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SANDRIDER: Satanik Royalty Records To Reissue Self-Titled Debut From Seattle Grunge Titans On Limited Edition Vinyl; Preorders Available

Satanik Royalty Records will reissue the eponymous debut full-length from Seattle grunge titans SANDRIDER on limited edition vinyl May 6th! Initially released in 2011 on Good To Die Records, Sandrider was recorded at The Red Room by Matt Bayles (Pearl Jam, Isis, Mono, The Sword) and is a “simmering, brooding masterpiece that gives way throughout to massive eruptions of oozing fire and fury” (The Sleeping Shaman). While they drop the name of influences such as Pacific Northwest icons Mudhoney and Soundgarden, as well as such indie favorites like The Jesus Lizard and Drive Like Jehu, SANDRIDER hits on a sound […]

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Album Review: Firebreather – Dwell In The Fog

In which Gothenburg stoner/doom merchants FIREBREATHER return with their all-important third album, Dwell In The Fog, hopefully ready to kick ass and take names. Given their previous album titles of Firebreather and Under A Blood Moon, and that both were solid efforts in their own right (rite?), methinks there may be something of the elemental in the band, what with fog now making an appearance. Opener ‘Kiss Of Your Blade’ flicks open the album, rusty, nicked and dry-blood-covered, no trendy desert or dune-buggy surfboard rawk ala FU MANCHU here, the rumble more akin to METH DRINKER and KRUGER. Flowing ‘n’ […]

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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 […]

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Album Review: Immolation – Acts Of God

Where does IMMOLATION rank in the list of American death metal bands? Right up at the top, I would say. They passed the likes of MORBID ANGEL and DEICIDE a long time ago…way more consistent. Compared to CANNIBAL CORPSE? Hmmm, that’s a tough one, because the CANNIBALS are masters of consistency themselves. But I give the nod to IMMOLATION because the music seems to have a bit more depth to it, and a special kind of darkness that IMMOLATION alone has mastered. Acts Of God continues in the style of the most recent albums, Atonement and Kingdom Of Conspiracy. The […]

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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 […]

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Album Review: Pyreship – Light Is A Barrier

Finding a quality band that falls under the post-whatever (in this case -metal) tag is almost – if not more – rare than a current thrash band actually doing something interesting with the genre. Houston, Texas’ awfully-named PYRESHIP has a full-length and split with Louisiana sludge/prog crew FORMING THE VOID under its belt from a few years back, and now returns with Light Is A Barrier. An overlong spoken piece takes up the first minute of ‘Broken Spire’, but I guess the band figured they could spare it, what with 8+ minutes to fill on the opener. Once the vocals […]

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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 […]

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Album Review: Darkness Everywhere – The Seventh Circle [EP]

Admittedly I’ve always dug both key variants of the Swedish death metal sound, those being Stockholm and Gothenburg. While the Stockholm sound was ripping, cavernous, gutted by the HM-2 pedal (Swedish Chainsaw, y’all!), the Gothenburg sound was inherently more melodic, generally faster, a distant cousin of the US thrash of its time. Oakland, California is nowhere near Gothenburg, though, so when DARKNESS EVERYWHERE’s debut EP landed on my desk, I had to investigate. As much as I despise intro tracks, ‘Apocalyptic Nightmares’ gets a pass due to its nod to my beloved doom, a simple pattern delivered over dual guitars […]

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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 […]

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Album Review: Mystic Circle – Mystic Circle

MYSTIC CIRCLE has been plying their trade in the black/death market since the mid-‘90s, releasing a half-dozen albums in the decade between ’96-’06, but has as yet failed to make a noticeable impression of any sort, just always being “there”, one could say. Others have their thoughts, I’m sure, but I believe releasing three albums in as many years burnt whatever creativity the band had to cinders, resulting in the lackluster Bloody Path Of God in 2006, followed by the 15-year recording hiatus that ended with last year’s Letters From The Devil EP. And now, a mere four months later, […]

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