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HATH Premieres Official Video for New Single, ‘Name Them Yet Build No Monument’

Brooklyn Vegan has premiered ‘Name Them Yet Build No Monument’ the colossal new single from New Jersey’s Blackened Death Metal juggernaut HATH. The song is taken from forthcoming album All That Was Promised. Stream the track at THIS LOCATION “A nearly-seven-minute song that makes enough twists and turns to earn its lengthy running time. It opens up as blackened death metal rager, but ends up in more psychedelic, atmospheric territory, and there’s a lot of other stuff in between.” – Brooklyn Vegan HATH will release sophomore full-length album All That Was Promised on March 4 via Willowtip Records. Pre-Orders:Bandcamp Willowtip […]

TROLLFEST Announce New Album, Flamingo Overlord + Reveal New Single and Video

An official statement from the Department Of The Flamingos: More flamboyant than Elton John, as intense as Slipknot, cooler than Limp Bizkit and boasting dance tunes that would make even ABBA proud —TROLLFEST has it all and more. Catchy, groovy and threatening to have you seeing Flamingos wherever you walk in life, TROLLFEST’s Flamingo Secret Agents will soon be everywhere. TROLLFEST have announced the upcoming release of their ninth full-length studio album, entitled Flamingo Overlord, to be released via Napalm Records on May 27, 2022. In celebration of today’s announcement, TROLLFEST have dropped an outrageous second single, entitled ‘Twenty Miles […]

WITNESSES To Release IV On Vinyl

New York City’s WITNESSES will release their album IV on vinyl March 18, 2022. IV, takes the listener on an ambiguous and mysterious journey through Nordic-inspired landscapes. While IV is heavily story-based it is primarily instrumental, opening up a realm of interpretative possibilities for the listener. “Releasing IV on vinyl is a milestone for WITNESSES and something of a dream come true. It was hard to select an album for this treatment, but the overall mood and dynamics of IV were the right choice. The mastering by Joe Lambert brings out the depth and range in a way that only […]

OPETH Confirms North American Spring Tour With Mastodon

OPETH will return to the stage this Spring on the second leg of their North American co-headlining tour with Mastodon. The journey will commence April 21st in Montreal, Quebec and make its way through sixteen US and Canadian cities, coming to a close on May 11th in Riverside, California. See all confirmed dates below. Comments OPETH mainman Mikael Åkerfeldt, ”We’re excited to come back to North America for the second leg of shows together with our ‘brothers from other mothers’ in Mastodon. And… hello, Canada! It’s been too long, we know! We’ll soon dust off the ole guitars etc. and […]

Swedish Folk Metal Mainstays MÅNEGARM to Release New Album,Ynglingaättens Öde, on April 15, 2022

MÅNEGARM keep the heathen fire alive with vibrant folk and Viking spirit! Swedish folk metal pillars MÅNEGARM have made a name for themselves in the international scene by releasing nine full-length records since their debut, Nordstjärnans tidsålder, back in 1998. Now, the Scandinavian crew takes another stroll through ancient sagas and myths of long forgotten times on the successor of 2019’s chart-topping Fornaldarsagor with their upcoming 10th studio album, Ynglingaättens Öde (EN: the fate of the Ynglinga kin), out April 15, 2022 via Napalm Records. In their multifaceted world of sound, MÅNEGARM incorporate Pagan inspired lyricism based on the old […]

NWOBHM cult band TYSONDOG release new album in April

Roughly four years after Cry Havoc, the first album in almost three decades from TYSONDOG, the cult NWOBHM band has a new set of songs on their sleeves. Midnight is the title of the record, which carries all the elements that made Tysondog such an interesting offer for all those who wanted to dig deeper than the obvious NWOBHM bands back in the day – and find gold. As the late legend Malcolm Dome (Classic Rock) put it, “This is a band who represent the true spirit and ethos of NWOBHM – and many years on from this particular movement, […]

CANDLEMASS TO RELEASE LIMITED EDITION 35-YEAR ANNIVERSARY 3LP DELUXE SET, EPICUS DOOMICUS METALLICUS, ON JUNE 3RD VIA PEACEVILLE

Watch the trailer for the Epicus Doomicus Metallicus 3LP set at THIS LOCATION Pre-orders available now exclusively from the Peaceville label store HERE CANDLEMASS was formed by bassist and songwriter Leif Edling in Stockholm, Sweden in 1984, and is well known for its epic doom metal, having a great influence over a generation of the genre’s subsequent greats – CANDLEMASS themselves taking a large influence from Black Sabbath. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus is a true genre classic, with every track a monument of timeless and finely crafted Doom. This is one of the quintessential, definitive Doom Metal releases, immortalizing the band […]

Video for Title Track from ERIC WAGNER Solo Album Premiering on Keep It True Festival TV Special

The video for ‘In The Lonely Light Of Mourning’, the title track from former TROUBLE singer Eric Wagner’s posthumous solo album, is receiving its exclusive preview via the Keep It True Festival 2-day TV special onFebruary 6. The song features a guest solo from PLACE OF SKULLS/ex-PENTAGRAM guitarist Victor Griffin. “The title track is lyrically foreboding musically, vocally raw and emotional,” says Dave Snyder, who co-wrote the entire album with Wagner. “It’s intentionally spacious. We talked about the ‘less is more approach,’ leaving space to breathe. When we were putting this one together, Eric said once the chorus kicks in, […]

Unleashed and Marduk are the headliners for Denmark’s Odense Metalfest 2022

UNLEASHED and MARDUK are the headliners for Odense Metalfest, where Swedish LIK and the Dutch hardcore mastodons Born From Pain are co-headliners together with Dutch thrash veterans Dead Head and Danish Maceration, who have been re-united after 30 years. Odense Metalfest is a new 2-day festival which will debut on 21-22 October 2022 at Posten in Odense, right in the middle of Denmark. Odense is the 3rd biggest town in Denmark. The program is ambitious. 20 bands Denmark and Europe perfoms at the festival. It is no coincidence that Odense Metalfest takes place at the venue Posten. In the late […]

US sludge metal unit WITCHPIT unleashes hectic new lyric video ‘The Weight Of Death’; debut album out this March on Heavy Psych Sounds

South Carolina-based sludge punk four-piece WITCHPIT deliver their brand new single and lyric video ‘The Weight Of Death’ exclusively on Cvlt Nation website. Their debut album will be released on March 25th via Heavy Psych Sounds Records. With a sound that melds the savage metal grit of High On Fire, the southern nihilistic flair of Eyehategod and the unstoppable sludge punk fire of Black Tusk. About the song, WITCHPIT comments: “‘The Weight Of Death’ is about the elites — ruling class profiting off of the sale – the destruction of our planet — while we the masses carry the weight […]