…he band. This year, for the first time we’re going to Australia. We’re really looking forward to it. We’re going to miss some football games, but that doesn’t matter. [laughs] Dead Rhetoric: Is Nuclear Blast okay with the schedule you keep? They had to of known what they were getting when they signed you. Geremia: Yeah, they are totally 100% okay with us. Before we signed the contract, we talked with them and are situation that we are not able to…
…rofessor is back is takes revenge on mankind, because he failed in 1987! The cover is done again by Patrick Strogulski, an apprentice of Sebastian Krüger and really hits the spot! As always with TANKARD, things shouldn’t be taken too seriously!” R.I.B. track listing: 1. War Cry 2. Fooled By Your Guts 3. R.I.B. (Rest In Beer) 4. Riders Of The Doom 5. Hope Can’t Die 6. No One Hit Wonder 7. Breakfast For Champions 8. Enemy Of Order 9. Clockwise To De…
…rofessor is back is takes revenge on mankind, because he failed in 1987! The cover is done again by Patrick Strogulski, an apprentice of Sebastian Krüger and really hits the spot! As always with TANKARD, things shouldn’t be taken too seriously!” R.I.B. track listing: 1. War Cry 2. Fooled By Your Guts 3. R.I.B. (Rest In Beer) 4. Riders Of The Doom 5. Hope Can’t Die 6. No One Hit Wonder 7. Breakfast For Champions 8. Enemy Of Order 9. Clockwise To De…
…Guaranteed, we’ve never seen the vargan (a.k.a. mouth harp) played so gnarly. Any metaller could easily say “why didn’t we think of that before?” So much for folk metal, bring on the vargan metal! If there’s one good reason own this album, it’s that “Incarnation Memory” pretty much makes it worth it. Contemplation is a fairly good album, but for the most part best as a one-time listen because the dense structure seems to grow weaker every time it…
…rofessor is back is takes revenge on mankind, because he failed in 1987! The cover is done again by Patrick Strogulski, an apprentice of Sebastian Krüger and really hits the spot! As always with TANKARD, things shouldn’t be taken too seriously!” R.I.B. track listing: 1. War Cry 2. Fooled By Your Guts 3. R.I.B. (Rest In Beer) 4. Riders Of The Doom 5. Hope Can’t Die 6. No One Hit Wonder 7. Breakfast For Champions 8. Enemy Of Order 9. Clockwise To De…
…rofessor is back is takes revenge on mankind, because he failed in 1987! The cover is done again by Patrick Strogulski, an apprentice of Sebastian Krüger and really hits the spot! As always with TANKARD, things shouldn’t be taken too seriously!” R.I.B. track listing: 1. War Cry 2. Fooled By Your Guts 3. R.I.B. (Rest In Beer) 4. Riders Of The Doom 5. Hope Can’t Die 6. No One Hit Wonder 7. Breakfast For Champions 8. Enemy Of Order 9. Clockwise To De…
…allies to wage this new battle in a collaborative strike. Proudly going to war as part of the La Fin Absolue Du Monde campaign are San Francisco-based Creator-Destructor Records as well as NYC-area-based The Compound. La Fin Absolue Du Monde will see killer deluxe CD and vinyl pressings and will see North American release on May 27th, just one day after Enabler marks their debut invasion of the annual Maryland Deathfest. Stated founding guitarist/…
…rofessor is back is takes revenge on mankind, because he failed in 1987! The cover is done again by Patrick Strogulski, an apprentice of Sebastian Krüger and really hits the spot! As always with TANKARD, things shouldn’t be taken too seriously!” R.I.B. track listing: 1. War Cry 2. Fooled By Your Guts 3. R.I.B. (Rest In Beer) 4. Riders Of The Doom 5. Hope Can’t Die 6. No One Hit Wonder 7. Breakfast For Champions 8. Enemy Of Order 9. Clockwise To De…
…rofessor is back is takes revenge on mankind, because he failed in 1987! The cover is done again by Patrick Strogulski, an apprentice of Sebastian Krüger and really hits the spot! As always with TANKARD, things shouldn’t be taken too seriously!” R.I.B. track listing: 1. War Cry 2. Fooled By Your Guts 3. R.I.B. (Rest In Beer) 4. Riders Of The Doom 5. Hope Can’t Die 6. No One Hit Wonder 7. Breakfast For Champions 8. Enemy Of Order 9. Clockwise To De…
…and hounds’. The story goes on to tell how his pregnant lover (metaphorically represented as ‘a fallow doe’) comes to his body, tends his wounds and takes him away to be buried; apparently leaving the ravens without a meal. The story is a tale of spirituality that seems to represent how the strength and loyalty of one’s kin can overcome adversity, even in the event of their master/partner dying.” One And All, Together, For Home was assembled by DR…
…rofessor is back is takes revenge on mankind, because he failed in 1987! The cover is done again by Patrick Strogulski, an apprentice of Sebastian Krüger and really hits the spot! As always with TANKARD, things shouldn’t be taken too seriously!” R.I.B. track listing: 1. War Cry 2. Fooled By Your Guts 3. R.I.B. (Rest In Beer) 4. Riders Of The Doom 5. Hope Can’t Die 6. No One Hit Wonder 7. Breakfast For Champions 8. Enemy Of Order 9. Clockwise To De…
…n. The crazy professor is back is takes revenge on mankind, because he failed in 1987! The cover is done again by Patrick Strogulski, an apprentice of Sebastian Krüger and really hits the spot! As always with TANKARD, things shouldn’t be taken too seriously!” R.I.B. track listing: 1. War Cry 2. Fooled By Your Guts 3. R.I.B. (Rest In Beer) 4. Riders Of The Doom 5. Hope Can’t Die 6. No One Hit Wonder 7. Breakfast For Champions 8. Enemy Of Order 9. C…
…think no one was seeing that wasn’t going to happen. We have a festival in Ukraine in July, but it’s in the western part. It’s 1,000 miles from Crimea, and I spoke with the organizer and he told me you don’t see any of that shit in the western part. I think it’s safe to go – Deicide just played there a month ago. Dead Rhetoric: It’s pretty scary considering the history Finland has with Russia. Luttinen: You never know what the fuck is going on in…
…rofessor is back is takes revenge on mankind, because he failed in 1987! The cover is done again by Patrick Strogulski, an apprentice of Sebastian Krüger and really hits the spot! As always with TANKARD, things shouldn’t be taken too seriously!” R.I.B. track listing: 1. War Cry 2. Fooled By Your Guts 3. R.I.B. (Rest In Beer) 4. Riders Of The Doom 5. Hope Can’t Die 6. No One Hit Wonder 7. Breakfast For Champions 8. Enemy Of Order 9. Clockwise To De…
…veral close allies to wage this new battle in a collaborative strike. Proudly going to war as part of the La Fin Absolue Du Monde campaign are San Francisco-based Creator-Destructor Records as well as NYC-area-based The Compound. La Fin Absolue Du Monde will see killer deluxe CD and vinyl pressings and will see North American release on May 27th, just one day after ENABLER marks their debut invasion of the annual Maryland Deathfest. Stated foundin…
…loping to be found as well, such as on “Shadows Glide.” The guitars have a bit of that typical stoner “fuzz” to them, but they do retain a bit of their own flair throughout. The rub? Well, most of the tracks do keep to the mid-tempo pacing and the songs seem to start off strong but then fizzle out as the disc progress. By no means are they weak tracks, it just begins to feel a bit more predictable, and the riffs begin to stick out less and less. T…
…l back-catalog of mid-paced gravedigging metal, in addition to their recently revamped lineup, beginning May 18th, COFFINS will plunder Chicago, Cleveland, Brooklyn and Philadelphia before closing down the run with their return to Maryland Deathfest in Baltimore on May 22nd, their first time storming MDF since their set at the 2010 edition of the event. COFFINS will be provided with support from Chicago death’n’rollers BONES on the tour dates lead…
…nclude RAMMING SPEED and MAMMOTH GRINDER. The journey precedes the previously announced TOXIC/ EXHUMED European invasion set to commence February 22nd. Comments TOXIC HOLOCAUST gravel-throated ambassador Joel Grind, “I’m proud to announce our West Coast tour with gore metal maniaxxx, EXHUMED. I guarantee no necks will be left un-wrecked after this onslaught of beer, waste and gore!” Adds EXHUMED head mischief maker Matt Harvey, “In our continuing…
…released all year, and with phenomenal musical acumen, these guys absolutely, positively rip! (Check out “Sadness in Summer Rain”) Best newcomer of the year: Caladan Brood / Xanthochroid. No doubt that since my favorite album this year is also their debut, I have to give this distinction to Caladan Brood. But, I also want to give a co-naming to a band that likely missed many a list last year due to their December 2012 release date, and that is Xa…
…ok “Murder In The Front Row”. Illustrations include lost artwork and an early flyer by Albert Cuellar, the “Live Undead”/”Hell Awaits” cover artist who went on to work with Tim Burton, SUBLIME, and Sir Mix-A-Lot. The book also includes Jeff Hanneman’s original diagram for the “Live Undead” cover (spoiler: it’s stick figures). David Konow, author of the heavy metal history “Bang Your Head”, writes: “This book is the biography the band has always de…
…d theme is the album art, done by Raymond Swanland, attention-grabbing with its comic book-like style. The energetic artwork illustrates a number of the album’s leitmotifs and lyrical depictions of suffering, depravity, death, torture, famine, and predominantly an alien apocalypse. Dynamically, Deeds of Flesh can be applauded for their thunderous use of tremolo amongst all instruments. Taking the brutality of hardcore metal, the darkness of black…
…the song is about the 1990 Kevin Bacon film about a ground-dwelling alien invasion set in the desert, the band weighs in with an official explanation: “Tremors is a song about giving up. Things just don’t get better sometimes. People go bad and you lose the ones you love to death, to drugs and to the darker places in life. It’s not easy to go through life and expect every day to be better than the one before it. Bad shit happens and it’s going to…
…rn Crusade. Jason Newsted re-enters the metal fray with Heavy Metal Music. Ukraine’s Munruthel nearly score a perfect ten with CREEDamage. Mike “Gunface” Mackenzie releases his solo album, Stomach Earth. The news in ten 1. Death Angel announces a fall North American tour. 2. Inter Arma makes plans to hit studio less than a year after the release of Sky Burial. 3. Unisonic back to work, this time on album #2. 4. Iced Earth wraps recording for their…
…s an absolutely enjoyable journey of musical depth and weight. It features guest vocals from Arkona’s Masha “Scream” as well as one of best Bathory covers that you’ll hear. This multi-instrumentalist seems, to me, to be painfully unknown or at least, under-reviewed. Not unlike another criminally unknown artist (an Aussie who goes under the name Aquilus), Munruthel deserves to be heard, for he has created something truly special. Munruthel on Bandc…
Kansas City-based eletronic metallers THE BROWNING have posted the lyric video for “Gravedigger,” a song from their Hypernova album, which is set for an October 1st release in the USA via Century Media/Earache Records, and on October 7th in Europe via Earache Records. The video can be viewed below. Comments vocalist Jonny McBee: “It has been a crazy two years for THE BROWNING. We have done crazy tours all over the world and I am so proud of every…
…VADER’s lead guitarist Marek Pajak recently recorded guitar solos for the new HELL:ON album titled The Hunt. HELL:ON is finishing up the recording of their fourth full length album at T.A. Productions in Kiev, Ukraine, which is slate for release this fall via Ferrum Records. Andy LaRocque, who renowned for his works with heavy metal band KING DIAMOND will also be a special guest on The Hunt….
…g up in the Great White North.” Adds FOZZY’s Chris Jericho: “After our highly successful U.S. tour last summer on Uproar, we’ve been chomping at the bit for the right opportunity to return to North America… and now it has arrived! “To tour with the legendary SAXON is a metal dream come true and the perfect way to satisfy all of our AMAZING fans in the U.S. and Canada and to make tons of new ones in the process. “Get ready for ‘Sacrifice And Sin’…w…
…guitar and drum bombast and wondrous imaginative titles like “The Unicorn Invasion of Dundee” and “Beneath Cowdenbeath.” The musicians of Gloryhammer fluctuate between mid-tempo anthems in a Powerwolf meets Manowar manner like “Hail to Crail” and “Quest for the Hammer of Glory” and then shift into overdrive for the pure speed adrenaline rush of a Dragonforce-like “Amulet of Justice.” Guitarist Paul Templing and drummer Ben Turk deliver the right…
…ums The cover artwork for “Tales From The Kingdom Of Fife” was “painstakingly handcrafted” by Dan Goldsworthy (ACCEPT, HELL,SYLOSIS). The art depicts the great hero Angus McFife, questing valiantly through the frozen highlands, wielding the Hammer of Glory. “Tales From The Kingdom Of Fife” track listing: 01. Anstruther’s Dark Prophecy 02. The Unicorn Invasion Of Dundee 03. Angus McFife 04. Quest For The Hammer Of Glory 05. Magic Dragon 06. Silent…
