The esteemed DEATH TO ALL Tour, celebrating the life and music of DEATH mastermind Chuck Schuldiner, will be returning in 2013 for an even larger run of dates. After a successful 2012 run, the tour, now referred to as DTA1, will feature the original lineup of DEATH from Human — guitarist Paul Masvidal, bassist Steve Di Giorgio, and drummer Sean Reinert, with special guest [...]

“The devil is in the detail,” as the old saying goes. Translated to SODOM vocalist/bassist Tom Angelripper’s sharp-tongued and highly critical powers of observation, you might also say: the worst perversions often hide behind seemingly harmless terms. What are we referring to? For example to “Katjuscha“, one of twelve hard-as-nails songs which SODOM present on [...]

Another newKEN MODE track, “Secret Vasectomy” has premieredonline. “Secret Vasectomy” is available through Brooklyn Vegan and Invisible Oranges. Regarding the new song, front man Jesse Matthewson said “Secret Vasectomy was one of the first songs we put together during the ‘Entrench’ writing sessions, but more particularly it was the first that we truly collaborated on [...]

Sensory Records this week confirms the upcoming release of A Fair Dream Gone Mad, the sprawling debut full-length from Sacramento, California-based dark/progressive quartet, IN THE SILENCE. Founded in 2007 by guitarist/vocalist Josh Burke, the talented crew of musicians forming IN THE SILENCE had an instantaneous chemistry, which saw the outfit playing area shows almost immediately. Musically comparable to the [...]

National Public Radio today unfurls a brand new track from Richmond, Virginia doomsmiths INTER ARMA, with the opening track to the band’s Relapse debut Sky Burial. “The Survival Fires” comes immediately alive with some of the most straightforward blackened blasting found on the multi-faceted album, yet overall reverberates with the pulsating, organic, earthmoving doom surge the band [...]