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Sweden’s Shining is set to release an EP of cover songs with a choice of material that will come as a surprise to many of the band’s fans. The four-track EP, titled “Lots of Girls Gonna Get Hurt”, includes tracks from Katatonia, Kent, Imperiet and Poets of the Fall, and is due for release on [...]

The Australian melodic doom/death metal recording project Subterranean Disposition has agreed to a deal with the Canadian underground label Hypnotic Dirge Records known for acts such as netra, Ekove Efrits, The Foetal Mind, and Exiled From Light among others to release the upcoming self-titled debut album in late summer 2012. Subterranean Disposition is a one [...]

Orkan drummer Rune Nesse has joined the ranks of Norwegian Blackened Metallers Byfrost as a permanent replacement for the recently departed “Alkolust”. Originally intending not to find a full-time replacement, but rather to use session drummers both for live performances and in the studio, the band quickly changed its mind after rehearsing with Nesse. Commented [...]

Baroness, the Savannah-based quartet whose two prior releases (“Red Album” and “Blue Record”) were awarded record of the year honors from both Revolver and Decibel Magazines as well as repeatedly placing on year-end best of lists from Pitchfork and Village Voice, return with a new album titled “Yellow & Green” on July 17 via Relapse [...]

The Staten Island-based brutal death metal quintet, Torturous Inception (ex-Vomitous Rectum), recently inked a deal with Torture Music Records for the release of their yet to be titled debut full-length album, tentatively scheduled to be released in the fall of 2012. Recordings for the album will start in the early summer at Full Force Studios [...]

Intent on stimulating your visual senses in addition to simply your auditory receptors with each release nowadays, today Ufomammut have released the final two installments completing the series of five visual accompaniments to each track from their “Oro: Opus Primum” full-length, as the album sees release in Europe this week, and will see release in [...]

In support of the previously announced forthcoming split LP between Oakland’s anarcho death rock outfit Alaric and Portland’s blackened death/doom unit Atriarch, both bands will kick off a pre-release tour tonight in Seattle. Following tonight’s kickoff performance the two acts will then traverse south down the West Coast performing together over the next five days. [...]

Sweden’s melodic gloom lords October Tide have officially inked a worldwide deal with Pulverised Records. Now featuring bassist Mattias Norrman (ex-Katatonia, ex-Interment, etc,) and vocalist Alexander Högbom (Volturyon, Spasmodic), who take the place of former members Pierre Stam and Tobias Netzell respectively, the morose collective are currently working on the as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2010’s Candlelight-issued [...]

After years of angst-ridden anticipation from a ravenous fanbase, Denver’s grindcore gargantuans Catheter are preparing to unleash their first full-length album since 2005, celebrating 15 years of perpetuating their brutal 303-style grind. The follow-up to their 2005-released sophomore album, “Dimension 303″, amidst an incredible arsenal of split releases, EPs and demos over the years, Catheter’s [...]

Norwegian black metal deconstructivist cell Furze has completed the fifth chapter in the band’s curious discography, and are prepared to release their most psychedelically-inclined blackened rock spectacle to date, in the form of “Psych Minus Space Control”. Those who have studied previous releases cultivated by the Furzement are aware how each album this rogue outfit [...]