Webzine Dedicated To The Very Best In
Death Metal, Grindcore, Deathcore, Classic and Progressive Metal.
UPDATED: FEB 21ST 2012
Feb 2012
(02.21) Release of Coldworker's
new album "The Doomsayer's Call" has been pushed back to March 13th
2012.
(02.21) Man Must Die
has announced the addition of drummer Todd Hansen (The Berzerker) to
the group's ranks. The band is currently seeking a new label home
following its split with Relapse Records, which released the group last
album "No Tolerance For Imperfection".
(02.18) The new Devin Townsend
DVD Live set called "By A Thread" will apparently have 10 discs. In
Devin's words: "We're going to do the four DVDs, four audio discs, one
of bonus footage, and because the shows are too long to fit the encores
on the audio discs, we have a disc of just the encores. . . There's
bonus material from 'Ghosts' and 'Deconstruction'. We did a bunch of
Punky Bruster stuff and for "Addicted" we did a bunch of old catalog
stuff, just to flesh it out." Devin is already working on his next
album "Epicloud", which "goes between melodic hard rock to
schizophrenic heavy metal to country to really ambient stuff".
(02.18) 'Do Not Look Down', a brand new song from Meshuggah,
can be streamed here.
(02.18) Shadows Fall's
new album will be called "Fire From The Sky", and will be released on
May 8 via Razor & Tie.
(02.17) Nasum, as
part of their farewell tour (reported on a few month ago), will be in
Oakland California at the Oakland Metro May 28th (with Exhumed).
(02.16) Go here
for a Polish news report (with video) on Adrian "Covan" Kowanek, former
vocalist for the band Decapitated,
who has been left terribly injured after a bus crash 4 years ago. Click
on the CC button to get english subtitles. Seeing him in this state is
just so sad, my heart really goes out for the guy. If you have any
extra cash around, I highly recommend supporting the band or the family
directly, for info and links, see the description of the youtube clip,
or visit www.wakeupcovan.com.
(02.16) The new Devin Townsend
4 DVD Live set will be called "By A Thread", and should be out this
summer.
(02.14) Fear Factory
have announced that Matt DeVries (Chimaira, Six Feet Under) has joined
the group as their new bass player.
(02.14) Go here
to listen to the new track 'Bodiless Sleeper' by Spawn Of
Possession from their new album.
(02.13) Cryptopsy
continues to work on their new album.
(02.12) Gortuary
have a new song 'Dieties Of Disease' on their myspace.
No idea if this is from a new album or just a demo.
(02.12) Vile is
seeking a bassist and lead guitarist for future shows in California and
eventually a European tour.
(02.11) Fear Factory
have finished recording their new album, "The Industrialist".
(02.10) Cannibal Corpse's
new album will be out March 13th.
(02.10) Prong's
new album will be out April 24th. Here's
the cover artwork.
(02.09) An update on Blabbermouth on Deftones
bassist Chi's condition: "According to The Pulse Of Radio, Deftones
bassist Chi Cheng is showing more signs of emerging from a
semi-comatose state to a semi-conscious state, over three years since
he was gravely injured in a November 2008 car crash. Cheng is now able
to move his leg on command (see video below), but is still otherwise
unable to move or speak aside from grunting noises that he began making
in October. Cheng required surgery after the car accident to remove
part of his brain, but his recovery was strong enough that he was taken
off life support seven months later. Over the course of the past two
years, Cheng has emerged from his coma for brief intervals. He opens
his eyes and apparently can see and hear things going on around him,
but cannot respond verbally. Nevertheless, Cheng's family is running
out of money. He is staying in a special facility in New Jersey and
lost his insurance just months after the accident. His family
reportedly has just $17,000 out of the total $250,000 needed for his
full course of treatment and recovery."
(02.09) Mnemic
are now in the studio recording their new album.
(02.08) Devin Townsend's
"Deconstruction" album has been nominated for a Juno award (the
Canadian equivalent of the Grammy's).
(02.07) Slayer
hope to enter the studio in March to record their new album.
(02.07) Go here
to listen to a second track off the new Cannibal Corpse
album.
(02.06) Monstrosity
will release their "Live Apocalypse" DVD on March 13. The DVD includes
their performance at the Brutal Assault festival in Josefov Czech
Republic.
(02.05) Anthrax
drummer Charlie Benante's mother passed away yesterday. Our thoughts go
out to him and the entire Benante family.
(02.05) Shadows Fall
have finished recording their seventh album.
(02.03) Vocalist Chuck Billy of Testament,
when asked about Gene Hoglan
who is currently the band's tour drummer, and whether he'd become the
band's new permanent drummer, said: "We'd like him to be, but I think
right now we're just taking it tour by tour. We don't know yet. We just
kind of unexpected had to do this tour before the record came out, so
we haven't really thought about it yet."
(02.02) "Global Flatline", the seventh studio album from Aborted,
sold around 1,000 copies in the United States in its first week of
release. The CD landed at position No. 27 on the Top New Artist Albums
(Heatseekers) chart.
Jan
2012
(01.27) Added a review
to the Aborted's
"Global Flatline" album.
(01.26) Whitechapel
have enetered the studio to work on their 4th album.
(01.26) Fear Factory's
new album will be called "The Industrialist" and will be out this year
in Europe via AFM Records and in the U.S. through Candlelight.
(01.25) Tesseract are
working on an acoustic EP, tentatively titled "Perspective", for a
spring release via Century Media Records. The album will contain
reworked versions of tracks from the band's debut album, "One", plus "a
very special" cover version. Once they're done, they'll continue
writing their next full length album.
(01.24) Go here to listen to the
song 'Collapse In Eternal Worth' from the new Goatwhore
album.
(01.18) In a recent interview, Gojira
guitarist/vocalist Joe Duplantier said that the long awaited "Sea
Shepherd" EP will get finished shortly after they finish recording
their new album.
(01.18) Go here
to see the cover artwork to Meshuggah's
new album.
(01.18) Go here
to listen to a new track 'Where Angels Go Demons Follow' from the newSpawn Of Possession
CD.
(01.17) Bassist Olivier Pinard (Neuraxis)
has officially joined Cryptopsy.
(01.17) Go here
for the cover artwork to Cannibal Corpse's
new album, and here
for the track 'Demented Aggression' off the album.
(01.14) Lost Soul have
announced the addition of drummer Paul Jaroszewicz (Christ Agony,
ex-Vader) and guitarist Marek Golas (Sammath Naur) to the group.
(01.14) According to the webstore of Nuclear Blast Records, Meshuggah have set "Koloss" as
the title of their new album.
(01.13) Suffocation are
working on material for their new album, tentatively due this summer
via Nuclear Blast Records.
(01.12) Cannibal Corpse
will release their twelfth studio album, titled "Torture", in March via
Metal Blade Records.
(01.12) Beneath The
Massacre will release their new album, "Incongruous", in the U.S.
on February 14, in the U.K. on February 20, in mainland Europe on
February 24 and in Canada on February 28 via Prosthetic Records. Go here
to listen to the song 'Symptoms', and here
to listen to the song 'Left Hand'.
(01.11) Prong have set
"Carved Into Stone" as the title of their new album, due later in the
year via Long Branch Records/SPV.
(01.08) Obscenity have
inked a deal with Apostasy Records. The band is preparing to enter
Soundlodge Studio in Rhauderfehn, Germany to begin recording its eighth
album, tentatively titled "Atrophied In Anguish", for a June release.
(01.07) Go here
to listen to a new track off the soon to be released Napalm Death
album.
(01.05) Meshuggah's
new album should be out March 27th.
(01.04) Added a review
to the Devin
Townsend's
"Contain Us" boxset.
(01.02) Go here
to see the cover artwork to the new Deeds Of Flesh
album.
(01.02) Devin Townsend's
recent 4 concert event in London, where he played all 4 of his recent
albums live, was recorded and will surface as a 4 DVD set coming this
July.
