My only real knowledge or experience with Boston’s Doomriders is that they feature Converge bassist Nate Newton and Cave In Drummer JR Conners, two bands I like but aren’t awfully obsessed with, so when I gathered that this outfit was a more rock based band to boot, my hopes weren’t extremely high. That all changed […]

Just in time for Halloween comes this concept album by Dutch symphonic black metal act Carach Angren. The name is taken from The Silmarillion, although there’s no Tolkien reference in the music. And unlike many symphonic bm acts, there’s none of the usual Satanic nonsense either. Instead, Carach Angren have refreshingly built the album around […]

While doing your own thing is the way to go when running a site like TeethoftheDivine.com, it’s always better to also keep your head up and know what’s happening around you. In order to serve our readers better, we realized we need to go out more. Thus, we dressed up in our fancy work clothes (casual and friendly but with a hint of authority) and took a step outside from our dark, murky cave and signed ourselves up to the biggest social entities in the World Wide Web. Just to be closer to you.

French export Glorior Belli became critical darlings two years ago after the release of the powerful Manifesting The Raging Beast. The praise was deserved; although they stayed closer to traditional black metal than experimental countrymates Deathspell Omega the album offered a well-lit and immaculately produced pathway to Hell. Of course the inevitable question is whether […]

Though it was originally released in 2008, Father Befouled’s Profano Ad Regnum was re-released this summer on vinyl. Now, not having heard the vinyl version, I couldn’t tell you the difference in quality. My guess is that it still sounds like it was recorded in some dank, primordial dungeon, someplace that hasn’t seen sunlight in […]

Well known to European fans of Melodic Metal, Axxis are still somewhat obscure in American metal circles, even though the guys have been keeping their vessel afloat for more than two decades now. Having gone through ups and downs, the band has stood the test of time and remained loyal to its musical credo, which […]

Though plying the same basic musical style and shtick as the relatively enjoyable 2008 debut, Total Brutal, Tim Lambesis’s (As I Lay Dying) Arnold Schwarzenegger themed metal act has grown somewhat. First off, professional Arnold impersonator Josh Robert Thompson (The Howard Stern Show, The Late Late Show) now provides the excellent and amusing Arnold quips […]

I love to drink. I am not an alcoholic (or am I?) but I do enjoy a tasty beverage now and then. There’s never a bad time for good friends and a good game of the drink. So, naturally I should love a band like Korpiklaani with their anthems of inebriation, however this band requires […]

Blackened death metallers ACHERON have signed with Ibex Moon Records for the US release of The Final Conflict: Last Days Of God. Founding bassist / vocalist Vincent Crowley had this to say about the signing: “We (ACHERON) have really been wanting to have someone license our new album The Final Conflict: Last Days of God […]

Second new Saattue song Taakka has been made available for listen at Saattue myspace (http://www.myspace.com/saattue). The song is taken from Saattue’s second album Vuoroveri. The album will be released on October 21st. Vuoroveri will include eight works of doomy, heavy, dark and multidimensional saatto metal. Saattue is signed to Spikefarm Records. Vuoroveri (Tide of Blood) […]

FREE DOWNLOAD OF PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SONG “FROZEN” All That Remains will debut their video for their latest single “Forever in Your Hands” exclusively on MySpace.com at http://www.myspace.com/metal starting on October 7th. The video will also air on an episode of MTV2’s Headbangers Ball hosted by the band on the morning of October 18th at 2:00 […]

Frank Zappa passed this mortal coil in 1993, leaving behind volumes of brilliant and often criminally underappreciated music. He’s now looking down from The Great Wazoo in the sky, where thankfully yellow snow isn’t a concern. If by chance the sounds of Lye By Mistake’s Fea Jur reached his groovy orbit he would no doubt […]

The first couple of spins of Sanctification’s Black Reign brought to mind two parallel thoughts: it is rather redundant and it borrows heavily from the Cannibal Corpse sound, especially the vocals of George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher. As it turned out, neither of those were bad things and Black Reign has grown on me, mainly because the […]

Three listens back to back to back of Wormwood will leave you laying on the floor in a pool of drool, even if you are up to date on your inoculations. To paraphrase Legion, if you don’t know what Marduk is what the hell are you doing here.  Marduk has a history of short intros, […]

Fans of depressive, atmospheric black metal have a lot to be happy about in 2009. So far we’ve seen fantastic releases from all the greats – Blut Aus Nord, Drudkh, Wolves in the Throne Room, as well as shoegaze/black metal newcomers like Fen, Altar of Plagues and Svarti Loghin. And now here comes this stunning […]

Death metal is full of brilliant, legendary songs. Songs that helped shape the genre, define a band or create a classic album. These are songs that every death metal fan knows by heart or can name at the mere hearing of a single note or chord; “Left Hand Path”, “Override of the Overture”, “Black Winter Day”, “Unas, Slayer of Gods”, “You’ll Never See”, “Infecting the Crypts”, “Hammer Smashed Face”, “Chopped In Half”, “Leprosy”, “Corporeal Jigsaw Quandary”, “Chapel of Ghouls” – “Victory March”- the list goes on and on. But what about those other songs that fleshed out albums both classic and overlooked? Songs by bands revered and unheard of that simply never caught the ear of the public, the fans or the critics?

Swedish Black metal tyrants WATAIN have – during and since their 111 date long “Fuck the World Tour” – been working in silence in secrecy on what is to become the band’s fourth full-length album. The band states: “We can now reveal the long awaited first live performance to break the silence. WATAIN will return […]

If you do not know Belphegor by now you must have just hatched. Eight studio full lengths and a couple of eps. You would think Austria’s kings of perversion would have it all figured out by now. Walpurgis Rites – Hexenwahn is the title, so the lyrical disposition should be obvious to all. The bonus […]

A new Dying Fetus album isn’t quite the event is once was as since the bands crowning moment, 2000s Destroying the Opposition a revolving line up has kept John Gallagher from attainting perfect chemistry that was achieved with the classic Netherton, Voyles (who of course left after Destroy the Opposition to form Misery Index) and […]

Even though European heavy metal fans have always trounced their stateside counterparts in terms of dedication to their bands, it still puzzles me that so many folks on this side of the pond bypass Novembers Doom. Not only has the Chicago act perfected a unique brand of doom/death, but they’ve improved and expanded their sound, resulting in albums like The Pale Haunt Departure, The Novella Reservoir, and Into Night’s Requiem Infernal that are filled with quality metal and memorable songwriting from top to bottom. That Novembers Doom can play a Minneapolis festival with the likes of Primal Fear and Atheist and be lucky to draw 100 people, then turn around and fly to Spain to play a show for 800 people that sold out in advance speaks volumes about the difference between European and U.S. punters. In the interview that follows I discuss that contrast, the new album and generally all things Novembers Doom with guitarist Larry Roberts.

What’s the first thing that comes to mind about Grey Metropolis from Denmark’s Sanctus Daemoneon? With Halloween coming up, it might be one to consider as the soundtrack to one of your morbid holiday gatherings. That statement is not intended to sound like I’m making fun of Grey Metropolis; it is just recognizing the fact […]

Gaza has revealed “Windowless House,” a scathing new track off its forthcoming second album, He Is Never Coming Back.“Windowless House,” described by BrooklynVegan.com as a “gnashing, antisocial beast,” is available here: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/10/gaza_debuts_new.html Hailing from the religious hotbed that is Salt Lake City, Gaza takes on religious delusions as its target on He Is Never Coming […]

Recently reformed Texas death metal veterans DIVINE EVE have issued the following update. “As writhing flames whisper to the darkness, winds of chaos fade into the abyss… DIVINE EVE is very eager to declare the 4 song E.P. is in its final stages of completion. The title Vengeful and Obstinate is a fitting banner to […]

Legendary metalers Armored Saint enters Tranzformer Studios in Burbank, CA to record first studio album since 2000’s ‘Revelation’Los Angeles, CA, October 2, 2009 – Los Angeles’ sons of metal, ARMORED SAINT, are set to enter Tranzformer Studios in Burbank, CA to begin recording the band’s 6th full-length studio album. Tranzformer Studios is owned by Dave […]

Bogota, Colombia-based symphonic black metal band NEPHESH will release their debut album, “Inter Armas Silent Leges“, on October 15th via Nokternal Hemizphear (USA – http://www.nhmetal.com). The CD was recorded, mixed and mastered at Tempus Ater Studios. The track listing is as follows:  01. Vae Victus 02. Sangre Inmortal 03. Tormentor of Sin 04. Death I […]