MENACE RUINE “Venus Armata” Packaging
Stunning packaging to the new MENACE RUINE album “Venus Armata”.
WITCH MOUNTAIN – New Album Now Available To Order
The CD version of the latest slab of soulful doom from Pacific Northwest’s WITCH MOUNTAIN is now available to order (North American vinyl edition will come out within the next month on the band’s own Mountastic Records, and via Svart Records in Europe) exclusively from our website prior to its official Sept 30, North American release date. The best album of the band’s career also marks the swansong of vocalist extraordinaire Uta Plotkin who delivers her most triumphant and moving vocal performance to date on “Mobile Of Angels”.
FULL OF HELL – Complete Work On New Album
Notorious experimental noise grind/hardcore outfit FULL OF HELL have completed work on their new full-length album “Full Of Hell & Merzbow”.
As the album title suggests, the new FULL OF HELL album sees the band collaborate with the legendary godfather of noise Masami Akita (aka MERZBOW) to create their most aesthetically potent, vicious, and most brutal offering yet. Where Masami’s noise creations become incorporated within FULL OF HELL’s song structures, this time the band taking their experimentation, noise, and violence towards a new artistic level that goes beyond anything in their already-expansive repertoire previous. Sonically, “Full Of Hell & Merzbow”…
LORD MANTIS “Possession Prayer”
Still from the upcoming LORD MANTIS video for “Possession Prayer”. Directed by Gretchen Heinel.
OLD MAN GLOOM – Complete Work On “The Ape Of God”
Everyone’s favorite band in the entire universe, namely OLD MAN GLOOM, have completed work on their new album “The Ape Of God”.
In what will present itself as some of the most engaging and triumphant work that the simian worshiping collective of Aaron Turner (Isis, Mamiffer, SUMAC), Nate Newton (Converge/Doomriders), Caleb Scofield (Cave In), and Santos Montano have conjured to date, “The Ape Of God” comprises itself of songs that range within the realm of the eclectic, noisy, ambient and experimental with of course the gargantuan steamroller heaviness that plows and forges its way through this work of monolithic sonic…
PALLBEARER Announce West Coast Dates
PALLBEARER have announced the second leg of their U.S. tour in support of “Foundations Of Burden” where the band will hit the West Coast. Support on the second leg of Pallbearer’s U.S. tour comes from Solstafir and Mortals. The dates are as follows:
12/02 – Oklahoma City, OK @ The Conservatory
12/03 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sister Bar
12/04 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
12/05 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy
12/06 – San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
12/07 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom Of The Hill
12/09 – Portland, OR…
WOLVHAMMER – U.S. Tour Dates Posted
WOLVHAMMER have announced a series of U.S. dates where they will be hitting the road with Mortals (Relapse Records). These are the first live dates in support of their new album “Clawing Into Black Sun”. Dates are as follows.
10/26 – Chicago, IL @ Cobra Lounge (w/ Goatwhore)
10/27 – Fort Wayne, IN @ The Brass Rail
10/28 – Rochester, NY @ Bugjar
10/30 – Northampton, MA @ 13th Floor
10/31 – Providence, RI @ Dusk
11/01 – Portland, ME @ Geno’s
11/03 – Burlington, VT @ Metronome
11/04 – Bostom, MA @ TT The Bears
11/05…
DAWNBRINGER – NIGHT OF THE HAMMER
Chris Black helmed heavy metal contingent DAWNBRINGER have completed work on their new album “Night Of The Hammer”.
Continuing in true heavy metal glory, “Night Of The Hammer” is a unique and different expression within the DAWNBRINGER repertoire while at the same time forging on in the name of real genuine metal through an album more mid-paced, a bit more stripped down, even with some folk-esque musical moments surfacing where the focus on melody and especially Black’s vocal performance becomes even more defined and apparent. Another key defining characteristic of “Night Of The Hammer” is the stronger sense of the…
MENACE RUINE – Complete Work On New Album
Montreal musical enigma MENACE RUINE have completed work on their new album “Venus Armata”.
Written and recorded from Spring 2013 to Spring 2014, this sixth album by Menace Ruine is the natural follow-up to “Alight in Ashes”. With “Venus Armata” the duo’s exploration continues with their most vocally intriguing and focused album to date. “Venus Armata” is also the band’s most musically refined album likewise despite the same minimal set up, and raw primal sounds which seamlessly thread the sonic palette through the likes of experimental music, martial ambient/electronic, noise/industrial, darkwave, and neo-folk respectively. A novelty this time, the addition…
DAWNBRINGER – Night Of The Hammer
Release date Oct 28th, 2014. Photo by Caesar Cole.
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