Metal Music NEWS and interviews

The Black Dahlia Murder recently unleashed a brand new track from their upcoming album Abysmal due out September 18th on Metal Blade records. Listen to the song Vlad, Son Of The Dragon.

To celebrate the end of their latest national tour, Austrian black metallers Groteskh have uploaded a video which features some of the live action they've experienced while promoting their latest effort "Code: End", released on May 15th via Cursed Records.. The footage was recorded between May 15th and June 13th in the following cities and venues: -15.05.2015: Klagenfurt - ((stereo)) -16.05.2015: Linz - Central (Celebrare Noctem) -22.05.2015: Wien - Escape Metalcorner -05.06.2015: Club Q - Graz -13.06.2015: Urbankeller Salzburg "Code: End" is available for sale in the following links: Cursed Records: cursedrecords Bandcamp: cursedrecords-bandcamp

Chicago DM band Kataplexy recently posted a new video. Check out the footage from their rehearsal with the new line up Nate Burgard on drums, Joel Sandoval Guitar, Mike Guitar and Paul on Vox/Bass. Be sure to catch them live. Below the video is a list of upcoming shows in the mid west area.   facebook.com/Kataplexy2 facebook.com/events/915789928456011 facebook.com/events/941517702554676 facebook.com/events/430468937078124  

Check out Lamb of Gods entire set from The Rock AM Ring 2015. Click the link below.

Fear Factory recently unveiled the artwork for the upcoming album " Genexus " due out in August 2015 on Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Check out the track listing and cover below. “Genexus” track listing : 01. Autonomous Combat System 02. Anodized 03. Dielectric 04. Soul Hacker 05. Protomech 06. Genexus 07. Church Of Execution 08. Regenerate 09. Battle For Utopia 10. Expiration Date Limited digipak bonus tracks: 11. Mandatory Sacrifice (Genexus Remix) 12. Enhanced Reality  

Torrens Conscientium is a three piece band consisting of Sergei Korolyov, Alina Tishenko, Sergei Rachinskii. Genre described as Doom Metal. Band origin Simferopol (Crimea) All Alone With The Thoughts album released on October 20th 2014, Solitude Productions. I spent a considerable amount of time listening to this album to the point of obsession. The music has a way of wrapping its dark tentacles around your mind. With many bands starting to explore the doom metal genre, it is hard to find bands that know how to do it well. This band managed to capture the essence of those doom metal roots and are highlighted well in the projection of each and every riff in this album. The production is great, the guitars sound really good on both clean strumming passages as well as the heavier distorted riffs. The bass is pronounced and well defined. Solid and crushing drum sound. To be honest, this is one of those albums that once you hit the play button, you can just let every song play in...

Hacavitz is a four piece band consisting of Antimo Bounanno - Vox & Guitar, Ivan Ochoa - Guitars, Cesar "Led" Sanchez - Drums, Ulises Sanchez - Bass. Genre described as Black Metal.  Band origin Mexico Darkness Beyond album released on February 24 2015 on Dark Descent Records. Seven bone crushing hymns of madness and torture in classic B/M style. Catchy and well thought out arrangements. The production is very solid. Raw distorted guitars and powerful drums. The vocals are spine shaking and are heavy on the reverb effect which adds to the evil being projected. With a large amount of bands exploring this style, the band does not break any new ground but hold their own ground with its gritty and punishing riffs. Some of the tracks that stood out the most to me would have to be " Livskit", reminds me of old Mayhem rhythms. De Humo Negro y Ceniza which is translated to Of Black Smoke and Ashes, obviously the lyrics are mostly in spanish but I was still able to mak...