Neither a sequel to Tiger King nor a thrash metal act usually associated with the region, Californian act Wolf King blasts their way out of the Bay Area with some seriously sick and abrasive blackened hardcore on their second album, The Path of Wrath (Prosthetic Records).
Bay Area Technical Death Metal Band Black Passage is releasing their debut album, Veil, this July. An underground supergroup featuring members of Fallujah, Wolf King, and Anisoptera and led by guitarist Kevin Wilson, the band is already proving to have a deft touch for progressive songcraft, soaring melodies, and unflinching brutal vocals. So far the bands’ music is anything but predictable or safe. Ghost Cult is proud to debut the playthrough video for their current single, ‘Silent Home’. Continue reading
Capping off a huge year, Metal Blade artists Rivers of Nihil have announced a headline tour of the USA this spring. Once they are through on tour in Europe, opening for labelmates Revocation; they will embark on dates with Entheos, Conjurer, and Wolf King as direct support. The band released their acclaimed Where Owls Know My Name album last March, which went on to earn a Top 10 ranking Ghost Cult’s Album of The Year Countdown, landing at number nine! Continue reading
For those who hold music as dear to their hearts and their being as much as I’m sure you, the reader do, there is nothing quite like that discovery of a new band, perhaps out of nowhere, that captures so much about what you love in music. That feeling of finding a band in their early stages that stays with you, that smashes it out of the park, perhaps on the first try, and that both excites you so much and that you feel may break out in time to come. Ladies and gentleman; Wolf King may just well be that band for you. Continue reading
Bay Area Death Fest has unveiled the Day 1 lineup, which will be held at the Oakland Metro Operahouse on Friday, July 10, 2015.
Cattle Decapitation
Origin
Fallujah
The Zenith Passage
No Zodiac
Disentomb
Condemned
Gortuary
Parasitic Ejaculation
Epicardiectomy
Aethere
Unit 731
Party Cannon
Splattered
Cemetery Rapist
Stages Of Decomposition
Logistic Slauger
Paroxysmal Butchering
Embodied Torment
Scrotoctomy
Nephrectomy
Bloodscribe
Impaled Offering
Septicaemia
Wolf King
A full lineup for the festival is still pending.
Metal Blade Records signed goregrind legends, Cattle Decapitation, confirmed to headline day 1 (July 10th) of the Bay Area Death Fest!
Posted by Bay Area Death Fest on Friday, April 17, 2015