CARACH ANGREN – STOP – RECORDING IN AUGUST – STOP – ALBUM NAME: DEATH CAME THROUGH A PHANTOM SHIP – STOP – RELEASED END 2009 VIA MADDENING MEDIA – STOP – SAVE YOUR SOULS – STOP  On their pillage through the seven sickening seas, the haunted Dutch four-master CARACH ANGREN boarded countless freighters and encountered […]

EARACHE RECORDS is pleased to announce the signing of UK hardcore act, YOUR DEMISE to a North American licensing deal. YOUR DEMISE plays a style of metallic hardcore popularized by bands such as HATEBREED and EARTH CRISIS and combines it with elements from all over the musical landscape, including elements of drum n bass. This […]

Behemoth will release their newest album Evangelion on August 7 via Nuclear Blast in Europe and August 11 via Metal Blade in US. Check out the cover artwork! “Evangelion combines a pure art form with a direct message. It was also important for us to ensure that the graphical presentation did justice to the record. […]

Reunited “cosmic doom metal” band YOB has completed work on its new full length album entitled The Great Cessation. The record will see a July 14, 2009 release date via Profound Lore Records. Long respected as one of doom metal’s finest and most potent bands, YOB creates mastodonic, mind-bending music. The Great Cessation was recorded […]

From the Hail of Bullets official message board: Dutch Death Metallers HAIL OF BULLETS go to war again with Warsaw Rising, an EP featuring two brand new tracks, one cover and three live recordings! The new songs are ‘Liberators’, a rumbling ode to one of the most magnificent bombers ever built and the title track […]

Competent Russian Viking Metal veterans NOMANS LAND have successfully completed the recordings for their fourth album masterpiece Farnord, which was produced at Finnish Sevik Audio studios. Release date for this new magic moment will be August, 29th 2009. First audio impressions can already be checked at: http://www.myspace.com/nomanslandrus     Norwegian Viking Metal pioneers THUNDRA, featuring founding […]

Topshelf Records’ newest family member My Heart To Joy is excited to announce a full US tour! In preparation of the release of Seasons In Verse, their debut album which will be hitting streets this summer via Topshelf Records, MHTJ will be embarking on a 4 week long journey taking them to every corner of […]

Last week Hod’s rehearsal room was burglarized and gear was stolen. A statement from the band follows:   “We lost a lot of things, but most importantly we lost some instruments! Some scumbag or scumbags stole a black Moser Bastard V bass, black NJ BC Rich Beast guitar, red BC Rich Mockingbird guitar, and a […]

Swedish progressive death metallers SKYFIRE have premiered the song “Esoteric” on The Entropy League podcast via METAL INJECTION’s podcast network. The track comes off of both the band’s Esoteric full-length due out in August/September and the still-to-be-announced digital EP due out in June/July. The podcast will is available at http://www.metalinjection.net/category/podcasts now. The follow-up to 2004’s […]

BLOODHORSE have posted the new song “Paranoiac” from their Translation Loss Records sophomore release “Horizoner” due May 26th 2009 here:  http://www.myspace.com/bloodhorse   BLOODHORSE’s follow up to their TL debut “EP” and proper full length record on Translation Loss entitled “Horizoner” was recorded at Mystic Valley Recording Studio with Alex Garcia Rivera of Bloodhorse and mastered […]

Touted as one of the Swedish metal scene’s most promising new comers, Pulverised is pleased to announce the signing of melancholic metallers IN MOURNING for a two-album deal. The band has commenced work on their still-untitled second album and will once again enter Black Lounge Studio (Scar Symmetry, Carnal Forge, Steel Attack etc) with producer/engineer […]

It is with great pride + excitement that MORIBUND announces the signing of legendary Australian black metal band NAZXUL. The label will be releasing the band’s highly anticipated comeback album, Iconoclast, later this summer. The band’s first new studio release in more than a decade, Iconoclast carries all the hallmarks of classic NAZXUL – unremitting […]

From the Pulverised HQ in Singapore: “It is our greatest pleasure to welcome one of the pioneering and oldest bands in death metal history to our roster: The legendary MASTER!States A&R Manager Calvin: “MASTER was and is still truly an influential band and I would daringly assume that a lot of the early extreme metal […]

Germany’s Defeated Sanity have officially signed with Willowtip Records. The band is set to head into the studio this summer to record their third full-length album, “Chapters Of Repugnance” for a late 2009/early 2010 release. Recording will take place at Soundforge Studios in Berlin. The bands previous full length “Psalms of the Moribund” (2007, Grindthetic) […]

Award-winning Glendale, AZ heavy music powerhouse JOB FOR A COWBOY has completed work on its hotly-anticipated sophomore album, entitled Ruination. The record will see a July, 2009 worldwide release date via Metal Blade Records. The follow up to the quintet’s celebrated debut album Genesis, Ruination was recorded at Audio Hammer Productions in Sanford, FL with […]

Panoptic Records is proud to announce the signing of Montreal battalion WARCALL. The quartet plays a mixture of death-black and thrash metal in the style of DISSECTION, AT THE GATES and ENSIFERUM. The outfits’ debut album, “Demonarchy“, presents 11 songs of pure war metal that will rally the troops with its epic leads, striking vocals […]

Canadian metallers Senate have issued the following update: “Hey all, we’re stoked to give you the official news regarding the EP! Set to drop this summer, this demonic precursor to the full-length will be titled ‘In The Kingdom Of Gods’ and will contain 4 new tunes, “Grailblazer”, “The Whore”, “Gods And Alcoholics” and “Sympathy For […]

Reports SATAN’S HOST vocalist Eli Elixir, “We are currently pre-producing all the trax for this new CD as with finishing up the writing process in our studio, Satan’s Grotto Chamber. Date is set for entering the studio  4/29/09 to 5/31/09. Together, we have been working very diligently with our new ideas, riffs, beats, lyrics, and […]

  Legendary New York death pioneers SUFFOCATION will release their new album, Blood Oath, in Europe on July 3rd and in North America on July 14th via Nuclear Blast Records. Blood Oath will be available in three exclusive formats to the North American territory. In addition to the standard retail version, there will be a […]

Metal Mind Productions presents Hate – a death metal band with blackened death metal and industrial metal influences. The band, created in 1990, has a cult status on Polish death metal scene and is one of the most outstanding artists of the extreme music of today. „The Litanies of Satan” is their live album featuring […]

Abingdon, Maryland based Orphan Project have announced details on their upcoming full length album titled, “Spooning Out The Sea“. “Spooning Out The Sea”, is the bands first full length album since the release of their critically acclaimed 2003, self title debut album. The album is scheduled for a world-wide release on June 30th via NePlusUltra […]

(Los Angeles, CA) – April 27th 2009 – Jacksonville, FL hardcore act EVERGREEN TERRACE is pleased to announce Almost Home as the title of their upcoming release and follow up to 2007’s Wolfbiker. The band is now geared up to enter Audio Hammer Studios in Orlando, FL with Jason Suecof (Trivium, The Black Dahlia Murder, […]

In a world of increasing conformity and musical banality, Devin Townsend is among the few real personalities who have character, charisma and surprising innovative creativity. As a solo artist and producer, a member of the (by now disbanded) Strapping Young Lad, with whom he played Ozzfest and the main stage at the Download festival, and […]

Texan black metal cult BAHIMIRON are currently working on a new album for MORIBUND. Reports drummer Blaash, the band’s as-yet-untitled next album will be a combination of last year’s Southern Nihilizm and the unholy primitivism of VON. Recording will be sporadic throughout the year, with a view to release the album in early 2010 at […]

Reports guitarist Kelly Kuciemba, “DRAWN AND QUARTERED and MORIBUND RECORDS have been compiling the materials for the upcoming Assault Of Evil DVD. Odin has done a fantastic job with the layout, which includes an expanded view of the Gabriel Byrne painting from Merciless Hammer Of Lucifer and live photos of the band. The DVD compiles […]