Marduk are touring the United States this February to promote their repetitive failed album Frontschwein. Incantation are opening for every American headbanger who hasn’t seen Incantation live yet.
5 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, incantation, marduk, tour, upcoming tours, US tour
Before lapsing into embryonic death ’n’ roll on their second LP False (1992), Gorefest were among the earliest Dutch proponents of solid bread-and-butter death metal with a sense of melodic contour joining the many rhythm riffs into coherent songs which reach a point of focus in their cycles, forcing re-interpretation of its parts. The early style more or less complete on their demo recordings was brought to a fuller and more refined form on the 1991 debut album Mindloss.
33 CommentsTags: death metal, gorefest, review, the netherlands
Finnish death metal band Abhorrence are releasing a live album of their comeback performance at the 2013 Tuska Open Air Festival. Totally Vulgar – Live at Tuska Open Air 2013 is coming out February 10th on Svart Records. Svart released an earlier anthology of the band, Completely Vulgar, that was some of The Best Underground Metal of 2012.
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Memoriam‘s For the Fallen is coming out this March on Nuclear Blast according to Amazon.com. Memoriam is the death metal band with Karl Willets and Andy Whale of Bolt Thrower and former Benediction members on guitar and bass.
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Obituary announced an upcoming self-titled album out May 17th on Relapse Records. Prepare for boring mediocrity and probable Sadistic Metal Review fodder. The preview sounds terrible.
9 CommentsTags: boring, death 'n' roll, death metal, modern metal, obituary, relapse records, upcoming release
Morbid Angel announced an American tour this year with Suffocation as openers. Hopefully Trey and Steve‘s new album will not be radikult.
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Dark Symphonies announced that they are reissuing Norwegian death metal band Molested‘s only full studio album Blod-draum later this month from the original tapes. Along with the new master from the original analog tapes (not the original CD just compressed for losers with Iphones), a new remix from the multitrack studio tapes will be included on the disc. The CD is available for preordering from Dark Symphonies right now.
5 CommentsTags: blod-draum, compact disc, Dark Symphonies, death metal, molested, norway, oystein g. brun, reissue, remaster, remix
Spanish language black metal webzine El Negro Metal has started hosting a downloadable monthly online radio show/podcast called La Naranja Metálica, which I have been told is a play on A Clockwork Orange‘s Spanish title La Naranja Mecánica. Most of the tracks being spun are from releases that Death Metal Underground and The Dark Legions Archive have endorsed in the past with many appearing on our recent best of lists. Hopefully La Naranja Metálica will help bring the best of the underground to a Spanish-speaking audience.
4 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, el negro metal, Español, Internet Radio, la naranja metalica, language-spanish, podcast, underground metal
Morbid Angel (Trey Azagthoth and Steve Tucker) have finally found a new drummer: Scott Fuller of Annihilated and Abysmal Dawn. Instead of Morrisound, the band is currently recording a new album with Erik Rutan (Hate Eternal) at his Mana Studios and the drum tracks have been laid down. Expect digital, plastic sounding sterility.
13 CommentsTags: death metal, Erik Rutan, morbid angel, new album, new drummer, Steve Tucker, trey azagthoth
Various members of the At the Gates have formed a side project known as The Lurking Fear. Former guitarist and primary songwriter of Gardens of Grief and The Red in the Sky is Ours Alf Svensson is disappointingly not among them. With At the Gates regressing to commercial speed metal after half of With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness, The Lurking Fear promise to play weird, evil, and twisted death metal again. We’ll see about that.
5 CommentsTags: At the Gates, death metal, Sweden, Swedish Death Metal, the lurking fear
