MONO’s behemoth world tours have become a sort of calling card for the experimental rock quartet; as one of the most internationally successful bands in Japan, MONO’s annual world tour consists of around 150 shows and has stormed through over 55 countries. This April, MONO will be kicking off its divvy of North American dates alongside Holy Sons, Kikagaku Moyo & more. A full schedule can be found below, which include a two-date tour kickoff supporting SLEEP.
 
Fresh off a sold out show at Daikanyama UNIT in Tokyo, and an appearance at Hostess Club Weekender as the first Japanese band ever in the history of the festival, MONO is ramping up for a banner year in support of their 2016 LP Requiem For Hell. Recorded with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago, Requiem For Hell is a cinematic retelling of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, complete with sinister crescendos, slow burning strings, and squalling guitar interludes. 

04.19.17 Minneapolis MN @ First Avenue w/ SLEEP 
04.20.17 Madison WI @ Majestic Theatre w/ SLEEP [SOLD OUT] 
04.21.17 Madison WI @ University of Wisconsin 
04.22.17 Chicago IL @ Subterranean 
04.23.17 Detroit MI @ El Club 
04.25.17 Toronto ON @ Lee’s Place 
04.26.17 Montréal QC @ Phi Centre 
04.27.17 Providence RI @ Columbus Theatre 
04.28.17 Portsmouth NH @ 3S Artspace 
04.29.17 Hamden CT @ Ballroom at the Outer Space 
05.01.17 Brooklyn NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg 
05.02.17 Philadelphia PA @ Johnny Brenda’s 
05.03.17 Washington DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel 
05.04.17 Durham NC @ Motorco Music Hall 
05.05.17 Asheville NC @ The Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall 
05.06.17 Nashville TN @ Exit In 
05.08.17 Atlanta GA @ The Earl 
05.09.17 Birmingham AL @ Saturn 
05.11.17 Baton Rouge LA @ Spanish Moon 
05.12.17 Houston TX @ Walter’s Downtown 
05.13.17 Dallas TX @ Club Dada 
05.14.17 Austin TX @ Barracuda 
05.16.17 Phoenix AZ @ Crescent Ballroom 
05.18.17 Salt Lake City UT @ Urban Lounge 
05.19.17 Denver CO @ Marquis Theatre
 
*Support bands; Holy Sons, Kikagaku Moyo & more.

Dunk! Records and Russian Circles have announced the upcoming vinyl release containing Russian Circles' full gig at Dunk! Festival 2016. This album is the very first live album by Russian Circles and it was recorded at dunk!festival 2016 where they headlined that edition. We knew what these guys from Chicago were capable of so we expected a lot of their show but we didn't knew it was going to be perfect. So we thought we should have this pressed on vinyl and make it a physical memory to this amazing performance.

The tracks, recorded by Jannes Van Rossom (Deaftone) and Thierry Staelens were mixed by Dallas Thomas from Pelican and mastered for vinyl by Collin Jordan (The Boiler Room LLC). These tunes are now being pressed on high quality 180g colored vinyl, in two different color configurations. The package comes in an upgraded gatefold cover, printed inside out, designed by Error! Design. The inside is a collage of pictures taken at dunk!festival 2016 by Davy De Pauw and Gosia Wanda.

Pre orders are available here. 

Wisconsin bonged out riffmasters BONGZILLA are back this spring with a full European tour and a set of appearances at the finest festivals. Get ready to trip your heads off with the loudest, haziest riffs you'll hear this year.

In anticipation of a long-awaited new album release since 2005's Americajuanican, reformed stoner doom legends BONGZILLA are set to take over the Old Continent through a month-long tour starting at the end of April. Among the landmark events on this tour, the US foursome will perform their 15-year old classic Gateway in its entirety at Roadburn Festival (NL), and not one, but two sets at mighty Desertfest London (UK).

Dutch indie legends Bettie Serveert return on their 25th Anniversary with their 11th Studio Album 'Damaged Good'. This limited edition exclusive transparent magenta Vinyl LP (with beautiful gatefold packaging) will include a digital download and full CD. This is the only version of the LP or CD available in North America. This is one of 'The Betties' most diverse albums so far, including songs ranging from 60 seconds to an 8 min epos and everything in between.

This LP experience is intense, raw and tender, but it is also passionate and fierce. Some songs will definitely remind people of their classic 'Palomine', the debut album that started everything 25 years ago. The album is recorded and mixed with Jesse Beuker, with whom Canadian-born vocalist Carol van Dyk and lead guitarist Peter Visser have worked before on their Australian project 'Me & Stupid'. This collection of 11 tracks also includes the rock duet 'Love Sick' with Peter te Bos, vocalist from the famous Dutch band Claw Boys Claw. 

More info here

Legendary North Carolina band The Veldt return with a new single 'Symmetry', available exclusively as a 7" single for Record Store Day 2017.  The lead track and its b-side counterpart "Slow Grind" are two of the best songs released in the band"s 28-year history.  Often compared to the Cocteau Twins, Ride and Lush, this is a must-have for any shoegaze aficionado. 

More info here

This May 12th, Berlin one and only heavy psych trio SAMSARA BLUES EXPERIMENT will return with their fourth album "One With The Universe" on Electric Magic Records. Enter SBE's 10-minute jam "Vipassana", and discover the album artwork below.

Guitarist and vocalist Christian Peters discusses this first excerpt: "It is the first song we did after Richard had left the band. It came out from a series of jam sessions. The song topic seems to be about growing up, or maybe growing up responsibly. Kind of a coming of age thing, wrapped in heavy riffs and Pink Floydish-psychedelia, plus some kind of Indian raga theme. It’s pretty much what one can consider as ‘classic SBE’-material already, I think. It may be interesting to know that Richard, who did not play any instruments, but again recorded the album, also contributed some nice ideas in the process, like having me play the backward solo or putting in some vintage tape-effects. we are all very happy with the outcome of this song in particular and hope you will enjoy. there is much more on the album."

Track list:

1. Vipassana
2. Sad Guru Returns
3. Glorious Daze
4. One with the Universe
5. Eastern Sun & Western Moon

Tour dates:

25.03 - Roma (IT) Defrag
31.03 - Osnabrück (DE) Westwerk
01.04 - München (DE) Under The Black Moon Festival
02.04 - Leipzig (DE) Werk 2
22.04 - Barcelona (SP) Riff Ritual Festival
29.04 - Berlin (DE) Desertfest
30.04 - London (UK) Desertfest
12.05 - Berlin (DE) Zukunft am Ostkreuz - Stummfilm Special
13.05 - Berlin (DE) Zukunft am Ostkreuz - Official release party
14.05 - Hamburg (DE) Hafenklang
15.05 - Wiesbaden (DE) Schlachthof
16.05 - Bielefeld (DE) Forum
17.05 - Nijmegen (NL) Doornroosje
18.05 - Nantes (FR) Le Ferrailleur
19.05 - Paris (FR) Le Backstage
20.05 - Köln (DE) Underground
11.08 - Finkenbach (DE) Finki Festival

German Metalcore quintet Cry My Name have released the official video for "Recover," a track from forthcoming album Reflections. Check it out at this location.

CRY MY NAME will release new album Reflections April 21 on Bastardized Recordings. And the group sounds fresher and more dynamic than ever! On Reflections, the band's traditional style is bolstered by a fat production, angry riffs, roller-grooves and hard chorus hooks. 

CRY MY NAME fuels its sound with aggressive hardcore beats without anchoring themselves to the past. Most importantly, the Kiel boys demonstrate a unique flair for writing great songs! Reflections was recorded at Blastbeat Productions and mastered a Pitchback Studios.

French Progressive Death Metal metallers FRACTAL UNIVERSE, have released a music video for the song 'Sons Of Ignorance', taken from their upcoming debut full-length, 'Engram Of Decline'.

Directed by Vincent Tournaud, the video was born with the aim to illustrate the birth of consciousness with the use of two distinct scenes. Thus, the song revolves around the key moment when human starts to consciously perceive the surrounding world.

'Engram Of Decline' will be released via Kolony Records on April 14th, 2017.

​'Engram Of Decline'  is a 10-track concept album based on Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathoustra', and it wishes to explore the history of human thought, by delivering nearly 60 minutes of finest Progressive Death Metal.
'Engram Of Decline' also features 2 mind blowing guest appearance by saxophonist Jørgen Munkeby (Shining) and guitarist Michael Keene (The Faceless).

Brazilian death metal lords NERVOCHAOS are set to release their seventh studio album ‘Nyctophilia’ on April 7th via Cogumelo (in Brazil), Greyhaze (in US) and distributed by Plastic Head (in Europe). Today the band has unleashed their 360° video for the song "Ritualistic"/

​“Nyctophilia” is an eclectic mix of all that characterizes the band, 13 new tracks of 80s-fueled blackened extreme music, executed in NERVOCHAOS trademark: raw, aggressive and organic style of Metal. “Nyctophilia” has a new intensity and it takes a step forward, compared to their older releases.

For the first time, the band recorded the album outside Brazil, spending a month in Como/Italy at Alpha Omega Studio along with producer Alex Azzali, who also did mixing and mastering of the new album. Also it’s the first album composed and recorded with the new line-up which features Lauro ‘Nightrealm’ on vocal/guitar, Cherry on guitar, Thiago ‘Anduscias’ on bass and the only remaining original member Edu Lane on drums. The album artwork was created by Alcides Burn, a talented Brazilian artist that has worked with acts such as Blood Red Throne, Acheron, Iconoclasm, Headhunter DC and many more to list. “Nyctophilia” also features special guest vocals appearance by Sebastian L. of INTO DARKNESS and Leandro P. of R.N.S. plus one track, ‘Vampiric Cannibal Goddess’, with the guitar riffs created by Bolverk of RAGNAROK.

After the lyric video for "Bloodlines", melodic death metallers Across The Burning Sky, who have committed themselves to the Gothenburg style, are releasing a brand new lyric video for the track "Sacrifice", a song taken off the band's current album "The End Is Near". The video, which was premiered in cooperation with Metal Hammer Italia, is a combination of lyric video and religious motifs and rituals, which, in the context of the lyrics as criticism of religion denies the existence of a god and accuses his worship practices. 
 
"Sacrifice" is once again a fast and ferocious ode to the early melodic death metal of the nineties and will also be on the forthcoming fourth part of the "Hymns Of The Underground" compilation series.

Northwest extreme death metal hordeDead Conspiracy have released a music video for "In the Wake of the Butcher," a track from the band's 2016 self-titled album.  

The band credited with being Portland's first-ever death metal act released its long-anticipated first full-length LP of new material in November. Dead Conspiracy is available on CD, vinyl and digital formats through Necromantic Press Records. Exile Music will release the album on cassette. CDs featuring the 1987 demo and a cover track recorded for Tribute To Headhunter Death Cult are offered in Brazil by Funeral Rites Records.  

The follow-up to the band's critically-acclaimed 2014 Abomination Underground, the self-titled album is an utterly destructive, dark, depraved, and disgustingly satisfying piece of death metal that fans of Death, Gruesome, Sodom, Massacre and all the old gods will surely appreciate.

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions signed Austin, TX's crusty death metal destroyers SIGIL for the release of their debut album entitled 'Kingdom Of The Grave' to be unleashed on April 7th on CD and digital formats. 
"this is definitely the thrashiest/fastest track on the record and stands apart from the other songs for that reason. Thematically it's about the destructive nature of radicalized religion, regardless of what that religion is." comments vocalist / guitarist Alex Citrone.

SIGIL successfully blends classic Swedish death metal with American crust resulting in catchy, crushing chaos. Keeping true to the old school faith, their debut album 'Kingdom Of The Grave' is unrelenting in its death metal attack, which also incorporates raw D-beat aggression complimented by slashing solo's and throat-ripping vocals. For fans of Black Breath, Carnage, Dismember, Entombed, Entrails, Fatalist, Fleshcrawl, Gatecreeper, Grave, His Hero Is Gone, Nihilist and Tragedy

Vocalist / guitarist Alex Citrone comments on the album:

"Kingdom of the Grave” is pure, raw death metal with an explosive energy to it. It has themes of the occult, suicide, police brutality and a dystopian future. Fans of the old and new school will find something to love." 

​Pre order here

Toronto, ON's Adrian Pain & The Dead Sexy unleashed their new EP 'Mixed Messages' this past February to continue their solid chemistry of an 'Allcore' metal sound with emotionally stirring and socially conscious lyrics. The EP is a marriage of Adrian Pain's solo endeavours and The Dead Sexy's band work to follow EPs 'Picture Day At Night School' (2014) and their debut 'The First One Is Free' (2013) along with Pain's solo full length 'Love Letters & Suicide Notes' (2012). 
Pain describes 'Mixed Messages':

“This release is like the gateway drug to metal and heavier music in general! We appeal to a very wide range of musical tastes so guys can play us for their girlfriends, and girls can play us for the guys. If you identify another way, you can play us for whomever you’d like.  If any negative response comes out of it, it’ll be the fans that expect every song to get heavier with each effort. What I hope they notice is the constant evolution of our sound. The music itself is getting more and more diverse and progressive, while the song structures are also evolving into bigger, more complex arrangements. I want everyone that listens to this record to feel an emotional connection. I want people to relate to, and hear the MESSAGE in each track."

In support of the new EP, the 'Allcore' metal band has premiered their new video 'Day One'.

"The band and I are all fans of 'play through' videos. Usually you'd see individual play through videos like bassists, drummers, or guitarists by themselves. I had recently watched a few that Luke Holland & Jason Richardson have done together and thought it would be very cool to do a full band play through. We were originally planning on doing another lyric video for "Day One" but the idea fit nicely with this track because of all the great individual parts. We want our friends and fans out there, who may not always have a chance to catch 'Adrian Pain & The Dead Sexy' live, see us play and get a feel for what we do as musicians." - Adrian Pain

French alternative metal band Evenline released their new album called 'In Tenebris' on January 20th 2017. Now, they also released a video for the song 'Silene Capensis'. 

Sleeping awake
Untill daybreak
Give me a pill
I don't know what's real
Give me a break
There's brokenness in my wake
Bring me your faith
Please get me someplace safe

Nighon released a second single "The Dirge" from their upcoming album "The Somme" which is released May 5th 2017 by Inverse Records. 

"We have released a new video with a strong message. The song "The Dirge" raises the question: "Why do we have wars?”. They are horrible and the majority of mankind seems to despise it. The song was inspired by the annexation of Crimea, the Vietnam war and the Korean war. Björn: "The lyrics I wrote tells us about the consequences of letting our hate spin out of control, and when governments twist lies into truths to justify war!" 

German modern metallers Fall Of Carthage have released a new video for the track "Suffer The Pain". Taken off the band's latest album "The Longed-For Reckoning", "Suffer The Pain" is not your typical performance video, but a complex and cinematic staged clip, directed and produced by Michael Ciesla (SuidAkrA).

The shooting took place in the middle of February in Kleinrinderfeld, near Würzburg.

Fall Of Carthage will be supporting Hopelezz this summer on a mini tour. Check the live dates below.

Groove- and death- metal band MagnaCult release 'Righteous Murder', the first video and also the opening track from their upcoming album 'Infinitum'. The release of the album is set for the 12th of May, 2017 and will be followed by a number of shows, of which the first, with DevilDriver, have been announced earlier this week.

Righteous Murder features Alma Alizadeh from For I Am King to add her brutal voice to the song. The song is about how people can have such intense and disastrous experiences with others in ways they are being deprived of who they could actually become in this life.

MagnaCult´s debut album 'Synoré', released in 2007, saw the birth of their signature groove and death metal. The band took their sound to the next level with their follow-up album 'Insua EnVenom'. More brutal and technical than their 2007 debut, 'Insua EnVenom' is faster and more crushing. With their third album, 'INFINITUM', MagnaCult have nailed their music style, shifting up a gear to an epic release packed with massive guitar solos and full of groove.

​09 June 2017: Dynamo, Zürich, Switzerland        
13 June 2017: Podium Victorie,    Alkmaar, Netherlands
14 June 2017: Turock, Essen, Germany    
16 June 2017: Der Hirsch, Nuremberg, Germany    
20 June 2017: Poppodium Metropool, Hengelo, Netherlands
21 June 2017: Knust, Hamburg, Germany    

Instrumental power trio, ALUK TODOLO, has released a new video trailer for their archival release appropriately titled 'Archive Vol. 1'. The album is an eight track record that will be released via Temple of Torturous on 20 March, 2017, and is comprised of rarities, B-sides, and unheard tracks that chart the first ten years of their existence. 

Over those ten years, including four full length albums, a collaboration and two EPs, ALUK TODOLO have trodden a new path of sonic pursuits. Hailing from France, the exploratory trio get experimental with Krautrock drenched in black metal intensity. Whilst having never been able to be easily pigeonholed, ALUK TODOLO's sound has morphed and reshaped over the years.

Of the new release, the band commented: "We selected those tracks, because they were still in our consciousness after all these years. We approached the release as a whole, assembled the tracks focussing on dynamic, like we did for our latest studio album Voix (instead of making it chronological). For us it's a way to revisit our 10 first years, and use recordings we made on our own, be it rehearsal tracks, or work-in-progress steps, rare tracks releases or just experimentations. It's a collection, and here is Vol.1, we have no clear plan about the Vol.2, but time will tell..."

European Tour April 2017 (with Oranssi Pazuzu on selected dates): 

2017-04-18 Belgium Kortrijk - The Pit´s - with Witch Trail 
2017-04-19 Germany Berlin - Urban Spree - with Oranssi Pazuzu 
2017-04-20 Poland Poznan - Las -
2017-04-21 Germany Hamburg - Markthalle - with Oranssi Pazuzu
2017-04-22 Tilburg, The Netherlands - Roadburn Festival, 013 - with Mysticum, Magma, Oranssi Pazuzu... 
2017-04-23 Belgium Bruxelles - Magasin 4 - with Oranssi Pazuzu
2017-04-24 France Colmar- Grillen - with Oranssi Pazuzu
2017-04-25 Switzerland Zurich - Ebrietas - with Antiversum 
2017-04-26 France Paris - Petit Bain - with Oranssi Pazuzu
2017-04-27 France Nantes - Le Ferrailleur - with Oranssi Pazuzu
2017-04-28 France Toulouse - Le Rex - with Oranssi Pazuzu
2017-04-29 France Montpellier - The Black Sheep
2017-04-30 France tba

Pallbearer’s colossal third album Heartless will be released on March 24th and last night, the band unveiled the album’s opener “I Saw The End” on BBC’s Radio 1 Rock Show with Daniel P. Carter.  Below, you can check out a music video for the track, which was directed by Zev Deans / Panorama Programming (Lamb of God, Chelsea Wolfe, Ghost).  
 
The band commented
"Both song and video present a telescopic view on an eternity of corruption. The path of greed leads to misery. When higher awareness allowed us to claw our way out of the mud, we found new ways to exploit one another, abusing the gift that could bring us to new heights. In the end, we pay for our selfishness. Join us for this elegy for what might have been."  

ee Pallbearer on tour later this month with support from Marissa Nadler and Kayo Dot (dates listed below, with an additional show announced in June with Baroness) and look for Heartless to be released March 24th from Profound Lore in North America (in Europe from Nuclear Blast Entertainment).  Heartless is available for pre-order here.
 
PALLBEARER, ON TOUR:
March 22  Little Rock, AR @ Revolution Music Room 
March 23  Nashville, TN @ The End *
March 25  Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
March 28  Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop *
March 29  Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme *
March 31  Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall *
June 2  Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
 
* w/ Marissa Nadler, Kayo Dot
* w/ Baroness, Nothing

Maryland/Pennsylvania experimental death-noise band FULL OF HELL will release of their most punishing, virulent, and dynamic album in their 8-year long career; titled Trumpeting Ecstasy, the 11-song album will be available May 5th, 2017 via powerhouse label Profound Lore Records.  Today, Full Of Hell have premiered the album’s crushing opening track, “Deluminate”.
 
Full Of Hell have had quite the journey leading up to the release of this this third full-length album; the band’s embryonic beginnings displayed their palette at it’s most primitive, d-beat and blast ridden hardcore punk with spats of noise and caustic rhythm, and within a few short years, they have bloomed into a true force to be reckoned with within the punk and metal communities.  Since the release of their Profound Lore Records debut album Full Of Hell & Merzbow in late 2014, the band began to truly come into their own, combining elements of grindcore, death/black metal, punk and hardcore with a smattering of sonically laden power electronics and industrial pounding.  It would also signal the band being at their most active and prolific ever since their inception in 2009.  The band would also add to their repertoire and discography with a direct collaboration album with The Body and several EP’s, one of them being their most-recent split 7”EP with NAILS (which debuted #2 on the Billboard Top 100 Singles Chart).
 
Now, on Trumpeting Ecstasy, Full Of Hell build upon their progression since the Merzbow collaboration and the releases succeeding it.  This time the band decided to go into God City Studios with Kurt Ballou at the production helm to help achieve thir intended vision; the result being the best, strongest-sounding, and most towering Full of Hell release to date.  Sonically cataclysmic, the aural deluge that is Trumpeting Ecstasy also features guest appearances by Aaron Turner (Sumac/Old Man Gloom/Mamiffer/Isis), Nate Newton (Converge/Old Man Gloom), Andrew Nolan (Column Of Heaven/The Endless Blockade), and Canadian singer/songwriter Nicole Dollanganger.  
 
Trumpeting Ecstasy is available for pre-order now, here.

Ambassador 21 have revealed a teaser for their upcoming video for the song 'Revelation', which comes off their recently unleashed 'Human Rage' album.

Produced by Outbox Studio. Director & editor - Tatiana Oskina
Camera - Pavel Oskin. Sound design - Alexey Protasov
Filmed in Outbox Studio (Prague) in 2017

Today, we released part 4 of the ongoing story meets music meets painting project by Belgian writer Tamara E. Williams. For this part, the music was recorded by Belgian drone ambient act Monnik. As usual, the painting comes from our very own Paul (click here to see his paintings)
Tamara E. Williams comments: "The story continues as the three friends meet a mysterious figure on a horse that gives them more questions than answers. The music by Monnik inspired the strange and mysterious atmosphere I tried to put into this part."

Portuguese gore masters Grog have shared a new song from their impending fourth album “Ablutionary Rituals”, out next week, March 20th viaMurder Records. The follow up to 2013’s critically lauded “Scooping The Cranial Insides” LP shows no signs of slowing down as the Portuguese four-piece unit continue to churn out a brutal and uncompromising grindcore sound.

Progressive power trio Atavismo from Spain have premiered a brand new video for the track La Maldicion del Zisco. La Maldicion del Zisco is a new track from Inerte, the new album by Atavismo. Inerte consists of 5 new tracks and is due out via Temple of Torturous on April 7, 2017!

Hailing from Spain, and with a critically acclaimed debut album, Desintegración, already under their belts, Atavismo are exploring new territories with their second full length release. Breaking away from the space rock jams of their debut, Atavismo have maintained a psychedelic edge, only this time around the evolution of the band is reflected in their more compact, progressive sounds.

Toronto's Sludgehammer have unleashed their new video for 'Demons From The Woodwork', one of 11 tracks on their debut album 'The Fallen Sun' released during June of last year.  The video is a band playthrough demonstrating their mind bending guitar solos, devastating heavy riffs, blistering drum fury and dynamic vocal performances from lead vocalist Chris Szarota plus bassist Dan Ayers. Their latest album 'The Fallen Sun' is the follow up their 2014 EP 'Organ Harvester' and was self-produced by the band plus mixed by guitarist Tyler Williams along with mastering done by world renowned producer & engineer Lasse Lammert (Gloryhammer, Alestorm, Teramaze) at LSD Studio in Germany.

ANTROPOFAGUS returns on May 12, 2017 with an album of uncompromising godless ferocity! Five years after their highly praised 'Architecture of Lust' release, this Italian death metal beast strikes again with Comatose Music release 'Methods of Resurrection Through Evisceration (M.O.R.T.E.)', a journey into life, death, resurrection and the descent into the darkest depths of self.  

This is ANTROPOFAGUS' heaviest and most wicked effort to date, blending old school US death metal influences with their trademark style of brutality. M.O.R.T.E. is a deluge of punishing frantic riffs, monstrous vocals and a relentless drums performance by Davide 'BrutalDave' Billia (BEHEADED, HOUR OF PENANCE). Make no mistake; there is no escape. ANTROPOFAGUS is coming to consume your flesh and invade your soul! 
Also look out for the officially licensed vinyl edition from Everlasting Spew Records. 

Guitarist Francesco and Vocalist Tya had this to say about the forthcoming Comatose Music release:

Francesco: "We decided to go with a warmer and fatter tone this time. The songs are more straight forward and in your face than the songs on 'Architecture of Lust', and certainly more groovy. I'd say this is the most old school and evil Antropofagus album to date. Dave and I worked hard to make sure this album would have a deeper sanguineous sound, and I also went from a six string to a seven string guitar for this recording. I'd say Morbid Angel and Hate Eternal have been the strongest influences while writing this album, but the Antropofagus trademark is definitely there, so expect pure brutality! Probably our most balanced and mature album so far."

Tya: "This is definitely the Antropofagus album which we worked the most on, the one that required the highest tribute from us. As on a conceptual level, it's drenched of my own blood. M.O.R.T.E. is a continual succession of thoughts, shadows and nightmares shaped into music, extreme and hate-filled against all which is dogmatic to humanity's eyes. A process of rebirth through the evisceration of my own self."

Icelandic black metal band Dynfari have revealed "Sorgarefni segi eg þér", a new track from their forthcoming album The Four Doors of the Mind. Alternating between post-rock vibes and black metal atmospheres, the album explores fantasy writer Patrick Rothfuss' theory on the mind's abilities to cope with pain, by weaving it together with over 100 year old lamentations on human existence by early 20th century Icelandic existentialist poet Jóhann Sigurjónsson. The combination of the two writers' thoughts is embodied in the union of the drive of black metal with more traditional soundscapes of acoustic guitar, accordion, flute and bouzouki. Artwork by Metaztasis (Watain, Behemoth). The Four Days of the Mind will be released on April 14th via Code666 and can be pre-ordered here. 

German heavy rockers SpiteFuel have published a new video for the track "Purified".

Taken off the band's upcoming album "Second To None", which will be released on April 7th via MDD Records, the footage from "Purified" video is from the recording sessions in the Troisdorf-based Gernhart Studio (Tankard, Destruction, SuidAkra), where the band recorded their new full-length with producer Martin Buchwalter. Cover artwork is from Travis Smith (Nevermore, Iced Earth, Opeth).

US Space Sludgers GREEN METEOR reveal cover artwork and first single from their forthcoming new album. The song “Mirrored Parabola Theory” comes off the album “Consumed by a Dying Sun”, which will be released in CD/DD by Argonauta Records and be available from April 21st, 2017. Preorders run here

As announced one year ago during the AVULSED crowdfunding campaign for their 25th anniversary double album "Deathgeneration", the band recorded the entire special show in Madrid last 19th of November with 6 cameras for its release on a triple-disc release consisting on audio 2-CD and DVD under the title of "Night of the Living Deathgenerations".

This release contains the 2-hour show with all songs from "Deathgeneration" plus one more that wasn't played for at least 20 years. This live recording perfectly captures the unparalleled intensity of AVULSED on stage in front of a packed club with totally crazy crowd, making of this show, the most perfect celebration of the band's 25th years of pure devotion to Death Metal.

"Night of the Living Deathgenerations" will be released on a wonderful 8-pannel digipack containing the 3 discs plus a 16 pages booklet with over 150 professional photos taken by Unai Endemaño & Raquel García. Cover artwork was made by Juanjo Castellano, displaying all main characters of every AVULSED album covers in just one, with the genius style of Juanjo.

Although release date for this is set for 17th of April, it'll be already available on all AVULSED show during the band's upcoming European tour between 7-15th of April along with MERCYLESS & SAVAGE ANNIHILATION through the following dates:

​07.04 FRA / Volmerange (No Man’s Land)
08.04 GER / Frankfurt Deathfest
09.04 HOL / Tilburg (Little Devil)
10.04 HOL / Utrecht (dB’s) 
11.04 GER / Koln (Sonic Ballroom)
12.04 CZE / Prague (Modra Vopice)
13.04 GER / Erfurt (From Hell)
14.04 FRA / Colmar (Le Grillen)
15.04 ITA / Milano (Blue Rose)

CreVassE released today their brand-new lyric video for the song “Brave New World”. "Me & You" is CreVassE's first studio album and lives off its extraordinary melodies, paired with fresh arrangements and is generally chock-full of emotions that will stay with you long after the last track has been played. Their sound incorporates classical elements and gives a healthy shout-out to the prog hard rock from the late 70's.

Norwegian hardcore five-piece group, Ondt Blod, have shared a new song from their forthcoming and yet untitled second album (the follow-up to their 2016 album "Finnmark"), due out later this year via Fysisk Format. Titled “Storma”, this new track was produced by Blood Command's Yngve Andersen, mixed by Haust's Ruben Willem and mastered by Alan Douches.

New York-based powerviolence/death metal/grindcore veterans Buckshot Facelift continue their worldwide domination through the rollout of their upcoming fourth album, Ulcer Island. Which will see release on April 14th through Paragon Records. The band  premiered their 3rd single to date, "Czech Yourself". One of the shorter cuts on Ulcer Island, "Czech Yourself" features the band in full-throttle grind mode. Creating as much noise and vitriol as they can muster in just 45 intense seconds of fury.

UK progressive metallers OHHMS discharge another punishing salvo with their new song "The Magician" in anticipation of the band's debut album, coming out March 31st on Holy Roar Records. 

Vocalist Paul Waller tells us more about their anti-establishment new song:

"We have tackled the subject of GMOs contaminating the food we eat on our debut EP in the song ‘Bad Seeds’, which highlighted corporate greed and the huge amounts of cash that can be saved by cutting corners. I was shocked that the information was out there in the public domain, and yet we just ignore it and continue to eat poisons day after day. 

Musically, it was the first ‘fast’ song that we had ever written, although in reality its pretty much mid-paced and even though it lasts a little over eight minutes in total, I only managed to fit in one verse, one middle eight and a killer chorus at the end. It’s all it needed. It’s disgusting and angry enough, so any more riffs or anymore vocals would have been sensory overload.”

Finnish Death Dealers LANTERN have premiered a new song from forthcoming album 'II: Morphosis'. Dark Descent Records will once again unleash the album upon the huddled masses. The band's second full-length, 'II: Morphosis', is set for a March 17 release. 
Pre-order the album on CD, black vinyl, and blue/black splatter vinyl.

Brazil's alt metal / metalcore band PATO JUNKIE have unleashed a new music video for their single ‘Bad Memories’, which is off their upcoming 2017 album ‘The Rag Doll’ to follow their 2015 debut ‘Doido e Violento'. The video was directed by Alvaro Borges and Getúlio Alves plus edited by Alcatraz Filmes. 'Bad Memories' is the band's second music video following their first for the album's title track released last year and can be heard here.

Ukrainian Brutal Death Metallers FLESHGORE have launched a killer official video-clip of the song "Talk to Me About God" taken from their 5th labum "Denial of the Scriptures".   "Denial of the Scriptures" was released in February 2016 through Xtreem Music. 

Presentations for the Italian post-metal outfit POSTVORTA should not be necessary as the band 
as been protagonist over the past years of some of the most interesting releases coming from the ItalianItalian Underground and foremost the European soil. If with their debut album "Beckoning Light We Will Set Ourselves On Fire" they had already caught the attention of all post-fanatics in the old continent, with their second release "Ægeria" they indeed reached a wider audience. 

Third I Rex had recently the honor to join forces with 22 December Records and Drown Within Records for the re-release of the band's works and it is now with extreme joy that we renew our bond with the band by bringing to life a new outstanding opus. 

The band has spoken about the new release by stating: 

"The 'Carmentis' album is the second chapter of the trilogy started by the band with the previous 'Ægeria'. Discomfort, dark soundscapes, all aspects focusing onto loss, mind breaking suffering and difficult times in life, will go hand in hand with the listener through the whole journey, without mercy".

The album will include important collaborations, featuring Tero Holopainen from the Finnish cult band Callisto who has channeled his visions by writing for the band the song titled "13", and featuring also Mers Sumida, singer of the New York based band Black Table for the song 'Patau'

From Jonny Pettersson of WOMBBATH comes HENRY KANE, a ferocious slab of crusty Swedish death metal like no other. Rarely before has death metal been so vigorously channelled via the template of crustcore, leaving it infected with rabid fervour few can muster up the courage to withstand. This not only blends genres but lends to it an atmospheric quality fostered by an emotional undercurrent. Amidst slabs of cascading concrete, you have faint but poignant melodies making an appearance, changing the landscape of this expression. Nostalgic yet amplified to modern day aggression, HENRY KANE is the future of Swedish death metal and crust, a marriage made in a perfect post-apocalyptic world. Watch the video for 'Det var inte ditt fel' below. 

Austin, Texas tripped-out heavies DUEL are set to release their second album “Witchbanger” this April 28th on Heavy Psych Sounds. The album was produced and engineered by lead guitarist Jeff Henson at Red Nova Ranch Studio in Texas, not far from the historic Texas Chainsaw Massacre house. The band will support the new album with an extensive European tour, see full list below.
Formed by two ex-members of Scorpion Child, these purists cut it right to the bone with heavy, deep grooves and blistering tunes. After their well-acclaimed debut "Fears Of The Dead" released in February 2016, DUEL are back with an even more raging full-length on Heavy Psych Sounds, cheekily entitled "Witchbanger". 

Belarus' industrial juggernaut Ambassador 21 have announced a bunch of European tour dates in support of their 'Human Rage' album .The tour takes the band to Belgium, France and Germany, where the will be playing M'era Luna. 
7-8.04 - Freakshow Festival / Reims, France
11.05 - Bus Palladium / Paris, France
12.05 - Magasin 4 / Brussels, Belgium
13.05 - Supamolly / Berlin, Germany
12-13.08 - M’era Luna 2017 / Hildesheim, Germany
16.09 - Le Rat's / Puget-Sur Argens, France
10.11 - Der Cult / Nuremberg, Germany

UK instru-metal band Telepathy premiered the brand new video for the track 'Smoke From Distant Fires'. The song comes off their new album 'Tempest', which is scheduled to be released on March 31, 2017 via Golden Antenna Records. The album is the follow-up to the band's 2014 acclaimed debut 12 Areas and is a concept record, it guides the listener through a journey through awakening, desolation and finally acceptance.

Hailing from Singapore, metal extremists Rudra bring an interesting touch to the world of black, death and heavy metal. Besides the usual metal instrumentation, this band adds sitars, flute, tablas and a didgeridoo. This year marks the band's 25 years of existence. 

They recently released the lyric video for the song 'Seer All'. Their new album 'Enemy of Duality' is now available on Transcending Obscurity and on bandcamp.  

One-man industrial doom force Author & Punisher will be touring Europe in April. The tour will take him to Belgium, Germany, France, Italy and The Netherlands where he will play the legendary Roadburn festival.

04/07 Brussels, BE - AB
04/08 Antwerp, BE - Het Bos
04/09 Utrecht, NL - dB's
04/11 Cologne, GER - Underground
04/12 Dresden, GER - Chemiefabrik
04/13 Berlin, GER - Droneburg
04/14 Hamburg, GER - Droneburg
04/23 Tilburg, NL - Roadburn Festival
04/24 Paris, FR - Espace B
04/25 Clermont-Ferrand, FR - Raymond Bar
04/27 Bologna, IT - Freakout Club
04/28 Milano, IT - Ligera
(More dates to be announced)

Technical death metal band Mindscar are pleased to announce a mammoth tour of the United States. The tour will consist of 28 dates from the end of March to the beginning of May.

Band founder Richie Brown commented "We are very excited to announce Mindscar's biggest US tour to date! We will be performing in some of our favorite cities, as well as covering some new territories for the first time! See you on the road!"

All dates will be in support of the band's latest album What's Beyond the Light.

Alternative pop icons Phantogram and shoegaze alternative soul pioneers The Veldt have announced they will play six exclusive U.S. East Coast cities before the former departs for their European tour. The duo will again return to the U.S.A. in mid-April for two separate appearances at Coachella.
 
Phantogram is touring in support of their recently released their third studio album ‘Three’ (Republic Records). The Veldt are touring in support of their EP ‘'The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur: The Drake Equation',’ – the band’s first new recording in fifteen years, which will be released worldwide on June 2 via Schoolkids Records.

Saturday, March 11:  Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
Sunday, March 12:  St Paul, MN – Palace Theatre
Monday, March 13:  Madison, WI – Orpheum Theatre
Tuesday, March 14:  Urbana, IL – Canopy Club
Thursday, March 16:  Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s
Friday, March 17:  Atlanta GA – The Tabernacle

Greek progressive metal band The Silent Wedding have released a new video for their song 'Silence'. The song comes off their new album 'Enigma Eternal', which is coming out on March 10th by FYB Records! The new album's artwork in made by Travis Smith (Opeth, Katatonia, Nevermore etc).

On the heels of the release of their poignant and punishing new album 'End Position', Austin duo Street Sects have another batch of tour dates to support the album.  Having completed a west coast tour to close out 2016, Street Sects will now tour out east and back on a 27-date tour featuring support from bands such as Planning For Burial, HIDE, and Decide Today in various markets.  Check out all tour dates below.

March 31 Houston, TX @ Civic TV Laboratories %
April 1 New Orleans, LA @ Circle Bar +
April 2 Birmingham, AL @ DISCO
April 3 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
April 4 Athens, GA @ ATHICA
April 5 Columbia, SC @ TBA
April 6 Charlotte, NC @ World Famous Milestone Club
April 7 Harrisonburg, VA @ MACROCK DIY FEST
April 8 Baltimore, MD @ The Sidebar $ ₩
April 9 Norfolk, VA @ Charlie's American Cafe
April 10 Richmond, VA @ Leigh/Adams
April 11 Philadelphia, PA @ The Pharmacy $ 
April 12 Providence, RI @ Machines with Magnets 
April 15 Brooklyn, NY @ Sunnyvale $ & =
April 16 College State, PA @ Witch House 
April 17 Buffalo, NY @ Dreamland 
April 18 Pittsburgh, PA @ TBA #
April 19 Columbus, OH @ House with No Name #
April 20 Detroit, MI @ The Precinct #
April 21 Ann Arbor, MI @ Far House #
April 22 Cincinnati, OH @ The Mockbee #
April 23 Indianapolis, IN @ Haunted Manor #
April 24 Chicago, IL @ Smartbar # ÷
April 25 Milwaukee, WI @ Triple Zero #
April 26 Minneapolis, MN @ TBA #
April 27 Quad Cities, IA @ TBA
April 28 Kansas City, MO @ Blind Tiger
April 29 Ft Smith, AR @ Planet Zero
 
% with Spit Mask
+ with Jasper Denhartigh (formerly of Heat Dust)
$ with Planning for Burial 
₩ with Axebreaker (Terence Hannum of Locrian)
& with Field Agent (Stephen Lee Clark of Deafheaven)
= with with Psalm Zero 
# with Decide Today 
÷ with HIDE

Ninjaspy, a trio of blood brothers have been experimenting with metal fusion since 2006. Hard, heavy, hook-laden music that runs the gamut of reggae, surf, metal and more make up the band’s rule-breaking formula for notoriety. All this combined with an explosive and powerfully unhinged live show got Ninjaspy off the ground in a hurry. Releasing their 2007 debut 'Pi Nature' and their 2013 EP 'No Kata' with a graphic novel, the band of brothers have teamed up once again with prolific producers GGGarth Richardson (Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mudvayne, Gallows) and Ben Kaplan (Biffy Clyro, Atreyu, Haste the Day) for their next full length 'Spüken' due out April 14, 2017.

'Spüken' was recorded and mixed sporadically over the next two years at in Vancouver BC and in the spring of 2016 between recording sessions, the band teased fans with a filmed and recorded live acoustic performance of their track 'Azaria', a song that is included with full metal instrumentation on the new genre-bending album. It showed the true diversity of the band and their ability to take manic and intense music and make it tender and raw. 

Italian power metal act Skeletoon have released a lyric video for the track 'Dreamland'. The song comes off the album 'Ticking Clock', which features guest appearances by
​Jonne Järvelaä / Korpiklaani / voice on "Drowning Sleep"
Piet Sielck / Iron Savior / voice on "Watch over Me"
Jens Ludwig / Edguy /  2° voice, Acoustic guitar and solo on "Ticking Clock"
Guido Benedetti / Trick Or Treat / all songs (Composer, guitar)

Spanish brutal death metallers Upcoming Devastation released a new video for the track "Human Flesh". The video was recorded on an abandoned psychiatric hospital during 3 days and 3 nights. "Human Flesh" is the title track of the band's latest EP, which was self-released on February 2016.

French metal horde Kopper8 have revealed a brand new video. The song 'Addiction' comes off the eponymous album which was released in 2015 (read our review). The video features Indian actress ​Reeth Mazumder and was produced by the band itself.

Norwegian sludgy punk rockers Bokassa has premiered the second single off the forthcoming debut full-length album “Divide & Conquer”, which is set for release on March 25th via All Good Clean Records.

Listen to “Crocsodile Dundee” below.

Clocking in at 32 minutes long, “Divide & Conquer” was produced by Bokassa, mixed and mastered by Morten Fjeld at Fjeld Audio and sees the Trondheim-based trio fusing elements of punk, hardcore, thrash and stoner rock. Pre-orders are now available at this location.

Dope Oüt just released their new lyrics video called: "Scars and Stripes", from their new record "Scars and Stripes" that was released earlier this month.

Dope Oüt eventually achieved to create a stronger identity and to build an established reputation on stage. They don't limit themselves to the influences of a single style and create their own musical recipe. Dope Oüt wants to sound American mixing four major styles such as classic rock, hard rock, punk and metal in order to build their own heavy rock : Dope'n'Roll!

Realms of Odoric, the artwork/soundtrack Project from SuidAkras Arkadius Antonik and illustrator Kris Verwimp, have released a new video for the song "Return To Ankrath", which is animated with the impressive illustrations by Kris Verwimp, giving an insight into the story of the second era.

With the release of their first album in five years, 'VOIDS', coming up on 3rd March, Minus The Bear have announced a string of EU/UK dates for June 2017.  The dates will feature support from Joan of Arc along with an appearance with American Football at So36 in Berlin. The new dates will follow on from a 29-date spring tour across North America, culminating in a hometown Seattle show on April 15th.

Copenhagen's forerunning psych rock trio THE SONIC DAWN just confirmed an April 21st release for their second album "Into The Long Night", coming out on Heavy Psych Sounds. Find all details as well as their new video below... 

"Into the Long Night" is the second album by THE SONIC DAWN, one of the most remarkable bands to come out of the new psychedelic wave in Denmark. Just a few seconds into this album, and you will realize that you are in for a mind-altering experience. “It’s a trip! By taking the listeners to places they didn’t expect to go, we hope to make them aware – that they’ll stop up and think about life for a minute. Awareness is the first step to change in the world” says Emil Bureau (guitar/vocals).

It was made in collaboration with some of Scandinavia’s most regarded personnel: it features Swedish Hammond legend Erik ‘Errka’ Petersson on keys and Morten Grønvad on vibraphone/percussions, which adds to its soundtrack-like qualities. Mixed in The Village Recording with jazz producer Thomas Vang (Oscar Peterson, Randy Brecker). Mastered in Svenska Grammofonstudion with Hans Olsson Brookes (Graveyard, Blues Pills, José González). "Into The Long Night" will be available on orange transparent vinyl, black vinyl, CD and digital.

Out April 21st on Heavy Psych Sounds
Preorders from March 10th here

Swiss death-metal sextet Conjonctive have just shared a new music video for the track “Down Into The Abyss”, off the band’s forthcoming second full-length "In The Mouth Of The Devil", due out on March 10th via Tenacity Music. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Vladimir Cochet at Conatus Studios, "In The Mouth Of The Devil" follows-up the band’s critically acclaimed debut album "Until The Whole World Dies" released in 2013 and is now available for pre-order at this location.