Deafheaven have just announced a North American headline tour in support of their upcoming album, Lonely People With Power (Roadrunner Records). With support coming from Gatecreeper and Trauma Ray, the live run kicks off on April 19th at The Belasco in Los Angeles, CA, running through San Francisco, Vancouver, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Austin and more, with two nights in NYC, May 14th and 15th. Find live listings and more below.
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Deafheaven Drop Their Single and Video “Magnolia” – New Album Coming Soon
Deafheaven have revealed that their new album, Lonely People With Power, will be released March 28th via their new label home, Roadrunner Records. The band have also shared the album’s first single “Magnolia,” aling with an official music video directed by Sean Stout. Watch it below and find out more.
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PODCAST: Glacially Musical 211 – Obituary – “Cause Of Death” Reviewed
Nik and Keefy of Ghost Cult tackle the second album from Obituary, “Cause of Death!” The album cover rules, but the music has nothing to do with it. Discuss!
PODCAST: Glacially Musical 210 – Obituary – “Slowly We Rot” – A Death Metal Classic Reviewed
New series time! Nik and Keefy of GhostCultMag tackle the early classics of Obituary! We start with “Slowly We Rot” from 1989 (Roadrunner Records)!Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Opeth – The Last Will and Testament
Rejoice, fellow death metal fans, Opeth has brought back the harsh vocals! That’s right. Mikael Ackerfeldt and company figured now was the time, as their new album, The Last Will & Testament (Reigning Phoenix Music), has the perfect concept to complement it. The reading of a post-World War 1 patriarch’s last will and testament that spills out family secrets, track by track, section by section of the document (the first seven tracks are named simply after which paragraph is being recited). In terms of instrumentals, this album is my favorite mix of the melodic death metal era of Opeth and the more recent prog-rock era of the band.Continue reading
Highly Suspect Share Their Single “The Blue-Eyed Devil” – New Album Out Soon
Having recently announced the upcoming release of their new album, As Above, So Below, Highly Suspect have dropped another track from the LP; “The Blue-Eyed Devil.” It follows their first single, “Summertime Voodoo,” As Above, So Below is due out July 19th, via the Roadrunner/300/Elektra record labels. In the meantime, check out “The Blue-Eyed Devil” and more from Highly Suspect below.
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CLASSIC ALBUMS REVISITED: Slipknot – “Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)” Turns 20
The album that would become Slipknot’s third album, and the crucial masterpiece in their history, almost didn’t happen at all. Between the hard-fought success of Iowa (Roadrunner Records), the well-documented interpersonal relationship issues between the nine band members, rising fame and pressure, side bands like Stone Sour, To My Surprise, and Murderdolls, and “off the field issues,” you couldn’t blame this band if they imploded totally around this time. However, overcoming themselves and all of these obstacles; Slipknot’s Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Versus) (a great pun on Salman Rushdie’s controversial book, The Satanic Verses, is one of their best albums, along with their debut might be their finest hour. It is certainly their biggest hit album on a lot of levels. It yielded six singles and as we like to say on the Glacially Musical podcast (where we reviewed this album), an album has a bunch of singles if it’s selling and the band is doing well on tour. Continue reading
Empire State Bastard Shares a New Single – “Tired, Naw?”
Having just dropped their debut album Rivers of Heresy (Roadrunner Records) extreme metal supergroup Empire State Bastard have shared a new stand alone single – “Tired, Naw?” The track is streaming on all DSPs now. The band features members of Biffy Clyro with Dave Lombardo on drums! Stream the new single now!
CLASSIC ALBUMS REVISISTED: Life Of Agony’s “River Runs Red” Turns 30
Life Of Agony’s classic debut album River Runs Red was released 30 years ago today, on October 12th, 1993 via Roadrunner Records. Coming out of Brooklyn, New York and produced by Josh Silver (Type O Negative), the album shook the Hardcore and Metal world to its core with its heavy, catchy riff-heavy songs, impassioned vocals, and frank lyrics about suicide, drug addiction, ptsd, and family trauma. The band continues to tour and perform these songs around the globe, and made a sequel album, 2018’s acclaimed The Sound of Scars. Read retrospective we created for the 25th anniversary below, and jam out to some LOA today.
INTERVIEW: Mike Vennart and Simon Neil (Biffy Clyro) of Empire State Bastard Breakdown “Rivers of Heresy”
Ghost Cult Keefy caught up with Mike Vennart (ex-Oceansize) and Simon Neil of Empire State Bastard. The supergroup features the duo from Biffy Clyro, along with Dave Lombardo (Mr. Bungle, ex-Slayer, Dead Cross, etc.) After getting rained out at Riot Fest, the guys were kind enough to circle back with Keefy to pick up the chat with us. They discussed their love of extreme metal including Grindcore and Death Metal, a breakdown of the new album, subverting the expectations of Biffy fans, working with Lombardo, adding Naomi Macleod (Bitch Falcon) to the live line-up on bass, signing to Roadrunner Records, their first USA gigs, and much more!