OvO: Italian Avant Noise Duo Announces Forthcoming Album On Supernatural Cat

Verfasst von Mike Langer am 23. August 2013.

Genre-collapsing noiseniks, OvO, are pleased to announce the release of their new album, Abisso, on November 4th via the vessel of all things Italian and loud, Supernatual Cat.

The duo, made up of Bruno Dorella on a stripped back drumkit and Stefania Pedretti handling vocals and guitars, are entering their thirteenth year together, and are showing no signs of relenting in their sonic exploration.

ULCERATE Releases New Track; Bear The "Weight Of Emptiness" Now At Loudwire

Verfasst von Mike Langer am 23. August 2013.

Loudwire is hosting an exclusive new track from Vermis, the pending new album from Auckland, New Zealand's death metal innovators, ULCERATE. The fourth of the album's nine cataclysmic hymns, the volatile "Weight Of Emptiness" is its lengthiest, inundating the listener with over seven-and-a-half minutes of purely contorted, dissonant and suffocating death metal, the track slowly swelling, building, breathing, and eventually exploding, rushing the listener like a pyroclastic flow -- an inescapable scorching demise of unimaginable power -- ultimately resulting in one of the most unforgettable and haunting tracks on Vermis.

CALL OF THE VOID: New Video Now Playing At Revolver; Live Assaults With Ringworm + Howl Confirmed

Verfasst von Mike Langer am 23. August 2013.

Today Denver's CALL OF THE VOID bring the ruckus with a video premiere of "Abomination," brought to you by Revolver. The tune is featured on the band's Dragged Down A Dead End Path full-length which reared its menacing head via Relapse Records this past Spring.

Commended for its "legitimate, misanthropic emotion," by Popmatters, Dragged Down A Dead End Path is 25+ minute onslaught of unhinged disgust.

MEPHISTOPHELES: Tasmanian Technical Death Legion Unveil New Track Via Decibel

Verfasst von Mike Langer am 23. August 2013.

Tasmanian technical death metal legion, MEPHISTOPHELES, are pleased to unveil new track "Silver Doors," via Decibel Magazine. Called "vicious, artful, and sonically different," the latest hell hymn comes by way of the band's forthcoming new full-length, Sounds of the End. The devious, ten-track release was recorded at Red Planet Studio with Jake Long and presents some of the band's most complex, intricately arranged and plainly engaging compositions to date.

SKELETONWITCH To Host Live Q&A Session Via Reddit AMA

Verfasst von Mike Langer am 23. August 2013.

SKELETONWITCH To Host Live Q&A Session Via Reddit AMA; Additional Dates With The Black Dahlia Murder Confirmed

Have a burning question you've always wanted to ask SKELETONWITCH? Here's your chance! Head over to Reddit's IAMA page [http://www.reddit.com/r/metal] this coming Monday, August 26 at 7:00pm EST and ask away, as the entire band - vocalist Chance Garnette, guitarists Scott Hedrick and Nate Garnette, bassist Evan Linger and drummer Dustin Boltjes -- will answer queries as part of a virtual Q&A.

A STORM OF LIGHT: New Track Premiere Hosted By Pitchfork; Nations to Flames Release Date Draws Near

Verfasst von Mike Langer am 23. August 2013.

In celebration of its forthcoming release next month, today Pitchfork hurls forth "Lifeless," the eighth track off A STORM OF LIGHT's Nations to Flames.

Describes Pitchfork of the album-defining tune: "The guitars at the start of 'Lifeless' hang slow and steady and mean, suggesting the convoluted doom that's familiar from A STORM OF LIGHT's previous output.