You can wade through as many WO FAT press quotes about being “Texas-sized” as you want or see how many top-whatever lists the band has made since the Dallas trio began raging in 2003, but none of that is going to be the same as staring down their swampadelic fuzz groove for yourself. If you want to know the monster, shake its hand.
Detroit metal squad BATTLECROSS just launched three new live bootlegs! POV Recordings recently shot and edited live videos of “Flesh & Bone,” “Never Coming Back” and “Kaleb” from the band’s show at the Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina. The videos can be seen on the Metal Blade Records, BATTLECROSS, and POV Recordings YouTube channels.
Exciting things are happening in metal! where once we had jsut a few types of bands with wide bands, we now have a rainbow filtering through into the ears of the unsuspecting. Amongst these are the epic Battleroar, with a mash-up of thrash, power violin, and powermetal vocals that will have you quaffing in the halls of Heroes in no time! Ice Giants be damned!
Italy’s FATHER MURPHY is currently en route to the East Coast where they’ll spread their eccentric and diseased hymns across North America on an epic month-long journey, with additional rituals recently added in Washington, DC, San Diego, Salt Lake City and Albany. The trek includes a live appearance on June 19th at WFMU in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Legendary doom metal dignitaries SAINT VITUS will celebrate their thirty-fifth anniversary with a short run of live rituals later this week. Sponsored by Scion AV, the trek inaugurates on May 8th in Albuquerque, New Mexico and will wind its way West and back again, coming to a close on May 25th in Dallas, Texas.
After a two-year hiatus, Ohio technical grinding death metal peddlers LOCUSTA will be embarking on a live takeover through the East Coast this Spring! Slated to commence on May 13th in Raleigh, North Caroline, LOCUSTA will rape faces through Columbia, Knoxville, Columbus, Washington DC, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Providence, Portland, Philadelphia, Harrisonburg and Richmond with additional incursions to be announced in the coming weeks. The band will be joined by drummer Alex Tomlin (Battlemaster, Arsis, Withered et al).
Reading, Pennsylvania natives, RIVERS OF NIHIL, continue their ascent of the death metal ladder with a brand new music video. “Birth Of The Omnisavior” is a sleek and dark video that captures visually what this band does so well sonically: play emboldened, deftly-executed death metal at a level far beyond their years. Watch “Birth Of The Omnisavior” from latest album, The Conscious Seed Of Light
Following the release of their Traverser LP via Toxic Assets in November, Austin’s caustic sludge metal trio, LIONS OF TSAVO, continue to tour the American landscape in support of the album. The band is currently embarked on their latest trek with another five cities still in its path, including Atlanta this evening, April 28th, and Birmingham, Jackson, Shreveport and Dallas next to get slammed this week LIONS OF TSAVO plow homeward.
Tomorrow evening, the twisted noise merchants in New York’s beloved GNAW will lay waste to Belgium with their harrowing odes of tension, terror and torment. From there, the crude collective will march on to France where they will join unholy forces with the experimental sound serpents in Italy’s OvO for an eight-date incursion of audio indecency.
