Be prepared to have your head crushed by ENABLER. This brain-melting hardcore punk/metal crossover band from Milwaukee was formed by guitarist / vocalist and songwriter Jeff Lohrber. Cut from the same cloth as the likes of Integrity, From Ashes Rise, Nasum and Masakari, ENABLER are soon to release a new album via Southern Lord.
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions will release a split 7-inch record from PA Black Metal blasphemers The Beyond and Indiana’s Death Metal/Punk beasts The Lurking Corpses, entitled Gross Encounters of the Sacrificial Rite, on February 14th 2012. You can reserve your copy for only $7 including shipping at this location.
Legendary thrash band, OVERKILL have announced their next full length entitled “The Electric Age” due out on eOne Music March 27, 2012. The record will be released in Europe on Nuclear Blast Records on March 30, 2012. The band will tour the US this spring on their very own KILLFEST 2 this spring in support.
Arizona’s most maniacal death metal act, REIGN OF VENGEANCE, will soon team up with Ironclad recording artists TURBID NORTH for the “The Arctic Brutality and Bloodshed Mini-Tour,” which is set to take place during the last part of January. Ethnic De Generation will serve as direct support for the tour, with local openers at each stop.
Deep in the heart of Hell Paso Texas, MINISTRY’s Al Jourgensen re-opened the doors of his industrial compound studio in Fall 2011 and invited his favorite co-conspirators Mike Scaccia (Rigor Mortis), Tony Campos (Static X), Tommy Victor (Prong) and Casey Orr (Rigor Mortis/Gwar) to climb on board the Ministry pirate ship and de-construct and re-construct Jourgensen’s monsterpiece Relapse.