"Circle", the eleventh album from Finnish melancholic dark metal forerunners AMORPHIS, has registered the following first-week chart positions: Finland: #1 Germany: #13 Hungary: #13 UK: #14 (rock chart) Austria: #24 Sweden: #33, #3 (rock/metal chart) Japan: #39 Switzerland: #57 "Circle" was released on April 19 via Nuclear Blast Records. Production and mixing duties for the ...
"Death Vision", the new video from CADAVERIA — the Italian band featuring former OPERA IX vocalist Cadaveria and ex-OPERA IX drummer/NECRODEATH vocalist Marçelo Santos (a.k.a. Flegias) — can be seen below. The song comes off CADAVERIA's fourth album, "Horror Metal", which was released on January 31, 2012 via Bakerteam Records, a division of Scarlet Records. ...
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions has signed the female-fronted sludge trio SERPENT CROWN. The band's new self-titled album will be released on CD format on May 28. Hailing from San Francisco, SERPENT CROWN plays aggressive, ultra-heavy, riff-driven metal. Skilled guitarist and spectral vocalist Dara Santhai leads the charge on this self-titled debut album, which features ...
"Come Back Life", the new video from German psychedelic hard rockers KADAVAR, can be seen below. The clip was directed, filmed and edited by Nathini van der Meer and Annikki Heinemann of Oddisee Films. "Come Back Life" comes off KADAVAR's second full-length album, "Abra Kadavar", which entered the German Media Control chart at position No. ...
Finnish metallers BATTLE BEAST — who last fall parted ways with lead singer Nitte Vänskä and replaced her with Noora Louhimo — will release their second, self-titled full-length album on May 17 via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD was produced and mixed by the band at JKB Studios in Helsinki and mastered by Mika Jussila ...
Finnish metallers KALMAH will release their new studio album, "Seventh Swamphony", on June 17 via Spinefarm Records. The follow-up to 2010's "12 Gauge" was recorded at Tico-Tico Studios in Kemi, Finland, and was mixed and mastered at Fascination Street studios in Örebro, Sweden by Jens Bogren (OPETH, SOILWORK, PARADISE LOST). The new CD will feature ...
Guitarist/vocalist Robb Flynn of San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD (pictured below) has comented on the passing of SLAYER guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who died at about 11 a.m. yesterday (Thursday, May 2) near his Southern California home. He was 49. Hanneman was in an area hospital when he suffered liver failure. In the latest ...
MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine (pictured below) has comented on the passing of SLAYER guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who died at about 11 a.m. yesterday (Thursday, May 2) near his Southern California home. He was 49. Hanneman was in an area hospital when he suffered liver failure. Said Mustaine in an online posting: "We send our condolences ...
Host Ray Harkins of "100 Words Or Less: The Podcast" recently conducted an interview with singer Alissa White-Gluz of Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based female-fronted melodic death metallers THE AGONIST. She opened up about her anxiety, upbringing in Canada and her goals versus her actual life. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player ...
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY has been confirmed for this year's edition of Gigantour, the critically acclaimed package festival founded in 2005 by MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. Also scheduled to appear on the bill are headliners MEGADETH, along with DEVICE, the new band fronted by DISTURBED singer David Draiman; HELLYEAH, featuring Vinnie Paul Abbott (PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN), Chad ...
