BIG BLACK CLOUD, DRUNK DAD, REDNECK, HONDURAN, DIESTO, DEAD, TOWERS
Black Friday, the second LP from Portland's avant noise-punks BIG BLACK CLOUD, drops from the sky tomorrow. Get reigned on with an exclusive stream of it over at Spin.com "in all its tense, taut, seething, screaming fury." BIG BLACK CLOUD celebrates the release of their LP, a "fuzzed-out chord mashing, bionic low-end blasts of beautiful fuckery," (Portland Mercury) and kicks off its tour of the West with a hometown show tomorrow night at The Know, Portland's finest punk venue, with support from labelmates DRUNK DAD and recently tranplanted Bay Area experimental doomsters PRIZEHOG.
Feel the slow, ominous rattle of your insides with an exclusive track premiere of EPHEMEROS’ “All Hail Corrosion,” courtesy of Pitchfork. The penetrating death march comes off the Oregon funeral doom miscreants’ soon-to-be unveiled debut full-length of the same name. A morose, three-track gloom fest of ill-omened brutality, All Hail Corrosion was tracked and mixed by Fester (Atriarch, Stoneburner) at Haywire Studios, mastered by Brad Boatright (Sleep, From Ashes Rise, Nails) at Audiosiege Engineering and bestows its listeners with forty traumatic minutes of measured depressive harmonies, soul-crushing growls and haunting chants centered around the imminent decay of humanity.
EXHUMED Batters Senses With New Track/Video Premiere At Bloody Disgusting
West Coast ministers of death grind supremacy, EXHUMED, are pleased to clutch collective throats with a video of “Coins Upon The Eyes” courtesy of Bloody Disgusting. The debilitating tune comes by way of the band’s soon-to-be detonated Necrocacy full-length. A ten-track bloodbath of audio sickness doused with some of their most instrumentally shredding and lyrically devouring work to date, Necrocacy is clearly EXHUMED’s political manifesto for a new dark day.
COFFINS: Full Album Streaming At Terrorizer The Fleshland To See Release Next Week
The Fleshland -- the monstrous fourth LP from Tokyo’s death/doom merchants COFFINS -- is now streaming in its entirety to spread the filth on its’ pending street date, now just a week away. As one of the most anticipated releases of the genre, the plodding massacre of the album has been oozing praise from international media outlets, t band’s tried and true delivery at its most solid and pulverizing yet.
Regretfully, Motörhead announces it has had to cancel its remaining six summer festival appearances. The band hate to let their fans down by missing any shows, but they expect to be back in full force this Fall.
As you may have heard, earlier this Spring Lemmy had some medical maintenance for the long-term good, He was, at that time, advised to rest, but once feeling better, he of course resumed his life as usual. He has since been advised that he should immediately take some more time to rest
The public’s first undertaking of the auditory revulsion of ALL PIGS MUST DIE’s pending second LP, Nothing Violates This Nature, happens today as Pitchfork drops the first single from the album.
A hateful unification of musicians hailing from Converge, The Hope Conspiracy, Bloodhorse and more, as ALL PIGS MUST DIE these assassins fuse some of the most straightforward metal/hardcore elements into anthems as instantly infectious as they are incendiary.
Austrian power metal band DIGNITY will release their new album “Balance Of Power” on Fastball Music/Soulfood. The album will be out in October and introduces new lead singer Søren Adamsen from Denmark.
The band says: “We are really happy to announce that we joined forces with Fastball Music. Being with a label that believes in our music and that wants to take the next step with us really means a lot to us. For us, this album marks a new era, and our fans can expect an album that is filled to the brim with powerful music, melodic hook lines, virtuosic solo spots and atmospheric parts.”
