ALBUM REVIEW: Gama Bomb – Sea Savage


For their seventh full-length studio release, Irish thrashers Gama Bomb return with a 19th-century nautical theme. Sort of like Moby Dick except with a Yeti, Sea Savage (Prosthetic Records) finds the band dressed like a hairier version of the cast of arthouse horror film The Lighthouse while presenting the album as a play split into two acts. Or at least try to anyway, as they inevitably end up getting sidetracked into songs involving movies and martial arts.

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New Guns N Roses Music May Surface on The Terminator Dark Fate Soundtrack!


As we previously reported Guns N Roses has definitely been the in the studio in the last year and recorded new music, thought to be a cover for Record Store Day Black Friday. Now a report says that GNR rushed to finish a new song for inclusion on the upcoming Terminator Dark Fate movie! If you recall at the height of GNR mania in the early 1990s, the band was everywhere, including the Terminator 2 soundtrack with ‘You Could Be Mine!” An Australian GN’R fan page has reported that a new song is done and will be on the soundtrack. If this is true, it will be a major major rock music event in 2019. This is strictly in the “well-placed rumor” department, but it has some merit. Read below and decide for yourself! GNR booked a slew of tour dates this fall for major festivals that will bring the band to cities across the United States, along with two colossal stadium dates in Mexico. The wide range of festivals GN’R will hit include Louder Than Life, Austin City Limits, Exit 111 and Voodoo Music + Arts Experience.Continue reading


Lighting Bolt, Pig Destroyer, Goatwhore, TR/ST, Alcest, Panopticon booked for Austin Terror Fest


Austin Terror Fest has announced their full lineup for 2019! Lighting Bolt, Pig Destroyer, Goatwhore, TR/ST (Canada), Alcest (France), Panopticon, Bongzilla, Bongripper, Church of Misery (Japan), Full of Hell, Dalek, Black Cobra, Street Sects, Unearthly Trance, Dorthia Cottrell, Machine Girl, Pyrrhon, Genocide Pact, Dreadnought, Crowhurst, Echo Beds, Temple Of Angels, Mountain Of Smoke, Terminator 2, Deep Cross, and Taverner. Austin Terror Fest (ATF) takes place Friday, June 7 through Sunday, June 9 in Austin, Texas, Three-day GA badges are on sale now for $150 through ATF’s Official Facebook Event page, below.

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In The Company Of Serpents Book Upcoming March Tour Dates


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Denver doom duo In The Company Of Serpents is hitting the road across the US, touring in support of their Merging In Light EP, out now via their Bandcamp page.

Produced, mixed and mastered by Dave Otero (Cephalic Carnage, Catheter, Nightbringer, Primitive Man etc.) at Flatline Audio in Denver, Colorado, Merging In Light boasts over twenty chest-heaving minutes of bottom-heavy, riff-sodden, fuzzed out cheerlessness.

Mar 06: Bar Deluxe – Salt Lake City, UT (w/ Oxcross, Top Dead Celebrity)
Mar 07: Crazy Horse – Boise, ID (w/ Oxcross, Top Dead Celebrity, Swamp Shrine)
Mar 09: Highline – Seattle, WA (w/ UN, Breag Naofa)
Mar 10: Tonic Lounge – Portland, OR (w/ Burials, Satanarchist, Dispossessed)
Mar 11: Eli’s Mile High Club – Oakland, CA (w/ Devoid)
Mar 12: Complex – Los Angeles, CA (w/Teeth)
Mar 13: The First Universalist Church Of San Diego – San Diego, CA (w/ Old Man Wizard, Garth Algar, Garth Algar)
Mar 14: 51 West – Phoenix, AZ (w/ Twin Giant, Ladybird, Gale)
Mar 15: Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM (w/ End to End, Iceolus, Echoes Of Fallen)
Mar 17: Billiards Back Room – Abilene, TX (w/ Adrenal Asphyxia)
Mar 18: The Badlands – Austin, TX (w/ Mountain Of Smoke, Destroyer of Light + more for the Austin Heavy Music Vol.2 Showcase)
Mar 19: The Double Wide – Dallas, TX (w/ Terminator 2, The Spectacle)
Mar 20: The Blue Note – Oklahoma City, OK (w/ Idre)
Mar 21: The Crows Nest – Wichita, KS (w/ The Serpent Overlord, Idre)

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