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Reborn ÆVANGELIST reveal first track from new HELLS HEADBANGERS album – also cover and tracklisting

Today, the reborn ÆVANGELIST reveal the nearly-18-minute new track ‘The Origin And End Of All: Pain Of The Fallen’. The track hails from the band’s forthcoming rebirth album, Nightmarecatcher, which will be released by Hells Headbangers during the first quarter of 2020 on CD format. Hear ÆVANGELIST’s ‘The Origin And End Of All: Pain Of The Fallen’ in its massive entirety HERE at Hells Headbangers’ official YouTube channel. Now residing in Finland, ÆVANGELIST has been in existence since 2010 and was created/authored by Matron Thorn. Joining Thorn on Nightmarecatcher is ex-Anorexia Nervosa vocalist Stéphane Gerbaud. As such, this is to […]

KNELLWRAITH RELEASES NEW EP

There are two types of artists that you will come across in the heavy music world. The typical person picks up an instrument, gains some skills and decides they need others to collaborate with a group to bring the music out of them and express themselves. Then there is the solo artist type: driven by a calling or an artistic vision, a sole purpose expressed without interference neither asking approval or permission. It’s within the Black Metal and Doom related genres where we see lots of these artists come from a meager start to really manifest their voice over time. […]

NIGHT GOAT RELEASE NEW LYRIC VIDEO

Ohio Noise Rockers NIGHT GOAT have just released a video for their song ‘Malachai’ via Alternative Control. The song is taken from Milk, which will be released next month. Watch the video HERE Pre-order Milk HERE Everyone has a band that they can put on to blow the cobwebs out. NIGHT GOAT are set to be that next band. Dealing in scuzzy, fuzzy noise-rock, the quartet are set to release their scorching début Milk in late December, having already made a name for themselves in their native Ohio by opening for Cherubs and playing with diverse bands like Whores, Low […]

Cattle Decapitation presents: The Unerasable Past – A Short Film by Wes Benscoter

Shot during summer and fall 2019, this elaborate music video showcases the striking universe of Wes Benscoter’s art in conjunction with the concepts brought into play by CATTLE DECAPITATION in stunning 4K glory. The video is the culmination of a fruitful 18 year long relationship between the band and the world renown artist and is the first ever music video of his vastly expansive career, which includes having worked with such metal mainstays as Slayer, Kreator, Dio, Nile, Autopsy, Broken Hope, among many others. Having worked with him for so many years and being admirers of his 2009 award-winning short […]

Death metal merchants COLOSSO unleash new release details

COLOSSO from Portugal are playing some unique death metal that is brutal yet futuristic. They have the drummer of label mates Norse playing on all the songs, at inhuman speeds no less, and four different vocalists have been recruited to lend a different, refreshing sound to each of the songs depicting the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Check out the song ‘War’ that’s streaming now on Bandcamp. After years of toiling in the underground, putting out six releases of ever-evolving death metal, COLOSSO have conjured up their finest and partnered with our label to put out their newest and easily […]

RUNNING WILD releases New Single, ‘Ride On The Wild Side’, New EP Coming This December

RUNNING WILD has released a new digital single entitled ‘Ride On The Wild Side’. The track is taken from the band’s forthcoming EP Crossing The Blades featuring three brand-new studio recordings and one cover version. ‘Ride On The Wild Side’ is a song, which – thanks to its powerful pace and high compositional quality – would almost have made the shortlist for the upcoming album. Now it enhances the Crossing The Blades EP, particularly because Rock N’ Rolf recorded the guitar solo on a Fender Stratocaster – instead of his tried and tested Gibson Explorer – to do justice to […]

Legendary doom metal forefathers Candlemass nominated for Grammy

Listen to Nominated Track ‘Astorolus – The Great Octopus’ Featuring Tony Iommi & Watch the Official Music Video HERE CANDLEMASS are truly the manifestation of pure doom metal! Early 2019 saw the release of their latest album, The Door To Doom, via Napalm Records – an offering that features an unforgettable pairing with legendary Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi on the track ‘Astorolus – The Great Octopus’. The song has now been nominated for a 2020 Grammy Award in the Best Metal Performance category. This is the first nomination for the band and the first nomination for Napalm Records! The […]

COIL: Cold Spring Records To Reissue Stolen & Contaminated Songs Including First-Ever Vinyl Pressing; Album Streaming + Preorders Posted

Cold Spring Records is proud to present the long-awaited reissue of COIL’s out-of-print album, Stolen & Contaminated Songs, presented on CD and, for the first time, on vinyl. As the new edition of the album is being prepared to see release next week, the entire album has been made available for streaming, and preorders for all versions are posted. Stolen & Contaminated Songs was recorded and produced by British esoteric/electronica/experimental outfit COIL in 1992. It is comprised of over sixty minutes of outtakes and unreleased songs, evolved during the recording sessions for their prior album, Love’s Secret Domain. A wealth […]

SPK: Cold Spring Records Reissues LP By Australian Industrial Music Pioneers; Several Tracks Streaming + Preorders Posted

Cold Spring Records presents a reissue of Zamia Lehmanni (Songs Of Byzantine Flowers), the long out-of-print album by Australian industrial/modern classical music pioneers SPK. As the record makes its reemergence next Friday, November 29th, several tracks from the album and preorders have been posted. Stream selections from SPK’s Zamia Lehmanni (Songs Of Byzantine Flowers) RIGHT HERE. Originally released by Side Effects in 1986, Zamia Lehmanni (Songs Of Byzantine Flowers) was the third (and final) core SPK album and was Graeme Revell’s first truly solo project. He was in a period of transition, somewhere between the industrial noise of the early […]

HARMAA GETTO to release new album thru SVART – includes members of PAAVOHARJU

Distorted sounds. A fever-dream caused by faith and an alcohol overdose. Howling echoes from dying rural areas. Lo-fi trip-hop from Finland’s eastern border. HARMAA GETTO is a Finnish band formed by Lauri Ainala and Joose Keskitalo. Both are better known from the musical collective Paavoharju. Their new album, Ovenvartija, is released by Svart Records on November 29th. Best known for their “drunken rap aesthetic”, HARMAA GETTO’s new album takes the duo towards melancholy and sadness, often sounding like Portishead tormented by alcohol-withdrawal symptoms. This time, there are new members involved. Revon Akan Poika (loosely translated as “Boy of da Repo […]