Excitement has been growing since WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM announced the unexpected release of Celestite, an instrumental, experimental companion record to 2011’s Celestial Lineage.  

The members of Auckland, New Zealand’s demoralizing trio, ULCERATE, are currently headed stateside, as their return to North America embarks this week with the Vermis North America MMXIV tour, beginning this Thursday, May 1st.  

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.  

Following a hugely successful debut last December, the bringers of DENVER BLACK SKY are pleased to announce their second edition of live debauchery! Crowned “Colorado’s Best Metal Festival” by Denver Westword, this year’s DENVER BLACK SKY event will take place August 2nd and 3rd again at the Gothic Theatre and Moe’s BBQ and feature another vicious lineup  

Taiwanese metal collective CHTHONIC is readying to kick off another North American run as part of the fifth installment of Paganfest! Set to commence tomorrow in Springfield, Virginia, the band will join coheadliners Korpiklaani and Turisas as well as Varg and Winterhymn for nearly two dozen live incursions across North America.  

US-based brutal death metal label Comatose Music has announced the COMATOUR 2014, featuring some of the sickest acts in extreme metal today.  

Brutal death metal powerhouse LECHEROUS NOCTURNE are currently readying themselves for an extended US tour with ABAGAIL WILLIAMS and PANZERFAUST.  

ide.bandcamp.com/”>domesticgenocide.bandcamp.comFeedback-sodden, instrumental bass and drum duo, BLACK TAR PROPHET, rattles the teeth right out of your face with the band’s fittingly titled Deafen full-length, set for release via Domestic Genocide Records later this month. A brazenly raw bombardment of sludgy, tar-thick bass riffing, battering drum work and fuzzy, noise-strewn, distortion meant to be played at strategically loud volumes, Deafen’s nine tracks were recorded live with Max Otworth (Lysura, Venality) at Sonic Hex Recording Compound and are guaranteed to cause major structural damage to your dwelling upon first listen.  

Eyehategod, the long-awaited self-titled full-length from New Orleans’ legendary volume assassins, is now available for preorder in North America via iTunes. Sixth track, “Worthless Rescue,” will be available for download immediately, with the rest of the album delivered digitally on May 27th.  

UK-based masters of everything heavy, depressive and oppressive, EYE OF SOLITUDE, have just announced a string of live dates with country-mates The Drowning and Netherlands’ Faal. The tour will take place from June 4 – 9 and will see the party come to the UK, Netherlands and Belgium.  

The decimating metal/sludge duo that is BLACK COBRA has crawled out of the shadows with their first shows since two one-off cross-continental gigs in January, proclaiming an upcoming May decimation of the West Coast!