HATE ETERNAL have announced Chason Westmoreland as their new drummer. The native of Las Vegas, USA has already laid down drum tracks for the band’s forthcoming new album. Westmoreland will also be joining the band on their ensuing tour cycle, which is scheduled to begin in spring 2015.
Season of Mist is proud to announce the signing of occult black metal tyrants ASCENSION for North America. The band will release a new album, titled ‘The Dead of the World’ on December 24th in North America on CD and limited edition LP. The album artwork was created by WATAIN’s Erik Danielsson and can be viewed together with the tracklist below.
Australian progressive metal outfit NE OBLIVISCARIS are exclusively premiering their forthcoming second album ‘Citadel’ in full through these official media partners:
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Canadian warmongers REVENGE have added more dates to their ongoing campaign of live destruction. The band has been invited to join Norwegian black metal legends MAYHEM and Swedish Satanic wolf pack WATAIN on the upcoming “Black Metal Warfare” tour to take place in January 2015. A full list of dates is shown below.
Critically-acclaimed death metal pioneers GORGUTS are bound for Japan, Australia and New Zeeland in the first half of November.
OBSIDIAN KINGDOM are now exclusively premiering a new video clip for the song “Ball-Room” taken from their debut full-length ‘Mantiis’ via these official media partners:
Norwegian black metal tyrants 1349 have released a cover version of a classic song by death metal pioneers POSSESSED. The track, titled “The Heretic” is streaming now here.
Critically acclaimed Finnish melancholic metal band GHOST BRIGADE have released the new track “Aurora” taken from their highly anticipated new album, ‘IV: One with the Storm’ exclusively via American webzine Metalsucks.
BLACK SHEEP WALL have revealed the title of their next full-length, which will go under the heading of ‘I’m Going to Kill Myself’. The album has been scheduled for release on January 26th, 2015 (one day later in North Amercia).
Norwegian legends MAYHEM have announced US tour plans. The black metal pioneers will be joined by Canadian warmongers REVENGE and Sweden’s dark rising stars WATAIN, for what will undoubtedly be the most dangerous metal tour on North American soil in 2015. A full list of shows can be found below.
Rising black metal dark stars INQUISITION and recent Season of Mist signing SHINING have each been chosen to accompany legendary MARDUK on one leg of the Swedish tank battalion’s campaigns in Australia and Japan. You can find a list of all confirmed dates for both bands below.
HARK are streaming their entire breathtaking performance at this year’s edition of the renowned Hellfest Open Air via the official festival channel. You can view the show here. On further news, the Welsh heavy rockers have released a new version with much improved sound of their amazing video for the song “Scarlet Extremities” taken from their acclaimed debut album ‘Crystalline’. You can now watch the clip here.
CORRUPT MORAL ALTAR are kicking off their European tour tomorrow. The grinding sludge maniacs will be joined by Chicago’s SICK/TIRED and start the riots at Bloodshedfest, Eindhoven (NL) on October 18th. The angry Englishmen and their American supporters will continue to devastate five more European countries until their final show together at Go! Fest in Roma (IT) on the 25th of October. All upcoming dates are listed below.
OBSIDIAN KINGDOM are now streaming their debut full-length ‘Mantiis’ officially via UK’s renowned PROG magazine. You can listen to the album exclusively here. For the US/Canada you can use Bandcamp. Read the band’s comment and check their tour dates with SÓLSTAFIR below.
BEYOND CREATION are currently revealing their amazing forthcoming album ‘Earthborn Evolution’ in full. The new Canadian masters of progressive technical death metal have teamed up exclusively with these media partners for the official streaming of their masterpiece:
Season of Mist are proud to announce the signing of legendary death metal band HATE ETERNAL! Founder, guitarist/vocalist, primary songwriter as well as acclaimed producer Erik Rutan and bassist/vocalist J.J. Hrubovcak are currently holed up in the band leader’s Mana Recording Studio (CANNIBAL CORPSE, MOUNTAIN GOATS, GOATWHORE) and hard at work at the new HATE ETERNAL album, which is tentatively scheduled for early 2015.
Critically acclaimed Finnish melancholic metal band GHOST BRIGADE are currently premiering two new songs from their highly anticipated new full-length ‘IV – One with the Storm’, which has been scheduled for release on November 7th (November 11th in North America). On further news, the band has announced a string European shows in February 2015. Streaming links and all dates can be viewed below.
SAINT VITUS kick off their extensive European tour in celebration of the band’s 35th anniversary today! To honour this grand occasion, the godfathers of American Doom Metal will perform all songs from the fan-favourite “Born Too Late” album (originally released in 1986) as part of their show peppered with a host of classic hits.
SEPTICFLESH will join fellow dark spirits MOONSPELL for a string of European dates in spring 2015! The tour will start at the Doornroosje in Nijmegen, The Netherlands on March 12th and then proceed to haunt Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, possibly Portugal and Luxembourg before a final show at the Underworld in London, UK on April 2nd. Find a list of currently confirmed dates below: