Blood are playing their first ever American show in Seattle, Washington thhis fall on November 18th. Apparently Demoncy and a Seattle area promoter met up with them in Germany and convinced them to fly to the states for a one-off gig. Will Demoncy open for Blood? This is a can’t miss show for Pacific Northwest headbangers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4-C-PpbfcM
5 CommentsTags: blood, death metal, demoncy, Grindcore, upcoming shows
Bill Ward, the original and best drummer of Black Sabbath, is selling off all of the old drum kits and gear he no longer plays including over 150 kick drum heads he accumulated over the years. Ward says he only still plays his favorite stuff and is happy to see the rest of it go to drummers or collectors who will actually use or appreciate it.
No CommentsTags: bill ward, black sabbath, cash grab, gear
Samael released a new lyric video, “Angel of Wrath”, from their upcoming Hegemony album which comes out October 13th on Napalm Records. Once again do not buy it. “Angel of Wrath” is boring black ‘n’ roll bullcrap for goth girls who discovered Disturbed and Agalloch. Samael need to quit even pretending to make metal music. Samael now pretend to play metal like how little boys pretend to cook and shave like fully grown adults. Samael need to grow up and get a life. “Metal” clearly is not suiting them.
2 CommentsTags: black 'n roll, hard rock, lyric video, Napalm Records, new track, samael, upcoming album, upcoming release
Swedish metalcore band The Haunted premiered a new music video, “Brute Force”, this week on Youtube. “Brute Force” comes off their upcoming record which you absolutely should not buy if you have an IQ over 100, Strength in Numbers, which comes out August 25th on Century Media. This song sucks and sounds like a melodic hardcore band trying to play 1980s speed metal and failing miserably.
2 CommentsTags: Adrian Erlandsson, century media, metalcore, music video, new song, new track, the haunted, upcoming release
The Mortal Horizon is Desecresy’s first album as a solo project of Tommi Gronqvist’s after vocalist Jarno Nurmi left to focus on Serpent Ascending. Picking up right where Stoic Death left off, The Mortal Horizon is band’s most percussive and violent yet. The album takes after the death metal debut Arches of Entropy but is set into the multi-layered, ritualistic minimalist narratives of Desecresy’s later career.
28 CommentsTags: 2017, Black Metal, death metal, desecresy, Finland, Finnish Black Metal, Finnish Death Metal, Grindcore, minimalism, minimalist, review, the mortal horizon, tommi gronqvist, xtreem music
Iron Maiden are having action figures made of their Eddie the Head mascot for all the man children and comic book guys who loved Iron Maiden as teenagers and want Maiden to be up on that one shelf with all of their Star Wars and WWF merchandise. “The Trooper” Eddie and Eddie from the Killers cover will be available at Super7’s San Francisco’s store from July 1st to 8th to coincide with Iron Maiden’s show in Oakland on July 5th.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpiVZnuNcDEIy7V70pBtBxJ2tStztDkbn
3 CommentsTags: autism, cash grab, iron maiden, merch, merchandise, san francisco
Black Sabbath are releasing an upcoming splatter vinyl box set of their entire original first run of albums with Ozzy Osbourne performing vocals. Sound quality does not seem to be the name of the game for The Ten Year War as everyone with any experience listening to LPs on a big boy turntable setup knows that splatter vinyl almost always sounds terrible. Rather The Ten Year War is a collectible for obsessive-compulsive Sabbath maniacs and hipsters who will play and probably ruin the not very high-fidelity splatter discs on some cheap turntable from Amazon or Target.
4 CommentsTags: anthology, black sabbath, cash grab, Doom Metal, Heavy Metal, mqa, ozzy osbourne, scam, vinyl
by Max Schoenbach
For metalheads who have listened to the studio output from Graveland over the past twenty-five years, experiencing a live version feels odd and uncanny, and definitely “new.” That the band will be struggling with unattainable heights it established for itself is obvious. When seen in Poland on April 29, 2016, other dimensions of the experience revealed themselves as well.
12 CommentsTags: Black Metal, concert, graveland, live, poland, review, rob darken, shows
Ihsahn is recording his upcoming solo album right now in Norway according to Blabbermouth. Furthermore Ihsahn believes that black metal is not a specific type of heavy metal music but rather a mind set and that the random progressive rock and jazzy instrumental masturbation Ihsahn performs now is still actually “black metal” despite not even being metal music to begin with, yet alone black metal.
62 CommentsTags: AIDS, Bathory, christianity, diamanda galas, emperor, homosexuality, idiocy, ihsahn, metalcore, norway, progressive rock, recording, sell-out, selling out, upcoming album, wanking
Polish black metal legends Graveland are headlining the 2017 iteration of the Eternal Hate Fest in the Czech Republic. Central European black metal fans should check it out if they like festivals and want to see Graveland live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwMz4wzKVik
6 CommentsTags: Black Metal, eternal hate fest, festivals, graveland, upcoming shows
