YAKUZA – Complete Work On New Album

Chicago cult progressive avant-jazz metal band YAKUZA have completed work on their sixth full-length album “Beyul”.

Seen as one of the most underrated, distinct, and unique American metal bands of our time, YAKUZA have always been synonymous with music eclecticism; the band creating a volatile yet searing hybrid of pillaging progressive metal, jazz, and grindcore.  Through the extreme shape shifting musical transitions, one of the most defining characteristics of YAKUZA is of course the vocal delivery of renaissance metal artist/musician Bruce Lamont, and even moreso his incorporation of saxophone into the mix of the music.  A trait that…

DYSRHYTHMIA – “Test Of Submission” Now Available

The new, and ultimately best album from seminal instrumental progressive metal power-trio DYSRHYTHMIA is now available to order through our website prior to its official Aug 28th release date.  Go order it if you want to see how it’s done properly.  The equivalent to a musical superpower.  Full on headlining tour happening as well too (Oct 17 – Nov 17).  Announcement should come soon.

ASH BORER – “Cold Of Ages” Now Available

The new album from ASH BORER is now available to order through our website just prior to its official Aug 14th release date.  This is of course the CD release of the album (just so there is no confusion, the vinyl version will come sometime down the line via Pesanta Urfolk), and the first time the band have had anything released on said format and is the follow-up to their self-titled debut full-length released last year (we will also be doing a CD version of this respectively, set to come out early next year).

MENACE RUINE – Complete Work On New Album

Montreal industrial blackened neo-folk duo MENACE RUINE have completed work on their new album “Alight In Ashes”.

Formed in 2006 by S. De La Moth and Genevieve, MENACE RUINE have defined their unique, hypnotizing, and enchanting sound through a searing yet seamless mix of martial ambient, industrial, neo-folk, and black metal.  Where the waves of harsh yet elegant sound and noise lays the ground-work to complement the mesmerizing and haunting vocals of Genevieve, for those who haven’t heard and/or are not familiar with the oeuvre of MENACE RUINE, one can say that their sound almost comes across a kinship…

AGALLOCH – “Marrow Of The Spirit” 2xLP Picture Disc Now Available

The gorgeously designed 2xLP picture disc of AGALLOCH’s seminal “Marrow Of The Spirit” album is now available to order in its two respective versions; the regular edition (w/ exclusive 2-sided OBI strip) and the printed sleeve edition (the picture discs coming with the print from the initial “Marrow” vinyl pressing).  Specs of both are explained in our vinyl store section.  Each edition/version is only limited to only 250 units.

EVOKEN – “Atra Mors” Now Available To Order

The monumental new album from American funeral/death doom legends EVOKEN, which is also our milestone 100th official release, is now available to order, a week before its official July 31st release date.  This is the first full-length album from EVOKEN since 2007’s colossal “A Caress Of The Void” and is the band’s most accomplished album in their glorious career of doom.

YOB – September Tour Dates Announced

Doom metal behemoths YOB will be going on a mid-to-west coast U.S. tour this September (presented by Scion AV), this time with progressive tech-sludge rock band Norska (the band that also features YOB bass player Aaron Rieseberg along with his brother Dustin, in which we highly suggest you check out).  The dates of the tour go as follows:

 

PALLBEARER – “Paths To Oblivion” Tour Announced

To coincide with their appearance at this year’s Hopscotch Fest, PALLBEARER will be touring around the fest that will see the doom metal prodigies make an East Coast-to-Midwest trek on what is dubbed the “Paths To Oblivion” tour (sponsored by Scion A/V and Brooklyn Vegan).  Also the band will be playing Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest in Nov along with playing two dates in August (2nd and 3rd) with AGALLOCH.

Dates for PALLBEARER’s Sept tour (w/Royal Thunder and Samothrace) are as follows (go to our Tour Dates section for a full set of PALLBEARER tour dates respectively):

09/06 –…

INDESINENCE – Complete Work On New Album, New MP3 Available

UK cult atmospheric death/doom band INDESINENCE have completed work on their much-anticipated new album “Vessels Of Light And Decay”.

Six years after the band’s follow-up to their colossal “Noctambulism” debut (and nine years since we were blown away by their “Ecstatic Lethargy” demo when it came out), “Vessels Of Light And Decay”, while only being the band’s second full-length in their decade-plus year career, shows the obsessiveness and fine attention to detail in which INDESINENCE employ when creating such vast, epic, ocean engulfing monstrous soundscapes.  During the listening discourse of “Vessels Of Light And Decay” one will witness how…

THE ATLAS MOTH/ALTAR OF PLAGUES Announce U.S. Tour

THE ATLAS MOTH and Ireland’s ALTAR OF PLAGUES have announced a string of dates in the U.S. to coincide with both band’s appearances at this year’s Hopscotch Festival.  The dates for this crushing tour are as follows:

08/31 – Chicago, IL @ Ultra Lounge 09/01 – Detroit, MI @ Stick 09/02 – Toronto, ON @ Sneaky Dees 09/03 – Montreal, QC @ Katacombes 09/04 – Bostom, MA @ TT Bears 09/05 – Brookln, NY @ St. Vitus 09/06 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Barbary – 09/07 – Raleigh, NC @ Hopscotch Music Festival 09/08 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar…