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Blackened Death Metal greats Goatwhore who has been working on a new album has announced a run of tour dates supporting Brujeria! The three-week tour starts on April 26th in Mesa, Arizona, and run through May 15th in Palmdale, California. Additional support will be provided by Unidad Trauma.Continue reading
Simply put: Allegaeon manifested 10 dizzying tracks of utter brilliance; gave (further) proof the band is profusely proficient as a whole and individually; and created a Technical Melodic Death Metal album packed with so much aggression and speed, it sounds like Monster fornicated with Red Bull.
Arch Enemy has dropped another brutal new single and video! They have released “House of Mirrors” – the second new song in a month following “Deceiver, Deceiver.” The songs come from the bands’ forthcoming new album, due out in 2022 on Metal Blade Records. Watch the clip for “House of Mirrors” right now! Continue reading
Turns out those dudes in Whitechapel are going to be alright. About a decade removed from the great Deathcore rush, this Knoxville unit is still putting up strong numbers and successfully exploring beyond the confines of the genre. And if you enjoyed the genre line blurring on 2019s The Valley, well it turns out Kin (Metal Blade) is willing to venture further out into the woods.
LIK has booked a headline tour of Europe for 2022. The band will support their recent album Misanthropic Breed via Metal Blade. Support comes from fellow Swedishmen Mass Worship!
Instrumental Florida trio Lybica have officially signed with Metal Blade Records. The band features Killswitch Engage drummer Justin Foley on guitar. Lybica plan to release their self-titled debut release sometime in early 2022.
Armored Saint have released a new live video for their track “The Truth Always Hurts” off their upcoming CD/DVD Symbol of Salvation Live (Metal Blade Records). Recorded at the legendary Gramercy Theater in New York City in 2018, the band will be releasing this live version of Symbol of Salvation (Metal Blade Records) as a means of celebrating the seminal records 30th anniversary. See the “The Truth Always Hurts” video below.
Let’s take a minute and talk about hype. We all have a vague notion of what it is, but how does one obtain it? Can it be harnessed long term or is it a matter of riding that wave while it’s marginally available? For instance, how did Job For A Cowboy use it to jump from MySpace unto Metal Blade? Beats me. Whatever the case may be, it appears abundantly clear that Spiritbox know how to tap into it and are doing so on Eternal Blue (Rise Records). But can Spiritbox carry this momentum all through an album? Continue reading
Armored Saint will embark on a West Coast tour with headliners Black Label Society and Prong this winter. Armored Saint released their eighth full-length, Punching The Sky, via Metal Blade Records, last year and the band is pumped to finally tour behind the album.
Legendary Melo-death band The Black Dahlia Murder will embark on a headline tour of North America as the first foray back to full-time touring. The tour features After The Burial, Carnifex, Rivers of Nihil, and Undeath as openers. Dubbed “Up From The Sewer Tour 2021”, this will be the first trek in support of The Black Dahlia Murder’s critically acclaimed album, Verminous (review here), released in April 2020 via Metal Blade Records. Ticket presales are available at the two links below.