Month: February 2023

Bootleg: EYEHATEGOD at Ieperfest!

Courtesy of Nick Tronckoe Media a pro-shot multi cam full set from Sludge Metal overlords EYEHATEGOD at Ieperfest has surfaced as the band continue to tour the life out of their current album “A History of Nomadic Behaviour” and rightly so as it took seven years to get this one out of the door. April

Documentary: “Anno 1696” breakdown with Insomnium!

Time to get the popcorn ready. Niilo Sevänen and Markus Vanhala from Finnish Metal melancholists Insomnium have shared a full track by track breakdown of their bands ninth studio album “Anno 1696” in the form of a near 18 minute featurette. Out now via Century Media, the record mixed by Jaime Gomez Arellano (Moonspell, Paradise

NEWS: Utilitarian announce “Gaslights” once more?

Back in August 2021 Sheffield anarchists in Extreme Metal and Hardcore Punk Utilitarian announced that October of that year would see a new full length album titled “Gaslights” with Andy Whale (Darkened, ex-Bolt Thrower, ex-Memoriam) once again making guest appearances on a few tracks. But after single “Pride” the trail went cold despite the band providing

NEWS: Imperial Demonic dance beneath a blood red moon…

Black Lion Records have shared the second single and title track from “Beneath The Crimson Eclipse“, the bleak debut EP from Melodic Black Metal collective Imperial Demonic. Recorded in 2022 at Third Level Audio with James Reeve who engineered and produced, the Belfast  Northern Ireland based quintet (originally a solo project of drummer Cameron Åhslund-Glass)

NEWS: Idle Ruin get caught in a trap…

Filmed at “The Fell Tyrant” album launch, at The Bearded Lady venue in Brisbane Australia on 21st January, Idle Ruin have shared a music video for “Shackled for Adornment“. Produced by Brendan Auld (Malignant Aura, Descent, Resin Tomb) at Black Blood Audio the Blackened Thrash provocateurs debut album is out now via Bitter Loss Records

Bootleg: August Burns Red in San Antonio Texas!

Continuing the Matt Greiner show, some fan filmed footage of Metalcore titans August Burns Red at Vibes Event Center in San Antonio Texas on 25th February has surfaced that includes recent single “Backfire“. The Philadelphia Pennsylvanian quintet are preparing to release their 10th studio album “Death Below” via SharpTone Records on 24th March with the other single

NEWS: Necronomicon Ex Mortis arise from the “Celestial Tomb”!

Inspired by 80s horror movies on VHS, horror games and HP Lovecraft, Chicago residents Necronomicon Ex Mortis have prepared a self titled debut EP for 31st March that promises the gory good time in a World painted in blood and shredding Old School Death Metal. To get us in the mood the band have shared “Celestial

NEWS: Ulvedharr embrace the infernal flames!

Mixed and mastered by Stefano Morabito at 16th Cellar Studio (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Decrepit Birth, Hideous Divinity) Bergamo, Italy based Death Metallers Ulvedharr have announced that their latest burnt offering “Inferno XXXIII” will drop on 21st April. The news of the ten track affair has been accompanied by a Daniele Faccani directed music video for “Dagon” with pre-orders including a

Review: “The Eternal Penance” by Nine Altars

Their expressions ranging from the grotesque to the pious, stone figures and faces of forgotten characters can be seen in the stonework of Durham Cathedral that lead to the Chapel of the Nine Altars, a place where Fenwick Lawson’s huge sculpture, ‘Pietà’ of beechwood and brass, depicting a grieving Mary and a dead Jesus is

Throwback: “Sabbra Cadabra” from (hed)p.e.!

Back in 2020 when Ozzfest was all the rage, a two part compilation of covers of Black Sabbath classics was put together titled “Nativity In Black” featuring the bands that made the events so great. Static-X took on “Behind The Wall Of Sleep“, System Of A Down chose “Snowblind” and of course Huntington Beach California’s (hed)p.e. took