioneering album, building upon the thrash sounds of Metallica and Slayer but adding a previously unheard level of raw extremity. These songs are the roots of an entire genre: death metal. While this was only the second record DEATH released, it immediately cemented them as heavy metal icons.  

Following recent broadcasts informing the public of ENABLER‘s deadly revamped lineup and impending East Coast tour, the Midwest-based trio now expose the details on their anticipated second full-length release, La Fin Absolue Du Monde. Translated from French to signify “the absolute end of the world,” the title of the new album is yet another of the band’s works inspired by filmmaker John Carpenter, in this case in referencing his movie, Cigarette Burns.  

Jack Flanagan, manager of GWAR has issued an official statement:  

Following the release of their debut full-length, Last City Zero, CORRECTIONS HOUSE — the collective musical extractions of Mike IX Williams (Eyehategod), Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Bruce Lamont (Yakuza), Sanford Parker (Minsk) and their minister of propaganda, Seward Fairbury — will be leveling the UK on April 12th for a single London show following their appearance at this year’s Roadburn Festival.  

Founder and only stable member of GWAR, the famous gore-adorned politically outspoken metal band, David Brockie, was found dead in his home in Richmond, VA, an unconfirmed report states.  

After more than two decades, Total Fucking Darkness, the infamous third demo from notorious UK extreme metal magicians, CRADLE OF FILTH, will be unleashed on gatefold double LP and digipak CD via Mordgrimm this Spring. The undertaking was helmed by vocalist Dani Filth, former guitarist Paul Ryan (currently of The King Is Blind) and Cacophonous Records founder Frater Nihil, who first signed CRADLE OF FILTH, in an effort to bring fans old and new a remastered version of the demo along with material that had been sitting in the vaults for twenty years. Given new life at Turan Studio in Oxford with the aid of engineer Tim Turan (who has worked on everything from Emperor to Thin Lizzy), Total Fucking Darkness commences... 

Relapse Records this week confirms the label signing of blistering grindcore quartet, THE DRIP, releasing an arsenal of details on the band’s debut recording for the label.