The new DEAD TO A DYING WORLD album “Elegy” is now available for pre-order on CD/2xLP/Digital (HERE, HERE, and via Bandcamp HERE..  Check out the new track “Empty Hands, Hollow Hymns” below.  All pertinent album info HERE.  UPDATE: the band have announced their first string of dates in support of Elegy as the band will embark on a West Coast run surrounding their appearance at this year’s Northwest Terror Fest.  Dates below.

(all dates with Dawn Ray’d) 05/24 – Austin, TX @ Beerland 05/25 – El Paso, TX @ Rockhouse Bar…

For their fourth full-length album “Emergence” (out May 10 on CD/LP/Digital), Denver, Colorado doom-prog band DREADNOUGHT follow-up their 2017 “A Wake In Sacred Waves” acclamation with an album that takes their singular multiplex and pictorial sound to new sonic realms even more heavily textile, complex, and vastly designed.  “Emergence” sees the four-piece, consisting of vocalist/guitarist/flute player Kelly Schilling, drummer/sax player Jordan Clancy, keyboardist/vocalist Lauren Vieira, and bassist/mandolin player Kevin Handlon, delving more into heavier and darker sonic territory as well, an aspect that was evident with “A Wake…” but has become fully realized with “Emergence”.

There are a multitude…

GARDSGHASTR a new black metal entity created by the forces comprised of prolific members culled from black metal artists Bekëth Nexëhmü and Chaos Moon unleash their debut album “Slit Throat Requiem” (out on April 26 on CD/2LP/Digital), an epic bewitching symphonic black metal maelstrom that harks back to the majesty of the Norwegian black metal scene of the ‘90s.

Manifesting in a grandiloquent yet strident and powerful sound with a production that mirrors and ensnares the textures that were once produced from the confines of Grieghallen Studios back in the ancient times, “Slit Throat Requiem” is a relentless black metal…

NY-based experimental prog/post-metal band VAURA (consisting of members from Gorguts, Azar Swan, Dysrhythmia, Kay Dot, and Tombs) have completed work on their new album “Sables” set for release on April 26th on CD/LP/Digital.  This mark’s the collective’s first album since 2013’s “The Missing”.

The ever-evolving quartet VAURA follows up their 2013 album “The Missing” almost six years later with “Sables,” their most refined and contemplative release yet. Introspective and somber, “Sables” finds the band shedding most of its post-metal heaviness in favor of experiments with brooding kosmische musik and the more avant-garde elements of new wave. Consisting of Josh…

Texas based elemental dark metal ensemble DEAD TO A DYING WORLD have completed work on their poignant new epoch “Elegy” set for release on CD/2LP/Digital on April 19th.  Following up 2015’s ambitious “Litany” endeavor, “Elegy” sees the septet take their creative spirit to a new apotheosis resulting in the collective’s most focused and moving opus yet.

With “Elegy”, DEAD TO A DYING WORLD craft their vast aural landscape in such flourish, one consisting of seamless of sonic textures guided by the likes of apocalyptic dark metal, doom metal, and epic cinematic post rock.  With a musical structure that…