MARTYRDÖD – Soon to release their seventh studio album “Hexhammaren” on May 10th, 2019 via Century Media Records, Swedish metal crust punks MARTYRDÖD are releasing their newest single “Pharmacepticon” via a lyric video here:     MARTYRDÖD checked in with the following comment: “We’re pleased to finally show off this other mid tempo side of …

THRONEHAMMER unites british and german musicians Kat Shevil Gillham (Uncofined/Winds of Genocide/Ex-BlessedRealm), Stuart West (Ex-Obelyskkh/Ex-The Walruz) and Tim Schmidt (Naked Star/Seamount). „Usurper of the oaken throne“ is the debut full-length born of this union of notable extreme music perpetrators, rending nearly eigthy minutes of purely epic metal, bridging low-end heaviness with melodic destruction.They’re a powerful …

HAMMERFALL will release a new album titled DOMINION on 16thAugust 2019 via Napalm Records. The group unleashed “(We Make) Sweden Rock” – the first single off DOMINION today.     JOACIM CANS describes the creation of “(We Make) Sweden Rock,” “This is a glorious tribute to the Swedish hard rock and metal movement with a …

BRITISH HEAVY METAL ICONS DIAMOND HEAD ANNOUNCE SECOND SINGLE AND VIDEO: “DEATH BY DESIGN” Diamond Head – the Stourbridge, England born New Wave of British Heavy Metal pioneers – return to the world stage with a new album, set for release May 24thvia Silver Lining Music. The Coffin Trainis at once fresh and exuberant while …

Instrumental Post-Doom quartet CLOUDS TASTE SATANIC releases their fifth album on April 30, 2019 (Walpurgis Eve). Entitled ‘Evil Eye’, the new record features two 20-minute songs on two sides of vinyl and is the first of two CLOUDS TASTE SATANIC records coming out this year     The second album, ‘Second Sight’, features two more …

    “The Black Powder” (Released May 31st) is the fourth album from Lord Vicar. It was, like the previous album “Gates of Flesh”, recorded by audio wizard Joona Lukala at Noise for Fiction studio in Turku, Finland. All studio work took place in February and March of 2019. The studio has the benefit of …

California thrash metal legends DEATH ANGEL have unleashed a snarling new song today called ‘The Pack’ from the band’s long-awaited 9th full-length album, Humanicide, that’s due out May 31st from Nuclear Blast Records. Watch the lyric video for the track here   With their forthcoming album Humanicide, DEATH ANGEL has maintained their throne in the …

MEMORIAM –  RELEASE NEW TRACK ‘SHELL SHOCK’ – NEW ALBUM PRE-ORDER LAUNCHED   The war rages on! Old school metal veterans MEMORIAM are set to unleash their third album, Requiem For Mankind, on June 21st, 2019 via Nuclear Blast Records. Today, the band have revealed the lyric video for new track ‘Shell Shock’. Watch the …

EXODUS CELEBRATE 40 YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH THE RELEASE OF ‘NO LOVE (LIVE AT DAY IN THE DIRT 1984)’ The formation of the beast we now call EXODUS began in Richmond, CA in 1979, and although many started their journey as fans a few years down the line, there is no debating that the early 80’s …

There’s a few bands I wish I had seen back in the day, at the height of their creative peak. There is also plenty that I know I have truly missed the boat seeing in a live setting. Up until 3 months ago, NYC Funk-Metal legends ‘Living Colour’ was one of those band that were …