UK stoner rockers Old Man Lizard are about to tour Europe in support of their album (read our review here)  Be sure to check them out if you have the chance.  This is quite a unique trio in the scene...

French "art-core" outfit Artweg just unveiled a brand new single called "Human bomb". This song is extracted from the new full-length album, 'Drunk'n high', coming out (CD and digital formats) on october 23rd throughJuste Une Trace label 

​“RAB2” is the rather but effective title for the second full-length album from French stoner-rock quintet RAB. The album is officially out today via Klonosphere Records/Season of Mist.

The quintet launched a music video for the closing track “My Own Grave”.  

Belgian dark ambient project Misantronics has released a brand new track from the upcoming album 'Eristic Dialectics'.  Earlier this month he also previewed 'Conceal Your Game' on our birthday compilation (listen and download here).

'Eristic Dialectics' will be released by Sombre Soniks on 23 October.  It's going to be a dark piece of work, inspired by Schopenhauer's work 'The Art Of Being Right'.

Skyforger has been around for twenty years now, so a DVD seems like a good idea for a celebration.  The DVD features a series of live recordings filmed between 2010 and 2015.
The backbone of the disc is the 15th of May 2015 SKYFORGER performance at the "Sapņu Fabrika" club in Riga , and includes a number of songs from their latest release "Senprūsija", including the title track, 'Tagad vai nekad', 'Rāmava', 'Melnais jātnieks', 'Zem Lietuvas karogiem', as well as older hits, such as 'Kauja pie Saules' and 'Migla migla, rasa rasa'.
The video for 'Melnās buras', SKYFORGER’s latest, concludes the first chapter of the release.
The second half of 'Senprūsija Live' features live recordings of SKYFORGER’s greatest hits - shot at various music festivals around Latvia and Lithuania.
135 minutes of pure folk and metal energy will transport every true SKYFORGER connoisseur back to that perfect rock festival, let you mash the Pause button on the remote to find yourself in the crowd, or throw a genuine SKYFORGER party right in your living room, provided you have a proper telly and loudspeakers to match.

​you can order the DVD here

Nadja are about to load the tour van with equipment and roll their drones over Europe in the next few months.  There will be both Nadja and Aidan Baker solo performances on this tour.

​NADJA
http://nadja.bandcamp.com

01.11 – Sonic Ballroom, Köln, DE – w/ [ B O L T ] 
02.11 – OCCII, Amsterdam, NL (also w/ Aidan Baker solo set) 
03.11 – Magasin 4, Brussels, BE – w/ Enablers 
04.11 – Espace B, Paris, FR 
06.11 – Trauma im G-Werk / Marburg, Marburg, DE 
28.11 – Kantine am Berghain, Berlin, DE – w/ Insect Ark 
03.12 – Loppen, Copenhagen, DK 
04.12 – 1000Fryd, Aalborg, DK 
10.12 – Glimps Festival, Ghent, BE 
16.12 – El Perro, Madrid, SP 
17.12 – Lounge, Lisbon, PT 
27.12 – Revolver, Oslo, NO – w/ Svarte Greiner & Toft

AIDAN BAKER
http://aidanbaker.bandcamp.com

07.11 – Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin, DE *
08.11 – Golden Pudel, Hamburg, DE *
10.11 – Café des Images, Caen, FR *
11.11 – Le Picolo Café, Paris, FR *
12.11 – The Hanger, Brussels, BE *
13.11 – Christuskirche, Bochum, DE * 
14.11 – UT Connewitz, Leipzig, DE *
26.11 – Palác Akropolis, Prague, CZ – w/ Ulrich Schnauss 
27.11 – Festiwal Ambientalny, Wroclaw, PL 
19.12 – Zaratan, Lisbon, PT

* = w/ Lori Goldston (cello) & Andrea Belfi (drums/percussion)

French heavy rockers Flayed have just released a new animated video for the track 'Monster Man' off their second album.  The album is due to be released later this month by Klonosphere Records and Season Of Mist.

With The Dead is a brand new doom metal band featuring members from Electric Wizard and Serpentine Path.  They just released this delicious new video, hopefully warming us up for more doom goodness in the near future.

Italian funeral doom act Il Vuoto have released a lyrical video for the track 'Sea Of Emptiness'.  The track is taken from the album 'Weakness' which we reviewed a while ago and comes highly recommended for fans of Evoken, Shape Of Despair and Nortt

Birmingham (UK) doomers Kroh are back after a three year hiatus.  With a slightly altered line-up, including vocalist Oliwia Sobieszek, the band founded by Ex Mistress and current Fukpig member, Paul Kenney, ​is ready to take over the stages again.

If you're going to Desertfest and arrive in Antwerp a day before the festival, you can go to Ondergrond's pre Desertfest party at Antwerp Music City.  I mean, what else would you be doing in Antwerp on a Thursday night, get arrested for having a good time?

Sorry, I almost started a rant there.

Anyway, the line-up for the evening is quite interesting

Gigatron2000 _(nl) (stoner rock)
Sons of Tonatiuh (us) (sludge)
Grey Widow (uk) (doom/sludge)

Dj Babylon Doom Cult will play an amount uplifting nihilistic pieces of extreme music in between and after the shows.

You can find more information on the facebook page

​Just two days before the official release of Hills Have Eyes third full-length album“Antebellum”, the Portuguese metalcore outfit have shared with fans a brand new track titled “Make it Right”.

​The band previously released a music video for the first single “The Bringer of Rain”, watch it here.

“Antebellum” will be released this Friday, October 2nd through Hellxis Records and pre-orders are still available at this location.  

Produced by Vasco Ramos (More Than A Thousand) at Poison Apple Studios and mixed and mastered by Fredrik Nordström and Henrik Udd (Architects, Bring Me The Horizon, In Flames, etc…) at Studio Fredman, “Antebellum” is the follow-up to Hill Have Eyes’ second album “Strangers” from 2012 and also marks the band’s tenth anniversary.

If you like some technical metal, this might be just up your alley.  The Apex have released a video for the song 'If Detroit River Could Speak'.  The song is taken from their self titled debut