KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Sign Album Contracts With Metal Blade And Columbia / Sony Music June 4th, 2018 Boston, Massachusetts-based metalcore group Killswitch Engage have signed a North American album contract with Metal Blade Records, signing with Sony Music Entertainment outside of North America. The development was revealed on June 4th, 2018. Vocalist Jesse Leach commented: “I’m […]
WITCHSKULL Stream Entire ‘Coven’s Will’ Album June 3rd, 2018 Canberra, Australia-based doom rock group Witchskull issued second full-length studio album Coven’s Will on June 1st, 2018 through Rise Above Records. The outing can be streamed in its entirety below. Coven’s Will was recorded at Studio G in Brooklyn, NYC, with producers Billy Anderson and Jason […]
MORFINADeathrasher Self-release (2018)Rating: 8/10 Here’s Morfina; a strange bunch you won’t be confusing with the Uruguayan stoners of the same name, although this unhealthy bunch are of South American origin too, hailing from the depths of Colombia. I’ll hold my hands up and say that I don’t have much knowledge of this band, but the […]
DEAD CROSS Tour Europe In Summer Of 2018 June 2nd, 2018 Californian punk group Dead Cross toured Europe during the summer of 2018. As well as appearing at major festivals like Primavera Sound (Spain), Hellfest (France), Download (England and France), Roskilde (Denmark), Grasspop Metal Meeting (Belgium), Dour (Belgium) and Tuska (Finland), the band also headlined […]
ALIEN WEAPONRYTū Napalm (2018)Rating: 9/10 Anyone for Māori metal? In spite of their title, New Zealand metallers Alien Weaponry are far more than mere extra-terrestrial thrash-heads. Instead, they’ve chosen the same, almost tribal path as, say, mid-90s Sepultura, and boy have they pulled it off. What’s even more frightening though is the potential, when one […]
WOMBBATHThe Great Desolation Soulseller (2018)Rating: 8.5/10 When these guys formed in 1990 as Seizure my bloodshot eyes were immediately drawn to them, but to say this Swedish bunch has been rather inactive is an understatement. Only two albums had emerged before this latest effort, to the point that we are basically dealing with two different […]
GHOSTPrequelle Spinefarm / Loma Vista Recordings (2018)Rating: 8/10 And here we are again; back at the altar of Ghost, although still not quite prompted into kneeling in adoration. Prequelle comes, as expected, with the usual spooky sparks and fizzes of melodic rock as Papa (who’s now morphed into Cardinal Copia) and his clan of ghouls […]
GHOST Release Fourth Studio Album ‘Prequelle’ June 1st, 2018 Swedish occult rock group Ghost issued fourth full-length studio album Prequelle on June 1st, 2018 through Spinefarm / Loma Vista Recordings. Prequelle was recorded in 2017 at Artery Studios in Stockholm with producer Tom Dalgety. Mixing was handled by Andy Wallace in January 2018 at Westlake […]
APOCALYPTICA To Enter Studio In The Winter June 1st, 2018 Helsinki, Finland-based symphonic heavy metal group Apocalyptica enter the studio during the winter of 2018 to begin recording their ninth full-length studio album. Rhythm celloist Eicca Toppinen stated in one interview that the band are “super hungry to get into writing new music in the […]
KATAKLYSM Release 13th Studio Album ‘Meditations’ June 1st, 2018 Montréal, Québec, Canada-based death metal group Kataklysm issued 13th full-length studio album Meditations on June 1st, 2018 through Nuclear Blast Records. Frontman Maurizio Iacono stated: “This is a very personal album to me with old wounds being revisited – I felt a big urge to pour […]
