Incantation released the first “single” well preview track of their sure to be mediocre upcoming album, Profane Nexus. “Rites of the Locust” rehashes their past material into an ultra generic death metal song. The actual song sounds like it rehashes a bunch of licks on the already rehashed Vanquish in Vengeance.
5 CommentsTags: boring, death metal, incantation, mainstream metal, new track, rehash, relapse, relapse records, selling out, upcoming release
The underground is dead; the new frontier for metal music is the hidden scene. (more…)
20 CommentsTags: death metal, egalitarianism, funderground, metal underground, Nihilism, Old Disgruntled Bastard, underground metal, veganism
Dutch death/doom metal legends Asphyx are playing a special thirtieth anniversary show in Essen, Germany that promises former members, exclusive merchandise, and an extra long set. Opening are Pentacle and Soulburn. Tickets are available here.
No CommentsTags: anniversary, asphyx, death metal, death-doom, germany, Pentacle, soulburn, upcoming shows
Original Entombed vocalist Lars-Göran Petrov insists he still has a right to use the Entombed name as an original member of the band despite losing a trademark despite in Swedish court to lead guitarist Alex Hellid and the other original members according to a Swedish press release translated by Blabbermouth. Petrov insists that the court said the rights to the name and trademark due not just reside with Hellid (the only original member to never leave Entombed) or himself (the only original member still regularly touring as Entombed A.D.) but belong to all of the original members of Entombed in common.
16 CommentsTags: alex hellid, death 'n' roll, death metal, entombed, entombed a.d., lg petrov, Sweden
Acclaimed progressive rock and heavy/death metal band Cóndor are touring the east coast of the United Stated next month with techdeaf Morbid Angel worshipers Garroted. This will be a good chance for seasoned headbangers to check out an accomplished band with enough quality material to make for a great live set and an up-and-coming run of the mill band that can play their instruments. Garroted could potentially improve in the future if they compose their riffs into effective death metal mazes that progress forward instead of simply playing them one after the other.
4 CommentsTags: Colombia, condor, death metal, Garroted, Heavy Metal, progressive metal, progressive rock, tour, tour dates, upcoming tours, US tour
Chilean death metal band Death Yell premiered a new track off their upcoming debut album Descent Into Hell, which comes out in August on Hells Headbangers. “Soulless” is an unremarkable but inoffensive riff salad. I don’t remember anything about five minutes after listening to it twice other than it reminded me more of Teutonic speed metal than death metal. The album probably won’t be that great and Death Yell will probably end up opening for other Chilean bands such as Pentagram (Chile), Ripper or Unaussprechlichen Kulten.
2 CommentsTags: beer metal, chile, death metal, death yell, hells headbangers, new album, new track, Speed Metal, upcoming release
Back to back Incantation news! Incantation are playing a free show June 8th in Cleveland, Ohio as part of the shoot for an indie horror movie called Death Metal. If you haven’t seen Incantation live yet or are broke, here’s your chance to see them again. Embalmer is opening for all those who care.
11 CommentsTags: cleveland, death metal, Embalmer, incantation, upcoming shows
Marduk, Incantation, and Abysmal Dawn are touring the United States together this August and September. Tour dates and venues are pending. Will antifascists and communists attack Marduk for their apolitical use of Second World War imagery? Will Incantation be targeted too as Craig Pillard was the vocalist on their best work? We will have to wait and see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqELGstWmSI
3 CommentsTags: abysmal dawn, Black Metal, death metal, incantation, marduk, tour, tours, upcoming tours, US tour, War Metal
Death Fortress previewed a new track, “The Warrior’s Mantle”, from their upcoming album Triumph of the Undying. Unlike the band’s earlier material such as Deathless March of the Unyielding, the primary influence of “The Warrior’s Mantle” seems to be Immortal instead of Hate Forest. This is a sign of potentially great improvements. Have Death Fortress ascended the “Mountains of Might” to join the lords of the raven realm in Valhalla? Probably not but we will have to see when Triumph of the Undying is actually released.
3 CommentsTags: Black Metal, Death Fortress, death metal, Fallen Empire, Fallen Empire Records, new album, new track, upcoming release
Vallenfyre premiered a new Swedish sounding track, “Nihilist” (Get it?) from their upcoming album, Fear Those Who Fear Him, which comes out June 2nd on Century Media. “Nihilist” is nothing special in the grand scheme of things but is not nearly as godawful as much of the metalcore pretending to be metal today. The earlier preview track, “An Apathetic Grave”, was reminiscent of Autopsy, one of the main influences on Entombed, Carnage, Dismember, and Grave.
4 CommentsTags: century media, century media records, death metal, death-doom, new album, new track, upcoming release, vallenfyre
