Paris-based dark and oppressive modern death metal masters DEEP IN HATE have been announced as the main support act for the French leg of ARCH ENEMY‘s upcoming European tour. The dates come just in time for release of the band’s upcoming third full-length, Chronicles of Oblivion, due out June 3 on Kaotoxin Records.
Swe-death lunatics ENDING QUEST have finished recording their debut album, The Summoning, and have announced a June 20 release date through FDA Rekotz. Featuring members of DESOLATOR, ENDING QUEST deliver pure old-school death metal with the same passion and fury heard from the likes of ENTOMBED and GRAVE.
Candlelight Records today confirms June 10th as the North American release date of ORANGE GOBLIN‘s Healing Through Fire. Produced by Mark Daghorn, the reissue includes two live bonus tracks taken from the band’s studio performance at BBC’s famous Maida Vale studio in London for the Radio One Rock Show in August 2007. The album will be available for preorder via iTunes beginning May 20th and is available for physical preorder now via Candlelight’s official web store.
Another great drop this week, in the vein of traditional metal or even New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), The Cult of the Vestal Claret, by the titular Vestal Claret, is repping the old school styles pretty hard. You have great base to build off, and they have that old rocking metal sound, with a doom and gloom message about that old tyme religion, devil worship. Fuzzy, dirty, and easy to remember. What’s not to love?!

