American thrashers GENERATION KILL’s debut “Red, White and Blood” hit the stores last September. The band recently shot a video for the title track of the album, based on a concept by singer Rob Dukes (EXODUS).
Melodic death metal powerhouse NOTHNEGAL is teaming up with MetalSucks.net to bring you the exclusive premiere of their brand new track “Janus”, cut from their upcoming “Decadence” album, due next January 20th (24th in North America). Head to www.metalsucks.net right now to listen to the track and read exclusive quotes from the band, and stay tuned for a music video to hit the web soon!
French metallers ETHS’ third album will hit the stores on March 2nd (13th in North America), 2012 and the band aptly named it “III”. Vocalist Candice comments on her recording sessions:
As previously announced, US Doom legends SAINT VITUS recently completed the recording of their eighth studio album, their first since 1995. This forthcoming opus, marking the return of seminal vocalist Scott “Wino” Weinrich, is entitled “Lillie: F-65” and has been tentatively scheduled for a March 23rd (27th in North America), 2012 release.
Satan Claus is organising a big Christmas competition on Season of Mist’s website, starting this Thursday!
OLD SILVER KEY, the new band consisting of four DRUDKH members plus French musician Neige (ALCEST, AMESOEURS) on vocals, released their debut album “Tales of Wanderings” this September.
Still supporting the critically acclaimed “Spiral Shadow”, American rockers KYLESA will start 2012 off with a massive European tour, travelling through 16 countries for 6 weeks! Here is the list of gigs:
Hot on the wheels of new EP “Carbon-Based Anatomy”, Progressive legend CYNIC will embark on a headlining European tour for most of December with opening acts CHIMSPANNER and HYPNOSE.
French modern metallers ETHS have been confirmed to take part in Ouï FM’s Bring The Noise festival, which will take place on November 29th, December 4th and December 9th at the Petit Bain in Paris. Other bands on the bill are ANATHEMA, DRAGONFORCE, KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES, LOFOFORA, AQME, BUKOWSKI, LAZY WALL and BRANSON HOLLIS. Please note you can’t buy tickets to the festival, but you can win invitations on www.ouifm.fr.
On next February 24th (28th in North America), Season of Mist will release a double compilation featuring 39 artists from the Electro / Indus / Dub scene, all remixing a track from MORBID ANGEL’s latest offering “Illud Divinum Insanus”. Here are the tracklisting and cover artwork of this 2-disc + digital download card behemoth:
As previously announced, Dutch post black metallers DODECAHEDRON’s self-titled debut album will be released on next January 20th (January 24th in North America). Here are the tracklisting and artwork:
US Grindcore legends TERRORIZER recently completed their new album. This third manifesto of face-melting brutal Metal is entitled “Hordes of Zombies” and has been scheduled for a February 24th (Feb. 28th in North America), 2012 release.
NOTHNEGAL’s debut album “Decadence” will hit the stores on next January 20th (24th in North America). Here are the cover artwork and tracklisting:
French female-fronted act KELLS named their forthcoming album “Anachromie”. It is now time to unveil the tracklist of this sonic blast of modern Metal, set to a January 20th, 2012 release.
With 2002’s “Cold Steel… for an Iron Age”, Black/Thrash metallers DESTRÖYER 666 continued their steep climb in the favour of fans and critics alike. The Australian warmongers were received with praise like “Hail and kill indeed” in a 9/10 review from Terrorizer or described like “Deströyer 666 offer the best of their Black/Thrash know-how, refined with the usual Australian vice” in Rock Hard FR (8/10). With time its impact even grew as Encyclopaedia Metallum now awards this album a 100% review twice, while saying: “Cold Steel is pretty much a perfect album. It is fast, intense, and aggressive and most of all, incredibly infectious”!
CYNIC’s new EP “Carbon-Based Anatomy” is now available everywhere! You can listen to the whole record on www.imperiumi.net and on www.pitchfork.com. Those streams are only available for a week so don’t miss them!
DRUDKH is back! The Ukrainian black poets’ forthcoming album is entitled “Eternal Turn of the Wheel” and has been scheduled for a February 24th (28th in North America), 2012 release.
SÓLSTAFIR’s new album “Svartir Sandar” entered the Icelandic album sales charts, ranking at number 12! In Finland, it also reached number 11 in the independent record store charts and number 41 in the national charts. Congratulations, guys!
Still hard at work in the studio, ETHS issued the following update:
We are sorry to announce that FAIR TO MIDLAND had to cancel their November tour as opening act for EVANESCENCE in Europe. Here is a statement from the band: