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Wake up North America… after three decades of waiting, British thrash masters Onslaught will cross the Atlantic for their first ever tour of the continent in March and April! The 20-date trek gets underway in Seattle on March 19th and tramples its way across the continent ending in Brooklyn on April 7th. The band’s exclusive [...]

Swedish tech-titans Spawn of Possession have announced the final details for their upcoming third full-length, “Incurso” - the band’s first album for Relapse Records – which is already one of the most anticipated death metal releases of 2012. Now confirmed to infest audiences on March 13th, “Incurso” was recorded with engineer Magnus Sedenberg at Pama Studios [...]

Sweden’s Shining, the extreme metal band founded by controversial front man Niklas Kvarforth, has today entered the Sonic Train Studios in Varberg, Sweden, with producer Andy La Rocque to begin recording the band’s eighth full-length album, which, as is usual with Shining, currently only bears the working title VIII. Shining has set up a blog [...]

United Kingdom Extreme Metal Records, the small, independent label specialising in short-run, limited releases from UK extreme metal bands, have proudly announced their first roster signing, Scottish brutal death metal act Laceration. The label plans to release “Tortured Inauguration” in Spring 2012. This limited digi-pack release features Laceration’s “2011 Promo”, with the tracks from 2010 [...]

Vulture Industries will play two shows in February, which will see the Norwegian Progressive Extreme Metallers perform a set which will include some unexpected material that the band is rehearsing especially for these two performances. Also making a guest appearance for some of the set will be Taake front man Hoest. The first of the [...]

Australian Blackened Metallers MEMORIA have today released their third full-length album entitled “Death Calls The Islands”, which the band describes as a “a guitar-driven album that is simultaneously beautiful and ugly”, via Daniel Vrangsinn’s Misantrof ANTIRecords. The album will be available both in physical format as a CD, and, in keeping with Misantrof’s philosophy, as [...]

Stavanger’s “gloomy rock’n’rollers” BEYOND THE MORNINGLIGHT have today released a single from their forthcoming sophomore album, “Liberation”. “Open Your Eyes” is a psychedelically- tinged rock track, with a melancholy atmosphere, combined with deep-thinking, existential lyrical content. To go with the single, and to commemorate their fifth year together, the band has also created its first video, [...]

Norwegian Black Metal act TSJUDER recently reunited after a five-year hiatus. The infernal trio’s forthcoming album is entitled “Legion Helvete” and has been scheduled for an October 14th release (October 18th in the US). Here are the cover artwork and tracklist of this new opus: The Daemon Throne Fra en Råtten Kiste Dauðir Voldsherskeren Slakt [...]

Cape Fear doom kings, SOURVEIN, are excited to announce the return of original bassist, Joshua ”JC Fari” Crapo, who played with the band from 1993 – 2001 and again from 2003 – 2006. Fari held down the low-end duties on both SOURVEIN’s self-titled full-length and the “He’s No Good To Me Dead” compilation (featuring SOURVEIN [...]

Mainstream media outlet National Public Radio is hosting the public’s first listen to “Woodland Cathedral”, the fifth track from Cascadian black metal act WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM’s upcoming LP, “Celestial Lineage”. The majestic “Woodland Cathedral” is surely one of the most melodic and serene arrangements within WITTR’s latest triad of albums, –  a trio [...]