The "Bloody Roots" metal history show on Sirius Satellite Radio's Hard Attack channel will honor VOIVOD guitarist Denis "Piggy" D'Amour on Tuesday (Aug. 30 at 9:00 p.m. EST) and Friday (Sept. 2 at 1:00 p.m. EST), playing a full hour of classic VOIVOD songs, plus VOIVOD covers by DECEASED and DAHLIA SEED. Also included will ...
Combat Records has announced the release of the first full-length album by AT ALL COST, titled "It's Time to Decide", on September 20. The recently resurrected Combat Records is a joint venture between KOCH Records and Entertainment Services Unlimited. Austin, TX-based AT ALL COST, who previously released an EP on Fiddler Records, recorded "It's Time ...
VOMITORY drummer Tobias Gustafsson is in the proces of bulding a home studio where the band hope to begin demoing new material shortly. VOMITORY recently recorded a cover of the song "Mass Appeal Madness" for the upcoming NAPALM DEATH tribute album on No Tolerance Records. The track was mixed by Henrik Larsson, who has worked ...
Sweden's CENTINEX will be teaming up with Czech Republic's HYPNOS and Germany's PURGATORY for a European tour beginning in January 2006. Exact cities and dates will be announced soon. As previously reported, CENTINEX's video for the track "Synthetic Sin Zero" has been made available for download at Centinex.org. "The clip was shot and ...
Chad Boltz, a mash-ups aficionado who lives in Denver, recently spoke to MTV.com about fusing together the music of such death-metal and grindcore mavens as CARCASS, ENTOMBED and TERRORIZER and the hip-hop/pop flava of MISSY ELLIOTT, OUTKAST, SHAKIRA and 50 CENT. Boltz said it dawned on him one afternoon while he was working ...
Finnish masters of melancholic, suicidal rock SENTENCED, who reportedly brought tears to the eyes of quite some of the truly dedicated fans at their farewell show at Wacken Open Air this year, are slowly reaching the end of the road. Soon the band will rest in peace forever. One small cure for the agonising wrench ...
Philadelphia's TAPPING THE VEIN will enter the studio on September 3 with renowned producer Neil Kernon (NEVERMORE, QUEENSRŸCHE, CANNIBAL CORPSE) to begin recording the follow-up to 2002's "The Damage", tentatively due in early 2006 via Nuclear Blast Records. Kernon apparently contacted the band while they were in the middle of writing material for their sophomore ...
ARCH ENEMY's "Doomsday Machine" album, which was released in Europe on August 22 via Century Media Records, has entered the official German Top 100 chart at position No. 34. "Doomsday Machine", landed on The Billboard 200 chart two weeks in a row (#87 and #162), selling close to 30,000 copies in its first month of ...
Wisconsin-based death metallers JUNGLE ROT are currently writing material for a new CD for a tentative spring 2006 release. The band are also planning on issuing their first DVD in October/November, featuring footage of the group's performance at the Fuck the Commerce festival in Germany. JUNGLE ROT, who are currently unsigned, recently announced the addition ...
Reformed German thrashers ASSASSIN will reportedly be teaming up with Switzerland's ANNULATION for a European tour beginning on December 8, 2005. Exact cities and dates will be announced soon. ASSASSIN recently inked a deal with Marquee Records to have their first two albums (1987's "The Upcoming Terror" and 1988's "Interstellar Experience") distributed in North/South America ...
