DARKTHRONE RELEASES NEW ALBUM IN MAY

Darkthrone will be releasing a compilation album on May 12th. The album will be entitled "Black Death and Beyond" and will be released through Peaceville Records. The album will only be released on a 3 vinyl format, one black, one white and the last one transparent and will feature a book full of the history of the band as told by Fenriz and Nocturno Culto.

"Black Death and Beyond" will feature the following tracks:
Disc 1
Side A
1. In the Shadow of the Horns
2. Inn i de dype skogers favn
3. Under a Funeral Moon
4. I en hall med flesk og mjod
Side B
5. The Hordes of Nebulah
6. The Claws of Time
7. Fucked Up & Ready to Die
8. Hate Is the Law
9. The Cult of Goliath
 
Disc 2
Side A
1. Snowfall
2. Sunrise over Locus Mortis
3. Soulside Journey
4. Neptune Towers
5. Nor the Silent Whispers
Side B
6. Iconoclasm Sweeps Cappadocia (NRK version)
7. Sadomasochistic Rites
8. In His Lovely Kingdom
9. Black Daimon
10. Paragon Belial
 
Disc 3
Side A
1. Graveyard Slut
2. Forebyggende krig
3. These Shores Are Damned
4. Pervertor of the 7 Gates
5. Wisdom of the Dead
Side B
6. The Winds They Called the Dungeon Shaker
7. Grizzly Trade
8. Those Treasures Will Never Befall You
9. Stylized Corpse
10. The Ones You Left Behind

VREDEHAMMER RELEASES "VINTEROFFER"

Norwegian black /death metal masters Vredehammer will be releasing their new album "Vinteroffer" on April 7th. The band has already released the single "We are the sacrifice". The album will be released through Indie Recordings and will feature the following tracks:

1.The Awakening  

2.Cthulhu  

3.Seduce Infect Destroy  

4.Suicide Forest  

5.We Are The Sacrifice 

6.Sykdom

7.Summoned  

8.Vinteroffer  

9.Admissa

CARA NEIR RELEASES "THE OVERWATCH"

Experimental black metal band from Dallas, Texas Cara Neir will be releasing a new EP entitled "The Overwatch". The EP is the follow up to the band´s 2013 full length "Portal to a Better, Dead World. The band has also released a split with Flesh Born this year. The EP has been released as a digital download in Cara Neir´s Bandcamp site.

"The Overwatch" features the following tracks:

1. Glorious Genocide

2. Sepulcher Patterns

3. Combine Desecration

4. Tales of Lust and Pain

5. Departure Point: Eta Carinae

6. Dendrite Stink

7. Into Black Mesa

GANDREID STREAMS NEW TUNE

Norwegian black / folk metal band Gandreid have made a new tune available for streaming. This track, entitled "Berg Grav", will be part of the band´s new album that has yet to see the light of day. The album will be the follow up to the band´s debut album "Nordens Skalder"

MORBID FLESH RELEASES "EMBEDDED IN THE OSSUARY"

Spanish death metal band Morbid Flesh will be releasing their new EP "Embedded in the Ossuary" on March 31st.  The EP will be released through Unholy Prophecies label and is the follow up to the band´s debut full length "Reborn in Death". 

"Embedded in the Ossuary" features the following tracks:

1.Entrance to the Ossuary (Intro)

2.Charnel House  

3.Under Ragged Hoods  

4.Rising of Shadows  

5.From Beyond the Bounds  

6.Summoning the Sorcery of Death

GORY BLISTER RELEASES "THE FIFTH FURY"

Italian technical death metal band Gory Blister has finished the studio sessions for the recording of their new album, entitled "The Fifth Fury". The album was mixed in Fear Studios and mastered at Q-Point Studio in Hilversum, Netherlands. This is the band´s fifth full length album and the follow up to 2012´s "Earth-Sick"The album will be released on May 22nd through Sliptrick Records. "The Fifth Fury" will feature the following tracks:

1. Psycho Crave

2. Thresholds

3. Toxamine

4. Devouring Me

5. The Fifth Fury

6. Prometheus Scars

7. (meet me) In The Mass Grave

8. The Grey Machinery

9. Heretic Infected Orchestra (Bonus Track)

BLACK TAR PROPHET STREAMS NEW TUNE

Nashville, Tennessee stoner/doom metal band Black Tar Prophet will be releasing their new album "Deafen" on April 19th. The album will be released through Domestic Genocide Records and is the second full length release by the band.The band has made the tune "Ring of Buzzards" available for streaming (check below).

"Deafen" will feature the following tracks:

1. Dethroned

2. Judgement Whore  

3. Bottom Feeder  

4. Ring of Buzzards  

5. Back on the Nod  

6. Stoned to Death  

7. Hypomania  

8. Let the Cold Winds Blow  

9. Condemned

WHITECHAPEL RELEASES NEW ALBUM + SINGLE STREAM

Deathcore band Whitechapel has announced that their new album, entitled "Our Endless War"  will be released on April 29th. The album will be released through Metal Blade Records. The band has already released a track entitled "The Saw is the Law, and now they have released a new single entitled "Mono" (you can check it below). "Our Endless War" is the follow up to the band´s "Whitechapel" album and will feature the following tracks:

1. Rise

2. Our Endless War

3. The Saw Is the Law

4. Mono

5. Let Me Burn

6. Worship the Digital Age

7. How Times Have Changed

8. Psychopathy

9. Blacked Out

10. Diggs Road

ABORTED STREAMS "NECROTIC MANIFESTO"

Belgian death metal band Aborted will release their new album "The Necrotic Manifesto" on April 29th through Century Media Records. This is the band´s eighth studio album and the follow up to 2012´s "Global Flatline". To celebrate the release the band has made the title track "Necrotic Manifesto" available for streaming. You can check the stream below:

TRIPTYKON STREAMS 2 NEW TRACKS

Triptykon, the death / black /doom metal featuring Celtic Frost frontman Thomas Gabriel Fischer wil be releasing their new album "Melana Chasmata" on April 15th. The album will be released through Century Media.The band took almost four years to release a new album since their debut "Eparistera Daimones". To show the sound of the band, they have released two tracks from the new album, "Breathing" and "Boleskine House". You can check the streaming below:

MOTORHEAD RELEASES LYRIC VIDEO FOR "CRYING SHAME

Legends Motörhead have released a lyric video for the track "Crying Shame". The tune comes from the band´s latest album "Aftershock". In related Motörhead news, the band has created their own cruise called The MotorBoat. Confirmed bands for The Motorboat are Megadeth, Anthrax and more.

CHASTAIN RELEASES "EVIL AWAITS US" VIDEO

Chastain, the band created by guitar virtuoso David T. Chastain has released a video for the tune "Evil Awaits Us". The tune comes from theband´s latest album "Surrender to No One", an album that marks the return of vocalist Leather Leone to the band. The band also features classic bassist Mike Skimmerhorn and new drummer Stian Kristoffersen.  The last Chastain video (previous to "Evil Awaits Us") to feature Leather Leone was 1990´s "For Those Who Dare". You can check the video below:

FROM HELL RELEASES DEBUT ALBUM

From Hell, the band featuring drummer Paul Bostaph (Slayer, Testament, Forbidden, Exodus), guitarist Steve Smyth (Testament, Forbidden, Dragonlord and more), guitarist/vocalist Sinn (Down Factor), and bassist Damien Sisson (Death Angel), will release their debut album on April 8th. The album will be released through Scourge Records and was produced by George Anderson and Steve "Snake" Green (Skinlab).

The album features the guest appearance of Phil Bennett from classic band Starship on piano in the track "Dead Reckoning" and the full tracklist is as follows:

1. Standing at the Mouth of Hell 2. The Walking Dead

3. Soul Crusher

4. Psycho Killer  

5. Eyes of My Dead  

6. Nun with a Gun  

7. The Church  

8. Dead Reckoning  

9. Ascent from Hell  

10. The Sleep

EARTH DIVIDE CONFIRMED FOR WACKEN OPEN AIR

Progressive metal band Earth Divide has been confirmed for the 2014 edition of the Wacken Open Air Festival. You can have more information by clicking on the band´s logo

THE AFTERNOON GENTLEMEN RELEASE NEW 7" + STREAM TRACK

Grindcore band from Leeds, UK are releasing a new 7" entitled "Grind in the Mind". The album will be released on June 1st. You can check a streaming track below.

OUTRAGE RELEASES "WE THE DEAD"

German blackened thrash metal band Outrage will be releasing their new album "We the Dead" on April 25th. The album will be released through Metal on Metal Records and is the follow up to the band´s 2011 full length "Go to Hell" (the band in the meantime released two compilations). "We the Dead" will feature the following tunes:

1. 11:59 - Eye for an Eye  

2. Kill Snow White  

3. The Biggest Wrench  

4. Be That as It May  

5. The Elemental War  

6. Death from Behind  

7. The Iron Door  

8. Sepia Eyes / Birth to the Flame  

9. Chastiser  

10. Spherical  

11. Delos  

12. We the Dead

WAMI SUPERGROUP STREAMS "WILD WOMAN (YOU OUGHTA KNOW)"

Wami, the hard rock superband featuring Doogie White (Rainbow, Michael Schenker, Yngwie Malmsteen) on vocals, Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, DIO) on drums,  Marco Mendoza (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake) on bass and 16 year old guitarist  Iggy Gwadera, have released their first single entitled "Wild Woman (You Oughta Know) and have made it available for streaming (check it below). the track is part of the band´s debut album entitled "Kill the King".

SAXON RELEASES LIVE ALBUM "ST GEORGE´S DAY SACRIFICE - LIVE IN MANCHESTER"

Heavy metal legends Saxon will  release a new live album entitled "St George´s Day Sacrifice - Live in Manchester". The album was recorded on the St. George Day show that Saxon delivers every year on April 23rd 2013. The album was mixed and mastered by Andy Sneap and produced by Biff Byford. The release date for the live album is April 29th and it will be released through UDR Music. The album comes on double CD edition, featuring the following tracks:

CD 1 

01 Sacrifice

02 Wheels Of Terror

03 Power And The Glory

04 Made In Belfast

05 Rock’n Roll Gypsy

06 And The Bands Played On

07 I’ve Got To Rock (To Stay Alive)

08 Night Of The Wolf

09 Conquistador

10 Broken Heroes

11 Guardians of The Tomb

CD 2 

01 Never Surrender

02 Ride Like The Wind

03 Crusader

04 Stand Up And Fight

05 Dallas I PM

06 747 (Strangers In The Night)

07 Wheels Of Steel

08 Strong Arm Of The Law

09 Denim And Leather

10 Princess of The Night

SEPTUAGINT RELEASES "NEGATIVE VOID TRINITY" + VIDEO TEASER

Greek black metal band Septuagint will release their debut EP on April 7th. The EP is intitled "Negative Void Trinity" and will be released through Forever Plagued Records. The music is described as fat and raw black metal. The band has made a teaser video available for streaming (check it below). "Negative Void Trinity" will feature the following tracks:

1. Devotion to the Plague Redeemer 2. Psalm I  

3. Psalm II  

4. Psalm III  

5. Psalm IV

TWILIGHT RELEASES "III: BENEATH TRIDENT´S TOMB"

Black metal supergroup featuring Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Stavros Giannopoulos (Atlas Moth), Wrest (Leviathan), N. Imperial (Krieg), and underground producer Sanford Parker are releasing their new and final album entitled "III: Beneath Trident's Tomb" on March 24th. The album will be released through Century Media Records. This is Twilight´s third album, and the follow up to "Monument to Time End" their 2010 album.

SKADY RELEASES "OMEGA" VIDEO

Atmospheric black pagan metal band Skady have released a video for their track "Omega" (you can check the video below). The tune comes from the band´s new album, entitled "When Sun Dissapear", the follow up to 2011´s "Mysterium", recorded and mixed at Rosenquarz Recording Studio.

"When Sun Dissapeared" track list: 

1. Cosmicam Navitas 

2. Omega

3. Kosmonarchie 

4. Licht Erlischt

5. Solvinden Blåser

6. Esoterik Des Abgrundes

7. Supernova

8. Prinzip Des Geistes

9. Sieben

SARGEIST RELEASES "FEEDING THE CRAWLING SHADOWS"

Finland black metal band Sargeist will be releasing their new album on March 31st. The album will be called "Feeding the Crawling Shadow" and will be released through World Terror Commitee label.The album was recorded at The Boneyard Studios in late January 2014; was mastered by A.O.D. and produced by W.T.C.

"Feeding the Crawling Shadow" will feature the following tracks:

1. Feeding the Crawling Shadows
2. In Charnel Dreams
3. Unto the Undead Temple
4. Snares of Impurity
5. Return of the Rats
6. The Unspoken Ones
7. The Shunned Angel
8. Inside the Demon's Maze
9. Kingdom Below
10. Funerary Descent

WRONG RELEASES "PESSIMISTIC OUTCOMES" ALBUM

Spanish black metal band Wrong will release their new album "Pessimistic Outcomes" on April 22nd. The album will be released through label Xtreem Music and is the follow up to the band´s debut full length album "Memories of Sorrow". All music was composed  by both members, DP and Phlegeton. And the album was recorded, mixed, produced and mastered at Delta314 Sound Studio, Madrid, between October 2013 - January 2014. You can check "Pessimistic Outcomes" tracklist below:

1. Thru the Grey Path to Nowhere

2. His Hatred Breathes  

3. Pessimistic Outcomes  

4. Dragging My Soul Until the Sunset

5. I Thought I'd Woken

KRIGSGRAV RELEASES "THE CARRION FIELDS" + TRACK STREAM

Keller, Texas atmospheric black metal band Krigsgrav will release their new album "The Carrion Fields" on July. The album will be released through Naturmacht Productions label. As an advance, the band is streaming one track, entitled "A Grand Desolation". "The Carrion Fields" will feature the following tracks:
1. Akitu
2. Words of Aeolus
3. Spire of the Hunt
4. Ghosts Among the Ashes
5. Cold Wounds of Virtue
6. A Grand Desolation
7. In the Waning Light We Bloom

ALEX BOUKS LEAVES INCANTATION

Guitarist Alex Bouks has left death metal band Incantation. Alex was Incantation guitarist from 2007 to 2014. The band´s new album "Dirges of Elysium" that will be released on June will be the last one to feature Alex Bouks guitar work.

BELPHEGOR RELEASES "CONJURING THE DEAD" ALBUM

Austrian black death metal band Belphegor will release their new album "Conjuring the Dead" on August 11th. The album, the tenth in the band´s career, will be released through Nuclear Blast Records. The album was recorded at Mana Recording Studios in Florida and was produced by Erik Rutan (Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal). The band has worked again with artist Anthon Siro Seth to create the cover art (he previously did the 2006 "Pestapokalypse VI" album art). "Conjurng the Dead" will feature the following tracks:

1. Gasmask Terror

2. Conjuring the Dead

3. In Death

4. Rex Tremendae Majestatis

5. Black Winged Torment

6. The Eyes

7. Legions of Destruction

8. Flesh, Bones and Blood

9. Lucifer, Take Her!

10. Pactum in Aeternum

AVATAR RELEASES "HAIL THE APOCALYPSE" VIDEO

Swedish metal band Avatar has just released a video for the track "Hail the Apocalypse". The tune is the title track of the band´s new album that will be released on May. The album will be released through Gain Music Entertainment and was recorded in Karma Studios in Tailand.

"Hail The Apocalypse" track listing is as follows:

01. Hail The Apocalypse

02. What I Don't Know

03. Death Of Sound

04. Vultures Fly

05. Bloody Angel

06. Murderer

07. Tsar Bomba

08. Puppet Show

09. Get In Line

10. Something In the Way

11. Tower

ABORYM SIGNS WITH AGONIA RECORDS

Italian / Norwegian industrial black metal band Aborym, featuring members of Hour of Penance and Bård G. "Faust" Eithun (Blood Tsunami, ex Emperor) have signed a deal with Agonia Records to release the follow up to their 2013 album "Dirty".

BENEATH RELEASES "THE BARREN THRONE"

Iceland´s death metal band Beneath will be releasing their new album "The Barren Throne" on April 29th. the album will be released through Unique Leader Records and is the second full length album by the band (the debut album was 2012´s "Enslaved by Fear"). "The Barren Throne" will feature the following tracks:
1. Depleted Kingdom
2. Chalice
3. The Barren Throne
4. Putrid Seed of Affection
5. Iron Jaw
6. Sovereign Carnal Passion
7. Sky Burial
8. Veil of Mercy
9. Mass Extinction Codex
10. Storm Drainer
11. Unearthed

EVOCATION RECRUITS NEW DRUMMER

Swedish death metal band has recruited drummer Conny Pettersson to replace Janne Kenttäkumpu Bodén who played in the band between 2005 and 2013. Pettersson has been playing with technical death metal band Anata and with experimental death metal band One Step Beyond.

IMPALED NAZARENE RELEASES "VIGOROUS AND LIBERATING DEATH"

Finnish classic black metal band Impaled Nazarene will release their next album, "Vigorous And Liberating Death", on April 14th through Osmose Productions.  This is the first full length album released by the band since 2010´s "Road to Octagon" (the band´s latest offering was 2013´s EP "Die in the Holland"). The album will be mastered by Mika Jussila at Finnvox studios. The cover artwork was designed by Taneli Jarva. "Vigorous And Liberating Death" will feature the following tracks:

1. King Reborn
2. Flaming Sword of Satan
3. Pathological Hunger for Violence
4. Vestal Virgins
5. Martial Law
6. Riskiarvio
7. Apocalypse Principle
8. Kuoleman varjot
9. Vigorous and Liberating Death
10. Drink Consultation
11. Dystopia A. S.
12. Sananvapaus
13. Hostis Humani Generis