DARK FORTRESS RELEASES "VENEREAL DAWN"

German black metal band Dark Fortress will release their seventh full length album, entitled "Venereal Dawn". The album will be released on September 1st through Century Media. The band´s previous release was 2010´s "Ylem". "Venereal Dawn" will feature the following tracks:

1. Venereal Dawn

2. Lloigor

3. Betrayal and Vengeance

4. Chrysalis

5. I Am the Jigsaw of a Mad God

6. The Deep

7. Odem

8. Luciform

9. On Fever's Wings

TRAP THEM RELEASES "BLISSFUCKER"

Grindcore /crust band from Seattle, Washington has just released their new album entitled "Blissfucker". The album was released through Prosthetic Records and is the follow up to the band´s 2011 full length "Darker Handcraft". "Blissfucker" features the following tracks:
1.Salted Crypts
2.Habitland
3.Gift and Gift Unsteady
4.Lungrunners
5.Organic Infernal
6.Sanitations
7.Bad Nones
8.Former Lining Wide the Walls
9.Savage Climbers
10.Ransom Risen
11.Let Fall Each and Every Sedition Symptom

WO FAT RELEASES "THE CONJURING" + TRACK STREAM

Psychedelic stoner doom metal band Wo Fat has released their new album "The Conjuring" on June 17th. The album was released through Small Stone Recordings. "The Conjuring" is the follow up to the band´s 2012 "The Black Code" album. The track "The Conjuring" has been made available for streaming (check it below).

"The Conjuring" features the following tracks:
1.The Conjuring
2.Read the Omens
3.Pale Rider from the Ice
4.Beggar's Bargain
5.Dreamwalker

BAPTISTS RELEASE "BLOODMINES"

Canadian hardcore band Baptists will be releasing their new album on September. This is the band´s second full length, afeter their 2013 debut entitled "Bushcraft". The new album will be called "Bloodmines" and was recorded at Godcity Studios in Salem, Massachusetts. "Bloodmines will be released through Southern Lord Recordings. 

EARTH RELEASES "PRIMITIVE AND DEADLY"

Drone / doom metal masters Earth will release their new full length album on September 1st. The album will be entitled "Primitive and Deadly" and is the firt album the band releases since 2012´s "Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II". The new album will be released through Southern Lord Recordings and will feature five long tracks. The track list is as follows:

1.Torn by the Fox of the Crescent Moon

2.There Is a Serpent Coming  

3.From the Zodiacal Light  

4.Even Hell Has Its Heroes

5.Rooks Across the Gate

WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM RELEASES "CELESTITE" + STREAM TRACK

Black metal band from Olympia, Washington Wolves in the Throne Room will be releasing their new album "Celestite" on July 8th. The album was produced by Randall Dunn and Wolves in the Throne Room and was recorded by Randall Dunn at AVAST and Owl Lodge. "Celestite" was mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service. "Celestite" will be released through Artemisia Records. The band is streaming the track "Celestite Mirror" (check below). "Celestite" will feature the following tracks:

1.Turning Ever Towards the Sun

2.Initiation at Neudeg Alm

3.Bridge of Leaves

4.Celestite Mirror

5.Sleeping Golden Storm

COSMOGON, CRYING STEEL, EVOCATION AND TROUBLE AGENCY ADDED TO WACKEN OPEN AIR FESTIVAL

These are the latest bands to be added to the line-up of the Wacken Open Air festival 2014. This time the band´s added are the winners of Luxembourg, Italy, China and Belgium Metal Battles. 

AGNOSY RELEASES "TRAITS OF THE PAST"

UK crust / death metal band Agnosy will release their new album, entitled "Traits of the Past" on July 1st. The album is the second one in the band´s career, being the first one "Past the Point of No Return". "Traits of the past" was recorded by Rob Dempsey at Fine City Audio Studio in Norwich, mixed by Rob Dempsey and Agnosy and mastered by Jarek "Smoku" Smak at Studio as One.

"Traits of the Past" will feature the following tracks:

1.Traits of the Past  

2.Dreams Fade Away  

3.Eternal Winter  

4.It Wasn't Your Time to Die  

5.For What  

6.Voices Are Calling

7.Predators

BACKDAWN, HELLHOUND, HULDRE, PUREST OF PAIN CONFIRMED FOR WACKEN OPEN AIR 2014

The winners of the different Metal Battles have been confirmed for this year Wacken Open Air Festival. The bands will play on the Headbanger Stage. These are the band´s that have been confirmed (click the logos to check more info on wach band):

GOD MACABRE RE-RELEASES "THE WINTERLONG"

Relapse Records has reissued on June 10th the classic debut album by death metal band God Macabre, "The Winterlong", originally released in 1993. The album was originally released by M.B.R records and was re-released by Relapse Records, remixed and remastered in 2002. "The Winterlong" was originally recorded in the famous Sunlight Studios in Sweden and features the following tracks:

1.Into Nowhere

2.Lost
3.Teardrops
4.Ashes of Mourning Life
5.Spawn of Flesh
6.Lamentation
7.In Grief