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PALLBEARER – European Tour Dates With YOB Announced

Following the release of their overwhelming new album “Foundations Of Burden”, PALLBEARER will be heading to Europe with their friends in YOB to do an epic European tour.  The dates for this monolithic tour of doom go as follows:

09/03 – Utrecht, NL @ Tivoli De Helling 09/04 – Bristol, UK @ The Fleece 09/05 – Manchester, UK @ Roadhouse 09/06 – Glasgow, UK @ Audio 09/07 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club 09/08 – London, UK @ The Underworld 09/10 – Dortmund, DE @ FZW 09/11 – Groningen, NL @ Vera 09/12 – Aarhus, DK @ Atlas…

AUROCH and ALRAUNE New Releases Now Available To Order

The CD versions of our two newest releases, the debut album of visceral raw progressive black metal from Nashville’s ALRAUNE and the new album of scandalous dark technical occult death metal chaos courtesy of Vancouver’s AUROCH (MITOCHONDRION’s incestuous death metal co-conspirator) are both now available to order through our website.  All orders placed between now and June 17th will begin shipping on June 18th since no orders placed during said time frame will be going out.

WITCH MOUNTAIN – Announce North American Tour With Nik Turner’s Hawkwind

Looming near the release of their fantastic new album “Mobile Of Angels”, WITCH MOUNTAIN will be doing a massive North American tour (which includes a stopover at this year’s Hopscotch Fest) prior to their new album coming out with Nik Turner’s Hawkwind.  Support comes from Hedersleben.

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08/26 – Oakland, CA @ Uptown 08/27 – Los Angeles, CA @ Viper Room 08/28 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah 08/29 – Tucson, AZ @ Hotel Congress 08/30 – Albuquerque, NM @ Launch Pad 09/01 – Austin, TX @ Red 7 09/02 – New Orleans, LA @ Siberia 09/03 – Birmingham, AL…

PALLBEARER – Complete Work On New Album

Little Rock, AR doom metal band PALLBEARER have completed work on their follow-up to 2012’s acclaimed “Sorrow and Extinction” LP. Entitled “Foundations Of Burden”, the sophomore release sees the present-day doom metal giants create a more expansive, advanced, crushing, and emotionally charged album that takes everything to the next level beyond its predecessor.

With “Foundations Of Burden”, PALLBEARER have delivered their most engaging work yet. Musically, “Foundations Of Burden” sees the band strengthen their monolithic melodious structures of doom that have become synonymous with their signature sound. All while incorporating a much more progressive and musically challenging scenario to their…

THE ATLAS MOTH – “The Old Believer” Now Available To Order

The CD version with the water reveal artwork insert of the new ATLAS MOTH album “The Old Believer” is now available to order via our website in advance of its June 10 official release date.  All pre-orders placed a while back have been shipped and the rest of the orders placed will go out in a timely manner.  Easily the band’s best album to date, for a limited time, you can stream and listen to “The Old Believer” in its entirety via Pitchfork HERE.  For everyone who has stuck by us and for everyone who we…

MONARCH – Complete Work On New Album

Extreme French doom metal band MONARCH have completed work on their new album “Sabbracadaver”, a sonic doom ritual presenting itself as MONARCH’s most colossal offering yet amongst a pretty extensive repertoire that spans a twelve year existence as one of Europe’s most recognized extreme doom entities.

Comprised of three tracks spanning 46 minutes, “Sabbracadaver” holds true to those familiar with MONARCH’s crawling, dark, yet enchanting and haunting style of time-stretching doom. Down-tuned, procession and funeral like, “Sabbracadaver” is an overbearing album in which once you get taken within its timeless vortex, there is no escaping the enveloping shadow that will…

FULL OF HELL – New Album In The Works (a collab with Merzbow), Announce European Tour

The latest band to join our ever-morphing contingent is Maryland/Pennsylvania experimental noise/hardcore/grind band FULL OF HELL.  Already prolific through a multitude of releases (which include two full-length albums and a number of EPs and splits respectively), FULL OF HELL are known to create some of the most violent and vicious amalgam of the aforementioned genres, blended into an intense skin peeling sonic tapestry.  The band are also known to tour relentlessly as well.  They will enter the studio this summer to record the follow-up to last year’s “Rudiments Of Mutation” which will officially be a direct…

LORD MANTIS Announce U.S. Tour With Hell Militia

LORD MANTIS will be doing a string of U.S. tour dates with France’s HELL MILITIA surrounding both bands’ appearances at this year’s Martyrdoom Fest.  The tour dates are as follows:

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06/30- Worcester, MA @ Ralphs Rock Diner (w/ Mournful Congregation) 07/01 –Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus bar (Lord Mantis only *Martyrdoom Fest) 07/02 – Baltimore, MD @ The Sidebar 07/03 – Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter 07/04 – Charlotte, NC @ World Famous Milestone Club 07/05 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl 07/06 – Knoxville, TN @ The Pilot Light 07/07 – Lexington, KY @ Al’s Bar Of Lexington…

ALRAUNE – Complete Work On Debut Album

Nashville, Tennessee black metal band ALRAUNE have created a small buzz in their short existence through a few released demo tracks that have circulated online over the last year or so along with their recently released two-track cassette on Graceless Recordings. The people who would immerse themselves within these handful of tracks got a mere glimpse into the musically progressive dissonant occult black metal chaos that ALRAUNE unleashed, some even proclaiming ALRAUNE to be the next most promising prospect with the American black metal underground as evidenced HERE and HERE.

With their debut album “The Process Of Self-Immolation”,…

DEAD CONGREGATION “Promulgation Of The Fall” Now Available

The CD version of the anticipated new landmark album of pure death metal artistry from Greece’s DEAD CONGREGATION is now available to order within the Americas.  Six years following their “Graves Of The Archangels” milestone, “Promulgation Of The Fall” is a destroyer of worlds death metal pillar unparalleled.  The soundtrack to total death, DEAD CONGREGATION deliver their most devastating and crushing work yet with “Promulgation Of The Fall”.  An album that will be recognized as one of the death metal masterpieces of our cursed age.