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MATT HECKLER: Appalachian Folk Soloist Begins Winter US Tour This Week; After The Flood LP Out Now On Anti-Corporate Music

Following a rigorous 2019 touring schedule, Carolina Appalachian folk soloist MATT HECKLER embarks on his first tour of the year this week. MATT HECKLER continues to tour in support of his latest LP, After The Flood, which saw release last year through Anti-Corporate Music in conjunction with tour dates supporting labelmates Lost Dog Street Band. The new tour sees MATT HECKLER supporting Santa Cruz bluegrass/country outfit Devil Makes Three. Beginning this Thursday, January 16th, the tour will run the Eastern US Coast from New England into the Southwest with eighteen performances through February 8th. See all currently confirmed performances below […]

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Maine’s Eave sign with Bindrune Recordings

Thank you one and all for sticking with us as we now enter the label’s 20th year of existence!!! We are swinging into the new year ready to introduce to you even more passionate woodland purveyors of the metal craft! Having said that, we are pleased to announce the signing of Maine’s excellent quartet, EAVE! Once we heard the bands impending full-length release, Phantoms Made Permanent, EAVE’s atmosphere and powerful sculpting of melody meets harsh sonic connection with the Earth, captivated us. We think this band will also find their way into your appreciation as well. Phantoms made Permanent will […]

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BLOOD SPORE set release date for BLOOD HARVEST debut EP, reveal first track

Blood Harvest Records sets February 28th, 2020 as the international release date for BLOOD SPORE’s striking debut EP, Fungal Warfare Upon All Life, on CD, 12″ vinyl, and cassette tape formats. BLOOD SPORE are a four-piece extreme metal act that spawned in Philadelphia in the human year 2018. The band came together under the unifying vision of the ancient, immortal, conscious fungal mass that is hellbent on consuming and repurposing all life that roosts upon the Earth. With almost preternatural ease, BLOOD SPORE combine pummeling death metal with somatic doom, chaotic black metal, and malevolently more to create a highly […]

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Norwegian Black Metal Horde SVARTTJERN Release New Single:’Frost Embalmed Abyss’

Oslo (Norway) – True Norwegian Black Metal band SVARTTJERN have premiered the third and final single from forthcoming album Shame Is Just A Word. The release coincides with the band’s headlining slot at the Orgivm Satanicvm II festival in Oslo tonight (January 3). Stream ‘Frost Embalmed Abyss’ at the links below. Bandcamp Youtube Spotify SVARTTJERN will release its fifth full-length album, Shame Is Just A Word, on January 17 via Soulseller Records. Forget genre-bending and studio sterility, as Shame Is Just A Word is nothing short of iniquitous black metal aggression designed with one goal in mind: Total Annihilation. MetalBite […]

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DEAD MAN’S CHEST TO RELEASE DEAR GOD EP

Metallic hardcore outfit DEAD MAN’S CHEST is kicking off the new decade with a new EP, Dear God. It will be available this winter via Upstate Records. Founded in 2006, DMC has previously worked with BDHW Records and Seventh Dagger Records, solidifying their presence in the London/UKHC scene. They have shared stages across Europe with Cro-Mags, Sick Of It All, Agnostic Front, Madball, Biohazard, Merauder, Sworn Enemy, Ignite, Negative Approach, Cold As Life, One Life Crew, Integrity, and many more. Dear God promises to deliver elements of their much-loved old school sound with a fresh twist. Are you ready? DMC […]

Album Reviews

Album Review: Kawir – Adrasteia

No band symbolizes the essence of ancient Greece more than KAWIR. They never fail to evoke the timeless spirit of the old Greek gods and myths with their music, and Adrasteia is no exception. While I can’t say this is my favorite KAWIR album – that would be Father Sun, Mother Moon -, I can say that it has every attribute that makes these guys such a mesmerizing listening experience. Just six tracks here, but all are well developed. The opener ‘Tydeus’ is a bit of a slower burner, starting with a lot of chanting and a moderate pace before […]

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Album Review: Blot & Blod – Ormekongens Argelist

The three-piece, black metal band BLOT & BOD bring a raw, energetic, primal but all too-familiar sound to their sophomore release, Ormekongens Argelist. This album does very little to waste your time, clocking just under thirty minutes, and I intend to do the same. First and foremost, this album is a raw black metal assault filled with tremolo picking, blast beats, and witchy vocals all wrapped up in a lo-fi package that will make any Yule celebration kvlt and trve. Now, with that out of the way, what sets this album apart from the countless others like it? Sadly, not […]

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Album Review: Haunt – Mind Freeze

HAUNT keep whipping them out like it’s 1972! Back then it wasn’t unusual for bands to release 2 full lengths a year. It hasn’t been much more than six months since the last HAUNT album If Icarus Could Fly came out, and that doesn’t even include HAUNT main man Trevor Church’s other band, BEASTMAKER, (now sadly defunct due to HAUNT’s success) having their own album out. Sometimes this kind of quantity affects quality…is that the case here? Mind Freeze is really what the new ANGELWITCH album, Angel Of Light, should have sounded like. It has that dark, musty production that […]

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METH ANNOUNCE 2020 TOUR DATES

Chicago, IL on-the-rise, grinding noise collective, METH, have announced new live dates for 2020 alongside Michigan alt-shoegazers, Greet Death. The band, still raging from their August 2019 release of Mother Of Red Light, will deliver sonic warfare beginning in January of 2020, for 8 dates across the Midwest. About the tour, band founder and multi-instrumentalist Seb Alvarez comments: “We’re looking forward to playing some shows with our friends in Greet Death. I personally love playing with bands who somewhat contrast our sound but also share similarities. All of these shows will have an interesting flow to the line ups as […]

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Album Review: Infidel Reich – Reichenstein

INFIDEL REICH is a four-piece death metal outfit from Columbus, Ohio, featuring ACHERON founder Vincent Crowley on vocals, early ASPHYX guitarist Tony Brookhuis, prolific drummer Bob Bagchus (ex-ASPHYX, SOULBURN, GRAND SUPREME BLOOD COURT etc), and one McNasty on bass. They created a buzz with their first self-titled EP back in 2017, now culminating in their first full length album, Reichenstein, released in November of 2019. This album is an odd one to be sure. Musically, I find this album enjoyable, for the most part. A lot of mid-paced romps that would grab anyone who’s a fan of BOLT THROWER, VENOM, […]

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