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LEFT HAND PATH – new extreme metal bar in Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark, and the largest city in Scandinavia with a population of 1.5 million people. It is therefore something of a mystery that this fantastic metropolis, which was established 855 years ago, and often mentioned as the capital of the Nordic countries, does not have a truly pure metal bar that focuses exclusively on the extreme metal genres. This has changed now, since the new LEFT HAND PATH bar opened on March 11th. The idea for LEFT HAND PATH was created by love for extreme metal, and as an old dream of music company director, metal […]

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Album Review: Eight Bells – Legacy Of Ruin

Released parallel to the compiling of its prior works, the aptly-titled Histories 2010-2016, EIGHT BELLS delivers its third long-player, Legacy Of Ruin on some expectant ears. Well, these, at least. Sonically I’ve always found Melynda Jackson & co. not-so-distant cousins to the now-defunct SUBROSA, albeit more diverse in their palette. Where the former came from the dark heart of folk, EIGHT BELLS treads more in the realms of doom, all the while tossing shovelfuls of hard prog ala POPOL VUH, the devilish dirge of JACULA and orbit-twisting YOB… All evidenced splendidly on opener ‘Destroyer’, which had me reaching for my […]

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Progressive Trad-Metal Trio SLEEPLESS Releasing Host Desecration in April on Metal Warrior Records

Portland (OR) – Progressive/Traditional Metal trio SLEEPLESS – featuring former members of Dead Conspiracy – have signed with the Netherlands’ Metal Warrior Records and will release full-length debut album Host Desecration on CD format April 15. A limited edition (500 copies) vinyl LP version will be released on June 21. A lyric video for the album’s first single, ‘The King Who’s Not There’ is available now at THIS LOCATION After the enthusiastic response to the Blood Libel EP, the Netherlands’ Metal Warrior Records approached the band about fleshing out the EP into a nine-song full length! “We never stop writing, […]

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Album Review: Buňuel – Killers Like Us

Luis Buňuel was a film-maker who liked to shock and surprise. This is the guy we have to thank for images of eyeballs being slashed by razor blades and dead donkeys lying on top of pianos. It seems fitting that he lend his name to this noise rock project full of uneasy screams, mutters and groans, both human and instrumental. Noise rock is something I’ve found myself gradually getting into in recent years, but boy, BUÑUEL push things to limits even I find hard to take. It’s an international combo featuring Eugene Robinson of OXBOW fame on lead vocals. Never […]

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Pain of Salvation to tour North America in May 2022

Swedish progressive metal / rock pioneers and innovators PAIN OF SALVATION are set to return to North America for tour dates supported by Klone in May. Additionally, PAIN OF SALVATION will be performing at the Cruise To The Edge and at the ProgPower USA festival event. PAIN OF SALVATION – North American Tour 2022 w/ special guests Klone:May 2-7 Port Canaveral, FL – Cruise To The EdgeMay 10 Austin, TX – Come And Take It LiveMay 12 Phoenix, AZ – The Nile TheaterMay 13 Pomona, CA – The GlasshouseMay 14 San Jose, CA – The RitzMay 16 Salt Lake City, […]

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Album Review: Skumstrike – Deadly Intrusions

Ah, Quebec! Home of Mononc’ Serge, black metal, Poutine, black metal, and a little band we all know and had better respect, VOIVOD. Oh, and GORGUTS. Oh, and…now SKUMSTRIKE! Beginning with the soft, soothing intro track as all albums should, ‘Caustic Poison’ comforts and gives peace and if you believe that, stop reading, this fuck is not for you! Surprisingly battle-hardened despite having only a demo and 3 EPs under its bullet belt, the duo of ZS and LA [drums, vocals and string bedevilment respectively] go straight for the balls on ‘Blood Red Vision’, a slaughter-stomp if ever there was […]

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New Bhleg single ‘Befruktad jord’

The time has come to unveil ‘Befruktad jord’ (‘Nourished Soil’) – the second single of BHLEG’s upcoming album, Fäghring which is due for release on April 1. The fourth and closing instalment of BHLEG’s compositional tetralogy Ár is a concept album about springtime. As such, it is permeated by a considerably warmer ambiance than the colder and more barren feeling of its predecessor: their winter opus Ödhin from 2021. Besides the traditional rock instrumentation, this song features hurdy-gurdy and hand drum – performed by the band’s multi-instrumentalist S. – as well as nyckelharpa courtesy of J. Ask. HEAR ‘Befruktad jord’ […]

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Album Review: BA’A – Egregore

A relative new arrival to black metal, France’s BA’A stirred up things a bit with 2020’s Deus qui non mentitur, the debut embracing the overarching aspects of the genre without seeming beholden to tradition to the point of obstinance. Now don’t get me wrong, I can fully respect a BOLT THROWER-esque refusal to move either “forward” or “backward” sonically, it’s just that to have put up such an image for BA’A – especially given the pedigree of its members – would’ve seemed dishonest. And thus, credit where due. Not having nearly enough French to even begin deciphering Egregore lyrically, I’ll […]

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Steve Von Till (Neurosis) Announces U.S. Summer Tour – Shares First Episode of New Live Series ‘A Remote Wilderness’

STEVE VON TILL has announced a full North American Summer tour in support of his recent releases which include 2020’s No Wilderness Deep Enough, last year’s ambient A Deep Voiceless Wilderness and his debut book Harvestman: 23 Untitled Poems And Collected Lyrics. The tour starts in Minneapolis on July 1, covers both coasts, Chicago, Texas and includes a performance at Wyoming’s Fire in the Mountains festival. For a full list of dates see below. Tickets and updates are available HERE Last year, Von Till joined forces with the highly esteemed Roadburn Festival to broadcast a performance for their 2021 online […]

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Album Review: Midnight – Let There Be Witchery

There aren’t many good things to come out of the Buckeye State. As a Michigander there are the obvious “sportsball” rivalries, but mainly Ohio’s just something to avoid driving through on your way to get anywhere else. Don’t wanna “get any on ya” or anything. And yet, this is where the nasty blackthrashspeed of founder and sole member Athenar has thriven for nearly two decades now. Thus, I’ve promised myself this review will only take as long to write as a listen through his fifth under the black banner of MIDNIGHT. Thoughts of some piss-poor “intro” get flushed septic-ward once […]

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