Home videos of underground metal bands weren’t exactly commonplace in 1985, but that didn’t stop Combat Records from issuing The Ultimate Revenge on VHS that year. The now legendary and out of print home video (click the cover to the right for a larger view) featured concert clips of Slayer, Venom and Exodus, who were touring the U.S. together on the Combat Tour Live. (more…)

Right-click to download “Under Zyklon Blue”

Birthed in an abysmal New York City basement, black metal band Ash Pool issue forth smoldering, dark and noxious metal. World Turns On Its Hinge (Tour De Garde/Hospital Productions) is their latest batch of truly, and quite literally, underground black metal. Like unknown soldiers, their identities are unlisted, kept in the dark, letting their music reign in pure black mass.

Ash Pool waste no time before igniting the subterranean blaze. World Turns On Its Hinge’s opening track, “Sin of Life,” begins with crashing cymbals and brash guitar, a gated technique reminiscent of Ukrainian black metallers Hate Forest’s work on Sorrow. “Mouth is cracked, stuffed with feces,” hawks Ash Pool’s singer from under the assault of metallic guitar and drums.

Track four, “Shade of Rape,” continues the unforgiving assault with its incinerating wall of thrash. This visceral, hack-and-grind (more…)

Ulver vocalist Kristoffer Rygg (aka Garm, Trickster G) and programmer/keyboardist Tore Ylwizaker will be attending, as well as DJ-ing, the CD release party for their upcoming album Shadows of the Sun (out October 2nd on The End Records) Thursday September 20th, 2007 at Europa Night Club in Brooklyn, New York.

MetalKult is proud to sponser this event.

Both members of Ulver will be DJ-ing throughout the night, as well live band support for the show will come from experimental rock act The Austerity Program and stoner rock/metal duo Lapdog of Satan (featuring members of Priestbird).

Here are some specifics:

EUROPA NIGHT CLUB
98-104 Meserole Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11222
$6 / 18+ to attend / Doors @ 7pm / Lots of giveaways!
http://www.europaclub.com/

For more info check out,
ULVER Website: http://www.jester-records.com/ulver/ulver.html
ULVER @ MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/ulver1
THE AUSTERITY PROGRAM @ MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/theausterityprogram
PRIESTBIRD @ MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/priestbird

Swedish rock band Witchcraft has completed work on its new album, entitled The Alchemist. The follow-up to 2005’s Firewood LP will see an October 23, 2007 U.S. release via Candlelight USA.

Witchcraft—Magnus Pelander – vocals, electric guitar, John Hoyles – electric and acoustic guitars, Ola Henriksson – bass and Fredrik Jansson – drums and percussion—who formed in 2000 in tribute to Pentagram, create heavy, blues-based rock augmented with touches of psychedelica and late ‘60’s pop flourishes.

The Alchemist was recorded at Stockholm’s UpandRunning studios with Producer Tom Hakava using only vintage amplification. An advance listen to what Witchcraft’s new album holds in store is available now as the record’s smashing lead track “Walk Between the Lines” has been posted online at this location: (more…)

When Norwegian black metal legends Emperor came to America for a brief tour this past June, guitarists Ihsahn and Samoth took time out of their schedule to stop by MetalKult’s New York City headquarters for an in-depth lesson on how to play some of their band’s most memorable passages. (more…)

The power drone crew Sunn O))) have announced the following live performances will be held in the Northwest this coming November:

11/01 Manium//Olympia, WA. w/ Earth, Wolves In The Throneroom, Grey
11/02 Neumos’ //Seattle, WA w/ Jesu and Eluvium
11/03 The Hawthorne //Theater Portland, OR

Joining Sunn 0))) onstage for these performances will be Attila Csihar (ex-Mayhem) on vocals, and Justin Broaderick (ex-Godflesh, Jesu) on guitar and ambience. The shows will come at the end of recording sessions for the forthcoming 2008 full-length release. No further details have been issued at this time.

Genghis Tron are set to enter God City Studios next week to begin recording their Relapse debut and follow-up to their acclaimed Dead Mountain Mouth album. Genghis Tron will be working with producer Kurt Ballou on this still-untitled album that is expected to see an early 2008 release date.

Before packing up their gear, Genghis Tron checked in with: “Time does NOT fly when you’re parked in front of a computer for 8 months making an epic, synth-driven, psychedelic dirge about the end of all time. That’s why we’re elated to get the fuck out of West Philly and finally record the album that has nearly driven us insane on more than thirty-five occasions…each. It’s going to be a beautiful thing once it’s done and we can’t wait for everyone to share in our paralyzing fear of the future!”

Check out the recently posted Genghis Tron demo track, “Colony Collapse”, from this upcoming full-length exclusively via (more…)

It’s hard not to love Chicago’s Shellac. They are consistently—if not defiantly—rigid in their sonic scope (the group’s predilection for analog gear and custom electronics is legendary), and still manage to produce some of the best, and weirdest, sounds out there. And 15 years into their career, they show no signs of letting up. Excellent Italian Greyhound (Touch And Go), Shellac’s long-awaited follow-up to 2000’s stellar 1000 Hurts, is a relentlessly intense, catchy and controlled batch of mathematical noise rock.

The players in this self-proclaimed “minimalist rock trio”—guitarist/vocalist Steve Albini (more…)

With the upcoming release of their debut album Enter The Grave (Earache) on August 25, England’s Evile have revealed what it was like to work with the legendary Flemming Rasmussen. Evile guitarist Ol Drake has given an insight into their time in the studio and explains the impact that the famed Metallica producer had on them and also the effect that the band had on him:

“We made an old school thrasher feel young again, which to me shows us we’re on the right track. If we can add to a thrasher’s collection, we’re happy. That’s what we want to do, give people some extra thrash action. We’re not trying to be the Next Big anything, we just want to thrash.”

Check out the following video clip of Evile: (more…)

Philadelphia, PA hard rock powerhouse A Life Once Lost (ALOL) has posted another brand new song online. The heavy-handed track “Worship” has been uploaded to the band’s MySpace page and can be heard HERE. “Worship” will appear on ALOL’s new album Iron Gag, which is set to drop on September 18 via Ferret Music.

The final track listing for Iron Gag is as follows:
1.) Firewater Joyride
2.) Detest
3.) THE WANDERER
4.) Worship
5.) All Teeth
6.) Meth Mouth
7.) Masks
8.) Pigeonholed
9.) Others Die
10.) Silence
11.) Ill Will

ALOL (A LIFE ONCE LOST) tour dates:
Aug 22 Memphis, TN The Complex (w/ Job For A Cowboy)
Aug 23 Little Rock, AR Vino’s (w/ Job For A Cowboy)
Aug 25 Oklahoma City, OK The Conservatory (w/ Job For A Cowboy)
Aug 27 El Paso, TX Chic’s (w/ Job For A Cowboy)
Aug 28 Albuquerque, NM Launchpad (w/ Job For A Cowboy)
Sep 7 Portland, ME The Station
Sep 8 Worchester, MA The Palladium (upstairs)
Sep 9 South Hackensack, NJ School of Rock
Sep 10 Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church
Sep 11 Wilmington, NC The Soapbox Laundrolounge
Sep 12 Charleston, SC The Music Farm
Sep 13 Harrisonburg, VA Guzmans
Sep 14 Wilmington, DE The Harmony Grange
Sep 15 Lemoyne, PA Championship
Sep 16 Poughkeepsie, NY The Loft @ The Chance