COBALT – Tour Dates Announced (w/Lord Mantis)

It’s been a really long time coming, but COBALT are finally going to be playing the first official live shows beginning at this year’s Maryland Deathfest where they will be playing the opening Thursday, May 23rd evening and will go on right before the mighty Bolt Thrower (EVOKEN and PALLBEARER also playing that day too).  After MDF, COBALT will continue on a small trek beginning on May 27th and bringing the destruction with the depraved band LORD MANTIS.  The dates are as follows:

05/23 – Baltimore, MD @ Maryland Deathfest* 05/27 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Smiling Moose…

BELL WITCH – European Tour With SAMOTHRACE

Seattle doom-duo BELL WITCH are preparing to hit the road very soon with Samothrace (bassist Dylan Desmond pulling double-duty!) on a European tour of doom that beginson May 5th in Copenhagen at the Heavy Days In Doomtown Festival.  The dates are as follows:

05/03 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Heavy Days In Doomtown Festival 05/05 – Wuustwezel, Belgium @ Puntpop Festival 05/06 – London, UK @ The Black Heart 05/07 – Manchester, UK @ Star & Garter 05/08 – Birmingham, UK @ Scruffy Murphy’s 05/09 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands @ Winston Kingdom 05/10 – Paris, France @ La Bouee 05/11…

ALTAR OF PLAGUES – “Teethed Glory & Injury” Now Available To Order

The new ALTAR OF PLAGUES album “Teethed Glory & Injury” (CD version for the time being) is now available to order exclusively from our website (this being the North American version of the new album) prior to its official release date of April 30.  Unlike anything the band have released before, “Teethed Glory & Injury” sees ALTAR OF PLAGUES at the height of their power and creativity by unleashing their most intense, mental, and accomplished album to date.  What will undoubtedly be seen as one of 2013’s triumphs in extreme music.

COBALT “Eater Of Birds” and “Gin” Back In Stock

After being out of print for ages (“Eater Of Birds” being out of print for years, no need to pay $40 on ebay any more), COBALT’s two seminal masterpieces are finally back in stock (CD format) in time for the band’s appearance at MDF (their first official live show) and the impending tour dates following MDF (more on this shortly).  Fucking destruction.

VHOL – Self-Titled Debut Now Available To Order

The self-titled anticipated debut album from VHOL is now available to order through our website (CD version).  Featuring Mike Schedit of YOB, John Cobbett of Hammers Of Misfortune/ex-LUDICRA, Sigrid Sheie (Hammers Of Misfortune/Amber Asylum) and Aesop (AGALLOCH/WORM OUROBOROS/ex-LUDICRA), the VHOL debut LP will be unlike any metal album you’ll hear in 2013.

LIAR IN WAIT – Complete Work On Debut EP, New Song Posted

LIAR IN WAIT, a new band comprised of present and past members of WOLVHAMMER, Chrome Waves, Nachtmystium, Mourner, and Iron Thrones have completed work on their debut EP “Translations Of The Lost”.

Comprised of four tracks (one being the band’s rendition of the Fields Of The Nephilim classic “And There Will Your Heart Be Also”), LIAR IN WAIT create music of a very morose drowning nature that finds the band recalling and being inspired by the classic goth/darkwave movement found inherent with such luminary artists as The Cure, The Sisters Of Mercy, Fields of The Nephilim, along with being indebted…

The Path Of GEVURAH

Unholy Canadian black metal disciples GEVURAH have completed work on their debut EP of pure deathworship which has been christened “Necheshirion”.

“‘Necheshirion’ is Hebrew for ‘snake-like’,” state the duo that comprise GEVURAH.  “It presents the process of the spiritual rebirth; the death of the flesh-ego, by blood, and the rebirth of the enlightened Self rising from its ashes by fire.  It also hints at the next natural final step: death – the complete liberation of the Self.  As for Gevurah, it is a spiritual entity.  As individuals, we are Naught.  As such, all you need…

ALTAR OF PLAGUES – Complete Work On New Album, New Video Released

Ireland’s ALTAR OF PLAGUES have completed work on their most accomplished and all-encompassing album to date, “Teethed Glory and Injury”.

Unlike anything the band have crafted before, “TGAI” sees mastermind James Kelly take ALTAR OF PLAGUES’ sound way further and much beyond the promise laid down with their debut “Sol” EP and their debut full-length “White Tomb”. With the band’s second album, “Mammal”, said release would see ALTAR OF PLAGUES take their sound into much bleaker and primal territory, the album that would take ALTAR OF PLAGUES’ initial blueprint which they founded their sound upon to its peak.

With “TGAI”…

ABYSSAL – “Novit enim dominus qui sunt eius” Now Available To Order

The latest barbaric surrealist death metal ritual from the UK mysterious and nameless trio that go under the cloth of ABYSSAL is now available to order through our website (much ahead of it’s official, for distributor purposes, April 2nd release date).  This is the official CD release of this twisted and dark death metal masterpiece, and is limited to 1000 units.

WOLVHAMMER – Announce Tour With Glorior Belli

Chicago/Minneapolis blackened pillage scumbag metal band WOLVHAMMER will be heading out on a string of East Coast dates in the U.S. this May with France’s likewise notorious scumbag band Glorior Belli.  Dates are as follows:

05/16 – Milwaukee, WI @ Quarter’s 05/17 – Chicago, IL @ Ultra Lounge 05/18 – Indianapolis, IN @ Indy’s Jukebox 05/19 – Columbus, OH @ Carabar 05/20 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Belbedere’s (w/ Anciients) 05/21 – Syracuse, NY @ Club Fusion 05/22 – Somerville, MA @ P.A.’s Lounge 05/23 – Providence, RI @ Dusk 05/24 – Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool 05/25 – Philadelphia,…