After 2008’s “Conquer” when Max Cavalera said that the next Soulfly album is going to feature shorter, more aggressive, stripped down tracks, I was skeptical that he would be able to top that albums heaviness. Well it is 2 years later and there is no doubt in my mind that “Omen”, Soulfly’s 7th studio album, and 4th featuring the lineup of Max, guitarist Marc Rizzo, bassist Bobby Burns and drummer Joe Nunez is everything Max claimed it would be.
Metalheads, rejoice: North America’s biggest thrash tour in 20 years is announced, as 1991’s original American “Clash of the Titans” lineup – Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax – will tour together once again on Leg Two of the “American Carnage Tour.” This trek kicks off September 24 at Verizon Wireless Theatre in Dallas, TX and will play 20 dates, including New York’s Nassau Coliseum, concluding at Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on October 21.
EARLY MAN announces a headlining fall tour in support of their long-awaited sophomore full-length release, Death Potion, which will be released July 20, 2010 on The End Records. The “Death Potion Tour” begins September 20 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and ends October 23 in Seattle with Evile and Bonded By Blood opening all dates. A special ticket pre-sale for fans begins today exclusively through EnterTheVault.com and tickets will be available to the general public beginning July 17. The Los Angeles and Brooklyn-based band will also be performing a handful of dates in the western U.S. over the summer, including a record release show on Monday, July 19 at The Whisky in Los Angeles where they’ll be opening...
Korn is once again reinventing itself and doing something completely innovative, nine albums and two decades into its incredible career. The band will perform for an hour and twenty minutes inside the mysterious crop circle that was recently revealed in the final installment of a viral web campaign.
Since Yesterday have signed to Glasstone Records in the U.K, for the worldwide distribution of their debut album “The Artificial Truth” (Mixed and Mastered by Will Putney, album artwork by Derek Hess). The album will be out 06 September 2010 on CD/i-Tunes formats. The album will be distributed by Century Media and Code 7 via Plastic Head.
They’ve just had the most successful year of their career – covers of Revolver, Alternative Press, Outburn, AMP, and HM, played the Main Stage at Warped Tour, plus the Sounds of the Underground tour saw their third album, With Roots Above and Branches Below, debut at #11 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums charts and was nominated for a Golden God Award.
Turkish old school deathsters and Dark Descent recording artists BURIAL INVOCATION have been invited to play Denmark’s Kill-Town Death Fest, one of the few non-Scandinavian acts participating. The three-day festival is scheduled for September 16-18, 2010 in Hovedstaden, Denmark. The lineup will also include Dark Descent bands STENCH OF DECAY and MIASMAL, both of whom will be releasing albums on the label in 2011.
GRAVEHILL’s Rites of Pentagram is how real death metal is done; no fruity keyboards, no emo or fake guttural vocals, no triggered drumming, no lame sub-par At The Gates wannabe riffs, no association with the word ‘core’ or a band name that is a sentence long and no cramming 5,000 riffs with political themed lyrics.
On the heels of their split CD with THE LAST VAN ZANT and THE PARISH, DESOLATEVOID has been placed on RateYourMusic.com’s list of “Essential Doom Metal You’ve Never Heard.” Ranked 25th on an ever growing list, the article applauds the band’s “form of gritty, crusty, in your face, Southern sludgy metal…” and compares them to the likes of EYEHATEGOD, SOILENT GREEN, OUTLAW ORDER and GOATWHORE.
The tireless and tour-hungry hardcore loyalists in LA’s TERROR, spearheaded by the endless enthusiasm of frontman Scott Vogel, have returned with a vicious new chapter to their storied career. The much anticipated new album, Keepers of The Faith, is a worldwide call to the community and an attempt to hear back from the faithful on the front lines. Hear the new track “Stick Tight” now at the below links as this is the shit that is sure to get your blood pumping and fists flying.
Judgment Day is here!. This summer’s most extreme carnival of death metal starts tonight, July 2, 2010 in Portland, OR. Featuring Ibex Moon Records artists GRAVEHILL, CARDIAC ARREST and HOD (with FATALIST appearing on select dates), The Campaign For Death Metal Purity Tour gets underway at Plan B in Portland, OR.
