2015 was a busy year for SUNN O))). Following the recent release of the triadic entity Kannon — their first full-length album since 2009’s Monoliths And Dimensions — a series of magnificent European appearances, culminating in their curation of four days at Utrecht’s Le Guess Who? festival, the band now presents the news that their live album, Dømkirke, will see dawn of day again this February.
Los Angeles shredders HOLY GRAIL are back with a vengeance and ready to reassert themselves as “one of the most promising traditionally-inclined metal bands to emerge from the U.S. in the past decade” (Metal Hammer) with their third album “Times of Pride and Peril,” scheduled for release on Feb. 12 via Prosthetic Records. Recorded with Grammy-Award winning producer John Spiker (Tenacious D, Filter), the album – which encompasses the rise and fall of an empire – includes “No More Heroes,” a song the group recently debuted in concert.
Chicago’s celebrated torchbearers of instrumental metal, PELICAN, will return to Europe for a string of dates this Spring. This marks the band’s first European tour since the successes of their innovative 2013 LP Forever Becoming and 2015’s 4-track EP, The Cliff — both released via Southern Lord — and their 2014 Arktika live 2xLP.
Passing their three decade mark this month, NEUROSIS has confirmed that the band will be returning to Electrical Audio in Chicago with engineer Steve Albini on December 27th to record their forthcoming brand new LP, their follow up to 2012’s Honor Found In Decay. Additional details on the album and its approximate release in 2016 will be revealed in the early months of the year.
Thursday, December 3, 2015 – In support of Repentless, the band’s 12th studio album and its career-highest chart debut, Slayer will launch 2016 by pillaging and marauding its way across North America, headlining some two-dozen dates over a five-week period. With Special Guests Testament and Carcass on all dates, the tour starts on February 19 in Chicago and wraps up in Las Vegas on March 26.
Southern California road warriors NIGHT DEMON kick off tour dates today with HOLY GRAIL in continued support of their debut album, Curse of the Damned released earlier this year. The band recently posted a brand new music video for the single “Heavy Metal Heat” from the album, which can be watched at: /tn.jsp?f=001T4iFViOUCI4BSq8EIvgq07DE6YdNlyyCnNR9_wpCzTlShgL_zPKm1NNaDnM1eygBDlk0n3ZrNCFLqoV1X_kxpASkc1MHTEHiZjUiA17M9buuv_rHKuLbzjBBXU3_C7wIc2K5vUjW4M8wDUMqwWu1LqbPTrnn4K_69hcGR9h8TayBdi3dHKCB04szZozN3dz_6VJRMwxlIVo=&c=elDETpZvnenz–EoQhTJKmZrC42pY6xjb51erJwgw9-y4OvidvaYLA==&ch=5ThuzT_pTb_I1EPTYw9cHAj1vkbX0NMwABQS0W6c9wO3Ng7FgqP4cg==” target=”_blank” shape=”rect”>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g9_MVNTzwg “No...
Formed in Los Angeles in 2013, 3TEETH quickly became one of the city’s rising stars in both the industrial and metal scenes. Its self-titled debut, released on Toronto’s Artoffact Records, blazed up the charts after Terrorizer Magazine launched a full stream of it last spring. The album peaked at #8 on the iTunes Electronic Music chart, and pre-orders of a limited edition splatter vinyl, which came with a tooth-shaped USB full of remixes and images, sold out quickly.
CANNIBAL CORPSE will kick off 2016 with one of the most bludgeoning death metal tour lineups of the year! The over month-long trek, presented by The Noise, will tear across North America beginning on February 12th and run through March 20th. The band will be joined by fellow Floridian death metal progenitors, Obituary, as direct support, followed by Canada’s Cryptopsy, and Los Angeles’ Abysmal Dawn. Tickets go on sale this Friday, December 11th, at 10:00am local time through all local and national ticket outlets.
