Today Relapse Records announced that heavy metal/post-punk band Tau Cross, whose self-titled debut was one of the Best Albums of 2015, have completed their second album, A Pillar of Fire, for release later this year in the summer.
7 CommentsTags: Heavy Metal, mainstream metal, new album, punk, relapse, relapse records, rob miller, tau cross, upcoming release
Gorgoroth‘s Destroyer is being reissued next March on LP and CD by Soulseller Records according to a post of theirs on the Nuclear War Now! Productions forum. Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen, author of the legendary Slayer zine, has written new liner notes.
2 CommentsTags: Black Metal, compact disc, destroyer, gorgoroth, norway, Norwegian Black Metal, reissue, soulseller records, vinyl
Immortal are recording a new album next month. Demonaz will be the primary songwriting for the first time in almost twenty years. Will the KISS of All Shall Fall continue with Abbath kicked out of the band for refusing to kick drinking and drugs? Will Demonaz continue from March of the Norse or Blizzard Beasts? Let’s find out!
4 CommentsTags: Black Metal, Demonaz, immortal, nuclear blast records, recording, upcoming release
New Zealand war metal band Heresiarch are set to record a new album in February of next year according to a recent post of the band’s in the Nuclear War Now! Productions forum. Death Ordinance will be released by Dark Descend Records.
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Thirty year old British metal magazine Metal Hammer is no more after its parent company Team Rock Ltd went into administration due to losing 8.8 million pounds last year. The printed mainstream media was unable to compete content wise with zines back in the day and the internet has finally put it down. Seventy three shills are rightfully out of work.
8 CommentsTags: funderground, mainstream metal, metal hammer, shills
Article by Lance Viggiano
Darkthrone have spent the records FOAD through The Underground Resistance regressing into their pre-Celtic Frost influences. Sensing their customers’ growing unpopularity with this black ‘n’ roll approach, Fenriz and Nocturno Culto try to save face on Artic Thunder by regressing into their own work. The upshot is that nobody but Miller Lite Throne can sell mediocre riffs in cyclical songs as well as these two. The downshift is that they cannot muster enough enthusiasm or energy to play their own ideas with the dedication of a devoted bar-tier cover band.
29 CommentsTags: Arctic Thunder, beer metal, Black Metal, boring, cash grab, darkthrone, peaceville, peaceville records, review
Immolation announced a new album in their recent style of taking their own material and simplifying or parodying it down into pop rock for a beer swilling speed metal audience who eat up every new Metallica and Sodom record of randomly rehashed tunes. Atonement is the story of Cecilia (Keira Knightley) and Robbie’s (James McAvoy) life turning to hell when Briony, Cecilia’s bratty little sister, falsely accuses James McAvoy of rape. Cecilia and Robbie die horribly but Briony becomes a successful novelist. Ross Dolan insists that Keira Knightley did a great job wearing that green dress in Immolation’s best sounding release to date despite the fact that Dawn of Possession still exists and was recently reissued:
15 CommentsTags: atonement, beer metal, cash grab, immolation, nuclear blast records, pop metal, Speed Metal, upcoming release
Saudi Arabia and the other too consanguineously bred Gulf monarchies are denying the fact that they support Islamic extremism in western states against accusations by the domestic German intelligence agency according to recent news reports. The Saudis are denying that they even support the Salafist ideology despite “Salafism” simply being an appeasing, more hen-pecked liberal term for Wahhabism, the fundamentalist Sunni movement founded in the 18th century that is the ideological bedrock of the Saudi monarchy.
150 CommentsTags: censorship, germany, inbreeding, islam, politics, saudi arabia
Martyrdoom Productions posted more information about their long awaited reissue of Infester‘s To the Depths, In Degradation on their Facebook page this week. Hopefully the audio will be from the master tapes and not simply the original CD’s Redbook audio compressed and limited.
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Infester‘s To the Depths, In Degradation is being reissued early next year by Martyrdoom Productions on vinyl LP and CD. The black and death metal classic has been long out of print with the original CD going for high prices on the secondary market.
35 CommentsTags: Black Metal, compact disc, death metal, Infester, Martyrdoom Productions, reissue, to the depths in degradation, vinyl
