Pro-shot by Leo Sypniewski at the Amsterdam Bar & Hall in St. Paul Minnesota on 21st March, here’s a full set from Black Crown Initiate. The Progressive Blackened Death Metal monsters are currently on the road with Omnium Gatherum and Allegaeon with cuts from 2020’s “Violent Portraits of a Doomed Escape” making up the lionshare
The Gear Gods series “How We Wrote” continues to deliver some seriously interesting album dissections with vocalist Andy Cizek and guitarist John Browne going in deep on their upcoming new Monuments album “In Statis” in the latest episode. That drops via Century Media on 15th April and includes a trio of guests that would grace
One that we reviewed earlier this week, Danish Black Heavy Metal outfit SLAEGT (a.k.a. Slægt, meaning “lineage” / “heritage” in Danish language and pronounced /slɛɡt/) have released their fouth studio album “Goddess” via Century Media Records. Recorded and mixed by Martin ‘Konie’ Ehrencrona (Refused, In Solitude, Tribulation) at Studio Cobra as well as mastered by
The seventh studio album from Swedish Black Metal Kings Dark Funeral is the subject of a conversation between vocalist Heljarmadr and Belgian Jasper with everything from lyrical themes, musical diversity and drinks of choice all very much on the table. “We Are The Apocalypse” comes six years after “Where Shadows Forever Reign” via Century Media
Featuring a trio of guests that would grace any album in Neema Askari (Form Subtract, ex Fellsilent, ex-Monuments), Spencer Sotelo (Periphery, King Mothership), and Mick Gordon (DOOM, Prey, Killer Instinct), the upcoming fourth studio album “In Stasis” from Progressive Metal titans Monuments looks set to shake the very foundations of all that we know. They’ve offered up another single from
“When I think of heavy metal, there is a certain feeling I am after. A special haunting, emotional impact that I’m seeking. Nowadays, with a total over-saturation of new bands, I will always be super excited when I get that same feeling that was there when I first got into underground metal. Slægt is one
Fifteen minutes of German Hardcore heavyweights Nasty at the Saarbucken stop of last year’s hastily put together Impericon Never Say Die national tour on 22nd November has emerged via Edge Media as the band continue to be something of a menace to society. It was a run that saw them joined by Within Destruction, Distant,
Celebrating 3 years of “Encased In Ice” as they steamroller across the US with Dying Fetus, Chelsea Grin, Bodysnatcher and Undeath, Dallas Texas Old School Death Metallers Frozen Soul might just be on their dream tour. They talk about the first concerts in their Metal lives in this freshly released interview filmed at Beat Kitchen
Including “Inner Paths (To Outer Space)” and “Awakening From the Dream of Existence to the Multidimensional Nature of Our Reality (Mirror of the Soul)” here’s a prize pair of pro-shot full sets from Denver Colorado critically acclaimed Death Metal act Blood Incantation at the iconic Saint Vitus Bar in New York. The freshly released shows
A darker and bleaker offering featuring guest appearances from At The Gates guitarist Jonas Stålhammar, Barney Greenway of Napalm Death, and Jonas Renkse of Katatonia, the sophomore album from fast rising Scandinavian Death Metallers Mass Worship remains the gift that simply keeps giving. The band have chosen “Empyrean Halls” for a twin axe attack playthrough
