Excellent kvlt metallers Batushka were recently announced for Inferno Metal Festival in Oslo, Norway. However, they dropped out with no notice this week. Stepping in to replace their will be Aura Noir. The veteran local thrashers join a lineup that includes Opeth, Dimmu Borgir, Hypocrisy, Bloodbath, Taake, 1349, Vomitory, Gaahls Wyrd, Carach Angren and more. The full lineup and ticket options can be seen below. Continue reading
Bloodstock Open Air continues to grow into a monster lineup as the vaunted festival has added five new bands for 2019! New to the bill are Grand Magus, Death Angel, Metal Chuch, Ross the Boss and Evil Scarecrow! Grand Magus will headline the Sophie Lancaster stage and aims to have a new album out in time for the festival. These bands join a bill that already includes Sabaton, Scorpions, Together With Children Of Bodom, Code Orange, Soilwork, Cradle Of Filth, Skeletonwitch, Dee Snider, Queensryche, Eluveitie, Rotting Christ and Hypocrisy among others, with many more to be named later. Tickets are moving fast!Continue reading
Bloodstock Open Air, the finest independent metal festival in the world has added more bands to the bill for 2019. Code Orange, Skeletonwitch, Rotting Christ, Eluveitie joins already announced Friday night headliner, Sabaton, Sunday headliner Scorpions, together with Children Of Bodom, Soilwork, Cradle of Filth, Dee Snider, Queensrÿche and Hypocrisy on the Catton Park stages next summer. Early bird tickets are still available from the link below.Continue reading
Bloodstock Open Air has made their third band announcement for 2019! Heavy rock legends Scorpions will headline Sunday night on 11th August, closing out the Ronnie James Dio Stage and the festival! Scorpions are one of the greatest bands on of all time for 50 years, selling 160 million albums with countless hits worldwide, including ‘Rock You Like A Hurricane’, ‘No One Like You’, and ‘Big City Nights’. Continue reading
Already packed with stellar bands, Inferno Metal Festival 2019 will collaborate with Kniven Bar to present their own matinée stage during Inferno Metal Festival 2019, together with DJs and happenings in the bar. Appearing will be Psykopath, Sepulcher, Nekromantheon, and local Oslo band Purple Hill Witch! Kniven Bar is “Oslo’s premier metal dive bar with a heavy focus on craft beer, tasty drinks and lo-fi music.” Tickets for Inferno are on sale now!Continue reading
Bloodstock Open Air 2019 has added six new bands to the lineup. Children Of Bodom, Cradle Of Filth, Soilwork, Dee Snider, Queensryche, and Hypocrisy join a bill that already has announced Sabaton as the Friday night headliner. Continue reading
All good things come to an end, and as of March 2015, the legendary Black Metal double act of Abbath Doom Occulta (real name Olve Eikemo) and Demonaz Doom Occulta (real name Harald Nævdal) reached its disappointing and unfortunate conclusion. For years, Demonaz had acted the straight man, a perfect foil for his gurning, crab-walking, tongue-waggling partner, but since the pair went their separate ways, he has now chosen to step forward and take centre stage in what appears to be a more focused and serious vision of Immortal.Continue reading
German melodic blackened death metallers The Spirit have signed with Nuclear Blast Records for their next album. The bands’ recent debut Sounds From The Vortex is out now, and the band has some touring lined up with Kataklysm and Hypocrisy and festivals including this year’s Party San Open Air and Summer Breeze.Continue reading
Pain, the industrial rock band led by legendary multi-instrumentalist and producer Peter Tägtgren (Hypocrisy, Lindemann) just released a new music video. You can watch the clip for the track ‘Coming Home’ below:Continue reading
Anthrax has released a new lyric video and single for a brand new song, ‘Evil Twin’. You can watch the lyric video at this link or below:
‘Evil Twin’ comes off of the long-awaited new Anthrax album, coming in early 2016 from Megaforce in North America and Nuclear Blast in the Europe/UK. The track is also available digitally, and can be purchased via Apple Music, iTunes and Amazon.
Charlie Benante comments on the thrashiness of ‘Evil Twin’:
“Yeah, that opening riff is really evil. We had done a lot of touring with Death Angel and Exodus, so I was in a really thrashy state of mind when I starting writing the riffs for that song. I think along with Scott’s lyrics and Frank’s melodies, we came up with a really great, old school thrash metal feel.”
The pointed lyrics of the track denounces the self-righteous religious extremists who spread their bloody terror under the guise of a Holy War.
You represent your discontent
Slaughtering the innocent
Insolence
You’re no martyrs
Scott Ian comments on the lyrics of the track:
“I was very affected by the Charlie Hebdo massacre as I have been with all of the shootings that have taken place at schools and movie theatres. I can’t figure out what would cause someone to think that was the right thing to do. ‘I’ll show the world, I’ll make my God happy.’ It’s just such bullshit. I’m not bagging on religion, that’s not my intent, but people who go to that extreme, who feel they have become judge, jury and executioner over their fellow man because you or I don’t believe the same thing they do, I think that’s the ‘Evil Twin’ of humanity. Writing words about that is my only catharsis.”
Anthrax remaining tour dates, with Slayer:
Oct 25: Theaters Tilburg- Tilburg, NL**
Oct 26: Zenith Paris, Paris- FR**
Oct 28: La Cooperative De Mai- Clermont-Ferrand, FR
Oct 30: Santana 27- Bilbao, ES**
Oct 31: Coliseum- La Coruna, ES**
Nov 01: La Riviera- Madrid, ES**
Nov 03: Razzmatazz- Barcelona, ES**
Nov 05: Alcatraz- Milano, IT**
Nov 07: Planet.tt Bank Austria Halle Gasometer B- Vienna, AT**
Nov 08: Haus Auersee- Leipzig, DE**
Nov 10: Zenith, die Kulturhalle- Munich, DE**
Nov 12: Columbiahalle- Berlin, DE**
Nov 13: RuhrCongress- Bochum, DE**
Nov 14: MHPArena- Ludwigsburg, DE
Nov 16: Jahrhunderthalle- Frankfurt, DE**
Nov 17: AB Main Hall- Brussels, BE**
Nov 19: Rockhal- Esch Sur Alzette, LU
Nov 21: Newport Centre- Newport, UK**
Nov 22: Plymouth Pavilions- Plymouth, UK**
Nov 24: O2 Apollo Manchester- Manchester, UK**
Nov 25: O2 Academy Glasgow- Glasgow, UK**
Nov 27: O2 Academy Birmingham- Birmingham, UK**
Nov 28: O2 Academy Leeds- Leeds, UK**
Nov 30: O2 Academy Brixton- Brixton, UK**
Dec 03: Kulturvaerflet – Helsinger, DK**
Dec 04:Sentrum Scene – Oslo, NO**
Dec 05: Lisebergshallen- Goteborg, SE**
Dec 09: Stadium Live – Moscow, RU**
** w/ Slayer