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CHILD BITE Teams Up With Black Tusk To Cover Prong’s ‘Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck’

Detroit punk/metal unit CHILD BITE has teamed up with Georgia sludge metallers BLACK TUSK for a collaborative quarantine cover of Prong’s 1994 classic ‘Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck’. Notes vocalist Shawn Knight, “I can’t speak for BLACK TUSK, but us CHILD BITE guys have been laying low for the past several months, focusing on other aspects of our lives as opposed to forcing band productivity when we honestly just weren’t feeling it, or even worse, cluttering up the social landscape when the world has had much more pressing matters to focus on than demented rock music… Not that shit […]

Interviews

Interview: The Plague Physicians

Ohio’s THE PLAGUE PHYSICIANS continue their experiments with sonic exploration (and even more eldritch, darker goals in mind, to be sure) on new release, In Arkham’s Shadow. Lord Randall joins vocalist Dr. Orange in the diagnoses… FROM THE BANKS OF THE BURNING RIVERInterview with Dr. Orange [Vocals] of THE PLAGUE PHYSICIANSInterview By: Lord Randall Rebel Extravaganza: So you began your practice in Cleveland in 2013, taking almost 5 years to release The Raven Mocker. How much of the persona was in place from the start, or was The Plague Physicians something you became over time? Dr. Orange: I’d been in […]

Music News

CULT BURIAL RELEASE ‘DETHRONER’ VIDEO

London’s CULT BURIAL have teamed up with Moshpit Nation to release their video for ‘Dethroner’. The song is from their self-titled album, released on November 6th. Watch the video at THIS LOCATION Pre-order the album HERE Rarely does an extreme metal band drop out of nowhere with a fully formed sound, and yet CULT BURIAL do just that. While their name may imply another group hopping on the dime-a-dozen OSDM revival trend, this London group quickly show that there is a lot more than meets the eye on their self-titled début, coming hot off the back of a well-received two-track […]

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MYRKUR Collaborates with THE SIMS – ‘Onde Børn’ in Simlish

Listen/Watch HERE MYRKUR shares her new collaboration with THE SIMS for a re-recording of the song ‘Onde Børn’ in Simlish! The video, a behind the scenes look at the recording at Lava Studio in Denmark, is streaming at the official MYRKUR YouTube channel. Shot and edited by Rasmus Malmstrøm. ‘Onde Børn’ appears on MYRKUR’s critically acclaimed full length, M, and follows the release of 2020’s Folkesange. Folkesange, which has been hailed as “an immersive collection of classic-sounding black metal and Scandinavian folk that features chilly piano, melodic ghost-choir interludes, passages of frozen noise, clamoring industrial bits, and a gong.” Purchase […]

Album Reviews

Album Review: Undeath – Lesions Of A Different Kind

It takes a lot of either courage, confidence, or flat out balls for a new death metal band to release a debut album. Sometimes it’s all of one of the aforementioned, sometimes an equal blend of all three. Nonetheless, when the promo sheet from Prosthetic Records hails your album as “a whole new level [Insert Obligatory “of confidence and powarrr!” Here] of skull crushing intensity, you’d best know what you’re about. I’m also a little concerned that, within a little over 1 ½ years, New York’s UNDEATH has managed to crank out 2 digital demos, a vinyl split, a compilation, […]

Album Reviews

Album Review: White Magician – Dealers Of Divinity

They say that no one has really been able to duplicate the sound of 70’s BLUE OYSTER CULT. Well, the claim has been made that GHOST has done it, but no honest music fan takes that seriously. I can say that Detroit’s WHITE MAGICIAN has probably made the best stab at emulating BOC that I can remember. That’s not to say they equal the CULT in full flow, because almost nobody can do that. But the BOC fingerprints are all over Dealers Of Divinity, and it makes for a pretty unique album. This really does have the authentic ’70s feel […]

Music News

MAGNUM to Release Special Album in January 2021

It’s been three years since MAGNUM brought out The Valley Of Tears – The Ballads, a compilation that focused on the British rock act’s quiet, more otherworldly and dreamy side. Three years during which the idea matured to follow this successful release (top 100 of the German album charts) with a companion piece. Dance Of The Black Tattoo has turned into exactly that: a collection of songs that present MAGNUM exclusively as tough-as-nails rocking and extremely vibrant musicians. What makes this album so special is the fact that MAGNUM have gone through their impressive archive, looking for rare live cuts […]

Album Reviews

Album Review: Gearea – Limbo

It worried me when I saw that Portugal’s GAEREA had not-one-not-two-but-three (count ‘em!) songs past the 9-minute mark on its sophomore release, Limbo. Now I’m all for exploration, sonic and otherwise, but I’d truly enjoyed the 40-odd minutes of Unsettling Whispers in 2018, and its been my considered opinion that genre-wide, black metal slips most easily into wandering tangents when it should stay right where it is, and stop trying to be so fancy. I’m looking at you, UADA. Hence, when GAEREA pulled not one single punch, getting down to the monolithic, tower of fuckoff that is the beginning of […]

Music News

DEATHROLL Streaming New Song from Upcoming Debut EP

Austin (TX) – International metal project DEATHROLL, in collaboration with Spain’s Friedhof Magazine, has premiered the opening track from forthcoming debut EP Into The Vortex. ‘The Rise Of Artificial Souls’ (Exclusive Premiere) DEATHROLL will release Into The Vortex on November 13. Pre-order the EP HERE Extreme physical pain inspired the next-level technical brutality heard on DEATHROLL’s debut EP Into the Vortex. Drummer Kevin Talley (Dying Fetus, Misery Index, Six Feet Under, Suffocation) supports band leader David Coloma, who endured multiple surgeries to repair a ruptured long intestine during the songwriting process. “The pain was sometimes so bad I could barely […]

Album Reviews

Album Review: Benediction – Scriptures

Brethren, let us open the Book of Armageddon to the Chapter of BENEDICTION and read the Scriptures therein. I have been a devotee for many years, and my heart has been empty for want of BENEDICTION. After an extended drought, these metal brothers are back, and lo and behold, their prophet Dave Ingram has returned to lead them back to the promised land of Nuclear Blast. This is a record I’ve been really looking forward to, as this band has always been a favorite of mine. Scriptures is an album for creating warm fuzzies and glows of nostalgia, not to […]

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