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News: VENOM ANNOUNCE ‘SONS OF SATAN’ – A COLLECTION OF EARLY DEMO MATERIAL RECORDED BETWEEN 1979-1983
Venom formed in 1979 in Newcastle upon Tyne. Coming to prominence towards the end of the new wave of British heavy metal, Venom‘s first two albums—’Welcome to Hell’ (1981) and ‘Black Metal’ (1982)—are considered a major influence on thrash metal and extreme metal in general. Venom‘s second album proved influential enough that its title was used as the name …
ALBUM REVIEW: LAMB OF GOD – LAMB OF GOD
American heavy metal band Lamb Of God are set to release their 8th studio album – ‘Lamb Of God’ via Nuclear Blast and Epic Records. It has been 5 years since there last album of new material with 2015’s – ‘VII: Sturm und Drang’. The self titled album will also be the first to feature new drummer Art …
Track: Arrival Of Autumn – Apocalyptic
Canadian metal upstarts Arrival Of Autumn are proud to release the music video for ‘Apocalyptic’ off their recent album Harbinger released via Nuclear Blast. Arrival Of Autumn comments, “This video is super cool because we did everything ourselves. We took the current state of the world and used it as a challenge to be productive and make something with integrity …
Track: Bible Basher – So Samson Sang
Bible Basher are a Sheffield doom band recently formed and are releasing their debut album Loud Wailing on June 26th via Sludgelord Records. First single is titled ‘So Samson Sang’. ‘So Samson Sang’ starts with a spoken word sample about the state of religion these days before the doom announces itself with thunderous drum beats. …
Album Review: Curse The Son – Excruciation
Ron Vanacore, Brendan Keefe and Robert Ives who make up ‘Curse The Sun’, announce the coming release of their 4th album ‘Excruciation’ on June 12th via Ripple music. Since the beginning way back in 2008, ‘Curse The Son’ have been delighting us with heavy Sabbath style riffs and emotional singing. Encompassing multiple genres but keeping …
News: Doom Sessions split with Conan and Deadsmoke coming on Heavy Psych Sounds Records
Leading cult and fuzz rock label Heavy Psych Sounds proudly announce the launch of their ‘Doom Sessions’ split series, featuring bands from the Heavy Psych Sounds roster plus some of the heaviest bands from the international doom scene. Each volume will host two bands, the start of VOL. I will make Italy’s kings of slowness, Deadsmoke, and UK’s heavy riff masters Conan. …
Album Review: -(16)- return to form with Dream Squasher
-(16)- return with their new album, Dream Squasher this month via Relapse Records. A testament to the power of loss, every moment of Dream Squasher casts the San Diego band into new, deeper depths. “A conscious effort was made to inject positivity into the lyrical themes,” guitarist and lead vocalist Bobby Ferry explains. “The best we could come up …
Track: Lamb Of God – Routes
Lamb Of God has released ‘Routes,’ the fourth single from their forthcoming self titled album out June 19 via Nuclear Blast, featuring a guest appearance from Testament vocalist Chuck Billy. ‘Routes’ was lyrically inspired by vocalist D. Randall Blythe’s time alongside native peoples at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota during the No DAPL movement. This protest, which began with just a few Native …
Track: Emmure – Uncontrollable Descent and announce new studio album
Brooklyn metallers Emmure have announced the release of their new studio album – ‘Hindsight’ via Sharptone Records. The album will be available digitally, on June 26, 2020 with physical copies available July 24, 2020. In support of today’s announce, Emmure have released a new single ‘Uncontrollable Descent’ off of the forthcoming album following on from the other singles ‘Pig’s Ear’ …
Track: Fall Of Messiah – Contreforts
French post-hardcore quintet FALL OF MESSIAH have streamed ‘Contreforts’, the first single from their much-awaited fourth LP, ‘Senicarne’, released 31st July via Holy Roar Records. Jarring guitars lend some calm in all the chaos of screams and drums to open this track. A math-rock style guitar duet then takes over and the band show off their knack for some …