FREE MUSIC MONDAY – FIEND “DERAILED” ALBUM
Everyone say hello to probably the greatest grindcore group in Fresno, California. FIEND has a mission to obliterate your minds with their heavy, down-tuned guitars and blastbeats. You can hear influences from all the great grind-gods such as Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror, and even a little Deche-Charge. I have had the pleasure of seeing […]
POSSIBLE JUICY TOUR ALERT: RINGS OF SATURN, ENTERPRISE EARTH, AND DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR
Prepare to be beaten down into the dark depths of space. Recently Pittsburgh's Delusions of Grandeur have hinted at a new tour in the works via their Facebook page: "Rings of Saturn, Enterprise Earth and us. It's going down.” In the words of George Takei, “Oh my”. That would be quite the sexy show. Perhaps […]
CARCER CITY JOIN THE MONOLITHIC MUSIC ROSTER
Carcer City, the perpetually touring, enthusiastic perveyors of Scouse Metal are celebrating the coming of winter with the news that they are joining the jealousy inspiring roster at Monolithic Music. Formed in 2008 they have so far released an EP and 2 full length albums, the latest of which, The Road Journals, was released to […]
AMON AMARTH ANNOUNCES EUROPEAN TOUR FOR EARLY 2015
Swedish heavy metal icons Amon Amarth will be returning to Europe in January/February for a month long tour in regional UK, regional France and Spain/Portugal with special guests Huntress and Savage Messiah. The band comments: "UK, Portugal, Spain, France and UK…get ready this January for a Viking invasion! We'll be making an extensive UK expedition […]
FREE MUSIC MONDAY – SETH ECT “DIMETHYLTRIPTAMINE” EP
And now for something entirely different. Emerging from Dusseldorf, Germany comes Seth ECT. This is an interesting, eclectic group essentially merging the electronic influence of Industrial music with extreme metal territory. A full listen to the bands latest "DiMethylTriptamine" aka DMT is more than enough to open a third eye to their style. The opening […]
FREE MUSIC MONDAY – KNIGHT OF THE ROUND “SOUTH OF JIDOOR” EP
It seems as if we've had a heavy focus of video game influenced metal of late. So why stop now? Furthermore, why not some Final Fantasy moogle metal? Or something like that… Knight of the Round (aka KOTR – one O away from the Old Republic) has been hard at work generating some Final Fantasy […]
FREE MUSIC MONDAY – SUBSERVIENCE “UPHEAVAL” EP
I was pleasantly surprised to stumble upon this band today. Bow down for Subservience, hailing from Crawley in the UK. This is a relatively new Death Metal unit with a bit of Groove Metal and great deal of creativity in their sound. Their latest effort, "Upheaval", serves as absolutely no exception from this. It packs […]