VHOL, the new group comprised of vocalist Mike Scheidt, guitarist John Cobbett, drummer Aesop Dekker, and bassist Sigrid Sheie, have completed work on their self-titled debut album.  One that has been deemed as one of the most anticipated metal albums of the year.  Anticipated out of the curiosity of what VHOL is going to sound like and the pedigree at the band’s disposal with the members’ respective repertoires already at hand.

Initially formed by Cobbett and Dekker to create music together again post-LUDICRA fallout, VHOL would take shape quickly.  When Cobbett and Dekker were thinking of a…

ABYSSAL are a mysterious three-piece from the UK that play a twisted form of demented, ambient, dark epic death metal.   Early 2012 they self-released their crushing debut album “Denouement”.  Just over a month ago, on Jan 01, 2013 they unleashed their newest opus of death metal horror entitled “Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius”.  Once again self-released by the band via hand-assembled CDs and digitally, “Novit…” would inevitably make quite the impression with its uncanny atmosphere of utter death metal darkness, reminiscent of the vibe found within such entities as MITOCHONDRION, PORTAL, ANTEDILUVIAN, and BLUT AUS…

Following the recent release of her third opus “Arriving Angels”, solo cellist Alison Chesley (aka HELEN MONEY) has announced a string of U.S. dates in conspiracy of the release of her most intriguing album to date.  The dates (so far) are as follows:

03/02 – Los Angeles, CA @ Permanent Records (in-store) 03/15 – Chicago, IL @ Township 03/17 – Toronto, ON @ Hard Luck Bar 03/18 – New Paltz, NY @a Team Love Ravenhouse Gallery 03/19 – Boston, MA @ TT The Bears 03/20 – New Haven, CT @ BAR 03/21 – Providence, RI @ Machines with Magnets…

With the impending Roadburn Festival approaching, THE ATLAS MOTH, WITCH MOUNTAIN, and ASH BORER will all be doing European tour dates (on their own separate unique tours) surrounding it and their appearance at the prestigious heavy music festival.  So here’s a round-up on all European dates on the aforementioned bands making the trek overseas, all for the first time ever (*update PALLBEARER had to cancel their European tour and will just be appearing for their scheduled date at Roadburn and will also be playing France’s Hellfest in June):

PALLBEARER 04/18 – Tilburg, The Netherlands @ Roadburn Fest

THE ATLAS…

PORTAL’s new work of death metal dementia, “Vexovoid” is now available to order from our website.  The long-awaited follow-up to “Swarth” is another manifestation of unbridled unorthodox sonic horror, death metal once again inverted, channeled through PORTAL’s most dense-sounding artistic offering to date.  Laid out upon the feeble mortal coil.

The new album from prolific solo cellist Alison Chesley (a.k.a. HELEN MONEY) is now available to order on CD format.   Recorded and mixed by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio and featuring Jason Roeder of Neurosis and Sleep on warhammers, “Arriving Angels” is a vision where classical music, experimental, ambient, and meditative drone all work in conspiracy to unearth one of the most singular and unique albums we’ve had the pleasure of releasing.

For the first time ever on CD format, ASH BORER’s stunning debut album from 2011 (previously only available on cassette and vinyl format) re-mastered for this version, in turn rendering the three time-stretching tracks more devastating and powerful.  Packaged in a faux-leather gatefold CD jacket adorned with red-foil text (view HERE), this is now available to order exclusively through our website prior to its official Jan 22 release date.

Also with the band’s appearance at this year’s Roadburn Fest, ASH BORER will also embark on a European tour (with Fell Voices) that will lead up to the band’s…

Australian surrealist death metal terror unit PORTAL have completed work on their anticipated fourth full-length album entitled “Vexovoid”, the four year follow-up to their “Swarth” predecessor.

Taking their sound of singular death metal psychosis by creating their darkest and most-dense sounding album to date, “Vexovoid” carries the tradition PORTAL have laid upon since their inception 18 years ago.  Through the band’s strange, unsettling, avant-garde, and polarizing take on death metal (on a musical, lyrical, visual, and aesthetical level), throughout the years PORTAL have shape-shifted and inverted the genre into multiple realms of dementia.  “Vexovoid”, as expected, is another…