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VADER Announces Litany Vinyl Reissue In Honor Of Album’s 25th Anniversary

Polish death metal legends VADER are pleased to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their classic Litany album, which was released on Metal Blade Records in 2000, with a special vinyl reissue. The original eleven tracks/thirty-one minutes of Litany come newly remastered for vinyl by Wojtek Wieslawski (Hertz Recording Studio). The LP also includes a sixteen-page booklet with new liner-notes by band leader, guitarist/vocalist Peter Wiwczarek. The Litany (25th Anniversary Reissue) LP will be available on June 6th via Metal Blade Records in the following color variants: 180g Black Vinyl LP (Unlimited) Clear Violet Marbled Vinyl LP (Unlimited) Clear Gold Splatter […]

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Album Review: Hate Forest – Against All Odds

After a 15-year pause in full-length releases, Ukrainian iconoclast by the very act of drawing breath HATE FOREST returned with 2020’s Hour Of The Centaur. Reconfigured as a solitary entity, this HATE FOREST showed no lowering of quality, still – and perhaps even more – steadfast and commanding in its commitment to be true to none but itself. Concluding what began with EPs Sowing With Salt and Justice, Against All Odds arrives. The presence of live drums for the first time on a HATE FOREST album is announced with a turret-mounted machine gun in ‘Werewolves’. Inhuman in its sheer speed, […]

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CATTLE DECAPITATION Presents From This Flesh: A Cattle Decapitation Story, A Two-Hour Making Of Terrasite Documentary + Band To Kick Off European Festival Tour Next Month

CATTLE DECAPITATION is very pleased to celebrate the two-year anniversary of their monstrous tenth studio album, Terrasite, with a two-hour “making of” documentary, From This Flesh: A Cattle Decapitation Story. The documentary was shot, directed, and edited by Australian videographer Nicholas VanVidler who produced the band’s 2021-released ‘Finish Them’ music video. VanVidler captured the entire Terrasite recording process from beginning to end and has spent the last two years piecing together the footage. The film not only celebrates Terrasite, but inadvertently examines the history of the band from inception. Comments vocalist Travis Ryan, “Our buddy Nick VanVidler (NJV Media, Body […]

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Album Review: Cancer – Inverted World

CANCER has never been a groundbreaking band, but the first trio of albums in the early ‘90s did establish John Walker, Ian Buchanan and Carl Stokes as a solid act, perfectly capable of holding its own in a direct support slot with the giants of the heavier end of the metal spectrum. Sadly, the grunge, heavy “alternative”, and groove metal scenes swallowed the band whole and shat it out the other end, resulting in the band’s very own Cold Lake, the feeble grasp at modern “relevance” called Black Faith (1995). They weren’t the only band this happened to, by any […]

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Phoenix Psychedelic Alternative Rock Act, Media, Releases Eponymous CD Collecting All Three Parts Of Sixth Mass Extinction Concept Trilogy

Phoenix, Arizona based psychedelic/alternative rock trio MEDIA presents an eponymous CD collecting the three parts of their concept trilogy documenting the Sixth Mass Extinction in one album. MEDIA was founded by Billy Tegethoff (The Oxford Coma) and Richard Wnuk who performed this first piece of the triptych, with Tegethoff handling guitar, bass, and vocals, Wnuk playing drums, and both contributing various synthesizers and electronics throughout the release. Wnuk had a very clear picture of how he wanted the record to sound, so he wore the producer hat throughout a very meticulous mixing process. Following the recording of Influence, the duo […]

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Album Review: Meatwound – Macho

Florida sludgecore/noise purveyors, MEATWOUND return after six years to unceremoniously thrust us into the fetid season of swamp ass and eternally pit-stained T-shirts with the aptly titled Macho. Reconvening with a new drummer in the human guise of Dimitri Stoyanov, Messrs. Wallace, Iglesias (not Julio), and Barros have something brewing behind the somehow grisly hot pink and lime green façade of the cover. The garishness arrives on the back of ‘Compressed Hell’, programmed throb and drums kicking these grumpy old men back into action in rare form, scattered like buckshot from a lupara, leaving wounds jagged and unable to clot. […]

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Post-hardcore force Row Of Ashes bring the noise with new album Tide Into Ruin – out June 13th

I will not swallow the lie of progress, the myth of blue skies from sunrise to sunset. I will not chew on broken glass and smile as my ripped and tattered mouth spills blood onto my emaciated chest. I will not cheer the liars, gazing upon them with tear-glazed eyes, whispering to myself ‘I’ve never had it so good’. My eyes will stay open as they strip me of all but my skin and I’ll hide the pills beneath my pillow filled with ashes so that I feel every cut they administer. My life will hurt me to the end […]

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Album Review: Spiritworld – Helldorado

For me, hell is standing eternally in the middle of a plain. On one side, every mumble-rapper with “Lil” in his name is belting out garbage on Autotune. On the other side, we have phony cowboy hat guys calling themselves “Clay” and “Tucker” playing the horror that passes for modern country music on a loop. I cannot imagine a fate worse than this! Which makes it a surprise that I actually like SPIRITWORLD, a band that started out playing “outlaw country” and then switched over to raging SLAYERized thrash metal with a spaghetti Western aura. I suspect that Stu Folsom, […]

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APPALOOZA: new single ‘Magnolia’ out now

Brittany-based heavy rock powerhouse APPALOOZA unleash their brand new single and video, ‘Magnolia’, a rip-roaring first excerpt off their forthcoming fourth album, The Emperor Of Loss, due out in the fall of 2025 through Ripple Music. The fiery French trio takes no prisoners and unleashes all their horsepower on new single ‘Magnolia’, hitting with more volume, distortion and grit than ever before. About the song theme, APPALOOZA says: “This song subtly explores the theme of Stockholm syndrome, delving into a profound sense of loss, isolation, and existential disorientation. The narrator — a woman — seems emotionally stranded, as if caught […]

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Album Review: Coffin Feeder – Big Trouble

What do you get when you cross ABORTED, LENG T’CHE, WHEN PLAGUES COLLIDE and a lesser known but equally deserving of praise band named FLEDDY MELCULY? Well, we’re about to find out, as Belgium’s COFFIN FEEDER has taken members of these bands, heaved them into a woodchipper, and now – three years after the aural abuse of Stereo Homicide and Over The Top EPs – cranked out its debut long-player. After a foreboding ‘There Will Be Trouble’, Big Trouble kicks in with the whirling, rusted circular saw blade that is ‘Porkchop Express’, the triple vocal attack of Sven and guitarists […]

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