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ThisIsNotAScene & Earsplit PR Team Up To Stream Debut Album From My Soliloquy
Posted on January 29, 2013 | 6 Comments
ThisIsNotAScene and Earsplit PR team up to stream the debut album from My Soliloquy, “The Interpreter”. My Soliloquy was formed by multi-instrumentalist Pete Morten in 2002. Since then the quintet has released a number of demos, gaining traction in the metal underground, and have performed a number of notable...
Antlered Man Announce UK Live Dates
Posted on January 26, 2013 | 1 Comment
Antlered Man had a great 2012 – after self-releasing their debut LP, they clocked up more than 60 live performances, including 15 festivals. The year was topped off with a nomination for ‘Best Live Act’ at the Artrocker Awards and signing a word wide publishing deal with Cooking Vinyl (Marilyn Manson, The Blackout,...
Agalloch Announce ‘Lucifer Over Europe Tour’ With Fen
Posted on January 25, 2013 | 3 Comments
Agalloch are proud to announce that joining them on their upcoming European tour will be longtime friends Fen (UK). Agalloch commented: “We’ve played with Fen numerous times already in the UK, Belgium, and the US and are very pleased they’ll be with us for this extensive...
ABSU Announce European Connexus Continuation Tour In March
Posted on January 24, 2013 | 1 Comment
Mythological occult metal discoverers ABSU will embark on the ‘European Connexus Continuation Tour’ in March. ABSU vocalist/drummer Proscriptor commented on the tour name: “The explanation behind the name of the tour is because we have already toured Europe in April of last year, which was called ‘European...
Megascavenger & Earsplit PR Team With ThisIsNotAScene To Stream ‘Descent Of Yuggoth’
Posted on January 11, 2013 | 5 Comments
Megascavenger and Earsplit PR team up with ThisIsNotAScene to stream the newest brutal Rogga offering, “Descent Of Yuggoth”. After releasing his Songs Of Flesh (Part I) 7” EP in early 2012, inexhaustible Swedish maniac Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader, Demiurg, The Grotesquery, Bone Gnawer, Revolting and...
Mad Season’s Seminal Album “Above” To Get Expanded Deluxe Edition Re-release
Posted on January 9, 2013 | 1 Comment
Legacy Recordings, the catalogue division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release a newly expanded Deluxe Edition of “Above”, the first and only album to be completed by Seattle-based rock supergroup Mad Season. Formed in 1994, Mad Season is vocalist Layne Staley (Alice In Chains), guitarist Mike McCready (Pearl Jam),...
Alcest Post Album Update
Posted on January 4, 2013 | 1 Comment
Alcest main man Neige has posted this update about the latest collaboration on the upcoming album: Hey there, We wish you all a happy New Year! As I said in some recent interviews we will have two guests on the next Alcest album and today...
Year Of The Goat Debut Angels’ Necropolis on ThisIsNotAScene
Posted on December 10, 2012 | 7 Comments
ThisIsNotAScene teams with Earplit PR and Year of the Goat to bring you the exclusive streaming of their first full length release, “Angles’ Necorpolis”. Preceded only by two short EP’s, also released by their comrades at Ván Records, “Angel’s Necropoli”s is a brilliantly infectious album...
Rammstein Are Set To Release Video Collection Plus A New Single
Posted on December 3, 2012 | 1 Comment
What sounds like a compendium of midnight movies is really just a collection of music videos. If we call them clips, at least Americans will think of the gun magazines they use to reload their weapons. That suits the explosive content. With just a small...
Neurosis Declare New Stateside Live Actions
Posted on December 2, 2012 | No Comments
Neurosis has this week disclosed details on new pending live actions across the country in support of “Honor Found In Decay”. Newly locked-down Neurosis performances are now set to take place late this year into the first week of 2013 in Atlanta, Los Angeles and Seattle, with...
The Foreshadowing Joins Marduk And Moonspell For Tour
Posted on December 1, 2012 | No Comments
The Foreshadowing joins Marduk And Moonspell For ‘Voices From The Dark’ North American Tour Swedish black metallers Marduk and Portugal’s dark, gothic heavy hitters Moonspell will join forces for the “Voices From The Dark” North American co-headlining tour in February/March 2013. Support on the trek...
Skunk Anansie UK Tour Announced For 2013
Posted on November 30, 2012 | No Comments
Skunk Anansie are playing a show at the O2 Brixton Academy this weekend (Saturday 1st December). Unfortunately, it’s sold out, but for those that weren’t able to get tickets there is a silver lining, as Skin and Co have just announced a full UK tour...
Heaven’s Basement Reveal Artwork For Debut Album Filthy Empire
Posted on November 29, 2012 | No Comments
UK hard rockers Heaven’s Basement are proud to reveal the cover art and track listing for their debut album “Filthy Empire”. The album has now been confirmed for a February 5th, 2013 North American street date via Red Bull Records. ”Filthy Empire” is produced by John Feldmann...
Ghost, Gojira & The Defiled Announced For Jägermeister Music Tour 2013
Posted on November 28, 2012 | 2 Comments
Jägermeister has announce its third ”Jägermeister Music Tour” will commence in March 2013 and excuse us if we seem a little over excited by this… You will be too when you hear who will be on the tour! The six-date tour will be headlined by the mysterious cult known as...
Neurosis Begins A New Chapter
Posted on November 27, 2012 | No Comments
Today, Neurosis has released an official band statement: “As of today, after much thought and discussion, visual projections as we have presented them over the last 20 years will no longer be part of Neurosis live shows. “We are going to begin the process of reinventing...
Slash Announces “Apocalyptic Love” UK Tour Dates
Posted on November 27, 2012 | No Comments
In May 2012 Slash stormed the charts worldwide with the release of his second solo album, “Apocalyptic Love”. Registering a No 4 chart entry in the USA and No 2 in Canada, Slash replicated this success in both Europe and Australasia with a further 13...
Your Demise Unleash Video & Announce New EP
Posted on November 27, 2012 | No Comments
UK hardcore stars Your Demise have unveiled their latest video, for the track ‘Push Me Under’. Taken from their critically acclaimed third album, “The Golden Age”, ‘Push Me Under’ showcases the record’s darker, harder and more introspective edge. Directed by upcoming name Sam Bailey, assistant cameraman...
Europe – Bag Of Bones UK Tour kicks off soon
Posted on November 15, 2012 | No Comments
We’re still hurting from being on the barrier at Download this year, waiting for Europe to show up… We weren’t going to forgive them for not turning up. We were denied the right to scream along with “The Final Countdown” in the mud and the...
Destruction Reveal Video Clip For Carnivore
Posted on November 10, 2012 | 2 Comments
Legendary German thrashers Destruction are set to release their 30-year-anniversary album “Spiritual Genocide” on November 26 and in anticipation of the album release, Nuclear Blast has uploaded this teaser clip for the upcoming ‘Carnivore’ video…and the butcher is back! The video was produced at Polish Mania...
Lamb Of God Join King Diamond As Bloodstock 2013 Headliners
Posted on November 9, 2012 | No Comments
Virginia groove metallers Lamb Of God have been announced as Saturday headliners at Bloodstock 2013. This announcement follows on from the success of their latest album “Resolution” and the trials of front-man Randy Blythe’s incarceration in the Czech Republic. Also joining King Diamond, Anthrax, Accept, Firewind and...

