Gorgoroth‘s Destroyer is being reissued next March on LP and CD by Soulseller Records according to a post of theirs on the Nuclear War Now! Productions forum. Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen, author of the legendary Slayer zine, has written new liner notes.
2 CommentsTags: Black Metal, compact disc, destroyer, gorgoroth, norway, Norwegian Black Metal, reissue, soulseller records, vinyl
Immolation and Vader have been booked to play next year’s Bristol Deathfest. Immolation are still great live and Vader should be at least fun. The rest of the lineup is unremarkable at best. Check out Immolation play if you live nearby.
3 CommentsTags: bristol deathfest, death metal, festivals, immolation, united kingdom, upcoming shows, vader
Immortal are recording a new album next month. Demonaz will be the primary songwriting for the first time in almost twenty years. Will the KISS of All Shall Fall continue with Abbath kicked out of the band for refusing to kick drinking and drugs? Will Demonaz continue from March of the Norse or Blizzard Beasts? Let’s find out!
4 CommentsTags: Black Metal, Demonaz, immortal, nuclear blast records, recording, upcoming release
Canadian mainstream and funderground metal blog Hellbound.ca responded to MetalSucks‘ The MetalSucks Manifesto by publishing their own “The Wild Beast Manifesto” about how metal should not be neutered according to political correctness despite any single persons chosen political opinions.
3 CommentsTags: canada, censorship, communists, hellbound.ca, metalgate, MetalSucks
New Zealand war metal band Heresiarch are set to record a new album in February of next year according to a recent post of the band’s in the Nuclear War Now! Productions forum. Death Ordinance will be released by Dark Descend Records.
No CommentsTags: Black Metal, dark descent, dark descent records, death metal, death ordinance, heresiarch, new zealand, upcoming release, War Metal
Ananku is a term from the Tamil language describing the otherworldly and awesome power of sublime natural places and objects to overwhelm mankind into submission to their will by merely the perception of them. Jarno Nurmi of Serpent Ascending accomplishes this musically on his album of the same name by composing harmonized heavy and black metal style leads atop a death metal rhythmic basic into occult blackened narratives. Riffs are phrased and repeat to numerologically unfold, revealing profound and novel melodic leads as if the petals of a flower gradually blooming into gnostic truth when bathed in unconquered light.
24 CommentsTags: 2016, ananku, Black Metal, death metal, Finland, Heavy Metal, i voidhanger records, Jarno Nurmi, review, Serpent Ascending
Thirty year old British metal magazine Metal Hammer is no more after its parent company Team Rock Ltd went into administration due to losing 8.8 million pounds last year. The printed mainstream media was unable to compete content wise with zines back in the day and the internet has finally put it down. Seventy three shills are rightfully out of work.
8 CommentsTags: funderground, mainstream metal, metal hammer, shills
A complete compilation of Cynic‘s demos, Uroboric Forms, is coming out next year from Century Media. Keep an eye out for it.
9 CommentsTags: anthology, century media, cynic, death metal, demos, jazz fusion, progressive metal, Speed Metal, upcoming release
The CD version of Tarnkappe‘s Winterwaker has been delayed to around the new year according to a post of Hammerheart Records on Facebook:
2 CommentsTags: Black Metal, compact disc, Dutch black metal, tarnkappe, the netherlands, upcoming release, winterwaker
Former Morbid Angel frontman Evil Diamond Dave Vincent formed a Morbid Angel cover band, I Am Morbid, with the last Morbid Angel drummer, Tim Yueng, to tour South America with. Apparently the whole country music, honky tonk bar band schtick hasn’t been working out for Evil D. The transition from Necromonicon to NASCAR failed to bring fruit financial rewards.
15 CommentsTags: cash grab, covers, Dave Vincent, david vincent, facebook, i am morbid, internet drama, morbid angel, trey azagthoth, upcoming tours
