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DORTHIA COTTRELL (WINDHAND) ANNOUNCES NEW SOLO ALBUM, DEATH FOLK COUNTRY, OUT APRIL 21

Dorthia Cottrell envisions her music as both a document of love and a reconciliation with death. On her new album, Death Folk Country, Cottrell wards off death through creation – the most distilled form of love. The spirit of love passed on through her words will be the ultimate reward for earthly suffering. Cottrell’s enigmatic presence guides listeners down a path of introspection – Death Folk Country‘s massive scope touches upon tales of love, loss, and so much more. Cottrell was raised in rural King George, Virginia, a town with less than 5,000 inhabitants. Forests and tall-grass fields stretched before […]

CAVE IN SHARE DAYS OF NOTHING DOCUMENTARY

WATCH / ORDER POST / SHARE “With gargantuan riffs and amps turned up to 11, pure metal is tempered with the grace and complexity that have become the band’s trademark…an unapologetically fierce beast” – The Guardian Boston legends CAVE IN share the Days Of Nothing documentary shot on October 19th in Paris, FR. The documentary captures CAVE IN’s long awaited return to the city. The film features exclusive backstage footage, and follows the band as they unpack personal memories, discuss the new album, and much more. Watch the full documentary, filmed by Clara Griot, on Relapse’s YouTube channel CAVE IN’s […]

Album Review: R.A.M.B.O. – Defy Extinction

I remember first hearing the name R.A.M.B.O. from a friend of the band while hanging out in Philadelphia in the mid-‘00s. What? Costumes at shows? Political lyrics? Sorry, if you need me I’ll be here in my utterly original EMPEROR shirt and equally individualistic corpse paint, thanks. Then I listened. Wall Of Death The System sold me, elements of SACRILEGE demos, a smattering of AGNOSTIC FRONT/SOIA and even a dash of MENTORS when it came to the sense of skewed humor reminding that there are things to be taken with a dead seriousness as well as to be mocked because […]

PHILLY HARDCORE PUNK LEGENDS R.A.M.B.O. SHARE NEW SONG ‘NEW WORLD VULTURES’

Philadelphia hardcore punk legends R.A.M.B.O.’s first album since 2006, Defy Extinction, is out November 4th on Relapse Records! R.A.M.B.O. shares the third single ‘New World Vultures’ from Defy Extinction! Listen to the full song on YouTube Physical Defy Extinction LP/CD/CS pre-orders are available via Relapse.com. Digital Downloads/Streaming/Pre-Save HERE To say that R.A.M.B.O. occupies a singular space in punk history is an understatement. During their initial run from 1999 to 2007 the Philadelphia band took influences from thrash, anarcho-punk, d-beat, crust, and hardcore and combined that with intelligent but very fun – and at times downright ridiculous – lyrics to create […]

WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM SHARE LIVE MUSIC VIDEO FROM FIRE IN THE MOUNTAINS FESTIVAL + Live Dates Announced

US Black Metal Titans WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM have released a live video of ‘I Will Lay Down My Bones Among The Rocks And Roots’ from Fire In The Mountains Festival in Jackson, Wyoming. Watch the full video on the band’s YouTube channel at THIS LOCATION The majestic Teton mountain range looms in the background and fires burn as the band rips through this classic track from their breakthrough 2007 album Two Hunters. WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM will be blazing across Europe in November and October of 2022 with US Death Metal pioneers Incantation and Stygian Bough (a […]

EXHUMED: New Album To The Dead To See Release October 21st Via Relapse Records; ‘Drained Of Color’ Video Now Playing + Fall US Headlining Tour Announced

EXHUMED returns from the depths with their macabre new album, To The Dead, out October 21st on Relapse Records! In advance of the record’s release, today the band unleashes a video for first single, ‘Drained Of Color’, directed by Nikko DeLuna. Comments frontman Matt Harvey, “Like a lingering infection, we’ve returned to excruciate your eardrums and splatter your senses! The lads and I are very stoked to excrete our latest audio abortion onto the collective face of the underground. We’ve dialed up the ‘gross-o-meter’ to 666, so if gore-soaked blastbeats, disgusting vocals, and meat-cleaving riffs are your idea of a […]

DEVIL MASTER: NEW ALBUM, ECSTASIES OF NEVER ENDING NIGHT, OUT NOW

DEVIL MASTER welcome new drummer/keyboardist Chris Ulsh (Power Trip and Iron Age) for an intricate second full-length that masterfully mixes black metal, death rock and Japanese-style hardcore. Produced & recorded live to analog tape by Pete DeBoer (Blood Incantation). WATCH / SHARE OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEOS: ‘Acid Black Mass’ and ‘The Vigour Of Evil’ Listen and Order at THIS LOCATION Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night witnesses Philadelphia’s DEVIL MASTER at its core – its roots in ritual magick have never been more prominent. Recorded live to analog tape by Pete DeBoer (Blood Incantation, Spectral Voice), Ecstasies… expands on the warped riffing […]

Album Review: Temple Of Void – Summoning The Slayer

Now four albums deep into its nearly ten-year existence, Michigan’s TEMPLE OF VOID returns with Summoning The Slayer. Lumbering and lurking, ‘Behind The Eye’ stalks forth from shadow, basic, almost Cro-Magnon in its main chord progression, but “basic” in the style of BOLT THROWER and early BENEDICTION, straightforward. No muss, no fuss, just head-down and advancing destruction. ‘Deathtouch’ makes no secret of its melody, oppressively forlorn in the verses ala the burgeoning days of The Peaceville Three, and – as their forefathers – with a chorus that confirms that not only can such a sub-genre as death/doom exist, but can […]

CLOAKROOM ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN SPRING 2022 HEADLINE TOUR

Northwest Indiana trio CLOAKROOM announce Spring 2022 headline tour dates throughout North America. The 15-date tour surrounds an appearance at Desertfest NYC 2022. CLOAKROOM are touring in support of their new album Dissolution Wave out now! Order and stream Dissolution Wave HERE CLOAKROOM TOUR DATES: May 07 Columbus, OH @ Big Room Bar May 08 Nashville TN @ DRKMTTR May 09 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl May 10 Asheville, NC @ Static Age Records May 11 Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre Side Stage May 12 Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery May 13 Philadelphia, PA @ Ukie Club May 14 Queens, […]

MYRKUR SHARES NEW SONG ‘RIVERS BLESSED (DEMO)’

MYRKUR returns with the new track ‘Rivers Blessed (Demo)’ available on all streaming services at THIS LOCATION MYRKUR comments:“‘Rivers Blessed’ is written about my journey into motherhood, a path that by no means was easy but it changed my life and how I view the world forever. I wanted the song to have a strong feeling of winter, and therefore the harp is the only instrument, because its sound reminds me of falling snowflakes. The chorus is from an old Danish poem called ‘There is nothing in the world as silent as snow’ and it talks of the silent, pure […]