One month from now, EVOKEN will begin their Procession Of The Plague European Tour.  The tour begins at France’s Hellfest and also features Ophis and Evadne on a number of dates.  As part of the itinerary, EVOKEN will also appear at Finland’s Tuska Open Air and The Czech Republic’s Obscene Extreme fest respectively.  One of the dates (the Denmark one) will even see EVOKEN being direct support to the mighty Neurosis.  Dates for the Procession Of The Plague tour go as follows:

06/21 – Clission, France @ HELLFEST 06/22 – Arnhem, Holland @ Willenmeen (w/Ophis, Evadne and Faal) 06/23 – London,…

After the many trials and tribulations that befell the manifestation of their new album, MAN’S GIN have finally completed work on their new album “Rebellion Hymns”.

Helmed by COBALT multi-instrumentalist Erik Wunder, who initially conceived MAN’S GIN ten or so years ago in Colorado prior to moving to Brooklyn NY, “Rebellion Hymns” comes across as a much more epic, sprawling, darker and heavier opus than the band’s “Smiling Dogs” debut.  Where “Smiling Dogs” presented itself as an ode to barren American landscapes and as hymns paying homage to the bottle, “Rebellion Hymns” is a more diversified and devastating output where…

The new debut releases by GEVURAH and LIAR IN WAIT are now available to order through our website prior to their official May 28th release date.  Montreal, Canada’s GEVURAH play lacerating vitriolic religious black metal giving praise to the upcoming dark aeon while Minneapolis/Chicago’s LIAR IN WAIT indulge in the morose sounds inspired by the classic goth/darkwave movement heralded by the likes of The Cure, Fields Of The Nephilim, Sisters Of Mercy, and modern-day bands such as Cold Cave and Soror Dolorosa.  Never stop the sadness.

It’s been a really long time coming, but COBALT are finally going to be playing the first official live shows beginning at this year’s Maryland Deathfest where they will be playing the opening Thursday, May 23rd evening and will go on right before the mighty Bolt Thrower (EVOKEN and PALLBEARER also playing that day too).  After MDF, COBALT will continue on a small trek beginning on May 27th and bringing the destruction with the depraved band LORD MANTIS.  The dates are as follows:

05/23 – Baltimore, MD @ Maryland Deathfest* 05/27 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Smiling Moose 05/28 –…

Seattle doom-duo BELL WITCH are preparing to hit the road very soon with Samothrace (bassist Dylan Desmond pulling double-duty!) on a European tour of doom that beginson May 5th in Copenhagen at the Heavy Days In Doomtown Festival.  The dates are as follows:

05/03 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Heavy Days In Doomtown Festival 05/05 – Wuustwezel, Belgium @ Puntpop Festival 05/06 – London, UK @ The Black Heart 05/07 – Manchester, UK @ Star & Garter 05/08 – Birmingham, UK @ Scruffy Murphy’s 05/09 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands @ Winston Kingdom 05/10 – Paris, France @ La Bouee 05/11 –…

The new ALTAR OF PLAGUES album “Teethed Glory & Injury” (CD version for the time being) is now available to order exclusively from our website (this being the North American version of the new album) prior to its official release date of April 30.  Unlike anything the band have released before, “Teethed Glory & Injury” sees ALTAR OF PLAGUES at the height of their power and creativity by unleashing their most intense, mental, and accomplished album to date.  What will undoubtedly be seen as one of 2013′s triumphs in extreme music.

After being out of print for ages (“Eater Of Birds” being out of print for years, no need to pay $40 on ebay any more), COBALT’s two seminal masterpieces are finally back in stock (CD format) in time for the band’s appearance at MDF (their first official live show) and the impending tour dates following MDF (more on this shortly).  Fucking destruction.

The self-titled anticipated debut album from VHOL is now available to order through our website (CD version).  Featuring Mike Schedit of YOB, John Cobbett of Hammers Of Misfortune/ex-LUDICRA, Sigrid Sheie (Hammers Of Misfortune/Amber Asylum) and Aesop (AGALLOCH/WORM OUROBOROS/ex-LUDICRA), the VHOL debut LP will be unlike any metal album you’ll hear in 2013.

LIAR IN WAIT, a new band comprised of present and past members of WOLVHAMMER, Chrome Waves, Nachtmystium, Mourner, and Iron Thrones have completed work on their debut EP “Translations Of The Lost”.

Comprised of four tracks (one being the band’s rendition of the Fields Of The Nephilim classic “And There Will Your Heart Be Also”), LIAR IN WAIT create music of a very morose drowning nature that finds the band recalling and being inspired by the classic goth/darkwave movement found inherent with such luminary artists as The Cure, The Sisters Of Mercy, Fields of The Nephilim, along with being indebted…