NAZGHORUpon The Darkest Season Dead Center Productions (2014)Rating: 8/10 Since forming in 2012, Sweden’s Nazghor have been extremely prolific. Upon The Darkest Season is their second opus, following on from 2013’s Life Impaled. I have to say, I thought this was going to be another tiresome black metal affair, but thankfully I was wrong. Nazghor […]

EDGEDOWN Sign Contract With Massacre Records January 1st, 2014 Freilassing, Germany-based heavy metal group Edgedown inked a record contract with Massacre Records, revealing this development on January 1st, 2014. Edgedown originally formed in March 2008 as a cover band. Less than a year later, the outfit concentrated on writing and recording material, issuing a three-song […]

CHURCH OF DISGUSTUnworldly Summoning Memento Mori (2014)Rating: 7.5/10 Texan death metallers Church Of Disgust are a relatively new band, and Unworldly Summoning is a true old school death metal experience that hasn’t left my ears since the first spin. If you like deep, guttural and cavernous obscure-sounding death metal that reeks of 1989-1992, then you […]

4ARM Parts Ways With Vocalist Danny Tomb January 1st, 2014 Vocalist / guitarist Danny Tomb parted ways with Melbourne, Australia-based groove metal group 4arm. Citing personal reasons, Tomb revealed this development on January 1st, 2014. 4arm issued the following statement: “The search for a new frontman now begins. With James Munro briefly filling in for […]

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Enlist LIZZY BORDEN Guitarist Dario Lorina January 1st, 2014 Dario Lorina Los Angeles, California-based heavy metal group Black Label Society recruited Lizzy Borden’s Dario Lorina as its guitarist, revealing the development on January 1st, 2014. Lizzy Borden frontman and namesake issued the following statement: “We are extremely proud and happy for Dario […]